{"id":120,"date":"2023-11-15T22:31:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T22:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/table-of-success.local\/?p=120"},"modified":"2023-12-18T19:03:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T19:03:38","slug":"peter-koo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tableofsuccess.mysites.io\/peter-koo\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Koo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
During the mayoral campaign in 2021, COVID restrictions mostly limited the ability of campaigns to hold indoor fundraisers during the cold winter months. But then-New York City Councilmember Peter Koo found a loophole to help out his friend Eric Adams. He held a fundraiser in Great Neck, Long Island<\/a>, where indoor dining was allowed. In an invitation to the fundraiser, Koo texted potential donors that Adams wouldn’t mess with the much-criticized exam that determines who gets into the City’s specialized high schools, and that Koo would find himself with a job in the administration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n ‘If elected, he said he will appoint me as one of the deputy mayors,” the text message said, according to reporting by the New York Times. But when approached by the Times<\/a> about the message, Koo said he was all bluster. <\/p>\n\n\n\n ”I am at retirement age,” he told the Times. “I don’t need a job. I said that just to impress on my friends, do this, help support a mayor.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “‘That is categorically false,” said Adams’s campaign spokesperson Evan Thies<\/a> about the job offer.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n But this isn\u2019t the first time fundraising for Eric Adams seemed to translate into a nice job<\/a> in the Adams administration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A year later, Koo found himself in City Hall, as a senior adviser to Deputy Mayor of Public Safety Philip Banks III<\/a>, whose own position is deeply nebulous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n