Feds grill NYC Mayor de Blasio for FOUR HOURS over whether he gave his donors special favors

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I warned about de Blasio while he was running for mayor. Now add suspicion of corruption to his hard-left agitation. This man must not be reelected. If he is, it could be disaster for New York City, and that would be disaster for the nation at large.

“Mayor de Blasio says talk with U.S. attorney went ‘fine’ in first comments since questioning,” by Erin Durkin, New York Daily News, February 27, 2017:

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Mayor de Blasio said he told federal investigators “everything I know” about probes into his fundraising during a questioning session Friday and believes the meeting went “fine.”

“My goal was to be open and transparent and communicative and to be cooperative. And I think it’s quite clear a four-hour interview is a good faith effort to try to provide information,” de Blasio said in his first comments since being grilled by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s office. “I believe when all the facts are looked at, it will be quite clear that we’ve handled things appropriately.”

The mayor met for four hours at his Midtown attorney’s office with investigators who are looking into whether donors to his campaigns and his now-defunct non-profit, the Campaign for One New York, got special favors in return.

“I was happy to go in and recount the facts. It was fine,” de Blasio said Monday night in his weekly appearance on NY1’s Road to City Hall. “We’ve done everything legally. We’ve held ourselves to high ethical standards. And I was very comfortable going over everything I knew.”

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Probers have zeroed in on de Blasio’s relationship with several donors, including Broadway Stages owner Gina Argento – whose husband told the Daily News she gave after de Blasio asked her to because she feared having her film permits quashed if she refused.

De Blasio dismissed his claims as “conspiratorial.”

“I would never pressure someone. I never have pressured anybody. I don’t think that’s appropriate. We can’t account for people’s feelings,” he told NY1. “People are saying whatever they’re saying for their own reasons. We have never, I have never, nor anyone else on my team has every pressured anyone. That’s ridiculous.”

Argento’s husband John Ciafone told The News de Blasio’s associates never made a threat, but didn’t have to because she knew how much sway his administration had over the fate of her business, which relies on the city issued filming permits.

“There was never a threat or anything, but if your boss says you gotta do it, you gotta play ball,” he said.

De Blasio said those comments are “news to me” and “doesn’t make sense from everything I’ve known of” Argento. “The problem with a lot of the coverage is it conflates everything and suggests that there’s something wrong with asking someone to support your campaign when you’re running for office. I just don’t think that’s right. That’s not what our law says,” he said.

In another case, investigators are looking into whether de Blasio intervened to get a vacate order lifted on a Brooklyn school building to aid Rabbi Moishe Indig, who raised money for him….

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Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
7 years ago

With De Blasio New York City, despite the glitzy skyline and numerous attractions IS a disaster. Too costly for “ordinary” people to live in. A major target for those who hate America. Site of 9/11/01 disaster. More is coming. The city needs moral leadership without politics, if there is such a thing.

Would challenge anyone with discernment to consider relocation from New York: Denver, Albuquerque or Phoenix are less far-left and have unique attractions making such relocation worthwhile.

patriotusa2
patriotusa2
7 years ago

De Blasio isn’t fit to run a hot dog stand. His social mores are as screwed up as his life. He married a woman who was a lesbian activist, and has a family that doesn’t even look like they belong to him. If this is today’s idea of being non-discriminative, you can have it! All that aside, his political background should have been an issue!

Artie Galvin
Artie Galvin
7 years ago
Reply to  patriotusa2

I agree with you, patriotusa2!

patriotusa2
patriotusa2
7 years ago
Reply to  Artie Galvin

Thanks Artie. I thought for sure I was going to get “you’re a racist,” coming at me from all directions.

PatriotGal
PatriotGal
7 years ago

Does anyone think the Dems would dig into this? Not gonna happen…they’re in bed with this Sandinista supporter, moslem lover, ILLEGAL idolizer who spent his honeymoon in Cuba and really controls NYC from the left.

Eu Wei Choi
Eu Wei Choi
7 years ago
Reply to  PatriotGal

Actually since LEFTIES are POLITICAL SAVAGES,
Another LEFTY in the Primary would GO AFTER Him on ANYTHING

Collin R. Hinrichs
Collin R. Hinrichs
7 years ago

I hate to say it, but it’s not exactly exciting that they grilled him for hours. They grilled HRC for days and what came of it? Cowardly Comey comes out and tells us how she broke the law, but they’re not going to do anything about it. People involved with her email crime didn’t even show up under a Congressional subpoena and what happened to them? And Lois Lerner, what happened with her? The oligarchy plays by their own rules, it’s just that we’re the only ones held to them.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago

Another study in foregone conclusions, the rats are still in the administrative woodwork.

RealEngineer2
RealEngineer2
7 years ago

DiBlasio NEVER MADE the concerns of the middle class taxpayer citizen his FIRST CONCERN in DECISION MAKING. His ABSOLUTE HIGHEST and ALMOST EXCLUSIVE PRIORITY has always been FOREIGNERS, REFUGEES, and any sob story that could dream up an excuse not to earn a living and sponge off welfare benefits in perpetuity…

Polk1970
Polk1970
7 years ago

Like ANOTHER Left Wing TRAITOR who recently LEFT Office Di Blasio has TWO NAMES
Bill DiBlasio IS Wilhelm Wilhelm ,or something like that
Let’s see, Barry Soetoro IS Barack HUSSEIN Obama
Now there’s “Change” you can BELIEVE IN!
Change Names to RUN

Janet
Janet
7 years ago
Reply to  Polk1970

Really? That figures. Such a creep!

karl59
karl59
7 years ago

Only about 15% to 16% of eligible voters voted for him

Janet
Janet
7 years ago

He’s so sleazy he makes my skin crawl. You know darn well he’s corrupt. I hope to God the people of New York axe him but I won’t hold my breath. What’s with all the Muslims loving him about? I imagine he protects them with everything he’s got. Such a scumbag he couldn’t even stick up for his policemen and women that put their lives on the line everyday. Better he sticks up for Black Lives Matter. Typical!

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