tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31908171907598963562024-03-05T03:01:28.955-08:00True News Trending IssuesJournalisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10190956898079079756noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3190817190759896356.post-50642939365819139882017-05-02T18:17:00.000-07:002017-05-14T10:20:17.659-07:00Vote 2<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 22.0pt;">Tammany Hall Still Runs NYC's Political Parties in
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15pt;">Low Voting Caused by NY’s Undemocratic Voter
Suppression Election Law Has Turned Modern Party Bosses into a
New Tammany Hall, Cutting the Voters Out of Elections, While Enriching the
Political Party’s Shadow Government . . . </span></b></div>
<b><span style="background-color: blue; color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15pt;">Our NY Democracy is Lost . . . </span></b></div>
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reported on Congressman Joseph Crowley using the Queens Surrogate
Court as his own personal bank. From reading the recent Crowley
stories, you would never know that corruption of the </span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Surrogate Court is
not because of Boss Crowley, but is the result of the undemocratic Tammany Hall
control of NY's voting caused by an election law that suppresses voter turnout.
The NYS election law does not allow early voting or election day
registration good changes that will not fix NY election system. Today like never before, t</span></span>he political system is run by and for the political class,
their lobbyists consultants and their clients developers, city contractors! For
these folks it's a business or their livelihood. The Public has been cut out and they have stopped voting and running for office. </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Tammany Hall Still Runs NYC's Political Parties in 2017</b> is the first in a series of True News investigative reports this municipal election year showing why voter suppression Tammany Hall election laws are responsible for falling voting rates and the lack of serious competition where 90% of the incumbents get reelected for city office.</i><br />
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Privatization of the Tammany Hall Machine</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Party Bosses Have Seen The Opportunity of Falling Voting Rates and Taken Advantage of It</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">The growing unchallenged power of the city’s
party bosses is a dysfunction in our democracy caused by New Yorkers
voting at record low numbers. </span>In 1941 during the <span lang="EN">DeSapio</span>’s Tammany Hall rule, Mayor O’Dwyer was elected with 60% of
registered New Yorkers voted. Today, the bottom has fallen out for the City's
voting. Only 20% of the City's registered voters cast their ballots in the
last mayoral election in 2013. <b>New
York's Falling Voter Participation Rate is A Canary in the Coal Mine
Warning for Our Failing City and Democracy </b>2013 Was the Lowest Turnout Since Women
Given Right to Vote in 1918. The media controlled and owned by the
developer class has not noticed that New York’s political parties have soviet
style elections, making the press enablers to killing NYC’s
democracy. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">55 years ago, Tammany Hall’s
Carmine DeSapio was defeated by the reformers led by </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">Eleanor Roosevelt and
former governor Herbert Lehman. T</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">oday’s NYC party bosses still have DeSapio like control of their
party elections giving them the ability to make millions from government
and courts, much like Tammany's Boss Tweed. The modern party bosses
may have even more power, because unlike their Tammany predecessors, they
face little if any competition or media criticism or reformers like Roosevelt. In the Tweed era
hundreds of political clubs competed against each other, today there are only a
few dozen political clubs that mostly function to reelect their local elected
officials and district leaders</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;"><b><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2015/12/suck-power-out-of-neighborhoods-where.html">Falling NYC Voting Rates</a></b></span><br />
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Modern Party Bosses Use Developers As the Fuel That Increases Their Bank Accounts and Runs Their Machines . . .</span><span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="color: #999999; font-size: x-large;">As Their Voters Flee Because of Gentrification Destroying Affordable Housing</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">The old Tammany machine got their power
delivering jobs, housing and distributing turkeys during holidays in return for
votes on election day. Unlike the old Tammany bosses who served the
voters while helping themselves honest and dishonest graft, the
modern party leaders help themselves as the poor and middle class are
driven from the city. The permanent government of NYC that used to include
the media publishing, manufacturing, garment center is today mostly made of the developers and city contractors who do business with the city. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">The party leaders who have taken advantage of
our low voting of this era, resembles more of an organized crime
commission cutting up the city into gangs of lobbyists making government work
for their clients and themselves against the public’s
interests. Pitta Bishop is strong on Staten Island, Parkside in Queens, MirRam in the Bronx and Berlin Rosen in Brooklyn, but in the last few years many of them are running campaigns outside their home boroughs</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;"><b style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://garytilzer.blogspot.com/2016/12/de-blasios-developers-gentrification.html" style="line-height: 107%;">de Blasio's Developers Gentrification
Express Street Car</a></span></b></span><br />
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<a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2013/02/middle-calls.html"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">How NYC is Losing the Middle Class</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2013/11/real-estate-and-politics.html"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Real Estate Developers, Tax Breaks and Politics,
421-a </span></b></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2011/08/gentrification.html">More on Gentrification</a></span></b></span><br />
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<a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2014/08/how-blacks-poor-and-middle-class-are.html"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">How Blacks the Poor and the Middle Class are Being
Push Out of Brooklyn Because of Albany's Tax Breaks for Luxury Developers</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;"><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2013/11/affordable-housing.html"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">More on Affordable Housing </span></b></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Their is A New Privatized Tammany Hall Made of of Lobbyists Campaign Consultants Who Both Compete and Cuts Deals With the Old Party Machines </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">Tammany apparatchiks got their power
based on how many votes they could bring out of their neighborhood.
Today’s party bosses get their power from the broken election system high incumbency and campaign
contributions from developers, city contractors and unions to hire flacks, create PACS and hire lobbyists
to run campaigns to mislead the voters. The lobbyists have become their own mini private bosses or machine that competes with and cuts deals with the party machines. The Manhattan Democratic boss
Keith Wright is a lobbyist for a firm that makes millions from developers while pushing
people out of their neighborhoods. With the low voters turn out in party elections there is little difference or public accountability between the so called elected party leader and the new private lobbyists bosses put in power by their clients.</span><br />
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Privatization of the Tammany Hall Machine</a><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">The power of today’s Tammany party bosses is a
result single digit voting for party offices. Just 3% of the registered
Democrats participated in electing the party boss and district leaders in
2016. 2% in Queens, 4% in Brooklyn,0% in Staten Island, 4% in
Manhattan and 5% in Queens. Less than .005% of the county committee which selects county leaders in the major parties were challenged in 2016. Most county and district leaders in both the major
parties stay in their seats for decades unchallenged. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17.3333px;">The voting participation in the GOP and the other minor parties is even lower.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17.3333px;">Low or no voting in party elections keep political bosses in power. It’s the district leaders who pick the county committee members to run for office, who then elect party bosses in the Democratic and Republican parties in NYC.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">Flatbush
District Leader Jacob Gold has been in office for over 40
years. Long time Queens district leader and campaign consultant Even Stavisky lives
in Rockland with his wife who is the
Democratic Rockland County Leader. His father was a long time
Queens Assemblyman. </span><br />
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Parkside Monopoly Loses the State Senate, Extortion DSCC With Gianaris </a></b><o:p></o:p><br />
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Parties Gained Their Power from A Left-Wing Congressman With An Election Law That Has Become A Tool for Today's Party Leader to Gain Power</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">Some of the city’s minor parties are controlled by
inner circles that elect the same leader for decades. The <b>Conservative
Party</b> Leader Michael Long, who ownes a liquor store in Bay Ridge, 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 third-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><br />
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<a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-wfp-has-mastered-art-of-goi"><b>The
WFP and Berlin Rosen Has Played Fast and Lose With the Election Law, Data and
Field Arrests</b></a><br />
<a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2013/05/wfp.html"><b>More About WFP
Data and Field</b></a><b> </b><br />
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<a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2013/05/wfp.html"><b>WFP the New
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">Today’s Party Bosses and district leaders have
taken advantage of NY’s low voter broken election system to not only keep
control of their party organizations, but also to control the election of most
of NY’s judges and elected officials. The number of insurgent candidates
running in NYC is down over 75% from the heyday of the Viet Nam protests that created the modern reform movement. The 70's reform movement has aged out replaced by a new generation of social progressives, that that have no problem giving only lip service to political reforms, while working with the political bosses. Most of the city council incumbents, all of the borough
presidents and city controller are unopposed. Low voting and weak
competition always favors machine backed candidates, usually incumbents
seeking re-election. NY’s elected officials know that as they serve the
party leaders with favors. This inner circle mob not only does
nothing to change the election law that suppresses voter turnout, they also
protect each other by ignoring corruption even when their fellow politicians get convicted of a crime. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">Party leaders have gamed the election system so
much that the only way they leave office is by: death, scandal or a corruption conviction. The Kings
County party leader before Frank Seddio was Assemblyman
Vito Lopez was forced out of party leadership because of his sexual
abuse scandal in Albany. Judge Boss Seddio left the Surrogate Court after a Daily News editorials exposed his illegal campaign donations after Albany created for him a second Surrogate Court Judgeship, after a reformer beat the machine's surrogate judge candidate for the first time in 100 years.. The Brooklyn leader before Lopez, Clarence
Norman was convicted of selling judgeships and when tio jail. Two county leaders
before Noman, Meade Esposito was convicted of paying off a Bronx congressman
for favors. In 2013 three of the five GOP county leaders were
removed after trying to sell their party’s ballot line to former State Senator
Malcolm Smith. Smith, the GOP Bronx leader, and top leaders of the
Queens GOP party all were sent to jail by the feds. During the Koch
administration parking ticket scandal the Democratic leader from the
Bronx Stanley Friedman and others went to jail for ripping off the city’s
Parking Violations Agency. </span></div>
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Bronx and Staten Island Shadow Bosses Figure Heads With the Power Hidden Among the Lobbyists
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">Today’s Bronx Boss is more of a figure head with
the power really in the hands of long time lawyer lobbyists Stanley Schlein, the
MirRam lobbying group and Assembly Speaker Heastie, who worked out a great home owner discount for himself from
the former Bronx DA and the Bronx court whose judges and clerks were elected and selected by the Bronx machine. Schlein, a protege of Friedman, helped get a lot
of Bronx judges and politicians elected. In turn, the Bronx machine
awards Stanley with lots of patronage gigs (like court-appointed legal
guardianships) and his lobbying clients with city contracts. The Staten Island
Surrogate Court is the island’s former democratic
leader. The Surrogate Judge before Gigante, former Republican city
council member John Fusco, works for Staten Island BP Jimmy Oddo who
some view as the de Facto party Boss in Staten Island. de Blasio
gave Republican BP Oddo's wife a plum judgeship. Staten Island is the only
borough in the city were the GOP are the bosses.
Oddo is the go to guy for lobbyists Pitta Bishop and
developers seeking government deals. Former Republican- Conservative BP
James Molinaro now works for Pitta, Bishop, who are representing builders of
the Wheel and so called outlet stores on the Staten Island waterfront. Molinaro
was the main force in getting local officials to support the development. The
buzz is that Oddo will run for reelection in November and then get appointed to or run for Surrogate court judge. He has planted
stories that he will take over for Gigante who will be aged out
of the job in 2018.</span><br />
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Hidden Power of the Party Bosses Inside the Court House </span><span style="color: #999999; font-size: x-large;">Dumping Judge Laura Jacobson Who According to Her Lawsuit Tried to Keep A Hospital Open Who the County Leader's Law Firm Was Hired to Close</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">The 5 county DA who count on the support of party
leaders to get elected, almost always ignore political corruption.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara upset the deal between the political bosses and the city's county DAs by putting over 30 elected officials in jail before he was fired. The one time a DA went after a political boss was in 2007. When former Brooklyn
DA convicted and sent to jail former Brooklyn boss <b>Clarence Norman</b> who tried
and failed to beat Hynes with former Senator <b>John Sampson. </b>Sampson is headed to jail next month not for using court
appointments to fund his campaign for DA, which he was indicted for before a
statute of limitations motion dismissed that charge. Sampson is
going to jail for 5 years for lying to the FBI during the investigation. </span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">Democratic County leaders pick almost every one
of the city’s Civil Court, Supreme and Surrogate Court Judges. Last
years the Brooklyn machine pulled a Stanley Friedman when they dumped </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Judge Laura Jacobson. </b>A</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">ccording to her lawsuit
against the Brooklyn machine Judge Jacobson was fired because she voted to keep </span><b style="font-size: 13pt;">LICH Hospital </b><span style="font-size: 13pt;">open, which Boss Seddio law firm was hired by SUNY to help close it. The
ongoing Judge Jacobson lawsuit says Brooklyn boss Frank Seddio uses
the court and judges they help elect as their own personal piggy
bank. Has anyone ever heard of a Brooklyn big developer losing a
case? Just </span><span style="font-size: 13pt;">read the Judg</span>e </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Dawn
Jimenez-Salta</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">decision</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;"> on <a href="http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2016/7/11/judge-rules-against-group-trying-halt-sale-brooklyn-heights-library">closing </a>the Brooklyn Heights
library. It the Jacobson case is allowed
to continue by the federal court, we will learn a lot more how the city modern political machines operate. The Brooklyn machine is spending big money on
high price lawyer to get the case dismissed. They have hired Gore;s recount lawyer Boies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2014/09/who-watchers-watchman.html" target="_blank">Who Watchers the Watchman,
Lobbyists, Grand Jury, AG - DAs Conflict of Interests</a> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://ybloggersnewspaper.blogspot.com/2016/09/5-million-lawsuit-filed-by-judge.html">More on the Jacobson Lawsuit</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2014/04/corrupt-surrogate-court.html">Corruption
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">The County leader of Queens, <b>Congressman Joe
Crowley</b> and his top aides have made millions from the Queens courts where they
elected every judge for decades. Former Congressman
<b>Thomas Manton</b> who was Queens Boss before Crowley also made millions
from the Surrogate Court, both belonged to the same law firm. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">Crowley and his fellow city party bosses have
elected almost 40% of the Assembly and Senate members in Albany because of the
Tammany Hall election laws which allow them to pick the democratic nominee in
special elections. <b>Special Elections</b> are very low turnout elections, in
heavily democratic NYC. Anyone given the democratic ballot line by the party which is what the election law dictates is a guarantee
win. In what some have called the <b>Soft Machine</b> elect officials
working with party bosses time their retirement or forced exits by way of the
prosecutor to set up a special election, so they can pick their own
successor. The retiring elected officials are usually family member or
loyal aides who have worked in their office to replace them. </span><br />
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<b><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2014/09/brooklyn-dem-convention.html">Brooklyn</a><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2014/09/brooklyn-dem-convention.html"> Dem Convention</a></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Political Bosses Pick the Council Speakers and Get Paid Back in Millions in Member Items, Jobs and City Contracts</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">Most of the City Council speakers, the second
more powerful position in city government, got their position because of deals
between party leaders. <b>Speaker Quinn</b> won after a deal between the
Queens, Bronx, and Manhattan district leaders. The party bosses even have a hand in
the control of the state senate. Two of
last <b>IDC </b>Senators converts were supported by the party machines
Jesse Hamilton won his senate seat with the help of the Brooklyn
machine. Tony Avella was supported by the Parkside Group
that helps run the Queens machine. County leaders and their
district leaders also help the governor and comptroller candidates avoid the
petitioning process at S<b>tate Conventions</b> ever four years.</span><br />
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Party Bosses Has Made the Board of Election and the Courts Gate Keepers to
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">Tammany election laws still control who runs the
Board of Elections. Democratic and Republican party bosses, two from each
borough, pick commissioners who frequently knock off challengers to party
back candidates and judges. Even if a party candidate running against a candidate
back by the party gets past the BOE commissioner gatekeepers, that outsider candidate
still face a challenge in the courts where every judge who sits in the court’s election
part was elected by the party machine. When de Blasio was knocked off
the ballot in 2009 for a petition problem he and his lawyer went to the county
leaders who ordered their commissioners to put him back on the ballot for
public advocate. Every year dozens of challengers are knock off by
the BOE who do not have de Blasio or his election lawyer
Henry Berger’s connection to the city’s party machines. that control
the BOE’s rulings on who runs.for public office or judge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Problem with the Board of Elections Against and Again</span></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Media Protects the Modern Party Boss by Covering Up the Power They Have to
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">The biggest opposition to Tammany Hall in its
heyday came from the city’s elites and the media they owned or controlled. Boss
Tweed blasted Harper's Weekly not for the articles they wrote against him, but
for the cartoon Thomas Nast drew for the magazine’s
covers. Tweed said he did not care what the papers wrote,
but Nast's cartoons were killing him, because his people could not
read. Today’s media that covers-up the control the political parties have
over NYC are mostly owned by the city’s elite which today consist of developers
who use the party bosses shadow government to make money. The Media no longer cares who runs elections, they just want weak elected officials who are more loyal to the lobbyists and party leaders than the voters who put them in office. Weak elected officials selected by the lobbyists and their permanent govt client makes it easy for media owners who are developers, or their developer advertises to make money. The lack of coverage on campaign lobbyists, PACs and lack of competition is intentional by the media. In NYC we have always had fake news that cover up our broken democracy.</span><br />
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Millions Rehabilitating Candidates and Cleaning Up Policies Harmful to the
Public</a><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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NY Post Is Backed Into A Position to Prove Judgehips Are For Sale in
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Up the Power of the Political Party Bosses After Bharara Only a Hope</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">The only real way to bust up the power of the
parties is to build a reform movement in the parties by allowing online voting for party offices, to assure more candidates
running and more voters participating. The path to voting reforms in
Albany remains a tall order. Party boss and the new gangs made up
of the lobbyist political consultants like Berlin Rosen and George Arzt both
use those the assemblyman and senators they elected to block voting reforms. Unlike the party
bosses, the lobbyist’s gang are not elected, they exist because of the clients
who hire them, a new growing private Tammany Hall. Since modern party
bosses have gamed their elections; there is really no difference between the
private or elected Tammany bosses of today. They both make their money
from the permanent government who make their money from government working
against the interests of people. Another long shot at reform is finding a way to battle the political establishment to hold a State
Charter Commission. If we get a charter commission next year it would be the first time in 50 years. A </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">Commission could forced New York
to overhaul its voting system, create ethic rules and term limits for Albany. Albany has never passed voting reforms. The
only reforms to NY’s petitioning process offered was when <b>George W. Bush</b> threw
<b>John McCain </b>off the ballot in 2000 and a federal judge reformed the petitioning process for
ballot access as he restored McCain to the ballot. Don’t count on a
constitution convention being held in 2018. Unions, elected and party leaders are already telling voters to vote no this November against holding the convention. The permanent government
which blocked the last two chances for a convention is much stronger today than
when the late Journalist Jack Newfield wrote a book The Permanent Government. Newfield spent his life trying to expose and
defeat the shadow government. </span><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/nyregion/a-mayor-raises-questions-by-refusing-to-take-any.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A Mayor Raises Questions by Refusing to Take Any</span></a></b> (NYT)<b> </b>Since walking out of a news conference last month, Mayor Bill de Blasio seems to be embracing a new approach of “don’t ask, don’t answer.”* De Blasio has restricted the times when he will take questions from reporters and has relied more on social media channels, town hall exchanges and one-on-one interviews with specific reporters, a model that has been largely untested in New York, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/lacement-1-pgtype-sectionfront/s5hyz/64277649">the Times reports.</a>No questions were allowed after a Police Academy graduation, by the statue known as “Fearless Girl” in Lower Manhattan, or even at the handful of events during the mayor’s weeklong road trip on Staten Island last week.“I’m here to talk about this,” he said at the March 23 event, held so he could talk about a so-called mansion tax proposal. “I’m here to talk about this. If you want to talk about this, I’m here to talk about this.” After three questions not about that, he walked off.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Even before the March 23 news conference, Mr. de Blasio had increasingly relied on more scripted interactions with reporters when making a public announcement, insisting that reporters ask questions only about the topic that he had chosen to talk about that day, like police statistics, or affordable housing. When Mr. de Blasio was public advocate, he gave the previous administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg poor marks for transparency and responsiveness to requests for information. But Mr. Bloomberg did take off-topic questions, once questions on the stated topic had been exhausted, said Bill Cunningham, a former spokesman for Mr. Bloomberg. Mr. Cunningham said the lack of a prominent opponent to the mayor in this year’s election has given him more space to do as he pleased. “As long as they’re able to get away with this, they will,” he said. <o:p></o:p>City Hall and other city agencies have been active on social media and the mayor has conducted numerous live online video streams, including with a Staten Island couple during his time there last week and onboard the ferry on Monday. The videos provide a more intimate — if more controlled — view of mayoral activities than can be seen from a news conference.</div>
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Taxpayers foot bill for glitzy ad touting de Blasio (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. * De Blasio hits awkward note withBroadway-style video promoting his 2016 achievements (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 missteps. 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 Daily News detailed his bad year with a front-page story, “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, the Daily News writes. Bill's Song and Dance 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. 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 .* A Song for Bill de Blasio Sounds a Sour Note for Watchdogs (NYT) 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.* Mayor de Blasio tries to defend boastful video decried bywatchdogs (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.* Fundraising Investigations, Homeless Crisis, and Failures at ACS Cloud Mayor's 2016 (NY1)Mayor de Blasio is struggling to put a positive spin on his exceptionally challenging 2016.<br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2017/04/11/cuomos-free-tuition-program-comes-with-a-major-catch/">Cuomo’s free tuition program comes with a major catch</a> (NYP) Cuomo’s much-heralded new program for free tuition at state colleges comes with a huge catch — you have to sign years of your life away to get it. Under a provision that was added to the tuition bill at the last moment, students who get a free ride at CUNY and SUNY schools must live and work in New York state for up to four years after graduation, or be forced to pay the money back. The amendment — which was not part of Cuomo’s original offer of free college for middle- class students — was added at the insistence of Republicans in the state Senate. The GOP members worried that taxpayer-educated students would take their valuable knowledge and flee to other parts of the US, particularly from remote upstate communities.<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/04/11/how-cuomos-free-tuition-could-deepen-the-student-debt-crisis/">How Cuomo’s ‘free tuition’ could deepen the student-debt crisis</a></span> (NYP) It turns out Gov. Cuomo’s headline-grabbing “free tuition” turns retroactively into a loan for grads who take jobs out of state — and that’s not the only ugly surprise. The provision got tossed in at the last minute at the behest of Senate Republicans — whose upstate members worry about the “brain drain” of smart kids moving away.* A new scholarship that will let many New York students attend state colleges <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/dle-income-students-1483482077/rw7rs/63007131" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">tuition-free</a> has a caveat in the fine print: Recipients must live and work in the state for several years after graduation or pay back the money, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/e-afterward-1491857502-tesla-y/rw7rv/63007131" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal reports.</a> * <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/eepen-the-student-debt-crisis-/rw7sq/63007131" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">The Post criticizes</a> Cuomo’s free college tuition plan as enacted for turning tuition grants into loans if a graduate takes a job out of state, writing that details matter if you want to actually help people, but it seems Cuomo only cares about the headlines.* The program to provide free tuition at SUNY and CUNY campuses will primarily benefit traditional students, those who go to college straight from high school and earn their degrees on time, but increasingly many students attend part-time or take extra years, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/lacement-1-pgtype-sectionfront/s2dmv/63261019" target="_blank">the Times reports.</a>* Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined Gov. Andrew Cuomo to praise his free tuition Excelsior Scholarship program, saying, “We need to be building bridges. And the best bridge to the future is a good education, my friends,” <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/bill-signing-article-1-3047004/s2ksx/63352041" target="_blank">the Daily News writes.</a> * While Cuomo was taking a victory lap for the passage of his free tuition plan for public colleges in New York, Assemblyman James Skoufis introduced a bill that would repeal the plan’s postgraduate in-state work requirement, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/y-requirement-in-tuition-plan-/s2ksz/63352041" target="_blank">State of Politics reports.</a><br />
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At a Harlem rally to tout the new state budget, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said legislative leaders wanted to give up on the contentious Raise the Age proposal in order to ease the approval of a new spending plan, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/budget-talks-article-1-3040879/rw7rn/63007131" target="_blank">the Daily News reports.</a> * After weeks of hard-fought negotiations, approval for the Raise the Age bill was not universal, with the final bill language leaving some who had sought the law disappointed in its many subsections and stipulations, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/n2Fsectioncollection2Fnyregion/rw7rq/63007131" target="_blank">The New York Times reports.</a> *<o:p></o:p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/nyregion/raise-the-age-new-york.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;">‘Raise the Age,’ Now Law in New York, Is Still a Subject of Debate</a><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"> (NYT)</span></div>
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It took nearly two years, but Cuomo reached an agreement in the budget to put back together the affordable housing program, known as 421-a, that gives developers a tax break in return for building lower-price rental units, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/n2Fsectioncollection2Fnyregion/rw7rx/63007131" target="_blank">the Times reports.</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/04/10/state-senate-passes-153-1b-budget/">State Senate passes $153.1B budget</a> (NYP) <o:p></o:p></b>“Forcing major issues through the budget process has got to stop,” said Deputy Majority Leader Sen. John DeFrancisco (R-Syracuse). “It should be debated separately.” That would require a constitutional amendment, but DeFrancisco said it should be done. “Then we can truly say that we’re working on a budget not on the policy of the state of New York as the prime focus and a budget that’s almost an add-on,” he said. The bill not to prosecute 16- and 17-year-old criminal defendants as adults wound up splitting the GOP and “progressive” politicians who couldn’t agree on where to draw the line.They compromised by giving judges and district attorneys the power to make the decision on a case-by-case basis. Extending mayoral control of New York City schools was not included in the budget on Sunday night, meaning that, barring further action, Mayor de Blasio’s authority could now end in June, as previously planned. The budget also extends a higher tax rate on millionaires for two years, a measure Republicans fought, saying it will chase high earners out of the state. Families earning up to $120,000 will now get free tuition at all SUNY and CUNY colleges.* In this year’s state budget negotiations, legislative factions on the right and left dug in their heels and handed Gov. Andrew Cuomo a budget that passed Sunday night, nine days after the deadline, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/dget-battle-1491782832-tesla-y/rpkvx/62694521" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal writes.</a> * Assembly Democrats plan to target the state Senate’s Independent Democratic Conference and the pressure is going to increase on the eight-member breakaway conference to create a new majority partnership with the mainline Democrats, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/t-senate-idc-article-1-3037203/rpkvz/62694521" target="_blank">the Daily News’ Ken Lovett reports.</a> * <b><i><a href="http://www.kingscountypolitics.com/crown-heights-residents-turn-thumbs-rogers-avenue-homeless-shelter/?utm_source=Kings+County+Politics+Morning+Newsletter&utm_campaign=3f68caa7ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_466a6c86df-3f68caa7ef-324302829" target="_blank">Crown Heights Residents Turn Thumbs Down On RogersAvenue Homeless Shelter </a>(Kings County Politics) * </i></b><a href="http://kingscountypolitics.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b3a58c4fe8403c93357707720&id=23470743fc&e=fd25f54ed8" target="_blank">New city housing policy faces test amidst affordability debate</a> <i>PoliticoNewYork Reports * </i><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/thousands-of-working-new-yorkers-are-living-in-homeless-shelters-1491862238" target="_blank">Thousands of Working New Yorkers Are Living in HomelessShelters</a> (WSJ) </b>Soaring rents and stagnant wages increasingly have squeezed the city’s working poor<br />
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<b><a href="http://buffalonews.com/2017/04/08/one-bill-creates-many-winners-many-losers/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=puma&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1491728772" target="_blank">'Big Ugly' state budget bill creates winners, losers</a> (Buffalo News) </b>There are items affecting farmers, gasoline distributors, teens who commit crimes, people who want to ride in an Uber or Lyft car, property taxpayers, local governments, movie companies, racehorse owners, housing developers, “certain members” of the New York City police pension fund and cemeteries – or rather people who end up in a cemetery. Linking so many items into one bill also makes it difficult for lawmakers to oppose the measure because it includes so many popular items, including $26 billion for public schools.* <b><o:p></o:p></b><b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/state-budget-won-cuomo-pushed-tax-n-y-online-shoppers-article-1.3034371" target="_blank">State's $153.1B budget won't include Cuomo's proposal torequire online stores with big N.Y. shopper base to collect sales tax </a>(NYDN) </b><b>* The state Assembly finished action on the 2017-2018 state budget on Saturday evening, and the state Senate is scheduled to hold a session at 5 p.m. Sunday to consider the remaining bills,<a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/of-raise-the-age-debate-111130/rpfsl/62634959" target="_blank">Politico New York reports</a>. </b><b>* The revenue bill that includes the most contentious legislative language in the 2017 state budget negotiation was printed on Saturday morning, and <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ght-reading-for-your-saturday-/rpfsn/62634959" target="_blank">the Times Union posted</a> the 343-page bill with an index to some of its most interesting portions. </b>* The state budget includes free tuition at public colleges and universities for New York students in families earning less than $125,000, as well as a boost for the state’s Tuition Assistance Program, while mayoral control dropped out, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/get-deal-reached-friday-night-/rpfss/62634959" target="_blank">Chalkbeat New York reports</a>. * In a win for online shoppers, the $153.1 billion state budget deal announced Friday night does not include Gov. Andrew Cuomo's push to require online marketplaces such as Etsy and Amazon to collect sales taxes, a decision hailed by tech groups, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ine-shoppers-article-1-3034371/rpfsx/62634959" target="_blank">the Daily News writes.</a> * <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-includes-healthy-dose-policy-/rw7sv/63007131" target="_blank">The Buffalo News praises</a> much of the policy in the state budget, but writes that Albany should be demanding more – improved scores, higher graduation rates – in exchange for continued increases in state education spending.* The new budget manipulates future aid formulas in a way that one advocate says will cost New York City charter schools some $1.7 billion over the next several years and the state Legislature refuses to raise the charter school cap, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/uomo-betrayed-charter-schools-/s2dnd/63261019" target="_blank">Bob McManus writes in the Post.</a><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/nyregion/budget-deal-comes-together-in-albany-after-delay-and-frustration.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion">Budget Deal Comes Together in Albany, After Delay and Frustration</a></b> (NYT)<b> </b>The $153 billion includes tuition-free education at state colleges, along with changes to workers’ compensation and the juvenile justice system. <b><o:p></o:p></b><b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/04/08/state-legislators-finally-reach-agreement-on-153b-budget/">State legislators finally reach agreement on $153B budget</a> (NYP) </b>includes free public-college education and allows ride-sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft to expand throughout the state. But the agreement doesn’t say a word about whether Mayor de Blasio <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/04/07/de-blasios-school-control-extension-causes-snag-in-state-budget/">will retain mayoral control of schools</a>. The bills were not yet printed when the leaders made the announcement, but Cuomo gave an overview that he says gives a $50 million boost to charter schools. There’s no change in per-pupil funding for this fiscal year. Next year, however, there’s a 4 percent increase in per-pupil funding from roughly $14,000 to $14,500. Families with income of up to $125,000 a year — which Cuomo said is 80 percent, or 940,000 families in the state — will qualify for free college tuition under Excelsior Scholarships and it also will contain benefits for private colleges. The millionaire’s tax will be extended two years and 421-a tax breaks for developers in exchange for affordable housing will expire in five years. In a nod to juvenile-justice reformers, 16- and 17-year-olds no longer will be treated as adults in the state’s courts. Instead, the teens will be diverted to family court or youth court, depending on the severity of their crimes.* After a week of impasse and the worst budget crisis of his administration, Gov. Andrew Cuomo late Friday announced a $153 billion state budget deal, including free tuition, raising the age of criminal responsibility and workers’ comp changes, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/lacement-1-pgtype-sectionfront/rpbjv/62564777" target="_blank">The New York Times reports.</a><br />
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Their post-release supervision will be decided on a case-by-case basis by a panel of parole and social-services experts. The Assembly remained in Albany to vote on the last budget bills and the budget won’t be passed until the Senate returns to vote on it. Sources say that could happen as early as Sunday.* <b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/gov-cuomo-lawmakers-reveal-153-1b-state-budget-deal-article-1.3031167" target="_blank">Cuomo, lawmakers reveal $153.1B state budget deal </a>(NYDN) </b>* The deal, which includes higher-than-inflation school aid hikes and hundreds of millions of dollars in pork barrel spending, has yet to be approved, with the Assembly hoping to vote early Saturday and the state Senate possibly returning Sunday, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/rs-reach-deal-new-york-budget-/rpbjx/62564777" target="_blank">The Buffalo News reports</a>. * The state budget agreements reached so far include no new controls or oversight on how the Cuomo administration spends money on economic development projects, despite allegations of bid-rigging in earlier development projects, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/conomic-development-oversight-/rpbjz/62564777" target="_blank">The Buffalo News reports</a>. * Cuomo also said he won a “federal funding response plan” that will give him extraordinary power to cut the budget unilaterally in the face of expected federal aid cuts, though the Senate and Assembly will have 90 days to agree on cuts first, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/nal-budget-proposal-1-13376657/rpbk2/62564777" target="_blank">Newsday reports</a>. <b>*</b> Assembly Democrats are watching what they say behind closed doors after discovering a mole in their ranks when the governor spilled the secret by sending a text to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie during a private conference meeting, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/e-has-state-democrats-on-edge-/rpbk4/62564777" target="_blank">the New York Post reports.</a><br />
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/04/06/cuomo-has-spy-watching-democrats-in-the-state-assembly/">Cuomo has spy watching Democrats in the state Assembly</a></b> (NYP)<b> </b>Gov. Cuomo has a Democratic spy in the state Assembly monitoring what Speaker Carl Heastie says about him and is reporting back — in real time.<b> </b>Heastie got a jolt in the middle of a closed door Democratic Assembly conference Wednesday when he got a text message from Cuomo saying, “Why are you bad mouthing me?”<b> </b>The governor’s office had just gotten a text message from a mole about Heastie’s comments during a closed-door of his members on budget negotiations.<b> </b>Assemblyman Peter Abbate confirmed the incident and called the secret surveillance “despicable.”<b> </b>“I was there. While he was speaking to us Carl looked down at his phone and then said,`The governor just texted me and said I said bad things about him,’” Abbate recalled. “People laughed.”<b> </b>But Abbatte said it wrong for a Democratic Assembly member to undermine the leader.<b> </b>“It’s a disservice to the whole Democratic conference. The person doesn’t belong in the Legislature. A person like that is a creep,” Abbate fumed.<b> </b>It’s not unusual that some of what is said during private Democratic caucus meeting eventually filters out to the governor and, sometimes, the media.<b> </b>There are 107 Democrats in the Assembly. Democrat Cuomo is friendly with many of them.<b> </b>What is rare is that — thanks to smart phones — the word gets back to Cuomo immediately.<b> </b>“I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Abbate, an Assembly member since 1987.<b> </b>Heastie’s office brushed off spy gate.<b> </b>“We’re working on the budget. Couldn’t care less about this,” said Heastie spokesman Michael Wyland.<b> </b>Cuomo’s office had no immediate comment.<b><o:p></o:p></b>* With the state Senate gone and the Assembly miserable, Gov. Andrew Cuomo proffered a possible deal to try to break the deadlock over the state’s late budget, but the outlook for an end to the budget season was far from certain, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/n2Fsectioncollection2Fnyregion/rnkgx/62377671" target="_blank">The New York Times writes.</a> * Messy as this year’s state budget talks have been, nothing is uglier than Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s disgraceful effort to starve charter schools, blowing up tentative deals with insistence that per-pupil charter funding remain frozen at 2009 levels, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/stie-new-yorks-kids-come-last-/rnkhv/62377671" target="_blank">the Post writes.</a><br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2017/04/06/cuomos-sure-not-budgeting-like-hes-worried-about-trump/">Cuomo's sure not budgeting like he's worried about Trump</a> (NYP) Amid the smoke and confusion surrounding this week’s on-again, off-again budget dance in Albany, Gov. Cuomo made a point well worth repeating. Noting big federal-policy changes afoot in Washington, Cuomo said Wednesday evening that his top priority was “to make sure we do not overcommit ourselves financially.” That’s an eminently responsible position. Too bad the governor hasn’t followed his own advice. Instead, he’s pushed big-bucks commitments to “free” college tuition, a range of porky “economic development” programs and — of all things — another cycle of generous state subsidies for wealthy Hollywood film and TV producers. Over the next few years, Cuomo’s favored programs will further sap New York’s fiscal resources even as the state confronts the potentially severe budgetary impact of efforts by the Trump administration and a Republican Congress to repeal ObamaCare, rein in Medicaid and reform the tax code.<br />
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<b><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2015/02/heastie.html">Speaker Heastie, Albany Campaign and Financial Reform </a><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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It appears that Cuomo’s government ethics, campaign finance and voting reform platform he unveiled as part of his State of the State addresses is the only entire category of proposals completely off the table as budget negotiations continue, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/rm-forgotten-as-budget-lurches/rnkh4/62377671" target="_blank">Gotham Gazette reports.</a></div>
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2017/04/11/when-cuomo-says-reform-hes-planning-a-power-grab/">When Cuomo says 'reform,' he's planning a power grab</a> (NYP) Cuomo scored two significant extensions of his arbitrary power — one of them despite heated warnings that he was overreaching and threats of a court challenge. Cuomo won the Legislature’s backing for a new inspector general with prosecutorial oversight on all downstate transportation projects. Though pitched as a reform measure, it’s anything but. In reality, it gives Cuomo a special prosecutor — appointed by and answerable only to him — with jurisdiction over the Port Authority (as well as the MTA, which the gov already controls). No, what Cuomo wants isn’t yet another investigator — he wants a cudgel with which to browbeat and threaten Port Authority officials who refuse to comply with his demands. And now the Legislature’s handed him one. A new law allows Cuomo’s budget director to submit a revised spending plan if Washington cuts the state’s federal aid. If the Assembly and state Senate don’t unite to pass a counter-proposal within 90 days, Cuomo’s plan wins. And given how divided the Legislature was during the just-concluded budget fight, that’s essentially giving Cuomo unilateral power to cut spending. One thing you can be sure of with Cuomo: Whenever he talks reform, it usually winds up as a gubernatorial power grab. <b><span style="font-size: large;">MTA</span></b> <o:p></o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/transit-advocates-slam-cuomo-65-million-cut-mta-funding-article-1.3045331" target="_blank">Transitadvocates slam Gov. Cuomo for $65 million cut to MTA funding </a>(NYDN) </span>* With President Donald Trump proposing dramatic cuts to transportation funding, the officials charged with building a multibillion-dollar, nationally important rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River have begun to explore private funding mechanisms, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/for-cross-hudson-tunnel-111189/s2dmx/63261019" target="_blank">Politico New York writes.</a> * Cuomo secured a $65 million cut for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the state budget, which shifted money from the agency’s operations budget to its repair needs, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-mta-funding-article-1-3045331/s2dmz/63261019" target="_blank">the Daily News writes.</a> <b><span style="font-size: large;">CHARTER SCHOOLS</span></b> The new budget manipulates future aid formulas in a way that one advocate says will cost New York City charter schools some $1.7 billion over the next several years and the state Legislature refuses to raise the charter school cap, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/uomo-betrayed-charter-schools-/s2dnd/63261019" target="_blank">Bob McManus writes in the Post.</a><br />
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Despite the recent convictions of the leaders of both the Assembly and the state Senate and indictments against some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s own associates, lawmakers failed to take up a raft of ethics proposals included in the governor’s executive budget, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/lacement-5-pgtype-sectionfront/s2dmg/63261019" target="_blank">The New York Times reports.</a><b><o:p></o:p></b><br />
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"This year, it was all rhetoric and no action." On Ethics, Cuomo Budget Entered Like a Lion and Emerged Like a Lamb</div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">The Member Items Pork is Flying in This New 2017 State Budget</span></b><br />
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<a href="https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/oink-yet-again/" target="_blank">Oink yet again (</a>NY Torch) New York’s tentative state budget deal would pour another $385 million into the biggest, murkiest pork-barrel slush fund Albany has ever seen. The latest version of the fiscal 2018 Capital Projects bill (A.3004D) would further fatten the State and Municipal Facilities Program (SMFP), bringing its total available funding to $1.64 billion, based on $1.925 billion in total appropriations over the last five fiscal years. That’s a whole lot of bacon, even by New York standards—at a time when <a href="https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/dont-overcommit-on-budget/">Governor Andrew Cuomo says</a> his top priority is “to make sure we don’t overcommit ourselves financially.” But wait—there’s more. The (apparently) final version of the Capital Projects bill —just passed by the Assembly—also does not include Cuomo’s proposed Executive Budget language <a href="https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/cuomo-reins-in-some-pork/">boosting the transparency</a> of legislatively sponsored capital expenditures from pork pots <i>other than</i> SMFP.<b><o:p></o:p></b><br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2017/04/10/cuomos-shelly-nostalgia-betrays-perverse-priorities/">Cuomo's 'Shelly nostalgia' betrays perverse priorities</a> (NYP ED) Cuomo’s <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/04/10/cuomo-touts-sheldon-silvers-control-over-state-budgets/">nostalgia for the speakership of Sheldon Silver</a> is painfully telling about the state of New York state. On the surface, Cuomo was merely admiring Silver’s iron control of the Assembly when he remarked on John Catsimatidis’ show, “They did what he said, period.” Which no doubt made it easier to reach an on-time budget deal in years past. But Silver’s power also enabled the corruption for which he now <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/08/25/sheldon-silver-avoids-jail-for-at-least-another-year/">faces long years in federal prison</a> — and the same goes for <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/08/05/dean-skelos-will-be-able-to-stay-out-of-prison-pending-his-appeal/">ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos</a>. Hmm: Of all that Cuomo sought in <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/04/10/state-senate-passes-153-1b-budget/">this year’s budget deal</a>, the only areas where he got nothing were ethics and transparency reform. (In fact, the Legislature managed more of that in the Silver era.) Yes, the gov on Monday insisted his talk of Silver was meant as “fact, not praise,” since the Assembly majority is now “more participatory,” but “not as functional.” <b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #20124d; font-size: x-large;">Yet Cuomo’s main gripe is the greater difficulty of swinging the same old deals — when the state desperately needs change.</span></b></div>
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Call it a legal contradiction in the new state budget, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-justice-and-corruption-37836-/rw7ss/63007131" target="_blank">the Times Union writes</a>, Cuomo and the Legislature did much to improve justice, but not a thing about the corruption that has plagued state government.* <a href="http://buffalonews.com/2017/04/14/editorial-state-takes-powerful-steps-wrongful-conviction/">The Buffalo News</a>: “It took far too long, given the undisputed, crying need, but tucked away in the New York State budget are some powerful criminal justice reforms aimed at preventing the compound tragedies of wrongful conviction. That makes this an especially significant budget.”<br />
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<b>The decision also gives a green light to politicians who are willing to abuse the power of incumbency to stay in office. Let’s face it — that includes just about every pol on the planet. <o:p></o:p>In plain English, the statement by prosecutors boils down to this: You can avoid the law, you can evade the law and you can do your big donors’ bidding. To be clear, there was nothing ethical or admirable about what de Blasio did. The favorable government actions he gave to donors are open and notorious, as are the benefits he got from the millions of dollars the donors gave to his slush funds outside the campaign finance laws. There were plenty of reports that his team singled out wealthy individuals and firms who had business pending before City Hall, knowing they would be more likely to fork over mountains of money to help their businesses or protect them from punishment. It was a two-way street. The money they gave helped de Blasio build his reputation nationally and hire private consultants to deliver his city agenda. Those consultants, his “agents of the city,” made millions without him having to use his own funds to pay them. Most important, the slush funds enabled the mayor to establish a shadow government and wage a permanent campaign for re-election. And now prosecutors have given the sordid scheme their blessing all because they didn’t catch the mayor taking a brown paper bag filled with cash.</b></div>
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<b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/nyregion/questioning-whether-de-blasio-will-learn-from-a-teachable-moment.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Questioning Whether de Blasio Will Learn From a Teachable Moment</span></a> (NYT) </b>The mayor says the decision by prosecutors not to charge him means he can continue his fund-raising practices as before. Some onlookers in and outside of government aren’t so sure.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/nyregion/mayor-bill-de-blasio-investigation-no-criminal-charges.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news" target="_blank">No Charges, but Harsh Criticism for Mayor de Blasio</a>(NYT) </i></b>The federal inquiry found a pattern in which the mayor or his associates solicited contributions from donors seeking favors from the city and then contacted city agencies on their behalf, according to a statement from the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York. But the decision not to bring charges, the statement said, came after weighing among other things, “the high burden of proof, the clarity of existing law, any recent changes in the law and the particular difficulty in proving criminal intent in corruption schemes where there is no evidence of personal profit.” State prosecutors, who examined Mr. de Blasio’s unsuccessful 2014 effort to help Democrats regain control of the State Senate, concluded that they could not prove each element of the crimes that they considered charging beyond a reasonable doubt, according to a letter outlining their findings. The letter said this was because the mayor and those involved in the fund-raising effort had relied on the advice of their lawyers, a valid defense in a criminal case and because of ambiguities in the way the election law statutes were written. In his statement, Mr. Kim said investigators had examined several instances in which the mayor and “others acting on his behalf” solicited donations from people who were seeking “official favors from the city, after which the mayor made or directed inquiries to relevant city agencies on behalf of those donors.” In his letter, Mr. Vance said the office’s conclusion was “not an endorsement of the conduct at issue.” “The transactions appear contrary to the intent and spirit of the laws that impose candidate contribution limits, laws which are meant to prevent ‘corruption and the appearance of corruption’ in the campaign financing process,” he wrote.* <a href="http://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/city/6310-vance-has-ties-to-several-in-de-blasio-probe" target="_blank">Vance Has Ties To Several in the de Blasio Probe</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mayor-de-blasio-dodges-criminal-charges-fund-raising-probe-article-1.2999730" target="_blank">Mayor de Blasio dodges state, criminal charges infund-raising probe </a>(NYDN) The mayor quickly claimed vindication, even though neither prosecutor declared that de Blasio or his aides followed the letter of the law in the 2013 campaign or the next year’s State Senate race. Vance, in a 10-page letter explaining his decision, acknowledged “the conduct here may have violated the Election Law ... (but) the parties involved cannot be appropriately prosecuted, given their reliance on the advice of counsel.” Essentially, those who participated were led to believe by election lawyer Lawrence Laufer that their fund-raising efforts were legal. The district attorney added that his decision “is not an endorsement of the conduct at issue; indeed, the transactions appear contrary to the intent and spirit of the laws.” The behavior of the mayor and his staff “creates an end run around the direct candidate contribution limits,” wrote Vance. Under fired U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, federal prosecutors in Manhattan thoroughly investigated incidents where “Mayor de Blasio and others acting on his behalf solicited donations from individuals who sought official favors,” Kim said. Afterward, “the mayor made or directed inquiries to relevant city agencies on behalf of these donors,” the prosecutor added. * <b><a href="http://thechiefleader.com/reformers-laud-bharara-as-a-difference-maker/article_cf1a95f0-ff7f-11e6-b6f7-3366644efc8f.html" target="_blank">Reformers Laud Bharara As a Difference-Maker (</a>The Chief)</b><br />
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<b><a href="https://twitter.com/SalAlbaneseNYC">Sal Albanese @SalAlbaneseNYC </a> <span lang="EN">.<a href="https://twitter.com/errollouis">@errollouis</a> there is a solution 2 ending DEB et al unethical pay 2 play. I look forward to discussing it on your program</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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The decision by federal and state prosecutors not to file criminal charges against de Blasio is a huge victory for him – and for corrupt officials everywhere – and gives a green light to politicians who are willing to abuse the power of incumbency to stay in office, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/r-corrupt-officals-everywhere-/pm5hl/57717347" target="_blank">Michael Goodwin writes in the Post.</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/slime-not-crime-mayor-de-blasio-article-1.2999947" target="_blank">Slime, not crime: Prosecutors spare Bill de Blasio buthis dealings with donors leave lasting taint</a> (NYDN Ed) Mayor de Blasio escaped legal jeopardy on Thursday. He did not, and must not, escape ethical or political jeopardy for putting a For Sale sign on City Hall. On Thursday morning, Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon Kim and Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance simultaneously announced that, following investigations of more than a year, they do not intend to prosecute de Blasio or his political aides involved in trading favors for donation Their decisions are the begrudging result of an exceedingly high bar set for proving public corruption crimes, especially since a recent Supreme Court ruling. This does not change the fact that de Blasio will be forever tainted by cynical self-advancement at the expense of government integrity. An operation created as an adjunct to the mayoralty, the Campaign for One New York, raised more than $4 million — including many exorbitant contributions — to advance de Blasio and his agenda, most of it from firms and groups doing business with city government. </i><br />
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<i>A second mayoral effort funneled nearly $1 million into upstate county political committees in futile hopes of winning state Senate seats for Democrats and thus majority control of the entire Legislature — again, with big financial backing from city contractors. They were both strategic, carefully lawyered end-runs around the city’s public campaign financing system, which strictly limits contributions by donors enmeshed in city business deals — to head off the obvious temptation to bribe elected officials. De Blasio said: Give here. Even if, in fact especially if, you have business before the city. Then, he and his staff proceeded to ensure that donors got the attention and access they desired. Kim’s statement of exoneration left no doubt de Blasio left a trail of troubling evidence, stating without condition that federal investigators found “several circumstances in which Mayor de Blasio and others acting on his behalf solicited donations from individuals who sought official favors from the city, after which the mayor made or directed inquiries to relevant city agencies on behalf of those donors.” All that was not sufficient to prove corruption, for lack of evidence that the mayor or aides personally profited, or that the mayor did more than arrange for meetingDe Blasio thus escaped charges — but not his record. Those heaps of money in resulted in case after case of public policy clumsily bent to satisfy big-money donors: Frantic and fumblingly failed efforts to save a Lower East Side nursing home and Brooklyn hospital, on behalf of 1199SEIU, the Campaign for One New York’s biggest contributor. Tens of millions of dollars in subsidies to a Dallas school bus company that took such sudden interest in Putnam County Democratic Party politics it donated $100,000. A risible attempt to ban carriage horses, backed by generous donors but ultimately thwarted by the City Council.Municipal labor contracts that booked billions of dollars in phantom health care savings, with the teacher’s union the first to accept — not long after a $350,000 donation. De Blasio cannot rewrite the sordid history here: In a condemnable but not criminal scheme, he plotted to sell off chunks of his city for his own political advancement. And got away with it.<b><o:p></o:p></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><i><br /></i></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-man-32-months-bribing-cops-gun-permits-article-1.3000378" target="_blank">Brooklyn man gets 32 months in prison for bribing copsto snag quick gun permits</a> (NYDN) The man who copped to bribing NYPD officers for quick gun permits will spend 32 months in a federal lockup and two years on supervised release, a judge decided on Thursday. Alex Lichtenstein, 45, pleaded guilty on Nov. 10 to charges of offering a bribe and bribery for participating in a corruption scheme spanning from 2013 to 2016. While Lichtenstein and his lawyer had brokered a plea deal with prosecutors, the feds recently pushed for the Brooklyn bizman to get the max under their agreement - six years. Prosecutors argued that Lichtenstein - who submitted photos of himself alongside cops in his bid for sentencing leniency - didn't understand the gravity of his crime.* </i></span><b><i><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/03/16/judge-goes-easy-on-shomrim-leader-who-bribed-cops-for-gun-permits/" target="_blank">Judge goes easy on Shomrim leader who bribed cops forgun permits </a>(NYP) The Shomrim patrol leader who <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/26/feds-find-questionable-audio-recordings-made-by-convicted-shomrim-leader/"><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">bribed NYPD cops to “expedite” gun permits</span></a> got a lighter jail sentence than federal prosecutors wanted Thursday — because he has a history of community service. Judge Sidney Stein sentenced Alex “Shaya” Lichtenstein to 32 months in jail and ordered him to pay a $20,000 fine and undergo alcohol addiction treatment as penance for bribing cops. Prosecutors wanted him to go away for 4 to 6 years, but the judge cited Lichtenstein’s charitable works in giving him a lower-than-expected sentence. “Mr. Lichtenstein has led a life of great deeds,” Stein said. “He has also committed a great crime.” “You participated in corrupting the New York City police department,” he told Lichtenstein, who cried when he did not receive the probation sentence he was hoping for. Lichtenstein was found guilty in April of paying favors to officers in the Licensing Division for quick pistol permits that he he then sold to members of the Borough Park ultra-orthodox community for as much as $18,000 a pop. He also admitted to offering a whistle-blowing cop $6,000 per permit to keep his mouth shut and help with the scheme. Investigators recovered a trove of audio tapes Lichtenstein <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/18/shomrim-leader-busted-amid-nypd-corruption-probe/"><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">made while he cut deals with cops</span></a> — recordings meant to ensure the oft-drunk Lichtenstein could recall specific details in the deals, sources say. Prosecutors say the recordings connect Lichtenstein to a separate investigation into a high-ranking NYPD official who allegedly traded favors with two of Mayor de Blasio’s financial backers. According to tapes, Lichtenstein met with NYPD Deputy Inspector James Grant, who stands <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/26/feds-find-questionable-audio-recordings-made-by-convicted-shomrim-leader/"><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">accused of accepting bribes from big-time de Blasio donors</span></a> Jeremy Reichberg and Jona Rechnitz in exchange for preferential treatment. City and federal prosecutors <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/03/16/de-blasio-dodges-federal-charges-in-campaign-fundraising-probe/"><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">declined on Thursday to charge de Blasio or his aides</span></a> in the scandal. Lichtenstein, who <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/11/10/shomrim-leader-pleads-guilty-to-bribing-cops-for-gun-permits/"><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">admitted to two counts of bribery during a November plea deal</span></a>, said he will not be cooperate with investigators.</i></b>* A member of a neighborhood watch group in Brooklyn admitted to bribing NYPD officers and handing out cash and gifts to others, suggesting that a major federal investigation into corruption within the police department is still turning up new evidence of misconduct, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/lacement-7-pgtype-sectionfront/pm5h2/57717347" target="_blank">the Times reports.</a></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Wills Skips Court Date Again <span style="color: red;">YES</span> </span></b><br />
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<b>* A judge spared embattled New York City Councilman Ruben Wills from being arrested, after the Queens Democrat failed to appear in court this week due to what lawyers said were medical complications from an undisclosed health issue, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/rt-gets-a-second-chance-110026/mqw4g/54930609" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Politico New York writes.</span></a><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/03/01/judge-threatens-to-arrest-councilman-if-he-skips-court-date/">Judge threatens to arrest councilman if he skips court date</a></span></b> (NYP) A Queens judge has an arrest warrant at the ready for indicted City Councilman Ruben Wills if he fails to show up in court Thursday. That’s because Wills was a no-show Wednesday, with his lawyer e-mailing Justice Ira Margulis that the court date slipped his mind and he forgot to tell the councilman about it. “Last time he was having surgery and I forget to tell him the new date,” lawyer Steve Zissou admitted to Margulis via e-mail, as the counselor himself was also absent from court. Wills underwent surgery for an undisclosed medical issue in February, but had indicated he would be well enough to return to court Wednesday, Assistant Attorney General Travis Hill told the near-empty courtroom. The Democrat, <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/01/14/queens-councilman-implicated-by-pal-in-pass-through-scheme/">who is charged with stealing more than $30,000 in taxpayer money</a> — using some of the cash for department-store shopping sprees — was ordered to return to court Thursday. If Wills is a no-show, Margulis said he’ll be forced to issue the arrest warrant, which he drafted Wednesday but held pending Thursday’s appearance.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/04/06/charter-school-funding-delaying-already-overdue-budget/">Charter school funding delaying already overdue budget</a> (NYP) </b>* State budget talks collapsed Wednesday night as the sides continued to be split over criminal justice and education issues, and even after half a dozen budget bills were completed in the two houses lawmakers left Albany to go home, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-starts-stops-coming-together-/r8l38/62135275" target="_blank">The Buffalo News reports.</a> * There are five key issues still unresolved in the state budget, with disagreements over the specifics of a bill to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18, though ride-hailing services are expected to be legalized upstate, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ake-ny-budget-talks-100072056-/r8l3b/62135275" target="_blank">Gannett Albany reports.</a> * <b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/nyregion/cuomo-budget-deadline.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion">Cuomo Hails Progress on Budget, but a Long Easter Break Beckons</a> (NYT) </b>Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said he and New York lawmakers had agreed on issues like free tuition at state schools, opioid treatment and the so-called millionaire’s tax.* <a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2017/04/5/new-york-state-budget-talks-break-down-again.html">After Lawmakers Near State Budget Vote, Negotiations in Albany Break Down Again</a> (NY1)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;">That’s business as usual for the $150 billion New York state budget.</span> The process has been extra-messy this year, as lawmakers and the governor, for the first time in the Cuomo era, missed the deadline to pass the spending plan. But the basic ugliness is unchanged. It now looks like the last budget bills will pass sometime on Wednesday — after the 1,700-plus-page “extender” bill that passed Monday settled many issues. Yet legislators (as usual) had no time to read Monday’s massive legislation before voting. As Sen. Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan) put it, “We were asked to read the Bible this morning and vote on it.” Knowing lawmakers would go along to avert a government shutdown, Gov. Cuomo packed the bill with his priorities: a $2.2 billion set-aside for his failed “economic development” slush funds — including $400 million for his scandal-plagued Buffalo Billion. He even got $38 million for fresh ads for his Start-Up NY program, which has spurred just 772 jobs over three years — including some that are now gone. The Assembly and Senate meanwhile were distracted by battles over symbolic issues like “raise the age” — which in practice will only move a few juvenile cases out of criminal court. (Prosecutors already avoid criminal charges in the vast majority of cases.) The governor had suggested the reason for missing the deadline was uncertainty over tax-and-spending changes ahead from Washington. But Albany learned nothing new from DC before it did finish up. And, again, most New Yorkers — lawmakers included — will take days to find out everything that’s in the package. It’s all laughably far from the “efficient and effective” governance that, Cuomo likes to say, “restores competence, integrity and fiscal discipline.” New Yorkers who want that, it seems, will have to move out of state.* <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/n-y-senate-poised-pass-budget-bills-contentious-day-article-1.3019424" target="_blank">State Senatebegins approving budget bills that include boost for NYCHA and affordablehousing </a>(NYDN) * Lawmakers sometime late Wednesday or Thursday are hoping to adopt a final state budget that provides tuition breaks for some college students, legalizes ride-hailing in upstate and taxes millionaires to help fund new spending, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/adopt-final-state-budget-plan-/qswzs/61785023" target="_blank">The Buffalo News reports.</a> * The Democrat-led Assembly came to terms late Tuesday on a bill that would raise the age of criminal responsibility in the state to 18, an issue that had been a major stumbling block in the state budget negotiations, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/n2Fsectioncollection2Fnyregion/qswzv/61785023" target="_blank">The New York Times reports.</a> * Getting work done before the last minute is not in the Legislature’s nature, but a two-month delay is fundamentally unfair – especially from a state that expects school districts and local governments to live under a tax cap, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/udget-delay-is-too-long-37804-/qsx1q/61785023" target="_blank">the Times Union writes.</a> * The budget process has been extra messy this year, as lawmakers and the governor missed the deadline to pass a spending plan, so New Yorkers who want efficient, effective government will have to move out of state, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-new-yorks-newest-ugly-budget-/qsx1s/61785023" target="_blank">the Post writes.</a> * <b>De Blasio gets one-year extension controlling public schools</b></div>
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With a full budget still out of reach, the state Legislature passed <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/STATDOC-S05491-PDF/qmzgn/61517207" target="_blank">a pair</a> of <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/STATDOC-S05492-PDF/qmzgq/61517207" target="_blank">emergency spending bills</a> to permit the state government to continue to function, and to buy lawmakers more time to resolve several contested policy issues, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/n2Fsectioncollection2Fnyregion/qmzgs/61517207" target="_blank">The New York Times writes.</a> * Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is seriously considering getting the warring Senate Democratic minority and Independent Democratic Conference factions in the same room to talk about progressive issues like Raise the Age, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/e-gop-budget-article-1-3018323/qmzgv/61517207" target="_blank">Ken Lovett writes in the Daily News.</a><b> </b>* The Assembly and state Senate may no longer be headed up by crooks – but at least the old guys knew how to corral their caucuses and strike a deal in state budget crunch time, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/budget-crash-article-1-3018188/qmzhq/61517207" target="_blank">the Daily News writes</a>, calling it an abysmal performance even by Albany’s pitiful standards.* <b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/juvenile-leadership-fails-albany-budget-crash-article-1.3018188" target="_blank">Juvenile leadership fails in Albany budget crash</a> (NYDN) </b><b>*</b> Gov. Andrew Cuomo insisted there was no great rush to pass the remaining measures under the state budget, but Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said the governor was wrong as the budget seems to be turning from stalemate to brinksmanship, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/t-heastie-says-lets-get-going-/qssp8/61726367" target="_blank">State of Politics writes.</a> <b>* According to four anonymous state sources, Cuomo and legislative leaders reached a tentative deal on most items in the state budget and were working to submit the budget bills for a possible vote later this week, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/reached-sources-say-1-13360204/qsspb/61726367" target="_blank">Newsday reports.</a> </b>* The budget stalemate is likely to lead to a delay in pay for some of the state’s nearly 150,000 workers because the Legislature’s two-month budget extender wasn’t signed until late Monday evening, hours before payroll processing was to begin, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/elay-ny-workers-pay-100029930-/qsspd/61726367" target="_blank">Gannett Albany reports.</a> * The state budget extender not only keeps the state government operating, it also includes nearly $1.8 billion for Cuomo’s economic development projects, including another $500 million for various projects throughout Western New York, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ic-development-projects-110970/qsspg/61726367" target="_blank">Politico New York reports.</a></div>
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/04/03/emergency-spending-plan-to-pass-amid-s-t-show-budget-talks/" target="_blank">Emergency spending plan to pass amid 's--t show' budget talks</a> (NYP) * </b><b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/02/nyregion/new-york-state-budget-andrew-cuomo-albany.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion">With No Deal, Cuomo Will Ask for Emergency Budget Measures</a></b> (NYT)<b> </b>With no agreement as of Sunday evening, New York legislators could face a pay freeze, but issues like raising the age of criminal responsibility have knotted negotiations.* <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/nyregion/new-york-state-budget-andrew-cuomo.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;">Albany Works Overtime as Budget Deal Proves Elusive</a><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"> (NYT) </span>* After failing to reach a state budget agreement over the weekend, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is resorting to a strategy popularized by his predecessor, David Paterson: <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/et-extenders-html--WOHNnzsrLIU/qjrxv/61235867" target="_blank">a temporary budget extender.</a> * Cuomo said he was sending an emergency measure to both houses to keep the state government “fully functioning” until May 31, with lawmakers agreeing to pass the extender bill Monday after a budget deal couldn’t be reached over the weekend, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-still-split-new-state-budget-/qjry4/61235867" target="_blank">The Buffalo News reports.</a> * State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan is being undermined by his No. 2, state Sen. John DeFrancisco, whose actions have complicated budget talks and highlighted tensions between the Senate’s conservative upstate members and more moderate downstate ones, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ohn-flanagan-article-1-3016914/qjry6/61235867" target="_blank">Ken Lovett writes in the Daily News.</a></div>
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/03/31/cuomos-budget-deal-in-peril-over-teen-felony-law/">Cuomo’s budget deal in peril over teen felony law</a></b> (NYP) Cuomo and state lawmakers failed to reach agreement on key details of their $153 billion spending plan just hours before Saturday’s deadline to have a new budget in place. A dispute over a criminal-justice issue — whether to treat to treat 16- and 17-year-olds accused of felony crimes as juveniles instead of adults — was a main impediment. Democrats and Republicans could not agree on whether the teens should be treated as adults for certain serious crimes and if separate youth courts should be created to handle their cases. Sources said GOP lawmakers were trying to remove the issue from budget talks but Democrats refused to back down. Legislative leaders are also still haggling over whether to raise the cap on the number of charter schools allowed in New York City and provide charters more financial assistance, as well as how much money to disburse to all public schools. Government-watchdog groups slammed the secrecy. The governor said late Friday that if the legislature doesn’t pass a budget this weekend, he’ll do an emergency extension through May 21. * <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/nyregion/new-york-state-budget-andrew-cuomo.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion">As Clock Winds Down, Albany Budget Deal Is So Close, Yet So …</a> (NYT) The state on Friday seemed perilously close to producing a late budget, with stumbling blocks centered on issues like charter schools and raising the age of criminal responsibility.* <b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/gov-cuomo-state-lawmakers-blow-new-budget-deadline-article-1.3015599" target="_blank">Cuomo, state lawmakers blow new budget deadline amidgridlock on negotiations </a>(NYDN) </b>* At the stroke of midnight, Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a statement saying that if no budget agreement is in place by the end of the weekend, he will put forth emergency legislation to extend the current budget, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ew-budget-awaited-11042601-php/qjgkn/61106457" target="_blank">the Times Union reports</a>. * A dispute over whether to treat to treat 16- and 17-year-olds accused of felony crimes as juveniles instead of adults was a main impediment to budget negotiations, with GOP lawmakers trying to remove the issue and Democrats refusing to back down, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/in-peril-over-teen-felony-law-/qjgkq/61106457" target="_blank">the Post reports</a>. * Democrats across the country are looking for a hero, and Cuomo can make a real impact if he moves quickly on including Raise the Age in the state budget, with the lives of thousands of young people hanging in the balance, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/aise-age-n-y-article-1-3015617/qjgl8/61106457" target="_blank">Van Jones and Jessica Jackson Sloan write in the Daily News</a>. * At the stroke of midnight, Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a statement saying that if no budget agreement is in place by the end of the weekend, he will put forth emergency legislation to extend the current budget, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ew-budget-awaited-11042601-php/qjgkn/61106457" target="_blank">the Times Union reports</a>.</div>
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As Port Authority commissioners decided how to spend $32 billion over the next ten years, three Democratic state legislators from New Jersey argued that $3.5 billion for a new bus terminal in Manhattan was not sufficient, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/lacement-5-pgtype-sectionfront/h1plw/42570230" target="_blank">the Times reports.</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20161125/central-harlem/emergency-savings-nyc-residents-rent-food-homeless?utm_content=bufferd657f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=DNAinfoNY" target="_blank">Most New Yorkers Are Roughly 1 Paycheck Away FromHomelessness: Study</a> (DNAINFO)<br />
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The increase in the state’s minimum wage is a huge victory for the working class, and those counting the proceeds of their well-earned raises owe thanks to Cuomo and de Blasio, who pushed the issue in New York City and around the state, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ed-wage-hike-article-1-2929176/gyjhh/41760176" target="_blank">the Daily News writes.</a><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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“Look at Donald Trump,” said Bradley Tusk, a former Michael Bloomberg campaign manager who is openly pushing for a candidate to challenge de Blasio. “He didn’t have anything besides a message.” Tusk’s message around a de Blasio challenge would be “corruption, laziness and incompetence.” Protesters fight zoning plan by giving de Blasio a fake turkey “Other than that he’s great,” he deadpanned. De Blasio’s gym habits — which include late-morning trips to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park YMCA on work days — would be featured prominently in Tusk’s campaign. The mayor’s aides say he is in constant communication with his staff, even at the gym, but Tusk doesn’t think New Yorkers are buying it. “It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to say, ‘Why is he at the gym at 10 o’clock on a Tuesday morning?’” said Tusk, who has formed a group, NYC Deserves Better, to try to unseat de Blasio.<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/serious-opponent-beat-mayor-de-blasio-election-article-1.2889166" target="_blank"> (NYDN)</a><br />
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<span lang="EN">John Catsimatidis — who’ll announce a run for mayor in January — threw wife Margo a birthday party in a private room in the Metropolitan Club. <a href="http://pagesix.com/2016/12/04/a-bronx-tale-co-directors-had-a-specific-vision/" target="_blank">(Page 6)</a></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The building was run like a “RICO enterprise’’ complete with “mail fraud, wire fraud, extortion, obstruction of justice and transportation of stolen property,’’</span></b> the suit says. The plaintiffs even claim to have a company mole as a witness. That person is a former rental agent and Two Trees worker who acknowledged that the defendants “intentionally sat down and agreed in advance to take part in an unlawful scheme to illegally charge inflated rents to rent-stabilized tenants,” the suit says. <b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #4c1130; font-size: x-large;">The lawsuit suggests that government officials turned a blind eye to the allegedly illegal shenanigans because they were “influenced no doubt by campaign contributions made by Defendants and their associates. </span></b>“It is a matter of public record that seven developers wrote checks totaling $245,000 to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Campaign for One New York before de Blasio announced plans for a<b><span style="font-size: large;"> Streetcar </span></b>along the Brooklyn waterfront, with stops near the developers’ projects, including $100,000 from Defendant Jed Walentas,’’ the suit says. De Blasio has denied any connection between the big bucks and pushing his street-car plan. Court papers describe the Walentases as a $4 billion family empire “known for its singular role in transforming the Brooklyn neighborhood of “DUMBO” (an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) where the company’s holdings include 12 buildings comprising more than 3 million square feet of commercial and residential real estate.’’ The family also is behind the $3 billion conversion of the old Domino Sugar factory in Williamsburg into luxury pads. Two Trees bought the 125 Court St, property at Atlantic Avenue in 2003 for $16.5 million, according to reports. They then went after millions of dollars in public funding by promising to provide rent-stabilized and affordable housing, the suit says. But over the years, the developers knowingly misrepresented the market value of units so they could illegally inflate rents, the court papers say. The lawsuit adds that “despicably, Defendants even perpetrated this fraud upon the low-income tenants of the units designated as ‘affordable housing.’ ” The tactics led to a 300 percent tenant turnover rate at the building between 2005 and 2013, or 10 times the citywide figure, the suit says. Berman said he is seeking $10 million in back rent for his clients.* <o:p></o:p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/tenants-take-hit-as-ny-fails-to-police-huge-housing-tax-break" target="_blank">Tenants Take the Hit as New York Fails to Police Huge Housing TaxBreak </a>(Propublica)</div>
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Berlin Rosen who is not for some reason not listed as registered lobbyist work for a lot of real estate developers. <b> </b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/nyregion/deal-is-reached-on-redevelopment-of-brooklyn-sugar-refinery.html">Berlin Rosen’s current and recent clients include Two Trees Management</a> Negotiations between Mr. de Blasio’s team and two trees' Walentas’s firm took place over a few days. The two men share a mutual adviser: Jonathan Rosen, one of the mayor’s top political hands and the chief executive of a public affairs firm, Berlin Rosen that counts Mr. Walentas’s company as a client. Berlin Rosen served as a consultant to de Blasio campaign and runs he slush fund PAC NY1 which pushes the mayor’s agenda. <o:p></o:p>The agreement comes after a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/nyregion/plan-to-redevelop-brooklyn-sugar-refinery-hits-roadblock-new-mayor.html?hpw&rref=nyregion&_r=0">New York Times report last week </a>that redevelopment of the former factory site could hit a snag with the de Blasio administration, even though a <a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20131115/williamsburg/developers-get-local-support-for-heightened-towers-at-domino-site">previous proposal from Two Trees</a> had received support from local leaders and residents. The de Blasio administration wanted even more space for affordable housing. <span lang="EN">de Blasio has prevailed in his bid to wring more affordable housing from Two Trees’ redevelopment of the Domino Sugar site on the Williamsburg waterfront, with the developer agreeing to add 40 more units</span></div>
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/31/de-blasio-refuses-to-address-upcoming-bharara-meeting/">De Blasio refuses to address upcoming Bharara meeting</a> (NYP) de Blasio — who is under heavy fire over everything from a federal corruption probe to his beleaguered child-welfare agency — shut down a press availability Tuesday rather than answer questions about his <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/27/preet-bharara-to-question-mayor-de-blasio-over-city-hall-corruption/">upcoming meeting with US Attorney Preet Bharara.</a> “This is not what we’re talking about,” de Blasio said, when a Post reporter asked for details about the Bharara meeting following a photo op regarding the NYPD’s bulletproof squad-car windows in The Bronx. “C’mon c’mon — we’re on this topic,” the mayor insisted. The US attorney sit-down was revealed Friday — and since then, de Blasio has kept his media briefings on-topic only. When another reporter asked Tuesday about comments he made that characterized drunken driving as a minor offense not worthy of reporting to federal immigration officials, he snapped, “This is not about this topic here.” The mayor left while several reporters had their arms raised to question him.</div>
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York City Girds for Political Brawl Over Looming Speaker Vacancy</a> (NYT) Feb 15, 2017 - <b>New York City's
Council speaker</b>, Melissa Mark-Viverito, ... With all the political focus in
New York City trained on the <b>2017</b> mayoral <b>race</b>,
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City Council Members Already Laying Groundwork for ...</a>(NY1) Jun 23, 2016 - ...
term as city <b>council speaker</b> runs through January of 2018, the <b>race</b> to
succeed ...<b>Manhattan</b> Councilors Ydanis Rodriguez, Mark Levine, and
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York City Council speaker's race: Not all the news that's fit to print ...</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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The <b>New York City Council</b> has always been a
little bit like high school. There are ... Friday, January 6,<b>2017</b> at
11:25 a.m. ... Here are the caveats about any <b>speaker's race</b>: All
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<b>NYC council speaker's race</b> expected to be
spirited. 2/16/<b>2017</b>. Term limits prevent Melissa Mark-Viverito, <b>speaker</b> of
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(NYP)<b> </b>The top contenders to
become the next City Council speaker are beginning to emerge, days after
campaign-finance filings revealed what kind of war chests each will bring into
battle. Front-runners include
Councilmembers Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, Corey Johnson, Mark Levine and Jimmy
Van Bramer — all of whom have raised $200,000 or more each for their campaigns. Ferreras-Copeland (D-Queens), the council’s
Finance chair, is viewed by many insiders as the favored choice as a successor
by current Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Mayor de Blasio, and has raised
$325,635 so far for her run. But
Ferreras-Copeland has burned through $284,000 of that and could be facing a
credible challenge from Assemblyman Francisco Moya. “Money matters, for sure, but as long as
people pass the threshold of being able to fund their [campaign] operation and
give some money to other council members, it’s not the only thing,” one member
said, citing the importance of already-formed relationships. Johnson (D-Manhattan) has raised $291,310.
Van Bramer (D-Queens) has raked in $387,228, and Levine (D-Manhattan) has
collected $211,270. Councilman Robert
Cornegy (D-Brooklyn) is also considered a viable option by several council
insiders, but has not yet submitted fund-raising numbers to the Campaign
Finance Board. Of those, Van Bramer has
by far the most cash on hand — about $300,000. But Van Bramer, like Ferreras,
doesn’t enjoy the support of Queens Democratic boss Rep. Joe Crowley, who will
undoubtedly play a role in who gets the job.
The Queens and Bronx Democratic machines are expected to whip votes
together. Still unclear is what role the Brooklyn party will play. Other members considering a run include
Vanessa Gibson (D-Bronx), Donovan Richards (D-Queens), Ydanis Rodriguez
(D-Manhattan) and Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn).<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: #20124d; font-size: x-large;">The NYT Leaves Out the Role of the UFT, Developers PACs and Lobbyists Like Advance Group Which Was Fined by the CFB In Electing Current Council Speaker, Pitta Biship, MirRam Group, Berlin Rosen</span></h3>
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uft-fire-apparently-hide-identity-consulting-firm-article-1.1474790"><i>UFT</i> under fire for apparently trying to hide identity of consulting firm(2013 NYDN)</a>The city’s powerful teachers union is under fire from good-government groups for apparently trying to hide the identity of a consulting firm it was using to boost union-backed candidates. "The listing of the phony firm, 'Strategic Consultants, Inc.,' in campaign filings, obscured that Advance Group was being paid both to promote candidates for the United Federation of Teachers' independent political action committee, and working as the main campaign consultant for several of those same candidates."<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Advance group was paid by democratic candidate Yetta Krukland $28,000 and the IE NYCLASS that Advance paid for $30,000 in mailings to promote Yetta Krukland. The UFT PAC which Advance Was Working for United for the Future funded Krukland Opponent Corey Johnson. Krukland fired Advance during the campaign. Advance Also Worked for Ydanis A Rodriguez who was funded by the United for the Future PAC Which Advance Worked for</div>
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<span style="font-family: "";">I</span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/exclusive-fbi-investigating-nyclass-donations-de-blasio-supporters-anti-quinn-campaign-article-1.1778613" style="font-family: '';">n 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</a><span style="font-family: "";"> 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. * EXCLUSIVE: </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/fbi-probes-alleged-threats-christine-quinn-refusing-ban-buggy-article-1.1768376#ixzz2ztVskNCN" style="font-family: '';" target="_blank">FBI investigating claim Christine Quinn was threatened for refusing to support carriage horse ban during the mayoral race </a><span style="font-family: "";">(NYDN) *</span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/head-hired-de-blasio-horse-review-supported-nyclass-article-1.2223171" style="font-family: '';">Consulting firm head hired by de Blasio for Central Parkcarriage industry review was early supporter of NYCLASS </a><span style="font-family: "";">(NYDN)</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uft-fire-apparently-hide-identity-consulting-firm-article-1.1474790"><i>UFT</i> under fire for apparently trying to hide identity of consulting firm(NYDN)</a>The city’s powerful teachers union is under fire from good-government groups for apparently trying to hide the identity of a consulting firm it was using to boost union-backed candidates. "The listing of the phony firm, 'Strategic Consultants, Inc.,' in campaign filings, obscured that Advance Group was being paid both to promote candidates for the United Federation of Teachers' independent political action committee, and working as the main campaign consultant for several of those same candidates."</div>
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/bill-trough-article-1.1766788#ixzz2znrxa0LB" target="_blank">Bill at the trough </a>(NYDN Ed) De Blasio's conversion on horse carriages coincided with a rush of campaign cash. This is the curious story of how a self-described skeptic of the ban in 2007 became, by March 2013, a man who pledged to “ban the horse carriages in <st1:place w:st="on">Central Park</st1:place> within the first week on the job.” In 2007, then-City Councilman de Blasio declared himself “skeptical” of a bill seeking to ban the carriages. In January 2008, the checks began arriving — and, presumably, the reeducation of the politician got underway. Wendy Neu, a longtime animal rights advocate who would later become a NYCLASS board member, gave $1,000 to de Blasio’s campaign for public advocate.Before long, more checks from Neu, NYCLASS co-founder Stephen Nislick and others started rolling in.Conversion complete? Not quite.<br />
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2015/09/02/de-blasios-2013-campaign-committee-under-investigation/">De Blasio’s 2013 campaign committee under investigation</a></b> (NYP) The Campaign Finance Board has been looking into possible violations by Mayor de Blasio’s 2013 campaign committee for coordinating operations with powerful Local 1199 SEIU — his most important supporter. Board officials asked the de Blasio campaign to account for a host of “coordinated” activities described in an Oct. 10, 2013, City &amp; State magazine interview of Local 1199 political director Kevin Finnegan, documents obtained by The Post show. The interview raised red flags at the board because the campaign had paid the union only about $19,000 at that point. Unpaid coordinated campaigning violates regulations because it circumvents spending limits. A de Blasio lawyer wrote to the board 15 days later, claiming the article contained “significant” errors. “Virtually all of the 1199 activities . . . were not in any way coordinated with the de Blasio campaign,” the lawyer wrote. City &amp; State’s publisher said the magazine stands by its reporting, which stemmed almost entirely from an on-record Q&amp;A with Finnegan. Local 1199 shelled out roughly $200,000 in independent expenditures for de Blasio’s mayoral run in 2013, records show.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Two City Council members were slapped with fines Wednesday for taking off-limits contributions from animal rights group NYCLASS, which bankrolled Mayor de Blasio's mayoral campaign for his pledge to ban horse-drawn carriages. Council members Laurie Cumbo (D-Brooklyn) and Mark Levine (D-Manhattan) have to pay back money they were given by New Yorkers for Clean, Livable and Safe Streets because they shared the same political consultant — the Advance Group — as the anti-carriage group. </span>One ambiguity is that Ms. Mark-Viverito was not running in an election regulated by the city Campaign Finance Board, but rather in a leadership race within the council. <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/05/21/city-council-members-fined-over-money-from-anti-horse-carriage-group/">City council members fined over money from anti-horse carriage group(NYP)</a>Two city council members were slapped with hefty fines for accepting prohibited campaign contributions from a group at the center of the <st1:place w:st="on">Central Park</st1:place> horse carriage brouhaha. Freshman member Laurie Cumbo (D-Brooklyn) was fined $7,868, and newbie Mark Levine (D-Manhattan) was fined $8,686 by the city’s Campaign Finance Board for accepting over-the-limit funding from a “prohibited source.” The board found that the funding source for both campaigns – New Yorkers for Clean, Livable and Safe Street (NYCLASS) – was too intertwined with the candidates’ consultant, The Advance Group (TAG).Campaigns are prohibited from coordinating with third-party groups that make “independent” expenditures. Yet TAG president and lobbyist Scott Levenson was political director for NYCLASS, and both groups shared the same office space. Councilman Rodriguez was also a client of the Advance Group and got mailing from Advance's PAC United for the Future and was not fined by the CFB<br />
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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> * <a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2013/11/advance-group.html" target="_blank">More on the Advance Group Under Investigation </a> * <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> * <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> *<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) 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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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">The CFB and Conflict of Interests Board Continue to Cover-Up Advances Involvement in Advances Illegal Work for <span style="font-family: "";">Mark-Viverito in Her Speakers Race Campaign</span></span></b><br />
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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.</div>
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-denies-conflict-law-firm-lobbies-admin-article-1.2990409" target="_blank">De Blasio denies conflict with using law firm that lobbies his administration </a>(NYDN) de Blasio said there’s no conflict in his use of a law firm that also lobbies his administration on behalf of private clients. “My experience with this firm is as someone receiving legal services from them — for which they will be fully compensated,” de Blasio said of the firm Kramer Levin Naftalis and Frankel, which is representing him in a series of investigations into his fund-raising tactics. “I don’t know any of the other work they do. I don’t experience any of the other work they do,” he said on NY1’s “Road to City Hall.” “I just don’t see any such challenge or conflict.” In addition to its legal practice, Kramer Levin has a lobbying unit — whose earnings surged to $3 million for lobbying the city last year, the same year the firm was hired by the mayor. De Blasio has not yet paid his legal bills and plans to raise donations to do so. He has refused to rule out taking legal defense money from donors with business before the city. The mayor said he’s sure his officials would not give special treatment to lobbyists for the firm that represents their boss.<br />
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<span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/deputy-mayor-city-backed-nursing-home-deal-not-de-blasio-article-1.2617092" target="_blank">Deputy mayor says city isn't taking sides in spat between PS 163 parentsand developer </a>(NYDN, April 27<sup>th</sup> 2016) </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">The city’s lawyers jumped to defend the developer of an Upper West Side nursing home in court independently from City Hall because of a technicality in the case — and not because of the mayor’s ties to the law firm for the controversial project, officials said Wednesday.</span><span lang="EN"> First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris, the number two official at City Hall, said the mayor’s office was completely unaware that the law department was filing papers in Jewish Home Lifecare's legal bid to construct a 20-story nursing home on W. 97th St. The nursing home — which is being sued by parents who claim the construction will harm kids in neighboring P.S. 163 — is repped by Kramer Levin, the law firm where Mayor de Blasio’s lawyer Barry Berke is a partner. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans";">Berke is defending de Blasio in the federal investigation into his fund-raising. Zachary Carter, the Corporation Counsel for the city's Law Department, said his office weighed in independently after a judge said the environmental review process didn’t take into account the impact on the school. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans";">De Blasio has not yet paid his legal bills and plans to raise donations to do so. He has refused to rule out taking legal defense money from donors with business before the city. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans";">He also said that the amicus brief the city filed wasn't to support the developer in its fight with parents over construction noise, but because the judge's ruling that the environmental review process wasn't adequate could negatively impact other projects. * <span style="font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><b>De Blasio Throws Support Behind Controversial JHL Nursing Home Project (DNAINFO) De Blasio's Office of Sustainability is seeking to overturn a Dec. 9 decision that blocked Jewish Home Lifecare's construction of the 20-story nursing home on West 97th Street, next to elementary school P.S. 163 and a <span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/tags/park-west-village" target="_self">residential complex.</a></span></b><br />
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In a fight with Public School 163 parents — an Upper West Side school fighting to stop the owner of a toxic lot and developer who want to put a nursing home nearby — Kramer Levin represented both the owner of the W. 97th St. parking lot, PWV Owners LLC, and Jewish Home Lifecare, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-lawyers-state-fbi-fundraising-probes-article-1.2626326" target="_blank">the nursing home group that wants to build the 20-story facility.</a> (NY Daily News, (May 6th 2016) * <a href="http://www.manhattanexpressnews.nyc/judge-says-environmental-review-needed-uws-nursing-home/" target="_blank">Judge Says More Environmental Review Needed on UWS NursingHome </a>(Manhattan Express) According to Marty Rosenblatt, a neighbor who arranged for expert lead testing on the site, the mayor’s favor for the JHL project may stem from his close relations with Kramer Levin Naftalis and Frankel LLP, a law firm that represented JHL in the past and currently represents Joseph Chetrit, a real estate developer with a big investment in the 97th Street development being approved. In late 2011, Joseph Chetrit partnered with Larry Gluck of Stellar Management, who owns the parking lot on West 97th Street that would be replaced by the nursing home, to complete a land swap deal for JHL’s current campus on West 106th Street, which like the West 97th site is between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. Many observers believe Chetrit, a well-known developer, plans to construct a tall luxury condo development on JHL’s former campus. Kramer Levin, Rosenblatt noted, represented JHL on the nursing home project during its appearances before the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals in 2015. (<a href="http://www.manhattanexpressnews.nyc/judge-says-environmental-review-needed-uws-nursing-home/" target="_blank">Manhattan Express</a>)<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The idea that the law firm is, in effect, extending him credit is troubling enough, since that can be seen as a “favor”</span></b> — just as any lower-than-usual rates it charges would be. But how can a mayor up to his eyeballs in corruption probes try to keep such key info secret, especially when he insists he has done nothing wrong? What makes the secretive deferred-payment deal particularly problematic is that the law firm, Kramer Levin Naftalis &amp; Frankel, also lobbies city agencies on behalf of clients with business before the city. <b><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #20124d;">So de Blasio may return those favors in some shady way.</span> (<a href="http://nypost.com/2017/02/13/the-corruption-cloud-over-mayor-de-blasio-just-got-darker/" target="_blank">NYP</a>)</span></b><br />
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<b><span lang="EN">By Dec. 3, 2013, weeks before Mr. de Blasio took office,<span style="background-color: lime;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;"> Mr. Rechnitz </span></span>was sitting in a conference room packed with other potential donors at the Midtown law firm Kramer Levin. There, according to a person who also attended the meeting, the mayor spoke to the group before leaving the room. Those in attendance were then asked for contributions. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/nyregion/de-blasio-donors-jona-rechnitz-and-jeremiah-reichberg-shared-closeness-to-police-leaders.html?_r=0" target="_blank">(NY Times)</a><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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For those in the industry who lack close ties to Trump, there are numerous potential middlemen that could help gain access, sources say. One is <a href="http://therealdeal.com/new-research/topics/people/jay-neveloff/">Trump’s attorney Jay Neveloff</a>, who heads the real estate department at Kramer Levin. Asked for comment, Neveloff said he is certain Trump will not be susceptible to special interests (<a href="http://atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2016/11/actually-forest-city-still-has-trump.html" target="_blank">Atlantic Yard Review</a>).<br />
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<b>The Shubert Organization, Inc., Seaver Realty LLC, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, DH VERNON LLC. Lenox Terrace Development Associates Lenox Terrace ResidentsFighting Against Proposed Commercial Rezoning (DNAINFO), Urban Strategic Partners, LLC, The Core Club 55th Street LLC, Douglaston Development, SJC 33 OWNER 2015, LLC, MIP One Wall Street Acquisition LLC, The Archdiocese of New York, South Street Seaport Limited Partnership, NY 70th St. LLC, Design Center Inc., 94th Street Property TIC, 172-174 East, LLC, DH VERNON LLC, 771 Washington Street Investor LLC, 458 LLC, 137 Centre Street, LLC, Graduate Center Foundation Housing Corporation LIC, YWA-Amsterdam LLC, 21E12 LLC, 245 Fieldston LLC, RFR Holding Corp, MIP One Wall Street Acquisition LLC, DiamondRock Hospitality Limited Partnership for the benefit of DiamondRock NY LEX Owner, LLC., 249 W 28th Street Properties, LLC, Brickman 95 Morton LLC, The Archdiocese of New York, FPG Cobble Hill Acquisitions, LLC</b></div>
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<a href="https://therealdeal.com/2016/04/27/de-blasios-law-firm-also-represents-controversial-uws-developer-he-backed/" target="_blank">De Blasio’s law firm also represents controversial UWS developer he backed </a>(Raw Deal, April 27, 2016) Kramer Levin is working on both the mayor’s corruption probe and Jewish Home Lifecare’s nursing home project The law firm aiding Mayor Bill de Blasio in his fight against a federal campaign finance investigation is also working with Jewish Home Lifecare, the developer of a controversial 20-story nursing home on the Upper West Side, which de Blasio has supported.The firm is working with JHL on its 97th Street project, in which the developer hopes, among other things, to dig up a lead-tainted parking lot adjacent to P.S. 163. Residents have fought the project for years. It passed an environmental review last year, but that review was vacated by the New York Supreme Court in December. The developer is seeking to overturn that ruling. De Blasio’s office filed an amicus brief on that case in March. “That is an example of where the relationships bump into one another and it would be best to keep them apart,” * <a href="https://therealdeal.com/2016/04/29/suit-linked-to-mayors-campaign-controversy-could-disrupt-land-use-rules/" target="_blank">Suit linked to mayor’s campaignc ontroversy could disrupt land-use rules</a> (Real Deal April 29, 2016) The mayor’s office filed a friend of the court brief in favor of the developer, Jewish Home Lifecare, setting off accusations that de Blasio simply wanted to help out the law firm representing the developer, Kramer Levin. The firm is also representing de Blasio in the federal investigation into whether he funneled contributions to candidates in the 2014 state Senate election to avoid contribution limits. City officials told the website that Kramer Levin attorney and longtime de Blasio ally Barry Berke wasn’t involved in the lawsuit, though the firm does represent the developer in other matters. Greenberg Traurig is representing the developer in the lawsuit. The city’s brief claimed that the lawsuit could “upset the consistent and predictable process developed over decades by the city for reviewing potential environmental impacts of projects and programs throughout the city.” The brief argued that Supreme Court Justice Joan Lobis’ ruling in favor of the parents and students would “insert an arbitrary threshold for adequacy into the environmental review process.” The appeals court is slated to hear the case in June<br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2013/11/18/nursing-home-associates-donate-to-mark-viveritos-re-election-after-unique-exemption/" target="_blank">Nursing-home associates donate to Mark-Viverito’s re-election</a> (NYP) Nearly two-dozen associates of an upper Manhattan nursing home donated to a City Council member’s re-election campaign after she got the facility a unique exemption from local construction rules. A total of 17 trustees, four staff members, an associate and a lobbyist for Jewish Home and Hospital — many of whom don’t live in the city, let alone uptown — contributed to Melissa Mark-Viverito’s 2009 council campaign, online records show. Their combined $7,825 in donations made up 10 percent of the total that Mark-Viverito — currently the front-runner for council speaker — raised for the race. Many of their grants were matched with public funding at a rate of 6 to 1, making them worth much more. While there’s no evidence Mark-Viverito’s campaign solicited the contributions, the donations all came after she got the nursing home the right to construct a building at 120 W. 106th St. that would exceed the height limit under a rezoning plan. It was the only facility to get a carve-out after the center, now known as Jewish Home Lifecare, spent $100,000 on lobbying directed at council and community-board members.</div>
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/law-firm-de-blasio-corruption-probe-lawyers-sees-income-boost-article-1.2988867" target="_blank">Law firm's lobbying unit sees big income boost after deBlasio hires its attorneys for his corruption probe defense </a>(NYDN) The same year Mayor de Blasio hired Kramer Levin Naftalis and Frankel to represent him in corruption probes, the law firm’s lobbying unit suddenly started raking in bigger bucks. By the end of 2016, Kramer Levin reported receiving more than $3 million in revenue from its activities lobbying the city. That put Kramer Levin on the Top 10 lobbyist list for the first time since 2013, the last year of the Bloomberg administration, when the firm reported $1.7 million in lobbying revenue. In the last two years, Kramer Levin has reported lobbying the Office of the Mayor on behalf of dozens of clients, usually developers seeking zoning changes or tax breaks. In 2016 the firm made $3 million by pressing de Blasio’s team for 30 clients. The firm actually lobbied on behalf of more clients in 2015 — 39 — but made less money, under $2 million, records show. Neither the mayor nor the law firm would discuss the figures, which were made public last week by the city clerk’s office. Both have said in the past that the firm keeps the two activities separate, so there’s no conflict.The mayor first revealed in March 2016 that Kramer Levin partner Barry Berke, a prominent criminal defense lawyer, would represent him personally in investigations that were then beginning to surface in public.Berke had sponsored a fund-raiser for the mayor at the firm’s office in 2013, and then served as de Blasio’s campaign treasurer in 2014. His job was to steer the mayor through the shifting waters of investigations by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics (J-COPE). Bharara is examining whether de Blasio and his team did favors for donors to the mayor’s now defunct nonprofit, Campaign for One New York. The Daily News found that at least $3 million of the $4.3 million he raised came from people doing business with his administration. Some of Kramer Levin’s clients have donated to the campaign, including DDG, a developer who wrote a $10,000 check to the mayor’s group eight days after the city Bureau of Standards &amp; Appeals approved a zoning change for his proposed Tribeca luxury condo.<br />
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Last month, de Blasio revealed he’s been getting legal bills from the firm since last year, but they’ve agreed he can defer payment until he sets up a fund-raising committee to pay what he owes. It’s unclear how large the tab is from the high-priced firm because de Blasio has refused to disclose the amount. His press secretary, Eric Phillips, did not respond to questions about the status of the legal defense fund or whether de Blasio has begun soliciting donations. That means that for the last year, a law firm that regularly lobbies the mayor’s office on behalf of private sector clients was effectively representing the mayor for free. Good-government watchdogs have criticized the whole arrangement, noting that de Blasio will face even more conflict-of-interest issues if he seeks donations from entities whom do business with the city. De Blasio has said there is no conflict because Kramer Levin is able to keep its lobbying of his office separate from its representation of him. And the mayor promises to disclose donations, though he wouldn’t commit to avoiding the solicitation of entities that do business with the city.<b><o:p></o:p></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/03/29/de-blasios-plan-to-pay-for-legal-defense-is-illegal-board-rules/">De Blasio's plan to pay for legal defense is illegal, board rules</a></b> (NYP) The city’s Conflicts of Interest Board dealt a major blow to Mayor de Blasio on Wednesday — ruling that his plan to form a legal defense fund to pay for legal bills was against the law. “The board has concluded that contributions to legal defense funds are no different from gifts directly to the public servant,” wrote board chair Richard Briffault. That means donations to a legal defense fund are limited to $50 per individual — except for family members, who can contribute as much as they want. Hizzoner had earlier announced that he would form the fund and seek donations from supporters to pay for hefty legal bills resulting from separate state and federal probes into his fundraising. While not mentioning the mayor by name, the board issued the ruling after it “received requests for advice from public servants to help establish legal defense funds.” Both the Manhattan DA’s office and the US Attorney’s office announced earlier this month that the mayor would not be charged as a result of their investigations. But de Blasio still faces huge legal bills, since his lawyers have been working for months to get him off the hook. Comptroller Scott Stringer had advised the mayor to seek guidance from the board on how to structure the defense fund — but it was unclear whether de Blasio requested the ruling. De Blasio’s camp previously put out a statement saying “no taxpayer dollars will be used to fund the Mayor’s individual compliance with these reviews.” The legal expenses of mayoral aides who were also under investigation are being covered by taxpayers to the tone of $11.6 million. Last month, de Blasio said the legal defense fund was his only option to pay the legal since he’s not rich. “We have to do that. It’s the only way,” the mayor said at the time. “I inform you again that I am not a billionaire like my predecessor. There’s no way I can possibly cover these fees personally.” He hasn’t disclosed what he owes.* <b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-investigation-legal-fees.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion">De Blasio Stymied in Attempt to Pay Legal Fees With Donations</a> (NYT) </b>A city agency capped donations to the mayor’s planned legal defense fund to cover legal bills he incurred during inquiries into his fund-raising practices.* <b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-legal-defense-fund-raising-donations-capped-50-article-1.3012832">DeBlasio’s legal defense fund-raising suffers blow as city board rules eachdonation cannot exceed $50</a> (NYDN) * <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/de-blasio-price-pay-fundraising-escapade-article-1.3013229">De Blasio’s price to pay for his fundraisingescapade</a> (NYDN Ed) </b>* It is poetic justice that to pay the lawyers who defended his unethical scheme of raising money in massive sums, de Blasio will have to go begging, collecting less than $50 at a time, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ing-escapade-article-1-3013229/qh41b/60533629">the Daily News writes.</a> *<b> It is poetic justice that to pay the lawyers who defended his unethical scheme of raising money in massive sums, de Blasio will have to go begging, collecting less than $50 at a time, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ing-escapade-article-1-3013229/qh41b/60533629">the Daily News writes.</a> * </b><o:p></o:p><b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/03/30/de-blasio-should-just-bite-the-bullet-and-send-taxpayers-his-legal-bill/">De Blasio should just bite the bullet and send taxpayers his legal bill</a> (NYP Ed) </b>* In the wake of the city Conflicts of Interest Board decision limiting donations to de Blasio’s legal defense fund to $50 per person, the mayor has no choice but to bite the bullet and charge the taxpayers, and he might as well admit it, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/send-taxpayers-his-legal-bill-/qhy5d/60923137" target="_blank">the Post writes.</a><br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2017/02/21/de-blasio-cagey-about-details-of-his-legal-defense-fund/">De Blasio cagey about details of his legal defense fund</a> (NYP) <span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">de Blasio on Tuesday would not commit to banning contributions from people who do business with the city when he launches a legal defense fund to deal with <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/27/preet-bharara-to-question-mayor-de-blasio-over-city-hall-corruption/"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">multiple investigations.</span></a></span> He also wouldn’t say whether he’ll take Comptroller Scott Stringer’s advice and seek guidance from the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board on the proper structure of the fund. “We will set up a clear standard that is fair and avoids a conflict, but I am not going to go into details because that will take a lot of work and a lot of hours to figure out what is the right way to do things,” he told reporters at an unrelated press conference in Manhattan. <span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The mayor has also said he has yet to pay a single bill to his lawyer, Barry Berke at Kramer Levin, even though he was retained in April.</span> Republican mayoral candidate Paul Massey has seized on that arrangement <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/02/20/paul-massey-demands-probe-of-de-blasios-legal-representation/">in calling for an investigation</a> — and he hit de Blasio again Tuesday at a press conference outside City Hall. “Bill de Blasio is corrupt and New Yorkers deserve to know how deep the rot is at City Hall,” said Massey, a real estate executive. “It’s not a rumor or an accusation, it’s a fact.” The mayor has insisted that he followed legal guidance in all of his fundraising efforts, which are under investigating by the US Attorney and the Manhattan DA<br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2017/02/14/de-blasio-wont-give-details-on-legal-defense-funds/">De Blasio won't give details on legal-defense funds</a> (NYP) Mayor de Blasio declined to provide details Tuesday about the <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/02/10/de-blasio-plans-legal-defense-fund-to-cover-all-his-probes/">legal-defense fund he plans to set up amid state and federal investigations</a> of his administration and fund-raising activities. Asked at an unrelated press conference in Brooklyn how the fund would work and whether he’d impose donation limits, Hizzoner said the parameters have yet to be finalized. De Blasio was also asked whether such a fund would open him up to criticism that he’s relying on donations to pay for the legal defense of investigations into his prior fund-raising. “It’s the only way — it’s a perfectly well-established mechanism — it’s the only way to put together the resources to pay for something like this,” he said.The mayor has committed to disclosing the donors to such a fund, <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/02/13/ethics-experts-howl-over-de-blasios-debt-fund/">which government watchdogs have warned could be on shaky ethical ground.</a> City taxpayers have chipped in as much as $11.6 million for the defense of mayoral aides who have been caught up in the probes, while the mayor’s 2013 campaign committee has paid $283,000 to defend campaign workers.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-legal-fund-conflicts-interest-review-stringer-article-1.2973859" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">City Controller Scott Stringer says Mayor de Blasio needs Conflicts ofInterest Board to clear legal defense fund </a><span style="font-weight: normal;">(NYDN) Mayor de Blasio should get conflict-of-interest clearance from the city over his plan to raise legal defense funds, city Controller Scott Stringer said Wednesday. Last March, de Blasio retained Kramer Levin Naftalis to handle three investigations of his fund-raising tactics. </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #20124d; font-size: x-large;">The firm — which regularly lobbies City Hall — deferred payment until he forms a committee to raise funds to pay what he owes. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Stringer, who Wednesday declined to say whether he’ll run against de Blasio, said the mayor needs the Conflict Of Interest Board to sign off on this fund. “The mayor has to spend time figuring out the way to ensure that there is no perceived or potential conflict of interest with a lobbying firm that is also the law firm working on the mayor's behalf,” Stringer said. The mayor’s press secretary, Eric Phillips, took a shot at Stringer, saying it’s impossible to know if COIB advice is necessary because the fund isn’t yet formed. “There are not even prospective protocols to sort through, much less solicit legal or regulatory guidance on,” he said. “The controller has earned a reputation for not knowing what he's talking about because of criticism just like this.”* </span></span><b><a href="http://nydn.us/234LiW2" target="_blank">De Blasio backs law firm in fight over tainted land nearschool </a>(NYDN)</b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/02/06/de-blasios-dubious-plan-for-paying-his-lawyers/">De Blasio’s dubious plan for paying his lawyers</a> (NYP Ed) It’s come to this: Mayor de Blasio says he’ll do fund-raising down the line to pay the lawyers representing him in all those corruption probes into . . . his fund-raising, and possible favor-selling. He’s spending $11.7 million in public funds on outside lawyers for several top aides also caught up in the investigations. But for the cash for his own attorneys, the mayor now says he’ll handle things through a legal defense fund or a future fund-raising event. To which, presumably, the usual fat cats will give, with the usual expectation (at least) of return favors down the line. So the public can still end up paying . . . It boggles the mind. The mayor seems to think he can convince US Attorney Preet Bharara that everything was kosher. But if that doesn’t work, he just might blame one of those aides. Could that be top confidante Emma Wolfe? The Post’s Michael Gartland reports she’s been noticeably absent from key City Hall meetings for four months. Political intrigue aside, de Blasio’s Campaign For One New York was set up to operate outside of city campaign-finance rules. That meant it could — and did — accept money from people doing business with the city, who didn’t exactly suffer from having written big checks. Which raises the next big question: Will such people be banned from donating to a legal-defense fund? That could get tricky — since it sure looks like the mayor is going to need a lot of deep-pocketed “supporters.”</span><b><o:p></o:p></b><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">de Blasio has sold out New Yorker's heath care to private to private companies and developers. U S News and World Report says NY's health care ranks 40 out of 50 states. When the mayor took office in 2014 he made Stan Brezenoff Special Advisor. </span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif" , serif; font-size: 17px;">Brezenoff, as former CEO of Continuum Health Industries, fed Long Island College Hospital a slow poison that is killing it.</span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif" , serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif" , serif; font-size: 17px;">“Brezenoff is a poster boy for what the late great Jack Newfield called the Permanent Government,” says one doctor who has worked at LICH for 30 years and lives in the community.</span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif" , serif; font-size: 17px;"> </span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif" , serif; font-size: 17px;">Then Brezenoff became CEO of Continuum, a network of hospitals with Beth Israel as the mother ship and satellites like St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals, New York Eye and Ear, and LICH.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif" , serif; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: "pt serif" , serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Under Brezenoff, the Brooklyn Heights hospital began to hemorrhage red ink. A $140 million bequest to the hospital by a Brooklyn Heights couple named Donald and Mildred Othmer vanished into Continuum. Community activists say Brezenoff wanted to close LICH</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif" , serif; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: "pt serif" , serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif" , serif; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: "pt serif" , serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">Then in 2010, Brezenoff used his vast political influence to persuade the state, under then-Gov. David Paterson, to subsume LICH into SUNY-Downstate Medical Center, absorbing $300 million in red ink. Meanwhile, in a piece of political sleight of hand even Boss Tweed would envy, Brezenoff’s Continuum stayed on to do $50 million a year in medical billing.</span></span></span><br />
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Maimonides Medical Center is putting the final touches on its newly-opened Sheepshead Bay Rehabilitation Center, but they’ve been admitting patients for a little over a month.</div>
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It’s not the first time Maimonides has had control of the 3121 Ocean Avenue building. Working in reverse chronological order, the building was occupied by Coney Island Hospital’s Sheepshead Bay Primary Care Center. Before that it was Maimonides, which originally converted the structure. And going back to the days of Sheepshead lore, there was <a href="http://bklyner.com/2010/03/remember-when-beefsteak-charlies-filled-us-up/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ec008b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">our beloved Beefsteak Charlie’s</a> (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">sigh… </em>R.I.P., friend).</div>
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Coney Island Hospital’s <a href="http://bklyner.com/2009/04/title-11/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ec008b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Sheepshead Bay Primary Care Center closed last June following city budget cuts in healthcare spending</a>.</div>
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The new facility houses a handful of outpatient services including urology and a woman’s care center. New signage and a paint job are on the way.</div>
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<span class="st"><span class="f">Nov 7, 2016 - </span>Dr. Ram Raju, the <em>head</em> of the city's embattled public hospital system, ... <em>Stanley Brezenoff</em>, a long time city government hand who ran the hospital system in the 1980s, will take over the post until a permanent replacement is <em>named</em>. <em>Health and Hospitals</em> has been bleeding cash — facing a total budget gap ...</span></div>
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Mr. Brezenoff is no stranger to controversy. He was identified in several columns written by <em>The New York Daily News</em> columnist <strong>Denis Hamill</strong> for playing a role in driving <strong>Long Island College Hospital</strong> into the ground. As a consequence of what was perceived as Mr. Brezenoff's gross mismanagement, former employees at Long Island College Hospital would refer to the CEO as "<a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/hamill-lich-merged-death-article-1.1266344" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/hamill-lich-merged-death-article-1.1266344" target="_blank">Darth Vader</a>." </div>
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After Mr. Brezenoff reportedly mismanaged Long Island College Hospital for years, he had a role in merging Long Island College Hospital into <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/nyregion/15hospital.html" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/nyregion/15hospital.html" target="_blank">SUNY Downstate Medical Center</a> in Brooklyn in a deal that was later revealed to be motivated by <a data-cke-saved-href="http://ny-popculture-politics.blogspot.com/2013/08/Will-the-USAO-SDNY-investigate-possible-fraud-allegations-in-LICH-sale-from-Continuum-Health-Partners-to-SUNY.html" href="http://ny-popculture-politics.blogspot.com/2013/08/Will-the-USAO-SDNY-investigate-possible-fraud-allegations-in-LICH-sale-from-Continuum-Health-Partners-to-SUNY.html" target="_blank">seizing and exploiting the real estate assets</a> of the hospital. Long Island College Hospital closed in 2014 on Mayor de Blasio's watch after he had <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amny.com/opinion/columnists/liza-featherstone/bill-de-blasio-betrayed-his-believers-in-cobble-hill-liza-featherstone-1.8348173" href="http://www.amny.com/opinion/columnists/liza-featherstone/bill-de-blasio-betrayed-his-believers-in-cobble-hill-liza-featherstone-1.8348173" target="_blank">exploited the hospital as a campaign ploy</a> to win votes from healthcare activists, hospital union members, and city voters impacted by a string of hospital closings.</div>
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Mr. Brezenoff's entitled and irresponsible approach to government earned him the scorn of legendary New York muckrakers, including <strong>Jack Newfield</strong>, who referred to career insiders like Mr. Brezenoff as representing the city's unaccountable "<a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/long-island-college-hospital-deal-smells-rotten-article-1.415026" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/long-island-college-hospital-deal-smells-rotten-article-1.415026" target="_blank">Permanent Government</a>."</div>
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merged to death - NY Daily News</a>(2013) SUNY Downstate Medical Center deal
with LICH absorbed $300 million in LICH red ink run up by a hospital
consortium called Continuum Health Partners. Continuum is run by a ruthless
powerbroker named Stanley Brezenoff whose nickname at LICH is Darth Vader.
Brezenoff is a quintessential member of what muckraker Jack Newfield called The
Permanent Government of New York. This professional politico was appointed by
Mayor Ed Koch to run the city’s Health and Hospitals Corp., the feudal lord of
a medical fiefdom within the city’s patronage-larded permanent government.
While in that post, Brezenoff compiled a Rolodex listing all the shadowy
players in the city, state and federal medical rackets swimming in Medicaid and
Medicare dollars * </span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/head-nyc-cash-bleeding-public-hospital-system-step-article-1.2862844"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Head of NYC’s cash-bleeding public hospital system
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Under Brezenoff, the Brooklyn Heights
hospital began to hemorrhage red ink. A $140 million bequest to the hospital by
a Brooklyn Heights couple named Donald and Mildred Othmer vanished into
Continuum. Community activists say Brezenoff wanted to close LICH. Many feared
he’d sell the land for condo development. The staff and community
protested. Then in 2010, Brezenoff used his vast political influence to persuade
the state, under then-Gov. David Paterson, to subsume LICH into SUNY-Downstate
Medical Center, absorbing $300 million in red ink. Meanwhile, in a piece of
political sleight of hand even Boss Tweed would envy, Brezenoff’s Continuum
stayed on to do $50 million a year in medical billing. Some people who know
Brezenoff’s modus operandi fear that once inside City Hall, his influence could
spread like a political pox. De Blasio really needs to research Brezenoff’s
role in trying to kill LICH. He can start by listening to some of the people
who have been saving lives there for decades and have spent the past five years
trying to save LICH from Brezenoff and SUNY Downstate.*<a href="http://www.cityandstateny.com/brezenoff-we-gave-not-sold-lich/" target="_blank"> </a><a href="http://www.cityandstateny.com/brezenoff-we-gave-not-sold-lich/" target="_blank">Brezenoff: Continuum Tried To Save LICH
Before “Giving” It To State </a>(City and State)<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>SUNY $205,350,000 owned by
Continuum Health Partners If They Never Had the Resources to support A Hospital?
Now the WSJ Reports the Growing Debt of the Hospital is More Than A Real Estate
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The hospital would be operated by Quorum
Health Resources. Most important to local residents, a “bridge facility” would
open immediately, which would include a 100-bed hospital with ER, ambulatory
care, ICU and other medical services. Brooklyn Health Partners has also
promised to continue to employ at least 300 healthcare workers to provide care
during the bridge operation of the hospital, and an additional 2,000 when the
new hospital opens. On the real estate side, the proposal includes 1,000
units of residential development, 30 percent affordable, along with some park
space. The team will seek to rezone the non-core properties, but there<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> is no assurance the zoning changes
will be approved.*<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>LICH Bid
Winner to Maintain Full-Service Hospital(NY1)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>*<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304441304579479404115371082.html">Brooklyn
Health Partners Selected to Run<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>LICH(WSJ)</i></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><i>*<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/bidder-pledging-full-service-hospital-tapped-lich-blog-entry-1.1744869">Bidder
pledging full service<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>hospital<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>tapped to take over<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>LICH(NYDN)</a></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Continuum Health Partners Gets Rid of A Failing Hospital With Not Blame</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/hamill-lich-merged-death-article-1.1266344">Hamill:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Long Island College Hospital</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>merged to death - NY Daily News(2013)</a></span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">SUNY
Downstate Medical Center deal with LICH absorbed $300 million in LICH red
ink run up by a hospital consortium called Continuum Health Partners. Continuum
is run by a ruthless powerbroker named Stanley Brezenoff whose nickname at LICH
is Darth Vader. Brezenoff is a quintessential member of what muckraker Jack
Newfield called The Permanent Government of New York. This professional
politico was appointed by Mayor Ed Koch to run the city’s Health and Hospitals
Corp., the feudal lord of a medical fiefdom within the city’s patronage-larded
permanent government. While in that post, Brezenoff compiled a Rolodex listing
all the shadowy players in the city, state and federal medical rackets swimming
in Medicaid and Medicare dollars<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Carl McCall,
chairman of the SUNY Board of Trustees blames former governor Paterson for
providing the funds to buy the hospital, after a comptroller report told the
state not to buy the hospital. (<a href="http://www.ny1.com/content/politics/inside_city_hall/204234/ny1-online--suny-board-chair-carl-mccall-discusses-lich-settlement" target="_blank">NY1 Interview</a>) The State
University of New York bought LICH in 2009. Big mistake: “This has been very
costly for us,” says H. Carl McCall, chairman of SUNY’s board of trustees and a
master of understatement — for “costly” scarcely describes it.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://nypost.com/2014/02/25/cuffed-by-himself/">Mayor cuffed by his
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/hamill-lich-merged-death-article-1.1266344">Hamill:<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span><i>Long Island College Hospital</i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span>merged to death - NY Daily News(2013)</a></span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">SUNY
Downstate Medical Center deal with LICH absorbed $300 million in LICH red
ink run up by a hospital consortium called Continuum Health Partners. Continuum
is run by a ruthless powerbroker named Stanley Brezenoff whose nickname at LICH
is Darth Vader. Brezenoff is a quintessential member of what muckraker Jack
Newfield called The Permanent Government of New York. This professional
politico was appointed by Mayor Ed Koch to run the city’s Health and Hospitals
Corp., the feudal lord of a medical fiefdom within the city’s patronage-larded
permanent government. While in that post, Brezenoff compiled a Rolodex listing
all the shadowy players in the city, state and federal medical rackets swimming
in Medicaid and Medicare dollars<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/hamill-de-blasio-pick-adviser-labor-deals-poor-choice-article-1.1576766" target="_blank">Hamill: Mayor de Blasio's choice of
Stanley Brezenoff as adviser on labor deals a poor one</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(NYDN)</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">When he left HHC,
Brezenoff took his Rolodex with him and wound up heading Continuum, of which
Beth Israel is the mothership with satellites like Roosevelt Hospital, New York
Eye and Ear Infirmary, LICH and St. Luke’s Hospital.Under Continuum, the
once-profitable LICH ran up $300 million in debt from pure administrative
malpractice. And then Brezenoff brokered the smelly SUNY Downstate merger, with
state taxpayers absorbing the $300 million debt.*<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>“Brezenoff is a poster boy for what
the late great Jack Newfield called the Permanent Government,” says one doctor
who has worked at LICH for 30 years and lives in the community. “He made his
political bones in the Koch administration as the head of Health and Hospital
Corp.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Under Brezenoff,
the Brooklyn Heights hospital began to hemorrhage red ink. A $140 million
bequest to the hospital by a Brooklyn Heights couple named Donald and Mildred
Othmer vanished into Continuum. Community activists say Brezenoff wanted to
close LICH. Many feared he’d sell the land for condo development. The staff and
community protested. Then in 2010, Brezenoff used his vast political
influence to persuade the state, under then-Gov. David Paterson, to subsume
LICH into SUNY-Downstate Medical Center, absorbing $300 million in red ink.
Meanwhile, in a piece of political sleight of hand even Boss Tweed would envy,
Brezenoff’s Continuum stayed on to do $50 million a year in medical billing.
Some people who know Brezenoff’s modus operandi fear that once inside City
Hall, his influence could spread like a political pox. De Blasio really needs
to research Brezenoff’s role in trying to kill LICH. He can start by listening
to some of the people who have been saving lives there for decades and have
spent the past five years trying to save LICH from Brezenoff and SUNY
Downstate.*<a href="http://www.cityandstateny.com/brezenoff-we-gave-not-sold-lich/" target="_blank"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span></a><a href="http://www.cityandstateny.com/brezenoff-we-gave-not-sold-lich/" target="_blank">Brezenoff: Continuum Tried To Save LICH
Before “Giving” It To State<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span></a>(City
and State)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a 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> The
Villager Nurses from Mount Sinai Beth Israel made emergency calls to The
Villager on Tuesday. 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.” *<a 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> Capital
New YorkMount 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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Did SUNY Take LICH in the First Place?</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Carl McCall,
chairman of the SUNY Board of Trustees blames former governor Paterson for
providing the funds to buy the hospital, after a comptroller report told the
state not to buy the hospital. (<a href="http://www.ny1.com/content/politics/inside_city_hall/204234/ny1-online--suny-board-chair-carl-mccall-discusses-lich-settlement" target="_blank">NY1 Interview</a>) The State
University of New York bought LICH in 2009. Big mistake: “This has been very
costly for us,” says H. Carl McCall, chairman of SUNY’s board of trustees and a
master of understatement — for “costly” scarcely describes it.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://nypost.com/2014/02/25/cuffed-by-himself/">Mayor cuffed by his
own crusade(Mcmanus, NYP)</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Continuum Health Partners Gets Rid of A Failing Hospital With Not Blame</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/hamill-lich-merged-death-article-1.1266344">Hamill:<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span><i>Long Island College Hospital</i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span>merged to death - NY Daily News(2013)</a></span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">SUNY
Downstate Medical Center deal with LICH absorbed $300 million in LICH red
ink run up by a hospital consortium called Continuum Health Partners. Continuum
is run by a ruthless powerbroker named Stanley Brezenoff whose nickname at LICH
is Darth Vader. Brezenoff is a quintessential member of what muckraker Jack
Newfield called The Permanent Government of New York. This professional
politico was appointed by Mayor Ed Koch to run the city’s Health and Hospitals
Corp., the feudal lord of a medical fiefdom within the city’s patronage-larded
permanent government. While in that post, Brezenoff compiled a Rolodex listing
all the shadowy players in the city, state and federal medical rackets swimming
in Medicaid and Medicare dollars<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Stanley Brezenoff as adviser on labor deals a poor one</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(NYDN)</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">When he left HHC,
Brezenoff took his Rolodex with him and wound up heading Continuum, of which
Beth Israel is the mothership with satellites like Roosevelt Hospital, New York
Eye and Ear Infirmary, LICH and St. Luke’s Hospital.Under Continuum, the
once-profitable LICH ran up $300 million in debt from pure administrative
malpractice. And then Brezenoff brokered the smelly SUNY Downstate merger, with
state taxpayers absorbing the $300 million debt.*<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>“Brezenoff is a poster boy for what
the late great Jack Newfield called the Permanent Government,” says one doctor
who has worked at LICH for 30 years and lives in the community. “He made his
political bones in the Koch administration as the head of Health and Hospital
Corp.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Under Brezenoff,
the Brooklyn Heights hospital began to hemorrhage red ink. A $140 million
bequest to the hospital by a Brooklyn Heights couple named Donald and Mildred
Othmer vanished into Continuum. Community activists say Brezenoff wanted to
close LICH. Many feared he’d sell the land for condo development. The staff and
community protested. Then in 2010, Brezenoff used his vast political
influence to persuade the state, under then-Gov. David Paterson, to subsume
LICH into SUNY-Downstate Medical Center, absorbing $300 million in red ink.
Meanwhile, in a piece of political sleight of hand even Boss Tweed would envy,
Brezenoff’s Continuum stayed on to do $50 million a year in medical billing.
Some people who know Brezenoff’s modus operandi fear that once inside City
Hall, his influence could spread like a political pox. De Blasio really needs
to research Brezenoff’s role in trying to kill LICH. He can start by listening
to some of the people who have been saving lives there for decades and have
spent the past five years trying to save LICH from Brezenoff and SUNY
Downstate.*<a href="http://www.cityandstateny.com/brezenoff-we-gave-not-sold-lich/" target="_blank"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span></a><a href="http://www.cityandstateny.com/brezenoff-we-gave-not-sold-lich/" target="_blank">Brezenoff: Continuum Tried To Save LICH
Before “Giving” It To State<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span></a>(City
and State)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Knights trying to save LICH Hospital nicknamed Darth Vader </span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/hamill-de-blasio-pick-adviser-labor-deals-poor-choice-article-1.1576766#ixzz2qBVMhJdy" target="_blank">Hamill: Mayor de Blasio's choice of
Stanley Brezenoff as adviser on labor deals a poor one</a>(NYDN) Brezenoff, who
was appointed to counsel the mayor on labor contracts left unresolved by
Bloomberg, fed Long Island College Hospital a slow poison that is destroying
it. Many people in Brooklyn think Mayor de Blasio’s appointment of
Stanley Brezenoff is bad medicine. Brezenoff, as former CEO of Continuum Health
Industries, fed Long Island College Hospital a slow poison that is killing it.
Now de Blasio names Brezenoff as a special unpaid adviser on 152 municipal
labor contracts left unresolved by Mayor Bloomberg.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“Brezenoff is a poster boy for what the
late great Jack Newfield called the Permanent Government,” says one doctor who
has worked at LICH for 30 years and lives in the community. “He made his
political bones in the Koch administration as the head of Health and Hospital
Corp.” This doctor says he has known de Blasio for a long time. “I enjoy
eating a dish of macaroni with Bill,” he says. “But it made me physically ill
on New Year’s Day to learn he’d appointed Brezenoff, who wants LICH dead, to
any post.” De Blasio spokesman Wiley Norvel wants people in Brooklyn to relax,
saying, “Stan Brezenoff will serve as an unpaid adviser on labor relations with
the administration.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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spokesman Wiley Norvel wants people in Brooklyn to relax, saying, “Stan
Brezenoff will serve as an unpaid adviser on labor relations with the
administration.”</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Under Brezenoff, the Brooklyn Heights
hospital began to hemorrhage red ink. A $140 million bequest to the hospital by
a Brooklyn Heights couple named Donald and Mildred Othmer vanished into
Continuum. Community activists say Brezenoff wanted to close LICH. Many feared
he’d sell the land for condo development. The staff and community protested.
Then in 2010, Brezenoff used his vast political influence to persuade the
state, under then-Gov. David Paterson, to subsume LICH into SUNY-Downstate
Medical Center, absorbing $300 million in red ink. Meanwhile, in a piece of
political sleight of hand even Boss Tweed would envy, Brezenoff’s Continuum
stayed on to do $50 million a year in medical billing. De Blasio really needs
to research Brezenoff’s role in trying to kill LICH. He can start by listening
to some of the people who have been saving lives there for decades and have
spent the past five years trying to save LICH from Brezenoff and SUNY
Downstate. Brezenoff totally mismanaged LICH, and then dumped it on the state,
$300 million in debt. When Continuum continued losing money, Mount Sinai
Hospital bought it and gave Brezenoff a golden parachute. Now de Blasio brings
Brezenoff back into city government? Scary.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LICH?</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/65041" title="LICH Update: NYU Langone Joins Fortis to Rival Brooklyn Hospital Bid">LICH
Update: NYU Langone Joins Fortis to Rival Brooklyn Hospital Bid(Brooklyn
Heights Blog)</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>*<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://nypost.com/2014/01/12/brooklyn-hospital-makes-bid-for-lich/">Brooklyn
Hospital makes bid for LICH(NYP)</a>Crain’s New York reports that Brooklyn
Hospital Center, as part of a group involving an unnamed private-equity firm
and a developer, is offering to buy LICH. Their plan is to turn it into a
comprehensive-care center with ambulance service and a 24/7 emergency room for
non-critical illnesses.Inpatient services would be treated at Brooklyn
Hospital, a mile away. Other outpatient services would be offered locally. The
question is whether community activists can take yes for an answer. For their
demand is that LICH be preserved as a full-service facility, and thus far they
have prevailed in court.*<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn-hospital-developer-offer-buy-long-island-college-hospital-article-1.1578629"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span>Brooklyn Hospital, developer offer to buy Long Island
College Hospital(NYDN)</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>*<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/APa3e39eb8113b400c9ab23644e197cb87.html?mod=WSJ_NY_LEFTAPHeadlines">New
proposal to purchase LICH in Brooklyn(WSJ)</a><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/cure-hospital-article-1.1579838#ixzz2qT15TuZi" target="_blank">The cure for a hospital<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span></a>(NYDN Ed)Good intentions won't keep LICH alive
and kicking as a health-care center; a sane economic plan will*<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2014/01/8538818/state-advances-vital-cash-city-hospital-system">State
advances vital cash to city hospital system(Capital)</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.ny1.com/content/shows/the_call_rundown/198815/suny-holds-public-hearing-on-future-of-long-island-college-hospital"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">NY1</span></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">: “It’s not a matter of mismanagement,” said SUNY
Board Chairman Carl McCall. “LICH has never had the resources to provide the
kind of support that that community wants and probably needs, and we did not
have those resources either. And you say that the folks there are angry. They
are angry, and I understand that. But we have a lot of people here in SUNY.”
McCall said that there isn’t much that they can do right now because of the
court case, but they are considering some proposals to turn the hospital into
an urgent care facility and also possible condominiums." *</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">#SaveLICH: <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>SUNY
Hearing, McCall Says<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/63861" target="_blank">Condos Possible</a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">*</span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Growing Hospital Debt</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">State University of New York officials say
that Long Island College Hospital’s mounting financial liabilities have climbed
to $500 million, far more than the proceeds expected from the sale of the
property,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://on.wsj.com/1c1lCQS" target="_blank">the
Journal writes</a></span>* Many of New York City’s
financially strapped hospitals are scrambling to sign up people for health care
through the state exchange or through Medicaid, as they brace for $22 billion
in federal cuts over the next eight years,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://on.wsj.com/1awskzN" target="_blank">The Wall
Street Journal reports:</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>*<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">"</span><a href="http://t.co/qJro6raL5E" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">SUNY chair Carl McCall to de
Blasio re LICH: Transfer it from state to city "</span></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Maybe
they can do a better job."*<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://bit.ly/1bTtNgs" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">NYC hospitals suffer (and pay
for) poor quality ratings from Medicare. </span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(NY World)*<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2013/12/8536877/health-commissioner-pledges-cost-transparency-hospitals" title="Health commissioner pledges 'cost transparency' in hospitals"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Health commissioner pledges
'cost transparency' in hospitals(Capital)</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* How long can city hospitals stay a 'going concern'? |<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://capi.tl/1dBUDAA" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Capital New York</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/02/10/de-blasio-plans-legal-defense-fund-to-cover-all-his-probes/">De Blasio plans legal defense fund to cover all his probes</a></span></b> (NYP) de Blasio on Friday said he plans to set up a legal defense fund to cover the costs of his lawyers in state and federal investigations of his administration and fundraising. “We have not yet set that up. When we do we have to raise money into it according to a set of rules. We have to disclose, we absolutely will disclose the money.”* <o:p></o:p><a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2017/02/10/de-blasio-puts-out--fact-sheet--on-upcoming-meeting-with-federal-prosecutors.html" target="_blank">De Blasio Puts Out 'Fact Sheet' on Upcoming Meeting withFederal Prosecutors</a> (NY1) "The administration has released all it will provide at this time concerning these voluntary meetings," a line from the fact sheet reads <span lang="EN">When pressed about about his discussion with the U.S. attorney's office, which has not yet happened, de Blasio promised to let New Yorkers know once it's behind him. "We will tell you when it's done," de Blasio said. "You don't have to ask each time. We guarantee when that happens we will tell you when it's done."</span><br />
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Earlier in the day, City Hall <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/02/10/de-blasio-releases-fact-sheet-about-fundraising-investigations/">released a “fact sheet” outlining his effort</a> to cooperate with state and federal authorities — disclosing that he had neither sought nor been offered immunity. The document largely repeated earlier statements from Hizzoner and his reps, including that he and his staff have cooperated fully with the probes and that no one did anything wrong. The statement also said that the mayor — who had<a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/25/de-blasio-says-da-interviewed-him-over-campaign-fundraising/"> met with investigators</a> from Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office — would meet with US Attorney Preet Bharara’s team in coming days. Though both state and federal grand juries are hearing evidence in criminal probes into the de Blasio Administration over fundraising, the mayor repeatedly refers to the investigations only as “reviews.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The Mayor has never been informed that he is a target of these reviews,” the statement said, while not addressing whether he has been told he is not a target. The statement also said that “no taxpayer dollars will be used to fund the Mayor’s individual compliance with these reviews.” Others under investigation, however, are getting lawyers that could cost taxpayers more than $11.6 million.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Top de Blasio aide Emma Wolfe and fundraiser Ross Offinger, who’s now working as a consultant on the mayor’s 2017 re-election campaign, are also targets of the DA’s probe, according to public reports.<b><o:p></o:p></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: red;">True News is Proud That The NY Post Finds Our Research Important </span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: yellow;">But They Must Understand That Interlocking-Directorates of Kramer Levin de Blasio's Lawyers Who Lobby Him Run to Its Core of the Shadow Govt Pay to Play </span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Just Ask Judge Lobis</span></span></b></span><br />
<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/02/13/the-corruption-cloud-over-mayor-de-blasio-just-got-darker/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The corruption cloud over Mayor de Blasio just got darker</span></a></b> (NYP) More: The mayor’s attorney at Kramer Levin is Barry Berke, who also represents the Campaign for One New York — a group de Blasio set up but that was supposed to be independent. CONY’s fundraising on behalf of de Blasio is also under investigation. The conflicts mushroom: In 2014, de Blasio withdrew the nomination of another Kramer Levin lawyer, Marcie Kesner, to the Landmarks Preservation Commission because she’d have to recuse herself from too many land-use cases. And Berke is also the mayor’s rep on the Lincoln Center board of directors and his ex-campaign treasurer. As David Grandeau, a former executive director of the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics, puts it: “If you give money to the defense fund, you’re benefiting the mayor [and] that would be problematic for those that are lobbyists or their clients.”<o:p></o:p><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The idea that the law firm is, in effect, extending him credit is troubling enough, since that can be seen as a “favor”</span></b> — just as any lower-than-usual rates it charges would be. But how can a mayor up to his eyeballs in corruption probes try to keep such key info secret, especially when he insists he has done nothing wrong? What makes the secretive deferred-payment deal particularly problematic is that the law firm, Kramer Levin Naftalis &amp; Frankel, also lobbies city agencies on behalf of clients with business before the city. <b><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #20124d;">So de Blasio may return those favors in some shady way.</span> (<a href="http://nypost.com/2017/02/13/the-corruption-cloud-over-mayor-de-blasio-just-got-darker/" target="_blank">NYP</a>)</span></b><br />
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<b><span lang="EN">By Dec. 3, 2013, weeks before Mr. de Blasio took office,<span style="background-color: lime;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;"> Mr. Rechnitz </span></span>was sitting in a conference room packed with other potential donors at the Midtown law firm Kramer Levin. There, according to a person who also attended the meeting, the mayor spoke to the group before leaving the room. Those in attendance were then asked for contributions. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/nyregion/de-blasio-donors-jona-rechnitz-and-jeremiah-reichberg-shared-closeness-to-police-leaders.html?_r=0" target="_blank">(NY Times)</a><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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For those in the industry who lack close ties to Trump, there are numerous potential middlemen that could help gain access, sources say. One is <a href="http://therealdeal.com/new-research/topics/people/jay-neveloff/">Trump’s attorney Jay Neveloff</a>, who heads the real estate department at Kramer Levin. Asked for comment, Neveloff said he is certain Trump will not be susceptible to special interests (<a href="http://atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2016/11/actually-forest-city-still-has-trump.html" target="_blank">Atlantic Yard Review</a>).<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">List of Kramer Levin Clients That They They Lobbied de Blasio's City Hall </span><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">List in Formation </span></b><br />
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<b>VIDEO: Roseland Ballroom Being Gutted to Make Way forApartment Tower</b><br />
<b>The Shubert Organization, Inc., Seaver Realty LLC, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, DH VERNON LLC. Lenox Terrace Development Associates Lenox Terrace ResidentsFighting Against Proposed Commercial Rezoning (DNAINFO), Urban Strategic Partners, LLC, The Core Club 55th Street LLC, Douglaston Development, SJC 33 OWNER 2015, LLC, MIP One Wall Street Acquisition LLC, The Archdiocese of New York, South Street Seaport Limited Partnership, NY 70th St. LLC, Design Center Inc., 94th Street Property TIC, 172-174 East, LLC, DH VERNON LLC, 771 Washington Street Investor LLC, 458 LLC, 137 Centre Street, LLC, Graduate Center Foundation Housing Corporation LIC, YWA-Amsterdam LLC, 21E12 LLC, 245 Fieldston LLC, RFR Holding Corp, MIP One Wall Street Acquisition LLC, DiamondRock Hospitality Limited Partnership for the benefit of DiamondRock NY LEX Owner, LLC., 249 W 28th Street Properties, LLC, Brickman 95 Morton LLC, The Archdiocese of New York, FPG Cobble Hill Acquisitions, LLC</b><br />
<b><br /></b><b><br /></b><b><br /></b><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-large;"><span style="background-color: lime;"><span style="background-color: red;"><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-large;"><span style="background-color: lime;"><span style="background-color: lime; color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: lime; color: #4c1130;">On April 27, 2016 Real Deal Reported Kramer Levin's Berke Was the Lawyer for the Jewish Home Lifecare Development Two Days Later Real Deal Said Another Lawyer Was Handling the Case </span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;">On May 6th the Daily News Reported That Berke Was the Lawyer for Both the Development and the Parking Lot That Was Part of the Project </span></span></span></span></b></span></b></span></span></b></span></b><br />
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In a fight with Public School 163 parents — an Upper West Side school fighting to stop the owner of a toxic lot and developer who want to put a nursing home nearby — Kramer Levin represented both the owner of the W. 97th St. parking lot, PWV Owners LLC, and Jewish Home Lifecare, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-lawyers-state-fbi-fundraising-probes-article-1.2626326" target="_blank">the nursing home group that wants to build the 20-story facility.</a> (NY Daily News, (May 6th 2016) * <a href="http://www.manhattanexpressnews.nyc/judge-says-environmental-review-needed-uws-nursing-home/" target="_blank">Judge Says More Environmental Review Needed on UWS NursingHome </a>(Manhattan Express) According to Marty Rosenblatt, a neighbor who arranged for expert lead testing on the site, the mayor’s favor for the JHL project may stem from his close relations with Kramer Levin Naftalis and Frankel LLP, a law firm that represented JHL in the past and currently represents Joseph Chetrit, a real estate developer with a big investment in the 97th Street development being approved. In late 2011, Joseph Chetrit partnered with Larry Gluck of Stellar Management, who owns the parking lot on West 97th Street that would be replaced by the nursing home, to complete a land swap deal for JHL’s current campus on West 106th Street, which like the West 97th site is between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. Many observers believe Chetrit, a well-known developer, plans to construct a tall luxury condo development on JHL’s former campus. Kramer Levin, Rosenblatt noted, represented JHL on the nursing home project during its appearances before the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals in 2015. (<a href="http://www.manhattanexpressnews.nyc/judge-says-environmental-review-needed-uws-nursing-home/" target="_blank">Manhattan Express</a>)<br />
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<a href="https://therealdeal.com/2016/04/27/de-blasios-law-firm-also-represents-controversial-uws-developer-he-backed/" target="_blank">De Blasio’s law firm also represents controversial UWS developer he backed </a>(Raw Deal, April 27, 2016) Kramer Levin is working on both the mayor’s corruption probe and Jewish Home Lifecare’s nursing home project The law firm aiding Mayor Bill de Blasio in his fight against a federal campaign finance investigation is also working with Jewish Home Lifecare, the developer of a controversial 20-story nursing home on the Upper West Side, which de Blasio has supported.The firm is working with JHL on its 97th Street project, in which the developer hopes, among other things, to dig up a lead-tainted parking lot adjacent to P.S. 163. Residents have fought the project for years. It passed an environmental review last year, but that review was vacated by the New York Supreme Court in December. The developer is seeking to overturn that ruling. De Blasio’s office filed an amicus brief on that case in March. “That is an example of where the relationships bump into one another and it would be best to keep them apart,”<br />
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<a href="https://therealdeal.com/2016/04/29/suit-linked-to-mayors-campaign-controversy-could-disrupt-land-use-rules/" target="_blank">Suit linked to mayor’s campaigncontroversy could disrupt land-use rules</a> (Real Deal April 29, 2016) The mayor’s office filed a friend of the court brief in favor of the developer, Jewish Home Lifecare, setting off accusations that de Blasio simply wanted to help out the law firm representing the developer, Kramer Levin. The firm is also representing de Blasio in the federal investigation into whether he funneled contributions to candidates in the 2014 state Senate election to avoid contribution limits. City officials told the website that Kramer Levin attorney and longtime de Blasio ally Barry Berke wasn’t involved in the lawsuit, though the firm does represent the developer in other matters. Greenberg Traurig is representing the developer in the lawsuit. The city’s brief claimed that the lawsuit could “upset the consistent and predictable process developed over decades by the city for reviewing potential environmental impacts of projects and programs throughout the city.” The brief argued that Supreme Court Justice Joan Lobis’ ruling in favor of the parents and students would “insert an arbitrary threshold for adequacy into the environmental review process.” The appeals court is slated to hear the case in June<br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2013/11/18/nursing-home-associates-donate-to-mark-viveritos-re-election-after-unique-exemption/" target="_blank">Nursing-home associates donate to Mark-Viverito’s re-election</a> (NYP) Nearly two-dozen associates of an upper Manhattan nursing home donated to a City Council member’s re-election campaign after she got the facility a unique exemption from local construction rules. A total of 17 trustees, four staff members, an associate and a lobbyist for Jewish Home and Hospital — many of whom don’t live in the city, let alone uptown — contributed to Melissa Mark-Viverito’s 2009 council campaign, online records show. Their combined $7,825 in donations made up 10 percent of the total that Mark-Viverito — currently the front-runner for council speaker — raised for the race. Many of their grants were matched with public funding at a rate of 6 to 1, making them worth much more. While there’s no evidence Mark-Viverito’s campaign solicited the contributions, the donations all came after she got the nursing home the right to construct a building at 120 W. 106th St. that would exceed the height limit under a rezoning plan. It was the only facility to get a carve-out after the center, now known as Jewish Home Lifecare, spent $100,000 on lobbying directed at council and community-board members.<br />
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/31/judge-raises-concerns-over-de-blasios-ties-to-consultant/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Judge raises concerns over de Blasio’s ties to consultant</span></a></b> (NYP) A Manhattan judge on Tuesday expressed concern about the apparent conflict of interest in the mayor’s <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/11/25/de-blasio-consultant-reportedly-used-city-hall-to-promote-clients/">confidential relationship with a political consultant who has business before the city</a>.“ It’s hard enough for me to accept this position if it was just the notion of a consultant, but we also have a consultant with possible conflicts. So we have kind of two hurdles,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Joan Lobis said. Lobis is deciding a lawsuit filed by The New York Post and NY1 for access to emails between Mayor de Blasio and his longtime adviser Jonathan Rosen. The mayor has said their communications are not subject to the Freedom of Information Law because the statute exempts “consultants.” But Judge Lobis said “one of my deepest concerns about adopting the mayor’s position is I don’t know where you draw that line” of who is a consultant and who isn’t.<br />
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Rosen has not been officially retained as a consultant to de Blasio and is not on the payroll. But he is “the only outsider” invited to high-level City Hall meetings about matters like zoning regulations while he represents developers, NY1 attorney Doug Maynard said. “Anybody can be a consultant without any contract or relationship with an agency. How does that give you the right to exempt emails?” she asked. <b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/11/23/lobbyist-acted-as-member-of-de-blasio-admin-email-dump-shows/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Consultant acted as member of de Blasio admin, email dump shows</span></a></b> City lawyer Jeffrey Danowtiz claimed that Rosen should be considered a consultant because he has given advice and guidance to the mayor over “many, many years.” Danowitz also said the city has already handed over communications between the two that involve Rosen’s clients who have city business. Judge Lobis told Danowitz that “at the minimum” she may want to review all the emails to make sure the mayor’s not hiding anything. Maynard said the city has conceded that Rosen has certain conflicts of interest by making the disclosures, yet, “they don’t seem to accept the consequence that Mr. Rosen’s position is inherently conflicted.” “The conflict resides in Mr. Rosens’s business interests,” he said. The public has a “right to understand…the murky intersection between [Rosen’s] business interests and city interests,” Maynard argued.<br />
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<span lang="EN"><br /></span><span lang="EN">The mayor’s office rescinded the nomination of Marcie Kesner from the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The firm where Ms. Kesner works, Kramer Levin, had enough clients with business before the city that there was concern she’d have to recuse herself from LPC votes often. “Marcie Kesner is exceptionally well-qualified to sit on the LPC, and the Conflicts of Interest Board had issued a guidance letter signifying approval of her future appointment,” de Blasio spokesman Wiley Norvell told the <i>Observer</i>. <b><span style="font-size: large;"> “However, upon receipt of the COIB guidance letter and consideration of the effect of her Kramer Levin LLC her firm’s client representations on her ability to fully participate in the LPC’s deliberations</span></b>, it was mutually agreed between the Mayor’s Office and Ms. Kesner to examine other opportunities within the administration that could fully benefit from her considerable experience.” <a href="http://observer.com/2014/07/bill-de-blasio-taps-margery-perlmutter-for-bsa-swaps-out-a-landmarks-pick/" target="_blank">NY Observer 2014</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Berke From Kramer and Levin Represents de Blasio in the Federal and State Play to Pay Investigations Took Over As His Campaign Treasurer When His Former Treasurer Offinger Became A Federal Target</b></span><br />
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Barry Berke represents de Blasio in his ongoing federal and state probe into his fund-raising. Berke, of the high-powered firm Kramer Levin, had been representing de Blasio’s 2013 campaign and will now handle that along with the mayor personally. De Blasio made Berke his campaign treasurer in January 2014 and designee to the Lincoln Center board of directors. In July 2014, the mayor tried to nominate another Kramer Levin staffer, Marcie Kesner, to the Landmarks Preservation Commission. That appointment collapsed over conflict questions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: lime;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">From the Daily News on de Blasio "Conflict of Interests: </span></span> </span></b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-reveals-deal-defer-paying-legal-fees-probe-article-1.2969642" target="_blank">De Blasio reveals deal to defer paying legal fees fromprobe until he sets up fund-raising committee </a>(NYDN) he law firm representing Mayor de Blasio in investigations of his <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-4-3m-plot-target-donors-city-business-1.2905101">fund-raising tactics</a> has been sending bills for nearly a year, but as of Friday has yet to receive a dime. The mayor said he has an agreement with the firm, Kramer Levin Naftalis, to defer payment until he sets up a fund-raising committee to foot the bill. That means the mayor likely currently owes tens and perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars to one of the biggest lobbyist law firms in the city. He declined to say how large the tab is. The firm has said it keeps its lobbying and legal representation separate. Barry Berke, the mayor’s lawyer at Kramer Levin, did not respond to calls.<br />
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That includes DDG Development, which hired Kramer in May 2015. Kramer handled DDG’s petition for a zoning change on a luxury condo project in Tribeca before the city Bureau of Standards &amp; Appeals. On June 23, 2015, the BSA approved DDG’s application, despite vociferous neighborhood opposition about the project’s size. Eight days later DDG wrote a $10,000 check to the mayor’s now defunct non-profit, Campaign for One New York. CONY is now at the heart of the federal investigation. Asked whether the law firm allowing him to defer payment on legal bills while lobbying his team presented a conflict of interest, the mayor defended the firm. "They're one of the most renowned legal firms for this type of work. They're an obvious place to turn for legal support,” he said. “And I'm going to continue to make sure that their bills are paid off fully. But any other matters, we have an absolute ability to separate the different considerations. That's what I've said about everything in this reality. We're making decisions on any governmental matters according to the merits." De Blasio confirmed the arrangement in response to Daily News questions at the Friday press conference, though he wouldn’t say how many hours the firm had billed for or reveal the range of hourly rates. "I'm not even sure that's a purely appropriate public matter,” he said. “The bottom line is, they have sent bills, they will be paid. It's going to take a while. That is for sure." He promised to eventually “disclose the money,” but didn’t say whether he would reveal names of donors or whether they had business with City Hall. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is investigating whether de Blasio did favors for donors to Campaign for One New York. The News found at least $3 million of the $4.3 million he raised came from entities doing business with City Hall.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<a class="postid-10355218" href="http://nypost.com/2016/08/24/firm-involved-in-shady-nursing-home-deal-pulls-out-of-major-project/">Firm involved in shady nursing home deal pulls out of major project(NYP) </a>The company that riled City Hall by hushing up its purchase of a Lower East Side nursing home has pulled out of a major project under pressure from the administration, sources said Wednesday.The Slate Property Group sold its interest in the Bedford-Union Armory in Crown Heights to its collaborator on the project, BFC Partners, just <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/08/11/de-blasio-will-take-a-hard-look-at-rivington-firms-new-deal/">two weeks after Mayor de Blasio said he was taking a “hard look”</a>at its role. Slate and BFC in December were awarded a long-term lease to build 330 units of housing along with recreational and office space on the city-owned site. But the mayor ordered a review after two investigations found that Slate officials had instructed subordinates to keep quiet about the firm’s interest in purchasing the decades-old Rivington House nursing home on the Lower East Side.<br />
The seller, the Allure Group, at the time was still working to get the city to lift deed restrictions governing the use of the property. “Guys, please make sure we do not discuss this deal with anyone on the outside right now,” Slate founder Matt Nussbaum wrote in an e-mail to 10 company officials in May 2015.“The seller is very concerned that the city and [the nursing-home] union will find out that he is in contract to sell at the price that we are buying it, which will directly impact his ability to have the deed restriction removed,” the e-mail continued. “Once he has it removed, we can do whatever we want.” <a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20170104/OPINION/170109985/editorial-struggle-over-armory-development-shows-its-time-to-think-bigger-in-crown-heights?utm_source=Kings+County+Politics+Morning+Newsletter&utm_campaign=4319372b61-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_466a6c86df-4319372b61-324302829" target="_blank">Armory skirmish shows it's time to think bigger in CrownHeights </a>(CrainsNY) Protesters are trying to kill a project backed by community leaders if it is not 100% affordable What makes this scenario different is that the plan to <a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20160808/BLOGS04/160809911/new-york-city-should-not-have-awarded-housing-deal-to-slate-property-group-buyer-of-contentious-nursing-home-local-groups-say" target="_blank">redevelop the Bedford-Union Armory</a> in Crown Heights already has the backing of community leaders and elected officials. And those opposed are not the usual activists bent on beating back any development at any cost. Despite that rare level of support, <a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20161108/BLOGS04/161109884/bedford-armory-deal-faces-mounting-pressure-from-brooklyn-pols" target="_blank">activists rallied opposition</a>, including from state legislators who have no formal role in the matter, around the notion that the development should be 100% affordable, with none of the market-rate apartments that make it possible to pay for the rec center in the first place. Critics cynically argue that by the time the rec center is completed there won’t be any poor people left in the neighborhood to use it.* <span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"><a href="http://www.kingscountypolitics.com/elected-officials-op-ed-public-owned-bedford-armory-100-affordable/" target="_blank">ElectedOfficials Op-Ed: Public Owned Bedford Armory Should Be 100% Affordable</a> * </span><b><a href="http://www.kingscountypolitics.com/op-ed-recreational-facilities-bedford-armory-will-win-crown-heights/" target="_blank">Op-Ed:Recreational Facilities at the Bedford Armory will be a Win for Crown Heights</a> By <span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.kingscountypolitics.com/author/geoffreydaivis/" title="Posts by Geoffrey Davis, Frank Johnson, Carlton Screen, Ty Grant and Dario Trujillo">Geoffrey Davis, Frank Johnson, Carlton Screen, Ty Grant and Dario Trujillo</a> *<a href="http://central%20bklyn%20lawmakers%20foil%20city%20on%20bedford%20armory%20proposal/" target="_blank"> </a></span></b><a href="http://central%20bklyn%20lawmakers%20foil%20city%20on%20bedford%20armory%20proposal/" target="_blank">Central Bklyn Lawmakers FOIL City On Bedford Armory Proposal</a><br />
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nearly 100 struggling schools has been heavily criticized, but leaders of
troubled school districts across the state are looking to the program as a
model, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/seen-as-statewide-model-109477/khbn6/49829739" target="_blank">Politico New York reports.</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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billion to school aid in an attempt to satisfy the terms of the Campaign for
Fiscal Equity lawsuit,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/s-want-4-3b-in-foundation-aid-/mqnds/54873343" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;">State of Politics reports.</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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people trying to become teachers, in part because an outsized percentage of
black and Hispanic candidates were failing it, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/her-literacy-test-10996844-php/pc5vg/56671607" target="_blank">the Times Union reports.</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Fake News About High School Grad Rates Only 4% Prepped for College </span></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/23/high-school-with-76-grad-rate-only-prepped-4-for-college/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">High school with 76% grad rate only prepped 4% for college</span></a></b> (NYP) Bronxdale HS graduated 76 percent of its students last year — but just 4 percent met CUNY college-readiness standards, The Post has learned. Critics blasted the discrepancy, arguing that administrators are sacrificing instruction quality for attractive graduation rates. CUNY assesses a variety of student test scores to determine if kids are ready for basic math and English collegiate course work. Grads are deemed prepared if they post minimum scores on their SAT, ACT or Regents. But at Bronxdale — home to 430 students — just 4 percent of its sizeable graduating class managed to post qualifying scores on those exams. The rest would have to complete remedial course work at CUNY to catch up with their peers. Bronxdale’s graduation rate was higher than the borough average of 66 percent and comfortably beat the city average of 72 percent. “There’s a sharp disconnect in results based on graduation, proficiency and rigor,” CUNY Graduate Center Professor David Bloomfield said of the school.<br />
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“No wonder the public gets dizzy with spin. Until these match up, accountability will be lacking.” Despite the troubling college- readiness numbers, Bronxdale managed to score an “excellent” rating in the DOE’s “rigorous instruction” category. The school received a perfect 4 out of 4 score, which even surpassed Bronx Science’s grade in the same category, which was 3 out of 4 — even though the elite school had 100 percent of its kids college-ready last year, according to the DOE. Bronxdale’s curious “rigorous instruction” score was determined by “an experienced educator who visited and evaluated the school on April 12, 2016,” as well as internal school surveys, according to the DOE’s School Quality Snapshot report. A DOE rep said the school was making strides and cautioned that the CUNY readiness measure was only one of many collegiate-preparedness metrics.* <b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/20/de-blasio-has-left-my-daughter-in-a-school-desert/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">De Blasio has left my daughter in a school ‘desert’</span></a></b> (NYP) I came to the United States from Cuba nearly 20 years ago to be part of the American dream. It was a dream that I thought would provide me and my family with better opportunities and give my children a brighter future. Sadly, for me and my daughter, who is in seventh grade, my dream seems more out of reach than ever. That’s because we live in a school district in The Bronx where no middle schools — none — come even close to meeting basic standards. In other words, my daughter and I live in what StudentsFirstNY rightly calls a middle-school “desert.” It truly breaks my heart to think my daughter, Emanuela, must deal with the reality of this every single day. She loves to learn, but she consistently tells me that her teachers just don’t seem to care if she succeeds or fails. Just 11 percent of kids in her middle school are on grade level for math. In our district overall, only 17 percent of middle-school kids passed state reading tests and 14 percent passed math tests.* <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/23/seeking-justice-for-all-new-yorks-gifted-kids/">Seeking justice for all New York’s gifted kids</a> (NYP) Kudos to Bronx and Brooklyn Borough Presidents Ruben Diaz Jr. and Eric Adams for pushing to expand the city schools’ Gifted and Talented programs. They’re right: Boosting access to G&amp;T is one right way to increase opportunity to enter the city’s elite high schools. We look forward to hearing their task force’s recommendations on enlarging G&amp;T. We have no real problem with the test that lets kids enter these programs in grades K-3. But too many districts have no G&amp;T programs — which inevitably means plenty of parents never try to get their children in.* <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/nyregion/harlem-schools-are-left-to-fail-as-those-not-far-away-thrive.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion">Harlem Schools Are Left to Fail as Those Not Far Away Thrive</a> (NYT) Community School District 3, on Manhattan’s West Side, is home to some of the best public elementary schools, but the district is sharply divided by race, income and academic achievement.* <b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/nyregion/harlem-schools-are-left-to-fail-as-those-not-far-away-thrive.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Harlem Schools Are Left to Fail as Those Not Far Away Thrive</span></a></b> (NYT)<br />
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/24/the-emptiness-behind-nycs-rising-high-school-graduation-rates/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The emptiness behind NYC’s rising high-school-graduation rates</span></a></b> (NYP Ed) <span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;">For years, The Post has run exposés on “credit recovery” and grade- and test-fixing scams that boost graduation rates without the high school having to teach. Just last year, a Post investigation forced the ouster of DeWitt Clinton HS Principal Santiago Taveras for doctoring grades.</span> Yet Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña hasn’t done much to punish principals and staff caught cheating. Indeed, she rewarded another alleged grade-fixer, Kathleen Elvin, the former principal at “Easy Pass” John Dewey HS, with a top DOE job. Teens who graduate without acquiring the skills they need get stuck floundering in college, or wasting a year or two in remedial classes. Those who try to go to work after high school face their own rude awakening. Rising graduation rates aren’t much of an achievement if you’re only handing out worthless diplomas to get them.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/mayor-de-blasio-interviewed-manhattan-da-office-article-1.2955221" target="_blank">Mayor de Blasio interviewed by Manhattan DA’s office amidprobe into his administration</a> (NYDN) </b>He said the interview "me and my lawyers" and took place "a few weeks back," but would not reveal any of what was discussed. De Blasio's office is being probed by state and federal authorities on multiple fronts, including whether they did favors for donors to the mayor's political non-profit, and how a deed restriction was lifted at a Lower East Side nursing home now being turned into luxury housing. <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">De Blasio said he has not testified before a grand jury, nor has he been informed that he is a target of a grand jury investigation.* </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><o:p></o:p></span><b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/25/de-blasio-says-da-interviewed-him-over-campaign-fundraising/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">De Blasio says DA interviewed him over campaign fundraising</span></a> (NYP) </b><b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;">DA Cyrus Vance is investigating whether de Blasio violated state campaign finance laws in his effort to put a Democratic majority in the state Senate in 2014.</span> The inquiry is examining whether large donations were funneled to specific candidates through upstate Democratic counties in an apparent bid to avoid campaign donation limits. Top de Blasio aide Emma Wolfe and his campaign fundraiser, Ross Offinger, who’s now working as a consultant on the mayor’s 2017 re-election campaign, are also targets of the DA’s probe, according to public reports. </b>US Attorney Preet Bharara is separately probing the mayor’s shuttering nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York, and whether donors to the group got favors in return from City Hall. Hizzoner raised $4.3 million for the political nonprofit, including from hosts of individuals and firms with business interests before the city.* <b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/26/de-blasio-admits-to-being-interviewed-by-manhattan-prosecutors/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">De Blasio admits to being interviewed by Manhattan prosecutors</span></a> (NYP) </b><br />
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The mayor has repeatedly maintained that his office has followed the law and that no donors received special treatment. Separate federal and state grand juries have been convened in cases involving City Hall, but de Blasio said Wednesday that he hasn’t testified before either one.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/nyregion/de-blasio-fund-raising-investigation.html" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/nyregion/de-blasio-fund-raising-investigation.html" target="_blank">De Blasio Confirms Interview With Manhattan Prosecutors</a>(NYT) “The Manhattan D.A.’s office asked for an interview and we did an interview,” Mr. de Blasio said in response to a question from a reporter at an unrelated news conference on traffic safety. Asked to clarify who was present for the interview, he said, pressing his hand to his chest, “Me, and my lawyers.” He did not provide the precise date of the interview, saying it had occurred “a few weeks back,” or any details of what was discussed, referring questions to his lawyers. Eric F. Phillips, the mayor’s top spokesman, later said it had occurred in late December and was “a voluntary discussion.” He declined further comment. Grand juries have been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-investigation.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fwilliam-k.-rashbaum&action=click&contentCollection=undefined&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=3&pgtype=collection">convened in both cases</a>. Mr. de Blasio said on Wednesday that he had not testified before a grand jury or been notified that he was the target of a grand jury investigation. The fact that Mr. de Blasio was interviewed by prosecutors appeared to indicate that the state portion of the investigation had reached its final stages.<br />
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A law enforcement official, who requested anonymity in order to discuss the matter, said the outcome could be announced as soon as February. Others with knowledge of the federal inquiry said that it also appeared to be nearing completion. The Law Department, which <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/nyregion/10-million-contract-details-cost-of-defending-mayor-de-blasio-in-inquiry.html">along with lawyers from the firm Debevoise &amp; Plimpton</a>, is representing Mr. de Blasio and City Hall staff members in the inquiries, did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the mayor’s interview. “I’m not going to characterize it; it was fine,” Mr. de Blasio said with a laugh as he was asked to describe the interview. “That’s good. Again, again. Guys. Not going into any details. Lawyers can fill in for you. I just told you the factual answer to your question.” * Amid more than a half-dozen <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/03/de-blasio-says-investigations-are-just-part-of-the-job/">probes of Mayor de Blasio’s administration</a>, a number of municipal workers have been asked to sign a confidentiality agreement that makes it clear they should shut their traps when it comes to city business, it was reported Monday.<br />
Gothamist wrote that “scores of City Hall staffers” were asked to immediately sign the agreement, an image of which <a href="http://gothamist.com/2016/06/06/not_dead_yet_thanks_deblasio.php">the news site posted online</a>.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-investigations.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=nygeo-promo-region%C2%AEion=nygeo-promo-region&WT.nav=nygeo-promo-region&_r=0" target="_blank">Taxpayers to payup to $11.65M for legal defense of de Blasio administration in probe offund-raising practices </a>(NYO) </b>Contract to Defend De Blasio and Aides to Cost City $11.6 Million (NYT) The bill for defending Mayor Bill de Blasio and other city officials in state and federal criminal investigations into fund-raising practices has grown, with six city contracts for outside law firms now totaling more than $11.6 million. The contracts, filed with the city comptroller’s office and obtained by The New York Times through a request under the state’s Freedom of Information Law, provide the bare minimum of detail as to their purpose other than representing city employees in possible grand jury hearings related to what the Law Department calls, in its paperwork, the “John Doe Investigation.” Taken together, the contracts contain a constellation of white-collar criminal defense and trial lawyers from law firms big and small, as well as the maximum they can bill in the city’s defense: Debevoise &amp; Plimpton, $10 million; Carter Ledyard &amp; Millburn, $750,000; Walden Macht &amp; Haran, $350,000; Lankler Lawyers from the firms, all of which declined to comment on the contracts, are tasked with preparing witnesses who may be subpoenaed or asked to give testimony to a grand jury. State and federal grand juries have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-investigation.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fwilliam-k.-rashbaum&action=click&contentCollection=undefined&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=3&pgtype=collection">begun hearing evidence</a> from prosecutors, according to people familiar with the matter.<br />
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Mr. de Blasio, who is facing re-election this year, said on Wednesday that while he had not testified before any grand jury, he had been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/nyregion/de-blasio-fund-raising-investigation.html">interviewed by prosecutors</a> from the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has been looking into whether he or his aides violated state law while raising money for Democrats in an unsuccessful effort to help his party take control of the State Senate in 2014. In the federal investigation, prosecutors are looking into whether Mr. de Blasio or other officials and aides provided beneficial action for donors in exchange for contributions to the mayor’s 2013 campaign or the Campaign for One New York, his now-shuttered political nonprofit. One of the contracts, with Carter Ledyard, mentions providing legal services in response to investigations into the removal by the city of a deed restriction on Rivington House, a Manhattan nursing home, that allowed for its sale to luxury condominium developers. That amount does not include spending on Barry H. Berke, a partner at Kramer Levin and his 2013 campaign treasurer, who is representing Mr. de Blasio as well.* <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/26/de-blasios-legal-fees-on-the-rise-will-cost-city-over-11m/" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">De Blasio’s legal fees on the rise, will cost city over $11M</span></a> (NYP) According to the records, which were obtained Thursday through a Freedom of Information request, the city’s Law Department agreed to pay Carter Ledyard &amp; Milburn up to $750,000 to represent the city in investigations conducted by the US Attorney’s Office, the city Department of Investigation, the city Comptroller’s Office and “other entities” into the <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/09/30/deputy-mayors-rivington-timeline-doesnt-match-de-blasios/">Rivington House scandal</a>. The sale of the former nursing home for AIDS patients came under scrutiny after the city’s lifting of deed restrictions in 2015. That led to a land deal, which netted the buyer a $72 million windfall when it flipped the building. De Blasio and his aides are under the microscope for that deal, as well as for the fundraising practices of his campaign and the non-profit Campaign for One New York. Opponents were quick to attack the fees. One shows how the city Law Department agreed to pay lawyer Paul Bergman $450 an hour to represent “a New York City employee who has been or may be subpoenaed” in the federal probe. The total contract is worth up to $99,000 and does not specify a client’s name, but does refer to the John Doe Investigation, Law Dept. Matter No. 2016-013018, a reference to the federal probe into whether Team de Blasio exchanged favors for campaign cash. Other legal hires include the Cunningham Levy firm, which can expect $550 an hour for partners and up to $200,000 total; Carter Ledyard &amp; Milburn, which will get up to $750 an hour and $750,000 total; and Lankler Siffert &amp; Wohl, which will get up to $250,000 for representing a city employee who may give testimony or provide documents to a grand jury. Legal bills to cover de Blasio’s defense for a separate probe into efforts to back state senate candidates are being picked up by his political operation, a City Hall spokesman said. But de Blasio’s campaign declined to respond.* <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/taxpayers-pay-11m-de-blasio-aides-legal-defense-article-1.2956898" target="_blank">Taxpayers to pay up to $11.65M for legal defense of deBlasio administration in probe of fund-raising practices (</a>NYDN) de Blasio’s 2013 campaign is covering the costs for Ross Offinger, the committee’s treasurer. That’s legal since he’s held no City Hall office; the City Charter forbids using campaign cash for the other aides’ lawyers. That said, the mayor could tap any remaining Campaign for One New York funds for these bills: That wouldn’t even risk an appearance of impropriety, since CONY’s closing down.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-lawyers-call-meeting-bharara-feds-probe-article-1.2957845" target="_blank">Lawyers representing de Blasio call for sit-down withU.S. Attorney Preet Bharara over fund-raising probe </a>(NYDN) </b>Lawyers for Mayor de Blasio have asked the Manhattan U.S. Attorney for a sit-down to discuss the feds’ ongoing probe of the mayor’s fundraising tactics, the Daily News has learned. It’s not clear when that meeting will take place, but this type of request from attorneys for subjects of investigations is quite common. <span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 12.84px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">WNBC-TV reported the mayor himself has agreed to answer questions without the protection of immunity because he believes he can convince them he was not involved in any quid pro quo with his donors. A rep for the mayor did not immediately respond to a request for comment. There are now two sets of lawyers — taxpayer-funded and campaign-funded — defending the mayor and his aides in ongoing probes by Bharara and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance. </span>In addition, de Blasio’s 2013 campaign has spent $283,748 since July on three other firms to defend the mayor and his campaign in the federal and state probes. <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">A third investigation by the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics is looking at whether donations to Campaign for One New York broke campaign finance laws.</span><br />
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<b>By contrast, the state comptroller in December approved a $950,000 contract for outside legal services for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo related to a federal investigation into the Buffalo Billion project and the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute.* <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/26/cuomo-defense-against-federal-probe-cost-taxpayers-650k/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Cuomo defense against federal probe cost taxpayers $650K</span></a> (NYP) * <o:p></o:p></b><b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/28/your-bill-for-the-cuomo-de-blasio-legal-teams/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Your bill for the Cuomo-de Blasio legal teams</span></a></b> (NYP) Cuomo, on the other hand, faces no legal impediment to using his campaign funds to cover his own teams’ lawyers’ bills. Last year, the public paid $643,000 of an approved $950,000 contract with firm Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason &amp; Anello to represent Cuomo and his staff in US Attorney Preet Bharara’s corruption investigation. Cuomo’s campaign kitty reported $21.9 million cash on hand as of Jan. 15. To be fair, the governor wants state law changed to prevent the use of campaign cash for legal defenses, so he’s arguably being consistent here. On the other hand, he recently vetoed legislation to have the state pay poor defendants’ legal fees.</div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/opinion/sunday/crime-and-gratitude-in-new-york.html?ref=opinion&_r=0" target="_blank">From NY Times </a> "A common caricature of Mr. de Blasio — fed by his critics and amplified by tabloid and TV news — is that he neglects nitty-gritty governance while ineptly pursuing ego-driven ambitions. Some point to problems like homelessness, an unsolved, slow-motion disaster under this mayor, as evidence of his incompetence."</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://garytilzer.blogspot.com/2016/12/team-de-blasio-committed-crimes-by-de.html">Two Grand Juries Investigate Team de Blasio</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2014/02/ttransparency.html"><span style="font-weight: normal;">de Blasio Transparency, FOILS and Special Agent Lobbyists Emails</span></a> </span></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160428/civic-center/heres-what-we-know-about-probe-into-mayor-bill-de-blasios-fundraising" target="_blank">Here's What We Know About the Probe Into Mayor Billde Blasio's Fundraising </a>(DNAINFO)<o:p></o:p></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2014/11/campaign.html" target="_blank">de Blasio's Secret Senate Campaign Funding and His 2016Funding Problems</a><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2013/12/cfb-corruption.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A Tale of Two CFBs: Albanese vs Campaign PAC NYCLASS,UFT's United for the Future</span></a><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/05/lawmakers-to-skip-out-on-cuomos-state-of-the-state-speech/">Lawmakers to skip out on Cuomo’s ‘State of the State’ speech</a> (NYP) <o:p></o:p>* Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and state Senate President John Flanagan said they will be busy next week and will not attend Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s State of the State addresses, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/the-state-addresses-1483660308/h1plp/42570230" target="_blank">their spokespeople told The Wall Street Journal.</a> * Republican state chairman Ed Cox is planning to attend all six stops on Cuomo’s State of the State tour, but instead of being a guest he’s planning to lead demonstrations outside college auditoriums, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/t-tour-to-counter-cuomo-108513/h1plr/42570230" target="_blank">Politico New York writes</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/opinion/the-governors-bad-trip/37151/" target="_blank">The governor’s bad trip </a>(TU Ed) It’s fair to say there isn’t a whole lot of respect these days between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature. And what with scandals in both branches of government, it’s entirely understandable respect is in short supply. All the more reason the governor’s plan to skip the ritual of a formal State of the State, in Albany, is a bad idea. Mr. Cuomo might gain a bit of instant gratification dissing the Legislature, but he should consider the longer-term damage he is doing. If that sounds a bit highfalutin, well, it is a big deal. The governor’s little dig at the Legislature is only the latest instance of public officials acting as if they are bigger than the institutions of which they are, in case they forgot, only temporary custodians. Mr. Cuomo’s plan is to take the State of the State on the road, giving the address in six regions, including the Capital Region, though not necessarily at the Capitol. He’ll tailor the messages, taking the opportunity to announce “regional initiatives and groundbreaking proposals.” It sounds more like a traveling news conference than a State of the State. Spreading it over six speeches dilutes what the state constitution intended to be an annual message to the Legislature on “the condition of the state,” in which the governor could also “recommend such matters…as he or she shall judge expedient.” <o:p></o:p>* As the new legislative session is set to begin on Wednesday amid tensions between Cuomo and the Legislature, both Republican and Democratic lawmakers are talking tough about the need for the Legislature to reassert its independence from the governor, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-power-cuomo-article-1-2931106/gyjgw/41760176" target="_blank">the Daily News’reports.</a> * The governor’s decision to forgo a formal State of the State address in Albany is only the latest instance of public officials acting as if they are bigger than the institutions of which they are, in case they forgot, only temporary custodians, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-the-governors-bad-trip-37151-/gyjhf/41760176" target="_blank">the Times Union writes.</a> * <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/01/nyregion/cuomo-adds-to-his-wish-list-as-state-legislators-seek-a-raise.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion">Cuomo Adds to His Wish List as State Legislators Seek a Raise</a> (NYT) * <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/cuomo-regional-addresses-benefit-protestors-article-1.2931115?cid=bitly" target="_blank">Cuomo's regional addresses a benefit for protestors</a> (NYDN) * <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/03/why-cuomo-is-ditching-his-state-of-the-state-address/">Why Cuomo is ditching his State of the State address</a> (NYP) Why? Mostly because he blocked their pay raise (they haven’t had one since 1999) in what some felt was a double-cross. And, at the eleventh hour, he demanded they take up a massive agenda at a special legislative session before year’s end. No surprise, they declined. The Legislature “must be respected,” a furious Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said. Cuomo is also feuding with Mayor de Blasio. Plus, he’s facing federal corruption probes of his administration. A close confidante, Joseph Percoco, and seven others are already under indictment. The hostility, and probes, threaten to sour the legislative season, which kicks off Wednesday. True, paralysis isn’t always bad: “No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session,” it’s said. But some matters need attention.* <a href="http://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2017/01/on-eve-of-session-many-lawmakers-sour-on-cuomo-108392" target="_blank">On eve of session, many lawmakers sour on Cuomo </a>(PoliticoNY) <b>* </b><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/is-state-of-the-state-address-/gzjzp/41959856" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: normal;">T</span>he Post writes</a> Cuomo is foregoing his traditional State of the State address to save face because lawmakers threatened to boycott the speech over not getting a pay raise, the ongoing corruption probe into his administration and his feud with de Blasio. * As the state legislative session begins, lawmakers are still grousing about 2016, which suggests there could be hostility during a session where the governor has already proposed a major piece of legislation with his college tuition plan, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/lacement-1-pgtype-sectionfront/gzvfh/42137764" target="_blank">the Times reports.</a> * As Cuomo prepares to give his State of the State addresses across the state, several dozen activists gathered to urge the state to preserve the so-called “millionaires tax” that’s slated to expire at the end of the year, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/People-s-State-of-10833784-php/gzvfm/42137764" target="_blank">the Times Union reports.</a> * <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/04/nyregion/new-york-lawmakers-start-the-year-weighted-with-old-tensions.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion">New York Lawmakers Start the Year Weighted With Old Tensions</a> (NYT) * As the legislative session got underway, state Senate GOP Majority Leader John Flanagan said he would stand up for the body’s independence and Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie took a more conciliatory tone, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/esses-for-session-10836299-php/h14w3/42444792" target="_blank">the Times Union reports.</a> * <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/eady-closeup-article-1-2934876/h14x7/42444792" target="_blank">The Daily News writes</a> that the state Senate is shielding evidence of democracy’s happenings by prohibiting the use of cellphones to take photos or video in its chamber, that is, if you call the work they do in Albany democracy. * <a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/270814/flanagan-im-going-to-stand-up-for-the-independence-of-this-body/" target="_blank">Flanagan: ‘I’m going to stand up for the … independenceof this body’</a> (TU) <a href="http://www.wgrz.com/news/local/new-york/more-lawmakers-to-collect-salary-and-pension/383013879" target="_blank">More Lawmakers to Take A Pension and Salary </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/lovett-breakaway-senate-dems-side-gop-article-1.2931114" target="_blank">Breakaway Senate Dems will continue alliance with Republicans </a>(NYDN) Klein said regardless of what the conference did, the GOP was going to be in the majority because Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn) had already separately indicated he would continue to caucus with the GOP, giving the party the exact 32 members needed for a majority. The conference’s two newest members, Sens. Marisol Alcantara, of upper Manhattan, and Jesse Hamilton, of Brooklyn, have been criticized by those on the left and will likely have to deliver progressive accomplishments to help alleviate the threat of primaries in two years, insiders say.<o:p></o:p>* Despite pressure from the left to strike a deal with mainline Democrats, Senate Independent Democratic Conference leader Jeffrey Klein said his breakaway group will continue in a bipartisan coalition with the state Senate Republicans * <b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #4c1130; font-size: large;">“Lulus Stay Alive in Corrupt Albany” </span></b>– or extra pay given to lawmakers deemed legislative leaders – are used by party bosses to reward loyalty and punish rivals, and should be abolished in Albany if lawmakers receive the pay raise they’ve been pushing for all year, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ion-ya-lulus-article-1-2929180/gyjhk/41760176" target="_blank">the Daily News writes.</a> * State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan released a statement saying the GOP would continue its partnership with the Independent Democratic Conference, and that, through this, he looked forward to continuing to deliver “stellar results,” <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ntinue-partnership-with-klein-/gzdfc/41829290" target="_blank">the Times Union writes.</a><br />
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De Blasio promises to probe failing School Renewal Program (NYP) De Blasio’s first step toward fixing his failed Renewal schools (NYP Ed) When it comes to his troubled Renewal schools program, Mayor de Blasio isn’t accusing The Post of running phony news — as he did when we first exposed the street-homeless crisis and other stories. In fact, the mayor not only pledged Wednesday to probe revelations about the schools in The Post’s multi-part series this week, he also asked for the paper’s help in contacting one of the whistle-blowers. And he’s even taking questions from City Hall Bureau Chief Yoav Gonen, whose previous queries he famously snubbed.* <b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/03/09/teacher-probed-for-misconduct-continued-working-in-renewal-school/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Teacher probed for misconduct continued working in Renewal school</span></a> (NYP) * </span></b><b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/03/12/heres-proof-de-blasio-doesnt-care-about-renewal-school-kids/"><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Here’s proof de Blasio doesn’t care about Renewal School kids</span></a></b> (NYP) In 2014, Mayor de <a href="http://web.safesear.ch/?t=cp&q=Blasio" target="_blank">Blasio</a> defiantly refused to close failed public schools and vowed instead to fix them through his <a href="http://web.safesear.ch/?t=cp&q=Renewal%20Schools" target="_blank">Renewal Schools</a> program. So you’d think he’d make that a high priority. Wrong. As the case of former teacher <a href="http://web.safesear.ch/?t=cp&q=Alaina%20LaRocca" target="_blank">Alaina LaRocca</a> suggests, <a href="http://web.safesear.ch/?t=cp&q=Team%20de%20Blasio" target="_blank">Team de Blasio</a> doesn’t seem to care much about <a href="http://web.safesear.ch/?t=cp&q=Renewal%20Schools" target="_blank">Renewal Schools</a>. If it did, it never would have allowed <a href="http://web.safesear.ch/?t=cp&q=LaRocca" target="_blank">LaRocca</a> to be sent to one of them. As The <a href="http://web.safesear.ch/?t=cp&q=Post" target="_blank">Post</a> reported last week as part of its series on the program, <a href="http://web.safesear.ch/?t=cp&q=LaRocca" target="_blank">LaRocca</a> was facing serious misconduct charges but was allowed to keep teaching — and was then transferred to a struggling <a href="http://web.safesear.ch/?t=cp&q=Renewal" target="_blank">Renewal</a> high school, <a href="http://web.safesear.ch/?t=cp&q=Monroe" target="_blank">Monroe</a> Academy. Special Commissioner of Investigation <a href="http://web.safesear.ch/?t=cp&q=Richard%20Condon" target="_blank">Richard Condon</a>’s probe discovered she had bought an iPhone for a male student and exchanged hundreds of late night texts with him. She was also said to be ineffective at controlling her classroom. After placing <a href="http://web.safesear.ch/?t=cp&q=LaRocca" target="_blank">LaRocca</a> at <a href="http://web.safesear.ch/?t=cp&q=Monroe" target="_blank">Monroe</a>, the city <a href="http://web.safesear.ch/?t=cp&q=Department%20of%20Education" target="_blank">Department of Education</a> ignored <a href="http://web.safesear.ch/?t=cp&q=Condon" target="_blank">Condon</a>’s recommendation that she be punished. Fortunately, <a href="http://web.safesear.ch/?t=cp&q=LaRocca" target="_blank">LaRocca</a> quit in December. If the <a href="http://web.safesear.ch/?t=cp&q=Renewal" target="_blank">Renewal</a> program were truly about helping kids and turning around failing schools, why would the DOE let a seemingly unfit teacher facing misconduct charges transfer to one of its schools? <a href="http://web.safesear.ch/?t=cp&q=Surely%20de%20Blasio" target="_blank">Surely de Blasio</a> could have found a way to ensure that the best teachers were sent to<a href="http://web.safesear.ch/?t=cp&q=Renewal" target="_blank">Renewal</a> classrooms.<br />
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De Blasio’s education spending problem is even worse than it looks (NYP) This week’s Independent Budget Office report on soaring Department of Education spending was even worse than it seemed — because it failed to flag what rising DOE outlays on charter schools should mean for the rest of the budget. The IBO rightly noted how de Blasio’s new contract with the United Federation of Teachers has goosed the DOE payroll, along with a rise in total staff that’s to hit nearly 10 percent in 2018, for an average yearly rise in “personal services” of 3.8 percent. And the agency also correctly pointed out that a huge chunk of the “retroactive” payouts under that contract is deferred until 2019-2021 — and so doesn’t yet show. But it missed one big issue: In noting the $1.2 billion rise in payments to non-DOE schools (a category that mainly covers charters, along with a few private schools that handle special-ed kids the regular public schools can’t), the IBO failed to point out that virtually every child attending a charter is one the regular schools don’t have to educate. In other words, the DOE ought to see about the same savings in its main budget as it’s “losing” when it sends the cash to charters. In fact, as a past IBO report noted, the DOE on average shells out less for a charter student than it does for one in the traditional schools. So, at least in theory, every dollar it spends to support a charter student should save it more than a dollar in other costs. And since charters now account for 10 percent of the city’s public-school population, the savings should add up. Instead, DOE spending on operations (which doesn’t include payroll) is set to rise from $16.7 billion in 2013 to $20.8 billion in 2018, an average jump of 4.5 percent a year. Bottom line: Even aside from the generous pay hikes he’s handed the UFT, the deBlasio Department of Education is spending billions more to educate ever-fewer kids. * The Post is reporting on de Blasio’s Renewal Schools program this week, finding that the plan meant to “reinvent” failing schools instead of shutting them down was doomed from the get-go. * State education officials plan to scrap a literacy exam given to prospective teachers and allow certification for some applicants who fail a performance-assessment test – moves that critics warned will weaken the pool of candidates, the Post reports. * The state Board of Regents eliminating a literacy test and dropping the standards for teachers means potentially unqualified teachers may be let loose upon New York’s kids, the Post writes. * De Blasio’s questionable school consultants cost taxpayers millions (NYP) * Will New York open the door to teachers who can’t read? (NYP) * The only good way to close “failing schools” is quickly, and although de Blasio wasn’t as concerned about students as he was about teachers and staffers affected by the closures, at least he’s willing to “have folks look into” the many troubling issues, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/ng-his-failed-renewal-schools-/p675z/56064731" target="_blank">the New York Post writes.</a><br />
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This public school is a victim of De Blasio’s empty promises (NYP) When Mayor de Blasio unveiled his pricey plan to turn around 94 struggling public schools, he made the announcement at one targeted for improvement — East Harlem’s Coalition School for Social Change. “We’re going to do something that, bluntly, has rarely been tried. We’re going to give these schools the tools they need to succeed — plain and simple,” the mayor said to applause in November 2014. But in a bitter irony, Coalition School staffers, students and parents say the mayor’s promise has proved empty as the third year of his “School Renewal Program” draws to a close. The high school’s classrooms are starved for supplies and qualified teachers, with unlicensed interns leading one class and the kids in others left to learn from videos, sources said. Meanwhile, the dean who dealt with discipline problems was replaced with a “business manager” described by staffers as a close friend of the school’s new principal, Geralda Valcin, who arrived in March 2016. Valcin also redecorated her own office and on Thursday treated about 100 faculty members, “on track” students and their parents to a gala dinner and awards ceremony at the New Yorker hotel, staffers said. Most disturbing, however, are claims that Coalition teachers are being pressured to pass students to boost the graduation rate. “The message is clear that if the percentages are not high enough, then teachers are going to be held accountable,” one staffer said. “The students know they can pass the class even if they’re not doing anything.” Another staffer was even more candid. “Teachers are told: ‘You must pass this student and this student,’” the source said. “She told us to our faces, ‘You need to leave, you’re not good for this school, you’re bringing kids down,’” the student recalled. “I felt very hurt. She did anything in her power to get kids who she said were like me out.” Staffers said Valcin has refused requests to buy new textbooks, even though there aren’t enough to go around and the ones that are available are nearly 10 years told. Valcin also rations the school’s supply of paper, giving each teacher 5,000 sheets and saying they have to last four months, staffers said.Many teachers hand out that much paper to their low-income students in just one month, forcing them to buy more with their own money, with one teacher spending $200, staffers said.<br />
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/03/07/city-pols-blast-de-blasios-plan-to-fix-failing-schools/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">City pols blast de Blasio’s plan to fix failing schools</span></a></b> (NYP) City pols on Tuesday blasted Mayor de Blasio’s failing plan to improve some of the city’s lowest-performing public schools <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/03/05/citys-renewal-program-costs-big-bucks-but-shows-few-results/">following a series of Post exposes</a>. Public Advocate Letitia James said Hizzoner’s costly “Renewal School Program” was producing “nothing but abject failure” and called The Post’s revelations “very troubling.” James zeroed in on <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/03/05/this-public-school-is-a-victim-of-de-blasios-empty-promises/">Monday’s report about the shortage of supplies and qualified teachers</a> at the Coalition School for Social Change, where sources said unlicensed interns have been teaching a Spanish class. “A significant number of the students are low-income students who are struggling to make ends meet and who are struggling to pass these tests,” she said. “How can they possibly compete and pass these tests with teachers that are not certified and with a lack of resources?” “What we’re getting is nothing but abject failure,” she added. State Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. (D-Bronx) — who has 16 Renewal schools in his district, including three slated to close for failing to improve — demanded that de Blasio pull the plug on the program, which will cost $186.5 million this year.<br />
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“These Renewal schools have proven to be very detrimental to our children,” Diaz fumed. “It’s throwing money at sinking ships. Stop wasting money. Stop this nonsense now!” Among other findings, <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/03/05/citys-renewal-program-costs-big-bucks-but-shows-few-results/">The Post revealed</a> how enrollment at Renewal schools has plummeted 25 percent while per-student spending has surged nearly 35 percent, and only 12.3 percent of last year’s grads were deemed college-ready. Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-Brooklyn) said the state Legislature should examine the Renewal program this spring, when it considers continued mayoral control of the city’s schools. “We’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars and we can’t get textbooks to students and supplies to teachers?” she said. “It’s time to do something different. Maybe these schools really need to be restructured.” City Councilman Daniel Dromm (D-Queens), a former teacher who chairs of the Education Committee, said he plans to grill schools officials at a March 21 expense budget hearing. “We want to know where has that money gone,” he said. “We need a full accounting of how that money was spent . . . And we’ll expect details.” US Rep. Dan Donovan (R-SI, Brooklyn) said The Post’s series was “deeply troubling.” “Spending precious education dollars on dubious consultants with no accountability is not going to fix our public school system, and throwing money at the problem doesn’t equal reform,” he said,<o:p></o:p><br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2017/03/07/under-de-blasios-renewal-schools-program-consultants-win-kids-lose/" target="_blank">Under de Blasio’s Renewal-Schools program, consultants win – kids lose </a>(NYP Ed) Not only are Mayor de Blasio’s Renewal schools failing to get better, they’re also wasting millions on crony “consultants” and dubious nonprofit groups. That’s the depressing take-away from Tuesday’s final installment of a Post series on de Blasio’s Renewal program, which aimed to fix the city’s 94 worst schools. Under the $754 million program, the city is laying out a whopping $40 million a year on “leadership coaches” and $77 million for two-year contracts with 35 nonprofits. Yet look at who the city’s hiring: Ex-principal Gregory Hodge, for instance, was tapped as a coach despite a special commissioner for investigation recommendation that he be fired for lying and barred from ever working again for the schools. David Morse, who retired in 2015 after his Beach Channel HS was closed due to a dismal 46 percent graduation rate, is also a coach. Both get $660 a day. Meanwhile, Chancellor Carmen Fariña’s pal and co-author Laura Kotch pulls in $1,200 a day in a similar position. Another “friend,” Sandra Kase, get $1,400 a day. Then there are the 35 nonprofits, two-thirds of which were cited for “significant adverse information” in a Department of Education report. Any wonder why the program’s a bust? Like many “progressives,” de Blasio thinks throwing (other people’s) money at a problem will make it go away. But The Post’s series shows what a disaster the program has been: At 86 Renewal schools, enrollment has fallen nearly 25 percent. Just 12 percent of the schools’ grads were deemed college-ready. Last year, only three Renewal schools met their goals. Fariña’s cronies and the questionable nonprofits, it seems, are doing fine. Too bad the kids aren’t also.* <b><o:p></o:p></b><b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/space-charters-article-1.2991269" target="_blank">Make more space for charters </a>(NYDN, Eve Moskowitz)</b><br />
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<span lang="EN"><br /></span><span lang="EN"><br /></span><span lang="EN"><b style="background-color: orange; color: #20124d; font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: xx-large;">Charter Group Says Half of City's Renewal Schools Fail to Improve </b></span><br />
<span lang="EN"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/15/nearly-half-of-de-blasios-renewal-schools-did-even-worse-this-year/">Nearly half of de Blasio’s Renewal schools did even worse this year</a></span> (NYP) <span lang="EN">Nearly half of the de Blasio administration’s Renewal high schools did worse at preparing their students for college last year than they did the previous year, a pro-charter group charged. Families for Excellent Schools said it reviewed public data from the 34 high schools that the mayor’s Education Department identified as the most failing and targeted for improvement in 2014. Of that group, 15 of the schools declined in terms of college preparedness last year. “Mayor de Blasio’s refusal to admit that his School Renewal program has failed is keeping thousands of kids off the path to higher education,’’ the group said in a statement, arguing that this is yet another reason for Hizzoner to not fight new charters. The city Department of Education said that the lobbying group was misstating the facts, and that data show the schools have, in fact, improved. “Despite its inaccuracies, this report correctly recognizes that a majority of Renewal high schools increased their college-readiness rates last year,” said DOE spokesman Will Mantell.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/26/new-york-city-just-gave-up-on-iding-bad-teachers/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">New York City just gave up on IDing bad teachers</span></a></b> (NYP Ed) Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña last week joined with United Federation of Teachers boss Mike Mulgrew and principals’ union head Ernest Logan to ask for a waiver from the state mandate for outside, independent evaluations of teachers.<br />
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<span lang="EN"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/17/failing-bronx-junior-high-school-set-to-close-at-end-of-year/">Failing Bronx junior high school set to close at end of year</a></span> (NYP) <span lang="EN">JHS 162 Lola Rodriguez de Tio, where just 3 percent of students were proficient in math, has decided to close rather than allow the state to send a manager to take over, according to Chalkbeat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/nyregion/pushing-for-change-bronx-principal-is-undone-by-investigation.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion">Pushing for Change, Bronx Principal Is Undone by Investigation</a></span> (NYT) </b><span style="background-color: #a64d79;"><span style="color: white;">Santiago Taveras, of DeWitt Clinton High School, joins a list of principals tasked with turning around troubled schools,</span></span> only to leave or be forced out after Education Department inquiries.<b><o:p></o:p></b><br />
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A report from a pro-charter school group shows that New York City’s reluctance to give charter schools space in public buildings is costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars in needless rental costs, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/n-unused-public-school-spaces-/g4k6r/36641462" target="_blank">the Post writes.</a><o:p></o:p><br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/success-academy-boss-buys-68m-classroom-space-midtown-tower-article-1.2912470" target="_blank">Barred from public schools, Success Academy charter boss drops $68M on classroom spaces in luxury Midtown building </a><br />
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After years of fighting with city officials over the district’s obligation to provide school sites, Success Academy Charter Schools has agreed to pay nearly $68 million for space in the base of a residential tower at Hudson Yards, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-for-new-nyc-school-1481846960/gh3b3/39564390" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal reports.</a></div>
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/29/senate-proposes-bill-to-prevent-destruction-of-municipal-id-records/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Senate proposes bill to prevent destruction of municipal ID records</span></a></b> (NYP) The Republican-controlled New York state Senate is proposing legislation that would bar Mayor de Blasio from destroying documents containing personal information about individuals enrolled in his municipal identification program. The bill would require the city to turn over to the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security and the Office of New Americans all IDNYC documents within 10 days of creating an ID application. State Sen. Terrence Murphy (R-Hudson Valley), the author of the measure, complained that the city ID Law allows the destruction of records “in an effort to evade the enforcement of federal immigration laws.” “We don’t have enough ways of vetting for illegal immigrants coming into the country. There is no way to track these people.” Murphy told The Post.* <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/29/lawsuit-trying-to-stop-destruction-of-municipal-id-records-under-review/">Lawsuit trying to stop destruction of municipal ID records under review</a> (NYP) Two Congressional committees are reviewing a lawsuit seeking to stop the city from <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/07/city-wont-store-background-info-of-residents-applying-for-id-cards/">destroying municipal-ID card records</a>, sources told The Post. Officials with the Senate Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Investigations and the House Committee on Homeland Security have received copies of a suit seeking to preserve such records and are discussing whether to investigate Mayor de Blasio’s policy that seeks to destroy them, sources said. The government-issued IDNYC card has been popular among undocumented immigrants because it allows any city resident age 14 and older to access government buildings and open bank accounts regardless of their immigration status.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://observer.com/2017/01/nyc-mayor-idnyc-lawsuit-undocumented-applicant-files/" target="_blank">NYC Mayor Says GOP Lawsuit Won’t Stop Him From Erasing Records of Undocumented Immigrants </a>(NYO)</span><o:p></o:p></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/01/city_still_cant_destroy_idnyc.html" style="color: black;" target="_blank">City still can't destroy IDNYC documents as lawsuitcontinues </a><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">(SI Advance) On Thursday, State Supreme Court Justice Philip G. Minardo heard testimony from Nisha Agarwal, commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs; Steven Banks; commissioner of the city Human Resources Administration/Department of Social Services; and John Miller, NYPD deputy commissioner of intelligence and counter-terrorism. The assembly members brought the suit after a state official </span></span><a href="http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/10/castorina_doesnt_want_banks_to.html" style="color: black;">began encouraging banks</a> <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">to accept the ID cards to open bank accounts, which they argue could allow terrorist-funded activities to occur in American banks. Deputy Commissioner Miller testified that if terrorists did conduct financial transactions in American banks, it would be easier to detect them. Castorina was particularly unhappy with the questions posed by Miller when he was on the stand, as she pressed him about FOIL and retaining the records. "American blood is at stake here," he said. He called Deputy Commissioner Miller's testimony "political mumbo jumbo," saying later when speaking to the press that Miller acts as an agent of the mayor's office, not an apolitical law enforcement expert. Castorina and Malliotakis are hoping Councilman Carlos Menchaca, the chairman of the City Council Immigration Committee who commented to the press that the city wants to destroy the documents because of a Republican White House, and John Burnett, a banking expert, will testify in court next week. Minardo has not decided yet whether he will call on them.* <b><o:p></o:p></b> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/nyregion/new-york-id-program-immigrants.html?_r=0" target="_blank">New York City ID Holders Aren’t a Threat, N.Y.P.D.Official Says in Court</a> (NYT) “In the course of two years, we have not seen New York City IDs surfacing in a rampage of terrorism threats or other matters,” Mr. Miller said. For six hours, Justice Minardo questioned city officials and the Staten Island lawmakers, Ronald Castorina Jr. and Nicole Malliotakis, both Republicans, and then agreed to hear more witnesses for the plaintiffs next week. In the meantime, the city must continue to retain the documents, which were to have been destroyed on Dec. 31. When questioned by Justice Minardo, Mr. Castorina was dismissive of Mr. Miller’s testimony. “What I heard was political mumbo jumbo,” Mr. Castorina said on the stand. Mayor Bill de Blasio has made IDNYC a signature of his administration, and Mr. Castorina said later that </span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #4c1130; font-size: large;">Mr. Miller was beholden to the mayor. Mr. Miller said that there was actually a greater risk of “massive identity fraud” in retaining the scanned documents, leaving them open to hacking.</span></b> Ravi Batra a lawyer recently retained by Mr. Castorina and Ms. Malliotakis, argued that the city’s “compassion” toward the underprivileged came at the expense of the security of all New Yorkers.* <span style="color: black; line-height: 17.12px;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/fold-em-article-1.2938217" target="_blank">Know when tofold ’em: The politicians suing the city over its plans to destroy IDNYCdocuments should give it up </a>(NYDN)</span><br />
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The political action committee backed by the city’s strongest
landlord organization, the Real Estate Board of New York, has doled out
more for City Council candidates than most of them spent on their own
behalf, a review of campaign filings by <em>The Real Deal</em> reveals.<span id="more-276037"></span><br />
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The PAC, called Jobs For New York, has pledged to raise $10 million.
So far, the group has doled out $1.34 million to candidates in 14 City
Council races, data from the New York City Campaign Finance Board
reveals.<br />
The PAC has thrown its heaviest support — in the form of independent
expenditures — behind candidates such as Sara Gonzalez, running for
reelection to represent neighborhoods with booming development such as
Red Hook and Sunset Park; and Vanessa Gibson, who is running for a seat
that includes the South and West Bronx.<br />
The PAC has spent $167,341 during this 2013 campaign cycle on behalf
of Gonzalez, about double the $83,589 that her campaign alone has spent
so far; and $122,726 on behalf of Gibson, who has spent just $64,556 on
her own behalf.<br />
Rounding out the top five recipients of the PAC’s largesse were City
Council member Margaret Chin, running for re-election to represent Lower
Manhattan, including Soho and Chinatown, with $121,108; Alan Maisel,
running for a seat in South Brooklyn covering Sheepshead Bay and
Canarsie, with $120,451; and Paul Vallone, an attorney running in a
crowded contest for a seat in northeastern Queens, including Bayside and
Whitestone, for whom the PAC has spent $113,134.<br />
Virtually all the money was spent on printed campaign literature
either for mailing or for handing out, city campaign records show.<br />
Some chafe at the federal law allowing unlimited independent
expenditures by groups not connected to campaigns, while others see it
as freedom of expression. City campaign regulations require that the
independent organizations, which must not coordinate their expenditures
with the candidates, must disclose the source of the money.<br />
The law allows big real estate players such as Brookfield Office Properties, the Durst Organization and Fisher Brothers to <a href="http://therealdeal.com/blog/2013/07/18/here-are-the-top-real-state-donors-to-rebny-backed-pac/" target="_blank">each contribute $425,000 to Jobs For New York</a> this year, as <em>The Real Deal</em> reported.<br />
A spokesperson for Vallone, Austin Finan, called the use of outside
expenditures “an unfortunate reality,” but the campaign did not oppose
the assistance, noting that he was backed by unions, Democratic clubs,
elected officials, as well as business groups.<br />
“He is happy to accept the support of anyone who wants to lend a hand to his campaign,” Finan said.<br />
In contrast, Laurie Cumbo, who had received at least $79,715 in
independent assistance from Jobs For New York during her quest for a
Brooklyn seat covering the gentrifying Fort Greene and
Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods, asked the group on July 29 to stop
spending on her behalf, the campaign said in a statement to <em>The Real Deal</em>.<br />
A spokesperson for Mark Treyger said, the campaign in accordance with
the law had no contact with Jobs For New York, or other independent
groups, and added, “endorsements do not shape policy, or priorities.”<br />
Overall, Jobs For New York, which had taken in $6.35 million as of
Aug. 5, according to the most recent expense reports filed last Friday,
has spent $4.4 million. The vast majority of that, some $4.2 million,
was sent to the influential lobbying and consulting firm Parkside Group,
based in Midtown.<br />
The Parkside Group, in turn, has reported spending $1.34 million of
its revenues as independent expenditures in 14 City Council races,
mostly for mailers and palm cards.<br />
<em>Correction: A previously published version of the chart
accompanying this article incorrectly identified Manuel Caughman as a
candidate for a council seat in Brooklyn. In fact, he is running for
City Council District 27, representing neighborhoods such as St. Albans
and Hollis, in Queens.</em></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In recent days, Cuomo's office has still been trying to resurrect a potential special legislative session after state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan pulled the plug on negotiations Friday night</span></b><o:p></o:p><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/cuomo-seeking-legislative-pay-raise-deal-2016-article-1.2924895" target="_blank">Cuomo seeking legislative pay raise deal before end of 2016</a> (NYDN) uomo's office in recent days has been trying to resurrect a potential special legislative session that would pave the way for the first lawmaker pay raise since 1999, legislators on both sides of the aisle told the Daily News Monday night. But the plan would be contingent on the state Senate Democratic minority — which is upset about having been frozen out of the negotiations — providing the bulk of the votes to pass legislation pertaining to the pay raise and other issues sought by the governor, something they have been refusing to do, the source say. After weeks of negotiations, Senate GOP Majority Leader John Flanagan on Friday night <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/n-y-sen-flanagan-pulls-plug-plans-boost-state-pols-pay-1.2921729">pulled the plug after weeks of negotiations</a>, saying a deal could not be struck. But Republican and Democratic senators said that since Flanagan's announcement, there have been some discussions between Cuomo and legislative leadership about trying to resurrect a special session. Unless a pay raise is approved by the end of the year, lawmakers by law will have to wait another two years to get another opportunity. Legislators have said if no pay raise is approved they expect a hostile relationship with Cuomo in 2017 that could hurt his agenda. "I know the governor has made a couple of phone calls, but I think we're in the same place that we were Friday," said one Republican. "There's too many impediments." Multiple sources said the Republican majority does not have nearly enough votes on its own to pass a package during the special session. And the Senate Democrats have maintained it is "unreasonable and irresponsible" to expect them to provide the bulk of the votes to pass a legislative package they had no part in crafting, one said.</span><o:p></o:p>* New York state’s legislative session is set to begin next month in Albany with tensions simmering between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers after negotiations to boost legislative salaries fell through, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/-feelings-for-cuomo-1482789225/gvdl9/41155114" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal writes.</a> * <b><span style="background-color: lime; color: #20124d; font-size: large;">Cuomo has spent less time in Albany </span></b>during the annual legislative session each year he’s been governor, as his focus has shifted to other parts of the state, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/skips-the-Capitol-10819832-php/gvdlk/41155114" target="_blank">the Times Union writes.</a> <b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;"><a href="http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/State-of-the-State-hits-the-road-10818706.php" target="_blank">State ofthe State hits the road</a> (TU)</span></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/cuomo-ditch-state-state-address-public-speeches-article-1.2922558" target="_blank">Cuomo to ditch State of the State address for series of six speeches ‘to the people’ across New York</a> (NYDN) Cuomo, who has been warring with state lawmakers, is set to skip the traditional January gubernatorial address before the Legislature in favor of a series of regional speeches aimed directly at the public, sources told the Daily News. The sources say he’s now set to do six speeches across the state. One will be in Albany — but is expected to be held somewhere away from the Capitol complex and geared more for the public than state lawmakers, a number of whom have been threatening to boycott his speech next year out of anger.<b><o:p></o:p></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/n-y-sen-flanagan-pulls-plug-plans-boost-state-pols-pay-article-1.2921729" target="_blank">N.Y. Sen. John Flanagan pulls plug on plans to booststate lawmakers’ pay </a>(NYDN) State Senate GOP Majority Leader John Flanagan late Friday night pulled the plug on a legislative special session that could have paved the way for the first legislative pay raise since 1999. Gov. Cuomo, whose administration has been rocked by a pay-to-play and bid-rigging scandal, has said he would not sign off on the idea of a pay raise unless the Legislature approves ethics reforms and other business. But after weeks of negotiations, Flanagan in a late night statement said that that discussions to provide more money to fight homelessness, expand ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft to upstate, and enact reforms to the procurement process ultimately "have not borne fruit."* <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/raise-reform-article-1-2921966/gtsyh/41053602" target="_blank">The Daily News writes</a> that, as Cuomo has insisted, a pay raise for state legislators must come with reform, and that the Legislature should spend this week far from Albany unless the holiday spirit inspired them to pass ethics reform.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Barring a re-opening of the talks, the collapse of a deal could have profound repercussions for the 2017 legislative session. Word spread Friday evening of a potential deal that could have also included ethics-related measures such as more oversight of procurement procedures – a discussion sparked by the latest public corruption scandal that reached into the governor’s inner circle – and a public financing system for judicial campaigns. But just as quickly as talk of a deal surfaced, so did oppositions to the proposals – and talk of recriminations from anonymous sources involved in the negotiations. One source with direct knowledge of the talks groused that Flanagan could not deliver the votes in the GOP-controlled Senate for the session, due the closely-divided nature of his chamber. The source added that “this was after weeks of negotiation in which he himself agreed to do the deal,” suggesting the legislative leadership and Gov. Andrew Cuomo were in agreement at one point, but rank-and-file lawmakers themselves could not be brought along. A second source sympathetic to Flanagan, meanwhile, blamed Cuomo for the deal’s demise, saying the governor had the most to lose if a session is not ultimately held. “He meddled with independent pay commission and nixed potential pay hike,” the source said, “now faces angry Legislature.”</span></span><b style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Update</b></span> Three sources said Assembly members have been briefed on potential items for a special session of the state Legislature, including public financing of state Supreme Court races, the expansion of ride-hailing services and ethics measures, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/pecial-session-list-shapes-up-/gr4c3/41011068" target="_blank">the Times Union reports.</a><br />
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<span class="Heading2Char"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/nyregion/cuomo-state-spending-prosecutor.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion">Cuomo’s Proposal for an Executive-Branch Prosecutor Is Called a ‘Scheme’</a></span></span> (NYT) Amid haggling over raising lawmakers’ pay, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York has proposed a new prosecutor, controlled by him, to investigate state spending. As negotiations continue over the possibility of a special legislative session, concern has spread here over the prospect of last-minute gifts that Gov. <b><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/andrew_m_cuomo/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Andrew M. Cuomo."><span class="Heading2Char"><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Andrew M. Cuomo</span></span></a></b> and state lawmakers might exchange. For its part, the Cuomo administration recently floated proposals to create a new inspector general with oversight of state issues at the <b><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/p/port_authority_of_new_york_and_new_jersey/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about the Port Authority of New York And New Jersey."><span class="Heading2Char"><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Port Authority of New York and New Jersey</span></span></a>,</b> and a new special prosecutor with broad investigative powers over the state procurement process. For their part, legislative leaders continue to have their hopes set on a raise for their members. The prosecutor proposal has set off another skirmish between Mr. Cuomo and the state attorney general, <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/eric_t_schneiderman/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Eric T. Schneiderman.">Eric T. Schneiderman</a>, a fellow Democrat. Mr. Schneiderman expressed his displeasure over the proposal in a letter to Mr. Cuomo and legislative leaders on Wednesday, calling the idea of an executive branch prosecutor “likely unconstitutional” and “a scheme.” The governor first floated the concept of such executive oversight in <a href="http://www.governor.ny.gov/news/statement-governor-andrew-m-cuomo-proposed-ethics-reforms">a statement</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/17/nyregion/cuomo-stung-by-a-scandal-offers-ethics-reforms.html">last month</a>, just before Joseph Percoco, one of his closest aides and a former confidant, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/nyregion/ex-advisers-to-gov-andrew-m-cuomo-are-indicted-in-federal-bribery-case.html">was indicted</a> in a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/nyregion/cuomo-former-aides-charges.html">corruption scandal</a> involving hundreds of millions of dollars in state contracts. Also indicted was Alain Kaloyeros, who resigned as president of the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/state_university_of_new_york/index.html?inline=nyt-org">State University of New York</a> Polytechnic Institute, which has been central to the governor’s upstate economic policies and would also be subject to the powers of the proposed procurement prosecutor. But the attorney general’s office, which has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/16/nyregion/cuomo-and-schneiderman-prepare-to-fight-over-jpmorgan-settlement.html">squabbled with Mr. Cuomo</a> before, said “the governor’s proposal would allow executive agencies to simply police themselves.” Last week, Thomas P. DiNapoli, the comptroller, asked the governor <a href="http://www.osc.state.ny.us/reports/economic/cuomo_procurement_legislation.pdf">to restore his powers</a> to monitor the state and city university systems’ spending and state contracts. He said his authority in those areas had been substantially reduced by executive and legislative actions during Mr. Cuomo’s time in office. The possibility of a special session has been percolating since last month, when a commission formed to evaluate a raise for lawmakers and members of the executive branch disbanded after <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/nyregion/new-york-lawmakers-will-not-get-pay-raise-commission-decides.html">Mr. Cuomo’s appointees helped block approval of a raise proposal</a>. Mr. Cuomo, who has a reputation for wielding a heavy hand in all things Albany, then offered up the basics of a possible deal: supporting a salary increase in exchange for action on ethics and other policy proposals.* <o:p></o:p>Cuomo faced pushback over proposals that would give him more authority over the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and state procurement practices, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/rity-state-agencies-1482447646/gqx2y/40905658" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal reports.</a> * There’s talk about scheduling a legislative session day on Tuesday or the possibility that some Democrats will be so upset if they can’t vote on a potential pay raise that they will respond by not attending Cuomo’s State of the State, <a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/pecial-session-or-sos-boycott-/gqx31/40905658" target="_blank">the Times Union reports.</a><br />
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New York City’s primaries won’t be held until September, but a number
of candidates are already gearing up for Election Day. Here’s a rundown
of the most notable New York City Council districts that could be
competitive this fall, including seats that will be vacated due to term
limits, others where the incumbent is already facing a challenge, and
still others where big-name challengers could jump in.<br />
<a href="http://cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/new-york-city/primed-for-the-primaries-political-organizations-stake-out-their-candidates-for-the-2017-new-york-city-council-election.html"><span style="color: red;">RELATED: Political orgs stake their 2017 New York City Council candidates</span></a><br />
<h2>
Open Seats</h2>
<strong>District 2</strong><br />
New York City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez’s former legislative director, <strong>Carlina Rivera</strong>, has stormed into this race with endorsements from her old boss, <a href="http://www.maketheroadaction.org/" target="_blank">Make the Road Action</a> and the <a href="https://nycprogressives.com/" target="_blank">Progressive Caucus Alliance</a>, the campaign arm of the City Council’s Progressive Caucus. She is competing with several other Democrats, including <strong>Ronnie Cho</strong>, former associate director of the office of public engagement at the White House under former President Barack Obama; <strong>Mary Silver</strong>, an attorney focused on local schools issues; <strong>Jasmin Sanchez</strong>, who was a community liaison for state Sen. Daniel Squadron; and <strong>Erin Hussein</strong>, whose website describes her as a lawyer and co-op president. <strong>Tyler Kline</strong>, a registered Democrat, has also created a campaign committee.<br />
<strong>District 4</strong><br />
The pack of people looking to replace New York City Councilman <strong>Daniel Garodnick</strong> will be thinned by two primaries. On the Democratic side, <strong>Marti Speranza</strong>, the co-president of the <a href="http://www.gsidnyc.com/" target="_blank">Gramercy Stuyvesant Independent Democrats</a> who runs a program aiding female entrepreneurs, will face off against <strong>Bessie Schachter</strong>, a former staffer for state Sen. Liz Krueger, and <strong>Keith Powers</strong>, a lobbyist at <a href="http://candvconsulting.com/" target="_blank">Constantinople & Vallone Consulting LLC</a> who previously worked for local elected officials. <strong>Jeff Mailman</strong>, the legislative director to City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley, is also vying for the Democratic line. Meanwhile, <strong>Diane Grayson</strong>, a registered Democrat who works as associate editor for a test preparation company, <a href="https://town-village.com/2016/02/19/pcv-woman-eyes-council-seat/" target="_blank">told Town & Village</a> she may run as an independent.<br />
On the Republican side, <strong>Melissa Jane Kronfeld</strong>, a former New York Post reporter and registered Republican, <a href="https://town-village.com/2017/01/06/gop-leaning-candidate-enters-council-race/" target="_blank">told Town & Village</a>
she would not seek the Democratic nomination, but was unsure which
party’s banner she aspired to run under. If Kronfeld seeks the
Republican line, she would be competing with the candidate endorsed by
the Manhattan Republican Party, <strong>Rebecca Harary</strong>, an entrepreneur who unsuccessfully challenged Assemblyman Dan Quart on the Stop de Blasio line in 2016.<br />
<strong><img alt="Robert Rodriguez" height="250" src="https://live-cityandstate.netdna-ssl.com/assets/_img/article_images/_politics/_nyc/robert-rodriguez-250.jpg" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 10px;" title="Robert Rodriguez" width="250" />District 8</strong><br />
New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito’s deputy chief of staff, <strong>Diana Ayala</strong>,
has snatched up early endorsements from Mark-Viverito, Make the Road
Action and the Progressive Caucus Alliance. But Ayala’s path to City
Hall would get a lot bumpier if Assemblyman <strong>Robert Rodriguez </strong><em>(left)</em> enters the race, as he told City & State he is considering doing. Whether Rodriguez is in or out, Ayala will face <strong>Edward Gibbs</strong>,
who claimed that he would have been the first ex-criminal offender in
the Assembly had he won a 2010 bid for Rodriguez’s seat. Other
registered Democrats who have launched campaign committees include
entrepreneur <strong>Tamika Mapp</strong> and educator <strong>Edward Santos</strong>,
who unsuccessfully sought the seat in 2013. It’s also unclear whether
the Bronx Democratic Party will get involved in a East Harlem-based seat
that extends into the Bronx.<br />
<strong>District 13</strong><br />
<img alt="majorie velazquez and mark gjonaj" height="340" src="https://live-cityandstate.netdna-ssl.com/assets/_img/article_images/_politics/_nyc/marjorie-velazquez-mark-gjonaj.jpg" title="majorie velazquez and mark gjonaj" width="600" /><br /><span style="font-size: 0.75em;">Marjorie Velázquez, Mark Gjonaj.</span><br />
The race to replace City Councilman James Vacca is shaping up to be a crowded contest. Democratic district leader <strong>Marjorie Velázquez</strong>,
who has a background in corporate finance, has the backing of Vacca,
Make the Road Action and the Progressive Caucus Alliance. Assemblyman <strong>Mark Gjonaj</strong> has
the support of state Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader
Jeff Klein, Assemblyman Michael Benedetto and U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley.
The Bronx Democratic Party will likely throw its weight behind Gjonaj or
Velázquez, according to its executive director, Anthony Perez. After
this story was published, Perez called to say that the organization has
not formally narrowed down the field to those two contenders, and will
be meeting with more candidates before making a final decision. A
handful of other registered Democrats have thrown their hats in the
ring, including: <strong>John Doyle</strong>, who has worked for Klein and works in public affairs at Jacobi Medical Center; <strong>Alex Gomez</strong>,
a member of City Councilman Fernando Cabrera’s New Life Outreach
International church who has a background in the nonprofit human
services sector; <strong>John Marano</strong>, a retired police and fireman now active in his community board; and <strong>Muhammad Abuhaikal</strong>, who founded a small business consulting firm.<br />
<strong><img alt="ruben diaz sr" height="287" src="https://live-cityandstate.netdna-ssl.com/assets/_img/article_images/_politics/_nyc/ruben-diaz-sr.jpg" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 10px;" title="ruben diaz sr" width="250" />District 18</strong><br />
The big question shaping the showdown for City Councilwoman Annabel Palma’s district is whether state Sen.<strong> Rubén Díaz Sr</strong>. <em>(left)</em> will jump in. Díaz did not return City & State’s call, but he has been <a href="http://cityandstateny.com/articles/personality/can-a-republican-beat-bill-de-blasio.html">openly mulling a run</a>.
Competing with the Díaz brand would be difficult, according to Perez,
who said the Bronx Democratic Party is waiting for the field to shape up
before endorsing a candidate. Other declared Democratic candidates
include: <strong>Amanda Farias</strong>, who works for City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley and managed the <a href="http://council.nyc.gov/caucuses/womens-caucus/" target="_blank">City Council’s Women’s Caucus</a>; <strong>Elvin Garcia</strong>, who was Bronx borough director for Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Community Affairs Unit; <strong>Michael Beltzer</strong>, a Bronx Democratic County Committee member who worked on former City Comptroller John Liu’s campaigns; and <strong>William Moore</strong>, who has criticized the Bronx Democratic Party as inept and unsuccessfully challenged Palma and other incumbents.<br />
<strong>District 41</strong><br />
A slew of Brooklynites have started campaign committees to compete for City Councilwoman Darlene Mealy’s seat. <strong>Alicka Ampry-Samuel</strong>
previously worked as chief of staff for Assemblywoman Latrice Walker
and has been endorsed by Make the Road Action. Also in the running are <strong>Henry Butler</strong>, a retired transit worker and president of the <a href="http://www.kingscountypolitics.com/political-clubs/vanguard-independent-democratic-association/" target="_blank">Vanguard Independent Democratic Association</a>; <strong>Cory Provost</strong>, a district leader who was the youngest member of the CUNY board of trustees; <strong>Kathleen Daniel</strong>, who works for Borough President Eric Adams and unsuccessfully sought the City Council seat in 2013; and<strong> Deidre Olivera</strong>, a member of the <a href="http://www.liuna.org/" target="_blank">Laborers' International Union of North America</a>,
who also edits a community newspaper in Brownsville. At least two other
registered Democrats have started campaign committees for the seat: <strong>Moreen King </strong>and<strong> Jamell Henderson</strong>.<br />
<strong><img alt="Peter Abbate" height="250" src="https://live-cityandstate.netdna-ssl.com/assets/_img/article_images/_politics/_nyc/peter-abbate-250.jpg" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 10px;" title="Peter Abbate" width="250" />District 43</strong><br />
In the race to succeed City Councilman Vincent Gentile, Assemblyman <strong>Peter Abbate</strong><em> (left)</em> said
he will not formally decide whether to run until after the state budget
season. But the state lawmaker sounded bullish while telling City &
State that, thanks to redistricting, he has represented most of this
City Council district and that he has been disappointed with the
“caliber” of the other Democratic candidates. So far, the pool of
potential Democratic nominees includes: <strong>Justin Brannan</strong>, who was Gentile’s chief of staff and worked in intergovernmental affairs for the city Department of Education; <strong>Kevin Peter Carroll</strong>, a district leader who works for City Councilman Stephen Levin; the <strong>Rev. Khader el-Yateem</strong>, an influential pastor endorsed by civil rights activist Linda Sarsour; and <strong>Nancy Tong</strong>,
a district leader who works for Assemblyman William Colton. On the
other side of the political spectrum, Republican candidates include <strong>Robert Capano</strong>, a professor who has worked for Democratic and Republican officials; <strong>Liam McCabe</strong>, a former aide to U.S. Rep. Dan Donovan; and <strong>John Quaglione</strong>, who handles press for state Sen. Martin Golden and unsuccessfully tried to unseat Gentile in 2013.<br />
<h2>
PRIMARY CHALLENGES THAT COULD BE COMPETITIVE</h2>
<strong>District 1</strong><br />
<img alt="Margaret Chin" height="343" src="https://live-cityandstate.netdna-ssl.com/assets/_img/article_images/_politics/_nyc/margaret-chin.jpg" title="Margaret Chin" width="600" /><br /><span style="font-size: 0.75em;">Margaret Chin.</span><br />
The last time she was challenged, City Councilwoman <strong>Margaret Chin</strong>
posted a 17-point lead over her then-opponent, Jenifer Rajkumar, in the
Democratic primary. This primary cycle, Chin will likely have to face
off against two challengers: attorney<strong> Aaron Foldenauer </strong>and<strong> Christopher Marte</strong>, a member of the <a href="https://peoplefirstnyc.org/" target="_blank">Coalition to Protect Chinatown and Lower East Side</a> who previously worked for a securities business.<br />
<strong><img alt="helen rosenthal" height="250" src="https://live-cityandstate.netdna-ssl.com/assets/_img/article_images/_politics/_nyc/helen-rosenthal-250.jpg" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 10px;" title="helen rosenthal" width="250" />District 6</strong><br />
City Councilwoman <strong>Helen Rosenthal</strong> <em>(left)</em>
eked out a win in the seven-way Democratic primary in 2013 with about 27
percent of the vote, but the field is shaping up to be much smaller
this cycle. That may benefit <strong>Mel Wymore</strong>, the former
executive director of a PAC advancing transgender rights, who came in a
close second in 2013 with 22 percent of the vote. If successful, Wymore,
who has long been active on the community board, would be the first
transgender member of the City Council. A third Democratic candidate, <strong>Cary Goodman</strong>, appears to be mostly focused on fighting the American Museum of Natural History’s planned expansion.<br />
<strong>District 9</strong><br />
<img alt="Bill Perkins and Marvin Holland" height="279" src="https://live-cityandstate.netdna-ssl.com/assets/_img/article_images/_politics/_nyc/bill-perkins-marvin-holland.jpg" title="Bill Perkins and Marvin Holland" width="600" /><br /><span style="font-size: 0.75em;">Bill Perkins, Marvin Holland.</span><br />
City Councilman <strong>Bill Perkins</strong> captured 34 percent of
the vote and emerged victorious in February’s nine-way special election
for the seat previously held by Inez Dickens, who was elected to the
Assembly. But Perkins could face a fierce re-election fight. <strong>Marvin Holland</strong>, political director of <a href="http://www.twulocal100.org/" target="_blank">Transport Workers Union Local 100</a>, captured 18 percent of the vote in February and may benefit from a thinner field of candidates. So far, <strong>Pierre Gooding</strong>, who recently worked as an attorney for <a href="http://www.successacademies.org/" target="_blank">Success Academy Charter Schools</a>,
is seeking to run on the Democratic line, according to an online
fundraising site his team set up. And two other registered Democrats, <strong>Shannette Gray</strong> and<strong> Marvin Spruill</strong>, have launched campaign committees for the seat.<br />
<strong><img alt="fernando cabrera" height="250" src="https://live-cityandstate.netdna-ssl.com/assets/_img/article_images/_politics/_nyc/city-councilman-fernando-ccabrera.jpg" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 10px;" title="fernando cabrera" width="250" />District 14</strong><br />
When New York City Councilman <strong>Fernando Cabrera </strong><em>(left)</em>
failed to unseat a state senator in 2014, he blamed his loss on the
“liberal media” reporting on a video in which he praised the Ugandan
government after it enacted severe anti-LGBT laws. Now, Cabrera’s
socially conservative views could come back to haunt him. One Democratic
challenger, <strong>Justin Sanchez</strong>, argues on his campaign
website that Cabrera has failed to represent the district’s values and
that the area needs someone who works to provide equal opportunity for
all. The other Democratic contender, <strong>Randy Abreu</strong>, worked in the U.S. Department of Energy during the Obama administration.<br />
<strong>District 28</strong><br />
<strong>Ruben Wills</strong> fended off four primary challengers in
2013 and secured about 49 percent of the vote, but his 2014 indictment
on charges of stealing public funds could hurt him. Wills, who has
denied any wrongdoing, is poised to again go up against <strong>Hettie V. Powell</strong>, an attorney who secured 33 percent of the vote in the 2013 primary. Other contenders include <strong>Richard David</strong>, who has worked in the leadership of the city’s <a href="https://www.nycedc.com/" target="_blank">Economic Development Corp</a>. The race also appears to feature a comeback bid by <strong>Allan Jennings</strong>,
who previously held the seat but was censured by the City Council when
two female subordinates accused him of sexual harassment. Calls to the
campaign seeking confirmation that the candidate is the same Jennings
were not returned.<br />
<strong><img alt="matheiue eugene" height="250" src="https://live-cityandstate.netdna-ssl.com/assets/_img/article_images/_politics/_nyc/mathiue-eugene-250.jpg" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 10px;" title="matheiue eugene" width="250" />District 40</strong><br />
Last primary season, City Councilman <strong>Mathieu Eugene</strong> <em>(left)</em>
won with 48 percent of the vote while facing a challenge from Saundra
Thomas, who was relatively new to politics but pulled in nearly 38
percent of the vote. So Eugene could be in for a rougher re-election
cycle, given that more prominent Democrats have announced their
intentions to challenge him. The contenders include <strong>Pia Raymond</strong>, who started a nonprofit that runs multicultural and multigenerational activities and is the vice president of the <a href="http://nostrandavemerchants.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Nostrand Avenue Merchants Association</a>, as well as <strong>Brian Cunningham</strong>, who has worked for state Sen. Kevin Parker, City Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo and in the affordable housing sector.<br />
<strong><img alt="debi rose" height="250" src="https://live-cityandstate.netdna-ssl.com/assets/_img/article_images/_politics/_nyc/debi-rose-250.jpg" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 10px;" title="debi rose" width="250" />District 49</strong><br />
City Councilwoman <strong>Debi Rose</strong> <em>(left)</em> walked
into her second term without a primary challenge, but she won’t fall
into a third term so easily. Two fellow Democrats have announced their
candidacy, including <strong>Kamillah Payne-Hanks</strong>, the president and CEO of the <a href="http://historictappenpark.com/" target="_blank">Historic Tappen Park Community Partnership</a>, and <strong>Philippe-Edner Apostol-Marius</strong>, who has worked for Bill Perkins in the state Senate.<br />
<h2>
POTENTIAL PRIMARIES THAT COULD BE COMPETITIVE</h2>
<strong>District 21</strong><br />
<img alt="julissa ferreras copeland and francisco moya" height="282" src="https://live-cityandstate.netdna-ssl.com/assets/_img/article_images/_politics/_nyc/julissa-ferreras-copeland-francisco-moya.jpg" title="julissa ferreras copeland and francisco moya" width="600" /><br /><span style="font-size: 0.75em;">Francisco Moya, Julissa Ferreras-Copeland.</span><br />
City Councilwoman <strong>Julissa Ferreras-Copeland</strong> has
seemed so secure in her re-election that she often comes up in
conversation about the 2017 election cycle because of her reported
interest in seeking the City Council’s speakership. But
Ferreras-Copeland could be in for a tough primary battle if Assemblyman <strong>Francisco Moya</strong>
challenges her. Moya told City & State he would not make a decision
until after the state budget, which is due before April 1. The
assemblyman has long been loyal to the Queens Democratic Party, while
Ferreras-Copeland split from the organization and allied herself with
the Progressive Caucus during the 2013 speakership vote. Another factor
could be former state senator and City Councilman <strong>Hiram Monserrate</strong>,
who has told reporters he is considering challenging his former chief
of staff, Ferreras-Copeland. Monserrat would surely encounter some
skepticism, given that he was expelled from the state Senate when he was
convicted of assaulting his then-girlfriend, and was also convicted on
federal corruption charges and pled guilty to committing mail fraud.<br />
<strong><img alt="Antonio Reynoso" height="167" src="https://live-cityandstate.netdna-ssl.com/assets/_img/article_images/_politics/_nyc/antonio-reynoso-250.jpg" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 10px;" title="Antonio Reynoso" width="250" />District 34</strong><br />
City Councilman <strong>Antonio Reynoso </strong><em>(left)</em>, another Progressive Caucus member, may face a challenge from <strong>Tommy Torres</strong>,
a Brooklyn Democratic Party district leader and educator. Torres did
not return a call for comment, but has told other outlets he is weighing
a bid.<br />
<strong>District 35</strong><br />
<img alt="Laurie Cumbo and Ede Fox" height="282" src="https://live-cityandstate.netdna-ssl.com/assets/_img/article_images/_politics/_nyc/laurie-cumbo-ede-fox.jpg" title="Laurie Cumbo and Ede Fox" width="600" /><br /><span style="font-size: 0.75em;">Ede Fox, Laurie Cumbo.</span><br />
City Councilwoman <strong>Laurie Cumbo</strong> fought her way through a five-way primary in 2013, and landed the Democratic line with 35 percent of the vote. <strong>Ede Fox</strong>,
who secured 26 percent of the vote in 2013, says she is thinking of
seeking the Democratic Party’s nod for the City Council seat this cycle.
Fox, who has worked for City Councilman Jumaane Williams and Speaker
Mark-Viverito, could complicate Cumbo’s election season.<br />
<strong><img alt="Carlos Menchaca" height="183" src="https://live-cityandstate.netdna-ssl.com/assets/_img/article_images/_politics/_nyc/carlos-menchaca-250.jpg" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 10px;" title="Carlos Menchaca" width="250" />District 38</strong><br />
City Councilman <strong>Carlos Menchaca</strong><em> (left)</em> may find himself in a political brawl if longtime Assemblyman <strong>Félix Ortiz</strong>
opts to seek his seat. Ortiz did not respond to a request for comment,
but according to Kings County Politics, several people are under the
impression that Ortiz may make a move for Menchaca’s seat. Even if he
passes, Menchaca is still slated to compete in a Democratic primary with
<strong>Delvis Valdes</strong>, an attorney who has been involved with local business improvement districts and other organizations.<br />
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<span lang="EN"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/12/city-councilman-is-ticked-about-fallout-from-a-law-he-backed/">City Councilman is ticked about fallout from a law he backed</a></span><span lang="EN-GB"> (NYP Ed) </span><span lang="EN">The 1960s folk singer Phil Ochs called a liberal someone who’s 10 degrees to the left of center in good times and 10 degrees to the right — if it affects him personally. Say hello to City Councilmember Brad Lander (D-Brooklyn). In April, he was an outspoken backer of the misguided council vote that all but eliminated criminal penalties for most quality-of-life crimes, including public urination. In fact, Lander, who’s white, claimed police enforcement of such crimes is racist: “We all know that the majority of people that happens to don’t look like me.” Yet Saturday, the Park Slope councilman came face to face with SantaCon, the chaotic annual Manhattan pub crawl by thousands of boozers dressed as Kris Kringle. “OK, I’ll admit it,” he tweeted. “Being in Midtown during SantaCon makes me want to restore higher penalties for public urination for just this one day.” Now he tells us. He expanded on the tweet Monday, telling The Post’s Rich Calder “it was gross. There was a substantial number of people peeing on the sidewalks.” Welcome to the real world, Brad. Yes, public urination is gross, no matter when it occurs — including on any of the 364 days a year when offenders don’t look like Santa and councilmen may not be watching. That’s why so many New Yorkers, including us, were dismayed when the council voted to try to roll back “broken windows” quality-of-life policing, which had fueled the city’s historic drop in crime. Now Lander will have to endure SantaCon and live with the consequences of his and his colleagues’ action. Along with the rest of New York.</span></div>
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Councilman puts former staffer vying for his job on payroll (NYP) Term-limited Brooklyn City Councilman Vincent Gentile has put former staffer Justin Brannan back on his payroll — while Brannan campaigns to succeed him. That gives Brannan a chance to raise his profile while collecting a government paycheck. Gentile has told south Brooklyn leaders that he rehired Brannan to please Mayor de Blasio, who is expected to back Brannan to replace Gentile, a Democratic Party insider said. After de Blasio was elected mayor, Brannan ended his first stint on Gentile’s staff and served as the DOE’s deputy director of intergovernmental affairs for three years. Gentile, who hopes to be made a judge by de Blasio, defended his rehiring of Brannan and dismissed as “absolutely ridiculous” claims that he did so as part of a deal with the mayor.<br />
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/22/senator-accused-of-cheating-to-get-name-first-on-ballot/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Senator accused of ‘cheating’ to get name first on ballot</span></a> (NYP) </b>State Sen. Bill Perkins is being accused of filing fraudulent petitions in an attempt to get his name put first on the ballot in the Feb. 14 special election for the vacant City Council seat in Harlem. Under laws for a special election, the candidate who files first with a valid number of voter signatures is automatically placed on top of the ballot, a coup in a race with as many as 10 candidates. But a new lawsuit claims that the Perkins campaign collected as many as 750 signatures on petitions distributed Jan. 1 and Jan. 2 with a blank date on it — before Mayor de Blasio called the Feb. 14 special election on Jan. 3. The petitions were then post-dated to make it appear they were collected on Jan. 3, according to the suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court. Perkins speaks at the Sojourner Truth Democratic Club in 2013Christopher Sadowski The suit seeks to invalidate the petitions and have Perkins, a favorite to win the seat, removed from the ballot. Perkins is a pal of Mayor de Blasio. He served in the City Council with de Blasio before his election to the state Senate in 2006 and was one of the first elected Democrats to back de Blasio’s bid for mayor in 2013. Rival Melvin Holland campaign aides said they smelled a rat when they went door knocking in Harlem to collect voter signatures, only to hear from residents that the Perkins campaign had approached them the prior weekend — before the special election date was set. “Committing fraud this planned-out took more work than it would have taken to get on the ballot legally. The voters of Harlem deserve more respect than this,” said Holland election lawyer Sarah Steiner. “It’s shameful when a career politician puts himself above the law and let’s his campaign commit blatant and obvious fraud for his own personal gain. Maybe that’s what he’s learned after being steeped in Albany’s culture of corruption,’’ added Steiner. The Perkins camp dismissed the petition suit as frivolous and filled with false accusations. “It’s sad and disappointing that the first thing this candidate with no record in the community does is hire lawyers, hurl Trump-like falsehoods and try to throw people off the ballot,” said Perkins campaign spokesman Richard Fife. “We think it is great that people have followed Barack Obama’s advice — picking up a clipboard and getting involved. Let the people decide.” The special election is being held to fill the seat vacated by Inez Dickens, who was elected to the state Assembly last fall. Holland, a longtime transit worker, is political director of Transport Workers Union/Local 100.* <o:p></o:p><a href="http://observer.com/2017/01/harlem-council-contender-seeks-to-clear-the-field-with-wide-ranging-ballot-challenges/" target="_blank">Harlem Council Contender Seeks to Clear the Field With Wide-RangingBallot Challenges </a>(NYO) * The legal team of Marvin Holland, a candidate in the special election for a vacant Harlem City Council seat, is attempting to boot almost all his rivals from the ballot in the special election scheduled for February 14—including the presumptive frontrunner, current <a href="http://observer.com/2016/11/with-state-senate-in-the-balance-one-democrat-plans-to-run-for-city-council/">State Senator Bill Perkins</a>. Complicating the entire contest is a tangle of indefinite political allegiances. Holland’s union backed Congressman Adriano Espaillat for his current seat: twice against <a href="http://observer.com/2016/02/harlems-lion-in-winter-a-requiem-for-rangel/">retired Congressman Charles Rangel</a>, and again when it became vacant last year. He has also retained the firm Red Horse, which is close to the congressman, and State Senator Marisol Alcantara—<a href="http://observer.com/2016/09/incoming-congressmans-lieutenants-triumph-in-upper-manhattan-primaries/">Espaillat’s anointed heir</a> to his former job in Albany—attended Holland’s campaign kickoff party. Yet a source connected to Perkins told the Observer the congressman has aligned behind their campaign, possibly a reward for Perkins—a black Harlemite—<a href="http://observer.com/2016/06/negroes-you-aint-never-seen-before-al-sharpton-tears-into-race-for-rangel-seat/">endorsing the Dominican-American</a> Washington Heights pol for the House.<br />
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<span lang="EN"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/11/11/albany-politicians-are-considering-plush-council-seats/">Albany politicians are considering plush council seats</a></span> (NYP) <span lang="EN">They’re following the money. Albany legislators envious of the big bucks being pulled in by their City Council counterparts after a 32 percent pay raise are considering running for their positions next year. Council members earn $148,500. The base salary of state lawmakers is $79,500. Assemblyman Peter Abbate (D-Brooklyn), Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. (D-Bronx) and Sen. Bill Perkins (D-Manhattan) confirmed they’re seriously considering running for term-limited council seats held respectively by Vincent Gentile, Annabel Palma and Inez Dickens. Diaz and Perkins say they’ve grown frustrated with the Independent Democratic Conference, a breakaway group that generally sides with Republicans in the state Senate. “Right now, the Senate is headed by the Republicans, so that makes it difficult to be effective as a Democrat,” said Perkins. Other legislators mulling a City Hall payday include Assemblymen Mark Gjonaj (D-Bronx), Dan Quart (D-Manhattan), Ron Kim (D-Queens), Robert Rodriguez (D-Manhattan) and state Sen. Daniel Squadron (D-Brooklyn), according to political operatives. Kim and Quart have set up campaign funds for city offices with Quart eyeing Dan Garodnick’s council seat and Kim considering the $209,050-a-year comptroller job, operatives said. Gjonaj and Rodriguez have interest in council seats held by Jimmy Vacca and Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, respectively. Squadron is mulling running for the $184,800-yearly public advocate job, sources said. Kim, Rodriguez and Gjonag did not return messages. Quart and Squadron spokespersons said that they have no plans to run for city offices.* <o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/11/13/poetic-justice-for-the-city-councils-pay-hike/">Poetic justice for the City Council’s pay hike</a></span> (NYP) <span lang="EN">In as poetic a bit of justice as you could ask for, City Council members who voted themselves a fat salary hike earlier this year may wind up paying for it with their jobs. As The Post reported Saturday, at least three members of the state Legislature — Sens. Ruben Diaz Sr. and Carl Perkins and Assemblyman Peter Abbate — are thinking about “retiring” to council jobs. It’s not just the bump in base pay from $79,500 to $148,500: The switch would also mean no more Albany commute and a chance to do important work in the city. Yes, council jobs are term-limited — but if you’re nearing retirement anyway . . . God knows the City Council could use more talent — and while we often disagree with all these Democrats, they’re very capable. The council members claimed the pay hike was all about getting better service for city residents. It’s just delicious that they could be proved right — by being replaced.</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/lovett-new-york-pols-hurt-state-fighting-trump-article-1.2947235" target="_blank">New York pols might hurt the state by fighting Donald Trump </a>(NYDN) </b>Efforts by Gov. Cuomo and other top New York Democrats to pitch themselves as the anti-Donald Trump could wind up hurting, not helping, the state, a GOP state senator warns. Citing the late New York Democratic U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, state Sen. Joseph Griffo (R-Utica) noted how the state has long sent more money to Washington than it gets back. With President-elect Donald Trump hailing from New York — as does new U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer — “the State of New York finds itself in a unique position to finally be recognized and receive the attention we truly deserve from our nation’s leader,” Griffo wrote in a piece given to the Daily News. “Yet instead of trying to find common ground with our next President to secure the most advantage for New York, the governor — along with the mayor of New York City and New York’s attorney general — appears more intent to undermine Mr. Trump before he’s even sworn in.”<br />
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<i>City of Ambition: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York</i> (W. W. Norton &amp; Company, 2013) by urban politics historian Mason B. Williams is a loving exploration of the history of the New Deal and its role in the making of modern New York City. The story of a remarkable collaboration between Franklin Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia, this is a case study in creative political leadership in the midst of a devastating depression. Roosevelt and La Guardia were an odd couple: patrician president and immigrant mayor, fireside chat and tabloid cartoon, pragmatic Democrat and reform Republican. But together, as leaders of America’s two largest governments in the depths of the Great Depression, they fashioned a route to recovery for the nation and the master plan for a great city. Roosevelt and his “Brain Trust”—shrewd, energetic advisors such as Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins—sought to fight the Depression by channeling federal resources through America’s cities and counties. La Guardia had replaced Tammany Hall cronies with policy experts, such as the imperious Robert Moses, who were committed to a strong public sector. The two leaders worked closely together. La Guardia had a direct line of communication with FDR and his staff, often visiting Washington carrying piles of blueprints. Roosevelt relied on the mayor as his link to the nation’s cities and their needs. The combination was potent. La Guardia’s Gotham became a laboratory for New Deal reform. Roosevelt’s New Deal transformed city initiatives into major programs such as the Works Progress Administration, which changed the physical face of the United States. Together they built parks, bridges, and schools; put the unemployed to work; and strengthened the Progressive vision of government as serving the public purpose. * <o:p></o:p><b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/11/11/the-new-hudson-tunnel-president-trumps-first-construction-job/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The new Hudson tunnel: President Trump’s first construction job</span></a></b> (NYP) * <b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/gov-cuomo-trump-governs-unjustly-fight-turn-article-1.2870611">Cuomo: If Trump governs unjustly, we'll fight at every turn</a> (NYDN) * </span></span></b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/11/13/andrew-cuomo-election-letter/" target="_blank">Cuomo Vows ToProtect Muslims, LGBTQ Communities In Post-Election Letter</a> (WCBS) * </span></span><a href="http://abc7ny.com/news/mayor-de-blasio-talks-to-muslims-about-trumps-presidency/1603354/" target="_blank">Mayor de Blasio talks to Muslims about Trump's presidency</a>(WABC) * <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/de-blasio-stands-tall-article-1.2869851" target="_blank">De Blasio stands tall: Kudos to the mayor for committingto protect New York's undocumented immigrant population </a>(NYDN) * <span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/gov-cuomo-trump-governs-unjustly-fight-turn-article-1.2870611" target="_blank">Gov. Cuomo: If Trump governs unjustly, we'll fight at every turn</a>(NYDN) * </span><span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2016/11/13/feuding-mayor-and-governor-unite-to-reassure-new-yorkers-their-local-leaders-will-stand-up-to-trump-s-divisive-policies-and-rhetoric.html">Feuding Mayor and Governor Unite to Reassure New Yorkers their Local Leaders will Stand up to Trump's Divisive Policies and Rhetoric</a></span> (NY1) * <span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/local-politics/2016/11/12/mayor-meets-with-religious-leaders-in-the-city-to-soothe-worries-about-trump-policies.html">Mayor Meets With Religious Leaders in the City to Soothe Worries About Trump Policies</a></span> (NY1)<br />
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<i>City of Ambition: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York</i> (W. W. Norton &amp; Company, 2013) by urban politics historian Mason B. Williams is a loving exploration of the history of the New Deal and its role in the making of modern New York City. The story of a remarkable collaboration between Franklin Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia, this is a case study in creative political leadership in the midst of a devastating depression. Roosevelt and La Guardia were an odd couple: patrician president and immigrant mayor, fireside chat and tabloid cartoon, pragmatic Democrat and reform Republican. But together, as leaders of America’s two largest governments in the depths of the Great Depression, they fashioned a route to recovery for the nation and the master plan for a great city. Roosevelt and his “Brain Trust”—shrewd, energetic advisors such as Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins—sought to fight the Depression by channeling federal resources through America’s cities and counties. La Guardia had replaced Tammany Hall cronies with policy experts, such as the imperious Robert Moses, who were committed to a strong public sector. The two leaders worked closely together. La Guardia had a direct line of communication with FDR and his staff, often visiting Washington carrying piles of blueprints. Roosevelt relied on the mayor as his link to the nation’s cities and their needs. The combination was potent. La Guardia’s Gotham became a laboratory for New Deal reform. Roosevelt’s New Deal transformed city initiatives into major programs such as the Works Progress Administration, which changed the physical face of the United States. Together they built parks, bridges, and schools; put the unemployed to work; and strengthened the Progressive vision of government as serving the public purpose. * <o:p></o:p><b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/11/11/the-new-hudson-tunnel-president-trumps-first-construction-job/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The new Hudson tunnel: President Trump’s first construction job</span></a></b> (NYP) * <b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/gov-cuomo-trump-governs-unjustly-fight-turn-article-1.2870611">Cuomo: If Trump governs unjustly, we'll fight at every turn</a> (NYDN) * </span></span></b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/11/13/andrew-cuomo-election-letter/" target="_blank">Cuomo Vows ToProtect Muslims, LGBTQ Communities In Post-Election Letter</a> (WCBS) * </span></span><a href="http://abc7ny.com/news/mayor-de-blasio-talks-to-muslims-about-trumps-presidency/1603354/" target="_blank">Mayor de Blasio talks to Muslims about Trump's presidency</a>(WABC) * <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/de-blasio-stands-tall-article-1.2869851" target="_blank">De Blasio stands tall: Kudos to the mayor for committingto protect New York's undocumented immigrant population </a>(NYDN) * <span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/gov-cuomo-trump-governs-unjustly-fight-turn-article-1.2870611" target="_blank">Gov. Cuomo: If Trump governs unjustly, we'll fight at every turn</a>(NYDN) * </span><span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2016/11/13/feuding-mayor-and-governor-unite-to-reassure-new-yorkers-their-local-leaders-will-stand-up-to-trump-s-divisive-policies-and-rhetoric.html">Feuding Mayor and Governor Unite to Reassure New Yorkers their Local Leaders will Stand up to Trump's Divisive Policies and Rhetoric</a></span> (NY1) * <span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/local-politics/2016/11/12/mayor-meets-with-religious-leaders-in-the-city-to-soothe-worries-about-trump-policies.html">Mayor Meets With Religious Leaders in the City to Soothe Worries About Trump Policies</a></span> (NY1)</div>
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/20/de-blasios-arrogance-is-literally-putting-new-yorkers-at-risk/" style="color: black;">De Blasio’s arrogance is literally putting New Yorkers at risk</a> <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">(NYP) His public attacks on both President-elect Donald Trump for daring to win the election and on the Republican Congress for </span></span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/08/de-blasio-to-blame-for-tiny-trump-tower-security-reimbursement/" style="color: black;">not reimbursing the city for Trump’s full security</a> <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">costs make pithy sound bites — but are the epitome of foolishness. Why, pray tell, would Trump go the extra mile to help the city when the mayor is braying like a jackass and routinely denouncing him? And where did de Blasio get the dopey idea </span></span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/18/de-blasios-bomb-throwing-risks-aid-to-secure-trump-tower-gop/" style="color: black;">that attacking Congress</a> <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">would lead members to open the federal purse? “That is not helpful,” Staten Island Rep. Dan Donovan, the only House Republican from the five boroughs, said of the mayor. “That does not help my advocacy for the city.” As Pete King, a Long Island House Republican, put it, “It’s one thing to fight for what you believe in, but you don’t get your way by threatening Congress to give you money.” </span></span><b style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That insight should be elementary for any adult, but de Blasio still doesn’t get it. </span></b><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">Now in his third year at City Hall, all with Republicans controlling the House, he acts as if his wish is their command.* </span><a href="http://observer.com/2016/12/new-york-citys-8-million-plan-to-save-obamacare-sign-up-as-many-people-as-possible/" style="color: black;" target="_blank">New York City’s $8 Million Plan to Save Obamacare: SignUp as Many People as Possible </a><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">(NYO)</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/17/de-blasio-slams-media-for-grilling-him-on-campaign-finance-probes/">De Blasio slams media for grilling him on campaign finance probes</a></span></span></b> (NYP) <span lang="EN">Mayor de Blasio got testy Friday over <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/15/grand-juries-reportedly-convene-over-de-blasio-fundraising-probes/">the two grand juries probing his administration</a> — and accused the news media of holding him to a higher standard than opponents of his progressive agenda. “I think a lot of people should ask this question [of] the media: Are you ever going to look at all the wealthy and powerful people who spend endless amounts of undisclosed money? Is that ever going to interest you?” Hizzoner griped during his weekly appearance on WNYC radio. “Look at the column inches on that versus the column inches on this and you’ll understand my frustration.” On Tuesday, de Blasio said he hadn’t “been asked to testify before a grand jury,” and his press secretary said Friday that “the mayor has never spoken to the federal authorities and he was never told he’s a target of anything.”</span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/15/grand-juries-reportedly-convene-over-de-blasio-fundraising-probes/">Grand juries convene over de Blasio fundraising probes</a></span></span></b> (NYP) <span lang="EN">Two grand juries have convened in Manhattan and have begun hearing testimony related to the federal and state investigations into Mayor de Blasio’s campaign fundraising, a new report said Thursday night The revelation that prosecutors are presenting evidence about the de Blasio Administration’s fund-raising efforts does not mean the mayor will face criminal charges, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-investigation.html?action=click&contentCollection=nyregion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0">according to The New York Times</a>, but showed that more subpoenas could be forthcoming in the growing investigation of de Blasio and his aides. The state investigation focuses on whether de Blasio and his nonprofit groups violated the law by raising money and funneling it through Democratic county committees for State Senate candidates. The federal instigation revolves around whether de Blasio helped donors who contributed to this 2013 mayoral campaign. <o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-investigation.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Grand Juries Said to Hear Testimony on Inquiries Into de Blasio Fund-Raising</span></a><b> </b>(NYT)<b> </b></span><span lang="EN">Two grand juries in Manhattan are hearing testimony in federal and state investigations into Mayor Bill de Blasio’s fund-raising, people with knowledge of the matters said. </span>Two separate grand juries in Manhattan have begun hearing testimony in connection with federal and state criminal investigations into 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>’s campaign fund-raising, according to several people with knowledge of the matters.<br />
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It was unclear whether either inquiry would result in criminal charges against the mayor, but the grand jury activity appeared to be the strongest indication since the investigations came to light in April that prosecutors may be moving closer to one or more indictments, possibly against some of Mr. de Blasio’s closest aides. The inquiries have centered on Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, and several of his senior aides, according to the people with knowledge of the matter, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because grand jury proceedings are secret. The state investigation has focused on whether the mayor, or those acting with him or on his behalf, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/nyregion/de-blasio-team-violated-campaign-finance-laws-report-says.html">violated state election law</a> by raising hundreds of thousands of dollars through three upstate county committees and funneling it to Democratic candidates during the party’s unsuccessful 2014 bid to gain control of the State Senate. The questions asked by state prosecutors in their grand jury presentations suggest their inquiry is in some measure centered on Emma Wolfe, Mr. de Blasio’s top political aide, Ross A. Offinger, who was then his campaign finance director, and Josh Gold, a union political operative who worked on the 2014 Senate effort, the people with knowledge of the inquiry said. The federal investigation has examined whether Mr. de Blasio or his aides took beneficial action on behalf of donors in exchange for contributions they had made to his 2013 mayoral campaign, his political nonprofit or both in roughly a half-dozen instances, according to people with knowledge of that inquiry.<br />
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Several of the witnesses to testify before the federal grand jury were current or former city officials who were knowledgeable about <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/19/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-donors.html">one of those matters</a>, in which Harendra Singh, the owner of a popular restaurant and wedding venue in Long Island City, Queens, was negotiating a new lease with the city, several of the people said. One such witness was Stacey Cumberbatch, former commissioner of the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, an agency that manages city franchises and negotiates leases. Because federal and state grand jury proceedings are conducted in secret, few details were available about the witnesses who have appeared so far, the substance of their testimony or the nature of any other evidence that may have been presented to the panels. But the fact that prosecutors have begun presenting evidence to the grand juries suggests the unrelated inquiries are probably moving into their final stages, and could wrap up in a matter of weeks. The identities of the small number of witnesses who have appeared — some in recent days — and interviews with people with knowledge of the matter provides some sense of what federal and state prosecutors are focusing on in the grand jury presentations.<br />
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Mr. de Blasio has been steadfast in maintaining that he and the members of his administration have acted appropriately, something his spokesman, Eric F. Phillips, reiterated late on Thursday, adding, “He remains focused on running the city.” On Tuesday, Mr. de Blasio was asked at a news conference on an unrelated matter whether he or any of his “employees in city government” had been asked to testify before a grand jury. “I have not been asked to testify before a grand jury,” he replied. “I can’t speak to other people.” Mr. Phillips also defended Ms. Wolfe, the mayor’s director of intergovernmental affairs. “Emma is an exemplary, honest public servant who has done absolutely nothing wrong,” he said in a statement in response to questions about the state grand jury’s apparent focus on her. “We look forward to this coming to a conclusion and her being fully cleared.” Harlan Levy, a lawyer who represents Mr. Offinger, said that his client had done “nothing wrong.” “He was simply doing his job and is a person highly respected for his work as a fund-raiser,” Mr. Levy continued. Mr. Gold’s lawyer, J. Bruce Maffeo, said: “No reasonable prosecutor would bring a case against Josh Gold on these facts, and if they did, it’s a case they would certainly lose at trial.” The office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, are conducting the federal inquiry. The office of the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr. is conducting the state inquiry.<br />
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All three agencies declined to comment. In the federal case, prosecutors have secured the assistance of Mr. Singh, owner of Water’s Edge restaurant in Long Island City, who has been indicted on unrelated federal fraud and bribery charges. Mr. Singh had met with senior officials in City Hall about issues involving his restaurant, and was close to resolving them when he was arrested last year, two people with knowledge of the inquiry said. Mr. Singh, his associates and relatives gave more than $50,000 to Mr. de Blasio’s 2013 campaign and held two fund-raisers at Water’s Edge, which is on city-owned land. The city moved to evict him in early 2015, after an audit concluded that he had underpaid his rent and owed $1.8 million in back rent and fines. e challenged the findings and sued to delay the eviction; at the same time, he sought help from City Hall, working out an arrangement to reduce his arrears and fines. Despite resistance from Ms. Cumberbatch and her aides, the deal was nearly complete when he was arrested on the unrelated charges in September 2015, the people said.<br />
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The investigation into the Senate push in 2014 is focused on whether the Mr. de Blasio’s fund-raising violated a provision in state election law that bans contributions given to a party committee but designated for a particular candidate to evade individual contribution limits. Such committees can accept donations of up to $102,300, far more than the $11,000 general-election maximum that candidates can receive. The committees are not restricted in how much they can transfer to candidates. Prosecutors in New York State appear never to have used this section of the election law to bring a criminal case, and such a violation would be a felony. Subpoenas issued by prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney’s office early in their investigation sought evidence of a scheme to use the county committees to illegally redistribute contributions to candidates favored by the mayor</div>
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/18/this-is-the-winter-of-bill-de-blasios-discontent/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This is the winter of Bill de Blasio’s discontent</span></a></b> (NYP Ed) Now comes the winter of Bill de Blasio’s discontent — or, at least, <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/15/grand-juries-reportedly-convene-over-de-blasio-fundraising-probes/">now arrives a pair of grand juries</a>, rooting through his administration just as he enters his re-election year. <span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;">The New York Times, for one, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-investigation.html?action=click&contentCollection=nyregion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">reported on the grand juries at week’s end</span></a>. And earlier reports seemed to lay out in provocative detail the status of the major investigations.</span> 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 &amp; 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.* <o:p></o:p><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/18/report-grand-juries-to-hear-testimony-over-bill-de-blasio-fundraising-probes/" target="_blank">Report: GrandJuries to Hear Testimony Over Bill de Blasio Fundraising Probes</a>(Breitbart)<br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2013/12/04/john-liu-aide-headed-to-jail/">John Liu aide headed to jail</a>(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. <b>Jenny Hou</b>, a former aide to Comptroller <b>John Liu</b> convicted on various counts during his mayoral campaign, lost her request to remain free pending her appeal and <a href="http://nypost.com/2013/12/04/john-liu-aide-headed-to-jail/" target="_blank">is headed to jail</a>. Former Liu campaign treasurer Jenny Hou, 27, was sentenced to 10 months behind bars in October for her role in a “straw” donors scheme.<br />
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">A federal investigation into Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign fund-raising has zeroed in on whether donations were exchanged for beneficial city action in about a half-dozen cases, according to people with knowledge of the inquiry. Prosecutors have subpoenaed thousands of emails and documents from the New York mayor, his senior aides, city agencies, lobbyists, his 2013 campaign, donors to the campaign and to the nonprofit formed to advance his political agenda, the Campaign for One New York — as well as the group itself, which several people with knowledge of the inquiry said played a central role in many of the matters being scrutinized. The matters under scrutiny, the people said, involve, among others, a company whose soundstages are used to film television shows such as “The Good Wife” and “Blue Bloods” that wanted to expand its operations, and that depends on city permits; those connected to a lucrative development deal on the site of a former hospital that needed city approvals; a popular restaurant and wedding site that was negotiating a new lease with the city; and a garbage bag company seeking a city contract. </span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Two donors are now cooperating with the investigation, several people with knowledge of the inquiry said. Investigators recently secured the assistance of Harendra Singh, owner of Water’s Edge restaurant in Queens, who has been indicted on unrelated federal fraud and bribery charges. Mr. Singh had met with senior officials in City Hall about issues involving his restaurant, and was close to resolving them when he was arrested last year, two people with knowledge of the inquiry said. The second donor, Jonah Rechnitz, has pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges and has been providing information in the fund-raising inquiry and other cases, according to officials and court records. Information from Mr. Rechnitz, a real estate developer who sought the mayor’s help for his business, has led to unrelated charges against three senior police officials, a veteran municipal union leader and a financier.</span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/nyclass-heads-leave-harassment-suit-mayor-probe-article-1.2928233" target="_blank">Animal rights group NYCLASS bossesleave amid carriage drivers’ harassment suit, mayor fund-raising probe </a>(NYDN) <span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;">Three higher-ups at the animal rights group that helped elect Mayor de Blasio and unsuccessfully tried to ban horse-drawn carriages are leaving their posts, just weeks after the carriage industry filed a lawsuit against the group alleging harassment.</span> Allie Feldman, the executive director at NYCLASS, and organizers Chelsie Schadt and Julie Cappiello announced their departure in a letter to the group’s members. She did not respond when asked if the departures had anything to do with the lawsuit carriage drivers filed against NYCLASS and other animal rights groups, or the law enforcement probes into the group for its work on the 2013 City Hall race with de Blasio. As (True) News previously reported, the FBI is looking at donations NYCLASS made in the 2013 mayoral race. Steve Nislick and Wendy Neu released a statement praising the outgoing staffers and promised the group would keep fighting to ban horse-drawn carriages. The statement added NYCLASS will hold its former ally de Blasio “accountable” for breaking his campaign promise to curtail the business.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Journalisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10190956898079079756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3190817190759896356.post-76913384894147002862016-12-25T06:31:00.001-08:002016-12-31T15:46:23.671-08:00de Blasio and City Council Corruption Started During Their Campaigns Not City Hall, Campaign PAC Reforms Fake News<br />
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<b style="background-color: orange; font-family: arial; font-size: xx-large;">The NYP Does Not Understand That de Blasio Corruption Started During His Campaigns Now When He Became Mayor</b><br />
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/17/untangling-the-mess-that-is-de-blasios-scandal-ridden-administration/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Untangling the mess that is de Blasio’s scandal-ridden administration</span></a></b> (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.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">Mayor Supports PAC Reform Which Would Have Blocked His </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">Campaign for One NY PAC </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">Pay to Play Which He is Under Criminal Investigation For </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Council PAC Reform Skips The PACs That Elected Council Members UFT's United for the Future, Developers Jobs for New York</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/11/21/de-blasio-administration-ironically-backs-anti-lobbying-bill/">De Blasio administration ironically backs anti-lobbying bill</a></span> (NYP) </b>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.<br />
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The mayor appoints 50% of the Campaign Finance Board<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Council Speaker appoints 50% of the Campaign Finance Board<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Team de Blasio elected Mark- Viverito Speaker<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The mayor appoints 50% of the Conflict of Interests Board<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Council Speaker appoints 50% of the Conflict of Interests Board<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Goo Goos and the Media Asked the CFB to Investigate the 1NY PAC<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">NYCLASS PAC By Attacking Quinn Help Elected the Mayor<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Advance Group Ran the NYCLASS PAC<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Advance Group Worked Illegally to Elect the Council Speaker<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The CFB Gave A Small Fine to Advance Even Ordered Speaker to pay them<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Conflict Bd Gave Small Fine to Advance Even Ordered Speaker to pay them<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The CFB Covered Up the NYCLASS Scandal<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Conflict Bd Covered Up the NYCLASS Scandal<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Berlin Rosen Works for 1NY PAC and as A Campaign Consultant to de Blasio<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Red Horse Works for the One NY PAC and 4 out of 5 of the city’s Das<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Red Horse Work for Over 40 Council Members as a consultant or UF PAC<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<b><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2015/11/how-true-news-investigation-exposed.html"><span style="font-weight: normal;">How True News Investigation Exposed the Campaign for OneNY Interlocking Directories Story</span></a><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2013/11/advance-group.html"><span style="font-weight: normal;">How the Advance Group Conspired to Steal the 2009 and 2013 Election</span></a><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://nybloggersnewspaper.blogspot.com/2014/10/lobbyists-berlin-rosen-takes-over-nyc.html"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Lobbyists Berlin Rosen Takes Over NYC Government</span></a><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://truenewsthebund.blogspot.com/2014/03/lobbyists-new-permanent-government.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Lobbyist's Shadow Government</span></a><br /><a href="http://nybloggersnewspaper.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-privatization-of-tammany-hall.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Privatization of the Tammany Hall Machine</span></a><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/14/the-city-councils-phony-slap-at-de-blasios-scummy-fund-raising/">The City Council’s phony slap at de Blasio’s scummy fund-raising</a></span></span></b><span lang="EN"> (NYP) Hand a much-ado-about-nothing award to the City Council, which on Thursday will <i>pretend </i>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.</span><br />
<span lang="EN"><br /></span><span lang="EN" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>The Daily News Ignores How PACs Control NY's Election Process </b></span><br />
<span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/council-alters-bill-made-donation-fraud-easier-article-1.2911073" target="_blank">City Council alters bill thatwould have made campaign donation fraud easier</a> (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. </span><br />
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/11/de-blasios-horse-carriage-fake-news-is-creating-chaos/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">De Blasio’s horse carriage ‘fake news’ is creating chaos</span></a></b> (NYP) All the recent talk of “fake news” has an overlooked angle here in New York — where fake news has long plagued the horse-carriage industry. Who’s responsible for elevating fabrications into fact? Mayor de Blasio. De Blasio won office partly on a bizarre promise: He’d ban Central Park’s horse carriages. In making this pledge, he gained campaign contributions. Prosecutors are looking into whether this was bribery. Now, animal-rights activists are seizing on these untruths as they again go after horse-carriage drivers, even more aggressively. Sandi Bachom, a TV-commercial producer turned independent filmmaker, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/Schlockumentaries/featured">recorded examples</a>. In one of Bachom’s videos, an activist walks up to a driver and hits him, hard (he was charged with assault). In another, a young woman targets children. Speaking to a woman and four little girls in a carriage, she says, “The horse is very sad. They drop dead in the streets. They crash into cars. The children have no seat belts. Look at how dangerous this is.”'<br />
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<o:p>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. </o:p>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 <st1:place w:st="on">Central Park</st1:place> 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 <b>Bertha Lewis</b>, co-founder of the New York chapter of the <b>Working Families Party</b>, and the former head of ACORN in a <a href="http://www.cityandstateny.com/2/politics/new-york-city/to-g-or-not-to-g.html#.VaKt6-ZtfsE">tangled web of political cover-ups disguises as activism.</a> 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 <i></i>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</div>
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I<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/exclusive-fbi-investigating-nyclass-donations-de-blasio-supporters-anti-quinn-campaign-article-1.1778613">n 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</a> 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.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "";">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.</span></div>
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<o:p>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. </o:p>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 <st1:place w:st="on">Central Park</st1:place> 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.<br />
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During the 2013 campaign NYCLASS hired campaign consultant lobbyists Scott Levinson who runs the Advance Group. Before the NYCLASS campaign Levinson worked with <b>Bertha Lewis</b>, co-founder of the New York chapter of the <b>Working Families Party</b>, and the former head of ACORN in a <a href="http://www.cityandstateny.com/2/politics/new-york-city/to-g-or-not-to-g.html#.VaKt6-ZtfsE">tangled web of political cover-ups disguises as activism.</a> 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 <i></i>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</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/exclusive-fbi-investigating-nyclass-donations-de-blasio-supporters-anti-quinn-campaign-article-1.1778613">n 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</a> 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.</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/18/this-is-the-winter-of-bill-de-blasios-discontent/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This is the winter of Bill de Blasio’s discontent</span></a></b> (NYP Ed) Now comes the winter of Bill de Blasio’s discontent — or, at least, <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/15/grand-juries-reportedly-convene-over-de-blasio-fundraising-probes/">now arrives a pair of grand juries</a>, rooting through his administration just as he enters his re-election year. <span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;">The New York Times, for one, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-investigation.html?action=click&contentCollection=nyregion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">reported on the grand juries at week’s end</span></a>. And earlier reports seemed to lay out in provocative detail the status of the major investigations.</span> 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 &amp; 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.* <o:p></o:p><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/18/report-grand-juries-to-hear-testimony-over-bill-de-blasio-fundraising-probes/" target="_blank">Report: GrandJuries to Hear Testimony Over Bill de Blasio Fundraising Probes</a>(Breitbart)<br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2013/12/04/john-liu-aide-headed-to-jail/">John Liu aide headed to jail</a>(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. <b>Jenny Hou</b>, a former aide to Comptroller <b>John Liu</b> convicted on various counts during his mayoral campaign, lost her request to remain free pending her appeal and <a href="http://nypost.com/2013/12/04/john-liu-aide-headed-to-jail/" target="_blank">is headed to jail</a>. Former Liu campaign treasurer Jenny Hou, 27, was sentenced to 10 months behind bars in October for her role in a “straw” donors scheme.<br />
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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</div>
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<b><a href="http://www.kingscountypolitics.com/exclusive-de-blasio-allegedly-personally-lifted-dangerous-building-vacate-order-top-fundraiser/" target="_blank">De Blasio Allegedly Personally Lifted Dangerous BuildingVacate Order For A Top Fundraiser(</a> Kings County Politics) <strong><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mayor Bill de Blasio</span></strong></b> personally intervened on behalf of one of his leading fundraisers to have a partial vacate order lifted on a building the City deemed as unlicensed, illegal and improperly worked on, knowledgable sources told Kings County Politics. The incident stems from December 2014, when it is alleged that de Blasio personally intervened on behalf of Satmar Rabbi Moish Indig to have a vacate order lifted on two adjacent Satmar school buildings at 88 and 96 Sanford Street in Bed-Stuy. One of the buildings was entered without a permit, and the other was found to have illegal classes in the basement. A city Department of Buildings (DOB) inspector cited it for having dangerous electrical work among other violations. The newer building was literally built in weeks, and received construction permits retroactively. After Indig and the Satmars received the vacate order, DOB Brooklyn Borough Commissioner Ira Gluckman allegedly was called under pressure from the de Blasio Administration to intervene. It was during the meeting between Gluckman and Indig at the properties in question that de Blasio allegedly personally called in on Indig’s cell phone to inquire on status of the buildings and ordered Gluckman to have the vacate order rescinded. The inspector that signed the lift order specified that it was done as per Gluckman, implying that the inspector was uncomfortable to green light it. <a href="http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/OverviewForComplaintServlet?requestid=2&vlcompdetlkey=0001815470">Here is the DOP lift order.</a> The story of de Blasio’s intervention came to light in late 2014 when Kings County Politics Founder/Editor Stephen Witt was working as a freelance editor/reporter for Our Time Press in Bedford Stuyvesant. While investigating the story, Witt questioned de Blasio’s press office and the DOB about the allegation, and former Deputy Press Secretary Wiley Norvell said there was no truth to it. “The mayor had no such contact on this issue, nor took any action. Nor did any staff become involved beyond the standard agency communications we have keeping us updated on their operations,” said Norvell on Jan. 6, 2015. Witt said he decided against writing the story for Our Time Press out of fear that the de Blasio Administration would seek retribution. Additionally, he felt the media climate at the time was so pro-de Blasio that he would be painted as a crackpot, hurting both his infant startup, KCP, and if that didn’t work out, his chances of getting another staff position at a larger media outlet. “In hindsight, I regret this decision and personally want to apologize to Our Time Press Publisher/Editor David Greaves, who knew about the story and respected my decision not to run with it because of my economic situation,” said Witt. Witt is an award-winning news journeyman journalist with over 25 years experience as a staff reporter and freelancer at both large and small news organizations. He gave his notes and corresponding emails on this story to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s office in late December 2016. Within days of contacting the office the <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/25/fbi-grills-de-blasios-satmar-pals-in-fundraising-probe/">New York Post</a> reported that one of Indig’s cell phones was seized. Federal prosecutors are questioning De Blasio today and the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/nyregion/new-york-mayor-bill-de-blasio.html?hpw&rref=nyregion&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0">New York Times reports</a> that questioning will center around de Blasio’s relationship with Indig.* <o:p></o:p> <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/02/26/feds-probe-school-to-see-if-de-blasio-re-opened-it-as-favor/">Feds probe school to see if de Blasio re-opened it as ‘favor’</a> (NYP) Federal prosecutors are examining whether Mayor de Blasio reopened a religious girls’ school in Brooklyn closed for safety violations as a favor to a political donor, sources said. Williamsburg rabbi and prominent Democratic fund-raiser Moishe Indig allegedly asked City Hall to lift a Satmar school’s partial vacate order in December 2014, sources said. “They just found out about it and they’re looking at it,” said one City Hall source familiar with the inquiry. “This info came late to them.” City building inspectors had found several “illegal classrooms” in the basement of the Sanford Street school and issued a partial vacate order on Dec. 18, 2014, for a “failure to maintain the building,” city building records show. Six days later, on Christmas Eve, the order was rescinded when Brooklyn Building Commissioner Ira Gluckman inspected the premises himself, records show. One source close to Indig, whose Aroni Satmar sect ran the school, said the Hasidic power broker called the mayor at the time and asked him for assistance. “He called the mayor and the mayor overturned the agency and they got a free ride,” the source said. A de Blasio spokesman asserted that the mayor “never intervened in this issue. Period.” Members of Indig’s family told The Post Saturday that he was not available to comment. Investigators have zeroed in on the mayor’s relationship with several political donors, including Indig, and any favors they have received from City Hall. Indig, 46, has successfully solicited donors to contribute to the mayor’s campaigns and co-hosted a well-attended fund-raiser in Williamsburg in October 2013. Since the mayor’s election, Indig has acted as an all-purpose City Hall “go-between” in Brooklyn’s heavily Orthodox neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Borough Park, sources said. Indig handed over his cellphone and documents to federal agents in December as part of the inquiry, The Post reported.* <b><a href="http://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2017/02/moishe-indig-the-latest-person-of-interest-in-the-de-blasio-investigation-109923" target="_blank">Moishe Indig, latest focus in de Blasio probe, has longties to mayor</a> (PoliticoNY)</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/brooklyn-film-biz-owner-donated-mayor-de-blasio-fear-article-1.2982970" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Brooklyn film company owner donated to Mayor de Blasiofund-raiser over fear her business would suffer </a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(NYDN) Directly hit up for big-dollar donations by Mayor de Blasio and his associates, the owner of a movie and TV production services company complied for fear that her business would be crippled if she failed to raise money for the mayor’s causes, her husband told the Daily News. “There was never a threat or anything, but if your boss says you gotta do it, you gotta play ball,” lawyer John Ciafone said of his wife Gina Argento, the power behind Broadway Stages in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. “He’s asked her (for money) and then his minions asked her and Broadway Stages.” The requests paid off — Argento raised $167,000 for the mayor and his causes, including writing four checks totaling $70,000 from herself and her companies. Ciafone said Argento felt as if she didn’t have much choice. As part of its business, Broadway Stages, a full-service production facility, often needs to film on city streets, thus requiring permits from the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. Delays in issuing permits, or, worse, denials, could be financially devastating. “They have a film business and they rely uniquely on the Mayor’s Office of Production. You gotta work with the mayor,” Ciafone said. He described the mayoral solicitations, as well as the pressure his wife felt, on Friday — exactly when de Blasio underwent questioning by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office in an investigation of pay-to-play allegations in City Hall. </span></div>
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2017/02/08/former-prison-wont-become-a-film-studio-in-midst-of-de-blasio-probe/">Former prison won't become a film studio in midst of de Blasio probe</a> (NYP) State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has rejected the sale of state-owned land on Staten Island to a buyer that’s caught up in <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/15/grand-juries-reportedly-convene-over-de-blasio-fundraising-probes/">federal and state probes of Mayor de Blasio’s fundraising.</a> Broadway Stages won a bid in February 2014 <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/02/18/former-staten-island-prison-to-become-a-film-lot/">to buy the former Arthur Kill Correctional Facility </a>for $7 million from the state’s Empire Development Corp. and convert it into a 69-acre TV and film studio. But the firm’s plans — which included $20 million in promised capital investments — are stalled because co-owner Gina Argento has been a prominent donor to de Blasio fundraising efforts that are currently under investigation. “Broadway Stages and its owner and president, Gina Argento, appear to be involved parties in State and Federal investigations into campaign contributions to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio,” The Comptroller’s office also questioned the $7 million sale price, given that two state appraisals had put the value much higher. Argento and her associates have for years been prolific donors to politicians on both sides of the aisle. She rounded up $111,805 for de Blasio’s 2013 mayoral campaign and, with Broadway Stages, gave $60,000 to the mayor’s shuttering non-profit — the Campaign for One New York. An affiliated LLC – Kingsland 339 – gave $60,000 to the Working Families State Party and Puntam County Democratic Committee in late 2014 as part of de Blasio’s 2014 senate push. Federal officials are probing donations to the mayor’s causes, while the Manhattan District Attorney is probing the mayor’s fundraising push for the 2014 state senate Democrats. Argento has also given more than $115,000 to Cuomo’s 2018 re-election campaign, and made small contributions to DiNapoli’s campaign committee.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170130/financial-district/doi-haks-campaign-donations-husam-ahmad-de-blasio">De Blasio Donations Tied to Two Contractors Eyed byInvestigators: Records</a> (DNAINFO) City investigators are looking into $45,000 in
donations that workers from two related construction firms made to Mayor Bill
de Blasio's 2013 campaign, city records show.
DNAinfo New York first reported in October that <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20161017/financial-district/investigation-de-blasio-bundler-haks-simco"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the Department of Investigation opened a probe into
de Blasio fundraiser Husam Ahmad and his construction companies, HAKS and SIMCO
Engineering.</span></a> DNAinfo reported
at the time that both HAKS and SIMCO — which each have city contracts worth
tens of millions of dollars — said in disclosures to the Mayor's Office of
Contract Services that DOI investigators executed search warrants on their
offices on Aug. 17. But in a recent disclosure to the city, HAKS said the
search warrant sought information on campaign donations. "It referred to an investigation into
political contributions as well as the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise status
of another engineering company with common ownership interest," HAKS said
in the disclosure. The company with the disadvantaged business enterprise
status is SIMCO, which Ahmad partly owns. The government grants the status to
minority and economically disadvantaged firms to help them obtain contracts and
to increase diversity on municipal projects.
Ahmad, the co-founder, chairman and CEO of HAKS, personally bundled
$6,400 in contributions from HAKS employees to de Blasio's 2013 mayoral run,
campaign finance records show. HAKS
employees donated an additional $32,900 that was not bundled by Ahmad to de
Blasio's 2013 campaign and transition team. SIMCO employees gave $5,800 in
donations to de Blasio's 2013 campaign, records show. Ahmad did not donate directly to de Blasio —
principals of firms that do business with the city can only give a maximum of
$400 to a city candidate per election cycle. But Ahmad's wife, Uzma, has given
a total of $13,450 to de Blasio's 2013 and 2017 campaigns. In June 2014, de
Blasio appointed Ahmad to the board of advisors of the Mayor's Fund to Advance
New York City, a nonprofit that solicits donations to promote city causes.
Records show that HAKS donated between $20,000 and $59,000 to the Mayor's Fund
in 2015. The mayor also appointed Ahmad
to his Workforce Development Board, which consists of leaders from the private
sector, public agencies and unions who advise the city on its policies about
job seekers, employers and adult learners.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/17/de-blasios-biggest-campaign-donors-are-celebs-ex-staffers/">De Blasio’s biggest campaign donors are celebs, ex-staffers</a> (NYP) de Blasio’s biggest campaign boosters over the past six months include Hollywood celebs promoting his progressive agenda and former top staffers who left him for the private sector. De Blasio’s re-election campaign reported pocketing $1,073,908 in donations since mid-July and spending $592,606, according to his latest filings submitted Tuesday to the city’s Campaign Finance Board. Although more than four-fifths of the 3,261 new donations were under $250, de Blasio scored $4,950 – the maximum allowable under campaign finance laws – from dozens of supporters. The big donors include actors <b>Steve Buscemi </b>and <b>Cynthia Nixon,</b> designer <b>Diane von Furstenberg</b>, composer Jonathan Scheffer, de Blasio’s former Communications Director Karen Hinton, who left City Hall last year, and <b>former Senior Adviser Peter Ragone</b>, who left in 2015. The campaign’s key expenses over the six months included shelling out $60,045 in consulting fees to <b>Ross Offinge</b>r and another $42,500 to the firm <b>BerlinRosen</b>. As part of a widening probe of City Hall, the feds have been looking at past fundraising activities for de Blasio by Offinger and political consulting work by staffers at BerlinRosen. With the latest filing, de Blasio has now amassed a campaign war chest of $3.3 million for his re-election bid and has $2.2 million in hand. However, he was out-raised and outspent over the past six months by deep-pocketed developer <b><span style="background-color: lime; color: #4c1130; font-size: large;">Paul Massey</span></b>, a political novice running as a Republican for mayor who raised $2.9 million. This includes nearly $1.63 million in donations – slightly more than half that came from residents living outside the city — and $1.27 million of his own money that he loaned to the campaign. Massey, who only kicked off his fundraising August, has already spent a whopping $1.8 million on his campaign – much of it on staff and consultants. Others who announced <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/14/bo-dietl-to-de-blasio-im-running-right-against-you-head-to-head/">candidacies to run for mayor include former NYPD detective<b><span style="font-size: large;"> Bo Dietl</span></b></a>, who raised $282,656 since mid-July; <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/06/13/this-new-york-jet-turned-minister-wants-to-be-the-citys-next-mayor/">former New York Jet-turned-minister Michel Faulkner</a>, who raised $206,591; and state Sen<span style="background-color: lime;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">. <b><span style="font-size: large;">Tony Avella</span></b>, </span></span>who raised $750 after kicking off his candidacy last month. <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/16/scott-stringer-takes-swing-at-de-blasios-homelessness-policies/">Comptroller <b><span style="font-size: large;">Scott Stringer</span></b></a>, who is considering a mayoral run but has not declared his intentions yet, raised $346,961 over the past six months. His campaign fund has raised more than $2 million and has $1.7 million in hand.* <o:p></o:p><a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/local-politics/2017/01/17/mayor-pulls-in-campaign-cash-from-billionaire-donors-even-as-he-campaigns-on-a-message-that-the-very-rich-oppose-him.html" target="_blank">Mayor Rakes in Campaign Cash from Billionaires Even as heCampaigns on a Message that the very Rich Oppose Him</a> (NY1)<br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/nyregion/mayor-de-blasio-seeks-small-donations-to-fill-war-chest-amid-inquiries.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mayor de Blasio Seeks Small Donations to Fill War Chest Amid Inquiries</span></a> (NYT) Facing federal and state inquiries surrounding his fund-raising practices, Mayor Bill de Blasio has shifted his re-election strategies.* <o:p></o:p><a href="http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2017/01/16/mayor-s-re-election-funds.html">Steady Cash Flow in Mayor's Re-election Bid, Campaign Says</a> (NY1) Mayor Bill de Blasio’s re-election campaign says it has raised more than $1 million over the last six months.*<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-raises-1m-campaign-gop-challenger-article-1.2947739" target="_blank"> De Blasio raisesjust over $1M for reelection campaign — much less than his Republicanchallenger Paul Massey </a>(NYDN) *<a href="http://bit.ly/2jO9ixo" target="_blank"> De Blasio raisesjust over $1M for reelection campaign — much less than his Republicanchallenger Paul Massey</a> (NYDN) De Blasio 2017 has raised just $96,824.50 from Staten Islanders, or 2.92% of more than $3.3 million citywide.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/fbi-busts-hasidic-leader-raised-campaign-funds-de-blasio-article-1.2920423" target="_blank">FBI busts Hasidic leader who raised campaign funds for deBlasio</a> (NYP) A prominent Hasidic leader raised campaign funds for Mayor de Blasio while allegedly defrauding the food stamp program for $30,000. <span style="line-height: 17.12px;">Yitzchok (Isaac) Sofer hosted a de Blasio fund-raiser in October 2013 and is a leader in the Satmar group that backed the mayor just before the September 2013 primary.</span> In a complaint unsealed in Brooklyn Federal Court Thursday, Sofer was charged with unlawfully collecting Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) funds from late 2013 through June of this year. A source said Sofer has told people he was questioned a few weeks ago by the feds about his fund-raising and his contacts with <b>Avi Fink, a top de Blasio aide </b><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">Sofer is identified as a governmental relations contact for the Central United Talmudic Academy, which operates religious schools in Brooklyn.</span> Records show that in 2015 the academy hired lobbyists to press City Hall on issues related to development. Among those lobbied in January and February 2015 was Fink, the mayor’s liaison to the Jewish community.Fink was questioned earlier this year by the city controller about his meeting with a de Blasio donor who wanted a deed restriction lifted on a nursing home. The restriction was lifted and the owner sold the building to become luxury condos. The academy also lobbied the de Blasio agencies that grant zoning changes and building permits. <span style="line-height: 17.12px;">In a complaint filed by Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Robert Capers, Sofer was charged with lying about his income to fraudulently get more than $30,000 in food stamps over four years.</span> He claimed on a life insurance application he was making $100,000 a year and owned $600,000 in assets, but told the city he was earning $13,000 a year and had no other financial assets. In a complaint filed by Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Robert Capers, Sofer was charged with lying about his income to fraudulently get more than $30,000 in food stamps over four years. Two other de Blasio fund-raisers have already been arrested in an unrelated bribery scandal. A Brooklyn businessman, Jona Rechnitz, who gave $100,000 to de Blasio’s nonprofit, Campaign for One New York, is cooperating with Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s office. Jeremy Reichberg held a fund-raiser for de Blasio a week after Sofer hosted his. Reichberg has pleaded not guilty to charges of bribing cops for favors.* </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/conservative-group-sues-de-blasio-link-u-s-ambassador-article-1.2920756" target="_blank">Conservative group sues city, de Blasio over the mayor'sinteractions with South Africa ambassador</a> (NYDN) <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* De Blasio fundraisers <a href="http://www.gothamist.com/tags/jonarechnitz">Jona Rechnitz</a>, an investor who secretly pleaded guilty to fraud related to police bribery, and <a href="http://www.gothamist.com/tags/harendrasingh">Harendra Singh</a>, a restaurateur arrested for allegedly bribing a Long Island official, are both reportedly <a href="http://gothamist.com/2016/10/20/also_massage_chairs_free_food.php">cooperating</a> in investigations into the de Blasio administration's fundraising and possible quid-pro-quo arrangements with donors.* </span>The <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/fbi-busts-hasidic-leader-raised-campaign-funds-de-blasio-article-1.2920423?cid=bitly" target="_blank">Daily News reports</a> that Sofer may have been questioned about his 2015 lobbying to mayoral Jewish liaison Avi Fink about development issues. Fink was reportedly questioned this year by the city comptroller about his meeting with a de Blasio donor who wanted, and got, a deed restriction lifted on the <a href="http://www.gothamist.com/tags/rivingtonhouse">Rivington House</a> nursing home, which the developer immediately turned around and sold to become luxury condos. In a statement to reporters, Michael Tobman, consultant to the Aroni Satmar, said that Sofer's alleged fraud has no bearing on the community, and probably isn't a crime.<br />
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<b><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/25/fbi-grills-de-blasios-satmar-pals-in-fundraising-probe/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">FBI grills de Blasio’s Satmar pals in fundraising probe</span></a></b> (NYP) Federal investigators are questioning leaders in Williamsburg’s Hasidic community in their expanding inquiry into Mayor de Blasio’s fund-raising practices, multiple sources told The Post. Rabbi and political fund-raiser Moishe Indig was questioned by FBI agents on Wednesday. Indig referred them to his attorney but agents seized one of his cellphones, the sources said. “They told him, ‘It’s all about Bill,’ and they want more information from him,” said one source close to Indig, a de Blasio ally. “They have an interest in Moishe because they’re digging into de Blasio’s fund-raising tactics and they want to know what favors they [Hasidic community members] are getting back from the mayor,” the source added. Agents visited Rabbi David Niederman on Thursday, but Niederman referred them to his lawyers, two sources said. Niederman told The Post federal agents did not visit him. Federal authorities on Thursday arrested Williamsburg political operative Yitzchok “Isaac” Sofer <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/22/satmar-leader-and-de-blasio-fund-raiser-busted-for-food-stamp-fraud/">on charges he lied about his income to obtain $30,000 in food stamps.</a> The FBI interviewed Sofer two weeks ago about mayoral fund-raising and influence peddling, but he refused to rat on his friends at City Hall, the sources said. The sources believe the FBI brought the food-stamp charge to squeeze information from him. “They know Sofer is a progressive Hasidic Jew who is friendly with all these guys in the administration including [top de Blasio aides] Avi Fink and Emma Wolfe,” a City Hall source said. “People in the community come to him to fix their problems and he has amassed his influence.” Indig, Niederman and Sofer are influential leaders in the Satmar community, one of the city’s largest Hasidic sects. De Blasio aggressively courted the Satmars in his 2013 mayoral campaign. It was Indig who convinced leaders of the Satmars’ Aroni faction to shift their support from Christine Quinn to de Blasio two weeks before the contentious 2013 Democratic primary, sources said. Sofer said at the time that de Blasio’s support for private religious schools was a main reason for the endorsement. Sofer and Indig were the hosts of an Oct. 3, 2013, fund-raising event for de Blasio, according to the mayor’s campaign Web site. Indig, who landed on de Blasio’s “Worst Landlords” list back when the mayor was public advocate, has attended at least two meetings at City Hall with Niederman and other religious leaders, according to the mayor’s official schedule. But Indig has never registered as a lobbyist despite advocating on issues important to the Orthodox community, sources said. “Developers go to Indig with issues with their properties, hoping to get permits expedited or rezonings approved by the city,” said one Williamsburg source. “People hire him privately to get things done.” Sofer, 39, works in government relations for the Central United Talmudical Academy, which is tied to the Aroni faction. The yeshiva’s lobbyist, Capalino+Company, pressed Fink and other City Hall officials in early 2015 to open a universal-pre-K program at the site. The FBI raided the academy’s offices in March, possibly as part of a probe into the use of federal school-lunch funds, reports said. CUTA spokesman Michael Tobman called Sofer’s arrest a “personal matter having nothing to do with the larger community or its institutions.” Sofer did not return a message seeking comment. State and federal grand juries <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/15/grand-juries-reportedly-convene-over-de-blasio-fundraising-probes/">are reportedly hearing evidence about de Blasio administration fund-raising</a>. The city’s Campaign Finance Board <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/15/de-blasio-fined-nearly-48k-for-improper-campaign-spending/">fined de Blasio $47,778 on Dec. 15</a> for improperly spending taxpayer-matching funds on personal expenses.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/03/official-resigns-amid-bribery-indictment-tied-to-mangano/">Official resigns amid bribery indictment tied to Mangano</a></span></b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (NYP) A longtime town supervisor on Long Island, who </span><a href="http://nypost.com/2016/10/19/ed-mangano-to-be-charged-with-federal-corruption/" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">was indicted alongside Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano on bribery charges</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, is resigning, he announced Tuesday. The news comes nearly three months after Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, Mangano and the executive’s wife Linda were charged in a pay-for-play scheme involving a local restaurateur. Venditto and the Manganos are accused of taking bribes from restaurateur Harendra Singh in exchange for helping him secure lucrative county contracts and loans. Linda allegedly raked in $450,000 from a no-show job as a “food taster” at one of Singh’s eateries in Queens, while the family received lavish trips to Florida, Turks and Caicos and St. Thomas, prosecutors said. Singh, who is charged in a separate indictment, also gifted Venditto and his family limo rides around town and provided discounted rates for Venditto to use his restaurant for fundraisers.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: orange; font-size: x-large;">Post Rips Off Nahmias PoliticoNY Story On Campaign for One NY Donors Giving to GOP and Conservative Causes </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: x-large;">Leaves Out the Singh Manghano Pay to Play Connection </span></b></div>
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/03/de-blasios-strange-progressive-bedfellows/">De Blasio’s strange ‘progressive’ bedfellows</a> (NYP) Either Mayor de Blasio thinks Republicans are progressives — or he’s one lousy liar. To answer charges he was selling City Hall access (at least) for donations to his shady Campaign for One New York, de Blasio said on NY1 last month, “We sought donations from people who had historically given to . . . progressive causes.” Oops: Turns out, “more than a dozen” CONY givers had funneled hefty sums to conservative groups and candidates, like Donald Trump and Chris Christie, Politico New York reported Tuesday. Stanley Chera’s real-estate firm, Crown Acquisitions, forked over $20,000 to CONY in 2015. Yet Chera also gave $30,000 to super PACs backing Christie and $50,000 to Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee. Chera’s now on Trump’s transition team. Is he a “progressive”? Developer George Klein sent $50,000 to CONY. Yet he also pumped $216,600 to the RNC and $125,000 to a group backing Jeb Bush — who bashed de Blasio’s pre-K expansion, the original raison d’être for CONY. Businessman John Catsimatidis ponied up $20,000 for CONY — the year after running for mayor in the GOP primary. Bruce Toll gave to donkeys like Hillary Clinton and Sen. Chuck Schumer and GOPers like Sens. Marco Rubio and Rand Paul. Seems the $25,000 his firm handed CONY has less to do with “progressive” values and more with the fact that it holds property near de Blasio’s planned streetcar. Joseph Dussich bundled $32,000 for de Blasio’s 2013 GOP foe, Joe Lhota. But his donations to CONY hit $100,000 — and then he landed a city contract for rat-repellent trash bags that had long eluded him.<br />
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de Blasio has defended raising millions of dollars for a nonprofit that backed his political agenda by saying the group targeted contributors who share his progressive vision on issues like universal pre-kindergarten and affordable housing. "We sought donations from people who had historically given to, donated to, Democratic Party causes, progressive causes, to my candidacy, et cetera, and there was no preference given to them in any way, shape or form," de Blasio said Monday during a television interview on NY1. The mayor has repeatedly denied that the group's donors - many of whom had business before the city - received any special treatment from the administration, pointing instead to the shared ideology on a host of progressive issues to explain the millions of dollars in donations. De Blasio has also drawn a distinction between his nonprofit - called the Campaign for One New York - and the flood of unregulated money that flowed to conservative groups after the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United, saying his own supporters were not trying to "undermine the democratic process." <span style="background-color: yellow; color: #4c1130; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">But a POLITICO New York review of the Campaign for One NY's fundraising shows that many of its donors have given liberally to powerful politicians in both parties, and more than a dozen have significantly funded conservative causes and candidates - like Donald Trump, Scott Walker and Chris Christie - who have openly opposed the mayor's progressive agenda. </span><b>(</b><a href="http://politi.co/2hJ5lbW" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">PoliticoNY)</a><b> <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>In response to investigative stories showing developers coughed up cash to do business with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the administration denied any existence of pay-to-play, <span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://go.cityandstatemedia.com/e/168882/lasio-donors-article-1-2907430/gbxdt/38459742" target="_blank">the Daily News reports.</a></span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is examining whether anyone in the administration engaged in extortion or bribery — either by making an explicit quid-pro-quo exchange of money for favors or by using the power of the mayoralty for the personal benefit of bolstering campaign chests.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. is investigating whether de Blasio’s drive to place the state Senate under Democratic control by unseating upstate Republicans was a misdemeanor violation of election law. Rather than encourage individuals to write checks to Democratic candidates under donation limits, de Blasio’s team targeted deep-pocketed donors to write checks of up to $103,000 to upstate political party committees — which are supposed to use such gifts only for general party purposes<b>. </b>Instead, de Blasio’s team, the Democratic State Senate Committee and several small upstate Democratic committees coordinated in targeting the funds toward individual races, according Risa Sugarman, chief enforcement officer of the state Board of Elections. Sugarman saw a scheme “to evade contribution limits and to disguise the true names of the contributors.” She recommended criminal prosecution for a “willful and flagrant” violation of the law.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="background-color: orange; font-family: arial; font-size: xx-large;">de Blasio's Gentrification Money Train Street Car Rakes In $$$ for Mayor and his Campaign for One NY PAC</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/developers-planned-streetcar-route-donate-de-blasio-article-1.2906024" target="_blank">Developers withprojects along de Blasio's planned Brooklyn-Queens streetcar route throw cashat mayor's nonprofit campaign</a> (NYDN) All aboard the mayor’s money train, a planned streetcar from South Brooklyn to northern Queens that appears to have triggered developers with projects along the route to donate big money to de Blasio’s favorite causes. First came the push to get de Blasio to back the $2.5 billion taxpayer-supported streetcar running from Sunset Park, Brooklyn, to Astoria, Queens. Supporters call it the Brooklyn Queens Connector, or BQX. Then came the checks from six developers, totaling $245,000, to support de Blasio’s favorite causes. The developers sent the checks to the mayor’s nonprofit Campaign for One New York. Shortly after de Blasio took office in 2014, chief fund-raiser Ross Offinger drew up a list of business and real estate leaders from whom he planned to solicit “support” for the mayor’s newly formed Campaign for One New York. Brooklyn builder Jed Walentas, leader of Two Trees Management Co., was among those on the list, according to documents released by the city. At the time, the mayor wanted to talk to Walentas, emailing public relations guru Jonathan Rosen for Walentas’ cellphone number soon after taking office in January 2014. The plan Friends of the BQX submitted to the city had the trolley stopping at the doorsteps of seven major developments, including two spearheaded by Walentas — his DUMBO condo properties and Domino’s in Williamsburg. Most of these projects were far from subway stops, so a trolley would boost their property values. As Walentas and Friends of the BQX began lobbying the de Blasio administration, owners of the developments along the route began writing checks to de Blasio’s Campaign for One New York , the nonprofit group set up by the mayor as he took office.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">On March 16, 2015, Park Tower Group, co-developer with Brookfield Properties of a luxury and affordable housing complex called Greenpoint Landing, donated $50,000. On April 2, 2015, Walentas donated $100,000 — but did so through a limited liability corporation that obscured the source of the check. His connection appears only in corporate documents filed with the Secretary of State and in property records. The next day, Toll Brothers, the developer of the Pier House hotel and condos at Brooklyn Bridge Park, kicked in $25,000. Three weeks later Alma Realty, whose Astoria Cove complex would mark the line’s northernmost stop, wrote a $5,000 check. RAL Development, builder of two luxury and affordable housing towers on Furman St. in downtown Brooklyn, donated $10,000 on May 27. Brookfield Properties sent $50,000 on the same day. </span>Finally, on Jan. 12, Steiner Studios, a movie lot near a potential trolley stop at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in Fort Greene, ponied up $5,000. <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">All told, the developers poured $245,000 into de Blasio’s Campaign for One New York.</span></blockquote>
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<b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-deputy-alicia-glen-helps-donors-article-1.2906092" target="_blank">De Blasio's deputy Alicia Glen appears to lead the chargeof helping donors get what they want</a> (NYDN) </b>The public schedule for one of Mayor de Blasio’s top deputies provides some answers to the basic question: What do people who donate to Hizzoner’s causes want from City Hall? Glen’s decisions affect the city’s economy and can provide profitable opportunities to developers and entrepreneurs. She meets with many — including de Blasio donors — as they seek approval for projects. The Daily News obtained Glen’s official schedule from Jan. 1, 2015, through March after making a request under the Freedom of Information Law. During the 15-month period, her schedule shows about half of her meetings or calls with non-City Hall employees — 95 — were with 42 individuals who had hosted fund-raisers, gathered campaign donations for de Blasio or given to the mayor’s non-profit, the now-defunct Campaign for One New York. Some donors wrote checks soon after or just before speaking with Glen, records show.* <o:p></o:p><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/city-hall-denies-pay-to-play-gravy-train-de-blasio-donors-article-1.2907430" target="_blank">Despite De Blasio donors with city business, City Halldenies pay-to-play gravy train</a> (NYDN)<br />
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In one case, John Zuccotti, late chairman of mega-developer Brookfield Properties, wrote a $50,000 check to the Campaign for One New York on the same day he had a phone conversation with Glen. Jonathan Gray, head of real estate for the Blackstone Group, transferred $141,000 into to the Mayor's Fund to Advance NYC on June 2, 2015, one day before he was scheduled to meet with Glen. As it happened, Gray was then negotiating Blackstone’s purchase of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper, vast Manhattan apartment complexes where affordability has been jeopardized by market forces.<br />
<o:p> </o:p>As chairman of Forest City Ratner, another large development company, Bruce Ratner needs city approval for projects. He built Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and is forging ahead with its affiliated Pacific Park development of half market rate, half subsidized affordable apartments. Ratner has hosted two de Blasio campaign fund-raisers. He and his executives bundled $13,600 for the mayor’s 2013 campaign and $15,050 for his re-election effort. In between, Ratner executives met or had phone calls with Glen five times, delivering the last round of campaign checks 18 days before a Jan. 26 meeting with Glen at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where — at the time — Forest City was building modular housing. </blockquote>
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Early this year, WeWork, a vendor that builds shared office space, sought city business. On Jan. 5, 2016, Jon Silvan of Global Strategies, a lobbyist hired by the company, called Glen to discuss “future work” for the firm, City Hall officials said. Early this year, WeWork, a vendor that builds shared office space, sought city business. On Jan. 5, 2016, Jon Silvan of Global Strategies, a lobbyist hired by the company, called Glen to discuss “future work” for the firm, City Hall officials said. </blockquote>
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Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development Alicia Glen met with Walentas on Sept. 10, 2015, according to her official schedule. A Sept. 15, 2015, follow-up email written by one of Glen’s assistants noted that Glen “wants to have drinks” with Walentas and another trolley supporter “to discuss the BQX.” Four months later — shortly after the final check arrived at Campaign for One New York — Glen had a final phone call with Walentas, records show. Initially, the mayor’s office provided The News with a copy of Glen’s public schedule that blacked out the subject of the call. After the News appealed, the subject proved to be: “BQX Connector.” On Feb. 6, de Blasio made the big announcement: City Hall was 100% behind floating a $2.5 billion taxpayer-backed bond to pay for the BQX Connector. The mayor said he expected the city — not the state — would foot the $30 million annual bill for the trolley’s operation, relying on tax revenue gained through the increased property values along the route. </blockquote>
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<b><span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-4-3m-plot-target-donors-city-business-article-1.2905101" target="_blank">Inside Mayorde Blasio's $4.3M scheme to target big donors doing business with City Hall</a>(NYDN) </span>The phone calls to the well-paid New York City lobbyists and their clients were straightforward: The mayor wanted donations, and he wanted the clients — who just happened to be doing business with City Hall — to get out their checkbooks. Mayor de Blasio made one such call in 2014 as he sought financial support for a drive to elect upstate Democrats to the state Senate, recalled a lobbyist who was on the receiving end of the mayoral money plea. “He was very solicitous,” said the insider, who has long advanced the interests of clients in dealing with city government. More typically, two additional lobbyists told the Daily News, de Blasio political aide Ross Offinger pressed them to raise money from clients, sometimes suggesting that the lobbyists needed to outdo competitors in gathering checks. Offinger asked one lobbyist to follow up with clients who had already been contacted by the mayor, but reportedly said the lobbyist wouldn’t get “credit” with City Hall because the mayor had already solicited a check from the client. The lobbyist took “credit” to mean City Hall looking favorably on the lobbyist’s requests. Offinger served as finance director for the mayor’s official election committee, as well as treasurer of de Blasio’s Campaign for One New York, a now defunct nonprofit group that was exempt from city campaign finance donation restrictions. One of the lobbyists recalled Offinger’s pitch for CONY: “He said it was for big donors, minimum of $10K, but it was for people who give in the neighborhood of six figures. It was the biggest of the big donors.” </b><br />
<b><br /></b><b><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: x-large;">Daily News Reports Investigators Have Found Evidence of Pay to Play</span></b><br />
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Investigators looking at de Blasio’s fund-raising tactics have found evidence that donors expected something from City Hall in return for their generosity. One lobbyist approached by Offinger told investigators he convinced a developer client who had business with the city to donate to Campaign for One New York, a source familiar with the ongoing investigations said. The lobbyist told the client the mayor was forming a “kitchen cabinet” and he might be part of it if he donated. The client wrote out a $5,000 check to CONY. The client didn’t get an appointment, but investigators note that the intent of the donation wasn’t to support pre-K but to get something in return from City Hall. The dialing-for-dollars strategy described by the three lobbyists, who spoke to The News on the condition of anonymity for fear of harming their clients’ interests, is key to understanding a culture of giving and getting that has embroiled de Blasio in state and federal investigations.<br />
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<b>Entities doing business with City Hall provided nearly all of the $1.1 million de Blasio’s team steered upstate in its effort to change control of the Senate.</b> </blockquote>
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<b>Often, checks arrived just before, after or on the same day that donors discussed proposed business with top de Blasio administration officials, including Deputy Mayor for Housing &amp; Economic Development Alicia Glen. </b></blockquote>
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<b>The Campaign for One New York accepted checks from more than 40 donors who concealed connections between giving and getting by making contributions through so-called limited liability corporations, whose owners’ identities are secret.</b> </blockquote>
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<b>Although not required to release donor names, CONY did so voluntarily. Even so, the group withheld critical information about dozens of donors, such as addresses or company affiliations. Four checks totaling $33,000 were listed only by addresses. </b></blockquote>
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<b><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: x-large;">How Team de Blasio Created Campaign for One NY to Violated the Election Law</span></b></div>
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Entities doing business with the city — from developers seeking zoning waivers to vendors selling wares — are restricted to $400. All contributions are publicly reported, including those that are “bundled” or gathered by a single individual. De Blasio broke the mold by establishing his nonprofit Campaign for One New York with the stated mission of advancing his public policies, including universal pre-K and expanding affordable housing. In his 2014 effort to flip the state Senate from Republican to Democrat control, de Blasio also blew past city donation limits by steering contributions to political party committees, where checks can go as high as $103,000. De Blasio also presides over the nonprofit Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, set up to allow private philanthropy to help government. His wife, Chirlane McCray, chairs the fund.<b><o:p></o:p></b><br />
<b><br /></b><b><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: x-large;">Mayoral Candidate Catsimatidis Pay to Play Contribution to Campaign for One NY Will Be Part of Any Case Against de Blasio</span></b><br />
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One donor, grocery store mogul John Catsimatidis, did agree to spell out his experience with the de Blasio money-raising machine pressing him for big bucks. In October 2014, the mayor asked Catsimatidis to help him sway the state Senate to Democratic control. Soon after Catsimatidis was contacted by Offinger, who instructed him to send a check for $50,000 to a smD all upstate political committee. Then in 2015 lobbyist Peter Vallone asked Catsimatidis to help him raise $100,000 for Campaign for One New York. At the time, Catsimatidis owned a company that would benefit from a bill that would require all heating oil to contain a percentage of eco-friendly bio-diesel. That bill, which has yet to pass, would ultimately require the mayor’s approval. On April 21, 2015, Catsimatidis wrote a $20,000 check to CONY along with a group of affordable housing developers who kicked in a total of $100,000. “It was a good friend of mine who asked me to come to a meeting and write a check for $20,000,” Catsimatidis told The News. Vallone did not return calls seeking comment.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Keep your word, Bill and produce the list of donors who got nothing (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,” de Blasio declared. Going still further, the mayor pledged to release “in the coming weeks” examples of donors to his campaigns and causes who did not receive the benefits they had sought from city government. That was on May 18. Since then, nothing. At the time, de Blasio was under pressure as the Daily News and others dredged up example after example of fortune smiling on donors who sought city actions to advance their business interests. A peddler of rodent-repellent trash bags who had given $100,000 to the mayor’s Campaign for One New York won a meeting with the mayor, a trial Parks Department contract and, finally, a subcontract worth millions. A lobbyist and a labor union, both generous de Blasio backers, had pressed to eliminate deed restrictions on a Lower East Side nursing home property — paving way for the buyer to score a $116 million luxury condo deal. Harendra Singh, operator of Water’s Edge restaurant in Long Island City under a city lease, had provided more than $20,000 to de Blasio’s 2013 election campaign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although mayoral aides noted unspecified “vetting issue” and “r/flags,” Singh ended up named both to the board of the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City and to committee that unsuccessfully sought to lure the Democratic convention to Brooklyn. Singh stayed on the fund board until federal prosecutors charged him with Sandy aid fraud at the Queens restaurant and bribery of officials in Nassau County. He has pleaded not guilty. Now Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is reportedly scrutinizing whether the mayor’s office attempted to intervene on Singh’s behalf after a city audit found that he owed more than $1.7 million in rent and fees on Water’s Edge. Singh and many other donors got the red carpet treatment from de Blasio and deputies. So, what was that again about revealing those who didn’t? Could it be that listing mayoral benefactors who were denied benefits would be as good as listing those who got city goodies? Could it be that when prominent backers — such as the yellow taxi industry and advocates for a ban on carriage horses — did come away empty-handed it was at the hands of a City Council that defied de Blasio’s pressure on the donors’ behalf? Could it be that de Blasio has not a single example in which he disappointed a major donor? You’re the one who promised, Mr. Mayor. Let’s have the list — even if it is a blank sheet of paper.</span></span></span></div>
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