It was all about avenues to get money, he knew he couldn’t win.
Via Politico:
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s presidential campaign is over, but concerns over his fundraising practices linger on.
An official with the Federal Election Commission sent a letter to the mayor’s presidential campaign, which ended Friday, highlighting a problem that has been the subject of multiple POLITICO reports and two formal complaints from watchdog groups.
In a July public filing, the de Blasio camp noted a $52,852 debt owed to the NY Fairness PAC, a state political action committee controlled by the mayor. The campaign had argued that this was a permissible loan from one organization to another. But the FEC’s senior campaign finance analyst, Robin Kelly, wrote this week that the practice is not allowed by campaign finance rules.