NYC launches investigation into Kushner Cos. false filings
Source: AP
NEW YORK (AP) A New York City council member launched an investigation Monday into the Kushner Cos.? routine filing of paperwork falsely claiming zero rent-regulated tenants in its buildings, saying that the deception should have been uncovered long ago because the documents are online for all to see.
Councilman Ritchie Torres said the citys buildings department should have spotted the falsified numbers because they were contradicted by tax documents filed with another city agency.
The scandal is not only the deception of Kushner Cos., the scandal is the dysfunction of the city bureaucracy, said Torres, chair of the city councils investigations committee. The right hand of city government didnt know what the left hand was doing.
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The falsified documents allowed the Kushner Cos. to escape extra scrutiny during construction projects, when the family real estate developer was run by Jared Kushner, who is now senior adviser to his father-in-law, President Donald Trump. Housing Rights Initiative, a watchdog group, said the falsified documents made it easier for the Kushner Cos. to harass rent-regulated tenants so that it could push out low-paying tenants and replace them with higher paying ones.
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Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)sheshe2
(84,072 posts)FakeNoose
(32,917 posts)... going back 50 years. How far back is the statute of limitations on these filing violations?
Each violation represents another New York family - homeless and financially ruined. For shame!
True Blue American
(17,996 posts)Came tumbling down!
BigmanPigman
(51,673 posts)"Also Monday, the office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said it was also looking into the issue and planned a meeting with tenants representatives in coming days. Both Torres and Schneiderman are Democrats."
Schneiderman is THE MAN!
George II
(67,782 posts)riversedge
(70,464 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Convert them all to low-income housing.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Skittles
(153,311 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)*snorf*