A Democratic frontrunner within the race to exchange retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-Manhattan) is hammering ICE on the marketing campaign path — whereas his spouse rakes in thousands and thousands from corporations closely contracted with the company, data present.
Higher East Aspect Assemblyman and former high Nadler aide Micah Lasher has brazenly referred to as for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be “abolished” — ripping it as “an company past restore” — and he’s led protests towards Amazon, Dwelling Depot and different corporations he claims are profiting off ICE’s “cruelty.”
The 44-year-old has even tried to win over voters within the liberal district by ripping opponent Alex Bores, an East Aspect assemblyman, for having spent 5 years as an information scientist and honcho at high ICE contractor Palantir Applied sciences, Metropolis & State reported.
However Lasher’s spouse, Elizabeth Mann, is quietly bringing residence megabucks off President Donald Trump and ICE’s efforts to implement the regulation and safe the border.
Mann has earned $578,111 from Motorola Options since being named to the telecommunications tech firm’s board of administrators in August 2024, the agency’s proxy statements present.
Throughout that interval, Motorola has racked up greater than $21 million in ICE contracts, offering it with surveillance tech and different communications providers.
And since being tapped chief monetary officer of Verisk Analytics in July 2022, Mann has additionally pocketed almost one other $17 million in wage, inventory awards and different funds from the Jersey Metropolis-based firm, proxy statements present.
Verisk owns a well being and car-insurance database, ISO ClaimSearch, that ICE reportedly makes use of to trace folks they wish to deport. ISO has entry to the information by the Nationwide Insurance coverage Crime Bureau.
“You don’t must work at Motorola to know the 411 on what’s happening right here: it’s a candidate who’s speaking out of two sides of their mouth,” mentioned a high NYC Democratic operative. “Which model may get elected? I suppose all of us are on maintain?’”
“He’s a hypocrite,” mentioned one other Dem operative.
Lasher and Bores are among the many crowded area of candidates operating on this 12 months’s Democratic major for Manhattan’s twelfth Congressional district, which incorporates Midtown and the Higher East Aspect.
Different candidates embody Jack Schlossberg, grandson of former President John F. Kennedy; and George Conway, a lawyer and President Trump-hating former Republican.
Bores couldn’t be reached for remark.
Schlossberg mentioned he “doesn’t know a lot about Micah and Motorola.”
“However I do know that nobody owns me,” he added.
Lasher — whose high endorsements embody Nadler and ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg — mentioned his spouse “has constructed a rare profession, leads with integrity, and I couldn’t be prouder of her.
“I’ll carry on preventing ICE in Albany and to abolish it in Washington, whereas my opponents shovel dust and falsehoods about my spouse to the Put up,” he mentioned.
