Mayor Mamdani’s aides violated city rules and state law in using the disappearing Signal app to send messages to internet influencers to help them to spread word of the mayor’s achievements. Breaking the law evidently isn’t one of the mayoral achievements City Hall is seeking to amplify.

Rather than have the responsible party, Emilia Rowland, the director of new media and cultural communications, explain to the City Council what she and her office did against explicit written policies, Mamdani sent two other officials with no knowledge about the misconduct, Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, commissioner of the Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS) and Tascha Van Auken, commissioner of the Office of Mass Engagement.

Of course Smith-Cruz and Van Auken had nothing to tell the Council about Rowland’s breach, even as Mamdani was saying, “I’m confident in the testimony that our administration is providing today, that it will be sufficient in answering the........

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