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What was false about them?

Originally Posted by Judy

What was false about them?

This is what it says in the article:

The AP reported that the company often filed paperwork with New York City saying it didn't have any rent-regulated tenants in the buildings it owned.

But, according to the AP, it had hundreds of rent-regulated tenants across the city.

"It's bare-faced greed," said Aaron Carr, founder of Housing Rights Initiative, a tenants' rights watchdog that compiled the work permit documents and gave them to The Associated Press.

"The fact that the company was falsifying all these applications with the government shows a sordid attempt to avert accountability and get a rapid return on its investment."

That isn't how it works. What applications are they talking about? You have to match up the application with the actual property with the actual tenant at the time that would actually apply to whatever it is you're applying for. You would also have to pry into the individual life and incomes and so forth of the actual tenant in the actual property you're talking about. Then you have to verify it because tenants lie like dogs when they think it's in their interest to do so. They probably lied to get their lease to begin with.

I'm not saying they didn't file false or erroneous "applications" for something, but to determine whether something is or is not false requires much more investigation and knowledge than AP possesses.

Something else the AP needs to keep in mind that is becoming increasingly obvious about its reporting. The City of New York is running with the Muslims against the Jews, as are most of these "rights" orgies. The City of New York is also controlled by the DemoQuack Party which is running anything at all they can against anything or anyone Trump. When you have an AP coupled with the City of New York running against a Trump relative who is a Jew in the City of New York, day after day, year after year, then it's pretty obvious, you're running a Witch Hunt profiling targets of wealthy Jewish business people because of their political and religious affiliations.

That's supposed to be illegal in the United States.

Kushner Companies fined by city for falsified construction permits

The Department of Buildings cited 42 violations across 17 buildings

By Amy Plitt@plitter Aug 28, 2018, 10:16am EDT


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The Department of Buildings has hit Kushner Companies with a $210,000 fine for falsifying information on construction permits, according to the New York Times. The move comes after multiple reports of the firm misrepresenting the status of rent-regulated units in several of its apartment buildings, in order to illegally perform construction work. The DOB cited 42 different violations across 17 buildings in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Those buildings include five—89 Hicks Street, 18 Sidney Place (both in Brooklyn Heights), 331 East Ninth Street, and 170 and 174 East 2nd Street—where tenants have either highly publicized alleged tenant harassment, or brought legal action against Kushner Companies. The violations cited by the DOB are related to permits spanning a period of 2013 to 2016.

Multiple investigations (by the Housing Rights Initiative, among others) have found that Kushner Companies skirted New York’s rent-stabilization rules at these buildings (either by falsifying permits or not registering regulated apartments with the state), thereby making it easier to make renovations and take units out of rent regulation.

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In a statement provided to Curbed, a spokesperson for the DOB said that “Protecting tenants is a key part of our mission to make construction safe for all New Yorkers, and we are determined to hold landlords accountable for the accuracy of their applications—no matter who they are.”

Kushner Companies told the Times that “paperwork errors” are to blame for the false permits, and that “[i]n no case did the company act in disregard of the safety of our tenants.”

Just yesterday, HRI unveiled its latest investigation, which found that President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, engaged in similar practices—falsifying construction permits and de-regulating rent-stabilized apartments—at three Manhattan buildings that he had previously owned.

https://ny.curbed.com/2018/8/28/1778...dob-violations

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