Kushner's firm seeks arrest of Maryland tenants to collect debt

[HAB911]

The real estate company owned by Jared Kushner, son-in-law and top adviser to President Donald Trump, has been the most aggressive in Maryland in using a controversial debt-collection tactic: getting judges to order the arrest of people who owe his company money.

Since 2013, the first full year in which the Kushner Cos. operated in Maryland, corporate entities affiliated with the firm's 17 apartment complexes in the state have sought the civil arrest of 105 former tenants for failing to appear in court to face allegations of unpaid debt, The Baltimore Sun has found.

That's more than any other landlord in the state over that time, an analysis of Maryland District Court data shows. Court records show that 20 former Kushner tenants have been detained.

Industry professionals say such arrests, called body attachments, can be the only way to get tenants to pay the money they owe. Kushner Cos. officials say the New York-based firm employs the tactic as a last resort, and follows industry standards and state law.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/investigations/bs-md-kushner-arrests-20170812-story.html

[ck4829]

1. Can't they just use the Trump tactic of saying their properties weren't to their liking?

[mopinko]

4. they probably are dumps.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. If arresting non-paying debtors is the Gold Standard,

then Donald Trump is looking at decades behind bars.

[dembotoz]

3. Damn u nailed it