03-18-2018, 11:52 PM
https://splinternews.com/jared-kushner-s...1823874603
Donald Trump’s son–in–law and presidential adviser Jared Kushner is facing yet another scandal linked to his time as CEO of the family’s predatory real estate empire. At the center of the latest scandal, like many of the others, is the Kushners’ apparent proclivity for deceit and greed while doing business.
According to an investigation by the Associated Press published on Sunday, “The Kushner Cos. routinely filed false paperwork with the city [New York City] declaring it had zero rent-regulated tenants in dozens of buildings it owned across the city when, in fact, it had hundreds.”
The report notes that when the company, with Kushner at the helm, bought three apartment buildings in Queens in 2015, most of the tenants were protected from the arbitrary raising of rents by developers and efforts to force them out. That didn’t stop Kushner’s company, which allegedly falsified construction permit applications by claiming the buildings had no rent–regulated tenants, the AP reported. Two years later, Kushner Companies sold the three buildings for $60 million.
Former tenants of those buildings say they were subjected to constant harassment, including off–hours construction, and “banging, drilling, dust and leaking water.”
According to Housing Rights Initiative, a watchdog group that investigates real estate fraud and that conducted the research behind the AP report, “Kushner Cos. filed at least 80 false applications for construction permits in 34 buildings across New York City from 2013 to 2016, all of them indicating there were no rent-regulated tenants.”
Donald Trump’s son–in–law and presidential adviser Jared Kushner is facing yet another scandal linked to his time as CEO of the family’s predatory real estate empire. At the center of the latest scandal, like many of the others, is the Kushners’ apparent proclivity for deceit and greed while doing business.
According to an investigation by the Associated Press published on Sunday, “The Kushner Cos. routinely filed false paperwork with the city [New York City] declaring it had zero rent-regulated tenants in dozens of buildings it owned across the city when, in fact, it had hundreds.”
The report notes that when the company, with Kushner at the helm, bought three apartment buildings in Queens in 2015, most of the tenants were protected from the arbitrary raising of rents by developers and efforts to force them out. That didn’t stop Kushner’s company, which allegedly falsified construction permit applications by claiming the buildings had no rent–regulated tenants, the AP reported. Two years later, Kushner Companies sold the three buildings for $60 million.
Former tenants of those buildings say they were subjected to constant harassment, including off–hours construction, and “banging, drilling, dust and leaking water.”
According to Housing Rights Initiative, a watchdog group that investigates real estate fraud and that conducted the research behind the AP report, “Kushner Cos. filed at least 80 false applications for construction permits in 34 buildings across New York City from 2013 to 2016, all of them indicating there were no rent-regulated tenants.”
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