Trump family friend, associate Ken Kurson re-arrested on cyber-stalking charges

Seven months after he was granted a pardon by then-President Trump, Ken Kurson, a friend of Trump's son-in-law, was arrested Wednesday on new charges.

Seven months after he was granted a pardon by then-President Donald Trump, Ken Kurson, a friend of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and a former associate of Rudy Giuliani, was arrested Wednesday in New York on new, state felony charges. Kurson received the pardon from Trump not long after federal prosecutors in Brooklyn charged him in October 2020 with cyberstalking related to his 2015 divorce. Kurson now faces charges of eavesdropping and computer trespassing filed by the Manhattan District Attorney's office, which took up the case almost immediately after the pardon was announced on Trump's final day in office. Manhattan prosecutors looked at the same alleged conduct as federal prosecutors and accused Kurson of spying on his ex-wife by unlawfully accessing her computer. The alleged eavesdropping and computer trespass occurred from Kurson's work computer while he was still editor at The New York Observer.