Exclusive | NYC DSA bigwig Gustavo Gordillo breaks silence on phony working class cred and lies again

Silver spoon socialist Gustavo Gordillo finally spoke out about the sea of scandals surrounding him — but dodged the damning revelations about his phony working class credentials, The Post has learned.The Yale-educated co-chair of NYC Democratic Socialists of America — who was exposed by The Post as a nepo baby and cosplaying a union worker — failed to even mention he’d been fired from his electrician gig, tried to hide it from his comrades and lied about his family wealth in an email to party members Tuesday.Gordillo, 38, called the scandal that has hounded him “pure lies and fabrication” — but falsely claimed that he quit his union gig to focus on DSA duties when in fact he was canned in March for blowing off work.“I stopped working as a union electrician earlier this year because it was untenable to have a physically demanding construction job and be co-chair of NYC-DSA,” he wrote in the letter exclusively obtained by the paper.

“It was impossible to do a good job at work while balancing an increasingly full-time role in chapter leadership.”Gustavo has continued his brazen dupe to unknowing members and the public by boasting in his X profile of being the NYC DSA “co-chair, union electrician union election.”Just last year, he posted a pic in construction gear and a union t-shirt on his “unionGustavo” X account on May 1, 2025 with the message, “Happy international workers day” — although he wasn’t a full-fledged union member and would ultimately flunk out due to “prolonged” absences.His handle remains “unionGustavo” on the account.Gordillo, who lives in a $1.5 million Brooklyn townhouse his millionaire dad bought for him, has been under fire in recent months after his claims of an immigrant working class background crumbled.The Post also confirmed that he stopped paying rent on a Crown Heights apartment where he was crashing while his dad’s upscale Bedford Stuyvesant townhouse was being renovated — even as he was l...