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FBI Scrutinizes Ivanka Trump over Vancouver High-Rise Project

HeadlineMar 02, 2018

CNN reports that FBI investigators are looking into whether White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump’s business dealings leave her vulnerable to pressure by foreign agents. The investigation is centered around financing for the $360 million Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver, which opened after President Trump took office. The project was led by a powerful Malaysian investor through a Canada-based development company. Investigators are reportedly looking into whether the flow of foreign money through the project might be influencing White House policy. The investigation comes as part of the first daughter’s bid to obtain full security clearance to read top-secret documents. Her husband and White House colleague, Jared Kushner, has been denied such clearance and was stripped of his temporary top-secret clearance earlier this week. This comes after The New York Times reported Kushner’s real estate company received loans worth hundreds of millions of dollars from two separate investors after he met with powerful financial executives at the White House, executives from Citigroup and Apollo.

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