A NexfinityNews.com Investigation The protesters outside Gracie Mansion weren’t holding back. “We voted for you, Zohran!” they shouted through megaphones on a frigid February morning. “You lied to us!” What triggered this fury from the very voters who swept 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani into City Hall as America’s youngest big-city mayor? The answer lies in 3.5 million pages of documents that...
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