| Nice catch by NYPIRG here. It would seem that some, if not many, of the campaign donations reported by Carl Kruger to other pols may not have ever actually reached their intended recipients. Celeste has the story at DP.
NYPIRG Follows The Money: Major Wrinkle In Carl Kruger's Donation Reports? Updated!
NYPIRG's Bill Mahoney put together a list (which you can see here or below) of those who have benefitted from under-fire state Sen. Carl Kruger's political generosity. Initally, he noted that only a few Senators, namely NYC Sens. Mike Gianaris and Liz Kruger, appeared not to have gotten any donations.
But here's the catch, and maybe it's a big one: I got a call (and perhaps others did, too) from the office of state Sen. Jose Peralta of Queens, insisting that he never got any KrugerBucks. HOWEVER, Kruger reported giving Peralta a donation. Peralta's committee never reported receiving it. Where did it go???
Says Mahoney in an email: "It has come to my attention that the list I sent around earlier might not be the most accurate place to find out who Carl Kruger donated to. Nearly $50,000 of the donations he reported making were never reported as receipts by the committees he claimed he was sending checks to. There's a chance this is a massive typographical error- perhaps dozens of campaign treasurers forgot to include donations from Kruger in their records. However, I've spoken to a staffer for one of the legislators who never got a check - Sen. Peralta - who was adamant that their filings were correct and Kruger's claim that he once gave them $1,000 was not true."
Um, weird, huh? Some other pols that Carl Kruger was supposedly donating to (and reporting), but for which a check never seemed to arrive include Senators Dilan (a JV Amigo) and Hassell-Thompson.
Money appears to have been disbursed and reported, but somehow the checks never arrived where they were supposed to.
Or something.
Getting weirder and weirder. |
