[ZH] Former New York Mayor, notorious socialist Bill de Blasio, was ordered to pay almost a half-million dollars by the city Conflicts of Interest Board for using taxpayer money for his security detail during his short-lived run for president in 2019, Bloomberg first reported.
De Blasio, who served two catastrophic terms through 2021 and like any good socialist, left NYC in a state of disrepeair and soaring crime, campaigned briefly as part of a presidential bid that saw him reach 1% in some polls before ultimately dropping out. During his travels, he used city funds to pay expenses for members of the New York Police Department who served as the security detail for his family, clearly enjoying the role of wannabe socialist dictator, and with just the right amount of popular support.
This racked up $319,794.20 in travel costs, including airfare, car rentals, hotel stays and meals, said the COIB, which ordered him to repay the costs. The board also fined the former mayor $155,000 for the misuse of resources, the largest fine in its history, according to a statement Thursday, which said de Blasio "disregarded the board’s advice."
According to Bloomberg, De Blasio, 62, used city funds to pay the security details’ expenses despite receiving an explicit order from COIB on May 15, 2019, that such expenses weren’t allowed. The board told de Blasio that while the city could pay the costs of NYPD officers’ salaries and overtime while they were serving on the mayor’s detail, using city money to pay for the extra travel expenses for his presidential campaign constituted using "city resources for a non-city purpose."
The board also said "using an official position for financial gain or ’personal or private advantage’" was in violation of the city’s charter. That did not stop the corrupt socialist, however.
The day after receiving the opinion, May 16, 2019, de Blasio formally embarked on his catastrophic presidential campaign, in which not even hardened communists indicated a desire to vote for De Blasio.
Hillariously, an attorney for de Blasio said in a statement that the former mayor will file a lawsuit in response to the board’s decision, to stop it from taking effect.
"COIB’s action — which seeks to saddle elected officials with security costs that the city has properly borne for decades — is dangerous, beyond the scope of their powers, and illegal," Andrew Celli, de Blasio’s attorney, said in the statement.
This wasn't the first time the grifting ex-mayor was caught abusing funding: last month, he was fined $53,100 by the Federal Elections Commission for improperly routing large sums of money to his presidential campaign from a pair of state and federal political action committees he had created.
In 2016 and 2017, he was the subject of dual probes by both the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and the Southern District US Attorney’s Office for his fundraising practices. According to Bloomberg, the Manhattan DA examined whether de Blasio had tried to circumvent state election donation limits by routing donations to county committees. De Blasio was never charged (after all, the two belong to the same political party), but former District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. admonished the mayor in a letter announcing the closure of the investigation, saying that 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."
The US Attorney’s Office scrutinized whether de Blasio had granted favors in exchange for donations to his political nonprofit and mayoral campaign but also ultimately decided not to bring charges. In a letter announcing the closure of the investigation, then-acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim said the office had decided not to charge the mayor despite finding multiple occasions on which de Blasio and his representatives sought donations from people who wanted "official favors from the city, after which the mayor made or directed inquiries to relevant city agencies on behalf of those donors."
Posted by: Frank G ||
06/17/2023 12:30 ||
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#1
Guess he figured “What’s good for the Biden, is good for the gander…”
#4
It kinda runs along like the Geico "so easy a caveman can do it" ads.
A job so easy a blathering idiot can pretend he's doing it. Obviously, who you elect doesn't matter, it's the staff that actually decides and runs things. You could put a monkey in there, and get the same results.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
06/17/2023 10:10 Comments ||
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#5
We've had senators all along who are as impaired as Fetterwetter, they just got it out of a bottle.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
06/17/2023 10:12 Comments ||
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#6
RIP Sid Vicious.
Charles will give a reciprocal shoutout to Jimmy Carter in a couple days.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
06/17/2023 10:53 Comments ||
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This is AMONG the reasons why you will almost never hear Biden's name in next year's election. They can't possibly run him and let people see and hear what he is. All you're going to hear is "abortion" and "We hate Trump."
Posted by: Tom ||
06/17/2023 11:25 Comments ||
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Bidet's exit will be dictated by how afraid the dems are of having a candidate bad enough to lose even with shenanigans in play. If they think it's in the bag, he will get to retire. If they are afraid it will be a close-run thing, Joe will be mortally sacrificed to purchase the sympathy vote.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
06/17/2023 12:38 Comments ||
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#5
His vinyl is scratched. I would think the damage could be reduced with therapy. I am not a neurologist but I don’t see any danger to his health by contouring to generate clips for the Remicmx Brothers. If he is staying away from stimulants, which he has no history of doing, he should outlive Feinstein. Likely he won’t. I think that the best change to his long term prognosis is the fact that his wife no longer believes that his immediate death will benefit her.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
06/17/2023 10:42 Comments ||
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#2 I would mind less if it were only PA getting what it voted for. But this guy is a US Senator, and his votes affect me as well.
Posted by: Tom ||
06/17/2023 11:26 Comments ||
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Poor sick bastard. I feel bad for him, hate his puppeteers.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
06/17/2023 11:35 Comments ||
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[ZH] Former New York Mayor, notorious socialist Bill de Blasio, was ordered to pay almost a half-million dollars by the city Conflicts of Interest Board for using taxpayer money for his security detail during his short-lived run for president in 2019, Bloomberg first reported.
