Uganda Arrests Treasury Officials After Central Bank Cash Heist
Officials attached to the Office of the Accountant General in the ministry were detained after responding to a Criminal Investigation Department summons to facilitate the probe, Secretary to the Treasury Ramathan Ggoobi said in a statement on the ministry's X account, without giving details.
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2 days ago
- New York Post
NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's financial disclosure filings filled with discrepancies
Socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has scored nearly $10 million in public matching funds for his campaign, despite having serious discrepancies in his mandatory financial disclosure filings, The Post has learned. Mamdani, the frontrunner heading into November's general election, claimed in a recent filing to the city's Conflicts of Interest Board reporting his finances for last year that he has owned vacant land in Jinja, Uganda, valued at $100,000 to $250,000 since March 14, 2016, records show. Mamdani, who earns $131,000 annually as a Queens-based state assemblyman, also noted owning interest in two stocks valued at a combined $5,000 to $55,000 – MiTec and PBC – and having a retirement plan worth another $1,000 to $5,000. Advertisement 3 Mamdani received his matching funds despite the apparent discrepancy in his financial disclosure forms. Janet Mayer/ However, in annual financial disclosure statements for 2020 through 2024 filed with the state Legislative Ethics Commission, Mamdani, 33, said he took full ownership of the Uganda site four years earlier – in 2012. He also didn't list any stocks, instead claiming the only the securities he owned were valued at less than $2,000 from a retirement plan with the social-justice organization Chhaya where he worked in 2019. Advertisement The revelation that Mamdani's state filings contradict his city filings come while two of his top competitors, Mayor Eric Adams and ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, have been denied millions of dollars in matching funds by the city's Campaign Finance Board after being flagged for various violations. 'Every time you scratch the surface with this guy, more red flags emerge,' said defense lawyer Jim Walden, who is running for mayor as an Independent. 'Here, the obvious concern is that he is understating his wealth. He should come clean. If he can't be honest, add that to the growing list of disqualifiers.' A rep for the Campaign Finance Board declined comment. Advertisement Lisa Partelow Reid, executive director of the state Legislative Ethics Commission, said elected officials who knowingly make false statements to the commission could face fines of up to $40,000. If amendments are needed 'the assumption' typically is 'an inadvertent error' occurred, she said. 3 Mayor Adams was not given matching funds for his reelection campaign. Derek French/SOPA Images/Shutterstock There are no records of Mamdani amending his filings. Reid declined to discuss Mamdani repeating the same information on his stocks and land ownership in five straight annual state filings – but then providing different information in his COIB filing. Advertisement 3 Heavy security and phone jammers marked a recent three-day celebration at Mamdani's Ugandan compound. New York Post COIB Executive Director Carolyn Miller deferred questions about matching funds to the Campaign Finance Board but said 'filers regularly and routinely amend their annual disclosure reports to resolve discrepancies.' Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime Democratic political consultant, questioned whether the state and city entities — which are designed to be independent and apolitical — are ignoring Mamdani's discrepancies because they're worried about being accused of Islamophobia. 'It's hypocritical at best,' he said. Mamdani did not return messages. Additional reporting by Gabrielle Fahmy
New York Post
06-08-2025
- New York Post
Zohran Mamdani praises NYPD Commish Tisch's crime record but won't commit to keeping her if elected — and defends previous silence on slain cops
Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani would not commit to keeping NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch in his administration if elected, even as he praised her crime record. The Democratic socialist refused to say if he'd retain the popular top cop and also defended his previous silence on slain cops at National Night Out, an annual police-community bond-building event, on Tuesday evening. 'I have great appreciation of the swift and decisive action Commissioner Tisch took to root out corruption and the upper echelons of the NYPD and the way in which she has presided over in department that has seen crime continue to lower across the city,' Mamdani told reporters at the event. 3 Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani praised NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch for her crime record, but wouldn't commit to keeping her in his administration if elected during a National Night Out event Tuesday. REUTERS 'I'm appreciative of the work that's been done and still think that it's too early for me to make those commitments as I run for the general election,' he said at the event, where he made remarks alongside Attorney General Letitia James. Mamdani's statements come as new NYPD statistics revealed shootings so far this year plunged to the lowest level on record under Tisch's leadership. The Big Apple saw 412 shooting incidents, with 489 victims, during the first seven months of 2025, according to the data released by the police department this week. Both are records that comfortably shatter the previous lows for shootings — 426 — and shooting victims — 522 — respectively, set over the same time frame in 2017 and 2018, cops said. 3 Mamdani's statements come as new NYPD statistics revealed shootings so far this year plunged to the lowest level on record under Tisch's leadership. Stephen Yang The Democratic mayoral primary winner also defended himself against Mayor Eric Adams' criticism that he's only attended cop funerals while making a run for City Hall and has otherwise blown off NYPD burials during his years as a state lawmaker. Mamdani, 33, served more than four years in the state Assembly before his surprise Democratic primary win against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in June. 'As a state legislator, my focus has been on the tragedies and the triumphs of my district that I've represented, of Astoria and Long Island City,' Mamdani told reporters, not directly acknowledging the no-shows. The Ugandan-born lefty paid his respects to relatives of NYPD cop Didarul Islam last week, after the four-year department veteran was gunned down in a mass shooting inside a Park Avenue office building. 3 The Democratic mayoral primary winner also defended himself against Mayor Adams' criticism that he's only attended cop funerals while making a run for City Hall. REUTERS But Mamdani was a no-show — and didn't say a peep — after a half dozen of New York's Finest died during his tenure in Albany after they were gunned down in the line of duty, records reviewed by The Post show. 'As I run for citywide office and seek to represent this entire city, my focus is on extending that to every single borough of this city and over the course of this campaign, to see the horrific mass shooting that took the lives of four New Yorkers, including Detective Islam,' Mamdani said. 'And I pray and hope that there will be no further shootings of police officers or murders over the course of this campaign or over the course of the time that I seek to be the mayor of this city,' he said.
Fox News
05-08-2025
- Fox News
Adams asks 'where was' Mamdani at previous NYPD funerals
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has ripped his Democratic mayoral opponent Zohran Mamdani for attending the funeral of slain NYPD officer Didarul Islam last week – but skipping services for other fallen officers killed during his time in the state Assembly – and never publicly acknowledging their deaths. Adams, a former NYPD captain, suggested Mamdani's presence at Islam's funeral was politically motivated and inconsistent with his prior stance on policing – which included calls to defund the agency and slamming it as racist. Mamdani has since walked back those statements. "We lost officers before he was running for mayor. Where was he? Did he feel those officers deserve to be lifted up as he lifted up now Officer Islam during the election? We need to ask, where was he?" Adams told reporters at City Hall on Monday, per the New York Post. "You should lift up officers when you're not running for mayor. He could have lifted them up when he was an assemblyman. He could have done it over the years when he was in Albany." Mamdani, a socialist who has served in the New York State Assembly since January, did not attend the funerals of six of NYPD's finest who died in the line of duty from 2022 through March of this year, Adams said. "Not one time has [Mamdani] said something in response to a police officer who's been shot or killed," Adams said, pointing out the 2022 killing of officers Wilbert Mora, Jason Rivera. "We cannot find one tweet that he made, or one comment that he made when that happened." As well as Mora and Rivera, the NYPD's Jonathan Diller, Troy D. Patterson, Lawrence Bromm and crossing guard Krystyna Naprawa were all killed during that time period. Mamdani cut short his recent trip to Uganda and returned early to attend Islam's funeral. He first went directly to the family's home and stayed with them for two hours, per reports. Fox News Digital has reached out to Mamdani's team for comment but did not immediately receive a response. Islam was gunned down by alleged shooter Shane Tamura of Las Vegas last week inside the lobby of office tower at 345 Park Avenue in Manhattan. Tamura is alleged to have killed three other people in the rampage before turning the gun on himself. Mamdani initially took to X to share his condolences on the passing of Islam. "I'm heartbroken to learn of the horrific shooting in Midtown and I am holding the victims, their families, and the NYPD officer in critical condition in my thoughts. Grateful for all of our first responders on the ground," Mamdani posted to X. But the Ugandan-born lawmaker has been a vocal critic of the NYPD in the past. In a June 8, 2020, post, Mamdani wrote, "No, we want to defund the police," and he wrote that "queer liberation means defund the police" in a Nov. 5, 2020, post. "We don't need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety. What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD. But your deal with [New York City mayor] uses budget tricks to keep as many cops as possible on the beat. NO to fake cuts - defund the police," he posted on June 28, 2020. In December of the same year, he also called for it to be "dismantled." "All this misery. All for money. In the last budget, the City Council tried to make the NYPD reduce its overtime budget by half. They simply refused. There is no negotiating with an institution this wicked & corrupt. Defund it. Dismantle it. End the cycle of violence," he wrote. However, he sang a different tune during a mayoral debate in his primary. "I will not defund the police. I will work with the police because I believe the police have a critical role to play in public service, public safety," he said. On his campaign website, he calls for the creation of a Department of Public Safety. "Police have a critical role to play. But right now, we're relying on them to deal with the failures of our social safety net—which prevents them from doing their actual jobs. Through this new city agency and whole-of-government approach, community safety will be prioritized like never before in NYC," the website states.
