{"id":129,"date":"2023-11-16T15:56:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/table-of-success.local\/?p=129"},"modified":"2024-09-26T01:11:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T01:11:42","slug":"brendan-mcguire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tableofsuccess.mysites.io\/brendan-mcguire\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan McGuire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Brendan McGuire is a cop’s cop. His grandfather was in the NYPD<\/a>, and his own father was the police commissioner under Mayor Ed Koch<\/a>. As a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York from 2005 to 2016, McGuire ran its public corruption unit<\/a>. There, he pursued cases against City bureaucrats and politicians who had blurred legal lines, including a Bronx City Councilmember (a case that hinged on a fraudulent $177 bagel receipt<\/a>), and a Brooklyn State Senator who took over $1 million in bribes from the health care industry.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2021, before the mayoral primary, McGuire wrote in a Daily News op-ed<\/a> citizens of New York should demand the future mayor of New York City “disavow the use of non-profit entities to fundraise and advocate for administration priorities” and “disclose all prior and current financial connections between senior members of the administration and any entity lobbying or otherwise doing business with the city.” In recent years, then-Borough President Eric Adams was using his nonprofit One Brooklyn Fund to advocate for his own priorities<\/a>. McGuire went on to join the Adams transition team and City Hall as chief counsel months after publishing the piece. Yet while McGuire was at City Hall, the mayor’s chief of staff left his post after just a year and then immediately began consulting businesses that had business with the City<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n McGuire himself seemed surprised by what he saw happening in City Hall<\/a>. When asked by City & State’s Jeff Coltin whether it would have been a conflict of interest if former Chief of Staff Frank Carone<\/a> had actively solicited business while still in City Hall, McGuire responded, “he was not actively soliciting clients while chief of staff.” Carone himself then had to take the embarrassing step of correcting McGuire’s statement, making clear that Carone was \u201cnegotiating\u201d with potential clients while in City Hall (just not on “any particular matters”). During the same interview, McGuire claimed that the mayor wasn’t using City lawyers to fight a ticket for a rat infestation at one of Adams\u2019s properties, when in fact, a City lawyer had filed a motion to vacate the ticket<\/a> on the mayor’s behalf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a statement, McGuire told Hell Gate that “any suggestion that my prior statements were inaccurate or inconsistent with those of others within the administration at the time is false and based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the facts.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n McGuire wasn’t in City Hall for very long\u2014he dipped after less than two years\u2014but while there he was a mouthpiece for the Adams administration’s insistence that they weren’t shirking the right-to-shelter mandate, which guarantees homeless New Yorkers a place to sleep each night, even as they began trying to roll it back<\/a>. When migrants began arriving in New York City without any place to live, it didn’t take long for McGuire to trying to find a way around the binding settlement that set the policy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat we\u2019re talking about is the reality that this is completely unforeseen. This rate of influx of people into the system, and so it\u2019s irresponsible not to reassess how the system works,\u201d McGuire said back in September 2022, only a few months into the surge of migrants into the city<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n