Mayor Bill de Blasio Used Security Detail as 'Concierge Service,' Report Finds

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Mayor Bill de Blasio misused public resources for political and personal purposes, including deploying his security detail to move his daughter to Gracie Mansion, and has not reimbursed the city for security costs from his presidential campaign, according to a city investigation released on Thursday.

The city spent nearly $320,000 for members of Mr. de Blasio’s security detail to travel on his presidential campaign trips in 2019 — funds that have not been paid back by the mayor or his campaign, according to the 47-page report by the New York City Department of Investigation.

The report painted a deeply unflattering portrait of Mr. de Blasio’s reliance on his security detail — behavior that a top investigator said amounted to the mayor having his own personal “concierge service” to shuttle around relatives and staffers.

It found that the use of a police van and personnel to help move Mr. de Blasio’s daughter was “a misuse of N.Y.P.D. resources for a personal benefit,” and that Howard Redmond, the police inspector in charge of the family’s security detail, had “actively obstructed and sought to thwart this investigation.”

Read the rest at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/nyregion/de-blasio-security-detail.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

Link to the DOI report (.pdf): https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doi/press-releases/2021/October/DOI_Report_re_Security_Detail.pdf

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