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666 5th Ave.

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Bloomberg News reporter Caleb Melby about the Kushner family history, the building on 666 5th Ave. hemorrhaging money from Jared's family, and the potential conflicts of interest with a Chinese insurance group looking to strike a deal on the property. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.6

Are we going to see members of Donald Trump's family using their positions to enrich themselves continually?

0:09.0

A lot of people speculating about Kushner.

0:12.0

A warning revenge on Chris Christie.

0:14.0

Kushner has a bold vision for the office saying the government should be run like a great American company.

0:21.0

And if they can't do that, run like a Trump company.

0:26.0

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

0:30.0

I'm Virginia Heffernan.

0:32.0

Trumpcast is the story about the father of the wife of the man whose father Blackmailed his uncle by hiring him a prostitute and taking pictures for Blackmail because that uncle was going to testify against that man his own brother on 17 counts of tax evasion and illegal political donations.

0:45.0

Of which he was found guilty by a one time ally of the original man that's Chris Christie and sentenced to two years in a prison camp in Alabama.

0:54.0

Did you catch all that?

0:55.0

Of course I'm talking about Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner and Jared's father Charlie Kushner.

1:02.0

The Kushner family are multi-millionaires well known to New Yorkers for their colorful exploits so colorful.

1:09.0

Something about which the great New York post columnist Cindy Adams might have written only in New York kids only in New York.

1:19.0

But now that Jared Kushner is in sconce in the White House and is charged by Donald Trump with fixing government and is being questioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee about his meetings with Russia and is also under scrutiny for his interesting financial ties to Chinese investors.

1:35.0

Well, let's expand on Cindy Adams only in the USA kids only in the USA.

1:42.0

Today my guest is Caleb Melby a reporter at Bloomberg Business who's taken a particular interest lately in the complex financing of 666 Fifth Avenue.

1:52.0

That's a building financed by the Kushners and vexed since 2008.

1:57.0

Finding a way to bail out that building has put the Kushners maybe a foul of ethical standards around Trump's coterie using their offices for personal gain.

2:08.0

But before we get to 666 Fifth we do need the prequel Caleb's going to tell us about those amazing Kushners and their funny frolic some New Jersey ways and what their antics might mean for the USA.

2:21.0

I'll talk to Caleb in a minute but first the tweets.

2:24.0

What about all of the contact with the Clinton campaign and the Russians also is it true that the DNC would not let the FBI in to look.

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