NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's campaign returned approximately $9,000 in potentially illegal foreign donations after the Coolidge Reagan Foundation filed criminal referrals with the DOJ and Manhattan DA. The campaign maintained the remaining $4,000 came from U.S. citizens living abroad.
Read full articleA campaign finance watchdog referred Mamdani's campaign to the DOJ for investigation, alleging it accepted at least 161 contributions from foreign sources totaling over $12,000 between December 2024 and September 2025, in potential violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act.
Read full articleThe FEC opened an investigation into Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) over allegations she accepted more than $150,000 in illegal in-kind campaign contributions from a corporation and attempted to conceal them in federal filings.
Read full articleThe Coolidge Reagan Foundation filed a complaint with the FEC against Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), alleging her campaign failed to properly disclose a contributor's identity and accepted contributions in another person's name through the ActBlue fundraising platform.
Read full articleThe FEC fined the DNC $105,000 and the Clinton campaign $8,000 for misreporting over $1 million in payments to law firm Perkins Coie — which funded Fusion GPS's opposition research on the Steele dossier — as "legal services" rather than opposition research.
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