raised as to whether or not jared kushner has problems with his security clearance application, whether or not kushner not disclosing his own meetings with russian officials on his security clearance application might open hi him to potential criminal prosecution. i should tell you that one of the prosecutors who has been brought on board the mueller investigation recently secured a high profile conviction for a dea agent who deliberately left things off his security clearance application. any resulting lielkt that he faces because of that might also accrue to his wife, the president s daughter, ivanka, because the form, the sf-86 security clearance application form, the way it asks its questions, it asks about you or
than 75 new assets and millions of dollars he didn t previously disclose. and just look at this. if you look at jared kushner s new form can we put that up? you will see that the ethics official who certified this form is the new and more lenient acting director of the office. his form was signed off on by the person the white house plucked out of line for that job, and he signed off on that form not today when we got it well after close of business on a summer friday night. he actually signed off on it yesterday, thursday. but then that form, for some reason, doesn t hit the news until friday night after the close of business. apparently that timing is unusual for that office. we spoke again tonight to walter shaub, the former ethics director. he told us it s been the agency s policy for years to release financial disclosures on the same day they are certified. if a report seemed likely to garner extra attention, he said the office made an extra effort ensure the forms got
kushner updating his financial disclosure form, revealing more than 75 new assets and millions of dollars he didn t previously disclose. and just look at this. if you look at jared kushner s new form can we put that up? you will see that the ethics official who certified this form is the new and more lenient acting director of the office. his form was signed off on by the person the white house plucked out of line for that job, and he signed off on that form not today when we got it well after close of business on a summer friday night. he actually signed off on it yesterday, thursday. but then that form, for some reason, doesn t hit the news until friday night after the close of business. apparently that timing is unusual for that office. we spoke again tonight to walter shaub, the former ethics director. he told us it s been the agency s policy for years to release financial disclosures on the same day they are certified. if a report seemed likely to garner extra attention, he said
if you look at jared kushner s new form can we put that up? you will see that the ethics official who certified this form is the new and more lenient acting director of the office. his form was signed off on by the person the white house plucked out of line for that job, and he signed off on that form not today when we got it well after close of business on a summer friday night. he actually signed off on it yesterday, thursday. but then that form, for some reason, doesn t hit the news until friday night after the close of business. apparently that timing is unusual for that office. we spoke again tonight to walter shaub, the former ethics director. he told us it s been the agency s policy for years to release financial disclosures on the same day they are certified. if a report seemed likely to garner extra attention, he said the office made an extra effort to make sure the forms got released to the public the same day they were signed. that is how they used to do it when he was in
the president s daughter, ivanka. because the form, the sf 86 security clearance application form, the way it asks its questions, its asks about you or your family having contact with foreign nationals. it doesn t just ask about your own. it asks you or members of your family. and so unless ivanka disclosed jared s russian meetings while jared didn t disclose his russian meetings, ivanka may be in a pickle and potentially be open to prosecution on these matters. and if that really is just personality wise and in terms of his values and in terms of what emotionally gets him, in that really is the kind of thing that would send the president into panic mode, that may be part of this as well. well, now tonight the wall street journal was the first to report they have had to refile and amend their financial filings because they left