Tag: Jared Kushner
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All the ex-president’s men* at Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Members of Congress – Democrats and Republicans – have expressed concerns about Jared Kushner’s acceptance of a $2-billion investment from Saudi Arabia in his private equity firm shortly after he left the White House. But ex-President Donald Trump’s son-in-law isn’t the only former government official now working for Sunny Isles Beach’s Affinity Partners using a legal loophole to avoid having to register as a foreign agent -
In Sunny Isles Beach offices, Trump-son-in-law Jared Kushner rakes in tens of millions from Saudis; Is he an unregistered foreign agent?
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Way back in 1951 The Miami Herald ran the Pulitzer Prize-winning project “Know Your Neighbor” that called out organized crime figures who lived in town. If U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden’s suspicions about former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law are correct, it might be time to consider an update spotlighting unregistered foreign agents. -
Key co-conspirator in billion-dollar Rothstein Ponzi scheme now a public official in South Florida
By Bob Norman
FloridaBulldog.org
As an appointed member of Surfside’s planning and zoning board, Michael Szafranski is trusted to pass judgment on some of the most important issues involving the town. But what about Szafranski’s notorious past as a convicted felon involved in the largest Ponzi scheme in Florida’s history? -
Fortress forgave huge Trump loan, got federal permits to transport LNG by rail
By Ann Henson Feltgen and Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A multi-billion dollar private equity firm whose subsidiary was awarded two special permits by the Trump Administration to haul hazardous liquified natural gas (LNG), including by rail along Florida’s east coast, apparently forgave more than $100 million in debt owed by President Trump. -
Fraud allegations against Florida developer/political donor with ties to Trump, Kushner
By Deirdra Funcheon
FloridaBulldog.org
When Nicholas Mastroianni II appeared on stage at a real estate forum in Shanghai in 2016, the other panelists — including ex-New York governor George Pataki – deferred to him as the expert on the U.S. government’s EB-5 program, which allows foreign investors and their family members to get their green cards, and eventually citizenship, if they invest at least $500,000 in certain U.S.-based projects.
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