De Blasio releases ‘fact sheet’ about fundraising investigations

Mayor de Blasio on Friday released a “fact sheet” about the state and federal investigations swirling around the administration, disclosing that he had neither sought nor been offered immunity.The document largely repeated earlier statements from Hizzoner...

De Blasio releases ‘fact sheet’ about fundraising investigations

Mayor de Blasio on Friday released a “fact sheet” about the state and federal investigations swirling around the administration, disclosing that he had neither sought nor been offered immunity.

The document largely repeated earlier statements from Hizzoner and his reps, including that he and his staff have cooperated fully and that no one did anything wrong.

The statement also said that the mayor — who had met with investigators from Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office — would meet soon with US Attorney Preet Bharara’s team.

Though both state and federal grand juries are hearing evidence in criminal probes into the de Blasio Administration over fundraising, the mayor repeatedly refers to the investigations only as “reviews.”

“The Mayor has never been informed that he is a target of these reviews,” the statement said, while not addressing whether he has been told he is not a target.

The statement also said that “no taxpayer dollars will be used to fund the Mayor’s individual compliance with these reviews. The Mayor’s lawyers will be paid with outside funds from an account that has yet to be established or funded.”

Others under investigation, however, will get taxpayer-funded lawyers.

Seeking to shut down further questions, the fact sheet said Friday’s statement would be the administration’s last word on the issue.

“This is the extent to which the Mayor will discuss his, or his Administration’s, cooperation with this process,” the fact sheet said.

Separate probes are examining whether de Blasio and his allies violated state campaign-finance laws in a failed bid to put a Democratic majority in the state Senate in 2014.

They are also investigation of there was pay-to-play — if special favors were given to donors to the mayor’s now-shuttered nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York.

Vance’s office has been probing whether the mayor’s aides urged unions and wealthy supporters to fork over cash to Ulster and Putnam County Democratic state Senate campaign committees.

Those committees then allegedly funneled the money to specific Democratic candidates in tight races in an apparent bid to avoid campaign-donation limits.

Top de Blasio aide Emma Wolfe and his campaign fund-raiser, Ross Offinger, who’s now working as a consultant on the mayor’s 2017 re-election campaign, are also targets of the DA’s probe, according to public reports.

Bharara is separately investigating CONY, for which the mayor raised $4.3 million to promote his pet projects.

Many of those donations came from individuals and firms with business interests before the city.

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