By Laura Nahmias
Disgraced de Blasio donor and real estate executive Jona
Rechnitz delivered explosive testimony Thursday during the trial of
union leader Norman Seabrook, providing previously unknown details of
his dealings with some of the city’s most powerful officials.
Seabrook is one of a dozen police and political officials
Rechnitz said he developed close and mutually beneficial relations with
over the past decade. Among those in Rechnitz’s immediate orbit,
according to his own telling, were Mayor Bill de Blasio, de Blasio's top
fundraiser Ross Offinger, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, a
half-dozen high ranking police chiefs and captains, City Council members
and at least one state senator, now Rep. Adriano Espaillat.
"I called Ross and told him I wanted him to get me in front of the
people who could make decisions," Rechnitz said, echoing similar
conversations with a litany of public officials.
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Source: Politico (via The Empire Report)
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