From
Battery Park Scandal Article above on Thompson.
here is an excerpt -- read the entire article...
Brookfield Properties’ lobbyist on its renovation project was an Albany lawyer named Jerry Weiss, whose firm LJM Rad received $90,000 between March and August of last year, for work on issues related to the World Financial Center’s renovations.
Last July, Weiss made a contribution of $4,900 to Thompson’s mayoral campaign. Another LJM Rad lobbyist, Michael McNulty, gave two separate $1,000 contributions to Thompson in July and December, and Henry Nahal, a lawyer at the same Albany law firm where Weiss works as an attorney, chipped in another $1,200. The donations from McNulty and Nahal are the only ones listed for the two men in the city campaign finance board’s database, which dates back more than 20 years.
Weiss was also listed as one of Thompson’s bundlers in an initial disclosure statement filed with the New York City Campaign Finance Board in January. Records showed Weiss as bundling $15,400 from six donors, all on the same day this winter.
But a spokesman for the Campaign Finance Board said that Thompson later changed his filings to strike the affiliations with Weiss, while keeping the cash. Such amendments are permitted if there was a mistake in an initial disclosure, the spokesman said.
Weiss declined to comment. Reached by phone, James Eagan, one of the donors that had been tied to Weiss said that the two were friends, but that the lobbyist hadn’t been the one to solicit the donation, which stemmed from an event.
