NEW YORK — City Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez and a former senior NYPD official with reputed links to China’s Communist Party have agreed to pay fines after admitting they misused their official positions by campaigning and fundraising for ex-Vice President Kamala Harris and Mayor Eric Adams, new records reveal.

Rodriguez, who has served as Adams’ Department of Transportation head since January 2022, will cough up a $1,750 fine for urging New Yorkers during a DOT “Summer Streets” event in the Bronx last August to vote for Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

In a disposition from the Conflicts of Interest Board released Thursday, Rodriguez acknowledged he wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the DOT logo and his title during the event and delivered remarks “in which I urged the assembled crowd to support Kamala Harris for president.”

The disposition doesn’t elaborate on exactly what Rodriguez told the crowd. But the paperwork says Rodriguez understood that by delivering those remarks in that setting he violated city ethics laws barring public servants from pursuing “personal activities” on city time or using any municipal titles or equipment, like clothing, for “any non-city purpose.”

The board noted in the paperwork that Rodriguez delivered the Harris stump speech despite being previously instructed by city ethics officials about the “need to separate his work as DOT commissioner from his personal activities.” The record also states the fine speaks to the fact that Rodriguez, an ex-City Council member, is “a high level and long-serving public servant who should be held to a high standard of compliance.”

“I accept full responsibility for my actions and thank the Conflicts of Interest Board for its work,” Rodriguez, a longtime Adams ally, told the Daily News on Thursday, adding he has paid his fine.

Also Thursday, the conflicts board released a disposition revealing Gui An Lin, an ex-assistant NYPD commissioner who served as a top aide to ex-Police Commissioner Edward Caban, has agreed to pay a $5,000 fine for helping Adams’ 2025 campaign solicit 15 donations totaling $4,100 in June 2024.

Gui, who left the NYPD in January, collected the donations even though he had been told by the board in March 2024 that as an assistant commissioner he is considered a substantial policymaker who by law “can not fundraise for a candidate for mayor,” the paperwork says.

As in the Rodriguez case, the board wrote it slapped Gui with the fine because he had been previously warned to not engage in certain political activities and was “a high-level law enforcement officer who should be held to a high standard.”

Gui’s January departure from the NYPD came after reports revealed he has served in leadership roles in U.S.-based groups connected to China’s “United Front,” a movement funded and directed by Beijing’s regime used to spread communist influence across the globe, according to American government studies.

Gui reportedly also has close ties to Winnie Greco, an ex-top Adams aide who resigned from City Hall last year after her home was raided by federal investigators as part of a corruption probe.

A lawyer for Gui didn’t immediately return requests for comment Thursday,.

The fine against Gui comes after Adams’ reelection team belatedly last year disclosed Gui as a so-called fundraising “intermediary” in response to the Campaign Finance Board flagging it had failed to do so. In records, Adams’ campaign reported the 15 donations Gui bundled for the mayor all came in on the same day, June 30, 2024. Most of them were in the amount of $250, the records show.

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