He’s no Guardian Angel — according to disgruntled staffers.
Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa is facing accusations of stiffing workers on his failed New York City mayoral campaign out of thousands of dollars in back pay, The Post has learned.
Republican Party activists have been fielding gripes from the GOP nominee’s campaign staffers about being owed lots of moolah, insiders said.
“The biggest source of complaints is from the hourly paid canvassers. They need the money,” said one GOP source.
Emails reviewed by The Post also claim that calls have not been returned to staffers owed or promised money, including canvassers, who are meant to get paid $25 an hour.
One canvasser, who claimed he’s owed $2,000, said he hopes to get paid soon because he needs the money.
“I am owed a couple of substantial paychecks. I pray to God … I need the money badly,” said the canvasser, who resides in Queens and requested anonymity.
He said he knocked on doors and made calls for Sliwa during the final month of the campaign.
Alonzo Henderson, who worked in Sliwa’s Bronx campaign office, claimed he’s owed back pay, too.
“When someone is promised something, you need to live up to that end of the promise — especially when you’re running on reform,” Henderson said.
The gripes are just the latest blow for Sliwa, who received only 7% of the vote in the Nov. 4 election, badly trailing victor and Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent after losing out on the Democratic nomination.
The Sliwa campaign raised $6.87 million for the race, including qualifying for $5.3 million in public matching funds.
His campaign spent nearly $5.1 million and has an estimated balance of $1.7 million, according to the Campaign Finance Board.
But there is a typical lag in payments to employees as the campaign awaits funding from the CFB, said Sliwa campaign spokesman Rob Cole.
“Everyone is going to get paid,” Cole said. “We’re in the accounting process now. It’s a process. Everyone needs to be patient.”
Sliwa also insisted he’s not stiffing anyone, and said that campaign staffers who put in work and have the timesheets to prove it will get paid — soon.
“Throughout the campaign canvassers were paid weekly or biweekly. Any timesheets presented after Election Day have to be disclosed, audited and uploaded by December 1st to validate any post election payments,” Sliwa said.
“This is standard protocol for the campaign and each office head has been alerted so as to alert team members.”
Sliwa rebutted Henderson’s claim, claiming the Bronx office worker was paid $600 before getting fired “for verbally abusing and threatening staff.”
With no chance of winning, many Republicans abandoned Sliwa and voted for Cuomo as the more viable alternative to democratic socialist Mamdani.
Even President Trump urged New Yorkers to vote for Cuomo, not Sliwa.
His former boss, WABC radio owner John Catsimatidis, accused Sliwa of being a spoiler by not pulling out of the race.
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