Friday, June 2, 2017

Jersey City mostly mum on latest chapter in Kushner saga

(Source: NJ.COM) City Hall was mostly silent today about the news that high unemployment in the city's south side was used to help Jared Kushner and the developers of Trump Bay Street win critical financing for the luxury high-rise. City spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill said the city was not involved in the bit of so-called "gerrymandering" that allowed Kushner to cite the jobless rate in the city's impoverished areas to obtain federal approval for the 50-story tower. Read more at http://www.nj.com/