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(One more indication that the Trump administration has no connection to
historical fascism. Looking for analogies? It is not Adolf Hitler. It is
the Sicilian Mafia.)
It was the summer of 2012, and Jared Kushner was headed downtown.
His family’s real estate firm, the Kushner Companies, would spend about
$190 million over the next few months on dozens of apartment buildings
in tony Lower Manhattan neighborhoods including the East Village, the
West Village and SoHo.
For much of the roughly $50 million in down payments, Mr. Kushner turned
to an undisclosed overseas partner. Public records and shell companies
shield the investor’s identity. But, it turns out, the money came from a
member of Israel’s Steinmetz family, which built a fortune as one of the
world’s leading diamond traders.
A Kushner Companies spokeswoman and several Steinmetz representatives
say Raz Steinmetz, 53, was behind the deals. His uncle, and the family’s
most prominent figure, is the billionaire Beny Steinmetz, who is under
scrutiny by law enforcement authorities in four countries. In the United
States, federal prosecutors are investigating whether representatives of
his firm bribed government officials in Guinea to secure a multibillion
dollar mining concession. In Israel, Mr. Steinmetz was detained in
December and questioned in a bribery and money laundering investigation.
In Switzerland and Guinea, prosecutors have conducted similar inquiries.
The Steinmetz partnership with Mr. Kushner underscores the mystery
behind his family’s multibillion-dollar business and its potential for
conflicts with his role as perhaps the second-most powerful man in the
White House, behind only his father-in-law, President Trump.
full:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/us/politics/jared-kushner-beny-steinmetz.html
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