Paul Siegfried

[3] Siegfried's role was to identify and recommend judicial candidates to serve as judges in New York City.

The Politico's Ben Smith wrote: "Under Giuliani, the chairman was Paul Curran, a former Republican U.S. Attorney; its executive director was Paul Siegfried, a Democrat who had served in that position under other mayors and whose focus was qualifications, not ideology or judicial philosophy.

[5] In an article in the New York Law Journal, Paul Curran, the former head of the Mayor's Advisory Committee on the Judiciary, said of Bloomberg's decision to allow Siegfried to resign:"It was a big mistake not to retain Paul Siegfried.

Federal Election Commission disclosures and OpenSecrets show that Siegfried donated $2300 to the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Exploratory Committee and $2000 to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton for President Exploratory Committee.

Evan Siegfried worked as a press aide on Giuliani's presidential campaign [9] and before that for Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL).