DA hopeful took $ from elex deniers

Democratic candidate for Manhattan district attorney Tali Farhadian Weinstein has collected tens of thousands of dollars from Wall Streeters who also backed Republicans in the Georgia senate runoff elections and pols who tried to overturn the November presidential election.

Her haul includes $20,000 from broker Robert Granieri, campaign finance records show. He gave $100,000 to a PAC devoted to defeating Democratic challengers for Georgia’s U.S. Senate seats, who ultimately flipped the chamber blue.

Wall Streeter Mark Gerson gave $18,000 to Farhadian Weinstein, a seasoned prosecutor who’s worked for the Brooklyn district attorney’s office and as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. He also contributed $2,500 each to campaigns for former Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, the Georgia Republicans who lost their seats.

Gerson gave $5,600 to Sen. Josh Hawley, (R-Mo.), who objected to the presidential election results even after supporters of former President Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Gerson contributed another $5,600 to Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), who also opposed the results. Both pols have come to be loathed by Democrats whose votes Farhadian Weinstein will be seeking.

Farhadian Weinstein, whose husband Boaz Weinstein is a hedge fund big shot, got $10,000 from billionaire Kenneth Griffin, who also gave $2 million to a political action committee that supported Loeffler. Griffin contributed $2,800 to Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), who voted to overturn the November election results and who’s come under scrutiny for a social media post of him at Hitler’s Germany vacation house.

Farhadian Weinstein faces a small army of opponents in the June Democratic primary, including Diana Florence, formerly of the Manhattan DA’s office.

“The same Wall Street donors who supported seditionists like Sen. Josh Hawley and Rep. Elise Stefanik, and the newly elected Nazi-curious Madison Cawthorn, are pouring money now into Ms. Farhadian Weinstein’s campaign,” Florence said in a statement. “The next DA has to hold white supremacists and people in power accountable, not get in bed with those trying to tear down our democracy.”

Farhadian Weinstein’s campaign accused Florence of hypocrisy, pointing out she’d received $15,000 from Fox News legal analyst Mercedes Colwin.