ICYMI: Crooked Susie Lee Cashing Checks From Foreclosure Kingpin
In case you missed it, a new report exposes crooked Susie Lee for playing both sides of the housing crisis.
“Crooked Susie Lee is taking money from foreclosure kingpin Don Mullen, the same Wall Street operator who helped wreck America’s housing market and is now buying up homes while Nevada families get priced out. Mullen screwed America’s economy, and now Susie Lee is helping him screw Nevadans.” – NRCC Spokesman Christian Martinez
Read more here or see excerpts below:
Susie Lee’s Double Game: Cashing Checks From Foreclosure Kingpin While Nevada Families Get Screwed Out of a Home
By TheNevada Globe Staff
March 9, 2026
Nevada Democrat Susie Lee has spent months posturing as a champion against corporate landlords driving up housing prices.
But campaign finance records tell a different story. Lee took campaign cash from Don Mullen, the Wall Street financier widely dubbed a foreclosure kingpin whose firm has grown into one of the largest corporate landlords in Nevada and across the country.
Mullen is the founder and president of Pretium Partners, a New York hedge fund that has quietly amassed thousands of homes nationwide, including a massive footprint in Clark County. As Nevada families struggle to buy their first home, corporate buyers backed by Wall Street money have been scooping up properties and turning them into rentals.
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Federal Election Commission records show Mullen gave Lee the maximum $2,800 contribution in 2019. Mullen has also poured more than $1.2 million into Democrat political committees, including the DCCC and House Majority PAC, which have spent millions boosting Lee and other vulnerable Democrats.
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The controversy lands at a moment when housing affordability has become one of Nevada’s most explosive political issues. Corporate homebuyers have rapidly expanded their footprint in the Las Vegas valley over the last several years, buying thousands of single-family homes and converting them into rental properties.
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