Senior NYC officials fined for campaigning, fundraising for Kamala Harris, Eric Adams

City Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez and a former senior NYPD official with reputed links to China’s Communist Party have agreed to pay fines after admitting they misused their government positions by campaigning and fundraising for ex-Vice President Kamala Harris and Mayor Adams, new records reveal.

Rodriguez, who has served as Adams’ Department of Transportation head since January 2022, will cough up a $1,750 fine for urging New Yorkers during a DOT “Summer Streets” event in the Bronx last August to vote for Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

In a disposition from the Conflicts of Interest Board released Thursday, Rodriguez acknowledged he wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the DOT logo and his title during the event and delivered remarks “in which I urged the assembled crowd to support Kamala Harris for president.”

The disposition doesn’t elaborate on exactly what Rodriguez told the crowd. But the paperwork says Rodriguez understood that by delivering those remarks in that setting he violated city ethics laws barring public servants from pursuing “personal activities” on city time or using any municipal titles or equipment, like clothing, for “any noncity purpose.”




https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/17/senior-nyc-officials-fined-for-campaigning-fundraising-for-kamala-harris-eric-adams/