Brooklyn Councilmember Crystal Hudson appears to have been caught with real estate cash. A leading contender in the New York City Council speaker race, Hudson took campaign cash from real estate players while publicly pledging not to, the New York Daily News reported. Her campaign then quietly deleted the promise from her website. Hudson’s Council campaign accepted donations from developers and lobbyists with active business before her office, filings show, even as her website declared she wouldn’t take money from “for-profit real estate developers” or “lobbyists who represent real estate.”  The disclaimer, visible from 2021 through August 2024, was scrubbed […]

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