Special Counsel Robert Mueller Is Now Investigating Jared Kushner’s Business Dealings

Kushner’s Finances and Business Dealings Now Under Scope of Russia Probe

The Russia investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller has now extended to the finances and business dealings of Jared Kushner, according to The Washington Post. Mueller is investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and any possible dealings Donald Trump’s campaign, transition team, and administration may have had with officials of the Russian Federation.

The Post notes investigators are also “scrutinizing separate meetings that Kushner held with Russians in December — first with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and then with Sergey Gorkov, the head of a state-owned Russian development bank.”

Just one day ago the Post reported President Donald Trump is under criminal investigation for obstruction of justice. Earlier tonight the Post reported Vice President Mike Pence has retained private counsel to help him in the Russia probe.

Kushner, who is both the President’s son-in-law and Senior Advisor to the President, reportedly approached Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Kislyak in early December, before he was made a White House employee, requesting to establish a backchannel to Moscow to avoid the eyes and ears of U.S. intelligence services. 

The Post, less than a month ago, reported Kushner was under FBI “scrutiny” in the Russia investigation.

Buried in tonight’s Post report is this important revelation: FBI General Counsel James A. Baker did not want now-former FBI Director Jim Comey to “assure then-President-elect Trump that the FBI was not investigating him personally.”

“His concern was, because we’re looking at the potential — again, that’s the subject of the investigation — coordination between the campaign and Russia, because it was President Trump — President-elect Trump’s campaign, this person’s view was, inevitably, his behavior, his conduct will fall within the scope of that work,” Comey said.

“And so he was reluctant to make the statement that I made,” Comey said. 

Baker’s views didn’t change, even as Comey told Trump a second and third time that he was not being investigated.

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