Mayor Eric Adams is suing the city Campaign Finance Board for “arbitrarily, capriciously, and unconstitutionally” denying his re-election campaign nearly $5 million in matching taxpayer funds.

The board has “shown a deplorable and anti-democratic bias” by continuing to bar Adams from cashing in on the city’s generous 8-to-1 public matching funds program — even after the federal corruption case against the mayor was dropped this spring, the suit claims.

“[The board’s] conduct is unconstitutional and the height of arbitrary and capricious governmental action,” the filing states. “The CFB’s funding denial must be annulled, and the agency must be held to account for its pernicious conduct.”

Eric Adams is suing the Campaign Finance Board for “arbitrarily, capriciously, and unconstitutionally

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