NY’s Hochul, Heastie ‘abused’ power to party in Buffalo Bills luxury suite: complaint gov. Kathy Hochul and other top New York Democrats were accused of turning a luxury suite at the Buffalo Bills stadium into a private party room during a marquee game last year, The Post has learned.
Hochul, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Majority Leader Crystal People-Stokes took over the VIP luxury suite for the Dec. 17, 2023 game against the Dallas Cowboys — with a guest list that included a lobbyist Heastie’s been tied to romantically, according to a complaint filed with the state’s ethics watchdog.
“It is clear that the public officials secured the benefit of the use of the box and the tickets for themselves and their guests for their private benefit and/or non-governmental purposes,” lawyer David Grandeau said in a March 28 letter to the NYS Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government.
Grandeau, who formerly served as the state’s chief regulator of the lobbying industry, added, “They clearly abused their power to generate a valuable perk for themselves and the lobbyists that accompanied that was not available to everyday New York citizens and taxpayers.”
Heastie’s alleged girlfriend Rebecca LaMorte, lobbyist-college chum Patrick Jenkins and Jenkins’ wife, Dawn Cotter-Jenkins, were also in the suite at Highmark Stadium.
