A new City & State piece exposes Mazi Pilip for being subpoenaed just weeks ago in a lawsuit against her husband’s medical practice, where Pilip served as Operations Director and which allegedly failed to pay rent.
Pilip was ordered to provide testimony for the case on January 22 – while campaigning as the Republican nominee for the special election in New York’s Third Congressional District.
DCCC Spokesperson Ellie Dougherty:
“While Mazi Pilip tries to make sure little is known about her professional career and where she stands on key issues, what we do know is that Pilip is involved in a business facing allegations of nefarious financial decisions. What else is Pilip hiding?”
At the height of the campaign for Long Island’s 3rd Congressional District, Republican Mazi Melesa Pilip will be dealing with a subpoena in a lawsuit against her husband over alleged unpaid rent.
Before her election to the Nassau County Legislature, Pilip worked as the operations manager for her husband’s medical practice, and as Politico New York previously reported, the medical practice was sued by its landlord in 2020 for $70,000 in back rent and an additional $500,000 to cover the rest of the lease. Although Pilip was not named as a party in the lawsuit, court documents show that on Dec. 19 – just days after receiving the Republican nomination for the special election – she received a subpoena to give a deposition in the case. She’s required to provide that testimony to attorneys for the landlord on Jan. 22.
“This is an ongoing lease dispute between a private business and a landlord,” Pilip’s campaign said in a statement in response to a City & State inquiry about the subpoena.
Pilip will face off against Democrat Tom Suozzi, the former member of Congress seeking to win back a version of his old seat, on Feb. 13. She came into the race as a relative unknown compared to Suozzi, who has held various elected offices in and around the district for decades. Pilip, an Ethiopian-born Israeli Jew who served in the IDF, was first elected to the Nassau County Legislature in 2021 and won reelection last year.
