The Tiffany Cabán-Melinda Katz Democratic primary battle for Queens district attorney is headed for a recount — and a potential court fight. After a daylong manual recount of thousands of paper ballots, Democratic Party favorite Katz pulled ahead of insurgent candidate Cabán by 20 votes Wednesday, according to the city Board of Elections. That marked […]
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Tiffany Cabán Edging Melinda Katz in Close Queens DA Primary
Additional reporting by Savannah Jacobson and Gabriel Sandoval The Queens Machine may need a reboot. Insurgent Tiffany Cabán was leading Melinda Katz in the Democratic primary for Queens district attorney late Tuesday night, upsetting the political establishment and extending the power of the borough’s progressive movement. If her razor-thin margin of victory holds, the 31-year-old […]
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Queens District Attorney Hopeful Melinda Katz Rakes in Developer Dollars
Queens Borough President Melinda Katz is doubling down on developer dollars in the crowded race to become district attorney. Katz’s donors include a who’s who of the city’s multi-billion dollar real estate industry, making up roughly 29% of all the money she received between mid-January and late May, the latest campaign finance filings with the […]
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Queens DA Candidate Tiffany Cabán’s Most Zealous Donors: Her Staff
Tiffany Cabán’s grassroots campaign for Queens district attorney is drawing contributions from across the nation. But her two most frequent donors are local: two campaign staffers who together have made dozens of donations as small as $5. Cabán’s financial support is largely rooted far from the borough she seeks to serve, the public defender’s latest […]
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Insurgent Queens DA Candidate Tries to Narrow Crowded Field
A Queens district attorney candidate is attempting to cull the competition in the crowded race by waging a line-by-line paperwork fight — claiming thousands of petition signatures collected by the campaigns of three of her rivals are invalid. If Mina Malik succeeds, the field would drop from seven to four. She’d also become the only […]