In a Beijing ballroom, Kushner family pushes $500,000 investor visa to wealthy Chinese

[yortsed snacilbuper]

BEIJING — The Kushner family came to the United States as refugees, worked hard and made it big — and if you invest in Kushner properties, so can you.

That was the message delivered Saturday by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner’s sister Nicole Kushner Meyer to a ballroom full of wealthy Chinese investors in Beijing.

Over several hours of slide shows and presentations, representatives from the Kushner family business urged Chinese citizens gathered at a Ritz-Carlton hotel to consider investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in a New Jersey luxury apartment complex that would help them secure what’s known as an investor visa.

The potential investors were advised to invest sooner rather than later in case visa rules change under the Trump administration.“Invest early, and you will invest under the old rules,” one speaker said.

The tagline on a brochure for the event: “Invest $500,000 and immigrate to the United States.”

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[Sculpin Beauregard]

1. Flagrant conflict of interest. I mean, they're not even trying to hide it. Jesus.

Did he use Air Force 1 for this?

[beam me up scottie]

2. The best visa money can buy!

All of those undocumented workers who've been paying billions in taxes? Criminals! A drain on the system! Deport them immediately!

Filthy rich foreign investors who'll make Trump's family even more wealthy? Now those are the kind of immigrants we need! Send out the recruiters!

[ucrdem]

3. Nepotism, graft, and simony all in one scam

Trifecta!

[dchill]

4. They drain the swamp by drinking it.

[pnwmom]

5. This is the EB-5 immigrant investor visa that was associated with the Vermont ponzi scheme.

https://vtdigger.org/2017/04/26/quiros-takes-new-approach-eb-5-case-cooperate/

Federal and state lawsuits say Quiros, along with Bill Stenger, Jay Peak’s former president, ran a “Ponzi-like” scheme to defraud EB-5 immigrant investors in a series of massive developments at Jay Peak as well as other projects in Burke and Newport.

In the EB-5 program, foreign investors put up $500,000, plus a $50,000 administrative fee, into qualified projects. If that investment leads to the creation of 10 American jobs, the investor becomes eligible for permanent U.S. residency.

Stenger and Quiros, according to filings, misused $200 million of those investors funds, with Quiros allegedly “looting” more than $50 million to pay personal expenses, from taxes to a luxury New York City hotel.

Stenger reached a plea agreement in the federal investor fraud lawsuit. Both men still face a state investment fraud lawsuit as well as other legal actions from investors who allege they were defrauded.