The campaign of former City Comptroller John Liu was hit with more than $15,000 in fines Thursday by the same city board that denied matching funds to his mayoral run in 2013 — effectively derailing it.
The violations, which stem from Liu’s successful 2009 campaign for comptroller, include accepting over-the-limit donations and the purchase of three airline tickets that were deemed to be unrelated to the campaign.
Campaign Finance Board officials say the fines weren’t levied until now because of delays caused by federal probes and prosecutions of staffers on Liu’s 2013 campaign.
In May 2013, his ex-campaign treasurer and a former fund-raiser were convicted of trying to pry undeserved matching funds from the board.
Later that year, the CFB declined to provide as much as $3.5 million in matching funds to Liu’s campaign near the end of the Democratic primary for mayor.
Liu told The Post he thought he’d sent the board full payment in 2011 but that he’s “happy it’s resolved.”
In 2014, Liu sought to grab a seat in the state Senate out of Queens but lost the primary to Democrat Tony Avella.