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Michael Blake: “You can actually reclaim back the $2 billion of unclaimed…”

Featuring: Michael Blake, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House New York, District 15

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Michael Blake Discusses New York City Mayoral Candidacy and Policy Proposals on The Breakfast Club

Published | Video Starts at 15:37

And so when I'm talking through, yes, you can have that $1.4 billion excessive overtime, NYPD, and put that towards the kids. Yes, You can actually reclaim back the $2 billion of unclaimed fees and fines and actually help the community. We can do these things. And the reason why it's not happening is because of lack of leadership. Into the early question about Eric Adams, we got to ask ourselves for four years, what was he doing on this? (15:37–15:43)

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