2 March 2018
ABC NEWS — The Securities and Exchange Commission dropped an inquiry of Apollo Global Management six weeks after the private equity firm extended a loan to a real estate firm owned by the family of President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner.
There is no evidence the SEC inquiry ended as a condition of the loan, but the timing of deal raises further questions about Kushner’s ability to navigate potential conflicts of interests as he still retains several significant holdings in his family’s real estate empire. […]
Conflicts of interest in government? Say it isn’t so.