Updates | The Week of May 8, 2017
Eve Levin // 5/14/17 //
The sister of White House advisor Jared Kushner spoke at an event in China on Saturday, encouraging investment in a family property in exchange for EB-5 visas (NYT, WaPo)
- Materials at the event highlighted Trump as the “key decision maker” on the fate of the controversial visa program (NYT).
- This has given rise to new questions about conflicts of interest between the Kushner family and the Trump Administration (The Guardian).
Shareholder proposals could held keep President Trump’s conflicts of interest in check, argues Michael Maruca at the Global Anticorruption Blog.
Congressman Elijah Cummings has requested information concerning Kellyanne Conway’s relationship with The Polling Company, Inc./WomanTrend (Committee on Oversight & Government Reform).