Kushner Companies apologizes for using Trumps son-in-law to hawk visas to Chinese investors
Source: Raw Story
Kushner Companies, the business run by the family of President Donald Trumps son-in-law Jared Kushner, faced criticism this weekend when it gave a presentation to wealthy Chinese investors informing them that they could get American visas if they invested in the Kushners real estate projects.
During the presentation which was billed as a way to invest $500,000 and immigrate to the United States by host company Qiaowa one member of the Kushner family name-checked Jared Kushner and talked about his role in the White House. The relative also said that the project they were pitching means a lot to me and my entire family.
Now, courtesy of NPR, Kushner Companies has formally apologized for using the top White House advisers name in its presentation aimed at helping get wealthy Chinese business people visas to come to the United States.
Kushner Companies apologizes if that mention of [Jared Kushner] was in any way interpreted as an attempt to lure investors, the company said in an official statement.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/kushner-companies-apologizes-for-using-trumps-son-in-law-to-hawk-visas-to-chinese-investors/
True Dough
(17,304 posts)"We apologize for violating ethics in such a public, flagrant and brazen manner. Next time we will be much more discreet."
--The Kushners
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Zoonart
(11,860 posts)Jared should be fired right fudging now.
angrychair
(8,698 posts)Is all this says...this was a large public event but I doubt the first time they've made this pitch since the election started.
mikehiggins
(5,614 posts)Selling access to the White House. Amazing.
Well, at least they apologized.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,425 posts)Kushner Companies apologizes if that mention of was in any way interpreted....
It's your fault for misinterpreting their acts.
aquamarina
(1,865 posts)Unless they do that, it's not an apology.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)You accomplished what you intended by using the office of the President to enhance your wealth and that was the game plan from the get go.
All about the Trump Crime Family.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)An apology and now everything is okay, right? I really am getting sick of what the despicable deplorables and the 1% has us going through. Just to witness these breaches of decorum, law, civility and watch bannon, miller, kushner, sessions et al. dismantle the government and policies designed to protect us...well, it's pretty goddamn sickening and very depressing, continually....
There seems to be no silver lining here except russia and the chumps administration figures involved, so we'll see.
AllaN01Bear
(18,191 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)...to NOT invest $500,000 in their properties.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)My 14 year old knows better than that.
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)Let the thievery and grifting commence
muriel_volestrangler
(101,311 posts)This is needless to say, the most open and flagrant kind of monetizing of the Presidency as bad as anyone could have imagined from the conjoined Trump/Kushner families. The fact that this nationalist, crack down on illegal immigration White House is connected to cash for visas activities like this just adds a layer of oily crust to the corruption.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few-thoughts-on-the-trumpkushner-families-presidency-cash-bust-out
No, there was no attempt to play up Kushner connections with the Trump regime at all ...
Hekate
(90,674 posts)Trump has made the People's House a den of thieves. Just kick all of their asses out.
rickford66
(5,523 posts)Remember when the Clintons did this also ? .... Neither do I.
added: Isn't this worthy of 20 years of investigations costing 60 million dollars ? Why that's only several golf trips.
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)Something about selling access to the Lincoln bedroom.
Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)Would be to bar the company from the program it was hawking for a decade or so.
barbtries
(28,789 posts)isn't this prosecutable somehow?!
truthisfreedom
(23,146 posts)Now.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)turbinetree
(24,695 posts)what's called E5B Visa's. Have you looked up what E5B Visa's, that you and your fucking sexual predator father-n-law use to in effect inflate home prices, and then you make a profit off the Visa's by selling homes, that only the wealthy can afford, and pricing everyone else out of the market.
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)There's got to be a bigger crime charged here. Selling stolen property (they don't own the right to sell govt visas), human trafficing, money laundering for human trafficing...not sure what it would be, but the bottom line is that the
Trump/Kusher crime family has been exploiting,perverting a govt immigration program for their own financial profit.
So the violently anti immigration Presidency/regime actually bankrolls their companies by selling American visas.
Yes the social and economic fallout of the T-K grift destroys the middle class' home ownership ability. That's reprehensible in and of itself. But I even wonder why this selling of visas to finance their business isn't
essentially "fencing" stolen property. The EB5 visas don't exist as a motive for immigrants to give 500,000 a pop to private corporations to get visas.
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)not fooled
(5,801 posts)Thugs and gangsters.
No more, no less.
Now running the executive branch. Thanks, dump voters. Morons.
calimary
(81,238 posts)duncang
(1,907 posts)This William Cohan in case there is confusion to who he is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_D._Cohan
Was on with Don Lemon tonite. One of the things he brought up was the low rate of return the "investment" with the Kushner group had.
Using the eb-5 visa as a enticement they are able to still make sales on a low performance investment. Projecting they have a "in" for getting a visa.