It does look like the last days of De Blasio are coming.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has a message for his staff: Keep your traps shut if you value your jobs.
De Blasio — currently a target of at least seven federal and state investigations into his fundraising practices and business dealings — asked scores of staffers last week to sign a confidentiality agreement, according to a Gothamist report Monday.
The form refers to two parts of the City Charter prohibiting public servants from revealing city business unless it involves “conduct which the public servant knows or reasonably believes to involve waste, inefficiency, corruption, criminal activity, or conflict of interest.”
The claim is that it's business as usual. But there's nothing usual about this.
Hours after it was reported on April 27 that some of de Blasio’s top aides had been subpoenaed as part of the probes into his fundraising, Hizzoner held a staff meeting that one employee described as “the most depressing pep talk,” Gothamist reported.
“He said some of his closest aides have been unfairly targeted, and that it’s all political with no grounding in truth,” the employee said.
“He told us that no one is going to thank him for ‘not being dead’ because the homicide rate is down and Vision Zero is working."
Vision Zero is a joke and crime rates remain a matter of debate. De Blasio rather clearly empowered criminals. Also no one will thank him for a 5 cent tax on paper bags. They will celebrate his indictment.