Exclusive | Cease and desist! Espaillat threatens PAC with suit over false ICE ads backing far-left challenger

US Rep.Adriano Espaillat’s campaign has slapped a super PAC bankrolling a trio of far-left congressional candidates with a “cease and desist” letter demanding it halt a “false” ad campaign that “misrepresents” the five-term congressman’s record, The Post has learned.Stanley K.

Schlein, the congressman’s campaign lawyer, fired off a letter to reps of American Priority PAC threatening a lawsuit unless it pulls a recent TV ad containing “factual inaccuracies” about Espaillat’s record on Capitol Hill to help promote insurgent socialist challenger Darializa Avila Chevalier in Tuesday’s Democratic primary.“Warning to New Yorkers: this is a public service announcement,” the 30-second ad says.“Your representative, Adriano Espaillat, is cooperating with ICE.

Voted to fund them to the tune of $7.6 billion.Said he trusted Donald Trump to do the right thing.“This is a public service announcement.

Vote Darializa to fight ICE, to fight for our families.”The lawyer’s letter — which was sent Monday and also copied and delivered to the Federal Election Commission and the New York Board of Elections —  rips the ad for claiming to be a “public service announcement” when it’s really a “paid political communication produced and distributed by a political action committee for the purpose of influencing an election.”The letter also charges that the ad “fabricated” a quote it claimed came from a March report in The Intercept and falsely claimed Espaillat “cooperated” with and voted to fund the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.“The advertisement creates a materially false and misleading impression of his record,” Schlein wrote.“At a minimum, viewers are led to believe that Congressman Espaillat voted in favor of the legislation ultimately cited as evidence that he ‘funded ICE’ when, in fact, he voted against its final passage.“We hereby demand that you forthwith CEASE and DESIST such advertisement that ...