 AREA Property Partners also held $105.4 million of the building's debt and objected to the restructuring plan.In retaliation, Jared Kushner reportedly directed Elizabeth Spiers, the publisher of "The New York Observer" which Kushner had purchased in 2006, to publish a "hit piece" against AREA's CEO Richard Mack.However, after several months of effort yielded no leads, Kushner reportedly dropped the request and no article was ever published by "The Observer".