white house about an advisory role, according to a source with knowledge of the discussions. jared stepped down as ceo of his family s business, kushner companies, since going to washington. but questions of conflicts still persist. also at the white house, jared met with citibank ceo michael corbett last year around the same time citibank made a $325 million loan to kushner companies and its partners. spokespeople for both apollo and citibank said their executives were not involved in granting those loans. you also have to worry about whether he has an incentive to use his official power to use the power of the white house to help people that he has business relations with. reporter: a kushner company spokesperson said there was nothing in appropriate, and stories like these attempt to make insinuating connections that do not exist, to disparage the financial institutions, and the companies involved. just last week, cnn reported that special counsel robert
get the full security clearance she needs as a full security adviser to the president. all of this comes as the white house defends her husband after it was revealed his family businesses scored $500 million in loans after kushner personally met with lenders at the white house. cnn reports. this chicago skyscraper is majority owned by jared kushner and his family. mortgage documents show a link to new york city private equity powerhouse apollo global management provided them with $184 million fort gaj fmortgage the building. months earlier that same executive was in talks with the white house about an advisory role, according to a source with knowledge of the discussions. jared stepped down as ceo of his family s business since going to washington. but questions of conflicts still persist. also at the white house, jared
you know, an appearance isn t just a bad thing, whether it s ivanka, jared, mr. trump himself. an appearance is the yellow light. you ve that is what tells you stop here. when they see that light, they are putting the pedal to the metal and going through the intersection. now we are seeing that there may be some collisions with the ethics rules. it gets even worse than that. this, the investigation of ivanka is a counter intelligence investigation. who is she doing business with? what are the risks to our country by this enterprise she s been involved with in vancouver. it is totally fair game and the country shouldn t have been put in this situation. what i hear you saying is they put themselves in the cross hair of investigations by being
after jared s sister was referencing him during a presentation in china. the new york times reported that kushner companies received $30 million from one of israel s largest financial institutions just before jared s first diplomatic trip to the country. last week the washington post reported officials from at least four companies, mexico, israel, china and the united arab emirates discussed ways to manipulate jared because of his families finances. the constant search for capital, which is normally for any real estate firm casts a cloud of jared s white house role because like his father-in-law he has refused to fully divest from his holdings. i want to talk about ethics. norm eisen, former white house special counsel for ethics under president obama and also u.s. former ambassador. he said kushner hasn t had any business dealings or role in the
harris. months earlier, that same executive was in talks with the white house about an advisory role, according to a source with knowledge of the discussions. jared stepped down as ceo of his family s business, kushner companies, since going to washington. but questions of conflicts still persist. also at the white house, jared met with citibank ceo last year. around the same time citibank made a $125 million loan to kushner companies and its partners. spokes people said their executives were not involved in granting those loans. you also have to worry about whether he has an incentive to use his official power to use the power of the white house to help people that he has business relations with. kushner company spokesperson said there was nothing inappropriate and stories like these attempt to make insinuating connections that do not exist to disparage the financial institutions and the companies involved.