“Based on the preliminary results of our investigation, the Board has reason to believe Fix the City’s $622,056 expenditure for an ad distributed on May 4, 2025 was not independent of the Cuomo campaign,” board member Richard Davis said in a statement. “Expenditures coordinated with a campaign are considered in-kind contributions that undercut New York City’s strict spending and contribution limits, which are in place to ensure voters, not big money, decide elections.”

The webpage outlining Cuomo’s campaign strategy has since been deleted, but Cuomo’s campaign denied any wrongdoing in a statement to the Washington Examiner.

“Our campaign has operated in full compliance with the campaign finance laws and rules, and everything on our website was reviewed and approved by our legal team in advance of publication — as I’m sure Scott Stringer, Justin Brannan and others did when they launched similar pages,” Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi said. “We look forward to making that clear when we respond to the Board’s preliminary ruling and receiving the full matching funds to which the campaign is entitled.”

On Monday, the board awarded Cuomo $1.5 million in matching funds, but members warned that campaigns that are found guilty of coordinating with super PACs could lose access to public funds.

State Sen. Zellnor Myrie, a primary opponent of Cuomo, filed the complaint against the former New York governor’s campaign, but it is unclear whether it led to the investigation by the Campaign Finance Board.

“The Campaign Finance Board just confirmed what we’ve known all along: Andrew Cuomo is for sale,” Myrie said in a statement. “He’s spent decades bending laws, shutting down ethics investigations, and exploiting every loophole to serve himself — and now he’s doing it again, backed by a super PAC funded by billionaires and corporations who know Cuomo will serve the highest bidder.”

Meanwhile, Azzopardi said Cuomo’s campaign is gaining greater momentum, having raised $3.5 million in the past 71 days.

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We “are gratified to have the broadest coalition of supporters, and lead in every poll with voters in every borough, gender, race and ethnicity,” Azzopardi said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.

Polling conducted in late March shows Cuomo leading the mayoral primary race with 39%. Meanwhile, Mayor Eric Adams, who was accused of accepting foreign gifts, is polling at just 7% of the vote.

Ross O’Keefe contributed to this report.