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Accountability on Trial: Letitia James’ Shocking Financial Disclosure Failures

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Exclusive: Continuing Investigation Uncovers More Decade-Long Transparency Issues in Property and Mortgage Disclosures [UPDATED March 9, 2025: This article has been expanded with additional details about the classification of loans and more precise analysis of disclosure requirements for mortgages vs. home equity lines of credit.] Just when we thought we had uncovered the full extent of New York Attorney General […]

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Running Interference: How The Real Deal Shields NY Attorney General Letitia James from Financial Disclosure Scrutiny

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The Real Deal recently published an article by Erik Engquist titled “How the city’s wacky property taxes confuse even fraudsters,” which fundamentally misrepresented my investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James’ financial disclosures. Instead of examining the documented pattern of financial disclosure inconsistencies I uncovered, The Real Deal chose to run interference for a powerful public official by attacking

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Exposing a Decade of Letitia James’ Financial Misreporting

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Uncovering Financial Discrepancies in Letitia James’ Property Holdings When New York Attorney General Letitia James secured a $355 million judgment against Donald Trump for allegedly misleading financial statements, she declared it a victory for “transparency and accountability.” However, our recent investigations into Letitia James’ financial discrepancies reveal a troubling pattern of transparency issues spanning more than a decade. From hidden

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Crazy Eddie’s Hidden Ledger: A CFO’s Confession

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The Art of Obstruction As CFO of Crazy Eddie during the 1980s, I orchestrated what would become one of retail’s most notorious financial frauds. Our approach to covering our tracks was methodical and two-pronged. First came destruction. Our office shredders operated around the clock, turning potentially incriminating documents into confetti. But for the mountain of paperwork we couldn’t immediately destroy,

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NYPD’s Statistical Manipulation and Racial Disparities in NYC Crime

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Statistical Shell Game: How NYPD’s Data Manipulation Obscures Rising Violence While Racial Disparities Remain Hidden CompStat—the New York Police Department’s comprehensive crime tracking and analysis system—has become a political weapon for Mayor Eric Adams, systematically manipulated to present a false narrative of declining urban crime. Last week, we exposed the NYPD’s troubling manipulation of murder statistics, but the story goes

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From White-Collar Criminal to Watchdog: Why Oversight Matters

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 As someone who once operated on the wrong side of financial law as the former CFO of Crazy Eddie, I recently had an enlightening conversation with Charles Payne about government oversight and financial accountability. Our discussion began with Charles highlighting recent high-profile bankruptcies – Nikola, The Container Store, and Forever 21 – each representing different facets of business failure

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NYPD’s Murder Numbers Shell Game: How Crime Stats Don’t Add Up (2024)

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In the world of New York City crime statistics, a handful of deaths can change the entire narrative. Take the NYPD’s latest crime statistics: depending on which numbers you trust, murders either decreased by 2.3% or increased by 5.5% in 2024. Welcome to the wonderland of NYPD statistical reporting, where dead bodies can vanish from one category and reappear in

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Discrepancies in AG Letitia James’ Financial Disclosures

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As New York’s top law enforcement officer, Attorney General Letitia James is required to file annual sworn financial disclosure statements with the state Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government. These aren’t mere paperwork exercises – they are legal statements carrying the weight of sworn testimony. Following our February 8th investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James’ puzzling property

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Beyond Campaign Spending: Letitia James’ Puzzling Property Portfolio Raises New Questions

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After our recent investigations exposed New York Attorney General Letitia James’ pattern of luxury campaign spending and creative accounting, a deeper examination of her personal financial disclosures reveals troubling new questions about her property holdings and financial reporting. The same pattern of obscured luxury that characterized her campaign spending now emerges in her personal financial statements, starting with a Virginia

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MTA Overtime Transparency Vanishes as Spending Hits $1.34B

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The MTA’s commitment to transparency is vanishing at precisely the moment public scrutiny is most crucial. Just one month after implementing congestion pricing in Manhattan, the agency has yet to release its detailed overtime report for 2023 – a document that should explain how the MTA spent $1.34 billion in overtime. Despite releasing its audited financial statements for 2023 last

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