We now know that Kushner failed to disclose on his security clearance application at least three meetings with Russians:

1. A December 2016 meeting with Russia’s ubiquitous ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak
2. A December 2016 meeting with Sergey Gorkov, a former Russian intelligence agent who is now the Putin-appointed head of the Russian state-owned bank Vnesheconombank
3. The June 2016 Trump Tower meeting — premised on the promise that the Russian government had “official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary” and aid the Trump campaign — with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, Russian-America dual national lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin, and, reportedly, a representative of Azerbaijani-Russian oligarch and Putin associate Aras Agalarov

Material omissions on security clearance forms are crimes if made knowingly. That it’s hard to spell Vnesheconombank, Veselnitskaya and Akhmetshin is not a legal excuse.

Additional facts raise further concerns about these omissions. There’s a troubling discrepancy between what Vnesheconombank said their Kushner meeting was about and the White House’s explanation for the meeting. The bank told the Washington Post that the meeting was to pursue its investment strategy by talking with “with the head of Kushner Companies,” while a White House spokesperson said that, instead, “Mr. Kushner was acting in his capacity as a transition official and had many similar discussions with foreign representatives after the election.”

The New York Times has reported that Kushner did not amend his clearance form to include the Veselnitskaya meeting “until recently.”

When ever and why ever it turns out that Jared had to amend his form to disclose clearly relevant information, it doesn’t look good. Did he fail to disclose the contacts more promptly because he was holding back information from his own lawyers? Because his lawyers failed to be thorough in asking questions that would produce a full response? Because they advised him that the disclosures were not necessary? And why would anyone believe that he has disclosed everything now?

Meanwhile, on the financial front, Gorelick’s assurances that there were no conflict of interest concerns have been undermined by, among other things, Jared’s sister’s blatant sales pitch in China, telling investors that a New Jersey housing project “means a lot to me and my entire family” and reminding them that Kushner now works in the White House.

And Friday the Washington Post published an extensive report that concluded that Ivanka Trump’s apparel business “relies exclusively on foreign factories in countries such as Bangladesh, Indonesia and China, where low-wage laborers have limited ability to advocate for themselves…. The Post found that her company lags behind many in the apparel industry when it comes to monitoring the treatment of the largely female workforce employed in factories around the world.” The designated person paid to defend this record? “Her attorney Jamie Gorelick told The Post in a statement that Trump is ‘concerned’ about recent reports regarding the treatment of factory workers and ‘expects that the company will respond appropriately.'”

Some of the lawyers who have defended Gorelick’s conduct have focused on the fact that she was representing a man accused of criminal wrongdoing, and that stepping up in such circumstances, whether your client is rich or poor, is, as Alan Dershowitz told the Post, “patriotic and heroic and consistent with the best traditions of the bar.”

But, again, criminal defense was not the task for which Gorelick was first hired, and it’s not what she’s doing now. Instead, she’s getting paid to vouch for the ethics of a family whose lack of ethics is a disgrace, to facilitate the nepotism and financial conflicts of interest, to help a wealthy family that is turning our cherished democracy into a vulgar kleptocracy, where foreign governments line up to buy rooms at Washington’s new Trump International Hotel, where the State Department spends thousands of taxpayer dollars on rooms at the Vancouver Trump hotel for staff assisting with security for private business trips by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, where Ivanka parades like a royal family member into her father’s chair alongside leaders of the G20 nations when he leaves the room.

Gorelick rationalized her decision to represent the Kushner-Trumps in March by explaining to Politico that Democratic lawyer and former NewsCorp executive Joel Klein told her “that Jared was a good person, and that he thought he would be a good influence on the administration.” Judge for yourself if that has been the case, even apart from all the anonymously-sourced reporting about Kushner’s West Wing manipulations; certainly Kushner and Ivanka’s presence has not prevented the Trump Administration from pursuing a hard-right, special interest agenda, from the trashing of the Paris climate accord and environmental regulations, to pursuit of a bigoted travel ban, to the appointment of the arch-conservative Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, to everything else.

But then Gorelick is the perfect Democrat to assist such a regime, the kind of mercenary lawyer who makes Washington the wretched swamp that Donald Trump falsely promised voters he would drain. Her “ethics” work for Jared and Ivanka bears her hallmarks: Helping the rich and powerful push the moral and legal envelope, and of course being well paid for doing that. Gorelick symbolizes revolving door Washington, where well-educated, highly-capable people trade on government experience and connections to help special interests get their way over everyone else.