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durrati at Daily Kos
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/29/1776576/-Did-Justice-Kennedy-s-Son-Bail-Out-Jared-Kushner-on-The-666-Building-It-Appears-So
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Just came across this story on Medium.com, it seems well sourced.
Heres the relevant part:
According the New York Times, in 2007 Kushner Companies purchased an aluminum-clad office tower in Midtown Manhattan, for a record price of $1.8 billion. At the time the NYT wrote that this deal was considered a classic example of reckless underwriting. The transaction was so highly leveraged that the cash flow from rents amounted to only 65 percent of the debt service. The Times continues:
As many real estate specialists predicted, the deal ran into trouble. Instead of rising, rents declined as the recession took hold, and new leases were scarce. In 2010, the loan was transferred to a special servicer on the assumption that a default would occur once reserve funds being used to subsidize the shortfall were bled dry. But the story may yet have a happy ending for Kushner, a family-owned business that moved its headquarters from Florham Park, N.J., to 666 Fifth, its first major acquisition in Manhattan.
Who came to the rescue? None other than LNR Property, the company whose CEO at the time was Justin Kennedy. According to the NYT and the Real Deal, Mr. Kushner and LNR reached a possible agreement with LNR Property, a firm specializing in restructuring troubled debt and which oversees the mortgage, that would allow him to retain control of the tower by modifying the terms of the $1.2 billion mortgage tied to the office portion of the building. A spokesman for Mr. Kushner told the Wall Street Journal in March of 2011 that [t]he Kushners are ready and willing to invest more money into the property as soon as they can come to mutually satisfactory terms with the servicing agent. In that same article Kushners father-in-law and the future President commented on the negotiations with Justin Kennedys company. Speaking about the deal, Trump told the WSJ that Kushner is a very smart young man
I think it (loan renegotiations) will come out well for him and everybody. At this point there is no doubt that there was a direct business relationship between LNR and Kushner Companies at the time Justin Kennedy and Jared Kushner were both CEO. Even the future President was aware of the deal and commented on its respective merits. (That being said, it is not impossible that Jared Kushner and Justin Kennedy did not meet in connection with the specific deal in question; however, given the stakes involved it does seem more than likely that the two CEOs would have interacted as negotiations were being conducted.)
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)cstanleytech
(26,298 posts)likely reason for his retirement is simply wanting to relax and enjoy his final years.
After that comes having a health issue like terminal cancer followed by the theory that he was blackmailed and I doubt it was blackmail because in this kind of case it could lead to a long prison sentence for the blackmailer.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)they own it
tecelote
(5,122 posts)SCOTUS Justice Kennedy's son was TRUMP'S BANKER AT DEUTSCHE BANK
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210805943
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Cause if SO ... then we might really 'have something' with this situation.
If not, then it's really just a 'bad look' as far as I can tell.
OR if we'd had a 2K election situation and it was 5-4 and he's was on Dump's side, or something along those lines.
Need to be able to prove this 'relationship' impacted Kennedy's voting, basically.
I DO kinda wonder though whether he actually wanted out before having to decide on Mueller's stuff, given this relationship. I could TOTALLY have seen pressure for him to recuse on these grounds, and if he did so ... that could easily have resulted in a 4-4 tie on whether Dump could be indicted, leading to a really bad situation i.e. Constitutional Crisis.
applegrove
(118,696 posts)Trump has been giving positions to people who worked for Kennedy at the Supreme Court. Influence like that. Couching Kennedy in Trumpworld.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210810489
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)who spoke about Kennedy's son and how he wasn't involved directly with tRump but she didn't mention Jared at all. Jared and Kennedy's son were involved!
Go down to the post with Ruhle and watch.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210810694
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,435 posts)..against our Country, our democracy; the rule of law. Damn, if Mueller pulls at every thread this corrupt guy in WH is [has been] involved with, he'll never end the investigation ...it is a seemingly unending black hole.
Ps wtf