Overview
- Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Sam Levine as commissioner of the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection at a Monday press conference in Lower Manhattan.
- Levine led the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection from 2021 to 2025 and previously advised Commissioner Rohit Chopra and served in the Illinois attorney general’s office.
- Julie Su, the incoming deputy mayor for economic justice, will oversee the agency as the administration moves to double DCWP’s roughly $65 million budget and expand staffing.
- The enforcement agenda will target wage theft, worker misclassification, labor abuse, deceptive practices, and protections for approximately 80,000 delivery workers.
- Lina Khan praised the pick as a tough, impartial enforcer, while questions at the event covered inauguration plans and responses to an ADL report about staff ties to anti-Zionist groups.