A Billionaire’s Huge Stock Gift to a Synagogue
He donated 3 million Kodak shares—worth up to $180 million at the time—to a relatively new Jewish congregation that has almost no public profile.
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The out-of-the-ordinary loan for Kodak came from a new and little-known government agency: the US International Development Finance Corporation. This outfit was created to provide foreign aid—not domestic assistance—headed by friend #AdamBoehler
In March, Kushner tapped Boehler to be part of his shadow coronavirus task force.
On July 29, the day the stock price hit $60, so those shares could have been worth as much as $180 million at the time of the gift.
That means they could pocket a deduction between $52.5 million and $180 million for a bloc of stocks that two days