Socialist darling Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign is being accused of steering millions in outside Super PAC spending, according to a new complaint filed with the city’s Campaign Finance Board.
The filing claims to have identified $1.8 million in questionable expenditures on behalf of Mamdani’s team — focusing on the timing and spending by vendors paid for by the campaign as well as two known independent-expenditure committees, We the People and America for All WFP [Working Families Party] National PAC, charged complainant Jennifer Brown.
“Based on official filings in the CFB’s Follow the Money portal, I have identified … expenditures showing overlapping vendors, time frames, and ZIP-code targeting that appear to satisfy the presumption of coordination under [the law],” said Brown, who filed the challenge on Saturday.
The vendors include Debra Schommer Media Group, Molitico Consulting LLC, LC Media and Bellwether Consulting Strategies, according to the complaint.
“These vendors and expenditures represent only a portion of the overlaps I have identified,” said Brown, who previously worked on Whitney Tilson and Jim Walden’s failed mayoral campaigns.
“”There appear to be additional instances that may warrant further review by the Board.”
Campaign finance laws bar a candidate’s campaign from coordinating with Super PACs or outside “independent expenditure” groups supporting that candidate.
Although a Supreme Court ruling allows Super PACs to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money, candidates who receive matching public funds face contribution and spending restrictions.
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Brown told the CFB she submitted the complaint as a “private citizen and communications consultant, not affiliated with any candidate, PAC, or campaign.”
Mamdani is the mayoral frontrunner — ahead of Democrat Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent, and Republican Curtis Sliwa — heading into Election Day.
The CFB had no immediate comment, while the Mamdani campaign declined The Post’s request for comment.
In May, the CFB slapped Cuomo’s mayoral campaign with a $675,000 penalty after ruling that his team improperly coordinated with a pro-Cuomo super PAC, Fix The City.
