Jared Kushner is denying explosive allegations that, while serving as a senior White House adviser in Trump's first term, he had access to secret foreign bank accounts stocked with roughly $2 billion from Gulf royals - and that Dutch intelligence watched him use one of them through his hacked iPhone.
Jared Kushner stands with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Ivanka Trump, and Melania Trump during the Trump administration’s May 2017 visit to Riyadh.The claims come from an excerpt of investigative journalist Matthew Cole's forthcoming book Princes and Thieves, published Thursday by Vanity Fair. Cole alleges that Saudi and Emirati money funded a roughly $750 million account in the UAE that Kushner helped manage as an off-the-books foreign policy fund, and that UAE leader Mohamed bin Zayed moved another roughly $1 billion to Israel for Kushner - money a source told Cole was meant for his "personal benefit."
Cole, a former national security reporter at The Intercept who previously produced investigations for ABC and NBC News, says the reporting took him four years. His book is published by Atria/One Signal, a Simon & Schuster imprint.
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