A high-stakes gamble: How Jared Kushner reacted to previous crises

By Michael Kranish and Jonathan O’connell, The Washington Post
NEW YORK – Jared Kushner had barely survived a fight to save his family’s real estate empire.
Taking charge of the business after his father went to prison, Kushner, 25 at the time, paid $1.8 billion in 2007 for the nation’s most expensive office building. Then the market went south, the debts piled up, and Kushner spent years pushing banks to renegotiate the loans.
But after one disgruntled lender had tried t