Kushner Developing Deals Overseas Even as His Father-in-Law Runs for President

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/us/politics/jared-kushner-pursuing-development-deals-in-albania-and-serbia.html

https://archive.is/g8CSS

Kushner Developing Deals Overseas Even as His Father-in-Law Runs for President
Donald Trump’s son-in-law, who was also a senior White House official, said he was close to finalizing real estate projects in Albania and Serbia.
By Eric Lipton, Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman
March 15, 2024 Updated 3:47 p.m. ET

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of Donald J. Trump, confirmed on Friday that he was closing in on major real estate deals in Albania and Serbia, the latest example of the former president’s family doing business abroad even as Mr. Trump seeks to return to the White House.

Mr. Kushner’s plans in the Balkans appear to have come about in part through relationships built while Mr. Trump was in office. Mr. Kushner, who was a senior White House official, said he had been working on the deals with Richard Grenell, who served briefly as acting director of national intelligence under Mr. Trump and also as ambassador to Germany and special envoy to the Balkans.

One of the proposed projects would be the development of an island off the coast of Albania into a luxury tourist destination.

A second — with a planned luxury hotel and 1,500 residential units and a museum — is in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, at the site of the long-vacant former headquarters of the Yugoslav Army destroyed in 1999 by the NATO bombings, according to a member of Parliament in Serbia and Mr. Kushner’s company.

These first two projects both involve land now controlled by the governments, meaning a deal would have to be finalized with foreign governments.

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[malaise]

1. But Hunter Biden

I am so sick of this shit

[FloridaBlues]

2. Thinking the same thing. Dems in congress are you paying attention !

[Uncle Joe]

3. This looks like a probable lifeboat island for global oligarchs worried about

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the growing catastrophe of global warming climate change and/or World War III.

The oligarchs of the world aren't really so stupid as to not know that climate change is for real, they're just lying to protect their own fortunes and buy time until Mother Nature not only mows everybody's lawn but digs it up, and salts it as well.

If there are fewer people on Earth, less problems for them...or at least that's what they believe.



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Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, which tracked business deals it considered conflicts of interest during the Trump administration, said these planned deals were unethical and would only raise new questions about the Trump family, particularly if Mr. Trump was re-elected.

“At this point in the election cycle Jared Kushner should freeze any new investment plans,” Mr. Weissman said. “This particular investment plan seems to involve the worst of every corrupt tendency of the Trump administration and Trump family.”

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Mr. Kushner and Ms. Trump, along with Mr. Grenell, have been focused in part on Sazan, a Mediterranean island in the south of Albania that until the end of the Cold War had been used by the Soviet Union and the Communist-led government of Albania as a secretive military base for submarines. The plan is to build a luxury hotel and villas on the island.

https://archive.is/g8CSS/939a9718aecaf7f49d0e35400a02bc9783d6dac1.webpSazan has been mostly vacant since the fall of the Soviet Union, but it is close to another resort destination in Albania. Credit...Gent Shkullaku/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

The rugged two-square-mile island has hundreds of Cold War-era bunkers and tunnels designed to withstand nuclear attack and has been largely vacant since the end of the Soviet Union. But it is only a half-hour by speedboat from Vlorë, a resort destination in southern Albania where the government of Saudi Arabia is already spending money to improve electricity service and other public utilities to help promote tourism in Albania.

Mr. Grenell, a former Fox News contributor and media consultant, has been working closely with Mr. Kushner and his investment firm.

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Thanks for the thread dalton.

[crickets]

4. K&R for visibility.

[MustBeTheBooz]

5. And yet Hunter is the focus of political nepotism.

What the actual fuck?!

[Uncle Joe]

6. Oligarchs own a good chunk of the corporate media;

and their job isn't to inform or enlighten the people so much as to influence and sell them.