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Kushner Family Seeking To Profit From Coronavirus

Kushner Family Seeking To Profit From Coronavirus

Reprinted with permission from DCReport

The Kushner family is trying to cash in on the pandemic that could kill millions of us.

Oscar Health, the health insurance company co-founded by Jared Kushner’s younger brother, announced Friday it has launched a testing center locator for COVID-19. It shows where more than 100 centers are in the United States. The company is also offering a risk assessment survey and means to talk to a doctor online.

The coronavirus is predicted to kill anywhere from almost 500,000 Americans in the next year to more than 5 million. At least 62 people in the United States had died by Sunday; 3,130 have tested positive.

Team Trump announced Saturday that Trump tested negative for the virus despite presiding over a coronavirus hot zone at Mar-a-Lago. Testing efforts have been marked by delays and dysfunction. Just a few thousand people were tested during the weeks the virus spread across our country.

Trump reportedly tried to woo a German company working on a cure for the coronavirus to move here and make a vaccine only for us.

Joshua Kushner co-founded Oscar Health in 2012. His co-founders are Mario Schlosser, the company CEO, and Harvard Business School classmate Kevin Nazemi who left the company in 2015.

Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, has become increasingly involved in Team Trump’s response to the pandemic. He helped write Trump’s half-baked Oval Office speech on the disease. The Kushner brothers co-founded Cadre, a real-estate investing start-up.

Oscar Health was criticized in 2018 for selling health insurance in Ohio through the Affordable Care Act with a deductible of $15,800. The company sold health insurance under the Affordable Care Act in 15 states for 2020.

Billionaire Peter Thiel, a Trump supporter who co-founded PayPal, invested millions in Oscar Health through his Founders Fund. Joshua Kushner’s father-in-law is New York doctor Kurt Kloss who turned to his Facebook group of emergency room doctors for advice to pass onto Team Trump about how best to handle the pandemic.

Oscar Health lost $110 million in 2019, almost double the $57 million the company lost in 2018.

Jared Kushner, Trump Adviser And Son-In-Law, Reported Under FBI Scrutiny In Russia Probe

Jared Kushner, Trump Adviser And Son-In-Law, Reported Under FBI Scrutiny In Russia Probe

Multiple news sources reported on Thursday evening that the FBI is closely examining Trump son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner as a person of interest in its ongoing investigation of Russia’s intervention in the 2016 election and related matters. Investigators are scrutinizing an extensive series of meetings that Kushner held with Russians, according to those news outlets, which quoted sources close to the probe.

The naming of Kushner follows a story that appeared in the Washington Post last week, which reported that a “senior White House official close to the president” had become an important focus of the investigation. Much speculation ensued that the high-level staffer might in fact be Kushher — who failed to report his post-election meetings with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and with Sergey Gorkov, a Russian banker with close ties to the Kremlin and its intelligence services.

None of the reports on Kushner indicated that he is currently a “target” of the Russia investigation, which appears to be heavily focused on former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, and former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. And no evidence of wrongdoing has so far been adduced against Kushner, whose attorney Jamie Gorelick says he will cooperate fully with both the special counsel and the Senate Intelligence Committee investigations.

According to the Post, FBI investigators are looking at possible financial offenses beyond the scope of collusion between the Trump 2016 campaign and the Kremlin. But the paper’s sources would not discuss those potential crimes. None of the reports indicates that Kushner is a target, suspect or even a central focus of the investigation, however, and he has not been accused of any wrongdoing.

Still, as columnist Aaron Blake noted in The Fix, Kushner’s familial relationship with Trump has raised questions — and eyebrows — from the first days of the new administration. His failure to fully divest from the Kushner companies and his family’s blatant attempts to cash in on its relationship with Trump — which embarrassed the president recently when Kushner’s sister Nicole Meyer sought to raise financing from Chinese investors — have put Ivanka’s husband under a harsh spotlight that investigators cannot ignore.

CBS News confirmed late Thursday that Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, is under scrutiny in the FBI's probe of Russian election meddling and any connections between Russia and the Trump campaign.