Zohran Mamdani’s Family will make $3 Million from his “City-Owned” Grocery Stores.

His brother Ezekiel owns the condemned buildings and his cousin Lucas got the contract to fix them up.

The plan, according to documents obtained by investigative journalist Nick Shirley, calls for the city to seize control of twelve vacant properties across Queens and the Bronx, convert them into municipally operated grocery stores, and award the renovation contracts to a shell corporation registered in Delaware just three days after Mamdani announced his mayoral bid.

“Ezekiel Mamdani purchased those buildings in 2019 for $47,000 total,” said Shirley, gesturing toward a stack of papers held together with a binder clip. “They were condemned by the city in 2021 for ‘structural integrity issues’ and ‘toxic mold that could be seen from space.’ Now, suddenly, his brother wants to open grocery stores in them? And guess who gets the renovation contract? Cousin Lucas, who has never held a contractor’s license but did once install a very nice backsplash in his mother’s kitchen.”

The financial arrangement, according to Dave, a delivery driver who once dropped off a package at a building adjacent to one of the properties and who has since become an expert in municipal procurement law through YouTube tutorials, is designed to funnel taxpayer money directly into the Mamdani family coffers. “I ran the numbers,” Dave said, adjusting his reflective vest like a professor adjusting spectacles. “Three million dollars. That’s $250,000 per store. For what? Some drywall? Some organic produce? I’ve delivered to bodegas that were built for the cost of a used Honda Civic. This is a grift. I’ve seen grifts. I delivered to a guy once who ordered seventeen iPhones to a PO box. I know what fraud looks like.”

The allegations gained traction when Joe Barron, who worked as a substitute mail carrier in Queens for six weeks in 2018 and now consults on “urban real estate patterns” through his Facebook group “Wake Up Sheeple NYC,” conducted his own investigation. Barron, reached at his current job managing inventory at a tactical gear store in Long Island, claims he has proof that Ezekiel and Lucas Mamdani don’t exist in any conventional sense.

“I searched Ancestry.com for three hours,” Barron declared, holding up a phone screenshot of a family tree with several question marks drawn on it in digital ink. “I found no birth certificates for an ‘Ezekiel Mamdani.’ No driver’s license for a ‘Lucas Mamdani’ in New York State. No property records. No social media. It’s like they’re ghosts. Or, and hear me out, they were invented specifically for this corruption scheme. Zohran created them. Out of thin air. Like a socialist Jesus creating disciples, but instead of spreading the gospel, they’re spreading municipal contracts.”

Barron has compiled a 200-page dossier he calls “The Mamdani Mirage,” which he keeps in a waterproof safe in his mother’s basement. He offered to show it to reporters but first required them to sign a non-disclosure agreement and surrender their phones. “The depth of this conspiracy is staggering,” Barron explained. “Ezekiel doesn’t exist. Lucas doesn’t exist. The $3 million doesn’t exist. The grocery stores don’t exist. It’s all fiction. It’s as fictional as the story itself.”

When asked to clarify, Barron became agitated. “Don’t you get it? There is no brother Ezekiel. There is no cousin Lucas. There is no shell corporation. I made them up. Nick Shirley made them up. We all made them up. That’s the point. You can just say things. About anyone. And people will believe it if you use the right font.”

The Mamdani campaign has not responded to requests for comment about his fictional relatives, which Barron says is “exactly what someone with fictional family members would do.”