$180K newly created NYC spokesperson job - for knowing the right people...

Yes I know, republicans are also corrupt. And it's from the NY Post, so what do they know?

Pretty flagrant - hit the link for the whole story. But nice work if you can get it.

The wife of a top NYPD official with close ties to Mayor Eric Adams has quietly been pocketing a six-figure salary in a newly-created gig she was appointed to nearly two years ago, The Post has learned. Jasmine Sheppard was appointed to the $180,000 a year role of “chief communications strategy officer” at the Department of Youth & Community Development in November 2022, according to her husband’s newly-filed financial disclosure forms.

No job description or listing for the position could be found online. A day after publication, City Hall sent a job description and claimed it was posted on NYC’s job site in July 2022, but did not provide a record of it and none could be located online.

According to the DYCD’s organizational chart, the chief communications strategy officer manages the department’s chief public information officer.

Sheppard previously worked in corporate communications for the United States Tennis Association, with her name appearing on about a dozen press releases from the group between 2010 and 2020, which is when she appears to have left the post.

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This isn’t the first significant other in Adams’ circle to land a high-paying gig in his administration.

Shortly after the mayor’s brother, Bernard Adams, accepted a $1-a-year job as head of mayoral security, his wife Sharon Adams was hired as a “strategic initiative specialist” in the education department with a $150,000 salary, the non-profit news agency, The City, reported last year.