Untangling the mess that is de Blasio’s scandal-ridden administration (NYP) In just three years, the mayor has managed to generate more serious scandals than both his predecessors did in the span of two decades, and it’s hard to stay on top of which prosecutor is looking into which violation. Upon taking office, instead of dismantling his formidable campaign operation or putting it on the back burner as elected officials normally do, the mayor converted it into a nonprofit political fundraising organization on steroids. Called the Campaign for One New York, this entity was ostensibly charged with promoting the mayor’s progressive agenda. Managed by his campaign finance director Ross Offinger, CONY was supposedly a stand-alone, nonpartisan issues-advocacy outfit. But strip away all the fancy words and highfalutin ideas, and it becomes clear what CONY really was: a funnel for New York City’s donor class to pour millions of dollars into Team de Blasio’s open pockets. Virtually all of the money that went into the Campaign for One New York came from Big Labor, developers who needed city approval for their projects or rich advocates like horse-crazy Wendy Neu and Stephen Nislick, who wanted the mayor to make good on his promise to get rid of the Central Park carriages. And almost all the money that flowed out of the Campaign for One New York — millions of dollars — went to consulting firms such as BerlinRosen, Hilltop Public Solutions and AKPD Message and Media. These powerful consultancies are run by the men whom the mayor notoriously designated “agents of the city,” retroactively shielding their communications with his office from public scrutiny.
Mayor Supports PAC Reform Which Would Have Blocked His Campaign for One NY PAC Pay to Play Which He is Under Criminal Investigation For
Council PAC Reform Skips The PACs That Elected Council Members UFT's United for the Future, Developers Jobs for New York
De Blasio administration ironically backs anti-lobbying bill (NYP) The de Blasio administration on Monday said it will back a bill that limits contributions to political non-profits to $400 from lobbyists and others who do business with the city — even though Hizzoner’s now-defunct Campaign for One New York was the driving force behind it. Henry Berger, a special counsel to Mayor de Blasio, told the City Council’s Ethics Committee that the administration is “generally supportive” of the bill. CONY, the target of federal and state investigations, took in more than $4.4 million from January 2014 through its close in March. Most of its money came in five- and six-figure donations from unions and firms with city business.
Mayor Supports PAC Reform Which Would Have Blocked His Campaign for One NY PAC Pay to Play Which He is Under Criminal Investigation For
Council PAC Reform Skips The PACs That Elected Council Members UFT's United for the Future, Developers Jobs for New York
- The mayor appoints 50% of the Campaign Finance Board
- The Council Speaker appoints 50% of the Campaign Finance Board
- Team de Blasio elected Mark- Viverito Speaker
- The mayor appoints 50% of the Conflict of Interests Board
- The Council Speaker appoints 50% of the Conflict of Interests Board
- The Goo Goos and the Media Asked the CFB to Investigate the 1NY PAC
- The Goo Goos and the Media Asked the Conflict Bs to Investigate the 1NY PAC
- NYCLASS PAC By Attacking Quinn Help Elected the Mayor
- The Advance Group Ran the NYCLASS PAC
- The Advance Group Worked Illegally to Elect the Council Speaker
- The CFB Gave A Small Fine to Advance Even Ordered Speaker to pay them
- The Conflict Bd Gave Small Fine to Advance Even Ordered Speaker to pay them
- The CFB Covered Up the NYCLASS Scandal
- The Conflict Bd Covered Up the NYCLASS Scandal
- Berlin Rosen Works for 1NY PAC and as A Campaign Consultant to de Blasio
- Hilltop Works for 1NY PAC and as A Campaign Consultant to de Blasio
- Hilltop Works for 1NY PAC and as A Campaign Consultant to de Blasio
- Red Horse Works for the One NY PAC and 4 out of 5 of the city’s Das
- Red Horse Work for Over 40 Council Members as a consultant or UF PAC
- NYCLASS PAC By Attacking Quinn Help Elected the Mayor
More on Dark Pool Corrupt Consultant Who Will Have to Register As Lobbyists
The NYP Agrees With True News That the Council Reform on PACs Are Fake
The City Council’s phony slap at de Blasio’s scummy fund-raising (NYP) Hand a much-ado-about-nothing award to the City Council, which on Thursday will pretend it’s dealing a fatal blow to corruption with new campaign-finance laws. The truth? These bills won’t make a dent in corruption — or even improve a campaign-finance system ripe for abuse. Take the ban on donors with business before the city giving more than $400 to groups controlled by public officials. It’s supposedly a slap at the sleaze made infamous by the Campaign for One New York, which targeted donors seeking City Hall favors. But only a symbolic slap. Another slush fund can skirt the ban simply by not referring to the official who runs it in its “communications.” Or by getting the (mayorally appointed) Conflicts of Interest Board to say a donor doesn’t do business with the city, even if he does. Or by publicly distancing itself from a pol whose water it still carries. The bills also ban public matching funds for gifts “bundled” by lobbyists. Expect the lobbyists to get around that, too. Bottom line: These tweaks won’t curb de Blasio-style (or any other) corruption. Nor will they make the city’s campaign-finance system fair — or even sensible. Unions will continue to enjoy a deck stacked in their favor. And crafty pols will keep gaming the system. On Thursday, the Campaign Finance Board will slap Bill de Blasio with big fines for abuses in his 2013 mayoral run, but he’ll still be mayor. Meantime, taxpayers shelled out a hefty $38 million in matching funds these past four years. If the council really wants to curb corruption, it’s better off scrapping the public campaign-finance system itself.
The Daily News Ignores How PACs Control NY's Election Process
City Council alters bill thatwould have made campaign donation fraud easier (NYDN) Vance said after the changes, he’s fine with the bill. “We are grateful to the Speaker for soliciting a wide range of input on the proposal, including from representatives of law enforcement. The amendments to the bill help to address our concerns regarding the prosecution of frauds involving altered contribution cards,” said spokesman Danny Frost. The bill will still allow campaigns to complete the cards themselves and give them to donors to be signed, and will eliminate the requirement for cards when contributions are made by check or credit card. Vance said after the changes, he’s fine with the bill. “We are grateful to the Speaker for soliciting a wide range of input on the proposal, including from representatives of law enforcement. The amendments to the bill help to address our concerns regarding the prosecution of frauds involving altered contribution cards,” said spokesman Danny Frost. The bill will still allow campaigns to complete the cards themselves and give them to donors to be signed, and will eliminate the requirement for cards when contributions are made by check or credit card. The CFB, which objected to several of the bills — including one that would bar CFB staff from being present at the board’s executive sessions — welcomed the amendment but still said the vote should be postponed. “The Board continues to believe it would be best to defer action on the bills introduced in November rather than move forward at this time. Some of these bills could be improved further,” CFB said in a statement.
NYP in a Story About Horse Activists Attacking Drives and Passengers Leaves Out How Team de Blasio Used NYCLASS PAC (Right Out of Illegal Campaign for 1NY) to Win in 2013
Another Big Lie . . . Despite New Council Bill UFT, Developer PACs Will Still Control Who Wins in 2017
De Blasio supports bill to limit donations to political nonprofits (NYP) de Blasio on Tuesday declared his support for legislation that would limit contributions to political nonprofits — including his own Campaign for One New York. The group took in $4.3 million, including from firms seeking lucrative government contracts or city approval for projects. The mayor insisted that his support for the measure, which faces a City Council committee vote Wednesday and a vote in the full council Thursday, was not an acknowledgment that the donations his group accepted had been problematic. “I’m only acknowledging that it became a big distraction, even though everything was done properly,” he told reporters. The Campaign for One New York, which is closing, has been under investigation for months by federal and local law-enforcement officials.
PAC Reforms are Fake News: How the City Council Uses PACs to Game the PublicFinance System
Election Fraud is No Longer Limited to Ballot Stuffing at the Polls And NYCLASS Looks Like the Same Team de Blasio Game Plan as Campaign for One NY Go Around the Election Law
The NYCLASS PAC Caper to Steal the 2013 Mayoral Election is Now Being Put to Sleep
Team de Blasio Poured $$$ Into NYCLASS to Kill Quinn
In 2014 the Daily News repored that the FBI was investigating donations to NYCLASS from men closeto Mayor de Blasio that may have been used toward anti-Christine Quinncampaigners On May 21, lawyer Jay Eisenhofer gave $50,000 to NYCLASS, the animal rights group leading the crusade to ban carriage horses. Ten days later, on May 31, NYCLASS gave an equal amount — $50,000, to the anti-Quinn group. On June 1, NYCLASS received another large donation, this time for $175,000. It came from UNITE HERE! — a labor union headed by John Wilhelm. Two days after that, on June 3, NYCLASS sent the same amount, $175,000, to the anti-Quinn campaign. The issue? Both Wilhelm and Eisenhofer have long-standing ties to Bill de Blasio, one of Quinn’s Democratic rivals in the mayoral campaign. Wilhelm is 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.
Even Though the CFB Ruled That Advance Broke the Law By Combining PAC and Campaign Money No Legal Action Was Taken Against the Consultant
The CFB determined under its rules that the Advance Group’s work on behalf of both Council candidates and the supposedly “independent” anti-carriage PAC really amounted to illegal coordination between the campaigns and NYCLASS. The board properly fined Cumbo and Levine. And its crackdown on the out-of-bounds campaign spending by NYCLASS has done the city a huge favor, by providing a badly needed glimpse into the big money play that successfully swung the 2013 city elections. Using funds from donors that included UNITE HERE — a union chaired by Mayor de Blasio’s cousin John Wilhelm — NYCLASS slimed mayoral rival Christine Quinn into oblivion.Now the FBI is probing the funding of the attacks on Quinn, and de Blasio’s flip-flop that led to his vow to ban the horses. The CFB needs to stay vigilant, making every effort to hold NYCLASS, the Advance Group and sponsored candidates to account for their actions in the 2013 campaign. Among the others benefiting from NYCLASS spending was Melissa Mark-Viverito, who took free services from the Advance Group in her successful bid to become City Council speaker.
de Blasio Corruption Started During His Campaigns, Not with Campaign for One NY @ City Hall After He Became Mayor
Grace Rauh @gracerauh Great @harryseigel kicker: BdB became mayor thx to out-of-view cash schemes then sets up new schemes in City Hall.
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Count I Data and Field
The NYT's Columnist Jim Dwyer and Other Media Puppets Tried to Cover-Up Ground Zero of Team de Blasio, WFP Corruption of the Public Financed Campaign System
How NYT's Dwyer Cover-Up Data and Fields
For One Staten Island Campaign, a Special Prosecutor Instead of an Auditor(NYT)
Count II NYCLASS
NYCLASS which was used to destroy mayoral front runner Speaker Quinn race for mayor by forces close to de Blasio is now being sabotage from within to please the unions and other special interests who want to keep carriages rolling in the park. It is not the voters who were behind the horse carriage ban, 70% of New Yorkers support the horses. It was the money the NYCLASS PAC made available during the campaign that was the goal of the de Blasio conspiracy team. NYCLASS PAC spent more than $1 million to help defeat Christine Quinn, who was then de Blasio’s main opponent and did not support the horse carriage ban. As a councilman and public advocate de Blasio supported horse carriages. As a candidate for mayor, de Blasio switched positions and embraced NYCLASS’ call to banish the carriage horses from Central Park and city streets. de Blasio made his pledge to support the horse carriage ban in March of 2013, the next month the attacks on Quinn started. In the year and a half that de Blasio has been mayor there have been many promise to ban the horse carriages but no bill in the council to make the campaign promise real.
During the 2013 campaign NYCLASS hired campaign consultant lobbyists Scott Levinson who runs the Advance Group. Before the NYCLASS campaign Levinson worked with Bertha Lewis, co-founder of the New York chapter of the Working Families Party, and the former head of ACORN in a tangled web of political cover-ups disguises as activism. It was during de Blasio run for public advocate that the WFP created Data and Field to help the candidates they endorsed. During the 2009 campaign the CFB declared Data and Field connected to the WFP in violation of the city's campaign finance laws. In 2010 the U.S. Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibited the government from restricting independent political expenditures by a nonprofit corporation. In 2013 Levinson was named the consultant for NYCLASS which is credited with taking out Quinn. The NYCLASS PAC was financed by true believer and team de Blasio. * As the Media Write About Not Enough Council Votes to Ban Horse Carriages TRUE NEWS Investigates How NYCLASS Was Hijacked To Fix the Outcome of the 2013 Mayoral Election
Count II NYCLASS
Election Fraud is No Longer Limited to Ballot Stuffing at the Polls
The NYCLASS PAC Caper to Steal the 2013 Mayoral Election is Now Being Put to Sleep
Team de Blasio Poured $$$ Into NYCLASS to Kill Quinn
In 2014 the Daily News repored that the FBI was investigating donations to NYCLASS from men closeto Mayor de Blasio that may have been used toward anti-Christine Quinncampaigners On May 21, lawyer Jay Eisenhofer gave $50,000 to NYCLASS, the animal rights group leading the crusade to ban carriage horses. Ten days later, on May 31, NYCLASS gave an equal amount — $50,000, to the anti-Quinn group. On June 1, NYCLASS received another large donation, this time for $175,000. It came from UNITE HERE! — a labor union headed by John Wilhelm. Two days after that, on June 3, NYCLASS sent the same amount, $175,000, to the anti-Quinn campaign. The issue? Both Wilhelm and Eisenhofer have long-standing ties to Bill de Blasio, one of Quinn’s Democratic rivals in the mayoral campaign. Wilhelm is 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.
A Tale of Two CFBs: Albanese vs Campaign PAC NYCLASS,UFT's United for the Future
More about Lobbyists Mercury
More about Lobbyists Mercury
More On the Advance Group
Count III Campaign for One NY
Count III Campaign for One NY
The UFT Coup d'é·tat Of NYC Election System and Democracy
How the Advance Group Conspired to Steal the 2009 and 2013 Election
How the Advance Group Conspired to Steal the 2009 and 2013 Election
de Blasio's Secret Senate Campaign Funding and His 2016 Funding Problems
NYP's McManus: If You Are Not Sure Team de Blasio Committed Crimes By de Creating Campaign for 1NY PAC to Go Around the Election Law and Much More, Ask Liu's 25 Year Old Treasure
This is the winter of Bill de Blasio’s discontent (NYP Ed) Now comes the winter of Bill de Blasio’s discontent — or, at least, now arrives a pair of grand juries, rooting through his administration just as he enters his re-election year. The New York Times, for one, reported on the grand juries at week’s end. And earlier reports seemed to lay out in provocative detail the status of the major investigations. Sources have yet to be quoted on the record anywhere, but that’s part of the game, too. (Think of it as prosecutors prepping the battlespace for combat.). So far as they’re known, the details seem straightforward enough. Bharara apparently is focusing on evidence that de Blasio & Co. cobbled together a pay-to-play political-contribution scheme shortly after taking office — while Vance has zeroed in on allegations that the mayor broke campaign laws while financing efforts to flip the state Senate to Democratic control in 2014. Again, whether crimes have been committed must be determined. All of which adds up to this: Bill de Blasio is floating in a leaky boat as he enters his fourth year in office, and most of the holes he drilled himself.*
Liu's 25 Year Old Treasurer Went to Jail Locked Up for 10 Months For A "Straw" Donors Scheme
NYP's McManus: If You Are Not Sure Team de Blasio Committed Crimes By de Creating Campaign for 1NY PAC to Go Around the Election Law and Much More, Ask Liu's 25 Year Old Treasure
Liu's 25 Year Old Treasurer Went to Jail Locked Up for 10 Months For A "Straw" Donors Scheme
John Liu aide headed to jail(NYP) The disgraced city Comptroller John Liu campaign aide convicted of scamming campaign cash from the city’s Campaign Finance Board must report to prison next week. Jenny Hou, a former aide to Comptroller John Liu convicted on various counts during his mayoral campaign, lost her request to remain free pending her appeal and is headed to jail. Former Liu campaign treasurer Jenny Hou, 27, was sentenced to 10 months behind bars in October for her role in a “straw” donors scheme.
WFP & Lobbyists Campaign Consultants Have Caused the Walmartization of NY's Politics . . . Using the Wal-Mart Business Model to Win Campaigns and Drive Out the Competition
NYC does not have a single Walmart because of the WFP and their friends in the progressive movement protesting the company unfair business practices. The protesters accuse Wal-mart of bulk purchasing and corporate financing to sell merchandise at low costs in order to drive competitors out of the market. WFP says the Wal-Mart's business model pushes mom and pop business out of the market creating an economic monopoly. It is now clear that less than a dozen lobbyists political consultants has use the Wal-Mart unfair business model to take over NY's politics by using unfair 2009 the WFP Data and Field model to give them and their candidates a competitive advantages in campaigns. In 2013 after the Citizen United SC ruling these same lobbyists consultants used PACs like NYCLASS, UFT's United for the Future and the Developers Jobs for NY
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