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    Legal Defense Trust Refunded Donations

    Metadata Updated: January 25, 2026

    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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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. See Terms License: No license information was provided.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date December 27, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date January 25, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NYC JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 27, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date January 25, 2026
    Publisher data.cityofnewyork.us
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.cityofnewyork.us/api/views/t3pj-3dgu
    Data First Published 2025-08-27
    Data Last Modified 2026-01-20
    Category City Government
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.cityofnewyork.us/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    Harvest Source Id 1696593e-c691-4f61-a696-5dcb9e4c9b4c
    Harvest Source Title NYC JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/t3pj-3dgu
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 7b335a75eb5e7b51f4e7cc6cb4b4a0e38ecafad9a06c6470f50b67cbe7bd9470
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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