Judge Orders de Blasio Nonprofit to Comply with State Subpoena

 

By Laura Nahmias and Nick Niedzwiadek

The Campaign for One New York, the nonprofit created by Mayor Bill de Blasio to advance his policy agenda, has been ordered to hand over documents and correspondence between itself and the mayor to the state’s ethics commission, a State Supreme Court judge ruled last week.

The state’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics sought the records as part of a long-running investigation into the Campaign for One New York over whether officials at the nonprofit improperly failed to register as lobbyists during the group’s second year in existence. The group registered to lobby in 2014, but did not do so in 2015, arguing it had not engaged in any actual lobbying activity.

The nonprofit, which de Blasio announced in March would shut down, initially complied with JCOPE’s requests for information. But in May of 2016, the group said it would not provide further documents in response to a new subpoena sent by the commission which sought even more records of the mayor’s meetings and correspondence, along with the group’s expenses. 

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Source: Politico