The Kushner Companies filed false paperwork in New York City on numerous occasions regarding the buildings it owned, according to a report Sunday.
The Associated Press reported Sunday Kushner Cos. purchased three apartment buildings in Queens in 2015, falsified documents to push rent-regulated tenants out, and sold the buildings just two years later for nearly 50 percent more than their purchasing price.
The company, which was run at the time by White House adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner, frequently filed paperwork with New York City saying it had no rent-regulated tenants in the buildings it owned, even though it had hundreds throughout the city, according to the report.
Kushner Cos. was then reportedly able to raise rents and push tenants out of the buildings regardless of rules stating it couldn’t do either in order to earn profits.
“It’s bare-faced greed,” Aaron Carr, founder of Housing Rights Initiative, told the Associated Press after sharing the falsified documents with the news outlet. “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.”
Kushner Cos. also told the Associated Press in a statement it outsources the documentation to third parties and “if mistakes or violations are identified, corrective action is taken immediately.”
“Kushner would never deny any tenant their due-process rights,” Kushner Cos. told the AP.
The company “has renovated thousands of apartments and developments with minimal complaints over the past 30 years,” they added.
