Now that Donald Trump has won the White House, his son-in-law Jared Kushner—Ivanka's husband—is reportedly playing a major role on his transition team. It has been widely reported that Kushner was behind the firing of New Jersey governor Chris Christie and others associated with him, a "bloodletting" that was said to create a certain amount of disarray. Kushner's enmity for Christie stems from the fact that Christie once prosecuted Kushner's father for tax evasion and witness tampering, among other charges.

The wealthy son of New Jersey real state mogul (and convicted felon) Charles Kushner, Jared was an exceedingly loyal soldier during his father-in-law's campaign, most notably defending Trump against charges of trafficking in hatred of Jews when he retweeted a blatantly anti-Semitic image. Just as odd considering the Kushner family's Holocaust heritage, there is no indication that Jared has any particular problem with the appointment of Steve Bannon, a leader of the racist and anti-Semitic alt-right movement, to the post of Trump's chief strategist in the White House. The soft-spoken Kushner has generally managed to fly under the media radar. Now, Trump is said to be considering giving him the highest level of security clearance. Such is the reward for loyalty.

What else do we know about Kushner? Some insights into him were provided a few months ago in the New Yorker and Esquire magazines, which both published not terribly flattering profiles of the golden boy and member of Trump inner circle.

Here are some revelations about Kushner you might want to keep in mind going forward.

1. Jared is a really good compartmentalizer. It runs in the family.

In August 2004, Jared's father, Charles Kushner, head of a multi-million-dollar real estate empire in New Jersey, pleaded guilty to 18 felony counts of tax fraud, election violations and witness tampering. Interestingly, future Trump toadie Chris Christie was the prosecutor who indicted him as New Jersey's U.S. attorney, but we'll get to that.

Charles Kushner set his sister's husband up with a sex worker and filmed their interactions in an effort to blackmail her out of cooperating with a federal investigation. Such a nice family man. But it didn't work. Charles ended up being sentenced to two years in prison.

Similarly, his son Jared, an observant Jew, seems to be able to convince himself that the fact that his father-in-law courts and hires white supremacists is A-OK. Nor does he seem troubled by Trump's desired persecution of a group of people for their religion, Muslims. Jared angered members of his own family by defending Trump's tweet of Hillary Clinton against a backdrop of the Star of David and money by invoking his own relatives' Holocaust experiences.