Brooklyn BP Marty Markowitz Fined $20,000 by Conflict of Interest Board

  Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz has been fined $20,000 by the NYC Conflicts of Interest Board for bringing his wife Jamie along on 3 foreign Government sponsored trips. Th CIB ruled that Markowitz used his position as a public servant for private and personal advantage. 

  A story in the New York Post goes on to say that in 2007 Markowitz was warned when Cunard Lines launched the Queen Mary II in Brooklyn, and invited Markowitz and his wife for the ride. The CIB said that it would be all right for Markowitz to go, but that his wife would have to pay her own way. The Post says that Markowitz was flabbergasted by the decision, and quotes him as saying "some people get into trouble when they don't bring their wives - I'm getting into trouble because I took my wife".

  As for the $20,000 fine the post reports that Markowitz will pay "the goddamn fine, and ask the City Council to address this and set it right". 

  In February Markowitz was fined $2,000 by the CIB for using his chief of staff as a lawyer in his home closing.