#Former de Blasio lawyer Maya Wiley makes mayoral bid official

Mayor Bill de Blasio (right) and Maya Wiley (left)
Rob Bennett

Civil rights attorney and New School professor Maya Wiley, who served as Mayor de Blasio’s top legal counsel during a fundraising scandal, filed paperwork to run for mayor in 2021.

The 58-year-old Brooklyn resident has registered her candidacy with the city’s Campaign Finance Board, the agency’s spokesman confirmed to The Post Thursday.

Politico first reported the filing Wednesday.

A spokesman for Wiley did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

Wiley, a one-time chair of the Civilian Complaint Review Board, recently stepped away from an MSNBC contributor gig to pursue the bid, according to The New York Times. She continues her position as senior vice president for social justice and professor of urban policy at the New School.

She’s also worked for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union.

Bronx state Sen. Luis Sepulveda told The Post earlier this week Wiley will be a “formidable candidate.”

But her time at City Hall may hamper her bid.

She was involved in crafting the much-criticized policy that exempted de Blasio’s communications with campaign and political consultants from public disclosure by defining them as “agents of the city” and represented him during a fundraising probe by state and federal authorities.

De Blasio was never charged, but Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance found the mayor acted “contrary to the intent and spirit of the laws that impose candidate contribution limits.”

Wiley, who is a black woman with strong ties to progressive and civil rights circle, enters a crowded field.

Other Democrats competing in the party’s mayoral primary next June include city Comptroller Scott Stringer, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Council Speaker Corey Johnson, former city Veterans Affairs Commissioner Loree Sutton and Shaun Donovan, who served as former President Barack Obama’s budget director and Housing and Urban Development secretary.

Republicans with sights on City Hall include Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa and billionaire business mogul John Catsimatidis, among others.