Not a hard position for him to take.
Via NY Post: An incredulous Mayor de Blasio said Sunday he has “no information about an investigation happening” — just two days after The Post and other reported the feds are probing his fundraising efforts.
“I haven’t heard anything about any investigation,” he told Chuck Todd on Meet the Press. “There haven’t been any questions posed to me or my team.”
De Blasio’s Sunday public schedule listed him as appearing on the show to “discuss the upcoming New York primary” between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, but Todd still peppered him with questions about the widening probe into police accepting gifts in exchange for favors to two shady businessmen, Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg, both of whom raised money for Hizzoner.
Rechnitz (top right) and Reichberg (lower right)
Asked if he feels confident his campaign followed the law in raising cash, de Blasio acted as if nothing at all was amiss. “I absolutely do, Chuck. We are very, very scrupulous about that,” he said. “Everything we’ve done is appropriate and carefully, carefully done with many, many lawyers, I assure you.”
Rechnitz and Reichberg both served on de Blasio inauguaral committee, and de Blasio accepted $9,900 in campaign money from Rechnitz and his wife in 2013.
Rechnitz also bundled $40,000 for de Blasio’s mayoral campaign and donated $50,000 to his non-profit Campaign for One New York. Reichberg hosted a fundraiser for Campaign for One New York at his home in 2014.
Team de Blasio has said they will give back the campaign cash from Rechnitz and his wife, but not the $40,000 in bundled money.
De Blasio denied that Campaign for One New York money has been used for his mayoral campaigning. “Totally separate things. Campaign for One New York was to achieve progressive change for affordable housing, pre-k for all,” he said. “That was a separate entity and it worked on those issues.”
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