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Jared Kushner didn't disclose his business ties with George Soros, Peter Thiel, and Goldman Sachs or that he owes $1 billion in loans

Published by Business Insider on Tue, 02 May 2017


Jared Kushner didn't disclose his business ties with George Soros, Peter Thiel, and Goldman Sachs, or that he owes $1 billion in loans, The Wall Street Journal reportedon Tuesday.ThetopWhite House adviser and Trump's son-in-law failed to identify part-ownership of Cadre, a real-estate startup that he co-founded and links him to the GoldmanSachs Group. Kushner's ties to Cadre mean that he isbusiness partners withmega-investors George Soros and Peter Thiel, sources told The Wall Street Journal.Kushner's lawyer Jamie Gorelick issued a statement saying that Cadreis part of BFPS Ventures LLC, acompany he owns and identified in his government financial disclosure form.He also said that a revised version of Kushner's form (that includes Cadre)will be made available once ethics officials have taken a look at it.Kushner also failed to identify debt ofmore than $1 billion from 20 different lenders and personal guarantees to pay more than $300 million, the Wall Street Journal found.While Gorelick called revisions to the disclosure form"very normal," ethics experts told the Journalthat the loans and guaranteesshould be disclosed so that officials can decide whetherKushner needs to recuse himself fromissues that involve hislenders.Investment into startups like Cadre should definitely be disclosed,experts said."Anything that presents a potential for the conflict of interest should be disclosed so that the public and the press can monitor this," TrevorPotter, a Republican formerchairman of the Federal Election Commission, told the Journal.Another source told The Wall Street Journal that Kushner plans to recuse himself from anything that concerns Deutsche Bank or RBS, two lenders that have given him money for his properties or companies. That said, he stillowes money toBank of America, Blackstone Group LP, Citigroup, UBS Group AG and Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC ' all of which were not disclosed.Read the full report hereSEE ALSO:Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is caught between 2 worlds, and his friends are cutting tiesJoin the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: 'Just a loose hunch': Watch Alec Baldwin impersonate Trump and Bill O'Reilly on 'SNL
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