Subject: POLITICO New York Playbook: DE BLASIO aides subpoenaed -- TIMES experiments, in print -- LOUIS CK to raise for mayor
From: "Azi Paybarah, Jimmy Vielkind and Mike Allen" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 05:48:00 -0600

04/28/2016 07:45 AM EDT

By Azi Paybarah in Manhattan, Jimmy Vielkind in Albany, and Mike Allen in D.C., with Daniel Lippman

SUBPOENAS AT TEAM DE BLASIO -- Wolfe, Rosen, Offinger -- WSJ's Josh Dawsey and Mike Vilensky: "Those who received subpoenas include Emma Wolfe, the mayor's director of intergovernmental affairs and his top political aide; Ross Offinger, his top fundraiser; and BerlinRosen, a consulting firm that works on the mayor's political campaigns and was co-founded by Jonathan Rosen, a top adviser to Mr. de Blasio. Other political consultants and firms close to the mayor have also received subpoenas, the people said. A spokeswoman for Mr. de Blasio ... declined to say whether the mayor received a subpoena. ... Tatiana Martins, an assistant U.S. attorney in the public-corruption unit of the Manhattan
 federal prosecutors office, is listed as a sender on at least some of the subpoenas. Ms. Martins was on the team that prosecuted former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos last year. Many of the subpoenas arrived on April 18." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6a224ffc615986c18b59d12c1df59fc5c09d09e02b9aa9dc88 

CUOMO PRAISES RUBEN DIAZ JR - POLITICO New York's Sally Goldenberg: Gov. Andrew Cuomo praised Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz for his governing skills during a recent fundraiser at the home of a Manhattan developer, several attendees said. The governor spoke for several minutes at the $2,500-a-head event at the East 62nd Street home of Keith and Inga Rubenstein on last week. Diaz is up for re-election but has not ruled out the prospect of challenging Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2017. When he addressed the 50 or so people in attendance, Cuomo made no mention of de Blasio, with whom he has an openly hostile relationship. "The gist of what he said is that Ruben is a common-sense guy," said one
 attendee who would only speak on background. "The governor said something like, we're missing performance in government. The gist of what he said was that Ruben has a skill set that you don't see a lot in government today." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6ad25bb3081f4c5e7a0b71ac611523fd0637c3e975eda97f0d 

TABS -- Post: "YOU GOT SERVED! Feds subpoena mayor's office" -- Daily News, with pics of Jonathan Rosen, Emma Wolfe and Ross Offinger: "CITY PALL: Elex probe investigators serve subpoenas on mayor's inner circle" -- SEE THEM: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6aa6d1ac57b3e0323f5df95c5be356e582782d43d57bfa7fe6 

-- amNY: "The BRONX IS BOOMING (STATEN ISLAND TOO) -- Metro: "WALKING ON WATER: Artist hopes floating pedestrian bridge would connect New Yorkers with nature." -- SEE THEM: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6a0c89320e27864111c3de313fef7d020bec118515b083f0bd 

--"America Rising Files FOIL Request For De Blasio Fundraising Memo": "Following news that a top aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo received a July 2014 document outlining New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's controversial fundraising scheme that is now at the center of an ethics scandal, America Rising PAC has filed a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request for a copy of the memo." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6aa87a7bc37f22b4403e8472968a0f8ecf920dd47babf56aa8 ... The FOIL  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6a2bfa6fd0750a70d0aea7149c32788594c0fea41f2463d084

FRONT PAGES -- NYT, 1-col., below the fold: "Sweep in Bronx Tackles Decade of Gang Chaos" -- WSJNY, triple-deck headline above the fold, with pic: "De Blasio Allies, City Hall Served With Subpoenas" -- SEE THEM: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6ac24d9fee6639569d55b90c3e9303ff61e0a8d2d20396a79d 

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "He put a mickey in Spitzer; he put a mickey in Paterson, why shouldn't he do it to de Blasio?" -- Ed Cox, New York State Republican Party chairman. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6ac64ed99e1252e7aa4a0048eca0e58bcd6ecbe66f7ea9dade 

BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY: "We have a credibility gap to make up." -- Michael Ryan, executive director of the New York City Board of Elections, to NY1's Courtney Gross: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6aa8337a354d7413283fecb6ecd703f746e721e45a42df891b [circa 9:40 mark]

ERROR OF THE DAY: "[Howard Wolfson] confirmed through a spokesman that the donation was just $2,700, meaning [Guillermo Linares] really raised a mere $21,775 toward his congressional bid..." -- Observer's Will Bredderman: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6a2fe9409b10777d673984161c60842f6b5e52f41d27e9aab9 

SPEEDY RECOVERY -- Jumaane Williams, shortly after hernia surgery, and back on social media. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3f65eeb072c3bd2804809aca2ec33ea06d1a7933b14a5302a781fdbf1f57f162 HIS OFFICIAL STATEMENT: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6a74746a055d5eae68861ccd7c94a21d60f451ff5f67be5db4

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: New York City Council member Corey Johnson, chairman of the Health Committee, Hillary for America spokesman Josh Schwerin, Doe Fund founder George McDonald, who ran for NYC mayor in 2013, Gabe Gallucci, the associate director of government relations at the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators ... actor Bridget Moynahan, a native of Binghamton who plays a lawyer in the Manhattan district attorney's office on the show Blue Bloods, Andrew Zucker, son of CNN's Jeff Zucker, is 18, celebrating with dinner with family and friends (h/t Allison Gollust) ... and James Monroe, the 18th president, who like presidents John Adams and Thomas Jeffersons, died on July 4.

SAVE THE DATE -- 5/24: The 116th annual Legislative Correspondents Association show will be on Tuesday, May 24 at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany. Call 518.455.2388 for ticket details, and checkout this year's trailer: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6ab0fa307faa1f728a2e34a6aa2a8d871610997ff88a125e91 

MEDIA MORNING -- ALL THE LONGFORM NARRATIVES FIT TO PRINT-POLITICO's Joe Pompeo reports: All eyes are on The New York Times' big digital-innovation initiatives, like virtual reality and foreign-language websites, but the paper of record is also trying new things with, well, paper. The latest such "experiment," to use the media-innovator parlance, is all about turning a long narrative feature that would normally run as a multi-part series into a standalone special section that can run on a single day. First there was Dan Barry's eight-page March 28 opus about an ill-fated boxing match (http://nyti.ms/1RwtDBg). And now, on Sunday, the Times will publish a 12-page special section devoted to
 the tale of a woman with early-stage Alzheimer's, written by prose champion N.R. "Sonny" Kleinfeld.

-- The pullout packaging is "part of the Print Hub's challenge to think differently about what we do in the newspaper," Tom Jolly, an editor who oversees a team focused exclusively on the print edition, wrote in a Wednesday staff memo obtained by POLITICO. "At a time when newsstand sales are less a part of our business, wouldn't it serve our home delivery subscribers better if we presented a long narrative story all in one piece?" Bonus: They're selling against these sections-two full-pages in the case of Sunday's edition-giving a bit of juice to those plummeting (but still more lucrative than digital) print-advertising revenues. (You'll of course find advertising attached to the splashy
 online versions, too.)

-- "Rupert Murdoch loses his 'man in Washington,'" by Politico's Alex Byers: "Michael Regan, the top government affairs official for 21st Century Fox, is stepping down after 15 years running the firm's Washington office. ... [T]he company is likely to replace Regan, a Republican, with a high-profile Democrat because Fox's policy team as a strong cadre of Republicans. It's unclear when a replacement will be announced."  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6a62bf369ca63de28053c1099929b7782cd63472da3a9e4900 ... Regan's 2011 WashPost profile  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6ab6f700a01bb3189d553e39ef32e8aefd4e4f2eadf0aadbce

--Caitlyn Jenner and Nicholas Kristof did a Facebook chat yesterday talking about transgender issues and answering questions, live from The Academy for Young Writers in Brooklyn.  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6ac2b70ea880c164757590cce818a37cc7d0ae0fdca4fa5973

LOUIS C.K. TO RAISE FOR DE BLASIO -- Who's laughing now? -- POLITICO New York's Dana Rubinstein: Mayor Bill de Blasio may be bogged down in bad headlines, but that isn't stopping him from fundraising for his reelection campaign. "I'm excited to share the news that Louis C.K. is introducing the Mayor at our next fundraiser on May 12th at Brooklyn Bowl," wrote his 2017 campaign committee's finance director, Elana Leopold, in an email to donors Wednesday morning. (A recipient forwarded it to POLITICO New York.) "As a generous supporter of the Mayor's past campaigns, we'd love to invite you to join the host committee for the event," she continued. "It's a great opportunity to support the mayor
 at one of the most fun venues in NYC." Dubbed, "Mayor Bill de Blasio's Birthday Party w/ Louis C.K.," the fundraiser will take place on Thursday, May 12, at 6 p.m. at the Williamsburg bowling alley. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6a7d95422c932cf2a9042899a9e67ae179b3b7b20302b3a8a0 

PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION -- Gotham Gazette's David Howard King: "Jennifer Rodgers, former assistant U.S. Attorney and current executive director of the Center For The Advancement of Public Integrity at Columbia University, told Gotham Gazette that after reviewing the state statutes and Sugarman's report, she thinks there is good reason to believe the law was violated, but admitted there is enough discretion that a district attorney may decide there is not enough hard proof of intent ... Rodgers said she will be extremely interested to see how Vance decides to proceed. "He may look at this and say 'We are going to pursue this case but we don't want to be selective, we don't want to get
 involved in a political hit, so we are going to open up investigations into everybody who uses this technique.' This isn't a matter of public safety, if he looks at it and decides this is a political hit job and an example of selective prosecution, he could just drop it." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6a714f2d4c2e8d197e546227ad699a2181536420cbedb500fd

URBAN AG BEAT -- "In More Backyards, the Chicken Comes First," by Andy Newman: "The postman left the cardboard box marked "Warning! LIVE BIRDS" in the backyard. Fortunately, the warning was right. Inside were three Rhode Island Red pullets, six weeks old, peeping and blinking. ... They had survived an extra day in transit - the Postal Service's one-day shipping guarantee turns out not to apply to animals - from a hatchery in Polk, Ohio, 400 miles from Brooklyn as the chicken would fly if it had the wings. ... The gawky, rust-colored birds were installed in a small brown plywood coop, and so, on the last day of March in Ditmas Park, in Brooklyn, another New York household joined the
 ever-growing ranks of the chickened. ... As spring erupts across the city's backyards and community gardens, new recruits report to a galline army that now numbers in the thousands, supplying hen-warm eggs, a few chicken dinners and a taste of the wonders and worries of farm life." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6a6e14965ca04fe74f36856ee8cb706d0c16d72c2a4f302699

NEW REPORT, OLD IDEAS -- POLITICO New York's Dan Goldberg: New York City should use vacant space on public hospital campuses to create more affordable housing, one of several ideas in a new de Blasio administration report, which was meant to examine ways the city could put Health + Hospitals on sounder financial ground. Most of the ideas contained within the 56-page report, which Mayor Bill de Blasio called for in February, are recycled and have so far failed to yield significant savings. Others would require state approval, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has a rocky relationship with City Hall, has shown no inclination to approve the moves this report says are vital. 
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6af194256e38f6225688c178ac6d4cc6f39d0dd9901b91e6d4 

PAGE SIX -- "Blackstone Group boss shopping book around," by Ian Mohr: "Stephen A. Schwarzman - the billionaire boss of Blackstone Group who donated $100 million to the NYPL in 2008 as part of a $1 billion expansion plan - is looking for a publisher ... A source said of the planned tome: 'It's not exactly a memoir,' but rather that the mogul's been 'talking about publishing a business book.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6aa513296d603ae5313c8d14b1e73db8f179896074ca41c98f

HILLARYWATCH -- Jay Newton-Small takes a deep look for Time at the impact that John Podesta is having on Hillary Clinton's campaign and the way Clinton campaign workers say the culture has changed in Hillary's orbit since 2008  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2adc4778ceb8ba6aa14a964db2abd848aa3612fd54f91d80511cf2ec228cc94f

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--"Confessions of a Trump Tabloid Scribe," by Susan Mulcahy in Politico Magazine: "How New York's gossip pages helped turn a lying real estate developer into a celebrity phenom." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3f65eeb072c3bd287e483f81444c64d245f77f644035c4d1db65f4e4c340c065

REAL ESTATE -- "Rivington House deed restriction removal floated to City Hall in 2014," by POLITICO New York's Sally Goldenberg: "A high-ranking aide to Mayor Bill de Blasio was informed that a non-profit healthcare provider wanted to lift all deed restrictions on a Manhattan property in May of 2014 - two years before the issue came to light in a scandal that is being scrutinized by four separate government entities. In a May 5, 2014 email to First Deputy Mayor Tony Shorris' chief of staff, Dom Williams, non-profit VillageCare raised the possibility of removing the two deed restrictions tied to the AIDS residence it ran on Rivington Street, known as Rivington House. One restriction called
 for the site, formerly a city-owned building, to be used as a non-profit; the other required it to be for residential health care. Emma DeVito, president of VillageCare, wrote that her organization wanted to sell the property and had received estimates from a city agency about removing the deed restrictions. She expressed concern to City Hall about the fees she would have to pay. ... The 2014 email, which POLITICO New York obtained, shows that the possibility of removing both deed restrictions had been floated directly to City Hall during the first few months of the mayor's tenure, albeit by a different company and with few details of what would eventually become of the property." 
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3f65eeb072c3bd28a9d335e1963a80b1495acb532368f6d19f5512dbc3ffb083

-"The Saudis in the shadows: A look at the Olayan Group, the soon-to-be owners of the Sony Building," by The Real Deal's Hiten Samtani: "It's a classic rags-to-riches story. An orphan from a small town mortgages his house to buy a handful of trucks, which allow him to pull off his first major deal. He hustles hard, becomes the go-to guy for the world's biggest conglomerates, and in time, comes to build one himself. What makes the tale of Suliman Olayan remarkable is that it begins in Saudi Arabia, where wealth is a function of royal family connections - and Suliman had none. ... Today, the company he founded, the Olayan Group, is a blue-chip investor with significant stakes in firms such as
 Credit Suisse, the U.K.'s National Grid and Coca-Cola. It is also a major player in real estate, with a stake in the Related Companies, a seat on the board of Blackstone Group's real estate funds and a property portfolio spanning Europe and the U.S. Come May, it will own a new trophy: the Sony Building at 550 Madison Avenue." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3f65eeb072c3bd28ecbe6e3f4bff00b745327b29736c324a3dec907fbadf85e2

THE HOME TEAMS -- POLITICO New York's Howard Megdal: NYCFC 1, Impact 1: A late goal by Dominic Oduro cost NYCFC a chance to grab three needed points at home.

-- Mets 5, Reds 2: Six strong innings for Matt Harvey, who looked more like himself. Neil Walker hit his ninth home run, in case you were still missing Daniel Murphy.

-- Rangers 3, Yankees 2: Alex Rodriguez homered in support of CC Sabathia.

-- Islanders 5, Lightning 3: Shane Prince scored twice and the Islanders took Game 1.

#UpstateAmerica: "Greg Tranter's collection, a half-century labor of love containing a staggering 100,000-plus items about his favorite passion, is all about history. It's the history of the Buffalo Bills. And now that collection is going where it belongs, to the Buffalo History Museum." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3f65eeb072c3bd28d27e7f77a6ba5b910e0573716a980ecf0ad24875699a77a1 

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