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At the age of 26, Kushner purchased the office building at 666 Fifth Avenue in 2007, for a then-record price of $1.8 billion, most of it borrowed. The majority of the transaction took place in less than a week. Kushner said: “In New York, you have to act quickly, or else you get left in the dust. We were just blown away by it, and we really wanted to buy it.” However, following the property crash in 2008, the cash flow generated by the property was insufficient to cover its debt service, and the Kushners were forced to sell the retail portion in the building to Stanley Chera for more than $1 billion and bring in Vornado Realty Trust as a 50% equity partner in the ownership of the building.

Jose posted:

wish i'd married ivanka. attractive, rich/president dad. whats not to like?

Jose posted:

wish i'd married ivanka. attractive, rich/president dad. whats not to like?

Karl Barks posted:

he's got that rich from birth business child look going on

Jose posted:

wish i'd married ivanka. attractive, rich/president dad. whats not to like?

Jose posted:

wish i'd married ivanka. attractive, rich/president dad. whats not to like?

zegermans posted:

Uday and Qussay as in-laws

The Nastier Nate posted:

Thanks to Ivanka we might actually get paid maternity leave in this country.

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As with the defense industry and the financial industry, success on a large scale in real estate often depends on government connections. Tax incentives, licenses, and inspections come more easily that way. As Trump has said, explaining his contributions to Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaigns, “I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, and they are there for me.” From 1996 to 2004, Charlie Kushner gave more than $1.4 million to Democratic politicians, including Jon Corzine, Frank Lautenberg, and Charles Schumer. After Clinton won the 2000 Senate race, she made a pilgrimage to the Kushners’ house on the Jersey Shore for Shabbos dinner.

In the late nineties, [Papa] Kushner met James McGreevey, who at the time was the mayor of Woodbridge Township. Kushner began financing his subsequent campaigns, a partnership that culminated in McGreevey’s victory in the 2002 gubernatorial election. A month after the inauguration, McGreevey nominated Kushner to be the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a position that would have put the developer in charge of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, controlling billions of dollars in state contracts.

It was bad timing: the family had started to unravel. Charlie’s older brother, Murray, filed a lawsuit, accusing him of mismanagement. Then a former Kushner Companies accountant, Bob Yontef, sued, alleging that Charlie’s political and charitable contributions came from company money. Itemized in Yontef’s complaint is a hundred-and-twenty-five-thousand-dollar fee that was paid to Bill Clinton, who spoke at a luncheon for executives of the bank that Kushner Companies owned.

The legal actions caught the attention of Chris Christie, a Republican who was then the U.S. Attorney for the state of New Jersey. He began looking into Kushner’s campaign donations; when the investigation became public, Kushner withdrew himself from consideration for the Port Authority job. Kushner became furious with his younger sister, Esther Schulder, who he believed was coöperating with Christie, and, in retaliation, he set a trap for her husband, Billy Schulder, a former Kushner Companies employee whom he resented for having had an affair at the office. He hired a prostitute, who, posing as a stranded motorist, approached Schulder at the Time to Eat Diner, in Bridgewater. Schulder then met her at the Red Bull Inn, on Route 22, where a camera installed in an alarm clock captured them in a sex act. Kushner mailed images from the tape to his sister, who promptly shared them with federal authorities.

Kushner was arrested, and suddenly the whole family was starring in a baroque scandal—part “Peyton Place,” part “The Sopranos.” McGreevey was forced to apologize for his nomination of Kushner. (Months later, he resigned the governorship, following a sex scandal of his own.) Kushner pleaded guilty to eighteen counts of tax evasion, witness tampering, and making illegal campaign donations—“crimes of greed, power, and excess,” as Christie put it.

Kushner received a two-year prison sentence, and spent eighteen months in a federal penitentiary in Montgomery, Alabama, before being transferred to a halfway house in Newark. Students at the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy wore duct tape over their sweatshirts, to hide the family name.

Jared Kushner describes his father’s downfall as the defining event of his life. The man whom he idolized had become a source of humiliation and grief. But he also took Charlie’s view of the crisis: that his father had been a victim. In an interview with the real-estate trade paper the Real Deal, Charlie said, “I don’t believe God and my parents will ever forgive my brother and sister for instigating a criminal investigation and being cheerleaders for the government and putting their brother in jail because of jealousy, hatred and spite.”

Grey Fox posted:

"paid maternity leave" and "use up your remaining vacation/sick days and leave the company" are not the same thing

C-Euro posted:

Seriouspost would anyone know who this guy is if he wasn't (presumably) boning down on Ivanka? Or is this the thousandth example of "it's not what you know, but who you know" of this political season?

C-Euro posted:

Seriouspost would anyone know who this guy is if he wasn't (presumably) boning down on Ivanka? Or is this the thousandth example of "it's not what you know, but who you know" of this political season?

C-Euro posted:

Seriouspost would anyone know who this guy is if he wasn't (presumably) boning down on Ivanka? Or is this the thousandth example of "it's not what you know, but who you know" of this political season?

logikv9 posted:

Bannon vs kushner

zegermans posted:

Trump's plan called for a 6 week leave system that was paid through unemployment insurance, independent of your sick days.

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He also said mothers who give birth would become eligible for six weeks of partially paid maternity leave, a new benefit that would come from a tweak to the nation’s unemployment insurance program. The average weekly payout, his team said, would fall around $300.

BeOSPOS posted:

JARED  KUSHNER

JUNKED HER ARS


makes u think

GobiasIndustries posted:

Realtalk, he's married to Ivanka and Trump trusts him probably more than his adult sons. His dad was put in jail by Chris Christie for illegal campaign contributions. He owns the New York Observer and real estate in NY/NJ.

Kung Food posted:

That's odd. You would think Trump would despise the man who stole the love of his life.

Grey Fox posted:

Partial-paid, but you're close otherwise.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/14/how-donald-trump-could-change-what-its-like-to-parent-in-america/

sitchensis posted:

jared is gay and ivanka knows which likely suits her just fine because incest probably kills any normal sex drive you might have

Lawman 0 posted:

Lastgirl posted:

its not a he

its a secret weed project to organically mutate a indica strain so powerful you'll green out from just smelling it

jared is some epa worker who discovered it so he calls it jared's kushNER, NER being the North Eurasian Region

where he went deep in the Himalayan to find one of the rarest afgan kush by haggling with some merchants at Samarkand to cross pollinate with his super weed.

i dont think theres an official name yet for this weed but i could be wrong

Lord of Pie posted:

Fat Reek or one of the other ones that get shanked by this guy are gonna end up leaking some hot media tips about how this Jared eats fresh much like Fat Jared

twoday posted:

There is an idea of a Jared Kirchner, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there. It is hard for me to make sense on any given level. Myself is fabricated, an aberration. I am a noncontingent human being. My personality is sketchy and unformed, my heartlessness goes deep and is persistent. My conscience, my pity, my hopes disappeared a long time ago (probably at NYU) if they ever did exist. There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. I still, though, hold on to one single bleak truth: no one is safe, nothing is redeemed. Yet I am blameless. Each model of human behavior must be assumed to have some validity. Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do? My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape.

KIND OF A KIM DEAL posted:

Hmm I can't find any such thing on Leafly... but I have a conference call scheduled with my lawyer tomorrow afternoon though so maybe I'll ask her about it if I remember.

I don't really smoke anymore but I'd totally try the poo poo that gets you high enough to start following Alex Jones.

twoday posted:

There is an idea of a Jared Kirchner, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there. It is hard for me to make sense on any given level. Myself is fabricated, an aberration. I am a noncontingent human being. My personality is sketchy and unformed, my heartlessness goes deep and is persistent. My conscience, my pity, my hopes disappeared a long time ago (probably at NYU) if they ever did exist. There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. I still, though, hold on to one single bleak truth: no one is safe, nothing is redeemed. Yet I am blameless. Each model of human behavior must be assumed to have some validity. Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do? My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape.