Mayor Eric Adams<\/a> and ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, have been denied millions of dollars in matching funds by the city\u2019s Campaign Finance Board after being flagged for various violations.<\/p>\n\u201cEvery time you scratch the surface with this guy, more red flags emerge,\u201d said defense lawyer Jim Walden, who is running for mayor as an Independent.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere, the obvious concern is that he is understating his wealth. He should come clean. If he can\u2019t be honest, add that to the growing list of disqualifiers.\u201d<\/p>\n
A rep for the Campaign Finance Board declined to comment.<\/p>\n
Lisa Partelow Reid, executive director of the state Legislative Ethics Commission, said elected officials who knowingly make false statements to the commission could face fines of up to $40,000. If amendments are needed \u201cthe assumption\u201d typically is \u201can inadvertent error\u201d occurred, she said. <\/p>\n
Mayor Adams was not given matching funds for his reelection campaign. Derek French\/SOPA Images\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
There are no records of Mamdani amending his filings.<\/p>\n
Reid declined to discuss Mamdani repeating the same information on his stocks and land ownership in five straight annual state filings \u2013 but then providing different information in his COIB filing.<\/p>\n
Heavy security and phone jammers marked a recent three-day celebration at Mamdani\u2019s Ugandan compound. New York Post<\/p>\n
COIB Executive Director Carolyn Miller deferred questions about matching funds to the Campaign Finance Board but said \u201cfilers regularly and routinely amend their annual disclosure reports to resolve discrepancies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime Democratic political consultant, questioned whether the state and city entities \u2014 which are designed to be independent and apolitical \u2014 are ignoring Mamdani\u2019s discrepancies because they\u2019re worried about being accused of Islamophobia.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hypocritical at best,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mamdani did not return messages.<\/p>\n
Additional reporting by Gabrielle Fahmy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has scored nearly $10 million in public matching funds for his campaign,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":150806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,11119,88556,43561,5289,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,22770,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-150805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-campaign-finance","10":"tag-conflicts-of-interest-board","11":"tag-disclosure","12":"tag-eric-adams","13":"tag-metro","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","21":"tag-uganda","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-us-news","28":"tag-usa","29":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115039131845502323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}