Kushner pushes back on Vanity Fair phone-hack allegations

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorToday's question: could the phone in your pocket be hiding more than seven hundred million dollars in transfers?

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThat's the number in the Vanity Fair headline, about Jared Kushner's hacked phone. It's an excerpt from Matthew Cole's forthcoming book, Princes and Thieves.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe excerpt claims Dutch investigators watched him use the phone in twenty eighteen.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt says he accessed a UAE-linked bank account that got seven hundred fifty million dollars transferred in by a UAE government-funded charity.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSeven hundred fifty. My phone just tells me I've been on it four hours.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorKushner wrote on X that it's completely insane and never happened.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe says no bank statements, wire records or account numbers were provided, and his attorney calls it false and defamatory.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the book says there's a phone, and he says show me the receipts.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorVerdict: mildly worried, mostly about the book tour. Allegations are allegations.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentMy phone's only secret transfer is nine dollars a month to an app I forgot, and I'd like that investigated. Same time tomorrow.