Overview

• The lawsuit filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court challenges the board’s December and April rulings that blocked $3.4 million in matching funds for Adams’s reelection bid.
• Adams’s team emphasizes his five-count federal indictment was dismissed with prejudice in April and should no longer affect campaign financing.
• The board initially denied funds citing a dismissed indictment, missing campaign paperwork and a late personal financial disclosure to the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board.
• Plaintiffs include Adams, his campaign and three donors, among them Marietta Rozental who previously connected him with Azeri officials while he was Brooklyn borough president.
• Ex-chief of staff Frank Carone and attorney Robert Spolzino warn the decision could disenfranchise donors and reshape future enforcement of public finance rules.