{"id":8093,"date":"2025-10-30T02:26:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=8093"},"modified":"2025-10-30T02:26:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:26:47","slug":"mamdani-referred-to-doj-for-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=8093","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani Referred to DOJ For Criminal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mamdani Faces Criminal Referrals Over Alleged Illegal Donations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani faces two criminal referrals after<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the Coolidge Reagan Foundation accused his campaign of accepting illegal foreign donations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group filed complaints with the Department of Justice and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>citing possible violations of federal and state election laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Foreign Money Allegations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to&nbsp;<em>The New York Post<\/em>, Mamdani\u2019s campaign received nearly $13,000 from about 170 donors abroad,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>including one from his mother-in-law in Dubai. Foundation president Dan Backer said,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis was a sustained pattern of foreign money flowing into a New York City mayoral race,\u201d calling it a \u201cclear violation\u201d of campaign rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Campaign Response<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spokesperson Dora Pekec said some donors may be \u201cU.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>citizens or lawful permanent residents\u201d living overseas and that improper donations would be refunded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Political Impact<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the controversy, polls show Mamdani leading rivals Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mamdani Faces Criminal Referrals Over Alleged Illegal Donations New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani faces two criminal referrals after the Coolidge Reagan Foundation accused his campaign of accepting illegal foreign donations. The group filed complaints with the Department of Justice and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, citing possible violations of federal and state election&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8095,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093\/revisions\/8095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}