U.S. federal prosecutors have subpoenaed Kushner Companies, the real estate development business owned by the family of Jared Kushner, regarding its use of an immigration visa program.
The Wall Street Journal says the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office issued a subpoena concerning a Jersey City, N.J., development project financed in part by the federal visa program known as EB-5. The subpoena includes a demand for emails associated with the project.
The Kushner Cos. general counsel, Emily Wolf, told the Journal in a statement that “Kushner Companies utilized the program, fully complied with its rules and regulations and did nothing improper. We are cooperating with legal requests for information.”
Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, was mentioned by Kushner Companies in a sales pitch to Chinese investors back in May.
His sister, Nicole Kushner Meyer, pitched a $500,000 spending opportunity New Jersey project — commercial-and-residential towers called One Journal Square — in order to get an EB-5 visa, which puts foreigners investing in the U.S. on a fast track to obtain citizenship.
The family company apologized soon after it was reported, saying that it didn’t mean to leverage Kushner’s position in government to lure investors.
Kushner, who joined the White House in January, had divested from the New Jersey project and Kushner Companies.
