Sunday, December 3, 2017

Jared Kushner forgets - again

Kushner is awfully forgetful for a man of his young age.
Jared Kushner failed to disclose his role as a co-director of the Charles and Seryl Kushner Foundation from 2006 to 2015, a time when the group funded an Israeli settlement considered to be illegal under international law, on financial records he filed with the Office of Government Ethics earlier this year.

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Kushner stated that he was a member of the board of directors of the Kushner Family Foundation from 2010 to 2017, though publicly available financial records for that foundation do not include his name on the board. Instead, Kushner’s role as a director for one of his family foundations can be found in the Charles and Seryl Kushner Foundation’s financial records from 2015—the last year of which such documents are currently available to the public.

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The failure to disclose his role in the foundation—at a time when he was being tasked with serving as the president’s Middle East peace envoy—follows a pattern of egregious omissions that would bar any other official from continuing to serve in the West Wing.

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The first son-in-law has repeatedly amended his financial records since his initial filing in March, along with three separate revisions to his security clearance application.

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The latest development follows reports on Friday indicating the White House senior adviser attempted to sway a United Nations Security Council vote against an anti-settlement resolution passed just before Donald Trump took office, which condemned the structure of West Bank settlements.

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Kushner’s failure may have been more than an inadvertent mistake.

  Newsweek
You think?
Had Kushner included the role in his financial records, his involvement in such donations—and the following conflicts of interest that could possibly arise in his government position—may have been considered by the Office of Government Ethics.
Do we still have one?
"He’s revised his forms several times already," Dennis said. "There’s no reason his lawyers couldn’t have done what our researchers did. It wasn’t rocket science."
I used to think his lawyers were simply being lied to. Now I'm starting to think they know he's corrupt, so they don't try to find out things that could prove it. At some point, however, you'd think that reputable attorneys would have to dump him to salvage their reputation.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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