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Miles Archer

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Wed May 31, 2017, 09:41 PM May 2017

Jared Kushner built luxury condos using real estate grants meant for poor communities

Jared Kushner built luxury condos using real estate grants meant for poor communities



http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/jared-kushner-built-luxury-condos-using-real-estate-grants-meant-for-poor-communities-report/

Among the flurry of articles surrounding President Donald Trump’s adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, one of the less headline-grabbing stories centers on some of Kushner’s more unsavory business practices at the helm of his family’s real estate company.

Those stories got a boost with a new Washington Post report that details how Kushner utilized a legal loophole that critics compare to gerrymandering to apply for a federal program that saved him $50 million on his company’s luxury condos in Jersey City, New Jersey, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan.

The EB-5 visa program Kushner and his business partners used to build the luxury towers at 65 Bay Street on the Hudson River waterfront “made it appear that the luxury tower was in an area with extraordinarily high unemployment, allowing Kushner Companies and its partners to get $50 million in low-cost financing through the EB-5 visa program,” according to the Post‘s Shawn Boburg.

“At the same time,” Boburg wrote, “they excluded some wealthy neighborhoods only blocks away.”

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Jared Kushner built luxury condos using real estate grants meant for poor communities (Original Post) Miles Archer May 2017 OP
Thief shenmue May 2017 #1
Why did state and local government allow it onecaliberal May 2017 #2
I'm shocked, shocked that government grants for the poor actually were used for the rich. n/t PoliticAverse May 2017 #3
His dad was a scumbag criminal and I guess the apple didn't fall far from the tree inwiththenew May 2017 #4
This guy needs heaven05 May 2017 #5
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