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Republican Nassau County executive candidate Jack Martins is criticizing his Democratic opponent’s use of a political consulting firm involved in controversies surrounding New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The campaign of Laura Curran, a county legislator from Baldwin, has paid Manhattan-based BerlinRosen $192,613 since the beginning of this year for consulting work and production of campaign literature and mailings, according to filings with the state Board of Elections.
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Jonathan Rosen, a BerlinRosen principal, has been a longtime de Blasio adviser, and the firm was subpoenaed in 2016 amid a probe of the mayor’s political fundraising operation. Authorities ultimately declined to charge the mayor with any crimes.
De Blasio, however, drew criticism for designating Rosen and other outside consultants as “agents of the city” — an attempt to exempt their communications with City Hall from New York’s Freedom of Information Law.
“Laura Curran brought the Bill de Blasio Pay-to-Play Corruption Machine into Nassau County to run her campaign,” Martins spokeswoman Mollie Fullington said in a statement this week.