A family feud, a real-estate empire, and a supermodel: Meet the family of ‘coronavirus czar’ Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and top advisor

A family feud, a real-estate empire, and a supermodel: Meet the family of ‘coronavirus czar’ Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and top advisor

Business·2020-05-13 04:07

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Jared Kushner and his parents, Charles and Seryl Kushner, pose at an event 2007.

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Before marrying into the Trump family, Jared Kushner was a successful real estate investor known for being the son of .

Charles Kushner to charges of witness tampering, making illegal campaign contributions, and tax evasion in 2015.

Multiple members of the Kushner family – including Jared’s younger brother, venture capitalist Joshua Kushner, and Joshua’s supermodel wife, Karlie Kloss – have candidates at odds with the White House.

Some tenants of the Kushner family’s Baltimore apartment buildings call the family “slumlord(s),” in a where the state of Maryland alleged that the units “are infested by rodents and vermin, plagued with water leaks that have caused mold and other issues, and, at times, lacking in basic utilities.”

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Jared Kushner didn’t just marry into a scandal-ridden family – he was born into one of his own.

The 39-year-old senior White House advisor is the son of convicted felon Charles Kushner, who made a fortune developing New York real estate. Before he was responsible for the United States’ response to conflicts in the Middle East and managing the coronavirus pandemic, Jared Kushner followed his father into the family business.

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