{"id":365130,"date":"2026-10-05T20:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T20:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/365130\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T20:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T20:40:08","slug":"exclusive-ny-speaker-carl-heastie-parties-in-rio-with-high-profile-state-lobbyist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/365130\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | NY Speaker Carl Heastie parties in Rio with high-profile state lobbyist –"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie<\/a> last month took a multiday birthday trip to party with a former Dallas Cowboy in Rio de Janeiro alongside an influential lobbyist with business before the state \u2014 and neither will say who picked up the tab.<\/p>\n

The 59-year-old powerful Bronx Democrat posted multiple Instagram pictures in the past week taking in the Marvelous City and attending a Rio \u201cBoys In Brazil Party\u201d event hosted\u00a0by former Dallas linebacker Charles Haley on Sept. 25 \u2014 with some of the pics featuring him alongside longtime political ally and current top lobbyist Patrick Jenkins.<\/a><\/p>\n

Online packages for such an international jaunt to the fun-filled South American city start around $3,000 per person and can reach as high as $4,299 \u2014 not even including airfare.<\/p>\n

New York state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie posing in front of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro during a birthday trip to Brazil last month. @cheastie<\/p>\n

Heastie took the trip with lobbyist and longtime ally Patrick Jenkins. @cheastie<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York State\u2019s ethics laws require both public servants and lobbyists to follow strict gift rules that limit gifts at $15 total,\u201d said Rachael Fauss, senior policy adviser with the government watchdog group Reinvent Albany, to The Post in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope that ethics rules are being followed by both parties, particularly given the apparent cost of this trip.\u201d<\/p>\n

The New York State Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government State says on its website, \u201cState officers and employees generally are prohibited from soliciting or accepting gifts of more than \u2018nominal value\u2019\u00a0from individuals and entities that do business with the State. <\/p>\n

But it also says there are several exceptions to this prohibition, including involving gifts for personal friends \u2014 as long as \u201cthat the relationship is not being used as a pretext to give an otherwise impermissible gift.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heastie attended the NFL game in Rio between the Dallas Cowboys and the Baltimore Ravens on Sept. 27, 2026. @cheastie<\/p>\n

A photo of a tailgate party Heastie attended during the birthday trip to Brazil. @cheastie<\/p>\n

Heastie and Jenkins\u2019 relationship<\/a> have been close for decades. The pair were college roommates at SUNY Stony Brook.<\/p>\n

Jenkins\u2019 modest lobbying skyrocketed into a multimillion-dollar operation alongside Heastie\u2019s rise through Albany\u2019s ranks<\/a>, with the consultant repping deep-pocketed and influential groups such as the New York Trial Lawyers Association, Sports Betting Alliance and Google.<\/p>\n

Heastie and Jenkins did not respond to multiple Post requests for comment about whether the lobbyist or any of his clients picked up the tab for the assembly\u2019s most powerful Democrat.<\/p>\n

Heastie and Jenkins refused to confirm who picked up the tab for the trip to Brazil. @cheastie<\/p>\n

Heastie previously refused to comment or answer questions about ethics concerns about a romantic relationship he had with lobbyist Rebecca Lamorte.<\/a><\/p>\n

The State Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government, which enforces the Empire State\u2019s lobbying laws, did not respond to a Post request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie last month took a multiday birthday trip to party with a former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10691,2245,13912,57,9,11,10,49,17566,51,50,57496,58],"class_list":["post-365130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-carl-heastie","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-lobbyists","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-assembly","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-rio-de-janeiro","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}