Moses legally financed park projects through disguised line items in other departments’ budgets.

Evidence

When they waxed indignant, they were told blandly that the lighthouse property could certainly be used for oyster culture. There was nothing the slightest bit illegal about anything Moses was doing. The best bill drafter in Albany, they realized, had been at work again. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 934

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off the ch11 claim about Moses being the best bill drafter in state government, displacing the governor’s laurel. — connects to: Underestimating project costs forces legislatures to keep funding them — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 963; Moses withheld land-taking powers inside what sponsors assumed were routine park bills — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 787; Moses’ authority projects secretly cost taxpayers billions in hidden subsidies — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 90