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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Mon May 8, 2017, 12:21 PM May 2017

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 Trump’s 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 adviser’s 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/

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Kushner Companies apologizes for using Trumps son-in-law to hawk visas to Chinese investors (Original Post) Miles Archer May 2017 OP
WHOOPS! True Dough May 2017 #1
wink wink nod nod,,,,,,,,,,, Cryptoad May 2017 #16
Apology not accepted. Zoonart May 2017 #2
We apologize for doing it publicly angrychair May 2017 #3
Wow! Didn't see that one coming! mikehiggins May 2017 #4
No, they didn't. mahatmakanejeeves May 2017 #8
Will they give all the money they took back? aquamarina May 2017 #5
Not going to give these suckers a break. Wellstone ruled May 2017 #6
OH BULLSHIT!!!!!!! heaven05 May 2017 #7
this whole trump thing stinks to high hell. AllaN01Bear May 2017 #9
"We apologize, but keep the money flowing"! If it was a sincere apology they'd advise the Chinese.. George II May 2017 #10
"We said we're sorry, so that fixes it, right?" ehrnst May 2017 #11
Trump's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Pay To Play White House casino is offically open for business. Snake Plissken May 2017 #12
And they 'accidentally' had a slide about Trump, and his DHS secretary muriel_volestrangler May 2017 #13
The love-match between Jared and Ivanka was but the merger of 2 criminal empires... Hekate May 2017 #14
Sorry to get caught, but the message still got out. Send money !! rickford66 May 2017 #15
I remember the clintons got in trouble for travel gate and also remembering notdarkyet May 2017 #22
I'd say an appropriate remedy Ms. Toad May 2017 #17
IF?! barbtries May 2017 #18
Fire him immediately. truthisfreedom May 2017 #19
We're sorry we got caught. n/t Still In Wisconsin May 2017 #20
Hey Kusher, FU and the horse you road in on, you and your fucking cronies are using turbinetree May 2017 #21
The Trumps& Kush's have been selling EB5 visas disguised as r.e. investments for a long time stuffmatters May 2017 #26
He's already had to apologize a couple times. For not listing trips and contacts to Russia. notdarkyet May 2017 #23
GOD.............these people have no morals Angry Dragon May 2017 #24
Expensively dressed not fooled May 2017 #28
Sounds like CLASSIC pay-to-play, to me. calimary May 2017 #25
William Cohan duncang May 2017 #27

True Dough

(17,304 posts)
1. WHOOPS!
Mon May 8, 2017, 12:23 PM
May 2017

"We apologize for violating ethics in such a public, flagrant and brazen manner. Next time we will be much more discreet."

--The Kushners

angrychair

(8,698 posts)
3. We apologize for doing it publicly
Mon May 8, 2017, 12:28 PM
May 2017

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)
4. Wow! Didn't see that one coming!
Mon May 8, 2017, 12:34 PM
May 2017

Selling access to the White House. Amazing.

Well, at least they apologized.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,425 posts)
8. No, they didn't.
Mon May 8, 2017, 12:39 PM
May 2017
Kushner Companies apologizes if that mention of was in any way interpreted....

It's your fault for misinterpreting their acts.
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
6. Not going to give these suckers a break.
Mon May 8, 2017, 12:35 PM
May 2017

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)
7. OH BULLSHIT!!!!!!!
Mon May 8, 2017, 12:36 PM
May 2017

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.

George II

(67,782 posts)
10. "We apologize, but keep the money flowing"! If it was a sincere apology they'd advise the Chinese..
Mon May 8, 2017, 01:07 PM
May 2017

...to NOT invest $500,000 in their properties.

Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts)
12. Trump's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Pay To Play White House casino is offically open for business.
Mon May 8, 2017, 01:13 PM
May 2017

Let the thievery and grifting commence

muriel_volestrangler

(101,311 posts)
13. And they 'accidentally' had a slide about Trump, and his DHS secretary
Mon May 8, 2017, 01:13 PM
May 2017


Trump – as well as the Kushner family’s connection to him – was explicitly invoked as the “key decision maker” in getting the visas. A Times reporter posted this picture of the presentation to Twitter, which I’ve marked up to identify the people in the slide …

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)
14. The love-match between Jared and Ivanka was but the merger of 2 criminal empires...
Mon May 8, 2017, 01:18 PM
May 2017

Trump has made the People's House a den of thieves. Just kick all of their asses out.

rickford66

(5,523 posts)
15. Sorry to get caught, but the message still got out. Send money !!
Mon May 8, 2017, 01:31 PM
May 2017

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)
22. I remember the clintons got in trouble for travel gate and also remembering
Mon May 8, 2017, 03:05 PM
May 2017

Something about selling access to the Lincoln bedroom.

Ms. Toad

(34,069 posts)
17. I'd say an appropriate remedy
Mon May 8, 2017, 01:37 PM
May 2017

Would be to bar the company from the program it was hawking for a decade or so.

turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
21. Hey Kusher, FU and the horse you road in on, you and your fucking cronies are using
Mon May 8, 2017, 01:53 PM
May 2017

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)
26. The Trumps& Kush's have been selling EB5 visas disguised as r.e. investments for a long time
Tue May 9, 2017, 01:31 AM
May 2017

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.

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
28. Expensively dressed
Tue May 9, 2017, 10:29 AM
May 2017

Thugs and gangsters.

No more, no less.

Now running the executive branch. Thanks, dump voters. Morons.




duncang

(1,907 posts)
27. William Cohan
Tue May 9, 2017, 04:58 AM
May 2017

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.

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