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Senate panel: Kushner had contacts about WikiLeaks, Russian overtures he did not disclose
President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, received and forwarded emails about a "Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite" during last year's campaign that he kept from Senate Judiciary Committee investigators, according to lawmakers demanding that he produce the missing records.
Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and ranking Democratic member Dianne Feinstein, Calif., sent a letter Thursday to Abbe Lowell, Kushner's attorney, charging that Kushner has failed to disclose several documents, records and transcripts in response to multiple inquiries from committee investigators.
Lowell disputed the committee's characterization of Kushner's compliance, saying Thursday that he has "been responsive to all requests" and provided the Judiciary Committee with all relevant documents."
In their letter, Grassley and Feinstein instruct Kushner's team to turn over "several documents that are known to exist" because other witnesses in their probe already gave them to investigators. The correspondence include a series of September 2016 messages to Kushner concerning WikiLeaks, the website that published hacked Democratic emails at the height of the campaign. The committee leaders say Kushner had forwarded those messages to another campaign official. Earlier this week, Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. revealed that he had had direct communication with WikiLeaks through private Twitter messages during the campaign.
Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and ranking Democratic member Dianne Feinstein, Calif., sent a letter Thursday to Abbe Lowell, Kushner's attorney, charging that Kushner has failed to disclose several documents, records and transcripts in response to multiple inquiries from committee investigators.
Lowell disputed the committee's characterization of Kushner's compliance, saying Thursday that he has "been responsive to all requests" and provided the Judiciary Committee with all relevant documents."
In their letter, Grassley and Feinstein instruct Kushner's team to turn over "several documents that are known to exist" because other witnesses in their probe already gave them to investigators. The correspondence include a series of September 2016 messages to Kushner concerning WikiLeaks, the website that published hacked Democratic emails at the height of the campaign. The committee leaders say Kushner had forwarded those messages to another campaign official. Earlier this week, Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. revealed that he had had direct communication with WikiLeaks through private Twitter messages during the campaign.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-jared-kushner-russia-investigation-20171116-story.html
