With one week until Election Day in New York City, a campaign finance watchdog group, the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, filed two criminal referrals against Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday, claiming he received illegal contributions from foreign donors , but the Mamdani campaign maintains that any issue regarding financial contributions has been resolved.

A review of finance reports earlier this month revealed that Mamdani’s campaign had accepted nearly $13,000 from at least 170 donors from outside the United States, raising questions about his campaign’s financial compliance, as only US citizens or permanent legal residents are permitted to contribute to American political campaigns.

“These are not isolated incidents or clerical errors,” Dan Backer, a national c

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