Kushner Companies apologises for touting US presidential family ties in China

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A sign is seen outside an event where Nicole Kushner Meyer, the sister of White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, was promoting a real estate development in Shanghai on May 7. Photo: AFP

Published: 12:00am, 9 May 2017Updated: 12:02am, 12 Apr 2019

A property developer owned by relatives of the US president’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has apologised for touting the Kushner connection at an investor presentation in China.

Kushner’s sister, Nicole Kushner Meyer, took to the stage at Beijing’s Ritz-Carlton hotel on Saturday as part of a tour of mainland cities to attract wealthy Chinese investors into a New Jersey luxury development with the chance of getting a US green card in return.

“In 2008, my brother Jared Kushner joined the family company as CEO, and recently moved to Washington to join the administration,” Kushner Meyer said at the Kushner Companies conference, according to media reports.

The Beijing event promoting One Journal Square sparked discussion in the United States over whether Jared Kushner’s family’s business would benefit from decisions Trump makes with regards to the government’s EB-5 programme, which grants visas to foreigners investing at least US$500,000 in designated US projects. Kushner resigned from his position in the company in January.

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump make their way across the South Lawn to board Marine One at the White House in Washington, DC. Kusahner’s name was dragged into a controversy over the promotion of a property investment in China. Photo: AFP

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