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annabanana

(52,791 posts)
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 03:32 PM Jan 2017

Jared Kushner, Thug Landlord

http://crooksandliars.com/2017/01/jared-kushner-thug-landlord

"It’s disgusting. It’s insane. It’s ludicrous," Mary Ann Siwek, who’s lived at 170 East 2nd Street for more than thirty years, said after Trump, Kushner’s father-in-law, tapped him to be an official senior adviser. "I don’t know how to tell you how despicable this man is."

Kushner bought the East Village building three years ago for $17 million and immediately began what tenant advocates call "construction as harassment": renovating vacant apartments in a way that makes life dangerous and miserable for the current residents, particularly the rent-stabilized ones. "We were breathing in dust and fumes. There was plaster everywhere. My ceiling collapsed a couple times. For six months we had to live like this." At one point there was a gas leak bad enough to cause the fire department to cordon off the entire block.


Just a NYC real-estate "nice guy"...
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Jared Kushner, Thug Landlord (Original Post) annabanana Jan 2017 OP
Son of an even nicer guy...Charles Kushner pkdu Jan 2017 #1
Yep, and though he legally is not allowed to be a part of his son's businesses... Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2017 #2

pkdu

(3,977 posts)
1. Son of an even nicer guy...Charles Kushner
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 03:41 PM
Jan 2017

Criminal conviction
In the summer of 2004, Kushner was fined $508,900 by the Federal Election Commission for contributing to political campaigns in the names of his partnerships when he lacked authorization to do so.[7] In 2005, following an investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey,[8] U.S. Attorney Chris Christie negotiated a plea agreement with Kushner, under which Kushner pleaded guilty to 18 counts of making illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and witness tampering.[9] The witness-tampering charge arose from Kushner's act of retaliation against William Schulder, husband of his sister Esther, who was cooperating with federal investigators; Kushner hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, arranged for an encounter between the two to be secretly recorded, and had the tape sent to his sister;[10][11][12][13] he was sentenced to two years in prison.[10] Kushner served 14 months in federal prison in Montgomery, Alabama,[14][15] before being sent to a halfway house in Newark, New Jersey to complete his sentence.[14][15][16] He was released from prison on August 25, 2006.[17]

As a result of his convictions, Kushner was disbarred from the practice of law in New Jersey,[18] New York,[19] and Pennsylvania.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kushner

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
2. Yep, and though he legally is not allowed to be a part of his son's businesses...
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 05:01 PM
Jan 2017

well, you know, "Fuck the law. We're rich and will do as we please."

So, the president of the US will be advised by a man who takes advice from his convicted felon father.

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