The New York Post published on September 15, 2022, that Mathias Döpfner, as Axel Springer CEO, was reported to have used Bild to criticize Adidas for not paying rent during the pandemic without telling readers he was among Adidas’s landlords through a historic Berlin property interest (Münzstrasse, as the Post described it). That is the Post’s account of a disclosure fight. It is not a German court judgment and not a U.S. finding.
The Post also tied the item to the earlier Washington Post profile of the 2020 executive email. This file keeps those threads separate. No conviction or regulatory order is cited here because none was located in this pass.