FILE - This Aug. 31, 2018 file photo shows Kushner family real estate firm-owned buildings 333, center, and 335 East 9th Street in the East Village neighborhood of New York. On Tuesday, March 19, 2019, a New York City councilman accused the company of putting tenants in danger by allowing several of its building to avoid safety inspections.
“The goal here is a concerted campaign to evade scrutiny,” said Torres at a news conference outside the Kushner Cos. headquarters at 666 Fifth Avenue. “The company is engaged in what I call the weaponization of construction — the use of construction as a weapon for harassing tenants out of their apartments.”
The Kushner Cos. said that the problems with the certificates stretch back to its previous owners. Certificates for two of the nine buildings expired while Jared Kushner was CEO. The Kushner Cos. was fined $210,000 by city regulators last year after an Associated Press report found that the company had submitted paperwork to regulators that claimed it had no low-paying, rent-stabilized tenants in dozens of its buildings when it, in fact, had hundreds. The false paperwork allowed the company to avoid inspections and other scrutiny during construction work that critics have said are often used by landlords to chase low-paying renters out.
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More like poor enforcement...who’s in charge?
Now if the Kushner family launches its own investigation as to how many well placed New Yawk g'ment people ALSO put hundreds of tenants in danger ... They would beat AP to the scandal of the century ...
sadly this is all too comman
And Kushner wants to build in Miami!!
How much money of the tax payers money are the libreals going to spend going after one family? I hope they spend this much on the Clinton investigation.
Lol! Nothing will be done.
And the beat goes on........
Someone associated with trump put their personal finances over the well-being of Americans? Shocker
I'm sure it's just the Kushner family's buildings right? It has to be.... every other building in NYC have gone through proper inspections, right Such BS. The smear campaign continues and the amount of corruption continues to be exposed.
A-holes
Not surprising. And fairly common.
Good Lord.
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