by Dan Christensen at FloridaBulldog.org
Members of Congress – Democrats and Republicans – have expressed concerns about Jared Kushner’s acceptance of a $2-billion investment from Saudi Arabia in his private equity firm shortly after he left the White House.
But ex-President Donald Trump’s son-in-law isn’t the only former government official now working for Sunny Isles Beach’s Affinity Partners who appears to be using a legal loophole to avoid having to register as a foreign agent and disclose details of Affinity’s arrangements with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar.
Incorporated in Delaware the day after Trump left office in January 2021, Affinity doesn’t disclose much information about itself beyond what’s required by law. Even its phone number is hard to come by.
Affinity does no marketing and doesn’t need to. Six months after its incorporation, the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) gave Affinity the $2 billion to invest. That alone has generated at least $80 million in management fees for Kushner’s firm in 2022 and 2023, according to U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-OR, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.
“As founder and sole owner of Affinity,…
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