Exclusive | Mamdanis top City Hall spox raked in more than $50K consulting for Graham Platners Maine Senate campaign

WASHINGTON — The top spokesman for Mayor Mamdani raked in more than $50,000 for political consulting work on Maine Senate Democratic candidate Graham Platner’s campaign right up until he started at City Hall in January.Press secretary Joe Calvello quit the consulting gig before getting the job with NYC — for which he’s paid a cool $210,000 a year, according to the mayor’s office.He’s yet another Mamdani insider with close ties to the embattled left-wing oysterman — who was revealed to have been sexting up to a dozen women while married.Also cross-pollinating between the camps is lefty kingmaker Morris Katz — who faced backlash for allegedly browbeating the ex-staffer who blew the whistle on Platner and tried to kill the sexting story.The Calvello gig was wrapped up in a Wyoming-based LLC — which have been used in the past to obscure shady deals.Graham for Maine paid a company registered to Joe Calvello a total of $50,036.07 for “communications consulting” between Oct.

1, 2025, and Jan.9, 2026, according to federal campaign finance filings, with the final $10,000 payment arriving nine days after the mayor was sworn in.The mayor’s office noted that Calvello’s start date was Jan.

13, meaning he didn’t have to declare a conflict of interest or obtain a waiver to finish his work for Platner — as well as other Democratic candidates — before joining the Mamdani administration.Calvello has shared statements from Platner responding to the Trump administration’s capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro as recently as Jan.3 — and spent the preceding year promoting the candidate’s appearances at rallies, town halls and other events.More than 6,500 people turned out for an event Platner did with socialist Sen.

Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in September, and the Senate hopeful returned to his old stomping grounds in Washington, DC, to tend bar at the Tune Inn 10 days later — with Calvello by his side.Calvello’s firm, Common Pheasant Cons...