Jim Dwyer for the NYT:

te Board of Elections, said the de Blasio team had committed “willful and flagrant” violations of the laws by using those committees. She sent it on to the Manhattan district attorney.

Her document is remarkably assiduous in places, and filled with flagrant, or at least gaping, holes in others.

For instance, Ms. Sugarman managed not to notice that the State Democratic Committee received $766,000 in 12 days in October 2014, much of it from organizations and people linked to Mr. de Blasio, and promptly spent it on a number of the same vendors and on behalf of the same candidates, according to reports filed with the elections board. Not a word appears in her report about the money that passed through that committee. As it happens, that committee is effectively controlled by the governor, Andrew M. Cuomo, who nominated her for her job.

Why was the state committee left out of such a meticulous report?

“I don’t comment on confidential memos,” Ms. Sugarman said.

If we are going to criminalize politics, why spare one committee from the opprobrium heaped on others?