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louis c

(8,652 posts)
Thu May 25, 2017, 06:36 PM May 2017

Jared Kushner Now Under FBI Scrutiny in Russia Probe Say Officials

Source: NBC News

The FBI's scrutiny of Kushner places the bureau's sprawling counterintelligence and criminal investigation not only on the doorstep of the White House, but on the cusp of the Trump family circle. The Washington Post first reported last week that a senior White House official close to Trump was a "person of interest," but did not name the person. The term "person of interest" has no legal meaning.

Link;
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jared-kushner-now-under-fbi-scrutiny-russia-probe-say-officials-n764826

Read more: The FBI's scrutiny of Kushner places the bureau's sprawling counterintelligence and criminal investigation not only on the doorstep of the White House, but on the cusp of the Trump family circle. The Washington Post first reported last week that a se

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Jared Kushner Now Under FBI Scrutiny in Russia Probe Say Officials (Original Post) louis c May 2017 OP
Link? Chemisse May 2017 #1
Don't have a link, but they are discussing at length on MSNBC now. n/t Akoto May 2017 #3
Here ya go... PunkinPi May 2017 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author Chemisse May 2017 #10
Good to see this, finally. NastyRiffraff May 2017 #2
They went.. Roy Rolling May 2017 #4
It's Kushruption, following in his daddy's footsteps ! OnDoutside May 2017 #19
Everybody gonna smoke dat Kush! appal_jack May 2017 #50
Link please. George II May 2017 #5
Kushner has been flaunting his Russian connections, so what did he expect? Honeycombe8 May 2017 #6
Exactly. sandensea May 2017 #21
Breaking banners flying - WaPo has it now BumRushDaShow May 2017 #8
YES! deurbano May 2017 #9
He's the one who has been there from the start MissKat May 2017 #11
I hope Ivanka becomes one too stuffmatters May 2017 #12
Jamie Gorelick is one of his attorneys. angstlessk May 2017 #13
It Begins! peggysue2 May 2017 #14
Wow...The whole Dumpster entourage is returning to a loving and cheering nation chelsea0011 May 2017 #15
It's turning into a Dumpster Fire! GetRidOfThem May 2017 #27
More like a Trumpster fire flibbitygiblets May 2017 #31
Does this mean mainstreetonce May 2017 #16
Jail time? McCamy Taylor May 2017 #17
LOCK THEM UP louis c May 2017 #18
Goodbye to Kushner? Well, so much for peace in the Middle East. thesquanderer May 2017 #20
Haha, you beat me to it! nt flibbitygiblets May 2017 #30
so funny! stuffmatters May 2017 #34
Rats. Wasn't he gonna cure cancer also ? rickford66 May 2017 #42
Who said this first? blue-wave May 2017 #22
It's all over (CNN and MSNBC) and it'seems OVER for Jared...YEAH! BigmanPigman May 2017 #23
Jared might implicate other crime families in NYC as he struggles to get NCjack May 2017 #24
You mean "ugly". I hope so too.... GetRidOfThem May 2017 #28
Hate to be 'that guy' to mention this among all the Louise Mensch hatefests Blue_Tires May 2017 #25
Yes. Mensch-haters don't have much evidence to stack up against her reports that get confirmed Bernardo de La Paz May 2017 #38
Yes, we do. Igel May 2017 #45
Six paragraphs, no evidence, but some kind of obsession with fecal matter in your post. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2017 #47
About time. dalton99a May 2017 #26
No, No, No noneof_theabove May 2017 #35
They are like the old school mob Phoenix61 May 2017 #29
Mark McKinnon comment DeminPennswoods May 2017 #32
I wonder if Melania will be spared in all of this Mr. Ected May 2017 #33
I'll bet she was firewalled blue-wave May 2017 #36
She does sign tax returns. rickford66 May 2017 #43
Iinvestigation necessitates Kushner showing them tax returns. Lots of Trump/Kush "projects" stuffmatters May 2017 #37
Call me when they lock him up randr May 2017 #39
Spicer probably leaked this story after Trump pulled that douchebag move at the Vatican Snake Plissken May 2017 #40
That was a nasty kick to the groin by Dump. rickford66 May 2017 #44
Hardly shocking that they would investigate, if they actually find something that warrants cstanleytech May 2017 #41
Agreed, but at least being under investigation flibbitygiblets May 2017 #46
FBI Investigation with Hillary. FBI Scrutiny with Trump Thrill May 2017 #48
Fom the companion piece canetoad May 2017 #49
Starting to see why Ivanka is so silent LiberalLovinLug May 2017 #51
Or just socialized by her father not fooled May 2017 #52

Response to PunkinPi (Reply #7)

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
2. Good to see this, finally.
Thu May 25, 2017, 06:39 PM
May 2017

I read something before about Kushner being the person of interest the WaPo reported about, but it was from a source frowned on by the purists on DU. Glad to see NBC News picked it up.

BumRushDaShow

(127,265 posts)
8. Breaking banners flying - WaPo has it now
Thu May 25, 2017, 06:40 PM
May 2017

[***Jared Kushner now a focus in Russia investigation

By Matt Zapotosky, Sari Horwitz, Devlin Barrett and Adam Entous May 25 at 6:33 PM

Investigators are focusing on a series of meetings held by Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and an influential White House adviser, as part of their probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and related matters, according to people familiar with the investigation.

Kushner, who held meetings in December with the Russian ambassador and a banker from Moscow , is being investigated because of the extent and nature of his interactions with the Russians, the people said.

The Washington Post reported last week that a senior White House official close to the president was a significant focus of the high-stakes investigation, though it did not name Kushner.

FBI agents also remain keenly interested in former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, but Kushner is the only current White House official known to be considered a key person in the probe.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/jared-kushner-now-a-focus-in-russia-investigation/2017/05/25/f078db74-40c7-11e7-8c25-44d09ff5a4a8_story.html ***]

MissKat

(218 posts)
11. He's the one who has been there from the start
Thu May 25, 2017, 06:45 PM
May 2017

I knew all along it was this sneaky guy!!

Bannon didn't come in until late.

It had to be someone who has been there, a little worm tongue who has been whispering into the Orange Blunder's ear..."You can do it, Pops. You can do it. make us richer than rich."

It had to be someone so close, so very very close.

Oh joy. Hannity is toast. O'Reilly is toast. Fox is toasted!! It's toasty toast!!

I can walk out this evening with a spring in my step. Ka-boom...now, if it takes the whole stinking Republican Party.

stuffmatters

(2,574 posts)
12. I hope Ivanka becomes one too
Thu May 25, 2017, 06:47 PM
May 2017

Ivanka's besties are like spawn of Putin Puppet(i.e. oligarch) who was her guest of honor at the Inaugeral and Wendy Murdoch as Putin's girlfriend. In the Trump tradition close friendship is determined by business interests
only.

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
13. Jamie Gorelick is one of his attorneys.
Thu May 25, 2017, 06:47 PM
May 2017

She was Deputy Attorney General for Clinton and was for Hillary?

peggysue2

(10,811 posts)
14. It Begins!
Thu May 25, 2017, 06:48 PM
May 2017

And Jared Kushner was reported to be the person who strongly advised DT fire Comey.

Now we know why.

blue-wave

(4,313 posts)
22. Who said this first?
Thu May 25, 2017, 07:05 PM
May 2017

"Drain the swamp!"

I couldn't resist. The noose is getting tighter and tighter. Rats are jumping ship and it appears as though the whole team, the campaign, current appointees and family are all somehow implicated. This will likely be a long, long show.

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
23. It's all over (CNN and MSNBC) and it'seems OVER for Jared...YEAH!
Thu May 25, 2017, 07:06 PM
May 2017

Yesterday key people acknowledged on both news stations that nailing Jared is key to nailing the Donald. I hope this it IT!

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
24. Jared might implicate other crime families in NYC as he struggles to get
Thu May 25, 2017, 07:07 PM
May 2017

free of the FBI's claws. Hope this gets bigly.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
25. Hate to be 'that guy' to mention this among all the Louise Mensch hatefests
Thu May 25, 2017, 07:10 PM
May 2017

But she had this almost two months ago (and yes, I know she throws a lot of shit at a wall to see what sticks, but still...):

https://patribotics.blog/2017/03/28/kushner-and-trump-taped-at-secret-trump-tower-meetings-with-russians/

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,773 posts)
38. Yes. Mensch-haters don't have much evidence to stack up against her reports that get confirmed
Thu May 25, 2017, 07:58 PM
May 2017

On Trump-Russia, Mensch reports information that is later confirmed, as far as information has so far become available (much remains secret in investigations and in the perpetrators' records and minds).

On Trump-Russia, I've seen her make only one mistake, due to the way a Russian letter is pronounced.

Igel

(35,191 posts)
45. Yes, we do.
Thu May 25, 2017, 09:19 PM
May 2017

The giant mass of claims that she's made that didn't pan out. We forget them. Because we want to believe. And the first enemy of truth is the desire to believe.

She could be seen as kopi luwak. Kopi luwak is the coffee bean taken from the excrement of a wild civit in parts of Indonesia. It's very precious and highly esteemed by those who like it.

One has to pick out the coffee beans, wash them, prepare them. But even when the beans are edible and the civet eats them, most of the poo is just shit. The rest of the time, it's just shit.

That's Mensch.

Most of the time what comes out of the civet is just, well, shit. And when it's not, you still have to do some preparation before you accept as coffee.

Some, however, don't mind the taste of unwashed civet-passed coffee beans.

noneof_theabove

(410 posts)
35. No, No, No
Thu May 25, 2017, 07:46 PM
May 2017

In About Time they get to go back and change history.

But on the other hand, their Brass Teapot might be fixing to stop spitting out $100 bills.

DeminPennswoods

(15,246 posts)
32. Mark McKinnon comment
Thu May 25, 2017, 07:32 PM
May 2017

I tuned into Nicole Wallace's new show at 4 on MSNBC last week. She had a good panel and they were discussing the Russia probe. Mark McKinnon, who was a GOP operative back when GW Bush ran, was one of the panelists. During that campaign McKinnon was involved with some sort of tape shenanigans, of which I can't recall the details. Anyway, the FBI investigated the affair. McKinnon said basically you haven't been sweated until you've been sweated by the FBI. This is what Jared can look forward to. And you know they won't talk to him until they know what the factual answers are to the questions they ask.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
33. I wonder if Melania will be spared in all of this
Thu May 25, 2017, 07:38 PM
May 2017

It appears that Kushner is in it up to his eyeballs. His wife seems close enough to the action to believe that she, too, may be implicated in the future.

But was Melania firewalled from the collusion and crimes?

blue-wave

(4,313 posts)
36. I'll bet she was firewalled
Thu May 25, 2017, 07:50 PM
May 2017

just the hand holding incidents and their not living together....a marriage "on the rocks" she likely was not held in the highest confidence concerning these issues. Although that might all be an illusion for a cover. I guess we just wait and see.

stuffmatters

(2,574 posts)
37. Iinvestigation necessitates Kushner showing them tax returns. Lots of Trump/Kush "projects"
Thu May 25, 2017, 07:51 PM
May 2017

Second best to getting ahold of Trump's. Lots of shared projects tween KushTrump and they greased financing by selling Russian mob/putin puppets (ologarchs) green cards, money laundering and who know what else

This might be the development that makes Trump resign. It's getting into his own books sideways and begins to unshield his family.

randr

(12,408 posts)
39. Call me when they lock him up
Thu May 25, 2017, 08:00 PM
May 2017

MSM will milk this cow and ignore the more important stories.
I'm hoping thete are some Bemer n Benz dealers who gave big to the lsos

cstanleytech

(26,080 posts)
41. Hardly shocking that they would investigate, if they actually find something that warrants
Thu May 25, 2017, 08:34 PM
May 2017

prosecution is when I will get more excited.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
46. Agreed, but at least being under investigation
Thu May 25, 2017, 09:35 PM
May 2017

means they won't be able to get anything done. And it's going to keep approval ratings low, which will help Dems in future elections.

Even if that's all that comes of this, it's puts a lot of stank on the repubs who keep defending them.

canetoad

(17,088 posts)
49. Fom the companion piece
Fri May 26, 2017, 01:52 AM
May 2017

To this article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/25/the-investigation-of-jared-kushner-fits-a-very-troubling-pattern/

“You’ve seen it in countries all over the world where they’ve appointed family members, whether it’s their son, daughter, in-laws — it provides for tremendous opportunities for corruption,” Shruti Shah, an international corruption expert at Coalition for Integrity, told HuffPost last month. “People who want to curry favor find their way to provide favors to family members as a way to get closer to the person in power.”

LiberalLovinLug

(14,153 posts)
51. Starting to see why Ivanka is so silent
Fri May 26, 2017, 03:40 PM
May 2017

Her immediate family would be affected if she stood up for truth and decency.

She is either a nazi as well, or she just doesn't have the courage to fight both her father and by extension her husband and father to their children. If it is the former, I have zero sympathy for her. But it may be that in the future we may find out she has a kind of stockholm syndrome and is playing along to get along. I would not be surprised if she was "steered" towards marrying Jarad, as well as even that she was sexually molested by her dad at an early age.

not fooled

(5,791 posts)
52. Or just socialized by her father
Sat May 27, 2017, 01:53 AM
May 2017

into being a duplicitous, appearance-obsessed, manipulative con artist in her own right. Just not as uncouth and gross as her daddy.

That would explain how she became the wife of another NY thug crime family member. You or I probably couldn't stand to be married to someone who carries out sleazy real estate deals for a living. She, however, came from a similar background.

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