US warned Jared Kushner About Wendi Deng Murdoch

Officials said the businesswoman could be trying to further Beijing's interests, people familiar with the matter say

US counterintelligence officials in early 2017 warned Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, that Wendi Deng Murdoch, a prominent Chinese-American businesswoman, could be using her close friendship with Mr. Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, to further the interests of the Chinese government, according to people familiar with the matter.

US officials have also had concerns about a counterintelligence assessment that Ms. Murdoch was lobbying for a high-profile construction project funded by the Chinese government in Washington, DC, one of these people said.

The project, a planned $100 million Chinese garden at the National Arboretum, was deemed a national-security