Andrew Cuomo loses out on $4M in public campaign funds, dealing major blow in bid for NYC mayor

Mayoral hopeful Andrew Cuomo was denied nationalist matching funds successful his bid for City Hall — delivering a fundraising stroke to the tune of $4 cardinal to the existent frontrunner aiming for his governmental comeback.

The determination by the Campaign Finance Board came Tuesday greeting aft the Cuomo run sent a panicked email implicit the play to supporters asking them to capable retired last-minute forms and digitally springiness their signatures to guarantee matching funds.

The email came with the taxable enactment “Urgent – Action Required” and stressed, “THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.”

“We request you to implicit the signifier included successful this further email, TODAY IF AT ALL POSSIBLE. We apologize for the inconvenience, but it is captious that we get these forms backmost arsenic soon arsenic possible.”

The ex-gov’s run mislaid retired connected $4,174,643.75 successful matching funds connected $332,530. The metropolis provides 8-to-1 matching funds for donations up to $2,150 from metropolis residents arsenic portion of an effort to unfastened up the tract to little affluent candidates.

The paperwork mess-up is the latest blunder implicit conscionable the past fewer days, including a typo-ridden lodging program and the misspelling of 2 apical national leaders successful announcing their endorsements.

“Last Friday, the run was informed by the run concern committee that, owed to a method bundle error, contributions collected connected 1 of our vendor platforms, NGP, were missing 1 of the fields required by the Campaign Finance Board, and truthful portion we met the thresholds indispensable to person matching funds, the run had to remedy this method matter,” said run spokesperson Rich Azzopardi.

“We person since afloat addressed the bundle contented and person complied with each requirements and volition beryllium submitting the due documentation to the Board wrong the 1 week grace play the committee allows to remedy method issues to person our eligible matching funds connected May 12.”