John Batchelor - Mayor Bill de Blasio Going Down torrent

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John Batchelor audio mp3 April 25, 2016

Mayor de Blasio had better hope the real crime turns out to be what’s legal now that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has his sights set squarely on the political operative turned chief executive.

It’s a sprawling probe, but the main line appears to be following the money trail the Daily News’ Greg B. Smith, NY1’s Grace Rauh and others have extensively tracked since de Blasio ran for mayor in 2013.

That was when a union run by his cousin and a top donor to him both wrote six-figure checks to an anti-carriage horse group run by big developers that days later cut checks for the exact same amount to another group — very ironically named New York City Is Not For Sale — that promptly spent the cash, not disclosed until well after the damage was done, on TV ads that brought down then-frontrunner Christine Quinn.


http://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2016/04/24/george-gilder-uncovers-the-economy-sapping-scandal-of-money/#106a94d07698

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