The Kushners, the New York real estate family whose scion is a close adviser to President Trump, are in negotiations
to buy the Miami Marlins baseball team, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.
The deal has already prompted questions within Major League Baseball, according to the people briefed on the conversations, about what kind of relationship Mr. Trump would have to the team
and whether that would be a benefit or a disadvantage.
While Jared Kushner has not been not involved in the bidding for the Marlins —
and he has pledged to be walled-off from any of the family’s businesses — he and his brother had bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2012, though they eventually withdrew from the bidding.
The Kushners — led by Joshua Kushner, a venture capitalist, and Joseph Meyer, his brother-in-law and key lieutenant for the family’s investments — have pursued the Marlins for several months, devising a complicated financial arrangement
that would include bringing in partners later, these people said.
Neither Jared Kushner, who married Ivanka Trump in 2009
and is a top White House adviser, nor Charles Kushner, the family patriarch who spent over a year in prison for illegal campaign donations, tax evasion and witness tampering, is participating in the effort, these people said.