The FBI investigation is looking into Russian meddling in the election and potential collusion with Trump and his associates, but it is also looking to see if any financial crimes have been committed. Kushner appears to fall under both categories of as a person of interest. Kushner comes from a billion-dollar real estate family and served as a senior adviser, perhaps the president’s closest counselor, on the campaign as well as in the White House. Kushner has not been accused of any wrongdoing, but two meetings in particular have piqued investigators' interest.
....last month, the New York Times reported that Kushner omitted those meetings from his top-secret security clearance forms, which require individuals to disclose all meetings with foreign officials over a seven-year period. Along with the Russians, the Times reported that Kushner failed to mention dozens of meetings with foreign government officials in the lead up to Trump’s inauguration. Kushner’s attorneys have said it was an oversight and have offered to file an amended form.
And then there's the meeting at the Mayflower hotel in the spring of 2016.
“In addition to the December meetings, a former senior intelligence official said FBI agents had been looking closely at earlier exchanges between Trump associates and the Russians dating to the spring of 2016, including one at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington,” according to the Post. Trump, as the presumptive Republican nominee, met with the Russian ambassador in April 2016 at a VIP reception at the Washington, D.C. hotel ahead of speech where Trump promised to improve relations with Russia.
Kushner, Trump and Sessions were all present at the event.
Kushner's lawyer, former Deputy AG Jamie Gorelick says Kushner will cooperate.
Politico has a new profile of Kushner and says he is tougher than he looks, but the descriptions of him provided by his former employees at the New York Observer are not very flattering.
Putting aside whether Kushner did anything wrong, the disclosure about his contacts with the Russians and failure to disclose them on his security clearance just highlight his inexperience in policy matters, and serve as one more reason reason he should not have a senior advisory role to the man who currently has a desk in the oval office.
I think Jared and Ivanka bit off more than they can chew in deciding to move to Washington and get further involved with Trump. I won't be surprised to see them pack up and go back to New York in a year or so.