Maybe You Don’t Want to Be In Business With Jared Kushner
He’s “re-entering the private sector” with his own financial firm — so as a public service, my own tale of doing a deal with him
Jared Kushner, a Reuters story recently reported, “is stepping away from politics for the foreseeable future” and “re-entering the private sector.”
Which made me think: re-enter the private sector?
What does that even mean for a real estate heir married to a real estate heiress with a combined inherited fortune of $200 to $800 million that generates an income of $2 to $5 million a month? Or who as the U.S. Middle East policy czar in 2017, weeks after Qatar declined to bail out his family company’s disastrous Manhattan skyscraper investment, got his father-in-law the president to support a strange seven-month military blockade of our ally Qatar by Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf countries — shortly after which hundreds of millions in Qatari government money gushed into the Kushner Companies and whisked away their failed Manhattan investment?
The vehicle for Jared Kushner’s official private-sector re-entry is his new financial firm Affinity Partners, which will seek, among other things, to “pursue regional investments to connect Israel’s economy…and the Gulf.” It…
