One of the lawyers representing Jared Kushner is quitting as his counsel in the Russian probe.
Jared Kushner’s lawyer, Jamie Gorelick, will no longer handle Russia-related matters, but will remain his attorney for other areas, she announced in a statement Friday.
Abbe Lowell will now handle Russia inquiries.
If that name is familiar, it should be. Gorelick used to be a deputy Attorney General during the Clinton age. Which is odd, because that kind of thing means they are too irreparably left-wing and biased to be on Mueller’s team.
But it may not be because the story is heating up around the lawyer meeting with Kushner and Junior. It may be because Gorelick was on the same firm as Bob Mueller, who is now investigating Kushner in the independent probe into Russian meddling.
“Of course I am still part of Jared Kushner’s legal team,” Gorelick said in a statement. “As we have stated, once Bob Mueller and three of our partners left the firm to form the Special Counsel’s Office, we advised Jared to get independent legal advice on whether to continue with us as counsel.
“As a result of this process, Jared decided that Abbe would represent him in the Russia-related inquiries,” the statement adds. “We are currently helping Abbe’s team. We will continue to work on the matters for which we were originally retained, with regard to ethics compliance, the SF-86 process, and related issues.”
Sooooo… coincidence, or not? We’ll see…
Here’s a video of Gorelick a few months ago talking about how Jared Kushner would leave his business to join the Trump admin to avoid appearance of nepotism and self-dealing.