Kushner's family business faces violations in Baltimore

[kadee79]

Jared Kushner's family real estate company has racked up more than 170 code violations in Baltimore after failing to comply with local laws, officials said Thursday.

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz said local officials had to threaten sanctions to get Kushner Companies to address necessary repairs. The county withheld U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rental payments at nine of the company's properties and issued $3,500 in fines.

"We expect all landlords to comply with the code requirements that protect the health and safety of their tenants, even if the landlord's father-in-law is president of the United States," Kamenetz said in a statement.

The company owns 13 apartment complexes in Baltimore County.

Inspectors found 173 failures when inspecting the company's 701 HUD-supported units. Despite that, company spokeswoman Christine Taylor said the company is in compliance with all state and local laws.

Kamenetz called the compliance claim a "stretch." The inspector's office found the firm made repairs only when the office threatened to withhold HUD payments. The office handed out 35 correction notices, and all were handled except three locations.

www.newsweek.com/jared-kushners-company-faced-fines-and-code-violations-700180

[kadee79]

I was wondering how this played into the rat infestation DT claims is there?

[dondub]

Kushner is the rat infestation.

[pooks]

Baltimore city isn't in Baltimore county.  It sounds like the properties are in Baltimore county, but I could have misunderstood. 

[weltschmerz]

It's in BALTIMORE?!?

[kadee79]

Jul 28, 2019 14:06:47 GMT -5 pooks said:

Baltimore city isn't in Baltimore county.  It sounds like the properties are in Baltimore county, but I could have misunderstood. 

From my quote above....

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz said local officials had to threaten sanctions to get Kushner Companies to address necessary repairs. The county withheld U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rental payments at nine of the company's properties and issued $3,500 in fines.

Yes, likely in Baltimore Co. rather than in Baltimore proper....but that doesn't change the facts of the article...RATS!

[pooks]

Jul 28, 2019 15:01:48 GMT -5 kadee79 said:

Jul 28, 2019 14:06:47 GMT -5 pooks said:

Baltimore city isn't in Baltimore county.  It sounds like the properties are in Baltimore county, but I could have misunderstood. 

From my quote above....

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz said local officials had to threaten sanctions to get Kushner Companies to address necessary repairs. The county withheld U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rental payments at nine of the company's properties and issued $3,500 in fines.

Yes, likely in Baltimore Co. rather than in Baltimore proper....but that doesn't change the facts of the article...RATS!

Fair. As a Baltimore City native, this whole stupid thing annoys me.  

[MN-Investor]

According to an article in today's Washington Post - Kushner owns lots of Baltimore-area apartments. Some are infested with mice. - there was an article earlier this year in the Baltimore Sun pointing out that Kushner has owned almost 9,000 rental units across 17 complexes, many of them in Baltimore County. I especially liked this sentence from the article: "A private investigator who looked into Kushner’s property management company, Westminster Management, described the managers as “slumlords.”"

[Tennesseer]

Satire

Government Housing Structure Infested with Criminals and Rats
By Andy Borowitz



WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—A government-subsidized housing structure has fallen into a dangerous state and has become thoroughly infested with criminals and rats, a leading congressman warned on Saturday.

The building has become “the territory of vicious gangsters who roam freely and consider themselves above the law,” Representative Elijah Cummings, a Democrat of Maryland, said.

The congressman added that notorious gang members took over the housing facility in early 2017 and have “spread terror and despair” there ever since.

“People are scared to be there,” Cummings said. “Hundreds have fled.”

He said that the horrific conditions within the housing complex are one of the nation’s worst-kept secrets. “Many of the people who have fled over the past two years have written books about it,” he said. “But the criminals continue to run wild.”

Complete article here: Government Housing Structure Infested with Criminals and Rats

[kadee79]

And this about DT's restaurants....DO  NOT  EAT  THERE....ANY OF THEM!

Their namesake is a Mr. Clean freak, but some Trump eateries are just plain dirty.

Mice in the kitchen, filthy food prep areas and broken sewage systems are on the list of recent stomach-turning health code violations at a number of Trump-branded restaurants in the city, the Daily News has learned. 

Health inspections at Trump properties from Midtown Manhattan to the Bronx’s Ferry Point reveal the President’s eponymous company still struggles to keep its day-to-day operations clean — though similar infractions have been reported for years.

Violations at the President’s crown jewel and Manhattan residence — Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue — are perhaps the most gag-inducing.



City Department of Health inspectors visited the tower’s cafe and grill on July 11, 2018 and found “evidence of mice or live mice” in and around the kitchen, according to records that haven’t previously been reported. The inspectors categorized the violation as “critical.”



The Trump Tower Grille has been dinged for violations every year since 2014. (Jim Watson / AFP/Getty Images)

The inspectors also deemed the restaurant “not vermin proof” and said its “conditions” are “conducive to attracting vermin” and “allowing vermin to exist.”

www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-trump-restaurants-mice-health-20190207-story.html?fbclid=IwAR3k4mu2c3q99_QUlxcxf_lWebxkmuR3oX0BpIqmgLltWi9HiWkMClyUcp4

ETA....I remember reading something back a yr or so ago about Mar-a-Lago also having inspection problems in it's kitchens....eeeewwww!

[Tennesseer]

Trump's history of health code violations at his businesses comes under fire after he blasts 'filthy' restaurant that kicked out Sarah Huckabee Sanders


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[busymom]

I've had the misfortune of getting food poisoning from a restaurant.  No way would I eat a meal at any property with the Trump name.  I've seen those reports on their failed inspections.  I'm frankly not surprised if Kushner's properties aren't up to code, either.  You know what they say:  birds of a feather...   

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jul 28, 2019 13:22:24 GMT -5 kadee79 said:

Jared Kushner's family real estate company has racked up more than 170 code violations in Baltimore after failing to comply with local laws, officials said Thursday.

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz said local officials had to threaten sanctions to get Kushner Companies to address necessary repairs. The county withheld U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rental payments at nine of the company's properties and issued $3,500 in fines.

"We expect all landlords to comply with the code requirements that protect the health and safety of their tenants, even if the landlord's father-in-law is president of the United States," Kamenetz said in a statement.

The company owns 13 apartment complexes in Baltimore County.

Inspectors found 173 failures when inspecting the company's 701 HUD-supported units. Despite that, company spokeswoman Christine Taylor said the company is in compliance with all state and local laws.

Kamenetz called the compliance claim a "stretch." The inspector's office found the firm made repairs only when the office threatened to withhold HUD payments. The office handed out 35 correction notices, and all were handled except three locations.

www.newsweek.com/jared-kushners-company-faced-fines-and-code-violations-700180

Well, that was quick. 

I'll clue you in to what a bullshit penny ante operation HUD is-- we had one house- one (1) that was cleared for Section 8 rental through hud. We had 9 violations on the first inspection. An example of something we got flagged for- the wooden shelves in the pantry, the cabinets, and the drawers (3 separate items- 3 "violations") must, according to HUD, have had "contact paper" on them. No, seriously- that shit you haven't even seen since your great grandmother passed in 1974. That stuff. So, if he owns 13 apartment complexes-- complexes. Not like a 13 unit-- complexes-- and they've had 713 "failures" on 701 units-- that's pretty good. 

And there's absolutely nothing contradictory about the statement that the firm is in compliance with all state and local laws and there being "failures" noted on HUD-supported units. HUD is a government program- compliance is required to participate in the program. There's no state or federal law that is violated when a unit owner is out of compliance with that particular program. 

I never did put that contact paper in. I tossed the entire list in the trash and never gave it a second thought. Held the property for another 15 months and then decided that participating in the HUD program failed my own test- I was out of compliance with my principles. Got out- and have stayed out.