The Maryland State Board of Elections cleared Will Jawando’s county executive campaign of alleged wrongdoing Monday after investigating an anonymous complaint.

“From the start, we said there was nothing here, and after a careful review the State Board of Elections has confirmed exactly that,” Jonathan Weinberg, field director for Jawando’s campaign, said in a statement Monday.

The complaint alleged that the Jawando campaign violated campaign finance laws by coordinating with the Working Families Party PAC, a Brooklyn-based progressive group that backed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

The state board told Jawando’s campaign in a letter that it closed the investigation after finding nothing to substantiate the complaint.

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“Based upon the information obtained during this inquiry, SBE has not identified sufficient evidence to establish coordination … or any other violation of MD campaign finance law,” wrote Internal Audit Supervisor Niyi Awodele.

As a registered independent expenditure committee, the PAC is prohibited by law from coordinating directly with candidates but can spend unlimited sums supporting or opposing them.

The elections board sent a letter to Jawando’s campaign on June 4 outlining the complaint’s allegations: that Jawando’s U.S. Senate campaign contributed a total of $115,000 in March and April 2025 to the Working Families Party PAC, and then the PAC, a little more than a year later, spent $72,159 to support his county executive campaign.

Since then, the PAC has given more to Jawando.

As of Monday, the Working Families Party PAC had spent a total of $87,996 on him, including an expenditure made the day the Board of Elections letter was sent to the campaign, according to campaign finance records.