Berlin Rosen's clients are influential in Bill de Blasio's NYC

November 05, 2015
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From "Mayor de Blasio’s Hired Guns: Private Consultants Help Shape City Hall," New York Times:

Mr. Rosen [co-founder of BerlinRosen] appears on the mayor’s schedules roughly two dozen times in the first 17 months of the administration, particularly toward the beginning. His wife, Debbie Rosen, who had served in the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, was hired last year by the de Blasio administration, serving as chief of staff at the Office of Management and Budget.

Earlier this year, Mr. de Blasio described Mr. Rosen as a close friend who “doesn’t represent the interests of his clients when he talks to me.”

But emails obtained by The Times under the state’s Freedom of Information Law show that Mr. Rosen has represented the interests of his clients in exchanges with members of the de Blasio administration.

Several of Mr. Rosen’s requests to City Hall concerned invitations for the mayor to attend events for his firm’s clients.