{"id":8837,"date":"2025-11-10T22:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=8837"},"modified":"2025-11-10T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:17:00","slug":"mamdani-faces-criminal-referrals-to-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=8837","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani Faces Criminal Referrals To DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Criminal Referrals Filed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A campaign finance watchdog has filed two criminal referrals against Zohran Mamdani,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the leading candidate for New York City mayor, accusing him of taking \u201cillicit donations from overseas contributors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Coolidge Reagan Foundation sent the referrals to the Department of Justice and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Foreign Donations Alleged<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group claims Mamdani violated federal and state election laws after<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>reports that his campaign received about $13,000 from at least 170 people abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese are not isolated incidents or clerical errors,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>said Dan Backer, the foundation\u2019s president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Legal Concerns<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Backer added, \u201cThis was a sustained pattern of foreign money flowing into a New York City mayoral race,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and warned that knowingly accepting such donations can result in \u201cbig fines and jail time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Campaign Response<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mamdani\u2019s team said it has returned about $9,000 in foreign donations and will \u201ccomply with all laws\u201d while reviewing the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criminal Referrals Filed A campaign finance watchdog has filed two criminal referrals against Zohran Mamdani, the leading candidate for New York City mayor, accusing him of taking \u201cillicit donations from overseas contributors.\u201d The Coolidge Reagan Foundation sent the referrals to the Department of Justice and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Foreign Donations Alleged The group&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8838,"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-8837","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\/8837","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=8837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8839,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions\/8839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}