Jared Kushner close friend Rick Gerson now under scrutiny from Mueller

[DonViejo]

Source: NBC News



Gerson met with a UAE royal in the Seychelles around the time of a secret meeting there between Trump friend Erik Prince and Russian and Emirati officials.

by Carol E. Lee and Julia Ainsley / Jun.01.2018 / 5:52 AM ET

WASHINGTON — A close friend of Jared Kushner has come under scrutiny by Special Counsel Robert Mueller for his proximity to some key meetings between Trump associates and foreign officials, according to five people familiar with the matter.

Richard Gerson, a hedge-fund manager in New York, was in the Seychelles in January 2017, less than two weeks before President Donald Trump's inauguration and around the time Trump associate Erik Prince secretly met with Russian and United Arab Emirates officials, including Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi, four of the people said.

While in the remote Indian Ocean island nation, Gerson met with Prince Mohammed — also known by his initials as MBZ — and communicated with a Lebanese-American businessman with close ties to the UAE, George Nader, who had organized the Erik Prince meeting, according to text messages Gerson sent at the time and a person familiar with the meeting.

Gerson had met Nader just weeks earlier when Trump officials, including Kushner, gathered for a secret meeting with MBZ at a Four Seasons hotel in New York, four people familiar with the meeting said. Trump's incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn and chief political adviser Steve Bannon, as well as the UAE's ambassador to the U.S., Yousef Otaiba, also attended the meeting.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/jared-kushner-close-friend-rick-gerson-now-under-scrutiny-mueller-n876361

[Scarsdale]

1. Prince claimed that the meeting

in the Saychelles was "just a coincidence" Now, it comes out that it was arranged. Who are these crooks who are taking over the entire country, and WHY? Of course, Don the Con knew "nothing". Yeah, right.

[Plucketeer]

2. The greater question is

where IS the outrage from those supposedly of "our team"? Of course, there are a few voices from the rare few that seem to genuinely care - but they're a decided mini-minority. For the most part, those we hire to do our bidding are going to be sitting pretty when their time in DC is up. Now, who's dumb enough to rock a boat like that?

[lagomorph777]

3. Well, sure, now it's part of an amzing series of coincidences.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Kick