U.S. Lawmakers Seek Kushner Company Records on Maryland Apartments

The following article by Alec MacGillis was posted on the ProPublica website August 18, 2017:

Democrats from the state’s congressional delegation say articles by ProPublica, The New York Times Magazine and The Baltimore Sun raise “very serious and troubling concerns” about whether Kushner’s businesses comply with federal housing standards.

Morningside Park, a Kushner Companies-owned housing complex, in Middle River, Maryland. Credit: Philip Montgomery, New York Times

Maryland’s two U.S. senators and four of its U.S. House representatives, all Democrats, sent a letter today to the large real-estate company owned by the family of Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, demanding information about the company’s management of 17 apartment complexes it owns in the state.

The letter to Kushner Companies came in response to a May 23 article co-published by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine investigating management practices at the rental complexes, most of which are in the suburbs of Baltimore, as well as an article this week in The Baltimore Sun that revealed additional details. Continue reading “U.S. Lawmakers Seek Kushner Company Records on Maryland Apartments”