The family of Mayor Eric Adams’ former chief of staff donated $15,000 to the fund weeks before a prohibition would have kicked in.
Frank Carone stepped down as Mayor Eric Adams’ chief of staff in December 2022 and, along with his brother Anthony, started Oaktree Solutions — a white glove consulting, communications and lobbying firm in Manhattan. | Courtesy of Frank CaroneNEW YORK — A firm run by Mayor Eric Adams’ former chief of staff became a city lobbying outfit just weeks after he and his relatives gave $15,000 to Adams’ legal defense fund.
“It’s unfortunately par for the course with the Adams campaign. It’s routine practice for them to game the ethics and conflict of interest and campaign finance rules,” John Kaehny, executive director of the government reform group Reinvent Albany, said of the Carones’ donations. “They’ve been doing that since before day one.”
Donors can give up to $5,000 each to legal defense trusts, offering another way to support a city official outside the electoral campaign finance system. In a statement to POLITICO, Carone said he registered as a lobbyist with the state “in an effort to be transparent,” but said he would not lobby the mayor’s office himself.
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