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\nJared Kushner\u2019s sister promoted the family\u2019s connection with President Trump when advertising an investor visa to wealthy Chinese, according to an Agence France Presse report Sunday.
The EB-5 program allows individuals who invest at least half a million dollars in an American business that creates at least 10 jobs to gain a two-year visa. The vast majority of these visas are given out to Chinese investors.
Nicole Kushner Meyer, sister of White House adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared, pitched Chinese investors in Beijing Saturday and Shanghai Sunday that they could get these visas through investment into a Kushner Companies development in Jersey City, New Jersey. A brochure for the event said: \u201cInvest $500,000 and immigrate to the United States.\u201d
Jared resigned from his family\u2019s real estate business and divested from the Jersey City project, but his sister\u2019s pitches over the weekend touched on the family\u2019s White House connection.
The New York Times reported that a slide in the presentation identified President Trump as a \u201ckey decision maker\u201d in regards to the EB-5 visa program. The Washington Post also reported that a speaker said, \u201cInvest early, and you will invest under the old rules.\u201d
Here\u2019s a slide shown during Kushner Co. event in Beijing identifying @realDonaldTrump as \u201ckey decision maker\u201d on EB-5 investor visa program pic.twitter.com\/j1M4E7eGtQ
\u2014 Javier C. Hern\u00e1ndez (@HernandezJavier) May 6,2017
The Kushner family has previously heavily relied on Chinese investors and EB-5 visas, but a former White House counsel told the Post that the recent pitch is troubling.
\u201cIt\u2019s incredibly stupid and highly inappropriate, \u201d Richard Painter, the former chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, said in an interview. \u201cThey clearly imply that the Kushners are going to make sure you get your visa. . .. They\u2019 re [Chinese applicants] not going to take a chance. Of course they\u2019 re going to want to invest.\u201d<\/p>\n

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