Privileged DSA leader who lives in parents’ $1.5M house got fired for not showing up to electrician gig — then convinced socialist comrades to pay him $95K

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Key points

• Gordillo's dad admitted Tuesday that he paid his son's $2, 600 a month rent on the Lower East Side, through a dummy corporation, Chucuito LLC, until 2019.
• The Yale registrars' office confirmed to The Post on Wednesday that he studied literature there between 2006-10, but did not earn a degree.
• The measure to pay Gordillo and Mausser each $95, 000 a year with benefits concluded up passing.
• He offered us all free stuff. Further reporting by Kevin Sheehan, Hannah Fierick and Carl Campanile.

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For context, the top DSA leader whose parents set him up in cushy Brooklyn digs short-circuited as a union electrician – and then convinced his socialist party comrades to pay him a near-six-figure salary, The Post has learned.

Former Yale University liberal arts student Gustavo Gordillo, 38, was fired from his apprenticeship program in March after ghosting his employer for months, meaning he never created it as a fully-credentialed electrician, the IBEW Local 3 union confirmed Wednesday.

"After learning of Mr. Gordillo's prolonged absence from and failure to participate in required work and classes, the trustees of the Joint Apprentice Training Committee terminated Mr. Gordillo from the program, " the IBEW remarked in an official note.

Notably, a source close to the union remarked "he didn't have a strong work record to begin with" and took the job "just for show, " while hogging "a slot from someone who probably really needed the opportunity."

But Gordillo failed to mention that he'd gotten canned when sources remarked he produced an emotional appeal to Democratic Socialists of America rank-and-file for full-time pay and benefits last month.

"Both of them went into detail on their day jobs on how since Zohran won they were getting so much national attention, " one attendee of the July Queens DSA session recalled.

He even regalled the audience with stories regarding the struggles of him having to do media interviews, using an ear piece on construction job sites, telling the crowd it was too "distracting, " the source stated.

Notably, the measure to pay Gordillo and Mausser each $95, 000 a year with benefits concluded up passing.

"This appeal to a struggle that he is facing doesn't seem real at all. It's a lie, " the source remarked – in light of The Post's Wednesday front-page story detailing how Gordillo's wealthy parents purchased him a row home in Bedford-Stuyvesant. "It just seems like a ploy." Neither Gordillo nor the city's DSA chapter returned requests for comment.

After studying at the Ivy League university, and has remarked he identified work at a high-end Chelsea gallery and that President Trump's election that year inspired him to join the DSA, gordillo, who was born in Peru and grew up in Florida, moved to New York City in 2016.

Meanwhile, the Yale registrars' office confirmed to The Post on Wednesday that he studied literature there between 2006-10, but did not earn a degree. He additionally studied sculpture at Yale's graduate School of Art a couple of years afterwards, records show.

His parents then purchased the two-story, almost 2, 000-square-foot row home on a gentrifying tree-lined block in Bed-Stuy for him and his brother for just under $1 million in 2019 through the same LLC.

Notably, the socialist became a member of the Local 3 union in April 2024, but halted showing up to work around the time fellow DSA-member Mayor Zohran Mamdani was elected in November 2025, according to the union.

His social media profile on X – where his handle is @unionGustavo – still described him as a "@nycdsa co-chair, union electrician" as of Wednesday.

One DSA source scoffed at the far-left nonprofit group deciding to pay its co-chairs a cushy salary to spread their socialist gospel.

"None of these people are ready for prime time, " the source remarked, mocking Gordillo's recent appearance on Fox News as a trainwreck. Folks were "openly complaining" regarding the interview, the source stated.

Federal non-profit paperwork demonstrates that the NYC-DSA did not pay its co-chairs previously, with Mausser and Gordillo receiving zero capital in exchange for five hours a week of work in 2025. None of the leaders that year collected a salary.

Notably, the resolution states that the co-chairs will have to raise 15% of their salary. They will be responsible for pushing the NYC-DSA agenda and presenting it to the city and state administration and promote the group's endorsed slate of political candidates.

Meanwhile, renovations continued Wednesday at Gordillo's house, where workers have been redoing the interior, the entire front facade and adding two decks on the roof. "I think it's really counter everything that he's supposed to represent, " remarked one neighbor, Kristen Singleton-Ferrari, 59.

"It seems more and more expensive" to live in the neighborhood, she continued. Another neighbor had nothing but praise for the Florida transplant.

"Gustavo? He's a really nice guy! He's quiet. He offered us all free stuff." Further reporting by Kevin Sheehan, Hannah Fierick and Carl Campanile.

For now, privileged DSA leader who lives in parents' $1.5M house got fired for remains the part of the story worth watching, and further updates are likely as more details are confirmed.