SEC dropped inquiry into private equity firm one month after it made loan to Kushner businesses

The Associated Press reported on Friday that the Securities and Exchange Commission dropped its inquiry into Apollo Global Management, the private equity firm, late last year after the company had given White House adviser Jared Kushner's family real estate firm a $180 million loan a month earlier. Apollo reported in its 2018 annual report that the SEC had halted its inquiry into how the firm reported the financial results of its private equity funds and other costs and personnel changes...