charles kushner appointed us ambassador to france... kushner, who is now 70, pleaded guilty in 2004 to 18 counts of tax evasion, witness tampering and making illegal campaign contributions. the case, which was prosecuted by then us attorney chris christie, included sordid details, to which kushner admitted: that he had hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, a man cooperating in a campaign finance inquiry, and then videotaped the encounter and sent it to the man's wife, kushner's sister, to dissuade her from testifying against him. christie, who worked on trump's first presidential transition team and then opposed him in this year's republican primary contests, later said kushner had committed a "loathsome" and "disgusting crime." in 2020, trump issued a pardon to kushner, whose conviction had resulted in him being disbarred in three states.
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