Bldg. Dept. eyes Jared permit lies

THE CITY Department of Buildings has opened investigations into more than a dozen properties where Jared Kushner’s company is accused of filing false paperwork about its rent-regulated tenants.

Kushner Cos., then under the leadership of the President’s sonin-law, submitted more than 80 construction permit applications that said it had no such tenants when in reality it had hundreds, according to documents compiled by the Housing Rights Initiative and shared with media last weekend.

None of the filings were signed by Kushner (photo) himself, who has since distanced himself from his family’s company after he began work in the White House.

But the false applications, allegedly covering dozens of buildings that the Kushners later sold for a hefty profit, has sparked outrage over its effects on New York residents, some of whom said construction was intended to make them move in an effort to drive up rents.

Housing Rights founder Aaron Carr “bare-faced greed.”

State Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Queens) called on the department to take immediate action and issue a stop work order on all Kushner Cos. properties until an investigation into their business practices is concluded.

“Bad actors should not benefit at the expense of their tenants when they flout rules designed to protect residents,” Gianaris said.

Department of Buildings official Joseph Soldevere confirmed to the Daily News on Thursday that the building marshal’s office was looking into the paperwork and that it had already disciplined a architect involved.

Kushner Cos. has denied that it falsified any paperwork to harass its tenants, and said that it is the victim of “politically motivated attacks.”

The company told The News: “Any small amount of mistakes that may have been made, amongst the hundreds of filings, were obviously unintentional and remedied as soon as identified.”

“We intend to cooperate with the (Department of Buildings” to clear up this matter,” it said in a statement. Initiative called it