Lenders say executives didn't talk loans with Jared Kushner during White House meetings
Source: CNN
By Aaron Cooper and Cristina Alesci, CNN
Updated 2:23 AM ET, Wed March 21, 2018
New York (CNN)Two companies that provided hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to Jared Kushner's family's business are disputing any connection between those deals and meetings their executives had with Kushner at the White House.
Citigroup and Apollo Global Management provided financing, and sent letters Tuesday to four Democratic members of Congress who wanted more information about what role Jared Kushner played in securing it. This comes after the New York Times first reported executives from both companies met with Kushner at the White House before the large loans were closed.
Michael Corbat, the CEO of Citigroup, met with Jared Kushner in the spring of 2017, less than a month before his company loaned $325 million for a development in the Brooklyn neighborhood of DUMBO. Kushner Companies owns 47.5% of the development, including a 6.5% passive interest which belongs to Jared Kushner himself, according to the letter.
"Nothing related to the DUMBO loan or any other personal business with Mr. Kushner or the Kushner Companies was discussed at that meeting," Rohan Weerasinghe, Citigroup general counsel, writes.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/politics/kushner-white-house-meetings-lenders/index.html
Squinch
(51,046 posts)Half of the odiousness of these people is how dumb they think WE are.
barbtries
(28,813 posts)and the first thing i see is that someone else said exactly what i planned to.
no they would never lie about such a thing. get them under oath. or let mueller ask.
PaulX2
(2,032 posts)What a great idea.
They can still lie.
It's only a crime if the crime is committed by the poor or the powerless.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Sancho
(9,070 posts)...Corbat and Kushner were probably getting together as part of the neighborhood association.
maxrandb
(15,364 posts)Because it helps to "normalize" shit like this.
There's no more investigative reporting or real journalism anymore.
It's all just "one side says, the other side says"...
TimeToGo
(1,366 posts)Even if true -- a lot can be said without saying anything directly.
dem4decades
(11,307 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)And even then, we've watched them tell lie after lie to Congress investigation committee's . I suspect Mueller already knows and has the proof whether this is true or not.
TubbersUK
(1,439 posts)Without an effective firewall between White House Kushner and the Kushner business, there's a myriad of ways to set up a quid pro quo.
rock
(13,218 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)PaulX2
(2,032 posts)Or more....
NCjack
(10,279 posts)PaulX2
(2,032 posts)Only thing discussed.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,439 posts)Now the rest of you, apologize.