Payments to socialist fixer Morris Katz missing from Graham Platner campaign filings

WASHINGTON — The baby-faced socialist strategist behind Graham Platner’s disastrous Maine Senate bid, Morris Katz, was mysteriously missing from the scandal-scarred campaign’s consultant payroll — despite his firm boasting about creating dozens of ads for the disgraced Democrat.The oysterman’s principal campaign committee, Graham for Senate, forked over $10,177,696 to just a trio of entities between August 2025 and May 2026 for consulting, media buys, ads and data acquisition, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records.The firms — LC Media, Helix Campaigns and Workers Productions — accounted for more than 70% of the campaign’s operating expenditures during that time period, but no filings exist showing payments to Katz’s Democratic political consulting firm, Fight Agency.Katz and his Fight Agency co-founder, Rebecca Katz (no relation), also weren’t listed in individual FEC filings on the Platner campaign’s payroll.This is despite Katz — who propelled Mayor Zohran Mamdani to victory — recruiting Platner, and Fight Agency claiming it had made “over 40 ads” for the failed campaign.“Fight Agency is a media firm.

We make ads.For the Platner campaign, we made one launch video and over 40 ads,” a rep told Axios this week.The ads were massively successful in improving Platner’s profile in the Pine Tree State, with the 41-year-old going on to win the Democratic primary by a whopping 72 percentage points last month.Americans for Public Trust executive director Caitlin Sutherland told The Post that it is not uncommon for campaigns to attempt to obfuscate payments to consultants in FEC filings by routing them through payroll companies or the firms that employ them, rather than using their names.It’s unknown whether any of the other firms that were directly paid by the Platner campaign contributed to salaries for Fight Agency employees before their candidate chose to bow out.Workers Productions was paid $334,000 for video produ...