Kushner Offered To Help Indicted Banker

Taegan Goddard, Political Wire
Thu, 05/23/2019 - 11:32am

“Shortly after Donald Trump’s 2016 election, Paul Manafort wrote to Jared Kushner to ask the incoming administration to consider giving a ‘major appointment’’ to Manafort’s banker,” Bloomberg reports. Replied Kushner: “On it!” “That email exchange, which was admitted as evidence during Manafort’s tax-fraud trial last year, gained new significance Thursday with the unsealing of a federal indictment in New York.

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