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Six Council Campaigns, de Blasio Campaign, Discovered Using Working Families Staff, Resources In Test Of City Finance Limits
Inner workings of secretive WFP for-profit company and multiple candidates’ operations revealed
A complicated web of coordinated activities, shared resources and staff, and quiet money transfers between the Working Families Party, a secretive private company called Data and Field Services and at least six current Council campaigns, as well as Bill de Blasio’s campaign for public advocate, appears to have found several ways around the strict city campaign finance laws. Upwards of a million dollars, and possibly more, are involved, with over $1.7 million in matching funds comprised of taxpayer dollars already disbursed and more are potentially at stake.
Filed under: 3rd party, campaign finance reform, New York State Politics, News, progressive politics, third party Tagged: | campaign finance, De Blasio, WFP, Working Families
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