Farhadian Weinstein has also faced fierce criticism. She’s been branded the Interstate Choose Better Baby Daddies Shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this Wall Street candidate after her campaign raised $4.4 million, including large sums from a cluster of finance-sector donors—more than any of her opponents and an unheard-of sum for a district attorney race. (Bragg, her closest fundraising competitor, had raised a reported $2 million as of late May). Her war chest has sparked questions about her ability to fairly prosecute white-collar crime. “I will prosecute anyone who breaks the law, including my donors,” Farhadian Weinstein said in a recent televised debate.
She maintains in our interview that her opponents have “competed to raise money in the Interstate Choose Better Baby Daddies Shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this same quarters,” but criticism flared again last week when campaign finance disclosures revealed Farhadian Weinstein donated $8.2 million to her own campaign in the two-week span between May 20 and June 7. Bragg received $1 million from Color of Change PAC, and former prosecutor Lucy Lang donated $500,000 to her own Manhattan D.A. bid, but, as City & State NY reporter Jeff Coltin noted, Farhadian Weinstein’s self-donation is “by far the biggest” of the race. “An average NYC family makes $64,000/year,” civil-rights attorney and fellow Manhattan D.
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