Legal Defense Trust Expenditures
Pursuant to the City's Legal Defense Trusts Law, found in Chapter 11 of Title 3 of the New York City Administrative Code, a public servant (or someone acting on behalf of a public servant) may set up a legal defense trust to raise funds to pay for certain legal bills and expenses connected with the public servant’s City employment. This dataset lists information about expenditures made by legal defense trusts in accordance with the City's Legal Defense Trusts Law. Specifically, it includes the names and addresses of each entity paid for expenses incurred by the legal defense trust; the amount and purpose of the expenses; and the date the expenses were incurred. For more information about legal defense trusts and the laws that govern them, visit https://www.nyc.gov/site/coib/the-law/legal-defense-trusts-law.page.
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Freshness
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Fresh
- Says it updates
- Quarterly
- Actually updates about every
- 73.96 days
- Publisher last updated the data
- Aug 3, 2026
Our mirror
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In sync
- We last synced
- Aug 3, 2026, 11:30 AM
- Rows in our copy
- 166
- Rows at the source
- 166
- Our copy trails the source by
- under a minute
Columns
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6 of 20 columns carry a concept; 20 carry a description from the publisher. Read the concept column before you join. A column with no concept carries no claim from us, and a name that looks like a key is not one.
| Source field | Display name | What the publisher says it is | Concept | Source type | Stored as | Stored type | Row identifier | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
council_district | Council District | The City Council is the lawmaking body of NYC, on equal footing with the mayor in terms of governing power. Besides legislating, the Council has sole approval power over the city budget, and is the final decision-maker in land use matters. There are 51 City Council members in total, each representing a unique geographical area, called a Council District. | council_districtdeclared | Number | council_district | numeric | — | |
amount | Amount | Amount of the expenditure | Not bound | Number | amount | numeric | — | |
purpose_of_expenditure | Purpose of Expenditure | Description of the expenses | Not bound | Text | purpose_of_expenditure | text | — | |
trust_name | Trust Name | The name of the legal defense trust making the expenditure | Not bound | Text | trust_name | text | — | |
payee_name | Payee Name | Name of entity to receive payment for expenses | Not bound | Text | payee_name | text | — | |
expenditure_name | Expenditure Name | Unique identifying number for the expenditure |
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Source and attribution
Where this data comes from, which version we hold, and what we changed.
- Source
- https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/mhyv-6iza
- Version
- Content hash:
c4c9a93a4a1f6180f0ecfdd46ea1b86989fe6a26f2d67c04440c9a6af7f9ce6e - What we changed
- We did not change the data. We stored it as published.
- Publisher
- codenownyc
- We retrieved it
- Aug 3, 2026, 11:30 AM
Update history
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