Election officials on Monday rejected a 2025 request from New York Mayor Eric Adams for millions in public matching dollars.
The decision — based on accounting irregularities and a federal criminal case against the mayor involving straw donors — is a major blow to the beleaguered mayor’s reelection efforts, which he must now redouble to make up for the withheld money.
It comes just a day after Adams’ top adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin resigned amid a criminal investigation into her own actions — an investigation that appears unrelated to the federal case.
