New York’s controversial mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has sparked fresh scrutiny after getting nearly $10 million in public matching funds for his campaign from the city’s Campaign Finance Board. The socialist candidate is getting funds even though there are “serious discrepancies in his mandatory financial disclosure filings,” according to The New York Post.
Bizarrely, similar concerns blocked his top competitors, Mayor Eric Adams and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, from recieving millions in funds from the same board.
The Post reports:
Mamdani, the frontrunner heading into November’s general election, claimed in a recent filing to the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board reporting his finances for last year that he has owned vacant land in Jinja, Uganda, valued at $100,000 to $250,000 since March 14, 2016, records show.
Mamdani, who earns $142,000 annually as a Queens-based state assemblyman, also noted owning stock interest in the company MiTec valued at a combined $5,000 to $55,000 and having a retirement plan worth another $1,000 to $5,000.
However, in annual financial disclosure statements for 2020 through 2024 filed with the state Legislative Ethics Commission, Mamdani, 33, said he took full ownership of the Uganda site four years earlier – in 2012.
He also didn’t list any stocks in his 2024 filing, instead claiming the only securities he owned were valued at less than $2,000 from a retirement plan with the social-justice organization Chhaya where he worked in 2019.
As previously noted, even as Mamdani’s state filings contradict his city filings, Adams and Cumo were flagged and rejected for funds for various violations.
