They’re dismissing the dismissal.
Mayor Eric Adams isn’t able to tap into $4 million in public funds for his re-election bid because of a powerful board’s lingering suspicions that he’s a campaign finance crook — despite his federal corruption case being dismissed, The Post confirmed.
City Campaign Finance Board members told Adams they have “reason to believe” he broke the law, citing his historic indictment and related investigations into alleged straw donations for his 2021 and 2025 mayoral campaigns, the New York Daily News first reported.
Adams’ campaign will continue to pursue “every legal avenue” to obtain the matching funds, which were first denied in December, said spokesman Todd Shapiro.
“Let us be clear: the campaign has not engaged in any illegal behavior, nor has it participated in any dishonest or unethical conduct,” he said in a statement.
The historic federal indictment against Adams continues to hang over his head, even though he’s no longer in criminal jeopardy.
Manhattan federal court Judge Dale Ho last month dismissed the charges against Adams for good after President Trump’s Department of Justice made the controversial request for the case to be put on ice.
But Ho made clear he wasn’t doing so based on the case’s merits — instead, he reasoned that tossing it would ensure Trump couldn’t hold the charges over Adams’ head in exchange for the mayor helping with the feds’ immigration crackdown.
“Everything here smacks of a bargain: dismissal of the indictment in exchange for immigration policy concessions,” Ho wrote in a 78-page ruling.
The finance board brushed off the dismissal, but instead focused on the swirl of untried accusations against Adams and his associates, notably Winnie Greco — one of his longtime aides who helped raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for his political campaigns.
Greco’s home was raided by the feds last year.
