tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57461618440746892872024-02-21T00:02:38.837-08:00lobbyistsWhat is really going on in NYC Politics and GovernmentJournalisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10190956898079079756noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746161844074689287.post-37080476545816873912019-02-15T07:52:00.000-08:002019-03-17T04:01:55.361-07:00The history of the Brooklyn Surrogarte Court Corruption<div>
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<i>N.Y. LAW JOURNAL, By Daniel Wise, December 05, 2008</i><br />
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Former
Brooklyn Surrogate Michael H. Feinberg, who was removed from the bench
three years ago, was disbarred yesterday by the Appellate Division,
Third Department. <br />
In two disciplinary proceedings factually
linked to Mr. Feinberg's, the Third Department also suspended Louis R.
Rosenthal, the former counsel to the Brooklyn public administrator, for
two years, and censured Stephen H. Chepiga, the chief clerk of the
Surrogate's Court in Brooklyn since 1998.<br />
Mr. Feinberg was
disbarred upon the strength of the Court of Appeals decision in 2005
removing him from the bench for awarding Mr. Rosenthal $8.6 million in
fees without requiring affidavits detailing the services he provided as
required by law (Matter of Feinberg, D-69-08). <br />
The Third
Department found that Mr. Rosenthal had charged and collected "excessive
fees" without following proper procedures (Matter of Rosenthal,
D-68-08). In recommending Mr. Feinberg's removal, the state Commission
on Judicial Conduct had found that Mr. Rosenthal consistently billed 2
percent more for his work than permitted, resulting in more than $2
million in excessive fees (Matter of Chepiga, D-70-08).<br />
The Third Department decision appear on page 7 of the print edition of today's Law Journal. <br />
Fabian
G. Palomino, who represented both Mr. Feinberg and Mr. Rosenthal, did
not return a request for comment. Mr. Rosenthal also did not return a
request for comment, and Mr. Feinberg could not be located.<br />
Mr.
Chepiga's lawyer, Peter V. Coffey of Englert, Coffey, McHugh &
Fantuzzi in Schenectady, said, "If you talk to anyone in the court
system they will tell you that Mr. Chepiga is diligent, hardworking and a
man of great integrity and truthfulness.<br />
"He has unhesitatingly been retained in his position" as chief clerk, Mr. Coffey added. <br />
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three decisions were issued per curiam by the same panel: Justices
Thomas E. Mercure, Edward O. Spain, Robert S. Rose, Anthony T. Kane and
Leslie E. Stein.<br />
"The taint of favoritism is strong" in the
relationship between Mr. Feinberg and Mr. Rosenthal, the Court of
Appeals found in its removal opinion, Matter of Feinberg, 5 NY3d 206.
The Court described Mr. Rosenthal as "a close personal friend and
political supporter" of Mr. Feinberg whom the former surrogate appointed
as counsel to the public administrator without considering any other
candidates. <br />
The counsel to the public administrator is
responsible for handling Surrogate Court proceedings relating to people
who died without wills and do not have close relatives to handle their
affairs. <br />
In disbarring Mr. Feinberg, who was Brooklyn's
surrogate for eight years, the panel noted that an attorney may be
charged with professional misconduct for the same acts for which he was
disciplined as a judge. <br />
Disbarment is necessary, the panel concluded, "to protect the public and preserve the reputation of the bar."<br />
The
principal Court of Appeals finding relied on by the Third Department
that Mr. Feinberg had failed to familiarize himself with a 1993
amendment to the Surrogate Court's Procedure Act (SCPA), which requires
the counsel to the public administrator to support his fee requests with
affidavits detailing the services rendered, the time spent, and the
method or basis upon which the compensation is computed.<br />
Over
five years and 475 proceedings, both the Court of Appeals and the Third
Department had found that Mr. Feinberg had remained unaware of the 1993
amendment to SPCA §1108. That amendment had been enacted, the Third
Department panel noted, after an investigation by the attorney general
and comptroller had found abuses in the award of fees to public
administrators' counsel. <br />
The Court of Appeals had described Mr.
Feinberg's "consistent disregard for fundamental statutory requirements
of office" as demonstrating "an unacceptable incompetence in the law."<br />
Counsel Suspended<br />
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regard to Mr. Rosenthal, the Third Department found that he had
collected "excessive fees" for his work by "regularly" requesting fees
that reflected the same percentage amount of the total value of the
estate he was handling. <br />
In the conduct commissions ruling
recommending Mr. Feinberg's removal, it had found that Mr. Rosenthal
routinely requested fees pegged at 8 percent of the value of an estate. <br />
The
commission noted that surrogates in the city's other boroughs generally
pegged compensation for counsel to the public administrator at 6
percent of the value of an estate. <br />
In addition, the commission
relied on agreement between the attorney general and Mr. Feinberg's
predecessor, Surrogate Bernard Bloom, to limit compensation to 6
percent. The agreement was initially worked out in 1988 and renewed in
1994 (NYLJ, Feb. 15, 2005).<br />
The Third Department also found that
rather than submitting the required affidavits of service, Mr. Rosenthal
had submitted his fee requests on Post-It notes affixed to formal
decrees. <br />
The practice did not change, the panel noted, until the
Daily News in May 2002 published an exposé of Mr. Rosenthal's fees and
the way they had been approved by the surrogate.<br />
Even then, the
panel wrote, Mr. Feinberg re-approved all of Mr. Rosenthal's fees after
he retroactively submitted the required affidavits of service. <br />
Clerk Censured<br />
In
censuring Mr. Chepiga, the Third Department found that, though he was
aware of the agreement limiting fee awards in Brooklyn to 6 percent, he
was "actively involved" in the process of approving awards set at 8
percent of estate value. <br />
The panel described Mr. Chepiga's
statement that he was unaware of the 1993 amendments requiring the
filing of affidavits to support fee requests as being "somewhat
disconcertin[g]."<br />
But in deciding that a censure was the
appropriate sanction, the panel cited his "unblemished disciplinary
record" and letters attesting to his integrity submitted to the court by
Kings County surrogates. Mr. Chepiga's lawyer, Mr. Coffey, identified
the authors of the two letters as Surrogate Margarita López Torres and
Justice Albert Tomei, a former interim surrogate who was appointed to
fill in after Mr. Feinberg was removed.<br />
Though jurisdiction over
disciplinary matters normally lies in the department where an attorney
has his principal business office, the Second Department issued an order
transferring the three cases to the Third Department, said the court's
clerk, Michael Novak.<br />
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smartest judge on the bench,” but the anonymous committee members who
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corrupt Queens Democratic Machine use the courts as there personal bank.</span></h1>
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Judge Holzman, the Bronx surrogate since 1988, is in the midst of a
disciplinary hearing in which he is charged with allowing his staff to
run amok and to take fees that were excessive and unearned from estates
that it was handling. Judge Holzman could lose his job as a result of
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expensive undertaking establishment in the world." He believed it was
control of the Surrogate's Court of New York County, more than any other
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kept the Tammany Hall political machine alive through the lean years
when he deprived it of city jobs and President Franklin Roosevelt denied
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<b>Who are the judge makers? They're people like Jeffrey Feldman,
executive director of the Brooklyn Democratic organization and husband
of an elected judge. Feldman once boasted, "We haven't lost a judicial
seat in over 100 years." He didn't mean "we, the people." He meant "we,
the clubhouse." That says it all."</b> <i>- Daily News, Editorial, December 2, 2001 </i></h3>
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Clarence Hardy, the self-proclaimed chief of the Slave Theater in
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theater. * </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/39/30_39slavetheater.html">Slave Theater could be sold to pay judge’s ‘debts’</a> (Brooklyn Paper) * </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a class="l" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wires/2010/06/28/judge-john-l-phillips-jus_ws_627613.html"><i>JUDGE</i> JOHN L. <i>PHILLIPS</i> - JUSTICE HAS NOT BEEN SERVED</a> * </span><a href="http://www.judicialaccountability.org/articles/guardianshiptotakeproperty.htm"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;">Guardians of Retired Judge Accused of Lax Accounting and Improprieties</span></b></a><span style="font-size: small;">(NYT) </span></h1>
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2014/03/07/sorry-estate-robber-off-to-jail/">‘Sorry’ estate robber off to jail</a>(NYP)
A crooked Brooklyn bookkeeper convicted of stealing $2.6 million from
the estates of people who died without wills expressed remorse Thursday
for his crime before a judge sentenced him to 6 to 18 years in prison. A
crooked Brooklyn bookkeeper convicted of stealing $2.6 million from the
estates of people who died without wills expressed remorse Thursday for
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and whose office was cited for sloppy work by the city comptroller last
year — has resigned, The Post has learned. Kings County Public
Administrator Bruce Stein stepped down earlier this month, in part
because of questions about his ability to perform the job, a source
said. Stein’s office was slammed by former Comptroller John Liu in 2013
for mishandling more than $2.2 million in assets, including misplacing a
fur coat and allowing $50,000 in cash to sit unclaimed in a safe
deposit box for five years. The money was claimed only after auditors
pointed it out. The auditors found shoddy work in more than half of the
50 cases that were examined. Stein was appointed to the role in January
2009, and was earning more than $123,000. He did not respond to a
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one of the worst rulings in its history, the state Commission on
Judicial Conduct decreed that a judge may stay on the bench despite
giving a pass to a lawyer friend who’d grabbed hundreds of thousand of
dollars in excessive fees from the estates of the dead. When Holzman’s
counsel, Michael Lippman, got caught taking far larger amounts than he
was entitled to, Holzman kept him on the job. That way, Lippman was
supposed to earn more fees so he could repay the filched funds.Despite
citing all these facts, the panel painted Holzman, incredibly, as a
misguided soul who clumsily set out to make whole the estates damaged by
Lippman. Thus, he will leave his judgeship under his own power, setting
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Hutcher and Citron and is listed on its website as “director of the
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“city and state” issues “as part of a seasoned team of lobbyists.” </span></span><a href="https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2017/01/keith-wright-joins-davidoff-hutcher-citron-108429"><span style="font-size: small;"><span itemprop="headline">Former assemblyman Keith Wright joins Davidoff Hutcher & Citron</span></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span itemprop="headline"><a href="https://bmp.nyc.gov/elobbyist/search">List of Wright's Firm Lobbying Clients </a></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span itemprop="headline"><i>enter</i> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span itemprop="headline">Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP * </span></span><span class="st"><i>Wright works</i> for the lawyer-<i>lobbying</i> firm <i>Davidoff</i>,
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“city and state” issues “as part of a seasoned team of <i>lobbyists</i>.” </span><a href="https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/01/10/a-lobbyist-is-now-running-manhattans-democratic-party/">A Lobbyist Is Now Running Manhattan's Democratic Party | Village Voice</a><br />
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LLP, a powerhouse law firm with offices in Albany, New York City, and
Washington, D.C., that <a href="https://www.dhclegal.com/law-practice-areas/government-relations/">advertises</a> its ability to connect clients with congressional leadership. Over the last decade, clients with interests before Congress
have retained Sean Crowley through his lobbying firm, paying more than
$4.5 million to influence and monitor government policies, according to a
review of contracts by The Intercept.<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/nyregion/joseph-crowley-party-boss-queens.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion">Crowley’s Loss Heralds an ‘End of an Era’: Last of the Party Bosses</a> * </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a class="postid-12678482" href="https://nypost.com/2018/06/27/ocasio-cortez-backers-call-on-crowley-to-resign-as-party-boss/">Ocasio-Cortez backers call on Crowley to resign as party boss</a> <span itemprop="headline">* </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span itemprop="headline"><a data-ved="0ahUKEwjMt4_n2_jbAhVns1kKHbmjBpIQqOcBCCowAA" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-queens-machine-shaken-20180627-story.html">Ghosts in the Queens machine: Rep. Joe Crowley's profiteering political
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">The City's Election System Has Been Taken Over by Special Interests Lobbyists and Their Clients </span></b></span><br />
<b>NYC's
government and elections are now controlled by big money and powerful
interests, developers, lobbyists-consultants and party bosses. N</b>ewspaper no long cover politics. Problems including homelessness,
lack of affordable housing closings of small
businesses and broken subways have been proliferating for years with solutions. Pay to
play corruption is everywhere. Yet it is almost impossible to defeat a Manhattan incumbent elected official. Voters have no clue on how district leaders used to organize their community to protect their communities by pressuring elected officials to fix problems like homelessness. Community
involvement is the only way to shift power back to the people.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15pt;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15pt;"> Low
Voting Caused by NY’s NY's Election Law has Given New Power to
Political Party Machines, and has Empowered A New Political Bosses the
New Un-elected Campaign Consultant Lobbyists into A New Pay to Play
Tammany Hall</span></span><a href="http://truenewsfromchangenyc.blogspot.com/2017/05/tammany-hall-still-runs-nycs-political.html"><span style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"> Tammany Hall Still Runs NYC's Political Parties in 2019</span></a><span style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"> * </span></span></span></span><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2015/12/lobbyists-corruption-were-at-center-at.html">Shadow lobbyists Corruption Were At the Center At the Both the Skelos and Silver Convictions</a><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="color: black;">Occupy the Manhattan Democratic Party in 2019 </span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Local Activists and People Involved in Their Local Community Groups</span></span> </b></span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;">Do Not Understand How the Effectiveness of Their Causes Will Benefit If Their Add Their
Voice Inside the Democratic Party to the Issues They Care About.</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Who Should Run for County Committee?</b></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Groups Working for Issues in NYC Should Not Do It As Outsiders in the Democratic Party </span></span></span> </b></span></span></span><br />
-Affordable Housing and Tenant Activists Must Run for County Committee to fight developers influence on elected officials <br />
-Groups fighting against up zoning of their neighborhoods<br />
-People Working for Better Schools Should Also Be Running for County Committee<br />
-Groups fighting for Seniors Should Have their Members Run for County Committee<br />
-Mom and Pop Store Owners Fighting for against rent increase That Drive Them Out of Business <br />
-Groups Seeking to improve the Subways Should Have their Members Run for County Committee<br />
-Neighborhood Associations, Community Board and Precinct Council Members Seeking to Improve Their Community Quality of Life<br />
Groups for the Environment and better Health Care should run for country committee <br />
Run for Your County Committee! - Veterans Alliance <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">The NY Democratic Party is governed by county committees of citizens who are
registered Democrats, from the State Assembly level down to the block you live on.<span class="Y0NH2b CLPzrc"> The largest national parties (<b>Democrats</b>
and Republicans) are mandated by the NY State to have a committee of party
members in each of New York's 62 counties. In NYC, there are separate
County Committees for each party in <b>Kings</b>, Queens, Bronx, New York, and Richmond Counties. </span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Y0NH2b CLPzrc"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span></b></span><br />
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Committee Members Are Elected by Voters In Each of the City's Elections
Districts (EDs). There are Almost 10,000 EDs in <span style="color: #38761d;">NYC</span>. </b></span></span></span></span></b></span><br />
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TIMES DISTRICT LEADERS benefited their
followers in many ways. They got their constituents work, brought their
community together at picnics and on steamboat excursions,
and, even cared for them when they were sick. The old time district
leaders were ready to help their voters in trouble with the
representatives of the law. These district leaders thus had a
very strong influence over a large class, the members of which were
ordinarily decent, hard working people, who worked in various trades,
but never got far ahead. The people who at times fell into want, and
who sometimes were kinsfolk of semi-criminal type. These voters were apt
to
regard saloons as their club-houses. Often, the saloons were the
<span style="font-size: small;">headquarters of local political organizations and were the true social
centers of neighborhood life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Old
time Tammany Halls' Boss De Sapio lobbied for affordable housing,
protecting neighborhoods from developers and for lower subway fairs.
Political Boss De Sapio kept his power by delivering votes to
politicians.<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
District Leaders in the Tammany Hall era needed to not only deliver
government services and jobs to voters in their districts. They also
needed to protect their neighborhoods </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to keep their deliverable votes high, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from the developers who were trying to raise rents and displace residents.</span></span> Today's
Gentrification displacement and low voting in local elections created a
campaign consultant lobbyists shadow govt that has taken power out of
the local community by controlling who gets elected. A cabal of
developers, government contractors and unions elect local candidates who
then run the government to benefit the groups that helped elect them. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/nyregion/james-r-mcmanus-dead.html">James R. McManus, 84, Last of the Hell's Kitchen Bosses, Dies </a></b></div>
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District Leaders of today give out poll worker jobs on election day to
supporters who collect petitions signatures, putting their district
leader and his or her political and judicial candidates on the ballot.
Today's district leaders do not advocate for community needs to
Democratic elected officials, fail to organize the local
get-out-the-vote operation, and do not represent the neighborhood on the
county party executive committee like the old time district leaders
did. The District Leaders of today neglect basic, grassroots
community-building
activities and instead focus on getting their favored candidates elected
to office, elect judges and increasing their political power to run for higher
office. Today very few district leaders
face primary and many have been in office for decades. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span><a href="https://gomyd.com/no-seriously-whats-a-district-leader-pt-2/"><span style="font-size: small;">No, Seriously: What’s a District Leader</span></a></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
New York State primary is on Thursday, September 13th. And you may see
candidates running for some lesser-known positions on your ballot, like
Male or Female District Leader.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A quick primer: District leaders
are unpaid party officials, elected by voters who are registered with
their party to oversee the county committee in their assembly district.
They aren't legislators, so they don't handle laws. They're mostly in
place to run the party's activity in their district.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">So why the
distinct Male and Female District Leader roles? The reason can be traced
back to Eleanor Roosevelt and the League of Women Voters.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sarah
Steiner, an attorney who practices election law, says the two roles were
created in 1920, at around the same time as women's suffrage. Eleanor
Roosevelt, a vocal advocate for women's rights, had just joined the
League of Women Voters. Her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was running
for Vice President (this was before he served as governor of New York).
Eleanor Roosevelt believed that women had a crucial role to play in
understanding and leading their localities. Steiner says it was largely
thanks to Eleanor Roosevelt and the League that this District Leadership
role was created for women to gain an entry-level position in political
party leadership. "It was her idea, and their idea, that politics
ought to be more opened up to women, and that giving women the vote
would help the reform of the entire political process," Steiner told
WNYC. What if two women want to become district leaders in the same
assembly district? Well, there's only room for one. Steiner says she
doesn't see that as a limitation of the rule. If anything, it's a good
problem to have. "To have an entry level position, a position of some
power in the party, of some influence in the party, is a very important
thing," Steiner said. "Otherwise we might still be baking cookies
instead of making policy."
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political bosses ensure that a vast number of the seats on the county
committee are left unfilled, undermining our
goal of broad participation in the county decision-making. These
political bosses usurp the power of the county committee by using
proxies of county committee members they elect to control <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">what
the county committee does. Instead of representing the needs of
Brooklyn residents, the county committee operates as a private country
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Each <b>election district</b> (or ED) is made up of one to a small number
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Occupy the Brooklyn Democratic Party 2018</b></span></span></td></tr>
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<b>Step 1:</b> Identify your Assembly District (AD) and your Election District (ED)<br />
<i>(This can easily be done by looking up your address on the NYC Doitt Map or on the <a href="http://vote.nyc.ny.us/html/voters/where.shtml">BOE’s website</a>)</i><b> Step 2:</b>
Figure out if there is a vacancy. You can reach out to the Board of
Elections or your local Democratic County Office. If there is not, you
can run in any ED that falls within your AD.<b> Step 3:</b>
Calculate how many signatures you need. You will need 5% of the
registered democrats in your chosen ED, which usually amounts to 5-60
signatures.<br />
Here are some quick links where you can find the number of registered Democrats in your AD/ED for <a href="http://www.elections.ny.gov/nysboe/Enrollment/election%20district/2017/November/NewYorkED_nov17.pdf">Manhattan</a>.<b> Step 4:</b>
Create your County Committee Petition under your chosen party. You can
begin collecting signatures from voters within your party <b>only</b> during petitioning season. Getting signatures outside of that window is illegal.<br />
<i>Petitioning starts on Febuary and ends on ???. Go with a friend. Meet your neighbors. It’ll be fun!</i><br />
<b>Step 5:</b> Submit those signatures you collected. You will need to create a <b>cover sheet & bind your pages before submitting</b>.
You can submit by going to dropping them off to the NYS Board of
Elections Office. You can do that between July 9 and July 12.<b> Step 6:</b> If you were running unopposed, congratulations! You are now a county committee person!<br />
If not and you are running against someone, <b>Step 6</b> means going back to those neighbors and getting them to vote for you in the Primary<br />
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<li>This is incredibly important considering that <a href="http://www.citizensunion.org/circumventing_democracy" target="_blank">one-third of state Assembly members</a>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Petitions Start Febuary and Run Through July 12th 2018 </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>How to Run for County Committee </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">you will only need 3 to 25 signatures from the ED!</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: small;">5% of the registered Democratic Party Voters in That <span style="color: #38761d;">ED</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>How to Run for District Leader / State Committee</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1 male and 1 female from each of the Assembly Districts need only</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: small;">To Find out What You Are In Find Your AD and ED </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: small;">This table shows which Assembly District Part your Election District is in. <a href="https://nyc.pollsitelocator.com/search">You can find your AD/ED using your address</a>.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: small;"><a href="https://manhattandemocrats.org/about/find-your-assembly-district-part/">This Table Will Tell You What District You are in </a></span></span></span><br />
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Join <i>Fix NYC</i> to make the Democratic Party and other political parties more inclusive and
accessible to the voters. Get your neighbors to <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">represent your block in the democratic party. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><i>Fix NYC</i> wants you to run</span> and win a seat in your local Democratic County Committee. <i>Fix NYC </i>plan is <i>to </i>give the <b>County Committee </b>members more power by automatically making them members of their <b>Local Community Boards,</b>
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we want you to collect 25 signatures from registered voters to qualify
to become a member of the community board. Our goal is to make
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“The
whole system of elections in New York State is rigged,” said Blair
Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group. “Special
Elections just exacerbate the existing problems because no one knows
it’s happening.” The whole system of choosing a party nominee and
getting on the ballot
in a Special Election is so complex and inexplicable that even trying to
explain it might kill off some of our readers (which we don't want to
do; if you want a detailed explanation, you'll have to <a href="http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/issueoftheweek/20060217/200/1764" target="new">click here</a>.).
Under Albany rules, special elections are rigged. Party bosses pick
their nominees who cost to victory in our one party state.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.gothamgazette.com/129-elections/3164-not-so-special-elections">Not-So-Special Elections - Gotham Gazette</a> * <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/nyregion/new-york-politics-party-bosses.html">How Party Bosses, Not Voters, Pick Candidates in New York - NY Times</a>*<a href="https://www.wnyc.org/story/party-bosses-trump-average-voters-filling-vacant-seats/"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">It's Party Bosses — Not Voters — Who Often Fill Vacant Seats in the State Legislature</span></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> * </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://observer.com/2017/09/brooklyn-democratic-party-senate-race/">Brooklyn Democratic Party Boss Handpicks State Senate Candidate ...</a> * <a href="http://www.gothamgazette.com/city/6091-special-election-spotlights-machine-politics-in-the-bronx">Special Election Spotlights Machine Politics in The Bronx</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/editorial-special-delivery-article-1.2123489?cid=bitly">Special delivery:Time to consign undemocratic boss-driven special elections to history<span style="background-color: white;"> </span></a><span style="background-color: white;">(<span style="font-family: "";">NYDN Ed) <span style="font-family: "";">Let these be the last two contests conducted under </span>New York<span style="font-family: "";">’s
grossly undemocratic special election law. That statute cuts out the
usual party primaries, thereby empowering Democratic and Republican
bosses to put whatever loyal soldiers they choose on the ballot. </span><span style="font-family: "";">Voters
get no real choice about who represents them — especially in places
where one party dominates, as Democrats do in most of </span>New York City<span style="font-family: "";">. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Who Chooses Supreme Court Judges </b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Judicial Delegates Pick Supreme Court Judges From A Convention Held Right After the Democratic Primary. </span></span><a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/who-really-picks-new-yorks-judges">Who Really Picks New York's Judges? | Brennan Center for Justice</a><br />
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"In the political equivalent of shock and awe, along with shrewd
backroom dealmaking, City Councilmember Jumaane Williams (D-Flatbush,
East Flatbush, Midwood) sewed up key political Brooklyn support in his
bid to succeed Attorney General-elect Letitia James as the city’s public
advocate in a special election for the seat expected in February.<br />
Today he was also endorsed by Kings County Democratic Chairman Frank Seddio, as well as several key Brooklyn elected of<span class="text_exposed_show">ficials
including the powerful and growing Haitian-American block led by
Assembly member Rodneyse Bichotte (D-Flatbush, Ditmas Park) and State
Senators Kevin Parker (D-East Flatbush, Flatbush, Midwood, Ditmas Park,
Kensington, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Boro Park) and Roxanne Persaud
(D-Canarsie, East New York, Brownsville, Mill Basin, Sheepshead Bay,
Bergen Beach, Marine Park, Flatlands, Mill Island, Georgetowne, Ocean
Hill, Starrett City) and City Council Member Brad Lander (D-Park Slope,
Windsor Terrace, Kensington)....</span><br />
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Although Williams has to now be considered the frontrunner, Bronx
Assemblyman Michael Blake is expected to mount a strong challenge and
City Councilmember Rafael Espinal (D-East New York, Bushwick) cannot be
overlooked. Having several men in the race could also open the door for a
woman candidate, possibly former City Council Speaker Melissa
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A dozen or so candidates are off and running in the race to replace
Public Advocate Tish James — that is, to assume the most useless office
in city government.<br />
At a cost to taxpayers of $3 million a year, the office’s chief
function is to hold press conferences and plan the occupant’s next
political campaign. Every advocate but one has spent his or her tenure
running for a higher position.<br />
And why not? The post has few actual responsibilities, so there’s no pressure to actually achieve anything.<br />
That’s why several councilmembers have introduced <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/11/12/city-lawmakers-looking-to-abolish-public-advocate-office/">legislation to abolish the office</a>. Good luck: Among those opposed is Mayor Bill de Blasio, who used the job as a springboard to his current one.<br />
And even if the bill passes, voters must still approve the change via
public referendum, so the post will last until at least 2021.<br />
That leaves the city facing a nonpartisan special election. City
Councilman Jumaane Williams just jumped to the head of the pack with <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/11/14/jumaane-williams-secures-wfp-backing-in-bid-for-public-advocate/">endorsements from the Working Families Party</a> and other progressive powers.<br />
Third time the charm? In the last few months, Williams failed first
to become council speaker, then to win Democrats’ lieutenant-governor
nomination. He plainly wants a new job — whatever he can get.<br />
Note, too, that even the folks who want the post don’t seem to know
what it entails: At a candidate forum this week, former Speaker Melissa
Mark-Viverito vowed to conduct investigations using the office’s
subpoena power — which doesn’t exist.<br />
Forget all the grand promises: We’ll back the candidate who vows to help eliminate this joke of an office.<br />
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Williams hired his friend Kristofer Bain — a part-time rapper known
as K Bain — to work on his 2009 bid for City Council and, after winning,
gave him a taxpayer-funded job in his office.<br />
Then Bain went to work for a non-profit Williams has supported with more than $60,000 in city cash.<br />
Williams, a Brooklyn Democrat who narrowly lost a primary race for
lieutenant governor in September, is running for New York City Public
Advocate.<br />
Williams and Bain became friends as undergrads at Brooklyn College
and attended the same master’s program in urban policy there. Bain once
described their friendship as a “brotherhood” and even registered to
vote in 1997 using Williams’ Brooklyn address.<br />
They were partners in Earth Tonez Cafe, a failed vegetarian restaurant that closed in 2008 — and still has an <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/08/01/jumaane-williams-owes-state-10k-in-taxes-from-old-restaurant/">unpaid tax bill with the state</a> for $10,347.<br />
When Williams ran for City Council in 2009, he paid Bain $2,000 to work on the race, campaign finance records show.<br />
After winning, Bain became an aide to Williams.<br />
He worked in the councilman’s office from 2010 to 2015 earning as much as $54,858 a year, public records show.<br />
Bain has described his job duties as director of legislation and budget affairs for Williams.<br />
He also got more campaign cash during that time — $200 for Election
Day ope<br />
rations in 2013 and a $400 bonus later that month, according to
campaign finance records.<br />
After Bain left government employ, he went to work for the Center for
NuLeadership on Urban Solutions, a non-profit where he is now a
community development advisor, according to the group’s web site.<br />
Williams has sent $66,500 in City Council discretionary funds to the
group beginning in the 2011 fiscal year through the current one.<br />
Bain and Divine Pryor, the head of the non-profit, did not return requests for comment.<br />
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a depressing-as-hell comment on people whose job it is to collect and
count ballots: Leaders of the New York City Board of Elections always
hope for low turnout, because they simply can't handle large number of
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The
two-page ballot, necessitated by stupid ballot questions and stupid
judicial elections, meant twice as much paper for the scanners to scan.
(Newsflash: An eight-year-old device designed solely to scan paper can't
do it consistently.) Expect an even bigger mess when the machines'
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terrible status quo persists even as New York's supposedly enlightened
citizens tsk-tsk about electoral dysfunction and shenanigans in Georgia,
Kansas, Wisconsin and other states. Shame on us.</div>
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The state Legislature must dismantle and rebuild the city's Board of Elections.</div>
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egregiously undemocratic that single parents, people working hourly
wages and any number of other would-be voters who have a hard time
getting to the polls on a Tuesday have no other way to cast a ballot.
Especially when Election Day snafus throw wrenches in the works.<br />
The real role of each
commisisoner is to help the party leader that appointed him or her. It
is very curious that the good government groups are not demanding
changes from elected leaders, who have done all they can do to hid from
responsibility of the corruption and incompetence of the BOE and are the
only ones who can make real changes at the board. Pols only care about
one thing getting reelected. The BOE is their flu shot against
challengers. They will not change the BOE without a strong public
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The BOE was designed by Boss Tweed and his success to
keep party leaders in control of who gets elected. Over time the city's
establishment has made peace with the bosses and joined there control
star chamber. The BOE is filled with a bunch of patronage appointments
by the county leader.
Friends, relatives and political supporters who have demonstrated that
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The city Board of Elections is taking it on the chin once again, this
time for its alleged mishandling of the vote count in the race between
Rep. Charlie Rangel, state Sen. Adriano Espaillat and three others.<br />
Did you think that there was no way to botch an election in this age
of electronic voting machines and paper audit trails? Unfortunately,
with the Board of Elections and the state laws that govern it, snafus
are built-in.<br />
It looks like the Election Night problems in this race were a result
of a bizarre city BOE rule — but this controversy is a good chance to
see the mess the whole agency has become.<br />
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Yesterday, I watched the BOE properly conduct the count and
certification process in The Bronx and Manhattan. While the Espaillat
camp has every right to contest any number of issues, the scandal here
is not about supposed Bronx bunglers.<br />
The city Board of Elections is best understood as a pyramid built
upon the Peter Principle (the rule that people tend to be promoted to
their level of incompetence).<br />
From its top managers all the way down to the Election Day poll
workers — the public face of the agency — everyone at the Board is a
political appointee.<br />
Government agencies are usually headed by political appointees with
little specialized knowledge of their agencies — but they typically have
an experienced, professional deputy to run things.<br />
Not so, the city Board of Elections or its borough offices. Many staffers <i>are</i>
competent and dedicated workers — but not enough. The dominant role of
political patronage is why BOE is lucky to get B-team talent; add in
wounds inflicted by state law, and you’ve got real, systemic problems.<br />
One start on fixing things would be to give the mayor control of the
BOE, with City Council approval required for appointment of any chief
clerk, executive director or deputy executive director.<br />
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That way, we’d be able to hold <i>someone</i> to account when things go wrong.<br />
Another improvement — in a bill from Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh and
Sen. Martin Golden — would modernize and streamline the Election Night
canvass procedure and other poll-closing tasks. End the requirement to
manually transcribe results onto tally sheets, and let voting-machine
memory sticks be used to report unofficial tallies to news
organizations.<br />
That bill passed the Assembly but the Senate failed to act. If it had
become law, we’d have avoided the time-consuming and error-prone
process that produced the Election Night snafu in this race.<br />
Other ideas might work.<br />
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But drastic reform is necessary, from the
state Board of Elections down to the county level. The agency needs a
good stock of nonpartisan professional staffers. The election law must
be modernized, too.<br />
Bureaucratic and partisan paralysis is the root of the BOE’s
persistent problems, which erode public confidence in our elections.<br />
If politicians won’t reform, modernize and upgrade the agency, the
voting public should demand it. And Gov. Cuomo could do worse than to
make restoring public confidence in the integrity of the election
process his next crusade.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">The City's Election System Has Been Taken Over by Special Interests</span></b></span><br />
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<b>New Yorkers stopped voting because the public feels that their Government No Longer Serves Their Needs. </b>Many
residents feel disconnected from city politics because they do not
understand how their government works. Adding to the lack of understanding newspaper no long cover politics beyond the horse race (who is winning). Problems including homelessness,
poverty, lack of affordable housing and the closings of small
businesses have been proliferating for years with no solutions. Pay to
play corruption is everywhere. Voters have no clue on how to elect leaders in our government
to fix these and other problems? Most incumbents in NY run unopposed or with weak opposition. How is NYC progressive if it has
suppressive voting laws that keep low voters turnout? <br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Turnout of Mayoral Elections has Dropped Nearly Every Election 4 Decades</span></b></span></span></span><br />
<b><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-yorks-decreasing-voter-turnout.html">How the NYS Election Law Suppresses Voter Turnout, Helps Incumbents and Takes Power Away from the City's Neighborhoods</a></b><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Finally A Shocker Election That Exposed the Machine </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Crowley Loses to </span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;"><b>Ocasio-Cortez</b></span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">Now Reporters Have Discovered the Party Bosses and Political Machines</span></b></span></span><br />
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<a class="Post-title-link" data-reactid="158" href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/14/joe-crowley-congress-new-york/">How People Close to Joe Crowley Have Gotten Rich While the Queens Boss Has Risen in Congress (NYDN)</a> Sean Crowley serves as a partner at Davidoff Hutcher & Citron
LLP, a powerhouse law firm with offices in Albany, New York City, and
Washington, D.C., that <a href="https://www.dhclegal.com/law-practice-areas/government-relations/">advertises</a> its ability to connect clients with congressional leadership. Over the last decade, clients with interests before Congress
have retained Sean Crowley through his lobbying firm, paying more than
$4.5 million to influence and monitor government policies, according to a
review of contracts by The Intercept.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/nyregion/joseph-crowley-party-boss-queens.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion">Crowley’s Loss Heralds an ‘End of an Era’: Last of the Party Bosses</a> * </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a class="postid-12678482" href="https://nypost.com/2018/06/27/ocasio-cortez-backers-call-on-crowley-to-resign-as-party-boss/">Ocasio-Cortez backers call on Crowley to resign as party boss</a> * <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2018/06/27/new-york-city-political-leaders-grapple-with-life-after-the-machine-492650"><span itemprop="headline">New York City political leaders grapple with life after the machine</span></a><span itemprop="headline"> * </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span itemprop="headline"><a data-ved="0ahUKEwjMt4_n2_jbAhVns1kKHbmjBpIQqOcBCCowAA" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-queens-machine-shaken-20180627-story.html">Ghosts in the Queens machine: Rep. Joe Crowley's profiteering political
partners</a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span itemprop="headline"> *</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a class="Post-title-link" data-reactid="158" href="https://theintercept.com/2018/07/03/bronx-local-politicians-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/"> Bronx Machine Gathers to Sort Through Post-Joe Crowley Wreckage</a></span></h2>
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/bid-oust-keith-wright-lobbying-job-delayed-article-1.3521470">Bid to oust Manhattan Democratic chair Keith Wright over his job at lobbying firm delayed for at least three months</a></div>
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Voting Caused by NY’s NY's Election Law has Given New Power to Political Party Machines, and has Empowered A New Political Bosses the New Un-elected Campaign Consultant Lobbyists into A New Pay to Play Tammany Hall</span></b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2017/09/27/keith-wright-county-democratic-committee-meeting-paul-newell"><span style="color: black;">The Manhattan Boss is A Lobbyists</span></a></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;">
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Local Activists and People Involved in Their Local Community Groups</span> </b></span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;">Do Not See How the Effectiveness of Their Causes Will Benefit If Their Add Their
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #38761d;"><span style="color: black;">Groups Working for Issues in NYC Should Not Do It As Outsiders in the Democratic Party </span></span></span> </b></span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.nycveteransalliance.org/county_commmittee">Run for Your County Committee! - Veterans Alliance</a><br />
Affordable Housing and Tenant Leaders Must Run for County Committee<br />
People Working for Better Schools Should Also Be Running for County Committee<br />
Groups fighting for Seniors Should Have their Members Run for County Committee<br />
Groups Fighting for Property Tax Relief Should Have their Members Run for County Committee<br />
Groups Seeking to improve the Subways Should Have their Members Run for County Committee<br />
Neighborhood Associations Seeking to Improve Their Community Quality of Life<br />
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Campaign Consultants Funded by Developers and City Contractors Have
Centralized Politics, Sucking the Power Out of the City's Neighborhoods .
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Leaders Who are Funded by Developers, Unions and Other City Contractors
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leaders who want to solver the real problems like affordable housing,
better schools and help for mom and pop businesses have a very hard time
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://nybloggersnewspaper.blogspot.com/2014/10/lobbyists-berlin-rosen-takes-over-nyc.html" target="_blank">More on Lobbyist Berlin Rosen </a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2015/05/berlin-rosen-and-group-of-their.html">Berlin Rosen and A Group of Their Consultant Lobbyists Co-Conspiracy Walmartization of NY's Politics </a></span></div>
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<b><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-uft-coup-detat-of-nyc-election.html" target="_blank">The UFT Coup d'é·tat Of NYC Election System and Democracy</a></b> </span></div>
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NYC's
government and elections are now controlled by big money and powerful
interests, developers, lobbyists-consultants and party bosses. The
city's low voting turnout trend, that stated about 20 years ago, gave
control over the elections and the local government to special interests
rather than neighborhoods and the voters. In low turnout elections the
majority of voters fail to participate and the limited number of votes
the political machine controls is enough for them to win. This kind of
voting only serves the political insiders, does not represent the needs
of the public and is a subversion of the democratic process. Community
involvement is the only way to shift power back to the people.<br />
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<a href="https://nypost.com/2018/03/05/lobbyists-have-stuffed-their-pockets-under-de-blasio/">Lobbyists have stuffed their pockets under de Blasio - New York Post</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-solicited-lobbyist-donations-exchange-meetings-article-1.3923993">De Blasio solicited donations in exchange for meetings with major lobbyist’s clients but didn't report it</a> - Daily News </span></div>
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Percoco Trials and de Blasio Has His Secret Agents Lobbyists </span></span></span></span></span></b></span></h1>
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/18/opinion/the-forgotten-virtues-of-tammany-hall.html">The Forgotten Virtues of Tammany Hall - The New York Times</a></h3>
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time Tammany Halls' Boss De Sapio lobbied for affordable housing,
protecting neighborhoods from developers and for lower subway fairs.
Political Boss De Sapio kept his power by delivering votes to
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District Leaders in the Tammany Hall era needed to not only deliver
government services and jobs to voters in their districts. They also
needed to protect their neighborhoods </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to keep their deliverable votes high, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from the developers who were trying to raise rents and displace residents.</span></span> Today's
Gentrification displacement and low voting in local elections created a
campaign consultant lobbyists shadow govt that has taken power out of
the local community by controlling who gets elected. A cabal of
developers, government contractors and unions elect local candidates who
then run the government to benefit the groups that helped elect them. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.nationinstitute.org/featuredwork/books/1287/city_for_sale:_ed_koch_and_the_betrayal_of_new_york/">City for Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New York | Books | Nation ...</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/18/opinion/the-forgotten-virtues-of-tammany-hall.html">The Forgotten Virtues of Tammany Hall - The New York Times</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Consultant Lobbyists Have Turned NY Into A Pay to Play Candy Store </span></b></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
lobbyist-consultants gain power by using money from the developers and
city contractors to drive out local candidates. They use the </span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwv3vnIwGNIz3WMi7Yf_tS6vQdz6rq8ShZJHAAr-m4K31wf-_cAXFca09xenWUesAu5WisujThUBUVGV1BCzDvAZCddOoV1TyFCsRD4IJ2EbNv28rbenz4-LAGVEYbDA13R10_SbKKPiLJ/s1600/wal.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1112" data-original-width="1484" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwv3vnIwGNIz3WMi7Yf_tS6vQdz6rq8ShZJHAAr-m4K31wf-_cAXFca09xenWUesAu5WisujThUBUVGV1BCzDvAZCddOoV1TyFCsRD4IJ2EbNv28rbenz4-LAGVEYbDA13R10_SbKKPiLJ/s400/wal.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Walmart model of destroying local competition of independent candidates </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">who can fight the pay to play corruption</span></span></span></span>
for the needs and concerns of the community. This Walmart-like
takeover of local political campaigns sucks the power out of NYC's once
strong neighborhood control. Super tall buildings all over and no
leaders to fight the special interests that are destroying affordable
housing, mom and pop stores and ignore homelessness, poor education,
broken subways and other </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">quality of live problems. As </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jack Newfield</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">, the late great journalist </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">wrote in his book </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Permanent Government: t</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">o fix NYC, we need to </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">empower the people of New York to </span></span></span></span>take
back the control over political parties from party bosses bottom up,
block by block, electing candidates who will fight for the needs of the
people and the neighborhoods they live in. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.villagevoice.com/2010/11/10/andrew-cuomo-goes-to-albany-where-lobbyists-are-waiting/">Andrew Cuomo Goes to Albany, Where Lobbyists Are Waiting</a> (Voice, Barrett, 2010)</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-wanted-money-pay-to-play-businessman-article-1.3915607"><span style="font-size: small;">De Blasio always wanted money, pay-to-play businessman says</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://nybloggersnewspaper.blogspot.com/2014/10/lobbyists-berlin-rosen-takes-over-nyc.html">lobbyists: Lobbyists Berlin Rosen Takes Over NYC Government </a></div>
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<a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2018/05/01/ny1-vs--city-hall-jonathan-rosen--agents-of-the-city--timeline">NY1 vs. City Hall: 'Agents of the City' timeline</a></div>
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Community involvement is also the only way to fight pay to play corruption in Albany and City Hall. <b>Albany
refuses to change NY's Suppressive Voting Laws because low voting
helps incumbent politicians, consultant lobbyists and party bosses win
re-election. </b> Voting in NYC is at its lowest--only 13% voted in the
Democratic Primary in 2017 for mayor or city council. By comparison, in
1951 voter participation was over 90% for these seats. In 2016, only
4% of new Yorker's voted in the 2016 democratic primary for their
district leader, county committee and democratic party chairman.<br />
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other words, party elections are undemocratic elected, because eligible
voters do not participate in the elections, turning these elected party
seats into lifetime appointments. <i>Fix NYC</i> wants to make our political parties now run by the special interests, more inclusive. <i>Fix NYC </i>wants
YOU to run for your County Committee, Judicial Delegate and other party
positions. By running for these important local party positions you
will have a say as to who gets nominated by the party to run in primary
elected offices and judgeship's. This will give control over political
parties including who gets elected and how their government is
run to average New
Yorkers. Elected officials only care about getting re-elected and it
needs to stop!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="st"><span style="color: #38761d;">"Mv plan is to open Little <i>City Halls</i> in the <i>neighborhoods</i> of our city, manned by the people in those <i>neighborhoods</i>, will stimulate a new citizen involvement in the life of our city" Mayor Lindsay 1966</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="st"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="bodytext">The 1963 City Charter, adopted during
Wagner’s third term as Mayor, extended the neighborhood governance
concept to the other boroughs, establishing 'Community Planning Boards'
throughout the city. Eventually, these came to be known simply as
'Community Boards.' </span></span></span></span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="st"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="bodytext"><span class="bodytext">In 1989, the voters of New York City
ratified new Charter provisions, changing how City government deals with
the budget, land-use matters, and service delivery. The Community
Board’s important roles in all of these areas were either expanded or
reaffirmed by the new Charter.</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="color: black;">Occupy the Democratic Party in 2018</span></b></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">The NY Democratic Party is governed by committees of citizens who are
registered Democrats, from the state level down to the block you live on. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Y0NH2b CLPzrc">The largest national parties (<b>Democrats</b>
and Republicans) are mandated by the state to have a committee of party
members in each of New York's 62 counties. In NYC, there are separate
County Committees for each party in <b>Kings</b>, Queens, Bronx, New York, and Richmond Counties. </span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Y0NH2b CLPzrc"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>County
Committee Members Are Elected by Voters In Each of the City's Elections
Districts (EDs). There are Almost 10,000 EDs in the city.</b></span></span></span></span></b></span><br />
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OLD TIMES DISTRICT LEADERS benefited their
followers in many ways. They got their constituents work, brought their community together at picnics and on steamboat excursions,
and, even cared for them when they were sick. The old time district leaders were ready to help their voters in trouble with the representatives of the law. These district leaders thus had a
very strong influence over a large class, the members of which were ordinarily decent, hard working people, who worked in various trades, but never got far ahead. The people who at times fell into want, and
who sometimes were kinsfolk of semi-criminal type. These voters were apt to
regard saloons as their club-houses. Often, the saloons were the headquarters of local political organizations and were the true social centers of neighborhood life.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The District Leaders of today give out poll worker jobs on election day to supporters who collect petitions signatures, putting their district leader and his or her political and judicial candidates on the ballot. Today's district leaders do not advocate for community needs to Democratic elected officials, fail to organize the local
get-out-the-vote operation, and do not represent the neighborhood on the
county party executive committee like the old time district leaders did. The District Leaders of today neglect basic, grassroots community-building
activities and instead focus on getting their favored candidates elected
to local judgeships, increasing their political power to run for higher office, and getting government job appointments and well as court appointments from the judges they elect. Today very few district leaders face primary and many have been in office for decades. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><br /> The Reason Why You're Voting for a Male and a Female District Leader<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlJzzl1b5upI8jsR8BPR4Ciin9FBGf6h03WdWf-y-Jq_wzQyky-_-nYrRdR5NFDfx6hyuVTF41Y5YmEADqQjF_423mLM9vmQ_MAdeVphuARNXMZ79O7JRwB14210wAnnswoM5bfdKB2U8S/s1600/84851d_EleanorRooseveltVotesWomenNYHS.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlJzzl1b5upI8jsR8BPR4Ciin9FBGf6h03WdWf-y-Jq_wzQyky-_-nYrRdR5NFDfx6hyuVTF41Y5YmEADqQjF_423mLM9vmQ_MAdeVphuARNXMZ79O7JRwB14210wAnnswoM5bfdKB2U8S/s320/84851d_EleanorRooseveltVotesWomenNYHS.jpg" /></a><br /><br />The New York State primary is on Thursday, September 13th. And you may see candidates running for some lesser-known positions on your ballot, like Male or Female District Leader.<br /><br />A quick primer: District leaders are unpaid party officials, elected by voters who are registered with their party to oversee the county committee in their assembly district. They aren't legislators, so they don't handle laws. They're mostly in place to run the party's activity in their district.<br /><br />So why the distinct Male and Female District Leader roles? The reason can be traced back to Eleanor Roosevelt and the League of Women Voters.<br /><br />Sarah Steiner, an attorney who practices election law, says the two roles were created in 1920, at around the same time as women's suffrage. Eleanor Roosevelt, a vocal advocate for women's rights, had just joined the League of Women Voters. Her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was running for Vice President (this was before he served as governor of New York). Eleanor Roosevelt believed that women had a crucial role to play in understanding and leading their localities. Steiner says it was largely thanks to Eleanor Roosevelt and the League that this District Leadership role was created for women to gain an entry-level position in political party leadership. "It was her idea, and their idea, that politics ought to be more opened up to women, and that giving women the vote would help the reform of the entire political process," Steiner told WNYC. What if two women want to become district leaders in the same assembly district? Well, there's only room for one. Steiner says she doesn't see that as a limitation of the rule. If anything, it's a good problem to have. "To have an entry level position, a position of some power in the party, of some influence in the party, is a very important thing," Steiner said. "Otherwise we might still be baking cookies instead of making policy." https://www.wnyc.org/story/reason-why-youre-voting-male-and-female-district-leader/</h1>
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<a href="https://bklyner.com/kings-county-democratic-committee-time-to-engage-with-your-members-opinion/">Kings County Democratic Committee – Time To Engage With Your Members!</a> OPINION<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Each <b>election district</b> (or ED) is made up of a small number
of city blocks.</span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Each ED has two (2) to four (4) seats in the general membership of the county committee;
so when all the seats are filled, there are approximately 3000 members.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<b>Step 1:</b> Identify your Assembly District (AD) and your Election District (ED)<br />
<i>(This can easily be done by looking up your address on the NYC Doitt Map or on the <a href="http://vote.nyc.ny.us/html/voters/where.shtml">BOE’s website</a>)</i><b> Step 2:</b>
Figure out if there is a vacancy. You can reach out to the Board of
Elections or your local Democratic County Office. If there is not, you
can run in any ED that falls within your AD.<b> Step 3:</b>
Calculate how many signatures you need. You will need 5% of the
registered democrats in your chosen ED, which usually amounts to 5-60
signatures.<br />
Here are some quick links where you can find the number of registered Democrats in your AD/ED for <a href="http://www.elections.ny.gov/nysboe/Enrollment/election%20district/2017/November/BronxED_nov17.pdf">the Bronx</a>, <a href="http://www.elections.ny.gov/nysboe/Enrollment/election%20district/2017/November/KingsED_nov17.pdf">Brooklyn</a>, <a href="http://www.elections.ny.gov/nysboe/Enrollment/election%20district/2017/November/NewYorkED_nov17.pdf">Manhattan</a>, <a href="http://www.elections.ny.gov/nysboe/Enrollment/election%20district/2017/November/QueensED_nov17.pdf">Queens</a>, and <a href="http://www.elections.ny.gov/nysboe/Enrollment/election%20district/2017/November/RichmondED_nov17.pdf">Staten Island</a>.<b> Step 4:</b>
Create your County Committee Petition under your chosen party. You can
begin collecting signatures from voters within your party <b>only</b> during petitioning season. Getting signatures outside of that window is illegal.<br />
<i>Petitioning starts on June 5 and ends on July 8. Go with a friend. Meet your neighbors. It’ll be fun!</i><br />
<b>Step 5:</b> Submit those signatures you collected. You will need to create a <b>cover sheet & bind your pages before submitting</b>. You can submit by going to dropping them off to the NYS Board of Elections Office. You can do that between July 9 and July 12.<b> Step 6:</b> If you were running unopposed, congratulations! You are now a county committee person!<br />
If not and you are running against someone, <b>Step 6</b> means going back to those neighbors and getting them to vote for you in the Primary.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Our Un-Democratic County Committee </b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
political bosses ensure that a vast number of the seats on the county
committee are left unfilled, undermining our
goal of broad participation in the county decision-making. These
political bosses usurp the power of the county committee by using
proxies of county committee members they elect to control <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">what
the county committee does. Instead of representing the needs of
Brooklyn residents, the county committee operates as a private country
club by representing the interests of political bosses. </span></span></span></span><br />
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As <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/09/17/crowley-gets-a-consolation-prize-after-ocasio-cortez-defeat/" target="_blank">the New York Post reported</a>,
the election by executive committee members only happened by voice vote
at a diner. This, after Crowley lost the Congressional primary in June
to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.<br />
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Bronx County Democrats also meet tonight and will potentially discuss judicial nominees. Many of you <a href="http://gothamist.com/2018/09/12/judges_ballot_primary_nyc.php">have asked</a> how nominees for judgeships end up on the ballot. The answer <a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/who-really-picks-new-yorks-judges" target="_blank">is complicated</a>, but county committees play a central role.<br />
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<li>They also choose which candidates to run in a special election. This is incredibly important considering that <a href="http://www.citizensunion.org/circumventing_democracy" target="_blank">one-third of state Assembly members</a>
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2017 report by Citizens Union. In the state senate, 19 percent of
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>How to Run for County Committee </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">you will only need 3 to 20 signatures from the ED!</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: small;">5% of the registered Party Voters in That <span style="color: #38761d;">ED</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>How to Run for District Leader </b> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1 male and 1 female from each of the Assembly Districts need only</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://vote.nyc.ny.us/html/voters/where.shtml">Look Up What Election and Assembly District You Live in </a> </span></span></span></span></b></span><br />
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<b>Who Chooses Supreme Court Judges </b><br />
Judicial Delegates Pick Supreme Court Judges From A Convention Held Right After the Democratic Primary. </span><br />
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become a Judicial Delegate you will only need 500 Signatures from your
Assembly District! All 6 of the Judicial Candidates From the Same ED Can
Appear on the Same Petiton</span></span></b></span></span><br />
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Convention Made Up of Winning Judicial Delegates (about a 100
delegates) Meets Once After the Primary to Nominate Supreme Court
Judges </span></span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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“The whole system of elections in New York State is rigged,” said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group. “Special Elections just exacerbate the existing problems because no one knows it’s happening.” The whole system of choosing a party nominee and getting on the ballot
in a Special Election is so complex and inexplicable that even trying to
explain it might kill off some of our readers (which we don't want to
do; if you want a detailed explanation, you'll have to <a href="http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/issueoftheweek/20060217/200/1764" target="new">click here</a>.). Under Albany rules, special elections are rigged. Party bosses pick their nominees who cost to victory in our one party state.<br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/editorial-special-delivery-article-1.2123489?cid=bitly">Special delivery:Time to consign undemocratic boss-driven special elections to history<span style="background-color: white;"> </span></a><span style="background-color: white;">(<span style="font-family: "";">NYDN Ed) <span style="font-family: "";">Let these be the last two contests conducted under </span>New York<span style="font-family: "";">’s
grossly undemocratic special election law. That statute cuts out the
usual party primaries, thereby empowering Democratic and Republican
bosses to put whatever loyal soldiers they choose on the ballot. </span><span style="font-family: "";">Voters
get no real choice about who represents them — especially in places
where one party dominates, as Democrats do in most of </span>New York City<span style="font-family: "";">. </span></span></span></span><br />
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Years Ago George McGovern's Presidential Race Pulled Out Tens of Thousands of New Voters in A
Primary, Causing Albany Lawmakers and Congressmen to Lose. Since 1972 Albany has Split Primaries to Two Sometime Three Separate Primaries A Year to Lower Voter Turnout</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: black;"><b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/opinion/an-expensive-and-unnecessary-election.html">As the New York Times wrote in An Expensive and Unnecessary Election </a></b>(March 9, 2014) --"</span></i>the extra New York State primary will cost state taxpayers $50 million
for their trouble. New York State is poised to put voters through
another needlessly
expensive election year. Instead of taking the sensible route — one
primary to pick party candidates and one general election to pick
ultimate winners — New York is scheduled to have an extra primary. That
means three elections when two are enough. Albany, however, has yet to agree to a single June primary. Its members
want a federal primary in June and a separate state and local primary
(which would include their own primary elections) in September. It’s
been that way for 40 years, and the Senate, which is now almost evenly
divided between the two major parties, seems intent on resisting change." The turnout for the 2016 federal primary was 8% </span></span></span><b><a href="http://www.gothamgazette.com/city/7036-8-new-report-shows-shockingly-low-voter-turnout-in-nyc">8%! New Report Shows Shockingly Low Voter Turnout in NYC</a></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">New York's minor parties are controlled by inner circles that elect the same leaders for decades. For instance, the <b>Conservative Party</b> Leader
Michael Long has run his party for over 30 years. The
Working Families Party has the same leaders since it was
founded by labor bosses 27 years ago. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">An addition
to New York's election law written in the Tammany Hall era of 1947, Wilson-Pakula law, was aimed at defeating left wing <b>Congressman Vito Marcantonio. </b>The law
gave party bosses the power to cross-endorse, or choose not to endorse,
a very useful tool for party leader to get favors from incumbent mayors, governors and other law makers. Without Wilson-Pakula, the right wing conservative
party would not have been able to deliver it 328,605 votes in 1995 to
Pataki, the margin of victory in defeating Mario Cuomo. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">Rudy Giuliani was
elected mayor in 1993 with the help of the votes he received on a
Liberal Party line, before the boss of that party was convicted for pension fraud. Mike Bloomberg paid off five pro-gun GOP bosses to approve him to run as a Republican, even though he was not registered in the party. In
the 2013 election, Senator Malcolm Smith tired to buy the GOP line using
the Wilson-Pakula law. Smith and GOP party leaders are now in jail for
their plot to buy and sell the party. In 2009, After Bloomberg changed the
term limit laws, to allow him to run again, he still needed the
Wilson-Pakula Law to add the Independence Party's 150,073 votes to win. A party operative </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;"><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2011/04/haggertygate.html"><span class="st">John Haggerty</span> went to jail</a> for buying himself a house with the millions of dollars Bloomberg gave to an upstate
county committee controlled by the independence party. </span> </span></span></span><br />
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"I attended the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Kings+County" title="Kings County">Kings County</a>
Democratic judicial nominating convention Tuesday. It was orchestrated
"Soviet-style." Short, sweet, lady- and gentleman-like, the script
called for the eight candidates to be designated or re-designated without
opposition, even for supposed "open" seats. Before adjournment, each
judge candidate got up and gave a short thank-you speech. Every one of
them expressed gratitude to the party district leaders for their
support, and they also expressed effusive thanks to and praise of County
Leader Vito Lopez. One 're-up,' <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/John+Leventhal" title="John Leventhal">John Leventhal</a> of the Appellate Division, Second Department (after inquiring if the press was present) thanked now-imprisoned county leader <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Clarence+Norman" title="Clarence Norman">Clarence Norman</a> as well, and another called <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Vito+Lopez" title="Vito Lopez">Lopez</a>
"the greatest county leader ever." After adjournment, I spoke with a
number of delegates who voted "automatically" and didn't seem to know
for whom they were voting. They didn't know, and were just told for whom
to vote." - <i>Daily News 2008</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.wnyc.org/story/new-york-judicial-elections-smoke-filled-rooms-still-rule/">'Smoke-Filled Rooms' Still Rule New York Judicial Elections</a> (WNYC) * <a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2017/07/7/brooklyn-civil-court-judge-race-contest-primary-shake-up.html">More on How the Machine Runs Judges Unopposed</a> (NY1) * <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/19/nyregion/political-memo-party-boss-has-firm-grip-on-judgeships.html">Party Boss Has Firm Grip On Judgeships <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(NYT)</span></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> * </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/borough-democrats-chief-involved-illegal-fund-raiser-article-1.3392116"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Borough Dems chief involved in 'illegal' fund-raiser for judicial candidates (NYDN)</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> * </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2014/09/corrupt-judicial-conventions.html">Did Silver Corrupt the Manhattan Court?</a> * </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2011/12/judicial-races.html">All About Judicial Races and Corruption </a> </span><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/bronx-da-swaps-seat-judges-bench/%20%E2%80%A6%20v" target="_blank">Bronx cheers as DA playsmusical chairs with judge. </a>(WNYC) * <a href="http://thebronxchronicle.com/2015/09/25/johnson-gets-judge-nod-clark-tapped-run-d/" title="Permalink to Johnson Gets Judge Nod; Clark Tapped To Run For D.A.">Johnson Gets Judge Nod; Clark Tapped To Run For D.A.</a>(Bronx
Chronicle) * Johnson’s quick transformation from a candidate for
re-election to a nominee for state court justice – without a vote being
cast – <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/judges-elections-get-new-scrutiny-1443402506">is raising questions</a> about
the clout that state election law gives to party leaders and shedding
light on New York’s largely obscure judicial electoral system. * </span></b><br />
<a class="postid-11002042" href="https://nypost.com/2017/06/07/how-the-politically-connected-control-the-new-york-court-system/">How the politically connected control the New York court system (NYP)</a><br />
* <a href="http://www.therobingroom.com/newyork/Judge.aspx?id=580">The Robbing Room</a> * <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/friends-vito-lopez-leg-jobs-judges-unqualified-article-1.439641">Friends of Vito Lopez have a leg up when it comes to jobs as judges, even if 'unqualified'</a> * <a href="https://www.nysun.com/new-york/credentials-lacking-for-nine-nominees-to-brooklyn/22343/">Credentials Lacking For Nine Nominees To Brooklyn Bench</a></div>
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The uninitiated might imagine that judges in New York City ascend to the
bench by destiny, the only sound the swishing of their black robes. But
the selection of judges may be one of the few areas of local politics
where back-room deals are still the rule, and where the county political
leaders exercise the greatest control<br />
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<a href="http://nybloggersnewspaper.blogspot.com/2016/09/5-million-lawsuit-filed-by-judge.html">Judge Jacobson Who Tried to Keep A Hospital Open</a><br />
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<a href="http://nybloggersnewspaper.blogspot.com/2016/09/5-million-lawsuit-filed-by-judge.html">is Suing Brooklyn Boss Seddio and His Fake Screen Panel for Dumping Her </a> *<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 25.68px;"><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2012/02/brooklyn-hospitals.html" target="_blank">More on Closing Long Island College Hospital</a>*<b> </b></span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 25.68px;"><a href="http://nybloggersnewspaper.blogspot.com/2016/09/5-million-lawsuit-filed-by-judge.html" target="_blank">Boss Seddeo</a> * </span><a href="http://nybloggersnewspaper.blogspot.com/2016/09/5-million-lawsuit-filed-by-judge.html" target="_blank">Judge Jacobson's Case Update </a>* <a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2012/09/seddio.html" target="_blank">Brooklyn Democratic Boss Seddio</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://nybloggersnewspaper.blogspot.com/2016/09/5-million-lawsuit-filed-by-judge.html">Million $ Lawsuit</a> filed Against the Brooklyn Machine By Judge Laura Jacobson Who Was Dumped By Boss
Seddeo and his Judicial Screening Panel For Trying to Keep Keep LICH Open, People in Their Homes, More . . . </b></span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/11/04/former-hospital-will-be-turned-into-luxury-high-rise/">Former hospital will be turned into luxury high-rise</a></span></b> (NYP) </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Supreme Court</b></span> is a trial court and is not the highest court in the
state. The highest court of the State of New York is the Court of Appeals.
Second, although it is a trial court, the Supreme Court sits as a
"single great tribunal of general state-wide jurisdiction, rather than
an aggregation of separate courts sitting in the several counties or
judicial districts of the state." There is a branch of the Supreme Court in each of New York's 62 counties. Under the New York State Constitution, the New York State Supreme Court
has unlimited jurisdiction in both civil and criminal cases, with the
exception of certain monetary claims against the State of New York
itself. In practice, the Supreme Court hears civil actions involving
claims above a certain monetary amount (for example, $25,000 in New York
City) that puts the claim beyond the jurisdiction of lower courts.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-guide1999p4-5_3-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Supreme_Court#cite_note-guide1999p4-5-3">[3]</a></sup> Civil actions about lesser sums are heard by courts of limited jurisdiction, such as the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="New York City Civil Court">New York City Civil Court</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Civil Court of the City of New York</b></span> is a civil court of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="Judiciary of New York">New York State Unified Court System</a> in New York City
that decides lawsuits involving claims for damages up to $25,000 and
includes a small claims part (small claims court) for cases involving
amounts up to $5,000 as well as a housing part (housing court) for
landlord-tenant matters, and also handles other civil matters referred
by the New York Supreme Court.<sup> </sup> It handles about 25% of all the New York state and local courts' total filings. The court has divisions by county (borough), but it is a single citywide court. An regular election occurred for civil and surrogate courts candidates. Candidates for the supreme courts are chosen indirectly by delegates and appear only on the general election ballot.
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The sleazy deal that allowed Robert Johnson to trade his Bronx district
attorney’s job for a judge’s seat in state Supreme Court will come with
a mega payday. Johnson, a Bronx native, announced plans to resign almost immediately after winning the Democratic primary on Sept. 10. That allowed the county’s party leaders to choose his replacement on
the November general-election ballot, Appellate Division Judge Darcel
Clark. In the heavily Democratic Bronx, the Democratic nomination is tantamount to election. Johnson denied widespread reports and criticism that he was
approached by fellow Democrats to time his resignation to avoid a
possible primary. But government watchdogs said his actions and those of Bronx Democratic leaders smelled. “They want to be able to control who holds that office if you open it
up to the voters, which is the Democratic way, you can’t control who
goes in there,” said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union. “That ability to determine who is representing their interests in law
enforcement is being undermined by this electoral process.”<br />
Johnson presided over a DA’s office that perpetually had the worst
conviction rate in the city for major crimes. When it came to government
corruption, it was US Attorney Preet Bharara who brought cases that
sent Bronx politicians to prison — not Johnson.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/editorial-law-article-1.2418422">Below the law as Bronx pols Rob Johnson and Darcel Clarke break the rules</a> (Daily News) *</span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://citylimits.org/2015/08/27/nycs-dumbest-elections-races-for-da-in-a-year-when-no-one-is-looking/"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> NYC’s Dumbest Elections: Races for DA in a Year When No One is Looking (City Limits)</span></a> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">* </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/nyregion/in-queens-political-center-is-in-surrogates-court.html">In Queens, Political Center Is in Surrogate's Court - The New York Times</a> * </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://observer.com/2017/04/congressman-joe-crowley-family-queens-supreme-court-appointments/">Family of Queens Democratic Boss Snatches Up Supreme Court Appointments</a> * <a href="https://queensagainstcrowley.com/2018/06/02/fire-boss-crowley/">Fire Boss Crowley - Queens Against Crowley</a> * <a href="https://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2018/5/pl-party-line-2018-02-02-bk.html">Dem boss calls primary 'waste' • Brooklyn Daily</a></span></h1>
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Crowley's
brother, Sean Crowley, received appointments with startling regularity
for about a decade beginning in 1995 — until new anti-nepotism laws
forced him from the court. Sean Crowley netted about $400,000 for his
work as a guardian and court evaluator. Once he was barred, as the
brother of the county leader, from landing appointments, he left his law
practice and became a lobbyist for Davidson, Hutcher and Citron, a
leading New York firm. Sean
Crowley's law partner was Scott Kaufman, an attorney who has served as
Joe Crowley's campaign treasurer. Since 2006, records show, Kaufman has
earned $550,000 in fees from Surrogate's Court appointments.<br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">"The
Surrogate Court is A Political Toll Booth Exacting Tribute From Widows
and Orphans" </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> - Robert Kennedy, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In
the 1930s, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia called Surrogate's Court "the most
expensive undertaking establishment in the world." He believed it was
control of the Surrogate's Court of New York County, more than any other
factor, that kept the Tammany Hall
political machine alive through the lean years when he deprived it of
city jobs and President Franklin Roosevelt denied it federal jobs.</span> </span><span class="ILfuVd yZ8quc">All wills are probated in this court and all estates of people who die without a will are handled in this court. Unclaimed property of the deceased without wills is handled by the Judge of this court. It also handles adoptions. There is a Surrogate's Court in each county in the state.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"A
dozen delegates, in recent interviews, said they could not even
remember the handful of candidates they had nominated for the State
Supreme Court last year. They said the convention, as always, had been a
carefully scripted event lasting less than an hour. Whether
the candidates were potentially outstanding judges, the delegates said
they never knew. Before the convention, the party never makes an effort
to inform them about which candidates are going to be nominated. In
fact, the names are often secret." NY Times 2003</span></span></span></div>
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For
decades in New York, the law has required that political parties
nominate candidates to run for State Supreme Court at judicial
conventions, not in primaries. The conventions are attended by delegates
who are elected on the neighborhood level and who are supposed to
evaluate candidates before offering the best ones a spot on the November
ballot. In
theory, the conventions are intended to help achieve the civic goal of
allowing citizens, through their votes, to decide the makeup of the
state's highest trial court. But in practice, according to legal
experts, prosecutors and even the delegates themselves, the conventions
have long been highly cynical exercises, just another cog in the
operations of political party machines. There
is, for instance, often no debate about candidates, and party leaders
wind up dictating nominations, frequently handing them to loyalists who
have donated to the party or worked on campaigns. In
fact, the nominating conventions have received so little attention that
the City Board of Elections says it does not even keep an official
record of those who serve as convention delegates -- the people legally
charged with helping determine who gets on the bench. </div>
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News Has Learned: Red Horse Working for Bronx DA Candidate Darcel
Clark and A Queens DA Candidate and Has Worked for the Brooklyn and New York DAs </b><span style="font-family: "";">Political
consultant Red Horse worked for Brooklyn DA Thompson campaign along
with Berlin Rosen. Both Red Horse and Advance Group worked for the
UFT's PAC United for the Future (the UFT attempted to covering up
Advance involvement by paying them through a fake company) Red Horse
worked for Manhattan DA. Red Horse worked for Brooklyn BP Adams, Bronx
BP Diaz and PA James. Red Horse worked for Manhattan DA Cy Vance. Red
Horse worked for Pitta Bishop for Brooklyn BP Adams. Red Horse worked
with George Arzt in the Queens BP campaign.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Convert the 59 Community Boards into </b></span></span><br />
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There
are currently two charter commission proposals that could be on this
ballot this year. One is controlled by the mayor's commission would
come up with change for increase public funding for elections and
enhance voter outreach. The council commission wants a top-to-bottom
review to make city government more efficient. The council would look at
giving more independence to offices like the city controller and public
advocate with oversight power over the mayor. To
Restore NYC Democracy we need make charter changes to reconnect New
Yorkers to
their local government and elections. New Yorkers have stop voting
because they feel that there vote does not make a difference and they
think their government is corrupt. We need to simplify how governments
works, create neighborhood City Hall as a genuine means of contact with
public
life and reform the public finance and election laws to give the public
more power.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.gothamgazette.com/city/7663-as-city-proceeds-with-two-charter-revision-commissions-a-cautionary-tale-from-los-angeles">As City Proceeds with Two Charter Revision Commissions, A Cautionary Tale from Los Angeles</a></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://reason.com/blog/2017/03/20/the-brief-half-serious-and-sort-of-visio">The Brief, Half-Serious, and Sort of Visionary Political Career of Jimmy Breslin</a></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. We need to expand the City Council to one
hundred members and Community Boards into 100 neighborhood Town Hall.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2. We should change the way Community Board
Member are chosen. Right now the 50 members to the board are chosen by
the local councilmember and borough president. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">3. We should make any
County Committee member from any political party a voting member of
their local Community Board. Those who are not a member of a major party can become a member of a community board by submitting 25 signatures of registered voters who live in the community board district.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4. NYC needs to change the present redistricting of elected officials districts, judicial district and
municipal functions—schools, police,
etc.—which was designed for the convenience of various central
departments or the political machines into 100% overlapping cohere
districts. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">5. Independent Neighborhood City Halls need a share of the city's budget
to hire its own professionals and budget on its own. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">6. Local City Halls
will work a <span style="line-height: 107%;">a
genuine means of contact with public life, we average citizens can go
to complain about issues like homelessness, get help in organizing
tenant or block party organizations and give suggestions on how to
improve city services. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">7.
End the political bosses control of the Board of Elections. Party Boss
and District Leaders Should Be Term Limited. NY Needs Early Voting,
Same Day Registration and Party Changes. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">8. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Reforming the campaign finance law and adopting<a href="https://vimeo.com/220898333"> Seattle’s ‘Democracy Voucher’</a> system of public financing of campaigns. Public financing</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> for all state and judicial elections.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">9.
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">New York City residences should have a recall option to remove corrupt
citywide elected officials or those not doing their job. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span class="ILfuVd yZ8quc">18 states have <b>recall election</b> (also called a <b>recall</b> referendum or representative <b>recall</b>) is a procedure by which voters can remove an <b>elected</b> official from office through a direct vote before that official's term has ended. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span class="ILfuVd yZ8quc">Recall elections, or the possibility of them, extend the democratic procedure
as they mean that local (and some state) elected officials need to be
continuously responsible and responsive to public opinion.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">New England or 'Open' Town Meetings are public forums that promote
participation in local governance. Town meetings allow residents to
voice their opinions on public issues and deliberate and vote on laws
and budgets. "Proponents of the town assembly emphasize that it is the
purest form of democracy
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Join <i>Fix NYC</i>,
run and get your friends to run for a party position to bring about
change of NYC's government. Its time for New York to increase its
appalling low participation rates by implementing easier voting laws
such as Internet voting, used by many other cities. To increase local
participation in government, <i>Fix NY</i> wants to give everyone a vote
on every important issue their neighborhood is facing by changing the
way members are chosen for the Community Boards. <i>Fix NYC </i>believes
that anyone who becomes a county committee member should automatically
become a member of their local community board. People living in their
communities should be able to vote directly on all important community
issues over the Internet. <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Fix NYC</i>
wants to give the power back to the county committee to elect district
leaders and judicial delegates. We believe that elected officials
should not monopolize local government by also serving as district or
county leaders or judicial delegates. Party Bosses and District Leaders
should be term limited. Did you know that because of the low voter
turnout for local party elections, district leaders and other political
bosses have life time appointments? We can do better! <i>Fix NYC</i>
goal is to restore competition in political parties and local
elections. Many of today's party leaders and elected officials are
re-elected without a primary. We need more people to get involved in
the local political parties, learn the system, to get more people to run
for public office. </span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">The City's Election System is Controlled by Special Interests</span></b><br />
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<b>New Yorkers stopped voting because they no longer feel Government Does Not Service Their Needs </b><br />
<b> </b>Many residents feel disconnected from city politics because they do not understand how their government works. Problems including homelessness, poverty, lack of affordable housing and the closings of small businesses have been proliferating for years with no solutions. Pay to play corruption is everywhere. How do we elect leaders in our government to fix these and other problems? How is NYC progressive if it has suppressive voting laws that keep low voters turnout? <br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The percentage of mayoral votes has dropped nearly every four years for decades - 13% 2017 - 93% 1951</span></b></span><br />
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<b><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-yorks-decreasing-voter-turnout.html">How the NYS Election Law Suppresses Voter Turnout, Helps Incumbents and Takes Power Away from the City's Neighborhoods</a></b><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Unelected Lobbyists Most Times Working Together</span></b></span><br />
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Voting Caused by NY’s Undemocratic Voter Suppression Election Law Has Empowered Modern Political Bosses into a New Tammany Hall, Cutting the Voters
Out of Elections, While Enriching the Campaign Consultant Lobbyists and Political Party Bosses</span></b><br />
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/19/nyregion/political-memo-party-boss-has-firm-grip-on-judgeships.html"><span style="font-size: small;">Party Boss Has Firm Grip On Judgeships</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> The uninitiated might imagine that judges in New York City ascend to the
bench by destiny, the only sound the swishing of their black robes. But
the selection of judges may be one of the few areas of local politics
where back-room deals are still the rule, and where the county political
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Local Activists and People Involved in Their Local Community Groups Do
See How the Effectiveness of Their Cause Will Benefit If Their Add Their
Voice Inside the Democratic Party to the Issues They Care About. </b></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Who Should Run for County Committee?</b></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.nycveteransalliance.org/county_commmittee">Run for Your County Committee! - Veterans Alliance</a><br />
Affordable Housing and Tenant Leaders Must Run for County Committee<br />
People Working for Better Schools Should Also Be Running for County Committee<br />
Groups fighting for Seniors Should Have their Members Run for County Committee<br />
Groups Fighting for Property Tax Relief Should Have their Members Run for County Committee<br />
Groups Seeking to improve the Subways Should Have their Members Run for County Committee<br />
Neighborhood Associations Seeking to Improve Their Community Quality of Life <br />
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NYC's government and elections are now controlled by big money and powerful interests, developers, lobbyists-consultants and party bosses. The city's low voting turnout trend, that stated about 20 years ago, gave control over the elections and the local government to special interests rather than neighborhoods and the voters. In low turnout elections the majority of voters fail to participate and the limited number of votes the political machine controls is enough for them to win. This kind of voting only serves the political insiders, does not represent the needs of the public and is a subversion of the democratic process. Community involvement is the only way to shift power back to the people.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Old
time Tammany Halls' Boss De Sapio lobbied for affordable housing,
protecting neighborhoods from developers and for lower subway fairs.
Political Boss De Sapio kept his power by delivering votes to
politicians.<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
District Leaders in the Tammany Hall era needed to not only deliver
government services and jobs to voters in their districts. They also
needed to protect their neighborhoods </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to keep their deliverable votes high, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from the developers who were trying to raise rents and displace residents.</span></span> Today's
Gentrification displacement and low voting in local elections created a
campaign consultant lobbyists shadow govt that has taken power out of
the local community by controlling who gets elected. A cabal of
developers, government contractors and unions elect local candidates who
then run the government to benefit the groups that helped elect them. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Consultant Lobbyists Have Turned NY Into A Pay to Play Candy Store </span></b></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The lobbyist-consultants gain power by using money from the developers and city contractors to drive out local candidates. They use the </span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwv3vnIwGNIz3WMi7Yf_tS6vQdz6rq8ShZJHAAr-m4K31wf-_cAXFca09xenWUesAu5WisujThUBUVGV1BCzDvAZCddOoV1TyFCsRD4IJ2EbNv28rbenz4-LAGVEYbDA13R10_SbKKPiLJ/s1600/wal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1112" data-original-width="1484" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwv3vnIwGNIz3WMi7Yf_tS6vQdz6rq8ShZJHAAr-m4K31wf-_cAXFca09xenWUesAu5WisujThUBUVGV1BCzDvAZCddOoV1TyFCsRD4IJ2EbNv28rbenz4-LAGVEYbDA13R10_SbKKPiLJ/s400/wal.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Walmart model of destroying local competition of independent candidates </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">who can fight the pay to play corruption</span></span></span></span> for the needs and concerns of the community. This Walmart-like takeover of local political campaigns sucks the power out of NYC's once strong neighborhood control. Super tall buildings all over and no leaders to fight the special interests that are destroying affordable housing, mom and pop stores and ignore homelessness, poor education, broken subways and other </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">quality of live problems. As </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jack Newfield</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">, the late great journalist </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">wrote in his book </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Permanent Government: t</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">o fix NYC, we need to </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">empower the people of New York to </span></span></span></span>take back the control over political parties from party bosses bottom up, block by block, electing candidates who will fight for the needs of the people and the neighborhoods they live in. </span></span></span></span><br />
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Community involvement is also the only way to fight pay to play corruption in Albany and City Hall. <b>Albany
refuses to change NY's Suppressive Voting Laws because low voting
helps incumbent politicians, consultant lobbyists and party bosses win
re-election. </b> Voting in NYC is at its lowest--only 13% voted in the
Democratic Primary in 2017 for mayor or city council. By comparison, in
1951 voter participation was over 90% for these seats. In 2016, only
4% of new Yorker's voted in the 2016 democratic primary for their
district leader, county committee and democratic party chairman.<br />
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other words, party elections are undemocratic elected, because eligible
voters do not participate in the elections, turning these elected party
seats into lifetime appointments. <i>Fix NYC</i> wants to make our political parties now run by the special interests, more inclusive. <i>Fix NYC </i>wants
YOU to run for your County Committee, Judicial Delegate and other party
positions. By running for these important local party positions you
will have a say as to who gets nominated by the party to run in primary
elected offices and judgeship's. This will give control over political
parties including who gets elected and how their government is
run to average New
Yorkers. Elected officials only care about getting re-elected and it
needs to stop!<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/nyc-had-an-abysmally-low-voter-turnout-in-tuesdays-primary-election-091317">NYC had an abysmally low voter turnout in Tuesday's primary election</a></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://nymag.com/news/politics/46613/">Jimmy Breslin on His Mayoral Run With Norman Mailer ... - NYMag</a></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-family: '';"><span style="font-size: large;">NYC Needs to Empower the Neighborhoods and Its People Like Mayor Lindsay Tried 50 Years Ago</span></b></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="st"><span style="color: #38761d;">"Mv plan is to open Little <i>City Halls</i> in the <i>neighborhoods</i> of our city, manned by the people in those <i>neighborhoods</i>, will stimulate a new citizen involvement in the life of our city" Mayor Lindsay 1966</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="st"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="bodytext">The 1963 City Charter, adopted during
Wagner’s third term as Mayor, extended the neighborhood governance
concept to the other boroughs, establishing 'Community Planning Boards'
throughout the city. Eventually, these came to be known simply as
'Community Boards.' </span></span></span></span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="st"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="bodytext"><span class="bodytext">In 1989, the voters of New York City
ratified new Charter provisions, changing how City government deals with
the budget, land-use matters, and service delivery. The Community
Board’s important roles in all of these areas were either expanded or
reaffirmed by the new Charter.</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Political Bosses Who Run the Board of Election Removed Thousands of Bernie Sanders Voters and Got Away With It</b></span></span></span></span><br />
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Join <i>Fix NYC</i> to make the Democratic Party and other political parties more inclusive and
accessible to the voters. Get your neighbors to <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">represent your block in the democratic party. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><i>Fix NYC</i> wants you to run</span> and win a seat in your local Democratic County Committee. <i>Fix NYC </i>plan is <i>to </i>give the <b>County Committee </b>members more power by automatically making them members of their <b>Local Community Boards,</b>
replacing appointed members. If you are a member of the Working
Families Party or any other political party or not a member of a party,
we want you to collect 25 signatures from registered voters to qualify
to become a member of the community board. Our goal is to make
community boards into Town Halls, where you and your neighbors can
reconnect to your local community needs and city wide issues.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">The NY Democratic Party is governed by committees of citizens who are
registered Democrats, from the state level down to the block you live on. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Y0NH2b CLPzrc">The largest national parties (<b>Democrats</b>
and Republicans) are mandated by the state to have a committee of party
members in each of New York's 62 counties. In NYC, there are separate
County Committees for each party in <b>Kings</b>, Queens, Bronx, New York, and Richmond Counties. </span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Y0NH2b CLPzrc"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>County
Committee Members Are Elected by Voters In Each of the City's Elections
Districts (EDs). There are Almost 10,000 EDs in the city.</b></span></span></span></span></b></span><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Y0NH2b CLPzrc"><a href="https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/new-york-city/you-could-be-on-the-bronx-democratic-county-committee-and-not-even-know-it.html">How the Bronx County Committee Has Been Abused </a></span></span></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.gothamgazette.com/opinion/7128-squadron-departure-spotlights-importance-of-county-committee">Squadron Departure Spotlights Importance of County Committee</a></h3>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Every two years, Democrats in each </span><a href="http://vote.nyc.ny.us/html/voters/maps.shtml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">assembly district</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> elect two district leaders: one male and one female</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">These District Leaders Choose the Party Boss</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Who Server Their Needs Not the Communities </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fix NYC wants the county committee to pick the party leader </span></span></b></span></div>
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OLD TIMES DISTRICT LEADERS The District leaders are able in a hundred ways to benefit their
followers. They try to get them work when they are idle; they provide
amusement for them in the shape of picnics and steamboat excursions;
and, in exceptional cases, they care for them when suffering from want
or sickness; and they are always ready to help them when they have
fallen into trouble with the representatives of the law. They thus get a
very strong influence over a large class, the members of which are
ordinarily fairly decent men, who work with reasonable industry at their
trades, but who never get far ahead, who at times fall into want, and
who sometimes have kinsfolk of semi-criminal type. These men are apt to
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">County Committee Members are Elected By Elections Districts</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The County Committee</span></span> </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Each <b>election district</b> (or ED) is made up of a small number
of city blocks.</span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Each ED has two (2) to four (4) seats in the general membership of the county committee;
so when all the seats are filled, there are approximately 3000 members.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.gothamgazette.com/opinion/7128-squadron-departure-spotlights-importance-of-county-committee">Squadron Departure Spotlights Importance of County Committee</a></h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Our Un-Democratic County Committee </b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The political bosses ensure that a vast number of the seats on the county committee are left unfilled, undermining our
goal of broad participation in the county decision-making. These political bosses usurp the power of the county committee by using proxies of county committee members they elect to control <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">what the county committee does. Instead of representing the needs of Brooklyn residents, the county committee operates as a private country club by representing the interests of political bosses. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Petitions Start June 5th and Run Through July 12th 2018 </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>How to Run for County Committee </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">you will only need 3 to 20 signatures from the ED!</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: small;">5% of the registered Party Voters in That <span style="color: #38761d;">ED</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>How to Run for District Leader </b> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1 male and 1 female from each of the Assembly Districts need only</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">500 Signatures from the AD</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://vote.nyc.ny.us/html/voters/maps.shtml"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maps of the Assembly Districts </span></span></a></span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://vote.nyc.ny.us/html/voters/where.shtml">Look Up What Election and Assembly District You Live in </a> </span></span></span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The District Leaders coordinate the party's functions in the district:
arranging for poll workers to staff sites on election day, collecting
signatures to get Democratic candidates on the ballot, communicating
community needs to Democratic elected officials, organizing the local
get-out-the-vote operation, and representing the neighborhood on the
county party executive committee. Unfortunately, it is all too common
for District Leaders to neglect these basic, grassroots party-building
activities and instead focus on getting their favored candidates elected
to local judgeships. If you would like to know more about what I have
done since being elected leader</span> </span></h1>
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<b>Who Chooses Supreme Court Judges </b><br />
Judicial Delegates Pick Supreme Court Judges From A Convention Held Right After the Democratic Primary. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">To become a Judicial Delegate you will only need 500 Signatures from your Assembly District! All 6 of the Judicial Candidates From the Same ED Can Appear on the Same Petiton</span></span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">A Convention Made Up of Winning Judicial Delegates (about a 100 delegates) Meets Once After the Primary to Nominate Supreme Court Judges </span></span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-18/voter-suppression-in-deep-blue-new-york">Voter Suppression in Deep-Blue New York - Bloomberg</a></h3>
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<a href="https://www.wnyc.org/story/party-bosses-trump-average-voters-filling-vacant-seats/"><span style="font-size: small;">It's Party Bosses — Not Voters — Who Often Fill Vacant Seats in the State Legislature</span></a></h1>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/editorial-special-delivery-article-1.2123489?cid=bitly">Special delivery:Time to consign undemocratic boss-driven special elections to history<span style="background-color: white;"> </span></a><span style="background-color: white;">(<span style="font-family: "";">NYDN) <span style="font-family: "";">Let these be the last two contests conducted under </span>New York<span style="font-family: "";">’s
grossly undemocratic special election law. That statute cuts out the
usual party primaries, thereby empowering Democratic and Republican
bosses to put whatever loyal soldiers they choose on the ballot. </span><span style="font-family: "";">Voters
get no real choice about who represents them — especially in places
where one party dominates, as Democrats do in most of </span>New York City<span style="font-family: "";">. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>40
Years Ago George McGovern Presidential Race Pull Out Tens of Thousands of New Voters in A
Primary Which Caused A Lot of Albany Incumbents Lose </b></span></span><br />
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The extra New York State primary will cost state taxpayers $50 million
for their trouble. New York State is poised to put voters through
another needlessly
expensive election year. Instead of taking the sensible route — one
primary to pick party candidates and one general election to pick
ultimate winners — New York is scheduled to have an extra primary. That
means three elections when two are enough. The extra primary will cost
state taxpayers $50 million for their trouble. The
Assembly was right to challenge this scenario with a bill providing for
federal, state and local primaries on the fourth Tuesday in June (the
24th this year). That gives officials plenty of time to count ballots
and announce nominees for the November general election. It also allows
the state to comply with federal law that requires primaries to be held
early enough so that troops overseas can get ballots and mail them back
in time to be counted. The
Senate, however, has yet to agree to a single June primary. Its members
want a federal primary in June and a separate state and local primary
(which would include their own primary elections) in September. It’s
been that way for 40 years, and the Senate, which is now almost evenly
divided between the two major parties, seems intent on resisting change.</span></span></span><br />
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Michael Long has run his party
which has had the third line on the ballot for over 30 years. The
Working Families Party has also had the same leaders since it as
founded by labor bosses 27 years also. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">An addition
to New York's election law written in the Tammany Hall era of 1947,
prohibited members of one party from running in another party. It was
called the Wilson-Pakula law, aimed squarely at left wing <b>Congressman Vito Marcantonio. </b>The law
gave party bosses the power to cross-endorse, or choose not to endorse,
a very useful tool for party leader to get favors from mayors and
governors. Without left wing Marcantonio the right wing conservative
party would not have been able to deliver it 328,605 votes in 1995 to
Pataki, the margin of victory in defeating Mario Cuomo. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">Rudy Giuliani was
elected mayor in 1993 with the help of the votes he received on a Liberal Party line and Mike Bloomberg had to pay off the five GOP bosses
to run as a Republican because he was not registered in the party. In
the 2013 election Senator Malcolm Smith tired to buy the GOP line using
the Wilson-Pakula law. Smith and GOP party leaders are now in jail for
their plot to buy and sell the party. In 2009 After Bloomberg change the
term limits law to allow him to run again, he still needed the
Wilson-Pakula Law to add the Independence Party's 150,073 votes to win.
A campaign operative who used the million Bloomberg gave to an upstate
county committee controlled by the independence party to run his
campaign, to buy his home, when to jail. </span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Political Bosses Sausage Factory Electing Judges in NYC</span></span></b></span><br />
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"I attended the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Kings+County" title="Kings County">Kings County</a>
Democratic judicial nominating convention Tuesday. It was orchestrated
"Soviet-style." Short, sweet, lady- and gentleman-like, the script
called for the eight candidates to be designated or re-designated without
opposition, even for supposed "open" seats. Before adjournment, each
judge candidate got up and gave a short thank-you speech. Every one of
them expressed gratitude to the party district leaders for their
support, and they also expressed effusive thanks to and praise of County
Leader Vito Lopez. One 're-up,' <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/John+Leventhal" title="John Leventhal">John Leventhal</a> of the Appellate Division, Second Department (after inquiring if the press was present) thanked now-imprisoned county leader <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Clarence+Norman" title="Clarence Norman">Clarence Norman</a> as well, and another called <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Vito+Lopez" title="Vito Lopez">Lopez</a>
"the greatest county leader ever." After adjournment, I spoke with a
number of delegates who voted "automatically" and didn't seem to know
for whom they were voting. They didn't know, and were just told for whom
to vote." - <i>Daily News 2008</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"A
dozen delegates, in recent interviews, said they could not even
remember the handful of candidates they had nominated for the State
Supreme Court last year. They said the convention, as always, had been a
carefully scripted event lasting less than an hour. Whether
the candidates were potentially outstanding judges, the delegates said
they never knew. Before the convention, the party never makes an effort
to inform them about which candidates are going to be nominated. In
fact, the names are often secret." NY Times 2003</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/20/nyregion/picking-judges-party-machines-rubber-stamps.html">Picking Judges: Party Machines, Rubber Stamps - The New York Times 2003</a></b><br />
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For
decades in New York, the law has required that political parties
nominate candidates to run for State Supreme Court at judicial
conventions, not in primaries. The conventions are attended by delegates
who are elected on the neighborhood level and who are supposed to
evaluate candidates before offering the best ones a spot on the November
ballot. In
theory, the conventions are intended to help achieve the civic goal of
allowing citizens, through their votes, to decide the makeup of the
state's highest trial court. But in practice, according to legal
experts, prosecutors and even the delegates themselves, the conventions
have long been highly cynical exercises, just another cog in the
operations of political party machines. There
is, for instance, often no debate about candidates, and party leaders
wind up dictating nominations, frequently handing them to loyalists who
have donated to the party or worked on campaigns. In
fact, the nominating conventions have received so little attention that
the City Board of Elections says it does not even keep an official
record of those who serve as convention delegates -- the people legally
charged with helping determine who gets on the bench. </div>
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There
are currently two charter commission proposals that could be on this
ballot this year. One is controlled by the mayor's commission would
come up with change for increase public funding for elections and
enhance voter outreach. The council commission wants a top-to-bottom
review to make city government more efficient. The council would look at
giving more independence to offices like the city controller and public
advocate with oversight power over the mayor. To
Restore NYC Democracy we need make charter changes to reconnect New
Yorkers to
their local government and elections. New Yorkers have stop voting
because they feel that there vote does not make a difference and they
think their government is corrupt. We need to simplify how governments
works, create neighborhood City Hall as a genuine means of contact with
public
life and reform the public finance and election laws to give the public
more power.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. We need to expand the City Council and Community Boards into one
hundred local Town Halls. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2. We should change the way Community Board
Member are chosen. Right now the 50 members to the board are chosen by
the local councilmember and borough president. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">3. We should make any
County Committee member from any political party a voting member of
their local Community Board. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4. NYC needs to change the present redistricting of elected officials districts, judicial district and
municipal functions—schools, police,
etc.—which was designed for the convenience of various central
departments or the political machines into 100% overlapping cohere
districts. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">5. Independent Neighborhood City Halls need a share of the city's budget
to hire its own professionals and budget on its own. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">6. Local City Halls
will work a <span style="line-height: 107%;">a
genuine means of contact with public life, we average citizens can go
to complain about issues like homelessness, get help in organizing
tenant or block party organizations and give suggestions on how to
improve city services. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">7.
End the political bosses control of the Board of Elections. Party Boss
and District Leaders Should Be Term Limited. NY Needs Early Voting,
Same Day Registration and Party Changes. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">8. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Reforming the campaign finance law and adopting<a href="https://vimeo.com/220898333"> Seattle’s ‘Democracy Voucher’</a> system of public financing of campaigns. Public financing</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> for all state and judicial elections.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">9.
New York City residences should have a recall option to remove corrupt
citywide elected officials or those not doing their job. </span></span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">New England or 'Open' Town Meetings are public forums that promote
participation in local governance. Town meetings allow residents to
voice their opinions on public issues and deliberate and vote on laws
and budgets. "Proponents of the town assembly emphasize that it is the
purest form of democracy
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Join <i>Fix NYC</i>,
run and get your friends to run for a party position to bring about
change of NYC's government. Its time for New York to increase its
appalling low participation rates by implementing easier voting laws
such as Internet voting, used by many other cities. To increase local
participation in government, <i>Fix NY</i> wants to give everyone a vote
on every important issue their neighborhood is facing by changing the
way members are chosen for the Community Boards. <i>Fix NYC </i>believes
that anyone who becomes a county committee member should automatically
become a member of their local community board. People living in their
communities should be able to vote directly on all important community
issues over the Internet. <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Fix NYC</i>
wants to give the power back to the county committee to elect district
leaders and judicial delegates. We believe that elected officials
should not monopolize local government by also serving as district or
county leaders or judicial delegates. Party Bosses and District Leaders
should be term limited. Did you know that because of the low voter
turnout for local party elections, district leaders and other political
bosses have life time appointments? We can do better! <i>Fix NYC</i>
goal is to restore competition in political parties and local
elections. Many of today's party leaders and elected officials are
re-elected without a primary. We need more people to get involved in
the local political parties, learn the system, to get more people to run
for public office. </span><br />
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Journalisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10190956898079079756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746161844074689287.post-38286387729422976082016-12-31T05:38:00.001-08:002016-12-31T05:38:10.890-08:00de Blasio Tax Payer Social Media Paid 2017 Campaign <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: #b45f06;"><span style="background-color: orange; color: #4c1130;">Talking to New Yorkers Like They Are Children Using Tax Payer Dollars Our No Respect Mayor Makes A Dumb Song and Dance Video</span><span style="background-color: black; color: #4c1130;"> </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Daily News Epic Embarrassment </span></span></span></span></b></span><br />
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/27/taxpayers-foot-bill-for-glitzy-ad-touting-de-blasio/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Taxpayers foot bill for glitzy ad touting de Blasio</span></a></b> (NYP) Just hours before Mayor de Blasio sent out a plea for donations to his re-election campaign, City Hall posted a 3¹/₂-minute video on Twitter with Broadway actors touting Hizzoner and his accomplishments — all paid for by taxpayers. The kitschy clip features former “Glee” actress Jenna Ushkowitz and former “Aladdin” actor James Iglehart test-running a song about pre-K, low crime rates and affordable housing for de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray. Despite being described as a summary of accomplishments, the video cites a number of initiatives that have been pledged by the mayor but are years away from measurable progress. They include getting all second-graders to read on grade level by 2026, and providing computer-science education across all grades by 2025. The actors also trumpet a two-year rent freeze for rent-stabilized apartments, even though the Mayor’s Office has insisted it was imposed by the supposedly independent Rent Guidelines Board without City Hall interference. * <o:p></o:p><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-hits-awkward-note-broadway-style-video-article-1.2925479" target="_blank">De Blasio hits awkward note withBroadway-style video promoting his 2016 achievements </a>(NYDN) Mayor de Blasio released a cringe-inducing video on Tuesday to tout his accomplishments in 2016 that included awkward acting attempts from Hizzoner and City Hall staffers, while ignoring all of his <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/16-reasons-year-awful-mayor-de-blasio-article-1.2924836">missteps</a>. The video — financed with public money — stars Broadway actors Jenna Ushkowitz and James Iglehart and shows de Blasio on a flip phone requesting a song highlighting his administration’s work during 2016. “Just hit it. Come on, hit it!” de Blasio barks into the phone to his wife First Lady Chirlane McCray and senior adviser Andrea Hagelgans, a nod to his reputation as a demanding boss. The new video came on the same day the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/16-reasons-year-awful-mayor-de-blasio-article-1.2924836">Daily News detailed his bad year with a front-page story</a>, “Bill’s Sour ’16,” chronicling 16 troubling issues his administration faced during the past 12 months, including the law enforcement probes into de Blasio’s fund-raising and record homelessness, among other woes. Not surprisingly, none of those problems made the cut for the puff video, which only shows the mayor in a positive light. “No matter what will be, we got Billy D B,” Ushkowitz warbles. And the video makes no mention of any of the problems the city faced this year. That includes the controversy over his decision to take an NYPD helicopter to a Queens speech from Brooklyn during rush hour after making fund-raising calls in his favorite restaurant; the increase in cluster sites and hotel rooms to house the skyrocketing homeless population; and the city’s botched response to the Zymere Perkins child abuse case.John Kaehny, the executive director of the good government group Reinvent Albany, said the latest de Blasio video was too self-promotional for the public to foot the bill for. “It sounds like a campaign ad produced by taxpayer funds,” he said. Once 2017 starts — when the mayor will run for reelection — the Campaign Finance Board prohibits elected officials in New York from appearing in commercials for the city.* Mayor Bill de Blasio, who released a self-promoting video featuring Broadway talent that drew wide criticism, should concentrate more on delivering unimpeachable government if he wishes to drown out critics, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/l-song-dance-article-1-2925918/gw1rw/41272338" target="_blank">the Daily News writes.</a> <b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Bill's Song and Dance</span></b> <b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">Bright and early Tuesday morning, with the Daily News front page recounting “Tales of mayor’s roughest year yet,” the mayor’s Twitter and Facebook feeds unspooled a wacky mockumentary video in which two Broadway stars and First Lady Chirlane McCray purport to demo for the mayor, who’s listening in on a cellphone, his soaring accomplishments of 2016. </span></b> In song. With charts. Flashing the cryptic hashtag #alwaysnewyork and a satirical tone off-key to honest achievements touted, such as a million potholes filled, neighborhood policing taking root and affordable housing preserved. Then: Cut to McCray, who in all seriousness pleads with New Yorkers in mental distress to dial the city’s new NYC Well hotline for assistance. The spectacle’s punchline: de Blasio deems the effort “too elaborate. Maybe we should just do a couple of tweets.” Uh. Ha. Such is the underwhelming stagecraft of Hizzoner’s new 15-head “creative communications” team, paid $75,000 each to broadcast the mayor’s message without the meddlesome fact-checking of news reporters. The mayor’s new media adventures tread willfully close to the limit of the allowable. Had the spot emerged just five days hence, it would likely have been forbidden by a City Charter ban on taxpayer-funded self-promotion in an election year. Had de Blasio been a state official and not a city one, the ad would likely have been forbidden by a state ethics law ban on public officials appearing in taxpayer-funded promotions .* <b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/nyregion/a-song-for-bill-de-blasio-sounds-a-sour-note-for-watchdogs.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A Song for Bill de Blasio Sounds a Sour Note for Watchdogs</span></a> (NYT) </b> Video on the mayor’s City Hall Twitter account uses two Broadway stars to promote his accomplishments. Some say it is too much like a campaign ad.* <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-defend-boastful-video-decried-watchdogs-article-1.2926739" target="_blank">Mayor de Blasio tries to defend boastful video decried bywatchdogs </a>(NYDN) "Great voices, catchy tune, and substantive content. What's controversial about that?" the tweet from the official New York City Mayor's Office read.* <a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2016/12/28/fundraising-investigations--homeless-crisis--and-failures-at-acs-cloud-mayor-s-2016.html">Fundraising Investigations, Homeless Crisis, and Failures at ACS Cloud Mayor's 2016</a> (NY1)Mayor de Blasio is struggling to put a positive spin on his exceptionally challenging 2016.</div>
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/23/yes-virginia-isnt-fake-news-but-lasting-truth/amp/" target="_blank">Yes, Virginia’ isn’t fake news, butlasting truth </a>(NYP Ed) </b>You would think, in this year of fake news, that editors would know better than to try to cast doubt on The New York Sun’s reply to Virginia O’Hanlon about Santa Claus. It’s one of the greatest scoops in the history of news. Yet the political Web site FiveThirtyEight failed to get the memo. One of its writers references the Sun’s reply to the 8-year-old girl who, in 1897, wrote the famous letter saying her father trusted the paper to answer the question of whether Santa is for real. “The Sun promptly lied to her,” FiveThirtyEight’s writer avers. Let me just say, in my capacity as the editor of the Sun, I resent that kind of language. Particularly from a Web site that led its hapless readers to believe that Hillary Clinton was likely to win the presidential election. I mean, who made up that story? - Seth Lipsky * <o:p></o:p><b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/yes-virginia-santa-claus-article-1.2921951" target="_blank">Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus </a>(NYDN) * </b><b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQewL6STYhk" target="_blank">YesVirginia, There is a Santa Claus - 25 Dec 2008 </a>- Gabe Pressman </span></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: '';"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/01/14/judge-doesnt-buy-scam-witness-sick-daughter-excuse/">Judge doesn’t buy ‘scam’ witness’ sick daughter excuse</a></b> (NYP) The Queens man who <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/01/13/co-defendant-in-corrupt-councilman-case-goes-missing-from-court/" style="font-family: '';">bolted from court Tuesday before he could enter a guilty plea</a> expected to implicate City Councilman Ruben Wills in a corruption scheme got an earful Wednesday from an angry judge who didn’t take long to throw him in jail. Jelani Mills didn’t do himself any favors with his lame excuse, either, telling Judge Barry Kron that he’d skipped out because his daughter wasn’t feeling well. “He has a 9-year-old daughter and his daughter had an illness at school,” Mills’ attorney Scott Davis told the judge. “His wife is a schoolteacher who was unable to [help].” But Kron, who issued a fugitive warrant for Mills after he ducked out of court around noon Tuesday, wasn’t buying it.<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> According to two sources, Wills is sick in a hospital and is not expected to return to the City Council for at least two weeks. He did not return calls Wednesday.</span></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/01/13/co-defendant-in-corrupt-councilman-case-goes-missing-from-court/">Co-defendant in corrupt councilman case goes missing from court</a></b> (NYP) A Queens man who was expected to implicate a sitting city councilman on corruption charges Tuesday bolted the courthouse just before the proceeding started — leaving his lawyer in the lurch and the judge fuming. Justice Barry Kron issued an arrest warrant for Jelani Mills, who was in court to plead guilty to crimes that involved his co-defendant, Queens Councilman Ruben Wills, but fled sometime after noon. His blindsided attorney, Scott Davis, had no explanation for Kron on why Mills was a no-show when the case was called in Queens Supreme Court. “It was my understanding that the district attorney is prepared to resolve this case — and it’s not going to be resolved,” Kron said, referring to the charges brought by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. Mills, 29, and Wills, 44, were charged in scams in which they<a href="http://nypost.com/2014/05/07/nyc-councilman-ruben-wills-arrested/">allegedly fleeced tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars through nonprofits</a>. In two indictments brought over the past two years, Wills and Mills were charged with a dozen counts that include fraud, grand larceny and falsifying business records. They’re accused of defrauding the city Campaign Finance Board by accepting public funds to pay a shell company, Micro Targeting, purportedly to provide campaign-related services for Wills’ losing 2009 race for City Council. Mills allegedly filed the paperwork creating the company and billed Wills’ campaign $11,500 for work that was never performed. nstead, some of the funds allegedly were funneled to a shady nonprofit, New York 4 Life, that was founded by Wills. Wills also is charged with stealing more than $30,000 in other state taxpayer money from New York 4 Life — and using some of the cash for shopping sprees at Macy’s, Nordstrom’s and Century 21 that included the purchase of a $750 Louis Vuitton handbag. Wills received the state funding through a pork-barrel grant obtained by ex-Queens state Sen. Shirley Huntley, who was later sentenced to prison in a separate case of public corruption. Wills had served as Huntley’s chief of staff.<br />
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Wills is facing a slew of corruption charges — including <a href="http://nydn.us/1opJbJK" target="_blank">allegations he stole public campaign funds</a> and used them on Louis Vuitton, Nordstrom and other personal purchases; and that he took a state member item for a sham charity but pocketed most of it. A separate indictment this year charged him with filing false statements with the Conflicts of Interest Board. A political consulting firm formerly employed by Wills, Connective Strategies, has been paid $6,000 by Regal to lobby the Council against that bill. “There is no conflict,” said Connective President Tyquana Henderson, who said she has not lobbied Wills on the matter.<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <b>Lobbyists Henderson Was Wills Campaign Manager</b> </span>Mr. Wills <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304431104579547551326739002"><b>w</b>as arrested as part of a separate case in May</a> and charged in a 12-count indictment with using tens of thousands of dollars in campaign and taxpayer money to enrich himself, buying items such as a $750 Louis Vuitton handbag, authorities said. <a href="http://connectivestrategies.com/?page_id=5" target="_blank">Candidates Represented by Henderson</a>'s Connective Strategies</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The arrest of Queens Councilman Ruben Wills is a reality check for those who tout public financing of campaigns as the key to cleaning up <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Albany</st1:place></st1:city>. Welcome to the notoriously sleazy Legislature in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Albany</st1:place></st1:city>, where gaming the campaign finance laws is an art form. A see-no-evil Board of Elections, which is party-controlled and paralyzed in the face of runaway lawbreaking.<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/good-money-bad-article-1.1786799#ixzz31P8SESUb" target="_blank"> Good money after bad </a> (NYDN) The arrest of Ruben Wills should give public campaign finance enthusiasts pause. During his first, failed run for the City Council in 2009, Wills collected $139,818 in public money from the CFB — 79% of his total budget. According to the indictment from Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Wills then secretly funneled $11,500 of his campaign funds to a nonprofit group he controlled, NY4Life, and glommed the money for strictly personal expenses — such as buying a $750 Louis Vuitton handbag. </span></div>
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Wills personally submitted a voucher with the state Office of Children and Family Services on behalf of the group in 2010. But Wills declined to answer questions and invoked his Fifth Amendment rights when he was asked about the missing funds by investigators last year. Wills, a former aide to ex-state Sen. Shirley Huntley, who was convicted in another not-for-profit scam. The councilman is also being probe for steering funds to another non profit group, the Young Leaders Institute. Wills and a relative on his payroll, Jelani Mills, were arrested and being processed at the 112th Pct. in <st1:place w:st="on">Forest Hills</st1:place>.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">*</span> <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304431104579547551326739002" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">New York City Councilman Ruben Wills Charged in Fraud ...</a> (May 7, 2014) * <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/11/10/city-councilman-pleads-guilty-to-1996-misdemeanor/">City Councilman Pleads Guilty to 1996 Misdemeanor</a> * <a href="http://nydn.us/1ynE5AW" target="_blank">Indicted NYC Councilman Ruben Wills has worst attendance record among current members, records show:</a>(NYDN) * <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/10/09/wills-accuses-ag-of-bias-over-use-of-image-in-campaign-ad/" target="_blank">Wills accuses AG of bias over use of image in campaign ad</a>(NYP) State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is being accused of unfairly smearing an indicted <st1:place w:st="on">Queens</st1:place> lawmaker by including him in a TV campaign ad, The Post has learned. City Councilman Ruben Wills is now trying to turn the tables, demanding that Schneiderman be removed as the prosecutor in his case for violating a court rule barring prejudicial pretrial publicity against a defendant. Schneiderman’s 30-second TV commercial shows news footage of Wills — handcuffed from behind — being “perp walked” to a vehicle by two police officers. *<a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2014/10/8554249/schneiderman-columbia-laments-state-politics" target="_blank"> </a><a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2014/10/8554249/schneiderman-columbia-laments-state-politics" target="_blank">Schneiderman, at Columbia</a><a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2014/10/8554249/schneiderman-columbia-laments-state-politics" target="_blank">,laments the state of politics </a>(Capital) “I’m proud of the fact that in the last three and half years—probably every month or so—we have done something that no one has ever done before,” Schneiderman told the gathering. “We change the way people are doing business and the way that governments are operating.”</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/errollouis">Errol Louis@errollouis </a><a href="https://twitter.com/errollouis/status/834092073934581764" title="12:27 PM - 21 Feb 2017">Feb 21</a> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Every week I invite viewers to send questions. Every week, <a href="https://twitter.com/unitedNYblogs">@unitedNYblogs</a> whines, bitches and moans. And contributes nothing. <a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/inside-city-hall-shows/2017/02/22/road-to-city-hall-2-22-17.html" target="_blank">NY1 Inside City Hall 7PM Fef 22nd</a></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday NY1 Did Report That de Blaso spent most of the day (several hours) at his lawyers Kramer and Levin and that he left in a freight elevator. . . About de Blasio Proposed Legal Fund</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><b>, Errol Louis said " "</b></span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Not to pile on to many Hypotheticals, but donating high price legal services to a mayor by a law firm that does business with the city elsewhere with the city is a Huge no no . . . It is called a Loan" </span></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">BILL'S BILL:</b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> When Bill de Blasio is away from City Hall (usually on Fridays), he's often spending part of his time raising money for his 2017 re-elect campaign - but he's also girding for an interview with officials in U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office, who are looking at donations given to entities controlled by the mayor and his allies. </span><a href="http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=506de2d2101ec6ea08abbae33fdf35be1d8eba44831cbe0ad92717624188120adf39efd013c506650e97033dbaaf5235" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" target="_blank">As NY1 reported </a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, de Blasio -- who was conspicuously late in arriving at City Hall yesterday -- spent part of his day huddling with his attorneys. And attorneys are not cheap. Though de Blasio is entitled to use taxpayer dollars to pay for his defense, he is opting not to ask voters he'll face later this year with his legal bills. So, he's raising money for a legal defense fund. As our </span><a href="http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=506de2d2101ec6eae10170745e237b6c3ee9aac6381518c06c18037829a7a3b42acfb4bbbace973358bd146d4ea10f7d" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" target="_blank">Laura Nahmias reports </a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, there is an obvious irony in de Blasio's strategy. Nahmias writes: "good government officials and election lawyers say legal defense funds can raise more conflicts of interest than simply spending taxpayer dollars on legal defense, opening the mayor up to the same kinds of questions about donor influence and campaign contribution limits that led to the criminal probes in the first place." * </span><o:p style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;"></o:p><b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/02/08/bill-de-blasio-fundraising-probe-questioning/" target="_blank">NYC Mayor De Blasio Expected To Meet With Federal ProsecutorsProbing Campaign Fundraising </a>(WCBS) </span></b><br />
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<b>1. Why Did the Political Director of NY1 Bob Hardt Retweet True News Angry Tweet About NY1's Giving the Mayor A Campaign Commercial Every Week Instead of Asking Him About the Corruption He is Being Invested for by both the U.S. Attorney and the Manhattan DA. </b><br />
<b>2. What will de Blasio say in his meeting with Preet Bharara? </b><br />
<b>3, What about de Blasio's lawyers Kramer and Levin lobbying contracts? Is it against NY1 rules to ask the mayor a follow up when he does not answer your question? </b></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/02/01/the-mayors-best-hope-more-pigs-to-pardon/">The mayor’s best hope: more pigs to pardon</a></span> (NYP Ed) Somebody’s feeling the heat: Mayor de Blasio stormed out of his own press conference Tuesday after The Post’s Yoav Gonen inquired about Hizzoner’s pending sit-down with US Attorney Preet Bharara and a second reporter followed with another “off-topic” question. Usually, when journalists defy de Blasio’s rules to limit their queries, the mayor just grumbles “on-topic questions only,” then calls on someone else. This time, he didn’t stick around to try pushing his topic. Seems he’s no longer in a mood to even hear impertinent questions. t’s been a rough week. The Bharara interview could signify that indictments are (finally) coming down in the federal and state corruption probes of how his team does business — especially with big donors. Then, too, a state judge is showing skepticism about de Blasio’s effort to dodge the Freedom of Information Law by declaring several top lobbyists “agents of the city” because they also consult for him. Plus, the Department of Investigation audited a city hearing on that “program” that handed $60 million (above the contracted amount, for no added benefit to the city) to a bus company tied to a prime de Blasio donor. And little children keep turning up dead despite being on the radar of de Blasio’s Administration for Children’s Services, which DOI just exposed as massively dysfunctional. Each bit of news pokes another hole in his image as an honest progressive — and makes him seem just another transactional pol who rewards donors and hacks. The only truly sweet headline the mayor’s been able to win recently came from “pardoning” that Staten Island pig.On Friday's WNYC Brian Lehrer in a 20 minute interview asked one question to de Blasio about the investigation:<br />
<b>WNYC Lehrer: Will You Meet With U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara</b><br />
<b>de Blasio: Yes I Will in the Next Few Weeks I Will</b><br />
<b>No Follow Up By Lehrer on Questions on the Issue</b><br />
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/02/09/can-the-mayor-make-a-habit-of-not-dodging-the-press/">Can the mayor make a habit of not dodging the press?</a> (NYP) Say this about Mayor de Blasio as the entire political world awaits news from his much-heralded sitdown with US Attorney Preet Bharara: He’s more than happy to talk about the weather. And, to be fair, with Niko still raging amid Thursday morning’s press conference, reporters weren’t asking about anything else. </b><br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-confident-meeting-u-s-attorney-article-1.2960132" target="_blank">De Blasio confident about corruption probe before meetingwith U.S. Attorney</a> (NYDN) "We did everything right. My team did everything right. I did everything right to abide by the law and comport ourselves in an ethical fashion," de Blasio said on NY1's Road to City Hall. "I look forward to going in. I'm happy to set the record straight that we did things the right way." Hizzoner is set to meet with federal prosecutors in the next few weeks, he confirmed Monday night. "The bottom line is we made a decision based on the needs of the people. That's how I've done things throughout my public life. And I think I'll be able to clarify that for them," he said. "This set of allegations just doesn't comport with who I am or the way my team or I have handled ourselves. And I believe that the discussion with the U.S. Attorney will be clarifying. I look forward to setting the record straight."<br />
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<b>de Blasio said he’s looking forward to "setting the record straight" when he meets with U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office about the corruption probe into his administration. </b><b>Bharara is investigating whether City Hall gave favorable treatment to donors to the mayor's now-defunct non-profit, Campaign for One New York. De Blasio denies any such favor-trading took place.</b></div>
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<b>1. Why did Donors to Your Campaign for One NY PAC Like the Rat Bag Guy Get City Contracts?</b><br />
<b>2. How Many on Your Staff Knew About the Rivington Nursing Home Deed Change Before It Was Done?</b><br />
<b>3. Why Did Federal Witness Rechnitz Donate 35,000 to the Campaign for One NY? Why did Reichberg Donate $102,000 to the Campaign for One NY That Was Used Laundered Through A Upstate County Committee to try to change the senate to Democratic Control</b><br />
<b>4. Why Did Your Cousin Union Contribute A Quarter of A Million to NYCLASS</b><br />
<b>5. Why Did You Ask Peebles One of the Bidders for LICH Hospital for A Donation for One NY? </b><br />
<b>6. You Said You Formed Campaign for One NY to Fight Well Funded Opponents for Universal Pre-Kindergarten. Who Were Those Groups?</b><br />
<b>7. The Money You Raised to Change the Senate to Democratic Control All Went to Three Candidates Did You Direct the Money to Them and Did Your Lobbyists Like Berlin Rosen Work in Their Campaigns?</b><br />
<b>8. Why Did the Upstate Campaign Money Go to County Committees? To Avoid Campaign Limits?</b><br />
<b>8. Will You Ever Produce A List of the Contributors Who Did Not Get A Pay to Play Contract in Return for Contributing to Your PAC Campaign for One NY?</b><br />
<b>9 Where Their Straw Donors in Your 2013 Campaign</b><br />
<b>10. Why Did Developers Contribute to Your Campaign for One NY PAC?</b><br />
<b>11. The Board of Elections Risa Sugerman Said Your Top Aid Emma Wolfe Violated the Election Law "Willful and Flagrantly" and Warranted "Criminal Prosecution" What Say You?</b><br />
<b>12. Was Data and Field (2009), NYCLASS (2013) and CONY (2014-2016) An Attempt By Your Team to Go Around the Election Law?</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/opinion/mayor-de-blasios-media-freeze-out.html?ref=opinion&_r=0" target="_blank"> Mayor deBlasio’s Media Freeze-Out</a> (NYT Ed) If Mayor Bill de Blasio has decided that he is going to answer questions only from “real media outlets,” and not The New York Post, why doesn’t he just go all the way? Revoke The Post’s credentials, and bar its reporters from City Hall and make an example of them. Let the other reporters learn not to offend His Honor. And if they don’t learn, he can stop taking all questions. Then the mayor will be free to do his business in peace and quiet, his message unfiltered, his administration shown only in its best light, through news releases and photo ops. That is the absurd logic of Mr. de Blasio’s eruption at a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/nyregion/de-blasio-snubs-new-york-post.html">news conference on Thursday</a>. He snapped at reporters’ questions as unfit to be answered. And he refused to respond to Yoav Gonen, City Hall bureau chief of The Post, which he belittled as a “right-wing rag.”<br />
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<span lang="EN"><br /></span><span lang="EN">This was an extreme reaction for a mayor who is already unusually aloof from the press. His predecessors, notably Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani, took questions nearly every day. Mr. de Blasio deigns to answer reporters’ “off topic” questions — those not related to his chosen issue of the day — generally once a week. The Post does not hide its anti-de Blasio feelings and is quick to ridicule. It can also be rather vulnerable to ridicule itself. But the <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/10/03/de-blasio-padded-city-hall-with-264-special-assistants-report/">article</a> that set off Mr. de Blasio’s meltdown seemed straightforward, if pointed: It was about the hiring by the mayor’s office of 264 “special assistants,” outside the civil service, who looked to the paper like a “farm team” of political appointees. If Mr. de Blasio had specific complaints about the article’s veracity, he did not reveal them at the news conference. New York has a long tradition of outspoken mayors who have used and abused the media, who have belittled and ranted at reporters, while aides smirked and fawned. But the mayors have always talked. Mr. de Blasio says he is not playing that game, at least not with The Post. But it’s not just The Post — Mr. de Blasio got petulant when pressed by a reporter from Newsday for information about an inquiry into the Administration for Children’s Services and the death of a 6-year-old boy. “Come on — try and ask a real question,” he snapped. Then came this exchange with a Wall Street Journal reporter: </span><i><span lang="EN">Q. I’m just curious — taking questions once a week, and you know, insulting newspapers, media outlets — how do you think it’s helping you? How is it helping you?</span></i><span lang="EN"> <i>A. It doesn’t have to help. It doesn’t have to help. It’s the — well, I’m saying what I think is the truth. And by the way, I think the people share a lot of my view.</i></span><br />
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<b>On WNYC the next day, the mayor made the “fake news” charge as he condemned Stringer and The Post for “denigrating the work of all the people at ACS who protect children.” </b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #4c1130;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">No, we’re exposing the non-work of people — especially ACS management, which has bloated under de Blasio — who didn’t protect these now-dead kids.</span></b> </span><b><span style="background-color: #bf9000; color: #20124d; font-size: large;">And there’s nothing fake about the deaths of children living in unsafe situations and known to the city. The mayor’s also claiming that four of these deaths occurred years earlier — yet ACS confirms the figure of 10 deaths in that period, </span></b>and in any case Stringer was working from the records that ACS provided. <b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #4c1130; font-size: large;">De Blasio also insisted that the six other deaths were unrelated to abuse or neglect — although the records on that are conveniently not open to the public. </span></b>And, again, Stringer was simply reviewing the files on “high priority” cases of at-risk kids that ACS provided. Then there’s this: <b><span style="background-color: #bf9000; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The mayor also bragged on WNYC that “the number of cases that have been substantiated as potential child abuse has gone down steadily” in recent years. That’s great — if it’s actually a drop in abuse, or in false findings.</span><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s claim that reports from the New York City Comptroller’s office, reported by the Post, are “fake news” is part of his effort to mask the basic failings of management at the New York City Administration for Children’s Services, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/efense-for-deadly-acs-failure-/gvdm5/41155114" target="_blank">the Post writes.</a> * New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio released an elaborate video that was financed with public money to tout his accomplishments in 2016, while ignoring all of his missteps, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-style-video-article-1-2925479/gvyb3/41238258" target="_blank">the Daily News reports.</a><br />
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During Monday night’s weekly NY1 appearance, host Errol Louis pushed de Blasio on the streetcar, known as the BQX, as an example of donors who got something they wanted. “<b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #20124d; font-size: large;">That’s a huge assumption on your part, respectfully. Why is that donors who got something if it is a mass transit line for...400,000 people?” de Blasio shot back. </span></b>“Our mission is to create good public policy that serves people, and if we do it, it doesn’t matter who likes it, who doesn’t like it,” he said. “We don’t care who proposed it. If a bunch of non-profits proposed it, I guess you’d be saying this is just pristine public policy.” Two grand juries are hearing testimony in criminal investigations into de Blasio’s fundraising. Hizzoner said Monday that his only aims were to promote universal pre-kindergarten and affordable housing, and flip the state Senate to Democratic control. “No one was lining their pockets. No one was doing it for personal gain,” he said.</div>
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US Attorney Preet Bharara will grill Mayor de Blasio as his office investigates <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/15/grand-juries-reportedly-convene-over-de-blasio-fundraising-probes/">potential corruption at City Hall</a>, it was revealed Friday. Bharara’s office set up the meeting with the mayor, which will be held within the next two weeks without the protection of immunity, <a href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/Mayor-de-Blasio-Agrees-to-Be-Questioned-Federal-Prosecutors-Investigation-Possible-Pay-to-Play-Campaign-for-One-New-York-412006195.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_NYBrand">NBC New York reported.</a> A sources told the station de Blasio is convinced he can prove to investigators he did not trade government favors for political donations during his time in office. The sources said de Blasio believes he can sway them to drop their probe.* <a href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/Mayor-de-Blasio-Agrees-to-Be-Questioned-Federal-Prosecutors-Investigation-Possible-Pay-to-Play-Campaign-for-One-New-York-412006195.html" target="_blank">Mayor de Blasio Agrees to Talk to Feds in Pay-to-PlayProbe: Sources</a> (WNBC) This comes after de Blasio was questioned by prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney's office in a separate investigation. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office had asked the mayor to come in and answer questions, and de Blasio has agreed, sources say. He plans to answer the questions without the protection of immunity.<b> * </b><span class="headline"><a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/fundraising-probe/2017/01/27/investigations-bill-de-blasio-administration-cost-nyc-taxpayers-millions-dollars.html">Investigations into Mayor's Administration Will Cost Taxpayers Millions</a></span> (NY1)<br />
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<b>On WNYC the next day, the mayor made the “fake news” charge as he condemned Stringer and The Post for “denigrating the work of all the people at ACS who protect children.” </b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #4c1130;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">No, we’re exposing the non-work of people — especially ACS management, which has bloated under de Blasio — who didn’t protect these now-dead kids.</span></b> </span><b><span style="background-color: #bf9000; color: #20124d; font-size: large;">And there’s nothing fake about the deaths of children living in unsafe situations and known to the city. The mayor’s also claiming that four of these deaths occurred years earlier — yet ACS confirms the figure of 10 deaths in that period, </span></b>and in any case Stringer was working from the records that ACS provided. <b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #4c1130; font-size: large;">De Blasio also insisted that the six other deaths were unrelated to abuse or neglect — although the records on that are conveniently not open to the public. </span></b>And, again, Stringer was simply reviewing the files on “high priority” cases of at-risk kids that ACS provided. Then there’s this: <b><span style="background-color: #bf9000; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The mayor also bragged on WNYC that “the number of cases that have been substantiated as potential child abuse has gone down steadily” in recent years. That’s great — if it’s actually a drop in abuse, or in false findings.</span><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s claim that reports from the New York City Comptroller’s office, reported by the Post, are “fake news” is part of his effort to mask the basic failings of management at the New York City Administration for Children’s Services, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/efense-for-deadly-acs-failure-/gvdm5/41155114" target="_blank">the Post writes.</a> * New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio released an elaborate video that was financed with public money to tout his accomplishments in 2016, while ignoring all of his missteps, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-style-video-article-1-2925479/gvyb3/41238258" target="_blank">the Daily News reports.</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-insists-cony-donors-didn-special-treatment-article-1.2916604" style="font-size: medium;" target="_blank">De Blasio insists Campaign for One New York donors receivedno special treatment </a>(NYDN) <span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><b>de Blasio insisted Monday there is not a single example of donors to his political causes getting preferential treatment from the city. “The question has been, for those who donated, did they get any particular preference. I’ve said repeatedly no, and no one’s ever produced an example of where such a preference existed,” de Blasio said on NY1. </b></span></span>“People are not showing that example of bias or favoritism because it doesn’t exist.” A number of donors to Blasio’s political non-profit, the Campaign for One New York, ended up getting items they wanted from the city government. The question of whether those were favors given in exchange for the cash, or were simply coincidental as the mayor says, is the subject of a criminal investigation. As documented in a <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/bill-dirty-millions-de-blasio-money-grubbing-hurt-article-1.2905429" style="font-size: medium;">Daily News investigation</a>, de Blasio announced plans for a streetcar along the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront after seven developers with property near the route made donations totaling $245,000. In another widely publicized case, a businessman hawking rat-repellant garbage bags who had been unsuccessfully seeking city business for years got a city contract after donating $100,000 to CONY.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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During Monday night’s weekly NY1 appearance, host Errol Louis pushed de Blasio on the streetcar, known as the BQX, as an example of donors who got something they wanted. “<b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #20124d; font-size: large;">That’s a huge assumption on your part, respectfully. Why is that donors who got something if it is a mass transit line for...400,000 people?” de Blasio shot back. </span></b>“Our mission is to create good public policy that serves people, and if we do it, it doesn’t matter who likes it, who doesn’t like it,” he said. “We don’t care who proposed it. If a bunch of non-profits proposed it, I guess you’d be saying this is just pristine public policy.” Two grand juries are hearing testimony in criminal investigations into de Blasio’s fundraising. Hizzoner said Monday that his only aims were to promote universal pre-kindergarten and affordable housing, and flip the state Senate to Democratic control. “No one was lining their pockets. No one was doing it for personal gain,” he said.</div>
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/10/26/mayors-arent-supposed-to-hide-in-safe-spaces/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mayors aren’t supposed to hide in ‘safe spaces’</span></a></b> (NYP) de Blasio’s deal to do a weekly interview with NY1’s Errol Louis is yet another bid to control his press availability while seeming to be open. Louis is a pro, and we expect he’ll ask some tough questions. But he can’t stand in for the entire, diverse City Hall press corps — which is lucky if the mayor does an open availability once a week. With “Mondays with the Mayor,” Louis joins public radio’s Brian Lehrer as the only journalists Hizzoner opts to speak with regularly. And Lehrer’s task is definitely not asking hard-hitting follow-ups: He’s a host, mainly helping callers “Ask the Mayor.” Nor did de Blasio even start regular call-in shows until we began slamming him on the issue back in May 2015. At the same time, we raised his failure to do town-hall-style public forums — and he still mainly only does fake ones, with tightly controlled audiences primed to ask questions he wants to hear. New York’s 109th mayor still stands as the least accessible in living memory: John Lindsay, Abe Beame, Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg all had their battles with the media, but they were available to the City Hall press corps on a daily basis, or close to it. Yes, running a city of 8 million is a busy job (or should be) — but it’s a tough job to do well if you largely dodge the media and don’t engage broadly with citizens who aren’t drinking your Kool-Aid. Hiding in a chief executive’s version of one of those campus “safe spaces” — where your values, actions and ideology go unquestioned — signals you’re not even trying to be the mayor of the entire city. It’s a betrayal of basic democracy. And spinning a weekly sitdown with Louis as furthering your “efforts to reach New Yorkers directly” is absurd. If de Blasio wants to be truly open, “Monday with the Mayor” won’t cut it. Try “every day with the entire press.” <b><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NY Times Spins for the Mayor</span></b> <b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/27/nyregion/mayor-bill-de-blasio-sitting-news-conference.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion">No Need to Rise at a de Blasio News Conference: He Will Be Sitting, Too.</a>(NYT) </span></span></b>* <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/lacement-5-pgtype-sectionfront/d5dlp/31140676" target="_blank">The Times analyzes</a> de Blasio’s choice to now sit during press conferences, a move political strategists say he believes puts reporters and people more at ease and makes people standing with him at a podium less uncomfortable about his height. * New York City’s tax collections have declined in recent months and are down about one percent for the same period in 2015, bucking the yearslong trend of growth and raising concerns about a sharply rising budget under de Blasio, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-tax-revenue-slumps-1477530508/d5dl3/31140676" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal reports.</a> <span style="background-color: lime;"><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Campaign 2017</span></b> </span> De Blasio shrugged off rumblings of discontent from some city unions and said he would have no problem securing support from the majority of labor groups for his re-election, noting his administration’s success in securing contracts, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/t-reelection-article-1-2846580/d5dl9/31140676" target="_blank">the Daily News reports.</a><br />
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<span lang="EN"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/10/24/de-blasio-adds-weekly-tv-appearance-to-limited-media-schedule/">De Blasio adds weekly TV interview to his limited media schedule</a></span>(NYP) <span lang="EN">Gearing up for his re-election campaign, Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to hold two regular interviews a week — but under controlled circumstances. For months, the mayor has limited his open-ended Q&As with City Hall reporters to once a week. He also usually appears weekly on WNYC radio, where he fields questions from both host Brian Lehrer and callers. Starting next Monday, the mayor will add a second regular, 15-minute appearance on NY1 with host Errol Louis, the cable station announced. The Democratic primary for mayor is scheduled for September 2017. </span>While gearing up for his re-election campaign, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was slated on Monday to begin making regular, 15-minute appearances on NY1 in addition to his weekly availability on WNYC radio<br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/opinion/mayor-de-blasios-media-freeze-out.html?ref=opinion&_r=0" target="_blank"> Mayor deBlasio’s Media Freeze-Out</a> (NYT Ed) If Mayor Bill de Blasio has decided that he is going to answer questions only from “real media outlets,” and not The New York Post, why doesn’t he just go all the way? Revoke The Post’s credentials, and bar its reporters from City Hall and make an example of them. Let the other reporters learn not to offend His Honor. And if they don’t learn, he can stop taking all questions. Then the mayor will be free to do his business in peace and quiet, his message unfiltered, his administration shown only in its best light, through news releases and photo ops. That is the absurd logic of Mr. de Blasio’s eruption at a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/nyregion/de-blasio-snubs-new-york-post.html">news conference on Thursday</a>. He snapped at reporters’ questions as unfit to be answered. And he refused to respond to Yoav Gonen, City Hall bureau chief of The Post, which he belittled as a “right-wing rag.”<br />
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<span lang="EN"><br /></span><span lang="EN">This was an extreme reaction for a mayor who is already unusually aloof from the press. His predecessors, notably Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani, took questions nearly every day. Mr. de Blasio deigns to answer reporters’ “off topic” questions — those not related to his chosen issue of the day — generally once a week. The Post does not hide its anti-de Blasio feelings and is quick to ridicule. It can also be rather vulnerable to ridicule itself. But the <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/10/03/de-blasio-padded-city-hall-with-264-special-assistants-report/">article</a> that set off Mr. de Blasio’s meltdown seemed straightforward, if pointed: It was about the hiring by the mayor’s office of 264 “special assistants,” outside the civil service, who looked to the paper like a “farm team” of political appointees. If Mr. de Blasio had specific complaints about the article’s veracity, he did not reveal them at the news conference. New York has a long tradition of outspoken mayors who have used and abused the media, who have belittled and ranted at reporters, while aides smirked and fawned. But the mayors have always talked. Mr. de Blasio says he is not playing that game, at least not with The Post. But it’s not just The Post — Mr. de Blasio got petulant when pressed by a reporter from Newsday for information about an inquiry into the Administration for Children’s Services and the death of a 6-year-old boy. “Come on — try and ask a real question,” he snapped. Then came this exchange with a Wall Street Journal reporter: </span><i><span lang="EN">Q. I’m just curious — taking questions once a week, and you know, insulting newspapers, media outlets — how do you think it’s helping you? How is it helping you?</span></i><span lang="EN"> <i>A. It doesn’t have to help. It doesn’t have to help. It’s the — well, I’m saying what I think is the truth. And by the way, I think the people share a lot of my view.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/10/06/de-blasios-tantrum-shows-just-how-thin-skinned-he-is/"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "times new roman";">De Blasio’s tantrum shows just how thin-skinned he is</span></a></span> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">(NYP)</span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; margin: 0px;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: small; line-height: 17.12px; margin: 0px;">Awww, does Little Billy need a time out?</span><span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> Mayor de Blasio acted like a colicky infant at a press conference Thursday, refusing to answer questions posed by a New York Post reporter and then saying it’s because the paper is not a “real” media outlet. </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“You can keep trying, man. You can talk all you want,” he said, interrupting a question by City Hall bureau Chief Yoav Gonen about a controversial teacher annuity fund that cost taxpayers $1.2 billion last year. As Gonen persisted, de Blasio whined: “I’m calling on real media outlets.” </span></span><span lang="EN" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: small; line-height: 17.12px; margin: 0px;">The petulant child’s routine immediately backfired when other reporters, shocked at his behavior, grilled him about why he refused to respond to The Post.</span><span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> “I’m saying what I think is the truth. And by the way, I think the people share a lot of my views,” he told a Wall Street Journal reporter who questioned his antics. “I’ve got no use for a right-wing rag that attacks people who are good public servants and tries to undermine their reputations.”</span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; margin: 0px;"> * </span></span></span></span></span></span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-new-york-post.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion">De Blasio, Frustrated, Chooses to Take His Private Feuds Public, Again</a> <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">(NYT) </span></span></span></b><span lang="EN" style="background-color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">The mayor condemned The New York Post in a news conference and in an interview with The New York Times on Thursday. Last year, he spoke openly about his divisive relationship with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.* </span></span><b><span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-interview-on-new-york-post.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Transcript: Mayor Bill de B</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lasio on The New York Post</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> <span lang="EN">(NYT) </span></b><span lang="EN" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The mayor discussed his views on the newspaper and his refusal to acknowledge its City Hall bureau chief during a news conference on Thursday.* </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/10/07/crybaby-de-blasio-spends-day-hanging-out-anywhere-but-city-hall/">Crybaby de Blasio spends day hanging out anywhere but City Hall</a></span></b><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">(NYP) <span lang="EN">A day after he declared The Post was not a “real” media outlet, Hizzoner hardly looked like a real mayor — spending Friday at the gym and then lounging around his old neighborhood without ever going to the office.</span><span lang="EN"> De Blasio left Gracie Mansion at about 7:45 a.m. and showed up a short time later at the Y in Park Slope looking like an aging frat boy in an orange T-shirt under a black “Brooklyn” hoodie. “He’s not going to make any comment,” one of his reps said as Hizzoner was shielded by his security detail. De Blasio then kicked back for hours at his favorite Park Slope haunt, Bar Toto, with an unidentified guest. De Blasio — who had no scheduled events Friday and was jetting off to Detroit on Sunday to campaign for Hillary Clinton — then vanished, never showing up at City Hall.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times";"><b><span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/10/06/mayor-de-blasio-demands-his-own-safe-space/"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "calibri";">Mayor de Blasio demands his own ‘safe space’</span></a></span></b><span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times";"><span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">(NYP) Mayor de Blasio is perfectly free to keep ducking Post reporters’ questions . . . as long as he wants to keep coming off like a peevish toddler. A month ago, we wondered if de Blasio was cracking under pressure when he took out after The Post and our City Hall bureau chief, Yoav Gonen, at a press conference. On Thursday, he had another meltdown — refusing to let Gonen even ask a question, saying that’s for “real media outlets.”</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">He got snarky with other reporters, too, but saved his special venom for The Post: “I[’ve] got no use for a right-wing rag that tries to attack public servants.” By which he means he has no use for a newspaper that asks (well, tries to ask) uncomfortable questions and exposes City Hall outrages and incompetence. What set the mayor off this time was a Post exposé of how he’s parked 264 political operatives on the public payroll as “special assistants” — at a cost to the taxpayers of $18.7 million.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/09/23/de-blasio-goes-after-caller-during-weekly-radio-show/" target="_blank">De Blasio goes after caller during weekly radio show</a>(NYP) Mayor Bill de Blasio extended his combative streak beyond the press on Friday — going after a caller to his weekly radio show who brought up contributions from the animal rights groups NYCLASS. The caller, identified only as Andrew from Staten Island, asked if the group’s hefty donations influenced Hizzoner’s decision to spend $2 million on a deer sterilization program — despite significant concerns from experts. “You just don’t have your facts straight. We carefully worked through this policy with a host of wildlife experts,” the mayor <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/askthemayor-chelsea-explosion-debriefing">said on WNYC radio</a>. “But please leave your conspiracy theories at home.” NYCLASS was subpoenaed in April by both the US attorney and the DA in Manhattan in connection with its contributions to the Campaign for One New York, the mayor’s shuttering nonprofit that’s at the center of a number of pay-to-play probes. The mayor also got testy when asked about a mobile text alert about Chelsea terror suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami — who was captured Monday in New Jersey. “That is an absolute misunderstanding by anyone who critiques it. It was very effective, it was very necessary,” de Blasio said. “I really find it the worst of Monday morning quarterbacking for people to critique an approach that actually helped catch a terrorist.” When pressed on the alert’s specific role in Rahami’s capture, the mayor was unable to draw a direct line between the two. ‘Please leave your conspiracy theories at home.’ - De Blasio to caller who asked about contributions from the animal rights groups NYCLASS“I’m convinced this was one of the things that got everyone looking,” he said. “We know that the folks who saw, who were part of the larger process of finding this guy, that one of the ways that they were alerted was through the mobile alert.”* </span><b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/09/23/if-de-blasio-cant-get-a-handle-on-his-temper-hes-in-big-trouble/">If de Blasio can’t get a handle on his temper, he’s in big trouble</a></b> (NYP) Well, now we know why Mayor de Blasio waited two years before he started doing radio call-in shows: He just can’t keep his cool when he gets tough questions. On Friday’s Brian Lehrer show, de Blasio lectured one caller, <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Please leave your conspiracy theories at home,” </span></b>and accused another of <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“the worst of Monday morning quarterbacking.”</span></b> He also answered some harsh attacks from city Comptroller Scott Stringer with his own cutting remark: “I think it’s breathtaking how little the comptroller understands about this issue.” This, at the end of a week where he’d also slammed a New York Times reporter who dared to pose an insufficiently slavish question — and all in the wake of his now almost-routine sneers at this newspaper when Post reporters ask him something.* <a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2016/09/23/tension-between-mayor-and-comptroller-spills-into-public-view.html">Tension Between Mayor and Comptroller Spills Into Public View</a> (NY1) * <b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-vows-release-names-donors-feds-probe-article-1.2802466" target="_blank">Mayor de Blasio vows he’ll release the names of hisdonors when feds finish fund-raising probe</a> (nydn) </b><span style="background: rgb(250 , 250 , 250); color: #333333; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.5467px;">Mayor de Blasio swears he will make good on his oddball promise to release the names of donors who gave to his campaign but didn't get any favors from City Hall — but he's not doing it anytime soon.* </span><b>Mayor de Blasio vows he’ll release the names of his donors when feds finish fund-raising probe (nydn) </b><span style="background: rgb(250 , 250 , 250); color: #333333; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18.5467px;">Mayor de Blasio swears he will make good on his oddball promise to release the names of donors who gave to his campaign but didn't get any favors from City Hall — but he's not doing it anytime soon.</span> * <b><a href="http://observer.com/2016/09/bill-de-blasio-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-his-donors-or-his-workout/" target="_blank">Bill de Blasio Doesn’t Want to TalkAbout His Donors or His Workout</a> (NYO) * </b>QUOTE OF THE DAY: "What's breathtaking is the mayor's haplessness in solving major problems ... Perhaps we'd be further along in the homelessness crisis if he paid attention to detail and he wouldn't have to rely on personal attacks." -- City Comptroller Scott Stringer to<a href="http://on.wsj.com/2d1As21" target="_blank"> WSJ's Josh Dawsey: </a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/09/22/de-blasio-lashes-out-after-getting-questions-he-doesnt-like/">De Blasio lashes out after getting questions he doesn’t like</a></span></b><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"> (NYP) America’s touchiest mayor doesn’t like to answer tough questions — and lately, he’s blaming the people who get paid to ask them. Mayor de Blasio this week lashed out at journalists from The Post and The New York Times asking him about issues he would rather not answer, at one point chiding a reporter to “stop wasting my time.” On Thursday, he went after The Post for asking why he <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/09/21/de-blasio-delays-visit-to-chelsea-bombing-site-so-he-can-work-out/">pushed back a meeting with blind residents</a>affected by the Chelsea terror explosion so he could work out in the gym and sip coffee with First Lady Chirlane McCray. “I’m quite aware of what you guys are up to, and again, you are a paper with a clear right-wing agenda,” he raged. “Let’s be real about it. You’re a propaganda rag.” He then tried to justify his leisurely morning by arguing that maintaining his physique is in New Yorkers’ best interests. <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/09/21/de-blasio-delays-visit-to-chelsea-bombing-site-so-he-can-work-out/">De Blasio delays visit to Chelsea bombing site to work out</a> Minutes earlier, he cut off a Times reporter for questioning his senior adviser and 2013 campaign-finance co-chairwoman Gabrielle Fialkoff about how shady donors were appointed to his transition committee. The donors, Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg, are central figures in probes into de Blasio’s fund-raising. At de Blasio’s prompting, Fialkoff clammed up about the pair. A day earlier, the Times asked Hizzoner about a spike in crime over the last fiscal year..De Blasio, who frequently brags about the city’s falling crime rates, branded the reporter a “contrarian.”</span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://bit.ly/2d1wLtd" target="_blank"> DE BLASIO REDACTSHIS OWN EMAILS</a> -- NY1's Grace Rauh: "Mayor Bill de Blasio likes to share news stories with his so-called 'agents of the city.' After a former aide, Peter Ragone, sent de Blasio an Associated Press story about the mayor's attempt to push the Democratic presidential candidates to the left, the mayor forwarded the article, just before midnight, to two key outside advisers: Jonathan Rosen, who co-founded the political PR firm BerlinRosen, and John Del Cecato, a Democratic strategist. He included a comment with the story as well, but the city redacted it.... "When the mayor had something to say, it was often blacked out. When de Blasio sent a New York Times story about stagnant middle-class incomes to top city advisers, Del Cecato and his wife, Chirlane McCray, his note to the group was redacted. It was the same with a New Yorker story about Hillary Clinton that he forwarded to his wife and Del Cecato. The mayor's message is blocked. 'These emails show how ridiculous it is to designate these consultants as agents of the city,' said Dick Dadey of Citizens Union. 'These emails, in particular, are benign. They are talking about political stories and news stories, and for them to be protecting the mayor's comments just shows how ridiculous this whole matter is."<br />
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<b><span lang="EN"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/10/09/mayor-de-blasios-rant-at-the-post-is-good-for-a-laugh/">Mayor de Blasio’s rant at The Post is good for a laugh</a></span></b> (NYP) <span lang="EN">So New York City has a mayor with feet almost as big as his mouth, a fellow who can’t quite figure out how to get to work on time or what to do when he arrives, whose poll numbers have been underwater since roughly two weeks after he took office — and who’s now having a rant at The New York Post. And I agree that the paper has much for which to answer; name one that doesn’t. But the New York Post hasn’t been under federal, state and local criminal investigation for the past two-plus years, either — which, ahem, is more than can be said of Bill de Blasio. Which certainly could explain why Hizzoner’s been so testy lately; US Attorney Preet Bharara just dropped the hammer on the Cuomo administration, and maybe the mayor figures he’s next. And for sure it could account for his exasperation with The Post — which regularly hauls out the big type to report on his endless adventures with Bharara, state investigators and the Manhattan district attorney. Plus bums in the streets, chaos in the schools and rip-offs of New York’s sorely pressed taxpayers. He hired an advocate, not an expert, to run the city’s social services. No surprise that Grand Central Terminal is once again up to its scuppers in vagrants and worse. He padded the topmost echelon of his administration with fellow Service Employees International Union/1199 alumni. No surprise, then, that 1199 is a vector in at least two de Blasio administration scandals — the Rivington House nursing home deed transfer and the Long Island College Hospital land conversion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">* De Blasio appears to have imposed new limits on how many questions reporters can ask at his public news conferences, saying that a question and a follow-up is allowed but that if “everyone’s doing like three-part questions, it becomes a problem,” </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-18-de-blasio-question-limits-/72ycy/20269218" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CBS reports</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><br />
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Since taking office 16 months ago, Mayor Bill de Blasio has not opened himself up to unfiltered questions from constituents via town halls or call-in radio show appearances, as his predecessors did <a href="http://goo.gl/UTiMZz" target="_blank">Newsday reports: </a> “De Blasio, unlike past mayors, avoids public Q&A with New Yorkers: Ed Koch did an average of 15 ‘town hall’ meetings each year, no-holds-barred public forums where New Yorkers could bring their concerns to the mayor face-to-face. Rudy Giuliani did them monthly. Mike Bloomberg did them occasionally. Bill de Blasio doesn’t do them at all. The mayor, who promised in his inauguration speech to be a champion of ‘everyday New Yorkers,’ has declined in the nearly 16 months since to open himself to live, unfiltered questions from constituents at town hall meetings or -- as Bloomberg and Giuliani did -- on regular call-in radio shows. … In 2010, de Blasio, then the city's public advocate, hailed the virtues of town hall forums at such a meeting hosted by Ditchek's association. - “‘My goal is to be out in the community a lot, to have folks from my staff out in the community a lot,’ de Blasio said, according to a video of the event. ‘I would be happy to hear concerns, or take questions from anyone and everyone.’ …<span style="font-family: "";">“Ed Koch did an average of 15 “town hall” meetings each year, no-holds-barred public forums where New Yorkers could bring their concerns to the mayor face-to-face. Rudy Giuliani did them monthly. Mike Bloomberg did them occasionally. Bill de Blasio </span><a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/de-blasio-unlike-past-mayors-avoids-public-q-a-with-new-yorkers-1.10420091" style="font-family: '';">doesn’t do them</a><span style="font-family: "";"> at all.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "";">From </span><a href="https://twitter.com/AP" style="font-family: '';">@AP</a><span style="font-family: "";"> yesterday:<a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/831941c712ac4a3b879732be15ee5903/does-nyc-mayor-now-national-figure-risk-trouble-home%20%E2%80%A6" target="_blank">"De Blasio made little mention of a national focus during his 2013 mayoral campaign...." </a> * </span>After 16 months as mayor of <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state>, Bill de Blasio <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/nyregion/mayor-de-blasios-days-on-the-road-fuel-criticism-at-home.html?ref=nyregion">seems determined</a> to escape the confines of his day job and to reshape the future of national politics — even as he leaves himself open to criticism that he is not prioritizing problems at home. (Throw in a vacation to <st1:place w:st="on">Puerto Rico</st1:place> and college visits with his son, and the mayor has spent about a third of April and May on the road.) * Former House Speaker <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/05/09/newt-gingrichs-advice-for-de-blasio-and-his-liberal-contract-with-america/">Newt Gingrich blasts</a> de Blasio’s liberal “contract with American,” for which he was the inspiration.<br />
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<b>--“<a href="http://nyti.ms/1RurJnj" target="_blank">Mayor de Blasio’s Days on the Road Fuel Criticism atHome,” by Times’</a> Michael M. Grynbaum: </b>“A rally by the steps of the United States Capitol. Fire-up-the-base speeches in <st1:state w:st="on">Iowa</st1:state> and <st1:state w:st="on">Wisconsin</st1:state>. Cross-country political trips, paid for by private money, and a <st1:place w:st="on">Silicon Valley</st1:place> fund-raiser hosted by tech moguls, with tickets going for up to $10,000 apiece. <st1:city w:st="on">Clinton</st1:city>? Rubio? Bush? Nope. De Blasio. After 16 months as mayor of <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state>, Bill de Blasio seems determined to escape the confines of his day job and to reshape the future of national politics — even as he leaves himself open to criticism that he is not prioritizing problems at home. ... By the time Mr. de Blasio returns, he will have been traveling outside <st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place> on political trips for at least a portion of 10 of the last 31 days.”* <a href="http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/nyregion/mayor-de-blasios-days-on-the-road-fuel-criticism-at-home.html?referrer=%20%E2%80%A6" target="_blank">The mayor's Campaign for One New York is paying for histravel to speak at his daughter's college in California: </a>(NYT) * <a href="http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/05/de_blasio_continues_national_p.html%20%E2%80%A6" target="_blank">De Blasio says he's been to Staten Island"a number of times." That number is two. </a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span lang="EN" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">He hides behind lawyers rather than even discuss why the Administration for Children’s Services ignored repeated warnings that little Zymere Perkins was being abused.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">He designated his campaign consultants “agents of the city” so the public couldn’t scrutinize his communications with them. And he won’t even fulfill his campaign promise to publicly post lobbyist dealings with his agency heads — then gets testy if anyone asks him about it. Gov. Cuomo is no model of transparency, but at least he doesn’t refuse reporters’ questions. Nor does he hold “on-topic-only” news conferences, either. If de Blasio wants to hide in a protective bubble, fine. We’re not about to tone things down to soothe his hurt feelings. But we doubt New Yorkers are going to have a lot of respect for a mayor who insists on spending all his time in his own version of one of those campus “safe spaces.” The mayor’d be better off recalling Harry Truman’s advice: “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://thevillager.com/2016/12/24/lobbyist-capalino-now-working-for-old-p-s-64-dorm-developers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=lobbyist-capalino-now-working-for-old-p-s-64-dorm-developers">Lobbyist Capalino now working for old P.S. 64 dorm developers</a> (Villager)</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/03/02/de-blasio-cronies-are-still-making-record-amounts-of-cash/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">De Blasio cronies are still making record amounts of cash</span></a></b> (NYP)His firm, James F. Capalino & Associates, raked in $13.5 million in 2016 — $500,000 more than the roughly $12.9 million in payments it received in 2015. Since de Blasio took office in 2014, Capalino has nearly tripled its earnings. The new figures from the clerk’s office come <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/02/23/feds-will-question-de-blasio-about-campaign-fundraising-this-week/">as de Blasio faces probes</a> into whether his administration illegally traded political favors for campaign contributions. Capalino lobbied City Hall on behalf of the Rivington House nursing home to have deed restrictions lifted from the property just 16 days after de Blasio took office. The sale and resale of the Lower East Side property — and the city’s eventual lifting of deed restrictions there — has sparked a number of federal and state probes. Capalino so far has raised $44,940 for the mayor’s 2017 re-election bid and gave $10,000 to the Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit now under investigation by the feds that raised more than $4.3 million to back de Blasio’s pet projects. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Capalino clients including Two Trees, Toll Brothers, Asphalt Green, Brookfield Properties and Douglaston Development also contributed to CONY. Capalino was the lobbyist who also pressed top de Blasio officials to back luxury condos at a former Brooklyn hospital site at the same time he was writing big checks to de Blasio’s political causes. De Blasio last year <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/08/30/de-blasio-says-hes-backing-away-from-lobbyists/">said he would no longer meet with his “friend” Capalino on city business</a> following claims that the veteran lobbyist was getting favored treatment. </span><b><o:p></o:p></b>* New York City lobbyists took in a record-setting amount of money for the third straight year, and James Capalino, who is close to the mayor, remained at the top of the heap with his firm bringing in $13.5 million in 2016, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/making-record-amounts-of-cash-/mqndv/54873343" target="_blank">the New York Post reports.</a> * <b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/bill-belated-awakening-article-1.2776455" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Bill’s belated awakening: De Blasio kicks his lobbyist pal to the curb</span></a> (NYDN)</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/bill-belated-awakening-article-1.2776455" target="_blank">Bill’s belated awakening: De Blasio kicks his lobbyist pal to the curb</a> (NYDN) Mayor de Blasio on Tuesday declared he’d cut off all contact with mega-lobbyist and campaign fundraiser Jim Capalino, linked too close for political comfort to the unmistakable impression that the mayor put City Hall up for sale. The separation came not of his free will, de Blasio made clear with all the moral insight of a teen grounded by his parents, but “because of the atmosphere we’re in, and the ongoing investigations.” As in the continuing investigations by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman into the circumstances around the $116 million sale of the former Lower East Side AIDS home called Rivington House to a luxury condo developer under de Blasio’s watch. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Elaborated a mayoral spokesman the following day: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“The mayor’s made an ethical decision for himself.”An ethical decision — what a concept, one nowhere to be found when de Blasio decided before his 2014 swearing-in to found the Campaign for One New York, and then hit up lobbyists and their clients looking for favorable city actions for big donations to promote his political fortunes.</span><span style="font-size: small;">Such contributions are strictly limited under the city’s public campaign finance system, precisely to inhibit the possibility of quid-pro-quo cash in exchange for political favors — making the Campaign for One New York a deliberate workaround. Ethics? What ethics? </span></span>Certainly not in appointing a donor, Joseph Finnerty, to the city board controlling water bills, and then engaging him as a birthday fundraiser for de Blasio’s reelection — a clear-as-day violation of the city’s conflicts-of-interest rules. Finnerty resigned after inquiring on his own about the propriety of the arrangement and has been fined $1,000. And certainly not at Rivington House, where the taint is entirely on de Blasio, no matter how many lobbyists he decides to give the silent treatment.<br />
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On behalf of Rivington House owner VillageCare, which urgently sought to sell the property to settle debts, Capalino approached de Blasio’s deputies to request the removal of deed restrictions limiting sale to non-profit health facilities. At the same time, de Blasio’s top deputy mayor, Tony Shorris, helped find a buyer to save the day with a $28 million purchase and big talk to keep a nursing home there — only to have the rescue crumble when that buyer flipped the building for $116 million to a condo developer. De Blasio blames bumbling bureaucrats. Surrounding evidence — including $500,000 in donations from health care union 1199SEIU to the Campaign for One New York coinciding with a desperate push to bail out Rivington House — suggests that’s far from the end of the story. While allowing for the very real possibility that lobbyists who’ve bundled or given huge sums still have the run of City Hall, including dozens of aides who make key decisions, de Blasio now declares his personal distance, adding: “I just have very, very little contact with lobbyists. I think in this atmosphere, it makes sense to have next to nothing to do with them.”He paints a distorted picture of lobbyists as snakes that invaded the sanctum of City Hall and now need to be exorcised.<br />
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<a class="postid-10380436" href="http://nypost.com/2016/09/06/de-blasios-favorite-lobbyist/">De Blasio’s favorite lobbyist</a>(NYP) Give mega-lobbyist James Capalino this much: He was merely telling the truth when boasting about his access to Mayor de Blasio and his top officials and aides.<br />
<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/lobbying-booms-at-new-york-city-hall-1456451819" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal reported</a> on those boasts in February, in a story on how the lobbying biz has soared since de Blasio took office. Now <a href="http://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2016/09/capalino-story-105186" target="_blank">Politico has detailed how Capalino earned his pay</a>, by looking at the e-mail trail between Capalino’s firm and City Hall for the first 16 months of the mayor’s term. Capalino and his staff exchanged messages with more than 120 administration officials — including every deputy mayor and nearly a dozen different agency heads. The lobbyists made a lot of requests for their clients — and look to have gotten action more often than not, even when the “ask” was at odds with the mayor’s progressive values. Of course, Capalino “earned” his access, having raised more than $45,000 for de Blasio’s 2013 campaign. Since then, he’s kicked in more cash to the mayor’s re-election bid, his nonprofit slush fund and even the private Gracie Mansion Conservancy He’s now the city’s top lobbyist, with his firm’s earnings up 172 percent since 2013. But he’s also tied into at least two different scandals, with his firm subpoenaed by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. That prompted de Blasio to disclose last week, “I do not have contact with [Capalino] anymore.” Then again, a mayoral spokesman calls that an “ethical decision” the mayor made for himself alone — leaving other city employees free to make “ethical judgments every day in a wide variety of interactions with the lobbying industry. That won’t change. Sounds an awful lot like a recipe for business as usual, as long as de Blasio’s fingerprints don’t show. Which would be par for the course for a mayor who pledged to drive special interests out of City Hall — but instead has welcomed them with open arms. <span style="font-weight: 400;">* Sixteen months of emails between the de Blasio administration and Capalino + Company, one of the largest lobbying firms in New York City, show employees cajoling City Hall on behalf of his clients, often with favorable results, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-2016-09-capalino-story-105186/817yt/23035104" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Politico New York reports</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. * </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">* Reports detailing de Blasio’s close relationship with lobbyist James Capalino shows that while the mayor once pledged to drive special interests out of City Hall, he has instead welcomed them with open arms, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-de-blasios-favorite-lobbyist-/817zt/23035104" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the Post writes.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> * </span><a class="postid-10383907" href="http://nypost.com/2016/09/07/city-revokes-registration-of-billboard-group-run-by-de-blasio-backer/">City revokes registration of billboard group run by de Blasio backer (NYP)</a><br />
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<b>LOBBYING DE BLASIO -- Emails show Capalino's reach in City Hall -- POLITICO New York's Dana Rubinstein, Sally Goldenberg, and Laura Nahmias: </b>"When a construction company with a tarnished reputation sought a contract from Mayor Bill de Blasio's public housing authority, it got it. When City Hall seemed like it would delay, if not outright stymie, a prominent developer's plan for a so-called "poor door," the developer ultimately won the day - with some minor concessions. When an energy company wanted a show of support for a microgrid project in Brooklyn, it got that, too. All of these companies had one thing in common - they employed Capalino and Company, the lobbying firm whose founder and CEO Jim Capalino was such an ardent de Blasio supporter that he raised nearly $45,000 for his 2013 mayoral run and personally wielded a "Come Meet Bill" sign at a rally that year."<br />
<b>DURING THE FIRST 16 months of the de Blasio mayoralty, Capalino and his employees exchanged emails with more than 120 administration employees, including each of its deputy mayors and nearly a dozen individual agency heads. </b>They offered praise. ("Kudos on Deputy Mayor Glen's excellent ABNY speech.") And they offered commiseration. When Capalino failed to secure de Blasio's attendance at a tribute to the late Ed Koch in April 2014, mayoral scheduler Lindsay Scola urged Capalino lobbyist Tom Gray to "Please keep me posted on any events in the future." "Will do," Gray replied. "In my opinion you have the hardest job in government (politics), I absolutely appreciate your level of communication." "Thank you, this means a lot," responded Scola. "I worked for bdb for 8 years," said Gray, referring to de Blasio. "I know some of ups and downs folks face over there well ;)" Gray was de Blasio's director of land use from 2009 to 2011, when the mayor was public advocate. He also worked for de Blasio from 2005 to 2009, when he was in the City Council. In another exchange, Ellyn Canfield Nealon, who handles special events for the mayor, was asked whether First Lady Chirlane McCray would attend several events. "I finally had my weekly FLONYC meeting this past week and pitched tour AND food bank meeting and they were amenable to both," she wrote to Gray on April 2, 2014. "Things move VERY slowly through that team but I will keep pushing that." <b>READ MORE:</b> <a href="http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d870ddd22dc173cf5dd8df31b24cdec276a10e5989d0f1d197fc1c2f5e4c4753" target="_blank">http://politi.co/2cvqaqd</a>* Mayor Bill de Blasio has added about 16,000 New York City workers<a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://on.wsj.com/2cKIpMF" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/AfpLNDVEQ3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://on.wsj.com/2cKIpMF"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="js-display-url">on.wsj.com/2cKIpMF</span><span class="tco-ellipsis"><span class="invisible"> </span></span></a> via <a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link js-nav" data-mentioned-user-id="3108351" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/WSJ"><s>@</s><b>WSJ</b></a><br />
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determination to withdraw support from the Hon. Justice Jacobson, she
retained in her personal capacity the civic attorney <strong>Ravi Batra</strong> and <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/322341428/082616-Full-Filed-Jacobson-Complaint-2" target="_blank">filed a Federal lawsuit</a>
against the Brooklyn Democratic County Committee and others, claiming
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independence she has exhibited, according to <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn-judge-accuses-dems-blocking-re-election-suit-article-1.2768391" target="_blank">a report</a> published by <em>The New York Daily News</em>.</span></b></span>
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<b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-size: large;">LICH hospital that helped get Bill deBlasio elected when he got arrested as an election prop goes luxury condo in mayoral bait switch on dumbass voters. Affordable Housing nixed. Brooklyn Boss Seddio Made Money in Turning A Hospital Into Luxury Buildings</span> </span></b><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Why is Seddio Still the Brooklyn Boss After He Helped Closed Down A Hospital to Build Luxury Housing?</b></span></span><br />
In disappointing turn for de Blasio, Long Island College Hospital will not include affordable housing (<a href="http://politi.co/2f2eKha" target="_blank">Politico</a>) <span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;">The land owner, Fortis Property Group, said it will not seek permission to rezone the site of Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Without a rezoning, which requires several layers of city approval, Fortis is free to build market-rate condos without any price-controlled housing for lower-income residents. (Politico)</span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><a href="https://wiselawny.wordpress.com/2016/10/12/courthouse-confidential-brooklyn-dems-chief-boosted-lawyer-for-court-job/">Courthouse Confidential: Brooklyn Dems’ Chief Boosted Lawyer for Court Job</a></span> (WiseLawNY) <span lang="EN">According to knowledgeable sources, Kings County Democratic Leader Frank R. Seddio is referring job seekers for positions at the Supreme Court at 360 Adams Street in downtown Brooklyn. Information to that effect has leached out and become widely known within the courthouse in the case of a lawyer, who was recently appointed as a law assistant to a judge handling civil cases, including foreclosures. The lawyer, whom Seddio is said to have helped, was Alexis Riley, who had spent the last two years as a “court appearance attorney” handling foreclosure cases for one of the most active lender firms, Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates, according to her LinkedIn profile, and for a second real-estate firm, now known as Friedman & Bartolo. I am aware of at least two persons, who have spoken to Riley about the help that Seddio gave her. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN">As recounted to me, Riley, who was accompanied by a court officer, had a chance encounter with Seddio at the courthouse earlier this year. Upon bumping into Seddio, the court officer introduced Riley and told Seddio that she would like to work for the courts. Seddio responded by asking whether she would like to work for Justice Kenneth Sherman and asked her to meet him at party offices soon afterwards. According to Office of Court Administration (OCA) spokesman Lucien Chalfen, Riley was hired as an assistant law clerk to Justice Sherman for a one-year term in July. The term is renewable for a second year. Justice Sherman, Chalfen added, has discretion to hire an assistant law clerk, in lieu of a secretary, if the demands of his caseload require it. Seddio declined to comment as did Riley. Seddio’s role in the hiring of Riley was such an open secret, that Brooklyn Justice Laura Jacobson apparently referred to it in a federal lawsuit against the Brooklyn Democratic Party, claiming that the party manipulated its screening procedures to deny her a shot at a second term. Though Jacobson’s complaint in <i>Jacobson v. Kings County Democratic County Committee</i>, 16-cv-4809 189 (EDNY) did not identify Riley by name, it alleged “upon information and belief” that Seddio “has ‘appointed’ one, or more, attorneys who specialized in bringing foreclosure actions by banks and lenders to become ‘Law Clerk’ or ‘Law Secretary’ to Justices of the Supreme Court in Kings County Supreme Court dealing with foreclosure actions.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span>MORVILLO ABRAMOWITZ GRAND IASON & ANELLO P. C.<br />
Re: Laura Lee Jacobson v. Kings County Democratic County Committee, eta!. Docket No. 16-cv-04809 (LDH)(RML)<br />
Dear Judge DeArcy Hall:<br />
We represent Defendants Kings County Democratic County Committee ("KCDCC") and Frank Seddio ("Seddio"). We write pursuant to Section III (A)(3) of Your Honor's Individual Practices to request a pre-motion conference in anticipation of our filing a motion to dismiss. Specifically, we will seek to dismiss the complaint because Plaintiff fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted and because this Court otherwise lacks subject matter jurisdiction.<br />
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Plaintiff Laura Jacobson sought the endorsement ofthe Executive Committee ofKCDCC in her effort to win reelection as a Justice of the New York Supreme Court. According to its rules, the Executive Committee will only endorse judicial candidates found qualified by a Judicial Screening Committee drawn from diverse bar associations, legal service organizations and a law school. The Screening Committee did not recommend Plaintiff for reelection.<br />
In her complaint, Plaintiff alleges the manner in which the Screening Committee operated violated her constitutional right to equal protection under law. The pleading also contends that those committee persons who voted other than in her favor had personal, vindictive motivations which served to deny her a finding of "qualified" by the Screening Committee.<br />
As a threshold matter, the Court should be aware that following her rejection by the Screening Committee and an unsuccessful appeal, Plaintiff withdrew her candidacy for the New York Supreme Court "unequivocally and with prejudice." (A copy of Plaintiffs June 10, 2016<br />
Case 1:16-cv-04809-LDH-RML Document 11 Filed 09/30/16 Page 1 of 5 PageID #: 346<br />
MORVILLO ABRAMOWITZ GRAND IASON & ANELLO P. C. Honorable LaShann DeArcy Hall September 30, 2016 Page 2<br />
letter is appended as Exhibit A.) Plaintiffs withdrawal of her candidacy, with prejudice, renders her federal claims moot as there is no "genuine need to resolve a real dispute." 13A Wright, Miller & Cooper, Federal Practice and Procedure§ 3532.1 at 114 (1984); see also City News & Novelty, Inc. v. City ofWaukesha, 531 U.S. 278,283 (2001).<br />
Moreover, by challenging the manner in which the Screening Committee considered her candidacy, and ultimately determined not to find her qualified, Plaintiff has recycled and recast arguments rejected by the United States Supreme Court in New York State Bd. of Elections v. Lopez Torres, 552 U.S. 196 (2008). In Lopez-Torres, plaintiffs/judicial candidates claimed the process for nominating judges for New York Supreme Court violated their First Amendment rights of association. As with the Plaintiffhere, the Lopez-Torres plaintiffs were unable to win the support of political leaders or delegates necessary to appear on the party line on the general election ballot. In dismissing the case, the Supreme Court reiterated that political parties have a First Amendment right to limit their membership as they wish, and to "choose a candidate-selection process that will in its view produce the nominee who best represents its political platform." !d. at 196.<br />
As in Lopez-Torres, the Screening Committee's failure here to recommend Plaintiffs candidacy does not give rise to a constitutional violation. The requirements of the nominating process did not deny her ballot access. Plaintiff had alternate methods of obtaining a slot on the general election ballot which she chose not to pursue. Not having been found qualified by the Screening Committee merely means that the Executive Committee would not endorse Plaintiffs candidacy. However, as the Supreme Court observed in Lopez-Torres, "[n]o New York law compels election of the leadership's slate- or, for that matter, compels the delegates elected on the leadership's slate to vote the way the leadership desires. And no state law prohibits an unsupported candidate from attending the convention and seeking to persuade the delegates to support her. Our cases invalidating ballot-access requirements have focused on the requirements themselves, and not on the manner in which political actors function under those requirements." !d. at 205.<br />
Additionally, the Supreme Court observed that New York has a second mechanism for a candidate to gain placement on the final election ballot. "One who seeks to be a justice of the New York Supreme Court may qualify by a petition process. The petition must be signed by the lesser of (1) 5 percent of the number of votes last cast for Governor in the judicial district or (2) either 3,500 or 4,000 voters (depending on the district). This requirement has not been shown to be an umeasonable one .... True, the candidate who gains ballot access by petition does not have a party designation; but the candidate is still considered by the voters." !d. at 210.<br />
In his concurrence, Justice Kennedy, joined by Justice Breyer, observed that "[a] judicial election system presents the opportunity, indeed the civic obligation, for voters and the community as a whole to become engaged in the legal process. Judicial elections, if fair and open, could be an essential forum for society to discuss and define the attributes of judicial excellence and to find ways to discern those qualities in the candidates. The organized bar, the legal academy, public<br />
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advocacy groups, a principled press, and all the other components of functioning democracy must engage in this process." ld. at 212. Plaintiffs pleading now assails the very organized bar, legal academy and public advocacy groups urged to engage in the process of discussing and defining the qualities of judicial candidates.<br />
Furthermore, the complaint's allegations of wrongdoing against KCDCC and Seddio are entirely conclusory. Even if such conduct were properly alleged, Plaintiffs federal claims must nevertheless be dismissed because neither KCDCC nor Seddio are "state actors" for purposes of§ 1983. Plaintiff complains about the manner in which the members of the Screening Committee performed their duties, but deviations from the internal rules of the Screening Committee or KCDCC do not create a private cause of action. See Max v. Republican Comm. of Lancaster County, 587 F.3d 198, 200 (3d Cir. 2009). Moreover, courts are hesitant to interfere with "internal affairs of political parties" because of the importance of a political party's First Amendment right to conduct its affairs as it wishes. See Max, 587 F.3d at 201; Lopez Torres, 552 U.S. 196. In addition, Plaintiff has not alleged she is part of any protected class and cannot claim disparate treatment from others similarly situated to substantiate a plausible "class of one" theory of recovery. Any other judges referenced by Plaintiff in her complaint are not "prima facie identical in all relevant aspects" and are thus not similarly situated to her. Tiraco v. New York State Bd. of Elections, 963 F. Supp. 2d 184 (E.D.N.Y. 2013); Leroy v. New York City Bd. of Elections, 793 F. Supp. 2d 533 (E.D.N.Y. 2011).<br />
Even if KCDCC and Seddio were state actors, and even if the complaint did allege wrongdoing by them, they would be entitled to qualified immunity for discretionary acts taken in the performance oftheir duties. Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 818 (1982). The privilege of qualified immunity shields government officials from liability for damages on account of their performance of discretionary official functions "insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known." Ying Jing Gan v. City of New York, 996 F.2d 522, 531 (2d Cir. 1993) (quoting Harlow, 457 U.S. at 818). As such, the complaint should also be dismissed on the basis of qualified immunity.<br />
Finally, because there is no federal question jurisdiction, the Court should decline to exercise supplemental jurisdiction to consider Plaintiffs state law claims. See 28 U.S.C. § 1367. In any event, the state law claims are legally insufficient for a host of reasons, including that the complaint's allegations against KCDCC and Seddio are entirely conclusory and do not plausibly give rise to an entitlement to relief. See Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 679 (2009).<br />
cc: All parties by ECF<br />
Respectfully yours, Is/ Edward M Spiro Edward M. Spiro<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Motion Not to Dismiss From Judge Jacobson's Attorney</b></span></span><br />
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212-545-1993<br />
October 7, 2016<br />
Via EDNY ECF<br />
Hon. LaShann DeArcy Hall<br />
United States District Court<br />
Eastern District of New York<br />
225 Cadman Plaza East<br />
Brooklyn, New York 11201<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Re: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jacobson v. Kings County Democratic County Committee, et. al.,<br />
Civil Action No. 16-cv-04809 (LDH) (RML)<br />
Dear Respected District Judge DeArcy Hall:<br />
We represent plaintiff Laura Lee Jacobson and write pursuant to Your Honor’s Rule III(A)(5) in response and opposition to the contentions raised by counsel for defendants in their respective letter applications seeking a pre-motion to dismiss conference.<br />
Plaintiff sues pursuant to, inter alia, 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for deprivation of her rights under the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the United States Constitution. The defendants are a political committee, a judicial nominating committee, and members of those institutions directly involved in the deprivation of rights. New York does not have primary elections for elected Judgeships. Rather, under the New York State Election Law, political parties control ballot access. See, e.g., Election Law §§ 6-106, 6-124, 6-136(3). The Kings County Democratic County Committee (“KCDCC”) and its judicial nominating committee (“Edelman Committee”) were state actors because the judicial nominating committee only exists and its rules were devised pursuant to the authority of the Election Law.<br />
Given that a political party has been granted authority, under state law, to effectively control who can be listed on the ballot, its actions are state actions. Yassky v. Kings County Democratic County Comm., 259 F. Supp. 2d 210, 216 (E.D.N.Y. 2003) (“despite the voluntary, private nature of the Democratic Party, the action of the KCDCC in enacting the Rule clearly constitutes state action making the defendants subject to a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983”). Indeed, as the Yassky<br />
Court further held, “although political parties themselves have certain First Amendment<br />
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associational rights, those rights do not allow the political parties to engage in conduct, directly related to ballot access, that would be unconstitutional if done by the State.” Id. citing, California Democratic Party v Jones, 530 U.S. 567 (2000). Just as a political party is deemed a state actor if it seeks to unlawfully discriminate in its membership for purposes of voting rights (see, e.g., Smith v Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944)), it is also acting under color of law when it controls who may appear on the ballot pursuant to state law. <br />
The defendants paint an unbalanced picture of the allegations contained in plaintiff’s complaint. Critically, plaintiff does not seek to “recycle and recast” arguments raised in New York State Bd. of Elections v Lopez Torres, 552 U.S. 196 (2008). On the contrary, and in the best of faith, plaintiff specifically alerted the Court and the defendants to the late Justice Scalia’s opinion in Lopez Torres. (Doc. 1 ¶ 3). Plaintiff does not seek the Court’s intervention with respect to the defendants’ failure to re-nominate her for another term as a Justice of the New York State Supreme Court. Rather, plaintiffs’ federal claims are rooted in the defendants’ vindictive, markedly different treatment of her as compared to similarly situated people, to wit: other sitting Judges also seeking renomination - who are specifically identified in the complaint by name and basis of similar footing.<br />
Plaintiff’s complaint thoroughly alleges that she was irrationally and vindictively treated differently than similarly situated sitting judges who were prospective candidates for renomination. The divergent treatment complained of is in the means and methods employed by the defendants with respect to the plaintiff’s application. The rules enacted by the defendants mandated absolute confidentiality of the process; however, they unilaterally violated those rules - only concerning the plaintiff, to her great prejudice. That the plaintiff withdrew her application (Doc. 11, Ex. A) actually bolsters this position because defendants’ rules also provide that a withdrawal of an application, on the exact terms that plaintiff observed, would strengthen the confidentiality, to wit: “[t]he candidate shall then be given an additional two business days to withdraw his/her candidacy unequivocally and with prejudice to avoid publication of the Committee's findings.” (Doc. 1, Ex. 8 at Rule 31(b); see also, Ex. 7 at Procedure 1). Here, in mitigation, plaintiff withdrew her application - and the breaches continued. This was the defendants, performing as state actors, in violation of their own rules, with no legitimate purpose. As the Supreme Court has firmly held, “[o]ur cases have recognized successful equal protection claims brought by a “class of one,” where the plaintiff alleges that she has been intentionally treated differently from others similarly situated and that there is no rational basis for the difference in treatment.” Vil. of Willowbrook v Olech, 528 U.S. 562, 564 (2000).<br />
The defendants’ prospective reliance on Engquist v Oregon Dept. of Agr., 553 U.S. 591<br />
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rational reason for differences in treatment between similarly situated people. Id. at 602. The caveat the defendants seek to force the facts at bar into is Engquist’s limitations on protections to public employees vis–à–vis discretionary actions taken by their state employers. Here, plaintiff was never employed by the defendants. Moreover, despite the defendants’ contentions to the contrary, plaintiff does not and has not claimed any “property interest” in a judgeship. That would be anathema to an independent judiciary - precisely what the defendants degrade and chill to harm separation of powers’ functioning. The defendants did not have discretion to violate the very confidentiality that was at the heart of the nomination and screening process. The defendants, however, only breached these rules concerning one candidate: the plaintiff. This was no mistake. Rather, it was malice.<br />
Nor are the principles set forth in Max v Republican Comm. of Lancaster County, 587 F.3d 198 (3d Cir. 2009) in any way applicable. In Max, the Third Circuit considered internal actions by a political party as relates to a first amendment claim. Here, contrary to defendants’ claims, plaintiff is not alleging violations of the first amendment, and the misconduct by the party relates directly to authority granted to it by state statute. Thus, acting under “color of law.”<br />
The individual defendants’ proposed reliance on a qualified immunity defense as a grounds for dismissal also must fail. To the extent they are sued in their official capacities, they may not raise qualified immunity defenses. Hafer v. Melo, 502 U.S. 21, 25 (1991); Jackler v Byrne, 658 F.3d 225, 244 (2d Cir. 2011); Ying Jing Gan v City of New York, 996 F.2d 522, 529 (2d Cir. 1993). In the individual defendants’ personal capacities, plaintiff “is entitled to all reasonable inferences from the facts alleged, not only those that support his claim, but also those that defeat the immunity defense.” McKenna v. Wright, 386 F.3d 432, 436 (2d Cir. 2004).“A defendant asserting a qualified immunity defense at the 12(b)(6) stage ... faces a formidable hurdle, because the evidence supporting a finding of qualified immunity is normally adduced during the discovery process and at trial, the defense of qualified immunity [usually] cannot support the grant of a Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) motion for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.” Edmonds v. Cent. N.Y. Psychiatric Ctr., 2011 WL 3809913, *7 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 25, 2011) (internal citations and quotation marks omitted). See also, Cohn v. New Paltz Cent. School Dist., 171 Fed. Appx. 877, 879 (2d Cir. 2006). Here, plaintiff’s version of the events, which must be accepted as true, makes clear that the defendants’ conduct, individually and collectively, was unreasonable. The defendants inexplicably seek to have this Honorable Court conclude, without responsive pleadings and full and complete discovery, that, individually and collectively, they could not be expected to know that it was wrong to violate the very rules they enacted, particularly concerning confidentiality which they assured plaintiff, and all prospective nominees, would be maintained. Under these circumstances, this Honorable Court could not find, as a matter of law, that it is “beyond doubt” that “no reasonable jury” could find that the defendants’ conduct was unreasonable, mandating denial of any motion. Husain v. Springer, 494 F.3d 108, 133 (2d Cir. 2007); Thomas v. Roach, 165 F.3d 137, 143 (2d Cir. 1999).<br />
Respectfully submitted,<br />
/s/ Ravi Batra Ravi Batra<br />
cc (Via ECF):<br />
Edward Spiro, Esq.<br />
George F. Carpinello, Esq.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/39/39/dtg-lich-ulurp-delays-2016-09-16-bk.html" target="_blank">The silent treatment: LICH talks at standstill ninemonths after DeBlasio tries to resuscitate</a> (Brooklyn Paper)<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: lime;">UPDATE ON JUDGE JACOBSON LAWSUIT </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">George Campinello, a lawyer for one or more of the Judicial Screener Defendants in the Jacobson lawsuit, filed an application to be admitted to the Eastern District, where the case is. He is with a firm headed by David Boies, one of the top litigators in the country. Boies argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in the George Bush Florida voting count case and lost. All defendants in the Jacobsen case except Seddio and the Kings County Democratic Party have hired<b> David Boies</b> law firm and the lawyer in particular is <b>George Carpinello.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://therealdeal.com/2016/08/09/future-of-lich-site-uncertain-as-negotiations-slow-to-a-crawl/" target="_blank">Futureof LICH site uncertain as negotiations slow to a crawl </a>(Real Deal) </b><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 16.4067px;">The future of the Long Island College Hospital site is uncertain as negotiations between city officials and Fortis Property Group remain at a standstill.<span id="more-872724"></span> <a href="http://therealdeal.com/new-research/topics/company/fortis-property-group/" target="_blank">Fortis<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"> </span></span><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="TRData LogoTINY" border="0" height="14" src="file:///C:/Users/Robert/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.png" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1" width="15" /></span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>doesn’t need city approval to develop 529,000 square feet of market-rate housing at the Cobble Hill site, but there’s a potentially more lucrative option on the table. If the city were to rezone the site, an option backed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, the developer could build 900,000 square feet of housing, including affordable housing. But seven months after a meeting between city officials and the developer, Fortis is mulling whether or not it should try to convince City Councilman Brad Lander to support rezoning or if it should just move ahead with an as-of-right development, Politico reported. Talks are further complicated by recent reports that federal authorities are investigating the sale of the site. Last month, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara began probing the mayor’s role in the deal. He subpoenaed the State University of New York, seeking all communication between City Hall and the school about the sale dating back to when de Blasio first took office, the New York Daily News reported. The mayor had campaigned to keep the hospital open, but shortly after taking office, he made a deal with SUNY to keep healthcare services at the site, but not necessarily a full-fledged hospital. Fortis, which hired lobbyist James Capalino to engage with City Hall aides,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://therealdeal.com/2016/07/26/preet-bharara-investigating-de-blasios-role-in-lich-site-sale/" target="_blank">bought the site</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in 2014 for $240 million. The developer plans to demolish two buildings on the site and either build a luxury condo development or a series of apartment towers that would include affordable housing. <a href="http://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2016/08/negotiations-moving-slowly-on-city-hall-backed-housing-project-in-brooklyn-104588" target="_blank">[Politico]</a> * </span></span><a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20160921/EXPERT/160929979?CSAuthResp=1%3A373622938314400%3A220276%3A3%3A24%3Aapproved%3A6DC1BC7BFE68E238D1E8BFFA089D05F1" target="_blank">How are judges made in New York? Like sausage [in 5 steps]</a>(CrainsNY) If the best judge ever isn't known to party insiders, he or she won't move up to <span style="font-family: "ms gothic";"> </span>the Supreme Court<br />
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Capalino+Company is the #1 lobbying + strategic consulting firm in New York City specializing in helping companies, not-for-profits and institutions achieve long term, sustainable success in New York City. Our experienced team is proud of our 30+ year track record of working with the most globally recognized brands to achieve success on land use, legislation, community relations, MWBE compliance and the creation of impactful Corporate Social Responsibility programs. <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/services-/96d4w/25606062" target="_blank">Let us know how we can help you</a>.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2012/11/lobbyist.html" target="_blank">More on Lobbyists Davidoff and Capalino</a></span></b><br />
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Law Suit is Aimed At Brooklyn Boss Seddio Law Firm But the Daily News
Says Lawyers Affiliated With the Screening Panel Leaves Out Predicate
Facts His LICH Hospital Mortgage Closing Connections </b></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn-judge-accuses-dems-blocking-re-election-suit-article-1.2768391" target="_blank">Brooklyn Supreme Court judge suing borough’s Democratic party for dashing her re-election hopes</a>
(NYDN) A Brooklyn Supreme Court judge has filed a $5 million lawsuit
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the Brooklyn Democratic party after she wasn’t approved for re-election
by a screening committee .Ravi Batra, a lawyer representing Justice
Laura Jacobson, filed the
bombshell suit Friday against the Kings County Democratic Committee
alleging Jacobson’s “refusal to judicially act bending and bowing to the
Brooklyn political machine” led to her losing the party’s backing. The
suit claims that members of the committee, and its chairman Martin
Edelman, damaged Jacobson’s reputation by leaking confidential
information about the screening process to the fact-challenged New York
Post.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: black;">Cover-Up</span> Is the NYP An Arm of the Brooklyn Machine? Not Reporting on Jacobson Law Suit </b></span></span><br />
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The county Dems “violated their own rules concerning committee
participation and confidentiality and deprived the plaintiff of equal
protection and due process so as to vindictively harm the plaintiff
personally and professionally,” according to the suit. The suit claims Jacobson, who has 25 years of experience on the bench
and is seeking re-election for a 14-year term, is being punished for
rulings against lawyers affiliated with the Brooklyn Dems. It also alleges that the screening board has been stacked by Frank
Seddio, the chairman of the Kings County Democratic County Committee,
even though it is meant to be independent. “Most members of this highly respected panel are chosen by various bar
associations and this committee worked long hours and with great gravity
before coming to its conclusion,” said Brooklyn Democratic County
Committee spokesman George Artz, who is also named as a defendant in the
lawsuit. “This was only the second time in 14 years that a sitting judge was not
recommended,” Artz added. “Other than that we are not going to comment
on pending litigation.”* <a href="http://www.progressqueens.com/news/2016/9/4/why-have-manhattan-brooklyn-party-committees-withdrawn-support-from-judges-ling-cohan-and-jacobson">Questions about why Manhattan, Brooklyn party committees have withdrawn support from judges (Progress Queens)</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/322341428/082616-Full-Filed-Jacobson-Complaint-2" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Full Judge Jacobson Law Suit </b></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2012/09/seddio.html">True News (The Bund): Brooklyn Democratic Boss Seddio </a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Where did the NYP Get the Information From?
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Was not getting reappointed by the Brooklyn Bosses Screening
puppet revenge for Jacobson Ruling to Keep LICH Hospital Open?</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">On Jacobson's Ruling to Keep LICH Open</span></span> </b><br />
<b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">166. Retaliatory, Vindictive and Malicious Deprivation of Judge Jacobson’s Right to “Equal Protection of Law” and “Due Process”!</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Why Have the Media Reformers Given Up on Judicial Reform Sen Kennedy and Judge Jacobson Started? </b></span></span><br />
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154. On August 27, 2014, Judge Jacobson was assigned to hear
emergency</div>
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applications, Orders to Show Cause and ex parte applications
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155. One of the matters that was presented to Judge Jacobson
was a proposed Order</div>
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to Show Cause brought by The New York State Nurses
Association seeking to, inter alia,</div>
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enjoin the State University of New York (“SUNY”) from taking
actions inconsistent with a</div>
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“Court-ordered Settlement Agreement entered on February 25,
2014.”</div>
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156. The underlying matter, captioned as The New York State
Nurses Association,</div>
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et. al. v. New York State Department of Health, et. al.,
Index No. 5814/2013, involved, inter</div>
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alia, contests to the sale of Long Island College Hospital
(“LICH”) and efforts to ensure</div>
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continued employment of nurses then employed at LICH and the
continued provision of</div>
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emergency medicine services which were being provided by
LICH.</div>
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157. Appearing for SUNY, in opposition to the relief sought,
was Frank V. Carone,</div>
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Esq. of Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eiseman, Formato,
Ferrara & Wolf, LLP (“Abrams</div>
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Fensterman”).<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Why Have the Reformers Given Up on Judicial Refrom and Judge Jacobson? </span></b></span></div>
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158. Mr. Carone was previously the law partner of defendant
Seddio in the</div>
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Professional Service Limited Liability Company Seddio
& Carone PLLC. Upon information</div>
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and belief, based upon the records of the New York State
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Corporations, that law practice was formed on May 30, 2008
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dissolution on December 10, 2014. A true copy of a printout
of publically accessible records</div>
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of the New York State Department of State, Division of
Corporations is appended hereto and</div>
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made a part hereof as Exhibit 12.</div>
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159. Both Mr. Carone and defendant Seddio reportedly took
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joined them with partnerships at Abrams Fensterman.</div>
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160. Defendant Seddio stopped practicing law with Abrams
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161. In addition to his partnership with Abrams Fensterman,
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serves as Counsel to the County Chair of the Kings County
Democratic County Committee.</div>
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162. Defendant Seddio is the County Chair of the Kings
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Committee. Accordingly, Mr. Carone is defendant Seddio’s
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163. Mr. Carone has also been, and may still be, the
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164. After vigorous oral argument before Judge Jacobson on
August 27, 2014,</div>
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wherein Mr. Carone insited that Judge Jacobson not enjoin
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Order With Temporary Restraining Order solely to preserve
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until September 12, 2014. A true copy of this Order, which
Mr. Carone agreed to the form,</div>
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though not the result, is appended hereto and made a part
hereof as Exhibit 13.</div>
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165. Subsequent to argument before Judge Jacobson, The New
York State Nurses</div>
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Association apparently changed its position and sought
relief not contemplated by the papers</div>
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considered by Judge Jacobson on August 27, 2014.
Accordingly, on September 29, 2014, Hon.</div>
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Johnny Lee Baynes, the justice of the Supreme Court assigned
to matter, issued an Interim</div>
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Order denying The New York State Nurses Association’s
application procedurally and</div>
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substantively. A true copy of this Interim Order is also
appended hereto and made a part hereof</div>
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as Ex. 13, supra. Also included as part of appended Ex. 13, and
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electronic mail communications between Mr. Carone and
counsel for The New York State</div>
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<a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2012/02/brooklyn-hospitals.html" target="_blank">Closing Hospitals, HHC, LICH </a></h3>
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<b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Did Arzt Plant These Stories Against Judge Jacobson in the NYP for His Boss Seddio Democratic Machine or His Law Clients?</span></span> </b><br />
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/07/13/city-judge-deemed-incompetent-in-unheard-of-move/">City
judge deemed incompetent in ‘unheard of’ move</a> (NYP) This is a
precedent no judge wants to set. In a first-of-its-kind rebuke, a
Brooklyn Supreme Court judge with 25 years experience on the bench has been
found unqualified by a Democratic Party screening panel — a move that will
likely doom her chances for re-election this fall. “She’s not the
brightest bulb in the courthouse to begin with,” said one party source,
explaining the Brooklyn Democratic Party Judicial Screening Committee’s
decision last month to find Justice Laura Jacobson unqualified to run on the
party line. “They looked at her track record, and they found an abnormal
percentage of cases were overturned by higher courts,” said the party source.
“And when also factoring in she has a poor reputation, she was found
unqualified.” Said another party official, who like the others asked not to be
named, “As far as we know, this is the first time in Brooklyn’s history the
committee did not reappoint a sitting Supreme Court judge — it’s unheard of.”
* </b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/07/15/brooklyn-judge-blows-off-work-amid-being-deemed-unqualified/">Brooklyn
judge blows off work amid being deemed 'unqualified' NYP)</a></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2014/8/27/nurses%E2%80%99-court-order-throws-wrench-nyu%E2%80%99s-lich-plans-brooklyn">Nurses’
court order throws wrench into NYU’s LICH plans in Brooklyn</a> (Daily Eagle,
2014) SUNY attorney Frank Carone told Justice Jacobson that SUNY “tried
to meet with NYU yesterday, but were unsuccessful.” He assured the judge that
SUNY was “committed to the content and objectives of the RFP,” and supports the
“full employment of the nurses.” “I’m sure the nurses in the courtroom are very
happy to hear that,” Justice Jacobson said.</b></div>
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In retribution for Judge Jacobson’s proper exercise of judicial discretion and independence which was
inconsistent with the desires of Mr. Carone who is defendant Seddio’s counsel and was
Seddio’s law partner, defendants Edelman and Decker abused their positions on the Edelman
Committee and defendant Seddio abused his position as County Chair of the Kings County
Democratic County Committee and aided, abetted and conspired with members of the Executive
Committee of defendant Kings County Democratic County Committee, members of the Edelman
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Ajaiyeoba, defendants John and Jane Does and others not
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Carone, in an effort to deprive Judge Jacobson of “equal
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process,” in an effort to maliciously and vindictively
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professional harm to Judge Jacobson.</div>
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167. Because of Judge Jacobson’s proper exercise of judicial
discretion and</div>
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independence, and refusal to judicially endorse Mr. Carone’s
opposition to maintaining the</div>
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status quo of keeping a hospital emergency department open
while keeping a discrete number</div>
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of nurses employed, defendants Seddio, Edelman, Finkelstein,
Decker, Ajaiyeoba, John and</div>
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Jane Does, members of the Executive Committee<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of defendant Kings County Democratic</div>
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County Committee, members of defendant Edelman
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46<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>defendants agreed
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professionally. This conspiracy was carried out by
performance of overt acts including:</div>
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i. violating the rules of the Kings County Democratic County
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ii. violating the Rules and procedures of the Edelman Committee;
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iii. breaching the confidentiality of the judicial screening
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168. Because of Judge Jacobson’s proper exercise of judicial
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independence, and refusal to judicially endorse Mr. Carone’s
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of nurses employed, defendants Seddio, Edelman, Kings County
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Committee, the Edelman Committee, Finkelstein, Decker,
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others not named as defendants, including defendant KCDCC’s
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did violate the rules of the Kings County Democratic County
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169. Because of Judge Jacobson’s proper exercise of judicial
discretion and</div>
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independence, and refusal to judicially endorse Mr. Carone’s
opposition to maintaining the</div>
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then status quo of keeping a hospital emergency department
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number of nurses employed, defendants Seddio, Edelman, Kings
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Committee, the Edelman Committee, Finkelstein, Decker,
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obtained from and about Judge Jacobson which information was obtained solely as
a result of the judicial screening process.</div>
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<a href="http://nybloggersnewspaper.blogspot.com/2014/10/poor-door-and-lobbyists-george-arzt.html" target="_blank">Poor Door Lobbyists George Arzt</a></h3>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The Reformers and Progressives Have Abandoned the Judicial Reform Started by Robert Kennedy <span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"> The Jacobson Case Will Show How Much the Democratic Party Machine Controls the Courts </span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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In the 1966 Senator Robert Kennedy started a judicial reform
movement when he went after the democratic machine control of the Manhattan
Surrogate Court. Kennedy called the Surrogate Court is A Political Toll Booth
Exacting Tribute from Widows and Orphans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kennedy and his candidate judge Samuel J. Silverman running on a
platform to end patronage and cronyism in the awarding of lucrative assignments
to serve as executors, guardians and estate trustees beat the machine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After Kennedy death the reform movement
fueled in membership by the anti-Viet Nam War Movement took up the senator’s
mission to reform the machine ability to control the courts and elected dozens
of reform judges against the machine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
recent years the reformers or as they like to be called progressives have abandoned
Kennedy’s mission to break the machines control of the courts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
lawsuit of Judge Laura Jacobson will show
just how deep the machines control of judgeship and the courts are in
this
city. "The reformers and progressives just don't care anymore about
judicial reform" said judicial gadfly Alan Flacks. Flacks' continued
"the reform screening panel system started in the 1960's by the Geller
panels, in the 70's by the New Democratic Coalition and and incorporated
into the NY Democratic Party in 1977 is dead." According to Flack's
Manhattan county leader Wright has destroyed the Panels. The selection
of judges in the 4 outer boroughs is totally controlled by the
democratic party leaders. Nobody cares anymore about judicial reforms,
"the new young leaders just don't care," said New York's one man
judicial watchdog.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Judge Jacobson Lawyer Letter to Brooklyn Boss Seddio to Dismiss the Brooklyn Judicial Screening Committee</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Hon. Frank
Seddio</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I have the high honor and sacred duty to represent
Justice Laura Jacobson, and to protect her judicial independence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">As I'm "old school," respect is due to a
Leader. So, I called you first to remedy the wrong that your appointed Judicial
Screening Committee has caused out of personal malice or reckless disregard of
the truth. That they exacerbated their discretionary injury with violation of
statutory confidentiality under color of law is inexcusable - as the reputational
damage is total.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I respectfully request that you dismiss your Committee
and institute a new committee which does not carry out contract-kills and/or
pierce necessary confidentiality required for judicial screening; and then
re-interview Justice Jacobson - as Judicial Independence is the alter upon
which Lady Justice presides, something every Screener, aware of their
"Officer of the Court" status, ought cherish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Let me know if you will dismiss the Screening
Committee for cause by Monday, August 15, 2016 4pm. The law is a many
splendored thing and it can remedy many wrongs, including, what has been done
to my client - Justice Jacobson. I include a copy of my September 9, 2004
Letter to Chairman Marty Edelman, when the late Justice Louis Marrero, fiercely
independent and a republican, was a victim of Screener-misconduct.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Warm personal regards to Joy and yo</span></div>
Ravi Batra<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Judge Jacobson Lawyer Letter to the NY Post</b></span></span><br />
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<b>From:</b> Ravi Batra <<a href="mailto:ravi@ravibatralaw.com" target="_blank">ravi@ravibatralaw.com</a>><br />
<b>Date:</b> August 16, 2016 at 11:56:32<br />
<b>Subject:</b> <b>J. Jacobson</b></blockquote>
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have the high honor and sacred duty to defend the judicial independence
of Justice Laura Jacobson from those who have maligned her in excess of
their First Amendment rights, motivated by pecuniary, retributive or
political interests. Sadly, it appears that Kings County Democratic
County Committee's Judicial Screening Committee has ignored its
obligation to be independent and to honor its statutory obligation to
keep its process and conclusions confidential - on threat of being
charged civilly and criminally. <br />
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That
this Committee found a distinguished hardworking judge anything but, may
speak to some members of that Committee who had illegal and
dishonorable motives. <br />
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That NY Post was
given false information, is besides the point - as no information
should have been disclosed because it's confidential by law. <br />
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That
some engaged in an orgy of insult to destroy Justice Jacobson's hard
earned reputation of judicial independence is beyond the pale and
defamation per se - as the damage to her reputation is total. <br />
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Since
the Honorable Frank Seddio did not honor my request to fire the
County's Judicial Screeners for obvious cause, we will be filing suit in
federal court and inter alia naming the Screening Committee for its
misconduct, and asking for all relief and remedies to protect judicial
independence and judicial reputation from ignoble attack. <br />
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The
Kings County Judicial Screening Committee has a history of
contract-kills - I know, as I've witnessed them and blocked them
repeatedly - be they for petty retribution reasons, or worse, serving
pecuniary interests or "doing as told." But this gross confidentiality
breach is a new low that cries out for appropriate federal rebuke that
stings well and long. <br />
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Any honorable
member of this Judicial Screening Committee ought resign now - and any
such resignation will inform the lawsuit that will be filed. Of course,
the Committee could disclose the Leakers for direct legal targeted
action. <br />
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Given its complexity, and
effect on the Judicial Convention, we will work overtime to get it filed
in court before end of next week. <br />
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Ravi
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>A Law Suit By A Brooklyn Judge Against the Brooklyn Party Screening Committee is Explosive</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a class="postid-10341314" href="http://nypost.com/2016/08/18/judge-unqualified-for-re-election-to-file-suit-against-party/">Judge ‘unqualified’ for re-election to file suit against party (NYP) </a></span>A
veteran Brooklyn Supreme Court judge deemed “unqualified” for
re-election by a Democratic Party screening committee plans to file a
lawsuit claiming the label was politically motivated. Ravi Batra, a
lawyer representing Justice Laura Jacobson, told The
Post he is drafting a suit to file next week in Brooklyn federal court
against the Brooklyn Democratic Party Judicial Screening Committee. He
said the suit seeks to have the committee’s 24 members replaced,
so new ones can give a second chance to Jacobson, who has 25 years of
experience on the bench, to get on the ballot this year on the
Democratic line. Committee approval is usually routine for sitting
judges, he said. Martin Edelman, the screening committee’s chairman,
called Batra’s
remarks “defamatory” and unfounded, adding that the committee “will not
be intimidated into rescinding its decision and will vigorously fight”
any lawsuit filed. * <a data-tb-shadow-region-link="0" data-tb-shadow-region-title="0" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nyc-lawyer-paralegal-sentenced-years-behind-bars-article-1.2755398">'Greedy' NYC lawyer, paralegal who bribed court employees sentenced to nine years behind bars (NYDN)</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Interesting the Post does a story about a judge dump on by the Manhattan machine but not the judge dump on by the Brooklyn Machine Which the Post work with to dump on</span></b><br />
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<a class="postid-10385194" href="http://nypost.com/2016/09/08/democratic-leader-wont-overturn-decision-to-re-elect-lazy-judge/">Democratic leader won’t overturn decision to re-elect ‘lazy’ judge</a>(NYP)<br />
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<a class="postid-10378931" href="http://nypost.com/2016/09/06/democratic-base-rails-against-party-pols-for-barring-lazy-judge/">Democratic base rails against party pols for barring ‘lazy’ judge</a>(NYP) Manhattan Democratic leader Keith Wright is coming under intense pressure from key members of his Democratic base — gay leaders and tenant activists — to reverse the decision of a screening panel that <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/08/31/democratic-party-bars-lazy-pro-lgbt-judge-from-election-ticket/">found Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan not qualified</a> for re-election.“I am outraged by the decision . . . I can assure you that this outrage is shared by the larger tenant community, tenant-advocacy community, legal services, Legal Aid and private tenant bar,” tenant leader Michael McKee told Wright in a letter.<br />
McKee said Ling-Cohan is a champion of tenant rights and claimed the landlord lobby is out to get her. “It seems clear that Justice Ling-Cohan has made a lot of enemies among the landlord bar with her decisions, and somehow these enemies have been able to manipulate the screening panel in an attempt to end her career. I don’t know what Curtis Arluck and Louise Dankberg were smoking, but this decision is a travesty,” he said, referring to party officials overseeing judgeship selections.<br />
“I urge you as Democratic county chair to intervene in this situation to correct this injustice.”<br />
Lower East Side Councilwoman Rosie Mendez and other backers of Ling-Cohan are planning a press conference at City Hall Tuesday to demand the screening committee reverse itself. *Manhattan Dems Rejecting Justice Doris Ling-Cohan Sparks Outrage(Gay City News) *In manhattan, CL Wright is asking for re-hearing if screening rules not followed. In Bklyn, the County Committee Residency/Employment for Committee members not followed, and Screening Committee rules of Oral & Written Notice to Candidate of any issues not given + Screening Process Confidentiality breached with NYP's bad-sources saying knowingly false and defamatory statements with malice and reckless disregard of the truth.<br />
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On September 4, 2016 at 1:47 PM Ravi Batra &<a href="mailto:ravibatralaw@aol.com" target="_blank">ravibatralaw@aol.com</a>; wrote:<br />
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I have taken note of the fact that both Justice Jacobson and Justice Ling-Cohen are women, hardworking, well-respected, and have created legal precedent. </div>
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1. 2 clubs: Central Brooklyn Independent Dems and LAMBDA are supportive of Justice Jacobson's long and distinguished record of being a Straight Arrow and ruling without Fear or Favor, the Bob Morgenthau gold standard of public service, to do the right thing: merit-based justice one case at a time. </div>
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2. As I do not represent Justice Ling- Cohen, I am unaware of her facts. However, as to Justice Laura Jacobson, I am well aware of the documented history for her exemplary service on the bench. Indeed, the complaint filed in EDNY clearly alleges that J. Jacobson honored the strong public policy of the state of New York disincentivizing residential foreclosures while defendants Frank Seddio and Frank Carone have deep and wide ties and relationships with banking and lending - which is the root-support of real estate development. Of course, as the United States attorney Preet Bharara has repeatedly shown by securing convictions of the most powerful leaders, the sick and sordid self-benefiting corruptive influence of the real estate industry: the true Masters of the universe, as they actually own large swaths of most valuable parts of the earth. </div>
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J. Jacobson's involvement in LICH is a mere tip of the festering sewer of misconduct, that lies below. Federal civil discovery, given the now-public record of SDNY U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's interest, will flush out the public-private partnership(s) that made that LICH-to-Condos plan proceed and the less-than-holy participants and their Kabuki Play to lull the public. </div>
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But, at the heart of this case - which a federal jury will decide - is the ignoble, illegal and unconstitutional destruction of a great and fearless judge, a woman, who dared to honor her Oath, and that those who did the foul and malicious deeds did it all wrong and violated their own rules to do so. It's sorta like a gang that can't shoot straight or, as I have commented for almost two decades, that there is a peculiar political virus in Brooklyn: legal stupidity. </div>
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What is truly most troubling is the unconstitutional attempt to control the court and make a judge into a political puppet by destroying judicial independence - and it is judicial independence that make our cherished separation of powers to function. The attempt to destroy judicial independence is nothing short of the ultimate Un-American act, for it destroys the very thing that makes America exceptional in human history and as Ronald Reagan said, "that shining city on the hill."<br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">In an extraordinary reversal of a decision made by its own screening panel, the Manhattan Democratic Party will nominate Manhattan Judge Doris Ling-Cohan to be put on the ballot for re-election as a state Supreme Court justice this fall, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/lot-battle-after-being-barred-/8cjw5/23590276" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the Post reports</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span><br />
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<br />Journalisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10190956898079079756noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746161844074689287.post-55140496160537402462016-08-04T04:53:00.001-07:002016-12-31T16:39:40.710-08:00test1<b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Feds Sampson No McDonnell Bribery You Go To Jail for Obstruction of Justice and Lying to FBI</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: black;">@nyccfb finds Campaign for One NY not an arm of 2017 de Blasio reelection operation under current law — and urges Council to change law</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130805/civic-center/john-liu-gets-death-penalty-from-campaign-finance-board" target="_blank">John Liu Gets 'Death Penalty' From Campaign Finance Board </a></span>(DNAINFO) The New York City Campaign Finance Board unanimously decided not to award Comptroller John Liu’s mayoral campaign millions in public funding on Monday, over what it said were pervasive questions about the campaign’s fundraising practices. The board’s decision dealt a significant blow to a mayoral campaign that has struggled to overcome a federal investigation and trial over its fundraising practices, even as the candidate has maintained his innocence and no charges have been filed against him.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://nyti.ms/29PKqSf" target="_blank">The city's campaign finance board scolded a nonprofit closely linked to Mayor de Blasio. </a></span>(NYT) * </span><a href="http://j.com/articles/group-linked-to-mayor-bill-de-blasio-didnt-aid-his-re-election-bid-board-finds-1467852867" target="_blank">Group Linked to Mayor Bill de Blasio Didn’t Aid His Re-election Bid, Board Finds </a>(WSJ) <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-non-profit-spending-raises-serious-policy-issues-article-1.2701350?utm_content=buffer0712b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw" target="_blank">New York City’s campaign finance board says the Campaign for One New York didn’t give money to de Blasio’s 2017 campaign. NYC Campaign Finance Board says Mayor de Blasio's nonprofit spending did not break rules, but 'raises serious policy and perception issues' </a>(NYDN) The city Campaign Finance Board Wednesday found Mayor de Blasio broke no contribution limitation rules by raising unlimited donations through an outside fund — then immediately issued a de facto rebuke of the tactic. The independent non-partisan board found that de Blasio's Campaign for One New York, set up before he took office and run by his campaign staff, stayed within the law but took advantage of serious loopholes that need to be closed.<br />
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The city Campaign Finance Board Wednesday found Mayor de Blasio broke no contribution limitation rules by raising unlimited donations through an outside fund — then immediately issued a de facto rebuke of the tactic. The independent non-partisan board found that de Blasio's Campaign for One New York, set up before he took office and run by his campaign staff, stayed within the law but took advantage of serious loopholes that need to be closed. The city Campaign Finance Board Wednesday found Mayor de Blasio broke no contribution limitation rules by raising unlimited donations through an outside fund — then immediately issued a de facto rebuke of the tactic. The independent non-partisan board found that de Blasio's Campaign for One New York, set up before he took office and run by his campaign staff, stayed within the law but took advantage of serious loopholes that need to be closed. One CF1NY donor, Jonah Rechnitz, has pleaded guilty and is cooperating in the ongoing probe. On Wednesday Campaign Finance Board Chairwoman Rose Gill Hearn said she could not comment on the ongoing probe but noted, "We have all seen a concerning increase in activity by organizations that face no limits on what they can raise and spend at the city and state level in recent years. The board will not allow candidates to sidestep contribution and expenditure limits by outsourcing essential campaign activities to these coordinated organizations." De Blasio personally raised money for CF1NY and former campaign staffer administer it. Shortly after the complaint was filed, de Blasio disbanded the group, asserting that its work was over. For two years CF1NY raised money at the same time de Blasio was soliciting donations for his 2017 re-election bid, which he kicked off in March 2014. But the Campaign Finance Board found CF1NY actually did spend money on non-campaign issues such as the mayor‘s push for universal pre-K and that spending happened long before Election Day. However, the board left the door open for further monitoring, noting that work conducted by CF1NY such as polling, list-making and research “may have enduring value” for de Blasio’s campaign going forward. Two of the Campaign Finance Board's five members are appointed by the mayor, two by the council Speaker, and one by the mayor with agreement of the Speaker.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">Cuomo would not rule out supporting Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. for mayor, and the governor also said he would Democratic state Senate candidates and support Zephyr Teachout, his former primary foe, for Congress,</span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/jr-de-blasio-article-1-2710176/3w93h/13684932" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Daily News writes</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica";">. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One moment someone is working for a state agency, the next he’s lobbying that agency on behalf of a client. One day his name is on public records as a lobbyist, the next it’s gone. One day another person is working for the governor, the next he’s working for the governor’s campaign, and for people doing business with the state. A few months later he’s back in state service, where that private work is banned. These are some of the odd scenarios that are emerging amid a federal investigation that’s raised questions about possible corruption in the Cuomo administration, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, and the Buffalo Billion project. What may be just as disturbing is that all this is being looked into by the U.S. Justice Department, not by the state entity that is supposed to be on top of these sorts of things, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics. JCOPE says that it’s constrained from discussing matters that reflect its own shortcomings, lapses, and failures. Of course.THE OBSERVATION DECK New concerns at JCOPE. It’s a short trip deep into the weeds of these scandals, in which two longtime aides to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Joseph Percoco and Todd Howe, are central figures. But to put it simply: Mr. Percoco, the governor’s former executive deputy secretary, collected tens of thousands of dollars in consulting fees from firms doing business with the state while he was briefly on leave from state service to head up the governor’s campaign. Mr. Howe, who worked for Mr. Cuomo when he was U.S. Housing and Urban Development secretary, worked for SUNY Poly, and had an office on the campus, even while he was representing clients doing business with SUNY Poly. These apparent conflicts, blurred ethical lines, and revolving doors so active it’s a wonder the Capitol needs air conditioning, have been there for JCOPE to see in black and white in its own records.Or, at least, they were. Recently, Mr. Howe’s name was scrubbed from JCOPE’s website as if his lobbying work never happened. Now we learn lobbying firms can alter their own state records. JCOPE’s explanation? No comment. Not commenting seems to be what JCOPE – an agency that is supposed to bring more transparency to state government – does best. We understand that an investigative body like JCOPE needs a certain degree of confidentiality to protect the integrity of investigations. But JCOPE has all too often used secrecy as an excuse to avoid being transparent and accountable about its own operations and performance. And so the questions mount: How did JCOPE miss possible corruption that the U.S. Attorney is now looking into? How was potential evidence scrubbed from its site? This isn’t just about blame, but about whether JCOPE is up to its watchdog mission, or whether the Legislature needs to revisit this watchdog’s structure and funding. The whole point of JCOPE is to help keep government open, honest and accountable. That’s got to start with JCOPE embodying what the rest of state government needs to be.</span><br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/19/a-new-angle-on-the-new-yorks-corruption-scandals/" target="_blank">A new angle on New York’s corruption scandals </a>(NYP) How about that: The Albany corruption probes may expose abuse of state affordable-housing funds. Two years ago, an audit by State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli found that the state Division of Homes and Community Renewal had granted $10 million to six projects its own staff had deemed “infeasible” — meaning seriously impractical to pull off. Oops: DHCR’s rules banned the funding of “infeasible” applications. The audit also noted that, by failing to properly document why they opted to fund those projects anyway, agency managers put “the integrity of the program” at risk. Well, the managers found a creative way around this problem: They rewrote the evaluation criteria, dropping the system with too-accurate terms like “infeasible” for less-descriptive numerical rankings. Meanwhile, the Albany Times Union reports that three of the developers behind the six suspiciously favored “infeasible” grants have been hit with federal subpoenas. All three are major donors to Gov. Cuomo and one was a client of Todd Howe — the lobbyist at the center of the Buffalo Billion probe. Naturally, Cuomo’s office insists donations have no impact on its official decisions. But the whole thing is a reminder that “apple pie” spending on items like affordable housing needs examining at least as closely as any other state outlays. And US Attorney Preet Bharara will have the last word on just how “infeasible” the awarding of state contracts has become.* <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-cuomo-feud-ignites-mayor-ko-day-care-bill-article-1.2679821" target="_blank">De Blasio-Cuomo feud ignites mayor to KO bill to fix safety issues at day cares </a></span>(NYDN) </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: , sans-serif;">* The fact that state offices rewrote criteria for awarding affordable housing contracts after the Cuomo administration was criticized for not sticking to its own guidelines by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli shows the need for reform to those systems,</span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ohn-flanagan-are-weak-leaders-/2zf68/9120015" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Post </a><br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/19/a-new-angle-on-the-new-yorks-corruption-scandals/" target="_blank">A new angle on New York’s corruption scandals </a>(NYP) How about that: The Albany corruption probes may expose abuse of state affordable-housing funds. Two years ago, an audit by State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli found that the state Division of Homes and Community Renewal had granted $10 million to six projects its own staff had deemed “infeasible” — meaning seriously impractical to pull off. Oops: DHCR’s rules banned the funding of “infeasible” applications. The audit also noted that, by failing to properly document why they opted to fund those projects anyway, agency managers put “the integrity of the program” at risk. Well, the managers found a creative way around this problem: They rewrote the evaluation criteria, dropping the system with too-accurate terms like “infeasible” for less-descriptive numerical rankings. Meanwhile, the Albany Times Union reports that three of the developers behind the six suspiciously favored “infeasible” grants have been hit with federal subpoenas. All three are major donors to Gov. Cuomo and one was a client of Todd Howe — the lobbyist at the center of the Buffalo Billion probe. Naturally, Cuomo’s office insists donations have no impact on its official decisions. But the whole thing is a reminder that “apple pie” spending on items like affordable housing needs examining at least as closely as any other state outlays. And US Attorney Preet Bharara will have the last word on just how “infeasible” the awarding of state contracts has become.* <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-cuomo-feud-ignites-mayor-ko-day-care-bill-article-1.2679821" target="_blank">De Blasio-Cuomo feud ignites mayor to KO bill to fix safety issues at day cares </a></span>(NYDN) </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: , sans-serif;">* The fact that state offices rewrote criteria for awarding affordable housing contracts after the Cuomo administration was criticized for not sticking to its own guidelines by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli shows the need for reform to those systems,</span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ohn-flanagan-are-weak-leaders-/2zf68/9120015" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Post </a><br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">JCOPE Asks Judge to Order Team de Blasio to Heed Subpoena on CONY Investigation </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;">Preferential Treatment Being Looked At </span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/nyregion/court-is-asked-to-compel-de-blasio-nonprofit-to-heed-subpoena.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0" target="_blank">Court Is Asked to Compel de Blasio Nonprofit to Heed Subpoena</a></span><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">(NYT) A state ethics panel asked a court on Monday to compel the Campaign for One New York, a political nonprofit connected to Mayor</span></span></span></span><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/bill_de_blasio/index.html?inline=nyt-per" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Bill de Blasio</span></a></span><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">to hand over documents related to its lobbying and fund-raising activities after the group’s lawyer declared last week that he would not comply with the panel’s subpoena. The panel, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, known as Jcope, filed papers in State Supreme Court in Albany seeking to have a judge enforce the subpoena, arguing that the nonprofit had no basis for refusing to provide the documents, according to two people familiar with the matter. The Campaign for One New York now has several days to respond, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the papers were filed under seal. The group’s lawyer, Laurence D. Laufer, said</span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/nyregion/political-group-tied-to-mayor-de-blasio-to-defy-subpoena.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">in a letter</span></a><span style="color: white;"> on Friday that the group would no longer cooperate with the panel’s investigation into the nonprofit’s lobbying activities, saying the inquiry had become “blatantly political.”* </span>Disclosure forms filed by the Campaign For One New York show it accepted numerous contributions from companies that did business with the city or wanted something from his administration. Investigators <a href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NYC-De-Blasio-Draws-Scrutiny-Over-Developer-Funded-Pet-Project-378749691.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_NYBrand">want to know</a> if donors received preferential treatment from the city in exchange for contributions to the group, which was created to promote the mayor’s policy agenda.<br />
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Despite the mayor’s claims to the contrary, <a href="http://cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/new-york-city/de-blasio%E2%80%99s-political-nonprofits-faced-little-government-scrutiny.html#.VzGPQlL8_wz">City & State found</a>some details of his nonprofit groups and their interactions with City Hall remain private or virtually inaccessible to the public, and oversight of them appears muddled with largely voluntary compliance.* <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/republican-asks-board-elections-expand-de-blasio-probe-article-1.2629507">A Long Island Republican wants</a> the state Board of Elections to expand an investigation into the use of county party committees by de Blasio and his team to help Senate Democratic candidates in 2014.* De Blasio: State Commission Subpoena Is Part Of Witch Hunt By Cuomo (WCBS)<span class="post-subtitle"> Meanwhile, Others Hint About Running Against De Blasio Next Year</span><br />
<b>Kramer:</b> “They claim that they have seven Democrats and seven Republicans and it’s bipartisan. I wonder if you believe what they’re saying.”<b> De Blasio:</b> “No, I don’t. I think it’s quite clear a double standard is being held. I think it’s quite clear there are other motivations, and if they want to go to court, they can go to court. We think it’s quite clear that they are beyond their purview.”<br />
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Asked for comment, a spokesman for Mr. de Blasio referred a reporter to the mayor’s interview on WNYC on Friday morning, in which he was asked why a political nonprofit tied to his administration had <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/nyregion/court-is-asked-to-compel-de-blasio-nonprofit-to-heed-subpoena.html" title="Times story about subpoena">refused to comply</a> with a subpoena from the state ethics panel, which Mr. de Blasio has argued is under Mr. Cuomo’s thumb. “It’s one thing to participate with an investigation that’s appropriate and within appropriate boundaries, but when an investigation may be motivated by politics, when an investigation may be going beyond its legal mandate — and obviously be, in a sense, a partisan act — that’s a whole different matter,” the mayor said.</div>
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<a class="postid-10193043" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/13/preet-bharara-says-hes-not-done-and-cuomo-might-be-next/">Preet Bharara says he’s not done — and Cuomo might be next (NYP)</a> Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara watched with smug satisfaction Thursday as a judge slapped the second of Albany’s “three men in a room” with prison time. But the sure-shot lawman made it clear that Gov. Cuomo remains on his mind — taking time from his victory lap to fire a salvo straight toward the state’s chief executive. “In the span of just 16 months, we have seen the arrest, prosecution, conviction and sentencing of both leaders of the New York State Legislature,” Bharara said in a statement minutes after former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was given five years in prison.<span style="font-size: small;"> “These cases show — and history teaches — that the most effective corruption investigations are those that are truly independent and not in danger of either interference or premature shutdown,” Bharara added — a clear jab at Cuomo. </span>Cuomo created a Moreland Commission panel in 2013 to fight against corruption in state politics, but abruptly shut it down less than a year later amid pressure from lawmakers. Bharara launched a probe into the panel’s closure but said earlier this year that there was “insufficient evidence” to prove the Cuomo administration had committed any federal crime. But with his statement Thursday, Bharara made it clear that the battle against corruption in Albany continues. “The only thing that is truly bipartisan in Albany right now is the corruption.” Bharara sat in the back of the courtroom as Manhattan federal Judge Kimba Wood sentenced Skelos. Bharara kept his head down as Skelos’s wife, Gail, sneered, “You can go to hell,” as she walked past him,<a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2016/05/8599023/skelos-sentenced-five-years-son-receives-six-and-half"> Politico reported</a>. * <a href="http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2016/05/despite-perennial-reform-scandals-in-ny-swell/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Despite Perennial Reform, Scandals In NY Swell">Despite Perennial Reform, Scandals In NY Swell (YNN)</a> * Following the Skelos sentencing, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/13/preet-bharara-says-hes-not-done-and-cuomo-might-be-next/">issued a statement</a> that took a clear jab at Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the early shutdown of the corruption busting Moreland Commission, which Bharara looked into, but ultimately declined to bring any charges.* An inquiry by Bharara’s office focuses on de Blasio’s fundraising efforts to help the state Senate Democrats in their failed 2014 effort to re-take the majority. But the Cuomo campaign, which was run by ex-Cuomo aide Joe Percoco, who is also now under investigation, was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/nyregion/cuomo-campaigns-role-in-scrutinized-senate-races-comes-into-focus.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&action=click&contentCollection=nyregion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront">nonetheless involved</a> in the overall effort and may have been aware of the mayor’s actions.* <a href="http://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com/2016/05/education-link-to-cuomo-corruption.html%20%E2%80%A6" target="_blank">Preet Bharara looking into Percoco's wife, the ex-teacher, and her education gig</a><br />
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<header class="entry-header"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;">"</span></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;"><u>And How Dumb</u></span></b></span></span><b> AS Feds and Manhattan DA Zero In ON Same Crimes as JCOPE?"</b><br /><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>I</b></span><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">f You Want to Know What</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'s In the NYP The Ne</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">xt Day Read True New</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">s Today</span></b></span></span><span style="color: #20124d;"><b style="font-family: '';"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: orange; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span></b></span><br /><a class="postid-10190933" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/11/sorry-mayor-de-blasio-your-problems-not-andrew-cuomo-its-preet-bharara/">Sorry, Mayor de Blasio: Your problem’s not Andrew Cuomo, it’s Preet Bharara(NYP Ed)</a></header>A good offense may often be the best defense in sports, but Mayor de Blasio is whistling in the dark if he really thinks it’s his way out of one of the biggest political scandals in New York City history.<br />
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The mayor is desperately trying to deflect attention any way he can from the myriad criminal probes now under way of his administration on five different fronts. That’s why he’s now blasting the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, refusing to cooperate with its probe of his slush fund, the Campaign for One New York. It’s a political hit job clearly directed by the governor, de Blasio suggests.<br />
Not that he’s mentioning Cuomo by name. He just urges reporters to “look into these fascinating interconnections and potential motivations and the cast of characters” involved in JCOPE’s operation. Yes, JCOPE was a Cuomo creation. But all that guilt-by-association insinuation cuts both ways: Similar “interconnections and potential motivations” — and an odd cast of characters — have de Blasio squirming on the investigative hot seat. Like possible quid pro quos: favors given to donors to his slush funds and campaigns. But JCOPE is trying to subpoena CONY, not de Blasio. By aggressively declaring non-cooperation, the mayor only underscores just how tightly connected he and his slush fund actually are. Besides, the mayor’s public bluster ignores the fact that US Attorney Preet Bharara has had criminal probes of City Hall shenanigans under way for some time. The investigations even predate the state Board of Elections criminal referral to Manhattan DA Cy Vance — a move that de Blasio also tried to write off as the work of a Cuomo ally. Fact is, the two prosecutors remain much bigger potential threats than anything the relatively toothless JCOPE might do. De Blasio brought this whole mess on himself. And all the tough talk in the world won’t change that.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp84WL7.html?adxc=283999&adxa=414226&page=gateway.nytimes.com&pos=Gateway&campaignId=67QLY" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Why Trash Bags That Repel Rats Have the F.B.I. Sniffing Around in New York</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: black; color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">(NYT) Legal or not, an episode involving the parks department’s purchase of mint-scented garbage bags shows the collapse of the city’s carefully constructed defenses against “pay to play” government.You’d hardly expect the mayor of New York City, with its $82 billion budget and 300,000 employees, to get involved with buying garbage bags. For years, Joseph Dussich, the owner of a company in Queens that makes anti-rat garbage bags, could not get city officials to consider buying them. Last year, though, that changed after Mr. Dussich made the second of two donations of $50,000 apiece to a political advocacy group run by allies of Mayor Bill de Blasio. Ten days later, records show, Mr. de Blasio met with Mr. Dussich in City Hall to thank him for the contributions. The meeting was arranged by one of the mayor’s chief fund-raisers, Ross Offinger, according to two people familiar with the account that Mr. Dussich has given to federal authorities investigating City Hall fund-raising. Mr. Dussich, who brought one of his sons to the meeting, chatted briefly with Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, about their shared Italian heritage. As the visit with Mr. de Blasio was breaking up, Mr. Dussich was met at the mayor’s office by a City Hall aide, Peter Hatch, who then connected Mr. Dussich to purchasing officials at the parks department. Within a month, Mr. Dussich’s company, JAD Corporation of America, was given a $15,000 contract that allowed parks officials to try out his product, Mint-X, a heavy-duty scented bag that is advertised as repellent against the Norway rat. Later, the city sought bids for a five-year supply of bags registered with the Environmental Protection Agency as rodent repellent. Mr. Dussich’s website claims Mint-X is the only such bag on the market. He was not the low bidder, but the company that did get the city contract is buying about $3 million in bags from him, according to Mr. Dussich’s lawyer, Roland G. Riopelle.</span></span><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: white;">* Whether legal or not, de Blasio’s garbage bag episode illustrates the collapse of defenses built up in the city against “pay to play” practices in which people gave campaign contributions to gain access to or favors from powerful officials,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/lacement-2-pgtype-sectionfront/37msp/9991734" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Times’ Jim Dwyer writes</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">* Mayor Bill de Blasio has introduced few large-scale policies this year that will drive his 2017 re-election bid, with his third year in office shaping up to be his slowest yet, raising concerns among some aides and Democratic allies, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-to-adjust-strategy-1466991340/37y33/10305542" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal reports.</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">While some have critiqued Gov. Andrew Cuomo for failing to get some of his key initiatives passed this legislative session, he argues that he has had a high rate of success, describing his office’s work this year as “the most successful session in modern history,”</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/lacement-1-pgtype-sectionfront/2zf62/9120015" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The New York Times writes.</a><span style="background-color: black; font-family: , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">* Even for a place that has presented New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio with plenty of political setbacks, the message from Albany as the legislative session wound down was clear, as the mayor was only able to secure a one-year extension on mayoral control of city schools after asking for seven, </span></span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/loses-out-in-albany-1466384087/2zf64/9120015" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal reports.</a> <span style="background-color: black; font-family: , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">* De Blasio last week managed to kill a deal by state leaders that would have reformed day-care oversight in New York City, highlighting the tensions between him and Cuomo,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ay-care-bill-article-1-2679821/2zf66/9120015" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Daily News’ Ken Lovett writes.</a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">* Unnamed lawmakers, lobbyists and journalists</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ohn-flanagan-are-weak-leaders-/2zf68/9120015" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">tell the Post’s Fred Dicker</a><span style="font-family: , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">that state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie have displayed weak leadership in their first full terms as legislative leaders.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: black; font-family: , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">* The “little ugly” legislative package that passed at the end of this year’s legislative session did little to address the many issues that New York faces, but also avoided doing further damage and gave de Blasio little of what he wanted,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/is-mostly-a-slap-at-de-blasio-/2zf78/9120015" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Post writes.</a><br />
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<a href="http://politi.co/1W3h6LD" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tentative deal would renew mayoral control for one year</span></a>(PoliticoNY)<br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/18/lawmakers-agree-to-give-de-blasio-1-year-school-control-extension/" target="_blank">Lawmakers agree to give de Blasio 1-year school control extension</a></span> (NYP)<br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://bit.ly/1UThDxk" target="_blank">Albany "ethics deal"</a></span> targets good gvt groups which receive support from c3s to their c4 accounts<br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In last-minute move, Albany whacks @Airbnb </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/17/new-bill-could-crush-airbnbs-new-york-business/" target="_blank">New bill could crush Airbnb’s New York business</a></span> (NYP) A bill that imposes hefty fines that start at $1,000 for apartment rentals of less than 30 days — which are illegal and which are a big part of the apartment-sharing site’s business.<br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/18/nyregion/albanys-legislative-clock-runs-out-but-accord-withers-in-the-morning-light.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&action=click&contentCollection=nyregion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank">Legislature Reaches Deal to Extend Mayoral Control of New York’s Schools for a Year </a></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(NYT) Agreements also emerged in Albany on a set of modest ethics reforms, required lead testing in schools and money for supportive housing for the homeless. Consensus on the ethics reform seemed to come quickly on Friday, the day after the last official day of the legislative session. The deal would, among other things, strip state pensions from public officials convicted of corruption and strengthen prohibitions on political campaigns’ ability to coordinate with independent expenditure committees.The state will also provide an additional $50 million in capital funding for </span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SUNY and the City University</span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of New York. But the governor’s announcement that the state would release $570 million in state resources to build and operate 1,200 units of supportive housing for the homeless was immediately dissected and dismissed by advocates for the program, who said it fell far short of Mr. Cuomo’s initial commitment to pay for 20,000 units. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Blair Horner, the executive director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, said the deal was a “smorgasbord of elections, ethics and lobbying reforms” that nonetheless was “not focused at the heart of what’s wrong with Albany,” including the nearly unchecked flow of money through multiple limited liability companies. That said, Mr. Horner said the move to define coordination between independent expenditure committees and candidates was an improvement. “No one has defined what that means,” he said. “And this does.</span><b>*<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/19/consensus-says-carl-heastie-and-john-flanagan-are-weak-leaders/" target="_blank"> Consensus says Heastie and Flanagan are weak leaders </a>(NYP) * <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/19/state-lawmakers-little-ugly-is-mostly-a-slap-at-de-blasio/" target="_blank">State lawmaker’s ‘little ugly’ is mostly a slap at de Blasio </a>(NYP) *<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp8KK3F.html?adxc=283999&adxa=414223&page=gateway.nytimes.com&pos=Gateway&campaignId=66XKF" target="_blank"> </a></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp8KK3F.html?adxc=283999&adxa=414223&page=gateway.nytimes.com&pos=Gateway&campaignId=66XKF" target="_blank">Some Call Legislative Session a Letdown. Cuomo Sees It Far Differently</a></b></span><b> (NYT) Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said “it was probably the most successful session in modern history,” despite falling short on proposals involving ethics and housing reform.*</b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Cuomo:</b></span><b><a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2016/06/23/cuomo--de-blasio-lucky-to-get-even-one-year-extension-of-mayoral-control-of-city-schools.html" target="_blank"> De Blasio Lucky to Get Even One-Year Extension of Mayoral Control of City Schools </a>(NY1) </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">* Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he understands Mayor Bill de Blasio’s frustration at a one-year extension of mayoral control of schools, but added he was lucky to get anything since many Assembly Democrats joined Senate Republicans in opposing an extension, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ar-extension-article-1-2684433/37jpt/9837098" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Daily News writes</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">. * </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">* Cuomo doesn't believe that holding a special legislative session later this year to close a notorious campaign finance loophole or restrict lawmakers' outside income would be productive, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/cs-reform-dead-for-8319891-php/37jpy/9837098" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Times Union reports</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">.* </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">* One of the bills passed in the last hours of the legislative session allows SUNY to waive current requirements that limit the number of uncertified teachers that charter schools can employ and gives charter schools teachers three years to get certified, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/lacement-6-pgtype-sectionfront/37jq3/9837098" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Times writes</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">.</span><br />
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N.Y. campaign consultants made $115M since 2011 to get politicians elected (NYDN) Showing how <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state> campaigns are such big business, the state’s seven top political consulting firms — including five that have been subpoenaed in financing probes — were paid a whopping $115.5 million combined over the past five years, a Daily News analysis shows. Five of the seven firms were subpoenaed last year by state Board of Elections Chief Enforcement Officer Risa Sugarman as part of an investigation into whether an unsuccessful coordinated fund-raising effort led by Mayor de Blasio and his team to help the Democrats win control of the Senate in 2014 sought to intentionally evade state campaign finance laws. The lucrative haul doesn’t even include the tens of millions of dollars the firms made during the same period serving as either high-powered lobbyists, public relations consultants or both. The setup has long upset critics who decry that the consultants work to get people elected and then use their access to appear before those same public officials on behalf of clients with business before the state or city.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<b>AKPD Message and Media,</b> which was founded by President Obama’s former adviser David Axelrod and whose New York clients include Gov. Cuomo, de Blasio and the state Democratic Party, was paid the most of any firm since 2011 — $37.9 million<b>. Red Horse Strategies </b>was next with $20.1 million, followed by the Parkside Group ($15.8 million), SKDKnickerbocker ($15.3 million), Mark Guma Communications ($11.6 million), BerlinRosen ($9.6 million) and The Advance Group ($5.2 million).<br />
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<b>BerlinRosen,</b> AKPD, the <b>Parkside Group, Mark Guma Communications and Red Horse</b> Strategies were all subpoenaed by Sugarman last year as part of her investigation into de Blasio’s fund-raising practices for the Senate Dems. BerlinRosen has strong ties to de Blasio and was close to disgraced former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. The firm also worked on Schneiderman’s two attorney general campaigns. Mark Guma Communications’ clients have included Senate and Assembly Democrats as well as Vance, who is investigating the fund-raising tied to the 2014 Senate races. Vance has paid the firm more than $61,480 since 2011 for consulting and ad services. Red Horse has business with the Senate Democrats, state Controller Thomas DiNapoli, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson and the liberal Working Families Party.<br />
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/27/ags-staff-raids-office-of-ex-cuomo-aide-under-probe/" target="_blank">AG’s staff raids office of ex-Cuomo aideunder probe </a></span>(NYP) Investigators from Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office raided SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Albany offices Thursday, focusing on space used by lobbyist and former Cuomo aide Todd Howe, sources close to </span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/09/fbi-raids-homes-of-two-cuomo-cronies-amid-corruption-probe/">the investigation</a> told The Post. Gov. Cuomo said Howe was the focus of a federal investigation into improper lobbying and conflicts of interest that resulted in <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/15/cuomos-team-on-lockdown-as-preet-bharara-digs-deeper/">a wide-sweeping subpoena that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara sent to the governor’s executive offices.</a> * The governor then distanced himself from Howe, who has worked under both Andrew Cuomo and his father, the late Gov. Mario Cuomo. * Sources said Schneiderman’s investigators Thursday hauled off boxes of documents and obtained electronic files after executing a search warrant at the Albany campus just ahead of the holiday weekend.* * New York state investigators who work for state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman searched an office at the SUNY Polytechnic Institute, which had been used by Todd Howe, as part of a probe into the school’s contracting practices, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/oves-to-suny-office-1464310498/sdnq/5183483" target="_blank">the Journal reports.</a> * While federal investigators examine Cuomo’s Buffalo Billion, many companies already contracted by the Port Authority, and who stand to benefit from<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> LaGuardia Airport's overhaul</span></b>, are also big <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">campaign contributors to the governo</span></b>r, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ig-donors-to-the-governor-html/sdpb/5183483" target="_blank">NY1 reports.</a><br />
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/26/mayor-de-blasio-emerges-from-hiding-only-to-dodge-again/">Mayor de Blasio emerges from hiding — only to dodge again</a></b> (NYP) New York’s duck-and-cover-up mayor finally braved reporters Thursday — but then … ducked key questions. After largely avoiding the press for more than a week, Mayor de Blasio held an open Q&A after a press conference on his anti-slumlord campaign. But when reporters started to focus on probes of City Hall corruption, he went to DefCon Evade. Asked, for example, to justify his decision to classify certain lobbyists as “agents of the city” as an excuse to keep his communications with them secret, he bobbed and weaved: “Their role as advisers was appropriate,” he said. “I think we’re handling it appropriately.” Asked, for example, to justify his decision to classify certain lobbyists as “agents of the city” as an excuse to keep his communications with them secret, he bobbed and weaved: “Their role as advisers was appropriate,” he said. “I think we’re handling it appropriately.”<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"> </span>The public disagrees: This week’s Quinnipiac poll shows that voters disapprove by more than 2-1 of how he’s handling corruption. They also believe, by a similarly lopsided margin, that he “does favors for developers who make political contributions.” The poll also shows the mayor with his worst job-approval rating ever, with 52 percent of voters flashing a thumbs-down. And as the number of probes mushrooms (it’s at seven, and counting), confidence in de Blasio is headed further south. Thursday, Politico reported that the mayor “took an unusually personal role in raising money for a nonprofit group backing his political agenda, according to several people” hit up for donations. It also noted that “more than two-thirds” of donors who gave to the group — the Campaign for One New York — “were actively seeking approval for a project” when they made their donations. But de Blasio’s not explaining anything. He claims he got “legal guidance” and followed all the rules in his dealings. But he’s offered nothing concrete to back up those hopelessly vague assurances. Again: He’s refusing to release not just the names of folks he’s asked for donations, but also his communications with the slush-fund money men. He won’t even spell out the rules he says he followed. On Thursday, he again promised to release “information of various kinds” within “the coming weeks” — with no specifics on what or when. The kind way to put it is to say the mayor is flailing, but the truth is: He’s drowning.* <o:p></o:p><b> </b><b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/27/de-blasio-blames-news-headlines-for-plummeting-approval-ratings/">De Blasio blames news headlines for plummeting approval ratings</a></b> (NYP) Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday blamed his plummeting approval ratings on “relentless negative headlines” — not the seven corruption and fundraising scandals swirling around his administration. “I think it is telling that those numbers were very, very strong for two full years, and then there’s relentless negative headlines,” <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/askthemayor-vision-zero">de Blasio said in an interview with WNYC radio</a>, referring <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/24/mayor-de-blasios-approval-hits-record-low/">to his latest Quinnipiac University poll</a> that shows only 43 percent of voters believe he is honest and trustworthy. That’s down from the 60 percent in the same poll in January.</div>
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<a class="postid-10197795" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/16/de-blasio-funded-nonprofit-from-campaign-currently-under-investigation/">De Blasio funded nonprofit from campaign currently under investigation (NYP)</a> A nonprofit launched by Mayor de Blasio to push his progressive agenda nationally got all of its money from one source last year: another of the mayor’s nonprofits, records show. Tax filings submitted by The Progressive Agenda Committee for 2015 show revenues of $480,100, all from the Campaign for One New York. The mayor’s fund-raising on behalf of CONY — which touted his progressive agenda locally — is currently under investigation by the feds and the Manhattan DA.The Progressive Agenda’s payouts show $160,000 going to Hizzoner’s preferred media consultants — AKPD, which was founded by former White House senior adviser David Axelrod.Other payouts included $188,000 on “program service” expenses and $7,500 for fund-raising.TPAC, which was founded in May 2015, has raised more funds in 2016, which will be disclosed in July. But it hasn’t said what its plans are following de Blasio’s botched attempt to hold a presidential forum on income inequality, which was scrapped after none of the presidential candidates agreed to attend the December 2015 event in Iowa.* <span class="headline fs-17 lh16 twcround-book"><a class="active" href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2016/05/16/a-look-at-tax-forms-for-mayor-s-nonprofit-group-called-the--progressive-agenda-.html">A Look at Tax Forms for Mayor's Nonprofit Group Called the 'ProgressiveAgenda'(NY1)</a></span>That organization was de Blasio's initial nonprofit group, set up to support his push for universal pre-kindergarten. Earlier this year, that group shut down and is now the subject of a federal investigation. The Progressive Agenda is now its own separate entity, which a spokesperson described as "in transition."So far, the group has seen mixed results. It was supposed to host a presidential forum in Iowa last year, but that never got off the ground. According to the filing, its accomplishments for 2015 include creating a 14-point agenda to combat income inequality and a website. It champions its effort to get people to sign on to its platform. And it also "built a following on social media to gain supporters." The agenda has slightly more than 3,200 followers on Twitter. Last year, its biggest check went to one of de Blasio's favorite consultants,<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> AKPD Media,</b></span> for $160,000. The cash was for media consulting.At the end of the year, the group spent nearly all of its seed funding. Its ending balance was a little more than $32,000. Nonetheless, NY1 is told it is not shutting down and that it has been fundraising. However, it no longer employs its executive director. She is returning to private consulting.* The Progressive Agenda, which de Blasio and his allies formed last year, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-nonprofit-failed-raise-money-2015-article-1.2639465">raised no other money</a> in 2014 and has just lost its sole full-time employee, Executive Director Geri Prado.* National <a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link js-nav" data-mentioned-user-id="19834403" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio"><s>@</s><b>BilldeBlasio</b></a> <a href="http://politi.co/201nEt5" target="_blank">group discloses lone donor</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>AKPD Message and Media</b></span> is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_consulting" title="Political consulting">political</a> and <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Media_consulting&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Media consulting (page does not exist)">media</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_consulting" title="Management consulting">consulting firm</a> catering to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> candidates and related causes. Formerly Axelrod and Associates, it is named after its four original partners:<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Axelrod_%28political_consultant%29" title="David Axelrod (political consultant)">David Axelrod</a></b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>,</b></span> John Kupper,<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Plouffe" title="David Plouffe">David Plouffe</a></b></span>, and <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>John Del Cecato</b></span>. All four were members of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_presidential_campaign,_2008" title="Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008">2008 presidential campaign</a>, with Plouffe serving as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_manager" title="Campaign manager">campaign manager</a>, Axelrod as senior strategist, and Del Cecato as media advisor. Axelrod, who is personally close to Obama, left AKPD to serve as <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Advisor_to_the_President" title="Senior Advisor to the President">Senior Advisor to the President</a> in the Obama Administration and sold the firm to Kupper, Del Cecato and Larry Grisolano. AKPD's advertising and strategy have been widely credited for significantly altering elections in their clients favor.TIME has praised one of their most talked about ads, "Dante," as "The Ad that Won the New York Mayor's Race.". AKPD's offices are located in Chicago, Washington DC, and New York where it has recently expanded its presence by partnering with Bully Pulpit Interactive and Analytics Media Group.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/cuomo-higher-approval-rating-de-blasio-poll-shows-article-1.2698822" style="color: red;" target="_blank"> Cuomo gets higher approval rating than de Blasio, poll shows </a>(NYDN)Though both their administrations are under investigation, the spate of bad headlines thus far seems to have taken a more serious toll on Mayor de Blasio’s political standing than that of Gov. Cuomo. A Siena College poll in late May found de Blasio's personal approval rating at just 44% in New York City while 50% view him unfavorably. For Cuomo, a Siena poll last week found his personal approval rating in the city has hit 70% with just 25% having an unfavorable view of him. Statewide, Cuomo’s personal approval is at 56%, its highest mark since April 2015. For de Blasio, just 34% of New Yorkers statewide in May viewed him favorably.<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">* Cuomo plans to take executive action to implement emergency rules cracking down on bad-actor day care providers, an unusual move in response to Mayor Bill de Blasio killing a bill that would have done the same thing, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/y-care-rules-article-1-2698963/3pkdh/11898868" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Daily News writes.</a>* <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;"> State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is investigating an off-duty police officer's fatal shooting of a man who apparently attacked him during a case of road rage, after a confrontation broke out in East New York, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/e-incident-cops-say-1-12002932/3pkdm/11898868" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Associated Press reports.</a> * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">* Though both administrations are under investigation, the bad headlines seem to have taken a more serious toll on de Blasio’s political standing than Cuomo’s, with governing style and media coverage playing a role, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/o-poll-shows-article-1-2698822/3pkdy/11898868" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Daily News writes.</a>* '<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bratton-ripped-pensions-nypd-scandal-cops-article-1.2700391" target="_blank">WHERE'S THE COMPASSION?' Minority officer</a>s rip NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton for allowing corruption-scandal cops to collect their pensions (NYDN)<br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donors-red-flags-posts-mayor-de-blasio-article-1.2656457" style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e;" target="_blank">Donors got political positions from Mayor de Blasio despite red flags indicating integrity issues</a></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e;"> (NYDN) </span></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">When Mayor de Blasio was doling out political appointments to big campaign donors, sometimes it was best to look the other way. Companies owned by two big contributors de Blasio appointed to VIP slots had serious integrity issues before the mayor rewarded them for their money-raising, a Daily News review has found. One coowned a company the city had declared lacked “good character, honesty and integrity,” while the other owed the city $1.2 million in lease payments and fees. Not a problem. The mayor appointed both to several advisory boards. Businesswoman Gina Argento made the list after raising $97,780 for the mayor through bundled checks from friends and employees of her firm, Broadway Stage. And in January 2014, she was first in line to write checks totaling $50,000 for the Campaign for One New York, the fund de Blasio set up to support his causes. Most of Argento’s checks to de Blasio started arriving Oct. 1, 2013 — a month before he was elected and not long after the city Business Integrity Commission found a firm she coowned, Luna Lighting Inc., “lacks good character, honesty and integrity.” In May 2013, the commission rejected Luna’s request for a waste hauling license on two grounds: Luna had paid an $18,000 fine after admitting it repeatedly illegally hauled construction debris and ignored city demands to pay off a $620,000 IRS tax lien. A little over a year later, de Blasio put Argento on his Fund for the Advancement of New York City, a nonprofit run by his wife, Chirlane McCray, that raises private funds for city programs.And he put her on his committee to try to lure the Democratic National Convention to Brooklyn, and the city’s Workforce Investment Board, which advises the city on workforce issues and oversaw a $65.5 million budget in 2014. It’s unclear whether Argento paid the back taxes. She did not return repeat calls seeking comment. Then there’s donor Harendra Singh, a restaurateur who raised $21,425 for de Blasio’s 2013 campaign from friends and family. Singh made the spreadsheet in early 2014 as a candidate for appointment to the Mayor’s Fund advisory board and the DNC committee. But the spreadsheet noted an unspecified “vetting issue” with the phrase “r/flags.” Perhaps the “issue” was this: A May 30, 2014, city audit found one of Singh’s restaurants, Water’s Edge on cityowned land in Queens, owed the city $1.2 million in back rent and late fees. A month later in June 2014, Singh was appointed to the Mayor’s Fund and the DNC committee. He stayed on the fund’s board even after the city sued him in February 2015. Then in September, Singh was indicted by the feds on a number of charges, including $1 million in Hurricane Sandy fraud related to Water’s Edge. Days later, he was removed from the board of the Mayor’s Fund. The mayor declined to discuss his appointment, and Singh’s lawyer, Anthony La Pinta, also declined comment. Singh did not return calls for comment. Singh is a restaurateur who’d bundled $10,425 for de Blasio and raised another $11,000 from his family for the mayor’s 2013 campaign.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Michael Goodwin</span></span></span></span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #4e4e4e;"> </span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/31/theres-bipartisan-disdain-for-de-blasio/"><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: black;">writing in The New York Post</span></a><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #4e4e4e;">:</span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> “Corruption comes in all flavors, and size certainly matters. Yet de Blasio’s mayoralty stands apart from recent predecessors’ in that virtually everything he does leads back to personal politics. He has never stopped campaigning because he doesn’t know how, and doesn’t want to learn.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 26px;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/05/probed-lobbyist-was-a-member-of-cuomos-inner-circle/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Probed lobbyist was a member of Cuomo’s ‘inner circle’</a></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(NYP) Cuomo’s renewed effort to distance himself from lobbyist and longtime associate Todd Howe flies in the face of Howe’s continuous role as a member of Cuomo’s “inner circle,” a source close to US Attorney Preet Bharara’s corruption probe told The Post. “From the start, when Cuomo took office, Todd was part of the inner circle of decision makers. He was basically part of the Cuomo administration,” said the source, who has first-hand knowledge of Bharara’s investigation. “Todd was a coequal to Joe Percoco and Howard Glaser and absolutely seen as the governor’s guy, even though he wasn’t on the state payroll and officially part of the government. “For Cuomo to suggest otherwise is ridiculous.” Percoco, Cuomo’s once-powerful deputy secretary and one of his closest friends, is being investigated by Bharara over money he received from state contractors while running the governor’s re-election campaign in 2014. Glaser is Cuomo’s former state operations director.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/member-of-cuomos-inner-circle-/2m5ln/6541143" target="_blank">The Post’s Fred Dicker writes</a></span> that Cuomo’s renewed effort to distance himself from lobbyist and longtime associate Todd Howe flies in the face of Howe’s continuous role as a member of Cuomo’s “inner circle.” * Trying to divert attention from probes into his administration, Cuomo’s state agencies have been asked to put together lists of successes that can be touted publicly and a top official convened staff to urge them to stay focused on their work,</span></span> <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ention-probe-article-1-2662266/2m5lq/6541143" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">the Daily News’ Ken Lovett reports.</a><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The multimilliondollar payoff: How New York’s most powerful politicians use the LLC loophole to rake in money hand over fist from many of the state’s most powerful business interests</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 26px;"><b>Andrew Cuomo stood outside his Albany office recently to do one of those seemingly impromptu yet carefully orchestrated press conferences in the hallway. He wanted to talk about eight bills he was introducing — and a gaggle, as opposed to a formal Red Room briefing, let him end it in a flash, with nary a word about the scandals scorching his administration. He had walked the state to beat the drums for an historic state budget that delivered $15 an hour and paid leave to low-wage workers, but he'd mostly muzzled himself on ethics for months, even as his two onetime legislative partners, the Senate's Dean Skelos and the Assembly's Shelly Silver, were sentenced to a combined 17 years in federal prison. LLCs are a particular form of private company that allows individuals to avoid risk and conceal their ownership. They were legalized in New York in 1994, two years before the loophole decision that let the owner of multiple LLCs make contributions virtually without a cap. They soon evolved into a way for a small pool of wealthy donors, especially many in real estate, to funnel huge amounts to politicians they seek to influence. LLC contributions hit the $20 million a year mark in 2014. Just days before, Flanagan had consigned a bill killing the loophole introduced annually by Brooklyn Democrat Daniel Squadron to a committee whose chair is recovering from surgery, won't return this session and isn't running for re-election. The GOP's reflexive rejection could not have been a surprise to Cuomo. With the Assembly Democrats having already passed a reform bill, Cuomo's bold-sounding initiative appeared more performance than policy, targeting an audience of one, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the Don Quixote of LLC reform. To make one of Bharara's earliest Albany corruption cases, the FBI created a shell called Bedrock Capital LLC, whose very name reflected the role these entities now play in our politics. The sham business was then used to contribute and pay bribes to longtime Queens Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio. Bharara's twin-killing Skelos and Silver cases had a single chilling common thread: a mountain of LLC contributions to Skelos by a real estate behemoth, Glenwood Management, whose executives also created a consulting gig for Skelos' now-convicted son, and a hill or two in donations for Silver, who also banked $700,000 in secret legal fees Glenwood steered him for no work. Bharara, who named Glenwood's owner an unindicted co-conspirator, even made a 54-page list of its $10 million in donations a trial exhibit, a laundering list of compromise that covered 2005 to 2015. Cuomo collected $1.2 million of it.Glenwood's top executive Charles Dorego testified that the company orchestrated this massive political operation to advance its primary interests, including "campaign-finance issues" and noting that the LLC contribution limit was "much higher than the corporate limit." Glenwood was dedicated to maintaining that special status though, as the judge in the Silver case, Valerie Caproni, put it: "I don't care what the Supreme Court says. Companies aren't people. They don't have states of mind." Flanagan and new speaker Carl Heastie loomed awkwardly large on Bharara's Glenwood Gimme List, collecting sizable downpayments long before they had real power, with the Bronx Democratic Committee that Heastie controlled getting more than most local Democratic depositories, and a mere two-term Flanagan bankrolled in his only competitive race in 2006. Bharara's current corruption probes are also focused on LLC contributors, the one common thread that binds Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio. Cuomo's longtime top aide Joe Percoco is a Bharara target because he and his wife took consulting gigs involving three LLCs that did state business, funneled contributions to the governor's campaign and retained lobbyist Todd Howe, who was until his post-subpoena ban so wired into Cuomo, he simultaneously had offices inside a State University facility and the governor's re-election headquarters.</b></span></span></span>* More than a month after Cuomo announced that Bart Schwartz, a former federal prosecutor, would head an “independent investigation” into the Buffalo Billion, it remains unclear whether Schwartz has begun his work</span></span>,<a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/f-existing-state-investigators/2m5lz/6541143" target="_blank"> Gotham Gazette writes.</a><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/20/shady-businessman-bribed-cops-to-close-lincoln-tunnel-lane-feds/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Shady businessman bribed cops to close Lincoln Tunnel lane: feds</span></a></span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/20/shady-businessman-bribed-cops-to-close-lincoln-tunnel-lane-feds/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> </span></span></a><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">(NYP) Cops shut down a lane in the Lincoln Tunnel so a visiting businessman could be escorted through it at the behest of a major de Blasio fund-raiser, federal prosecutors charged Monday. The outrageous move was revealed as part of damning criminal indictments unveiled Monday against four NYPD officers and the shady “fixer’’ who allegedly arranged it. The stunning arrests marked the first time cops have been charged in the sweeping 3¹/₂-year corruption investigation rocking the department and Mayor de Blasio’s office, which is being probed for its fund-raising. Federal prosecutors allege that the civilian behind the closure, Borough Park businessman Jeremy Reichberg, and his real-estate-investor pal Jona Rechnitz, spent more than $100,000 on police bribes between 2012 and 2015. “They got, in effect, a private police force for themselves and their friends — effectively they got cops on call,” Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/21/bribed-cops-shut-down-lincoln-tunnel-lane-for-king-of-diamonds/" target="_blank">Cops shut down Lincoln Tunnel lane for ‘King of Diamonds</a></span><span style="color: white;">’</span></span></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> (NYP)An Israeli billionaire known as the “King of Diamonds” is the bigshot businessman who allegedly got a police escort through the Lincoln Tunnel in a lane that was closed to other drivers, The Post has learned. Lev Leviev, who is also chairman of the international real-estate firm Africa Israel, received the extraordinary favor that’s part of the feds’ corruption case against two high-ranking cops, sources said Tuesday. Gov. Cuomo ordered that the inspectors general of the state and the Port Authority launch a probe into the allegations, saying: “If this is true, it is deeply troubling.” “The NYPD has no jurisdiction within the tunnels boundaries,” Cuomo said.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/21/dems-vying-for-rangels-seat-call-on-bratton-to-resign-over-scandals/" target="_blank">Dems vying for Rangel’s seat call on Bratton to resign over scandals </a></span>(NYP) * </span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/20/more-top-nypd-officers-under-fire-for-corruption-probe/" target="_blank">More top NYPD officers under fire for corruption probe</a> (NYP) <span style="background-color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">Several high-ranking NYPD officers and a former chief of department are still in the cross hairs of the feds’ corruption probe. They include Philip Banks, who resigned in late 2014 as chief of department, Brooklyn South Deputy Chief Eric Rodriguez, Deputy Chief David Colon and Deputy Chief John Sprague. Also under scrutiny are Deputy Chief Andrew Capul, who went from second-in-command of Patrol Borough Manhattan North to a desk job at the School Safety Division, and Deputy Chief James McCarthy, second-in-command of Patrol Bureau Manhattan. Former Community Affairs Detective Michael Milici is being eyed, too. He has already been fired for failing to cooperate in the corruption probe.* </span></span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/20/another-top-nypd-official-suspected-in-corruption-scandal/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another top NYPD official suspected</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in corruption scandal </span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(NYP) * </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/nyregion/nypd-arrests.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&action=click&contentCollection=nyregion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0" target="_blank">3 N.Y.P.D. Commanders Are Arrested in Vast Corruption Case</a> <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">(NYT) The charges detail lavish gifts officials are accused of receiving and stem from one of several continuing investigations into Mayor Bill de Blasio’s fund-raising</span></span><span style="background-color: black;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: white;">* Three NYPD commanders have been arrested, along with a Brooklyn businessman, on federal corruption charges linked to one of several continuing investigations into New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign fundraising</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ent-1-pgtype-sectionfront--r-0/2zmvl/9389983" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The New York Times writes.</a> <span style="background-color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: white;">* The hedge fund at the center of a scandal involving corruption charges against former Correction Officers Benevolent Association President Norman Seabrook was able to convince a Manhattan judge that it has the cash to repay a $30 million loan,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/back-probe-can-repay-30m-loan-/2zmvq/9389983" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Post writes.</a><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/22/bratton-reinstates-cops-tied-to-corruption-probe-so-they-can-retire/" target="_blank">Bratton reinstates cops tied to corruption probe so they can retire </a></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">(NYP) Police Commissioner Bill Bratton quietly reinstated two NYPD bosses who had been stripped of their guns and badges over corruption allegations — in a secret deal to get them to retire, The Post has learned. The move — which ensures the high-ranking cops will get highly coveted, official references from the NYPD — came as Bratton is trying to oust all scandal-tainted brass by the end of the month, sources said Tuesday. Deputy Chief John Sprague, whom Bratton tapped last year to head a newly created, internal-investigations unit, was placed on “modified duty” June 1 for refusing to answer questions in front of a federal grand jury.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160707/civic-center/federal-grand-jury-expected-indict-two-top-nypd-officials-soon-sources" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444444;">Federal Grand Jury Expe</span></a></span><a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160707/civic-center/federal-grand-jury-expected-indict-two-top-nypd-officials-soon-sources" target="_blank">cted to Indict Two Top NYPD Officials Soon: Sources</a> (dnainfo) A federal grand jury is expected to indict two top NYPD officials and their businessman friend on bribery-related charges as early as Friday, DNAinfo New York has learned. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has been presenting evidence against Deputy Chief Michael Harrington, Deputy Inspector James Grant and Brooklyn businessman Jeremy Reichberg since their arrest last month in an alleged pay-for-favors scheme, sources said.* <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2016/07/7/us-attorney-s-office-announces-indictment-of-high-ranking-nypd-members--de-blasio-donor--former-head-of-nyc-correction-officers--union.html?cid=twitter_NY1" target="_blank">US Attorney's Office Announces Indictments as Part of Wide-Ranging Probe</a></span> (NY1)he U.S. attorney’s office announced the indictment of several high-ranking members of the NYPD, a donor to Mayor Bill de Blasio and the former head of the city’s correction officers union. Norman Seabrook is charged with wire fraud after allegedly investing his union’s money in a private investment fund in exchange for a kickback.Murray Huberfeld, the founder of that fund, was also indicted. On top of that, NYPD Deputy Chief Michael Harrington and Deputy Inspector James Grant were charged with wire fraud and receiving bribes from de Blasio donor Jeremy Reichberg.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The two allegedly received gifts in exchange for favorable treatment from the department. Reichberg also faces charges of wire fraud and bribery. The indictments are part of a wide-ranging probe by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara into corruption at One Police Plaza. The investigation is also examining the mayor’s campaign activities. *</span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/07/08/new-charges-for-cops-businessman-at-center-of-nypd-probe/" target="_blank"> New charges for cops, businessman at center of NYPD probe</a> (NYP) *<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/07/08/norman-seabrook-indicted-in-alleged-union-bilking-scheme/" target="_blank"> Norman Seabrook indicted in alleged union-bilking scheme </a>(NYP) * <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/07/08/stringer-de-blasios-slush-fund-never-shouldve-been-created/" target="_blank">Stringer: De Blasio’s ‘slush fund’ never should’ve been created</a> (NYP)<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">* NYPD cops James Grant and Michael Harrington, charged last month with accepting favors from prostitutes and other gifts in exchange for police protection, were indicted and face new charges that could mean more prison time if convicted, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ssman-at-center-of-nypd-probe-/3rd5t/12556806" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the New York Post reports</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">* A grand jury handed down an indictment of former union chief Norman Seabrook for his alleged role in siphoning $20 million from the Corrections Officers’ Benevolent Association to invest in a hedge fund that is now being investigated by the FBI, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-alleged-union-bilking-scheme-/3rd5w/12556806" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Post reports</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2016/20/pl-republican-robo-calls-2016-05-13-bk.html" target="_blank">Golden ally issued deceptive robocalls in county chairman race </a>(Booklyn Daily) A top advisor to state <b>Sen. Martin Golden</b> (R–Bay Ridge) admitted in court on May 9 to sending out deceptive robocalls during last year’s contentious Republican party county chairman contest in an attempt to tip the scales for his boss’s preferred winner.<b> James McClelland</b>, a political adviser to the Brooklyn pol, sent calls to party members ahead of a Sept. 30 convention implying ballots they had previously filled out were not valid and instructing them to toss their votes — called “proxies” in political lingo — and wait for party leaders to send them the “official” ballots. “Please do not sign and return the postcard proxy you recently received in the mail,” McClelland told party members without identifying himself during a Sept. 23 round of robocalls. “Over the next few days, your district leader or representative will contact you personally to have you sign the official proxy. Thank you in advance for your cooperation and service to the Republican party.” It’s the latest revelation in an ongoing power struggle between former party chairman <b>Craig Eaton</b> and Golden that is playing out in court. Eaton-backed former Assemblyman <b>Arnaldo Ferraro</b> beat Golden-backed <b>Ted Ghorra</b> in the Sept. 30 contest after party officials <a href="http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2015/41/all-new-brooklyn-gop-chief-2015-10-09-bk.html">invalidated more than 400 votes for Ghorra</a>.<br />
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Both sides claimed victory — going so far as to hold <a href="http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2015/47/br-republican-party-schism-2015-11-20-bk.html">competing meetings where Ferraro and Ghorra both acted as chairman</a>. And Ghorra took Ferraro to court over the 400 tossed votes. But the litigative gambit backfired when McClelland admitted he helped Ghorra obtain the votes through deception. Ferraro attorney Ezra Glaser asked McClelland if the robocall — specifically with the use of the word “official” — was orchestrated to confuse people into believing they had signed an incorrect ballot and should re-sign their names on the “official” one for Ghorra. An erstwhile Golden ally who received three of McClelland’s robocalls believes they were designed to manipulate people, he said. “The whole purpose of that robocall was to convince people that there was something wrong with that proxy,” said former Golden political consultant <b>Gerry O’Brien</b>. “There are no ‘official’ or ‘unofficial proxies.’ There are valid and or invalid — but when you say, ‘Don’t sign that proxy, because there’s something wrong with it — <i>this</i> is the official proxy,’ it’s misleading and it’s fraudulent.” Testimony ended May 10, and now Supreme Court judge Edgar Walker will decide the party’s next boss.<br />
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<a href="http://goo.gl/BEJ5wM" target="_blank">The Daily News writes that de Blasio’s claim </a>that he is a victim of a politically motivated attack in the federal probe into his campaign funds – instead of just dealing with the problem head on – is an <b><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nsult to New Yorkers </span></b>* <a href="http://goo.gl/XsxaI" target="_blank">The Post writes that de Blasio’s assertions that he isbeing targeted</a> by political enemies are the ultimate <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cop-out and sound like the defense put forth by former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, </span></b>who is awaiting sentencing for his public corruption conviction * <a href="http://goo.gl/ABh0AO" target="_blank">The Post’s Bob McManus writes</a> that since the early days in office, de Blasio and his team have proven time and again that they can’t handle the high-pressure world of <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state> politics:* As the political upheaval from several investigations into possible wrongdoing swirled around him, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/besieged-de-blasio-zooms-in-on-agenda-1461631692">tried to focus</a> on his policy agenda.<br />
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<a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/17/nyclass-recording-fbi-corruption-probe/#.VzuHHtplp6Y.twitter" target="_blank">FBI Examining Secret Recording Of NYCLASS Meeting As Part Of Probe Into Bill de Blasio’s Fundraising</a> (WCBS TV) The FBI is examining a secret recording as part of its investigation of an animal rights group’s relationship with Mayor Bill de Blasio. The recording is being used by the FBI to determine whether the group was able to <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/04/24/calls-for-de-blasio-resignation/">influence the mayor’s decisions by donating money to his campaign</a>. Back on May 19, 2011, horse carriage driver Christina Hansen infiltrated – and recorded – a meeting of New Yorkers for Clean, Liveable and Safe Streets (NYCLASS) at Stitch bar on West 37th Street “I was stunned,” Hansen said. “I was worried.”<a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/tag/nyclass"> NYCLASS</a> has been trying to <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/02/08/transport-workers-union-carriage-horse-ban/">eliminate horse-drawn carriages</a> in New York City and replace them with electric cars. What Hansen saw and heard astonished her, CBS2’s Marcia Kramer reported.<br />
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“Buying politicians is the name of the game,” NYCLASS member David Karopkin is heard to say on the recording. “That’s right.” There were about 20 NYCLASS members at the intimate meeting as the group plotted to use its money and clout to get the city to ban horse carriages, Kramer reported. The tapes have been turned over to the FBI, which <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/11/nyclass-horse-carriage-ban-probe/">recently issued subpoenas to two NYCLASS executives</a> as part of a <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/04/15/department-of-investigation-corruption-probe/">wide-ranging probe</a> into the <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/04/08/nypd-probe-mayor-fundraising/">fundraising activities of Mayor de Blasio</a> and whether promises were made in exchange for donations. The strategy discussed by the anti-horse carriage group at the meeting was simple: Convince then-City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to support a ban, or they would run a big bucks campaign against her when she ran for mayor in 2013, and then support someone else. “If this doesn’t happen within the next year, we are in total and absolute war with her. It’s a war,” Steve Nislick of NYCLASS said on the recording. “Remember, we have de Blasio on our side, we have [then-Manhattan Borough President Scott] Stringer on our side, we have [former New York City Comptroller] Bill Thompson. <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/11/05/animal-activists-renew-calls-to-ban-hansom-cabs-in-nyc-following-another-horse-collapse/">Quinn refused to shut down the industry</a>. The group spent close to $1 million on “Anybody but Quinn” campaign. They ran ads and infiltrated some of her rallies. George Capsis, a de Blasio supporter, slapped State Senator Brad Hoylman at a Quinn rally weeks before the primary. Also present at the time: NYCLASS members. At the meeting that Hansen recorded, the NYCLASS people foreshadowed their tactics if Quinn didn’t fall in line. “If not, we’ll start a <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/17/nyclass-recording-fbi-corruption-probe/#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; display: inline; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook0p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook0w" style="border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0 , 204 , 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #009900; padding: 0px 0px 1px; text-decoration: underline;">food</span></span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" id="itxthook0icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a> fight,” Nislick said on the recording. At an earlier meeting, NYCLASS members also talked about the advantages of getting the 211 horse carriage operators to vacate their West Side stables “They occupy thousands and thousands of square feet of space,” Nislick says on the recording. “We need 68 cars. We need far less space. They free up a lot of <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/17/nyclass-recording-fbi-corruption-probe/#" id="itxthook1" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; display: inline; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook1p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook1w" style="border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0 , 204 , 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #009900; padding: 0px 0px 1px; text-decoration: underline;">real estate</span></span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" id="itxthook1icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a>.” Hansen said she couldn’t believe what she heard. nsen said she couldn’t believe what she heard. “The fact that anyone would go around talking blatantly about that, pretty much, in so many words, buy the next mayor,” Hansen told Kramer. “I didn’t think that politics worked that way. It’s not supposed to <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/17/nyclass-recording-fbi-corruption-probe/#" id="itxthook2" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; display: inline; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook2p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook2w" style="border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0 , 204 , 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #009900; padding: 0px 0px 1px; text-decoration: underline;">work</span></span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" id="itxthook2icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a> that way.” At an earlier meeting, NYCLASS members also talked about the advantages of getting the 211 horse carriage operators to vacate their West Side stables “They occupy thousands and thousands of square feet of space,” Nislick says on the recording. “We need 68 cars. We need far less space. They free up a lot of real estate.” The Mayor’s <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/17/nyclass-recording-fbi-corruption-probe/#" id="itxthook3" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; display: inline; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook3p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook3w" style="border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0 , 204 , 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #009900; padding: 0px 0px 1px; text-decoration: underline;">office</span></span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" id="itxthook3icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a> said de Blasio has never changed his position on horse carriages “The mayor’s position on the issue has been consistent and clear,” said Peter Kadushin, a spokesman for de Blasio. “Carriage horses don’t belong on busy city streets Kadushin pointed out that de Blasio called for a horse carriage ban while still public advocate<br />
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<a class="postid-10199496" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/17/de-blasio-could-be-taken-out-with-the-trash-literally/">Only fitting de Blasio could be taken down by trash bags (NYP)</a> *<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/17/everything-about-this-business-dealings-with-the-city-stinks-literally/"> As The Post first reported</a>, the seller, Joseph Dussich, tried for nearly a decade to get the city to buy his Mint-X bags, which he says deter rats and squirrels. But he got the brush-off — until he contributed $100,000 to the Campaign for One New York, a slush fund de Blasio created. Presto, Dussich got a meeting with the mayor, a trial contract for $15,000, and then, through a middleman, a deal worth nearly $6 million. The sequence is shocking — and consistent with that of so many large donations under scrutiny. Even the names of his slush funds — the Campaign for One New York, The Progressive Agenda Committee and United for Affordable Housing — reflect a profound cynicism. Their names suggest the exact opposite of what they actually do.The affront is compounded by de Blasio’s sinister claim that he is the victim of political investigations. “How convenient that when we’re doing a lot of work to help everyday people, there’s all sorts of efforts being made to obscure that work,” he insisted.</header><br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/01/the-mastermind-behind-de-blasios-shady-finances/">The mastermind behind de Blasio’s shady finances</a> (NYP) An influential labor-union lawyer has guided Mayor de Blasio’s efforts to raise abundant political cash amid the labyrinth of city and state campaign-finance laws. Longtime de Blasio pal Kevin Finnegan — a former political director of the powerful SEIU 1199 hospital-workers union — found ways for labor groups to funnel cash to de Blasio’s campaigns and causes in amounts above legal spending limits, said a source familiar with the mayor’s campaign practices. It’s an open question whether Finnegan’s ideas led de Blasio afoul of the law. The mayor and some aides are now <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/22/de-blasio-aides-accused-of-criminal-fundraising-activity/">at the center of investigations into their fund-raising practices</a>.<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span>“Finnegan knew what de Blasio wanted to do, and he came up with the structure to do it,” one source said. “He was, in effect, de Blasio’s lawyer, architect and banker.” “Their goal was to win elections. They knew where they wanted to get the money from, and they figured out a way to get labor-union money to his campaigns.” As general counsel of the Working Families Party, Finnegan oversaw the creation of the consulting firm <b>Data Field Services</b> in February 2007, according to state corporation records and court fillings. When de Blasio ran in 2009 as a WFP-backed candidate for public advocate, his campaign paid $68,000 for Data Field Services’ canvassing and phone-banking services. Investigators suspected that the firm’s work for de Blasio cost more than $68,000, and that it was indirectly funded by WFP and labor largesse. WFP pumped $560,000 into the firm’s coffers, state campaign records show. That money may have allowed the firm to reduce its consulting rates to de Blasio.<br />
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<a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160608/civic-center/corrections-union-head-arrested-federal-corruption-probe-sources-say?utm_content=buffera3d0b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=DNAinfoNY" target="_blank">Correction Union Head Arrested on Fraud Charges in Federal Corruption Probe</a> (DNAINFO) <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I feel like a million dollars" after his arraignment Wednesday afternoon * </span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/08/seabrook-arrest-has-city-and-police-officials-terrified/" target="_blank"> </a></b><b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/08/seabrook-arrest-has-city-and-police-officials-terrified/" target="_blank">Seabrook arrest has city and police officials terrified</a> (NYP) * </b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/u-s-attorney-preet-bharara-biggest-prosecuting-successes-article-1.2666558" target="_blank">U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s biggest prosecuting successes </a></b></span><b>(NYDN) </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/norman-conquest-article-1.2666441" target="_blank">The Norman conquest: Kickbacks bring down Rikers union chief</a></span> (NYDN Ed) Rechnitz produced $200,000 for the mayor and his causes, despite campaign finance rules limiting donors to just $4,950 a candidate. De Blasio made it easy for him. During his mayoral campaign, disclosure documents say that Rechnitz collected nearly $42,000 from nine associates to deposit in de Blasio’s political pot. He and his wife gave their maximum $9,900. The mayor-elect rewarded Rechnitz with a spot on his ceremonial inaugural committee — and then kept looking for even greater sums of money by creating a non-profit called the Campaign for One New York. There being no limits on donations to such an organization, Rechnitz promptly gave $50,000. Later in 2014, he heeded the mayor’s call to fund the Democratic takeover of the state Senate, contributing the maximum $102,300 to the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee.* * The criminal complaint against Norman Seabrook, the head of the New York City corrections officers union, alleges that he steered $20 million of union funds to a risky hedge fund in exchange for $60,000 for himself, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ent-1-pgtype-sectionfront--r-0/2qzwg/7582429" target="_blank">The New York Times reports.</a> * <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-prison-union-html-ref-opinion/2qzxd/7582429" target="_blank">The Times writes</a> that the city’s corrections union has long wielded “an unhealthy” level of control, and the arrest of its leader has brought on a new phase in efforts to root out corruption and violence at Rikers Island. * <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/man-conquest-article-1-2666441/2qzxg/7582429" target="_blank">The Daily News writes</a> that the complaint against Seabrook and an investment manager highlight the “corrosiveness” of de Blasio’s invitation to pour cash into his campaign and causes beyond previously adhered to limits.* <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-corruption-mayor-idUSKCN0YV03X" target="_blank">New York mayor strives to stay the course as probe queries persist</a></div>
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A state Senate Democratic aide who was a campaign manager referenced in a state Board of Elections criminal referral involving Team de Blasio’s 2014 fundraising operation on behalf of the Senate Democrats has been subpoenaed by investigators, a source said. In her referral, Board of Elections Chief Enforcement Counsel Risa Sugarman cited a 2014 email from Matthew Lerch, then Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk’s campaign manager, to Ulster County Democratic Committee Treasurer Hayes Clement asking if a $60,000 check from the state Nurse’s Association had cleared and if it could be transferred to Tkaczyk’s campaign committee “ASAP.” Sugarman called the email proof of improper coordination and earmarking. Mayor de Blasio and his camp have insisted everything was done legally.<br />
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Negotiations over a proposal to strip pensions from corrupt lawmakers <a href="http://auburnpub.com/ap/state/albany-response-to-corruption-focuses-on-stripping-pensions/article_2bed342d-6ae8-59dc-81ba-d98a22bd0e1f.html">continue in Albany</a> — though broader ethics reforms appear to be going nowhere despite two recent scandals involving their leaders.* <a href="http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2016/05/gridlock-creeps-up-on-ethics-bills/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Gridlock Creeps Up On Ethics Bills">Gridlock Creeps Up On Ethics Bills(YNN)</a><br />
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Manhattan federal prosecutors <a href="http://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/feds-won-t-press-for-skelos-to-begin-term-until-high-court-rules-1.11805925">told the judge</a> who sentenced Dean and Adam Skelos last week that the government won’t push for them to go to prison until at least three-plus months after the U.S. Supreme Court rules in a pending case on anti-corruption laws.</div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background-color: #990000;">Does the Daily News Think Getting Rid of LLCs is Going to Clean Up Albany? </span></span><span style="background-color: black;"> The Same Real Estate LLCs Created the Jobs for NY PAC to Buy he City Council </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/mayor-de-blasio-promises-release-list-donors-denied-favors-article-1.2641928">Mayor de Blasio promises to release list of donors denied favors</a> (NYDN) “A stunning number of donors and supporters not only did not get things they hoped they would get, they got a rejection of things they hoped they would get,” Mayor de Blasio insisted Wednesday. He said a list of disappointed donors would be provided “in the coming weeks.” The bizarre promise came in the midst of a rambling, more than two-hour news conference in which a defensive de Blasio refused to answer point-blank if he solicited donations from people with business before the city, and insisted he was more transparent than other elected officials — while at the same time defending his refusal to release emails from outside consultants with his administration. “We followed legal guidance,” de Blasio said when asked if he could say yes or no on whether he solicited donations from people who were doing business with the city. He said there were different rules for different types of fund-raising — including his now-disbanded Campaign for One New York — but that he always stuck to the law. The mayor, who is grappling with several intertwined law enforcement investigations into his fund-raising, said critics miss that the money was being raised for a good cause. Speaking slowly and enunciating every word, he said: “We are trying to change things.” He added sarcastically, “If I thought the status quo was just dandy, I wouldn’t have been trying to put together resources to change it.” Although he repeatedly said his administration was more transparent than others when disclosing donations, the transparency ends when it comes to his emails. De Blasio said he won’t release emails from Jonathan Rosen — an outside campaign consultant who has clients with business before the city — because as an informal adviser he is not subject to Freedom of Information Laws.* <o:p></o:p><b> </b> <a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2016/05/19/de-blasio-taking-responsibility-for-lifting-of-city-s-deed-restrictions.html">De Blasio Taking Responsibility for Lifting of City's Deed Restrictions</a> (NY1) *</div>
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/24/mayor-de-blasios-approval-hits-record-low/">Mayor de Blasio’s approval hits record low</a> (NYP) Battered by numerous investigations of his campaign and administration, Mayor de Blasio on Tuesday saw his job-approval rating sink to its lowest point since he took office. Only 41 percent of voters in the latest Quinnipiac University survey said the mayor was doing a good job, while 52 percent said he wasn’t. That’s a 19-point swing <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/01/22/de-blasio-is-doing-better-than-cuomo-handling-homeless-poll/">from the previous Q poll, in January</a>, when he de Blasio had a positive, 50-42, rating. Perhaps most troubling for the mayor were the numbers among blacks and Hispanics, who form his base and whose support showed significant signs of erosion for the first time. Four months ago, black voters gave de Blasio an approval rating of 77 percent. This time, it’s only 58 percent. In a similar but smaller drop, Hizzoner’s approval among Hispanic voters fell from 66 to 55. The latest poll also shows that a majority of voters does not <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/01/20/de-blasio-tops-potential-rivals-in-mayoral-poll/">believe de Blasio deserves to be re-elected next year</a>, while he finishes in a dead heat with two potential rivals. City Comptroller Scott Stringer would get 36 percent to de Blasio’s 37 in a hypothetical 2017 race, while Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams would grab 34 percent to de Blasio’s 35. The outcomes assume his challengers run as independents in the general election. Voters’ views of de Blasio’s honesty also reached historic lows, with 45 percent saying he’s not trustworthy and 43 percent saying he is. “The overall favorability switching in a couple of months is rather astounding,” said Baruch College Professor Doug Muzzio. * <a href="http://goo.gl/AoBgQu" target="_blank">D'Amato says BDB will lose in court his effort to keep"agents of the city" emails private </a> (NY1)<br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/answer-mr-mayor-campaign-new-york-article-1.2598326" target="_blank">Answer this, Mr.Mayor, on the Campaign for One New York</a> (NYDN Ed) Questions with potentially severe consequences will linger for the mayor at least long as Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara keeps asking them. Then, too, the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board has much to discuss with the mayor, assuming that the see-no-evil panel finally recognizes that it’s supposed to enforce the law. Presciently, in February the good government group Common Cause asked the board, as well as campaign finance regulators, to check out the mayor’s money maneuvering through the Campaign for One New York. Hmmm . . . What, if anything, did benefactors Jeremy Reichberg and Jona Rechnitz expect in return for their sizeable fundraising? What exactly did the mayor’s aides discuss with Reichberg and Rechnitz before and after their money came through? What did de Blasio say as he rattled the tin cup at a dinner in Reichberg’s <st1:place w:st="on">Brooklyn</st1:place> home? Did he declare that donors would receive no special access to city officials or preferential treatment — as city conflicts rules say he must? Did the mayor or anyone from his administration solicit Campaign for One New York funding from the taxi industry, animal rights activists or the teachers union, knowing each had business before the city — a big conflicts no-no? Stepping back from transactional details to the big picture: De Blasio ran for office under a public financing system that gave his campaign $4 million and capped his spending so that all candidates would compete on a level playing field. Exempt from the spending limits, supporters spent lavishly on attack ads that demolished rival Christine Quinn. The mayor has insisted he had nothing to do with the hit job.* <o:p></o:p><a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160413/washington-heights/de-blasio-donor-lost-19m-ponzi-scheme-linked-corruption-probe" target="_blank">De Blasio Donor Lost$1.9M in Ponzi Scheme Linked to Corruption Probe</a> (DNAINFO) A landlord who donated to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s transition team was one of the biggest losers in <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160408/civic-center/bronx-restaurateurs-ponzi-scheme-linked-nypd-corruption-probe-source">an alleged Ponzi scheme that’s connected to a federal probe of the NYPD and the mayor’s campaign fundraising practices</a>, records show. Gerald Leibman, 74, who has owned <st1:place w:st="on">Bronx</st1:place> properties that have landed on the public advocate’s bad landlord list, lost $1.9 million to accused fraudster Hamlet Peralta, according to court documents. Last week <st1:city w:st="on">Manhattan</st1:city> federal prosecutors charged Peralta, a 36-year-old <st1:place w:st="on">Bronx</st1:place> restaurateur, with running a pyramid scheme that bilked investors out of $12 million.<a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160410/high-bridge/de-blasio-distances-himself-from-businessmen-federal-probe">The criminal case grew out of a public corruption investigation by the FBI and the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau.</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">T</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">he FBI investigation, which includes hundreds of hours of wiretaps and several cooperating witnesses, has moved to broader political corruption issues involving mayoral fund raising, sources say.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(DNAINFO) </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/cuomo-higher-approval-rating-de-blasio-poll-shows-article-1.2698822" style="color: red;" target="_blank"> Cuomo gets higher approval rating than de Blasio, poll shows </a>(NYDN)Though both their administrations are under investigation, the spate of bad headlines thus far seems to have taken a more serious toll on Mayor de Blasio’s political standing than that of Gov. Cuomo. A Siena College poll in late May found de Blasio's personal approval rating at just 44% in New York City while 50% view him unfavorably. For Cuomo, a Siena poll last week found his personal approval rating in the city has hit 70% with just 25% having an unfavorable view of him. Statewide, Cuomo’s personal approval is at 56%, its highest mark since April 2015. For de Blasio, just 34% of New Yorkers statewide in May viewed him favorably.<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">* Cuomo plans to take executive action to implement emergency rules cracking down on bad-actor day care providers, an unusual move in response to Mayor Bill de Blasio killing a bill that would have done the same thing, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/y-care-rules-article-1-2698963/3pkdh/11898868" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Daily News writes.</a>* <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;"> State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is investigating an off-duty police officer's fatal shooting of a man who apparently attacked him during a case of road rage, after a confrontation broke out in East New York, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/e-incident-cops-say-1-12002932/3pkdm/11898868" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Associated Press reports.</a> * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">* Though both administrations are under investigation, the bad headlines seem to have taken a more serious toll on de Blasio’s political standing than Cuomo’s, with governing style and media coverage playing a role, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/o-poll-shows-article-1-2698822/3pkdy/11898868" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Daily News writes.</a>* '<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bratton-ripped-pensions-nypd-scandal-cops-article-1.2700391" target="_blank">WHERE'S THE COMPASSION?' Minority officer</a>s rip NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton for allowing corruption-scandal cops to collect their pensions (NYDN)<br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donors-red-flags-posts-mayor-de-blasio-article-1.2656457" style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e;" target="_blank">Donors got political positions from Mayor de Blasio despite red flags indicating integrity issues</a></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e;"> (NYDN) </span></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">When Mayor de Blasio was doling out political appointments to big campaign donors, sometimes it was best to look the other way. Companies owned by two big contributors de Blasio appointed to VIP slots had serious integrity issues before the mayor rewarded them for their money-raising, a Daily News review has found. One coowned a company the city had declared lacked “good character, honesty and integrity,” while the other owed the city $1.2 million in lease payments and fees. Not a problem. The mayor appointed both to several advisory boards. Businesswoman Gina Argento made the list after raising $97,780 for the mayor through bundled checks from friends and employees of her firm, Broadway Stage. And in January 2014, she was first in line to write checks totaling $50,000 for the Campaign for One New York, the fund de Blasio set up to support his causes. Most of Argento’s checks to de Blasio started arriving Oct. 1, 2013 — a month before he was elected and not long after the city Business Integrity Commission found a firm she coowned, Luna Lighting Inc., “lacks good character, honesty and integrity.” In May 2013, the commission rejected Luna’s request for a waste hauling license on two grounds: Luna had paid an $18,000 fine after admitting it repeatedly illegally hauled construction debris and ignored city demands to pay off a $620,000 IRS tax lien. A little over a year later, de Blasio put Argento on his Fund for the Advancement of New York City, a nonprofit run by his wife, Chirlane McCray, that raises private funds for city programs.And he put her on his committee to try to lure the Democratic National Convention to Brooklyn, and the city’s Workforce Investment Board, which advises the city on workforce issues and oversaw a $65.5 million budget in 2014. It’s unclear whether Argento paid the back taxes. She did not return repeat calls seeking comment. Then there’s donor Harendra Singh, a restaurateur who raised $21,425 for de Blasio’s 2013 campaign from friends and family. Singh made the spreadsheet in early 2014 as a candidate for appointment to the Mayor’s Fund advisory board and the DNC committee. But the spreadsheet noted an unspecified “vetting issue” with the phrase “r/flags.” Perhaps the “issue” was this: A May 30, 2014, city audit found one of Singh’s restaurants, Water’s Edge on cityowned land in Queens, owed the city $1.2 million in back rent and late fees. A month later in June 2014, Singh was appointed to the Mayor’s Fund and the DNC committee. He stayed on the fund’s board even after the city sued him in February 2015. Then in September, Singh was indicted by the feds on a number of charges, including $1 million in Hurricane Sandy fraud related to Water’s Edge. Days later, he was removed from the board of the Mayor’s Fund. The mayor declined to discuss his appointment, and Singh’s lawyer, Anthony La Pinta, also declined comment. Singh did not return calls for comment. Singh is a restaurateur who’d bundled $10,425 for de Blasio and raised another $11,000 from his family for the mayor’s 2013 campaign.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Michael Goodwin</span></span></span></span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #4e4e4e;"> </span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/31/theres-bipartisan-disdain-for-de-blasio/"><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: black;">writing in The New York Post</span></a><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #4e4e4e;">:</span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> “Corruption comes in all flavors, and size certainly matters. Yet de Blasio’s mayoralty stands apart from recent predecessors’ in that virtually everything he does leads back to personal politics. He has never stopped campaigning because he doesn’t know how, and doesn’t want to learn.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 26px;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/05/probed-lobbyist-was-a-member-of-cuomos-inner-circle/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Probed lobbyist was a member of Cuomo’s ‘inner circle’</a></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(NYP) Cuomo’s renewed effort to distance himself from lobbyist and longtime associate Todd Howe flies in the face of Howe’s continuous role as a member of Cuomo’s “inner circle,” a source close to US Attorney Preet Bharara’s corruption probe told The Post. “From the start, when Cuomo took office, Todd was part of the inner circle of decision makers. He was basically part of the Cuomo administration,” said the source, who has first-hand knowledge of Bharara’s investigation. “Todd was a coequal to Joe Percoco and Howard Glaser and absolutely seen as the governor’s guy, even though he wasn’t on the state payroll and officially part of the government. “For Cuomo to suggest otherwise is ridiculous.” Percoco, Cuomo’s once-powerful deputy secretary and one of his closest friends, is being investigated by Bharara over money he received from state contractors while running the governor’s re-election campaign in 2014. Glaser is Cuomo’s former state operations director.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/member-of-cuomos-inner-circle-/2m5ln/6541143" target="_blank">The Post’s Fred Dicker writes</a></span> that Cuomo’s renewed effort to distance himself from lobbyist and longtime associate Todd Howe flies in the face of Howe’s continuous role as a member of Cuomo’s “inner circle.” * Trying to divert attention from probes into his administration, Cuomo’s state agencies have been asked to put together lists of successes that can be touted publicly and a top official convened staff to urge them to stay focused on their work,</span></span> <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ention-probe-article-1-2662266/2m5lq/6541143" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">the Daily News’ Ken Lovett reports.</a><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 26px;"><b>Andrew Cuomo stood outside his Albany office recently to do one of those seemingly impromptu yet carefully orchestrated press conferences in the hallway. He wanted to talk about eight bills he was introducing — and a gaggle, as opposed to a formal Red Room briefing, let him end it in a flash, with nary a word about the scandals scorching his administration. He had walked the state to beat the drums for an historic state budget that delivered $15 an hour and paid leave to low-wage workers, but he'd mostly muzzled himself on ethics for months, even as his two onetime legislative partners, the Senate's Dean Skelos and the Assembly's Shelly Silver, were sentenced to a combined 17 years in federal prison. LLCs are a particular form of private company that allows individuals to avoid risk and conceal their ownership. They were legalized in New York in 1994, two years before the loophole decision that let the owner of multiple LLCs make contributions virtually without a cap. They soon evolved into a way for a small pool of wealthy donors, especially many in real estate, to funnel huge amounts to politicians they seek to influence. LLC contributions hit the $20 million a year mark in 2014. Just days before, Flanagan had consigned a bill killing the loophole introduced annually by Brooklyn Democrat Daniel Squadron to a committee whose chair is recovering from surgery, won't return this session and isn't running for re-election. The GOP's reflexive rejection could not have been a surprise to Cuomo. With the Assembly Democrats having already passed a reform bill, Cuomo's bold-sounding initiative appeared more performance than policy, targeting an audience of one, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the Don Quixote of LLC reform. To make one of Bharara's earliest Albany corruption cases, the FBI created a shell called Bedrock Capital LLC, whose very name reflected the role these entities now play in our politics. The sham business was then used to contribute and pay bribes to longtime Queens Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio. Bharara's twin-killing Skelos and Silver cases had a single chilling common thread: a mountain of LLC contributions to Skelos by a real estate behemoth, Glenwood Management, whose executives also created a consulting gig for Skelos' now-convicted son, and a hill or two in donations for Silver, who also banked $700,000 in secret legal fees Glenwood steered him for no work. Bharara, who named Glenwood's owner an unindicted co-conspirator, even made a 54-page list of its $10 million in donations a trial exhibit, a laundering list of compromise that covered 2005 to 2015. Cuomo collected $1.2 million of it.Glenwood's top executive Charles Dorego testified that the company orchestrated this massive political operation to advance its primary interests, including "campaign-finance issues" and noting that the LLC contribution limit was "much higher than the corporate limit." Glenwood was dedicated to maintaining that special status though, as the judge in the Silver case, Valerie Caproni, put it: "I don't care what the Supreme Court says. Companies aren't people. They don't have states of mind." Flanagan and new speaker Carl Heastie loomed awkwardly large on Bharara's Glenwood Gimme List, collecting sizable downpayments long before they had real power, with the Bronx Democratic Committee that Heastie controlled getting more than most local Democratic depositories, and a mere two-term Flanagan bankrolled in his only competitive race in 2006. Bharara's current corruption probes are also focused on LLC contributors, the one common thread that binds Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio. Cuomo's longtime top aide Joe Percoco is a Bharara target because he and his wife took consulting gigs involving three LLCs that did state business, funneled contributions to the governor's campaign and retained lobbyist Todd Howe, who was until his post-subpoena ban so wired into Cuomo, he simultaneously had offices inside a State University facility and the governor's re-election headquarters.</b></span></span></span>* More than a month after Cuomo announced that Bart Schwartz, a former federal prosecutor, would head an “independent investigation” into the Buffalo Billion, it remains unclear whether Schwartz has begun his work</span></span>,<a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/f-existing-state-investigators/2m5lz/6541143" target="_blank"> Gotham Gazette writes.</a><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/20/shady-businessman-bribed-cops-to-close-lincoln-tunnel-lane-feds/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Shady businessman bribed cops to close Lincoln Tunnel lane: feds</span></a></span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/20/shady-businessman-bribed-cops-to-close-lincoln-tunnel-lane-feds/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> </span></span></a><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">(NYP) Cops shut down a lane in the Lincoln Tunnel so a visiting businessman could be escorted through it at the behest of a major de Blasio fund-raiser, federal prosecutors charged Monday. The outrageous move was revealed as part of damning criminal indictments unveiled Monday against four NYPD officers and the shady “fixer’’ who allegedly arranged it. The stunning arrests marked the first time cops have been charged in the sweeping 3¹/₂-year corruption investigation rocking the department and Mayor de Blasio’s office, which is being probed for its fund-raising. Federal prosecutors allege that the civilian behind the closure, Borough Park businessman Jeremy Reichberg, and his real-estate-investor pal Jona Rechnitz, spent more than $100,000 on police bribes between 2012 and 2015. “They got, in effect, a private police force for themselves and their friends — effectively they got cops on call,” Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/21/dems-vying-for-rangels-seat-call-on-bratton-to-resign-over-scandals/" target="_blank">Dems vying for Rangel’s seat call on Bratton to resign over scandals </a></span>(NYP) * </span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/20/more-top-nypd-officers-under-fire-for-corruption-probe/" target="_blank">More top NYPD officers under fire for corruption probe</a> (NYP) <span style="background-color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">Several high-ranking NYPD officers and a former chief of department are still in the cross hairs of the feds’ corruption probe. They include Philip Banks, who resigned in late 2014 as chief of department, Brooklyn South Deputy Chief Eric Rodriguez, Deputy Chief David Colon and Deputy Chief John Sprague. Also under scrutiny are Deputy Chief Andrew Capul, who went from second-in-command of Patrol Borough Manhattan North to a desk job at the School Safety Division, and Deputy Chief James McCarthy, second-in-command of Patrol Bureau Manhattan. Former Community Affairs Detective Michael Milici is being eyed, too. He has already been fired for failing to cooperate in the corruption probe.* </span></span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/20/another-top-nypd-official-suspected-in-corruption-scandal/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another top NYPD official suspected</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in corruption scandal </span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(NYP) * </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/nyregion/nypd-arrests.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&action=click&contentCollection=nyregion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0" target="_blank">3 N.Y.P.D. Commanders Are Arrested in Vast Corruption Case</a> <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">(NYT) The charges detail lavish gifts officials are accused of receiving and stem from one of several continuing investigations into Mayor Bill de Blasio’s fund-raising</span></span><span style="background-color: black;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: white;">* Three NYPD commanders have been arrested, along with a Brooklyn businessman, on federal corruption charges linked to one of several continuing investigations into New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign fundraising</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ent-1-pgtype-sectionfront--r-0/2zmvl/9389983" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The New York Times writes.</a> <span style="background-color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: white;">* The hedge fund at the center of a scandal involving corruption charges against former Correction Officers Benevolent Association President Norman Seabrook was able to convince a Manhattan judge that it has the cash to repay a $30 million loan,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/back-probe-can-repay-30m-loan-/2zmvq/9389983" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Post writes.</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The two allegedly received gifts in exchange for favorable treatment from the department. Reichberg also faces charges of wire fraud and bribery. The indictments are part of a wide-ranging probe by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara into corruption at One Police Plaza. The investigation is also examining the mayor’s campaign activities. *</span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/07/08/new-charges-for-cops-businessman-at-center-of-nypd-probe/" target="_blank"> New charges for cops, businessman at center of NYPD probe</a> (NYP) *<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/07/08/norman-seabrook-indicted-in-alleged-union-bilking-scheme/" target="_blank"> Norman Seabrook indicted in alleged union-bilking scheme </a>(NYP) * <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/07/08/stringer-de-blasios-slush-fund-never-shouldve-been-created/" target="_blank">Stringer: De Blasio’s ‘slush fund’ never should’ve been created</a> (NYP)<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">* NYPD cops James Grant and Michael Harrington, charged last month with accepting favors from prostitutes and other gifts in exchange for police protection, were indicted and face new charges that could mean more prison time if convicted, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ssman-at-center-of-nypd-probe-/3rd5t/12556806" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the New York Post reports</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">* A grand jury handed down an indictment of former union chief Norman Seabrook for his alleged role in siphoning $20 million from the Corrections Officers’ Benevolent Association to invest in a hedge fund that is now being investigated by the FBI, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-alleged-union-bilking-scheme-/3rd5w/12556806" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Post reports</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2016/20/pl-republican-robo-calls-2016-05-13-bk.html" target="_blank">Golden ally issued deceptive robocalls in county chairman race </a>(Booklyn Daily) A top advisor to state <b>Sen. Martin Golden</b> (R–Bay Ridge) admitted in court on May 9 to sending out deceptive robocalls during last year’s contentious Republican party county chairman contest in an attempt to tip the scales for his boss’s preferred winner.<b> James McClelland</b>, a political adviser to the Brooklyn pol, sent calls to party members ahead of a Sept. 30 convention implying ballots they had previously filled out were not valid and instructing them to toss their votes — called “proxies” in political lingo — and wait for party leaders to send them the “official” ballots. “Please do not sign and return the postcard proxy you recently received in the mail,” McClelland told party members without identifying himself during a Sept. 23 round of robocalls. “Over the next few days, your district leader or representative will contact you personally to have you sign the official proxy. Thank you in advance for your cooperation and service to the Republican party.” It’s the latest revelation in an ongoing power struggle between former party chairman <b>Craig Eaton</b> and Golden that is playing out in court. Eaton-backed former Assemblyman <b>Arnaldo Ferraro</b> beat Golden-backed <b>Ted Ghorra</b> in the Sept. 30 contest after party officials <a href="http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2015/41/all-new-brooklyn-gop-chief-2015-10-09-bk.html">invalidated more than 400 votes for Ghorra</a>.<br />
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Both sides claimed victory — going so far as to hold <a href="http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2015/47/br-republican-party-schism-2015-11-20-bk.html">competing meetings where Ferraro and Ghorra both acted as chairman</a>. And Ghorra took Ferraro to court over the 400 tossed votes. But the litigative gambit backfired when McClelland admitted he helped Ghorra obtain the votes through deception. Ferraro attorney Ezra Glaser asked McClelland if the robocall — specifically with the use of the word “official” — was orchestrated to confuse people into believing they had signed an incorrect ballot and should re-sign their names on the “official” one for Ghorra. An erstwhile Golden ally who received three of McClelland’s robocalls believes they were designed to manipulate people, he said. “The whole purpose of that robocall was to convince people that there was something wrong with that proxy,” said former Golden political consultant <b>Gerry O’Brien</b>. “There are no ‘official’ or ‘unofficial proxies.’ There are valid and or invalid — but when you say, ‘Don’t sign that proxy, because there’s something wrong with it — <i>this</i> is the official proxy,’ it’s misleading and it’s fraudulent.” Testimony ended May 10, and now Supreme Court judge Edgar Walker will decide the party’s next boss.<br />
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<a href="http://goo.gl/BEJ5wM" target="_blank">The Daily News writes that de Blasio’s claim </a>that he is a victim of a politically motivated attack in the federal probe into his campaign funds – instead of just dealing with the problem head on – is an <b><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nsult to New Yorkers </span></b>* <a href="http://goo.gl/XsxaI" target="_blank">The Post writes that de Blasio’s assertions that he isbeing targeted</a> by political enemies are the ultimate <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cop-out and sound like the defense put forth by former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, </span></b>who is awaiting sentencing for his public corruption conviction * <a href="http://goo.gl/ABh0AO" target="_blank">The Post’s Bob McManus writes</a> that since the early days in office, de Blasio and his team have proven time and again that they can’t handle the high-pressure world of <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state> politics:* As the political upheaval from several investigations into possible wrongdoing swirled around him, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/besieged-de-blasio-zooms-in-on-agenda-1461631692">tried to focus</a> on his policy agenda.<br />
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<a class="l _HId" href="http://thevillager.com/2016/05/13/beth-israel-hospital-will-be-closing-soon-staff/"><i>Beth Israel</i> Hospital set to close soon: Staff</a><span class="_tQb _IId"> The Villager </span><span class="_tQb _IId">Nurses from Mount Sinai Beth Israel made emergency calls to The Villager on Tuesday.</span> It wasn’t to provide medical care — but rather to let the newspaper know what they say is already a done deal: that the historic hospital will close, and “sooner rather than later.” Official word may come extremely soon, the nurses said. “They are going to make a big announcement before the end of the month,” one of them said. “We anticipate this is coming next week.”<span class="_tQb _IId"> *</span><a class="l _HId" href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2016/05/8599173/mount-sinai-denies-reports-its-preparing-close-beth-israel">Mount Sinai denies reports it's preparing to close <i>Beth Israel</i></a><span class="_tQb _IId"> Capital New York</span>Mount Sinai Health System on Friday evening acknowledged that it was still looking to overhaul Beth Israel Medical Center but denied reports that it was about to close the money-losing East Side facility, saying it was "100% committed to serving the community." Nurses and physicians have been worried for some time that Beth Israel would be closed or dramatically reduced in size, shifting jobs to other parts of the health system. A spokeswoman for Mount Sinai told POLITICO New York that leadership “was working on a plan [to] develop new facilities,” but declined to provide any further comment. Ken Davis, Mount Sinai’s CEO, has <a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2015/10/8579348/mount-sinai-informs-city-hall-possible-beth-israel-downsizing">previously stated </a>he is looking to rebuild Beth Israel, replacing its aging infrastructure with what could be a smaller facility with fewer in-patient beds.* L<a href="http://gothamist.com/2016/05/17/beth_israel_downsizing.php" target="_blank">ower Manhattan's Last Large Hospital Could Be Shrinking, Despite Denials</a> (Gothamist) De Blasio was <a href="http://eastvillagernews.com/2013/08/publisher-slaps-state-senator-hoylman-and-quinn-intern-at-wild-st-vincents-counter-rally-2/" target="_blank">openly critical</a> of the fact that <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/nycs-disappearing-neighborhood-hospitals/" target="_blank">so many hospitals closed when Michael Bloomberg was mayor</a>, and <a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/07/10/de_blasio_yeah_that_guy_running_for.php">was arrested in 2013</a>, during his mayoral campaign, for protesting the closing of Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn.<br />
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<a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/17/nyclass-recording-fbi-corruption-probe/#.VzuHHtplp6Y.twitter" target="_blank">FBI Examining Secret Recording Of NYCLASS Meeting As Part Of Probe Into Bill de Blasio’s Fundraising</a> (WCBS TV) The FBI is examining a secret recording as part of its investigation of an animal rights group’s relationship with Mayor Bill de Blasio. The recording is being used by the FBI to determine whether the group was able to <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/04/24/calls-for-de-blasio-resignation/">influence the mayor’s decisions by donating money to his campaign</a>. Back on May 19, 2011, horse carriage driver Christina Hansen infiltrated – and recorded – a meeting of New Yorkers for Clean, Liveable and Safe Streets (NYCLASS) at Stitch bar on West 37th Street “I was stunned,” Hansen said. “I was worried.”<a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/tag/nyclass"> NYCLASS</a> has been trying to <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/02/08/transport-workers-union-carriage-horse-ban/">eliminate horse-drawn carriages</a> in New York City and replace them with electric cars. What Hansen saw and heard astonished her, CBS2’s Marcia Kramer reported.<br />
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“Buying politicians is the name of the game,” NYCLASS member David Karopkin is heard to say on the recording. “That’s right.” There were about 20 NYCLASS members at the intimate meeting as the group plotted to use its money and clout to get the city to ban horse carriages, Kramer reported. The tapes have been turned over to the FBI, which <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/11/nyclass-horse-carriage-ban-probe/">recently issued subpoenas to two NYCLASS executives</a> as part of a <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/04/15/department-of-investigation-corruption-probe/">wide-ranging probe</a> into the <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/04/08/nypd-probe-mayor-fundraising/">fundraising activities of Mayor de Blasio</a> and whether promises were made in exchange for donations. The strategy discussed by the anti-horse carriage group at the meeting was simple: Convince then-City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to support a ban, or they would run a big bucks campaign against her when she ran for mayor in 2013, and then support someone else. “If this doesn’t happen within the next year, we are in total and absolute war with her. It’s a war,” Steve Nislick of NYCLASS said on the recording. “Remember, we have de Blasio on our side, we have [then-Manhattan Borough President Scott] Stringer on our side, we have [former New York City Comptroller] Bill Thompson. <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/11/05/animal-activists-renew-calls-to-ban-hansom-cabs-in-nyc-following-another-horse-collapse/">Quinn refused to shut down the industry</a>. The group spent close to $1 million on “Anybody but Quinn” campaign. They ran ads and infiltrated some of her rallies. George Capsis, a de Blasio supporter, slapped State Senator Brad Hoylman at a Quinn rally weeks before the primary. Also present at the time: NYCLASS members. At the meeting that Hansen recorded, the NYCLASS people foreshadowed their tactics if Quinn didn’t fall in line. “If not, we’ll start a <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/17/nyclass-recording-fbi-corruption-probe/#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; display: inline; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook0p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook0w" style="border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0 , 204 , 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #009900; padding: 0px 0px 1px; text-decoration: underline;">food</span></span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" id="itxthook0icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a> fight,” Nislick said on the recording. At an earlier meeting, NYCLASS members also talked about the advantages of getting the 211 horse carriage operators to vacate their West Side stables “They occupy thousands and thousands of square feet of space,” Nislick says on the recording. “We need 68 cars. We need far less space. They free up a lot of <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/17/nyclass-recording-fbi-corruption-probe/#" id="itxthook1" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; display: inline; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook1p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook1w" style="border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0 , 204 , 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #009900; padding: 0px 0px 1px; text-decoration: underline;">real estate</span></span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" id="itxthook1icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a>.” Hansen said she couldn’t believe what she heard. nsen said she couldn’t believe what she heard. “The fact that anyone would go around talking blatantly about that, pretty much, in so many words, buy the next mayor,” Hansen told Kramer. “I didn’t think that politics worked that way. It’s not supposed to <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/17/nyclass-recording-fbi-corruption-probe/#" id="itxthook2" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; display: inline; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook2p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook2w" style="border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0 , 204 , 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #009900; padding: 0px 0px 1px; text-decoration: underline;">work</span></span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" id="itxthook2icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a> that way.” At an earlier meeting, NYCLASS members also talked about the advantages of getting the 211 horse carriage operators to vacate their West Side stables “They occupy thousands and thousands of square feet of space,” Nislick says on the recording. “We need 68 cars. We need far less space. They free up a lot of real estate.” The Mayor’s <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/17/nyclass-recording-fbi-corruption-probe/#" id="itxthook3" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; display: inline; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook3p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook3w" style="border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0 , 204 , 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #009900; padding: 0px 0px 1px; text-decoration: underline;">office</span></span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" id="itxthook3icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a> said de Blasio has never changed his position on horse carriages “The mayor’s position on the issue has been consistent and clear,” said Peter Kadushin, a spokesman for de Blasio. “Carriage horses don’t belong on busy city streets Kadushin pointed out that de Blasio called for a horse carriage ban while still public advocate<br />
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<a class="postid-10199496" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/17/de-blasio-could-be-taken-out-with-the-trash-literally/">Only fitting de Blasio could be taken down by trash bags (NYP)</a> *<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/17/everything-about-this-business-dealings-with-the-city-stinks-literally/"> As The Post first reported</a>, the seller, Joseph Dussich, tried for nearly a decade to get the city to buy his Mint-X bags, which he says deter rats and squirrels. But he got the brush-off — until he contributed $100,000 to the Campaign for One New York, a slush fund de Blasio created. Presto, Dussich got a meeting with the mayor, a trial contract for $15,000, and then, through a middleman, a deal worth nearly $6 million. The sequence is shocking — and consistent with that of so many large donations under scrutiny. Even the names of his slush funds — the Campaign for One New York, The Progressive Agenda Committee and United for Affordable Housing — reflect a profound cynicism. Their names suggest the exact opposite of what they actually do.The affront is compounded by de Blasio’s sinister claim that he is the victim of political investigations. “How convenient that when we’re doing a lot of work to help everyday people, there’s all sorts of efforts being made to obscure that work,” he insisted.</header><br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/01/the-mastermind-behind-de-blasios-shady-finances/">The mastermind behind de Blasio’s shady finances</a> (NYP) An influential labor-union lawyer has guided Mayor de Blasio’s efforts to raise abundant political cash amid the labyrinth of city and state campaign-finance laws. Longtime de Blasio pal Kevin Finnegan — a former political director of the powerful SEIU 1199 hospital-workers union — found ways for labor groups to funnel cash to de Blasio’s campaigns and causes in amounts above legal spending limits, said a source familiar with the mayor’s campaign practices. It’s an open question whether Finnegan’s ideas led de Blasio afoul of the law. The mayor and some aides are now <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/22/de-blasio-aides-accused-of-criminal-fundraising-activity/">at the center of investigations into their fund-raising practices</a>.<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span>“Finnegan knew what de Blasio wanted to do, and he came up with the structure to do it,” one source said. “He was, in effect, de Blasio’s lawyer, architect and banker.” “Their goal was to win elections. They knew where they wanted to get the money from, and they figured out a way to get labor-union money to his campaigns.” As general counsel of the Working Families Party, Finnegan oversaw the creation of the consulting firm <b>Data Field Services</b> in February 2007, according to state corporation records and court fillings. When de Blasio ran in 2009 as a WFP-backed candidate for public advocate, his campaign paid $68,000 for Data Field Services’ canvassing and phone-banking services. Investigators suspected that the firm’s work for de Blasio cost more than $68,000, and that it was indirectly funded by WFP and labor largesse. WFP pumped $560,000 into the firm’s coffers, state campaign records show. That money may have allowed the firm to reduce its consulting rates to de Blasio.<br />
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<a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160608/civic-center/corrections-union-head-arrested-federal-corruption-probe-sources-say?utm_content=buffera3d0b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=DNAinfoNY" target="_blank">Correction Union Head Arrested on Fraud Charges in Federal Corruption Probe</a> (DNAINFO) <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I feel like a million dollars" after his arraignment Wednesday afternoon * </span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/08/seabrook-arrest-has-city-and-police-officials-terrified/" target="_blank"> </a></b><b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/08/seabrook-arrest-has-city-and-police-officials-terrified/" target="_blank">Seabrook arrest has city and police officials terrified</a> (NYP) * </b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/u-s-attorney-preet-bharara-biggest-prosecuting-successes-article-1.2666558" target="_blank">U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s biggest prosecuting successes </a></b></span><b>(NYDN) </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/norman-conquest-article-1.2666441" target="_blank">The Norman conquest: Kickbacks bring down Rikers union chief</a></span> (NYDN Ed) Rechnitz produced $200,000 for the mayor and his causes, despite campaign finance rules limiting donors to just $4,950 a candidate. De Blasio made it easy for him. During his mayoral campaign, disclosure documents say that Rechnitz collected nearly $42,000 from nine associates to deposit in de Blasio’s political pot. He and his wife gave their maximum $9,900. The mayor-elect rewarded Rechnitz with a spot on his ceremonial inaugural committee — and then kept looking for even greater sums of money by creating a non-profit called the Campaign for One New York. There being no limits on donations to such an organization, Rechnitz promptly gave $50,000. Later in 2014, he heeded the mayor’s call to fund the Democratic takeover of the state Senate, contributing the maximum $102,300 to the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee.* * The criminal complaint against Norman Seabrook, the head of the New York City corrections officers union, alleges that he steered $20 million of union funds to a risky hedge fund in exchange for $60,000 for himself, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ent-1-pgtype-sectionfront--r-0/2qzwg/7582429" target="_blank">The New York Times reports.</a> * <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-prison-union-html-ref-opinion/2qzxd/7582429" target="_blank">The Times writes</a> that the city’s corrections union has long wielded “an unhealthy” level of control, and the arrest of its leader has brought on a new phase in efforts to root out corruption and violence at Rikers Island. * <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/man-conquest-article-1-2666441/2qzxg/7582429" target="_blank">The Daily News writes</a> that the complaint against Seabrook and an investment manager highlight the “corrosiveness” of de Blasio’s invitation to pour cash into his campaign and causes beyond previously adhered to limits.* <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-corruption-mayor-idUSKCN0YV03X" target="_blank">New York mayor strives to stay the course as probe queries persist</a></div>
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<a class="postid-10196287" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/16/de-blasio-slams-bad-apples-sheldon-silver-and-dean-skelos/"><span style="font-size: small;">De Blasio slams ‘bad apples’ Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos (NYP)</span></a> * NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/16/de-blasio-slams-bad-apples-sheldon-silver-and-dean-skelos/">trashed</a> crooked ex-pols Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos as “bad apples” who got what they deserved in a WABC radio interview, while downplaying the multiple probes facing him and predicting he’ll be re-elected next year.*<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/dean-skelos-sports-complex-removes-references-article-1.2638009" target="_blank"> Dean Skelos Sports Complex removes references to disgraced politician's name </a>(NYDN) A Long Island sports complex named after Skelos <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/dean-skelos-sports-complex-removes-references-article-1.2638009">has quietly removed the signs</a>bearing his name. Though the park is still named after Skelos, who last week was sentenced to five years in prison on federal corruption charges, the village of Rockville Centre removed any signs referencing the Dean Skelos Sports Complex.* <b><a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2016/05/18/sheldon-silver-s-surrender-date-pushed-back-to-august-31.html">Sheldon Silver's Surrender Date Pushed Back to August 31</a> (NY1)</b><br />
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A state Senate Democratic aide who was a campaign manager referenced in a state Board of Elections criminal referral involving Team de Blasio’s 2014 fundraising operation on behalf of the Senate Democrats has been subpoenaed by investigators, a source said. In her referral, Board of Elections Chief Enforcement Counsel Risa Sugarman cited a 2014 email from Matthew Lerch, then Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk’s campaign manager, to Ulster County Democratic Committee Treasurer Hayes Clement asking if a $60,000 check from the state Nurse’s Association had cleared and if it could be transferred to Tkaczyk’s campaign committee “ASAP.” Sugarman called the email proof of improper coordination and earmarking. Mayor de Blasio and his camp have insisted everything was done legally.<br />
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Negotiations over a proposal to strip pensions from corrupt lawmakers <a href="http://auburnpub.com/ap/state/albany-response-to-corruption-focuses-on-stripping-pensions/article_2bed342d-6ae8-59dc-81ba-d98a22bd0e1f.html">continue in Albany</a> — though broader ethics reforms appear to be going nowhere despite two recent scandals involving their leaders.* <a href="http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2016/05/gridlock-creeps-up-on-ethics-bills/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Gridlock Creeps Up On Ethics Bills">Gridlock Creeps Up On Ethics Bills(YNN)</a><br />
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Manhattan federal prosecutors <a href="http://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/feds-won-t-press-for-skelos-to-begin-term-until-high-court-rules-1.11805925">told the judge</a> who sentenced Dean and Adam Skelos last week that the government won’t push for them to go to prison until at least three-plus months after the U.S. Supreme Court rules in a pending case on anti-corruption laws.</div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background-color: #990000;">Does the Daily News Think Getting Rid of LLCs is Going to Clean Up Albany? </span></span><span style="background-color: black;"> The Same Real Estate LLCs Created the Jobs for NY PAC to Buy he City Council </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/mayor-de-blasio-promises-release-list-donors-denied-favors-article-1.2641928">Mayor de Blasio promises to release list of donors denied favors</a> (NYDN) “A stunning number of donors and supporters not only did not get things they hoped they would get, they got a rejection of things they hoped they would get,” Mayor de Blasio insisted Wednesday. He said a list of disappointed donors would be provided “in the coming weeks.” The bizarre promise came in the midst of a rambling, more than two-hour news conference in which a defensive de Blasio refused to answer point-blank if he solicited donations from people with business before the city, and insisted he was more transparent than other elected officials — while at the same time defending his refusal to release emails from outside consultants with his administration. “We followed legal guidance,” de Blasio said when asked if he could say yes or no on whether he solicited donations from people who were doing business with the city. He said there were different rules for different types of fund-raising — including his now-disbanded Campaign for One New York — but that he always stuck to the law. The mayor, who is grappling with several intertwined law enforcement investigations into his fund-raising, said critics miss that the money was being raised for a good cause. Speaking slowly and enunciating every word, he said: “We are trying to change things.” He added sarcastically, “If I thought the status quo was just dandy, I wouldn’t have been trying to put together resources to change it.” Although he repeatedly said his administration was more transparent than others when disclosing donations, the transparency ends when it comes to his emails. De Blasio said he won’t release emails from Jonathan Rosen — an outside campaign consultant who has clients with business before the city — because as an informal adviser he is not subject to Freedom of Information Laws.* <o:p></o:p><b> </b> <a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2016/05/19/de-blasio-taking-responsibility-for-lifting-of-city-s-deed-restrictions.html">De Blasio Taking Responsibility for Lifting of City's Deed Restrictions</a> (NY1) *</div>
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/24/mayor-de-blasios-approval-hits-record-low/">Mayor de Blasio’s approval hits record low</a> (NYP) Battered by numerous investigations of his campaign and administration, Mayor de Blasio on Tuesday saw his job-approval rating sink to its lowest point since he took office. Only 41 percent of voters in the latest Quinnipiac University survey said the mayor was doing a good job, while 52 percent said he wasn’t. That’s a 19-point swing <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/01/22/de-blasio-is-doing-better-than-cuomo-handling-homeless-poll/">from the previous Q poll, in January</a>, when he de Blasio had a positive, 50-42, rating. Perhaps most troubling for the mayor were the numbers among blacks and Hispanics, who form his base and whose support showed significant signs of erosion for the first time. Four months ago, black voters gave de Blasio an approval rating of 77 percent. This time, it’s only 58 percent. In a similar but smaller drop, Hizzoner’s approval among Hispanic voters fell from 66 to 55. The latest poll also shows that a majority of voters does not <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/01/20/de-blasio-tops-potential-rivals-in-mayoral-poll/">believe de Blasio deserves to be re-elected next year</a>, while he finishes in a dead heat with two potential rivals. City Comptroller Scott Stringer would get 36 percent to de Blasio’s 37 in a hypothetical 2017 race, while Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams would grab 34 percent to de Blasio’s 35. The outcomes assume his challengers run as independents in the general election. Voters’ views of de Blasio’s honesty also reached historic lows, with 45 percent saying he’s not trustworthy and 43 percent saying he is. “The overall favorability switching in a couple of months is rather astounding,” said Baruch College Professor Doug Muzzio. * <a href="http://goo.gl/AoBgQu" target="_blank">D'Amato says BDB will lose in court his effort to keep"agents of the city" emails private </a> (NY1)<br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/answer-mr-mayor-campaign-new-york-article-1.2598326" target="_blank">Answer this, Mr.Mayor, on the Campaign for One New York</a> (NYDN Ed) Questions with potentially severe consequences will linger for the mayor at least long as Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara keeps asking them. Then, too, the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board has much to discuss with the mayor, assuming that the see-no-evil panel finally recognizes that it’s supposed to enforce the law. Presciently, in February the good government group Common Cause asked the board, as well as campaign finance regulators, to check out the mayor’s money maneuvering through the Campaign for One New York. Hmmm . . . What, if anything, did benefactors Jeremy Reichberg and Jona Rechnitz expect in return for their sizeable fundraising? What exactly did the mayor’s aides discuss with Reichberg and Rechnitz before and after their money came through? What did de Blasio say as he rattled the tin cup at a dinner in Reichberg’s <st1:place w:st="on">Brooklyn</st1:place> home? Did he declare that donors would receive no special access to city officials or preferential treatment — as city conflicts rules say he must? Did the mayor or anyone from his administration solicit Campaign for One New York funding from the taxi industry, animal rights activists or the teachers union, knowing each had business before the city — a big conflicts no-no? Stepping back from transactional details to the big picture: De Blasio ran for office under a public financing system that gave his campaign $4 million and capped his spending so that all candidates would compete on a level playing field. Exempt from the spending limits, supporters spent lavishly on attack ads that demolished rival Christine Quinn. The mayor has insisted he had nothing to do with the hit job.* <o:p></o:p><a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160413/washington-heights/de-blasio-donor-lost-19m-ponzi-scheme-linked-corruption-probe" target="_blank">De Blasio Donor Lost$1.9M in Ponzi Scheme Linked to Corruption Probe</a> (DNAINFO) A landlord who donated to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s transition team was one of the biggest losers in <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160408/civic-center/bronx-restaurateurs-ponzi-scheme-linked-nypd-corruption-probe-source">an alleged Ponzi scheme that’s connected to a federal probe of the NYPD and the mayor’s campaign fundraising practices</a>, records show. Gerald Leibman, 74, who has owned <st1:place w:st="on">Bronx</st1:place> properties that have landed on the public advocate’s bad landlord list, lost $1.9 million to accused fraudster Hamlet Peralta, according to court documents. Last week <st1:city w:st="on">Manhattan</st1:city> federal prosecutors charged Peralta, a 36-year-old <st1:place w:st="on">Bronx</st1:place> restaurateur, with running a pyramid scheme that bilked investors out of $12 million.<a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160410/high-bridge/de-blasio-distances-himself-from-businessmen-federal-probe">The criminal case grew out of a public corruption investigation by the FBI and the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau.</a><br />
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Who Used the Committee to Save NY PAC and Other PACs to Win Elections
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PAC is Cracking Down on Citizen United PACs</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/andrew-cuomo-squeezing-cash-campaigns-article-1.2669354" target="_blank">Squeezing cash out of campaigns: How we're combating Citizens United</a></span>
(NYDN)In 2014, outside groups in New York spent $12 million on just
five state Senate races. In the most expensive race, the 40th District,
total spending was $7.5 million — with half of that coming from
independent expenditures. That’s more than what was spent in 91% of U.S.
House races that year. My counsel has issued an opinion that spells out
permissible conduct for these groups — to remove some of the
ambiguities in state law. Together with my legislation, these
protections institute the strictest anti-coordination measures in the
country. A candidate wants to form his or her own PAC? Family members
want to create an independent expenditure to support their relative’s
run for office? A candidate’s advisors suggest that the group run an
advertisement? Not in New York. This state is taking decisive action to
ensure the independence of these entities is not a myth, but a reality.
While Citizens United must be reversed, we must also act now to stop the
damage. We cannot let our elections be manipulated and scandalized. The
Senate and Assembly can either reform or perpetuate the status quo.
They should rise to the occasion. Because in New York, elections must
not be bought and sold. Cuomo is governor of New York.<span style="background-color: white; font-family: , sans-serif;">*
While their relationship had been built up over decades of unswerving
loyalty and constant interaction, it only took a few days for the
relationship between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Joseph Percoco, one of his
most trusted aides, to unravel, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ent-1-pgtype-sectionfront--r-0/2rt6x/8331513" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: acumin-pro, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Times writes.</a> * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: , sans-serif;">*
In the hours after Percoco’s home was searched, concurrent with
searches of the Maryland home and Washington, D.C., offices of Cuomo
ally and lobbyist Todd Howe, the Cuomo administration began developing a
plan to deal with the fallout, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ndrew-cuomos-office-1465852993/2rt6z/8331513" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: acumin-pro, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal reports.</a>* <span style="background-color: white; font-family: , sans-serif;">*
While the goals of Cuomo’s Start-Up NY tax incentive program are
laudable, they may also be too lofty, as the program has yielded little
in terms of tangible results nearly three years into its run, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-to-assess-its-status-20160614/2rt7v/8331513" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: acumin-pro, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Watertown Daily Times writes.</a> * <a href="http://bit.ly/24Ofaad" target="_blank">Cuomo's Worried About The Corruption Probes: That's the takeaway I get from the two pieces out in the Wall St... </a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">Feds Real Target de Blasio Gets A Road Map </span><br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/09/nyregion/cooperating-witness-in-corruption-case-may-assist-in-de-blasio-inquiries.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&action=click&contentCollection=nyregion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0" target="_blank">Cooperating Witness in Corruption Case May Assist in de Blasio Inquiries </a>(NYR)
An individual, referred to in a criminal complaint as “CW-1,” for
Cooperating Witness 1, has agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.Of all the charges and the
allegations in a 17-page criminal complaint accusing a powerful New York
City union leader of corruption, perhaps the most far-reaching
development was woven into the legal boilerplate, essentially hiding in
plain sight. A person, referred to as “CW-1,” for Cooperating Witness
1, had agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.Mr. Rechnitz, who has generously supported
several of Mr. de Blasio’s interests and served on the mayor’s inaugural
committee, has pleaded guilty to fraud conspiracy charges in connection
with the corruption case against Norman Seabrook, the influential
leader of the union that represents the city’s correction officers, and
another defendant, according to the complaint. But the significance of
his decision to join the roster of government witnesses could go far
beyond the case against the union leader, and have wide-ranging
consequences for Mr. de Blasio. The complaint in the corruption case,
along with statements by Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for
the Southern District of New York (whose office brought it), and
interviews with people with knowledge of the fund-raising inquiries,
strongly suggest that Mr. Rechnitz could serve as an important witness
in at least one of the fund-raising matters.At a news conference on
Wednesday announcing the charges against Mr. Seabrook, Mr. Bharara
declined to answer questions about the identity of CW-1 and the degree
to which the witness could be helpful in other cases. But he noted that
“the complaint does say that he is assisting other investigations as
well; that’s all I’ll say.”<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: orange;"><b style="background-color: black;">And the NYCLASS PAC is A Clear Case of Overspending By the Mayor in His 2013 Election</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/17/how-bill-de-blasio-tore-the-heart-out-of-nycs-campaign-laws/" target="_blank">How Bill de Blasio tore the heart out of NYC’s campaign laws</a></span> </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(NYP)
Should nakedly political spending by Mayor de Blasio’s pocket
nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York, count against the legal limits
on his re-election spending? The decision’s up to the city Campaign
Finance Board — which is now dominated by appointees of the mayor and
his hand-picked City Council speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito, so don’t
expect a crackdown. After all, in off years, the campaign spending cap
is $328,000. Yet CONY has spent more than $4 million since 2013 to tout
de Blasio’s political agenda. Because Team de Blasio raised that cash
from a host of developers and unions with business before the city, it
faces multiple probes. But Tusk is right that the whole arrangement is
also a challenge to the city’s system of public campaign finance. If a
mayor can use his power to freely raise and spend millions to boost his
public profile, no challenger can hope for anything remotely close to a
level playing field. Under the campaign-finance laws, the mayor is
limited to spending $7 million through the 2017 primary election; if
CONY outlays count, he’s already run through half of it. But if they
don’t, then he’s made a mockery of the limit. De Blasio admits he
created CONY — and actively raised cash for it — to advance his agenda.
So it certainly doesn’t qualify as “independent expenditures,” which
aren’t subject to CFB limits. And the CONY scheme defeated another goal
of the laws, namely to limit the time politicians spend grubbing for
cash. Just last month, Common Cause New York complained that the mayor’s
use of the nonprofit has led to nonstop political fund-raising. Maybe
it was technically legal. De Blasio helped write the campaign-finance
laws, so he’s got the expertise to end-run them. We’ve never liked these
laws, not least because they’re slanted to boost the power of unions
and stifle political spending by the business community. But if the
loopholes are truly this big, then the taxpayer-funded campaign-finance
program is even more rigged than we ever imagined.</span><br />
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familiar with the matter said federal and state investigators have
received thousands of documents related to de Blasio’s fundraising
activity and have begun interviewing donors, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-on-specific-donors-1466120044/2z3ld/8920913" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal reports.</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">Groundhog Day NYCHA Spins Another Clean Up Lead Paint As Feds Investigate</span></span><br />
<a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ng-lead-lead-article-1-2676857/2z3mb/8920913" target="_blank">The Daily News writes</a>
that child lead poisoning is a “serious issue” in public housing and
that it fully merits federal investigators’ probe into how the New York
City Housing Authority responded to the toxin’s presence in apartments. <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Failing to lead on lead: </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/failing-lead-lead-article-1.2676857" target="_blank">The trouble with NYCHA's lead remediation strategy</a>
(NYDN) Since 2010, city Department of Health tests have found
dangerously high lead levels in 202 children living in 133 apartments.
Still, Olatoye assured the City Council in March that just 18 of the
apartments contained elevated levels of lead in paint, which becomes
hazardous to children when it flakes or peels.What she failed to say,
and what Greg Smith found in a Daily News special report, was that,
using reliable X-ray technology that can detect lead through layers of
paint, the Health Department had identified lead in 63 of the kids’
apartments. Rather than send in repair and repainting crews, NYCHA
elected to challenge the Health Department’s results in all but a small
number of cases. Running its own test, using paint chips pried from
surfaces flagged as containing lead, NYCHA persuaded health inspectors
that lead levels were safe in all but 17 (not 18) of the units. Because
the lead typically lurks beneath more recently applied layers of paint,
NYCHA insists it usually isn’t harmful. But chronically leaky housing
projects, where sudden water damage frequently cracks walls and
ceilings, demand far greater precaution. In all, NYCHA estimates that as
many as 10,000 apartments home to tots contain untreated lead paint.
Yet except in rare instances , the authority conducts remediation only
after occupants move out, in order, the authority says, to work more
safely in vacant apartments. Bubble Mayor No Town Hall de Blasio Spins
and the NYC Press Defining Journalism Down <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/15/de-blasio-commends-himself-for-giving-the-post-press-credentials/" target="_blank">De Blasio commends himself for giving the Post press credentials </a></b></span><b>(NYP)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: orange; font-size: x-large;"><b>Albany </b></span></span><b style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: xx-large;">Legislature Avoids Important Issues, Pass Feel Good Bills, As They Leave Town</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/n-y-legislature-tackled-big-issues-not-victims-article-1.2677052" target="_blank">New York Legislature passed laws on boozy brunches, cremated cats and hunting for her — but squat for sex abuse victims</a></span> (NYDN) <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">While
state leaders appear ready to turn their backs on child sex abuse
victims again this year, they found time to shower love on female
hunters, brunch-goers and pet lovers. But lawmakers this year did
manage to pass an array of apparently more pressing legislation. Among
them is a bill to allow the use of fluorescent pink, instead of just
orange, hunting attire in order to attract more women and young people
into the woods. Meanwhile, Gov. Cuomo and legislative leaders, who
couldn’t come to terms on a bill for sex abuse victims, did agree on
legislation that would allow restaurants to begin serving alcohol on
Sundays at 10 a.m., instead of the current noon requirement. The
Legislature also passed a bill that would let the cremated remains of
dogs and cats be buried with their owners. Another bill that passed both
houses would allow college students under 21 enrolled in programs
involving the agriculture, hospitality and beverage industries to
partake in tastings at off-campus wineries, distilleries and breweries
as long as they are supervised by an instructor.* </span>State lawmakers assembled a deal on many issues Thursday evening, including a <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">one-year extension of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s control over the school system </span></b>and a measure that would <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">strip convicted electeds of their pensions,</span></b> <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/lacement-8-pgtype-sectionfront/2z3l6/8920913" target="_blank">The New York Times reports.</a> *
* New York’s Legislature couldn’t leave town without approving up to
$50 million a year in tax subsidies for music and video game producers,
modeled after the state’s existing (and outrageous) giveaway to film and
TV producers, the Empire Center’s <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/o-gaming-land-50m-tax-subsidy-/2z3mg/8920913" target="_blank">E.J. McMahon writes</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/07/09/john-sampsons-bid-for-a-new-trial-is-shot-down/" target="_blank">John Sampson’s bid for a new trial is shot down </a></span>(NYP) Brooklyn federal prosecutors on Friday shot down convicted ex-state Sen. John Sampson’s bid for a new trial, saying a recent Supreme Court decision clearing a different politician does not apply in his case. Sampson filed a motion seeking another trial citing the high court’s decision overturning the bribery conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. But prosecutors argued Sampson wasn’t convicted of bribery, so the McDonnell ruling isn’t relevant. Sampson was found guilty of obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI as part of a mortgage-fraud investigation.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/11/nyregion/memos-suggest-city-hall-knew-of-nursing-homes-sale-early.html?smid=tw-nytmetro&smtyp=cur&_r=0" target="_blank">Memos Suggest City Hall Knew of Nursing Home’s Sale Early</a>
(NYT) In a pair of memos obtained by The New York Times, a top official
in the de Blasio administration was apprised on the progress in
removing the restrictions at Rivington House twice in the middle of 2015
— suggesting involvement and coordination by close advisers to Mayor
Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, months earlier than the administration has
acknowledged. In the memos the Department of Citywide Administrative
Services informed the first deputy mayor, Anthony Shorris, that it was
working to remove the restrictions after Allure Group, a for-profit
nursing-home company, had agreed to pay the city $16.15 million to do
so. The transactions that resulted in the lifting of the restrictions
and the sale of the nursing home to condominium developers are the
subject of parallel investigations by the state attorney general, the
city comptroller and the city’s Investigation Department. “Landau seeks
to remove the restrictions but intends to use the property as a
for-profit nursing home,” the department’s then-commissioner, Stacey
Cumberbatch, wrote to Mr. Shorris in a memo dated May 6, 2015, referring
to an owner of the company, Joel Landau. “The next step is a public
hearing,” she added, “prior to requesting a mayoral authorization
document.” After the city removed the restrictions on the property,
which barred any use other than as a nonprofit health care center,
Allure Group sold the home to the developers in February for $116
million. Officials at City Hall have said that Mr. Shorris did not know
until after the sale that the city had lifted all deed restrictions on
the property. The first deputy mayor “learned of the transaction and the
lifting of the full deed restriction in late February,” according to
background on the deal provided by City Hall in April, after the
transactions became public. “He did not know D.C.A.S. had lifted the
deed restriction for Allure.” But in the May memo — and in another on
July 8, 2015 — Ms. Cumberbatch updated Mr. Shorris as part of a weekly
report on “items of interest.” “D.C.A.S. is proceeding to remove two use
restrictions that were imposed when the Rivington House property was
sold by the city in 1992,” the July memo explained, one limiting use to
nonprofits, the other to health care providers. The department “expects
to have a formalized deed modification approved by the Law Department in
July,” according to the memo, copied to two members of Mr. Shorris’s
staff.Mr. de Blasio has said he did not find out about the questionable
deals surrounding Rivington House until he heard about it from the
media. City Hall officials have said that Mr. Shorris and others, who
were scrambling to address the issue in early March, did not bring it to
the mayor’s attention because they were still gathering facts. The
subject also did not come up, City Hall officials have said, during a
meeting between Mr. de Blasio and Mark G. Peters, the commissioner of
the Investigation Department, at City Hall on March 1, the same day that
officials have said the agency began its inquiry. The city also halted
all new deed changes that day. “It looks like there is movement on the
Rivington House issue,” wrote Ms. Cumberbatch’s chief of staff, Sally
Renfro, in an email on Sept. 2, 2014, to the general counsel for the
Department of Citywide Administrative Services. She added that a staff
member “from DM Shorris’s office called to ask if there are any other
steps required to remove the deed restriction on Rivington House,
assuming Village Care pays the appraisal amount,” referring to the
original nonprofit owner of the home. <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">de Blasio Build Baby Build Bigger </span></b><a href="http://bit.ly/1XRtLmQ" target="_blank"> DeBlasio trying hard to pass real estate friendly legislation in Albany</a> * <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/brooklyn-is-officially-the-most-unaffordable-housing-market-in-america-2015-1" target="_blank">Brooklyn is officially the most unaffordable housing market in America </a>(Business Insider)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion/sunday/the-secret-power-behind-local-elections.html" target="_blank">The Secret Power Behind Local Elections</a></b></span><b> (NYT)</b><b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> The
rise of dark money may matter less in the race for president or
Congress than for, say, the utilities commission in Arizona. Voters
probably know much less about the candidates in contests like that,
which get little news coverage but whose winner will have enormous power
to affect energy company profits and what homeowners pay for
electricity. For a relative pittance — less than $100,000 — corporations
and others can use dark money to shape the outcome of a low-level race
in which they have a direct stake. Over the last year, the Brennan
Center analyzed outside spending from before and after the 2010 Citizens
United decision in six states — Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado,
Maine and Massachusetts — with almost 20 percent of the nation’s
population. </b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2016/06/24/cuomo-de-blasio-feud-continues.html" target="_blank">War of Words Erupts Again This Week Between Cuomo and de Blasio</a> (NY1) * <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/gov-cuomo-mayor-de-blasio-article-1.2687958" target="_blank">Gov. Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio continue to clash because ‘they don’t trust the other one’ </a>(NYDN)* </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">*
Some eyebrows were raised that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who
has made cracking down on so-called zombie properties a top priority in
recent years, was not invited to Cuomo events touting new legislation to
combat the problem,</span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/perty-events-article-1-2688891/37y37/10305542" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank">the Daily News’ Lovett reports.</a><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>NYPD More Arrests Coming</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-weight: bold; line-height: 27px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/10/nypd-official-more-arrests-coming-in-corruption-scandal/" target="_blank">NYPD official: More arrests coming in corruption scandal</a></span> (NYP) </span>More
people will be arrested as a result of the wide-ranging federal probe
into police corruption, an NYPD official said Friday — two days after
the city correction-union boss was busted as part of the investigation.
“There will be charges in the future, but we’re not going to get into
the time frame today,” Lawrence Byrne, the Police Department’s deputy
commissioner for legal matters, said during a press conference at 1
Police Plaza. The feds and the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau are
“aggressively pursuing a number of leads,” he said.<br />
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</span></b> <b style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="background-color: red;">Groundhog Day NY</span> Peeing In the Street, Buffalo Billion Corruption Probe, School Control</b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/14/de-blasio-approves-bills-making-it-easier-to-pee-and-drink-in-the-street/" target="_blank">De Blasio approves bills making it easier to pee and drink in the street</a></span> (NYP)</b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/13/getting-de-blasio-school-control-isnt-on-cuomos-to-do-list/" target="_blank">Investors are pulling out of the Buffalo Billion project amid corruption probe</a></span> (NYP)</b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/13/getting-de-blasio-school-control-isnt-on-cuomos-to-do-list/" target="_blank">Getting de Blasio school control isn’t on Cuomo’s to-do list</a></span> (NYP) </b><br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/11/nyregion/memos-suggest-city-hall-knew-of-nursing-homes-sale-early.html?smid=tw-nytmetro&smtyp=cur&_r=0" target="_blank">Memos Suggest City Hall Knew of Nursing Home’s Sale Early</a>
(NYT) In a pair of memos obtained by The New York Times, a top official
in the de Blasio administration was apprised on the progress in
removing the restrictions at Rivington House twice in the middle of 2015
— suggesting involvement and coordination by close advisers to Mayor
Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, months earlier than the administration has
acknowledged. In the memos the Department of Citywide Administrative
Services informed the first deputy mayor, Anthony Shorris, that it was
working to remove the restrictions after Allure Group, a for-profit
nursing-home company, had agreed to pay the city $16.15 million to do
so. The transactions that resulted in the lifting of the restrictions
and the sale of the nursing home to condominium developers are the
subject of parallel investigations by the state attorney general, the
city comptroller and the city’s Investigation Department. “Landau seeks
to remove the restrictions but intends to use the property as a
for-profit nursing home,” the department’s then-commissioner, Stacey
Cumberbatch, wrote to Mr. Shorris in a memo dated May 6, 2015, referring
to an owner of the company, Joel Landau. “The next step is a public
hearing,” she added, “prior to requesting a mayoral authorization
document.” After the city removed the restrictions on the property,
which barred any use other than as a nonprofit health care center,
Allure Group sold the home to the developers in February for $116
million. Officials at City Hall have said that Mr. Shorris did not know
until after the sale that the city had lifted all deed restrictions on
the property. The first deputy mayor “learned of the transaction and the
lifting of the full deed restriction in late February,” according to
background on the deal provided by City Hall in April, after the
transactions became public. “He did not know D.C.A.S. had lifted the
deed restriction for Allure.” But in the May memo — and in another on
July 8, 2015 — Ms. Cumberbatch updated Mr. Shorris as part of a weekly
report on “items of interest.” “D.C.A.S. is proceeding to remove two use
restrictions that were imposed when the Rivington House property was
sold by the city in 1992,” the July memo explained, one limiting use to
nonprofits, the other to health care providers. The department “expects
to have a formalized deed modification approved by the Law Department in
July,” according to the memo, copied to two members of Mr. Shorris’s
staff.Mr. de Blasio has said he did not find out about the questionable
deals surrounding Rivington House until he heard about it from the
media. City Hall officials have said that Mr. Shorris and others, who
were scrambling to address the issue in early March, did not bring it to
the mayor’s attention because they were still gathering facts. The
subject also did not come up, City Hall officials have said, during a
meeting between Mr. de Blasio and Mark G. Peters, the commissioner of
the Investigation Department, at City Hall on March 1, the same day that
officials have said the agency began its inquiry. The city also halted
all new deed changes that day. “It looks like there is movement on the
Rivington House issue,” wrote Ms. Cumberbatch’s chief of staff, Sally
Renfro, in an email on Sept. 2, 2014, to the general counsel for the
Department of Citywide Administrative Services. She added that a staff
member “from DM Shorris’s office called to ask if there are any other
steps required to remove the deed restriction on Rivington House,
assuming Village Care pays the appraisal amount,” referring to the
original nonprofit owner of the home. <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">de Blasio Build Baby Build Bigger </span></b><a href="http://bit.ly/1XRtLmQ" target="_blank"> DeBlasio trying hard to pass real estate friendly legislation in Albany</a> * <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/brooklyn-is-officially-the-most-unaffordable-housing-market-in-america-2015-1" target="_blank">Brooklyn is officially the most unaffordable housing market in America </a>(Business Insider)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/24/bratton-defends-letting-disgraced-cops-retire-with-pension/" target="_blank">Bratton defends letting disgraced cops retire with pension</a></b></span><b>(NYP)</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Police
Commissioner Bill Bratton defended the practice of giving out pensions
to scandal-scarred NYPD officers on Thursday, insisting it would be
unfair to their families to take them away. “A pension is also earned by
the family, a family of that person who is at work and away from that
family,” the top cop said during a press conference.</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/24/bill-bratton-sill-believes-in-broken-windows-policing/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Bill Bratton still believes in ‘broken windows’ policing</span></a></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"> </span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">(NYP)</span></span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: red;">*</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"> <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/facing-discriminatory-lawsuit-promotion-article-1.2685962" target="_blank">Cop, repeatedly accused of forcing minority cops to arrest more blacks and Hispanics, gets promotion </a></span></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">(NYDN) *</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bratton-slams-doi-report-critical-broken-windows-policing-article-1.2685838" target="_blank">NYPD's Bill Bratton calls Department of Investigation’s ‘broken windows’ policing report ‘not necessary’ </a></span>(NYDN)<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">*
De Blasio said he disagreed with a report that challenges “broken
windows” policing, highlighting the fine line he has tried to walk
between his popular police commissioner and a political base that
elected him to reform the NYPD, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/bash-windows-report-1466714344/37mrr/9991734" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal writes</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">*
De Blasio said he “absolutely” supports a federal monitor to oversee
the “broken” New York City Board of Elections in the upcoming
congressional primaries and wishes he could “tear down” the board and
start over, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/rd-elections-article-1-2685774/37mrt/9991734" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank">the Daily News writes.</a> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">*
After a series of corruption arrests and scandals, New York City Police
Commissioner Bill Bratton defended the practice of giving out pensions
to scandal-scarred NYPD officers and insisted it would be unfair to
their families to take them away, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/aced-cops-retire-with-pension-/37ms1/9991734" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank">the Post reports.</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">*
The NYPD inspector general’s report that claims the “broken windows”
style of policing does not work only serves de Blasio’s political
agenda, as decreases in crime in New York City since the 1990s prove the
controversial policing style works, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/tudy-serves-de-blasios-agenda-/37msr/9991734" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank">the Post writes.</a> * <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/24/businessman-demanded-kosher-meals-after-mile-high-hooker-romp/" target="_blank">Businessman demanded kosher meals after mile-high hooker romp</a> (NYP) * <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%27I%20HAD%20NO%20OTHER%20WAY%20TO%20PAY%20MY%20RENT%27:%20Former%20call%20girl%20%27embarrassed%27%20about%20mile-high%20tryst%20with%202%20NYPD%20cops%20on%20private%20jet" target="_blank">'I HAD NO OTHER WAY TO PAY MY RENT': Former call girl 'embarrassed' about mile-high tryst with 2 NYPD cops on private jet </a> * <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/26/nypd-hooker-the-cops-i-was-paid-to-entertain-should-be-fired/" target="_blank">NYPD hooker: The cops I serviced should be fired</a> (NYP) * <a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20160626/BLOGS01/160629884/beyond-nypd-corruption-charges-lie-some-troubling-notions?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social" target="_blank">Beyond NYPD corruption charges lie some troubling notions</a> (crainsNY) The allegations suggest the police want businesses to pay for service* <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/lovett-cuomo-asked-intervene-disability-benefits-fight-article-1.2688913" target="_blank">Gov. Cuomo asked to intervene in police union fight with Mayor de Blasio over disability benefits</a> (NYDN)<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">*
Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch sent a
letter to Cuomo asking that he intervene in a fight with de Blasio over a
union push to provide newer cops the same disability benefits as older
ones, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/nefits-fight-article-1-2688913/37y3m/10305542" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank">the Daily News’ Lovett writes.</a><br />
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(NYDN Ed) As if clutching a get-out-of-prison card for their corrupt
and convicted client, lawyers for former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon
Silver cheered the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision Monday to
vacate the conviction of ex-Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and make it
tougher to prosecute government officials on the take. No, folks,
nothing to see here in Silver’s proven acts of fraud and extortion, as
found by a jury last November — just “conduct that is part of the
everyday functioning of those in elected office,” Silver’s legal team
crowed. Theirs is the delusion of the desperate and despicable. Silver,
no more or less than former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, stands
convicted of gross abuses of the public. Silver delivered state funds to
a cancer doctor who in turn sent lucrative clients to Silver’s law
firm. He also steered real estate developers to a law firm that paid him
generous kickbacks, while advancing measures they backed. Skelos
delivered votes and secured funds on behalf of a real estate lobbyist
and a related company that paid his son Adam amply for a job he barely
attended, and repeatedly leaned on officials in his Nassau County power
base to assist. Facing utterly different circumstances, the Supreme
Court tossed McDonnell’s conviction because while he and his wife
greedily took gifts from a peddler of quasi-medical supplements,
McDonnell did nothing more than hold meetings and make referrals in
return. </span></span><br />
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McDonnell decision says that in order to prove government corruption,
federal prosecutors must first identify a matter in question, such as a
bill or contract, and then show what “official act” that politician took
on the matter in exchange for a thing of value. Showing that Silver and
Skelos each performed such acts in exchange for personal benefit is
exactly what Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara did when he secured
the two men’s convictions, along with that of Adam Skelos. Under no
circumstances can such vile actions in betrayal of public trust stand as
tolerable under the law. In the unlikely event either man wrings a
reprieve on appeal, it will fall to Congress to strengthen
anti-corruption statutes and draw a blazingly bright line between right
and wrong.* </span><a href="http://www.twcnews.com/nys/buffalo/news/2016/06/27/scotus-decision-on-va-governor.html" target="_blank">SCOTUS Decision on VA Governor Could Impact NYS Corruption Cases </a></span>(NY1) * <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/27/the-supreme-court-wont-stop-preet-bhararas-campaign-to-clean-up-new-york/" target="_blank">The Supreme Court won’t stop Preet Bharara’s campaign to clean up New York </a>(NYP)
And as Bharara noted, “the official actions that led” to the
convictions of Skelos and Siver “fall squarely within the definition set
forth by the Supreme Court.” What Skelos and Silver did went far beyond
that. Silver provided state grants to a doctor who referred clients to
Silver’s law firm, while Skelos steered lucrative contracts to a
prolific campaign donor. So the Supreme Court’s ruling may protect
dubious pork and other “legal graft” that is New York pols’ bread and
butter. But it won’t shield the sort of quid-pro-quo deals that Bharara
is still investigating. “Corruption is rife in a lot of institutions in
New York,” Bharara said Sunday. And the high court has still left him
plenty of room to do something about it.<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">*
Two of the most powerful New York politicians convicted of public
corruption, Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, received possible lifelines
as the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the corruption conviction of former
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell,</span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/upreme-court-ruling-1467075681/3dll3/10771082" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal writes.</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">*</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/campaign-to-clean-up-new-york-/3dlm3/10771082" style="color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank">The Post writes</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">that
the Supreme Court’s decision to vacate McDonnell’s conviction won’t
stop U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara from pursuing corruption convictions in
New York, as the type of quid-pro-quo deals he has been investigating
will stand up in court. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">*
While Silver and Skelos may have hope that the Supreme Court’s
McDonnell decision may lead to their own convictions being thrown out,
the type of “gross abuses of the public” they engaged in will prevent
them from being let off the hook,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/urt-won-save-article-1-2690340/3dlm5/10771082" style="color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank">the Daily News writes</a> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">*
The Supreme Court’s decision in the McDonnell case also highlights the
failure of the state Legislature to put in place stricter state
corruption laws this session, even after its top two leaders were
convicted on corruption charges,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/s-new-york-politics-1-11976802/3dlm7/10771082" style="color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank">Newsday writes.</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/05/nyregion/tammany-halls-auditorium-where-politics-once-took-center-stage-will-be-demolished.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&action=click&contentCollection=nyregion&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0" target="_blank">Tammany Hall’s Auditorium, Where Politics Once Took Center Stage, Will Be Demolished </a>(NYT)
The exterior of the building, which has landmark status (but the
auditorium does not), will be preserved as part of the project. Memories
of Tammany will survive in decorative details like a limestone
medallion of Chief Tamanend, for whom the society was named, and a red,
blue and gold liberty cap, made of terra cotta, on the front pediment.
On its first day as Tammany Hall, in 1929, the auditorium was filled
beyond overflowing and “ablaze with color,” The Times said, because of
the many flags on display. Roosevelt shared the stage with former Gov.
Alfred E. Smith, who represented the best of Tammany, and Mayor James J.
Walker, who symbolized just about the worst — if you do not count Boss
Tweed.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/27/de-blasios-team-in-no-rush-to-return-shady-cash/" target="_blank">De Blasio’s team in no rush to return shady cash</a></span>
(NYP) Three weeks after saying it was reviewing suspicious donations
tied to one of its biggest supporters, Mayor de Blasio’s campaign said
Monday it still hasn’t decided whether to return the money. The Post
reported on June 8 that some contributors tied to production company
Broadway Stages dodged questions when asked why they wrote checks to de
Blasio’s 2013 campaign. After The Post’s story appeared, de Blasio
campaign spokesman Dan Levitan said the campaign was “reviewing”
donations. A week later, the mayor said the same thing. “We’re certainly
looking at those donations,” he said. “I think we do a thorough job of
identifying anything that, on its face, does not belong.” On Monday,
Levitan declined to say whether any of the checks would be returned.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Lawyer
Mastro Fought Against WFP' Data and Field, Son of NYCLASS. Data is
Where Team de Blasio Learned to Go Around Election Laws </b></span></span><br />
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Errol
Louis discussed the investigation into Mayor de Blasio, and his
dealings with the horse carriage industry, with former Deputy Mayor
Randy Mastro, who is counsel to the controversial anti-horse carriage
industry group NYCLASS.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-media-has-worked-hard-to-protect.html" target="_blank">Today
the Media Protect the Corrupt Political Bosses, Ignoring the Unfair
Advantage Data and Field Gave Candidates in 2009, or PACs in 2013 </a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2013/05/wfp.html" target="_blank">WFP the New Progressive Machine, Is it Corrupt At Its Core?</a></span></b></div>
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<a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2014/09/secret-government.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">de Blasio's Campaign Lobbyists Control A Secret Shadow Government </span></b></a></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2014/03/horse-politics.html">Horse Carriage Politics and the Central Park Stables</a></span></span> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2013/11/advance-group.html">How the Advance Group Conspired to Steal the 2009 and 2013 Election</a></b></span></span><br />
<b><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2013/10/crainsny-on-advance-groups-double.html" target="_blank">CrainsNY on the Advance Groups Double Dipping</a></b> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2014/09/who-watchers-watchman.html" target="_blank">Who Watchers the Watchman, Lobbyists, Grand Jury, AG - DAsConflict of Interests With NYPD and Elected Officials</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2013/11/2013-media-failure.html" target="_blank">Campaign 2013 Media Failure And Broken Political Promises</a></b></span></div>
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construction company overseeing La Guardia Airport’s redevelopment to
pay for an outside “integrity monitor” after it admitted to overbilling
at the World Trade Center site. Port Authority Board members <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/port-authority-advances-major-projects-1458868966">also advanced</a> several
major projects—including renovations at two area airports – as the
agency’s mounting tensions burst into the public spotlight at raucous
meetings. * The Authority <a href="http://therealdeal.com/2016/03/24/port-authority-backs-out-of-40k-sf-moynihan-lease/">backed out of</a> a lease in the James A. Farley Post Office, temporarily throwing a wrench into part of Cuomo’s plans to pay for the project.<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span>* The Port Authority voted to spend tens of billions of dollars revamping La Guardia Airport, improving Newark Liberty International Airport and building a new bus terminal in midtown Manhattan, <a href="http://goo.gl/sH52Rf" target="_blank">The New York Times reports: </a>*
The Port Authority voted to require Tishman Construction Corp. to pay
for an outside integrity monitor as the firm oversees the La Guardia
Airport redevelopment because Tishman admitted to overbilling at the World Trade Center site, The Wall <a href="http://goo.gl/Qpvr14" target="_blank">Street Journal reports: </a>* <a href="ttp://goo.gl/5mL9iX" target="_blank">Govs. Cuomoand Chris Christie</a>
will leave the Port Authority in worse shape than during
Bridgegate – and leave commuters in worse condition than when the two
men took office – because of the tick-for-tack nature of the agency’s
funding strategy, Nicole Gelinas writes in the Post: <a href="http://goo.gl/5mL9iX" target="_blank">h</a></div>
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construction company overseeing La Guardia Airport’s redevelopment to
pay for an outside “integrity monitor” after it admitted to overbilling
at the World Trade Center site. Port Authority Board members <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/port-authority-advances-major-projects-1458868966">also advanced</a> several
major projects—including renovations at two area airports – as the
agency’s mounting tensions burst into the public spotlight at raucous
meetings. * The Authority <a href="http://therealdeal.com/2016/03/24/port-authority-backs-out-of-40k-sf-moynihan-lease/">backed out of</a> a lease in the James A. Farley Post Office, temporarily throwing a wrench into part of Cuomo’s plans to pay for the project.<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span>* The Port Authority voted to spend tens of billions of dollars revamping La Guardia Airport, improving Newark Liberty International Airport and building a new bus terminal in midtown Manhattan, <a href="http://goo.gl/sH52Rf" target="_blank">The New York Times reports: </a>*
The Port Authority voted to require Tishman Construction Corp. to pay
for an outside integrity monitor as the firm oversees the La Guardia
Airport redevelopment because Tishman admitted to overbilling at the World Trade Center site, The Wall <a href="http://goo.gl/Qpvr14" target="_blank">Street Journal reports: </a>* <a href="ttp://goo.gl/5mL9iX" target="_blank">Govs. Cuomoand Chris Christie</a>
will leave the Port Authority in worse shape than during
Bridgegate – and leave commuters in worse condition than when the two
men took office – because of the tick-for-tack nature of the agency’s
funding strategy, Nicole Gelinas writes in the Post: <a href="http://goo.gl/5mL9iX" target="_blank">h</a></div>
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Republicans appear set to remain in charge of the fractured state
Senate no matter what happens in the April 19 special election to
replace convicted crook Dean Skelos. Renegade Brooklyn Democratic
state Sen. Simcha Felder said Thursday that he will continue to vote
with the GOP even if a Democrat replaces Skelos, who was the Republican
majority leader before his corruption conviction.* Brooklyn Democratic
state Sen. Simcha Felder said that he will continue to vote with the
GOP even if a Democrat replaces former state Sen. Dean Skelos, who was
the Republican majority leader before his corruption conviction,<a href="http://goo.gl/EPTJeJ" target="_blank"> the Post writes: </a> * Renegade Brooklyn Democratic state Sen. Simcha Felder <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/08/democratic-senator-to-vote-republican-for-skelos-replacement/">said that he will continue</a> to
vote with the GOP even if a Democrat replaces former Senate Majority
Leader Dean Skelos, who was the Republican majority leader before his
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<span style="background-color: lime; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">NYPD Two NYPD Chiefs Fined For Dining On Former Queens Library Boss Galante </span><br />
<b>EATING AWAY AT ETHICS:</b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-cops-face-fines-dining-ex-queens-library-big-article-1.2682967" target="_blank"> Two NYPD chiefs face huge fines for dining on credit card tab of disgraced former Queens library boss Thomas Galante </a>(NYP)<br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/not-worth-wait-article-1.2682694" target="_blank">Not worth the wait: A pathetic end to Albany's legislative session </a>(NYDN)
Prudence demanded patience in evaluating the blowout of
behind-the-scenes deal-making that closed the annual session of the New
York Legislature. Having sorted through the detritus, we can only hope
for far better performances by Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie
and Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who took over for
Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos. They produced half-measures, foolish
measures and measures that only lobbyists could love, while
significantly repudiating the public interest. Gov. Cuomo went along for
the ride. Despite convictions of Silver and Skelos, Flanagan refused to
close the LLC loophole, which allows unlimited money in New York
politics. But the leaders did agree on a Cuomo proposal to crack down on
evasions of the campaign finance laws. All too conveniently, Flanagan
and Heastie failed to agree on terms for stripping the pensions of
convicted public officials. On education, Flanagan continued to make a
plaything out of mayoral control of the city schools, out of anger at
Bill de Blasio’s attempt to dethrone him — but both houses conspired
with the mayor and well-connected union lobbyists to boost the cost of
city school bus services. In January, Cuomo proposed a $2 billion
investment to finance affordable and supportive housing. The governor,
Flanagan and Heastie put the money in the budget, but couldn’t agree on
how to spend the cash. So only $150 million was freed up, potentially
slowing necessary construction. Meanwhile, the Legislature showed
downright hostility toward the tech economy, enacting a law that would
essentially kill the Airbnb home sharing service and blocking expansion
of call-a-car services like Uber. To restore popular fantasy sports
betting — after the attorney general shut it down as illegal gambling —
the Legislature fatuously relabled the games as something else while
placing them under the gambling commission, all but ensuring a legal
challenge. And, notoriously, Cuomo, Heastie and Flanagan turned their
backs on childhood victims of sexual abuse at the unfortunate behest of
the Catholic Church.<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">* De Blasio’s recently departed press secretary </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/win-back-nyc-article-1-2684166/37msm/9991734" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank">Karen Hinton in the Daily News</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">offers
advice to the mayor about how to survive his love-hate relationship
with the news media and emerge stronger by adjusting to new media
without forgetting lessons from the old.</span><br />
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</span></b> <b><span style="color: lime; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: lime;">The CFB Treats Incumbents Who Appoint Them With Kid Gloves </span></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">While Destroying Challenger Campaigns</span></span></b><br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/07/07/campaign-finance-board-gives-de-blasio-group-the-hillary-treatment/" target="_blank">Campaign Finance Board gives de Blasio group the Hillary treatment </a>(NYP)
The city’s Campaign Finance Board on Wednesday took a page out of FBI
Director James Comey’s playbook by clearing a nonprofit aligned with
Mayor de Blasio of violating campaign-finance laws while slamming it for
raising “serious policy and perception issues.” Board Chair Rose Gill
Hearn, a former commissioner of the Department of Investigation in the
Bloomberg administration, said current laws allow politically connected
nonprofits to run roughshod over the city’s campaign-finance system,
which imposes strict limits on fund-raising and spending. The
nonprofits, such as the mayor’s Campaign for One New York (CONY), have
no such limits. “The Campaign for One New York is very clearly not
independent of Mr. de Blasio,” Hearn said in her slap. “The organization
was established by the mayor to support and promote his policy agenda.
It is run by the mayor’s closest advisers and staffed by personnel and
consultants that ran his campaign in 2013. But in her announcement
reminiscent of Comey’s decision about Hillary Clinton’s e-mails — Hearn
said there was no evidence the nonprofit was working to re-elect de
Blasio in 2017, primarily because its spending to promote the mayor’s
agenda occurred three years ahead of his re-election. Like Comey, who
cleared Clinton of criminal conduct while rebuking her actions, Hearn
warned that the board would continue to monitor the situation. She
called on the City Council to toughen the law, so that nonprofits can’t
haul in as much as $350,000 from a single contributor — as CONY did —
while the maximum contribution to a mayoral candidate is set at $4.950.
“It defies common sense that limits that work so well during the
campaign should be set aside once the candidate has assumed elected
office,” she said.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #999999; color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">As Feds Investigate Buffalo Billion So Does Cuomo? </span><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: white;">To Find Out What the Feds Know?</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-local/article/Cuomo-gives-investigator-Moreland-Act-powers-8316633.php" target="_blank">Cuomo gives investigator Moreland Act powers </a>(TU) But other questions remain about Bart Schwartz's probe into upstate deals<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/14/groups-tied-to-mark-viverito-to-get-nice-chunk-of-citys-discretionary-funds/" target="_blank">Groups tied to Mark-Viverito to get nice chunk of city’s discretionary funds </a>(NYP)
ity Council spending on pet causes will spike to nearly $60 million in
the coming fiscal year – about $3 million more than this year’s outlay,
records show. The five percent increase is part of an $82.1 billion
budget deal hammered out by Mayor de Blasio and Council Speaker Melissa
Mark-Viverito last week. Some of the biggest winners in the
discretionary cash dole-out include the Hispanic Federation, Communilife
Inc. and the Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation, all of which are
represented by lobbying firms tied to the Mark-Viverito, who controls
much of that spending. Hispanic Federation and Communilife are both
represented by the MirRam Group, which consulted on Mark-Viverito’s 2013
campaign. Communilife will take in $308,500 to provide “academic
support and creative arts therapy” to at-risk Latina teens. The Hispanic
Federation got $600,000 to “continue strengthening New York City’s
growing Latino community.” Brooklyn Legal Services, which retains the
lobbying firm Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin, raked in
$300,000 to provide legal support for tenant organizers. Mark-Viverito
paid Pitta Bishop $61,000 in consulting fees to help her become Council
Speaker. The Bronx non-profit Regional Aid for Interim Needs also made
out well, getting an earmark of $171,000, despite Attorney General Eric
Schneiderman’s finding last year that the group’s management used
taxpayer dollars as a personal “piggy bank.” His office found the group
diverted $800,000 in taxpayer funds for elderly services to pay off a
mortgage on a vacant building and that its former director charged
thousands of dollars of personal expenses to a company credit card.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160510/civic-center/fbi-probed-mayors-fundraising-before-da-got-states-criminal-referral" target="_blank">FBI Probed Mayor's Fundraising Before DA Got State's 'Criminal Referral' </a></span>(DNAINFO) </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Federal
authorities were already investigating Mayor Bill de Blasio’s 2014
fundraising efforts to unseat state Senate Republicans months before
the Manhattan District Attorney received a "criminal referral" from a
state elections official about "Team de Blasio," DNAinfo New York has
learned.</span> A team of FBI agents from the bureau’s Public Corruption
Unit started eyeing the mayor’s 2014 election efforts for upstate
Democratic candidates as many as five months before Risa Sugarman, the
state Board of Elections' Chief Enforcement Officer, wrote the DA that
her team discovered "willful and flagrant" violations by the mayor and
his associates, sources said. The timing is significant because <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160429/civic-center/de-blasio-says-he-faces-double-standard-on-federal-fundraising-probes">the
mayor and his supporters maintain that the investigation into the
upstate activities stemmed from Sugarman's referral, and that it was
politically motivated by foes of de Blasio and his progressive
agenda. </a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">In
the detailed referral, which was leaked to the media, Sugarman, a
former top Bronx prosecutor appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, said her
investigators determined “that reasonable cause exists to believe a
violation warranting criminal prosecution has taken place.” She claimed
the fundraising apparatus used by “Team de Blasio” deliberately
circumvented campaign donation limits in three races, channeling funds
to candidates through county committees that could accept up to $103,000
from a single donor — well above the $10,300 allowed if a direct
contribution was made to the candidate. At the time of the Sugarman
referral, the Manhattan DA's office had its own investigation going
into aspects of the mayor's fundraising in his 2013 mayoral election,
and questionable money transactions tied to his campaign to rid the
city of carriage horses, the sources say. The Sugarman issues, however,
were not on their radar and opened yet another avenue to examine. </span></span>But
sources say it was not long before the DA realized the feds had
a "parallel" probe well underway, and they teamed up.* DNAinfo New York
reported last week that <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160505/glendale/federal-probe-eyes-possible-straw-donors-de-blasio-campaign-sources-say" target="_blank">the federal probe is now eyeing the mayor's entire fundraising apparatus as a potential criminal enterprise</a>
— with many of the same advisers, campaign officials
or lobbyists acting in a "conspiracy" to circumvent election laws. Such a
federal charge would likely be accompanied by other offenses such as
mail fraud, wire fraud, extortion and even money laundering, sources
said. For example, <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160504/civic-center/de-blasio-asked-me-for-20k-it-was-hard-say-no-developer-says">DNAinfo
New York reported that real estate developer Don Peebles said he felt
he could not say "no" to de Blasio's request for $20,000</a> to support
universal Pre-K. Peebles later requested his money be returned when
some of it went to other initiatives, including one that was working
against Peebles' own interest to develop Long Island College Hospital.<a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160504/civic-center/de-blasio-asked-me-for-20k-it-was-hard-say-no-developer-says">Supermarket
billionaire John Catsimatidis, meanwhile, has told federal
investigators that de Blasio buttonholed him at a charity event in 2014
and asked him to give $50,000 for the Putnam County Democratic Party</a>.
He said he later was angry to learn the money almost immediately went
to an upstate candidate’s campaign coffers.DNAinfo New York has
reported that the FBI probe began more than two years ago with a
corruption tip about Philip Banks, the NYPD's former Chief of
Department. Sources say violations of state law that do not rise to the
federal levels will be ultimately be prosecuted by the Manhattan DA,
whose office declined comment, as did the office of Manhattan U.S.
Attorney Preet Bharara. * <a data-tb-shadow-region-link="0" data-tb-shadow-region-title="0" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-shrugs-agency-motion-bring-group-court-article-1.2632037">Mayor de Blasio brushes off ethics commission’s motion to bring his defunct Campaign for One New York </a></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/homeless-shelters-founded-cuomo-riddled-violence-article-1.2628746?cid=bitly" target="_blank">NYC homeless shelters founded by Cuomo are hellholes filled with violence, child abuse </a></span>(NYDN) * </span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not good news -</span><a href="http://politi.co/1rKTejs" target="_blank"> HUD slashes funding for some New York City homeless shelters</a></span> via <a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link js-nav" data-mentioned-user-id="140928543" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/politicony"><s>@</s>politicony</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160530/glendale/de-blasio-campaign-return-56700-after-dnainfo-finds-shady-d" target="_blank">Mayor Bill deBlasio's campaign will return $56,700 in contributions to his 2013 election</a>after<a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160505/glendale/federal-probe-eyes-possible-straw-donors-de-blasio-campaign-sources-say"> a DNAinfo New York investigation showed that the money — all from a Queens businessman, his employees and his associates — raised concerns of possible straw donations.</a> Campaign spokesman Dan Levitan said Friday that it had informed the city Campaign Finance Board that it would return the money to seven donors "as soon as feasible." Levitan would not provide a reason why donations were being returned. READ MORE: <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160523/civic-center/see-it-how-everyone-is-connected-city-hallnypd-corruption-probe">How Everyone is Connected in the City Hall/NYPD Corruption Probe</a> However, DNAinfo New York reported on May 5 that federal investigators — <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160411/civic-center/whos-who-fbis-nypdcity-hall-corruption-probe">who have opened a probe into the mayor's fundraising practices</a> — are scrutinizing de Blasio's campaign for possible straw donations. The city’s campaign finance law prohibits individuals from contributing more than $4,950 to a candidate running for a citywide office during one election cycle. And it’s illegal to give someone else money to donate to a campaign. De Blasio's campaign — like others in the city — required all of its donors to sign a form affirming their contributions were made from their own personal funds. Levitan told DNAinfo New York that the donors getting money back were Sm-Ali Amanollahi, the owner of Primary One, a beauty product wholesaler in Glendale; three of his employees, Rafael Zepeda, Jose Zepeda and Angela Parra; and three Amanollahi associates, Ralph Scopo, Charalambos Anastassopoulos and Giulliano Bruschi. Amanollahi, <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160516/inwood/mayoral-fundraiser-tied-businessman-whose-workers-made-unusual-donations">who dates a top de Blasio fundraiser</a>, made the maximum-allowed donation of $4,950 to the campaign and the maximum-allowed contribution of $4,500 to de Blasio's post-election transition team. Both Zepedas, who are commercial drivers at Primary One and live in modest apartments in Queens, each donated $4,950 to the campaign and $4,500 to the transition team in less than two months time. DNAinfo previously reported that <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160505/glendale/federal-probe-eyes-possible-straw-donors-de-blasio-campaign-sources-say">when Rafael Zepeda was asked about the donations, he flip-flopped.</a> Initially, he said he made the donations. Hours later, he said he didn't. Parra, an executive assistant at Primary One, contributed $4,500 to de Blasio's transition team. Scopo's wife works for Amanollahi. He made the maximum contribution to de Blasio's campaign on Oct. 21, 2013, and donated $4,500 to the transition team on Dec. 10, 2013. Amanollahi made the same contributions on those dates. Scopo, a vice president at a Manhattan recycling company, previously told DNAinfo that he made the donations on his own accord. “You’re more than welcome to look into me and my wife,” he said. “We have no problems.” Anastassopoulos, who works at a Ridgewood auto body shop, declined to comment on his $4,950 donation to the de Blasio campaign. Bruschi, the head of an office equipment wholesale company in Fresh Meadows, donated a total of $9,450 to the campaign and the transition team. He did not respond to requests for comment. Amanollahi previously declined to comment and has not responded to subsequent interview requests. DNAinfo reported earlier this month that <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160516/inwood/mayoral-fundraiser-tied-businessman-whose-workers-made-unusual-donations">Amanollahi dates Rud Morales, a nightlife fixture in upper Manhattan who has thrown fundraisers for de Blasio, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and state Sen. Adriano Espaillat.</a> Morales co-hosted a fundraiser at the Negro Claro Lounge for de Blasio on Oct. 27, 2013. She also served on de Blasio's inaugural committee. De Blasio also appointed her to the board of the nonprofit The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City. Amanollahi is also a victim of <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160428/west-harlem/harlem-restaurant-at-center-of-corruption-probe-was-popular-with-city-pols">a Ponzi scheme connected to the sweeping federal investigation into de Blasio's fundraising practices, his nonprofit Campaign for One New York, and high-ranking NYPD officials accepting payments in exchange for favors.</a> * <span style="font-size: 12pt;">De Blasio to return $32K in sketchy donations amid probe (NYP) Mayor de Blasio’s campaign plan</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">s to return $32,200 to seven contributors, just weeks after it was disclosed that state and federal investigators were looking into possibly illegal donations to his 2013 run for City Hall. De Blasio campaign spokesman Dan Levitan said the city’s Campaign Finance Board has been notified that the refunds would be made “as soon as feasible.” Sm-Ali Amanollahi, owner of the Queens based Primary One beauty products company; his drivers, Rafael Zepeda and José Zepeda; and his associates Charalambos Anastassopoulos, GiulianoBruschi and Ralph Scopo, each donated $5,000 to deBlasio, records show. All the donations except one were made on the same day: Oct. 21, 2013.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It is illegal to make campaign contributions in someone else’s name, a practice known as “straw donations.” </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The timing of the Primary One donations, the fact that they all exceeded the limit by the same amount, and the workinclass jobs held by donors giving thousands of dollars have raised red flags. The generosity of the employees from the Queensbased company didn’t end with the campaign. Six each chipped in another $4,500 to de Blasio’s transition committee, which picked up expenses after the mayoral election. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Amanollahi told The Post earlier this month that he, like Rafael Zepeda, had retained a lawyer. Amanollahi dates Rud Morales, a member of the de Blasio inaugural committee and a board member of the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, which is headed by Hizzoner’s wife, Chirlane McCray.</span></div>
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<a class="postid-10199738" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/18/pier-6-affordable-housing-deal-collapses-amid-de-blasio-probes/">Pier 6 affordable housing deal collapses amid de Blasio probes (NYP </a>An agreement cut between the feuding de Blasio and Cuomo administrations to bring affordable housing to Brooklyn Bridge Park is now dead after state officials raised concerns over possible conflicts over it related to ongoing investigations surrounding the mayor. Following nearly a year of inaction, the Cuomo-backed Empire State Development Corp. was set to modify a project plan it approved in 2006 so the city could include <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/07/30/battle-begins-over-luxe-and-affordable-housing-plan-at-pier-6/">117 units of affordable housing in the 339 units</a> slated for two high-end condo towers eyed for Pier 6 at the waterfront park. However, the deal collapsed after ESDC officials opted to cancel a vote scheduled for this week and seek more time to weigh their concerns. Among these concerns were that the project’s developer Robert Levine had been picked by the city last year only weeks after donating to de Blasio’s Campaign for One New York, which is under investigation by the feds, sources said Other concerns include the involvement of the city’s top lobbyist <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>James Capalino</b></span> in pushing the plan and Levine’s equity partner, developer <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>China Vanke,</b></span> being linked to the Rivington House project on the Lower East Side that being probed by state and federal investigators. "We can’t keep putting off the vital issue of funding this incredible park, or of building the affordable housing this community needs,” said Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen. “We intend to move ahead with this project, with or without the State.” * An agreement cut between the de Blasio and Cuomo administrations to bring affordable housing to Brooklyn Bridge Park is now dead after state officials raised concerns over possible conflicts related to ongoing investigations surrounding the mayor, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/llapses-amid-de-blasio-probes-/kljs/3762257" target="_blank">the Post writes</a>. * State officials, citing potential conflicts linked to various investigations of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/deal-to-put-towers-in-brooklyn-bridge-park-is-set-back-1463533299">blocked a deal</a> on a long-delayed plan to put up two apartment towers inside Brooklyn Bridge Park.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">Cuomo would not rule out supporting Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. for mayor, and the governor also said he would Democratic state Senate candidates and support Zephyr Teachout, his former primary foe, for Congress,</span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/jr-de-blasio-article-1-2710176/3w93h/13684932" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Daily News writes</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica";">. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One moment someone is working for a state agency, the next he’s lobbying that agency on behalf of a client. One day his name is on public records as a lobbyist, the next it’s gone. One day another person is working for the governor, the next he’s working for the governor’s campaign, and for people doing business with the state. A few months later he’s back in state service, where that private work is banned. These are some of the odd scenarios that are emerging amid a federal investigation that’s raised questions about possible corruption in the Cuomo administration, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, and the Buffalo Billion project. What may be just as disturbing is that all this is being looked into by the U.S. Justice Department, not by the state entity that is supposed to be on top of these sorts of things, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics. JCOPE says that it’s constrained from discussing matters that reflect its own shortcomings, lapses, and failures. Of course.THE OBSERVATION DECK New concerns at JCOPE. It’s a short trip deep into the weeds of these scandals, in which two longtime aides to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Joseph Percoco and Todd Howe, are central figures. But to put it simply: Mr. Percoco, the governor’s former executive deputy secretary, collected tens of thousands of dollars in consulting fees from firms doing business with the state while he was briefly on leave from state service to head up the governor’s campaign. Mr. Howe, who worked for Mr. Cuomo when he was U.S. Housing and Urban Development secretary, worked for SUNY Poly, and had an office on the campus, even while he was representing clients doing business with SUNY Poly. These apparent conflicts, blurred ethical lines, and revolving doors so active it’s a wonder the Capitol needs air conditioning, have been there for JCOPE to see in black and white in its own records.Or, at least, they were. Recently, Mr. Howe’s name was scrubbed from JCOPE’s website as if his lobbying work never happened. Now we learn lobbying firms can alter their own state records. JCOPE’s explanation? No comment. Not commenting seems to be what JCOPE – an agency that is supposed to bring more transparency to state government – does best. We understand that an investigative body like JCOPE needs a certain degree of confidentiality to protect the integrity of investigations. But JCOPE has all too often used secrecy as an excuse to avoid being transparent and accountable about its own operations and performance. And so the questions mount: How did JCOPE miss possible corruption that the U.S. Attorney is now looking into? How was potential evidence scrubbed from its site? This isn’t just about blame, but about whether JCOPE is up to its watchdog mission, or whether the Legislature needs to revisit this watchdog’s structure and funding. The whole point of JCOPE is to help keep government open, honest and accountable. That’s got to start with JCOPE embodying what the rest of state government needs to be.</span><br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/20/eric-adams-nonprofit-has-links-to-shady-donors/" target="_blank">Eric Adams’ nonprofit has links to shady donors</a> (NYP) Mayor de Blasio isn’t the only elected official who launched a nonprofit that has raised funds from questionable donors. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has his own group — the One Brooklyn Fund — which has raised as much as $964,000 over the past two years, according to records obtained by The Post. And, like de Blasio’s nonprofit, it has taken money from entities whose activities are under review by law enforcement or that have business interests before the government. One donor, Park Developers & Builders, was subpoenaed by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office in recent weeks for its bid to raze a Bedford-Stuyvesant nursing home and replace it with a 241-unit residential building, according to a source. The group has given as much as $20,000 to Adams’ nonprofit since October. Its partner, the Allure Group, was also subpoenaed in that case — as well as in a Lower East Side real-estate deal involving the loss of a nursing home that was OK’d by the de Blasio administration. Another group that gave up to $20,000 to Adams’ group is Broadway Stages, a Brooklyn-based firm that is being questioned as part of the wide-ranging probe of de Blasio’s fund-raising. Other donors to Adams’ nonprofit include Airbnb, which gave as much as $60,000. Adams has been a vocal supporter of Airbnb. Other donors to Adams’ nonprofit include Airbnb, which gave as much as $60,000. Adams has been a vocal supporter of Airbnb. Dick Dadey, director of the watchdog group Citizens Union, said nonprofits run by elected officials are ripe for abuses. “It’s become a vehicle for self-promotion, as well as a vehicle for augmenting the services of the borough president’s office,” Dadey said.<br />
“Entities within the borough may feel a certain responsibility to contribute.” While the mayor’s nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York, only touted his agenda, the One Brooklyn Fund is a city-affiliated group and sponsors events for the public.<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">* Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams’ nonprofit One Brooklyn Fund has raised as much as $964,000 over the past two years and has taken money from entities whose activities are under review by law enforcement or that have business interests before the government, </span></span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/fit-has-links-to-shady-donors-/2zf6b/9120015" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Post reports.</a><br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/19/a-new-angle-on-the-new-yorks-corruption-scandals/" target="_blank">A new angle on New York’s corruption scandals </a>(NYP) How about that: The Albany corruption probes may expose abuse of state affordable-housing funds. Two years ago, an audit by State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli found that the state Division of Homes and Community Renewal had granted $10 million to six projects its own staff had deemed “infeasible” — meaning seriously impractical to pull off. Oops: DHCR’s rules banned the funding of “infeasible” applications. The audit also noted that, by failing to properly document why they opted to fund those projects anyway, agency managers put “the integrity of the program” at risk. Well, the managers found a creative way around this problem: They rewrote the evaluation criteria, dropping the system with too-accurate terms like “infeasible” for less-descriptive numerical rankings. Meanwhile, the Albany Times Union reports that three of the developers behind the six suspiciously favored “infeasible” grants have been hit with federal subpoenas. All three are major donors to Gov. Cuomo and one was a client of Todd Howe — the lobbyist at the center of the Buffalo Billion probe. Naturally, Cuomo’s office insists donations have no impact on its official decisions. But the whole thing is a reminder that “apple pie” spending on items like affordable housing needs examining at least as closely as any other state outlays. And US Attorney Preet Bharara will have the last word on just how “infeasible” the awarding of state contracts has become.* <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-cuomo-feud-ignites-mayor-ko-day-care-bill-article-1.2679821" target="_blank">De Blasio-Cuomo feud ignites mayor to KO bill to fix safety issues at day cares </a></span>(NYDN) </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: , sans-serif;">* The fact that state offices rewrote criteria for awarding affordable housing contracts after the Cuomo administration was criticized for not sticking to its own guidelines by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli shows the need for reform to those systems,</span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ohn-flanagan-are-weak-leaders-/2zf68/9120015" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Post </a><br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/19/a-new-angle-on-the-new-yorks-corruption-scandals/" target="_blank">A new angle on New York’s corruption scandals </a>(NYP) How about that: The Albany corruption probes may expose abuse of state affordable-housing funds. Two years ago, an audit by State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli found that the state Division of Homes and Community Renewal had granted $10 million to six projects its own staff had deemed “infeasible” — meaning seriously impractical to pull off. Oops: DHCR’s rules banned the funding of “infeasible” applications. The audit also noted that, by failing to properly document why they opted to fund those projects anyway, agency managers put “the integrity of the program” at risk. Well, the managers found a creative way around this problem: They rewrote the evaluation criteria, dropping the system with too-accurate terms like “infeasible” for less-descriptive numerical rankings. Meanwhile, the Albany Times Union reports that three of the developers behind the six suspiciously favored “infeasible” grants have been hit with federal subpoenas. All three are major donors to Gov. Cuomo and one was a client of Todd Howe — the lobbyist at the center of the Buffalo Billion probe. Naturally, Cuomo’s office insists donations have no impact on its official decisions. But the whole thing is a reminder that “apple pie” spending on items like affordable housing needs examining at least as closely as any other state outlays. And US Attorney Preet Bharara will have the last word on just how “infeasible” the awarding of state contracts has become.* <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-cuomo-feud-ignites-mayor-ko-day-care-bill-article-1.2679821" target="_blank">De Blasio-Cuomo feud ignites mayor to KO bill to fix safety issues at day cares </a></span>(NYDN) </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: , sans-serif;">* The fact that state offices rewrote criteria for awarding affordable housing contracts after the Cuomo administration was criticized for not sticking to its own guidelines by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli shows the need for reform to those systems,</span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ohn-flanagan-are-weak-leaders-/2zf68/9120015" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Post </a><br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">JCOPE Asks Judge to Order Team de Blasio to Heed Subpoena on CONY Investigation </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;">Preferential Treatment Being Looked At </span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/nyregion/court-is-asked-to-compel-de-blasio-nonprofit-to-heed-subpoena.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0" target="_blank">Court Is Asked to Compel de Blasio Nonprofit to Heed Subpoena</a></span><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">(NYT) A state ethics panel asked a court on Monday to compel the Campaign for One New York, a political nonprofit connected to Mayor</span></span></span></span><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/bill_de_blasio/index.html?inline=nyt-per" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Bill de Blasio</span></a></span><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">to hand over documents related to its lobbying and fund-raising activities after the group’s lawyer declared last week that he would not comply with the panel’s subpoena. The panel, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, known as Jcope, filed papers in State Supreme Court in Albany seeking to have a judge enforce the subpoena, arguing that the nonprofit had no basis for refusing to provide the documents, according to two people familiar with the matter. The Campaign for One New York now has several days to respond, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the papers were filed under seal. The group’s lawyer, Laurence D. Laufer, said</span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/nyregion/political-group-tied-to-mayor-de-blasio-to-defy-subpoena.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">in a letter</span></a><span style="color: white;"> on Friday that the group would no longer cooperate with the panel’s investigation into the nonprofit’s lobbying activities, saying the inquiry had become “blatantly political.”* </span>Disclosure forms filed by the Campaign For One New York show it accepted numerous contributions from companies that did business with the city or wanted something from his administration. Investigators <a href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NYC-De-Blasio-Draws-Scrutiny-Over-Developer-Funded-Pet-Project-378749691.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_NYBrand">want to know</a> if donors received preferential treatment from the city in exchange for contributions to the group, which was created to promote the mayor’s policy agenda.<br />
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Despite the mayor’s claims to the contrary, <a href="http://cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/new-york-city/de-blasio%E2%80%99s-political-nonprofits-faced-little-government-scrutiny.html#.VzGPQlL8_wz">City & State found</a>some details of his nonprofit groups and their interactions with City Hall remain private or virtually inaccessible to the public, and oversight of them appears muddled with largely voluntary compliance.* <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/republican-asks-board-elections-expand-de-blasio-probe-article-1.2629507">A Long Island Republican wants</a> the state Board of Elections to expand an investigation into the use of county party committees by de Blasio and his team to help Senate Democratic candidates in 2014.* De Blasio: State Commission Subpoena Is Part Of Witch Hunt By Cuomo (WCBS)<span class="post-subtitle"> Meanwhile, Others Hint About Running Against De Blasio Next Year</span><br />
<b>Kramer:</b> “They claim that they have seven Democrats and seven Republicans and it’s bipartisan. I wonder if you believe what they’re saying.”<b> De Blasio:</b> “No, I don’t. I think it’s quite clear a double standard is being held. I think it’s quite clear there are other motivations, and if they want to go to court, they can go to court. We think it’s quite clear that they are beyond their purview.”<br />
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Asked for comment, a spokesman for Mr. de Blasio referred a reporter to the mayor’s interview on WNYC on Friday morning, in which he was asked why a political nonprofit tied to his administration had <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/nyregion/court-is-asked-to-compel-de-blasio-nonprofit-to-heed-subpoena.html" title="Times story about subpoena">refused to comply</a> with a subpoena from the state ethics panel, which Mr. de Blasio has argued is under Mr. Cuomo’s thumb. “It’s one thing to participate with an investigation that’s appropriate and within appropriate boundaries, but when an investigation may be motivated by politics, when an investigation may be going beyond its legal mandate — and obviously be, in a sense, a partisan act — that’s a whole different matter,” the mayor said.</div>
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<a class="postid-10193043" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/13/preet-bharara-says-hes-not-done-and-cuomo-might-be-next/">Preet Bharara says he’s not done — and Cuomo might be next (NYP)</a> Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara watched with smug satisfaction Thursday as a judge slapped the second of Albany’s “three men in a room” with prison time. But the sure-shot lawman made it clear that Gov. Cuomo remains on his mind — taking time from his victory lap to fire a salvo straight toward the state’s chief executive. “In the span of just 16 months, we have seen the arrest, prosecution, conviction and sentencing of both leaders of the New York State Legislature,” Bharara said in a statement minutes after former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was given five years in prison.<span style="font-size: small;"> “These cases show — and history teaches — that the most effective corruption investigations are those that are truly independent and not in danger of either interference or premature shutdown,” Bharara added — a clear jab at Cuomo. </span>Cuomo created a Moreland Commission panel in 2013 to fight against corruption in state politics, but abruptly shut it down less than a year later amid pressure from lawmakers. Bharara launched a probe into the panel’s closure but said earlier this year that there was “insufficient evidence” to prove the Cuomo administration had committed any federal crime. But with his statement Thursday, Bharara made it clear that the battle against corruption in Albany continues. “The only thing that is truly bipartisan in Albany right now is the corruption.” Bharara sat in the back of the courtroom as Manhattan federal Judge Kimba Wood sentenced Skelos. Bharara kept his head down as Skelos’s wife, Gail, sneered, “You can go to hell,” as she walked past him,<a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2016/05/8599023/skelos-sentenced-five-years-son-receives-six-and-half"> Politico reported</a>. * <a href="http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2016/05/despite-perennial-reform-scandals-in-ny-swell/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Despite Perennial Reform, Scandals In NY Swell">Despite Perennial Reform, Scandals In NY Swell (YNN)</a> * Following the Skelos sentencing, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/13/preet-bharara-says-hes-not-done-and-cuomo-might-be-next/">issued a statement</a> that took a clear jab at Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the early shutdown of the corruption busting Moreland Commission, which Bharara looked into, but ultimately declined to bring any charges.* An inquiry by Bharara’s office focuses on de Blasio’s fundraising efforts to help the state Senate Democrats in their failed 2014 effort to re-take the majority. But the Cuomo campaign, which was run by ex-Cuomo aide Joe Percoco, who is also now under investigation, was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/nyregion/cuomo-campaigns-role-in-scrutinized-senate-races-comes-into-focus.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&action=click&contentCollection=nyregion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront">nonetheless involved</a> in the overall effort and may have been aware of the mayor’s actions.* <a href="http://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com/2016/05/education-link-to-cuomo-corruption.html%20%E2%80%A6" target="_blank">Preet Bharara looking into Percoco's wife, the ex-teacher, and her education gig</a><br />
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<header class="entry-header"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;">"</span></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;"><u>And How Dumb</u></span></b></span></span><b> AS Feds and Manhattan DA Zero In ON Same Crimes as JCOPE?"</b><br /><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>I</b></span><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">f You Want to Know What</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'s In the NYP The Ne</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">xt Day Read True New</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">s Today</span></b></span></span><span style="color: #20124d;"><b style="font-family: '';"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: orange; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span></b></span><br /><a class="postid-10190933" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/11/sorry-mayor-de-blasio-your-problems-not-andrew-cuomo-its-preet-bharara/">Sorry, Mayor de Blasio: Your problem’s not Andrew Cuomo, it’s Preet Bharara(NYP Ed)</a></header>A good offense may often be the best defense in sports, but Mayor de Blasio is whistling in the dark if he really thinks it’s his way out of one of the biggest political scandals in New York City history.<br />
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The mayor is desperately trying to deflect attention any way he can from the myriad criminal probes now under way of his administration on five different fronts. That’s why he’s now blasting the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, refusing to cooperate with its probe of his slush fund, the Campaign for One New York. It’s a political hit job clearly directed by the governor, de Blasio suggests.<br />
Not that he’s mentioning Cuomo by name. He just urges reporters to “look into these fascinating interconnections and potential motivations and the cast of characters” involved in JCOPE’s operation. Yes, JCOPE was a Cuomo creation. But all that guilt-by-association insinuation cuts both ways: Similar “interconnections and potential motivations” — and an odd cast of characters — have de Blasio squirming on the investigative hot seat. Like possible quid pro quos: favors given to donors to his slush funds and campaigns. But JCOPE is trying to subpoena CONY, not de Blasio. By aggressively declaring non-cooperation, the mayor only underscores just how tightly connected he and his slush fund actually are. Besides, the mayor’s public bluster ignores the fact that US Attorney Preet Bharara has had criminal probes of City Hall shenanigans under way for some time. The investigations even predate the state Board of Elections criminal referral to Manhattan DA Cy Vance — a move that de Blasio also tried to write off as the work of a Cuomo ally. Fact is, the two prosecutors remain much bigger potential threats than anything the relatively toothless JCOPE might do. De Blasio brought this whole mess on himself. And all the tough talk in the world won’t change that.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp84WL7.html?adxc=283999&adxa=414226&page=gateway.nytimes.com&pos=Gateway&campaignId=67QLY" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Why Trash Bags That Repel Rats Have the F.B.I. Sniffing Around in New York</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: black; color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">(NYT) Legal or not, an episode involving the parks department’s purchase of mint-scented garbage bags shows the collapse of the city’s carefully constructed defenses against “pay to play” government.You’d hardly expect the mayor of New York City, with its $82 billion budget and 300,000 employees, to get involved with buying garbage bags. For years, Joseph Dussich, the owner of a company in Queens that makes anti-rat garbage bags, could not get city officials to consider buying them. Last year, though, that changed after Mr. Dussich made the second of two donations of $50,000 apiece to a political advocacy group run by allies of Mayor Bill de Blasio. Ten days later, records show, Mr. de Blasio met with Mr. Dussich in City Hall to thank him for the contributions. The meeting was arranged by one of the mayor’s chief fund-raisers, Ross Offinger, according to two people familiar with the account that Mr. Dussich has given to federal authorities investigating City Hall fund-raising. Mr. Dussich, who brought one of his sons to the meeting, chatted briefly with Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, about their shared Italian heritage. As the visit with Mr. de Blasio was breaking up, Mr. Dussich was met at the mayor’s office by a City Hall aide, Peter Hatch, who then connected Mr. Dussich to purchasing officials at the parks department. Within a month, Mr. Dussich’s company, JAD Corporation of America, was given a $15,000 contract that allowed parks officials to try out his product, Mint-X, a heavy-duty scented bag that is advertised as repellent against the Norway rat. Later, the city sought bids for a five-year supply of bags registered with the Environmental Protection Agency as rodent repellent. Mr. Dussich’s website claims Mint-X is the only such bag on the market. He was not the low bidder, but the company that did get the city contract is buying about $3 million in bags from him, according to Mr. Dussich’s lawyer, Roland G. Riopelle.</span></span><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: white;">* Whether legal or not, de Blasio’s garbage bag episode illustrates the collapse of defenses built up in the city against “pay to play” practices in which people gave campaign contributions to gain access to or favors from powerful officials,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/lacement-2-pgtype-sectionfront/37msp/9991734" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Times’ Jim Dwyer writes</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">* Mayor Bill de Blasio has introduced few large-scale policies this year that will drive his 2017 re-election bid, with his third year in office shaping up to be his slowest yet, raising concerns among some aides and Democratic allies, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-to-adjust-strategy-1466991340/37y33/10305542" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal reports.</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">While some have critiqued Gov. Andrew Cuomo for failing to get some of his key initiatives passed this legislative session, he argues that he has had a high rate of success, describing his office’s work this year as “the most successful session in modern history,”</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/lacement-1-pgtype-sectionfront/2zf62/9120015" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The New York Times writes.</a><span style="background-color: black; font-family: , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">* Even for a place that has presented New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio with plenty of political setbacks, the message from Albany as the legislative session wound down was clear, as the mayor was only able to secure a one-year extension on mayoral control of city schools after asking for seven, </span></span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/loses-out-in-albany-1466384087/2zf64/9120015" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal reports.</a> <span style="background-color: black; font-family: , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">* De Blasio last week managed to kill a deal by state leaders that would have reformed day-care oversight in New York City, highlighting the tensions between him and Cuomo,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ay-care-bill-article-1-2679821/2zf66/9120015" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Daily News’ Ken Lovett writes.</a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">* Unnamed lawmakers, lobbyists and journalists</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ohn-flanagan-are-weak-leaders-/2zf68/9120015" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">tell the Post’s Fred Dicker</a><span style="font-family: , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">that state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie have displayed weak leadership in their first full terms as legislative leaders.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: black; font-family: , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">* The “little ugly” legislative package that passed at the end of this year’s legislative session did little to address the many issues that New York faces, but also avoided doing further damage and gave de Blasio little of what he wanted,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/is-mostly-a-slap-at-de-blasio-/2zf78/9120015" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Post writes.</a><br />
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<a href="http://politi.co/1W3h6LD" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tentative deal would renew mayoral control for one year</span></a>(PoliticoNY)<br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/18/lawmakers-agree-to-give-de-blasio-1-year-school-control-extension/" target="_blank">Lawmakers agree to give de Blasio 1-year school control extension</a></span> (NYP)<br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://bit.ly/1UThDxk" target="_blank">Albany "ethics deal"</a></span> targets good gvt groups which receive support from c3s to their c4 accounts<br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In last-minute move, Albany whacks @Airbnb </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/17/new-bill-could-crush-airbnbs-new-york-business/" target="_blank">New bill could crush Airbnb’s New York business</a></span> (NYP) A bill that imposes hefty fines that start at $1,000 for apartment rentals of less than 30 days — which are illegal and which are a big part of the apartment-sharing site’s business.<br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/18/nyregion/albanys-legislative-clock-runs-out-but-accord-withers-in-the-morning-light.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&action=click&contentCollection=nyregion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank">Legislature Reaches Deal to Extend Mayoral Control of New York’s Schools for a Year </a></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(NYT) Agreements also emerged in Albany on a set of modest ethics reforms, required lead testing in schools and money for supportive housing for the homeless. Consensus on the ethics reform seemed to come quickly on Friday, the day after the last official day of the legislative session. The deal would, among other things, strip state pensions from public officials convicted of corruption and strengthen prohibitions on political campaigns’ ability to coordinate with independent expenditure committees.The state will also provide an additional $50 million in capital funding for </span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SUNY and the City University</span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of New York. But the governor’s announcement that the state would release $570 million in state resources to build and operate 1,200 units of supportive housing for the homeless was immediately dissected and dismissed by advocates for the program, who said it fell far short of Mr. Cuomo’s initial commitment to pay for 20,000 units. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Blair Horner, the executive director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, said the deal was a “smorgasbord of elections, ethics and lobbying reforms” that nonetheless was “not focused at the heart of what’s wrong with Albany,” including the nearly unchecked flow of money through multiple limited liability companies. That said, Mr. Horner said the move to define coordination between independent expenditure committees and candidates was an improvement. “No one has defined what that means,” he said. “And this does.</span><b>*<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/19/consensus-says-carl-heastie-and-john-flanagan-are-weak-leaders/" target="_blank"> Consensus says Heastie and Flanagan are weak leaders </a>(NYP) * <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/19/state-lawmakers-little-ugly-is-mostly-a-slap-at-de-blasio/" target="_blank">State lawmaker’s ‘little ugly’ is mostly a slap at de Blasio </a>(NYP) *<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp8KK3F.html?adxc=283999&adxa=414223&page=gateway.nytimes.com&pos=Gateway&campaignId=66XKF" target="_blank"> </a></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp8KK3F.html?adxc=283999&adxa=414223&page=gateway.nytimes.com&pos=Gateway&campaignId=66XKF" target="_blank">Some Call Legislative Session a Letdown. Cuomo Sees It Far Differently</a></b></span><b> (NYT) Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said “it was probably the most successful session in modern history,” despite falling short on proposals involving ethics and housing reform.*</b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Cuomo:</b></span><b><a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2016/06/23/cuomo--de-blasio-lucky-to-get-even-one-year-extension-of-mayoral-control-of-city-schools.html" target="_blank"> De Blasio Lucky to Get Even One-Year Extension of Mayoral Control of City Schools </a>(NY1) </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">* Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he understands Mayor Bill de Blasio’s frustration at a one-year extension of mayoral control of schools, but added he was lucky to get anything since many Assembly Democrats joined Senate Republicans in opposing an extension, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ar-extension-article-1-2684433/37jpt/9837098" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Daily News writes</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">. * </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">* Cuomo doesn't believe that holding a special legislative session later this year to close a notorious campaign finance loophole or restrict lawmakers' outside income would be productive, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/cs-reform-dead-for-8319891-php/37jpy/9837098" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Times Union reports</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">.* </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">* One of the bills passed in the last hours of the legislative session allows SUNY to waive current requirements that limit the number of uncertified teachers that charter schools can employ and gives charter schools teachers three years to get certified, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/lacement-6-pgtype-sectionfront/37jq3/9837098" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Times writes</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">.</span><br />
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N.Y. campaign consultants made $115M since 2011 to get politicians elected (NYDN) Showing how <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state> campaigns are such big business, the state’s seven top political consulting firms — including five that have been subpoenaed in financing probes — were paid a whopping $115.5 million combined over the past five years, a Daily News analysis shows. Five of the seven firms were subpoenaed last year by state Board of Elections Chief Enforcement Officer Risa Sugarman as part of an investigation into whether an unsuccessful coordinated fund-raising effort led by Mayor de Blasio and his team to help the Democrats win control of the Senate in 2014 sought to intentionally evade state campaign finance laws. The lucrative haul doesn’t even include the tens of millions of dollars the firms made during the same period serving as either high-powered lobbyists, public relations consultants or both. The setup has long upset critics who decry that the consultants work to get people elected and then use their access to appear before those same public officials on behalf of clients with business before the state or city.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<b>AKPD Message and Media,</b> which was founded by President Obama’s former adviser David Axelrod and whose New York clients include Gov. Cuomo, de Blasio and the state Democratic Party, was paid the most of any firm since 2011 — $37.9 million<b>. Red Horse Strategies </b>was next with $20.1 million, followed by the Parkside Group ($15.8 million), SKDKnickerbocker ($15.3 million), Mark Guma Communications ($11.6 million), BerlinRosen ($9.6 million) and The Advance Group ($5.2 million).<br />
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<b>BerlinRosen,</b> AKPD, the <b>Parkside Group, Mark Guma Communications and Red Horse</b> Strategies were all subpoenaed by Sugarman last year as part of her investigation into de Blasio’s fund-raising practices for the Senate Dems. BerlinRosen has strong ties to de Blasio and was close to disgraced former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. The firm also worked on Schneiderman’s two attorney general campaigns. Mark Guma Communications’ clients have included Senate and Assembly Democrats as well as Vance, who is investigating the fund-raising tied to the 2014 Senate races. Vance has paid the firm more than $61,480 since 2011 for consulting and ad services. Red Horse has business with the Senate Democrats, state Controller Thomas DiNapoli, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson and the liberal Working Families Party.<br />
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The Advance Group, meanwhile, was fined by the city and state more than $25,000 in October for illegally helping New Yorkers for Clean, Livable & Safe Streets — an anti-horse carriage group that gave to City Council candidates in 2013 — evade contribution limits.<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span>The Advance Group has represented a range of elected officials ranging from former Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes to a number of state legislators and Council members. SKDKnickerbocker is the only top firm that has not been tied to any of the recent scandals involving de Blasio's fund-raising operation. In 2013, when de Blasio was elected, the firm worked for his primary opponent then-City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. It has also represented city Controller Scott Stringer, who is considered a potential de Blasio challenger.<br />
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/27/ags-staff-raids-office-of-ex-cuomo-aide-under-probe/" target="_blank">AG’s staff raids office of ex-Cuomo aideunder probe </a></span>(NYP) Investigators from Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office raided SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Albany offices Thursday, focusing on space used by lobbyist and former Cuomo aide Todd Howe, sources close to </span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/09/fbi-raids-homes-of-two-cuomo-cronies-amid-corruption-probe/">the investigation</a> told The Post. Gov. Cuomo said Howe was the focus of a federal investigation into improper lobbying and conflicts of interest that resulted in <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/15/cuomos-team-on-lockdown-as-preet-bharara-digs-deeper/">a wide-sweeping subpoena that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara sent to the governor’s executive offices.</a> * The governor then distanced himself from Howe, who has worked under both Andrew Cuomo and his father, the late Gov. Mario Cuomo. * Sources said Schneiderman’s investigators Thursday hauled off boxes of documents and obtained electronic files after executing a search warrant at the Albany campus just ahead of the holiday weekend.* * New York state investigators who work for state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman searched an office at the SUNY Polytechnic Institute, which had been used by Todd Howe, as part of a probe into the school’s contracting practices, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/oves-to-suny-office-1464310498/sdnq/5183483" target="_blank">the Journal reports.</a> * While federal investigators examine Cuomo’s Buffalo Billion, many companies already contracted by the Port Authority, and who stand to benefit from<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> LaGuardia Airport's overhaul</span></b>, are also big <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">campaign contributors to the governo</span></b>r, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ig-donors-to-the-governor-html/sdpb/5183483" target="_blank">NY1 reports.</a><br />
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/26/mayor-de-blasio-emerges-from-hiding-only-to-dodge-again/">Mayor de Blasio emerges from hiding — only to dodge again</a></b> (NYP) New York’s duck-and-cover-up mayor finally braved reporters Thursday — but then … ducked key questions. After largely avoiding the press for more than a week, Mayor de Blasio held an open Q&A after a press conference on his anti-slumlord campaign. But when reporters started to focus on probes of City Hall corruption, he went to DefCon Evade. Asked, for example, to justify his decision to classify certain lobbyists as “agents of the city” as an excuse to keep his communications with them secret, he bobbed and weaved: “Their role as advisers was appropriate,” he said. “I think we’re handling it appropriately.” Asked, for example, to justify his decision to classify certain lobbyists as “agents of the city” as an excuse to keep his communications with them secret, he bobbed and weaved: “Their role as advisers was appropriate,” he said. “I think we’re handling it appropriately.”<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"> </span>The public disagrees: This week’s Quinnipiac poll shows that voters disapprove by more than 2-1 of how he’s handling corruption. They also believe, by a similarly lopsided margin, that he “does favors for developers who make political contributions.” The poll also shows the mayor with his worst job-approval rating ever, with 52 percent of voters flashing a thumbs-down. And as the number of probes mushrooms (it’s at seven, and counting), confidence in de Blasio is headed further south. Thursday, Politico reported that the mayor “took an unusually personal role in raising money for a nonprofit group backing his political agenda, according to several people” hit up for donations. It also noted that “more than two-thirds” of donors who gave to the group — the Campaign for One New York — “were actively seeking approval for a project” when they made their donations. But de Blasio’s not explaining anything. He claims he got “legal guidance” and followed all the rules in his dealings. But he’s offered nothing concrete to back up those hopelessly vague assurances. Again: He’s refusing to release not just the names of folks he’s asked for donations, but also his communications with the slush-fund money men. He won’t even spell out the rules he says he followed. On Thursday, he again promised to release “information of various kinds” within “the coming weeks” — with no specifics on what or when. The kind way to put it is to say the mayor is flailing, but the truth is: He’s drowning.* <o:p></o:p><b> </b><b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/27/de-blasio-blames-news-headlines-for-plummeting-approval-ratings/">De Blasio blames news headlines for plummeting approval ratings</a></b> (NYP) Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday blamed his plummeting approval ratings on “relentless negative headlines” — not the seven corruption and fundraising scandals swirling around his administration. “I think it is telling that those numbers were very, very strong for two full years, and then there’s relentless negative headlines,” <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/askthemayor-vision-zero">de Blasio said in an interview with WNYC radio</a>, referring <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/24/mayor-de-blasios-approval-hits-record-low/">to his latest Quinnipiac University poll</a> that shows only 43 percent of voters believe he is honest and trustworthy. That’s down from the 60 percent in the same poll in January.</div>
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<a class="postid-10197795" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/16/de-blasio-funded-nonprofit-from-campaign-currently-under-investigation/">De Blasio funded nonprofit from campaign currently under investigation (NYP)</a> A nonprofit launched by Mayor de Blasio to push his progressive agenda nationally got all of its money from one source last year: another of the mayor’s nonprofits, records show. Tax filings submitted by The Progressive Agenda Committee for 2015 show revenues of $480,100, all from the Campaign for One New York. The mayor’s fund-raising on behalf of CONY — which touted his progressive agenda locally — is currently under investigation by the feds and the Manhattan DA.The Progressive Agenda’s payouts show $160,000 going to Hizzoner’s preferred media consultants — AKPD, which was founded by former White House senior adviser David Axelrod.Other payouts included $188,000 on “program service” expenses and $7,500 for fund-raising.TPAC, which was founded in May 2015, has raised more funds in 2016, which will be disclosed in July. But it hasn’t said what its plans are following de Blasio’s botched attempt to hold a presidential forum on income inequality, which was scrapped after none of the presidential candidates agreed to attend the December 2015 event in Iowa.* <span class="headline fs-17 lh16 twcround-book"><a class="active" href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2016/05/16/a-look-at-tax-forms-for-mayor-s-nonprofit-group-called-the--progressive-agenda-.html">A Look at Tax Forms for Mayor's Nonprofit Group Called the 'ProgressiveAgenda'(NY1)</a></span>That organization was de Blasio's initial nonprofit group, set up to support his push for universal pre-kindergarten. Earlier this year, that group shut down and is now the subject of a federal investigation. The Progressive Agenda is now its own separate entity, which a spokesperson described as "in transition."So far, the group has seen mixed results. It was supposed to host a presidential forum in Iowa last year, but that never got off the ground. According to the filing, its accomplishments for 2015 include creating a 14-point agenda to combat income inequality and a website. It champions its effort to get people to sign on to its platform. And it also "built a following on social media to gain supporters." The agenda has slightly more than 3,200 followers on Twitter. Last year, its biggest check went to one of de Blasio's favorite consultants,<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> AKPD Media,</b></span> for $160,000. The cash was for media consulting.At the end of the year, the group spent nearly all of its seed funding. Its ending balance was a little more than $32,000. Nonetheless, NY1 is told it is not shutting down and that it has been fundraising. However, it no longer employs its executive director. She is returning to private consulting.* The Progressive Agenda, which de Blasio and his allies formed last year, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-nonprofit-failed-raise-money-2015-article-1.2639465">raised no other money</a> in 2014 and has just lost its sole full-time employee, Executive Director Geri Prado.* National <a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link js-nav" data-mentioned-user-id="19834403" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio"><s>@</s><b>BilldeBlasio</b></a> <a href="http://politi.co/201nEt5" target="_blank">group discloses lone donor</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>AKPD Message and Media</b></span> is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_consulting" title="Political consulting">political</a> and <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Media_consulting&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Media consulting (page does not exist)">media</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_consulting" title="Management consulting">consulting firm</a> catering to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> candidates and related causes. Formerly Axelrod and Associates, it is named after its four original partners:<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Axelrod_%28political_consultant%29" title="David Axelrod (political consultant)">David Axelrod</a></b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>,</b></span> John Kupper,<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Plouffe" title="David Plouffe">David Plouffe</a></b></span>, and <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>John Del Cecato</b></span>. All four were members of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_presidential_campaign,_2008" title="Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008">2008 presidential campaign</a>, with Plouffe serving as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_manager" title="Campaign manager">campaign manager</a>, Axelrod as senior strategist, and Del Cecato as media advisor. Axelrod, who is personally close to Obama, left AKPD to serve as <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Advisor_to_the_President" title="Senior Advisor to the President">Senior Advisor to the President</a> in the Obama Administration and sold the firm to Kupper, Del Cecato and Larry Grisolano. AKPD's advertising and strategy have been widely credited for significantly altering elections in their clients favor.TIME has praised one of their most talked about ads, "Dante," as "The Ad that Won the New York Mayor's Race.". AKPD's offices are located in Chicago, Washington DC, and New York where it has recently expanded its presence by partnering with Bully Pulpit Interactive and Analytics Media Group.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/cuomo-higher-approval-rating-de-blasio-poll-shows-article-1.2698822" style="color: red;" target="_blank"> Cuomo gets higher approval rating than de Blasio, poll shows </a>(NYDN)Though both their administrations are under investigation, the spate of bad headlines thus far seems to have taken a more serious toll on Mayor de Blasio’s political standing than that of Gov. Cuomo. A Siena College poll in late May found de Blasio's personal approval rating at just 44% in New York City while 50% view him unfavorably. For Cuomo, a Siena poll last week found his personal approval rating in the city has hit 70% with just 25% having an unfavorable view of him. Statewide, Cuomo’s personal approval is at 56%, its highest mark since April 2015. For de Blasio, just 34% of New Yorkers statewide in May viewed him favorably.<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">* Cuomo plans to take executive action to implement emergency rules cracking down on bad-actor day care providers, an unusual move in response to Mayor Bill de Blasio killing a bill that would have done the same thing, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/y-care-rules-article-1-2698963/3pkdh/11898868" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Daily News writes.</a>* <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;"> State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is investigating an off-duty police officer's fatal shooting of a man who apparently attacked him during a case of road rage, after a confrontation broke out in East New York, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/e-incident-cops-say-1-12002932/3pkdm/11898868" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Associated Press reports.</a> * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">* Though both administrations are under investigation, the bad headlines seem to have taken a more serious toll on de Blasio’s political standing than Cuomo’s, with governing style and media coverage playing a role, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/o-poll-shows-article-1-2698822/3pkdy/11898868" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Daily News writes.</a>* '<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bratton-ripped-pensions-nypd-scandal-cops-article-1.2700391" target="_blank">WHERE'S THE COMPASSION?' Minority officer</a>s rip NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton for allowing corruption-scandal cops to collect their pensions (NYDN)<br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donors-red-flags-posts-mayor-de-blasio-article-1.2656457" style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e;" target="_blank">Donors got political positions from Mayor de Blasio despite red flags indicating integrity issues</a></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e;"> (NYDN) </span></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">When Mayor de Blasio was doling out political appointments to big campaign donors, sometimes it was best to look the other way. Companies owned by two big contributors de Blasio appointed to VIP slots had serious integrity issues before the mayor rewarded them for their money-raising, a Daily News review has found. One coowned a company the city had declared lacked “good character, honesty and integrity,” while the other owed the city $1.2 million in lease payments and fees. Not a problem. The mayor appointed both to several advisory boards. Businesswoman Gina Argento made the list after raising $97,780 for the mayor through bundled checks from friends and employees of her firm, Broadway Stage. And in January 2014, she was first in line to write checks totaling $50,000 for the Campaign for One New York, the fund de Blasio set up to support his causes. Most of Argento’s checks to de Blasio started arriving Oct. 1, 2013 — a month before he was elected and not long after the city Business Integrity Commission found a firm she coowned, Luna Lighting Inc., “lacks good character, honesty and integrity.” In May 2013, the commission rejected Luna’s request for a waste hauling license on two grounds: Luna had paid an $18,000 fine after admitting it repeatedly illegally hauled construction debris and ignored city demands to pay off a $620,000 IRS tax lien. A little over a year later, de Blasio put Argento on his Fund for the Advancement of New York City, a nonprofit run by his wife, Chirlane McCray, that raises private funds for city programs.And he put her on his committee to try to lure the Democratic National Convention to Brooklyn, and the city’s Workforce Investment Board, which advises the city on workforce issues and oversaw a $65.5 million budget in 2014. It’s unclear whether Argento paid the back taxes. She did not return repeat calls seeking comment. Then there’s donor Harendra Singh, a restaurateur who raised $21,425 for de Blasio’s 2013 campaign from friends and family. Singh made the spreadsheet in early 2014 as a candidate for appointment to the Mayor’s Fund advisory board and the DNC committee. But the spreadsheet noted an unspecified “vetting issue” with the phrase “r/flags.” Perhaps the “issue” was this: A May 30, 2014, city audit found one of Singh’s restaurants, Water’s Edge on cityowned land in Queens, owed the city $1.2 million in back rent and late fees. A month later in June 2014, Singh was appointed to the Mayor’s Fund and the DNC committee. He stayed on the fund’s board even after the city sued him in February 2015. Then in September, Singh was indicted by the feds on a number of charges, including $1 million in Hurricane Sandy fraud related to Water’s Edge. Days later, he was removed from the board of the Mayor’s Fund. The mayor declined to discuss his appointment, and Singh’s lawyer, Anthony La Pinta, also declined comment. Singh did not return calls for comment. Singh is a restaurateur who’d bundled $10,425 for de Blasio and raised another $11,000 from his family for the mayor’s 2013 campaign.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Michael Goodwin</span></span></span></span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #4e4e4e;"> </span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/31/theres-bipartisan-disdain-for-de-blasio/"><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: black;">writing in The New York Post</span></a><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #4e4e4e;">:</span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> “Corruption comes in all flavors, and size certainly matters. Yet de Blasio’s mayoralty stands apart from recent predecessors’ in that virtually everything he does leads back to personal politics. He has never stopped campaigning because he doesn’t know how, and doesn’t want to learn.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 26px;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/05/probed-lobbyist-was-a-member-of-cuomos-inner-circle/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Probed lobbyist was a member of Cuomo’s ‘inner circle’</a></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(NYP) Cuomo’s renewed effort to distance himself from lobbyist and longtime associate Todd Howe flies in the face of Howe’s continuous role as a member of Cuomo’s “inner circle,” a source close to US Attorney Preet Bharara’s corruption probe told The Post. “From the start, when Cuomo took office, Todd was part of the inner circle of decision makers. He was basically part of the Cuomo administration,” said the source, who has first-hand knowledge of Bharara’s investigation. “Todd was a coequal to Joe Percoco and Howard Glaser and absolutely seen as the governor’s guy, even though he wasn’t on the state payroll and officially part of the government. “For Cuomo to suggest otherwise is ridiculous.” Percoco, Cuomo’s once-powerful deputy secretary and one of his closest friends, is being investigated by Bharara over money he received from state contractors while running the governor’s re-election campaign in 2014. Glaser is Cuomo’s former state operations director.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/member-of-cuomos-inner-circle-/2m5ln/6541143" target="_blank">The Post’s Fred Dicker writes</a></span> that Cuomo’s renewed effort to distance himself from lobbyist and longtime associate Todd Howe flies in the face of Howe’s continuous role as a member of Cuomo’s “inner circle.” * Trying to divert attention from probes into his administration, Cuomo’s state agencies have been asked to put together lists of successes that can be touted publicly and a top official convened staff to urge them to stay focused on their work,</span></span> <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ention-probe-article-1-2662266/2m5lq/6541143" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">the Daily News’ Ken Lovett reports.</a><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 26px;"><b>Andrew Cuomo stood outside his Albany office recently to do one of those seemingly impromptu yet carefully orchestrated press conferences in the hallway. He wanted to talk about eight bills he was introducing — and a gaggle, as opposed to a formal Red Room briefing, let him end it in a flash, with nary a word about the scandals scorching his administration. He had walked the state to beat the drums for an historic state budget that delivered $15 an hour and paid leave to low-wage workers, but he'd mostly muzzled himself on ethics for months, even as his two onetime legislative partners, the Senate's Dean Skelos and the Assembly's Shelly Silver, were sentenced to a combined 17 years in federal prison. LLCs are a particular form of private company that allows individuals to avoid risk and conceal their ownership. They were legalized in New York in 1994, two years before the loophole decision that let the owner of multiple LLCs make contributions virtually without a cap. They soon evolved into a way for a small pool of wealthy donors, especially many in real estate, to funnel huge amounts to politicians they seek to influence. LLC contributions hit the $20 million a year mark in 2014. Just days before, Flanagan had consigned a bill killing the loophole introduced annually by Brooklyn Democrat Daniel Squadron to a committee whose chair is recovering from surgery, won't return this session and isn't running for re-election. The GOP's reflexive rejection could not have been a surprise to Cuomo. With the Assembly Democrats having already passed a reform bill, Cuomo's bold-sounding initiative appeared more performance than policy, targeting an audience of one, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the Don Quixote of LLC reform. To make one of Bharara's earliest Albany corruption cases, the FBI created a shell called Bedrock Capital LLC, whose very name reflected the role these entities now play in our politics. The sham business was then used to contribute and pay bribes to longtime Queens Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio. Bharara's twin-killing Skelos and Silver cases had a single chilling common thread: a mountain of LLC contributions to Skelos by a real estate behemoth, Glenwood Management, whose executives also created a consulting gig for Skelos' now-convicted son, and a hill or two in donations for Silver, who also banked $700,000 in secret legal fees Glenwood steered him for no work. Bharara, who named Glenwood's owner an unindicted co-conspirator, even made a 54-page list of its $10 million in donations a trial exhibit, a laundering list of compromise that covered 2005 to 2015. Cuomo collected $1.2 million of it.Glenwood's top executive Charles Dorego testified that the company orchestrated this massive political operation to advance its primary interests, including "campaign-finance issues" and noting that the LLC contribution limit was "much higher than the corporate limit." Glenwood was dedicated to maintaining that special status though, as the judge in the Silver case, Valerie Caproni, put it: "I don't care what the Supreme Court says. Companies aren't people. They don't have states of mind." Flanagan and new speaker Carl Heastie loomed awkwardly large on Bharara's Glenwood Gimme List, collecting sizable downpayments long before they had real power, with the Bronx Democratic Committee that Heastie controlled getting more than most local Democratic depositories, and a mere two-term Flanagan bankrolled in his only competitive race in 2006. Bharara's current corruption probes are also focused on LLC contributors, the one common thread that binds Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio. Cuomo's longtime top aide Joe Percoco is a Bharara target because he and his wife took consulting gigs involving three LLCs that did state business, funneled contributions to the governor's campaign and retained lobbyist Todd Howe, who was until his post-subpoena ban so wired into Cuomo, he simultaneously had offices inside a State University facility and the governor's re-election headquarters.</b></span></span></span>* More than a month after Cuomo announced that Bart Schwartz, a former federal prosecutor, would head an “independent investigation” into the Buffalo Billion, it remains unclear whether Schwartz has begun his work</span></span>,<a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/f-existing-state-investigators/2m5lz/6541143" target="_blank"> Gotham Gazette writes.</a><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/20/shady-businessman-bribed-cops-to-close-lincoln-tunnel-lane-feds/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Shady businessman bribed cops to close Lincoln Tunnel lane: feds</span></a></span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/20/shady-businessman-bribed-cops-to-close-lincoln-tunnel-lane-feds/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> </span></span></a><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">(NYP) Cops shut down a lane in the Lincoln Tunnel so a visiting businessman could be escorted through it at the behest of a major de Blasio fund-raiser, federal prosecutors charged Monday. The outrageous move was revealed as part of damning criminal indictments unveiled Monday against four NYPD officers and the shady “fixer’’ who allegedly arranged it. The stunning arrests marked the first time cops have been charged in the sweeping 3¹/₂-year corruption investigation rocking the department and Mayor de Blasio’s office, which is being probed for its fund-raising. Federal prosecutors allege that the civilian behind the closure, Borough Park businessman Jeremy Reichberg, and his real-estate-investor pal Jona Rechnitz, spent more than $100,000 on police bribes between 2012 and 2015. “They got, in effect, a private police force for themselves and their friends — effectively they got cops on call,” Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/21/dems-vying-for-rangels-seat-call-on-bratton-to-resign-over-scandals/" target="_blank">Dems vying for Rangel’s seat call on Bratton to resign over scandals </a></span>(NYP) * </span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/20/more-top-nypd-officers-under-fire-for-corruption-probe/" target="_blank">More top NYPD officers under fire for corruption probe</a> (NYP) <span style="background-color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">Several high-ranking NYPD officers and a former chief of department are still in the cross hairs of the feds’ corruption probe. They include Philip Banks, who resigned in late 2014 as chief of department, Brooklyn South Deputy Chief Eric Rodriguez, Deputy Chief David Colon and Deputy Chief John Sprague. Also under scrutiny are Deputy Chief Andrew Capul, who went from second-in-command of Patrol Borough Manhattan North to a desk job at the School Safety Division, and Deputy Chief James McCarthy, second-in-command of Patrol Bureau Manhattan. Former Community Affairs Detective Michael Milici is being eyed, too. He has already been fired for failing to cooperate in the corruption probe.* </span></span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/20/another-top-nypd-official-suspected-in-corruption-scandal/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another top NYPD official suspected</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in corruption scandal </span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(NYP) * </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/nyregion/nypd-arrests.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&action=click&contentCollection=nyregion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0" target="_blank">3 N.Y.P.D. Commanders Are Arrested in Vast Corruption Case</a> <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">(NYT) The charges detail lavish gifts officials are accused of receiving and stem from one of several continuing investigations into Mayor Bill de Blasio’s fund-raising</span></span><span style="background-color: black;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: white;">* Three NYPD commanders have been arrested, along with a Brooklyn businessman, on federal corruption charges linked to one of several continuing investigations into New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign fundraising</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ent-1-pgtype-sectionfront--r-0/2zmvl/9389983" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The New York Times writes.</a> <span style="background-color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: white;">* The hedge fund at the center of a scandal involving corruption charges against former Correction Officers Benevolent Association President Norman Seabrook was able to convince a Manhattan judge that it has the cash to repay a $30 million loan,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/back-probe-can-repay-30m-loan-/2zmvq/9389983" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Post writes.</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The two allegedly received gifts in exchange for favorable treatment from the department. Reichberg also faces charges of wire fraud and bribery. The indictments are part of a wide-ranging probe by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara into corruption at One Police Plaza. The investigation is also examining the mayor’s campaign activities. *</span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/07/08/new-charges-for-cops-businessman-at-center-of-nypd-probe/" target="_blank"> New charges for cops, businessman at center of NYPD probe</a> (NYP) *<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/07/08/norman-seabrook-indicted-in-alleged-union-bilking-scheme/" target="_blank"> Norman Seabrook indicted in alleged union-bilking scheme </a>(NYP) * <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/07/08/stringer-de-blasios-slush-fund-never-shouldve-been-created/" target="_blank">Stringer: De Blasio’s ‘slush fund’ never should’ve been created</a> (NYP)<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">* NYPD cops James Grant and Michael Harrington, charged last month with accepting favors from prostitutes and other gifts in exchange for police protection, were indicted and face new charges that could mean more prison time if convicted, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ssman-at-center-of-nypd-probe-/3rd5t/12556806" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the New York Post reports</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">* A grand jury handed down an indictment of former union chief Norman Seabrook for his alleged role in siphoning $20 million from the Corrections Officers’ Benevolent Association to invest in a hedge fund that is now being investigated by the FBI, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-alleged-union-bilking-scheme-/3rd5w/12556806" style="background-color: white; color: #1d9ff9; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Post reports</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2016/20/pl-republican-robo-calls-2016-05-13-bk.html" target="_blank">Golden ally issued deceptive robocalls in county chairman race </a>(Booklyn Daily) A top advisor to state <b>Sen. Martin Golden</b> (R–Bay Ridge) admitted in court on May 9 to sending out deceptive robocalls during last year’s contentious Republican party county chairman contest in an attempt to tip the scales for his boss’s preferred winner.<b> James McClelland</b>, a political adviser to the Brooklyn pol, sent calls to party members ahead of a Sept. 30 convention implying ballots they had previously filled out were not valid and instructing them to toss their votes — called “proxies” in political lingo — and wait for party leaders to send them the “official” ballots. “Please do not sign and return the postcard proxy you recently received in the mail,” McClelland told party members without identifying himself during a Sept. 23 round of robocalls. “Over the next few days, your district leader or representative will contact you personally to have you sign the official proxy. Thank you in advance for your cooperation and service to the Republican party.” It’s the latest revelation in an ongoing power struggle between former party chairman <b>Craig Eaton</b> and Golden that is playing out in court. Eaton-backed former Assemblyman <b>Arnaldo Ferraro</b> beat Golden-backed <b>Ted Ghorra</b> in the Sept. 30 contest after party officials <a href="http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2015/41/all-new-brooklyn-gop-chief-2015-10-09-bk.html">invalidated more than 400 votes for Ghorra</a>.<br />
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Both sides claimed victory — going so far as to hold <a href="http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2015/47/br-republican-party-schism-2015-11-20-bk.html">competing meetings where Ferraro and Ghorra both acted as chairman</a>. And Ghorra took Ferraro to court over the 400 tossed votes. But the litigative gambit backfired when McClelland admitted he helped Ghorra obtain the votes through deception. Ferraro attorney Ezra Glaser asked McClelland if the robocall — specifically with the use of the word “official” — was orchestrated to confuse people into believing they had signed an incorrect ballot and should re-sign their names on the “official” one for Ghorra. An erstwhile Golden ally who received three of McClelland’s robocalls believes they were designed to manipulate people, he said. “The whole purpose of that robocall was to convince people that there was something wrong with that proxy,” said former Golden political consultant <b>Gerry O’Brien</b>. “There are no ‘official’ or ‘unofficial proxies.’ There are valid and or invalid — but when you say, ‘Don’t sign that proxy, because there’s something wrong with it — <i>this</i> is the official proxy,’ it’s misleading and it’s fraudulent.” Testimony ended May 10, and now Supreme Court judge Edgar Walker will decide the party’s next boss.<br />
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<a href="http://goo.gl/BEJ5wM" target="_blank">The Daily News writes that de Blasio’s claim </a>that he is a victim of a politically motivated attack in the federal probe into his campaign funds – instead of just dealing with the problem head on – is an <b><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nsult to New Yorkers </span></b>* <a href="http://goo.gl/XsxaI" target="_blank">The Post writes that de Blasio’s assertions that he isbeing targeted</a> by political enemies are the ultimate <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cop-out and sound like the defense put forth by former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, </span></b>who is awaiting sentencing for his public corruption conviction * <a href="http://goo.gl/ABh0AO" target="_blank">The Post’s Bob McManus writes</a> that since the early days in office, de Blasio and his team have proven time and again that they can’t handle the high-pressure world of <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state> politics:* As the political upheaval from several investigations into possible wrongdoing swirled around him, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/besieged-de-blasio-zooms-in-on-agenda-1461631692">tried to focus</a> on his policy agenda.<br />
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<a class="l _HId" href="http://thevillager.com/2016/05/13/beth-israel-hospital-will-be-closing-soon-staff/"><i>Beth Israel</i> Hospital set to close soon: Staff</a><span class="_tQb _IId"> The Villager </span><span class="_tQb _IId">Nurses from Mount Sinai Beth Israel made emergency calls to The Villager on Tuesday.</span> It wasn’t to provide medical care — but rather to let the newspaper know what they say is already a done deal: that the historic hospital will close, and “sooner rather than later.” Official word may come extremely soon, the nurses said. “They are going to make a big announcement before the end of the month,” one of them said. “We anticipate this is coming next week.”<span class="_tQb _IId"> *</span><a class="l _HId" href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2016/05/8599173/mount-sinai-denies-reports-its-preparing-close-beth-israel">Mount Sinai denies reports it's preparing to close <i>Beth Israel</i></a><span class="_tQb _IId"> Capital New York</span>Mount Sinai Health System on Friday evening acknowledged that it was still looking to overhaul Beth Israel Medical Center but denied reports that it was about to close the money-losing East Side facility, saying it was "100% committed to serving the community." Nurses and physicians have been worried for some time that Beth Israel would be closed or dramatically reduced in size, shifting jobs to other parts of the health system. A spokeswoman for Mount Sinai told POLITICO New York that leadership “was working on a plan [to] develop new facilities,” but declined to provide any further comment. Ken Davis, Mount Sinai’s CEO, has <a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2015/10/8579348/mount-sinai-informs-city-hall-possible-beth-israel-downsizing">previously stated </a>he is looking to rebuild Beth Israel, replacing its aging infrastructure with what could be a smaller facility with fewer in-patient beds.* L<a href="http://gothamist.com/2016/05/17/beth_israel_downsizing.php" target="_blank">ower Manhattan's Last Large Hospital Could Be Shrinking, Despite Denials</a> (Gothamist) De Blasio was <a href="http://eastvillagernews.com/2013/08/publisher-slaps-state-senator-hoylman-and-quinn-intern-at-wild-st-vincents-counter-rally-2/" target="_blank">openly critical</a> of the fact that <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/nycs-disappearing-neighborhood-hospitals/" target="_blank">so many hospitals closed when Michael Bloomberg was mayor</a>, and <a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/07/10/de_blasio_yeah_that_guy_running_for.php">was arrested in 2013</a>, during his mayoral campaign, for protesting the closing of Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn.<br />
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<a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/17/nyclass-recording-fbi-corruption-probe/#.VzuHHtplp6Y.twitter" target="_blank">FBI Examining Secret Recording Of NYCLASS Meeting As Part Of Probe Into Bill de Blasio’s Fundraising</a> (WCBS TV) The FBI is examining a secret recording as part of its investigation of an animal rights group’s relationship with Mayor Bill de Blasio. The recording is being used by the FBI to determine whether the group was able to <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/04/24/calls-for-de-blasio-resignation/">influence the mayor’s decisions by donating money to his campaign</a>. Back on May 19, 2011, horse carriage driver Christina Hansen infiltrated – and recorded – a meeting of New Yorkers for Clean, Liveable and Safe Streets (NYCLASS) at Stitch bar on West 37th Street “I was stunned,” Hansen said. “I was worried.”<a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/tag/nyclass"> NYCLASS</a> has been trying to <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/02/08/transport-workers-union-carriage-horse-ban/">eliminate horse-drawn carriages</a> in New York City and replace them with electric cars. What Hansen saw and heard astonished her, CBS2’s Marcia Kramer reported.<br />
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“Buying politicians is the name of the game,” NYCLASS member David Karopkin is heard to say on the recording. “That’s right.” There were about 20 NYCLASS members at the intimate meeting as the group plotted to use its money and clout to get the city to ban horse carriages, Kramer reported. The tapes have been turned over to the FBI, which <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/11/nyclass-horse-carriage-ban-probe/">recently issued subpoenas to two NYCLASS executives</a> as part of a <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/04/15/department-of-investigation-corruption-probe/">wide-ranging probe</a> into the <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/04/08/nypd-probe-mayor-fundraising/">fundraising activities of Mayor de Blasio</a> and whether promises were made in exchange for donations. The strategy discussed by the anti-horse carriage group at the meeting was simple: Convince then-City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to support a ban, or they would run a big bucks campaign against her when she ran for mayor in 2013, and then support someone else. “If this doesn’t happen within the next year, we are in total and absolute war with her. It’s a war,” Steve Nislick of NYCLASS said on the recording. “Remember, we have de Blasio on our side, we have [then-Manhattan Borough President Scott] Stringer on our side, we have [former New York City Comptroller] Bill Thompson. <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/11/05/animal-activists-renew-calls-to-ban-hansom-cabs-in-nyc-following-another-horse-collapse/">Quinn refused to shut down the industry</a>. The group spent close to $1 million on “Anybody but Quinn” campaign. They ran ads and infiltrated some of her rallies. George Capsis, a de Blasio supporter, slapped State Senator Brad Hoylman at a Quinn rally weeks before the primary. Also present at the time: NYCLASS members. At the meeting that Hansen recorded, the NYCLASS people foreshadowed their tactics if Quinn didn’t fall in line. “If not, we’ll start a <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/17/nyclass-recording-fbi-corruption-probe/#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; display: inline; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook0p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook0w" style="border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0 , 204 , 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #009900; padding: 0px 0px 1px; text-decoration: underline;">food</span></span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" id="itxthook0icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a> fight,” Nislick said on the recording. At an earlier meeting, NYCLASS members also talked about the advantages of getting the 211 horse carriage operators to vacate their West Side stables “They occupy thousands and thousands of square feet of space,” Nislick says on the recording. “We need 68 cars. We need far less space. They free up a lot of <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/17/nyclass-recording-fbi-corruption-probe/#" id="itxthook1" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; display: inline; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook1p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook1w" style="border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0 , 204 , 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #009900; padding: 0px 0px 1px; text-decoration: underline;">real estate</span></span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" id="itxthook1icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a>.” Hansen said she couldn’t believe what she heard. nsen said she couldn’t believe what she heard. “The fact that anyone would go around talking blatantly about that, pretty much, in so many words, buy the next mayor,” Hansen told Kramer. “I didn’t think that politics worked that way. It’s not supposed to <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/17/nyclass-recording-fbi-corruption-probe/#" id="itxthook2" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; display: inline; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook2p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook2w" style="border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0 , 204 , 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #009900; padding: 0px 0px 1px; text-decoration: underline;">work</span></span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" id="itxthook2icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a> that way.” At an earlier meeting, NYCLASS members also talked about the advantages of getting the 211 horse carriage operators to vacate their West Side stables “They occupy thousands and thousands of square feet of space,” Nislick says on the recording. “We need 68 cars. 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They free up a lot of real estate.” The Mayor’s <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/17/nyclass-recording-fbi-corruption-probe/#" id="itxthook3" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; display: inline; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook3p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook3w" style="border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0 , 204 , 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #009900; padding: 0px 0px 1px; text-decoration: underline;">office</span></span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" id="itxthook3icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a> said de Blasio has never changed his position on horse carriages “The mayor’s position on the issue has been consistent and clear,” said Peter Kadushin, a spokesman for de Blasio. “Carriage horses don’t belong on busy city streets Kadushin pointed out that de Blasio called for a horse carriage ban while still public advocate<br />
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<a class="postid-10199496" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/17/de-blasio-could-be-taken-out-with-the-trash-literally/">Only fitting de Blasio could be taken down by trash bags (NYP)</a> *<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/17/everything-about-this-business-dealings-with-the-city-stinks-literally/"> As The Post first reported</a>, the seller, Joseph Dussich, tried for nearly a decade to get the city to buy his Mint-X bags, which he says deter rats and squirrels. But he got the brush-off — until he contributed $100,000 to the Campaign for One New York, a slush fund de Blasio created. Presto, Dussich got a meeting with the mayor, a trial contract for $15,000, and then, through a middleman, a deal worth nearly $6 million. The sequence is shocking — and consistent with that of so many large donations under scrutiny. Even the names of his slush funds — the Campaign for One New York, The Progressive Agenda Committee and United for Affordable Housing — reflect a profound cynicism. Their names suggest the exact opposite of what they actually do.The affront is compounded by de Blasio’s sinister claim that he is the victim of political investigations. “How convenient that when we’re doing a lot of work to help everyday people, there’s all sorts of efforts being made to obscure that work,” he insisted.</header><br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/01/the-mastermind-behind-de-blasios-shady-finances/">The mastermind behind de Blasio’s shady finances</a> (NYP) An influential labor-union lawyer has guided Mayor de Blasio’s efforts to raise abundant political cash amid the labyrinth of city and state campaign-finance laws. Longtime de Blasio pal Kevin Finnegan — a former political director of the powerful SEIU 1199 hospital-workers union — found ways for labor groups to funnel cash to de Blasio’s campaigns and causes in amounts above legal spending limits, said a source familiar with the mayor’s campaign practices. It’s an open question whether Finnegan’s ideas led de Blasio afoul of the law. The mayor and some aides are now <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/22/de-blasio-aides-accused-of-criminal-fundraising-activity/">at the center of investigations into their fund-raising practices</a>.<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span>“Finnegan knew what de Blasio wanted to do, and he came up with the structure to do it,” one source said. “He was, in effect, de Blasio’s lawyer, architect and banker.” “Their goal was to win elections. They knew where they wanted to get the money from, and they figured out a way to get labor-union money to his campaigns.” As general counsel of the Working Families Party, Finnegan oversaw the creation of the consulting firm <b>Data Field Services</b> in February 2007, according to state corporation records and court fillings. When de Blasio ran in 2009 as a WFP-backed candidate for public advocate, his campaign paid $68,000 for Data Field Services’ canvassing and phone-banking services. Investigators suspected that the firm’s work for de Blasio cost more than $68,000, and that it was indirectly funded by WFP and labor largesse. WFP pumped $560,000 into the firm’s coffers, state campaign records show. That money may have allowed the firm to reduce its consulting rates to de Blasio.<br />
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<a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160608/civic-center/corrections-union-head-arrested-federal-corruption-probe-sources-say?utm_content=buffera3d0b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=DNAinfoNY" target="_blank">Correction Union Head Arrested on Fraud Charges in Federal Corruption Probe</a> (DNAINFO) <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I feel like a million dollars" after his arraignment Wednesday afternoon * </span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/08/seabrook-arrest-has-city-and-police-officials-terrified/" target="_blank"> </a></b><b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/08/seabrook-arrest-has-city-and-police-officials-terrified/" target="_blank">Seabrook arrest has city and police officials terrified</a> (NYP) * </b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/u-s-attorney-preet-bharara-biggest-prosecuting-successes-article-1.2666558" target="_blank">U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s biggest prosecuting successes </a></b></span><b>(NYDN) </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/norman-conquest-article-1.2666441" target="_blank">The Norman conquest: Kickbacks bring down Rikers union chief</a></span> (NYDN Ed) Rechnitz produced $200,000 for the mayor and his causes, despite campaign finance rules limiting donors to just $4,950 a candidate. De Blasio made it easy for him. During his mayoral campaign, disclosure documents say that Rechnitz collected nearly $42,000 from nine associates to deposit in de Blasio’s political pot. He and his wife gave their maximum $9,900. The mayor-elect rewarded Rechnitz with a spot on his ceremonial inaugural committee — and then kept looking for even greater sums of money by creating a non-profit called the Campaign for One New York. There being no limits on donations to such an organization, Rechnitz promptly gave $50,000. Later in 2014, he heeded the mayor’s call to fund the Democratic takeover of the state Senate, contributing the maximum $102,300 to the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee.* * The criminal complaint against Norman Seabrook, the head of the New York City corrections officers union, alleges that he steered $20 million of union funds to a risky hedge fund in exchange for $60,000 for himself, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ent-1-pgtype-sectionfront--r-0/2qzwg/7582429" target="_blank">The New York Times reports.</a> * <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-prison-union-html-ref-opinion/2qzxd/7582429" target="_blank">The Times writes</a> that the city’s corrections union has long wielded “an unhealthy” level of control, and the arrest of its leader has brought on a new phase in efforts to root out corruption and violence at Rikers Island. * <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/man-conquest-article-1-2666441/2qzxg/7582429" target="_blank">The Daily News writes</a> that the complaint against Seabrook and an investment manager highlight the “corrosiveness” of de Blasio’s invitation to pour cash into his campaign and causes beyond previously adhered to limits.* <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-corruption-mayor-idUSKCN0YV03X" target="_blank">New York mayor strives to stay the course as probe queries persist</a></div>
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A state Senate Democratic aide who was a campaign manager referenced in a state Board of Elections criminal referral involving Team de Blasio’s 2014 fundraising operation on behalf of the Senate Democrats has been subpoenaed by investigators, a source said. In her referral, Board of Elections Chief Enforcement Counsel Risa Sugarman cited a 2014 email from Matthew Lerch, then Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk’s campaign manager, to Ulster County Democratic Committee Treasurer Hayes Clement asking if a $60,000 check from the state Nurse’s Association had cleared and if it could be transferred to Tkaczyk’s campaign committee “ASAP.” Sugarman called the email proof of improper coordination and earmarking. Mayor de Blasio and his camp have insisted everything was done legally.<br />
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Negotiations over a proposal to strip pensions from corrupt lawmakers <a href="http://auburnpub.com/ap/state/albany-response-to-corruption-focuses-on-stripping-pensions/article_2bed342d-6ae8-59dc-81ba-d98a22bd0e1f.html">continue in Albany</a> — though broader ethics reforms appear to be going nowhere despite two recent scandals involving their leaders.* <a href="http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2016/05/gridlock-creeps-up-on-ethics-bills/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Gridlock Creeps Up On Ethics Bills">Gridlock Creeps Up On Ethics Bills(YNN)</a><br />
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Manhattan federal prosecutors <a href="http://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/feds-won-t-press-for-skelos-to-begin-term-until-high-court-rules-1.11805925">told the judge</a> who sentenced Dean and Adam Skelos last week that the government won’t push for them to go to prison until at least three-plus months after the U.S. Supreme Court rules in a pending case on anti-corruption laws.</div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background-color: #990000;">Does the Daily News Think Getting Rid of LLCs is Going to Clean Up Albany? </span></span><span style="background-color: black;"> The Same Real Estate LLCs Created the Jobs for NY PAC to Buy he City Council </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/mayor-de-blasio-promises-release-list-donors-denied-favors-article-1.2641928">Mayor de Blasio promises to release list of donors denied favors</a> (NYDN) “A stunning number of donors and supporters not only did not get things they hoped they would get, they got a rejection of things they hoped they would get,” Mayor de Blasio insisted Wednesday. He said a list of disappointed donors would be provided “in the coming weeks.” The bizarre promise came in the midst of a rambling, more than two-hour news conference in which a defensive de Blasio refused to answer point-blank if he solicited donations from people with business before the city, and insisted he was more transparent than other elected officials — while at the same time defending his refusal to release emails from outside consultants with his administration. “We followed legal guidance,” de Blasio said when asked if he could say yes or no on whether he solicited donations from people who were doing business with the city. He said there were different rules for different types of fund-raising — including his now-disbanded Campaign for One New York — but that he always stuck to the law. The mayor, who is grappling with several intertwined law enforcement investigations into his fund-raising, said critics miss that the money was being raised for a good cause. Speaking slowly and enunciating every word, he said: “We are trying to change things.” He added sarcastically, “If I thought the status quo was just dandy, I wouldn’t have been trying to put together resources to change it.” Although he repeatedly said his administration was more transparent than others when disclosing donations, the transparency ends when it comes to his emails. De Blasio said he won’t release emails from Jonathan Rosen — an outside campaign consultant who has clients with business before the city — because as an informal adviser he is not subject to Freedom of Information Laws.* <o:p></o:p><b> </b> <a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2016/05/19/de-blasio-taking-responsibility-for-lifting-of-city-s-deed-restrictions.html">De Blasio Taking Responsibility for Lifting of City's Deed Restrictions</a> (NY1) *</div>
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/24/mayor-de-blasios-approval-hits-record-low/">Mayor de Blasio’s approval hits record low</a> (NYP) Battered by numerous investigations of his campaign and administration, Mayor de Blasio on Tuesday saw his job-approval rating sink to its lowest point since he took office. Only 41 percent of voters in the latest Quinnipiac University survey said the mayor was doing a good job, while 52 percent said he wasn’t. That’s a 19-point swing <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/01/22/de-blasio-is-doing-better-than-cuomo-handling-homeless-poll/">from the previous Q poll, in January</a>, when he de Blasio had a positive, 50-42, rating. Perhaps most troubling for the mayor were the numbers among blacks and Hispanics, who form his base and whose support showed significant signs of erosion for the first time. Four months ago, black voters gave de Blasio an approval rating of 77 percent. This time, it’s only 58 percent. In a similar but smaller drop, Hizzoner’s approval among Hispanic voters fell from 66 to 55. The latest poll also shows that a majority of voters does not <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/01/20/de-blasio-tops-potential-rivals-in-mayoral-poll/">believe de Blasio deserves to be re-elected next year</a>, while he finishes in a dead heat with two potential rivals. City Comptroller Scott Stringer would get 36 percent to de Blasio’s 37 in a hypothetical 2017 race, while Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams would grab 34 percent to de Blasio’s 35. The outcomes assume his challengers run as independents in the general election. Voters’ views of de Blasio’s honesty also reached historic lows, with 45 percent saying he’s not trustworthy and 43 percent saying he is. “The overall favorability switching in a couple of months is rather astounding,” said Baruch College Professor Doug Muzzio. * <a href="http://goo.gl/AoBgQu" target="_blank">D'Amato says BDB will lose in court his effort to keep"agents of the city" emails private </a> (NY1)<br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/answer-mr-mayor-campaign-new-york-article-1.2598326" target="_blank">Answer this, Mr.Mayor, on the Campaign for One New York</a> (NYDN Ed) Questions with potentially severe consequences will linger for the mayor at least long as Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara keeps asking them. Then, too, the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board has much to discuss with the mayor, assuming that the see-no-evil panel finally recognizes that it’s supposed to enforce the law. Presciently, in February the good government group Common Cause asked the board, as well as campaign finance regulators, to check out the mayor’s money maneuvering through the Campaign for One New York. Hmmm . . . What, if anything, did benefactors Jeremy Reichberg and Jona Rechnitz expect in return for their sizeable fundraising? What exactly did the mayor’s aides discuss with Reichberg and Rechnitz before and after their money came through? What did de Blasio say as he rattled the tin cup at a dinner in Reichberg’s <st1:place w:st="on">Brooklyn</st1:place> home? Did he declare that donors would receive no special access to city officials or preferential treatment — as city conflicts rules say he must? Did the mayor or anyone from his administration solicit Campaign for One New York funding from the taxi industry, animal rights activists or the teachers union, knowing each had business before the city — a big conflicts no-no? Stepping back from transactional details to the big picture: De Blasio ran for office under a public financing system that gave his campaign $4 million and capped his spending so that all candidates would compete on a level playing field. Exempt from the spending limits, supporters spent lavishly on attack ads that demolished rival Christine Quinn. The mayor has insisted he had nothing to do with the hit job.* <o:p></o:p><a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160413/washington-heights/de-blasio-donor-lost-19m-ponzi-scheme-linked-corruption-probe" target="_blank">De Blasio Donor Lost$1.9M in Ponzi Scheme Linked to Corruption Probe</a> (DNAINFO) A landlord who donated to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s transition team was one of the biggest losers in <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160408/civic-center/bronx-restaurateurs-ponzi-scheme-linked-nypd-corruption-probe-source">an alleged Ponzi scheme that’s connected to a federal probe of the NYPD and the mayor’s campaign fundraising practices</a>, records show. Gerald Leibman, 74, who has owned <st1:place w:st="on">Bronx</st1:place> properties that have landed on the public advocate’s bad landlord list, lost $1.9 million to accused fraudster Hamlet Peralta, according to court documents. Last week <st1:city w:st="on">Manhattan</st1:city> federal prosecutors charged Peralta, a 36-year-old <st1:place w:st="on">Bronx</st1:place> restaurateur, with running a pyramid scheme that bilked investors out of $12 million.<a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160410/high-bridge/de-blasio-distances-himself-from-businessmen-federal-probe">The criminal case grew out of a public corruption investigation by the FBI and the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau.</a><br />
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* <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/sen-john-defrancisco-liars-albany-den-article-1.2625208">Sen.
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">The roadblock to justice for countless sex abuse victims in New York is the continued handiwork of Senate Republicans more concerned about the rights of pervs than their accusers — or too busy to even consider reforms. Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan through his staff wouldn’t even discuss the matter this week despite repeated requests from the Daily News. “We aren’t going to discuss it until after the (state) budget is settled,” Flanagan spokesman Scott Reif said in an email. But several Senate GOPers told The News this week they have little appetite to change the law requiring child victims of sex abuse to seek legal recourse before their 23rd birthday.VICTIMS FACE 3-MONTH DEADLINE TO FILE LAWSUIT IN N.Y.Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, a retired Syracuse lawyer, said the current law strikes a fair balance.<o:p></o:p> “I believe that there’s a purpose for a statute of limitations,” DeFrancisco said. “The further back the case is, the more difficult it is for anybody to defend themselves. Witnesses are gone. That’s why a statute of limitation is there.” * </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/n-y-senate-gop-busy-fix-child-rape-law-article-1.2584676" style="font-weight: normal;">SAVING THE SICKOS! New York’s GOP leaders say changing statute of limitations for child sex cases can wait, ignoring Dems’ proposal as vics’ cycle of injustice drags on</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (NYDN) *</span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/n-y-ag-urges-albany-action-kid-rape-law-article-1.2589828"><span style="font-weight: normal;">'</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">NOW IT IS TIME TO ACT': New York AG Eric Schneiderman urges lawmakers to take action on child sex abuse laws, calling the delay 'unconscionable'</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (NYDN) * </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-da-supports-fixing-child-rape-law-article-1.2607793" target="_blank">Only 1 NYC districtattorney supports fixing state law to help child abuse victims seek justice</a>(NYDN) One of the city's district attorneys is in favor of extending the criminal statute of limitations on charges of sexual abuse of children — but the others refused to take a stand. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown’s support of overhauling the oft-maligned law barring criminal charges after the victim turns 23 years old comes as the state Senate considers a bill to do just that.</div>
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/lawyer-rips-board-elections-de-blasio-fund-raising-probe-article-1.2613049?cid=bitly" target="_blank">Campaign lawyerblasts Board of Elections for seeking criminal probe into de Blasio fund-raising</a> (NYDN)
A campaign lawyer for Mayor de Blasio ripped allegations of potentially
criminal wrongdoing in a 2014 fund-raising effort for state Senate
Democrats, charging a bombshell memo from the head investigator for the
state Board of Elections “reflects either a shocking lack of
understanding or a complete disregard of the most fundamental aspects of
the state’s election laws.” Laurence Laufer, an attorney for some of
the groups accused of violations and who was also general counsel to de
Blasio’s 2013 campaign, penned a letter to BOE Chief Enforcement Officer
Risa Sugarman rebutting her allegations of a “willful and flagrant”
effort to circumvent campaign contribution limits. Sugarman charged in
her memo that de Blasio’s team solicited big bucks donations to local
Democratic committees and then quickly transferred the money to
individual candidates, avoiding a $10,300 limit on candidate
contributions. The moves were egregious enough to warrant a criminal
referral, she wrote. But Laufer insisted the groups involved did nothing
wrong and panned Sugarman’s memo as a politically motivated document
that showed “complete disregard of the long recognized principles
underlying our state’s election laws” and was improperly leaked to the
press.<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span>Laufer
charged Sugarman, who was appointed by Gov. Cuomo, was just playing
politics. “I am deeply troubled that your office made a criminal
referral that was based on a complete misreading and utter disregard of
the state’s unambiguous election laws, and that your blatantly political
document was leaked to the press,” he said. “I specifically reserve all
of my clients’ rights and remedies to pursue action against you and
your office for all of your known and unknown conduct relating to the
events referenced in this letter.”* <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/25/nyregion/lawyer-for-fund-raisers-tied-to-de-blasio-fires-back-at-elections-board.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion">Lawyer for Fund-Raisers Tied to de Blasio Fires Back at Elections Board</a> (NYT)The
response came after a report said a group of political fund-raisers
linked to the mayor had violated campaign finance laws. * <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/lawyer-rips-board-elections-de-blasio-fund-raising-probe-article-1.2613049">'A
SHOCKING LACK OF UNDERSTANDING': Campaign lawyer blasts Board of
Elections for seeking criminal probe into de Blasio fund-raising, rips
officer for playing politics</a> (NYDN)* <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/errol-louis-mixing-public-private-money-policies-article-1.2612434">Errol Louis: Mixing public, private money & policies</a> (NYDN) * <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/lupica-mayor-face-questions-campaign-donations-probe-article-1.2613077">Lupica: Mayor must face questions on campaign donations probe</a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> (NYDN) * </span> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/26/nyregion/de-blasio-denying-any-fund-raising-impropriety-cuts-short-news-conference.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion">De Blasio, Denying Misdeeds Again, Says Claims May Be Driven by Politics</a>
(NYT) Queried about a series of investigations, Mayor Bill de Blasio
stuck to his defense that no laws were broken and that politics may be
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(NYT) In a strongly worded response to a New York State Board of
Elections report alleging illegal fund-raising activities by a team of
people with close ties to Mayor <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/bill_de_blasio/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Bill De Blasio.">Bill de Blasio</a>,
a lawyer for several of the implicated parties has accused the board of
“a shocking lack of understanding or a complete disregard of the most
fundamental aspects of the state’s election laws.”<br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Conflict of Interests</b></span> </span><a class="postid-10187888" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/09/fresh-evidence-the-mayor-broke-the-conflict-of-interest-law/">Fresh evidence the mayor broke the Conflict of Interest Law (NYP Ed) </a>At
least two people now say Mayor Bill de Blasio personally solicited
them for campaign cash while they had city business pending.
Billionaire John Catsimatidis had already gone public with the fact
that the mayor hit him up for $50,000 for de Blasio’s effort to flip the
state Senate back to the Democrats. * NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio <a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20160510/BLOGS04/160519980/de-blasio-pushes-story-of-a-political-attack-but-wont-name-cuomo">stepped up</a>
his effort to discredit investigators who asked prosecutors to probe
his fundraising tactics—and leaked their memo on the subject. But he
stopped short of publicly fingering Gov. Andrew Cuomo. * A defiant de Blasio said he doesn’t care that JCOPE is taking his now
defunct political nonprofit group to court for not cooperating in its
probe. “They want to go to court, they can go to court,” the mayor <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-shrugs-agency-motion-bring-group-court-article-1.2632037">told reporters</a>.<br />
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unfortunate but only vehicle 4 containing corruption is the US
Attorney's office. Pols will not do it & neither will local
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FBI Task of Connecting Campaign Consultants to Coordinating With PACs
They Controlled to Avoid Campaign Limits Will Be Like Shooting Fish in a
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the FBI has to do is to chart the interlocking directorates of the
following PACs: NYCLASS, Campaign for One New York and the UFT's United
for the Future. True News has already reported that to better understand
why and how the mayor's distraction spin operates a good place to start
is Laurence Laufer’s law firm: Kantor Davidoff Wolfe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Laufer
is the election lawyer who wrote the counter attack against NYSBOE
Chief Enforcement Office Risa Sugarman’s report, sent to the Manhattan
DA Cyrus Vance for a criminal investigation, which found “willful and
flagrant” violations of election law by a group of political operatives
known as Team de Blasio. Laufer's law firm is the lobbyists for dozens
of candidates who do business with the city.</span></div>
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report also names several union officials and political consulting
firms, including Berlin Rosen, which has longstanding ties to the mayor.
Both Berlin Rosen and Red Horse, which work for the mayor's Campaign
for One NY PAC that raised money laundered through a Putnam Democratic
Party Committee, also work for Democratic Senate Campaign Committee on
the same campaigns as consultants that the Campaigns for One NY PACs
raised money for.</span></div>
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is hard to understand why the Campaign Finance Board, Conflicts of
Interest Board and the Attorney General did not prosecute the Advance
Group, NYCLASS PAC and others for violating coordinating campaign
spending they controlled with a PAC they also controlled. On June 1,
2013 NYCLASS received another large donation, this time for $175,000. It
came from UNITE HERE!—a labor union headed by John Wilhelm, de Blasio’s
cousin—and a prolific fund-raiser for him. Wilhelm raised $6,950 for de
Blasio’s 2009 race for public advocate and $80,000 for de Blasio’s
successful campaign for mayor. Two days after that contribution, on June
3, NYCLASS sent the same amount, $175,000, to the anti-Quinn campaign. </span><br />
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actions of the mayor, his political team and his state democratic
allies led to “willful and flagrant violations” of state law"</b></span></span><br />
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(NYP) “There is considerable evidence in this case that New York City
mayor William de Blasio organized a team dedicated to getting a
sufficient number of Democratic New York State senators elected in 2014
to achieve a Democratic majority in the senate. The evidence indicates
that de Blasio established a structure, both within and outside City
Hall, and entered into an agreement with powerful unions… and political
consultants… to raise and spend money to influence senate races,” wrote
Sugarman, who was nominated to the post by Gov. Cuomo. “The evidence
demonstrates that the de Blasio team coordinated its fundraising
activities with and intentionally solicited contributions for these
candidates … in order to evade contribution limits and to disguise the
true names of the contributors, conduct which may violate [two election
laws],” she wrote. One of those alleged violations is a felony. The
memo targets de Blasio, his legislative director</span><b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;"> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Emma Wolfe</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; <b>Ross Offinger</b></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, de Blasio’s campaign finance director and treasurer of his political advocacy roup </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Campaign for One</span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">; former </span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hotel and Trade</span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> union official Josh Gold; Jason Goldman of the</span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> UFT</span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">; and political consultants Neal Kwatra, </span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BerlinRose,</span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">AKPD Message Media </span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and </span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hilltop</span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
Public Solutions. It calls them “Team de Blasio,” and says the nearly
$1 million they solicited from big unions and fat-cat donors were
steered to the </span></span>Putnam County<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and the Ulster County Democratic committees, and then redirected to three candidates: </span><b><span style="color: orange; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Justin Wagner, Terry Gipson and Cecilia Tkaczyk.</span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Many of the checks were deposited through Offinger, and some with notations such as “donation per mayor,” the memo cites.</span></span> </div>
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/23/more-de-blasio-cronies-eyed-as-feds-widen-corruption-probe/" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">More de Blasio cronies eyed as feds widen corruption probe</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
(NYP) A top aide to Mayor de Blasio and a consulting firm that helped
him win City Hall are under investigation as part of a widening state
and federal corruption probe — all sparked by a suspected
gifts-for-favors scheme involving top NYPD brass, The Post has learned. </span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Emma Wolfe,</span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> de Blasio’s director of intergovernmental affairs, and </span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BerlinRosen</span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
Public Affairs are being probed by the Manhattan DA’s Office and
federal prosecutors for their roles in fund-raising by de Blasio during
his failed 2014 bid to help fellow Democrats take over the state Senate,
multiple sources close to the investigation said. Other names probers
are asking about as they cast a widening net for possible quid-pro-quo
campaign dealings include Alison Hirsh, an official with the powerful
32BJ apartment-workers union; Natalia Salgado, who last year left 32BJ
to work for state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman; and Jason Goldman,
who at the time was a strategist for the United Federation of Teachers,
sources told The Post. Josh Gold, a former strategist for the
hotel-workers union, is also being eyed, sources said. “They’re looking
into the mayor’s fund-raising” and are “very interested in BerlinRosen
and the labor folks,” said one source.</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/19/de-blasios-defense-lawyer-cancels-fund-raiser-amid-probe/">De Blasio’s defense lawyer cancels fund-raiser amid probe</a></b>
(NYP) The criminal-defense lawyer tapped by Mayor de Blasio amid
allegations surrounding his 2013 campaign has reportedly canceled a
fund-raiser for the mayor’s re-election bid. Barry Berke postponed the
April 26 event days after de Blasio requested he contact the US
Attorney’s Office in Manhattan offering cooperation into the investigation, <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/fundraising-event-for-bill-de-blasios-2017-re-election-bid-canceled-1461030631">The Wall Street Journal reported</a>.
“In light of my role representing the mayor’s 2013 campaign committee,
we’ve decided to postpone our event,” Berke said in an e-mail obtained
by the Journal. Meanwhile, de Blasio remained mum on whether his
administration has been contacted as part of the probe.* New York City
Mayor Bill de Blasio is no longer saying he has not been contacted by
the office of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in relation to two
probes that touch on his administration and campaign donors, <a href="http://goo.gl/LeLJu1" target="_blank">Politico New York reports: </a> *
A lawyer representing de Blasio’s 2013 campaign has canceled a cocktail
reception to raise money for the mayor’s 2017 re-election bid,
according to an <a href="https://www.blogger.com/:%20http://goo.gl/0avJvn" target="_blank">email reviewed by the Journal</a><br />
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On October 8th, 2015, the Campaign Finance Board, Conflicts of Interest Board and AG Schneiderman <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/campaign-finance-board-fines-advance-group-article-1.2390221">fined the Advance Group for coordinating campaigns</a> with
NYCLASS, which they controlled with campaigns they ran. No
recommendation was made for a criminal investigation of mixing PACs and
campaigns. No mention in the report answered the question why the UFT
paid Advance through a made up name "Strategic Consultants Inc." The FBI
has subpoenaed those UFT records and personal records of the union’s
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PACs' Citizens United type violation? 1. The mayor and speaker control
all the appointments to the Campaign Finance Board and Conflicts of
Interest Board, which ignored the Advance Group violation of Citizens
United. 2. A lawyer from Laurence Laufer’s (the guy who attacked the
NYSBOE criminal referral on team de Blasio) law firm Kantor Davidoff
Wolfe, Lawrence Mandelker, is de Blasio’s lawyer for his campaign
committee and the Campaign for One NY PAC. Mandelker also was the lawyer
for the Advance Group during the CFB, AG and Conflicts of Interest
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PACs and Team de Blasio Consultants That Also Elected A Council
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Campaign for One NY. The biggest consultant PAC coordination helped
elect 37 of the 51 members of the Council, including the Speaker. The
Advance Group was fined by the CFB for their campaign consultant Super
PACs, NYCLASS and the UFT coordination in Councilmember Cumbo and
Levine’s campaigns. The CFB ignored the fact that Berlin Rosen worked as
a lobbyist for the UFT, as well as on both the Cumbo and Levine
campaigns that Advance worked on. Berlin Rosen worked on 10 Council
campaigns while their employer, UFT, funded those 10 candidates with
their PAC United for the Future. Red Horse, a campaign consulting firm
that worked for the mayor's Campaign for One NY PAC (as did Berlin
Rosen), also worked for the UFT's PAC United for the Future and ran 7
Council campaigns that were also funded by UFT PAC. * With de Blasio's State Senate Fundraising Under Investigation, <a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/fundraising-probe/2016/05/2/with-de-blasio-s-state-senate-fundraising-under-investigation--democratic-party-leader-on-li-says-his-committee-turned-down-similar-donation.html" target="_blank">Democratic Party Leader on LISays His Committee Turned Down Similar Donation</a> (NY1) Suffolk County Dem chair says his committee turned down a donation from teachers union over legal concerns<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2013/12/cfb-corruption.html" target="_blank">A Tale of Two CFBs: Albanese vs Campaign PAC NYCLASS, UFT's United for the Future </a></span></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://nybloggersnewspaper.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-privatization-of-tammany-hall.html" target="_blank">The Privatization of the Tammany Hall Machine</a></b></div>
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coordinated fundraising effort started, she said, with de Blasio, who
Sugarman noted also had created the Campaign for One New York to serve
as an “independent spending” organization to support his priorities.
“The entire (Senate) fundraising and campaign operation was run from
City Hall by de Blasio staff in coordination with unions and Campaign
For One New York officers and political consultants," Sugarman wrote.
The effort also included Emma Wolfe, the mayor’s director of
intergovernmental affairs, Offinger and Josh Gold, who at the time was
political director for the New York Hotel Trades Council and campaign
manager for Campaign for one New York,
the report says. Others said to be on the team included Jason Goldman,
the United Federation of Teachers assistant director legislation and
political action, Neal Kwatra, founder of Metropolitan Public Strategies
who was consulting for the state party, and the political consulting
firms of BerlinRosen, AKPD Messaging and Media, and Hilltop Public
Solutions. Berlin Rosen, Red Horse AKPD and Hilltop all worked for Both
the Mayor's Campaign and his PAC Campaign for One NY. Berlin Rosen and
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The head investigator for the state Board of Elections probed the 2014
fundraising efforts by Mayor de Blasio and his team on behalf of the
Senate Democrats and found enough “willful and flagrant” violations to
warrant a criminal referral. The Daily News obtained a bombshell
“privileged and confidential” memo state Board of Elections Chief
Enforcement Officer Risa Sugarman sent to the board’s four commissioners
on Jan. 4, recommending the referral to the Manhattan District
Attorney’s office. The commissioners, during a closed-door vote, made
the referral on Jan. 11, sources said. The Sugarman memo paints a
picture of a coordinated effort by the mayor and his allies — dubbed by
the players involved interchangeably as “Team de Blasio” and “Team
Coordinated” — to deliberately circumvent legal campaign donation limits
in three upstate races in what turned out to be an unsuccessful effort
to help the Democrats win control of the state Senate in 2014.<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span>“I
have determined that reasonable cause exists to believe a violation
warranting criminal prosecution has taken place,” Sugarman wrote. “The
violations discovered by this investigation can only be described as
willful and flagrant.” The memo did not spell out exactly who could be
charged. Many of the potential violations would be misdemeanors — though
deliberately evading campaign donation limits could rise to a felony.
Sugarman wrote that the effort on behalf of the Dems was led by de
Blasio and his team and included a group of influential political
consultants and labor unions close to the mayor, the Senate Democratic
Campaign Committee, several of the candidates who were being helped, and
the Ulster County
and Putnam County Democratic committees. State campaign finance rules
prohibit donations of more than $10,300 to an individual candidate. But
donors can give as much as $103,000 to county political committees, and
those committees can transfer unlimited amounts of money to individual
campaigns.<br />
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Sugarman in her memo said that there is evidence demonstrating that the
de Blasio team coordinated its fundraising activities and intentionally
solicited significantly higher-than-allowed contributions for the three
candidates by having the checks sent to the two county committees and
the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, which then quickly transferred
the funds to the campaigns. The move allowed the parties “to evade
contribution limits and to disguise the true names of the contributors,
conduct which may violate Election law,” she wrote. <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unions like the powerful Service Employees </span><b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">International Union Local 1199, SEIU 32BJ, </span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the </span><b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">state Nurse's Association,</span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and the </span><b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Communications Workers of America</span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
were among those who gave big amounts to the county committees though
they never had before. Developers and powerful businessmen who had
business before the city like supermarket mogul </span><b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Catsimatidis</span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> ($50,000) and </span><b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alexis Lodde</span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> ($100,000) also gave mega contributions to the county committees.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Contributions
to the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee were identified as
originating from the mayor's team by having them sent in care of
Offinger. Some of the checks included notations such as "donation per
Mayor" in the memo line, Sugarman found. Sugarman’s office subpoenaed
documents from the various campaign bank accounts and five political
consultants involved in those races — </span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BerlinRosen LTD, Mark Guma Communication, the Parkside Group, AKPD Message and Media LLC, and Red Horse Strategies, </span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">according to the memo.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-gamed-donation-limits-hid-names-board-elections-article-1.2611406?cid=bitly" target="_blank">NY Senate GOP usedsame loophole they ripped Dems for</a> (NYDN)<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span>The
Senate GOP vehemently complained last year that Mayor de Blasio was
skirting the state’s campaign finance laws by asking donors supporting
the Senate Democrats to give larger-than-normal donations to candidates
through upstate county Democratic committees. But in it appears the
Republicans did the same thing to the tune of $125,000 to help one of
their Long Island
candidates. Former GOP Sen. Charles Fuschillo on Sept. 15 transferred
$75,000 from his still active campaign account to the Nassau County
Republican Committee. The committee three days later transferred exactly
$75,000 to the campaign of Michael Venditto, who ultimately won the
race to fill the seat vacated by Fuschillo. Fuschillo on Oct. 10 gave
another $50,000 to the county committee, which sent Vendito the same
amount four days slater.
State Senate candidates could only receive a maximum donation of
$10,300 from individuals. But county political committees, which can
receive up to $102,300 in donations from a person, could transfer
unlimited amounts to candidates. A Republican operative compared what
Fuschillo did and what de Blasio did to “apples and oranges.” Fuschillo
was seeking to keep the seat he represented for 15 years in Republican
hands. De Blasio was encouraging big donations from downstate interests
that were designed to influence upstate races, the GOPer said.<br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/03/catsimatidis-interviewed-about-de-blasio-fundraising-scandal/">Catsimatidis interviewed about de Blasio fundraising scanda<b>l</b></a>
(NYP) Billionaire supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis was interviewed
by investigators probing a political fund-raising scandal involving
Mayor de Blasio, sources told The Post Monday. Catsimatidis, a former
Republican mayoral candidate, was questioned for about 30 minutes inside
his Manhattan
office last week, one source said. The Gristedes owner and radio host
was also slapped with a subpoena demanding records tied to the
investigation, sources said. It was unclear if he had yet complied with
the subpoena. Sources said the subpoena was served by the Manhattan
District Attorney’s Office, which is working on the case with the
Manhattan US Attorney’s Office. They also said that the DA’s
investigators took part in the interview. The Wall Street Journal, <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-authorities-interview-john-catsimatidis-as-part-of-de-blasio-probe-1462225742">which first reported on the interview</a>,
said federal authorities questioned Catsimatidis. Catsimatidis has
publicly acknowledged donating $50,000 to the Putnam County Democratic
Committee at de Blasio’s request, and learning later that the cash had
been funneled to Democratic candidates for state Senate.<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
businessman declined to talk about being interviewed by investigators,
but told The Post on Monday that the donations were “100 percent legal”
and that he had “zero control and zero knowledge” over where the funds
were directed.</span></b> According to a January memo from the state
Board of Elections, de Blasio and several associates — including top
aide Emma Wolfe — were part of an operation that committed “willful and
flagrant” violations of campaign-finance laws in a failed bid to help
Democrats take control of the state Senate in 2014.* <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/03/de-blasio-backs-bill-to-limit-bundling-of-campaign-contributions/" target="_blank">De Blasio backs bill to limit bundling ofcampaign contributions</a> (NYP) Mayor de Blasio, <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/02/team-de-blasio-is-accused-of-campaign-crimes-far-beyond-ordinary-politics/">whose team is under investigation for alleged fund-raising abuses</a>,
endorsed legislation Monday to restrict the role of lobbyists and
others with business before the city from bundling donations for
candidates. By law, lobbyists, contractors and others doing business
with the city can give no more than $400 to a mayoral candidate. But a
loophole allows those same individuals to bundle unlimited amounts from
others to the same candidates.<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> It is Tuesday de Blasio Has A New Plan to Deal With Charges</span></b> <a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2016/05/8598044/de-blasio-plans-crisis-response-without-sense-crisis" title="De Blasio plans a crisis response, without the sense of crisis">De Blasio plans a crisis response, without the sense of crisis</a>
(PoliticoNY) A de Blasio aide told POLITICO New York that New Yorkers
are going to see even more vigorous pushback in the coming days, one
that will entail the mobilization of allies, and more arguments that the
law is clear and that de Blasio and his administration acted
appropriately and ethically. The more aggressive response to the daily
"scandal" headlines represents something of a shift for the mayor, who
has seemed resolutely unbothered — if not occasionally unaware — since
news of the investigations first broke, dismissing it all as politics as
usual while conspicuously going about his day-to-day business.*
Former New York City mayoral candidate and billionaire political donor-turned-radio host John Catsimatidis <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-authorities-interview-john-catsimatidis-as-part-of-de-blasio-probe-1462225742">was interviewed</a> by authorities as part of an investigation into NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio’s fundraising activities. * Catsimatidis <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/03/catsimatidis-interviewed-about-de-blasio-fundraising-scandal/">has publicly acknowledged</a> donating
$50,000 to the Putnam County Democratic Committee at de Blasio’s
request, and learning later that the cash had been funneled to
Democratic candidates for state Senate. The businessman said his
donations were “100 percent legal” and that he had “zero control and
zero knowledge” over where the funds were directed. * A publicly
untraceable $50,000 donation made ahead of the election of newly
christened Democratic state Sen. Todd Kaminsky <a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/248809/untraceable-50k-in-kaminsky-race-tied-to-developer-with-business-before-de-blasio/">appears to have come</a> from a major, politically connected real estate developer with significant business before the de Blasio administration.<br />
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<b><a href="https://twitter.com/SalAlbaneseNYC">Sal Albanese @SalAlbaneseNYC </a> </b><b><span lang="EN">A friend who
is a law professor saw <a href="https://twitter.com/InsideCityHall">@InsideCityHall</a>
& said if show lasted 10 more min all 3 Wise Guys would've confessed 2
indictable crimes </span></b><span style="font-family: "";"> * </span><a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/inside-city-hall/2016/05/3/ich-wise-guys-may-3-2016.html" style="font-family: '';">NY1 Online: Wise Guys Talk John Catsimatidis's Involvement in Investigation Into Mayor's Office</a> (Inside City Hall NY1)<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Billionaire supermarket mogul-turned-radio host John Catsimatidis <a href="http://pagesix.com/2016/05/10/john-catsimatidis-is-running-for-mayor/?_ga=1.81594655.940331407.1421404557">will run for NYC mayor</a> – again.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a class="postid-10186866" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/09/de-blasio-hit-up-catsimatidis-for-donations-while-he-lobbied-city/">De Blasio hit up Catsimatidis for donations while he lobbied city (NYP) </a>While
Mayor de Blasio was soliciting campaign contributions from
billionaire John Catsimatidis, lobbyists for one of the tycoon’s
companies were pushing to secure legislation that could mean big bucks,
in a potential conflict of interest, critics charged Sunday. Energy
mogul Catsimatidis stands to make a killing — estimated to be
in the tens of millions of dollars a year — as the City Council and the
de Blasio administration move to approve legislation to dramatically
boost the use of biodiesel fuel in home heating oil, The Post has
learned. Catsimatidis, who owns United Metro Energy Corp., is building a
new
biodiesel-processing facility in Greenpoint, and was already awarded a
$62 million contract last year that provided city government with
“heating oil, bio-blend and bio-heat bulk deliveries,” records show. The
biofuel push comes after de Blasio hit up Catsimatidis for a
$50,000 donation to try to flip the state Senate from Republican to
Democratic control in 2014. At that time, city record show a lobbyist
firm for United Metro
Energy — Connelly, McLaughlin and Woloz — were dealing with the mayor’s
office on “long-term planning and sustainability” issues.* </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">While de Blasio was soliciting campaign contributions from billionaire
John Catsimatidis, lobbyists for one of the tycoon’s companies were
pushing to secure legislation that could mean big bucks, in a potential
conflict of interest, <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/09/de-blasio-hit-up-catsimatidis-for-donations-while-he-lobbied-city/">critics charged</a>.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">* While Mayor Bill de Blasio was
soliciting campaign contributions from billionaire John Catsimatidis,
lobbyists for one of the tycoon’s companies were pushing for legislation
that could mean big bucks, in a potential conflict of interest, </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/nations-while-he-lobbied-city-/24zc/2028424" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the Post reports</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">* A person with knowledge of the
subpoena received by Cuomo’s administration said it seeks information on
any actions taken by executive chamber officials that may have
benefited several developers, the </span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ot-grants-to-build-7420804-php/24zw/2028424" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Times Union reports.</span></a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20160503/BLOGS04/160509958/de-blasios-lawyer-cites-loophole-that-made-fundraising-legal?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social" target="_blank">De Blasio's lawyer cites loophole that made fundraising legal</a>
(CrainsNY)The Conflicts of Interest Board said the mayor could not
solicit donations from those with matters before the city, but did not
bar consultants from asking. The Conflicts of Interest Board wrote an
advice letter to the fund's lawyer, Lawrence Laufer, on Jan. 8, 2014, <a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/fundraising-probe/2016/05/2/mayor-s-nonprofit-potentially-violated-directive-from-city-s-conflict-of-interest-board.html" target="_blank">NY1 reported Monday</a>,
that said the mayor could solicit donations to the nonprofit as long as
the donors did not have pressing matters before the executive branch.
Though <a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20160422/BLOGS04/160429950/real-estate-execs-gave-to-de-blasio-while-seeking-key-decisions-from-the-city">many on the donor list</a> appeared
to have business before the city around the time of their donations,
the administration said the directive had not been violated because the
people asking for money were not city employees. "The COIB letter is
clear," the mayor's counsel, Maya Wiley, said in a statement. "It
permits solicitations of people who do business with the city. It only
bars the solicitation by the mayor of someone 'with a matter pending or
about to be pending' before the city. There was a process in place to
ensure that this guidance was scrupulously followed. The Conflicts of
Interest Board's guidance also applies to city officials and employees.
Nothing in it or the conflicts-of-interest laws restrict the Campaign
for One New York or its supporters from fundraising. Only city officials
and employees were restricted." De Blasio pressed reporters to find
"any situations that parallel ours," referring to the legal caution
taken by his fundraising arm, the Campaign for One New York. "Find me
situations where people went and sought Conflicts of Interest Board
guidance up front so frequently," he told reporters at a press
conference in Queens.
"Find me situations where each individual phone call was vetted by
lawyers to make sure they were in compliance, the call was in compliance
with the Conflicts of Interest Board.” "That is not something I pretend
to interpret," he said of the board's advice. "I go to a lawyer to
interpret. And then literally what the lawyer said is applied case by
case very consistently. Each individual case is looked at. Each
individual name is looked at. And when a specific situation is taking
place." The mayor also emphasized that the campaign voluntarily
disclosed its donors and sought advice from the Conflicts of Interest
Board. The nonprofit was not legally required to disclose donations or
spending.* Mayor Bill de Blasio is <a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2016/05/3/de-blasio-responds-to-report-on-violation-of-directive-may-3.html">pushing back on a report</a> that
he may have violated a conflict of interest board directive when it
came to supporting his non-profit, the Campaign for One New York. * The
leaked memorandum from the Board of Elections that recommended criminal
prosecution for the political activities and fundraising on behalf of
the mayor is <a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2016/05/8598287/de-blasio-says-leaked-board-elections-memo-just-too-convenient">“just too convenient”</a> de Blasio said on Tuesday. * The investigation into de Blasio’s fundraising comes at a <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/de-blasio-probes-put-democrats-in-new-york-senate-on-ethics-hot-seat-1462323483">politically difficult time</a> for Senate Democrats as they seek to gain a governing majority in the chamber.* .<a href="https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio">@BilldeBlasio</a><a href="http://politi.co/1TlJliv" target="_blank"> plans a crisisresponse, without the sense of crisis </a> (PoliticoNY) * <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/07/de-blasio-whines-in-harlem/" target="_blank">De Blasio whines in Harle</a>m
(NYP) An embattled Mayor Bill de Blasio took to Rev. Al Sharpton’s
pulpit Saturday to whine about the dark forces opposing him.<br />
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Lawyer Blasts JCOPE of Being Political SO All Prosecutors Have
Political Roots Even Some Lawyers Like Laufer de Blasio Lawyer</span></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/bill-de-blasio-hiding-article-1.2628043" target="_blank">What is Bill deBlasio hiding? The mayor must answer huge questions about politicaldonations and official actions </a>(NYDN) All lawyered up, Mayor de Blasio vows
that federal and state investigations will show that “everything was done
legally and appropriately” with hundreds of thousands of dollars raised and
spent by his Campaign for One New York and his 2014 bid to put the state Senate
in Democratic hands. Now, though, de Blasio’s campaign attorney is again
raising the specter of a gubernatorial conspiracy as he notified the state
ethics commission that the mayor will no longer cooperate with a probe into
potential improper lobbying. Rather than
respond to a subpoena for information about donations to the Campaign for One
New York, lawyer Laurence Laufer accused the state Joint Commission on Public
Ethics of “a blatantly political exercise by an agency whose very independence
is deeply in question.”<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"> Stonewalling questions about all the money that de
Blasio sloshed here and there is just nuts. What’s to hide, Mr. Mayor?</span> </span></b>Having
asked that question, fairness demands noting that JCOPE has often been a puzzle
palace of unexplained enforcement and misguided attempts to expand its
authority. Regardless, the mayor is defying a lawfully constituted
investigative authority. Even if a judge agrees with him, he will have lost in
the court of public opinion. One
question is whether de Blasio’s committee engaged in unreported lobbying —
which is separate and apart from whether the mayor or aides crossed ethical or
legal lines in hitting up en trepreneurs like ATMs.* <a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2016/05/8598646/de-blasio-blames-voices-status-quo-sharpton-rally" title="De Blasio blames ‘voices of status quo’ at Sharpton rally"><span style="font-size: small;">De Blasio blames ‘voices of status quo’ at Sharpton rally (PoliticoNY) </span></a>de Blasio told a mostly black crowd in Harlem on Saturday
that "voices of the status quo” would “find many many ways to undermine
progress, to stand in the way of progress.” The remarks at the
Rev. Al Sharpton’s weekly gathering came amid at least five
investigations into the mayor's administration and his fundraising
activities. De Blasio referred generally to an "opposition" that can be expected “when you make change.”<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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Since the state attorney general and local district
attorneys must run for public office, all of the state's top prosecutors must
rely on corrupting influence of campaign consultants and campaign donors to win
elected office. Once a prosecutor relies on the advice of campaign
consultants, that opens the door to potential lobbying, because, in New York, campaign
consultants often double as lobbyists. Political consultant Red Horse
worked for Brooklyn DA Thompson campaign along with Berlin Rosen. Both Red
Horse and Advance Group worked for the UFT's PAC United for the Future (the UFT
attempted to covering up Advance involvement by paying them through a fake
company) Red Horse worked for Manhattan DA. Red Horse worked for Brooklyn BP
Adams, Bronx BP Diaz and PA James. Red Horse worked for Manhattan DA Cy Vance.
Red Horse worked for Pitta Bishop for Brooklyn BP Adams. Red Horse worked with
George Arzt in the Queens BP campaign. Berlin Rosen not only help elected
Schneiderman to his AG position, both it partners worked for him when he was
state senator. * Preet Bharara has become well-known in New York for
prosecuting the state’s top political players. This month, the Manhattan U.S.
attorney <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-attorney-preet-bharara-a-hit-on-graduation-speaking-circuit-1432169134">might
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/03/19/de-blasio-on-controversial-nonprofit-we-followed-broken-laws/" target="_blank">De Blasio oncontroversial nonprofit: We followed ‘broken laws’ </a>(NYP)
Mayor de Blasio on Friday staunchly defended setting up a controversial
nonprofit that took large contributions from special interests to
advance his agenda, saying he was following the broken “laws of the
game.” De Blasio said he set up the Campaign for One New York because
the lack of spending limits in politics necessitates funding to get the
message out — even though he’d prefer greater restrictions. “For now,
the challenge is that these are laws of the game,” he said on <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/">WNYC radio</a>.
“This is the reality of today’s political system . . . But until we put
some real limits on spending again, sometimes to achieve something we
have to have the resources to get the message across.” Mayor de Blasio
on Friday staunchly defended setting up a controversial nonprofit that
took large contributions from special interests to advance his agenda,
saying he was following the broken “laws of the game.” De Blasio said he
set up the Campaign for One New York because the lack of spending
limits in politics necessitates funding to get the message out — even
though he’d prefer greater restrictions. “For now, the challenge is
that these are laws of the game,” he said on <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/">WNYC radio</a>.
“This is the reality of today’s political system . . . But until we put
some real limits on spending again, sometimes to achieve something we
have to have the resources to get the message across.”<br />
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and Wolfe and The Law Firms Lobbying City Hall Operation </span></b></div>
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Laufer, Lawrence is attacking the NYS Board of Election Chief
Enforcement Officer Risa Sugarman allegations of a “willful and
flagrant” effort to circumvent campaign contribution limits by Team de
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<li class="MsoNormal">Mandelker works for the mayor campaign committee</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Kantor Davidoff Wolfe Lobbyists for Dozens of Clients That Need Government Favors From Mayor de Blasio</li>
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Illegal work in the race that made Mark-Viverito the council speaker
before the CFB and Conflict Boards that the Mayor controls</li>
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(NYT) Risa Sugarman accuses Mayor Bill de Blasio’s team of flagrant
violations with regard to gifts to county Democratic committees but
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/26/rattled-de-blasio-plays-dumb-on-scandals-walks-out-on-reporters/">Rattled de Blasio plays dumb on scandals, walks out on reporters</a> (NYP) A rattled <a href="http://nypost.com/tag/bill-de-blasio">Mayor de Blasio</a> abruptly cut short a press conference Monday after he struggled with questions <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/24/the-mayor-is-going-down/">about the snowballing scandals threatening his administration</a>.
Hizzoner insisted his staff did not break fund-raising laws and whined
that he was a victim of politics — before dodging questions and
scampering away from reporters after an event in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
“It’s outrageous,” the mayor said of allegations his team violated
campaign-finance laws. “And again, I don’t know what’s motivating it.”
De Blasio was speaking a day after <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/24/de-blasios-attorney-isnt-happy-over-criminal-fundraising-leak/">his lawyer blasted the leak of a government document that alleged criminality</a> in the mayor’s fund-raising efforts.<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span>The
report was penned by Gov. Cuomo ally and state Board of Elections
counsel Risa Sugarman, who said there were “willful and flagrant”
violations of campaign-finance laws by the mayor and his political team.
De Blasio’s lawyer Laurence Laufer said the leak was a political
attack, — but stopped short of saying who was behind it. “I think he
raised real concerns about whether that was the case,” de Blasio said,
although he ducked when asked if he thought Cuomo was behind the leak.
The mayor then seemed to contradict himself when addressing a Post
report that his administration knew about a real-estate deal on the Lower East Side
side that turned into a windfall investment for one of his backers. “I
don’t have any reason to believe that is accurate,” he said. “But again,
a full investigation is going on, and when we see the whole total, then
we’ll speak to it.” *<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/26/nyregion/de-blasio-denying-any-fund-raising-impropriety-cuts-short-news-conference.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad" target="_blank"> De Blasio, Denying Misdeeds Again, Says Claims May Be Drivenby Politics</a> (NYT)<br />
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(NYP ED) Mayor de Blasio certainly has mastered the art of speaking
from both sides of his mouth. On the one side, he calls for “major
reforms” in elections regarding polling sites and voter registration,
pretending to defend the sanctity of New York’s elections. On the other, he defends skirting spending limits that are the subject of US
attorney, Manhattan DA and FBI investigations. This funneling of funds
through the various committees was done “in order to evade contribution
limits and to disguise the true names of the contributors.” More than a
decade ago, as a city councilman, de Blasio pushed for reforms to the
city’s election laws regarding unions. He wanted the Campaign Finance
Board to treat each union affiliate as a separate entity, so that each
could contribute nearly $5,000, instead of having the contribution limit
apply to the entire umbrella union. <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/13/two-faced-de-blasio-changes-tune-on-campaign-finance-system/">As The Post reported</a>,
“that piece of legislation allowed UNITE HERE — a union formerly run by
the mayor’s cousin John Wilhelm — to pump more than $77,000 into de
Blasio’s 2013 mayoral campaign from chapters as far away as Honolulu.”
Now the same “downtrodden” unions are embroiled in de Blasio’s new
scandal. As the BOE report explained, “The evidence indicates that de
Blasio established a structure, both within and outside of City Hall,
and entered into an agreement with powerful unions — New York Hotel
Trades Council and United Federation of Teachers . . . to raise and
spend money to influence state Senate races.” All three races received
significant contributions from unions via straw donors, and received
staffing support from unions. In fact, “the entire fundraising and
campaign operation was run from City Hall by de Blasio staff in
coordination with unions.” A snippet of the transactions the BOE
examined for one of the straw-donor committees reveals contributions
totaling over $375,000 from the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of America, United Healthcare Workers East (1199SEIU), New York
State Nurses Association, Communications Workers of America and 32BJ
United American Dream Fund (32BJSEIU). This recent scandal also comes on
the heels of significant blows to the state Democratic Party. Just last
year, former Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted
of taking millions in bribes for his unwavering support for real-estate
tax subsidies.(Republicans look bad, too: former GOP Senate Majority
Leader Dean Skelos was indicted around the same time.) It was only a few
months ago that Bharara announced Cuomo wouldn’t be charged for
disbanding his own corruption investigation commission — the commission
whose work led to Silver’s and Skelos’ indictments. De Blasio attempts
to sound the reformer from the left side of his mouth; he attempts to
defend his illegal campaign-finance practices from the right side. What
comes out is hypocritical gobbledygook. There’s no doubt New York
needs election-law changes. The campaign-finance rules unfairly benefit
those in power — especially when they apply two standards for two-faced
politicians like de Blasio. * <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-offers-20m-board-elections-fixes-problems-article-1.2614065">De Blasio offers $20M if Board of Elections fixes its problems</a> (NYDN)<br />
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investigate de Blasio for using straw donors</a></b> (NYP) Federal
authorities want to know if Mayor Bill de Blasio used straw donors to feed his
2013 campaign for City Hall, according to a published report on Thursday. New York City’s campaign
finance laws cap individual donations to a candidate for citywide office at
$4,950 — and the feds are investigating whether anyone close to de Blasio reimbursed
donors or passed money on to others to make a rules-skirting contribution, <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160505/glendale/federal-probe-eyes-possible-straw-donors-de-blasio-campaign-sources-say">DNAInfo
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wholesaler, Primary One LLC, gave almost $10,000 to the future mayor. They
were reimbursed for going over the $9,900 limit ($4,950 twice).</li>
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those truck drivers, Rafael Zepeda, who lives in a third-floor walk-up in Corona, gave the max
$4,500 to de Blasio’s transition committee after his election to office.</li>
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showed that Primary One LLC president Sm-Ali Amanollahi, his relatives,
employees and associates chipped in $55,000 to de Blasio’s campaign
between October 2013 and December 2013.</li>
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state and federal investigations into his campaign’s financing tactics. The Law
Department has contracted two top-tier law firms to help with the case. “As
part of our cooperation with law enforcement inquiries, the Law Department has
contracted with the law firms Debevoise & Plimpton as well as Carter
Ledyard & Milburn to represent the City and assist in document collection
and review,” the department said in a statement. “The lawyers have been in
touch with the US Attorney’s Office to advance that cooperation.” The mayor has
also retained Barry Berke of Kramer Levin “to assist in all efforts to
cooperate with authorities and ensure they have all the information they need
to bring these investigations to a prompt conclusion,” the department said. City
funds will not be used to cover de Blasio’s legal expenses, according to
officials in the mayor’s office.* <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160505/glendale/federal-probe-eyes-possible-straw-donors-de-blasio-campaign-sources-say" target="_blank">Federal Probe EyesPossible Straw Donors to De Blasio Campaign, Sources Say</a> (DNAINFO) Records show that Amanollahi and his relatives have also
given at least $17,700 to state Sen. Adriano Espaillat’s congressional and
state Senate campaigns and $55,000 to state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
DNAinfo previously reported that a Bronx
landlord who lost $1.9 million in a<a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160413/washington-heights/de-blasio-donor-lost-19m-ponzi-scheme-linked-corruption-probe"> Ponzi
scheme that is connected to the federal probe of the mayor’s fundraising and an
alleged pay-for-favors scheme </a>involving NYPD brass also donated on
that date. Records show Gerald Leibman also gave the maximum $4,500
contribution to de Blasio’s transition team. However, he told DNAinfo that he
never made a donation to de Blasio. Hamlet Peralta, who owned a Harlem restaurant popular with uptown politicians and
NYPD brass and is <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160428/west-harlem/harlem-restaurant-at-center-of-corruption-probe-was-popular-with-city-pols">accused
of running the $12 million Ponzi scheme,</a> also tried to donate $4,950
to de Blasio’s campaign on Oct. 3, 2013, but his check bounced. The feds
arrested Peralta last month, charging him with one count of wire fraud.* The feds and the Manhattan DA are <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/05/feds-investigate-de-blasio-for-using-straw-donors/">now
probing</a> whether straw donors contributed to de Blasio’s 2013 campaign
for City Hall. Investigators want to know if people were reimbursed or given
cash to pass along to the campaign in their names, in an effort by the actual
donors to avoid the city’s $4,950 cap on individual contribution, sources said.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2016/04/8597659/cuomo-aide-was-aware-investigated-senate-fundraising-arrangement" title="Cuomo aide was aware of investigated Senate fundraising arrangement">Cuomo aide was aware of investigated Senate fundraising arrangement</a></b> (PoliticoNY)
A former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo was included on a July 2014
memo that outlined a coordinated fundraising effort to help Democratic
candidates for the state Senate, and on subsequent email updates about
that effort, according to sources who have seen those documents. The
coordinated campaign — spearheaded by Mayor Bill de Blasio and his
allies — is now the subject of a criminal inquiry, following a referral
by Risa Sugarman, the chief enforcement counsel at the New York State
Board of Elections, who was appointed by Cuomo. The July 2014 memo,
written by campaign lawyer Laurence Laufer, who was retained to
represent some of the parties involved in the effort, detailed how the
coordinated campaign would be structured and run, and how it intended to
comply with existing state election law. The recipients of the memo
included Joe Percoco, a longtime Cuomo loyalist who served as a top aide
to the governor until last year, and the state Democratic Party
Committee, which is effectively controlled by the governor.<span style="font-family: "";">*
A former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo was included in memos that
outlined a coordinated fundraising effort to help Democratic candidates
for the state Senate, now the subject of a criminal inquiry with de
Blasio at the center, <a href="http://goo.gl/kZqsgR" target="_blank">Politico </a></span><a href="http://goo.gl/kZqsgR" target="_blank">New York reports:</a><br />
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25-year
old Jia Hou John Liu campaign treasure was convicted of willfully
participating in a campaigning scheme involving “straw donors” in order
to make illegal contributions above the $4,950 limit authorized by the
New York City Campaign Finance Board In a statement, <b>* U.S. Preet Bharara says</b>,
"As the jury found, Jia Hou and Oliver Pan stuck a knife into the heart
of New York City's campaign finance law by violating the prohibition
against illegal campaign contributions, all to corruptly advantage the
campaign of a candidate for city-wide office."<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/139144217/Pan-Xing-Wu-and-Jia-Hou-Verdict-Statement%20%E2%80%A6" target="_blank">US attorney's full statement on Oliver Pan/Jenny Hou convictions</a> * <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ex-john-liu-aides-found-guilty-campaign-funds-conspiracy-article-1.1333622">Major blow to mayoral hopeful John Liu: Ex-aides guilty of conspiring to violate campaign finance laws(NYDN)</a> * <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/politics&id=9088369">Jury convicts 2 associates of city comptroller</a><i>(WABC) *</i> <a href="http://politicker.com/2013/05/john-lius-former-aid-and-donor-found-guilty-in-federal-court/"><i>John Liu's</i> Former Aide and Donor Found Guilty in Federal Court(Politico)</a> * <a href="http://www.myfoxny.com/story/22146215/john-lius-ex-associates-convicted">Comptroller John Liu's ex-associates convicted</a><i>(Fox 5 </i><a href="http://politicker.com/2013/05/john-lius-former-aid-and-donor-found-guilty-in-federal-court/" title="Permalink to John Liu’s Former Aide and Donor Found Guilty in Federal Court">John Liu’s Former Aide and Donor Found Guilty in Federal Court(NYO)</a> * <a href="http://nyti.ms/122b8f5" target="_blank">Former Liu Associates Convicted in Fund-Raising Case</a>(NYT) * <a href="http://politicker.com/2013/05/john-liu-deeply-saddened-by-guilty-verdicts-but-vows-to-soldier-on/" target="_blank">John Liu ‘Deeply Saddened’ by Guilty Verdicts but Vows to Soldier On</a>(NYO)</div>
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<a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160505/midtown/de-blasio-administration-hires-lawyers-handle-federal-investigations" target="_blank">De Blasio Hires Lawyers to Handle Federal Investigations </a>(DNAINFO) "The Mayor has retained
Barry Berke of Kramer Levin as his attorney to assist in all efforts to
cooperate with authorities and ensure they have all the information they need
to bring these investigations to a prompt conclusion," said de Blasio
spokesman Peter Kadushin. "In addition, Barry Berke <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160413/midtown/de-blasio-tells-campaign-lawyer-call-us-attorney-about-federal-probe">will
continue to represent the 2013 campaign</a>."The mayor is facing
investigations including whether his unsuccessful bid to bring the state Senate
under Democratic control in 2014 as well as fundraising efforts for the
Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit to advance the mayor's agenda, violated
campaign finance and election laws.Berke will not be paid using taxpayer money.<br />
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The two white collar criminal law firms hired to represent the city — Debevoise
& Plimpton and Carter Ledyard & Milburn — will be paid with taxpayer
money and will represent the City of New
York and any city employee acting in their capacity as
a city employee in the investigation."As part of our cooperation with law
enforcement inquiries, the Law Department has contracted with the law firms
Debevoise & Plimpton as well as Carter Ledyard & Milburn to represent
the City and assist in document collection and review," the city's law
department said in a statement.* NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito <a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2016/05/8598504/mark-viverito-i-take-mayor-his-word-investigations?top-featured-1">expressed
confidence</a> that de Blasio followed legal fundraising guidelines
during
his 2013 campaign and while raising for a nonprofit to push his agenda.
Now prepare to get really angry: To handle all the probes,
City Hall just hired two powerful law firms — Debevoise &
Plimpton, and
Carter Ledyard & Milburn — to defend it. That’s right: <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The taxpayers will
be shelling out for Team de Blasio’s defense. * </span></b>New York City Mayor
Bill de Blasio <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/mayor-de-blasio-hires-defense-lawyer-for-corruption-probes-1.11766947">has
retained</a> a prominent criminal defense lawyer to help him cooperate
with state and federal corruption probes into City Hall and his fundraising.
The lawyer, Barry Berke of the Manhattan firm
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, was previously retained to represent de Blasio’s
campaign, and is a mayoral appointee to the Lincoln Center
board of directors. * Berke, who represented disgraced former NYPD Commissioner
Bernard Kerik in his unsuccessful battle against corruption charges, charges
$850 an hour, but de Blasio’s campaign – not the taxpayers – will be <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-lawyers-state-fbi-fundraising-probes-article-1.2626326">picking
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/26/bill-de-blasio-again-blames-everyone-but-his-own-bungling-hires/">Bill de Blasio again blames everyone but his own bungling hires</a></b> (NYP
Ed) Corruption or just incompetence? It’s too soon to say just what
explains Team de Blasio’s OK of the Rivington House flip that allowed a
developer to close a nursing home and score a $72 million profit. The
only thing that’s perfectly clear is City Hall isn’t coming clean. On
Monday, Mayor de Blasio said he doesn’t “think” <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/24/city-hall-knew-about-and-offered-16m-to-undo-nursing-home-flip/">a Post exposé on the affair</a> is
“accurate.” He cited no specifics — lucky for him, since on Tuesday
both Politico and The Wall Street Journal confirmed key elements of The
Post’s story. What we do know is that City Hall was aware of the problem
— and tried to fix it — before the news broke. And we know city
managers at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, or DCAS,
agreed to lift the deed restriction that preserved the nursing home —
for a mere $16.1 million fee. More: They went ahead even after The
Allure Group repeatedly warned that so high a fee would leave it unable
to keep the health-care facility going. Yet the mayor now insists
Allure “lied” about its intentions. It seems City Hall awoke to the
problem after the mayor moved Stacey Cumberbatch out as head of DCAS in
January, apparently having realized she wasn’t up to the job. In
February, James Patchett — chief of staff to Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen —
suddenly started trying to undo the Rivington House deal. Too late:
Allure had already sold. The mayor insists he heard nothing about it
until the Journal broke the story in March. If so, his subordinates must
fear to send bad news up the line — another big management problem. Yet
the mayor’s pointing fingers at The Post and at Allure’s “lies” — and
not at the bungling by people he himself hired. Will de Blasio ever
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/03/team-de-blasios-pathetic-defense-of-its-sleazy-sale-of-city-hall/">Team de Blasio’s pathetic defense of its sleazy sale of City Hall</a>
(NYP) Even as Shelly Silver was drawing a 12-year stint in the slammer
for selling his office, Team de Blasio on Tuesday was all but admitting
it did much the same — and actually defending the practice. Raising cash
for a mayoral slush fund from “people who do business with the city” is
perfectly OK, insisted Mayor de Blasio’s counsel, Maya Wiley. She cited
a 2014 Conflicts of Interest Board letter banning only funds from folks
with matters “pending” before City Hall. See the difference? Neither do
we. Wiley was trying to justify the boatloads of cash dumped on
Hizzoner’s Campaign for One New York by folks who do business with the
city or need special favors — and the actions City Hall took to benefit
them. Tuesday, NY1 reported that CONY got “at least 60 donations” from
parties “that had business with” or were “directly lobbying” the city or
unions with city contracts. A real-estate developer won a variance for
a building and handed over $10,000 three days later. SEIU Local 1199
came up with $250,000 and got a nice contract with the city just months
later. Stephen Nislick, Wendy Neu and NYCLASS (the forces behind de
Blasio’s drive to ban horse carriages) were big givers, too. No, de
Blasio & Co. doesn’t admit it sold favors to donors.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He added that "lobbyists don’t get to
choose who regulates them. JCOPE regulates lobbying in New York State,
and that is exactly what we are doing."
“These are registered, paid lobbyists that are asserting a privilege
that belongs to an elected official," </span></b>Agata said. "It’s a very blurry
line, and it’s a line that we’re going to investigate.” The letter laid out a
series of “unexplained anomalies” that Laufer said called into question the
purity of JCOPE’s motives in pursuing and continuing the investigation into
whether the nonprofit should have registered as a lobbyist. Among the
“anomalies” Laufer cited were: the fact that former JCOPE executive director
Letizia Tagliafierro, a former Cuomo aide, was transitioning to a new position within
the Cuomo administration at the time the investigation was first opened last
year; and anobservation that a subpoena sent from JCOPE to the Campaign for One
New York “sought records of the organization's communications with the
executive and legislative branches of state and City government, with the
inexplicable exception of seeking no records with respect to legislative
lobbying targeted to the Governor.” Agata told POLITICO that "we can go to
court to compel" cooperation from the nonprofit on its subpoena. Asked if
that's what JCOPE is planning to do, he said "we're considering all our
options right now." <a href="http://politi.co/1UFssES" target="_blank">Read the full letter here:</a>* <b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/nyregion/political-group-tied-to-mayor-de-blasio-to-defy-subpoena.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion">Political
Group Tied to Mayor de Blasio to Defy Subpoena</a></b> (NYT) <b> </b>The Campaign for One New York said it
would refuse to comply with a subpoena issued by a New York State
ethics panel, calling it a “blatantly political exercise.”<br />
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Is there no end 2 conflicts of interest in DEB administration? <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160506/civic-center/city-hall-official-got-ok-work-part-time-for-de-blasio-pal-under-probe" target="_blank"> </a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160506/civic-center/city-hall-official-got-ok-work-part-time-for-de-blasio-pal-under-probe" target="_blank">City Hall Official Got OK to Work Part Time for De Blasio Pal Under Probe</a> (DNAINFO)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://goo.gl/BApk3W" target="_blank">DE BLASIO'S DARK MONEY, IN CONTEXT </a> </b>"New
York City's campaign finance laws don't allow corporations to give
money directly to people running for city office, but that hasn't been a
hurdle for some companies trying to influence public policy. They have
poured cash into two nonprofit groups affiliated with the city's
Democratic mayor, Bill de Blasio, which have used the money to produce
glossy advertisements promoting his agenda, produced by the same
political consultants who worked on his election campaign. ... Similar
nonprofits are proliferating across the country, many of which are
backed by 'dark money' given by undisclosed donors.<br />
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supporting de Blasio do eventually disclose their donors, but good
government groups ... still worry that such organizations contribute to a
culture of influence peddling and evade the intent of laws seeking to
limit the influence of special interests on elections. ... One of those
nonprofits, the Campaign for One New York, has received more than $1
million in donations from real estate developers since its launch in
2014. Many of those corporate donors have projects underway in the city
and have backed the mayor's housing plan. As a mayoral candidate in
2013, de Blasio loudly decried the use of such groups." <b>-- @JonLemire: </b>"From @AP: c<a href="https://goo.gl/2pclDw" target="_blank">all for probe into @BilldeBlasio 'dark money' group shines light on their rise among governors, mayors" </a><b><a href="https://goo.gl/2pclDw" target="_blank">-</a>- @Azi:</b> <a href="https://goo.gl/nu3xOo" target="_blank">"will thefan of @SpotlightMovie welcome this investigative endeavor ?" </a><b>-- Gotham Gazette's Samar Khurshid: </b>"<a href="http://goo.gl/p6gxMi" target="_blank">Calls for More Transparency, Oversight in Departmentof Education Contracting" </a><br />
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<span lang="EN"><a href="http://bit.ly/1PJ5ciz" target="_blank">LOBBYIST FEEDING FRENZY THANKS TO DEBLASIO </a>(NYDN) </span>Lobbying
spending boomed to $86.2 million last year — a record high. lobbying
disclosure report released Tuesday shows that the money from
deep-pocketed interests shelled out to target city government officials
spiked nearly 20% from 2014, when it was $71.9 million. And the top
lobbyist was James Capolino — a big supporter and campaign fund-raiser
for Mayor de Blasio. His firm,<b> James F. Capalino</b> &
Associates, Inc., brought in $12.9 million in 2015 — up from $8.2
million the year before, when he also held the No. 1 spot and
represented 304 clients. Capolino, a fund-raiser for de Blasio in his
2013 campaign, has pumped cash into de Blasio's political nonprofit
since he took office and met repeatedly with the mayor. He jumped to the
top lobbyist spot as his earnings surged after de Blasio became mayor.
The top spender on lobbying was real estate developer Albee Development,
which shelled out $1.3 million to Washington Square Partners and
Capolino’s firm. Next up was JCDecaux North America, an outdoor
advertising company that has worked with the city, with $1.1 million,
and Uber, which spent $561,000 on six different lobbyists. *Police
officers in Manhattan
will no longer arrest most people who commit minor offenses like
urinating in public and riding between subway cars under a policy shift
decision from the NYPD and the Manhattan district attorney, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/:%20http://goo.gl/7MqiaS" target="_blank">The New York Times writes</a> * Lobbying receipts rose to a record $86 million in New York City
last year, boosted in part by a single-firm record of nearly $13
million for an outfit headed by one of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s
friends and fundraisers, <a href="http://goo.gl/qleMfo" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal reports:</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Friday </span></b>Historians can’t find a New York City
mayor who, along with his administration and inner circle, was the
subject of as many simultaneous investigations as Mayor Bill de Blasio
now faces, T<a href="http://goo.gl/E0P4Ad" target="_blank">he New York Times writes inan explainer of the investigations: </a><br />
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/27/de-blasio-staffers-slapped-with-subpoenas-as-scandal-deepens/">De Blasio staffers slapped with subpoenas as scandal deepens</a></b>
(NYP) A top aide to Mayor de Blasio, one of his key fund-raisers and a
consulting firm that helped develop his winning campaign strategy have
been slapped with subpoenas as part of the widening corruption scandal
swirling around Hizzoner, according to a new report Wednesday. Other
political consultants and firms tied to the mayor also received
subpoenas, but a spokeswoman declined to say if de Blasio was himself
served with legal papers, <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/mayor-bill-de-blasios-close-political-allies-subpoenaed-in-fundraising-probes-1461788383">according to the Wall Street Journal.</a>
The subpoenas demand records related to de Blasio’s failed fund-raising
effort to help Democrats win control of the state Senate in 2014, which
a state Board of Elections official has said involved <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/22/de-blasio-aides-accused-of-criminal-fundraising-activity/">“willful and flagrant” violations</a> of campaign-finance laws, sources told the Journal.<br />
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subpoenas also seek documents tied to de Blasio’s controversial
non-profit, the Campaign for One New York, which he last month announced
was being shut down in the wake of officials complaints from the
good-government group Common Cause, which accused it of raising “dark
money” and creating a “shadow government” in the Big Apple. Those who
received subpoenas include Emma Wolfe, a former de Blasio campaign
operative who now serves as his director of intergovernmental relations,
and Ross Offinger, a campaign fund-raiser who was also treasurer of the
Campaign for One New York. A subpoena was also served on the
BerlinRosen political public-relations firm, which was co-founded by de
Blasio adviser Jonathan Rosen. Some of the subpoenas bear the name of Manhattan
prosecutor Tatiana Martins, who was part of the legal team that last
year won the conviction of former state Senate Majority Leader Dean
Skelos on corruption charges, according to The Journal *<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/mayor-de-blasio-political-allies-hit-subpoenas-article-1.2616776?utm_content=buffer5e1a5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw" target="_blank"> </a><b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/mayor-de-blasio-political-allies-hit-subpoenas-article-1.2616776?utm_content=buffer5e1a5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw" target="_blank">Mayor de Blasio’s political allies hit with subpoenas infund-raising probe</a> (NYDN) </b>Berlin
Rosen, which is widely credited with helping de Blasio win the crowded
2013 mayor’s race, was co-founded by Jonathan Rosen, one of the mayor’s
most trusted political advisers.* Some of de Blasio’s closest political
allies, including Emma Wolfe, Ross Offinger and BerlinRosen, have
received subpoenas as part of investigations into his fundraising, but
the mayor has not been served, <a href="http://goo.gl/0GEw1y" target="_blank">TheWall Street Journal reports:</a><br />
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The Wall Street Journal first reported the latest twist in the investigation.<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span>The
subpoenas are seeking documents related to a questionable, and
ultimately unsuccessful, fund-raising venture the mayor undertook in
2014 to sway upstate senate races in favor of Democrats. A spokeswoman
for the mayor would not address the subpoenas. “We are not commenting on
the details of the investigations,” de Blasio’s press secretary Karen
Hinton told The News. “All involved followed the letter of the law and
are cooperating fully with the investigations.”<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span>Sources
said that it’s believed that there are other subpoenas that have been
issued in the probe in addition to Wolfe, Rosen, and Offinger. De Blasio
on Wednesday bypassed reporters waiting to grill him on the subpoenas
at an LGBT event in Harlem
where he received an award. He ducked out a side door. The law
enforcement probe is reportedly also looking into the mayor’s Campaign
for One New York, a recently disbanded fund-raising effort set up for
his pet projects.* <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/nyregion/de-blasios-office-gets-subpoenas-as-inquiries-into-fund-raising-continue.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&action=click&contentCollection=nyregion&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront" target="_blank">De Blasio’s Office Gets Subpoenas as Inquiries IntoFund-Raising Continue </a>(NYT)
The origin of the subpoenas and their targets suggested that officials
were delving into the mayor’s efforts for State Senate Democrats in
2014. The subpoenas suggest, however, that prosecutors are looking
seriously at whether the fund-raising activities went over the line. In
the case of the 2014 election, they are looking to see whether donations
to candidates were funneled through county party committees to evade
contribution limits, a violation of state law and a possible felony. A
subpoena also went to BerlinRosen, a public affairs consulting firm that
has provided political advice and press officers for Mr. de Blasio’s
campaign efforts, according to one of the people familiar with the
matter. Those efforts included the nonprofit Campaign for One New York,
which the mayor created to advocate his agenda and which collected
contributions from those with business before the city. Federal
investigators are also looking at the nonprofit; several contributors
also gave money to the Senate campaign.* <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/27/de-blasio-betrayed-voters-with-sketchy-fundraising/" target="_blank">De Blasio betrayedvoters with sketchy fundraising </a>(NYP
Ed) Rather than take responsibility for his actions, de Blasio called
the Board of Elections statement a political “hit job.” The city doesn’t
need this distraction — there are far too many important items to be
addressed: jobs, education, housing, public safety. It’s crystal clear
the people de Blasio was elected to serve are not going to get what they
voted for.* The broad reach of subpoenas for those close to de Blasio
clarifies that the promiscuous range of the mayor’s fundraising
operation is under microscopic scrutiny, and he had better start
preparing his defense, <a href="http://goo.gl/zvtxDo" target="_blank">theDaily News writes:</a> * <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/27/de-blasio-staffers-slapped-with-subpoenas-as-scandal-deepens/">If de Blasio won't talk, his staff will</a> (NYP) * De Blasio blasé on ‘legal and appropriate’ fundraising activity as top aides subpoenaed (NYDN) <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-blase-fundraising-aide-subpoenas-article-1.2617692" target="_blank">"Sincethere
is an investigation, I can't go into any details,” he said, but added
hefelt “fine” because all his activities were above board. “I’m very,
verycomfortable,” he said.</a> (NYDN) * <a href="http://nyti.ms/1STEM55" target="_blank">At least five investigations involving Bill de Blasio have recently come to light. A recap: </a>(NYT)<br />
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<b style="font-family: '';"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: orange; color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Team de Blasio Kaminsky Just Can't Stop Laudering Money to State Committees </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Note: the Investigative Work On this Story Was Done By Bragg at the Times Union</i></span></b><br />
<a href="http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/In-Senate-battle-de-Blasio-fundraiser-raised-7357590.php?cmpid=twitter-desktop" target="_blank">In Senate battle, de Blasio fundraiser raised untraceable$50K </a>(C<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">hris Bragg</span>,
Times Union) Democrats benefit from untraceable donation in race for
Skelos' old seat Days before the April 19 special election on Long
Island to replace ex-Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos, de
Blasio's chief fundraiser procured a publicly untraceable $50,000
donation to a local political party that was backing Democratic
Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky * <b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/26/de-blasio-tied-to-untraceable-50k-for-kaminsky-campaign/">De Blasio tied to ‘untraceable’ $50K for Kaminsky campaign</a></b>
(NYP) Mayor de Blasio’s top money man funneled $50,000 of “publicly
untraceable” campaign cash to help a Long Island Democrat win a crucial
race for the state Senate, according to a report Monday night. <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ross Offinger, de Blasio’s campaign finance director and treasurer </span></b>of his now-shut advocacy group Campaign for One New York, was behind the windfall, which he donated through a shadowy Delaware corporation, <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/">according to the Albany Times-Union</a>.
Mayor de Blasio’s top money man funneled $50,000 of “publicly
untraceable” campaign cash to help a Long Island Democrat win a crucial
race for the state Senate, according to a report Monday night. Offinger,
already under scrutiny for fund-raising activities involving de Blasio,
sent the money to the Nassau County Democratic Committee, which was
backing <a href="http://nypost.com/tag/Todd-Kaminsky/">Todd Kaminsky</a>,
the Times Union said. Kaminsky edged out Republican Chris McGrath by
780 votes in the April 19 special election to fill the seat formerly
held by convicted Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos. The
funds were wired to the committee’s account by a Delaware
company named A&J Contracting, the paper said, so there was no
check signature or paper trail. That company, however, has no phone
number or Web site. It also had not made a donation to a political party
or candidate before the $50,000 gift. A spokesman for the Nassau
Democratic Party confirmed to the Times-Union that the money was
actually raised by Offinger. It was not clear how Offinger — who was
paid $14,000 by the Nassau Democrats for fund-raising — garnered the
money. “I really don’t have a comment on specific donors, but I’m proud
of the work we did in Nassau County,”
Offinger told the paper. Offinger is currently being probed by US
Attorney Preet Bharara in a widening investigation into campaign
financing. De Blasio, meanwhile, is being investigated along with his
top aides for “willful andflagrant” violations of campaign-finance law.
It has been alleged that the mayor steered $1 million in union and
corporate donations to three upstate Democrats running for state Senate
seats in 2014.* The probe into de Blasio’s fundraising efforts for state
Senate Democrats could make an already unpopular mayor even more toxic
in Albany and doom many items critically important to the city,<a href="http://goo.gl/3zU2xK" target="_blank"> the Daily News writes: </a> *
Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan found himself defending his
performance in the state’s budget negotiations after the Republicans’
push to retain the seat vacated by former Majority Leader Dean Skelos
fell short,<a href="http://goo.gl/OsaE8O" target="_blank"> Politico New York reports: </a> *
If Todd Kaminsky is looking for a place to start cleaning up Albany,
he need look no further than his own backyard, where he received $50,000
from a seemingly-anonymous donor for his state Senate campaign<a href="http://goo.gl/H3tPpn" target="_blank">, the Times Union writes:</a><br />
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/24/city-hall-backed-campaigns-with-series-of-checks-to-dodge-limits/">City Hall backed campaigns with series of checks to ‘dodge’ limits</a></b> (NYP) Bill de Blasio and his team brazenly ran political campaigns straight out of City Hall, according to state investigators.<span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span>The
big-money donors would cut six-digit checks to county Democratic
committees, which would then send the money to the campaigns, thus
circumventing legal caps on contributions. “The entire fund-raising and
campaign operation was run from City Hall by de Blasio staff,” read the
stunning findings by Risa Sugarman, chief enforcement counsel for the
state Board of Elections. The blockbuster memo recommended the case be
prosecuted by the Manhattan district
attorney but did not single out who should be charged. A rep for
Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. declined to comment on
Saturday. While Sugarman’s memo focused on the evasion of contribution
limits, it also raised the shocking spectre of violations of city
conflict-of-interest laws, which prohibit public servants from helping
political candidates while working on the taxpayer dime or on city
equipment. “I don’t ever recall reading or hearing about anything like
that — someone saying the mayor of New York raising campaign funds right
out of City Hall,” said veteran New York political consultant and
former Ed Koch aide Jerry Skurnik.<br />
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“This would be a first in my memory.” Back in 2014, Igor Oberman — a former counsel at New York City’s
Taxi and Limousine Commission — was fined $7,500 for using his TLC
office and phone to run his City Council campaign. State probers noted
that de Blasio’s legislative director, Emma Wolfe, orchestrated an Aug.
25, 2014, meeting with state Senate candidate Justin Wagner and UFT boss
Michael Mulgrew about Wagner’s campaign.<br />
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tangled web of money, power, and influence could finally be unraveling.
The Working Families Party was a late-nineties creation of labor unions
and the now-defunct Acorn (Association of Community Organizations for
Reform Now.) Taking advantage of New York’s
fusion-voting system that allows candidates to run on multiple ballot
lines, the WFP gained traction in the 2000s by endorsing liberal
“up-ballot” Democrats, and then encouraging people to vote the WFP line
in order to maintain ballot position. Its goal, even then, was to wrest
the state senate from Republicans’ decades-long control. The WFP
leveraged its expertise in door-to-door campaigning to develop a superb
political field operation that excelled at identifying likely voters and
turning them out on Election Day. Funded heavily by public-sector labor
unions such as DC 37 (municipal workers), the UFT (teachers), and SEIU
1199 (hospital workers), the WFP has become a major force in New York politics. It now has branches in New Jersey, Connecticut,
and other states. In 2008, after Democrats briefly took control of the
state senate, the WFP decided to spin off its field and electoral
operations into a <a href="https://www.dandb.com/businessdirectory/datafieldservicesinc-brooklyn-ny-7670919.html" target="new">subsidiary</a>,
Data and Field Services (DFS), which could hire itself out on a
for-profit basis to WFP-backed campaigns. DFS’s actual purpose seems to
have been the reallocation of resources and personnel among the WFP’s
candidates, and to enable coordination between campaigns—all of which is
illegal, according to New York City’s
campaign-finance laws. De Blasio’s involvement with the WFP and Acorn
is longstanding. “Without exaggeration, Acorn’s long-range plan since
2001 was to elect de Blasio mayor,” an anonymous Democrat <a href="http://nypost.com/2013/09/24/acorn-sowed-seeds-for-de-blasio/" target="new">told</a> the <i>New York Post</i> in 2013. In 2006, then-city councilman de Blasio hired himself out for $33,000 to a group called “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/nyregion/24debate.html" target="new">Progressive America Foundation</a>” for some obscure lobbying services. The foundation operated out of the WFP’s offices. And, in 2009, de Blasio was DFS’s <a href="http://www.nyccfb.info/searchabledb/ExpenditureSearchResult.aspx?ec_id=2009&ec=2009&cand_id=326&cand=de+Blasio%2c+Bill&payee=data+and+field+%28begins+with%29&exp_lname1=data+and+field&exp_exact1=B" target="new">biggest client</a>,
paying the organization nearly $200,000 during his run for public
advocate. Even as the WFP expanded its reach, operatives from Acorn and
the New York state
senate Democratic political organization went into business for
themselves. Acorn veterans Jonathan Rosen and Valerie Berlin—chief of
staff to then-state senator, now-attorney general <a href="http://city-journal.org/html/inspector-gotcha-13735.html" target="new">Eric Schneiderman</a>—formed consulting firm <a href="http://berlinrosen.com/our-team" target="new">BerlinRosen</a>. Doug Forand, Marc Lapidus, and Nathan Smith, the senate Democrats’ brain trust, formed <a href="http://redhorsestrategies.com/doug.html" target="new">Red Horse Strategies</a>. These firms have prospered richly under the WFP/de Blasio ascendancy, together booking more than <a href="http://www.nyccfb.info/searchabledb/ExpenditureSearchResult.aspx?ec_id=2013&ec=2013&payee=berlin+%28contains%29%3b++red+horse+%28contains%29&exp_lname1=berlin&exp_exact1=C&exp_lname2=red+horse&exp_exact2=C" target="new">$6 million</a> in
consulting fees for the 2013 municipal elections alone. But these
outfits don’t limit themselves to helping politicians get elected: they
also serve as <a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2015/04/1/ny1-exclusive--who-is-jonathan-rosen--the-most-powerful-man-in-politics---outside-city-hall.html" target="new">consultants</a> to
labor unions, real-estate development corporations, and issue-based
organizations—all seeking access to the halls of power. Neither
BerlinRosen nor Red Horse is obligated to disclose the fees it collects,
since neither calls itself a “<a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140907/POLITICS/140909888/just-dont-call-these-consultants-lobbyists" target="new">lobbyist</a>.”
De Blasio reportedly spends hours per day talking to Rosen, who was
also Sheldon Silver’s longtime adviser. Both claim that they never mix
business with politics. Four out of the city’s five district attorneys,
as well as the state attorney general, are clients of these same
consulting firms, so it is no surprise that this web of interconnections
has become a federal matter. Consultants have turned New York’s
political system inside out. They control the flow of money from their
private clients to candidates who are forced to hire them, with the
mayor’s office allegedly acting as a go-between. The mayor’s
spokesperson insists that the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/nyregion/de-blasio-team-violated-campaign-finance-laws-report-says.html" target="new">“letter of the law”</a> has
been observed. Such legalistic language will be cold comfort to New
Yorkers who expect the mayor to aspire to more than staying just inside
the border of criminality—assuming he has done so.</div>
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<a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/two-charged-in-campaign-finance-case-1416017209">Two Charged in Campaign Finance Case</a><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">(</span><span style="font-family: "";"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">WSJ) </span></span></span><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "";"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "";">De Blasio Aide Backs Out of Speaking With Special Prosecutor. </span><span style="font-family: "";">Emma
Wolfe, director of intergovernmental affairs in the de Blasio
administration, was tentatively scheduled to speak with the special
prosecutor on the case, Robert Bennet Adler, next week, the person said.
</span><span style="font-family: "";">Emma
Wolfe, director of intergovernmental affairs in the de Blasio
administration, was tentatively scheduled to speak with the special
prosecutor on the case, Robert Bennet Adler, next week, the person said.
But in recent days, Ms. Wolfe’s attorney informed Mr. Adler’s office
that she wouldn’t voluntarily speak with the prosecutor, the person
said. The session was to be part of an agreement in which Ms. Wolfe
would speak to the special prosecutor with the assurance that the
information couldn’t be used against her, the person said. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "";">Ms.
Wolfe declined to comment through a representative. In an interview,
Mr. Adler accused the defendants in the case of “gaming” the city’s
campaign-finance system in which small political donations from private
individuals are matched with public funds. Ms. Wolfe, who hasn’t been
accused of wrongdoing, isn’t the only member of the de Blasio
administration connected to the case. Camille Rivera, a deputy
commissioner in the city’s Department of Homeless Services, provided
information as part of the investigation, the person familiar with the
matter said. An attorney for Ms. Rivera declined to comment. Mr. Adler
declined to discuss Ms. Wolfe’s and Ms. Rivera’s role in the
investigation, but he did say the probe didn’t involve any alleged
impropriety related to Ms. Wolfe’s or Ms. Rivera’s work since they
joined the de Blasio administration this year. Ms. Wolfe was a key
player in Mr. de Blasio’s 2009 campaign for public advocate and served
as his chief of staff when he was in that position. She previously
worked as an organizing and field director for the Working Families
Party. </span><span style="font-family: "";">Ms. Rivera, a longtime labor operative of Mr. de Blasio, previously worked for UnitedNY, an advocacy group.</span></span></span></div>
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the Media Protect the Corrupt Political Bosses, Ignaoring the Unfair
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Campaign Finance Board must rule that the mayor’s Campaign for One NY
PAC was set up to re-elect the mayor in 2017. Once they rule that the
PAC was a de Blasio illegal campaign tool and must deny the mayor CFB
matching funds like they did in 2013 to John Liu for Illegal Campaign
Activity. Be Confident that All the Candidates Running Against the Mayor
Will Demand the CFB Does Not Give Any Matching Funds to de Blasio</span></b></div>
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<a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130805/civic-center/john-liu-gets-death-penalty-from-campaign-finance-board" target="_blank">John Liu Gets 'DeathPenalty' From Campaign Finance Board </a>(DNAIFO Aug 5<sup>th</sup>
2013) The New York City Campaign Finance Board unanimously decided not
to award Comptroller John Liu’s mayoral campaign millions in public
funding on Monday, over what it said were pervasive questions about the
campaign’s fundraising practices. The board’s decision dealt a
significant blow to a mayoral campaign that has struggled to overcome a
federal investigation and trial over its fundraising practices, even as
the candidate has maintained his innocence and no charges have been
filed against him. “[T]here is reason to believe that violations of the
[campaign finance laws] and Board rules have been committed by his
campaign,” Rev. Joseph Parkes, the board’s chair, said, reading from a
statement. “The evidence suggests that the potential violations are
serious and pervasive across the campaign’s fundraising.” In May, two
Liu campaign staffers were convicted in Manhattan Federal Court of
attempted wire fraud after an undercover FBI operation caught them
trying to skirt campaign finance laws. Connor testified to the board
that the Liu campaign had returned 35 donations and maintained that Liu
and his campaign knew nothing of the violations.</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Update: de Blasio Starts the Lawyering Up</span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20160413/BLOGS04/160419951/de-blasio-tells-his-campaign-lawyer-to-contact-prosecutor?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social" target="_blank">De Blasio tells his campaign lawyer to contact prosecutor</a>(CrainsNY) The mayor instructed Barry Berke, the attorney for his 2013 bid, to offer 'help' to Bharara in reported probe</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Baghdad W</span><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">illiam Wilhelm de Blasio </span><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">"</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "";">We’ve Done From the Beginning is Legal and Appropriate”</span></span></u></b><br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/29/de-blasio-dodges-questions-amid-corruption-probe-again/">De Blasio dodges questions amid corruption probe — again</a> (NYP)
A weary Mayor de Blasio — with growing bags under his eyes — trotted
out tired talking points on Thursday even as he was barraged by a fresh
round of questions about <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/22/de-blasio-aides-accused-of-criminal-fundraising-activity/">the investigation into his fund-raising.</a> “Guys,
as I’ve said many times, we hold ourselves to the highest standard of
integrity. Everything we’ve done from the beginning is legal and
appropriate,” de Blasio told a swarm of reporters in Midtown. “There’s
an investigation going on. We’re going to fully cooperate with that
investigation. We look forward to the speedy conclusion of it, but we’ll
fully cooperate. But since there is an investigation, I can’t go into
any details,” he added.* <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-blase-fundraising-aide-subpoenas-article-1.2617692">'VERY VERY COMFORTABLE': Mayor de Blasio blasé on 'legal and appropriate' fund-raising activity as aides subpoenaed</a> (NYDN) *<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/29/it-s-time-for-honest-bill-de-blasio-to-tell-new-york-the-truth.html?via=ios" target="_blank"> It’s Time for ‘Honest’ Bill de Blasio to Tell New York the Truth</a> (Daily Beast)</div>
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usual, the weak press is taking its clues from the mayor's spin doctor
lobbyists and ignoring the facts. The mayor has got his lawyers and
media puppets and even Common Cause all singing that the governor is
also laundering money though party committees to get around election law
spending limits.* </span>De Blasio <a href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Mayor-De-Blasio-Speaks-Election-Probe-2016-Investigation-377870071.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_NYBrand">again denied</a> criminal
wrongdoing in his campain’s fundraising activities weren’t illegal and
said that he thought he was being singled out in a series of
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watchers believe in this unprecedented investigation that the U.S
Attorney has two legal options use the Citizen United Supreme Court
ruling which has not been applied to state elections or use the federal
RICO Act. The Feds are looking at how team de Blasio planned to
violated campaign spending limits by coordinating PACs, straw campaign
committees and consulting work for their people. The NYSBOE’s report
says that the fund-raising effort was run out of Mr. de Blasio’s City
Hall and involved Emma Wolfe, his top political aide, and Ross Offinger,
a fund-raiser for the mayor’s election campaign as well as the Campaign
for One New York, a nonprofit created by Mr. de Blasio to support his
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Election Lawyers Use Their Power to Elected Puppets to Create Loop-Hole
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While
the State Board says the CONY is acting like a super PAC the mayor
says CONY isn't a registered political committee or IE (independent
expenditure committee). You have Offinger and Berlin Rosen both working
for the CONY raising money for the 2014 senate candidate. Then they
take the money pleaded as move them through the Putnam party committee.
Then both Berlin Rosen and Red Horse who both work for CONY get hired
by someone to run the campaign the money was targeted by the mayor for.
What the mayor did was have his CONY PAC raise money and pass the money
through a straw contributors and committee to hire the the consultant
who work for CONY to avoid the Citizen United law. The feds can decide
the straw committee was to avoid the law. * <a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/fundraising-probe/2016/05/2/mayor-s-nonprofit-potentially-violated-directive-from-city-s-conflict-of-interest-board.html">Mayor's Nonprofit May Have Violated Directive from City'sConflict of Interest Board </a>(NY1)
It was one of the first things Bill de Blasio did when he became mayor.
Eight days into his administration, he got a letter from the city's
Conflicts of Interest Board, the agency overseeing ethical conduct for
local elected officials. It granted the mayor approval to fundraise for
his newly established nonprofit group that was pushing his agenda, the
Campaign for One New York. Of course, there was a catch. De Blasio could
not solicit donations for that nonprofit from "anyone with a matter
pending or about to be pending’" before the city. The letter went on to
say quote: “It is the Board’s conclusion that, as applied to the mayor,
the 'agency' referred to is the entire executive branch…”<br />
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Donor
John Catsimatidis said he has not been contacted by authorities looking
into de Blasio’s fundraising operations from 2014, when the mayor
pushed for a Democratic takeover of the state Senate, <a href="http://goo.gl/EgzVz9" target="_blank">the Daily Newswrites: </a> Supermarket
mogul John Catsimatidis says he has not been contacted by authorities
looking into Mayor de Blasio’s fund-raising operation. The Daily News in
2014 reported that Catsimatidis donated $50,000 to the Putnam County
Democratic Committee at the request of de Blasio and his people. Critics
complained at the time the effort was designed to circumvent
contribution limits to candidates. State campaign finance rules prohibit
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But
donors can give as much as $103,000 to county political committees, and
those committees can transfer unlimited amounts of money to individual
campaigns. De Blasio spokesman Dan Levitan said Wednesday that “we are
confident that at all times all of our efforts were appropriate and in
accordance with the law.”Catsimatidis told the News in 2014 that he
donated $50,000 to the Putnam County Democratic Committee after de
Blasio himself made the ask.</span><b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He
said a day after he spoke to the mayor, de Blasio’s former campaign
finance director, Ross Offinger, followed up to say where to donate and
how much. Offinger, the Times reported Tuesday, has been questioned by
FBI agents.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I
disclosed that a year and a half ago,” he said of the donations. “I
never knew the money was going to be diverted to the Democratic Senate.”
He said he found out “by accident” after a Senate Democrat called to
thank him. His $50,000 donation was one of nine contributions, totaling
$452,000, that landed in the Putnam County Democratic Committee’s
account in October 2014. Days later, the committee transferred $433,000
to the campaigns of then state Sen. Terry Gipson and Senate hopeful
Justin Wagner, two Hudson Valley Democrats who both lost their races
that year.</span><b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
hefty donations were notable because the Putnam County Democratic
Committee had not received a check for more than $1,000 in at least 15
years. The News also reported at the time that the Ulster County
Democratic Committee on Oct. 14, 2014, took in $364,000 from four labor
unions and a Manhattan-based corporation. Days later, the committee
turned around and sent $160,000 to the campaign of Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk,
who wound up losing her reelection bid. And the Monroe County
Democratic Committee received $100,000 at the time from the
Communications Workers of America District One PAC, before sending
$60,000 to Sen. Ted O’Brien three days later. O’Brien also lost. A
source close to a developer with business before the city </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-fundraiser-50g-made-developer-feel-uncomfortable-article-1.1992475?cid=bitly" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" target="_blank">told the News in 2014 that the builder felt “uncomfortable”</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> after
receiving an email from Sam Nagourney, finance director of de Blasio’s
2013 mayoral campaign, asking for at least a $50,000 donation to the
Ulster County Democratic Committee, the state Working Families Party or
the state Senate Democratic Campaign Committee — all of which were
working to help the Dems grab control of the Senate. It’s unclear if the
developer gave any money. Local 32BJ of the Service Employees
International Union in 2014 gave the Putnam County Democratic Committee
$50,000 and the Monroe County Democratic Committee $102,300 that was
then transferred to candidates.</span><b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Days
after the News reported the unusual donations, Putnam County Republican
Committee Chairman Anthony Scannapieco Jr. formally asked the state’s
Board of Elections enforcement officer to look into the matter.</span><b><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Flashback </span></b><br />
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EXCLUSIVE: The developer, who did not wish to be identified, deals with
the city on permitting and other land-use issues, a person who spoke
with him said. The fundraiser's $50,000 suggested contribution put the
developer in a tough spot, as while he likes the mayor he doesn't feel
state Senate Democrats are friendly to the real estate industry.* <a href="http://in%20de%20blasio%20push%20for%20democratic%20state%20senate%20majority%2C%20exploitation%20of%20campaign%20finance%20loopholes/" target="_blank">In de Blasio push for Democratic State Senate majority,exploitation of campaign finance loopholes</a>(Progress Queens) Jimmy Vielkind @JimmyVielkind J<a href="http://m.nydailynews.com/news/politics/blaz-helps-committee-raise-funds-aide-senate-candidates-article-1.1990786%20%E2%80%A6" target="_blank">ohn Catsimatidis gets explicit abt campndonations: @BilldeBlasio asked; Cats wanted to do favor, so he wrote check</a><b>VJ Machiavelli @VJMachiavelli </b>
@JimmyVielkind @BilldeBlasio asks @JCats2013 for a favor at dinner and
being a fool with billionaire he gave shame on him investigation now.
@AndreaWNYC shame on u. @JCats2013 for doing "favor" for @deBlasioNYC
do u do lots of business with City and u want to keep on good side <b>Bill Hammond @NYDNHammond </b> C<a href="http://nydn.us/1pWlDfl" target="_blank">atsimatidis:</a> *"I do a lot of business in the city. .. He (de Blasio) asked me for a favor and I wrote the check."*<br />
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head of a company that was trying to sell the city rat-repelling trash
bags donated $100,000 to the mayor's non-profit. The city subsequently
bought some.* <a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2015/09/8577258/transactional-mayor-returns">The transactional mayor returns - Capital New York</a> Joseph Dussich, the CEO of JAD Corporation of America,
a Queens-based maintenance company, had long tried to market
mint-scented, rodent-repellent trash bags he invented. After donating
$100,000 to Campaign for One New York, the city has begun doing business
with him. Dussich gave the organization $50,000 on Dec. 10, 2014 and
another $50,000 on Feb. 3, 2015, according to filings voluntarily
provided by the group. That is 20 times more than the $4,950 an
individual can give a mayoral candidate in a single election cycle, per
Campaign Finance Board rules. Dussich has been promoting his anti-rat
product since at least 2007, when he<a href="http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/34751/"> described the idea to New York Magazine.</a> One
month after his latest donation, the city parks department spent
$15,000 on his garbage bags, according to records filed with the city
comptroller. While just a fraction of his overall donation, the deal was
a boon for the entrepreneur who lamented in 2013 that he “couldn’t get
to first base” with the parks department, which had yet to consider
buying his trash bags. At that time, he was raising money for de
Blasio’s Republican challenger, Joe Lhota.<br />
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A police official has been reassigned and a detective has been fired amid an extensive federal inquiry into municipal corruption, the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/nyregion/amid-inquiry-a-new-york-city-police-official-is-fired-another-is-reassigned.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&action=click&contentCollection=nyregion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=9&pgtype=sectionfront">NYPD announced</a>. * <o:p></o:p><a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2016/05/18/de-blasio-s-push-to-extend-mayoral-control-of-schools-remains-under-attack-from-albany.html">De Blasio Will Not Attend Thursday Hearing on Mayoral Control of City Schools</a> (NY1) * <a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2016/05/17/schools-chancellor-carmen-fari-a-inside-city-hall-may-17-2016.html">Schools Chancellor Fariña Urges State Senate to Keep Mayoral Control, Won't Commit to Another Term</a> (NY1) * <a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2016/05/8599656/mayoral-control-debate-puts-political-maneuvering-stark-display">Mayoral control debate puts political maneuvering on stark display</a> (PoliticoNY)</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><a class="postid-10197287" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/16/bratton-fires-back-at-crazy-union-boss-who-called-for-his-resignation/">Bratton fires back at ‘crazy’ union boss who called for his resignation (NYP) </a>“I couldn’t quite understand that. Sgt. Mullins — or Crazy Eddie as he’s known by those of us in the department — Crazy Eddie might now have the motivation that Richard Johnson of Page Six has a column out today that Ed thinks he might be the next police commissioner,” Bratton told WCBS Newsradio 880.* <a data-tb-shadow-region-link="0" data-tb-shadow-region-title="0" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-axed-silence-gifts-scandal-article-1.2639154">NYPD cop might be fired for staying silent on gifts-for-favors scandal(NYDN</a> * <a data-tb-shadow-region-link="0" data-tb-shadow-region-title="0" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/amount-cops-killed-2015-dropped-spike-2014-article-1.2639067">Number of cops killed in 2015 dropped from spike in 2014 (NYDN)</a> * An NYPD commander <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/16/cop-was-cooperating-with-corruption-probe-before-suicide/">was cooperating with</a> authorities as part of a wide-ranging corruption probe before fatally shooting himself, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said.* <a class="postid-10198966" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/17/cops-motive-for-suicide-unclear-as-mourners-pay-respects/">Cop’s motive for suicide unclear as mourners pay respects (NYP)</a> * <a data-tb-shadow-region-link="0" data-tb-shadow-region-title="0" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-inspector-tapped-overhaul-gun-licensing-division-retires-article-1.2640232">NYPD inspector tapped to overhaul gun licensing division suddenly retires (NYDN)</a>* <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/18/judge-bars-nypd-from-promoting-sergeants-amid-exam-scandal/">Judge bars NYPD from promoting sergeants amid exam scandal</a>(NYP)</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a class="headline" href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160512/civic-center/police-met-secretly-with-accused-gun-license-briber-police-hq-sources">Police Met Secretly With Accused Gun License Briber at NYPD HQ, Sources Say(DNAINFO)</a></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Alex Lichtenstein allegedly brought snacks to the early-morning meetings in Police Headquarters.* </span><a class="postid-10195879" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/15/bratton-refuses-to-answer-questions-on-corruption-probe/">Bratton refuses to answer questions on corruption probe (NYP) </a>Police Commissioner Bill Bratton on Sunday refused to take reporters’ questions about the ongoing federal corruption probe that led to <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/13/cop-questioned-in-nypd-corruption-probe-kills-himself/">a high-ranking cop’s suicide</a> last week.Reporters who showed up to cover <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/15/officials-participate-in-citys-largest-ever-terror-drill/">an anti-terrorism drill</a> at Kingsborough Community College were repeatedly told before a press conference that “no off-topic questions” would be answered.It’s not uncommon for department brass to restrict the line of questions reporters are permitted to ask at certain events, but it was the first media availability since Inspector Michael Ameri killed himself Friday.* <a data-tb-shadow-region-link="0" data-tb-shadow-region-title="0" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-sergeants-union-head-calls-bratton-step-article-1.2637682">'WE'RE SEEING HYPOCRISY': NYPD sergeants' union head Ed Mullins calls for Police Commisioner Bratton to step down amid ongoing corruption probe (NYDN)</a> * <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-sergeants-union-head-calls-bratton-step-article-1.2637682" target="_blank">NYPD sergeants’ union head calls for Bratton to step down amid ongoing corruption probe</a> (NYDN) “It’s time that we start to set the department straight, and if we need to make changes at the top — I personally think Bratton has stayed too long, and it’s time to go,” Sergeants Benevolent Association President Ed Mullins said on the John Catsimatidis AM 970 radio show.“We need to set a standard, and we need to raise the bar, and we need to build the relationship with the community, and we need to set an example of leadership going forward. And I just don’t see it happening.” Mullins charged there is a double standard within the NYPD, where high-ranking brass are punished less severely than lower-level cops and sergeants for the same behavior.“What I am seeing on a regular basis now at the NYPD is, it’s a do-as-I-say, not a do-as-I-do attitude — and this is coming directly from Commissioner Bratton,” Mullins told Catsimatidis. “We’re seeing hypocrisy.”He also hit Bratton for getting a membership to the Harvard Club paid for by the nonprofit Police Foundation. * Eight NYPD sergeants who alleged widespread cheating on the 2015 lieutenants’ exam <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/new-lawsuit-challenge-2015-nypd-lieutenants-exam-article-1.2637887">will file a new lawsuit</a> today challenging questions on the test, potentially throwing coveted promotions into limbo yet again. * A NYPD union head <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/nypd-cop-found-dead-on-li-not-probe-target-union-head-says-1.11802077">said he had told</a> an NYPD inspector who died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in West Babylon on Friday that he was not the focus of a federal corruption probe in the department. * The upper ranks of the NYPD are filled with anxiety, and one senior cop killed himself after being questioned by the FBI in connection with a sprawling corruption probe — but Commissioner Bill Bratton <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bratton-won-questions-federal-probe-public-event-article-1.2637654">has no comment</a>. * '<a href="http://nypdconfidential.com/" target="_blank">Bratton or someone above him needs to have discussion w/ Preet Bharara b4 another 8officer takes his life.' (NYDN) </a> *<a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160516/flushing/nypd-precinct-head-transferred-amid-karaoke-bar-corruption-scandal-sources" target="_blank">NYPD Precinct Head Transferred Amid Karaoke Bar Corruption Scandal: Sources </a>(DNAINFO) * Her husband puts his life on the line every day to guard a city their family cannot afford to live in. That’s the message of the NYPD Patrolman’s Benevolent Association <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/pba-tv-ad-slams-de-blasio-nypd-pay-article-1.2638283">new 7-figure TV ad campaign</a>, which started airing today.</div>
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/10/de-blasio-plays-dumb-on-fed-probe-into-fundraising/">De Blasio plays dumb on feds’ probe into fundraising</a></b> (NYP) Mayor de Blasio insisted Sunday that he knows nothing about <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/08/fbi-probing-mayor-de-blasios-fundraising/">the feds’ investigation into his fund-raising activities</a> — two days after promising to return shady donations just as news broke of the probe. “I haven’t heard anything about any investigation,” the mayor said on NBC’s “<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/bill-de-blasio-i-haven-t-heard-anything-about-campaign-finance-investigation-662922307832">Meet the Press</a>” Sunday morning. “There haven’t been any questions posed to me or my team.” He refused to address the investigation further at a public appearance in the afternoon, saying he has “no evidence” the feds were putting his fund-raising under a microscope. “We’ve gotten no indication of that, and until we have something specific to respond to, there’s nothing to respond to,” he said. De Blasio said Friday that he would return donations from one of the businessmen <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/06/businessmen-eyed-in-fbis-nypd-probe-big-time-de-blasio-donors/">at the center of the FBI’s widening investigation</a> into NYPD corruption. The announcement was made amid revelations that US Attorney Preet Bharara, according to sources, is looking at how the mayor solicits campaign cash from members of the real-estate industry. <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/06/de-blasio-swears-he-never-took-gifts-from-shady-businessmen/">The Post revealed last week</a> that de Blasio received sizable donations from Jona Rechnitz, the owner of a real-estate investment company who is suspected of being part of an alleged gifts-for-favors scheme in the NYPD. Blasio’s nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York. The mayor attended. Jeremy Reichberg, another target of the probe, held a fund-raiser at his million-dollar-plus home in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Borough</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Park</st1:placetype></st1:place> for de De Blasio tried to downplay his ties to the men, who served on his inaugural committee in 2013. “It’s not a particularly close relationship,’’ he said. “I met them first around the time of the general election. I hadn’t known them previously, really haven’t seen them in the last year or more. They supported the effort.”<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span>Rechnitz shelled out $50,000 to the Campaign for One New York, which has announced it will shut down. He and his wife gave another $9,900, the maximum amount, to the mayor’s 2013 campaign. But de Blasio stood by his former campaign-finance director, Ross Offinger, whose fund-raising tactics, sources say, are being probed by the feds. “I think [Offinger] has handled everything with integrity and everything appropriately,” he said.* De Blasio defended his fundraising activities on Sunday after reports surfaced about a federal investigation, and said neither he nor his aides have been contacted by investigators,<a href="http://goo.gl/tDXkzt" target="_blank"> The Wall Street Journal writes:</a><br />
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Rechnitz’s pal and fellow target of the fed probe, Jeremy Reichberg, is another well-known Borough Park leader who would “brag about his relationship with the NYPD — and about his personal relationship with the mayor,’’ a community source said. The duo served together on the mayor’s inauguration committee. Hizzoner made his first visit to Borough Park after taking office in 2014 to Reichberg’s million-dollar-plus home. There, Reichberg hosted a Campaign for One New York fund-raiser. Filings show the group took in $35,000 that day. De Blasio refused to answer a Post reporter’s question Tuesday about whether he planned to return any of the tens of thousands of dollars in campaign money he received from Rechnitz, given the scandal. “We’re on this topic, my friend . . . It’s all we’re doing today,’’ he responded when questioned at a press conference about homeless outreach.* Up to 20 senior members of the NYPD were interviewed by federal agents focused on two businessmen with ties to de Blasio as part of an investigation centering on free meals and trips given to police officials, <a href="http://goo.gl/zq64Fp" target="_blank">The New York Times reports:</a> * <a href="http://goo.gl/rA26pT" target="_blank">The Post writes that the probe into the NYPD’s ties tobusinessmen and the acceptance of gifts in exchange for favors </a>is a signal that the pay-to-play culture emanating from City Hall may be influencing the police force:* <a href="http://on.wsj.com/1Wc52aj" target="_blank">NYPD detective placed on administrative duty amid federalinvestigation</a> (WSJ) * <a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2016/04/8595759/bratton-mum-probe-nypd-says-department-will-cooperate">Bratton mum on probe into NYPD, but says department will cooperate</a>(PoliticoNY)</div>
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During an appearance at a school in Brooklyn Wednesday morning, de Blasio was asked about his relationship with the two men — Jona Rechnitz, a real estate developer and Jeremy Reichberg, a politically connected <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Borough</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Park</st1:placetype></st1:place> resident. The two men, who were on de Blasio's <a href="http://observer.com/2013/11/bill-de-blasio-rolls-out-inauguration-team/">inaugural committee</a>, are alleged to have paid for trips to the Caribbean and Israel for then-NYPD chief of department Philip Banks and Correction Officers' Benevolent Association president Norman Seabrook, in addition to supplying expensive gifts to top NYPD brass. Asked if he would return prior donations from the two men, de Blsaio demurred. “An investigation means something is being looked at. Until we get a result, we can’t make final judgements. So, in terms of any past donations, I will make that determination when I see the results of the investigation.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/federal-nypd-probe-finished-michael-ameri-killed-article-1.2636949?cid=bitly" target="_blank">NYPD corruption probe by feds was nearing indictment phase when high-ranking cop committed suicide</a> (NYDN) </span>Fear of possible indictments and a shakeup of police brass from a corruption probe gripped the NYPD in the days before <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/high-ranking-nypd-kills-long-island-golf-article-1.2636360" target="_blank">a high-ranking cop committed suicide</a>, sources told the Daily News. Inspector Michael Ameri, 44, came under increased scrutiny in the days before his death in the mushrooming scandal that involves a pair of businessmen with ties to Mayor de Blasio. Indictments were expected “sometime soon,” with changes among the NYPD’s upper echelon at One Police Plaza likely by the end of May, according to one source. Details of the investigation could become public as soon as Monday or Tuesday, the sources said. Investigators questioned Ameri, head of the NYPD Highway Patrol Unit, for a second time this past week — and popped into the unit’s office Thursday in search of files, sources told The News. * <a class="postid-10195418" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/15/it-doesnt-make-sense-cop-who-killed-himself-wasnt-in-trouble/">‘It doesn’t make sense’: Cop who killed himself ‘wasn’t in trouble’(NYP)</a> A day after <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/13/cop-questioned-in-nypd-corruption-probe-kills-himself/">the suicide of top highway cop Michael Ameri</a>, heartbroken colleagues and family were staggered by one unanswered question — why? — given that he was said to have not been criminally implicated in looming <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/06/fbi-probe-finds-nypd-cops-got-super-bowl-tickets-lavish-trips/">NYPD corruption indictments</a>. “I don’t understand it,” one close friend of the respected police commander told The Post on Saturday. “He was told he didn’t face criminal charges. It just doesn’t make sense.” But several higher-ups had told Ameri “that he was OK,” said another source close to the 44-year-old divorced dad from Long Island. “He had been repeatedly reassured.”Probers are seeking evidence that <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/18/orthodox-community-tangled-in-nypd-corruption-scandal/">officers were providing police escorts for members of the Orthodox Jewish community</a> in return for gifts, including trips and even loose diamonds.So far, targets have been revealed to include <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/06/nypd-chief-quit-amid-fbis-probe-into-inordinate-amount-of-cash/">former Chief of Department Philip Banks III</a> and <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/07/nypd-captain-probed-by-fbi-stripped-of-his-badge-and-gun/">four high-ranking cops who were relieved of their duties last month</a> after The Post exposed the probe. * <a data-tb-shadow-region-link="0" data-tb-shadow-region-title="0" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nyc-gun-broker-accused-bribes-cozy-relationships-article-1.2637194"><ins></ins>NYC gun broker accused of bribing cops used cozy relationships with NYPD to have clients avoid mandatory interviews (NYDN)</a> * <a data-tb-shadow-region-link="0" data-tb-shadow-region-title="0" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/federal-nypd-probe-finished-michael-ameri-killed-article-1.2636949">Gun, badge taken from NYPD pal of cop who killed himself; department fears indictments in corruption probe (NYPD)</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a class="postid-10193873" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/13/cop-questioned-in-nypd-corruption-probe-kills-himself/">Cop questioned in NYPD corruption probe kills himself at golf course (NYP)</a></span> An NYPD inspector who had been questioned in the <a href="http://nypost.com/tag/nypd-corruption-scandal/">ongoing corruption probe of the department</a> fatally shot himself in the head on Long Island on Friday, The Post has learned. It was not clear whether Ameri was a target of the joint FBI/NYPD investigations, and he had not been charged with any crimes or named as a suspect. But the divorced father of a teenage son was one of several cops assigned to the highway district who were grilled about providing escorts and doing favors for a pair of shady businessmen in exchange for cash and gifts. * <a data-tb-shadow-region-link="0" data-tb-shadow-region-title="0" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/high-ranking-nypd-kills-long-island-golf-article-1.2636360">High-ranking NYPD cop kills himself at Long Island golf course after being questioned by FBI in massive corruption probe — 'What did the feds know that was so big that he had to take his own life?' </a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a class="postid-10186932" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/09/police-union-claims-de-blasio-is-shortchanging-cops/">Police union claims de Blasio is shortchanging cops (NYP)</a> The city’s police union will begin airing an ad Monday accusing Mayor de Blasio of shortchanging cops. The 30-second radio spot will focus on how NYPD officers “make 34 percent less than cops locally and nationwide.” * <a class="postid-10186888" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/09/cops-didnt-inspect-guns-purchased-through-bribery-scandal/">Cops didn’t inspect guns purchased through bribery scandal</a> (NYP) <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a class="postid-10195773" href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/15/union-chief-to-hypocrite-bratton-resign/">Union chief to ‘hypocrite’ Bratton: Resign!(NYP) </a></span></span></span></span>“What I am seeing on a regular basis now in the NYPD lately is, it’s a do as I say, not as I do attitude, and this is coming directly from Commissioner Bratton,” Sergeants Benevolent Association President Ed Mullins said on John Catsimatidis’s radio show on AM 970.<br />
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Police brass joined the “Mile High Club” with the woman after departing from </span><st1:state style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">New Jersey</st1:state><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">’s </span><st1:placename style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">Teterboro</st1:placename> <st1:placetype style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">Airport</st1:placetype><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> en route to </span><st1:city style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">Las Vegas</st1:city><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> in 2014, sources said. The call girl repeated her “Coffee, tea or me?” routine when the cops flew back from Vegas, sources said. “It was first-class plus, with full service,” said a source close to the case. “They weren’t on commercial airlines. The entertainment was quite good on board.” Jona Rechnitz, who is under investigation in a suspected gifts-for-favors scheme, provided the high-priced transportation, the sources said.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Deputy Inspector James Grant and Detective Michael Milici were both identified by the sources as having been on board during at least one wild cross-country trip.* </span><b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/18/orthodox-community-tangled-in-nypd-corruption-scandal/">Orthodox community tangled in NYPD corruption scandal</a> </span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(NYP) NYPD officials acted like personal concierges to members of the Orthodox Jewish community — doing favors from providing free parking at weddings to letting wife beaters off the hook, sources told The Post. “I don’t give a s–t, you’re giving him DAT [desk appearance ticket] and that’s it,” one high-ranking deputy inspector raged after learning that a member of a powerful Hasidic group had been arrested on charges of third-degree assault for attacking his wife, according to a source. In that case, the charges were downgraded to a desk appearance ticket, allowing the man to avoid arraignment court and more serious penalties, the source said. “I still remember that as clear as day,” the source said. “That’s against protocol.” Jeremy Reichberg, a prominent </span><st1:placename style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">Borough</st1:placename> <st1:placetype style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">Park</st1:placetype><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> figure, and Jona Rechnitz, a real-estate investor, were familiar faces around </span><st1:place style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">Brooklyn</st1:place><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">’s 72nd Precinct, where disgraced Deputy Inspector James Grant, </span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/08/how-f-d-cop-used-judaism-to-curry-favor-with-probed-businessmen/" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">who was placed on modified duty last week</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, would let them park in his private spot, according to sources. Reichberg was even allowed to attend a roll call at the precinct, where he may have footed the bill for repairs, sources said. Sources said Grant is hardly the only high-ranking officer who has been giving Orthodox community members special treatment. Commanding officers often assign cops to Orthodox wedding receptions, including ones at the Rose Castle in </span><st1:city style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">Williamsburg</st1:city><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and the Ateres Chaya Hall in </span><st1:place style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Borough</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Park</st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, according to sources.* </span><a href="http://brooklyn%20man%20busted%20for%20charging%20to%20expedite%20gun%20permit%20applications%20as%20part%20of%20probe%20into%20nypd%20%28nydn%29%20a%20brooklyn%20man%20who%20offered%20to%20expedite%20gun%20permits%20with%20the%20nypd%20was%20arrested%20as%20part%20of%20far%20reaching%20probe%20into%20the%20department%2C%20the%20daily%20news%20has%20learned.%20shaya%20%22alex%22%20lichtenstein%20was%20arrested%20saturday%20and%20was%20facing%20arraignment%20monday%2C%20multiple%20sources%20said.%20lichtenstein%2C%20from%20borough%20park%2C%20would%20charge%20members%20of%20the%20orthodox%20community%20between%20%245%2C000%20and%20%2425%2C000%20to%20expedite%20their%20gun%20permit%20requests%2C%20according%20to%20sources.%20the%20process%20can%20take%20up%20to%20a%20year%20and%20requires%20multiple%20checks%20by%20the%20nypd.%20it%20is%20unclear%20if%20lichtenstein%20was%20actually%20able%20to%20speed%20up%20the%20procedure.%20but%20his%20name%20is%20tied%20to%20multiple%20permit%20holders%20in%20the%20community%2C%20records%20show.%20lichtenstein%2C%20who%20works%20in%20real%20estate%2C%20told%20the%20nypd%20that%20the%20permit%20seekers%20needed%20the%20guns%20because%20they%20worked%20in%20security%20or%20in%20the%20diamond%20district%2C%20sources%20said./" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" target="_blank">Brooklyn man busted for charging to expedite gunpermit applications as part of probe into NYPD</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (NYDN) </span></div>
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/18/shomrim-leader-busted-amid-nypd-corruption-probe/">Orthodox Jewish leader allegedly bragged about NYPD bribes for pistol permits</a> (NYP) * <b> </b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/19/nypd-bribery-suspect-accused-of-getting-violent-man-full-carry-gun-permit/">NYPD bribery suspect accused of getting ‘violent man’ full-carry gun permit</a> (NYP) Bribery suspect Alex “Shaya” Lichtenstein helped score a full-carry gun permit for a man with a history of domestic violence who once threatened to kill a loved one, the feds alleged Monday. The man, identified only as “License Holder-1,” has been the subject of at least four domestic-violence complaints — one of which involved the death threat — and was once arrested for forgery, court papers said. He has also been in four car crashes and has gotten slapped with three vehicle-related summonses and about 10 moving violations.* <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/nypd-probe-ensnares-man-charging-expedite-gun-permits-article-1.2605726">Brooklyn man busted for charging to expedite gun permit applications as part of probe into NYPD</a> (NYDN) * <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/bigger-churning-nypd-scandal-snares-top-cops-article-1.2606185">The bigger they are: Churning NYPD scandal snares top cops</a> (NYDN Ed) * * A member of a volunteer Orthodox Jewish security force in Brooklyn that works closely with <st1:city w:st="on">New York City</st1:city> police was arrested for allegedly paying NYPD officers to expedite gun-permit applications, the latest development in a corruption probe, <a href="http://goo.gl/i7r5UQ" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal reports: </a> * With nine top members of the NYPD removed from their posts for different corruption scandals in recent weeks, Commissioner Bill Bratton needs to rat out any remaining rotten cops before New Yorkers completely lose trust,<a href="http://goo.gl/H9koi9" target="_blank"> the Daily News writes: </a> *<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/20/i-paid-fixer-12500-for-gun-license-and-wound-up-with-nothing/" target="_blank"> I paid fixer $12,500 for gun licenseand wound up with nothing </a>(NYP) The building owner is complaining that the FBI blocked his bid last year to get a carry permit from the NYPD — after he paid more than $10,000 to a fixer who was <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/18/shomrim-leader-busted-amid-nypd-corruption-probe/">busted this week for allegedly bribing cops</a>. The 72-year-old man, who asked to be identified at “Jay,” told The Post that he’s appealing to the FBI to overturn the denial with the help of <st1:city w:st="on">Manhattan</st1:city> gun-licensing attorney John Chambers. He said he needs a firearm because he collects cash rents from a <st1:place w:st="on">Queens</st1:place> building he owns.</div>
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/25/detective-at-center-of-nypd-probe-suspended-after-trying-to-retire/">Detective at center of NYPD probe suspended after trying to retire</a>
(NYP) An NYPD community affairs officer who was stripped of his gun and
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Michael Milici, a 20-plus-year veteran currently assigned to Brooklyn’s
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Milici was being questioned about his relationship with two Jewish
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/08/man-charged-for-ponzi-scheme-linked-to-nypd-corruption-probe/">$12 million Ponzi scheme linked to NYPD corruption probe</a></b> (NYP) he owner of a trendy <st1:place w:st="on">Harlem</st1:place> cafe that was used as a hangout by allegedly corrupt NYPD bosses was indicted Friday for operating a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, officials said. Hamlet Peralta, who regularly entertained the high-ranking NYPD officers at his since-shuttered Hudson River Cafe, was arrested in <st1:city w:st="on">Macon</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ga.</st1:state>, and charged with wire fraud by federal prosecutors in <st1:city w:st="on">Manhattan</st1:city>. He is accused of swindling a dozen investors — including two businessmen at the center of the FBI’s police corruption probe — out of more than $12 million, claiming he would sink their money into a wholesale liquor business. “As alleged, Hamlet Peralta solicited investors for his fictitious wholesale liquor business by peddling wholesale lies,” said Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara. Jeremy Reichberg, a prominent figure in Brooklyn’s <st1:placename w:st="on">Borough</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Park</st1:placetype>, and Jona Rechnitz, an <st1:place w:st="on">Upper West Side</st1:place> real-estate businessman, invested more than a million dollars in the scheme, sources said.</div>
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<b>FBI Questing People In Real Estate How the Mayor Raises Money </b><b>Ross Offeringer Former de Blasio Fundraiser Involved. NYPD GiftGate Target </b><b>Reichberg raised money for the mayor in 2013, held a fund raiser for his Campaign for One NY PAC and raise over 100,000 for the mayor 2014 fight to make the state senate controlled by the democrats</b></div>
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/06/businessmen-eyed-in-fbis-nypd-probe-big-time-de-blasio-donors/">Businessmen eyed in FBI’s NYPD probe big-time de Blasio donors</a> (NYP) The businessmen at the center of a <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/05/fbi-investigating-nypd-for-alleged-gifts-for-favors-scandal/">federal corruption probe of NYPD cops</a> have deep financial ties to Mayor de Blasio — with one of them having sent tens of thousands of dollars Hizzoner’s way, sources and records revealed. Jona Rechnitz, who sources said was “always bragging” about his political connections, attended the Gracie Gala Dinner, a fund-raiser, last October.<b>He donated $50,000 to de Blasio’s Campaign for One <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state> — and he and his wife shelled out the maximum of $9,900 to the mayor’s 2013 campaign, records show. And when de Blasio asked donors to help the Democratic Party’s bid to take control of the state Senate, Rechnitz handed $102,000 to the Dems, records show. The party’s effort ultimately failed.</b><br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/06/businessmen-eyed-in-fbis-nypd-probe-big-time-de-blasio-donors/">Rechnitz donated $50,000 to de Blasio’s nonprofit group</a>, the Campaign for One New York, and Rechnitz and his wife shelled out the maximum $9,900 to the mayor’s 2013 campaign, records show. n addition, Rechnitz was one of the biggest bundlers for de Blasio’s campaign, raking in more than $40,000 from contributors. Hizzoner made his first visit to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Borough</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Park</st1:placetype></st1:place> after taking office in 2014 to Reichberg’s million-dollar-plus home for a Campaign for One New York fund-raiser. De Blasio campaign operatives said <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/06/businessmen-eyed-in-fbis-nypd-probe-big-time-de-blasio-donors/">they will give back the donations from Rechnitz and his wife</a> but keep the more than $40,000 in bundled contributions. Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg, who both served on the mayor’s inaugural committee in 2013, are at the center of the NYPD investigation.<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span>Hizzoner also does not plan to return the $50,000 that went to the Campaign for One New York. The mayor announced last month that he was disbanding the Campaign for One New York after good-government groups called for an probe into whether it was violating campaign-finance and conflict-of-interest laws. The $102,300 that Rechnitz, who runs the real-estate firm JSR Capital, gave to Senate Democrats at de Blasio’s urging will not be returned, either. Offinger was also treasurer of the nonprofit and once served as a campaign-finance director for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. * <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/de-blasio-return-donations-businessman-probe-article-1.2594017">CITY HALL REFUND: Mayor de Blasio to return campaign donations from businessman in FBI probe of NYPD</a> (NYDN) * <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/09/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-campaign-fund-raising-subject-to-us-corruption-inquiry.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad" target="_blank">Mayor de Blasio’s Campaign Fund-Raising Scrutinized in U.S.Corruption Inquiry</a> (NYT) * <a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2016/04/9/source--mayor-returning-campaign-donations-from-real-estate-executive-in-alleged-nypd-bribery-scandal.html">Source: Mayor Returning Campaign Donations from Real Estate Executive in Alleged NYPD Bribery Scandal</a> (NY1)<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2016/04/8596031/bratton-reassigns-4-top-police-officials-amid-joint-nypd-federal-p" title="Bratton reassigns 4 top police officials amid joint NYPD-federal probe">Bratton reassigns 4 top police officials amid joint NYPD-federal probe</a></b> (PoliticoNY) Four senior police officials were removed from their commands and placed on desk duty — with two of the officials stripped of their guns and badges — as part of a two-year joint investigation with police and federal officials. “This is not a particularly good day for the department,” police commissioner Bill Bratton told reporters inside NYPD headquarters this morning, where he announced that Deputy Chief Michael Harrington and Deputy Inspector James Grant were stripped of their guns and badges. Bratton also announced two other officials, Deputy Chief David Colon and Deputy Chief Eric Rodriguez, were “transferred to administrative positions so they will not be working operationally in the field.” Bratton did not specify what the four men may have done wrong, but said the probe is looking at whether there was a violation of NYPD rules, city Conflict of Interest rules, and, possibly federal law.*<a href="http://dlvr.it/L0RnHD" target="_blank"> Four NYPD Officers Disciplined as Part of Federal CorruptionProbe </a>(WSJ)* Four high-ranking veterans of the NYPD <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/08/nyregion/4-new-york-officers-are-put-on-desk-duty-amid-us-corruption-inquiry.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&action=click&contentCollection=nyregion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront">were reassigned</a> to desk jobs in what is likely to be a first wave of discipline stemming from a wide-ranging federal corruption investigation. The action against such prominent police commanders — three deputy chiefs and a deputy inspector — was a rare public rebuke to the senior management of the nation’s largest municipal police force.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Gang Takedown </span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/27/over-100-suspected-gang-members-arrested-in-bronx-raid/">More than 100 gang members arrested in largest takedown in NYC history</a> (NYP)* <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/bloods-linked-gang-members-charged-414g-id-theft-ring-article-1.2615754">THAT'S
A RAP! Bloods-linked members charged with running $414G identity-theft
ring, using stolen cards to shop at pricey stores — one suspect rapped
about crimes</a> (NYDN) * <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/100-bronx-gang-members-arrested-largest-takedown-nyc-history-gallery-1.2616202">FACES OF THE ARRESTED: See the Bronx gang members busted in police raids across the borough — SEE THE PHOTOS</a> (NYDN) * <b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/nypd-gangbusters-article-1.2616877">NYPD goes gangbusters</a> (NYDN Ed)</b>*
With anti-cop hysteria unabated in some quarters, the historic mass
takedown of two criminal gangs is a reminder that the NYPD gets the job
done and New York’s streets — safe as they already are — just got a whole lot safer,<a href="http://goo.gl/ymYWhr" target="_blank"> the Postwrites: </a> * <a href="http://bit.ly/1TgIj7N" target="_blank">Biggest Gang Bustin NYC History, New Blizzard Record and More</a> (NYO)</div>
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/06/top-cop-probed-by-fbi-tells-friends-im-f-d/">Top cop probed by FBI tells friends: ‘I’m f—d’</a></b> (NYP) The current boss of the <st1:place w:st="on">Upper East Side</st1:place>’s 19th Precinct accepted diamonds and cash from one of the businessmen at the center of a federal investigation, sources told The Post. Deputy NYPD Inspector James Grant was at his Staten Island home when he was handed hundreds of dollars by Jeremy Reichberg, a prominent figure in Borough Park, around Christmas, sources said. Grant soon became aware that the <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/05/fbi-investigating-nypd-for-alleged-gifts-for-favors-scandal/">feds had opened a probe into the NYPD</a>, and he told close friends, “I’m f–ked. I can’t go to jail,” a source said. Investigators also discovered that Grant on multiple occasions had personally escorted Reichberg from the airport after overseas trips to pick up diamonds. “[Grant] said he would meet him at the airport and get him back to where he had to go,” the source said. “And as a form of payment, he’d give him one or two really nice cut diamonds to give to his wife.”<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span>Grant has known Reichberg for about eight years, including Grant’ s time as head of Sunset Park’s 72nd Precinct from 2011 to 2014, sources said. The police boss is still well known in <st1:place w:st="on">Brooklyn</st1:place>’s Orthodox Jewish communities — having doled out hundreds of Captains Endowment Association cards that bear his name and read, “Please extend all courtesy to the holder of this card.”</div>
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bratton-kelly-bicker-timing-nypd-corruption-probe-article-1.2592854">BRATTON BASHES BANKS' BUMP: NYPD commissioner feuds with former top cop Kelly over promotions given to officers under investigation</a> (NYDN)* <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/08/how-f-d-cop-used-judaism-to-curry-favor-with-probed-businessmen/">How ‘f—d’ cop used Judaism to curry favor with probed businessmen</a> (NYP) <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/07/nypd-captain-probed-by-fbi-stripped-of-his-badge-and-gun/">Disgraced Deputy Inspector James Grant</a> was so cozy with his pals in the Orthodox Jewish community that he kept a mezuzah on his office doorpost — even though he isn’t Jewish, sources told The Post Thursday.* <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/08/f-d-nypd-cops-wife-part-tony-soprano-part-dominatrix/"><b>‘</b>F—d’ NYPD cop’s wife part-Tony Soprano, part-dominatrix</a> (NYP) * Four high-ranking veterans of the New York Police Department were reassigned to desk jobs in what is likely to be a first wave of discipline stemming from a wide-ranging federal corruption investigation,<a href="http://goo.gl/T23hpN" target="_blank"> The New York Times reports:</a>* <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/high-ranking-nypd-disciplined-fbi-corruption-probe-article-1.2591954">Bratton announces 4 high-ranking cops are disciplined amid FBI corruption probe, 'Not a particularly good day for the department'</a> (NYDN)</div>
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Reichberg and Jona Rechnitz, an <st1:place w:st="on">Upper West Side</st1:place> real-estate investor, <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/06/businessmen-eyed-in-fbis-nypd-probe-big-time-de-blasio-donors/">are both at the center of a federal probe</a> into whether high-ranking members of the NYPD took lavish gifts in exchange for favors. According to sources, NYPD cops received <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/06/fbi-probe-finds-nypd-cops-got-super-bowl-tickets-lavish-trips/">presents like Super Bowl tickets and vacations to China and Brazil</a>, while giving out favors such as police escorts for business deliveries and extra security to manage crowds at Hasidic weddings. Up to 20 members of the NYPD — including Grant and two other deputy inspectors — are being grilled about their knowledge of these dealings, sources said. Reichberg has been suspended from his role as a volunteer chaplain with the Westchester County Department of Public Safety, according to a report.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">As one of four chaplains since June 2013, he offered support to cops and took part in police events, including police academy graduations and memorials for fallen officers.* </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/nypd-cops-scrutiny-taxpayer-funded-midwood-feast-article-1.2591288" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" target="_blank">$3G OF TAXPAYER MONEY SPENT ON RIBS? FBI probe into NYPD corruption scandal focuses on massive feast for Midwood cops</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (NYDN)* </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/tarnishing-nypd-brass-article-1.2591173" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" target="_blank">Tarnishing the NYPD brass</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (NYDN Ed) * </span><a href="http://4.nbcny.com/yYazcwY" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" target="_blank">2 high-ranking NYPD officers transferred, 2 put on desk dutyamid FBI probe</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (WNBC) * </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/high-ranking-nypd-disciplined-fbi-corruption-probe-article-1.2591954" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">'NOT A GOOD DAY FOR THE DEPARTMENT': Bratton announces four high-ranking NYPD cops disciplined amid FBI corruption probe</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (NYDN) * </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/tarnishing-nypd-brass-article-1.2591173" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">Tarnishing the NYPD brass</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (NYDN Ed) * </span><b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2016/04/8596059/espaillat-will-return-money-donor-federal-probe" title="Espaillat will return money from donor in federal probe">Espaillat will return money from donor in federal probe</a></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (PoliticoNY) </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">State Sen. </span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Adriano Espaillat,</span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> one of the Democrats running for the congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Charlie Rangel, said Thursday he will return donations he received in 2014 from real estate developer Jona Rechnitz, a central figure in an ongoing corruption probe that has already led NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton to </span><a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2016/04/8596031/bratton-reassigns-4-top-police-officials-amid-joint-nypd-federal-p?news-image" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">reassign four top police officials</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. According to Federal Election Commission filings, Rechnitz </span><a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/sites/default/files/Screen%20Shot%202016-04-07%20at%202.38.12%20PM.png" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">gave $7,600</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> to Espaillat’s 2014 congressional campaign. That year, Rechnitz also </span><a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/sites/default/files/Screen%20Shot%202016-04-07%20at%204.14.44%20PM.png" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">donated $6,500</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> to Espaillat’s state Senate campaign account.</span><br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/06/nypd-chief-quit-amid-fbis-probe-into-inordinate-amount-of-cash/">NYPD chief quit amid FBI’s probe into ‘inordinate amount of cash’</a>(NYP) He was once a rising star in the NYPD — and a finalist to be Mayor de Blasio’s police commissioner. But Chief of Department Philip Banks stunned city leaders when he resigned in late 2014, rather than take a promotion to the No. 2 spot in the department. Now, The Post can reveal that Banks was the target of an <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/05/fbi-investigating-nypd-for-alleged-gifts-for-favors-scandal/">ongoing federal corruption probe</a> when he walked away from his job as one of the most powerful men on the force. Investigators found “hundreds of thousands” of dollars in his bank accounts that raised red flags, sources said on Wednesday. “He did bow out in kind of a strange manner,” said a source involved with the investigation.<br />
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The feds discovered the money while looking into his close relationship with two businessmen being<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/06/fbi-probe-finds-nypd-cops-got-super-bowl-tickets-lavish-trips/">probed for giving gifts to high-ranking NYPD members in exchange for favors.</a> “Banks had collected an inordinate amount of cash,” a source familiar with the case said. “Which begged the question, where is he getting this money? How is he getting it?” “We were hearing about alleged gifts and all of these trips he was taking,” the source said. Sources said the feds and the Internal Affairs Bureau were also tipped off that Banks had several rental properties in the names of relatives, and may have had a side business selling liquor.<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span>The investigation into Banks and his businessmen pals began with an IAB probe into an unnamed <st1:place w:st="on">Bronx</st1:place> cop, sources said. The NYPD called in the feds on that case, which eventually led to Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg — who are suspected of giving gifts to high-ranking cops as part of an illegal quid pro quo, according to sources.<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span>Banks and correction officers union chief Norman Seabrook took trips with Rechnitz, an Upper West Side real-estate investor, and Reichberg, a leader in <st1:placename w:st="on">Borough</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Park</st1:placetype>, <st1:place w:st="on">Brooklyn</st1:place>, sources said. At least part of their bills were paid for by Rechnitz, sources said. Banks also received two golf trips to the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Dominican Republic</st1:country-region>, according to a government source, and got a free hotel stay in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region>, where he visited the Western Wall in <st1:city w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:city> with Rechnitz and Reichberg in October 2014. A source close to Banks said he only became aware of the investigation after he stepped down as chief of the department — and that’s when he hired celebrity lawyer Ben Brafman to represent him* Former NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks, who was a rising star when he quit in 2014, was one of the targets of a police investigation into a quid-pro-quo scheme with two businessman, <a href="http://goo.gl/HlCU5r" target="_blank">the Post writes:</a>\</div>
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They’re too far down the food chain,’’ a law-enforcement source said of the politically connected businessmen. “They go straight to the top: the [commanding officer], lieutenants and other top officials at the precinct,” the source added. “They get things done for them. All they need to do is make a call.” The favors ranged from getting police escorts for their own business deliveries, to crowd control during Hasidic weddings, and even receiving special security when Torahs are moved, according to sources. The feds are looking into whether high-ranking NYPD officers then received gifts as part of an illegal quid pro quo — including jaunts to the Super Bowl, <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>, <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Brazil</st1:country-region> and <st1:city w:st="on">Rome</st1:city>, and golfing trips to the <st1:place w:st="on">Dominican Republic</st1:place>, sources said. The suspected corruption surfaced during a separate financial investigation into Mayor de Blasio cronies Jona Rechnitz, an Upper West Side real-estate powerhouse, and Jeremy Reichberg, a prominent figure in <st1:placename w:st="on">Borough</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Park</st1:placetype>, <st1:place w:st="on">Brooklyn</st1:place>, the sources said. Wiretaps on the two men raised red flags because there were so many phone calls to and from cops, sources said. “When it’s replayed, it might not sound good,’’ a source said of the wiretaps, explaining that they involve one of the businessmen making requests and the cops saying they’ll take care of it, although it’s unclear if any criminal conduct occurred. Up to 20 NYPD members — including Deputy Inspector James Grant, the head of the <st1:place w:st="on">Upper East Side</st1:place>’s 19th Precinct, and two other deputy inspectors — are being grilled over what they might know, sources said. Some were questioned during 5 a.m. visits to their homes by the FBI. Staten Island Highway Sgt. Al Bono was questioned by agents at his house last week. Sources said the you-scratch-my-back I’ll-scratch-yours arrangement between the department and local leaders has been going on for decades — and that Rechnitz and Reichberg are experts at mining it.Rechnitz is “always bragging about his relationship with the cops, how he knows everyone,” a former work associate said. “He drops names to the cops that he knows Mayor de Blasio and [former NYPD Chief of Department Philip] Banks. He thinks he’s a big shot because of his so-called connections,” the source added. “I don’t know why these [cops] got friendly with him.’’ Banks and his buddy, correction officers union chief Norman Seabrook, were the first law-enforcement officials to come on the feds’ radar, sources said. Both took overseas trips with Rechnitz and Reichberg, with Banks’ and Seabrook’s bills at least partly paid for by Rechnitz, according to sources. Banks also was treated to two golf trips to the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Dominican Republic</st1:country-region>, a government source said, and Reichnitz covered his hotel bill in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region>, where Banks posed in uniform at the Western Wall, even though he was on personal time. Ben Brafman, Banks’ lawyer, said Tuesday, “It does not appear that Mr. Banks, either while employed by the New York City Police Department or after he retired, was involved in any intentional criminal conduct.”A source said Seabrook is suspected of using Rechnitz’s JSR Capital LLC to invest union money without board approval.* New details have emerged in the FBI’s investigation, showing that high ranking members of the NYPD received international trips and Super Bowl tickets in exchange for personal police escorts and other special treatment,<a href="http://goo.gl/gY0jA0" target="_blank"> the Post reports: </a>Subpoenas from theAG's office were sent out last week to several players involved in the deal, a spokesman for Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said. The subpoenas were from the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, according to people familiar with the matter.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Corrections union president Norman Seabrook, sources said.</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Reichberg, who lives in </span><st1:placename style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">Borough</st1:placename> <st1:placetype style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">Park</st1:placetype><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, is a police buff known for his NYPD connections, while Rechnitz is a deep-pocketed de Blasio donor from the </span><st1:place style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">Upper West Side</st1:place><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, sources said. The businessmen became close friends with Banks and Seabrook, with the foursome traveling together to the Caribbean and to </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> in 2014. Rechnitz picked up both men’s tab for the </span><st1:place style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">Caribbean</st1:place><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> jaunt, sources said. He also paid Seabrook’s airfare and hotel bills in </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, while Banks paid for the flight but allowed Rechnitz to pick up his lodging tab, sources said. Although he was on his personal time, Banks wore his NYPD uniform during a visit to the Western Wall in </span><st1:city style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:city><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, and when he returned to </span><st1:state style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">New York</st1:state><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, shared what he had learned with authorities here, sources said. As a thank-you gift for all Rechnitz had done, Banks and Seabrook bought him a pricey backgammon set made of ancient wood. “[We] spent $5,000 on the backgammon set — custom-made from Israel — so that nobody could say they bought me the [plane] ticket,’’ Seabrook told The Post Monday. “There is no quid pro quo. There’s nothing [the FBI] could say </span><st1:city style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">Norman</st1:city><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> did wrong,’’ he added, referring to himself. Banks could not be reached for comment. Rechnitz also paid for at least part of other cops’ trips to places such as </span><st1:city style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">London</st1:city><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><st1:city style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">Rome</st1:city><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><st1:city style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">Las Vegas</st1:city><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and the </span><st1:place style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on">Caribbean</st1:place><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, sources said. Several sources said those being questioned as part of the probe include Deputy Inspector James Grant, head of the Upper East Side’s 19th Precinct; Brooklyn South Deputy Chief Eric Rodriguez; and Deputy Housing Chief Michael Harrington. Harrington worked for Banks before the chief of department retired. “Most of the bosses questioned are not targets,’’ a law-enforcement source claimed. One of the officers who has already testified before the grand jury is veteran NYPD Community Affairs Officer Michael Milici, sources said. The detective pleaded the Fifth and was placed on modified duty, sources said. Rechnitz and Reichberg both served on de Blasio’s “inauguration team’’ that planned his party when he took office in 2014.* </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/exclusive-nypd-involved-money-laundering-probe-article-1.2588702" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">NYPD cop involved in federal money laundering probe, may have accepted gifts in exchange for police escorts</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (NYDN) An NYPD officer tangled in the snare of a federal probe has been put on modified duty and stripped of his badge and gun, the Daily News has learned. Michael Milici, a longtime community affairs detective in the 66th Precinct, was placed on restricted detail after he refused to answer questions from a grand jury, sources said Monday. The trouble began when the feds launched a financial fraud inquiry within the NYPD. It grew out of an earlier probe by the FBI and the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office that involved fraud and possible money laundering, sources said. Now investigators are also trying to determine if some NYPD officers accepted gifts from Jewish community leaders — including a </span><st1:place style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Borough</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Park</st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> activist with close ties to city officials, sources told The News. Some officers were suspected of doing favors for at least two prominent local businessmen — including providing police escorts for Jewish funerals. The cops might have received gifts, like paid vacations, in return, sources said. Under NYPD rules, officers are not permitted to accept free meals, much less vacations. A number of NYPD brass have been interviewed. Additionally, a former chief appears to be part of the investigation, as well as another retired NYPD supervisor with ties to the 66th Precinct. The probe into illicit favor trading was sparked by a comment caught on a wiretap by a Jewish businessman, who was under investigation for something entirely different, sources said. Sources said the feds suspect he gave gifts to cops and bought meals for at least some of them. Milici’s lawyer said he and his client were in the dark about the feds’ investigation. “He asserted the Fifth to the grand jury completely,” attorney Patrick Parrotta said of Milici. “We don’t know exactly what their theory is ... we don’t know what’s on their minds, he said. Asked if his client had taken any gifts, Parrotta had an immediate adamant response. “No, of course not,” he said. * </span><b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The FBI </span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/05/fbi-investigating-nypd-for-alleged-gifts-for-favors-scandal/" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">is investigating</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> suspected NYPD corruption focusing on the relationship between two politically connected businessmen and a slew of officers throughout the ranks, sources tell the NY Post.</span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Update</span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/05/bratton-nypd-will-cooperate-fully-with-corruption-probe/">Bratton: NYPD will ‘cooperate fully’ with corruption probe</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> (NYP)*<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/attorney-general-subpoenas-rivington-house-developer-article-1.2590272" target="_blank"> </a></span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/attorney-general-subpoenas-rivington-house-developer-article-1.2590272" target="_blank">State Attorney General eyes shady dealing from Lower East Side developers, lobbyist who turned Rivington St.nursing home for AIDS patients into luxury condos </a>(NYDN)</div>
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<b style="font-family: '';"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: orange; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">GOP Attacks Senate Dems on de Blasio Addiction to Helping Them Through Party Committees </span></span></b><br />
<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/de-blasio-probes-put-democrats-in-new-york-senate-on-ethics-hot-seat-1462323483#:ZU_hwhb45Y6J-A" target="_blank">De Blasio Probes PutDemocrats in New York Senate on Ethics Hot Seat</a> (WSJ) Republicans already are attacking the New York City mayor as part of their campaign to keep control of the chamber<br />
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<b style="font-family: '';"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: orange; color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Team de Blasio Kaminsky Just Can't Stop Laudering Money to State Committees </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Note: the Investigative Work On this Story Was Done By Bragg at the Times Union</i></span></b><br />
<a href="http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/In-Senate-battle-de-Blasio-fundraiser-raised-7357590.php?cmpid=twitter-desktop" target="_blank">In Senate battle, de Blasio fundraiser raised untraceable$50K </a>(C<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">hris Bragg</span>,
Times Union) Democrats benefit from untraceable donation in race for
Skelos' old seat Days before the April 19 special election on Long
Island to replace ex-Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos, de
Blasio's chief fundraiser procured a publicly untraceable $50,000
donation to a local political party that was backing Democratic
Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky * <b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/26/de-blasio-tied-to-untraceable-50k-for-kaminsky-campaign/">De Blasio tied to ‘untraceable’ $50K for Kaminsky campaign</a></b>
(NYP) Mayor de Blasio’s top money man funneled $50,000 of “publicly
untraceable” campaign cash to help a Long Island Democrat win a crucial
race for the state Senate, according to a report Monday night. <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ross Offinger, de Blasio’s campaign finance director and treasurer </span></b>of his now-shut advocacy group Campaign for One New York, was behind the windfall, which he donated through a shadowy Delaware corporation, <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/">according to the Albany Times-Union</a>.
Mayor de Blasio’s top money man funneled $50,000 of “publicly
untraceable” campaign cash to help a Long Island Democrat win a crucial
race for the state Senate, according to a report Monday night. Offinger,
already under scrutiny for fund-raising activities involving de Blasio,
sent the money to the Nassau County Democratic Committee, which was
backing <a href="http://nypost.com/tag/Todd-Kaminsky/">Todd Kaminsky</a>,
the Times Union said. Kaminsky edged out Republican Chris McGrath by
780 votes in the April 19 special election to fill the seat formerly
held by convicted Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos. The
funds were wired to the committee’s account by a Delaware
company named A&J Contracting, the paper said, so there was no
check signature or paper trail. That company, however, has no phone
number or Web site. It also had not made a donation to a political party
or candidate before the $50,000 gift. A spokesman for the Nassau
Democratic Party confirmed to the Times-Union that the money was
actually raised by Offinger. It was not clear how Offinger — who was
paid $14,000 by the Nassau Democrats for fund-raising — garnered the
money. “I really don’t have a comment on specific donors, but I’m proud
of the work we did in Nassau County,”
Offinger told the paper. Offinger is currently being probed by US
Attorney Preet Bharara in a widening investigation into campaign
financing. De Blasio, meanwhile, is being investigated along with his
top aides for “willful andflagrant” violations of campaign-finance law.
It has been alleged that the mayor steered $1 million in union and
corporate donations to three upstate Democrats running for state Senate
seats in 2014.* The probe into de Blasio’s fundraising efforts for state
Senate Democrats could make an already unpopular mayor even more toxic
in Albany and doom many items critically important to the city,<a href="http://goo.gl/3zU2xK" target="_blank"> the Daily News writes: </a> *
Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan found himself defending his
performance in the state’s budget negotiations after the Republicans’
push to retain the seat vacated by former Majority Leader Dean Skelos
fell short,<a href="http://goo.gl/OsaE8O" target="_blank"> Politico New York reports: </a> *
If Todd Kaminsky is looking for a place to start cleaning up Albany,
he need look no further than his own backyard, where he received $50,000
from a seemingly-anonymous donor for his state Senate campaign<a href="http://goo.gl/H3tPpn" target="_blank">, the Times Union writes:</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Kaminsky Got the Same Help As de Blasio is Being Called Criminal For</span></b><br />
<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/25/donation-in-race-for-new-york-senate-seat-is-raising-suspicion/">Donation in race for New York Senate seat is raising suspicion</a></b>
(NYP) A hefty 11th-hour campaign contribution from a powerful labor
union to the Nassau County Democratic Party is raising eyebrows in light
of the fund-raising scandal that has engulfed Mayor de Blasio, The Post
has learned. The Communications Workers of America donated $109,600 to
the Nassau Democratic Committee to help <a href="http://nypost.com/tag/Todd-Kaminsky">Todd Kaminsky win the Long Island state Senate seat</a> vacated
by convicted crook Dean Skelos — just days before the April 19 special
election, Board of Elections records show. Kaminsky edged out Republican
Chris McGrath by 780 votes. Direct contributions to a state Senate
candidate are limited to $11,000, but party committees can raise and
spend more. De Blasio, his top aides and political advisers are being <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/24/city-hall-backed-campaigns-with-series-of-checks-to-dodge-limits/">investigated for “willful and flagrant” violations of campaign-finance law</a> by
steering unions and corporate donors to funnel nearly $1 million to
three upstate Democrats running for Senate seats in 2014. “Kaminsky
engaged in the exact same fund-raising scheme that is now being
investigated by the US Attorney’s Office,” a GOP insider charged.* A
large 11th-hour campaign contribution from a powerful labor union to the
Nassau County Democratic Party is raising eyebrows in light of the
fund-raising scandal that has engulfed de Blasio, <a href="http://goo.gl/SsVkeR" target="_blank">the Post reports:</a> * <a href="http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2016/04/beyond-nyc-gop-seeks-advantage-in-de-blasio-fundraising-investigation/" title="Permanent Link: Beyond NYC, GOP Seeks Advantage In de Blasio Fundraising Investigation">Beyond NYC, GOP Seeks Advantage In de Blasio Fundraising Investigation</a> (YNN)<br />
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<a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/248809/untraceable-50k-in-kaminsky-race-tied-to-developer-with-business-before-de-blasio/">Untraceable $50k in Nassau is developer withbusiness before de Blasio</a> (TU) A publicly untraceable $50,000 donation made
ahead of the election of newly christened Democratic state Sen. Todd
Kaminsky appears to have come from a major, politically connected real estate
developer with significant business before the administration of New York City
Mayor Bill de Blasio. Information about the donor’s identity was provided to
the Times Union by the chairman of the Nassau County Democratic Party, who
recently reviewed bank records concerning the donation. The money was
raised by de Blasio’s chief fundraiser, who is under federal investigation in
separate matters. In this case, it was raised for a political party on <st1:place w:st="on">Long Island</st1:place>, the Nassau Democrats, that was backing
Kaminsky in his April 19 special election. Last Monday, the <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/In-Senate-battle-de-Blasio-fundraiser-raised-7357590.php">Times
Union reported</a> that the $50,000 gift on April 7, from a little-known
Delaware LLC called “A&J Contracting,” went to the operating account of the
Nassau County Democratic Committee, which then transferred approximately
$250,000 to Kaminsky’s campaign account. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
(Lori Van Buren, Times <st1:place w:st="on">Union</st1:place>) The person
behind the donation is untraceable from public records. But <st1:city w:st="on">Nassau</st1:city>
Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs, who initially had been unaware of the donor’s
identity, told the Times Union yesterday that it was tied to a <st1:state w:st="on">New Jersey</st1:state> address shared by the Lightstone Group, a
major commercial and residential real estate developer in <st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place>.<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span>The fundraising consultant paid by the Nassau Democrats who actually
raised the $50,000 – Ross Offinger – declined to tell Jacobs who had given the
gift, Jacobs said. Offinger, the chief
fundraiser for de Blasio, is a person of interest in two federal investigations
centered on de Blasio’s fundraising: for an effort to swing the state Senate
Democratic in 2014 by funneling money through upstate party committees, and
another concerning de Blasio’s nonprofit fundraising from donors with business
before New York City. Offinger declined to tell the Times Union last week if he
thought collecting such essentially anonymous political donations was improper.
Lightstone currently retains several high-profile lobbying firms, including
Connolly, McLaughlin and Woloz. That firm reported lobbying the New York City
Department ofBuildings as lobbying target during the first two months of 2016,
according to city lobbying records. In March 2013, the New York Times <b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/realestate/commercial/once-hobbled-new-york-developer-aims-for-comeback.html">reported
that the</a></b> New York City Planning Commission authorized Lightstone
to proceed with plans to build 700 units of rental housing on the <st1:placename w:st="on">Gowanus</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Canal</st1:placetype>
in <st1:place w:st="on">Brooklyn</st1:place>. De Blasio supported the
controversial project at that site as a member of the City Council.</div>
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Advance Group was Fined by the CFB for working for<b> Councilmembers
Levine and Cumbo a</b>t the same time they were working under a hidden
name for the UFT PAC United for the Future <b> <o:p></o:p></b></li>
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<b>2, 3. </b> All the council
candidate that Red Horse worked for got paid mailing from the UFT’s United for
the Future PAC that Red Horse Also Worked for</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->4.5.<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Berlin Rosen worked for the UFT the same time
that they ran several council candidates funding by the<b> UFT’s PAC
United for the Future. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>6. . In 2009 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Berlin</st1:state></st1:place> Rosen worked for several candidates
that got campaign help from Data and Field that the CFB ruled was a illegal
campaign arm of the WFP not a private company. de Blasio also got funded
by Data and Field. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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American Federation of Teachers (AFT) donated $350,000 to campaign for one
NY PAC run by de Blasio aides. The donation about a month before de
Blasio and UFT reached a nine-year contract agreement that approved
incremental yearly pay raises totalling 19 percent when compounded.</li>
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</span></b><!--[endif]--><b>Teachers union paid $370K to fake
consultant </b>The United Federation of Teachers' payments to an
apparently fictitious consulting firm raises new questions about the<b> Advance
Group's</b> actions in the 2013 elections.<b> <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->9.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Many
credit the $1 million spent by NYCLASS Run by the Advance Group with killing
Quinns chances of become mayor in 2014 </div>
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Advance Group was Fined by the CFB for working for<b> Councilmembers
Levine and Cumbo a</b>t the same time they were working for the UFT PAC United
for the Future but they did not fine Advance for working for Councilmen Rodríguez
or Manhattan BP candidate whose campaigns were also run by the Advance group
and funded by NYCLASS PAC who Advance ran<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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11. Berlin Rosen
worked for the UFT the same time that they ran several candidates funding by
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<b>12. During the 2013 Red Horse</b> work for
several candidates as a consultant at the same it worked for the UFT PAC United
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<b>13. </b>. Red Horse Works for the follow <b>DAs
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<b> </b><b>A. Election lawyer <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lawrence</st1:place></st1:city> Mandelker works for the Mayor’s
Campaign for One NY PAC B. Mandelker works for both the
mayor campaign committee in 2013, 2017
C. Lawyer Mandelker represented the Advance
Group on its Illegal work in the race that made Mark-Viverito the council
speaker before the AG, CFB and Conflict Board D. The mayor picks half of both CFB and Conflict
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Journalisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10190956898079079756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746161844074689287.post-69227333922686792082016-04-17T17:43:00.000-07:002016-11-22T17:14:00.081-08:00de Blasio Under Investigation<br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Pay Raises for His Staff to Keep Them From Walking? Keep Them Quiet?</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a data-tb-shadow-region-link="0" data-tb-shadow-region-title="0" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/mayor-de-blasio-dishes-2m-raises-staff-article-1.2747905">COOKING UP SOME CONTROVERSY! Mayor de Blasio dishes out $2M in raises to staff — including his chef — as poll numbers keep plummeting amid scandals (NYDN)</a></span><br />
<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/08/14/de-blasio-helps-cronies-but-slashes-pay-for-bloomberg-hires/">De Blasio helps cronies but slashes pay for Bloomberg hires</a> (NYP) *<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/08/12/why-city-hall-staffers-are-getting-big-pay-raises/">Why City Hall staffers are getting big pay raises</a> (NYP) The Mayor’s Office essentially admits the problem: The payouts are needed to “retain skilled staff,” it argues.<b> </b></span>But maybe the sums wouldn’t need to be as much if staffers better liked working for this administration.Start with the fact that Hizzoner is facing as many as seven different investigations into his team’s actions, including the Rivington nursing-home flap and his fund-raising for state Senate races. Then there are the reports of the mayor humiliating and upbraiding staffers at meetings and in “teachable moments.” And, of course, his ailing poll numbers and the (well-deserved) criticism of his mayoralty from so many voices (like ours). Refugees include Deputy Mayor Lilliam Barrios-Paoli, Press Secretary Karen Hinton and his short-lived social-media director. Environmental Commissioner Emily Lloyd, Sustainability Director Nilda Mesa and counsel Maya Wiley also gave notice.<br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1.</b> </span><b> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reichberg </span></b>raised money for the mayor in 2013,
held a fund raiser for his Campaign for One NY PAC $9,900 to the in
addition, Rechnitz was one of the biggest bundlers for de Blasio’s campaign,
raking in more than $40,000 from contributors. ***<b> <span style="color: lime; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></b><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">2</span>.</span> Reichberg donated $50,000 to de Blasio’s<b>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Campaign for One New York</span> </b>— Hizzoner made his first visit
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Reichberg’s million-dollar-plus home for a Campaign for One New York
fund-raiser Hizzoner also does not plan to return the $50,000 that went
to the Campaign for One New York. *** <span style="color: lime;"> <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3</span></b>.</span> Election lawyer<span style="color: red;"> <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lawrence Mandelker</span></b></span> works for the
mayor;s Campaign for One NY PAC <span style="color: lime;"><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4.</span></b> </span> Mandelker works for the mayor campaign
committee<span style="color: lime;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">5.</span> </span></b> Mandelker
represented the <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Advance Group</span></b> on its Illegal work in the race that made Mark-Viverito
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">6</span></span></b>. The the CFB, AG and Conflict of
Interest Board made the Council Speaker and Advance paid a small fine for
the illegal work done by Advance Group <b> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7,8.9,10 </span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;">The mayor
and Council Speaker pick all the members on the CFB and Conflict of Interest
Board </span> </span><span style="color: lime; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">11.</span> </b>Nislick & Neu had meeting w/ mayor 3 days after
$100K donation to CONY <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CarriageGate?src=hash">#CarriageGate</a> <span style="color: lime; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <b>12.</b></span> <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Neu and Nislick</span></b> donated hundreds of thousands of dollars
to NYCLASS PAC that destroyed Quinns mayoral campaign Anti-horse-carriage
lobbyists Steve Nislick and Wendy Neu have donated $125,000 combined to de
Blasio’s nonprofit CONY — which doesn’t fall under campaign-finance law
restrictions — and landed three meetings with Hizzoner through August. The
huddles included a March 2 meeting that occurred three days after the lobbyists
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<b><span style="color: lime; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">13.</span></b> The Advance Group Scott Levinson ran the <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NYCLASS PAC</span></b>.
Levinson took a Job with Nislick company Edison Parking 6 days after de Blasio
was elected as mayor <b>14.</b> The leaders<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
Berlin Rosen</span></b> state off working for<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> AG Schneiderman</span></b> and have worked as political
consultants for all of his recent campaigns These public affairs firms, such as
BerlinRosen, are not obligated to register as lobbyists — even though critics
say they could be perceived as doing lobbying work because they have clients
with business before City Hall while also having easy access to deBlasio. BerlinRosen,
for instance, has overseen communications strategies for One New York,
while also counting real estate developers — Forest City Ratner Companies, SL
Green Realty and Two Trees Management — among its clients. Two Trees
Management, the developer behind the Domino Sugar <a href="http://therealdeal.com/blog/2014/05/15/city-council-okays-domino-sugar-redevelopment-plan/">redevelopment
project</a>, donated $100,000 to One New York <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">15</span>. Red Horse</span></b> works for the Campaign for One NY 16. Red Horse Works for the follow<span style="color: red;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">DAs Brooklyn, Bronx,
Staten Island and </span><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="color: red;">Manhattan </span> </st1:place></span><span style="color: lime;">17</span></b><span style="color: lime;">.</span> John Wilhelm, labor leader and cousin of Mayor de
Blasio, avoids questions about role in $175K donation to NYCLASS that funded<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
anti-Christine Quinn campaigners <span style="color: lime;"> </span></span></b><span style="text-indent: -21pt;"><span style="color: lime;"><b>18</b>.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -21pt;"><span style="color: lime;"> </span> </span><span style="text-indent: -21pt;">de
Blasio Appointed His<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Campaign Treasure Mark Peters Commission of DOI </span></b></span><span style="text-indent: -21pt;"><b><span style="color: lime;">19.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -21pt;"><span style="color: lime;"> </span> </span><span style="text-indent: -21pt;">GiftGate’s
Jona Rechnitz, was a bundler for the mayor’s 2013 election campaign, collecting
checks from others that totaled $41,650 and, with his wife, personally
contributing another $9,900 in October 2013. At the time, <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peters was de
Blasio’s treasurer</span></b>.<b> </b></span></div>
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Nursing Home that had its deed changes by City Hall. Capalino – who records
show had at least two other private meetings with the mayor through May of last
year – led all city lobbyists in 2014, collecting $8.2 million in client fees.
City records for the first nine months of last year show he’s on pace to topple
that number, amassing nearly $8.3 million in fees — or nearly double the $4.6
million his firm amassed all of 2013 during the last year of the Bloomberg
administration. His dozens of new clients include Uber, which wants to avoid
further city-imposed regulations as it competes with the yellow-cab industry. It
paid Capalino $150,000 the past two years to push its agenda.<b><span style="color: lime; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -21pt;"><b><span style="color: lime; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">21.</span></b> </span>Capalino’s firm gave de Blasio’s nonprofit Campaign for One
New York $10,000 in May — and the next day was granted face-time with the mayor
at City Hall to discuss a City Council bill to eliminate chopper tours at the
Downtown Manhattan heliport. <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-lobbyist-helped-turn-nursing-home-condos-article-1.2578230" target="_blank">Lobbyist who steered$50,000 to Mayor de Blasio turned Lower East
Sidenursing home into luxury condo</a>s (NYDN) A powerful lobbyist steered
$50,000 in donations to Mayor de Blasio after pressing the city for a deed
change that allows one of his clients to turn a building restricted for use as
a nursing home into luxury condos. Since October lobbyist James Capalino has
collected $40,000 in checks for de Blasio's 2017 re-election bid and personally
wrote a $10,000 check in May to Campaign for One New York, the non-profit de
Blasio uses to promote his causes. <b><span style="color: lime;">22. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Allure's Landau Contributed $5000 to de Blasio's 2013
Campaign </span></b>Allure Group official Joel Landau reportedly donated nearly
$5,000 to de Blasio’s 2013 mayoral campaign; the Mayor says he’ll return the
donation. [<a href="http://www.amny.com/opinion/de-blasio-fails-at-lower-east-side-property-1.11655919">AMNY</a>]
Jona Reichberg donated $50,000 to
de Blasio’s Campaign for One New York — and he and his wife shelled
out the maximum of $9,900 to the mayor’s 2013 campaign, records show. Rechnitz
handed $102,000 to the Dems, records show. The party’s effort ultimately
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<b><span style="color: lime;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">23</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></span></b><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Capalino
has rounded up $29,260 for the mayor’s re-election in 2017 and donated $10,000
to the Campaign for One New York, the non-profit that’s raised more than $4.3
million to back de Blasio’s agenda.”<b><span style="color: lime;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="color: lime;">24 </span></b>Capalino clients <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Two Trees, Toll Brothers, Asphalt Green,
</span></b>Brookfield Properties and Douglaston Development also contributed to the
Campaign for One New York. <b><span style="color: lime;">25.</span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jona Rechnitz</span></b>, who sources said was “always bragging”
about his political connections, attended the Gracie Gala Dinner, a
fund-raiser, last October. He donated $50,000 to de Blasio’s <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Campaign for One
New York </span></b>— and he and his wife shelled out the maximum of $9,900 to the mayor’s
2013 campaign, records show. The duo served together on the mayor’s
inauguration committee. Hizzoner made his first visit to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Borough</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>
after taking office in 2014 to Reichberg’s million-dollar-plus home. There,
Reichberg hosted a Campaign for One New York fund-raiser. Filings show the
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2013 Represents<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fortis</span> </b>the Developer of the LICH Hospital Site that de Blasio
got arrested for as a campaign prop promising to keep the hospital open during
the 2013 campaign. Hyers also worked for Campaign for One NY <span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="color: lime;">27</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="color: lime;"> </span></b> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Red
Horse work for the Campaign for One NY and 4 Out of 5 of the City’s Das </span><span style="text-indent: -21pt;"><b><span style="color: lime;">28.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -21pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><span style="text-indent: -21pt;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Berlin
Rosen</span></b> who worked for Campaign for One NY Stated Out Working for the AG and has
run all of his recent campaigns <b><span style="color: lime;"> </span></b></span><span style="text-indent: -21pt;"><b><span style="color: lime;">29.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -21pt;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: lime;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><span style="text-indent: -21pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sid
Davidoff, </span></b>another longtime de Blasio pal and fundraiser, got a face-to-face
meeting with deBlasio in September 2014 to discuss his client, Hunts Point
Terminal Market. Six months later, the mayor announced plans for a $150 million
infrastructure upgrade there. Besides seeing his company’s City Hall work jump
from $2.1 million during the last two years of the Bloomberg administration to
$4.2 million 1 ¾ years into the de Blasio administration, Davidoff scored
another private business session last May with de Blasio to discuss a “civil
rights museum,” records show. He even convinced Hizzoner in April 2014 to
perform his first City Hall wedding and marry him and his bride, Daily News
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<b><span style="color: lime;">30.</span></b> On Jan.11, de Blasio’s longtime mentor, Ickes, helped
client AEG Live <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/01/11/coachella-promoter-to-host-massive-music-festival-on-randalls-island/">score
a controversial permit to host a Coachella-style major music festival</a> on
Randall’s <st1:place w:st="on">Island</st1:place> — on the same day he <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/01/20/lobbyist-gave-de-blasio-13k-donation-on-same-day-as-concert-approval/">bundled
$13,000 in donations</a> for the mayor’s re-election campaign. Besides AEG
Live, which shelled out $150,000 in fees, Ickes’ other clients include
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181-1061, which spent $42,000 before Ickes
delivered $42 million in taxpayer funds to boost private bus driver salaries.<b> <span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: lime;">31</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b> </b> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Teachers
union paid $370K to fake consultant </span></b>The United Federation of Teachers' payments
to an apparently fictitious consulting firm raises new questions about the<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
Advance Group's</span></b> actions in the 2013 elections.<b><span style="color: lime;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="color: lime;">32.</span></b> The Advance Group was Fined by the CFB for working for<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Councilmembers Levine and Cumbo a</span></b>t the same time they were working for the UFT
PAC United for the Future <b><span style="color: lime;"> <span style="text-indent: -21pt;">33.</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -21pt;"><b><span style="color: lime;"> </span></b> </span><span style="text-indent: -21pt;">All
the council candidate that Red Horse worked for got mailing from the UFT’s
United for the Future PAC that Red Horse Also Worked for </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">34</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Berlin
Rosen worked for the UFT the same time that they ran several candidates funding
by the<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> UFT’s PAC United for the Future. </span></b>
In 2009 Berlin Rosen worked for several candidates that got campaign
help from Data and Field that the CFB ruled was a illegal campaign arm of the
WFP not a private company. de Blasio
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><b><span style="color: lime;">35. </span></b> de Blasio after
he was elected mayor work to elect <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mark-Viverito </span></b>as speaker of the City Counci <b><span style="color: lime;">36 </span></b>Rechnitz and his wife each donated the maximum
$4,950 to de Blasio’s campaign, which the mayor has said he would return.<span style="color: lime;"> </span><b><span style="color: lime;">37</span> <a href="http://newyorkyimby.com/2014/11/de-blasios-astoria-cove-deal-looks-a-lot-like-bloombergs.html">De Blasio’S Astoria Cove Deal Looks ALot Like Bloomberg</a> 38.</b> de Blasio
campaign treasurer <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Richard Offinge</span></b>r was also once treasurer of Campaign for One
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<span style="font-family: "";">Pitta Bishop Del Giorno Giblin is paid $40,000 a year to represent the PBA's </span><span style="font-family: "";">Detectives' Endowment Association, Inc. </span><span style="font-family: "";">After the split with the Advance Group, Ms. Mark-Viverito indeed made hefty payments to a number of other consultants (including lobbying and compliance firm Pitta Bishop) that aided her speaker bid. In a novel move, Pitta Bishop </span><a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140115/BLOGS04/140119914/mark-viverito-spent-big-on-speaker-race" style="font-family: '';">set up a 2017 campaign account</a><span style="font-family: "";"> for an unspecified city office, and Ms. Mark-Viverito raised more than $100,000, despite only needing the votes of 26 council colleagues to win the early 2014 leadership race. </span><span style="font-family: "";">That led another good-government group, Common Cause/NY, to charge that she had exploited loopholes in state election law. Ms. Mark-Viverito's opponents in the speaker race did not similarly set up campaign funds to hire staff. But officials from Pitta Bishop say the move was fully vetted by the city Campaign Finance Board and state Board of Elections.</span><span style="font-family: "";">Pitta Bishop Del Giorno Giblin Has Hit the Jack Pot With Over A 100 New Lobbying Clients Since She Took the Speakers Office .One Wonders How the lobbying Firm Explains the Speakers Views to Their PBA Client. </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140501/BLOGS04/140509993/council-speaker-puts-connected-lobbyist-on-payroll" style="font-family: '';" target="_blank">Council speaker puts connected lobbyist on payroll(CrainsNY)</a><span style="font-family: "";"> Melissa Mark-Viverito quietly handed a $130,000-a-year staff position to a lobbyist from the firm that helped propel her to the City Council speakership, payroll records show. In late March, Carlos Beato, who was a lobbyist at the firm Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin, joined the City Council payroll as a deputy general counsel. The move came not long after the lobbying sho </span><span style="font-family: "";">* </span><a href="http://goo.gl/2o13mN" style="font-family: '';" target="_blank">Nicole Gelinas of the Manhattan Institute writes in </a><span style="font-family: "";">the Post that New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito’s push to decriminalize “nuisance” offenses would lead to an increase in more serious crimes:</span><br />
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<a href="http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1581432" style="font-family: '';" target="_blank">City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito got help landing job from top lobby firm that reps unions and real estate doperevels</a><span style="font-family: "";">(NYDN) Documents released Wednesday show that the councilwoman set up a fundraising committee called Viverito NYC on Nov. 5 and designated Vito Pitta of the lobbying firm Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin as its "liaison." About one-fifth of the contributions, $21,400, came from Pitta's clients, mostly municipal unions who pay him to press their causes before city government. On the other side of the ledger, Mark-Viverito’s committee spent $80,000 on her campaign for speaker — including “consultant” fees of $17,000 to Pitta’s firm, according to the campaign finance documents released by the state Board of Elections.</span></div>
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Another big winner of 2013 made a similar argument. Jon Del Giorno, sitting in his firm's 28th-floor conference room a few blocks from City Hall, downplayed the notion that his closeness with Ms. Mark-Viverito will help his firm, Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin, which has hovered near the bottom of, or just out of, the top-10 list. Pitta Bishop has done Ms. Mark-Viverito's election-law compliance since 2005, and last year Mr. Del Giorno quarterbacked her uphill speaker bid. In a clever and unprecedented move, the firm set up a 2017 campaign account for an unspecified office with the state Board of Elections, which allowed Ms. Mark-Viverito to raise $100,000 and hire a full staff for her run, despite needing just 26 votes from council colleagues to win. More than $21,000 of the money reportedly came from Pitta Bishop's long roster of business and labor clients, and gave Ms. Mark-Viverito an edge over her rivals. Common Cause New York said the new speaker was "exploiting" the state's lax campaign-finance system.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"> In an unseemly but legal case of double-dealing, Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin helped Melissa Mark-Viverito become New York City Council speaker and is now lobbying Council members to pass mostly pro-union legislation</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>L<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">obby for the City Council </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin,: </span></b><a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=MedReview%2C+Inc.">MedReview, Inc.</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Meadows+Office+Supply+Co.%2C+Inc.">Meadows Office Supply Co., Inc.</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=National+Lighthouse+Museum">National Lighthouse Museum</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Simon+Wiesenthal+Center%2C+Inc.">Simon Wiesenthal Center, Inc.,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Knickerbocker+Plaza+LLC">Knickerbocker Plaza LLC,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Local+420+AFSCME+AFL-CIO">Local 420 AFSCME AFL-CIO,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Vera+Institute+of+Justice%2C+Inc.">Vera Institute of Justice, Inc.,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Hotel%2C+Restaurant+%26+Club+Employees+%26+Bartenders+Union+Local+6">Hotel, Restaurant & Club Employees & Bartenders Union Local 6</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=New+York+Hotel+and+Motel+Trades+Council+AFL-CIO">New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council AFL-CIO,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Detectives+Endowment+Association+Police+Department%2C+City+of+New+York+Inc.">Detectives Endowment Association Police Department, City of New York Inc.,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Lakeside+Manor+Home+For+Adults+Inc.">Lakeside Manor Home For Adults Inc.,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Community+Health+Center+of+Richmond%2C+Inc.">Community Health Center of Richmond, Inc,,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Grasmere+and+Cameron+Lakes+Bluebelt+Conservancy%2C+Inc.">Grasmere and Cameron Lakes Bluebelt Conservancy, Inc.,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Plumbers+and+Gasfitters+Local+Union+No.+1+of+the+United+Association">Plumbers and Gasfitters Local Union No. 1 of the United Association</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=New+York+State+Conference+of+IUOE">New York State Conference of IUOE,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Richmond+Uni+Home+Care%2C+Inc.">Richmond Uni Home Care, Inc.,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Adco+Electrical+Corp">Adco Electrical Corp,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=BIO-REFERENCE+LABORATORIES%2C+INC.">BIO-REFERENCE LABORATORIES, INC.</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=New+York+Hotel+Trades+Council+and+Hotel+Assoc.+of+NYC%2C+Inc.+Health+Benefits+Fund">New York Hotel Trades Council and Hotel Assoc. of NYC, Inc. Health Benefits Fund,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=LOCAL+372+NEW+YORK+CITY+BOARD+OF+EDUCATION+EMPLOYEES">LOCAL 372 NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION EMPLOYEES,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=UNITE+HERE">UNITE HERE</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=MagnaCare+Administrative+Services%2C+LLC">MagnaCare Administrative Services, LLC,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=District+Council+No.+4%2C+International+Union+of+Painters+and+Allied+Trades%2C+AFL-CIO">District Council No. 4, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, AFL-CIO</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=A.T.U.-Division+1181-1061+AFL-CIO">A.T.U.-Division 1181-1061 AFL-CIO</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=OFFICE+%26PROFESSIONAL+EMPLOYEES+INTERNATIONAL+UNION+LOCAL+153">OFFICE &PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 153</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=International+Union+of+Painters+and+Allied+Trades+DC+9">International Union of Painters and Allied Trades DC 9</a> , <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=RICHMOND+UNIVERSITY+MEDICAL+CENTER">RICHMOND UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=BJ%27s+Wholesale+Club%2C+Inc.">BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=International+Union+of+Operating+Engineers+Local+14-14B">International Union of Operating Engineers Local 14-14B</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Brooklyn+Legal+Services+Corporation+A">Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Glenwood+Management+Corp.">Glenwood Management Corp.,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=LOCAL+UNION+NO.+94-94A-94B%2C+I.U.O.E.%2C+AFL-CIO">LOCAL UNION NO. 94-94A-94B, I.U.O.E., AFL-CIO,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=NYSARC%2C+INC.%2C+NEW+YORK+CITY+CHAPTER">NYSARC, INC., NEW YORK CITY CHAPTER</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=New+York+Black+Operator%27s+Injury+Compensation+Fund%2C+Inc.">New York Black Operator's Injury Compensation Fund, Inc.,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=UNIFORMED+SANITATIONMEN%27S+ASS%27N+LOCAL+831+-+I.B.T.">UNIFORMED SANITATIONMEN'S ASS'N LOCAL 831 - I.B.T,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Associated+Brick+Mason+Contractors+of+Greater+New+York%2C+Inc.">Associated Brick Mason Contractors of Greater New York, Inc.,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=East+Side+Alliance+Against+Overdevelopment%2C+Inc.">East Side Alliance Against Overdevelopment, Inc., </a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Urgent-MD+Hewlett+Management+LLC">Urgent-MD Hewlett Management LLC</a> , <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=SOSH+Architects%2C+P.A.">SOSH Architects, P.A.,,</a><b> <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Lobby for the City Council and office of the mayor </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin,:</span></span> </b><a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=New+York+Wheel+LLC">New York Wheel LLC</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=WellPoint%2C+Inc.">WellPoint, Inc.</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Pier+A+Battery+Park+Associates%2C+LLC">Pier A Battery Park Associates, LLC</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Garage+Employees+Local+Union+No.+272">Garage Employees Local Union No. 272</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Staten+Island+Marine+Development%2C+LLC">Staten Island Marine Development, LLC</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=The+Francis+School">The Francis School</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Chef%27s+Choice+Cash+%26+Carry+Food+Distributor%2C+Inc.">Chef's Choice Cash & Carry Food Distributor, Inc.,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=THE+WITKOFF+GROUP+LLC">THE WITKOFF GROUP LLC,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Il+Commandatore+Restaurant+Inc.">Il Commandatore Restaurant Inc.</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=RJ+LEE+GROUP%2C+INC.">RJ LEE GROUP, INC.</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Cameron+Club+of+Staten+island%2C+Inc.">Cameron Club of Staten island, Inc.</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Milrose+Consultants%2C+Inc.">Milrose Consultants, Inc.</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Jewish+Community+Center+of+Staten+Island%2C+Inc.">Jewish Community Center of Staten Island, Inc,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=UNIFORMED+FIRE+ALARM+DISPATCHERS+BENEVOLENT+ASSOCIATION%2C+INC.">UNIFORMED FIRE ALARM DISPATCHERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, INC.</a> , <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Lobby for the office of the mayor </span></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin,: </span></span><a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Gardeners%2FGrowers%2FLandscapers+Association+of+New+York%2C+Inc.">Gardeners/Growers/Landscapers Association of New York, Inc.</a>, <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Council+of+School+Supervisors+and+Administrators">Council of School Supervisors and Administrators,</a> <a class="table_link" href="http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=SOSH+Architects%2C+P.A.">SOSH Architects, P.A.</a></span></div>
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<a class="newyorkbusiness-metered ga-event" data-ga-event-action="Top News Buckets" data-ga-event-category="Modules" data-ga-event-label="Bottom Bucket Story #0 Headline" data-ga-event-type="click" href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140501/BLOGS04/140509993/council-speaker-puts-connected-lobbyist-on-payroll" itemprop="headline">Council speaker puts connected lobbyist on payroll(CrainsNY)</a> Melissa Mark-Viverito quietly handed a $130,000-a-year staff position to a lobbyist from the firm that helped propel her to the City Council speakership, payroll records show. In late March, Carlos Beato, who was a lobbyist at the firm Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin, joined the City Council payroll as a deputy general counsel. The move came not long after the lobbying shop—which has long served as Ms. Mark-Viverito’s campaign compliance consultant—<a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140210/POLITICS/302099986/city-halls-new-in-crowd-of-lobbyists">quarterbacked her council speaker bid</a>. The firm’s Jon Del Giorno set up an “appointments committee” for Ms. Mark-Viverito to vet applicants for the council staff. The firm lobbied Ms. Mark-Viverito as her speaker <a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140210/POLITICS/302099982/a-very-cozy-relationship">bid was ongoing</a>, and has continued to do so since her ascension to the city's second-most powerful post. The close ties have drawn scrutiny and a call from the <i>Daily News</i> for Ms. Mark-Viverito <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/pay-to-play-speaker-article-1.1742315" target="_blank">to sever ties with</a> the firm and its clients. In an unprecedented and clever move, the Pitta Bishop set up <a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140115/BLOGS04/140119914/mark-viverito-spent-big-on-speaker-race">a 2017 campaign account</a>to facilitate Ms. Mark-Viverito’s speaker run. That allowed her to raise $100,000, with more than $20,000 coming from the lobbying firm’s clients. The good-government group Common Cause accused Ms. Mark-Viverito of exploiting loopholes in state election law. Pitta Bishop's clients also reportedly <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/exclusive-melissa-mark-viverito-campaign-consulting-firm-lobbies-article-1.1741068" target="_blank">funded much of her</a> $27,000 inauguration party. *<a href="http://nwsdy.li/1wbbMIE" target="_blank"> NY lobbying grows another 4%, spent $109 M in first sixmonths of this year; now 32 lobbyists for every legislator </a><br />
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The unions — the Correction Officers Benevolent Association, the Detectives Endowment Association, the NYC Coalition of Operating Engineers, the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association, plus local arms of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, Teamsters Local 237, the International Union of Operating Engineers and the Municipal Hospital Employees Union — paid a collective $218,000 to Pitta Bishop in the first four months of 2015. Pitta Bishop was founded in 2008 by four connected buddies who have known each other since the early 1980s: Vincent Pitta, a labor lawyer from Staten Island; Robert Bishop, a Republican from Queens who now runs the company’s Albany office; Jon Del Giorno, a Democratic Party bigwig and former Board of Elections official who once ran for the council; and Vincent Giblin, a former assistant US attorney in New Jersey whose father was the national president of the International Union of Operating Engineers. A few key hires in recent years — former Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano and former Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro, came on board as senior managing directors in 2014 — helped cement its ties to City Hall.</div>
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The Detectives Endowment Association paid Pitta Bishop $66,000 in 2014, pushing for legislation on undercover detectives and 1,000 new police officers. Mark-Viverito announced last month that she supported the 1,000-new-cops initiative, in opposition to the mayor.* <span style="font-family: "";">The New York City Council, led by Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, voted to create a new “Office of Civil Justice” to better connect plaintiffs in housing and immigration court with attorneys,<a href="http://goo.gl/zoDta8" target="_blank"> the Observer writes: </a> * </span><span style="font-family: "";">NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito </span><a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2015/05/8568975/mark-viverito-march-release-puerto-rican-nationalist" style="font-family: '';">will march in Manhattan</a><span style="font-family: "";"> on Saturday to demand the liberation of Oscar López Rivera, a Puerto Rican nationalist currently held in federal prison for conspiracy.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What Pitta Bishop Did for the TWU </span></b><span style="font-family: "";">A $42 million deal for school-bus drivers, Mayor de Blasio’s reward to the transport unions after the previous administration opened up city contracts to non-union drivers. To help push the deal, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181 paid Pitta Bishop $36,000 in 2014, keeping the firm on a monthly retainer of $3,000, which rolled over into 2015, while the Transport Workers Union paid $17,500 to Pitta Bishop to lobby.* </span>In another TWU proposal — “Intro 663,” sponsored by Councilman I. Daneek Miller (D-Queens) and 24 co-sponsors — the TWU paid Pitta Bishop to push for a law letting MTA bus drivers off the hook if they maim a pedestrian. The bill has been referred to the Committee on Transportation.<span style="font-family: "";"> </span><b style="font-family: '';"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What Pitta Bishop Did for the Hotel Unions</span></b><span style="font-family: "";"> </span><span style="font-family: "";">Two hotel-workers unions paid a combined $81,000 to push for a bill that restricts the rights of hotel owners who seek to turn their rooms into condos, a jobs-saving move that one critic called “an unprecedented intrusion in the private market.” The council passed that bill on May 14.</span><br />
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In another bit of coziness, Pitta Bishop donates to friendly lawmakers’ campaigns. Though the lobbying firm can give no more than $400 per candidate, the two founders also run Pitta and Giblin LLP, an affiliated law firm that has no donation restrictions. <span style="font-family: "";">In 2014, that firm gave out $71,700, including $37,000 to Gov. Cuomo’s re-election campaign. Individual donations also sidestep the lobbying firm’s limits. Vincent Pitta’s wife, Antoinette, donated $4,500 to de Blasio’s 2013 race, campaign-finance records reveal. While there are no direct donations to Mark-Viverito, more than 20 percent of the $100,000 raised for her speaker campaign came from Pitta Bishop’s clients, mainly unions, as did much of the cost of her $27,000 inauguration. Critics say that allowing lobbying firms to donate to politicians, be paid by politicians as consultants, and then lobby those same politicians is troubling.</span></div>
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<a href="http://politicker.com/2013/12/melissa-mark-viverito-drops-advance-group-for-speaker-bid/" target="_blank">Melissa Mark-Viverito Drops Advance Group for Speaker Bid</a>(NYO) Ms. Mark-Viverito insisted today that this was not the case but out of an “abundance of caution,” the relationship would end. <a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/200561/melissa-mark-viverito-drops-advance-group-for-speaker-bid/">Melissa Mark-Viverito Drops <i>Advance Group</i> for Speaker Bid - Blogs(TU)</a></div>
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An operative with the controversial Advance Group, Jonathan Yedin, who has been working in Brooklyn Democratic Party politics for more than a decade and belongs to Mr. Seddio’s political club. Though Ms. Mark-Viverito eventually stopped taking free advice from the Advance Group, Mr. Yedin remained a crucial player in the brokering of the deal, sources said. <a href="http://politicker.com/2013/12/inside-melissa-mark-viveritos-road-to-victory/" target="_blank"> Inside Melissa Mark-Viverito’s Road to Victory</a>(NYO) * <a href="http://ny-popculture-politics.blogspot.com/2013/12/Melissa-Mark-Viverito-Lobbyist-Firm-Never-Quit-Continued-Lobbying-Despite-Investigations.html" target="_blank">Melissa Mark-Viverito Lobbyist Firm Never Quit, Continued Lobbying Despite Investigations</a> * <span style="font-family: ""; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/lobbyist-aid-pol-slapped-article-1.1530544#ixzz2nxYQYw3c" target="_blank">EXCLUSIVE: City Council Speaker candidate Melissa Mark-Viverito may have violated city ethics rules</a>(NYDN) </span><span style="font-family: "";">Mark-Viverito, an East Harlem councilwoman, accepted unpaid assistance from the Advance Group, a prominent lobbying firm working to further her candidacy.</span></div>
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2015/05/24/mark-viverito-wont-discuss-lobbyist-connections/">Mark-Viverito won’t discuss lobbyist connections</a> (NYP) City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito dodged questions Sunday about her cozy relationship with a powerful lobbying firm, arguing she’s “doing everything by the rules.” Mark-Viverito refused to discuss her conversations with Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin — even though she paid the company $61,000 during her run for City Council speaker. <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/05/24/lobbying-firm-makes-millions-on-political-union-ties/">“As you guys reported,</a> we follow and we’re doing everything by the rules and legal. That’s the bottom line,” she told The Post. Since Mark-Viverito was elected to the top post a year and a half ago, Pitta Bishop has raked in more than $3.3 million to lobby council members. The firm successfully lobbied the council on 12 bills since she won the job.</div>
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2015/05/24/lobbying-firm-makes-millions-on-political-union-ties/">Lobbying firm makes millions on political, union ties</a>(NYP)<b> <o:p></o:p></b>The lobbying firm Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin helps elect politicians — then tells them how to vote when they get in office. In her quest to become City Council speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito enlisted the help of the firm, paying it more than $61,000 in consulting fees. Since Mark-Viverito took power last year, Pitta Bishop has been paid more than $3.3 million by clients to lobby council members, including the speaker, to get mostly pro-union laws passed. Mark-Viverito even hired a former Pitta Bishop lobbyist, Carlos Beato, as her $130,000-per-year legislative counsel. This unseemly — but legal — double-dealing has transformed the once-obscure <st1:place w:st="on">Staten Island</st1:place> firm into one of the city’s most powerful political forces. In 2012, Pitta Bishop wasn’t in the Top 10 of city lobbying firms. This year, with 90 clients, it’s No. 4. In just a year and a half, Pitta Bishop has lobbied for or against 40 bills in the council, plus assorted other state measures, budget proposals and as-yet unintroduced legislation. Its success rate is impressive. Of the 28 bills it favored, 12 passed and the other 16 are still before council committees. Some of Pitta’s successes include *<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">True News Wags the NYP on Shadow Govt Lobbyists Pitta Biship Control of the Council Speaker and the Detectives Union </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "";">Today lobbyist political consultants and favored PR firms that pour money into campaigns form a powerful and growing shadow government in New York. </span><span style="font-family: "";">Pols trying to cover that up.</span><span style="font-family: "";"> They cut government contracts for their clients without media or prosecutors </span><span style="font-family: "";">attention</span><span style="font-family: "";"> who sent Tammany Boss de Sapio to jail for a pay to play government contract for Con Ed. </span>The Old Tammany Hall Machine was corrupt, but the only function of the new lobbyists consultant created after the de Sapio era to pay to play government contracts. Today's lobbyist's controlled private machine gain power by getting electing candidates, feeding them with campaign contributions from their clients who are looking for city contracts or zoning changes, they never meet the voters. They move government without having to disclose their activities. They elect candidates who will be helpful to the clients they lobby for. Call them clever, call them stealthy. Most are not a registered lobbyist. Yet he regularly meets with government officials.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">EXCLUSIVE:<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-speaker-melissa-mark-viverito-paid-28g-firm-lobbied-clients-behalf-article-1.1869805#ixzz37j5s8hN1" target="_blank"> City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito paid $28G to lobbying firm for consulting, while they lobbied her on behalf of clients</a>(NYDN) </span><span style="font-size: small;">During the period that she was paying Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin, the firm lobbied her office and members of the City Council on behalf of at least a half-dozen clients, according to lobbying reports filed with the city clerk’s office. Simultaneously paying and being lobbied by the same firm is legal, but the practice has been criticized by good-government </span><span style="font-size: small;"> groups worried that such a cozy relationship can give lobbyists special access to a politician. The Daily News b</span>etween Dec. 1 and July 11, her campaign, Viverito NY, wrote six checks ranging from $722 to $6,630 to the firm Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin, the campaign finance statements show.On 11/27/2013 the Daily News wrote a story that forced the speakers hand.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Daily News Does Not Even Understand That It Was Them Who Forced the Speaker to Pay Lobbyists </span>Pitta Bishop Del Giorno When They Wrote A Story Attacking the Advance Groups Free Help to Mark-Viverito to Make Her Council Speaker. A Violation of the City Ethics Rules for Lobbyists. <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/lobbyist-aid-pol-slapped-article-1.1530544#ixzz2nxYQYw3c" target="_blank">EXCLUSIVE: City Council Speaker candidate Melissa Mark-Viverito may have violated city ethics rules</a>(NYDN) </span>Mark-Viverito, an East Harlem councilwoman, accepted unpaid assistance from the Advance Group, a prominent lobbying firm working to further her candidacy (Daily News 11/27/2013)<br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/melissa-mark-viverito-spent-big-bucks-speaker-race-campaign-filings-show-blog-entry-1.1868130" target="_blank"> Mark-Viverito spent significant amounts on campaign consultants - paying $22,352 to consultants Pitta Bishop Del Giorno Giblin.</a> She also owes that firm another $6250.She paid $8295 to Amelia Adams from New York Communities for Change, now a top staffer on her city payroll, $10,000 to H Strategies, where her now-communications director Eric Koch then worked, and $10,000 to Jon Paul Lupo, who worked on her speaker campaign and is now a top aide to Mayor de Blasio. She also donated $8500 to the Working Families Party. Mark-Viverito collected donations from unions 1199 SEIU, CWA Local 1180, and 32BJ. An opponent of the proposed big soda ban, she also got $1000 from Coca Cola’s PAC.* <a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2014/07/8549011/mark-viverito-spent-106k-bid-become-speaker">Mark-Viverito spent $106K on bid to become speaker</a>(Capital)<br />
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<a class="newyorkbusiness-metered ga-event" data-ga-event-action="Top News Buckets" data-ga-event-category="Modules" data-ga-event-label="Bottom Bucket Story #0 Headline" data-ga-event-type="click" href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140501/BLOGS04/140509993/council-speaker-puts-connected-lobbyist-on-payroll" itemprop="headline">Council speaker puts connected lobbyist on payroll(CrainsNY)</a> Melissa Mark-Viverito quietly handed a $130,000-a-year staff position to a lobbyist from the firm that helped propel her to the City Council speakership, payroll records show. In late March, Carlos Beato, who was a lobbyist at the firm Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin, joined the City Council payroll as a deputy general counsel. The move came not long after the lobbying shop—which has long served as Ms. Mark-Viverito’s campaign compliance consultantIt was reported that another political insider and lobbying firm, <a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140115/BLOGS04/140119935/lobbyists-aid-mark-viverito-transition" target="_blank" title="Lobbyists aid Mark-Viverito transition">Pitta Bishop</a>, helped Council Speaker <a href="http://ny-popculture-politics.blogspot.com/2014/04/Is-Council-Speaker-Mark-Viverito-Caught-In-An-Apparent-Pay-to-Play-Fix.html" target="_blank" title="Is Council Speaker Mark-Viverito Caught In A Corrupt Pay-to-Play Fix ?">Melissa Mark-Viverito</a> with City Council staffing. In respect of City Council staffing, loyalists to the mayor being paid for by special interest donors act as gatekeepers for the mayor's agenda. —<a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140210/POLITICS/302099986/city-halls-new-in-crowd-of-lobbyists">quarterbacked her council speaker bid</a>. The firm’s Jon Del Giorno set up an “appointments committee” for Ms. Mark-Viverito to vet applicants for the council staff. The firm lobbied Ms. Mark-Viverito as her speaker <a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140210/POLITICS/302099982/a-very-cozy-relationship">bid was ongoing</a>, and has continued to do so since her ascension to the city's second-most powerful post. The close ties have drawn scrutiny and a call from the <i>Daily News</i> for Ms. Mark-Viverito <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/pay-to-play-speaker-article-1.1742315" target="_blank">to sever ties with</a> the firm and its clients.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A consulting firm—Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin—that helped Melissa Mark-Viverito in her runs for City Council and Council speaker has lobbied her on behalf of four clients,<a href="http://goo.gl/3OET6C" target="_blank"> the Daily News reports: </a>Disclosure reports show an advocacy group, the East Side Alliance Against Overdevelopment, paid Pitta Bishop $15,000 in November to fight a plan by Memorial Sloan-Kettering hospital to build two towers on city-owned land on E. 73rd St. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Pitta Bishop lobbied Council members from Manhattan, including Mark-Viverito — who represents East Harlem — to vote against the project when it came before the 12-member Manhattan Borough Board on Nov. 21. </span>Mark-Viverito voted no, but the project was approved 6 to 4. Mark-Viverito’s spokesman said her vote had no connection to the lobbying by her consultant. In January and February, Pitta Bishop lobbyists also met with Mark-Viverito’s staff on behalf of another client, the Vera Institute. The goal? Vera’s request for additional Council funding of a pilot program providing legal aid to immigrants. Vera received $500,000 in funding last year and wants $5 million more this year. Pitta Bishop also lobbied Mark-Viverito in January and February seeking “support for museum programming related to anti-bullying” run by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Manhattan. She was asked to speak at an anti-bullying event targeted to children, which she agreed to do, her spokesman said. And Luis Miranda of the MirRam Group enjoys a close relationship with Ms. Mark-Viverito.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Daily News writes that in continuing to deal with Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito has brought pay-to-play to the Council, and she must cut ties with the firm or its clients: <a href="http://sailthru.cityandstateny.com/4ea1b4ef15b30dde9b3467661ie1t.6h/Uzvmc-YQEl8Bem3cB70c1" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/u9Rtmg</a> Campaigning for appointment as the Council’s leader, Mark-Viverito accepted freebie services from a political consultant and lobbying firm — until, in November, the Blogs and Daily News caught her at it. </span>Then she dipped into her campaign treasury to hire a different lobbyist to boost her fortunes. Having relied on this second firm during her reelection, Mark-Viverito retained its help in persuading her colleagues to name her speaker and then in raising money for her inauguration. Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin reciprocated by raising more than 20% of the $100,000 that Mark-Viverito spent on her speakership drive, as well as most of the $27,000 tab for her bash. Now, the Daily News’ Greg Smith reports, Pitta Bishop has lobbied Mark-Viverito on behalf of four clients — who will surely be the first of many unless Mark-Viverito either recuses herself from voting on matters involving Pitta Bishop clients or bars Pitta Bishop representatives from her office. A Manhattan community group hired Pitta Bishop to oppose a development plan by Memorial Sloan-Kettering hospital. Pitta Bishop lobbied Mark-Viverito. Wonder of wonders, she has turned thumbs down on the project. The criminal justice non-profit Vera Institute retained Pitta Bishop to seek a boost in city grants from $500,000 to $5 million. Pitta Bishop lobbied Mark-Viverito. She’s making up her mind. And so on and so forth ad nausea. Mark-Viverito has brought pay-to-play into bloom in the Council. She must sever ties with Pitta Bishop or its clients.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/airbnb-spend-10m-super-pac-fund-pre-election-day-ads-article-1.2825469" target="_blank">Airbnb set tospend $10M on Super PAC created to fund pre-Election Day ads</a> (NYDN)</span><span lang="EN"> </span>With a month to go before the elections, Airbnb is set to dump a whopping $10 million into a Super PAC it created to help with its fight in New York, the Daily News has learned. The Stronger Neighbors political action committee will use a portion of the money to fund pre-Election Day ads designed to educate voters about the positions lawmakers have taken on home sharing, a source familiar with the situation said. The $10 million is on top of $1 million Airbnb used in June to seed the new PAC. The allocations would make the Airbnb PAC one of the largest — if not the largest-political action committee in the state. "We want to make sure that our hosts know we're in their corner, and that both our critics and our allies hear their voices this November and beyond," said Airbnb's Josh Meltzer. He accused the hotel industry, which has led the charge against Airbnb, of spending "tens of millions of dollars to buy influence in Albany and launch an endless barrage of misleading attacks to vilify the 46,000 New York hosts who rely on home sharing as an economic lifeline." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Airbnb has been fighting a bill that would prohibit the advertising of illegal units on home-sharing sites and would impose fines of up to $7,500 per violation. The Legislature passed the first-in-the-nation bill in June before ending the legislative session. It has yet to be sent to Gov. Cuomo, who has not said whether he intends to sign or veto the measure. ShareBetter, a coalition of unions, politicians, and housing and tenant groups fighting Airbnb, accused the company of spending "tens of millions of dollars in a cynical attempt to hijack the political process."* <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/de-blasio-campaign-manager-bill-hyers-joins-airbnb-payroll-blog-entry-1.1875916" target="_blank"> Former de Blasiocampaign manager Bill Hyers joins Airbnb payroll </a>(NYDN) Under fire for flouting the law in NYC, the popular apartment sharing website Airbnb has hired a high-powered consultant with close ties to Mayor de Blasio. Airbnb has brought on Bill Hyers, who served as de Blasio’s campaign manager in his come-from-behind election last year, the Daily News has learned. Airbnb also appears to be sparing no expense with consultants. The company has an in-house spokesman and has retained communications strategist Risa Heller. It also hired Obama’s former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor. Vietor's firm, Fenway Strategies, has not done any work for Airbnb in the NYC market. Airbnb also has lobbyists Capalino and Bolton St Johns on the Payroll</span><br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2015/10/18/nonprofit-pushing-to-keep-tourists-flying-over-nyc/">Man who bribed FBI agent behind push to keep tourists flying over NYC</a> (NYP)<span style="color: #2e2e2f; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span>A nonprofit fighting <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/08/02/helicopters-the-city-councils-next-target/">a City Council proposal to ban tourist helicopters</a> is backed by a New Jersey family that has a monopoly on the city’s chopper business and skeletons in its closet. Helicopters Matter is stacked with execs from companies controlled by the Trenk family, including Saker Aviation Services, which runs a lower <st1:city w:st="on">Manhattan</st1:city> heliport, and tourist charter service Liberty Helicopters. Helicopters Matter has mounted a campaign to keep flying, claiming helicopter tourism contributes more than $50 million in revenue to the city and employs hundreds of New Yorkers. Some City Council members dispute that. “I don’t buy the argument that they contribute to the economy at all,” said Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal, of the <st1:place w:st="on">Upper West Side</st1:place>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "";"><b><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></span><span style="font-family: "";"><b><span style="color: red;">Mercury Public Affairs Works for the Right Wing Koch Brothers PAC and For Progressive Council Member Margaret Chin And they Bag Millions from City Contract</span>s </b></span><b style="font-family: '';"><a href="http://www.nyccfb.info/searchabledb/ExpenditureSearchResult.aspx?ec_id=2013&ec=2013&payee=mercury+%28begins+with%29&exp_lname1=mercury&exp_exact1=B" target="_blank">Chin Campaign paid Mercury over 100,000</a> * </b><b style="font-family: '';"><a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140309/BLOGS04/140309900/mayors-ally-being-paid-to-fight-him" target="_blank">In 2013 Mercury Public Affairs, which was running an independent spending campaign funded by billionaire David Koch and others boosting </a>Mr. de Blasio's general-election opponent, Republican Joseph Lhota. </b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">PACs </span></b><span style="font-family: "";">Campaign finance officials in the tri-state area said the the growing role of political-action committees and super PACs in local elections are increasing and there is a bigger need for new regulations,<a href="http://goo.gl/ZQpDCl" target="_blank"> theJournal reports: </a></span></div>
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Mercury Public Affairs, received $1 million last year to run a Jobs for New York campaign funded by New York City business interests to aid Republican state Senate candidates, including upstate and in the Hudson Valley. It also has a prominent lobbying firm, including work for the Committee to Save New York in 2011 and 2012.<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> Real Estate Board's Jobs for New York </b> </span><a href="http://therealdeal.com/blog/2013/08/16/rebny-backed-group-dominates-city-council-spending-in-key-hoods/" style="font-family: '';">REBNY | Jobs For New York PAC - The Real Deal New York</a> New York Business Leaders Plan a Push in Council Races (NYT) A group of real estate executives and corporate leaders, bracing for the departure of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, plans to spend up to $10 million to make sure the City Council elected this fall is friendly to business. The organization, made up of real estate developers, property owners, banks, insurance companies, investment firms and others, has established a political action committee to direct donations to back candidates in both parties who support pro-development policies. Called Jobs for <st1:state style="font-family: '';" w:st="on">New York</st1:state>, the PAC represents an aggressive new involvement in <st1:state style="font-family: '';" w:st="on">New York</st1:state>’s heavily regulated city elections by a major independent expenditure group. The PAC also has the support of several unions whose fortunes are tied to construction, including those representing carpenters and laborers known as mason tenders.</div>
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-rachel-noerdlinger-back-al-sharpton-article-1.2362078" style="font-family: '';" target="_blank">Ex-CityHall aide Rachel Noerdlinger is working with her former boss, Al Sharpton</a> (NYDN) <st1:place style="font-family: '';" w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Former</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">City Hall</st1:placetype></st1:place> aide Rachel Noerdlinger — who stepped down after an <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/rachel-noerdlinger-ex-con-boyfriend-updated-troubles-article-1.2133232" style="font-family: '';">uproar over her ex-con boyfriend</a> — is once again working with the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/sharpton-hire-writers-blog-targeting-article-1.2302751" style="font-family: '';">Rev. Al Sharpton</a>. Noerdlinger, who had been Sharpton’s top press strategist before leaving for the gig with Mayor de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, is representing the activist and his National Action Network in her new job at PR firm Mercury Public Affairs. She will accompany Sharpton next month on a trip to <st1:country-region style="font-family: '';" w:st="on">Cuba</st1:country-region>, where the civil rights leader is meeting with officials to make sure that Afro-Cuban businesses benefit during the normalization process with the U.S. Sharpton said he is eager to work with his former aide again. “I’m excited about it,” he said. “No one can learn this organizing stuff overnight, and Rachel has been there the last decade and a half.” “I look forward to continuing my work with (National Action Network) and Rev. Sharpton through Mercury and doing what inspires me — media activism and communications strategy around social justice and civil rights issues,” she told the Daily News. <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mercury New Client NYCLASS</span></b> <a href="http://observer.com/2015/09/nyclass-adds-high-powered-consultant-for-horse-carriage-battle/" style="font-family: '';" target="_blank">NYCLASS AddsHigh-Powered Consultant for Horse Carriage Battle</a> (NYO) Almost two years after they hoped Mayor Bill de Blasio would sign a bill banning horse-drawn carriages from city streets, NYCLASS has tapped a new high-powered consultant to lead their fight: Mercury Public Affairs. The consulting and lobbying firm, <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">known for working with Republicans and Democrats alik</span></b>e, has been in talks with NYCLASS for several months and a source close to the animal rights group said the deal is now final.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "";">Mike McKeon of </span><b style="font-family: '';">Mercury</b><span style="font-family: "";"> Public Affairs responded to the Times Union on behalf of his friend Brian Meara. </span><a href="http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Lobbyist-played-no-role-in-Skelos-probe-friend-6212599.php" style="font-family: '';">Lobbyist played no role in Skelos probe, friend says</a><span style="font-family: "";">(TU) Meara was lobbyists for </span><b style="font-family: '';">AbTech</b><span style="font-family: "";"> and Physicians Reciprocal . . . </span><b> </b>PRI also flexes its muscles in <st1:city w:st="on">Albany</st1:city> by hiring a stable of politically wired lobbyists — including former <st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> Sen. Al D’Amato’s Park Strategies and powerhouse Mearer Avella Dickinson, among others. <b> </b>A federal indictment handed down on Thursday alleged former state Senate Majority Leader Skelos strong-armed a medical malpractice insurance firm to provide his son, Adam, with more than $100,000 in payments and health benefits through a no-show job while the firm lobbied Skelos on legislative matters.</div>
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Mercury Public Affairs, received $1 million last year to run a Jobs for New York campaign funded by New York City business interests to aid Republican state Senate candidates, including upstate and in the Hudson Valley. It also has a prominent lobbying firm, including work for the Committee to Save New York in 2011 and 2012.<span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> Real Estate Board's Jobs for New York </b> </span><a href="http://therealdeal.com/blog/2013/08/16/rebny-backed-group-dominates-city-council-spending-in-key-hoods/" style="font-family: '';">REBNY | Jobs For New York PAC - The Real Deal New York</a> New York Business Leaders Plan a Push in Council Races (NYT) A group of real estate executives and corporate leaders, bracing for the departure of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, plans to spend up to $10 million to make sure the City Council elected this fall is friendly to business. The organization, made up of real estate developers, property owners, banks, insurance companies, investment firms and others, has established a political action committee to direct donations to back candidates in both parties who support pro-development policies. Called Jobs for <st1:state style="font-family: '';" w:st="on">New York</st1:state>, the PAC represents an aggressive new involvement in <st1:state style="font-family: '';" w:st="on">New York</st1:state>’s heavily regulated city elections by a major independent expenditure group. The PAC also has the support of several unions whose fortunes are tied to construction, including those representing carpenters and laborers known as mason tenders.<b style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Real Estate Board's Committee to Save New York </b><a href="http://blog.littlesis.org/2011/01/20/who-is-the-committee-to-save-new-york/" style="font-family: '';" title="Permanent Link to Who is the Committee to Save New York?">Who is the Committee to Save New York?</a> (Little Sis) It is already clear that one of the main forces behind the Committee is the <a href="http://littlesis.org/org/71252/Real_Estate_Board_of_New_York" style="font-family: '';">Real Estate Board of New York</a> (REBNY), an industry association comprised of wealthy real estate and financial interests. REBNY’s board boasts many super-wealthy real estate investors and bankers, including billionaires <a href="http://littlesis.org/person/15031/Richard_LeFrak" style="font-family: '';" title="view profile">Richard LeFrak</a>, <a href="http://littlesis.org/person/15033/Stephen_M_Ross" style="font-family: '';" title="Chairman, CEO And Founder of Related Companies">Stephen Ross</a>, <a href="http://littlesis.org/person/15053/Leonard_Stern" style="font-family: '';" title="Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Hartz Group, Inc. ">Leonard Stern</a>, <a href="http://littlesis.org/person/15221/Sheldon_Solow" style="font-family: '';" title="President, Solow Building Company">Sheldon Solow</a>, and <a href="http://littlesis.org/person/15224/Jerry_Speyer" style="font-family: '';" title="view profile">Jerry Speyer</a>. Large real estate management firms like CB Richard Ellis, conglomerates such as Vornado Realty Trust, law firms such as Weil Gotshal Manges, and financial firms such as Barclays gain a voice in government through REBNY. <b style="font-family: '';"><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Koch Brothers</span></b> intend to spend $900 million influencing the 2016 elections<span style="font-family: ""; font-size: x-small;"> </span>and have given more than $100 million to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" style="font-family: '';" title="Conservatism in the United States">conservative</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism_in_the_United_States" style="font-family: '';" title="Libertarianism in the United States">libertarian</a> policy and advocacy groups in the United States,including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_tanks" style="font-family: '';" title="Think tanks">think tanks</a> like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Foundation" style="font-family: '';" title="Heritage Foundation">Heritage Foundation</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute" style="font-family: '';" title="Cato Institute">Cato Institute</a>, and more recently <i style="font-family: '';">Americans for Prosperity</i>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Prosperity" style="font-family: '';" title="Americans for Prosperity">Americans for Prosperity</a>, founded by David Koch, is one of the main nonprofit groups assisting the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement" style="font-family: '';" title="Tea Party movement">Tea Party movement</a>, according to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Vogel" style="font-family: '';" title="Kenneth Vogel">Kenneth Vogel</a> of <i style="font-family: '';"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico" title="Politico">Politico</a></i>. 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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-rachel-noerdlinger-back-al-sharpton-article-1.2362078" style="font-family: '';" target="_blank">Ex-CityHall aide Rachel Noerdlinger is working with her former boss, Al Sharpton</a> (NYDN) <st1:place style="font-family: '';" w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Former</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">City Hall</st1:placetype></st1:place> aide Rachel Noerdlinger — who stepped down after an <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/rachel-noerdlinger-ex-con-boyfriend-updated-troubles-article-1.2133232" style="font-family: '';">uproar over her ex-con boyfriend</a> — is once again working with the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/sharpton-hire-writers-blog-targeting-article-1.2302751" style="font-family: '';">Rev. Al Sharpton</a>. Noerdlinger, who had been Sharpton’s top press strategist before leaving for the gig with Mayor de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, is representing the activist and his National Action Network in her new job at PR firm Mercury Public Affairs. She will accompany Sharpton next month on a trip to <st1:country-region style="font-family: '';" w:st="on">Cuba</st1:country-region>, where the civil rights leader is meeting with officials to make sure that Afro-Cuban businesses benefit during the normalization process with the U.S. Sharpton said he is eager to work with his former aide again. “I’m excited about it,” he said. “No one can learn this organizing stuff overnight, and Rachel has been there the last decade and a half.” “I look forward to continuing my work with (National Action Network) and Rev. Sharpton through Mercury and doing what inspires me — media activism and communications strategy around social justice and civil rights issues,” she told the Daily News. <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mercury New Client NYCLASS</span></b> <a href="http://observer.com/2015/09/nyclass-adds-high-powered-consultant-for-horse-carriage-battle/" style="font-family: '';" target="_blank">NYCLASS AddsHigh-Powered Consultant for Horse Carriage Battle</a> (NYO) Almost two years after they hoped Mayor Bill de Blasio would sign a bill banning horse-drawn carriages from city streets, NYCLASS has tapped a new high-powered consultant to lead their fight: Mercury Public Affairs. The consulting and lobbying firm, <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">known for working with Republicans and Democrats alik</span></b>e, has been in talks with NYCLASS for several months and a source close to the animal rights group said the deal is now final.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "";">Mike McKeon of </span><b style="font-family: '';">Mercury</b><span style="font-family: "";"> Public Affairs responded to the Times Union on behalf of his friend Brian Meara. </span><a href="http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Lobbyist-played-no-role-in-Skelos-probe-friend-6212599.php" style="font-family: '';">Lobbyist played no role in Skelos probe, friend says</a><span style="font-family: "";">(TU) Meara was lobbyists for </span><b style="font-family: '';">AbTech</b><span style="font-family: "";"> and Physicians Reciprocal . . . </span><b> </b>PRI also flexes its muscles in <st1:city w:st="on">Albany</st1:city> by hiring a stable of politically wired lobbyists — including former <st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> Sen. Al D’Amato’s Park Strategies and powerhouse Mearer Avella Dickinson, among others. <b> </b>A federal indictment handed down on Thursday alleged former state Senate Majority Leader Skelos strong-armed a medical malpractice insurance firm to provide his son, Adam, with more than $100,000 in payments and health benefits through a no-show job while the firm lobbied Skelos on legislative matters.<br />
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Meara Avella Dickinson, one of the state's most successful lobbying firms, has dozens of other clients. Though its employees didn't return phone calls, <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/search/?action=search&channel=news&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Mike+McKeon%22">Mike McKeon</a> of Mercury Public Affairs responded to the <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/search/?action=search&channel=news&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Times+Union%22">Times Union</a> on behalf of his friend Meara. In an October 2013 news release, Abtech Holdings — the parent company of <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/search/?action=search&channel=news&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22AbTech+Industries%22">AbTech Industries</a> — announced the $12 million contract to construct a stormwater management project for <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Nassau</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>. The release stated that another subsidiary of Abtech Holdings, the stormwater engineering company AEWS Engineering, would be involved in the project. More than a year later, AEWS in November 2014 secured Meara Avella Dickinson for "infrastructure" lobbying, records show. The contract was signed by Avella. But according to McKeon, that assignment came not through Glenwood but through another <st1:city w:st="on">Albany</st1:city> lobbying firm, <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/search/?action=search&channel=news&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Capitol+Group%22">Capitol Group</a> LLC, which had sought Avella's services. McKeon said the work only lasted two months. * <b>How the Lobbyists Who Make Up the Shadow Government Cover for Each Other and Are Interconnected * </b><a href="http://thealbanyproject.com/anthony-bonomo-dean-skelos-albany/">Anthony Bonomo Gave Skelos' Son $100K No Show Job ...</a> <a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2015/05/8568996/skelos-indictment-points-medical-malpractice-firm" target="_blank">Calls to Physicians Reciprocal Insurers, Anthony Bonomo’shome and the attorney representing Adam Skelos were not returned Thursday. </a>The company has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying state officials on issues related to medical malpractice, according to the state's lobbying database. P.R.I.’s spending on lobbying has increased in recent years. In 2007 and 2008, it spent $145,000 and $134,000, respectively, according to records their lobbyists submitted to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and its predecessor agencies. Between 2012 and 2014, the group never spent less than $256,000 in a year, the records show. Last year, P.R.I. retained four firms to lobby the governor and his administration as well as both branches of the Legislature on a number of issues related to medical malpractice law. One of the company’s frequent lobbyists for the past half decade has been Brian R. Meara, the lobbyist widely reported to have acted as a cooperating witness in the federal indictment brought against former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver. A call to Meara was not returned. The company has previously retained <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Nassau</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place> power broker Joseph Margiotta, who died in 2008, as one of its lobbyists, as well as Park Strategies, the lobbying firm founded by former U.S. Republican Senator Al D’Amato. A spokeswoman for Park Strategies declined to comment.</div>
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Meara Avella Dickinson, one of the state's most successful lobbying firms, has dozens of other clients. Though its employees didn't return phone calls, <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/search/?action=search&channel=news&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Mike+McKeon%22">Mike McKeon</a> of Mercury Public Affairs responded to the <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/search/?action=search&channel=news&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Times+Union%22">Times Union</a> on behalf of his friend Meara. In an October 2013 news release, Abtech Holdings — the parent company of <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/search/?action=search&channel=news&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22AbTech+Industries%22">AbTech Industries</a> — announced the $12 million contract to construct a stormwater management project for <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Nassau</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>. The release stated that another subsidiary of Abtech Holdings, the stormwater engineering company AEWS Engineering, would be involved in the project. More than a year later, AEWS in November 2014 secured Meara Avella Dickinson for "infrastructure" lobbying, records show. The contract was signed by Avella. But according to McKeon, that assignment came not through Glenwood but through another <st1:city w:st="on">Albany</st1:city> lobbying firm, <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/search/?action=search&channel=news&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Capitol+Group%22">Capitol Group</a> LLC, which had sought Avella's services. McKeon said the work only lasted two months. * <b>How the Lobbyists Who Make Up the Shadow Government Cover for Each Other and Are Interconnected</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: red;">Anyone Who Understand Bharara Knows That Silver Rat </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "";">Meara Has Become Not Only Silver and Skelos's Rat But Others</span></b></span></div>
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The press office for Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano didn't return a request for comment about the scope of work performed as part of that lobbying contract. (The acting <st1:place w:st="on">Nassau</st1:place> district attorney launched a probe into the county's process for awarding contracts.) Meara "didn't represent AbTech and never did" in any aspect of the $12 million deal, McKeon said. "He had no involvement in the (stormwater) contract. He stopped representing <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Nassau</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place> long before the contract was awarded." Lobbying disclosures state Meara's firm was getting paid by <st1:city w:st="on">Nassau</st1:city> though June 2013, but McKeon said his work on behalf of <st1:city w:st="on">Nassau</st1:city> stopped in 2012. <b>Top Albany lobbyist Brian Meara is denying any involvement in the ongoing investigation into Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son despite having several clients reportedly involved, <a href="http://goo.gl/KEzE4r" target="_blank">theTimes Union reports:</a> </b>Though Meara didn't respond to requests for comment, a friend authorized to speak on his behalf said he has nothing to do with the Skelos investigation.The Skelos probe, described by the <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/search/?action=search&channel=news&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22New+York+Times%22">New York Times</a> last week, has ties to three current or recent Meara lobbying clients, including a North Carolina subsidiary of a company called<a href="http://www.timesunion.com/search/?action=search&channel=news&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22AbTech+Holdings%22">AbTech Holdings</a>.Investigators are reportedly looking into whether Skelos sought to exert influence in AbTech's pursuit of a $12 million stormwater management contract with Nassau County, Skelos' power base.Senate Republicans are reportedly nervous because Meara is a business partner with fellow lobbyist <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/search/?action=search&channel=news&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Mike+Avella%22">Mike Avella</a>, a former counsel to the <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/search/?action=search&channel=news&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Senate+GOP%22">Senate GOP</a> and Skelos. The two are principals in the Albany-based firm <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/search/?action=search&channel=news&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Meara+Avella+Dickinson%22">Meara Avella Dickinson</a>. Records show Meara Avella Dickinson also recently represented Nassau County, as well as another business mentioned in the Times report: real estate developer Glenwood Management.Run by the state's most generous political donor, <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/search/?action=search&channel=news&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Leonard+Litwin%22">Leonard Litwin</a>, Glenwood was Meara's link to the Silver case: A longtime friend of Silver, Meara has reportedly received a non-prosecution agreement in exchange for helping prosecutors link payments made by the prominent Manhattan developer to the Assembly speaker, who was ousted from his leadership position in January following his arrest.* <span style="font-family: "";"><a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2013/11/8535369/mercury-reopens-business-albany-pat-lynchs-people" title="Mercury reopens for business in Albany, with Pat Lynch’s people">Mercury reopens for business in Albany, with Pat Lynch’s people</a> (Capital)</span><br />
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<b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #666666;">Lobbyists Firm Put Patterson On the Payroll of the Same Firm That Works for the Koch Brothers </span></span></span></b></h3>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">In Addition to Paying Paterson Mercury Public Affairs Works for the Right Wing Koch Brothers PAC</span> <span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">and For Progressive Council</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">Member Margaret Chin And they Bag Millions from City Contracts</span></b></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2014/06/8548147/patersons-payday-public-relations-problem" target="_blank">Paterson’s payday, for a ‘public relations problem</a>’(Capital) Former Governor David Paterson was paid at least $386,000 in 2013 to consult for various interest groups, including $50,000 to help a Republican-linked firm handle a “public relations problem” for one of its clients, records show. Paterson, the recently named chairman of the Democratic state committee, was paid between $50,000 and $75,000 from Mercury LLC, according to a 2013 financial disclosure form, filed with the state's ethics watchdog. The communications firm was founded by Pataki administration veterans, who along with Paterson were tight-lipped on the exact nature of Paterson's consulting.<b><a href="http://www.nyccfb.info/searchabledb/ExpenditureSearchResult.aspx?ec_id=2013&ec=2013&payee=mercury+%28begins+with%29&exp_lname1=mercury&exp_exact1=B" target="_blank">Chin Campaign paid Mercury over 100,000</a></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140309/BLOGS04/140309900/mayors-ally-being-paid-to-fight-him#" target="_blank">In 2013 Mercury Public Affairs, which was running an independent spending campaign funded by billionaire David Koch and others boosting </a>Mr. de Blasio's general-election opponent, Republican Joseph Lhota. </b></div>
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<b><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Mercury is the Contractor for Hewlett-Packer Which Worked in the Problem Pledged 911 System</span></b></div>
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Both Mercury and George Artz have been lobbyists for Hewlett-Packard which was the main contractor of the city's 911 emergency system that crashes a lot. The city 911 system is now being sued by the parents of 4-year-old Ariel Russo who claim she died because an ambulance to take the little girl to the hospital was delayed by a 911 crash. Arzt is also the flack for Excell's One 57 that got tax breaks from Albany to build a 75-story luxury skyscraper. One57 tax break is contributing to pushing the middle class our of Manhattan and raising rents in Brooklyn. Parkside got away with making millions off of the council's member items and slush fund. The Advance Group according to a series written by CrainsNY used its control of PAC to be on more than one side in a race, even working against clients who hired his firm. Berlin Rosen worked for the same client, Bruce Ratner as indicted Melvin Lowe and convicted Kruger flack Richard J Lipsky promising affordable housing where none exists today. * <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/groups-spend-210m-lobbying-state-local-governments-article-1.1745270#ixzz2xus6cSFp" target="_blank">Special interest groups spend $210M lobbying state, local governments</a> (NYDN) Cigarette giant Alria Client Services spend the most- $3 million- in 2013 to fight a tobacco display ban in New York City. At least two Republican-dominated firms with close ties to Democratic Gov. Cuomo experienced booming business in 2013, the lobbying report showed.Park Strategies — headed by former U.S. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato — saw its total compensation grew by 61.9% in 2013 over 2012. Mercury Public Affairs, whose partner, Michael McKeon, is a former communications director for ex-Gov. George Pataki and a prominent figure in Republicans for Cuomo, saw a compensation jump of 25% in 2013.</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>4 Year Old Ariel Russo and 911 Lobbyists</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Council Names A Street for Ariel But Does Not Hold A Hearing to Find Out the Cause of Her Death the Corrupt 911 Contrats</b></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uptown/section-uws-street-named-ariel-russo-article-1.1716990">'It’s been a really emotional day': Manhattan street corner named after 4-year-old Ariel Russo who died in car crash; family reveals they haven't revisited area since tragic day(NYDN)</a>On what should have been Ariel Russo's fifth birthday, the tot's family helped unveil a street sign Monday on the Upper West Side corner where she died last summer. Little Ariel was struck and killed by a teen fleeing police in his parents' SUV on June 4.<br />
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The Russo family has filed a wrongful death suit, and criminal charges are still pending against 17-year-old driver Franklin Reyes, who had taken the SUV without his parents’ permission. <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-post-911-response-times-online-bloomberg-article-1.1562083" target="_blank">A report found a series of blunders led to delays in responding to the accident in Manhattan that killed 4-year-old Ariel Russo</a> * <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/city-toss-ariel-kin-40m-negligence-suit-article-1.1582463#ixzz2vgVvnlpV" target="_blank">City wants $40 million suit launched by Ariel Russo’s family tossed on technicality -- victims did not call 911 </a>(NYDN) The city wants a $40 million negligence lawsuit filed by the family of Ariel Russo, the 4-year-old who was killed by an unlicensed driver last year, tossed because neither she nor her critically injured grandmother personally called 911. The city insists that a “special relationship,” which calls for the victim or a blood relative to call 911, must exist in order to support a negligence claim. <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ariel-russo-car-crash-probe-faults-human-error-911-woes-article-1.1552842">RELATED: ARIEL RUSSO CAR CRASH PROBE FAULTS WIDESPEAD HUMAN ERROR, NOT 911 WOES</a> * <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/city-toss-ariel-kin-40m-negligence-suit-article-1.1582463#ixzz2vgWTVfeo" target="_blank">RELATED: GONZALEZ: ARIEL RUSSO PROBE FINDS ENOUGH BLAME TO FILL A CALL CENTER</a><br />
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Both Mercury and George Artz have been lobbyists for Hewlett-Packard which was the main contractor of the city's 911 emergency system that crashes a lot. The city 911 system is now being sued by the parents of 4-year-old Ariel Russo who claim she died because an ambulance to take the little girl to the hospital was delayed by a 911 crash. Among the lobbyists to get paid by the city’s broken 911 system contractors was George Arzt, Mercury Public Affairs, LLC, Jennifer Carlson, Peter Barden, Jonathan Greenspun, Michael McKeon, Kasirer Consulting LLC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> More on Corrupt Lobbyists <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2012/11/lobbyist.html" target="_blank"><b>More on Dark Pool Corrupt Lobbyists</b></a></span></span><br />
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Last June 4th year old Ariel Russo died shortly aftergetting hit by an SUV.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There had been a four-minute delay in dispatching the ambulance to take the little girl to the hospital. The city is blaming 911 operation human errors for the delay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The union leader of the 911 operators is blaming the new troubled $2 billion dollars upgrade that the city is installing. The city’s upgrade of the 911 system has not gone very well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been hunted by system crashes, wrong addresses and over a billion and a half dollar cost overrun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is now up to a jury to find out who is really at fault for the girls death.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>In 2009 Juan Gonzalez wrote in the <i>Daily News</i> </b>City officials were unhappy with </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hewlett Packard Company. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">By 2006, ECTP was suffering from so many problems that <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Michael+Bloomberg" title="Michael Bloomberg">Mayor Bloomberg</a> assigned his chief troubleshooter, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Ed+Skyler" title="Ed Skyler">Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler</a>, to supervise it. In 2007 HP hired George Arzt to lobby Skyler on communications. 2013 the family of </span></span>Ariel Russo, the 4-year-old who was killed by an unlicensed driver is suing the city because they believe a flawed 911 system led to the death of their daughter. The Russo lawsuit says there was a four-minute delay in sending an ambulance to the scene of the crash because of problem with the 911 system.<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/beleaguered-911-system-crashes-30-minutes-article-1.1405589#ixzz315OZLJjW" target="_blank"> NYC's already beleaguered 911 system crashes again and again — and again</a>(NYDN)<br />
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Even though the press says HP was replaced on the 911 project John Liu’s report said that HP was still working on the project and got paid over $300 million in 2012 for their work. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2010 thru 2011 when the city council was going after problems in the 911 system, HP hired Kasirer Consulting LLC and paid them over $200,000 to lobby city hall for the company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mercury Public Affairs public affairs have been working on the project for Intergraph Corp since 2007.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before Intergraph hired Sal Salamone as a lobbyist in 2006 to 2008 ($100,000) Salamone worked for the city on the Citytime project until he was let go after the corruption and cost overruns become know on that project, in which Liz Holtzman was one of the lobbyists that cashed in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had to get through the fog surrounding the 911 contracts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last month Bloomberg lauded Comptroller 911 audit he once called 'stupid.’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He even said there was nothing wrong with the Hewlett-Packard contract and the city paid those most of the <a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2013/10/george-arzt-is-bad-guy-lobbyists.html#" id="_GPLITA_6" style="border: 0px none; outline: none 0px;" title="Click to Continue > by Fast Free Converter">money<img src="http://cdncache1-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; float: none; height: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px; min-width: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: super; width: auto;" /></a> they requested. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mayor changed him mind on Comptroller budget to stop a federal audit requested by DC 37’s Lillian Roberts.* CM to lobbyist: <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story" target="_blank">"You're not really focused on safety, but on the perspective of drivers is that fair? Lobbyist: Yes.(WNYC)</a> * <a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140309/BLOGS04/140309900/mayors-ally-being-paid-to-fight-him#" target="_blank">In 2013 Mercury Public Affairs, which was running an independent spending campaign funded by billionaire David Koch and others boosting </a>Mr. de Blasio's general-election opponent, Republican Joseph Lhota.<br />
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<a href="http://fw.to/e9dYLaB" target="_blank">City Council Tightens 911 Response Time Rules In Bill Named For Ariel Russo</a> * <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/timely-law-responses-honors-ariel-russo-article-1.1543931">Timely’ law on responses honors Ariel Russo</a>(NYDN) The City Council on Tuesday honored the 4-year-old, killed by a car on a Manhattan sidewalk, by imposing new requirements on the city's way of reporting 911 response times.*<a href="http://bit.ly/1bvB3hU" target="_blank"> New City Council Bill To Change The Way FDNY Measures Emergency Response Times</a>(NY1)<br />
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Both Mercury and George Artz have been lobbyists for Hewlett-Packard which was the main contractor of the city's 911 emergency system that crashes a lot. The city 911 system is now being sued by the parents of 4-year-old Ariel Russo who claim she died because an ambulance to take the little girl to the hospital was delayed by a 911 crash. Among the lobbyists to get paid by the city’s broken 911 system contractors was George Arzt, Mercury Public Affairs, LLC, Jennifer Carlson, Peter Barden, Jonathan Greenspun, Michael McKeon, Kasirer Consulting LLC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> More on Corrupt Lobbyists <a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2012/11/lobbyist.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">More</span> on Dark Pool Corrupt Lobbyists</b></a></span><br />
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Last June 4th year old Ariel Russo died shortly aftergetting hit by an SUV.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There had been a four-minute delay in dispatching the ambulance to take the little girl to the hospital. The city is blaming 911 operation human errors for the delay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The union leader of the 911 operators is blaming the new troubled $2 billion dollars upgrade that the city is installing. The city’s upgrade of the 911 system has not gone very well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been hunted by system crashes, wrong addresses and over a billion and a half dollar cost overrun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is now up to a jury to find out who is really at fault for the girls death.<br />
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Even though the press says HP was replaced on the 911 project John Liu’s report said that HP was still working on the project and got paid over $300 million in 2012 for their work. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2010 thru 2011 when the city council was going after problems in the 911 system, HP hired Kasirer Consulting LLC and paid them over $200,000 to lobby city hall for the company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mercury Public Affairs public affairs have been working on the project for Intergraph Corp since 2007.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before Intergraph hired Sal Salamone as a lobbyist in 2006 to 2008 ($100,000) Salamone worked for the city on the Citytime project until he was let go after the corruption and cost overruns become know on that project, in which Liz Holtzman was one of the lobbyists that cashed in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had to get through the fog surrounding the 911 contracts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last month Bloomberg lauded Comptroller 911 audit he once called 'stupid.’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He even said there was nothing wrong with the Hewlett-Packard contract and the city paid those most of the <a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2013/10/george-arzt-is-bad-guy-lobbyists.html#" id="_GPLITA_6" style="border: 0px none; outline: none 0px;" title="Click to Continue > by Fast Free Converter">money<img src="http://cdncache1-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; float: none; height: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px; min-width: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: super; width: auto;" /></a> they requested. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mayor changed him mind on Comptroller budget to stop a federal audit requested by DC 37’s Lillian Roberts.* CM to lobbyist: <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story" target="_blank">"You're not really focused on safety, but on the perspective of drivers is that fair? Lobbyist: Yes.(WNYC)</a></div>
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The soccer league spent a total of $1.7 million through five lobbying firms, according to the city clerk’s office. Major League Soccer paid $1.1 million to HR&A Advisors, $307,800 to the Global Strategy Group, $190,804 to Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, $67,500 to Bolton-St. Johns and $37,500 to Beaudoin & Company.</div>
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Both Mercury and George Artz have been lobbyists for Hewlett-Packard which was the main contractor of the city's 911 emergency system that crashes a lot. The city 911 system is now being sued by the parents of 4-year-old Ariel Russo who claim she died because an ambulance to take the little girl to the hospital was delayed by a 911 crash. Arzt is also the flack for Excell's One 57 that got tax breaks from Albany to build a 75-story luxury skyscraper. One57 tax break is contributing to pushing the middle class our of Manhattan and raising rents in Brooklyn. Parkside got away with making millions off of the council's member items and slush fund. The Advance Group according to a series written by CrainsNY used its control of PAC to be on more than one side in a race, even working against clients who hired his firm. Berlin Rosen worked for the same client, Bruce Ratner as indicted Melvin Lowe and convicted Kruger flack Richard J Lipsky promising affordable housing where none exists today. </div>
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