The Campaign Finance Laws that Sparked the De Blasio Probe

Mayor Bill de Blasio presents New York City’s Preliminary Budget for Fiscal Year 2017 (FY17). Blue Room, City Hall. Thursday, January 21, 2016.

Mayor de Blasio is under investigation for his fundraising apparatus.

Is this unsavory politics as usual or is it illegal, unsavory politics as usual?

Laura Nahmias, who reports on City Hall for POLITICO, discusses the state laws that have brought into question donations solicited by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign apparatus, which is under investigation by state and federal authorities.