Mamdani’s consumer watchdog takes on ‘epidemic of corporate lawbreaking’

New York City’s new commissioner of consumer and worker protection is launching an “aggressive” campaign to fight junk fees and deceptive practicesNew York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s top consumer watchdog has one gripe about New Yorkers – he would like them to complain more. “We get about 30,000 complaints a year,” said Samuel AA Levine, New York City’s new commissioner of consumer and worker protection. “I’d really like to get the number up.”From downtown Manhattan, he has renewed a war on junk fee...