Mayor de Blasio’s wife is branded ‘a disgrace’ for having staff of 14 – including a $70k videographer who filmed her BAKING COOKIES – while crime soars after $1bn NYPD cuts and trash piles up on streets as 22,000 city job face the chop

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• • Chirlane McCray enjoys a core team of eight full-time staff who cost the city a combined $1.1 million in annual salaries, according to her office
  • Sources told The City she also has at least another six staff who do not feature on the official roster, taking her workforce to 14 with a $2 million price tag
  • One staffer is a videographer with a salary of $70,000 who was tasked with filming McCray baking ginger snaps for a social media video during lockdown
  • Another is $150,000-a-year senior adviser Dabash Negash who was recruited in April – one week after de Blasio announced a hiring freeze
  • New Yorkers voiced outrage on Twitter calling the news ‘maddening’
  • Her 14-strong team comes as her husband warned 22,000 city workers could lose their jobs in the fall due to the toll of the pandemic on the city’s budget
  • De Blasio has already axed $1 billion from the NYPD budget while crime surges
  • Cuts have also been made to essential public services leaving rubbish piled in the streets and homelessness rife

Her team also includes $150,000-a-year senior adviser Dabash Negash, 33, (pictured) who was recruited in April – at the height of the pandemic and just one week after de Blasio announced a hiring freeze to help close a $7.4 billion deficit caused by the pandemic