Kushner, Inc.

The Kushner family real estate firm has amassed over half a million dollars in unpaid fines for various New York City sanitation and building violations, much of that bill incurred while President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner was running the company.

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And just last month the company was fined $210,000 for filing false construction documents.

Most of the fines were for a few hundred dollars apiece. But in many cases the company failed to show up for required court hearings, triggering additional penalty fines atop interest payments that allowed the bill to grow. [...]

The data on the company’s unpaid, older bills show it was fined after not appearing at scheduled court hearings more than 450 times stretching back to early 2013, much of that for sanitation violations for dirty sidewalks and not disposing of trash properly. In these “no-show” cases, the city typically doubles or triples the amount originally fined.

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The city’s $210,000 penalty against the Kushner Cos. last month came after an AP report in March that the company filed dozens of applications for construction permits claiming it had no low-paying, rent-stabilized tenants when, in fact, it had hundreds. Those false filings allowed the company to avoid tougher city oversight to keep landlords from harassing tenants to get them to move out so they can raise rents.

The Kushner Cos. said it will fight this latest penalty in court. It doesn’t have to be paid until that fight is settled.

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City data suggest the Kushner Cos. is hardly alone among major landlords with big bills for unpaid fines. Landlord Steven Croman racked up $1 billion in unpaid fines before his 2017 guilty plea for fraud, according tenant watchdog Cooper Square Committee.

  Time

Sounds like the City needs a new manager. Why would you allow someone to run up a billion dollar debt?

And those landlords and others who are fined have a powerful incentive not to pay: If a fine isn’t collected in eight years, it “expires” and doesn’t need to be paid. In the year through June 2017, $94 million in fines expired.

They not only need a new manager, they need a new strategy.

At Kushner-owned 331-335 East 9th Street, [...] sloppy work resulted in Uta Winkler’s ceiling collapsing twice, the first time sending gallons of water into her apartment and spreading mold that made her sick.

“It was like out of a fire hydrant,” said Winkler, who withheld rent payments in protest. “Nobody from the management company called me. Nothing. It was unreal.”

The Kushner Cos. said it “immediately remediated” when it found out about the water damage, but couldn’t comment any further because of litigation over Winkler’s rent.

They're suing her for rent? Jesus. These people are just evil.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.