NEW: Zeldin Paid Pro-Insurrection Group to Collect Signatures for Election Fraud Scheme

NEW YORK – New reporting from Newsday shows Lee Zeldin used campaign funds to pay a far-right extremist group, the Long Island Loud Majority, to collect signatures for his failed electoral fraud scheme to get on the Independence Party ticket line. Not only have Zeldin and the New York State Republican Party been caught attempting to defraud voters with thousands of photocopied signatures, but now it’s been revealed that he did so with the paid help of a group that attended the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.

Zeldin has extensive ties to the Long Island Loud Majority and actively campaigns with the extremist group as they continue to push dangerous conspiracy theories that undermine our democracy.

At a rally on Sunday, LILM co-founder Shawn Farash tied baseless claims about the 2020 presidential election results to the FBI search of Trump’s home, stating: “when you saw the FBI, the corrupt, disgusting, disgraceful FBI, go out there and raid the home of a sitting president, or the former sitting president, should-be sitting president because we all know what really happened in 2020…”

“Zeldin’s lies, dangerous affiliations, and far-right extremism are not only wrong for New York, they represent his unwavering loyalty to Trump’s anti-democratic playbook,” said Campaign Spokesman Jerrel Harvey. “The sad and pathetic truth is Zeldin used campaign funds to pay a dangerous, pro-insurrection group for political gain only to fail and commit fraud while doing so.”