Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, has held onto about 90 percent of his real estate investments even as he serves as a top White House adviser, according to a Washington Post analysis of his financial disclosure form publishe...
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Kushner Is Holding Onto 90 Percent Of His Real Estate Investments
Until We Sued For Records, The Public Didn't Know
We use old-fashioned reporting methods at VTDigger: We ask for public records to get at the truth. State officials sometimes obfuscate, spin or simply refuse to answer questions. VTDigger reporters believe government officials should serve ...
Chinese Investment in exchange of EB-5 Visas
Kushner Companies said Monday that the name drop at the event in Beijing on Saturday was not meant to be an "attempt to lure investors" to one of its projects in New Jersey. As the Post noted, she encouraged investors to apply for United State...
Huge Change Planned to EB-5 Investment Visa Program
The EB-5 Regional Center program is being extended through the balance of the fiscal year through September 30, 2017 as is; what we call a “clean extension.” I’m on the Board of IIUSA, the largest industry organization and in the past the EB-...
How foreign investors seeking green cards get SC charter schools built, at a price
A handful of SC charter schools — finally in new school buildings — are poised to pay out millions in taxpayer dollars to middlemen, developers and foreign investors who want green cards. The money, paid in the form of high-interest rent pa...
'President' Kushner's Company Touts Visa Scam
At a glitzy Beijing Ritz-Carlton event earlier this month, Jared Kushner’s sister, Nicole Kushner Meyer, urged potential investors to secure their EB-5 visa promptly before its loosey-goosey requirements and generous benefits get tightened. ...
Immigrant Visas Mean Job Creation
The EB-5 Investment Program is bigger than any one company or project; the most important part of the immigrant visa program is creating jobs for Americans. I’ve worked with EB-5 for nearly 10 years; job creation is the focus of the program I ...
Kushner Companies Get Backlash Over Pitch to EB-5 Investors for NJ Project
Kushner Companies did not take part in a roadshow to promote the company’s One Journal Square project this weekend, due to backlash over its pitch to Chinese EB-5 investors, reports the Real Deal. Jared Kushner, who partially owns the real ...
Wealthy Chinese say they are considering investing in Kushner property because of family's Trump ties
While Jared Kushner's family may have fled China in disgrace, that doesn't mean that Kushner Companies has halted its efforts at securing Chinese investment for its latest building project. Journalists from CNN and other media outlets were ...
US ‘Golden Visa’: The Answer to Chinese Homeland Dissatisfaction
When the sister of President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner promoted investment in her family's new skyscraper from a Beijing hotel ballroom stage earlier this month, she was pitching a controversial American visa program that's prove...
Cos. Can't Escape EB-5 Fraud Scheme Suit, Judge Rules
A California federal judge has denied a bid by two companies to ditch a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suit accusing a businessman of misappropriating funds raised through the EB-5 immigrant investor program, saying the SEC’s allegati...
These Are the Top EB-5 Countries Ranked by Number of US Immigrant Visas Issued
China dominates issuance The graph below illustrates the unrivaled dominance of investors from mainland China when it comes to EB-5 visas granted in the US. This also explains why Kushner Companies and many other major developers pitch proj...
Changes to visa program could set back Kushner family’s real estate company
Changes to a controversial visa program under consideration by the Trump administration could hurt a real estate project partially owned by the family of White House adviser Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law. The decision, which res...
Kushner family drops out of China investor summit
The sister of White House adviser Jared Kushner on Thursday pulled out of the family company’s scheduled weekend presentation to potential Chinese investors amid growing criticism that she had used her brother’s position to benefit the family’...
Kushner Family Dealings Prompt Call To Reform EB-5 Visa Program
NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Steve Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law practice at Cornell University, about changes he thinks Congress should make to the EB-5 "investment immigration" program. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: More now on the...