Mamdani Taps Former FTC Official as Consumer Protection Chief
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) picked FTC veteran Samuel Levine as his Department of Consumer and Worker Protection commissioner, Levine said in a post Tuesday.
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Levine spent nearly a decade at the FTC, rising to director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection in 2021. He left the agency early in 2025 and was a lecturer at Columbia Law School and a senior fellow at the Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice.
Levine said his focus as commissioner will be “making sure the law is used as a tool for justice -- to hold bad actors accountable and to advance a relentlessly pro-worker and pro-consumer agenda.”