New York state’s ethics commission said three companies donated to a political nonprofit created by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio while lobbying the city for real-estate projects
By Katie Honan Updated Sept. 19, 2019 7:24 pm ET Three companies agreed to pay a total of $65,000 in settlements to New York state’s ethics commission as part of a yearslong investigation into a political nonprofit created by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, state officials said Thursday.
Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, declined to comment on the investigation on Thursday, but has previously said that he and his campaign acted legally. A spokeswoman for the mayor, Freddi Goldstein, said the organization had been investigated and the commission “has never found that the mayor violated the law.”
Toll Brothers and its subsidiary Toll Brooklyn LP donated $25,000 to the nonprofit in April 2015 after Mr. de Blasio personally asked an executive to contribute a month earlier, the investigation found. They were lobbying the city at the same time. Executives from Greenpoint Landing Developers LLC, which is affiliated with the Park Tower Group Ltd, also attended a meeting with the mayor and Ross Offinger, the chief fundraiser for the nonprofit, the commission said.
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