Saturday, February 17, 2018

Nothing to see here

Jared Kushner quietly filed an addendum to his personal financial disclosure adding even more previously undisclosed business interests in recent weeks — and may have even more to disclose, according to real estate documents shared with TPM.

Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and a top adviser, wrote a letter to White House Deputy Counsel Stefan Passantino dated Jan. 3, 2018 adding a number of additional business interests that had not previously been on his personal financial disclosure form.

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“This is really out of the ordinary,” said Don Fox, a former acting director and general counsel of the Office of Government Ethics who served during the administrations of both President Obama and President George W. Bush. “It’s really uncommon you’d still be trying to get the form correct at this stage in the game and there’d have been as many amendments over such a protracted period of time that we have.”

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According to a separate recent update from Ivanka Trump, Kushner appears to have taken out millions more in loans in recent months, a sign that his business may be on the rocks. The couple are currently battling a lawsuit filed in December that accuses them of illegally omitting information for 32 other companies, raising the possibility of hidden conflicts of interest.

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Even with Kushner’s latest updates, however, it appears as though his financial disclosure forms still may not fully be up to snuff under ethics law. The liberal group American Bridge combed through public records to identify Kushner holdings that he failed to report on his form, unearthing a handful more corporations that from publicly available information appear as though they should be disclosed. The documents were pulled as part of a new effort from American Bridge to lay out all public records related to Kushner’s complex financial holdings.

TPM provided Kushner’s legal team with an array of publicly available corporate documents obtained by American Bridge showing Kushner’s undisclosed business interests and corporate positions. Kushner’s lawyers declined to comment on the record on the specific examples provided. A spokesperson for Kushner told TPM that he “has provided complete information on his disclosure forms” but left open the possibility of further updates being filed.

  TPM
We've provided complete information, but there might be more amendments to come. Sure, that makes sense.
“It’s just sloppy, and he doesn’t take a great deal of interest at all in getting this public financial disclosure form correct,” said Fox. “If he did he would have accomplished it by now.”
No, it's not just sloppy.

President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner filed a new addendum to his personal financial disclosure form last month that reveals previously undisclosed business interests, according to a new report.

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The form also included new disclosures related to his wife Ivanka Trump’s stake in the ownership of Trump Old Post Office, LLC., according to the document obtained by TPM.

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Kushner has previously filed an amended version of his personal financial disclosure form. In July, he disclosed 77 assets that were “inadvertently omitted” from his original disclosure that included real estate, bonds and a personal art collection.

An update to Ivanka Trump’s financial disclosure report published Tuesday reveals that she and Kushner’s have taken on millions of dollars in new debt over the past year.

Kushner appears to have tapped three different lines of credit since he began working in the White House, according to Trump’s disclosure form.

The changes up the couple’s debts from a range of $19 million to $98 million to being valued at between $31 million and $155 million, according to Politico.

Bloomberg News reported Thursday that U.S. tax authorities have subpoenaed lenders and investors in real estate projects managed by Kushner’s family.

  The Hill
How many times has he amended that document?
The Washington Post reports, 13 months into the Trump presidency, there still are dozens of White House officials who lack permanent security clearances. The most prominent of which is President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner.

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Kushner has had to amend his SF-86 clearance form dozens of times after he omitted key meetings with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyack, the head of state-run Vnesheconombank Sergey Gorkov, and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, among nearly 100 others. He has amended his financial disclosure form 39 times.

  Think Progress
Just sloppy.

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

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