Bill de Blasio’s mayoral campaign has gone nuclear.
The public advocate, who has long rallied against people who do business with Iran, accepted a check last month from wealthy Democratic donor Jack Rosen, 66, who has a lucrative real-estate deal with a Russian oligarch suspected of funding the construction of one of Iran’s nuclear-power plants.
According to his most recent campaign-finance filing, the Democratic mayoral hopeful accepted $1,000 from Rosen.
De Blasio has a watch list that exposes firms “profiting off of business in Iran.”
Rosen teamed up with Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman to invest $1 billion in distressed real estate along the East Coast. Fridman’s Alfa Bank provided financing throughout the 2000s to the state-owned Russian nuclear vendor that installed reactors at Iran’s nuclear plant in Bushehr, according to reports.
Rosen has said his partner denies directly funding nuclear projects.
A rep for de Blasio yesterday said in an e-mail, “Jack Rosen is a stalwart supporter of the Jewish state and a well-respected leader of the American Jewish Congress . . . We are proud to have his support.”