White Collar Fraud: When a mayoral candidate and a national news outlet coordinate damage control, the truth still comes out.
Today’s Politico Playbook piece by Jeff Coltin exposed something far more troubling than a campaign finance “glitch”—it revealed how political journalism has become indistinguishable from campaign PR. In attempting to debunk our investigation of record alterations in Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, Coltin inadvertently confirmed our core findings while demonstrating how easily supposedly independent media can be manipulated.
Here’s what should concern every voter: why did I—working for the fun of it without pay—spot a massive irregularity that $82,000 in professional compliance oversight failed to catch? Either those compliance officials were incompetent, or these weren’t innocent errors requiring correction.
What makes this coordination particularly transparent is both the timeline and the substance of what changed. Our investigations documented that exactly 77 contributions had “no bundler attribution”—totaling $0.00. After the quiet alterations, they suddenly claimed $1.6 million in “no intermediary” donations. This isn’t a correction—it’s a fundamental transformation from zero organic support to claiming massive grassroots funding overnight. more
… and then, just like that, nothing happened.
The entire basis for Marxism is a lie: that human nature is infinitely manipulable. It stands to reason that the campaign of an openly Marxist candidate would use lies and other forms of deception to further the cause. Nothing surprising to see here.