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Fox News Politics Newsletter: Former radical group leader tied to Mamdani on AOC payroll
By Fox News Staff
Published October 22, 2025
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Former top leader of radical group tied to Mamdani has been on AOC's campaign payroll for years
FIRST ON FOX: A former top leader and "lifetime member" of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has been on the payroll of "Squad" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s, D-N.Y., campaign since she first ran for Congress in 2018.
Frank Llewellyn, the former director of the largest socialist organization in America and a founding member of the socialist group that would later become DSA's sister organization, serves as the treasurer for both Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign and her political action committee, Courage to Change.
Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign has paid Llewellyn a total of over $250,000 for payroll, travel and other administrative expenses dating back to 2018, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings reviewed by Fox News Digital. Disbursements range from $77.50 for cellphone, travel and internet stipends and salary payments of $1,281 approximately every two weeks…READ MORE.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., (left) employs Frank Llewellyn, a former national director of the Democratic Socialists of America. (AP; Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
White House
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World Stage
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Juan Carlos Pinzon is floating a run for high office in Colombia. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Image)
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Capitol Hill
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Across America
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Republican Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida, right, joins New Jersey GOP gubernatorial nominee Jack Ciattarelli on the campaign trail at a diner in Linden, N.J. on Oct. 22, 2025 (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
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Migrants and asylum seekers arrive at Roosevelt Hotel in New York City in January 2024. (J. Conrad Williams, Jr./Newsday RM via Getty Images)
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