De Blasio not ruling out a 2020 bid

De Blasio can get in line behind Beto to kiss my grits.

The very funny story of how a man was convicted of bribing de Blasio, yet no criminal case was made against de Blasio.

For more than a year, Mayor Bill de Blasio tried his best to distance himself from Harendra Singh, a wealthy donor who was cooperating with federal authorities in a Brooklyn-based corruption investigation of the mayor’s fund-raising practices.

But even though Mr. Singh pleaded guilty to giving the mayor bribes, the prosecutors handling the inquiry could never prove that Mr. de Blasio considered them bribes, and the case was closed.

A campaign donor to Mayor Bill de Blasio secretly pleaded guilty in federal court to bribery, admitting that he used his contributions to the mayor to try to win favorable lease terms for a restaurant he owned on city property, newly unsealed court records show.

While the court papers included no charges against Mr. de Blasio or other city officials, a federal criminal information in the case makes it clear that the donor, Harendra Singh, got something in return.

The court documents said that the mayor took steps to benefit Mr. Singh in exchange for the contributions, and that an unnamed senior aide to Mr. de Blasio arranged a meeting to pressure a city agency to offer more favorable terms to Mr. Singh.

This story entertained us on a local level, now de Blasio might take it nation wide? lol

We just got through re-electing a Governor that the NYT described as corrupt, right before endorsing him. Other than Sanders, who transplanted himself from Brooklyn, the politicians from my state have been so awash in money, and so desperate to raise money in this most expensive of states to run in, that it’s hard to project clean hands when you come from here.

The best they can strive for is to keep a respectable distance from the donor class. Our two Senators manage that, though Schumer can’t hide his affection for Wall Street and the investment banks. They helped elect President Obama, and they enable Schumer to directly fund several of his Democratic colleagues. They are Schumercrats, when it counts.

Another Neoliberal shill that shall never get my vote