Jared Kushner's war on Baltimore tenants

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(05-23-2017, 08:13 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I stopped reading this copy of War and Peace about 1/4 the way down and will save my views on the case.

Instead I thought it would be more fun just to scroll down and read the comments section. It was.

(05-23-2017, 09:03 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I got through 5 paragraphs.

Then I realized how this was a story about how a person who uses tax dollars to subsidize their housing due to making the poor choice of having three children while being on her own, who moved before her lease was up, and then couldn't produce paperwork that shows more than just her say so when the courts asked why she shouldn't have to pay the penalty for moving early.

That's not evil businesses, that is people either stupidly not keeping their important paperwork, or just lying about things to try and get out of paying money.

(05-25-2017, 02:34 AM)THE Bigzoman Wrote: That's really not what anyone said, but okay.

There's no way any of us can verify whether or not she followed the lease she signed. We can't verify which party was actually in the wrong here.

(05-25-2017, 07:57 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: The article stated that she eventually found the paper work confirming that she was released from her lease.

 

Quote:Three days before Christmas that year, JK2 Westminster filed a request to garnish her wages from her in-home elder care job. Five days earlier, Warren had gone to court to fill out a handwritten motion saying she had proof that she was given permission to leave Cove Village in 2010 — she had finally managed to get a copy from the housing department. “Please give me the opportunity to plead my case,” she wrote. But she did not attach a copy of the form to her motion, not realizing it was necessary, so a judge denied it on Jan. 9, on the grounds that there was “no evidence submitted.”

Kamiia Warren at Cove Village, the Kushner Companies property in Essex, Maryland, where she once lived (Philip Montgomery for The New York Times)
The garnishing started that month. Warren was in the midst of leaving her job, but JK2 Westminster garnished her bank account too. After her account was zeroed out, a loss of about $900, she borrowed money from her mother to buy food for her children and pay her bills. That February — five years after she left Cove Village — Warren returned to court, this time with the housing form in hand, asking the judge to halt garnishment. “I am a single mom of three and my bank account was wiped clean by the plaintiff,” she pleaded in another handwritten request. “I cannot take care of my kids when they snatch all of my money out of my account. I do not feel I owe this money. Please have mercy on my family and I.” She told me that when she called the law office representing JK2 Westminster that same day from the courthouse to discuss the case, one of the lawyers told her: “This is not going to go away. You will pay us.”

The "Trump Way": We have lawyers you don't even understand all the laws, you will pay until a judge catches up with us.  Tough luck.