Mayor de Blasio has decided to “let” taxpayers foot most of the $2.3 million bill he owes the lawyers who defended him in probes that found he’d intervened on behalf of donors seeking favors from City Hall.
After months of insisting he would never ask the public to pay what he owed, the mayor put up a brief explanation of his reversal on Medium.com early Friday entitled “Our Legal Bills.”
He revealed that “after giving this a great deal of thought,” he’s decided the city will pay $2 million for legal work “tied to my government service.”
Another $300,000 in legal work he said is related to his non-governmental service will come from private donors via an as-yet-to-be created legal defense fund.
From 2016 through March, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney, the Manhattan District Attorney and the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics investigated de Blasio’s fund-raising activities.
On March 16 the U.S. Attorney and DA both announced they had closed their investigations without finding evidence of criminal culpability against de Blasio or his aides.
Acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim, however, made clear that he did find evidence that de Blasio and his aides “solicited donations from individuals who sought official favors from the City.” In turn, Kim noted, “the mayor made or directed inquiries to relevant City agencies on behalf of those donors.”
De Blasio raised $4.3 million for a nonprofit Campaign For One New York that promoted his causes. The News found at least $3 million came from entities seeking favors from City Hall.
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What more can be said, he's a scumbag. I will leave this to that anonymous commentor who posts George Carlin and Chris Hedges links.
Let us?
Can we decline?
Wasn't that mute once he picked a high priced firm to represent him? Didn't that make it his responsibility?
They should only pay what the government lawyers would get. They will drop him like third period French!
The arrogance of this clown is breathtaking!
So sad he will be re-elected by a wide margin.
I hope a citizen group sues him to stop this.
Just remember that Preet cleared this clown!
That paved the way for us to pay his legal fees!
I am so very sickened by this shit- not surprising of course and to make matters worse, he'll basically be running unopposed - we're totally screwed.
this is a disgrace he should be paying his own bills - or stop all of the freebies
Three letters...POS.
That douche Preet really screwed us. Remind me again why everyone thought he was so good?
Who is in jail?
Who had repaid their theft?
Another empty suit feeding off the public teat.
Vote this crook the F out of office. Simple.
"It actually makes more sense to just do it this way"... To who?
Was the law firm competitively selected? Did its selection meet the City's procurement requirements? How can public money be used to pay for a firm's legal services if that firm was handpicked? Let's just hope the Comptroller won't "look the other way" when this contract is up for registration.
To First Anonymous: Now, I will vote for ANYONE except this crazy, grade A motherf**ker, even if it is Bo Dietl. I WILL NOT BE HERDED by the DemonRats of the DNC (Does Not Care - about democracy), because they are ALL mentally ill with an incurable illness called 'NAKED GREED' (not to mention Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD——another form of mental illness for which there IS no cure)! These are the SAME brain damaged, party-machine-failed sycophants who AMBUSHED Bernie Sanders for President 2016, and then these vicious criminals stole Bernie's votes, followed by committing the great crime against humanity by massive election fraud 2016 (as 'O-BOMB-A' looked the other way——AGAIN and STILL)!
F**K these OPENLY PRACTICING DemonRat street thugs, like Shithead Schumer (an embarrassment to primates!), and Nancy PIG-losi, where if this was another period in history they would be SERIOUSLY tarred and feathered.
And, if this major 'Weasel F**kwad' gets elected, then I will be selling ALL THREE of my New York City and Long Island properties and getting the f**k out of this padded cell of a dystopian, nihilistic city of epic, humanitarian (and ecologcial) fail!
But, if you think corruption is beyond sanity in the city, then you haven't looked very closely at Gargoyle Andy's Albany Asylum (Big Nosed Mario's son), who makes the consigliere's and criminally insane henchmen of BOTH Godfather movies look like harmless errand boys!
Finally, as for the worthless and Schumer beholden twat waffle, he can f**k off and fade away to oblivion where he rightfully belongs. Even a second year law studen could have prosecuted all of these openly practicing criminals (i.e., de Blasio, Sheldon Silver, Dean Skelos & son Adam Skelos——all of whom are STILL out on appeals that appear to be valid until the 12th of never)!
I'm so glad that TRUMP fired that monstrously failed sycophant's lazy and incompetent ass——when Bharara DEVALUES all honesty itself in WORSE WAYS than those rabid criminals whom he has SO COMPLETELY failed to prosecute (for which every New York State taxpayer continues to pay a soul-crushing price)!
This isn't freedom and democracy——it's a f**king out of control, corrupt plutocracy of empowered idiots! The fall of the Roman Empire wasn't THIS f**king corrupt!
❝The further that a society drifts from the truth, the more contempt will be held against anyone who speaks it.❞ —George Orwell
❝The Earth isn't dying. It's being killed. And, the people who are killing it have names and addresses.❞ —Utah Phillips
❝We hang the petty thieves and elect the great ones to public office.❞ —Aesop
❝Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.❞ —Voltaire
❝It's dangerous to be right when government is wrong.❞ —Voltaire
❝To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.❞ —Voltaire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-clvDxl8qI
❝I think that our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think that we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends. I think that they are all insane. But, I am liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what is insane about it. Don't you agree?❞ —John Lennon
❝The nihilism and rage sweeping across the globe are not generated by warped ideologies or medieval religious beliefs. These destructive forces have their roots in the obliterating of social, cultural and religious traditions by modernization and the consumer society, the disastrous attempts by the United States to carry out regime change, often through coups and wars, and the utopian neoliberal ideology that has concentrated wealth in the hands of a tiny cabal of corrupt global oligarchs.❞ —Chris Hedges, The Age of Anger
http://m.truthdig.com/report/item/the_age_of_anger_20170611
This willful defiance of taxpayer dollars is not even pretending to be a democracy, much less a republic of a country. Welcome to the 'UNITED STATES of AMNESIA and ENTERTAINMENT,' where a depraved, dystopian, 'KLEPTOCRATIC KAKISTOCRACY-PLUTOCRACY' now governs City Hall (and yes, Albany--the breeding point of all entrenched, establishment-rigged DNC corruption, graft and endless greed)——and the public be damned (again and STILL)!
The only way to rid and exterminate a lethally dangerous, democracy destroying scourge like this is through revolution in order to restore taxation WITH representation. We, The People are forced (by mad, kleptocratic rule, no less!), to live in government fear and paralysis, as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is only a line from the archives of another time, another place (when doctrines were honored and strictly reinforced——and, lawbreakers were severely punished).
Let's fact it, Queens peasants, it's only going to get worse (with even more madness and depravity) by the hour, and de Blasio is the empowered idiot who is apparently made of Teflon, where even John Gotti would be impressed, were he alive to see this one man scourge in action!
Hey, weasel f**kwad Bill: Remember what happened to the DemonRats of the DNC (Does Not Care - about democracy), during the last presidential election? Shitheads like you endorsed Bull$hitlary instead of what We, The People expected, insisted on and demanded, and when all of you voracious, DemonRat thieves AMBUSHED Bernie, then stole his votes followed by massive election fraud 2016, guess who won the presidency? That's right, shitheads——President DONALD J. TRUMP!
So, keep f**king with freedom and democracy, and you will see how fast Bo Dietl gets elected to replace your ugly, corporate fascist, owned-and-operated ass, you arrogant, worthless coward!
Like I always (correctly) say: The future (and karma), always has a peculiar way of arriving——UNANNOUNCED——for more proof, just ask pudgy lesbo-czarina (and Bloomberg ass licker), Christine Quinn about public entitlements-and-shortcuts to the mayoralty. Her squat little ass is now on the fringe of a shabby society where it has always belonged in the first place!
And, YOUR NEXT, SHITHEAD BILL——and, it can't happen soon enough!
This willful defiance of taxpayer dollars is not even pretending to be a democracy, much less a republic of a country. Welcome to the 'UNITED STATES of AMNESIA and ENTERTAINMENT,' where a depraved, dystopian, 'KLEPTOCRATIC KAKISTOCRACY-PLUTOCRACY' now governs City Hall (and yes, Albany——the breeding point of all entrenched, establishment-rigged DNC corruption, graft and endless greed)——and the public be damned (again and STILL)!
The only way to rid and exterminate a lethally dangerous, democracy destroying scourge like this is through revolution in order to restore taxation WITH representation. We, The People are forced (by mad, kleptocratic rule, no less!), to live in government fear and paralysis, as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is only a line from the archives of another time, another place (when doctrines were honored and strictly reinforced——and, lawbreakers were severely punished).
Let's fact it, Queens peasants, it's only going to get worse (with even more madness and depravity) by the hour, and de Blasio is the empowered idiot who is apparently made of Teflon, where even John Gotti would be impressed, were he alive to see this one man scourge in action!
Alas, I pine for the QUAINT days of all 'ILLEGALLY' organized crime (that has been completely seized and usurped by all 'LEGALLY' organized corruption, graft and endless greed——which is now OPENLY PRACTICED by City Hall & Albany, without consequence)!
Our last hope was a pitiful sycophant named Preet Bharara and he recently proved how he was only Shithead Schumer's cock holster, and sadly, so is everyone else on the purported side of good government (which is now an oxymoron)!
To First Anonymous: Now, I will vote for ANYONE except this crazy, grade A motherf**ker, even if it is Bo Dietl. I WILL NOT BE HERDED by the DemonRats of the DNC (Does Not Care - about democracy), because they are ALL mentally ill with an incurable illness called 'NAKED GREED' (not to mention Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD——another form of mental illness for which there IS no cure)! These are the SAME brain damaged, party-machine-failed sycophants who AMBUSHED Bernie Sanders for President 2016, and then these vicious criminals stole Bernie's votes, followed by committing the great crime against humanity by massive election fraud 2016 (as 'O-BOMB-A' looked the other way——AGAIN and STILL)!
F**K these OPENLY PRACTICING DemonRat street thugs, like Shithead Schumer (an embarrassment to primates!), and Nancy PIG-losi, where if this was another period in history they would be SERIOUSLY tarred and feathered.
And, if this major 'Weasel F**kwad' gets elected, then I will be selling ALL THREE of my New York City and Long Island properties and getting the f**k out of this padded cell of a dystopian, nihilistic city of epic, humanitarian (and ecologcial) fail!
But, if you think corruption is beyond sanity in the city, then you haven't looked very closely at Gargoyle Andy's Albany Asylum (Big Nosed Mario's son), who makes the consigliere's and criminally insane henchmen of BOTH Godfather movies look like harmless errand boys!
Finally, as for the worthless and Schumer beholden twat waffle, he can f**k off and fade away to oblivion where he rightfully belongs. Even a second year law studen could have prosecuted all of these openly practicing criminals (i.e., de Blasio, Sheldon Silver, Dean Skelos & son Adam Skelos——all of whom are STILL out on appeals that appear to be valid until the 12th of never)!
I'm so glad that TRUMP fired that monstrously failed sycophant's lazy and incompetent ass——when Bharara DEVALUES all honesty itself in WORSE WAYS than those rabid criminals whom he has SO COMPLETELY failed to prosecute (for which every New York State taxpayer continues to pay a soul-crushing price)!
This isn't freedom and democracy——it's a f**king out of control, corrupt plutocracy of empowered idiots! The fall of the Roman Empire wasn't THIS f**king corrupt!
❝The further that a society drifts from the truth, the more contempt will be held against anyone who speaks it.❞ —George Orwell
❝The Earth isn't dying. It's being killed. And, the people who are killing it have names and addresses.❞ —Utah Phillips
❝We hang the petty thieves and elect the great ones to public office.❞ —Aesop
❝Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.❞ —Voltaire
❝It's dangerous to be right when government is wrong.❞ —Voltaire
❝To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.❞ —Voltaire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-clvDxl8qI
❝I think that our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think that we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends. I think that they are all insane. But, I am liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what is insane about it. Don't you agree?❞ —John Lennon
❝The nihilism and rage sweeping across the globe are not generated by warped ideologies or medieval religious beliefs. These destructive forces have their roots in the obliterating of social, cultural and religious traditions by modernization and the consumer society, the disastrous attempts by the United States to carry out regime change, often through coups and wars, and the utopian neoliberal ideology that has concentrated wealth in the hands of a tiny cabal of corrupt global oligarchs.❞ —Chris Hedges, The Age of Anger
http://m.truthdig.com/report/item/the_age_of_anger_20170611
By god, his chuztpah knows no bounds.
That is not chuztpah, last Anonymous: It's openly practiced corruption, graft and greed for which everyone else continues to pay an irreparable price.
Now, it was bad enough when a filthy, self-serving billionaire like Bloomberg murdered New York City like a mob hit (I tried to warn the peasants not to entrust power to a kleptocratic autocrat, but alas, no one listened——as ALL taxpaying city residents continue to STILL pay the price of that traitorous thug's lies and corruption).
What's left of the New World Order New York is a dystopian sphere of fear and paralysis that is governed under brtual, police state rule, as filthy, globalist billionaires continue to park their even filthier money here, as the city becomes an even hollower, nihilistic grid of monstrous greed, unchecked corruption and elitist power that now devalues honesty itself!
But, it won't be long before all hell finally breaks loose, and a SECOND American Revolution is upon us, dear powerless proletariat wage slaves of Wall-mart Street, which will make the FIRST bloody battle look like a harmless dress rehearsal, by comparison. Because, that's what it takes to rid a voracious scourge of depraved oligarchy that is THIS entrenched in madness and mental illness——because, there IS no cure for 'NAKED GREED,' much less Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), both of which are absolute forms of mental illness.
Oh please, we elected someone who is not even a millionaire, how can he be expected to pick up a multi million dollar legal bill? The fact is what he did was legal, and this wasnt for personal enrichment. while it sucks having to eat this cost, compared to so many boondogles this city has had to eat or almost had to eat, Im happy that this is basically pennies for the city.
remember bloomberg trying to give his buddy the air rights over the west side yard? only a 400 million dollar giveaway from nyc to a billionaire.
how about giuliani's multimillion dollar boondogle of replacing first responder radios? And their failure got so many firemen killed on 9/11 when they didnt work.
this is pocket change for the city and DB is trying to do a good job for regular people, so we should suck it up. Jeez have a sense of proportion why dont you?
to last anonymous who posted "DB is trying to do a good job for regular people"
You're living in Fantasyland - D.Bag doesn't give a rats ass about regular people - ask the rats in Flushing - they run wild and free in the streets all day and night and D.Bag could care less about whether the regular people like it or not.
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