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De Blasio’s head of security covered up car crash with the mayor washex.am/2XYX8pD
Howard Redmond, the head of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s executive security unit, covered up a 2015 crash involving the mayor to avoid bad “optics.”
“As per CO no one is to know about this,” Sgt. Jerry Loveno said in August 2015 text messages to other members of the unit referring to Redmond and obtained by the New York Daily News. “Not even the other teams.”
“No one is to know,” Loveno said once again.
“No one is to know,” Loveno said once again.
There is no report of the crash available from the Department of Motor Vehicles records, and the text messages show Detective Edgar Robles was listed as the driver of the mayor’s backup SUV so as to give the appearance that de Blasio was not in the car that crashed.
The cover-up came as de Blasio has championed the city’s new Vision Zero initiative, which attempts to systematically eliminate traffic accidents.
