Well, well well... Look who else Charles Kushner gave campaign contributions to. He's a real RAT From fec.gov:
KERRY, JOHN F
VIA KERRY COMMITTEE
02/04/1997 1000.00 97020072549
02/04/1997 1000.00 97020072496
Note that this was in 1997, NOT in connection with the Presidential race.
And other RATS running this year:
KNOWLES, TONY (Alaska)
VIA TONY KNOWLES FOR US SENATE
11/10/2003 1000.00 24020100636
SCHUMER, CHARLES E (New York)
VIA FRIENDS OF SCHUMER
09/29/2003 1000.00 23020451028
09/29/2003 1000.00 23020451028
CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM (New York)
VIA FRIENDS OF HILLARY
09/29/2003 2000.00 23020432407
09/29/2003 2000.00 23020432407
MENENDEZ, ROBERT (New Jersey Congress)
VIA MENENDEZ FOR CONGRESS
02/21/2003 2000.00 23990715013
02/21/2003 2000.00 23990715012
PASCRELL, WILLIAM J JR (New Jersey Congress)
VIA PASCRELL FOR CONGRESS INC.
11/13/2003 2500.00 24990051657
12/24/2003 -500.00 24990051657
12/24/2003 500.00 24990051657
02/20/2004 1500.00 24990988448
03/31/2004 1500.00 24991182707
LANTOS, TOM (California Congress)
VIA TOM LANTOS FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE
10/13/2003 2000.00 24990395714
And DNC causes:
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
12/31/2003 25000.00 24990372453
DNC-NON-FEDERAL INDIVIDUAL
10/25/2002 1000000.00 22992883861
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
12/19/2003 10000.00 24961534667
DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
09/26/2003 10000.00 23020403323
02/23/2004 7500.00 24020162303
More dirt on Kushner and his connections to Clinton.
Kushner is the chairman of Kushner Cos., which includes more than 40 business partnerships that deal mostly with developing and managing real estate. He has about 1,000 employees and owns or manages more than 24,000 apartment units and 7.5 million square feet of office, industrial and retail space.
Kushner Cos. owns property in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and Massachusetts, and it has affiliated businesses in banking, insurance, real estate brokerage, hospitality and technology, according to its Web site.
Kushner emerged in the 1990s as one of the national Democratic Party's largest contributors of so-called "soft money," now restricted by federal law. He and his family and business associates have given more than $369,000 to McGreevey since 1997.
According to information compiled from Federal Election Commission reports by the Center for Responsive Politics, he gave $160,000 in 1998 and 2000 to McGreevey's federal PAC, the Committee for Working Families.
All told, Kushner, his partnerships and his family gave $1.6 million in direct and "soft money" contributions to federal committees in the 1998 and 2000 election cycles, of which nearly $1.5 million went to Democrats.
About $541,000 of those contributions were apparently made by Kushner in the name of his associates without their approval. Two weeks ago, he paid a $508,900 fine for them, the fourth largest fine ever imposed by the Federal Election Commission.
In addition to McGreevey's committee, the contributions were made to one-time presidential contender and U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., as well as U.S. Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., plus 12 other accounts.
Kushner has mostly stopped giving money to McGreevey and state Democrats after questions were raised about whether such contributions are legal because Kushner is controlling owner of NorCrown Bank, and bank owners can't donate in New Jersey.
But the campaign contributions aren't Kushner's only link to McGreevey.
Kushner became friends with Gary Taffet, who was McGreevey's chief of staff when he was Woodbridge mayor and after he became governor. In 2000, Kushner bought an insurance company from Taffet for $3.4 million, just before Taffet went to work for McGreevey's successful election campaign.
Taffet was recently charged with insider trading in a Securities and Exchange Commission civil complaint. The complaint alleged he used and passed on to business associates insider mergers and acquisitions information he obtained from an associate of his insurance business.
Kushner also hired one-time McGreevey homeland security adviser Golan Cipel, an Israeli poet who had worked on his 2001 campaign to reach out to Jewish voters, to a $30,000 public relations job in 2001 and sponsored his work visa. Cipel resigned when the federal government refused to give him a security clearance and after questions were raised as to whether he was qualified for the position.
In 2002, McGreevey appointed Kushner to the influential Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The governor intended to make him its chairman, but Kushner resigned after investigations of his business and political activities became public.
Kushner also has a long history of philanthropic donations and service. He is responsible for building and developing the current campus of the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy and Kushner Yeshiva High School, named for his late father, in his hometown Livingston.
He also serves, or has served, on the board of directors of New York University, Hofstra University, Stern College, Touro College, Daughters of Israel Geriatric Center, the Rabbinical College of America and is a trustee of MetroWest Foundation.
Kushner, whose parents were Holocaust survivors, was appointed by President Clinton -- for whom Kushner had raised significant political donations -- to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council.