Mayor Adams sues NYC Campaign Finance Board for $3.4M in denied funds

Mayor Adams has sued the city’s Campaign Finance Board over its repeated denial of matching funds for his reelection campaign.

The lawsuit, first reported by Politico on Tuesday, seeks $3.4 million that the mayor has been denied by the CFB, which has cited Adams’ five-count federal indictment in its decisions.

“An indictment is not a conviction; a politically-driven indictment that has been dismissed and for which there is no corroborating evidence is worth nothing at all,” attorney Robert Spolzino wrote in the suit, filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court. “The CFB’s reliance on the indictment as proof of anything, particularly now that it has been dismissed with prejudice, is, therefore, arbitrary, capricious, violative of lawful procedure, and erroneous as a matter of law.”

The CFB first denied Adams matching funds in December, citing a number of reasons including his indictment and his campaign’s failure to provide paperwork to campaign finance regulators. The lawsuit says Adams’ team has since submitted that information.



https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/27/mayor-adams-sues-nyc-campaign-finance-board-for-3-4m-in-denied-funds/