Democrats press White House for results of Kushner inquiry

Two House Democrats are pressing the White House counsel’s office to provide results from a newly revealed internal inquiry into more than $500 million in loans made last year by two companies to Trump administration senior adviser Jared Kushner’s family firm. The loans coincided with Kushner’s meetings with executives of those companies.

Congressmen Elijah Cummings and Raja Krishnamoorthi ask White Counsel Don McGahn to provide documents showing any results from the Kushner inquiry and documents relating to more than $500 million in loans last year to Kushner Cos. from Citigroup and Apollo Global Management.

The head of the government’s ethics agency informed Krishnamoorthi last week about the White House inquiry into whether any ethics or criminal laws were broken in Kushner’s dealings with the two companies. David J. Apol, acting director of the US Office of Government Ethics, told Krishnamoorthi that White House lawyers were probing whether the loans to Kushner Cos. may have spurred ethics or criminal violations.

Apol said that when he raised concerns with White House lawyers about the loans and whether they should look into the matter, “the White House informed me that they had already begun the process.”

— AFP