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A Group Raised Money to Push Adams’s Agenda. Much of It Went to One Man.


Some of the money was used to support political candidates. Striving for a Better New York made about three dozen political contributions between February and August. They include $1,500 for Pinny Ringel, a former City Hall aide backed by Mr. Adams who won the borough leadership position in Brooklyn; $7,500 each for Conrad Tillard and Kevin Parker, State Senate candidates backed by Adams; $4,700 to Board Chairman Carl Heastie; and $3,100 for the campaign of school district leader Edu Hermelyn, who served for a short time a $190,000 a year Adams management position.

The group doesn’t seem to spend any money on other, more laborious forms of political activism.

Instead, most of its expenditures, about $500,000, went to non-political activism.

More than $126,000 in salary and consulting fees collected by Mr. Cockfield exceeded $83,000 he told the IRS. he earned the position of chief executive officer of Lamad Academy. In a later filing with the state, he set his charter school salary between $150,000 and $250,000.

Striving for a Better New York paid $53,000 in salary and consulting fees to Carmen Sterling to serve as corporate treasurer. Ms Sterling, who also works for Lamad Academy, did not respond to an email seeking comment.

The political group also paid more than $90,000 to Brianna Suggs, a former aide to Mr. Adams when he was the president of the Brooklyn district. Ms Suggs has been paid to raise money both for the committee and for Mr. Adams’ current and previous mayoral campaigns.

Striving for a Better New York hasn’t reported raising any money since the winter, but the team has continued to pay her $10,000 a month offer as a strategy consultant. Translate. Ms Suggs passed the question on to her spokesman, Jordan Barowitz, who said she was paid for both fundraising and screening candidates. Mr Cockfield added that Ms Suggs was the group’s sole fundraiser and that she had “negotiated a payment over time” for her services.

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