Moses hid a third city job inside innocuous statutory language

Evidence

The best bill drafter in Albany told La Guardia not to worry. Buried deep within the bill he drafted—it was Section 607, to be precise—allowing him to accept the park commissionership was the apparently innocuous phrase “an unsalaried state officer shall not be ineligible to hold any other unsalaried office filled by appointment of the Mayor.” The camouflage worked. Unsalaried offices generally referred to meaningless honorary positions; not one legislator appears to have realized that it could also refer to an authority commissionership. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 1602

Categorization

• XREF: Extends ch15’s theme of Moses hiding real projects inside disguised budget line items and blurring lawbreaking by focusing on popular ends. — connects to: Moses simultaneously headed seven separate park and road agencies — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 1605; Moses’s evasive answers revealed he knew the appropriation was unlawful — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 835