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-Lurid Crime Tales-
The de Blasio coverup begins
2016-05-21
[NYPOST] Besieged by federal and state Sherlocks, Mayor Bill de Blasio turned Nixonian Thursday and declared five of his closest outside confidants exempt from public disclosure laws when they advise him on running the city.

His administration extended the stunning "agents of the city" privilege to BerlinRosen co-founder Jonathan Rosen; Hilltop Public Solutions partners Nicholas Baldick and Bill Hyers; and AKPD partner John Del Cecato.

All four worked on de Blasio’s political campaigns. Also included was Patrick Gaspard, US ambassador to South Africa and a former wardheeler at SEIU Local 1199.
He's the bagman for all the correct progressive groups and foundations...
BerlinRosen, AKPD and Hilltop were collectively paid nearly $2 million for work on the mayor’s Campaign for One New York, a privately funded nonprofit cheerleading outfit that’s under investigation by the US Attorney’s and Manhattan District Attorney’s offices.

They also worked on the mayor’s fundraising efforts on behalf of state Senate Democrats in late 2014. That, too, is being probed.
de Blasio telling everyone that these folks are 'exempt' isn't going to save them, or him, from a federal subpoena...
"Their communications to the Mayor’s Office, along with those of their support staff working at the principal’s direction on those particular matters, are exempt from disclosure when related solely to city business and not on behalf of any client," said de Blasio counsel Maya Wiley.

Hilltop and BerlinRosen communications with the mayor on behalf of their clients are subject to public disclosure, officials added.

None of the five advisers has been paid by the city.
Not above the table, anyways...
The list of exemptions was announced after the administration rejected Freedom of Information requests for the mayor’s email exchanges with Rosen on the grounds that he was an "agent of the city."
More litigation on the way...
Posted by:Fred

#1  "There are places in my neighborhood
no one ever thinks about.
You see them every day
and every day you forget about them.
These are the places where all the things
happen that people are not allowed to see.
You see, in Brooklyn New York,
money changes hands all night long.
It's just not the kind
you can deposit in a bank.
All that money
needs to end up somewhere.
They call it a drop bar the mayor's office, BerlinRosen, AKPD and Hilltop."
Posted by: JHH   2016-05-21 01:13  

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