By Adam Schrader and Erin Durkin
Mayor de Blasio had another memory lapse Sunday when grilled about damning testimony from a big bucks donor, saying he doesn’t remember whether he personally asked the man for a six-figure check.
Businessman Jona Rechnitz, who has pleaded guilty to corruption,
testified Friday that de Blasio personally asked him to donate to an
unsuccessful 2014 push to flip the state Senate to Democratic control.
He wrote a check for $102,300 — and claimed that after that, requests
he had made to the city that were previously stalled got attended to.
De Blasio said Sunday he didn’t remember whether the conversation ever took place.
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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