Kushner Family Tells Wealthy Chinese:
Invest With Us and You Can Immigrate
'We heard that there are rumors that he is the most likely to be
impeached president in American history.'
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner's family business
encouraged wealthy Chinese citizens to “invest $500,000" in their real estate
empire and then be
allowed to immigrate to the United States.
That was the message for an event held May 6 in a ballroom full
of wealthy Chinese investors at the Ritz-Carlton in Beijing, The Washington
Post reported.
Kushner’s sister, Nicole Meyer, encouraged those in the ballroom
to invest in her family's New Jersey real estate project and get an investor
visa in return.
The visa, known as the EB-5 immigrant investor visa program,
gives foreign investors the opportunity to invest in projects in the U.S and
then lets them apply to immigrate to the U.S.
The program has been used by both the Trump and Kushner family
businesses.
The investor visa program is extremely popular among very rich Chinese eager to get their families — and their wealth — out of China.
The event was hosted by the Qiaowai Group, the
leading brand of China's immigration industry, which is working
to get funding for Kushner 1, a family project in New Jersey which includes two
towers, 1,476 luxury apartments and a medical center for pets.
Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2018. Chinese
investors are already major funders of Kushner projects in New Jersey and
around New York City.
The New York Times reports that Ms. Meyer said the project “means
a lot to me and my entire family.” She also mentioned her brother’s service as
chief executive of Kushner Companies.
“This project has stable funding, creates sufficient jobs and
guarantees the safety of investors’ money,” the description of the project
said.
The tagline on a brochure for the event:
“Invest $500,000 and immigrate to the United States.”
The brochure made note of the Kushner family's
"celebrity" status, but did not mention the president specifically.
Not all attendees were convinced. One Chinese investor who attended
the event, Wang Yun, told The Post:
"Even though this is the project of the son-in-law's family, of course it is still affiliated. We heard that there are rumors that he is the most likely to be impeached president in American history. That’s why I doubt this project.”
The Washington Post reporter was then asked to leave because the
presence of foreign reporters threatened the “stability” of the event.