Kushner, father of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, pleaded guilty to tax evasion and witness tampering in the 2000s.
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Charles Kushner, Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to France, is the father of Trump’s son-in-law and a former real estate mogul Trump pardoned for an earlier conviction on tax evasion and charges involving a revenge plot to set his brother-in-law up in a sex scandal.Key Facts
Charles Kushner, 70, graduated from Hofstra University in 1979 and joined his father Joseph Kushner in real estate, later forming Kushner Companies in 1985 while acquiring properties in New York, Pennsylvania and Florida.
By the early 2000s, Kushner Companies had become one of New Jersey’s largest apartment owners and the firm had a portfolio spanning 25,000 units.
In 2005, Kushner was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to 16 federal counts of filing false tax returns, one count of retaliating against a cooperating witness and one count of making false statements to the Federal Election Commission.
