Kushner’s Business Got Loans After White House Meetings
Mr. Mirijanian, the spokesman for Mr. Kushner’s lawyer, said
that Mr. Mueller had not sought from the Kushner Companies or Mr. Kushner “any information or document concerning any business dealing either has had.”
Mr. Kushner resigned as chief executive of Kushner Companies when he joined the White House last January,
and he sold a small portion of his stake in the company to a trust controlled by his mother.
Peter Mirijanian, a spokesman for Mr. Lowell, said in a statement
that Mr. Kushner “has met with hundreds of business people.” He said that Mr. Kushner “has taken no part of any business, loans or projects with or for” Kushner Companies since joining the White House and that he has followed ethics advice.
“The appearance of conflicts of interest is simply too great.”
In 2017, Jared Kushner met multiple times in the White House with leaders of at least two financial institutions
that subsequently made large loans to Mr. Kushner’s family real estate business, in which Mr. Kushner retains an interest.
Mr. Kushner has also met at the White House with Stephen A. Schwarzman, chief executive of the private equity firm Blackstone,
which in the past has lent money to Kushner Companies for several projects, though all before the election.
He said the loan “went through the firm’s standard approval process.”
A Citigroup spokeswoman, Danielle Romero-Apsilos, said Kushner Companies had been a bank client since before the election and
that the relationship had no connection to Mr. Kushner’s White House role.