Jared Kushner
By Associated Press
The Kushner
family real estate company was fined $210,000 by New York City
regulators on Monday following an Associated Press investigation earlier
this year that showed it routinely filed false documents with the city
claiming it had no rent-regulated tenants in its buildings when, in
fact, it had hundreds.
Separately,
a watchdog group said Monday that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen has
engaged in the same practice, perhaps in a more brazen way, by telling
the city that buildings he owned were empty, though tax records showed
they were filled with tenants, many rent-regulated.
The city's
buildings department 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 AP report
showed that the false paperwork allowed the Kushners to escape extra
scrutiny designed to stop landlords from using construction to make
living conditions for low-paying, rent-regulated tenants unbearable and
get them to leave.
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Source: CRAIN'S New York Business (via Empire Report New York)
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