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Maggie Goodlander, a former Biden Justice Department official who is running for Congress as a Democrat in New Hampshire, says rents in the state are “too expensive” but owns millions of dollars in dozens of real estate properties, including golf courses and the Granite State Casino in Florida.
“Housing is a top priority for her constituents,” Goodlander, who is married to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, said on WGIR-AM's “New Hampshire Today with Chris Ryan” radio show on May 14.
“Rents are too high and the cost of buying a home, which is at the heart of the American Dream, has become completely unaffordable,” she said.
But that hasn't been the case for Ms. Goodlander, who has between $6 million and $30 million in trust funds and extensive real estate holdings, according to her husband's 2024 federal financial disclosure form obtained by The Washington Post.
The trust fund belongs solely to Goodlander, and she earned between about $200,000 and $2 million last year from interest, capital gains, rent and royalties.
One fund collects profits from Florida golf courses where annual dues exceed $2,000, such as Citrus Hills Golf and Country Club in Hernando.
Another fund identifies Boston Billiards as an HVAC company in New Hampshire, but The Post was unable to find it in a public records search in the Granite State.
However, the New Hampshire Business Review reported in August that the Boston Billiards Club & Casino in Goodlander's hometown of Nashua was renamed City Gate Casino last August as part of a $250 million investment by ECL Entertainment.
Other assets include office buildings, industrial parks, other commercial and residential properties, undeveloped land, and land leased to Canadian gas company Irving Oil.
The Washington Post has reached out to Goodlander's campaign for comment.
Goodlander's grandfather, Samuel Tamposi, was New Hampshire's largest commercial real estate developer at the time of his death in 1995, owning about 400 properties in New Hampshire and Florida worth $70 million, The Nashua Telegraph reported in 2013.
Tamposi's trust fund was later divided among his six children, with half of the funds deferred and the assets passed directly to his grandchildren.
Goodlander and Sullivan also purchased a $1.2 million home in the coastal city of Portsmouth in 2018, according to The Daily Beast and The New York Times.
“I'm a renter, and there should be more renters on Congress,” Goodlander told The Boston Globe earlier this month in his first interview since announcing his candidacy.
In an interview with New Hampshire Today in mid-May, Goodlander was asked if he also rented a home in Nashua, but made no mention of the Portsmouth property.
“I've spent the better part of the last three years working in government trying to hold accountable the monopolies that have made, and continue to make, life difficult for hard-working people in this state,” Goodlander said in an interview about his campaign message to voters.
“We're talking about the cost of living, the cost of basic necessities like health care, housing, putting food on the table,” she added, touting her experience as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Antitrust Division.
Goodlander's real estate and trust fund holdings are likely to come under intense scrutiny ahead of the competitive Democratic primary in New Hampshire's 2nd Congressional District on Sept. 10, in which he faces off against state Sen. Becky Whitley and Collin Van Ostern, the 2016 New Hampshire gubernatorial candidate who served as campaign manager for incumbent Democratic Rep. Annie Custer, who is retiring at the end of this term.
Van Ostern has been endorsed not only by Castor but also by former New Hampshire Governor John Lynch, who remains popular among New Hampshire Democrats.
Goodlander, who recently returned to his home state after a stint in Washington, has been accused of carpetbagging since announcing his campaign on May 9.
According to voting records reported by The Times, Goodlander has not voted in New Hampshire's 2nd Congressional District since 2008, when he was an undergraduate at Yale University.
