Family real estate firm Kushner Cos. must pay new York city $500 in unpaid fines for a variety of sanitary and construction violations.
The majority of fines were imposed on the company when it was ruled by the son and senior adviser to the President of Donald trump Jared Kushner.
According to data compiled for the Associated Press a group monitoring the lessors, the principal amount of $350 million accumulated over the last five years, and last month the company was fined $210 million for filing false construction documents.
Aaron Carr, the group’s Executive Director, said the new penalties is unlikely that something will affect, as Kushner Cos. years of evading payments. According to Housing Rights Initiative, there were about 600 violations by the company from improper disposal to perform electrical work without proper authorization.
In July, unpaid fines of all types in the city reached $1.5 billion, mainly due to violations of building codes. But the owners and other persons who were fined, there is a great incentive not to pay: if for eight years, the fee will be charged, the payment period «expires». For the year thus, the city «lost» $94 million
«New York has created an environment where landlords are risking putting yourself at a disadvantage by following the law,» says Carr, stressing that the firm of Kushner demonstrates, these «shortcomings».
Previously there was information that Kushner CO’s survival of the occupants of the house in Brooklyn. According to tenants, constant renovations and unreasonable rent increases the owner clearly tried to survive the inhabitants of the house, to turn it into a luxury residential complex.
