Prince Gouger
JARED KUSHNER’S family real estate company, which owns and manages thousands of apartment units, continued its aggressive eviction practices and debt collection lawsuits as Americans wait for government relief. Well into the coronavirus crisis, which has led to skyrocketing unemployment, court records show properties owned by Kushner Companies are still filing new eviction lawsuits.
No shit. Did anyone think Jared Kushner is any kind of humane or decent person?
At least 15 tenants in New Jersey and Maryland have been on the receiving end of lawsuits from Kushner-owned properties even after both states declared states of emergency. Gov. Phil Murphy, D-N.J., and Gov. Larry Hogan, R-Md., have both called for a moratorium on evictions and courts have been closed, postponing hearing dates for a range of debt collection-related activities.
Blah blah blah; Prince Jared wants his money, pal, so pay up or gtfo.
On March 25, Westminster Management, a unit of Kushner Companies, filed a lawsuit requesting sheriff services to enforce an eviction against a man residing at the company’s Harbor Point Estate apartment in Essex, Maryland. Days later, on March 30, Kushner’s company filed a collection lawsuit against another man in the same complex.
The previous week, on March 19, Oxford Arms, a Kushner-owned apartment complex in Edison, New Jersey, filed six lawsuits against tenants. Other lawsuits have been filed in recent weeks against tenants by legal entities tied to the Whispering Woods complex in Middle River, Maryland; the Cove Village complex in Essex, Maryland; and the Pier Village building in Long Branch, New Jersey — all of which are owned by Kushner.
They didn’t get where they are by not being ruthless.
Kushner, whose estimated net worth is around $800 million, has said in the past that he has stepped away from day-to-day management of the real estate firm, though he has not relinquished his ownership stake. Ethics disclosures show that he still receives millions of dollars a year in income from rent collected by his assorted real estate portfolio, including the chain of apartment buildings.
At the same time as he meddles in government activities, because his psychopath daddy-in-law lets him.
Kushner Companies owns a vast array of commercial and residential real estate units around the country. The firm, founded by Kushner’s father, has come under fire for predatory business practices. Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, in a lawsuit filed last year, accused the company of failing to address rodent infestations while forcing tenants to pay illegitimate fees.
The real estate firm’s debt collection practices, which involve hundreds of lawsuits pursuing tenants often for small amounts of debt, have been detailed in reporting in ProPublica and the Baltimore Sun. In the past, Kushner’s attorneys have gone so far as to pursue civil arrest warrants for at least 105 tenants over unpaid fees and rent.
Even if you justify all that by saying landlords need their income like anyone else, it’s still not a good fit with government work, especially not government work in the White House.
Last month, Netflix released “Slumlord Millionaire,” a mini-documentary about the abusive practices of Kushner’s real estate companies. The feature describes Kushner as a “tier one predator,” who has used harassment tactics to drive tenants out of rent-stabilized apartments in New York, while systematically imposing hefty fees on tenants in Maryland. The feature shows tenants dealing with debt collection letters, eviction notices, water damage, mold, fire code violations and shoddy maintenance.
Some prince.
Corrupt little bastard. It’s a wonder what inherited money can do, but it can’t change fundamentally low quality people in to high quality ones, so often it simply affords turd polish.
twiliter, I suspect inherited money can actually turn fundamentally high quality people into low ones, though
Ikn, yes of course. I’ve witnessed some weird things too, I had a friend, John, who’s father inherited family money and denied him any access to it. My friend was, as a young adult, an intelligent, kind and very capable guy. His father’s refusal to help him over the years, despite the vast resources available, ruined him. He turned to drugs and became self destructive, which only led his father to deny him more vehemently. I knew him in high school where we worked minimum wage jobs together. He was a hard worker and had good character, a good person and very generous despite his situation. Because of his father’s greed and selfishness, John still works minimum wage jobs, when and if he can get them because of the things he did in retaliation to his father’s indifference and lack of compassion, and still lives very modestly in a mobile home (in his late 50’s now) which is all he can afford, while his father lives on a sprawling estate with his own golf course and a horse ranch and wants for nothing. The wealth ruined both their lives, but in totally different ways.