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Ruben Diaz Jr. is getting in the lobbying game
The former Bronx BP has been hired by Actum, but also has his own firm with clients.
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Ruben Diaz Jr. Phillip Vukelich
Former Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. has a new job as a co-chair of Actum, the still new-ish political strategy firm announced today – but he isn’t giving up his other gigs yet. So Diaz will stay on as senior vice president of strategic initiatives at Montefiore Medicine – a job that City & State broke the news of in February – and he will also keep his own lobbying firm, Nuevo Diaz & Associates. Diaz was planning ahead and formed that LLC in April 2021, some eight months ahead of when was term-limited out of office. He has reported two clients in city lobbying disclosures already: Sentry Management Solutions, which previously had city contracts for nonemergency medical transportation; and Dynamic Star, a real estate development firm with major projects in the Bronx and Queens. Diaz didn’t respond to a request for comment, but two sources with knowledge of the setup confirmed his hat trick of jobs. Diaz is a high-profile get for Actum, led in New York by Mercury alums Rachel Noerdlinger and Mike McKeon. Openly bipartisan, the firm has one eyebrow-raising co-chair: Mick Mulvaney, former acting chief of staff to then-President Donald Trump.