Jumpin' Jehoshaphat! It's Jared, the Lyin' Landlord!

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Jumpin' Jehoshaphat! It's Jared, the Lyin' Landlord!

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From Associated Press:

NEW YORK (AP) — When the Kushner Cos. bought three apartment buildings in a gentrifying neighborhood of Queens in 2015, most of the tenants were protected by special rules that prevent developers from pushing them out, raising rents and turning a tidy profit.

But that's exactly what the company then run by Jared Kushner did, and with remarkable speed. Two years later, it sold all three buildings for $60 million, nearly 50 percent more than it paid.

Now a clue has emerged as to how President Donald Trump's son-in-law's firm was able to move so fast: The Kushner Cos. routinely filed false paperwork with the city declaring it had zero rent-regulated tenants in dozens of buildings it owned across the city when, in fact, it had hundreds.

While none of the documents during a three-year period when Kushner was CEO bore his personal signature, they provide a window into the ethics of the business empire he ran before he went on to become one of the most trusted advisers to the president of the United States.

"It's bare-faced greed," said Aaron Carr, founder of Housing Rights Initiative, a tenants' rights watchdog that compiled the work permit application documents and shared them with 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."

Kushner Cos. responded in a statement that it outsources the preparation of such documents to third parties that are reviewed by independent counsel, and "if mistakes or violations are identified, corrective action is taken immediately."


I have obtained heretofore secret footage of Kushner, played by Inspector Renault, closing down the company that committed the atrocity.
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Re: Jumpin' Jehoshaphat! It's Jared, the Lyin' Landlord!

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All these people are sacks of crap. All of them. Just slithering pieces of turds. They have no concept nor regard for anything outside of what immediately benefits them. They're like the selfish monkeys that hoard the fruit by stealing from others. Insane.

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Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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Re: Jumpin' Jehoshaphat! It's Jared, the Lyin' Landlord!

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I was thinking that Manafort, Gates, and Kushner are people who probably could have continued their scams had they not flown too close to the sun. But in aligning themselves so closely with the President, they brought more scrutiny upon their own lives then they could handle.

Bit of a Greek tragedy, with all of these Icarus characters falling out of the sky.
"The great problem of any civilization is how to rejuvenate itself without rebarbarization."
- Will Durant
"We've kept more promises than we've even made"
- Donald Trump
"Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist."
- Edwin Land
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