On October 27, 2026, Jared Kushner's lawyer issued a blanket denial of the claims in Matthew Cole's book Princes and Thieves, saying Kushner never accessed foreign accounts and always followed all rules and regulations. Cole's reporting sets out the counter-case: Kushner held no statutory authority, no Senate confirmation and for a time no security clearance, while MBZ and MBS floated a $10 to $12 billion fund to him in early 2017, one idea being to build Trump's border wall. That fund became $2 billion in alpha and beta accounts, and Cole's sources say Kushner was a signatory. Dutch intelligence hacked his phone in 2017 and saw his First Abu Dhabi Bank account, with money in from Azerbaijan and first transfers…