Sunday, December 10, 2017

De Blasio family tree linked to corrupt political legacy of Tammany Hall

The New York Post reports:
Mayor de Blasio has argued that his administration is clean as can be, but a new analysis of ancestry records reveals his family tree has roots in the corrupt political legacy of Tammany Hall.

Hizzoner is related to Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck, who won City Hall in 1897, according to the genealogy company MyHeritage.

De Blasio and Van Wyck have ancestral roots that connect back to the English knight Sir Thomas Boteler and his wife Margaret, both of whom were born in the 1460s, MyHeritage found.
New York history.