Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.A longtime player in Brooklyn’s Democratic Party, whom Mayor Eric Adams recently appointed to serve as his "special assistant," owes the city $55,269 for campaign finance violations associated with a failed City Council campaign, a recent lawsuit alleges.
Tommy Torres, a former district leader in north Brooklyn, started working in Adams’ office last September, according to his LinkedIn profile — the same month heThe board alleged that Torres failed to repay the city $37,651 in public campaign funds he never accounted for, plus another $17,618 in fines for several violations of the city’s campaign finance law, despite years of warnings, letters, and requests for information that went ignored by Torres dating back to 2018, court records show.
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