Campaign Board Voided $1 in Every $3 Eric Adams Submitted for Matching Funds

Campaign finance officials could not verify the billing address of more than 200 credit card contributions Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election campaign has submitted for public matching funds, raising questions about the true source of many of his donations.

In its reviews of the campaign’s requests, the Campaign Finance Board deemed as invalid all 222 of these donations — including 25 where the credit card billing address differed from the donor’s stated residential address, an analysis by THE CITY finds. With the other 197 donations, the address on file with the credit card company did not match the billing address of the card used by the donor to make the donation.

That included four donations featured by THE CITY in a recent report detailing suspicious donations submitted by Adams campaign in the weeks after a federal judge dismissed his campaign finance fraud case at the behest of the Trump administration.

In its latest preliminary review of donations, obtained by THE CITY via a Freedom of Information Law request, CFB dubbed each of these claimed contributions invalid for a match.


https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/28/eric-adams-campaign-finance-board/