Long Island Law Enforcement Foundation
Long Island Law Enforcement Foundation (LILEF) Independent Expenditure-Only Committee (Super PAC)
NYS Board of Elections (NYSBOE)
Independent Expenditure Committee; Filer ID: 17198; Registration Date: July 27, 2011
Federal Elections Commission (FEC)
Unauthorized Independent Expenditure filer (not a committee) ID: C90015363; Active: 2014 - 2018
Unauthorized Super PAC (Independent Expenditure-Only) ID: C00570721; Active 2014 – 2022; Registration Date: November 28, 2014
Funded by mandatory $1 / day / member contributions. Contributions are made by way of indirect expenditures in support of and in opposition to various incumbents and candidates that cannot be coordinated with the campaigns of the respective incumbents / candidates. 66% of total law enforcement political expenditures made on behalf of incumbent Suffolk County elected officials (2011 - 2022) were made by LILEF alone.
The majority of expenditures (2011 – 2022) were to procure professional services:
$2,742,013 to Brooklyn-based communications, public relations, political consultants Red Horse Strategies with offices in Washington D.C., California and Florida for ‘polling, literature, scripts, radio, etc.’
$1,667,777 to Ronkonkoma-based Billboards on Wheels for ‘print and mobile advertising’.
$347,983 to Jericho-based campaign consultant and registered lobbyist (NYS and Nassau County) “Resi” Cooper (aka Theresia Cooper; Theresia Schwartz; Theresia M. Schwartz; Theresia M. Cooper; Theresia Cooper Schwartz) for consulting services. Cooper is:
president of Ten Key Strategies, LLC
president of Cooper Hill, LLC
former Long Island political director of Hillary Clinton’s Senate reelection campaign and NYS director of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign
former consultant for former Congressional Representative Steve Israel
former Executive Director Accelerate Long Island, and Vice Chairwoman Nassau County Democratic Committee.
$735,121 to “Resi” Cooper’s Ten Key Strategies, LLC for consulting fees, mailings, literature, billboards, digital ads, print ads and radio ads.
Combined, LILEF expenditures to “Resi” Cooper and Ten Key Strategies were not less than $1,083,104.
Cooper’s political network includes strong relationships with Christopher E. Kent, partner at Farrell Fritz PC; Winnie Mack, SVP Health System Operations at Northwell Health Inc.; Armand P. D’Amato, partner & Managing Director at Park Strategies, LLC; and John H Treiber, Vice Chairman Winthrop University Hospital Assoc.
$460,248 to Huntington-based Sunrise Outdoor Advertising, Inc. for billboards, campaign literature, lawn signs, print ads
$436,421 to Philadelphia-based Jamestown Associates political public affairs and corporate advertising firm for consulting services, digital ads, web / mobile ad design, mailings and campaign literature
$299,873 to New Jersey-based strategic communications firm Round World Consulting for ‘radio’. Round World specializes in direct mail, digital, television and radio production.
$116,641 to New Jersey-based Hummel Printing, Inc. for campaign mailings
LILEF Webpage
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