Jared Kushner (left); Charles Kushner (right); and Laurent Morali
When Kushner Companies paid $1.8 billion for 666 Fifth Avenue, a dated office tower that Brookfield’s Ric Clark once described as a “dinosaur,” it was supposed to cement Jared Kushner’s rise.
The Kushner family, much like the Trumps, had been on the periphery of New York’s real estate elite, eclipsed by big names like Stephen Ross and Gary Barnett.
The firm that Jared’s father, Charles Kushner, founded in the mid-1980s had stronger ties to New Jersey, where it often pooled money from investors for apartment building acquisitions, before officially moving to New York. And Charles, having been released from federal prison in 2006, hoped the trophy deal would redeem him in the eyes of the real estate world.
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Jared Kushner (left); Charles Kushner (right); and Laurent Morali
When Kushner Companies paid $1.8 billion for 666 Fifth Avenue, a dated office tower that Brookfield’s Ric Clark once described as a “dinosaur,” it was supposed to cement Jared Kushner’s rise.
The Kushner family, much like the Trumps, had been on the periphery of New York’s real estate elite, eclipsed by big names like Stephen Ross and Gary Barnett.
The firm that Jared’s father, Charles Kushner, founded in the mid-1980s had stronger ties to New Jersey, where it often pooled money from investors for apartment building acquisitions, before officially moving to New York. And Charles, having been released from federal prison in 2006, hoped the trophy deal would redeem him in the eyes of the real estate world.
FTC, 14 States Crack Down on Work-from-Home Scams
Cases skyrocket during pandemic as unemployed, retirees, others seek income
by Katherine Skiba, AARP, December 15, 2020 |
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En español | In announcing a nationwide crackdown on scammers who tell people they can earn big bucks working from home but don t deliver a top consumer-protection official said the scams are on the rise because of the large number of people now unemployed or underemployed. Scammers have been even bolder during the COVID-19 pandemic … taking advantage of a desperate situation to rip money from the hands of those among us who are least able to afford it,” said Andrew Smith, an official at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). “Scammers are preying on the unemployment and anxiety arising from the pandemic by making false promises of big income working from home.”