Justin Brannan Archives

Grassroots Laundering: How Elite Money Flows Through Working Families Party Network

July 25, 2025 / 21 minutes of reading

When government grants flow to charitable organizations that transfer funds to political advocacy groups supporting specific candidates, is this legitimate community organizing or sophisticated financial engineering? When the same individual controls multiple supposedly independent entities across this funding chain, are we witnessing grassroots democracy or elite manipulation disguised as popular power? What if the grassroots political movements reshaping American cities […]

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Adrienne Adams, George Soros, Justin Brannan, Make the Road Action, Make the Road New York, New Yorkers for Lower Costs, Tides Foundation, Working Families Party, Zohran MamdaniCorruption, Crime

The Working Families Party Elite-Funded Operation That Systematically Violated NYC Campaign Finance Disclosure Rules

July 16, 2025 / 22 minutes of reading

This investigation documents how Working Families Party coalition campaigns—including mayoral winner Zohran Mamdani, Comptroller candidate Justin Brannan, and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams—appear to have violated disclosure requirements through coordination that may have circumvented rules designed to ensure voter transparency. Equally troubling, documented relationships between Campaign Finance Board personnel and the WFP coalition raise questions about whether oversight itself was

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Adrienne Adams, Jason Curtis Anderson, Justin Brannan, Make the Road Action, Make the Road New York, New Yorkers for Lower Costs, Politico, Victoria Perrone, Working Families Party, Zohran MamdaniCorruption, Crime, Media Playbook

Investigation: The Branded Revolution – How Zohran Mamdani’s ‘Grassroots’ Campaign Became a $6.3 Million Corporate Production

June 19, 2025 / 10 minutes of reading

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani wants New York voters to believe they’re witnessing a revolution. His mayoral campaign markets itself as a “grassroots, volunteer movement”—powered by neighborhood organizers, fueled by authentic passion, and guided by democratic socialist principles that reject corporate politics. But a forensic examination of campaign finance records, coordinated political messaging, and strategic timing reveals something entirely different: a meticulously

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Adrienne Adams, Justin Brannan, Politico, Zohran MamdaniCorruption, Media Playbook

Sex, Lies, and Overtime: Inside the NYPD’s Financial Black Box

January 12, 2025 / 4 minutes of reading

The NYPD’s overtime system operates like a financial shell game, where millions of dollars can disappear into bureaucratic black holes with almost no accountability. This systemic dysfunction came into sharp focus with a recent scandal involving NYPD Lieutenant Quathisha Epps, who accused Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey of demanding sexual favors in exchange for overtime opportunities. Epps alleged that Maddrey

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Adrienne Adams, Brad Lander, Eric Adams, Jeffrey Maddrey, Justin Brannan, NYC, NYPD, Quathisha EppsCorruption, Crime

NYPD Overtime Scandal: Failure of Legislative Oversight Laid Bare

January 11, 2025 / 4 minutes of reading

The explosive allegations of sex-for-overtime rocking the NYPD have exposed not one scandal, but two. The first involves alleged sexual coercion for overtime pay. The second – perhaps even more disturbing – is how City Council leadership failed to spot glaring red flags in their own budget documents that suggested systemic overtime abuse. Under Speaker Adrienne Adams and Finance Chair

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Adrienne Adams, Eric Adams, Jeffrey Maddrey, Justin Brannan, NYPD, Quathisha EppsCorruption, Crime

NYC Council’s $1.2M Black Box: A Study in Financial Opacity

October 30, 2024 / 9 minutes of reading

A Study in Strategic Opacity Despite today’s expectations of government transparency, the New York City Council under Speaker Adrienne Adams has mastered financial opacity. This persists even with oversight from City Comptroller Brad Lander and Council Finance Chair Justin Brannan – both wielding significant fiscal authority yet remaining silent on how council funds vanish into a maze of undisclosed purposes.

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Adrienne Adams, Brad Lander, Justin Brannan, NYCCorruption