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Might be down right shakespearean. chris christie once sent jared kushner's father to prison. >> in 2004, he game focus of a federal investigation. charged in a business sash attempt to silence a federal witness. it all stemmed from an accusation that kushner had been making campaign contributions using names of his employees so he could skirt the federal contribution limits. what makes this so interesting is that the man prosecuting kushner was then u.s. attorney for new jersey, chris christie. >> investigation has surrounded potential charges of federal criminal tax violations and violations...

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Do you see that trend continuing? >> reporter: i do, although i think it's fair to say that the republican party who supported this case and helped to bring it here was really hoping that what the court would do is do away with the legal justification for any limits on contributions whatsoever. that comes from a post-watergate ruling in the 1970s when the court said that you can limit contributions, but you can't limit spending by candidates. i think the conservatives were hoping the supreme court would do away with that altogether. the court said there's no way to do that. so the contribution...