Organized Crime Politics: IE PACs

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Organized Crime Politics: 
The New Tammany Hall

Operating in Secret Dark Pools A Mob of Campaign Consultants/ Lobbyists Coup d'État of New York Government Goes Unreported

Political Goodfellas

Eight campaign consultants all but one are also lobbyists, have monopolized NYC elections system that only the Justice Department using the Sherman Antitrust Act can bust.  These consultants run every important campaign in New York.  The campaign monopoly is only part of a conspiracy that is not only about who gets elected.  It is also part of a second conspiracy to make money off of government as lobbyist or insiders. There is serious evidence of illegal coordination between the Independent Expenditure PACs and consultants. The data of big 8 working together is massive.  In the 20 competitive races for the city council this year’s these big 8 consultants helped 98 of the 54 competitive candidates in those races.  Consultants were able to help more candidates in the races by being on more than one side in the same race. They don't only compete with each other as one would think.  

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A Government and Campaign Monopoly That Sabotages Democracy

Sen. John Sherman Author of the Sherman Antitrust Act

In this monopoly consultants work with each other at the same time they are oppose them in other races.  Some consultants help other consultant’s candidates often at the expense of their own clients. Two Consultant Lobbyists the Advance Group and the Parkside Group were involved in every competitive council race and even some that did not have races through Independent Expenditure PACs they control. These IE PACS have muscled their way in to having seats at the table along the Democratic Party bosses that will pick the next council speaker.  The big 8 along with the special interests whose millions fund PACs, have sabotage the whole idea of local representation and local elections. The pols are more loyal to the centralized campaign consultants and their money backers, the new ruling class, than they are to the voters in their districts. The consultants work like Wall Street investors who trade in dark pools beyond the control of regulators. In NY's dark pool campaign consultants/lobbyists, special interests and elected officials make deals with each other hidden from public view. To understand the reasons for the takeover you must also be aware that the business opportunities for consultants don’t end on primary or election day. In an excellent investigation of the dangers the newly elected Cuomo would face from lobbyist, Wayne Barrett wrote in  the Village Voice in 2010. that campaign consultant lobbyist "Sheinkopf one of the worse consultant lobbyist, makes kings so he can then make deals with the kings he’s made." 

The New Apalachin Crime Summit, 56 Years Later

These same big 8 consultants also have the same monopolized control of citywide, state election and law enforcement elections. There operating model resembles organize crime after the Apalachin crime meeting. That 1957 meeting included over 100 mobsters including "Joe the Barber," divided the illegal operations of loan sharking, narcotics trafficking and gambling  controlled by the late Albert Anastasia.  The big 8 include: the Advance Group, the Parkside Group/Marathon Strategies (join at the hip), Berlin Rosen, Mercury Public Affairs, Brandford Communications, George Arzt, Multi-Media, Hudson TJ and Red Horse. Like the Apalachin mobsters the consultants/lobbyist has divided up New York to control the government and rake in corrupt lobbying dollars. Also like the mobsters the big 8 may even be about the law.

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Nobody Left to Investigate the Consultant Monopoly

Big 8 Consultants Work for Law Enforcement Also

The big 8 mob were involved in electing every city and state law enforcement official. If democracy is every going to be restored to New Yorkers the feds must put council candidates under oath to find out the backroom deals the consultants/lobbyists and candidates have made with each other during the 2013 election.   Berlin Rosen worked for AG Schneiderman. Red Horse works for Brooklyn DA nominee Ken Thompson.  His opponent was represented in the primary by George Arzt, Advance and Brandford. Manhattan DA Vance was represented by Red Horse. Queens DA Brown who never had races works with Marc Guma who worked with Marathon Strategies in the Quinn Campaign.  Bronx DA Johnson has Brandford working for him.

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The Big 8 as Lobbyists Do A Lot of Damage to New Yorkers

Both Mercury and George Artz have been lobbyists for Hewlett-Packard which was the main contractor of the city's 911 emergency system that crashes a lot. The city 911 system is now being sued by the parents of 4-year-old Ariel Russo who claim she died because an ambulance to take the little girl to the hospital was delayed by a 911 crash.  Arzt is also the flack for Excell's One 57 that got tax breaks from Albany to build a 75-story luxury skyscraper. One57 tax break is contributing to pushing the middle class our of Manhattan and raising rents in Brooklyn.  Parkside got away with making millions off of the council's member items and slush fund. The Advance Group according to a series written by CrainsNY used its control of PAC to be on more than one side in a race, even working against clients who hired his firm.  Berlin Rosen worked for the same client, Bruce Ratner as indicted Melvin Lowe and convicted Kruger flack Richard J Lipsky promising affordable housing where none exists today. 

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Using PAC the Big 8 Has Gamed New York Democracy, By Controlling Elections 

Parkside working for The Real Estate Board of New York's PAC Jobs4NY worked for and against 35 candidates in the 20 competitive council races.  The Advance Group working through 4 PACs NYCLASS, United for the Future, Citizen Action and Hotel Workers for A Strong Middle Class worked for 27 of candidates in the 20 competitive council campaigns. Of the 21 candidates supported by Parkside Jobs4NY 17 were run by the big 8. Another candidate Dickens who had no race is running for speaker and some Jobs4NY money went to a republican candidate. Of the 44 council candidates supported by PAC in which Advance worked for or had a relationship with 34 when to candidates run by the Big 8.  Half of the other 10 went to incumbent candidates who had no races. The big 8 worked for council candidates who may be running for speaker, who had no races.  Berlin Rosen Daniel Garodnick, Red Horse and Hudson TDG James Vacca, Hudson TG Mark Weprin. Multi-Media run by newspaper publisher Michael Nussbaum have been doing printing for the Parkside Group for years in the dark pools because state election law does not require subcontractors are reported. Red Horse worked alongside Parkside for DSCC where Melvin Lowe was indicted this week for fake printing invoices. Red Horse has at least 20 interest group clients. This summer the New York World reported Hudson TG LLC – offer lobbying services to represent special interests with the officials they have sometimes helped to get elected. The only campaign consultant that does not directly lobby is Brandford Communications. But Brandford's Ernie Lendler did pull a Melvin Lowe when he gave convicted Brooklyn Boss Norman fake invoices.  Lendler did not get indicted in exchanged for testifying against Norman Background on the Big 8 Consultants as Lobbyists * CrainsNY on the Advance Groups Double Dipping (CrainsNY)

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The Big 8 Also Dominated In Citywide, Borowide and Democratic State Races

Comptroller candidate Scott Stringer had several of the Big 8 working for him: Advance Group, George Arzt, Multi-Medi and Marathon Strategies.  Cuomo had Advance, Red Horse, Marathon Strategies and Marc Guman working for him. Controller DiNapli had Red Horse working for him. New York Democratic State Senate Committee employed 4 of the big 8 Parkside Group, Berlin Rosen, Brandford Communications, Red Horse. Queens BP Katz had Red Horse, George Arzt, Multi-Media and Hudson. Vallone had Mercury. Brooklyn BP Adams had Red Horse even though he had no race. Bronx BP Diaz also had no race but had Red Horse, Advance Group and Brandford. Manhattan BP Lappin had Red Horse and Marathon Strategies; Menin had George Arzt and Berlin Rosen; Jackson had Advance.  The winning Manhattan BP candidate Gail Brewer had none of the Big Eight working for her. A lesion of their real value?  Tish James had Hudson TG and Red Horse joined in the runoff. Daniel Squardron Brandford and Berlin. Reshma had Red Horse

20 Competitive Council Races

Out of 54 Candidate the 8 Consultants Worked for 98 candidates

Consultants 35 Candidates, Parkside PAC 36 Candidates, Advance PACs 27 Candidates

1CD  Red Horse, Parkside PAC (2), Advance PACs HWSMC, CA; 3CD Berlin Rosen, Advance Group and Mercury Public Affairs, Advance PACs UF, CA; 5CD George Artz. Parkside Jobs4NY PAC, Advance PAC NYCLASS; 6CD  Berlin Rosen, George Artz,  Red Horse, Advance PAC UF; 7CD Advance Group and Hudson TD, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC, Advance PACs UF, NYCLASS; 10CD Advance Group, Advance PAC UF; 11CD Branford Communications, Advance PAC UF; 16CD Brandford Communications, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC (2), Advance PAC UF;  

19CD Red Muliti, Berlin Mercury, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC (3), Advance PACs UF, NYCLASS; 22CD Muli-Media, Parkside PAC(3), Advance PAC UF; 24CD Berlin Rosen, Red Horse, Parkside Jobs4NY  PAC, Advance PAC UF; 27CD Muli-Media Red Horse, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC (3), Advance PAC UF; 34CD Red Horse, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC (3), Advance PACs UF, CA; 35CD Advance Group, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC (3); 36CD Red Horse, Belin Rosen, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC (4), Advance PAC UF; 37CD Advance Group, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC, Advance PACs UF, NYCLASS; \38CD Hudson TG, Red Horse, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC (2), Advance PACs CA, HWSMC; 46CD Brandford Communications, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC (2), Advance PAC UF; 47CD Berlin Rosen. Advance Group. Hudson TG, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC (2), Advance PAC UF; 48CD Advance Group, Mercury Public Affairs. Hudson TG. Brandford, Communications, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC (4), Advance PACs UF, CA

15 Council Incumbents Had No Race

The big 8 consultants worked for 7 of the 15 candidates who had no races.  PACs connected to the Advance Group contributed to 9 of the 15 candidates with no races.

4ICD  Berlin Rosen; 13ICD Red Horse, Advance PAC UF; 20ICD None; 21ICD None; 23ICD None, Advance PAC UF; 25ICD Muli-Media; 26ICD Hudson TG; 29ICD Hudson TG, Advance PAC UF; 30ICD Berlin Rosen, Advance PAC UF; 32ICD None, Advance PAC UF; 39ICD None, Advance PAC UF; 43CD None; 45ICD None, Advance PAC UF; 49ICD Brandford Communications, Advance PAC UF; 51ICD None, Advance PAC UF 

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16 Blow Out Council Races (11 Incumbents)

The big 8 worked for 8 of the 16 candidates who had blow out elections

2CD None, Advance PAC UF, CA; 8ICD None, Advance PAC NYCLASS; 9ICD Parkside PAC (2), Advance PAC UF; 12CD Parkside PAC, Advance PAC UF; 14ICD Brandford Communications, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC;  17ICD None; 18ICD Red Horse, Advance PAC UF; 28ICD Berlin Rosen; 31ICD Berlin Rosen, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC, Advance PAC UF; 32CD Red Horse, Advance PAC UF; 33ICD Berlin Rosen, Advance PAC UF; 40ICD None, Advance PAC UF; 41ICD None; 42CD Hudson TG, Advance PAC UF; 44ICD None; 50CD None

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The Tyranny Makers

Public Advocate: Brandford Communications, Berlin Rosen, Red Horse, Hudson TD, Advance HWSMC; Comptroller: Berlin Rosen, George Arzt, Multi-Media, Marathon Strategies; Mayor Berlin Rosen, Marathron Strategies, Marc Guma, SKD Knickerbocker; Brooklyn BP No Race: Red Horse; Bronx BP No Race: Brandford Communciations, Red Horse, Advance Group; Queens BP: Red Horse, Hudson TV, Multi-Media, George Arzt, Mercury Public  Affairs; Manhattan BP: Red Horse, Marathon Strategies, Marc Guma, Advance, Berlin Rosen, George Arzt; Brooklyn DA: Red Horse, Advance Group, Bedford Communications, George Arzt Manhattan DA No Race: Red Horse, Marc Guma Queens DA: Marc Guma; Bronx DA: Brandford Communications; NYSSC:   Parkside Group, Berlin Rosen, Brandford Communications, Red Horse Guma AG: Berlin Rosen, SKDKickerbocker; NYS Comptroller: Red Horse; NYS Governor: Marc Guma, Marathron Strategies, Red Horse, Advance Group

Growing trend raising alarms for ethics watchdogs(NYDN)

Political consultants, who work to elect lawmakers, are turning around and lobbying them on behalf of private clients.

New Manhattan BP Wins Without the Big 8

Gail Brewer Wins Without the News Tammany Hall

Organized Crime Politics: 
The New Tammany Hall
Eight campaign consultants all but one are also lobbyists, have monopolized NYC elections system that only the Justice Department using the Sherman Antitrust Act can bust.  These consultants run every important campaign in New York.   The big 8 include: the Advance Group, the Parkside Group/Marathon Strategies (join at the hip), Berlin Rosen, Mercury Public Affairs, Brandford Communications, George Arzt, Multi-Media, Hudson TJ and Red Horse. Like the Apalachin mobsters the consultants/lobbyist has divided up New York to control the government and rake in corrupt lobbying dollars. Also like the mobsters the big 8 may even be about the law.

We can see how anyone might regard our state Assembly the same way you would organized crime. 
The full Nelson(NYP) Castro, you may recall, was a state assemblyman who wore a wire as part of US Attorney Preet Bharara’s investigation into corruption in Albany. Castro’s cooperation helped lead to the arrest of fellow Assembly member Eric Stevenson this year.

Independent groups have dropped $7.2 million so far

1.45M independent spending for @BillThompsonNYC; 656K for @Quinn4NY; 8K for @deBlasioNYC. See @NYCCFB charts: http://ow.ly/orSW0
NYC 2013 Roundup: Following The Money(NYDN)
Jobs for New York, Inc.: independent expenditures of $69,309 since 8/5 supporting Laurie Cumbo
Jobs for New York, Inc.: independent expenditures of $21,731 since 8/5 supporting Margret Chin * Jobs for New York, Inc.: independent expenditures of $81,228 since 8/5 supporting Inez Dickens * Jobs for New York, Inc.: independent expenditures of $23,922 since 8/5 supporting Sara Gonzalez * Jobs for New York, Inc.: independent expenditures of $74,705 since 8/5 supporting Alan Maisel* Jobs for New York, Inc.: independent expenditures of $38,168 since 8/5 opposing Mercedes Narcisse Who is funding these #NYC2013 independent expenditures? A list of all contributions of $100k or more:  * Outside Groups Have Spent $3 Million on Mayor’s Race(NYT)

With the majority of candidates abiding by spending caps in exchange for participating in the city’s matching-fund program, any outside financing could make a difference.
Jobs for New York, Inc.: ind expenditures of $8,850 on 8/31 opposing John Lisyanskiy
Jobs for New York, Inc.: ind expenditures of $7,325 on 8/31 supporting Ari Kagan


Jobs for New York Lost All Their Big Races
Of the 6 hotly-contested races they were in (5,19,27,36,38,48), Jobs4NY lost 5. #underperforming

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All the Media Silent On Local Impact on  Citizens United

We have just gone though the first local election since the Citizen United ruling where two major IE groups Jobs4NT and NYClass has pumped money into almost every first time winning candidate or attacked their opponent.  CrainsNY reporter Chris Bragg has done a good job showing that on of the big PAC groups headed by Advance's Scott Levinson was not following the election law and was in some elections working against the interests of his council clients.  Only True News has asked where is the media on Citizens United effect on the city's elections. Mark Levine ran  in a minority created district he did not even live in won with the help of Jobs4NY, NYClass and United for the Future.* Politicians for Sale (NYT Ed)The Supreme Court should follow its own precedent and uphold overall campaign contribution limits.


Jobs4NY's Parkside Lobbyists for the Media

Not One Story About Parkside's Role in Jobs4NY
The New York Newspaper Guild pays the Parkside Group $60,000 a year to lobby for them. It is strange that the major role Parkside plays in state and local elections it never gets written about.  Parkside ran Jobs4NY for the real estate industry which spent millions buying future councilmembers. The Newspaper Guild-CWA is a labor union founded by newspaper journalists in 1933 who noticed that unionized printers and truck drivers were making more money than they did. In addition to improving wages and working conditions, its constitution says its purpose is to fight for honesty in journalism and the news industry's business practices.
REBNY | Jobs For New York PAC - The Real Deal *  Lobbyist Has a Dual Role at City Hall - New York Times(2005) * True News: A Takeover Of Journalism by Lobbyist and Politicians * A Letter to Garcia: (Michael) Garcia U.S. Attorney | Room Eight

Senator Krueger Calls Jobs4NY IE PAC Racist That Her Former Spokesman Works For

Krueger Call A Campaign PAC That Operates Secretly Racist

Sen. Liz Krueger calls campaign waged by the Senate Dems' own political consultant "ugly, racist attack campaigns" Even Though Her Former Campaign Spokesperson Kyle Sklerov Works for the Company That Ran the IE PAC Jobs For New York. The company that Sklerov works for is Marathon Strategies is being sued by Lisa Giovinazzo who lost the primary for Staten Island’s 50th district, filed suit last month claiming Jobs for New York printed “blatantly false and misleading statements, deliberately and intentionally.”  Sen. Liz Krueger, a pro-tenant Manhattan Democrat, said she doesn't want to see the kind of negative literature that Jobs for New York flooded certain City Council districts with this past summer. "They poured a huge amount of money in to do really, really ugly, racist attack campaigns against a number of council candidates throughout the city," she charged. (The PAC denied there was anything improper about its mailers and said 85% of them were positive. The Parkside Group Was Paid Over $2 million DSCC during the last two elections * Jobs For New York, the real estate-backed Super PAC that dropped $7 million on NYC Council races this year, is eying the 2014 elections in the state Legislature. * Corrupt Parkside Get Away With It Over and Over (True News)




Lawsuit Against Jobs 4 New York

 City Council loser accuses Jobs for New York of libel(Real Deal) Lisa Giovinazzo, an attorney who lost the Republican primary for Staten Island’s 50th district, filed suit last month claiming Jobs for New York printed “blatantly false and misleading statements, deliberately and intentionally.” In an amendment dated Aug. 30, the plaintiff also named Phil Singer, a political strategist for Marathon Strategies and spokesperson for the PAC, as a defendant, following his comments in a newspaper article.With fifteen years of experience working for some of the most demanding campaigns and active political figures of the past two decades, Phil Singer is a veteran political strategist and public relations expert.* Jobs for New York is also supported by several private-sector unions, including the Mason Tenders' District Council of Greater New York; United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1500, which represents supermarket workers; and the New York City District Council of Carpenters.



Jobs for New York's next goal: Albany 2014

Real estate-backed @Jobs4NY, which spent $7M to influence City Council elex, eyes Albany in '14 








The Secret Monopoly of Subcontracting Lobbyists /Consultants 

In addition the Moreland Commission must end the secret world of campaign consultants, where firms like Parkside can subcontract to other lobbyist/consultants who do not have to report their earning in campaign filings. Last month the NYP reported that a consultant for Spitzer worked with Clarence Norman who was released from jail last year.  Mike Nussbaum the publisher of the Queens Tribune owns a printing company called muilti media that has a long relationship doing printing work for Parkside clients.  But if you look at the finance filings you almost never the Nussbaum or any other hidden subcontactor because because the election law does not require them  to file. This allows campaigns to hire campaign workers like Denis Gallagher who was thrown off the council for sexual abuse, but more importantly also allows consultant/lobbyist to trade favors with each other. A real estate lobbyist like Arzt could be hired by a campaign without the public ever knowing. 



A Handfull of Lobbyists Consultants Have Taken Over Politics and the Media Has Not Noticed

They not only hire each other but trade supports for their lobby clients with each other. Changing what was individual corruption in the past to what only can be described as an organize crime commission. With the new IE PACS like Jobs for New York and Citizens Action Committee the interlocking secret connection of campaign consultants/lobbyist and the special interests in real estate who fund  them, have created a permanent government hidden lobbyists running campaigns that is hidden from the public because of election  laws with the special interests have gamed. Scott  Levinson's Advance Group was not the only consultant/lobbyist that work for candidates running against each other. The commission must investigate consultant lobbyist and their secret sub contracts it they intend to fulfill their mandate to expose the connection between campaign contributions and the influencing of legislation.






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Jobs4NY Type IE PACS Can Be Slowed Down

Tenant PAC Put Its Foot Down Against  Jobs4NY
If City Council candidates are unwilling to denounce millions in outside spending by the real estate-backed political action committee Jobs for New York, they won't be getting the endorsement of the city's most influential tenants rights group, a top leader Michael McKee, of Tenants PAC said.  Almost all of Tenpac endorsed candidates did not get any money from Jobs4NY. The following Tenpac candidates did not get any mailings from Jobs4NY: Corey Johnson, Benjamin Kallos, Helen Rosenthal, and Rosie Mendez, Melissa Mark-Viverito.  In the Bronx Tenants PAC endorsed Andy King and he got a little mailing mailing from Jobs$NY. In Manhattan Tenant PAC endorsed candidates Ydanis Rodriguez and Mark Levine got $$$ from Jobs4NY.  Many of the candidates TenPac endorsed were attacked in mailing put out by Tenpac, including  Ede Fox, Carlos Menchaca, Vince Morgan.  Jobs4NY also sent out an attack piece against Tenpac endorsed candidate Benjamin Kallos. If All the interests groups not just Tenant PAC put their foot down on not supporting candidates who took money from PACs like Jobs4NY it would have a much greater impact.


Council Speakers Race PACs & Boss

Looks Like Business PAC Working With the Jobs4NY PAC and Queens Boss Crowley Could Name Council Speaker

Business PAC is Really Real Estate PAC Controlled By Leaders of One Community
Greenfield's Fake Business PACS Intends to Give Him and His Backers in the Sephardic Jewish Community A Voice in Picking the Next Speaker 

The inner workings of a mysterious 'small biz' PAC(CrainsNY) Largely unnoticed, however, was that little of its funding came from small businesses. The PAC was bankrolled mostly by real estate interests in southern Brooklyn's Sephardic Jewish community, raising the question of what they hope to gain and whether their spending will ultimately benefit the enclave's ambitious political patron, Councilman David Greenfield, who is looking to play a big role in the upcoming race for council speaker. 

 True News Reported That the Consultant Do Favors For One Another Creating A Campaign Monopoly They Control

As Reported in True News 4 Weeks Ago
The New Apalachin Crime Summit, 56 Years Later

These same big 8 consultants also have the same monopolized control of citywide, state election and law enforcement elections. There operating model resembles organize crime after the Apalachin crime meeting. That 1957 meeting included over 100 mobsters including "Joe the Barber," divided the illegal operations of loan sharking, narcotics trafficking and gambling  controlled by the late Albert Anastasia.  The big 8 include: the Advance Group, the Parkside Group/Marathon Strategies (join at the hip), Berlin Rosen, Mercury Public Affairs, Brandford Communications, George Arzt, Multi-Media, Hudson TJ and Red Horse. Like the Apalachin mobsters the consultants/lobbyist has divided up New York to control the government and rake in corrupt lobbying dollars. Also like the mobsters the big 8 may even be about the law. A Surprise Progressive Takeover of City Hall - Party Leaders, Partnership and Permanent Government Caught Flatfooted* Speaker Hopeful: Ethics Committee A Tough Sell For City Council Colleagues(NYDN)