A lawyer for the campaign complained over email about having to respond to a U.S. Southern District of New York investigation and having documents come out via public records requests.
Mayor Eric Adams’ team wrote in a letter to the city’s campaign finance watchdog that the campaign needed more time to respond to questions about apparent sloppy recordkeeping because its lawyer was too busy dealing with a federal inquiry.
The emails, which Gothamist obtained via a Freedom of Information request, also show Pitta and fellow Adams campaign lawyer Ardian Tagani objecting to the fulfillment of a previous public records request. The board granted the campaign an extension to Aug. 15. A week before the new deadline, the board's director of candidate services, Hannah Egerton, sent the Adams campaign a reminder email noting “this will be the last extension granted to the campaign.”“Can you please offer some explanation as to the imposition of a final deadline two weeks following August 15?” he wrote.
“The campaign continues to work diligently on its response to the draft audit report to resolve all questions raised by the CFB,” Pitta wrote in a statement to Gothamist. “I would be remiss if I did not mention that the CFB’s decision to release a copy of the campaign’s DAR in response to a FOIL request without even the courtesy of informing the campaign,” Pitta wrote, calling it, “extraordinarily concerning.”
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