Kushner family

After surviving the Holocaust and settling in the United States, Joseph Kushner developed a portfolio of 4,000 apartments.

Rae Kushner was born in 1923 to a Jewish family in Novogrudok (then part of the Second Polish Republic).

Due to rising anti-Semitism, the family tried to obtain a travel visa allowing them to leave Poland, but were unable to secure one before the beginning of World War II.

In the 1990s, Charles began to donate money to Democratic Party causes, including the campaign of Jim McGreevey for governor of New Jersey.

[9] McGreevey appointed Charles to the board of commissioners for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey,[5] and nominated him to become the chairman.

Esther sided with Murray, and began to cooperate with an FBI investigation into Kushner Companies for tax evasion.

Charles pled guilty to 18 felonies, including tax fraud, making illegal campaign contributions, and witness tampering.

Joseph Meyer, Jared's brother-in-law, became chief executive officer of Observer Media in 2013.

In 2016, Forbes estimated the net worth of Charles, his wife Seryl, Jared, and Joshua at $1.8 billion.

[15] Kushner Companies filed a lawsuit in June 2018 alleging that the city gave the KRE Group more favorable terms.

[20] During the campaign, he wrote an op-ed defending Trump from accusations of anti-Semitism, invoking the story of his grandparents resisting the Nazis.

[21] After the election, Trump named Jared senior advisor to the president alongside his daughter Ivanka.