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Report suggests potentially alarming development in Jared Kushner's meeting with the head of a sanctioned Russian bank
Natasha Bertrand,Business Insider Sat, May 27 1:09 PM EDT


The FBI is examining whether Russian officials suggested to President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, that Russian banks could finance Trump associates' business ventures if US sanctions were lifted or relaxed, Reuters reported on Friday, citing a current US law enforcement official.

The possibility first came under scrutiny after Kushner met with the CEO of Russia's state-owned Vnesheconombank in December 2016. The meeting came on the heels of Kushner's meeting with Russia's ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, at Trump Tower, in which he reportedly floated the possibilityof setting up a secure line of communication between the Trump transition team and Russia.

Kushner suggested using Russian diplomatic facilities in the US to communicate, which would essentially conceal the Trump team's interactions with Russian officials from US government scrutiny, The Washington Post reported on Friday.

Kislyak reportedly orchestrated the meeting between Kushner and Vnesheconombank CEO Sergey N. Gorkov, The New York Times reported earlier this year. Gorkov was appointed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in January 2016 as part of a restructuring of the bank's management team, Bloomberg reported last year.

Between 2012 and 2014, Vnesheconombank was used as cover for Russian spy Evgeny Buryakov as he attempted to recruit New York City residents as intelligence sources for Moscow, according to the Department of Justice. Before that, Buryakov used Vnesheconombank as a cover to spy and recruit assets in South Africa.

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Gorkov would have had good reason to push for the US to lift sanctions: Vnesheconombank had huge success between 2007 and 2014, but came crashing down when oil prices tanked and President Barack Obama levied sanctions on Kremlin officials and entities over Russia's annexation of Crimea.

By February 2016, the bank — whose stated official mission is to "take efforts to make the Russian economy more competitive, diversify it, and foster investment" — was struggling to find enough cash to stay afloat. Its bailout needs had increased to $16 billion between 2016 and 2020, Reuters reported.

Kushner's meeting with Gorkov, the struggling bank's CEO, came as Kushner was trying to find investors for a Fifth Avenue office building in Manhattan that is set to be heavily financed by Anbang Insurance Group, a firm with ties to the Chinese government.

That deal ultimately fell through, but the Kremlin and the White House have provided conflicting explanations for why Kushner met privately with Gorkov in the first place.

Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, has told reporters that Kushner's meeting with Vnesheconombank CEO Sergey Gorkov in late December "was ordinary business," echoing the bank's previous claim that it had met with Kushner in his capacity as "the head of Kushner companies."

"As part of the preparation of the new strategy, executives of Vnesheconombank met with representatives of leading financial institutes in Europe, Asia, and America multiple times during 2016," the bank told Reuters in March.

"During the talks, the existing practices of foreign development banks and promising trends were discussed," it added. It also said the meetings took place "with a number of representatives of the largest banks and business establishments of the United States, including Jared Kushner, the head of Kushner Companies."

That appears to conflict with the White House's version of events — that Kushner met with Gorkov as a representative of Trump's transition team.

"Jared attended the meeting in his capacity as a transition official," a senior White House official told Business Insider in late March. "Nothing of substance was discussed. There was no follow-up."

The official added that Kushner took the meetings as part of his role as "the official primary point of contact with foreign governments and officials."

"Given this role, [Kushner] has volunteered to speak with Chairman Burr's committee but has not yet received confirmation," the official added, referring to Sen. Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The seemingly conflicting characterizations of the meeting — which was not disclosed publicly until The New York Times reported on it at the end of March — raise more questions about what kind of contact Trump's associates had with Russian officials through the latter half of 2016, as Russia was attempting to sway the outcome of the election in Trump's favor.

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'This is off the map': Former intelligence officials say the reported Kushner-Russia plan is unlike anything they've ever seen

Natasha Bertrand

May 27, 2017, 9:47 AM 346,582

kushner White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner listens during President Donald Trump's joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the East Room of the White House in Washington, March 17, 2017. Jim Bourg/Reuters

Former intelligence officials described Jared Kushner's reported attempt to set up a backchannel line of communication with Russia last December that would bypass the US' national security and intelligence apparatus as "off the map," "explosive," and "extremely dangerous."

Trump's national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, said during a press conference on Saturday that, if Kushner did try to set up such a back channel, "I would not be concerned about it."

"We have back-channel communications with a number of countries," McMaster said. "So, generally speaking, about back-channel communications, what that allows you to do is to communicate in a discreet manner."

Scott Olson, a recently retired FBI agent who ran counterintelligence operations and spent more than 20 years at the bureau, agreed that it is not unusual for low-level staffers to work between governments and bypass bureaucracy to exchange views and build consensus in advance of higher-level negotiations.

But what Kushner appears to have done is "substantially different, in two ways," he said.

"First, he is not seeking a back-channel for a low-level staff exchange," Olson said. "He wants high-level direct-contact communication. This is extremely dangerous because it results in verbal (and therefore undocumented and unwitnessed) agreements, which are binding on governments. Free governments do not work this way. They can't. If they do, they are no longer free."

He continued:

"Second, he asked to use a foreign government's communication facilities. This is way beyond a private server. This is doing US government diplomatic business over a foreign government's communication system. It's not an off-the-record conversation. It's a conversation recorded by the opposing party. This shows a staggering lack of understanding of the US and its place in the world. Actually, it shows a staggering lack of common sense. When he negotiates a business deal does he use the other guy's notes?"
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Maybe Jared (owner of 666 5th avenue in the "seat of Satan's power" - NYC) really IS the Antichrist??

[Terry]

Maybe Jared (owner of 666 5th avenue in the "seat of Satan's power" - NYC) really IS the Antichrist??

I don't even believe in that nonsense to begin with, but what a letdown that would be were it true: talk about reality falling far short of expectations.

[Terry]

Kushner is a kid who has skated through life due to nepotistic connections. He is far from alone in that aspect.

His father bought his way into Harvard. He graduated from both Harvard and New York University with degrees in government, law and business. He eventually took over his father's business when his father was incarcerated.

He married Ivanka Trump.

The above is the sum total as to why Kushner is where he is today. One would assume a person with degrees in government and law would have been learned enough not to play fast and loose re: these Russian contacts. I'll chalk that up to the hubris of elitism where some believe the rules simply don't apply to them.

Beyond that, what else can one say of Jared Kushner? Not much, other than there are a lot of Jared Kushner-types running around Wall Street and throughout government and Corporate America. I've met the type. All of us have probably met the type at one time or another, in one form or another. Legacy undergrads at university, where being the scion of a wealthy alumni donor will easily overcome substantial academic shortcomings. Children of CEOs who by birthright inherit (in some cases multi-billion dollar) companies. The right pedigree, contacts and connections are all one needs. More times than not, such people manage to convince themselves that they got where they are as the result of hard work and their own personal brilliance, rather than being members of The Lucky Sperm Club.

To his credit, Kushner did expand his family real estate enterprise to include low income tenements across a multitude of states because they are stable, consistent sources of income (unlike, say, the 666 5th Avenue property). Also to his credit, Kushner's companies never fail to serve legal notices, attach liens on wages and generally make life miserable for ex-tenants who vacate his properties - even when said residents have been in documented, verifiable full compliance with the terms of their leases - if Kushner and his associates assess there is a dollar to be made, ethics and morals be damned. Mostly because low income ex-tenants generally don't have the resources to fight back. But hey, unlike his father-in-law, Jared will rent out his slum tenements to (and subsequently sue) people of any color, so I suppose that's generational progress of a kind in terms of mindset...

From appearances, he comes across like a smarmy, smug, self-satisfied creepy little mute. At least to me. I doubt he'll have the balls to go in front of Congress without taking the 5th. I'd doubt his veracity even if he did. He already lied about the contacts on his disclosure forms, and that's the thing about credibility: hard won and easily lost.

[Kristy]

Refresh me, you farttard monkey dick spittle lovers what his religion is again?

[FORD]

Refresh me, you farttard monkey dick spittle lovers what his religion is again?

Nepotism?

[Kristy]

One thing is for certain; back in December of 2016 Nepto-douchebag boy Kushner met with Sergei Gorkov, the head of the Russian bank Vnesheconombank which has been under US sanctions since 2014. That meeting alone points to the completely corrupt character of the Trump presidency, does it not?

This whole god damn criminality that perverses Wall Street right into the White House doesn't surprise me. All the Grumpy Trumpy sycophants are attempting to describe the the meeting as routine and inconsequential and douchesnots Trumptards believe them as the bank described it as “promising business lines and sectors.”

As for Jamie Gorlick. She was one of the committee members on the 911 cover-up commission. She is also an old rat bag from the Clinton administration. She is a very deep state player and a very dangerous criminal.


the mother of slave SESH

[Terry]

Refresh me, you farttard monkey dick spittle lovers what his religion is again?

Clearly, Kushner is what Steve Bannon would lovingly refer to as a liberal, globalist Jewish Schweinhund...with his wife Ivanka being what Bannon would bitterly refer to as 1) an opportunistic race traitor for marrying such a filthy Red Sea Pedestrian in the first place, and 2) a stuck-up bitch for not letting Bannon see her tainted cooze on the Shabbat, making him settle for Kellyanne Conway's dried-up vag as a far from satisfying 'alternative twat' substitute.

[FORD]

Red Sea Pedestrian??