Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration has long been criticized for being chummy with the developers he promised to hold to account when he took office in 2014, with the Campaign for One New York—the nonprofit he established in 2013 to advance his pet projects, such as universal pre-K a particular source of opprobrium.
A probe into CONY by the city’s Department of Investigation provides evidence that the mayor may have, in fact, violated city conflict of interest rules by seeking donations “from an individual who had or whose organization had, a matter pending or about to be pending before any executive branch of the City.”
A large chunk of the summation focuses on de Blasio’s relationship with developers. Throughout CONY’s existence, it received several sizable donations from developers, including TF Cornerstone, John Catsimatidis’s Red Apple Group, Brookfield Property Group (which donated $50,000), Two Trees Management (which donated $100,000), and Toll Brothers.
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