US President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday that he wants real estate developer Charles Kushner, the father of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, to serve as ambassador to France.

Trump made the announcement in a post on Truth Social, calling Charles Kushner “a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, and deal maker.”

Kushner is the founder of Kushner Companies, a real estate firm. Jared Kushner is a former senior Trump advisor who is married to Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka.

The elder Kushner was pardoned by Trump in December 2020 after pleading guilty years earlier to tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations.

Prosecutors alleged that Charles Kushner hatched a plan for revenge and intimidation after he discovered his brother-in-law was cooperating with federal authorities in an investigation.

Prosecutors said Kushner hired a prostitute to lure his brother-in-law, then arranged for the encounter in a New Jersey motel room to be recorded on a hidden camera and to have the recording sent to his sister, the man’s wife.

Kushner eventually pleaded guilty to 18 charges, including tax evasion and witness tampering. He was sentenced to two years in prison in 2005; That sentence was the most he could receive under a plea deal, but it was less than what Chris Christie, then the U.S. attorney in New Jersey and later governor and Republican presidential candidate, was seeking.

Christie blamed Jared Kushner for his firing from Trump’s transition team in 2016, calling Charles Kushner’s crimes “one of the most heinous, heinous crimes I prosecuted while I was a U.S. attorney.”

Trump and the elder Kushner knew each other through real estate circles, and their children married in 2009.