Jared Kushner’s company has large stake in firm with Israeli military links: CNN
CNN found Affinity Partners holds a 7.4% Phoenix stake worth more than $1 billion while Phoenix has invested over $456 million in Israeli defense companies.
- On Thursday, CNN reported that Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law and Middle East envoy, holds a major stake in Phoenix Financial through his investment firm Affinity Partners, an Israeli company with holdings in military-linked businesses.
- Shortly before Trump returned to office last year, Affinity Partners doubled its investment in Phoenix, becoming the largest shareholder in the Tel Aviv-based financial group amid Israel's escalating war in Gaza.
- Phoenix has invested hundreds of millions of dollars into Elbit Systems, Israel's largest arms manufacturer, and holds stakes in at least eight other companies providing equipment for Israeli military operations in Gaza.
- Ethics counsel Cynthia Brown of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington described Kushner's work as an 'unprecedented dual role,' though his attorney told CNN Kushner had 'never participated in or directed Phoenix's decisions.'
- Kushner has argued that financial investments in Israel and Arab nations incentivize peace, telling the No Priors podcast last September, 'When you get an Arab and Israeli together and they start talking about a business opportunity, they forget about everything else.
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Kushner Holds Stake In Israeli Military-Linked Firm
CNN reports: At the same time Jared Kushner has acted as a key negotiator in the war in Gaza, his private equity company, Affinity Partners, has held the largest stake in an Israeli firm backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns, a CNN investigation has found. Kushner has skirted deeper scrutiny of this potential conflict of interest by acting as a volunteer envoy, rather than accepting a government job that would require him to…
An investigation of the CNN network revealed an indirect financial connection between the private investment company owned by Jared Kouchner, the brother-in-law of United States President Donald Trump, and Israeli companies providing weapons and equipment to the Israeli occupation army, at a time when Kouchner is playing a prominent role in the negotiations on the war in the Gaza Strip.
An international press investigation, using Israeli financial transparency laws, concluded that Kushner's firm, Affinity Partners, holds the largest stake in Phoenix Financial, an investment firm based in Tel Aviv.
By Allegra Goodwin, Katie Polglase and Majlie de Puy Kamp At the same time that Jared Kushner has acted as key negotiator in the Israeli war in Gaza, his private equity company, Affinity Partners, has maintained the largest stake in an Israeli firm that supports companies involved in Israel's military campaigns,
Ex-Trump official flags disturbing aspect of Jared Kushner's 'volunteer' status
A former Trump White House press secretary says Jared Kushner's "volunteer" role with the current administration lets him avoid disclosing how much money he makes.During a Thursday interview with CNN anchor Erin Burnett, Stephanie Grisham made the claim following a CNN investigation into Kushner's financial ties to an Israeli company with stakes in firms that have seen business grow from the war in Gaza. According to CNN, Kushner's investment fi…
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