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Jared Kushner Used To Personally Order The Deletion Of Stories At His Newspaper
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QHatSecretMessages Retweeted:
I found out a few months ago that while I was the editor in chief of the Observer, Jared was instructing our third party tech provider to delete articles critical of his business associates w/out my knowledge. I don't have enough choice expletives describe my feelings about that.
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Jared Kushner Used To Personally Order The Deletion Of Stories At His Newspaper
Kushner went around his New York Observer editors and told a software engineer to remove stories about his friends, like NBA Commissioner Adam Silver.
Steven Perlberg
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on August 6, 2018, at 4:59 p.m. ET
Jared Kushner personally ordered a software developer at his newspaper to remove stories that were critical of his friends and real estate peers. ... Now a senior White House adviser and son-in-law to President Donald Trump, Kushner in 2012 went around the editorial leaders at the New York Observer — the newspaper he owned and operated — to mandate the removal of a handful of articles from the website, according to emails obtained by BuzzFeed News.
Kushner requested the removal of a 2010 story about a settlement between then-New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo and real estate firm Vantage Properties regarding allegations that the company had illegally forced tenants out of their apartments to raise rents. Kushner also ordered another 2010 article deleted about Vantage’s top executive Neil Rubler. That story’s URL suggests that Rubler had appeared on some sort of "10 worst landlords" list.
The disappearing act included more mundane fare: a 2012 story about NBA Commissioner Adam Silver purchasing a $6.75 million apartment in a tony New York City building, the kind of item that privacy-conscious famous people often try to keep out of the real estate press. Silver and Kushner are friends, and the NBA commissioner praised Kushner in a 2016 New Yorker article for helping the league find space for a retail store.
White House spokespeople did not return requests for comment on Kushner’s behalf. An NBA spokesperson declined to comment. Rubler, whose company now operates as Candlebrook Properties, did not return a request for comment. ... A once-influential force that skewered the city’s upper crust, the Observer struggled in recent years under the stewardship of Kushner, who stepped down as publisher of the paper to join the administration. He transferred ownership to a family trust, and the company has said that Kushner does not currently play a role in editorial matters. ... Austin Smith, a software employee who worked on staff for the Observer Media Group and then as an outside consultant, said that he fielded and complied with Kushner’s deletion requests. Smith wrote about the incident on a Hacker News forum discussing unethical practices in programming.
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Jared Kushner Used To Personally Order The Deletion Of Stories At His Newspaper
Kushner went around his New York Observer editors and told a software engineer to remove stories about his friends, like NBA Commissioner Adam Silver.
Steven Perlberg
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on August 6, 2018, at 4:59 p.m. ET
Jared Kushner personally ordered a software developer at his newspaper to remove stories that were critical of his friends and real estate peers. ... Now a senior White House adviser and son-in-law to President Donald Trump, Kushner in 2012 went around the editorial leaders at the New York Observer — the newspaper he owned and operated — to mandate the removal of a handful of articles from the website, according to emails obtained by BuzzFeed News.
Kushner requested the removal of a 2010 story about a settlement between then-New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo and real estate firm Vantage Properties regarding allegations that the company had illegally forced tenants out of their apartments to raise rents. Kushner also ordered another 2010 article deleted about Vantage’s top executive Neil Rubler. That story’s URL suggests that Rubler had appeared on some sort of "10 worst landlords" list.
The disappearing act included more mundane fare: a 2012 story about NBA Commissioner Adam Silver purchasing a $6.75 million apartment in a tony New York City building, the kind of item that privacy-conscious famous people often try to keep out of the real estate press. Silver and Kushner are friends, and the NBA commissioner praised Kushner in a 2016 New Yorker article for helping the league find space for a retail store.
White House spokespeople did not return requests for comment on Kushner’s behalf. An NBA spokesperson declined to comment. Rubler, whose company now operates as Candlebrook Properties, did not return a request for comment. ... A once-influential force that skewered the city’s upper crust, the Observer struggled in recent years under the stewardship of Kushner, who stepped down as publisher of the paper to join the administration. He transferred ownership to a family trust, and the company has said that Kushner does not currently play a role in editorial matters. ... Austin Smith, a software employee who worked on staff for the Observer Media Group and then as an outside consultant, said that he fielded and complied with Kushner’s deletion requests. Smith wrote about the incident on a Hacker News forum discussing unethical practices in programming.
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