Critics wonder if Mamdani has received an illegal gift securing a subsidized apartment

The criticism against the socialist candidate for the mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, about his acquisition of a stabilized rent apartment, like a person who earns nearly $ 150,000 per year, increases after a guard dog filed a complaint with the Ethics Commission of the Government of New York.

The number occurred in the foreground earlier this month after the opponent of Mamdani, the former New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, began to criticize Mamdani for occupying a stabilized rent apartment as a New York state-free assembly which earns around $ 150,000 per year. Cuomo recently announced his intention to pass the “Zohran law”, which, according to him, “would keep the rich out of New York”s affordable accommodation. “”

“It was reported that the deputy for New York State, Zohran Mamdani, lies in an apartment in a rent room in the Astoria du Queens district. In public statements, Mr. Mamdani said that his monthly rent was approximate with the New York State Commission on ethics and lobbying to the government of the American Institute for Economic Research Jason Sorens, examined by Fox News Digital.

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“Questions have been raised in public discussions on the calendar of its rental with regard to the moment when the rules of ethics of New York State apply to elected officials,” said the complaint of Sorens. “If at the start of Mr. Mamdani’s rental, the relevant ethics regulations were applicable to him, he could be appropriate to investigate if an aid he could have received to ensure an apartment stabilized to the rent qualified as a donation under the law.”

Mamdani’s campaign did not respond to Fox News Digital, but the candidate of the Democratic party argued that he had moved into the apartment when he won only $ 47,000 and was not even aware of the fact that he was stabilized in the rent.

“The pathetic attempts of right-wing reflection groups and Maga billionaires to distract from Zohran Mamdani’s mission to make NYC more affordable will fail, just as they did in the primary where New Yorkers have rejected the words of feeling Andrew Cuomo in humiliating defeat,” said Mamdani spokesperson.

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Zohran Mamdani, the candidate of the Democratic Party for the Mayor of New York, is under fire for having lived in a subsidized apartment as a rent as a New York State which earns nearly $ 150,000 per year. (Theodore Parisian for New York Daily News; Beata Zawrzel / Nurphoto via Getty Images)

However, Sorens described Mamdani’s defense according to which he did not know that his apartment had been stabilized as “incredible”, citing the history of the mayor’s candidate working as a foreclosure specialist.

“I found frankly improbable that, while working as a defender of the tenants, he cannot that his own apartment has been stabilized in the rent, especially since it is such a great advantage, not only when you sign the lease, but obviously for each year in the future that you maintain it,” said Sorens.

“I don’t know about you, but for my family, it would be an important windfall. We would notice it. So it is curious, maybe he was telling the truth, but it is curious that he insists that he does not know.”

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A “for rent” sign is seen juxtaposed alongside an image of the New York horizon.

Sorens also argued that, given the scarcity of affordable apartments in New York, “he invites a question about the question of whether someone may have helped him as a politically connected militant”.

“The overview here is really that, you know, I am not a political agent. I am an economist. But I study rent control, and one of the negative side effects of rent control and the stabilization of rents is that these policies create an artificial artificial artificial apartments, and it rewards having fired,” concluded Sorens.