New York City’s anti-corruption rules bar people who do business with the city from donating more than $400 to mayoral campaigns, but Andrew Cuomo is using several such restricted donors to help him raise big campaign checks.
Tusk Strategies is fighting the EmPIRE Worker Protection Act on behalf of a fast food industry front group.
Several donors benefited when former Gov. Cuomo killed the Moreland Commission, a state anti-corruption panel that was investigating them.
Opaque state subsidies of more than $4.4 billion per year have helped Gov. Cuomo to consolidate his political power over the past decade.
Their campaigns say that donations and campaigning for Democratic candidates have increased since the late September cutoff.
Cuomo campaign spends twice as much as it did fending off left-flank challenger Zephyr Teachout in 2014
Donations from individuals for $250 or less accounted for $63,694 of Cuomo’s $5.85 million haul, or 1.09 percent of the amount he’s raised since mid-January
