AP Exclusive: Kushner Cos. filed false documents with NYC
Source: AP
NEW YORK (AP) When the Kushner Cos. bought three apartment buildings in a gentrifying neighborhood of Queens in 2015, most of the tenants were protected by special rules that prevent developers from pushing them out, raising rents and turning a tidy profit.
But thats exactly what the company then run by Jared Kushner did, and with remarkable speed. Two years later, it sold all three buildings for $60 million, nearly 50 percent more than it paid.
Now a clue has emerged as to how President Donald Trumps son-in-laws firm was able to move so fast: The Kushner Cos. routinely filed false paperwork with the city declaring it had zero rent-regulated tenants in dozens of buildings it owned across the city when, in fact, it had hundreds.
While none of the documents during a three-year period when Kushner was CEO bore his personal signature, they provide a window into the ethics of the business empire he ran before he went on to become one of the most trusted advisers to the president of the United States.
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beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)don't need a signature to prove breaking the law if Kuschner was the head of the business entity falsifying documents
Eyeball_Kid
(7,410 posts)lark
(23,005 posts)Can't wait to see all their assets seized in state court and the whole russian repug cabal in jail. If he isn't taken down hard, along with his partys whole russian cooperation schemes, we are done as a constitutional democracy,
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)I bet they liquidate the assets to pay their creditors long before the state gets moving.
But at least theyll be impoverished either way.
ffr
(22,649 posts)Stick it to these rat-f-ckers.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)
will never be compensated, regardless of what happens. This could be a massive tragedy for many of them. Wish someone could make the documentary that follows up on some of these peopledid homelessness result for some of them? What levels of family disruption was there?
This kind of action creates a kind of domestic, home-grown refugee.
The Trump family and all their henchmen are a plague on the country.
Some may be ousted, but I have little hope there will ever be a real restoration of what we've lost as a nation.
Just like the banksters in 2008who all paid a pittance fine and just walked away and continue to make millions today. They just sailed on, briefly humiliated.
gopiscrap
(23,674 posts)PaulX2
(2,032 posts)Scumbag criminals like Trump and Kushner rarely go to jail.
Time to make an example of them and their friends.
brush
(53,475 posts)complicit and benefits from the crimes.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Continue on their spree, until someone faces real consequences. God only knows what they are doing we don't know about. If they can figure it out, they are likely robbing the Treasury blind.
Wednesdays
(17,249 posts)if they were not in the White House now.
Scary thought: there are dozens, if not hundreds out there just like them and their practices.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)My belief is that the only reason they got to power was to do exactly that, they have seen how their mentor, Putin, is robbing the Russian treasury dry, and they want to do the same.
And as long as they are left to do their thing, which so far they are free to do whatever they want, things will get worst, they will rob more, and act like nothing is happening.
I believe the Muller investigation is taking longer than it needs, by now I would think they have enough to put them behind bars. With what the public knows, which is supposed to be a fraction of what Muller knows, my believe is there is enough to indict them, so why is it taking so long?
Any one who believes that the majority of politicians and military people are real patriots does not read history enough to see that the military, the police, can be easily corrupted to support a bad regime, it happens everywhere in the World. Most of the military also has a very narrow mindset, which is to "make the country stronger" and are capable of looking the other way to support a dictator just because they think that is what the dictator is going to do. Dictators know that, they also know that high ranking military people can be easily corrupted, they too love money. I hope that the military in the USA is different from that of other countries, but from some of the high ranking people I know, I have my doubts.
I understand that some military people on this website may be offended by what I am saying, but I would keep my eyes open to either confirm what I am writing here, or prove me wrong. Nothing would make me happier than to be wrong about this.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Destroy the government to cut taxes on the rich. Anything to help GOP billionaires: even treason.
Treason in the service of tax cuts and enriching themselves. Its the whole GOP since the Koches founded the Koch/Cato institute in the mid-1970s.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Ever wonder why republicans have such crappy reputations? It's because they deserve them.
BadgerMom
(2,766 posts)duforsure
(11,882 posts)And con artists that make their living being corrupt and screwing over others for money. But they want to demonize everyone else. Why is he and his wife even in the White House now with no security clearances because they're so corrupt? But they want everyone to believe others are corrupt when its all of them. Its always the opposite of the truth.
CelticWinter
(1,399 posts)but it is too bad there isn't a way to boycott "Pretty Boy's" properties in NYC. These people are beyond low, lower than a pregnant worm is too high up on the food chain for them. In some societies they would be shunned for this kind of behavior they are nothing but low-life POS. I hope they get what is coming to them and maybe they will have to get food stamps and have someone deliver a box of pre-picked food for them LOL assholes deluxe they are.
They just piss me off for what they have done to these ppl who have had to deal with them. Karma is a bitch and she's taking names now.
Celtic
bluestarone
(16,722 posts)They lie, cheat, commit fraud, steal,unfaithful, possible incest, and STILL owe more money that they have!! WHAT A FAMILY!!!!
Perseus
(4,341 posts)Venezuela during Chavez...Russia during Putin, etc. etc.
Everyone knows that corruption is all over the place around and inside the people who are running the country. Those who can think are very angry, stressed, because with all the proof, enough to issue indictments and put all the crooks in jail, no real action is produced, so the crooks continue day after day to do what crooks do because the know they can get away with it. And anyone who thinks that they are not getting away with it is not paying attention.
Crooks move very fast, destroying takes less time than creating, evil is easier and everyday that passes by they destroy more. Putin is very busy attacking the USA, and the man-child doing nothing, not that I expect him or his accomplices from the GOP to do anything, but they are moving fast and when people suddenly wake up, it will be too late because the Russians will have everything they need in place to create chaos in the USA, and of course that the deplorable who have no brain, will applaud. And all the democrats do is talk, talk.
How is it that the media is not talking about the event that happened a few days ago? Omar Navarro, one day after his parole was completed goes on a campaign trail, and who does he invite as a speaker? Michael Flynn. But the most incredible thing I see is how Flynn gets greeted by the people in the room, standing and clapping for a traitor. WHAT IS WRONG USA??? Have you gone completely mad? Why is fanatism so strong with republicans? This is very dangerous.
Autumn
(44,765 posts)gademocrat7
(10,623 posts)dlk
(11,438 posts)There are no presidential pardons for state convictions and no Trump-appointed toadies, or GOP sellouts to interfere with a prosecution. The NY AG has a successful record suing Trump and prevailing. I'm a huge fan of Mr. S.
not fooled
(5,791 posts)marry her father. Another real estate crook. But, doesn't the city have a database of rent-controlled properties to cross-check against permit applications? If not, obviously they need to.
The only aspect of dump voters I care about is that I want at least some to realize the horror of what they have inflicted on this country. Just like the Good Germans were complicit in the Holocaust. Might take awhile, but some of them will get there. Especially the casual ones who just figured he was better than HRC and how bad could it be anyway?
Well, now they are seeing how bad.
Oh, and there's this. Sound like anyone we know?:
[link:http://www.spiegel.de/international/new-holocaust-book-new-theory-how-germans-fell-for-the-feel-good-fuehrer-a-347726.html|]
By Jody K. Biehl in BerlinA well-respected German historian has a radical new theory to explain a nagging question: Why did average Germans so heartily support the Nazis and Third Reich? Hitler, says Goetz Aly, was a "feel good dictator," a leader who not only made Germans feel important, but also made sure they were well cared-for by the state.
To do so, he gave them huge tax breaks and introduced social benefits that even today anchor the society. He also ensured that even in the last days of the war not a single German went hungry. Despite near-constant warfare, never once during his 12 years in power did Hitler raise taxes for working class people. He also -- in great contrast to World War I -- particularly pampered soldiers and their families, offering them more than double the salaries and benefits that American and British families received. As such, most Germans saw Nazism as a "warm-hearted" protector, says Aly, author of the new book "Hitler's People's State: Robbery, Racial War and National Socialism" and currently a guest lecturer at the University of Frankfurt. They were only too happy to overlook the Third Reich's unsavory, murderous side.
brush
(53,475 posts)not fooled
(5,791 posts)he's not actually doing so, other than "caring" for their racist and hating needs.
He's trying the con of fooling them into thinking he is caring for them economically. And employing smoke and mirrors, i.e. the tariffs and miniscule tax cuts for the non-rich.
And glorifying the military while not actually helping them.
Enough of his supporters are stupid enough to fall for the con.
weissmam
(905 posts)isn't that illegal and if it is where are the reprecussions
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)It is totally illegal and theres a very good chance the AG of New York will prosecute if he gets something firm enough to use. Mr. Schneiderman loves to prosecute the Trumps, and theres no way Trump can claim some sort of executive privilege applies to Jared because Jared isnt officially part of the federal government.
I would love to see Jareds buildings seized and sold, and the state to keep the money. The members of the More Balls Than Brains Investing Club have very little humor about losing billions of dollars, and they know a guy who knows a guy.
Stuart G
(38,365 posts)"It is totally illegal and theres a very good chance the AG of New York will prosecute if he gets something firm enough to use."
If this is totally provable in court, Jarad is guilty. I guess we are talking about many lies on forms..not one or two. I think you are correct...illegal to lie on those forms....over and over and over......lies on forms..like lying on your income tax...that is also illegal. Ain't it???????.....................