Posted on 12/15/2016 8:46:15 PM PST by PROCON
Mayor de Blasio was hit with over $47,000 in fines for violating campaign finance rules— including having his partially taxpayer-funded campaign pick up the tab for a makeup artist for his family and a six-figure payout to his buddy’s PR firm that appeared unwarranted.
The huge sum is one of the highest fine amounts hit on any of the 2013 campaigns.
The Campaign Finance Board, in a determination released Thursday, levied most of the $47,778 in fines against the mayor for what it called “impermissible” post-election spending.
The $21,159 fine for that violation largely stems from a $168,750 payout to Hilltop, which employed de Blasio’s campaign manager Bill Hyers.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
A make-up artist?
Seriously?
Dirty to the core.
I envision a whole bunch of new allegations coming out against de Blasio next year.
Scumbag!
He’ll just raise some more taxes to cover it.
Hey! This is the best news I’ve read all night :)
I wonder if he will be convicted and go to prison like Dinesh D’Souza!
Oh! Nevermind! He’s a democrat!
Cuomo won’t let him and Trump is coming...
I do not see this as just “ violating campaign finance rules”. This was theft and this bastard should be arrested and charged with felony crimes.
How about 20 years in prison, too?
Oh yeah, forgot, DemoRat, just pay the fine with taxpayer funds.
“The $21,159 fine ...from a $168,750 payout to Hilltop, which employed de Blasio’s campaign manager Bill Hyers.”
BWAAHAAAAHAAAAAAAAAA....*gasp*....HAAAAAAAA!
deBlasio is a moron and needs to be fined just on general principles!
This is what happens when you allow morons to vote...
DEPOPULATE de Blasios/scumbags/socialists from the body politic.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
No joke.
Those fools keep doing the same stupid things and expecting different results...typical libtards.
They’re all corrupt and crooks!
$47,000 for campaign finance violations? If he had refused to make a cake, he would have been fined $170,000, and would be bankrupt.
His family doesn’t need a makeup artist, they need an entire battery of plastic surgeons.
How in the world can you violate campaign finance laws when you essentially run unopposed?
You mean as a politician I can take $180,000 and pay a $21,000 fine and everything is OK? What a deal.
This scumbag has pretensions to higher office. Thank God Almighty the mayoralty of New York is a political graveyard.
Hmmm. This may put a crimp in the presidential aspirations of Comrade Wilhelm.
$46K?? That’s gonna leave a mark *Pfft*. Yet, let some pleeb miss their IRS by $.02...
Why didn’t he have to go to jail like Dinesh d’Souza, whose misdeed was for a much lesser amount?
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