New Yorkers for Lower Costs 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

EXPOSED: The $2 Million Grassroots Laundering Operation Behind Mamdani’s Revolution

July 8, 2025 / 12 minutes of reading

Follow-up investigation to “EXPOSED: How Politico Coordinated Damage Control for Mamdani’s $1.6 Million Campaign Finance Scandal“ Zohran Mamdani’s “grassroots revolution” was a lie. Campaign finance records reveal his supposedly working-class movement was actually powered by a $2 million elite PAC operation funded by Silicon Valley billionaires, Hollywood celebrities, and out-of-state tech entrepreneurs—spending more than his entire direct campaign raised from

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Leaders We Deserve PAC, Make the Road Action, Make the Road New York, New Yorkers for Lower Costs, Victoria Perrone, Working Families Party, Zohran MamdaniCorruption

How Zohran Mamdani’s ‘Grassroots’ Campaign Engineered the Perfect Political Heist

June 29, 2025 / 11 minutes of reading

Executive Summary Zohran Mamdani’s “grassroots revolution” was actually a $10.2 million corporate political operation that systematically deceived New York voters. Our investigation reveals: $7 million in public matching funds triggered by professional bundling, not grassroots donations 94% of contributions bundled by a single professional fundraiser employed by a taxpayer-funded organization 100% bundled money – every dollar of direct campaign contributions

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Andrew Cuomo, Brad Lander, Center for Law and Human Values Inc, Cynthia Nixon, Eric Adams, Jack Gross, Jerrod MacFarlane, Make the Road Action, Make the Road New York, New Yorkers for Lower Costs, Working Families Party, Zohran MamdaniCorruption, Crime