Jared Kushner's Albania Headache: Flamingos, Contested Land and Cocaine

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  Soon after the end of the first Trump administration, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump went on a Mediterranean vacation.

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  We were on our friend Nat Rothschild's boat.

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  Later, at an investment conference, Kushner described the scene.

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  We got picked up in Montenegro, and then we started sailing over to Corfu, and we spent a couple days in Albania.

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  While sailing along the coast of Albania, the couple encountered an island called Cezanne.

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  It's an unbelievable, beautiful 1,400-hectare private island in the middle of the Mediterranean.

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  On a podcast, Ivanka Trump talked about the island as though it were an undiscovered Eden.

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  And we stopped for a swim.

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  Effectively, that's how we found it.

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  We swam to the islands.

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  We went on a hike, barefoot all the way up to the top.

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  And we were just captivated.

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  The country just had incredible natural beauty, but it seemed like a place that nobody knew or understood.

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  What emerges from this initial visit and these initial conversations

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  is this really large plan to build a series of very high-end resorts and villas.

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  Our colleague Elliot Brown has been reporting on the story of this development project for two years.

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  And so then Jared and his partners come with this idea of just taking this cannon

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  of money and putting it into this line of coast and making it a huge destination for the yachting crowd.

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  So Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, they had this grand vision.

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  Fast forward to today, how is it going?

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