Leftover money

Obviously it would have been less than what we might consider ethical for this PAC to hang onto "leftover" money from the Governor's election and plow it right into their next cause. But would it have been technically illegal if they had?  It doesn't say here. But I'd like to know.  Anyway, they're going after Leon now.

People Over Politics supported Edwards during his successful re-election bid, paying for a billboard in the same location and paying for canvassers during the race.

The current version of the group is not affiliated with the Edwards campaign, Greene said. Leftover money collected by People Over Politics as part of the gubernatorial race was sent on to Edwards’ leadership PAC, and the group has secured new funding for the district attorney’s race, she said.

A list of donors to the group was not immediately available. The group's chairman is Anthony Marullo, a real estate developer.

The organization is not supporting any specific candidate against Cannizzaro, Greene said.

Also if that is the same Anthony Marullo I'm thinking of then, yes, he is "a real estate developer." That's a bit of an understatement, though.  Marullo's family has owned the French Market Restaurant for decades. Here is an amusing story from 2016 about Marullo's dispute with a health inspector he says was shaking the restaurant down.  The family also controls numerous other properties including several hundred apartments in several locations as well as a somewhat controversial CCs franchise. 

As for their interest in the District Attorney's office, we can only guess what that might be.  The PAC spokesperson says they plan to go after Leon's record on prosecuting domestic abuse cases as well as his use of so called "fake subpoenas"  to compel witnesses to testify. While we agree that those things are bad, we'd like to know more about what is actually motivating this PAC's (currently anonymous) contributors and the Marullos specifically.   Because odds are it's something besides just an earnest concern for the victims of Cannizzaro's practices.