Trash hauler won coveted garbage pickup rights after donating to Mayor Adams' campaign

[RandySF]

New York City’s campaign watchdog is scrutinizing a series of donations to Mayor Eric Adams’ 2021 campaign by owners and employees of a Queens waste hauling company that later won a set of coveted licenses from the sanitation department.

Campaign disclosures show five employees of Royal Waste Services gave a combined $10,800 to then-candidate Adams on the same day – June 7, 2021 — just two weeks before Adams won the Democratic primary. Records show one of the employees donated $4,000, exceeding the city’s legal limit by $2,000, and half of their money was returned by the campaign.

Earlier this year, Royal Waste Services was one of 18 garbage haulers awarded rights to pick up garbage from businesses as part of an effort to regulate the city’s troubled private carting industry.

The donations from the company’s employees were flagged in a draft audit of Adams’ 2021 election fund by the Campaign Finance Board that was published in May and obtained by Gothamist last month through a public records request.





https://gothamist.com/news/trash-hauler-won-coveted-garbage-pickup-rights-after-donating-to-mayor-adams-campaign

[RockRaven]

1. Adams, at minimum, has the appearance of a corrupt clown and thereby

ought to be an embarrassment to NYC voters... And I say this as a resident of a state that elected two movie Repug guys to be governor.

[Conjuay]

5. Stories like this make he homesick.

This is the New York I remember! And when anyone said anything about the corruption, we could point at Mayor Daley in Chicago.

[nolabear]

2. The Sopranos!

🎶Woke up this mornin’🎶

[hlthe2b]

3. NYC has had a long history of organized crime controlling garbage pick-up. Not a storyline only for Sopranos

An attorney I was once involved with told me some stories (the political side) from decades past that would curl your hair.

[nolabear]

4. I'll bet.

I’ve heard that the mob is involved in garbage collection, probably since that show made people bring it up. Where I grew up on the Gulf Coast and New Orleans the mafia controlled so much we weren’t sure they weren’t running the churches.

[Conjuay]

6. Yeah, it was all fun and games up until someone was found

In his own dumpster.