Reporting by Greg B. Smith in the Daily News this week examined the role of former Bloomberg lobbyist "Skip" Piscitelli and his off-the-bat political and government communications with City Hall officials shortly after he was out the door and back in the high-powered lobbying firm of Wilson, Elser -- now to be probed as a no-no under ethics laws. The original story is here. Followups are here and here. One question raised is whether the city government officially dispatched help for Republican Nassau clerk Maureen O'Connell in her race to beat Democrat Craig Johnson earlier this year.
For some time, Skip's father Peter Piscitelli has been a big-time lobbying figure in New York City and Albany and was a player back in the Koch administration. Ken Shapiro, former top aide in the state Assembly, also is associated with the firm. The younger Piscitelli's communications with Kevin Sheekey, the mayor's master of political promotion, form a rare glimpse of conversations tracked by e-mail.