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Mayoral hopeful Whitney Tilson fires advisor after getting 68% of matching fund claims rejected
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Mayoral hopeful Whitney Tilson fires advisor after getting 68% of matching fund claims rejected

Last updated: February 28, 2025 11:01 pm
Editorial Board Published February 28, 2025
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Tilson marketing campaign supervisor Trivette Knowles stated Friday that Tilson has apologized to the Marketing campaign Finance Board and is engaged on “rectifying our compliance mistakes,” blaming the paperwork errors on Roger That Compliance, a Washington, D.C. agency it just lately employed to deal with its compliance work. The marketing campaign has since fired the agency, which it paid $3,000 final month, in response to Knowles and metropolis data.

Roger That Compliance president Blair Schuman declined to remark.

This system makes use of taxpayer money to match donations from metropolis residents to mayoral campaigns at an 8-to-1 charge as much as $250, a construction that may web candidates tens of millions of {dollars} in public funds.

However 638 of Tilson’s matching claims had been deemed invalid by CFB auditors, a 68.4% denial charge, the data reveal.

The explanations for denial had been various. Dozens of claims had been rejected as a result of Tilson’s marketing campaign hadn’t equipped the board with required “backup documentation,” the data say.

Regardless, Tilson has but to fulfill the thresholds figuring out eligibility for public matching funds (candidates should increase at the least $250,000 from 1,000 particular person metropolis residents to get payouts). The subsequent matching funds disbursement is in April.

Tilson, a first-time political candidate, faces an uphill battle in June’s Democratic mayoral major, as a number of polls venture him receiving lower than 1% assist within the crowded subject.

Earlier than politics, Tilson ran Kase Capital, a hedge fund that at its peak managed almost $200 million in property. He shuttered the fund in 2017 after it began seeing losses.

Mayor Adams, who’s going through greater than a half dozen major challengers as he stays politically weak amid his corruption indictment and low approval rankings, received 50% of his public matching funds denied throughout the reporting interval that resulted in December, a charge specialists stated on the time was additionally unusually excessive. The denials didn’t have a direct influence on Adams because the CFB’s blocking him indefinitely from receiving any matching funds as a result of his indictment.

The Democratic mayoral major is about for June 24.

Initially Revealed: February 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM EST

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