New York Playbook: “Esposito’s campaign committee for her 2022 lieutenant governor run also made four similar payments to the Upper East Side garage.”
A new report in New York Playbook exposed MAGA extremist Alison Esposito for using campaign funds to pay for a parking spot near her Upper East Side apartment – a potential violation of Federal Election Commission rules.
Esposito’s campaign’s only response was that their NYC-residing candidate would pay for her own parking in Manhattan after Playbook flagged some potentially illegal campaign payments.
This isn’t the first time Esposito, who changed her voting registration to New York’s 18th Congressional District only one week before launching her campaign, has run into trouble with her campaign’s finances. Recent reporting also revealed that Esposito did not pay her campaign staff, including a manager and communications director, for more than three months into her campaign.
DCCC Spokesperson Ellie Dougherty:
“Upper East Side Alison just got caught red-handed for not only potentially violating campaign finance law – she also all but confirmed she’s a Manhattan resident. With each passing day, Esposito proves she can’t be trusted to represent Hudson Valley families.”
Hudson Valley congressional candidate Alison Esposito is going to pay for her own parking in Manhattan after Playbook flagged some potentially illegal campaign payments.
The Republican’s campaign recorded two $529 monthly payments this year to the Icon Parking garage near her Upper East Side apartment.
That would seem to violate Federal Election Commission rules prohibiting the personal use of campaign funds.
“The campaign card was mistakenly charged,” Esposito campaign manager Ben Weiner said in a statement to Playbook. “As soon as we became aware, the situation was immediately rectified, and the charges were reversed.”
Esposito only registered to vote in NY-18 last year, and while her campaign said she was born and raised in Orange County and has long had a second home there, her Democratic opponent has tagged her as a Manhattanite.
“The FEC is going to have a field day with Upper East Side Alison,” a spokesperson for Rep. Pat Ryan’s campaign said in a statement. “We can all agree that welcoming NYC tourists to the Hudson Valley is great for our economy, but they shouldn’t be running to represent us in Congress; and they sure as hell shouldn’t be expensing $529 a month for their NYC parking spot.”
Esposito’s campaign committee for her 2022 lieutenant governor run also made four similar payments to the Upper East Side garage.
