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Maya Wiley rails against billionaires — despite big-bucks backing by George Soros - New York Post
Jun 13, 2021 1 min, 19 secs

Mayoral hopeful Maya Wiley has been endorsed by Rep.

Soros, the 90-year-old liberal kingmaker often criticized by Republicans and others for his outsize political influence, has ties to Wiley dating back to the 1990s, and recently pumped $500,000 into an independent expenditure group backing Wiley’s City Hall campaign, on top of direct donations.

A spokesman for Soros confirmed to The Post that the deep-pocketed investor has contributed $500,000 to the independent expenditure group 1199 for Maya, a joint venture with 1199SEIU, an influential healthcare workers union that has endorsed Wiley.

Last week, the union announced a $1.2 million ad-buy backing Wiley, paid for by “1199 for Maya.”.

Those figures also don’t include about $16,000 in direct contributions to Wiley’s campaign by Soros, members of his family and associates through his Open Society Foundations, as well as by 1199SEIU, public campaign finance records show.

Wiley’s ties to Soros date back to the late 1990s, when she worked for nearly two years for the Open Society Foundations, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Both that group and the Tides Foundation, a bicoastal progressive activist organization for which Wiley has additionally worked, have also been backed in part by hefty Open Society grants, according to releases from the philanthropic group.

Meanwhile, Harlan Mandel, Wiley’s longtime partner, serves as CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund, yet another organization funded by Soros’ Open Society.

Asked by The Post about the seeming contradiction between her campaign-trail disdain for billionaires and her long-running ties to — and big-bucks funding by — Soros, Wiley would only say that she can’t control who chooses to back her

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