The probe comes after Jay Jacobs, the head of the state Democratic Party, filed a complaint earlier this month arguing that Zeldin’s campaign broke election law by working too closely with the pair of deep-pocketed political action committees, Safe Together New York and Save Our State.
In a complaint sent to the state Board of Elections, Dem party chairman Jay Jacobs argues that the Republican candidate’s campaign is breaking election law by working too closely with Safe Together NY and Save Our State NY, two PACS largely funded by billionaire Ronald Lauder, an heir to the Estée Lauder cosmetics fortune and longtime backer of conservative causes.