De blasio for mayor bio
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio must pay a $, fine levied against him for misusing public funds on a police security detail during his failed White House bid, a judge ruled this week, dismissing the ex-mayor’s legal challenge as “perplexing” and “entirely baseless.”
Judge Shahabuddeen Ally roundly rejected those arguments in an page ruling issued Monday, finding the mayor was “expressly and specifically” informed that the city would not bear security travel costs for the cross-country campaign, but elected to bring his police detail anyway.
“(His) position essentially eliminates his own agency in the choices he made,” the judge wrote, adding that there was no merit to “the remarkable contention that he is somehow not subject to the City’s conflicts-of-interest laws.”
The ruling leaves de Blasio on the hook for a $, in airfare and other travel costs incurred by his security detail during the four-month campaign, which he launched in while serving his seco