President-elect Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he is nominating Charles Kushner, father of Ivanka Trump’s husband Jared Kushner, to be the U.S. ambassador to France.
The elder Kushner was pardoned by Trump in 2020 after being convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering in 2005. He spent 14 months in prison and 10 months in a halfway house for his crimes.
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In what former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called “one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes” he ever prosecuted as U.S. attorney, Kushner hired a prostitute to entrap his brother-in-law with the intention of recording the encounter and sending it to the man’s wife. This unsuccessful scheme was supposed to be revenge for cooperating with investigators.
However, over the last two…
