Posted on 10/29/2025 9:39:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
With a week to go before the New York City mayoral election, a public interest watchdog group has made two criminal referrals of frontrunner Zohran Mamdani's campaign to the Department of Justice and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office for accepting illegal campaign contributions from foreigners.
The Coolidge Reagan Foundation (CRF) filed the referrals, referencing at least 170 individual donations from people who live abroad. The total raised from the illegal donors was less than $13,000 out of about $4 million in private donations and $12.7 million in public matching funds.
One of the donations listed was from his mother-in-law, who lives in Dubai.
“These are not isolated incidents or clerical errors,” Dan Backer, president of the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, said in a statement.
“This was a sustained pattern of foreign money flowing into a New York City mayoral race which is a clear violation of both federal law and New York City campaign finance rules,” Backer added. “Mamdani’s campaign was on notice for months that it was accepting illegal foreign contributions, and yet it did nothing meaningful to stop it.”
The Foundation urged DA Alvin Bragg and the Trump Department of Justice to investigate the referrals.
The Mamdani campaign said, "31 of the 170 donors have proven their citizenship or legal permanent residence and have been deemed permissible by the Campaign Finance Board, and the remaining 139 have had their donations refunded."
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From FOX NEWS:
The DOJ referral calls for a criminal investigation “into potential FECA violations,” while the Manhattan referral cites “possible violations of New York Election Law § 17.152, which makes it a misdemeanor for two or more persons to conspire to promote an election by unlawful means.”
“Foreign money in American elections is not just a technical violation, it is a threat to self-government,” CRF Chairman Shaun McCutcheon said. “Every dollar illegally funneled into a campaign from abroad dilutes the voice of lawful American voters. This case must be investigated immediately, and those responsible held accountable.”
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I’m sure Alvin Bragg of the Manhattan DA office will get right on this referral. /sarc
Well. He’s a foreigner. Does that count?
Doesn’t matter. New York City wants him.
It wouldn’t matter even if the donations were from foreign sources.
WHY?
Because we have a precedent.
Barack Obama accepted millions of dollars in illegal contributions, discovered after a 2013 audit of his campaign finances. The FEC levied one of its largest fines in history against Obama’s campaign committee for failure “to disclose millions of dollars in contributions and dragged its feet in refunding millions more in excess contributions.”
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So, The worst case scenario is he pays a fine of a few million bucks, which will be covered by the Democratic party or rich left-wing billionaires.
Well, I guess the NY laws only apply to Trump.
Oddly enough, the grifting starts immediately for dem candidates, n’est-ce pas? Funny how that is kind of built-in for democraps...and they get notified or warned, and they go right ahead anyway. Gonna send that guy some hand sanitizer.
Maybe he did, or maybe this is a desperate “Hail Mary” bid to keep him out. But it won’t matter. He still will win.
The leftists who hate America and want to destroy it want him.
I doubt as many NYers do.
These sort of tactics should have already been attempted by late May or early June. Attempting any such disruption now is more likely just so the opposition can go on record for having tried something, anything at all to block Mamdani’s steady march to the Mayor’s Office.
“We Tried!” is not worth a whole lot at this point.
Nothing will happen with this. They’re trying to sway public opinion with it but it wont work. It will only galvanize NYC against Trump’s DOJ.
“””Well, I guess the NY laws only apply to Trump.”””
Well, I guess the MADE UP NY laws only apply to Trump.
A dollar short and a day late, isn’t it?
This would be only a small part of the list of reasons not to elect him.
Cuomo was right. Trump will kick his ass if he gets in. This guy is a novice.
I heard that nobody is above the law ? ? ?
Received $12.7 million in public matching funds
Is this a clever method to not say “taxpayers’ funds” ???
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