The lease is signed for Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters at 1 Pierrepont Plaza in Brooklyn Heights, according to a source familiar with the deal.
The campaign will occupy two full floors of the office building, which is close to 12 subways lines and a dozen bus lines, and will be taking them as is.*nbsp; On its website, the building markets it as “Modern Offices. Brooklyn Cool.”
The Clinton team’s neighbors in the building will be Morgan Stanley and the office of the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
The clock on Clinton’s official announcement is now officially ticking. FEC rules state that you have 15 days between conducting campaign activities and filing a campaign committee.
Signing a lease before Clinton was a declared candidate put the campaign at risk of someone filing a complaint against it with the Federal Election Commission.
Potential candidates can “test the waters” indefinitely, but signing a lease under the name of a campaign could count as activity that would lead one to conclude that she had officially become a candidate. It’s not clear what legal entity signed the lease on the Clinton campaign-in-waiting’s behalf, however.
Clinton’s small staff, and those who have joined for now in the capacity of volunteers, have been working from home and out of coffee shops, or crammed in Clinton’s small Midtown office.
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