Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid stands accused of engineering a $1.8 million Super PAC money-laundering scheme in plain violation of New York City’s campaign finance laws.
A new complaint filed with the Campaign Finance Board lays out irrefutable evidence: identical vendors, identical ZIP-code ad buys and identical timing between Mamdani’s campaign account and two outside Super PACs—We the People and America for All WFP National PAC.
Debra Schommer Media Group, Molitico Consulting LLC, LC Media and Bellwether Consulting Strategies all appear on both sides of the ledger. That overlap alone triggers the presumption of illegal coordination under NYC election law.
Coordination with Super PACs is explicitly forbidden for any candidate accepting public matching funds—and Mamdani’s campaign has tapped the public trough for more than $5 million. He cannot lawfully direct or benefit from unlimited outside spending.
Campaign finance rules exist to prevent precisely this kind of soft-money shell game. Yet Mamdani’s team brazenly flouts the law, funneling questionable payments through nominally independent groups to turbo-charge his socialist crusade.
Complainant Jennifer Brown—a private citizen and veteran communications consultant—has catalogued the overlaps down to payment dates and ZIP-code targets. Her filing demands immediate CFB enforcement: subpoenas, depositions and a full forensic audit of Mamdani’s books.
The Campaign Finance Board must act swiftly. A failure to enforce the rules invites even more brazen lash-ups between radical activists and Super PAC kingmakers. Voters deserve a clean election, not a bureaucratic cover-up.
This isn’t theory. Earlier this year, the CFB fined Andrew Cuomo $675,000 for a near-identical coordination scandal with a Fix The City Super PAC. If Cuomo’s team deserved punishment, Mamdani’s socialist machinery demands even harsher scrutiny.
Curtis Sliwa and Andrew Cuomo may quarrel over policies, but both sides agree on one thing: Mamdani’s campaign finance chicanery threatens the integrity of our elections. City voters must demand answers now—before taxpayer funds and public trust vanish down the socialist rabbit hole.
The clock is ticking. The CFB can either uphold the law or allow a would-be socialist boss to rewrite it through back-door money transfers. There can be no neutrality when an election is being stolen in broad daylight.
