Jared Kushner has not been charged or implicated in any wrongdoing. (File)
New York:
The former editor of a New York newspaper once owned by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner was indicted by federal prosecutors on Friday for cyberstalking three people in connection with his divorce.
Brooklyn prosecutors said Ken Kurson, who is also a political consultant and former speechwriter for Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, sent threatening messages and used pseudonyms to file bogus complaints against his victims in late 2015 in the middle of the divorce proceedings.
They also said Kurson made several visits to where two victims were working, taking photos and asking about the work schedule of one of them, prompting their employer to hire a security guard for them.
Kurson is being released on $ 100,000 bail after a virtual appearance before a federal judge in Brooklyn, following his arrest earlier Friday. Kushner has not been charged or implicated in any wrongdoing.
“Ken Kurson is an honorable man, a loving father and a talented writer,” said his lawyer Marc Mukasey. “This case is hardly a federal criminal prosecution case. Ken will pass it.”
Kurson was appointed editor of The Observer in 2013 and resigned in 2017. The Observer endorsed Trump in the 2016 US presidential election.
According to court documents, Kurson’s alleged harassment targeted an anonymous person whom he “accused” of dissolving his marriage, as well as that person’s supervisor and his wife, whom neither of them had met. the other.
Prosecutors said a criminal investigation began in May 2018 after the FBI found evidence during a background check that Kurson attempted to “hunt and harass” the three victims.
According to the Times, the background check was for Trump’s nomination of Kurson for a seat on the board of directors of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Kurson told the newspaper in an interview in July 2018 that he had withdrawn from the review the previous month, citing the amount of paperwork involved in the verification process.
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