Top Democrat urges Comer to subpoena Kushner firm for foreign business dealings.
House Oversight Committee Urges Investigation into Jared Kushner’s Business Ventures in Saudi Arabia
House Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has called on Chairman James Comer (R-KY) to take action and compel Jared Kushner, the former president’s son-in-law, to produce documents related to his business dealings in Saudi Arabia.
Last June, during the Democrats’ control of the House, the Oversight Committee initiated an investigation into Kushner’s overseas business ventures, particularly his involvement with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund. Just six months after leaving the White House, Kushner’s investment firm, A Fin Management (Affinity), reportedly received a staggering $2 billion investment from the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), which is closely aligned with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Committee’s Request for Documents Goes Unanswered
Despite the committee’s previous request for documents and communications between Kushner and Saudi officials, none of the requested materials were provided.
In February of this year, Raskin wrote a letter to Comer, urging him to join committee Democrats in compelling Kushner to produce the requested documents. Unfortunately, Comer did not heed Raskin’s request.
A Call for a Subpoena and Objective Investigation
In light of Comer’s inaction, Raskin sent a follow-up letter to him, emphasizing the need for a serious and objective investigation. Raskin urged Comer to issue a subpoena to Affinity, Kushner’s firm, and require compliance with the committee’s request for documents regarding the billions of dollars received from Gulf monarchies.
Raskin cleverly used Comer’s own comments about presidents’ families leveraging their positions for financial gain to support the case for investigating Kushner.
“I trust that you will recognize that the Committee cannot claim to be ‘investigating foreign nationals’ attempts to target and coerce high-ranking U.S. officials’ family members by providing money or other benefits in exchange for certain actions’ without examining the former Administration’s plethora of foreign financial entanglements,” Raskin wrote.
Response from House Oversight
In response to Raskin’s request, a House Oversight spokesperson issued a statement, dismissing the letter as an attempt to divert attention from alleged involvement of Joe Biden in his family’s influence-peddling schemes.
“If Ranking Member Raskin was truly concerned about ethics in government, then he would join Republicans in our investigation of the Bidens’ blatant corruption,” the statement read. “However, Ranking Member Raskin is only concerned about playing Biden family defense lawyer.”
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