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{{Short description|American real-estate developer and diplomat (born 1954)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Charles Kushner
| image               = United States Ambassador to France and Monaco Charles Kushner.jpg
| caption             = Official portrait, 2025
| office              = [[United States Ambassador to France]]<br/> and [[United States Ambassador to Monaco|Monaco]]
| term_start          = July 11, 2025<ref>https://x.com/USAmbFrance/status/1943642959611633975</ref>
| president           = [[Donald Trump]]
| predecessor         = [[Denise Bauer]]
| successor           = 
| birth_name          = Chanan Kushner
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1954|05|16}}
| birth_place         = [[Elizabeth, New Jersey]], U.S.
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| occupation          = Co-owner of [[Kushner Companies|Kushner Properties]]
| spouse              = Seryl Stadtmauer
| children            = 4, including [[Jared Kushner|Jared]] and [[Joshua Kushner|Joshua]]
| father              = 
| mother              = 
| parents             = {{ubl|[[Joseph Kushner]]|Rae Kushner}}
| relatives           = [[Kushner family]]
| education           = {{ubil|[[New York University]] ({{nowrap|[[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[MBA]]}})|[[Hofstra University]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])}}
}}
'''Charles Kushner''' (born May 16, 1954) is an American [[real-estate developer]], diplomat, and disbarred attorney<ref>
*{{cite web |title=Charles Kushner of Kushner Cos Gets Presidential Pardon |url=https://therealdeal.com/2020/12/23/charles-kushner-gets-presidential-pardon/ |website=The Real Deal New York |date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=June 2, 2021}}
*{{cite web|last=Condon|first=Bernard|title=New York City councilman accuses Kushner family real estate company of putting tenants in danger|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/kushner-family-company-put-tenants-in-danger-nyc-councilman-claims-2019-3|website=Business Insider|date=March 20, 2019|access-date=June 2, 2021}}
*{{cite news|last=Bagli|first=Charles V.|date=2018-07-16|title=Kushners Sought to Oust Rent-Regulated Tenants, Suit Says|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/nyregion/kushners-construction-tenants-lawsuit.html|access-date=June 2, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}
*{{cite web|title=The Kushners' Freddie Mac Loan Wasn't Just Massive. It Came With Unusually Good Terms, Too.|url=https://www.propublica.org/article/the-kushners-freddie-mac-loan-wasnt-just-massive-it-came-with-unusually-good-terms-too/amp|access-date=June 2, 2021|website=propublica.org}}</ref> serving since 2025 as the [[List of ambassadors of the United States to France|United States ambassador to France]] and [[List of ambassadors of the United States to Monaco|Monaco]]. He founded [[Kushner Companies]] in 1985.

His elder son, [[Jared Kushner|Jared]], is the husband of [[Ivanka Trump]], the daughter of U.S. president [[Donald Trump]], during whose [[First presidency of Donald Trump|first presidential administration]] he served as senior advisor from 2017 to 2021. He has three other children, including his younger son [[Joshua Kushner|Joshua]], a venture capitalist who is married to the supermodel [[Karlie Kloss]].

In 2005, Kushner was convicted of illegal campaign contributions, [[tax evasion]], and [[witness tampering]], and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, which he served in the [[Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery]]. As a convicted felon, he was also disbarred in three states. He later received a [[Federal pardons in the United States|pardon]] issued by his son's father-in-law, President Trump, on December 23, 2020.<ref name="auto">{{cite web |title=Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Executive Grants of Clemency |url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-regarding-executive-grants-clemency-122320/ |work=[[whitehouse.gov]] |date=2020-12-23 |access-date=2020-12-24 |via=[[NARA|National Archives]]}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/paul-manafort-roger-stone-charles-kushner-pardoned-trump/story?id=74879785 |title=Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Charles Kushner among those pardoned by Trump |publisher=ABC News |access-date=2020-12-24}}</ref> Kushner has donated significant amounts to Trump's campaigns. Previously, he was a major Democratic party donor.<ref name=nytimes2023/><ref name=bi/> In 2025, he was nominated by President Trump to serve as United States ambassador to France during [[Second presidency of Donald Trump|his second administration]]. He was confirmed by the [[United States Senate]] on May 19, 2025, by a vote of 51–45.

== Early life==
Charles Kushner was born on May 16, 1954,<ref name="TRD Bio"/> to [[Joseph Kushner|Joseph Berkowitz]] and Rae Kushner, Jewish [[Holocaust survivors]] born in eastern Poland who came to America from the [[USSR]] in 1949.<ref name="nymag2009">{{cite magazine|url=http://nymag.com/news/features/57891/ |title=The Legacy |magazine=New York |date=July 12, 2009 |first=Gabriel |last=Sherman |access-date=January 3, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303409004579564062138641266 |title=City Real-Estate Royalty Gives to Israeli Hospital |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |first=Marshall |last=Heyman |date=May 15, 2014 |access-date=January 4, 2015}}</ref> At birth, he was named Chanan, after a maternal uncle who died in a German concentration camp during the Holocaust.<ref name="Here's How Much Jared Kushner And His Family Are Really Worth">{{cite web |last=Sorvino |first=Chloe |title=Here's How Much Jared Kushner And His Family Are Really Worth|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2016/12/18/jared-josh-kushner-fortune-donald-trump-real-estate/#66352f242f42|website=Forbes|access-date=April 4, 2017|date=December 18, 2016}}</ref> He grew up in [[Elizabeth, New Jersey]], with his elder brother [[Murray Kushner]]<ref name="TRD Bio"/><ref name=Cityfile/> and sister Esther Schulder.<ref name="Major Donor Admits Hiring Prostitute to Smear Witness">{{cite news |last=Mansnerus |first=Laura |title=Major Donor Admits Hiring Prostitute to Smear Witness |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/19/nyregion/major-donor-admits-hiring-prostitute-to-smear-witness.html |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120525132849/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/19/nyregion/major-donor-admits-hiring-prostitute-to-smear-witness.html?src=pm |archive-date=25 May 2012 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2017 |date=19 August 2004}}{{cbignore}}{{void|Fabrickator|comment|this archive link was selected because it has a working link to the second page of the story}}</ref><ref name="Ivanka and Jared's Power Play">{{cite magazine|last=Widdicombe|first=Lizzie|title=Ivanka and Jared's Power Play|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/22/ivanka-trump-and-jared-kushners-power-play|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=May 2, 2017|date=August 22, 2016}}</ref><ref name="The Legacy">{{cite web|last=Sherman|first=Gabriel|title=The Legacy|url=http://nymag.com/news/features/57891/|website=NYMag.com|access-date=May 2, 2017|date=July 12, 2009}}</ref>{{rp|3}} His father worked as a construction worker, builder, and real estate investor.<ref name="TRD Bio"/> Kushner graduated from the [[Maurice A. Deane School of Law|Hofstra University School of Law]] in 1979.<ref>[http://bulletin.hofstra.edu/content.php?catoid=80&navoid=8562 "Academic Chairs and Distinguished Professorships"], section: "The Joseph Kushner Distinguished Professorship in Civil Liberties Law". ''2016–2017 Undergraduate Bulletin'', [[Hofstra University]]. Retrieved October 28, 2016.</ref>

== Career ==
=== Kushner Companies ===
In 1985, Kushner began managing his father's portfolio of 4,000 New Jersey apartments.<ref name="TRD Bio"/><ref name=Cityfile>{{cite web|url=http://cityfile.com/profiles/charles-kushner |title=Charles Kushner|website=City File|publisher=Gawker Media|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120110114529/http://cityfile.com/profiles/charles-kushner|date=2010|archive-date=January 10, 2012|access-date=November 18, 2016}}</ref> He founded [[Kushner Companies]] – headquartered in [[Florham Park, New Jersey]] – and became its chairman.<ref name="TRD Bio">{{cite magazine|last1=Elkies|first1=Lauren|title=Charles Kushner|url=http://therealdeal.com/closings/charles-kushner/|date=November 2007|access-date=October 28, 2016|magazine=[[The Real Deal (magazine)|The Real Deal]]|archive-date=November 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106071855/https://therealdeal.com/closings/charles-kushner/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=Cityfile/> In 1999, he won the [[Ernst & Young]] New Jersey Entrepreneur of the Year award. At the time, Kushner Companies had grown to more than 10,000 residential apartments, a homebuilding business, commercial and industrial properties, and a [[community bank]].<ref name=Ernst>[http://www.thefreelibrary.com/1999+New+Jersey+Ernst+%26+Young+Entrepreneur+of+the+Year(R)+Award...-a054926061 "1999 New Jersey Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year(R) Award Recipients Announced"]. Ernst & Young press release, June 17, 1999. Retrieved September 28, 2011.</ref>

===Criminal conviction and pardon ===
On June 30, 2004, Kushner was fined $508,900 by the [[Federal Election Commission]] for contributing to Democratic political campaigns in the names of his partnerships when he lacked authorization to do so.<ref name="NY Times">{{cite news|last1=Associated Press|title=Briefings: Politics: F.E.C. Fines Developer|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/04/nyregion/briefings-politics-fec-fines-developer.html|access-date=October 26, 2016|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 4, 2004}}</ref> In 2005, following an investigation by [[United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey|United States attorney for the District of New Jersey]] [[Chris Christie]] negotiated a [[plea agreement]] with him, under which Kushner pleaded guilty to 18 counts of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and [[witness tampering]].<ref name=NYTimes3.5.05>Smothers, Ronald (March 5, 2005). [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/05/nyregion/democratic-donor-receives-twoyear-prison-sentence.html "Democratic Donor Receives Two-Year Prison Sentence"]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved February 24, 2011.</ref><ref name="ApologyNYT">{{cite news|author=Hanley, Robert |date=January 13, 2005 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/13/nyregion/donor-apologized-to-sister-for-seduction-of-husband.html | title=Donor Apologized to Sister for Seduction of Husband |newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=November 29, 2013}}</ref><ref name="NYT2007">Sullivan, John (August 22, 2004). [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/22/nyregion/like-an-abandoned-planet.html "Like an 'Abandoned Planet'"]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved December 26, 2020.</ref> The witness tampering charge arose from Kushner's retaliation against William Schulder, his sister Esther's husband, who was cooperating with federal investigators against Kushner.<ref name="time">{{cite news |url=https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C665059%2C00.html |title=So, Did You Get My Gift? |publisher=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=July 18, 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206204558/https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,665059,00.html |archive-date=February 6, 2016}}</ref> Kushner  hired a [[prostitute]] to seduce his brother-in-law, arranging to record a sexual encounter between the two and send the tape to his sister.<ref name=NYTimes3.5.05/> He was sentenced to two years in prison and served 14 months at [[Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery]], in Alabama before being sent to a [[halfway house]] in [[Newark, New Jersey]], to complete his sentence.<ref name=NYTimes3.5.05/><ref name="Sommer">Sommer, Allison Kaplan (March 1, 2016). "[https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/.premium-1.706420 Meet the Kushners: The Feuding Real Estate Dynasty That Links Donald Trump and Chris Christie]". ''[[Haaretz]]''. Retrieved November&nbsp;19, 2016.</ref><ref name="Widdicombe">Lizzie Widdicombe, [Ivanka and Jared's Power Play: How the patrician couple came to have an outsized influence on a populist Presidential campaign], ''The New Yorker'' (August 22, 2016).</ref><ref>[http://nymag.com/news/features/57891/index1.html#print ''New York Magazine'': "The Legacy – his son Jared, the 28-year-old Observer owner, has to carry the ambition for the both of them" By Gabriel Sherman] July 12, 2009</ref> He was released from prison on August 25, 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/ |title=Charles Kushner |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=[[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] Inmate Locator}}</ref>

As a convicted felon, Charles Kushner was also disbarred and prohibited from practicing law in New Jersey,<ref>''[http://www.leagle.com/decision/20051118870A2d248_11116/IN%20RE%20KUSHNER In re Kushner]'', 870 [[Atlantic Reporter|A.2d]] 248, 183 N.J. 130 (2005).</ref> New York,<ref>''[http://www.leagle.com/decision/200597118AD3d953_1273/IN%20THE%20MATTER%20OF%20KUSHNER In the Matter of Kushner]'', 18 A.D.3d 953, 793 N.Y.S.2d 781 (2005) (per curiam).</ref> and Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite web|title=Public Discipline|url=https://www.pabar.org/pdf/disciplinelm/DisciplineNovDec05.pdf|publisher=[[Pennsylvania Bar Association]]|access-date=September 27, 2016}}</ref> Republican [[Chris Christie]], who chaired Trump’s first transition team, said Kushner committed "one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes" he prosecuted.<ref name=cnn19>{{cite news |title=Chris Christie: Jared Kushner's father committed 'one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes' I prosecuted |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/30/politics/chris-christie-jared-kushner-father/index.html |access-date=30 November 2024 |work=CNN}}</ref>

[[File:2020-12-23 Trump padron for Charles Kushner-kushner charles pardon warrant 12.23.2020.pdf|thumb|December 2020 pardon granted by Donald Trump]]
On December 23, 2020, President Trump issued a [[Federal pardons in the United States|full and unconditional pardon]] to Kushner, his daughter's father-in-law,<ref>{{cite web |title=Trump pardons Jared Kushner's father |date=December 29, 2020 |url=https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/trump-pardons-jared-kushners-father/}}</ref> citing his record of "reform" and "charity".<ref name="auto"/><ref name="auto1"/>

===New York City real estate===
After being released from prison, Kushner shifted his business activities from New Jersey to New York City. In early 2007, [[Kushner Companies]] bought the [[666 Fifth Avenue]] building in [[Manhattan]] for $1.8 billion.<ref name=Big>Bagli, Charles V. (December 7, 2006). [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/07/nyregion/07building.html "A Big Deal, Even in Manhattan: A Tower Goes for $1.8 Billion"]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved November 12, 2007.</ref> In August 2018, Brookfield Properties signed a 99-year lease for the property, paying $1.286 billion and effectively taking full ownership of the building.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last1=Bagli |first1=Charles V. |last2=Kelly |first2=Kate |title=Deal Gives Kushners Cash Infusion on 666 Fifth Avenue |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/nyregion/kushners-building-fifth-avenue-brookfield-lease.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 3, 2018 |access-date=November 20, 2018 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite news |last=Plitt |first=Amy |title=Kushner Companies finally makes a deal to offload its troubled Midtown tower |url=https://ny.curbed.com/2018/8/6/17654692/kushner-companies-brookfield-666-fifth-avenue-deal |work=Curbed NY |date=August 6, 2018 |access-date=November 20, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Brookfield Acquires 99 Year Lease on NYC tower from Kushner Company |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-03/brookfield-acquires-99-year-lease-on-nyc-tower-from-kushner-cos |newspaper=Bloomberg.com |date=August 3, 2018 |access-date=November 5, 2020}}</ref>

As of the end of 2016, Kushner and his family were estimated to have a net worth of $1.8 billion.<ref name="Here's How Much Jared Kushner And His Family Are Really Worth" /> He has employed two fellow inmates with whom he became acquainted in prison.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-01-27/jared-kushner-s-felon-father-brought-two-fellow-inmates-into-company|title=Kushner's Felon Father Back at Helm of New York Empire With Two Fellow Inmates|newspaper=Bloomberg.com|date=January 27, 2017}}</ref>

===Donations===
Kushner met personally with [[Harvard University]]'s president and in 1998 donated $2.5 million to Harvard.<ref>{{cite book |last=Golden |first=Daniel |title=[[The Price of Admission]] |publisher=Crown |location=New York City |year=2006 |isbn=1400097975}}</ref> His son, Jared, was then beginning his senior year of high school, where he was not a particularly good student with test scores below Ivy League standards.<ref name=":2">{{cite book |last=Tough |first=Paul |title=The Years That Matter Most |publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]] |location=Boston, MA |year=2019 |pages=164 |isbn=9780544944480}}</ref> Jared was admitted to the Harvard freshman class of 1999.<ref name=":2" />

Before 2016, Kushner was a donor to the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]].<ref name="NYT2007" /> He is on the boards of [[Touro College]], [[Stern College for Women]], [[Rabbinical College of America]], and the [[United Jewish Communities]].<ref name="JewishWeek20040723" /> Kushner has made other donations to Harvard, Stern College, and [[United Cerebral Palsy]].<ref name="JewishWeek20040723" /> He donated to the Seryl and Charles Kushner Maternity Unit at [[St. Barnabas Medical Center]] in [[Livingston, New Jersey]]. He contributed to the funding of two schools, [[Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy]] and [[Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School]], also in Livingston, and named them after his parents.<ref name="TRD Bio" /><ref name="JewishWeek20040723">{{cite news|title=Kushner Fallout Unclear|url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=9672|date=July 23, 2004|first=Adam|last=Dickter|work=[[The Jewish Week]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050828213935/http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=9672|archive-date=August 28, 2005|access-date=September 28, 2011}}</ref><ref name="JewishPartisans">[http://jewishpartisans.org/t_switch.php?pageName=mini+bio+short+bio+1&fromSomeone=&parnum=54 "Mini Bio: Rae Kushner"], Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation. Retrieved September 28, 2011.</ref> Kushner Hall is a building that is named after him on the Hofstra University campus.<ref>{{cite news |title=Hofstra Myths Debunked: Campus buildings named after criminals? |url=http://thehofstrachronicle.com/hofstra-myths-debunked-campus-buildings-named-after-criminalsbr/ |newspaper=The Hofstra Chronicle |date=October 27, 2010 |access-date=May 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730064327/http://thehofstrachronicle.com/hofstra-myths-debunked-campus-buildings-named-after-criminalsbr/ |archive-date=July 30, 2017}}</ref> The campus of Jerusalem's [[Shaare Zedek Medical Center]] is named the "Seryl and Charles Kushner Campus" in honor of their donation of $20 million.<ref>{{cite news |title=Shaare Zedek Medical Center campus to be named in honor of New York couple |url=https://www.jpost.com/Health-and-Science/Shaare-Zedek-Medical-Center-campus-to-be-named-in-honor-of-New-York-couple-352960 |work=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=July 29, 2017}}</ref>

In August 2015, Kushner donated $100,000 to Donald Trump's Make America Great Again PAC, a [[super PAC]] supporting Trump's [[Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016|2016 campaign for the presidency]].<ref>Katy O'Donnell, [https://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/donald-trump-donor-fundraising-2016-121645 Trump attended big-donor fundraiser last month], ''Politico'' (August 23, 2015).</ref> Kushner and his wife also hosted a reception for Trump at their [[Jersey Shore]] seaside mansion in [[Long Branch, New Jersey|Long Branch]].<ref>Maggie Haberman, [https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/08/23/donald-trump-pays-a-visit-to-his-not-so-poor-relations/ Donald Trump Pays a Visit to His Not-So-Poor Relations], ''The New York Times'' (August 23, 2016).</ref> In 2023, he was one of the largest donors to a Trump super PAC, donating $1 million.<ref name=nytimes2023>{{cite news |title=Trump PAC Down to $4 Million Cash on Hand After Legal Fees |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/us/politics/trump-pac-filing.html |access-date=6 August 2023 |work=The New York Times|date=August 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Jared Kushner's relatives donate max to Chris Christie's 2024 presidential bid despite putting Jared's dad in prison |url=https://nypost.com/2023/07/24/kushners-donate-max-to-chris-christie-as-family-feud-plays-on/ |access-date=6 August 2023}}</ref><ref name=bi>{{cite news |title=Jared Kushner's dad Charles, who Trump pardoned, gave $1 million to a Trump super PAC |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/charles-kushner-trump-super-pac-donation-jared-pardon-2024-gop-2023-8?r=US&IR=T |access-date=6 August 2023}}</ref>

===U.S. ambassador to France and Monaco===
[[File:P202506018AH-0303 President Donald Trump Raises New American Flag on South Lawn of the White House.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Kushner with his family and President [[Donald Trump]] at the [[White House]] in June 2025]]
On November 30, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Kushner to serve as the [[United States Ambassador to France|United States ambassador to France and Monaco]] in his second administration.<ref name="nyt-nom">{{cite news |last1=Montague |first1=Zach |title=Trump Names Charles Kushner as Pick for Ambassador to France |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/us/politics/trump-charles-kushner-france-ambassador.html |access-date=30 November 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=30 November 2024}}</ref> On February 12, 2025, Kushner's nomination was sent to the [[United States Senate|Senate]].<ref>{{Cite press release |title=Nominations Sent to the Senate |date=February 12, 2025 |publisher=The White House |url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/nominations-sent-to-the-senate/}}</ref> His nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate by a vote of 51-45. [[Cory Booker]] was the one Democratic senator to support his confirmation. Kushner was sworn in on July 11, 2025.<ref>https://x.com/USEmbassyFrance/status/1943643308661629348?t=XDHjAf4Lp6ZfBVqNAz74_w&s=09</ref> 

In an open letter on the 25 August 2025, Kushner expressed his "worry about the rise of anti-Semitism in France", as he sees it, and the corresponding "lack of action by the French government".<ref>{{Cite news |date=2025-08-24 |title=Charles Kushner, ambassadeur des Etats-Unis en France, convoqué lundi au Quai d'Orsay après avoir critiqué « l'absence d'action suffisante » d'Emmanuel Macron contre l'antisémitisme |url= https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/08/24/charles-kushner-ambassadeur-des-etats-unis-en-france-convoque-au-quai-d-orsay-apres-avoir-critique-l-absence-d-action-suffisante-d-emmanuel-macron-contre-l-antisemitisme_6634567_3211.html |access-date=2025-08-25 |language=fr}}</ref> The French government said The Ambassador's allegations were "unacceptable" and summoned him to attend the Quai d'Orsay (the foreign ministry);<ref>{{Cite web |publisher=Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères |title=United States – Ambassador's allegations of anti-Semitism in France (25 August 2025) |url=https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/country-files/united-states/events/article/united-states-ambassador-s-allegations-of-anti-semitism-in-france-25-august |access-date=2025-08-25 |website=France Diplomacy |language=en}}</ref> Kushner did not attend.

==See also==
*[[Kushner family]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://vault.fbi.gov/kushner-companies/kushner-companies-part-01-of-01/view Kushner Companies] in the FBI's [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|FOIA]] Library ''The Vault''

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