New York Daily News

Bill reaps what he sows

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So much for Mayor de Blasio’s short-lived attempt to cast an investigat­ion into his fundraisin­g operations as a political witchhunt by an overzealou­s prober connected to Gov. Cuomo. Subpoenas issued by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance make clear that the mayor is in hot water of his own boiling — regardless of whether criminal charges are forthcomin­g.

Those subpoenaed include City Hall political adviser Emma Wolfe, de Blasio fundraiser Ross Offinger and communicat­ions gurus at the BerlinRose­n firm. You have to go a long way back in history to find so many people in a mayor’s inner circle so ensnared.

The subpoenas seek records connected to both the mayoral favor-currying fund the Campaign for One New York and also to de Blasio’s 2014 scheme to engineer a Democratic takeover of the Republican-controlled state Senate.

Remember when de Blasio dismissed a state Board of Elections criminal referral as mere political vendetta, all the way back on Monday?

When he said, parroting an obtuse memo by his lawyer, that the board has no clue about the election law it enforces?

Safe to say that the feds on the beat, and Vance, harbor no bias against de Blasio nor are ignorant of criminal statutes.

The broad reach of their subpoenas clarifies that the promiscuou­s range of the mayor’s fundraisin­g operation is under microscopi­c scrutiny, no part separable from the others.

De Blasio had better stop pointing fingers, and start preparing his defense.

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