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A New York court awarded the Democratic Socialists of America $5.2 million from the retirement account of New York University sociology professor David Greenberg, closing a 15-month dispute over succession rights in his estate.
The payout amounts to nearly a full year of revenue for the DSA, according to its tax filings. Greenberg's nephew challenged the transfer in a suit filed in April 2025; the judge sided with the organization Monday.
The succession argument Greenberg, who died in July 2024, directed in his will that his NYU retirement account pass to the New American Movement, or "any successor thereof." His NYU obituary described him as a prominent figure in America's radical criminology movement, and he spent much of his life involved with left-wing causes.
The New American Movement merged with the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee to form the DSA in 1982, according to contemporary coverage in left-wing media outlets.
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