New York Daily News

A SERIES OF ODD COINCIDENC­ES

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MAYOR DE Blasio has said donors did not get special treatment from the city. But many donors — some of whom were asked to give big — wound up getting city business, appointmen­ts, or they saw policies that would benefit them supported by City Hall. De Blasio has insisted those decisions were on the merits. They include:

Joseph Dussich’s company MintX, which makes mint-scented, rat-repelling trash bags, scored a $5.6 million city contract — and gave two $50,000 donations to the mayor’s Campaign for One New York. Moishe Indig, a leader of the religious Jewish Satmar group, hosted a fundraiser for de Blasio in 2013, his campaign said at the time. Prosecutor­s later investigat­ed whether that event was connected to the lifting of an order to vacate a Hasidic school. Seven developers with properties along the proposed route of a Brooklyn-Queens streetcar donated a combined $245,000 to Campaign for One New York. Not long after that donation, the mayor announced his support for the trolley. Those owners include: • Park Tower Group donated $50,000. • Jed Walentas of T Two Trees Management donated $100,000 — through a limited liability corporatio­n that obscured the source of the check. • Toll Brothers, the developer of the Pierhouse hotel and condos at Brooklyn Bridge Park, kicked in $25,000. • Alma Realty wrote a $5,000 check. • RAL Developmen­t donated $10,000 on May 27. • Brookfield Properties donated $50,000. • Steiner Studios donated up $5,000. Jillian Jorgensen.

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