The search for a bailout has attracted scrutiny for Jared and his father-in-law. : In 2007, near the peak of the real estate bubble, Kushner Companies made a huge leap from New Jersey apartments to Manhattan high rises. Using only a $50 million down payment against a $1.8 billion purchase price, with financing including short-term, high-interest loans, they purchased the office-and-retail tower at 666 Fifth Avenue. Within two years, the global financial crisis had sent New York rents into a tailspin.