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But elements of the city’s bureaucracy are gearing up to fight parts of the legislation. At a City Council hearing on Monday, the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and the Department of Small Business Services pushed back on the proposals.
Consumer Protection Commissioner Lorelei Salas opposed what she considered would be a dilution of the Consumer Protection Law, which Salas argued has been part of the city code since 1969.
“Diluting the CPL and not improving its protections will have tremendously negative consequences for the most vulnerable of our city’s constituents and stifle our agency mission during a time of extreme crisis,” she said.
City Council Bills Look to Provide Code Violation Relief for NYC Restaurants
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Outrage over Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s policies regarding Covid-19 patients in nursing homes and his administration’s decisions to withhold numbers detailing some of the consequences won’t soon be brushed under a rug, according to a new poll this afternoon. A Marist poll gave Cuomo his poorest results yet in a trio of survey results that have been released since criticism intensified last month.
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The Manhattan district attorney will soon get his hands on former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, after the U.S. Supreme Court
The contents of those documents might be a little less tantalizing to the average reader now that Trump is out of office, and the New York Times obtained and published much of the information. But the ruling is significant because it clears a hurdle to the criminal investigation Manhattan DA Cy Vance
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The New York City Campaign Finance Board released more than $37 million in matching funds to candidates in the races for mayor, comptroller, borough president, and New York City Council to date, representing the largest amount ever doled out in CFB history. Much of that was driven by the sheer number of candidates in these races, with more than 400 people opening campaigns, but also by the CFB’s 8-to-1 matching funds program that stretches funds from small-time donors, weakening the might of political action committees (a.k.a. dark money).
On Tuesday, the CFB met to announce its disbursement of funds at a public meeting after staffers audited financial records they obtained by campaign treasurers for the months of July 2020 to January 2021. While campaigns typically claim to have reached the threshold needed to qualify for the funds, they still must be vetted by CFB auditors to ensure candidates meet the criteria needed to qualify for
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