Kushner Cos. fined $210K by New York for false documents
Source: AP
NEW YORK (AP) The Kushner family real estate company has been fined $210,000 by New York City regulators following an Associated Press investigation that showed it routinely filed false documents with the city claiming it had no rent-regulated tenants in its buildings when it, in fact, had hundreds.
The city buildings department on Monday fined the Kushner Cos. for filing 42 false applications for construction work on more than a dozen buildings when presidential adviser Jared Kushner ran the business.
The false documents allowed the company to escape extra scrutiny during construction that watchdog group Housing Rights Initiative has said led to harassment of low-paying, rent-regulated tenants to get them to leave.
The Kushner Cos. did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)investigating Trump and his family and team.
Mr.Bill
(24,334 posts)one year from now, the fine will still not be paid.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,496 posts)The public is suffering economic death by a thousand cuts by these mobsters, while a man caught stealing milk for his kids will literally lose his life from being caught in the complexities of our justice system.
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elfin
(6,262 posts)moreland01
(744 posts)Lock Him Up! Lock Him Up!
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)and after giving both families big passes over several decades, the city finally got around to it. I.e., it took a media outlet to trigger this.
RockRaven
(15,035 posts)Sounds like this small fine enabled massive profits. Totally worth it on their end. Like Wall Street banksters do every day -- break the law, make obscene profits, use a sliver of those profits to pay the fines, pocket the rest.
You know what would have a better chance of deterring this kind of fraud? Prison sentences. That's the logic Repukes stick to in the "War on Drugs" so why can't they employ it against "white collar" crime? Oh, right, it's b/c the people making the rules are the same ones breaking the rules.
jayschool2013
(2,313 posts)Tactics right out of the mafia playbook ("The Art of the Deal" .
PaulX2
(2,032 posts)If Kushner was a regular citizen, he would be indicted.
Being rich has it's advantages.
bluestarone
(17,067 posts)We control the House!!!!