Kushner...RED FLAG!

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President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner's participating in Saudi Arabia's annual investment conference this week raised ethics concerns from a watchdog alleging that the Saudi government is a part-owner of a company building a Trump-branded property that Kushner's wife Ivanka Trump holds a stake in.

Kushner, a senior White House adviser, arrived at the Future Investment Initiative forum in Riyadh on Tuesday, a year after Western leaders, including some from the United States boycotted the conference due to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

In a report on its website Tuesday, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) pointed to its finding from last year that the Trump Organization's business partner in Indonesia signed a deal with a Saudi government-owned construction firm to build a Trump-branded resort. The agreement was apparently reached three weeks before Khashoggi disappeared.

The development appears in Kushner's financial disclosure because Ivanka Trump, also a senior White House adviser, listed it in her assets, according to CREW.

"The question becomes, how does that influence his dealings with the Saudi government, would he do something that could endanger the family finances?" CREW spokesman Jordan Libowitz told Newsweek on Wednesday.

www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-saudi-disclosure-ethics-1468809