On Saturday afternoon, Mr. Kushner’s sister Nicole Meyer made a pitch to attract $150 million in financing for a Jersey City housing
development, known as One Journal Square, to more than 100 Chinese investors gathered at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Beijing.
Kushner divested his interests in the One Journal Square project by selling them to a family trust
that he is not a beneficiary of, a mechanism suggested by the Office of Government Ethics,” said Blake Roberts, an attorney at WilmerHale advising Mr. Kushner on ethics issues.
Jared Kushner’s Sister Highlights Family Ties in Pitch to Chinese Investors -
By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ, CAO LI and JESSE DRUCKERMAY 6, 2017
BEIJING — Jared Kushner has said that he has stepped away from the day-to-day business of his family’s
real estate company while he serves as a senior adviser to his father-in-law, President Trump.
But Mr. Kushner’s relatives are working feverishly to solicit overseas money for projects in the United States,
and they are highlighting their ties to Mr. Kushner as they court investors.