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By Michael Kranish and Jonathan O'Connell May 27 at 5:38 PM
NEW YORK Jared Kushner had barely survived a fight to save his familys real estate empire.
Taking charge of the business after his father went to prison, Kushner, 25 at the time, paid $1.8 billion in 2007 for the nations most expensive office building. Then the market went south, the debts piled up, and Kushner spent years pushing banks to renegotiate the loans. But after one disgruntled lender had tried to block him, Kushner had an unusual weapon at his disposal: He owned a newspaper.
Kushner, who had purchased the New York Observer in 2006, walked into his editors office and suggested a story exposing potentially embarrassing details about the uncooperative lender.
I could tell he was angry at the guy, said the editor, Elizabeth Spiers, who resigned in 2012. Only after months of dead-end reporting did Kushner finally stop asking for the story, she said. That followed a separate incident in which Kushner wanted a hit job on another foe, a second Observer editor told The Washington Post.
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(3,266 posts)who "marry their dads". He's the same guy! Not too bright, and vengeful.