Mayor Eric Adams on Friday accused the city Campaign Finance Board of “poisoning the atmosphere” by releasing a letter via Freedom of Information Law this week notifying him that it has reason to believe his 2021 mayoral campaign broke the law.

Adams made the remarks over a series of Friday morning TV interviews in response to reporters’ questions over the CFB’s April 15 letter, which several media outlets reported after the board released it following their FOIL requests. The missive explains that the board reviewed Adams’s now-dismissed federal indictment alleging that his 2021 campaign defrauded the city’s matching funds program, partially accounting for its determination that his 2025 re-election campaign is still ineligible to receive over $4 million in public money.