Cuomo Loses Another $675,000 Over Suspected Super PAC Coordination
The penalty was yet another avoidable setback for Mr. Cuomo. He has now been penalized nearly $1.3 million in total, a significant loss of public funds that could have been spent in the final weeks before the June 24 Democratic primary.
The sanction came as the board doled out the final tranche of matching funds before early voting began in roughly two weeks. Public polling shows that Mr. Cuomo, the former governor of New York who resigned in scandal in 2021, continues to lead, with a handful of more liberal alternatives vying to prevent his return to office.
Several of them were awarded with hundreds of thousands of dollars in matching funds on Friday, multiplying what they had raised in private contributions. The most notable recipient was Adrienne Adams, the City Council speaker and a late entrant into the race, who had yet to qualify for matching funds.
Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, who is polling second behind Mr. Cuomo and has already reached the city's maximum funding limit, had urged his supporters to contribute to Ms. Adams's campaign to help her meet the funding threshold. She walked away on Friday with $2 million, an infusion large enough to stage a television ad campaign before Primary Day.
'With these funds, the campaign anticipates an aggressive, on-the-ground and over-the-airwaves blitz in the final stretch, as momentum continues to build for Adrienne's effective leadership,' said Lupe Todd-Medina, her spokeswoman.
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