Another reprimand for former Governor Andrew Cuomo of the City Campaign Financing Council.
What you need to know
- Former Governor Andrew Cuomo was accosted by an additional $ 675,000 in counterpart funds for allegedly coordinated with a Super PAC
- This is the second time this month, the Cuomo campaign has lost funds from the public because of the alleged coordination
- The president of the municipal council, Adrienne Adams, has also qualified for counterpart funds for the first time
For the second time this month, the Cuomo campaign for the mayor obtained public counterpart funds for alleged coordination with a Super CAP who supports his candidacy.
Earlier in May, Cuomo had lost more than $ 622,000 in counterpart funds because the Super PAC, known as Fix The City, broadcast a certain announcement.
The announcement would have taken over the management of the Cuomo website, in a practice known as boxing which is prohibited by the City Campaign Financing Council.
The candidates are not allowed to coordinate with the Super CAP.
After this initial penalty, there were additional expenses on this same announcement by fixing the city.
So now, the board of directors retains an additional $ 675,000 in public fundraising funds from the CUOMO campaign.
And in addition to that, it applies the funds selected to its expenditure ceiling.
This means that Cuomo will have to spend $ 1.3 million less than other candidates for the town hall.
In a press release, a spokesperson for Cuomo said: “Today’s preliminary decision is a continuation of their same position not based on the independent announcement – our campaign worked in full compliance with the laws and rules for financing the campaign.”
A press release from Fix The City said the group had not coordinated with the CUOMO campaign.
Cuomo has always received more than $ 1.7 million from the board of directors on Friday and there are around $ 5.2 million in its campaign account, according to its recent file.
“Andrew Cuomo shows how corrupted it is,” said City Controller Brad Lander. “He was corrupt as governor. He is corrupt as a candidate. He would be corrupt as mayor.”
The decision was once more fuel for Cuomo rivals.
“The committee made its decision and I respect the committee for their equity for all of us,” said the president of the municipal council, Adrienne Adams. “So we are all looked at the same way.”
Friday, President Adams received different news from the board of directors.
The deceased in the race has just qualified for 2 million dollars in counterpart funds, which gives an increase in his campaign in the last weeks of the campaign.
“It will help me,” she said. “It will help us stimulate and get our message across even more clearly to the whole city of New York as we want.”