Kushner’s Financial Ties to Israel Deepen Even With Mideast Diplomatic Role
- 6 years ago
Kushner’s Financial Ties to Israel Deepen Even With Mideast Diplomatic Role
Connecting any of his well-publicized trips to the Middle East to anything to do with Kushner Companies or its businesses is nonsensical
and is a stretch to write a story where none actually exists.”
But Mr. Sanderson, the lawyer who specializes in government ethics, said, “Their standard seems like
some version of ‘It’s a conflict when I think it’s a conflict, and I’ll make that judgment myself.’”
One issue, said Robert Weissman, the president of Public Citizen, a nonprofit government ethics group, is
that “the ethics laws were not crafted by people who had the foresight to imagine a Donald Trump or a Jared Kushner.”
“No one could ever imagine this scale of ongoing business interests, not in a local peanut farm or a hardware store but sprawling global businesses
that give the president and his top adviser personal economic stakes in an astounding number of policy interests,” Mr. Weissman added.
It “does no business,” she said, “with foreign sovereigns or governments,
and is not precluded from doing business with any foreign company simply because Jared is working in the government.”
Menora, which is also Israel’s largest manager of pension funds, has done numerous other real estate deals, including
several in the United States, said the Menora executive, Ran Markman, who is the company’s head of real estate.
Connecting any of his well-publicized trips to the Middle East to anything to do with Kushner Companies or its businesses is nonsensical
and is a stretch to write a story where none actually exists.”
But Mr. Sanderson, the lawyer who specializes in government ethics, said, “Their standard seems like
some version of ‘It’s a conflict when I think it’s a conflict, and I’ll make that judgment myself.’”
One issue, said Robert Weissman, the president of Public Citizen, a nonprofit government ethics group, is
that “the ethics laws were not crafted by people who had the foresight to imagine a Donald Trump or a Jared Kushner.”
“No one could ever imagine this scale of ongoing business interests, not in a local peanut farm or a hardware store but sprawling global businesses
that give the president and his top adviser personal economic stakes in an astounding number of policy interests,” Mr. Weissman added.
It “does no business,” she said, “with foreign sovereigns or governments,
and is not precluded from doing business with any foreign company simply because Jared is working in the government.”
Menora, which is also Israel’s largest manager of pension funds, has done numerous other real estate deals, including
several in the United States, said the Menora executive, Ran Markman, who is the company’s head of real estate.