Kiryas Joel, Monroe, NY - Village Trustee Solicited Campaign Cash For Someone Who Isn't In A Campaign
Kiryas Joel, Monroe, NY - Howard D. Mills, New York State's superintendent of insurance, accepted $15,000 in campaign contributions last year even though he is not running for office, campaign filings show.
The campaign filings show that on Aug. 24, Mr. Mills's campaign account received $2,500 donations from Abraham Rubin, Lipa Rubin and Malky Landau, all of Brooklyn. A month later it received a fourth $2,500 donation, from Joshua Steinberg, also of Brooklyn. None had contributed to his Assembly campaign before.
Rabbi Jacob Freund, a village trustee from Kiryas Joel Monroe, NY, said in an interview that he solicited the donations for Mr. Mills. He said the Brooklyn donors all have ties to Kiryas Joel.
Rabbi Freund said that Mr. Mills had not asked him to solicit the funds, but that he had wanted to do so to thank him for his service as an assemblyman, and because he thinks Mr. Mills will be a rising political star. He said he would only solicit donors who do not have business before the Insurance Department.
"He's not 100 percent kosher, he has to be 110 percent," Rabbi Freund said.
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