New York City Campaign Finance Board v. Mahadeo

In this action to recover civil penalties from defendants (see Campaign Finance Act of 1965, codified at Administrative Code of City of NY § 3-701 et seq.), defendant Trotman’s argument, that the Board lacked jurisdiction to impose statutory penalties on the defendants because the defendants never received any public matching funds from the Board and because the Board determined, before penalties were imposed, that defendants were not qualified to receive public matching funds, is unpreserved as it is raised for the first time on appeal. Were we to reach this argument, we would find it…