President-elect Donald Trump said he planned to nominate him on Saturday Real estate developer Charles KushnerFather of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, to serve as ambassador to France.
Trump made the announcement in a Truth Social post, calling Charles Kushner a “tremendous business leader, philanthropist and deal maker.”
Kushner is the founder of Kushner Companies, a real estate company. Jared Kushner is a former Trump White House adviser who is married to Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka.
The elder Kushner was forgiven Trump pleaded guilty in December 2020 to tax evasion and illegal campaign donations years earlier.
The prosecutor complained After Charles Kushner learned that his brother-in-law was cooperating with an investigation by federal authorities, he hatched a plan for revenge and intimidation.
Kushner hired a prostitute to lure his brother-in-law, then arranged to record the encounter in a New Jersey motel room with a hidden camera and send it to his sister, the man’s wife, prosecutors said.
Kushner ended up pleading guilty to 18 felonies, including tax evasion and witness tampering. In 2005, he was sentenced to two years in prison—the most he could have received under a plea deal, but less than what Chris Christie, the US attorney for New Jersey at the time and later Republican gubernatorial and presidential candidate, had asked for.
Christie has blamed Jared Kushner for being fired from Trump’s transition team in 2016, calling Charles Kushner’s crimes “one of the most heinous and disgusting crimes I prosecuted as U.S. attorney.”
Trump and the elder Kushner knew each other through real estate circles and their children married in 2009.
