New York City Campaign Finance Board v. Snyder

*842OPINION OF THE COURT

Diane A. Lebedeff, J.

The primary and previously unanswered question present here is whether, under New York City’s system of public financing of local election campaigns, a candidate and committee benefiting from public matching funds may be sued for the return of public funds where they utterly refuse to document that public funds were used for campaign purposes.1 For reasons set forth below, the court finds that the governing legislation incorporates a basic obligation of candidates and committees to show that the public’s tax dollars were put to the public’s intended…