Nomiki Konst Accused of "Massive Fraud" in Public Advocate Campaign
<...> The very next day, an invoice arrived at the Konst campaign office for nearly $90,000 worth of canvassing and field operations from a Louisiana firm called Deep South Political Consulting, Coniglione said.
By Coniglione's account, the invoice shocked Dominique Shuminova, Konst’s official campaign manager. For one, the campaign was already amassing an internal canvassing team. Why hire another? Further, the decision to hire Deep South Political Consulting hadn’t been run past Shuminova, he said. Coniglione, who’d recently gone through the city’s campaign finance board training, said the invoice itself was bizarre, asking for payment for services that hadn’t been rendered, and in one lump sum.
In the days that followed, Coniglione says he increasingly began to suspect something was amiss, eventually prompting him to file a complaint in April with the city’s campaign finance authorities alleging “massive fraud by the Campaign and Ms. Konst.” In his formal complaint, Coniglione says he suspects the campaign used public matching funds to “funnel” money to Konst's off-the-books, de facto campaign manager, a man named Lonny Paris. <...>
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2019/05/01/with-taxpayer-dollars-flowing-in-konsts-public-advocate-campaign-accused-of-fraud-997007
Who could have predicted she was just another grifter?
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