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FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s plan to create a $20 billion company running the World Cup with private investors including the Kushner family was announced Tuesday — and immediately attacked by European soccer body UEFA. “It is not FIFA’s to sell,” UEFA said in a statement. “None of us are the owners of football.” Infantino’s plans to form a commercial subsidiary, which would be called FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE), running competitions like the World Cup and Club World Cup was first reported by The Times of London. FIFA said in a statement FFE would raise up to $4.2 billion later this...

Investor’s family fund issued $250M credit line: sources George Soros’ Soros Fund Management has quietly been financing the Kushner-backed real estate finance startup Cadre with a substantial credit line, according to sources familiar with the matter. A source familiar with the financing arrangement told The Real Deal that "Soros has had a long and productive relationship with the Kushner family." Another source told TRD that Kushner Companies TRData LogoTINY president Laurent Morali played a key role arranging the financing, but a Kushner Companies spokesperson disputed that account, claiming that "Kushner Cos. has never been involved in Cadre in any capacity."...

Team Trump up and running: Ivanka looks on as husband Jared Kushner gets sworn in alongside senior staff members including Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway at the White House Trump held his first swearing in ceremony inside the East Room Sunday Before the ceremony, Trump shared he received a 'beautiful' letter from former President Barack Obama that was left for him inside Oval Office Trump told his top advisers that they are in the White House not to 'help ourselves' but to 'devote ourselves to the national good' In total, 30 senior staff members were sworn in by Vice President...