Roger’s Secret Service code name was “Headache.” In January 2016, as his sister-in-law Hillary Clinton sought the Democratic presidential nomination, he was arrested again on DWI charges. In 2001, Roger was arrested for drunk driving and disorderly conduct in Southern California.
Bill’s half-brother, a singer and sometime actor, did a year in prison for cocaine possession and received a presidential pardon on the day the former president left office. It is unclear if Neil ever collected any payment from the company, Grace Semiconductor. He also said in 2004 divorce proceedings that he hoped to collect $2 million acting as a consultant for a company started by the son of a former Chinese leader, and admitted to having sex with prostitutes who showed up at his hotel rooms in Hong Kong and Taiwan and offered to sleep with him gratis. George W.’s younger brother was involved in questionable financial dealings starting in the 1980s, when he was embroiled in the savings and loan crisis as a director of Silverado S&L, which suffered a $1 billion collapse. Here are some of the other notable walking embarrassments with ties to past occupants of the White House: That’s one of the kin sins we have almost come to expect from a president’s extended family. Related: How Trump’s Tax Plan Could Make the ‘Hedge Fund Guys’ Even RicherĮxploiting family connections is nothing new, however. Bloomberg News, which says the Jersey City project is facing financial headwinds, called it “a not-so-subtle signal that hers is a family company with connections.” Kushner Companies has since apologized, and on Friday the real estate firm said that its employees would no longer participate in events in China this month, though it will continue seeking investors.
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Jared Kushner has stakes in the company through a series of trusts, the Times said, pegging their value at as much as $600 million.Īt the event in Beijing (there was a second in Shanghai), from which reporters for the Times and The Washington Post were ejected, Meyer mentioned her brother and had a photo of Trump prominently displayed. Last week, only hours after Trump signed legislation extending a controversial program that offers residence visas and a path to citizenship to foreigners who make substantial investments in commercial projects, his son-in-law’s sister was in Beijing peddling stakes in a Jersey City real-estate development project to wealthy Chinese investors.Īs The New York Times reported, Nicole Meyer, sister of White House adviser and Ivanka Trump husband Jared Kushner, was trying to drum up $500,000 investments in a luxury high rise that is part of a $1 billion project of the Kushner Companies. Since everything about Donald Trump seems louder and more garish than anyone who has held the office of the presidency before him, it’s not surprising that his relatives would be the most embarrassingly audacious ever – even topping Bill Clinton’s brother-in-law Hugh Rodham, who collected some $400,000 for trying to influence presidential pardons.
Related: What Happens When People Start Ignoring President Trump? presidents have an embarrassing relative or two waiting in the wings.īut while we common folk only have to put up with Crazy Uncle Louie or Inappropriate Cousin Laura at holiday gatherings, kinfolk behaving badly can be a real problem for occupants of the Oval Office. Like just about everybody else in the world, most U.S.
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