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ment issued a release show-

ing the Kushner Cos. had

violated housing codes more

than 200 times in just 10

months and moved to fix the

problems only after being

threatened with fines.

“I had black mold in my

cabinets. I called them, I

called them, I called them.

BALTIMORE — Davon
Jones doesn’t have to look
far to see the irony in Presi-
dent Trump’s tweets that
Baltimore is a “rat and ro-
dent infested mess.” His
apartment owned by the
president’s son-in-law has
been invaded by mice since
he moved in a year ago.
“I don’t know how they
come in,” Jones says. “Every
time I catch them, they come
right back.”
Jared Kushner’s family
real estate firm owns thou-
sands of apartments and
townhomes in the Baltimore
area, and some have been
criticized for the same kind
of disrepair and neglect that
the president has accused
local leaders of failing to ad-
dress. Residents have com-
plained about mold, bed-
bugs, leaks and, yes, mice —
plenty of mice. And they say
management appears in no
hurry to fix the problems.
“They don’t care,” says
Dezmond James, who says
he has spotted as many as
three mice a week since he
moved in to the Commons at
White Marsh in suburban
Middle River four years ago.
James says he sees a
massive contradiction in
Trump’s much-publicized
tweets laying the blame for
Baltimore’s poverty, crime
and rodent problems on fre-
quent antagonist Maryland
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings.
Trump, he said, should look
more at what he — and spe-
cifically Kushner — could do
about it.
“His son-in-law owns all
of this — then he can fix it.
I’m pretty sure he has a lot of
money,” says James, who is
studying to be a medical as-
sistant. “That’s kind of weird
that you want to talk trash.
... If you want to make im-
provements, you can make
improvements.”
Conditions became so
bad two years ago that the
Baltimore County govern-

And they never did any-

thing,” says Simone Ryer,

who moved out of Whisper-

ing Woods in Middle River

two years ago. “That was

more than enough for me to

leave.”

In a statement, the Kush-

ner Cos. said it was proud of

its Baltimore-area apart-

ments and had worked to

maintain a “high-quality

residential experience for

our tenants” by investing

“substantial amounts” in

upkeep.

Awebsite for the Com-

mons at White Marsh boasts

of “amenities that amaze,”

but many of the 181 com-

ments posted by residents

at the review site apartmen-

tratings.com complain of

rats, mold, bedbugs, roaches

and leaks. The reviews say

management is generally

unresponsive.

A 2017 report by the New

York Times and ProPublica

about residents at Kushner-

owned developments ech-

oed many of those online

complaints, with one wom-

an saying she found a mouse

on her 12-year-old child’s

bed. The Kushner Cos. told

the Times at the time that it

had spent $10 million on its

properties, but their age

means issues can still arise.

A Baltimore Sun story

the same year found the

Kushner Cos. used the

courts to arrest tenants late

on rent more than any other

landlord in the state.

And a lawsuit seeking

class-action status for resi-

dents alleges Westminster

Management, the Kushner

subsidiary that oversees

rental properties in Mary-

land and other states, often

charges tenants illegal and

excessive fees that keep

them in constant fear of evic-

tion and guessing what they

owe. Westminster has said it

has broken no laws and de-

nies the charges.

Jared Kushner took in

$3.1 million from Westmin-

ster in the last two years, ac-

cording to financial disclo-

sure reports he filed with the

federal government. He

stepped down as CEO of

parent company Kushner

Cos. when he and his wife,

Ivanka Trump, joined the

White House as senior advis-

ors to the president, but he

still retains a financial inter-

est and draws money from

many of its operations.

At the Kushners’ Dutch

Village community in Balti-

more, Ronald Newson says

his 86-year-old mother,

Carrie, has been asking

maintenance staff for nearly

a year to patch a hole in her

ceiling from a leak on the

second floor, and that some-

one has to come to kill all the

mice she’s been living with.

As a stopgap measure,

she jammed the leg of a chair

against a hole in the corner

of her living room, but they

kept coming out anyway.

They also come from behind

her stove.

“It takes them a long time

to get repairs done,” the son

said. He suggested that

Trump, instead of blaming

Cummings for the city’s

problems, should look to

landlords like Kushner too.

“He talks about everyone

but his son-in-law.”

Where Trump’s ‘rodent’ remarks ring true

CARRIE NEWSONin her Baltimore apartment, which is owned by Jared Kushn-

er’s real estate firm. “It takes them a long time to get repairs done,” her son said.

Associated Press

Housing owned by the

president’s son-in-law

in the Baltimore area

has record of neglect.

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wood. While on the run, he

underwent plastic surgery

to alter his face and was said

to have tried to remove his

fingerprints with acid.

Dillinger, who was por-

trayed by Johnny Depp in

the 2009 movie “Public Ene-

mies,” was fatally shot in

July 1934 by FBI agents out-

side the Biograph Theater in

Chicago after he was be-

trayed by a woman who be-

came known in the papers as

the “Lady in Red.”

Indiana health depart-

ment spokeswoman Jeni

O’Malley said that based on

the permit, the agency ex-

pects Dillinger’s body will be

exhumed and reinterred on

proved a permit July 3

sought by Dillinger’s neph-

ew, Michael C. Thompson, to

have the body exhumed

from Crown Hill Cemetery

and reinterred there.

The permit doesn’t give a

INDIANAPOLIS — The

body of notorious 1930s

gangster John Dillinger is

expected to be exhumed

from an Indianapolis ceme-

tery in September, more

than 85 years after he was

killed by FBI agents outside

a Chicago theater.

The Indiana State De-

partment of Health ap-

reason for the request, and

Thompson couldn’t im-

mediately be reached for

comment.

The Indianapolis-born

Dillinger was one of Ameri-

ca’s most notorious crimi-

nals. He and his gang pulled

off a bloody string of bank

robberies across the Mid-

west in the 1930s. The FBI

says that Dillinger’s gang

killed 10 people, but Dillinger

was never convicted of

murder.

Dillinger was awaiting

trial in the slaying of an East

Chicago police officer when

he escaped from jail in

Crown Point, Ind., in March

1934 with a gun carved out of

Sept. 16 — the date listed on

the document.

“In terms of the way the

permit reads that’s what it

signals,” she said Tuesday.

Crown Hill Cemetery

spokeswoman Crystal King

said the cemetery has no in-

formation about the plans to

exhume Dillinger, whose

grave is an attraction at the

hilltop graveyard on India-

napolis’ near north side.

Messages seeking com-

ment were left Tuesday for

Jeffery Scalf, whose grand-

mother was Dillinger’s half-

sister, and for Savanah

Light, the funeral director

whose name is listed on the

permit.

Body of outlaw John Dillinger to be exhumed

NOTORIOUSgangster

John Dillinger was killed

by FBI agents in 1934.

Indiana Reformatory

Indiana approves a

permit sought by the

gangster’s nephew to

have him reinterred.

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