Mayor de Blasio fined over $47G for violating campaign finance regulations

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Mayor de Blasio was hit with over $47,000 in fines for violating campaign finance regulations — including having his campaign pick up the tab for a makeup artist for his whole family and a trip to Washington D.C. with his son.

De Blasio tried to get his publicly financed mayoral campaign to pick up the bill for a 2010 trip to Washington D.C. with his son Dante in honor of the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech.

De Blasio said it should be picked up by the campaign because the rally “was an opportunity” to show Dante, who is half black, “as a visible manifestation of how the [C]andidate’s life experience was resonant to the spirit of the occasion.”