1998 Question: Has anyone taken any campaign contributions from developers, landlords or real estate organizations)? Would you do so in the future?
Quinn: No I haven't and no, I won't. (more)
$7,500 from Extell with ties to Saudi right-wing Carlyle Group
$91,850 bundled from Daryl Roth, wife of Vornado Realty Trust CEO Steve Roth
$14,650 from Veronica Hackett, Clarett Group developers
$13,625 bundled from Francis Greenburger, chairman of Time Equities
$32,750 from Caryn Eyring, Taconic Investment Partners, large land-owner near Coney Island
$19,800 from Alvin Benjamin, real estate developer who allegedly committed fraud against Medicaid
Landlords & Developers Dump Dollars on Quinn
Related Co. (developer) $60,000 to Quinn & Weiner
William Rudin (developer) approx $30,000 to Quinn
$27,595 from Jay Kriegel (bundler), Olympic flim-flam man and alleged Serpico perjurer
$24,750 from Dermot Co. for 800 luxury apartments in the Hudson Yards district
$239,395 from Real Estate bundlers
2005 Campaign Finance filings (selected):
• $850 Robert Bookman, noisy bars and nightclubs
• $6500 Greenberg Traurig PAC, developer lobbyists
• $500 Donald Halperin, landlord lobbyist
• $9250 Wachtel & Masyr LLP, law firm for developer
Steve Ross, close friend of Dan Doctoroff
2003 Campaign Finance filings (selected):
• $1000 Biltmore Tower, LLC
• $1000 Building & Construction Trades (for approving Hudson Yards skyscrapers)
• $250 Donald Cappoccia (developer, friend of Rudy)
• $500 Kathleen Cudahay (real estate lobbyist)
• $250 Constantinople & Vallone (Peter Vallone, champion for landlords)
• $250 Brad Hoylman (NYC Partnership, developers' trade club)
• $500 Walter McCaffrey (real estate lobbyist)
• $2000 Martin McLaughlin (Biltmore Tower lobbyist)
• $500 Fred Ohrenstein (now a real estate lobbyist)
• $500 Pesetsky & Bookman (noisy nightclubs)
• $1000 Andrew Rasiej (nightclub promoter)
• $100 Adam Rose (Rose family developers)
• $250 Jay Segal (developer attorney at Greenberg Trausig)
More coming
