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Jared Kushner slapped down by judge for ‘widespread and numerous’ violations of apartment tenant laws: report

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According to a report from the HuffPost, a company co-owned by Jared Kushner was on the losing end of a lawsuit over violations of consumer tenant laws in the state of Maryland, with the judge issuing a scathing decision,

Kushner — the son-in-law of former president Donald Trump — is co-owner of Westminster Management and the company JK2 along with his brother Joshua, which had been accused of violating state laws protecting tenant rights.

According to the report, Administrative Law Judge Emily Daneker ruled Thursday that the company owned by the two brothers “repeatedly violated state consumer protection laws by collecting debts without required licenses, charging tenants improper fees and misrepresenting the condition of rental units.” Continue reading.

Kushner Biz Won $850 Million In U.S.-Backed Loans At Special Terms: Report

Kushner Companies pay no principal on the Freddie Mac-backed loans for a decade, WNYC and ProPublica reported.

The Kushner family real estate company, partly owned by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, was granted $850 million in government-backed loans with “unusually good terms,” New York Public Radio and ProPublica reported.

The loans backed by the government-sponsored Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. — known as Freddie Mac — granted last year to Kushner Companies made it possible for the business to purchase thousands of apartments in Maryland and Virginia in its largest deal in a decade, according to the joint investigation by WNYC and ProPublica.

Jared Kushner gave up running the company after father-in-law President Donald Trump gave him a job as White House adviser. But he remains a key stakeholder in the company, and has made millions of dollars from the business, including from operations linked to the Freddie Mac-backed deals, according to his financial disclosure filings. Continue reading.

Kushner ‘de facto president’ during COVID-19 crisis, WH sources said to claim

Vanity Fair report paints Trump’s son-in-law as go-to deputy making the critical calls over country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, and beyond

Earlier this month, after Bernie Sanders dropped out of the presidential race, JTA made a list of 10 others who could one day become the nation’s first Jewish president. But according to a new report in Vanity Fair, Jared Kushner has already beat them all to it.

“Jared is running everything. He’s the de facto president of the United States,” a former White House official told Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman, a political reporter who wrote a bestselling biography of the late Fox News president Roger Ailes.

The article, full of anonymous insider accounts about US President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, paints a picture of Kushner as Trump’s go-to deputy on every big issue — the pandemic included. According to the story, Kushner warned his father-in-law against taking steps that could chill the stock market, and even after Vice President Mike Pence was named the head of the coronavirus task force, Kushner formed his own team to tackle the disease’s spread. Continue reading.

‘A tier-one predator’: New doc details how ‘slumlord’ Jared Kushner allegedly exploited his White House position

AlterNet logoPresident Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner will be the newest villain on the upcoming Netflix docuseries “Dirty Money.”

The show, which focuses on the “untold stories of scandal, financial malfeasance and corruption,” will devote an episode to Kushner’s time as the head of Kushner Companies in its new season premiering on March 11. The show previously looked at Trump’s business dealings in an episode titled “The Confidence Man.”

Kushner, who is described in the trailer for the show as a “tier-one predator,” will be featured on the episode “Slumlord Millionaire.” The episode will detail Kushner Companies’ shady business tactics. Kushner took control of the company after his father, Charles, went to prison for trying to obstruct an investigation by blackmailing his sister with a video of his brother-in-law having sex with a prostitute. The probe was led by then-prosecutor Chris Christie. Continue reading.

Palestinians rally against Kushner’s economic peace plan

GAZA/RAMALLAH (Reuters) – Palestinians burned portraits of President Donald Trump as they protested in both the Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Monday against U.S.-led plans for a conference on their economy in Bahrain.

Many Palestinian business groups have said they will boycott the June 25-26 event, billed as part of Washington’s long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan and spearheaded by Trump’s adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner.

“Down with Bahrain, down with Trump, down with the Manama conference,” chanted crowds in Gaza, which is ruled by the armed Islamist group Hamas. Some burned large paintings of Trump marked with the words: “Deal of the devil”.

View the complete June 24 article by Nidal al-Mughrabi and Rami Ayyub on the Reuters website.