The sister of President Trump' s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, highlighted her powerful brother as she pitched financing the family firm' s real
The sister of President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, highlighted her powerful brother as she pitched financing the family firm’s real estate project in New Jersey to Chinese investors.
That’s according to reporters from The Washington Post and The New York Times, who were attending the publicly advertised event at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Beijing on Saturday before press was removed from the room.
“Speaking in a ballroom, [Nicole] Meyer said the project ‘means a lot to me and my entire family, ‘” according to the Times . “She mentioned her brother’s service as chief executive of Kushner Companies, the family business from which he resigned in January, saying he had left to serve in the Trump administration.”
This is the latest in a series of conflict-of-interest questions surrounding the vast business interests of top Trump administration officials.
“It’s highly problematic, ” Noah Bookbinder, the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, tells NPR. “It appears that Jared Kushner’s family business is using his name and his official position to bring in investment.”
Kushner Companies “apologizes if that mention of [Meyer’s] brother was in any way interpreted as an attempt to lure investors, ” it said in a statement emailed to NPR, adding that it was not her intention.
