Bloomberg Ethics Violations, Collusion, Gave Political Support to Ground Zero Mosque Supremacists, Newly Released Documents Reveal

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They're emailing each other?

The release today of documents, emails and various exchanges between Mayor Bloomberg and radical Rauf and his motley crew of Islamic supremacists shows evidence of collusion and inappropriate political support/favoritism of the Ground Zero mega mosque. It's worse than we imagined.

Mayor Bloomberg's offices went to extraordinary lengths for the radicals trying to build a mega mosque at Ground Zero -- even writing a letter to the community board for them, newly released documents show. Is it any wonder that radical Rauf and Daisy the Khan were so confident at the landmark hearings?

Which begs the question: why is the Mayor breaking ethical rules for a slumlord with radical ties whose buildings were in receivership?

The dotty, irrational Mayor has shown no such favoritism towards the rebuilding of the 96-year-old St. Nicholas church at Ground Zero. It remains vanquished by Muslim terrorists, despite the ten-year battle by Church officials, frustrated in their attempts to rebuild.

Judicial Watch filed freedom of information act requests for correspondence between New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf concerning the Islamic mosque and cultural center he plans to build a few blocks from Ground Zero. More here.

The Mayor failed to release these documents back in August. It took an additional six months to get Bloomberg to comply with this request. Now we know why, and what he was hiding.

The  records of communication between the Office of the Mayor and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf concerning the Cordoba Initiative’s proposed Cordoba House project show that the Mayor, on more than one occasion, improperly collaborated with Rauf and co.

Why did Bloomberg help the Cordoba Initiative write its letter to the landmark commission, altering and making suggestions and revisions to Rauf's letter?

Why did the city intervene on behalf of Rauf in securing the permits from the building department for assembly permits in a building destroyed in the 911 attacks?

Bloomberg's aides provided political support for Ground Zero mosque, released emails show Daily News   

Mayor Bloomberg's top deputies went to great lengths to help those trying to build a mosque at Ground Zero - even drafting a letter to the community board for them, newly released documents show.

City Hall on Thursday released a flurry of emails between its brass and Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam pushing to build a mosque near the sensitive site, and his supporters.
At one point, Community Affairs Commissioner Nazli Parvizi drafted a letter for Rauf's wife, Daisy Khan, to send to Community Board 1, which was voting on the project.

"As a Muslim-American and a New Yorker, I take my role in keeping New York the greatest City in the world serious," the draft said. Parvizi also provided the contact information for the board.

Another email shows that Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Fatima Shama expedited a temporary public assembly permit for the group to conduct prayers in January at the site, known as 51 Park.

And, last summer, Shama corresponded with supporters of the mosque about contributions to defray the cost of a Ramadan celebration at Gracie Mansion.

"We will mail out the $300 check towards the Ramadan event ... today," mosque backer and American Society for Muslim Advancement Director Rushda Majeed wrote in an August email to Shama.

Bloomberg used the Gracie Mansion dinner to support the mosque, prominently inviting a Muslim whose son died on 9/11, the Muslim parents of a soldier serving overseas, as well as Rauf and Khan.

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"The Community Affairs Unit exists to help groups navigate city government, and from helping prepare for a Papal visit to expediting approval of a Sukkah in a midtown Manhattan park, this kind of assistance is typical of its regular work," said Bloomberg spokesman Stu Loeser.

But one critic of the mosque charged that the emails prove that backers rigged the public approval process.

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Community Board 1 Chairwoman Julie Menin says her board never received the letter from Khan - and that it wouldn't matter if it had.

I think Menin is a  liar. She's a mosque shill

Board members supported the mosque from the beginning and involvement from the mayor's office "certainly didn't change the way we view the project," Menin said. "We're always extremely independent and we always will be."

More on Menin here. Menin's husband is Bruce Menin, president and principal of Crescent Heights Investments, a national real estate development company. The real estate aspect is key here for LMDC chair Menin.

Photo: Bruce Menin, Julie Menin, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Diana Taylor