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Farmington-based Skytree Investments recently paid $2.22 million for a roughly 40,000-square-foot, mixed-use commercial building in downtown Middletown and another $1.48 million for a 9,554-square-foot office building along Route 6 in Farmington. With these purchases, the nearly two-year-old real estate investment firm now owns a $7.5 million portfolio of six office and mixed-use properties in Farmington, Middletown, Simsbury, Winsted and New London, said Ryan Deasy, 36, who is partnered in Skytree with Michael Doherty, 30.

Real problem we need to address. >> you look at this kushner development, you look at this lawyer who is going to be charged, does it tell you about where this investigation is headed? >> i think what is even more interesting is the indictments from last week against the russians. what you see there is an attempt by mueller to show americans and other foreigners that i've got charges i can bring if i think there is a conspiracy to defraud the united states, to prevent the fcc from doing the -- that's a big deal because at the end of the day, everyone thought there are no real collusion charges...

To lure chinese investors to his family's projects. this, after the family apologized for mentioning kushner during a sales pitch in may. we have the report. >> reporter: the ethical question surrounding the promotion of this kushner family project in jersey city, new jersey are about to grow. that's because, despite a prior apology from kushner companies, cnn discovered groups working with a kushner project continue to use white house adviser, jared kushner, as a promotional tool for investors, labeling him, mr. perfect and trump's son-in-law. the promotions are for a kushner development cove...

Name the kushner companies, but he does mention a chinese company working to attract investors for a kushner real estate project in new jersey. let's bring in cnn's cristina alesci to help figure this out for us. how serious are the allegations for the kushner family? >> reporter: well, the optics aren't good. they are straight up bad. the kushner family business is now associated with a chinese company that a republican senator wants investigated for fraud. here's the background. kushner companies worked with this chinese firm to pitch eb-5 visas to local investors for an apartment complex in...

People from a chinese company that works with them surrounded me grabbed my shoulder. i was threatened and forced to delete recordings and photos of the kushner family recruiting chinese investors. why all the ruckus? meyer invoked her brother's service as chief executive of kushner companies to join the trump administration as they solicited 150 unfolds answer if kushner development in new jersey. the money would be provided the law much criticized government program known as eb 5 that awards foreign investments. the next day, sunday, kushner companies apologized in a statement in a statement...