House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has launched an investigation into Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s conflicts of interest between Kushner’s foreign-funded private investment firm and his concurrent government service as a so-called special envoy for peace.
Kushner works for the Trump administration in the Middle East, while also taking money from Middle Eastern governments.
Raskin wrote to Kushner:
It is reported that you are now participating as ‘Special Envoy for Peace’ in negotiations on behalf of the United States government to address the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. At the same time, you are charging billions of dollars from the Gulf monarchies for your private business ventures, while you already manage billions of dollars of their money in your international investment company, A Fin Management LLC (Affinity).
From the standpoint of the American people, your decision to fill these two roles – a public role for government and a private one for personal gain – creates a blatant and incurable conflict of interest. Your clients Saudi Arabia and Royal Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman have unique and significant strategic, economic and political interests that are certain to diverge sharply from the strategic, economic and political interests of the American people.
Representative Raskin announced that he will investigate Kushner for several possible violations of federal law.
