US EditionA Lawyer Who Helped the Kushners Crack Down on Poor Tenants Now Helps Renters Fight Big Landlords
- Andrew Rabinowitz, initially representing a company linked to Jared Kushner, is now helping tenants fight evictions as the director of the Tenant Justice Program at Rising for Justice, a nonprofit organization.
- Maryland enacted a law in 2021 providing tenants the right to an attorney for eviction cases, a significant change since previous practices created hardships for renters.
- Rabinowitz expressed that the poor housing conditions faced by tenants now motivate him in his current legal work to advocate for clean and fair housing options.
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Lawyer who helped Kushners crack down on poor tenants flips to fight big landlords
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The first time I saw Andrew Rabinowitz, it was in April 2017 at Baltimore District Court, where he was representing a property management company ...
Revealed: Lawyer who helped the Kushners crack down on poor tenants has changed his tune
The first time I saw Andrew Rabinowitz, it was in April 2017 at Baltimore District Court, where he was representing a property management company owned by the family of Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law. That day, the company had three cases against tenants at Dutch Village, one of the many large apartment complexes the Kushner Companies owned in the Baltimore area.One tenant was a Morgan State University student facing struggle…
A Lawyer Who Helped the Kushners Crack Down on Poor Tenants Now Helps Renters Fight Big Landlords
“It was like a heavyweight sparring featherweights,” the attorney said about his time representing companies owned by Trump’s in-laws, whose apartments were known for shoddy maintenance and aggressive legal tactics.
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