New York mayor gave favors in exchange for campaign contributions, donor boasts in court

[SZonian]

A major donor to New York City's mayor testified Thursday that he gave money to Bill de Blasio’s campaign fund in exchange for access and favors.

Jona Rechnitz, 34, a felon who pleaded guilty in March to making contributions in exchange for favors from government officials, made the claim when he appeared as a witness in the corruption trial of former city correction-union chief Norman Seabrook.

Rechnitz is accused of bribing Seabrook to invest $20 million in union pension money in a friend’s hedge fund, the New York Post reported.

But the topic quickly moved on to de Blasio, with whom Rechnitz had a history.

“We’re going to become significant contributors, but we want access,” he claimed to have to told de Blasio fund-raiser Ross Offinger.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/27/new-york-mayor-gave-favors-in-exchange-for-campaign-contributions-donor-boasts-in-court.html

Rats doing what rats do...

[corbe]

Fred Dicker: What is it going to mean for Donald Trump to have Bill de Blasio as Mayor?”

Donald Trump: “He’s a smart guy that knows what’s going on really big league and I think he is not going to want to destroy New York.”

Voice Over: That was Donald Trump a little over two years ago, endorsing PC Socialist Bill de Blasio for New York Mayor.

Donald Trump: “I think pretty strongly that he’ll end up being a good mayor, maybe a very good mayor.”

Voice Over: De Blasio ran on class warfare, sanctuary cities and ending stop and frisk. De Blasio’s sided with looters and cop killers against the police, with teachers unions against schoolchildren and with PC liberals to let the homeless run wild on city streets.

Donald Trump: “I think he is going to want to make New York great.”

Voice Over: So just why did Trump endorse Bill de Blasio?

Donald Trump: “He actually said some very nice things about me at a recent cocktail party I was told by somebody and I thought that was very nice.”

https://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2016/01/19/trump-endorsed-bill-de-blasio/

   Guilty as Charged.

 

[RoosGirl]

It can't be illegal, it's just how things are done in the big city.

[Suppressed]

It can't be illegal, it's just how things are done in the big city.

I thought it was "The Philly Way".  Don't tell me that NYC and Philly agree on something?  Is it really this way in all big Dem cities?

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