It's been a busy week for the Lulu Lenins of DSA.

First, co-chair Gustavo Gordillo went on Fox News and argued landlords have no right to double-digit returns. "Landlords in New York have been making a 12 percent return on their investment, on average," he told Martha MacCallum, adding that nobody has "a constitutional right" to it. A few weeks later he waved off bodega owners worried that Mamdani's taxpayer-funded grocery stores would put them out of business: "If one publicly owned grocery store that brings prices down in the neighborhood is enough to put someone out of business, then maybe they shouldn't have been in that business in the first place." This week the internet found out Gordillo delivers this material from a $1.5 million Bed-Stuy row house his parents bought and renovated through an LLC. Over on Fox Business, Larry Kudlow summed it up better than we could: the house "saved his downwardly mobile ass."

That's the pattern with this crowd. Too young to remember what actual scarcity looks like, too busy cheering for China at the People's Forum to notice the checks their own parents are writing.

Which brings us to Morris Katz, the baby of Mamdani's City Hall inner circle.

Five hundred members of the Democratic Socialists of America put their names on a letter this July demanding the party freeze out its most influential string-puller. Morris Katz survived anyway. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said so himself, on camera: "I will continue to work with Morris Katz. He remains a top adviser of mine."

The letter's complaint was narrow but real. Katz recruited Graham Platner, built his ads, and kept the Maine Senate campaign standing through a Nazi-tattoo story, allegations he covered for years of domestic violence and sexual assault, and a whistleblower-intimidation scandal, before a rape allegation finally ended it. Only two signatories put their names to the letter publicly: NYC-DSA electoral co-chair Wesley Higgins and Maine DSA leader Marianne Westfall, who told reporters Katz is "holding the left back." DSA's national office says it never even saw the letter before it circulated.

None of this is new information about Katz's judgment. We reported in June that his answer to a Platner problem was a text ordering a former campaign aide to lie to a reporter on a recorded call, or be branded a liar publicly and by name.

The fixer whose whole job is making problems disappear needed his parents to make his own disappear.

It also isn't new information about Katz's family. His father is screenwriter David Bar Katz. His mother, Julie Merberg, writes children's books, including one titled "No!: My First Book of Protest." The Washington Free Beacon has reported he's heir, through grandfather Harry Jay Katz, to a garment-industry trust fund once described as belonging to a "playboy prince of darkness."

And now the whispers. Council Member Vickie Paladino posted this week that a source directly involved with a building on Lorimer Street in Williamsburg says Katz rented a $5,700-a-month apartment there, stopped paying rent, bounced several checks, and dodged the landlord, the super, and management for months. His parents, according to the same account, ultimately settled with the landlord. We haven't verified any of it. Paladino says there's more coming. So do we, if it checks out.

None of this makes Katz uniquely dishonest. It just makes him consistent. The kid who built a career telling voters to blame their landlords needed his own parents to quietly pay one off. That's not a scandal. That's the business model.