Despite pulling the plug on his reelection bid , Mayor Adams will continue fighting the Campaign Finance Board in court to try to unlock the more than $4 million in public matching funds withheld from him due to his corruption indictment.

Robert Spolzino, an attorney for Adams, wrote in a filing submitted in Brooklyn Federal Court on Monday that the mayor will continue the court battle because “campaign expenditures incurred prior to the date the candidate has ceased actively campaigning remain eligible expenditures.”

“The Adams Campaign has incurred such expenditures and is therefore entitled to the relief it seeks in this action today, just as it was prior to Mayor Adams’ announcement,” Spolzino wrote in the filing, which appeared on the court docket the day after the mayor offici

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