Jared Kushner Company to Pay $3.25 Million in Tenant Abuse Case

[MissMillie]

Source: Rolling Stone via MSN

The property management subsidiary of Jared Kushner’s family real estate business has agreed to fork over $3.25 million to the state of Maryland to settle a lawsuit alleging the company has “victimized” financially vulnerable tenets “at all stages of offering and leasing,” ProPublica reported on Friday.

“This is a case in which landlords deceived and cheated tenants and subjected them to miserable living conditions,” state Attorney General Brian Frosh said at a press conference announcing the settlement with Westminster Management, according to ProPublica. “These were not wealthy people. Many struggled to pay the rent, to put food on the table, to take care of their kids, to keep everybody healthy, and Westminster used its vastly superior economic power to take

The lawsuit, which was brought by the state in 2019, detailed horrific treatment of tenants in several suburban Baltimore complexes owned by Kushner’s company, including aggressively trying to bilk tenants out of money they didn’t owe, and failing to maintain rental complexes to the point that they became ridden with mold, infested with rodents, and otherwise damaged. Frosh noted on Friday that the company was aware of these issues.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/jared-kushner-company-to-pay-3-25-million-in-tenant-abuse-case/ar-AA12bdMi?ocid=U483DHP&pc=U483&cvid=20a75337955d431ab1f10e5c1f8a85d1

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I imagine you can all guess what I'm thinking.

[elleng]

1. Good. We people of Maryland approve.

[Hotler]

2. Should have been twice as much.

[Moosepoop]

3. Ooh... I like this part!

From further in the article:

Westminster Management has in the past alleged the lawsuit was a political ploy by a Democratic attorney general to besmirch the son-in-law of President Donald Trump. The company said in a statement to the Baltimore Banner on Friday that it was “pleased to have settled this litigation with no admission of liability or wrongdoing.” Frosh was skeptical.“You don’t pay $3.25 million bucks if you’re not liable,” he told the outlet. “So they may not have formally signed a piece of paper saying ‘We did it,’ but they did it.”

The company could wind up paying more than $3.25 million, as they’ve also been ordered to contact the potentially tens of thousands of affected tenants and let them know they may be entitled to reimbursement for unnecessary fees the company charged them over the past decade.

I hope every tenant, past and current, gets back every cent they were cheated out of. And I hope it costs Kushner's company dearly -- as well as creats a major headache in the looking up, contacting, figuring amounts, and then making the payments to all those tenants. AND I hope the court holds them to it!!

[sarcasmo]

4. Like father, like son.

[Martin68]

5. Yes! The crows come home to roost. Accountability is a beautiful thing.

[sheshe2]

6. That coupled with what Ivanki is going to owe...

It is gonna hurt.

[NCjack]

7. What does Jar care? He has $2B from the Saudis. Or, does he?

DoJ needs to determine what the Saudis got for their $2B. That money could end up in the US Treasury.

[madamesilverspurs]

8. There was a judge, years ago,

who sentenced such slumlords to live in the worst of their tenements. Such a judge would be useful right about now, yes?


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[whathehell]

17. Yes, that was fitting punishmemt. n/t

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[LudwigPastorius]

9. Those Saudi billions will cover those fines easily.

[JoeOtterbein]

10. K n R ! Thanks for posting! nt

[pazzyanne]

11. Still at it!

Disgusting!

[Hekate]

12. Comes from a crime family, married into a crime family, whole lotta sociopathy

I hope there’s some jail time in his future.

[twodogsbarking]

13. Slumlords is the term. They are legends.

[Old Crank]

14. This is just another example

Of why corporations aren't people.
The people who blatantly stole money dodge punishment and the corporation takes the blame.
In these settlements the principals involved need to be fired and not allowed near that kind of work for 10 years. If not jailed.

[fanfanois]

15. They're all crooked in the family

Except for maybe Tiffany.

[LiberalLovinLug]

16. Meh....he just grabbed 2 big Bs from the Saudis.. Drop in the bucket. Cost of doing "business"