Politico, with a story that probably will not surprise people who follow money in politics:

A leader of the super PAC supporting New York City Mayor Eric Adams hopes to raise upwards of $10 million from the cryptocurrency community — and has alarmed government ethics groups in the process.

In May, Eric Lerner, president of the Empower NYC super PAC, attended the same Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas where Adams traveled on the taxpayer’s dime to speak. During an on-camera interview at the event — portions of which were scrubbed from the internet after questions from POLITICO — Lerner praised the self-described “crypto-Mayor,” favorably compared Adams to Donald Trump and predicted his super PAC could raise enough cash to make the incumbent competitive in the November general election.