Zohran Mamdani hit with criminal referral for accepting illegal donations as foreign ties come under scrutiny

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 October 29, 2025

Zohran Mamdani has been accused of accepting illegal foreign donations, drawing closer attention to his foreign ties in the final days of New York's mayoral race.

While the city's voters appear likely to hand over power to the 34-year-old globe-trotting socialist, critics are desperately sounding the alarm about his extreme agenda and his Third World mentality, which apparently includes a complete disregard for laws against fraud.

As reported by the New York Post, Mamdani has accepted $13,000 in foreign donations, likely violating both state and federal campaign finance laws.

Mamdani's donations flagged

While the Mamdani campaign claims that some of the donations may have come from Americans overseas, and some of them have been refunded, records show at least 88 donations totaling $7,190 have not been returned, the Post reported.

With days to go before Election Day, the Mamdani campaign is making a pinky promise to give any illicit funds back.

“The Campaign has a rigorous compliance process in place to ensure compliance with these laws, including a protocol to confirm whether donors with foreign addresses are U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents,” campaign spokesperson Dora Pekec added.

The Coolidge Reagan Foundation filed criminal referrals with the Justice Department and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg after the New York Post uncovered 170 distinct foreign donors, including Mamdani's Dubai-based mother-in-law.

While Bragg had no compunctions about concocting a convoluted campaign finance case against President Trump, it is doubtful the leftist prosecutor will bother scrutinizing a fellow progressive like Mamdani, especially when Mamdani is so close to seizing power.

Negligence at best

Dan Backer, a national campaign finance expert and president of the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, said the foreign donations point to negligence at best.

“This was a sustained pattern of foreign money flowing into a New York City mayoral race which is a clear violation of both federal law and New York City campaign finance rules,” Backer added.

“Mamdani’s campaign was on notice for months that it was accepting illegal foreign contributions, and yet it did nothing meaningful to stop it.”

Foreign connections

The money flows are another reminder of Mamdani's foreign ties, which have come into closer focus in the campaign's final stretch.

As we have learned recently, Mamdani apparently thinks his Muslim family members and coreligionists are the real victims of the 9/11 attacks - not the innocent thousands of people who perished on that dark day, or the heroic first responders who have since died from health complications from being at Ground Zero. Many thousands are still suffering from 9/11-linked cancers.

Despite Mamdani's tears about being the victim of "Islamophobia," his own globe-trotting family has been open about his tenuous connection to America, with his filmmaker mother admitting that her Uganda-born son is "not American at all" in a resurfaced interview.

According to a recent poll, Mamdani's support is stronger among foreign-born New Yorkers, while natives prefer his chief rival, Andrew Cuomo.

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