Cogent Waste Solutions LLC
Lobbying client
Cogent Waste Solutions is a Brooklyn commercial waste hauling and recycling company, founded in 2020, that holds contracts to service the Brooklyn North, Brooklyn South, Brooklyn East, and Staten Island Commercial Waste Zones under the city's carting overhaul. In 2024 the Department of Sanitation appointed an independent monitor over the company following a Business Integrity Commission audit and a series of crash-related lawsuits. It has filed 15 disclosures since 2024, lobbying 16 council members through Kasirer LLC on waste issues, and holds about $419,600 in active city contracts as of August 2026.
- Council members lobbied
- 16
- Filings (since 2024)
- 15
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $225,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Goods
- City contracts (active)
- $419,600 · 1 contract
- Awarded all-time
- $419,600 · 1 since 2023, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $27,374
- Based in
- Bklyn, NY
Lobbied these council members
- Justin E. Sanchez Council Member, District 17 (Bronx)
- Sandra Ung Council Member, District 20 (Queens)
- Shanel Thomas-Henry Council Member, District 21 (Queens)
- Ty Hankerson Council Member, District 28 (Queens)
- Jennifer Gutiérrez Council Member, District 34 (Brooklyn)
- Sandy Nurse Council Member, District 37 (Brooklyn)
- Shahana K. Hanif Council Member, District 39 (Brooklyn)
- Susan Zhuang Council Member, District 43 (Brooklyn)
- Kayla Santosuosso Council Member, District 47 (Brooklyn)
- Virginia Maloney Council Member, District 4 (Manhattan)
- David M. Carr Council Member, District 50 (Staten Island/Brooklyn)
- Julie Menin Council Member, District 5 (Manhattan)
- Shaun Abreu Council Member, District 7 (Manhattan)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Kasirer LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service City agency
Lobbied former members
Members who have since left their seat
- Erik Bottcher
- Justin Brannan
- Keith Powers
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Determination of Board or Commission - Relationship Building
- Determination of Board or Commission - Waste issues; relationship building
City contracts
Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).
- TO PROCURE RENTAL OF REFUSE CONTAINERS FOR NYC DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service · MA185720248800529 $419,600
Where their influence converges
Outside interests connected to this official through more than one independent channel — drawn straight from the records the rest of the site already shows. “Lobbied them” = a lobbying filing that named the member. “Outside spending” = an independent-expenditure committee the interest funds spent in
- David M. Carr It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Jennifer Gutiérrez It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Shahana K. Hanif It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Susan Zhuang It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Ty Hankerson It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction