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Jared Kushner's father paid $25,000 to have a prostitute seduce his sister's husband on a hidden camera. Then he had the sex tape mailed to his sister. His sister had been cooperating with federal investigators looking into his taxes and campaign donations. Charles Kushner, a wealthy New Jersey real estate developer, wanted leverage. According to the FBI complaint, the men he hired couldn't find a woman willing to do it. So Kushner personally recruited a call girl in New York and promised her $7,000 to $10,000. She met the brother-in-law outside a diner and said her car had broken down. The next day, a hidden camera in her motel room recorded them having sex. Kushner watched the tape in a conference room at his office and "expressed satisfaction," the complaint says. He asked for copies with her face pixelled out, and still photos. He tried the same thing on another witness, a former employee, and advanced $10,000 to $12,000 for it. That man turned the woman down twice. In May 2004 he ordered the tape mailed to his sister and to her children, timed to arrive right before a family party. The investigator he hired talked him out of sending it to the kids. His sister opened the envelope and gave it to federal agents. In the video below, Chris Christie, the US attorney who prosecuted him, says it was her son's engagement party, one Kushner was going to attend. He calls him "the most disgusting defendant" he prosecuted in his seven years there. Kushner pleaded guilty and got 2 years. In 2020, Trump pardoned him. In 2025, the Senate confirmed him as US ambassador to France, 51-45. At his hearing he said: "I made a very, very, very serious mistake." And: "There's only one accountant I trust that I believe in, and it's God." Should a man who did this to his own sister represent America in Paris, or did 2 years in prison settle it?