Former Comptroller Bill Thompson — one of the top contenders in the 2013 race for mayor — has lost another attempt to quash nearly $600,000 in fines for plastering public property with illegal posters in his 2009 campaign for City Hall.
Sources said the Environmental Control Board has upheld a decision of an administrative law judge rejecting Thompson’s argument that his senior campaign aides did all they could to comply with the law.
Thompson’s campaign now owes the city $594,375 for 7,925 poster violations.
A campaign spokesman couldn’t immediately say if Thompson intended to pay up or keep fighting.
He can still try to get the decision overturned in state Supreme Court, a path followed by Comptroller John Liu.
Like Thompson, Liu has been battling $527,400 in poster fines for three years.