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AP Exclusive: Kushner Cos. filed false NYC housing paperwork
abcnews.com ^ | 3/18/18 | bernard condon

Posted on 03/18/2018 11:57:19 AM PDT by blueyon

When the Kushner Cos. bought three apartment buildings in a gentrifying neighborhood of Queens in 2015, most of the tenants were protected by special rules that prevent developers from pushing them out, raising rents and turning a tidy profit.

But that's exactly what the company then run by Jared Kushner did, and with remarkable speed. Two years later, it sold all three buildings for $60 million, nearly 50 percent more than it paid.

Now a clue has emerged as to how President Donald Trump's son-in-law's firm was able to move so fast: The Kushner Cos. routinely filed false paperwork with the city declaring it had zero rent-regulated tenants in dozens of buildings it owned across the city when, in fact, it had hundreds.

While none of the documents during a three-year period when Kushner was CEO bore his personal signature, they provide a window into the ethics of the business empire he ran before he went on to become one of the most trusted advisers to the president of the United States.

"It's bare-faced greed," said Aaron Carr, founder of Housing Rights Initiative.....

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: clintonnonnews; cnn; ivanka; jaredkushner; mediawingofthednc; nevertrump; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; partisanmediashills; potus; presstitutes; trump
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All I can say is bye bye Jared
1 posted on 03/18/2018 11:57:20 AM PDT by blueyon
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To: blueyon

Lemme guess, THIS TOO falls under the “scope” of Bob Mueller’s appointment. Right?


2 posted on 03/18/2018 11:59:21 AM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

“”””While none of the documents during a three-year period when Kushner was CEO bore his personal signature,””””””
..........we can still blame it on the Russians. And of course Trump.


3 posted on 03/18/2018 12:02:49 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: blueyon

How about, I don’t like what the company did AND I don’t like socialist rent control laws.


4 posted on 03/18/2018 12:03:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: montag813

Let’s not investigate the Clinton Foundation, shall we?


5 posted on 03/18/2018 12:03:30 PM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: blueyon

THIS IS IT! MUELLER, BREAK OUT YOUR FINEST CHAMPAGNE! WE GOT THE BASTARD NOW!


6 posted on 03/18/2018 12:03:57 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (If the illegal immigration issue were Social Security, it'd be privatized by now.)
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To: montag813
-- THIS TOO falls under the "scope" of Bob Mueller's appointment. Right? --

Of course, So do delinquent parking tickets and library fines.

Mueller even has a juvenile justice department running for Bannon.

7 posted on 03/18/2018 12:05:43 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: blueyon

You may not like Kushner and I may not like Kushner. However, this is nothing but an ABC anti-Trump hit piece.

Read the “article” again, slowly. This is an anti-Trump hit piece.


8 posted on 03/18/2018 12:05:44 PM PDT by map
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To: Secret Agent Man
And Charlie Rangel was so infatuated with rent-controlled apartments, that he had four of them to live in:

For Rangel, Four Rent-Stabilized Apartments

9 posted on 03/18/2018 12:07:23 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: blueyon

They’re horrid socialist laws, but laws nonetheless. If Jared or his company broke the laws, and it can be proven, then they’ll face the consequences.


10 posted on 03/18/2018 12:07:49 PM PDT by dead
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To: blueyon

You actually believe this?


11 posted on 03/18/2018 12:07:53 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: mass55th

And if you have family they can be passed down / transferred to them basically forever as rent-controlled.


12 posted on 03/18/2018 12:11:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: blueyon; All

“””All I can say is bye bye Jared “”

My comment means the left will not stop until they take Potus down.....they will take out Jared on this. Jared is gone..........rightfully or NOT.


13 posted on 03/18/2018 12:11:49 PM PDT by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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To: blueyon

The goal is to force Trump to protect his son by firing Mueller! Then if they have the political clout to impeach Trump over it.

Remember impeachment: both the articles of impeachment & the trial for removal from office are political acts. You don’t need a legal reason if you have the votes. The goal is like at a minimum political damage (with Slick )if no removal from office.


14 posted on 03/18/2018 12:12:22 PM PDT by Reily
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To: blueyon

Never did trust him and I think he is making matters worse for DJT.


15 posted on 03/18/2018 12:14:27 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: blueyon

I agree.


16 posted on 03/18/2018 12:15:28 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: blueyon

Kushner’s company claimed there were no rent control tenants and the city approved it’s request. So wouldn’t a person of normal intelligence assume that the city had records of the tenants in rent-controlled units? And if rent control tenants were found in those records at the Kushner projects, permission would have been denied? I’m taking the side of the apartment developers and owners here. Most local housing laws are seriously slanted in favor of tenants and apartment owners have huge financial investments in their properties. I’ve seen buildings full of people that don’t pay their rent, don’t bath, don’t speak English, don’t exercise any behavioral self control and have brigades of SJW lawyers keeping their eviction cases tied up for eons. Sometimes I marvel that owners don’t set their own buildings or fire or rig gas explosions.


17 posted on 03/18/2018 12:16:33 PM PDT by VietVet876
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To: montag813

“Lemme guess, THIS TOO falls under the “scope” of Bob Mueller’s appointment. Right?”

Of course, IDIOT. One of the tenants that got shafted has a grandmother who immigrated from Russia just before WW2.

Therefore - collusion.


18 posted on 03/18/2018 12:20:31 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: blueyon

Meanwhile Andrew Cuomo’s butt buddy and top aid, Joseph Percoco, just got convicted of 3 felonies and not a peep from the MSM.


19 posted on 03/18/2018 12:22:03 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen ((Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong))
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I wanted to post a comment at the ABC site but guess what I found?

We are unable to post your comment because you have been banned by ABC News.

LOL! They use Discus and I've been banned from them........

20 posted on 03/18/2018 12:29:38 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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