Charles Kushner

Charles Kushner
United States Ambassador to France
Presumptive nominee
Assuming office
TBD
PresidentDonald Trump (elect)
SucceedingDenise Bauer
Personal details
Born
Chanan Kushner

(1954-05-16) May 16, 1954 (age 70)
Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S.
SpouseSeryl Stadtmauer
Children4, including Jared and Joshua
Parent(s)Joseph Berkowitz
Rae Kushner
RelativesIvanka Trump (daughter-in-law)
EducationNew York University (BA, MBA)
Hofstra University (JD)
OccupationCo-owner of Kushner Properties

Charles Kushner (born May 16, 1954) is an American real estate developer and disbarred attorney[1] who founded Kushner Companies in 1985. In 2024, he was nominated by President-Elect Donald Trump to serve as US Ambassador to France during hs second administration

In 2005, Kushner was convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering, and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, which he served in the Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery. As a convicted felon, he was also disbarred in three states. He later received a pardon issued by his son's father-in-law President Donald Trump on December 23, 2020.[2][3] Kushner has donated significant amounts to Trump's campaigns. Previously, he was a major Democratic party donor.[4][5]

His elder son Jared is the husband of Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the President-elect of the United States Donald Trump, during whose first presidential administration he served as senior advisor from 2017 to 2021. He has three other children, including his younger son Joshua, a venture capitalist who is married to the supermodel Karlie Kloss.

In November 2024, Trump stated his intention to nominate Kushner as the United States ambassador to France for his second term.

Early life

Charles Kushner was born on May 16, 1954,[6] to Joseph Berkowitz and Rae Kushner, Jewish Holocaust survivors born in eastern Poland who came to America from the USSR in 1949.[7][8] At birth, he was named Chanan, after a maternal uncle who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.[9] He grew up in Elizabeth, New Jersey, with his elder brother Murray Kushner[6][10] and sister Esther Schulder.[11][12][13]: 3  His father worked as a construction worker, builder, and real estate investor.[6] Kushner graduated from the Hofstra University School of Law in 1979.[14]

Career

Kushner Companies

In 1985, Kushner began managing his father's portfolio of 4,000 New Jersey apartments.[6][10] He founded Kushner Companies – headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey – and became its chairman.[6][10] In 1999, he won the Ernst & Young New Jersey Entrepreneur of the Year award. At the time, Kushner Companies had grown to more than 10,000 residential apartments, a homebuilding business, commercial and industrial properties, and a community bank.[15]

Criminal conviction and pardon

On June 30, 2004, Kushner was fined $508,900 by the Federal Election Commission for contributing to Democratic political campaigns in the names of his partnerships when he lacked authorization to do so.[16] In 2005, following an investigation by United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey Chris Christie negotiated a plea agreement with him, under which Kushner pleaded guilty to 18 counts of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering.[17][18][19] The witness tampering charge arose from Kushner's retaliation against William Schulder, his sister Esther's husband, who was cooperating with federal investigators against Kushner.[20] Kushner hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, arranging to record a sexual encounter between the two and send the tape to his sister.[17] He was sentenced to two years in prison and served 14 months at Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery in Alabama before being sent to a halfway house in Newark, New Jersey, to complete his sentence.[17][21][22][23] He was released from prison on August 25, 2006.[24]

As a convicted felon, Charles Kushner was also disbarred and prohibited from practicing law in New Jersey,[25] New York,[26] and Pennsylvania.[27] Republican Chris Christie, who chaired Trump’s first transition team, said Kushner committed "one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes" he prosecuted.[28]

December 2020 pardon granted by Donald Trump

On December 23, 2020, President Trump issued a full and unconditional pardon to Kushner, his daughter's father-in-law,[29] citing his record of "reform" and "charity".[2][3]

New York City real estate

After being released from prison, Kushner shifted his business activities from New Jersey to New York City. In early 2007, Kushner Companies bought the 666 Fifth Avenue building in Manhattan for $1.8 billion.[30] In August 2018, Brookfield Properties signed a 99-year lease for the property, paying $1.286 billion and effectively taking full ownership of the building.[31][32][33]

As of the end of 2016, Kushner and his family were estimated to have a net worth of $1.8 billion.[9] He has employed two fellow inmates with whom he became acquainted in prison.[34]

Donations

Kushner met personally with Harvard University's president and in 1998 donated $2.5 million to Harvard.[35] His son, Jared, was then beginning his senior year of high school, where he was not a particularly good student with test scores below Ivy League standards.[36] Jared was admitted to the Harvard freshman class of 1999.[36]

Before 2016, Kushner was a donor to the Democratic Party.[19] He is on the boards of Touro College, Stern College for Women, Rabbinical College of America, and the United Jewish Communities.[37] Kushner has made other donations to Harvard, Stern College, and United Cerebral Palsy.[37] He donated to the Seryl and Charles Kushner Maternity Unit at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey. He contributed to the funding of two schools, Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy and Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School, also in Livingston, and named them after his parents.[6][37][38] Kushner Hall is a building that is named after him on the Hofstra University campus.[39] The campus of Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Center is named the "Seryl and Charles Kushner Campus" in honor of their donation of $20 million.[40]

In August 2015, Kushner donated $100,000 to Donald Trump's Make America Great Again PAC, a super PAC supporting Trump's 2016 campaign for the presidency.[41] Kushner and his wife also hosted a reception for Trump at their Jersey Shore seaside mansion in Long Branch.[42] In 2023, he was one of the largest donors to a Trump super PAC, donating $1 million.[4][43][5]

Ambassador to France

On November 30, 2024, president-elect Trump announced through a social media post that he would nominate Kushner to be the United States ambassador to France in his second term.[44]

See also

References

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    • "Charles Kushner of Kushner Cos Gets Presidential Pardon". The Real Deal New York. December 24, 2020. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
    • Condon, Bernard (March 20, 2019). "New York City councilman accuses Kushner family real estate company of putting tenants in danger". Business Insider. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
    • Bagli, Charles V. (July 16, 2018). "Kushners Sought to Oust Rent-Regulated Tenants, Suit Says". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
    • "The Kushners' Freddie Mac Loan Wasn't Just Massive. It Came With Unusually Good Terms, Too". propublica.org. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
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  5. ^ a b "Jared Kushner's dad Charles, who Trump pardoned, gave $1 million to a Trump super PAC". Retrieved August 6, 2023.
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  11. ^ Mansnerus, Laura (August 19, 2004). "Major Donor Admits Hiring Prostitute to Smear Witness". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 25, 2012. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
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  14. ^ "Academic Chairs and Distinguished Professorships", section: "The Joseph Kushner Distinguished Professorship in Civil Liberties Law". 2016–2017 Undergraduate Bulletin, Hofstra University. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  15. ^ "1999 New Jersey Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year(R) Award Recipients Announced". Ernst & Young press release, June 17, 1999. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
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  19. ^ a b Sullivan, John (August 22, 2004). "Like an 'Abandoned Planet'". The New York Times. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
  20. ^ "So, Did You Get My Gift?". Time. July 18, 2004. Archived from the original on February 6, 2016.
  21. ^ Sommer, Allison Kaplan (March 1, 2016). "Meet the Kushners: The Feuding Real Estate Dynasty That Links Donald Trump and Chris Christie". Haaretz. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
  22. ^ Lizzie Widdicombe, [Ivanka and Jared's Power Play: How the patrician couple came to have an outsized influence on a populist Presidential campaign], The New Yorker (August 22, 2016).
  23. ^ New York Magazine: "The Legacy – his son Jared, the 28-year-old Observer owner, has to carry the ambition for the both of them" By Gabriel Sherman July 12, 2009
  24. ^ "Charles Kushner". Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator.
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