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Griped of horse fiasco ‘after we just spent 500K’

don’t know what she meant” when Neu wrote “we were there for you.”

Christina Hansen, a spokeswoman for the New York carriage horse industry, saw the emails as proof that NYCLASS’ money tipped the scales against the drivers.

“We always thought that was going on, but to see it in black and white?” she said. “They had his personal email address. It’s disappointing that millionaires and political donors get access to politicians that working people can’t get.”

Asked what Neu meant, a spokesman made no reference to all the money raised for de Blasio, stating, “NYCLASS endorsed the mayor in 2013 and strongly encouraged our thousands of supporters to vote and work hard for the mayor.”

Recent revelations have made it clear that several deep-pocketed donors expected something from City Hall for their money.

Developer Jona Rechnitz held a fund-raiser for the mayor in 2013, wrote a $50,000 check to Campaign for One New York and a $102,300 check to help de Blasio’s failed attempt in 2014 to flip the state Senate to the Democrats.

Emails released Friday show Rechnitz frequently communicated with the mayor via personal email, and de Blasio often quickly responded.

In 2014, city inspectors hit Rechnitz with multiple violations for running an illegal hotel and warned that the units lacked fire alarms, sprinklers and a second exit.

Rechnitz faced more than $40,000 in fines and a potential vacate order if the city declared the building a threat to public safety.

A week after Rechnitz wrote his huge check to the mayor’s Senate cause, a top de Blasio aide reached out to set up a meeting about the citations.

Rechnitz paid the fine, and the city declined to issue a vacate order. A City Hall spokesman said, “Inspectors at the time didn’t feel the conditions necessitated a vacate.”

Rechnitz was later arrested by the FBI, pleaded guilty to corruption charges and cooperated with the feds in the probe of de Blasio.