Reed Cordish allegedly called black customers ‘urbans’ and hired thugs
to scare them away from his restaurants and clubs. Now he’s got a job in
the White House.
By Kelly Weill and M.L. Nestel
President-elect Donald Trump’s
newest White House adviser runs a real-estate company that’s being sued
by black patrons who accuse it of racial discrimination and hiring
white men to physically attack and eject them.
On Wednesday, Trump tapped Reed Cordish as assistant to the president for intergovernmental and technology initiatives. Cordish is an executive of the Cordish Companies, his family’s Baltimore-based real-estate business, and the president of Entertainment Concepts Investors, a subsidiary that owns and manages bars, restaurants, and clubs throughout the U.S.
ECI’s largest holdings are in Kansas City, Missouri, where Cordish partnered with Trump son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner on a building in the city’s Power and Light District.
But
the Power and Light District, a half-million-square-foot downtown
shopping and entertainment center, has a dark reputation among the
city’s black community. Two separate lawsuits against the companies say
the area is commonly referred to as the “Power and White District” for
its owner’s alleged record of racial discrimination.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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