White Collar Fraud

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 PartyCorruption, 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

The Mamdani Playbook: Politico Coordination, Record Alterations, and Threats Against Forensic Analysis

July 13, 2025 / 15 minutes of reading

When a forensic accountant exposed a $2+ million PAC operation disguised as ‘grassroots,’ institutional power struck back with record alterations, coordinated media manipulation through Politico, and legal threats – revealing how political establishments silence forensic investigation. “I corrected my tweet. Please revise or I’ll send a defamation claim.” This sequence of events started when Politico’s Jeff Coltin appeared to coordinate

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Betsy McCaughey, Jeff Coltin, Jerrod MacFarlane, Politico, Raheem Kassam, Spruce Street Compliance, The National Pulse, Victoria Perrone, 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

EXPOSED: How Politico Coordinated Damage Control for Mamdani’s $1.6 Million Campaign Finance Scandal

July 3, 2025 / 7 minutes of reading

When a mayoral candidate and a national news outlet coordinate damage control, the truth still comes out. Today’s Politico Playbook piece by Jeff Coltin exposed something far more troubling than a campaign finance “glitch”—it revealed how political journalism has become indistinguishable from campaign PR. In attempting to debunk our investigation of record alterations in Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, Coltin inadvertently

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Betsy McCaughey, Jeff Coltin, Newsmax, Politico, Zohran MamdaniCorruption, Crime, Media Playbook

CAUGHT: Mamdani Campaign Finance Records Altered Twice After We Exposed $1.6M Irregularities

July 3, 2025 / 6 minutes of reading

INVESTIGATIVE EXCLUSIVE: Campaign finance records altered twice in one day after sustained media pressure—but was it a desperate coverup or correction of systematic false reporting that had been deceiving voters for weeks? 🎭 The Perfect Trap: Every Answer Makes It Worse There’s a moment in every investigation when the subject realizes they’re caught. For Zohran Mamdani’s campaign, that moment came

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Betsy McCaughey, Jerrod MacFarlane, Zohran MamdaniCorruption, Crime

The Mamdani Deception: The Grassroots Campaign That Never Existed

June 30, 2025 / 7 minutes of reading

Zohran Mamdani has built his political brand on a simple promise: that his campaign is powered by the people. He calls it grassroots. He markets it as revolutionary. But when you strip away the slogans and look at the structure — the website, the bundlers, the Super PACs, the money — a very different picture emerges: astroturfing masquerading as authentic

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Jerrod MacFarlane, Zohran MamdaniCorruption, Media Playbook

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

Albany’s Ultimate Protection Racket: The Triangle That Became a Circle of Self-Enrichment

June 26, 2025 / 17 minutes of reading

Executive Summary: This investigation documents a pattern of inconsistencies spanning Letitia James’s tenure in two major offices. Our findings show that James spent years handling sexual harassment allegations by Ibrahim Khan differently across both positions—first as NYC Public Advocate (2014-2018) and later as NY Attorney General (2019-present)—while applying vastly different standards to similar accusations against political figures like Governor Cuomo.

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Andrew Cuomo, Angel Dubose, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Ibrahim Khan, Kathy Hochul, Letitia James, Sofia Quintanar, William HochulCorruption, Crime

How Make the Road New York Uses Legal Loopholes to Transform Public Funds into Political Power

June 23, 2025 / 15 minutes of reading

Executive Summary New York City taxpayers are unknowingly subsidizing partisan political activities through a sophisticated legal loophole that allows publicly funded nonprofits to directly transfer money to political action committees. Our investigation reveals how Make the Road New York (MRNY), which has received over $27 million in taxpayer funds since 2010, operates a dual structure with its political affiliate Make

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Adrienne Adams, Brad Lander, Make the Road Action, Make the Road New York, Working Families Party, Zohran MamdaniCorruption, Crime