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Mayor Eric Adams may have thrown in the towel on his reelection fight, but he’s still demanding millions of taxpayer dollars’ worth of campaign matching funds to pay off outstanding bills from his now defunct campaign.
And he’s doing that while facing the very real possibility that the city Campaign Finance Board, which has been denying him these funds for months, may go a step further and move to recapture millions of dollars it had approved for him in his 2021 campaign.
When Adams announced via video Sunday that he was terminating his campaign, he spe