Ivanka Trump and her husband have a fortune of several hundred million dollars
President Donald Trump's daughter and her husband still earn money from hefty investments in real estate and business, despite being in government.
US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka and husband Jared Kushner have retained hundreds of millions of dollars in real estate and business investments while they hold government positions, according to documents released by the White House.
Documents released Friday show that Ivanka and her husband, both of whom are close official advisers to the president, still earn income from those assets worth between $ 240 million and $ 740 million.
Ivanka Trump, who announced a few days ago that she would become an unpaid adviser to the American president, will notably keep her shares, estimated between 5 and 25 million dollars, in the Trump International Hotel, located a few blocks from the White House. Between January 2016 and March 2017, these shares brought him between 1 and 5 million dollars, according to the documents.
Observers have expressed concern that pressure groups or foreign governments may move into the luxurious Trump Hotel in Washington to reconcile the administration's good graces.
Jared Kushner was recently appointed by his Republican stepfather to head a White House office tasked with using ideas from the corporate world to downsize government, according to the Washington Post.
Mr. Kushner, 36, is a key advisor to Mr. Trump and has a great deal of influence on domestic and international matters. He has left senior positions in more than 200 entities linked to his family's real estate empire, according to presidency documents, but he will continue to rake in profits from many family holdings.
Since Donald Trump won the US presidential election in November, his vast financial empire has come under scrutiny by ethics experts, who believe it poses serious conflict of interest issues and raises many questions about it. lack of a clear line between his business - and those of his family - and his political functions.
Documents released by the White House also describe the holdings of Gary Cohn, the former chairman of the powerful Goldman Sachs bank who heads the National Economic Council (NEC), and Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's strategic advisor. Mr. Cohn reported holdings worth between $ 253 million and $ 611 million, and income of up to $ 77 million in 2016.
Mr. Bannon's largest holdings are his private consulting firm, valued at between $ 5 million and $ 25 million. He said he was paid $ 191,000 as a consultant from the pro-Trump news site Breitbart News he previously ran, and over $ 125,000 for working at data firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked for the campaign. Trump.
The Trump administration is considered one of the richest in US history. The Bloomberg agency estimates that the combined fortunes of its ministers and senior officials are some $ 12 billion.
