President-elect Donald Trump stated Saturday he intends to appoint actual property developer Charles Kushner, father of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, to function ambassador to France.
Trump made the announcement in a Reality Social put up, calling Charles Kushner “an amazing enterprise chief, philanthropist, & dealmaker.”
Kushner is the founding father of Kushner Firms, an actual property agency. Jared Kushner is a former White Home senior adviser to Trump who’s married to Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka.
The elder Kushner was pardoned by Trump in December 2020 after pleading responsible years earlier to tax evasion and making unlawful marketing campaign donations.
Prosecutors alleged that after Charles Kushner found his brother-in-law was cooperating with federal authorities in an investigation, he hatched a scheme for revenge and intimidation.
Kushner employed a prostitute to lure his brother-in-law, then organized to have the encounter in a New Jersey motel room recorded with a hidden digital camera and the recording despatched to his personal sister, the person’s spouse, prosecutors stated.
Kushner ultimately pleaded responsible to 18 counts together with tax evasion and witness tampering. He was sentenced in 2005 to 2 years in jail — essentially the most he might obtain beneath a plea deal, however lower than what Chris Christie, the U.S. lawyer for New Jersey on the time and later governor and Republican presidential candidate, had sought.
Christie has blamed Jared Kushner for his firing from Trump’s transition workforce in 2016, and has referred to as Charles Kushner’s offenses “one of the loathsome, disgusting crimes that I prosecuted after I was U.S. lawyer.”
Trump and the elder Kushner knew one another from actual property circles and their youngsters have been married in 2009.
