Mayor Adams is suing New York City’s Campaign Finance Board over its latest refusal to give him public matching funds for his reelection effort, claiming the panel has shown a “deplorable and anti-democratic bias” against him by withholding the critical cash, the Daily News has learned.

The board first started denying the mayor more than $3 million in matching funds in late 2024 due to his federal corruption indictment. The indictment was dropped this spring by President Trump’s Department of Justice as part of a controversial arrangement that did not address the merits of the prosecution and left many to believe the mayor has become beholden to Trump.

Despite the dismissal of the corruption case, the CFB has continued to withhold matching funds from Adams, saying earlier this mont

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