Pork rules being interpreted differently

From the NY Post:

City Council members can keep dishing pork to nonprofits that employ their relatives.

The city's Conflicts of Interest Board ruled [Thursday] that council members can use their earmarks to fund such groups as long as their family members do not benefit directly.

From the NY Times:

The rules have always existed on the books but have never been as closely interpreted. Under the opinion, for example, Councilman Erik Martin Dilan of Brooklyn would very likely have been prohibited from sending more than $187,000 to the North Brooklyn Community Council, a fledgling nonprofit group run by his wife. Mr. Dilan directed the funds to the group from 2005 to 2008. During most of that time, he was either engaged or married to the group’s director, Jannitza Luna, who also happened to be his former staff member, Mr. Dilan told The Daily News last year.

From the NY Times:

In settings large and small, Mr. Seabrook has shown a tendency as a politician to promote family members, several times giving them jobs. Other times, they have gotten consulting work from nonprofit groups with which he is affiliated.

And in two of the cases, Mr. Seabrook never told his Council colleagues that the people he was promoting were related to him.

And as far as Albany pork goes, Seminerio's district is getting screwed.