One half of the champagne socialist duo who recruited and failed to properly vet accused rapist Graham Platner was reportedly booted from a previous congressional campaign due to sexual misconduct accusations from at least three women.
Yale Law-educated Daniel Moraff, 31, the grandson of one of the Toys “R” Us founders, worked on the campaign to elect far-left “Squad” Rep. Summer Lee to Congress in Pennsylvania in 2022, after leading efforts to recruit her a few years before to run in state politics in Pittsburgh.
But he was quickly barred from campaign events and speaking to staffers after Lee received multiple sexual harassment complaints against him, according to labor publication Payday Report.
“Birds of a feather flock together and Moraff and Platner were predators,” said one of the unnamed women who claims she was sexually harassed by Moraff during Lee’s 2022 campaign.
Moraff, a political strategist, was allegedly sexually aggressive with volunteers and activists, according to the report.
“He doesn’t have boundaries with women, nor much of an ethical code,” said one woman who complained of his sexual misconduct in Pittsburgh, adding she wasn’t surprised Moraff backed Platner, who dropped out of the Maine Senate race this week after a woman accused him of raping her while he was drunk.
After he got the boot from Lee, Moraff struggled to work as a political consultant, until he figured he could build a brand recruiting unusual politicians to appeal to white working-class voters disenfranchised with the Democratic Party.
Enter Graham Platner.
Moraff and fiancée Leanne Fan were apparently so enamored with the oyster farmer after seeing a video of him in the summer of 2025, that they rushed through his background check.
The radical couple laughed in an embarrassing video when they were asked by the Wall Street Journal how they went about vetting the accused rapist, whose other scandals include a Nazi tattoo on his chest.
Moraff denied the allegations against him, blaming instead people resenting him for his desire to “challenge the political establishment.”
“Daniel never committed any acts of sexual misconduct,” a spokesperson told The Post in response to the report. “If anyone has evidence of criminal conduct, they know exactly where to take it — a police station.”
“Winning in politics creates enemies. Daniel has always understood that.”
