Legal Defense Trust Refunded Donations
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 donations refunded by legal defense trusts in accordance with the City's Legal Defense Trusts Law. Specifically, it includes the names and addresses of each person who donated and was refunded by the legal defense trust; the amount of the donation and refund; and the date of the donation and refund. 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
The publisher's promise
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Fresh
- Says it updates
- Quarterly
- Actually updates about every
- 73.94 days
- Publisher last updated the data
- Aug 3, 2026
Our mirror
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In sync
- We last synced
- Aug 3, 2026, 11:08 AM
- Rows in our copy
- 59
- Rows at the source
- 59
- Our copy trails the source by
- under a minute
Columns
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0 of 11 columns carry a concept; 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
state | State | Donor's state | Not bound | Text | state | text | — | |
first_name | First Name | First name of the donor being refunded | Not bound | Text | first_name | text | — | |
zip | Zip | Donor's Zip Code | Not bound | Text | zip | text | — | |
refund_amount | Refund Amount | Amount of the refund | Not bound | Text | refund_amount | text | — | |
trust_name | Trust Name | The name of the legal defense trust refunding the donation | Not bound | Text | trust_name | text | — | |
donation_amount | Donation Amount | Amount of the donation | Not bound | Text | donation_amount | text | — | |
refund_date | Refund Date | Date the refund was made | Not bound | Calendar date |
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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/t3pj-3dgu
- Version
- Content hash:
c0db6657b7218f0b5015131ad3d5ecd574d7d3b8496da6a83ea1e9230d98f6c1 - What we changed
- We did not change the data. We stored it as published.
- Publisher
- codenownyc
- We retrieved it
- Aug 3, 2026, 11:08 AM
Update history
| Started | Kind | Result | Rows written | Produced by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2026, 1:30 AM | full_replace | success | 59 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.73 |