Former Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio has been ordered to pay a $475K fine for misusing the NYPD during his presidential run in 2020.
After finding that the mayor used taxpayer dollars for political purposes, New York City’s Conflicts of Interest Board ordered de Blasio to pay $474,794 compensating the city for police officers’ travel expenses.
“Although there is a City purpose in the City paying for an NYPD security detail for the City’s Mayor, including the security detail’s salary and overtime, there is no City purpose in paying for the extra expenses incurred by that NYPD security detail to travel at a distance from the City to accompany the Mayor or his family on trips for his campaign for President of the United States,” board members wrote. “The Board advised Respondent to this effect prior to his campaign; Respondent disregarded the Board’s advice.”
From The Gateway Pundit:
He was apparently billing the city, essentially using taxpayer dollars for his own interests. What a surprise. One has to wonder if this would have even been brought up under normal circumstances. The city is obviously scrounging for cash given the comnination of lost tax revenue from people who have fled and the thousands of new illegal border crossers costing them millions.
