New York City's ethics watchdog announced it was hitting former Mayor Bill de Blasio with a record-breaking fine of nearly $320,000 for expenses he incurred during his longshot 2020 presidential campaign.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.The city's ethics watchdog said on Thursday that it was hitting former Mayor Bill de Blasio with a record-breaking fine and ordering him to repay nearly $320,000 for expenses he incurred for travel costs for his NYPD security detail during his longshot 2020 presidential campaign.
“The Board advised respondent…prior to his campaign; respondent disregarded the board’s advice,” an order released by the COIB on Thursday noted., an attorney for the mayor asked the COIB if the city could pay for the cost of de Blasio’s security detail while traveling for his presidential campaign. The agency offered written guidance explaining that the city could cover the NYPD detail's salaries, but not their travel expenses.
During the four months on the campaign trail, the city incurred costs for 31 out-of-state trips de Blasio took with his NYPD security detail to political events. The cost of their travel was $319,794.20. Those costs were found to be a violation of the City Charter for the misuse of city resources. De Blasio did not testify at that hearing, but two witnesses were called on his behalf: John Miller, who had served as the NYPD’s deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism and had overseen de Blasio’s NYPD security detail in 2019; and Henry Berger, an attorney who had served as the mayor's special counsel from 2014 to 2018.
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