Sam Antar

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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NYC Crime Crisis: Adams Administration’s 23-Minute Social Media Spin vs. NYPD Statistics

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In an era where public safety messaging often travels at the speed of social media, January 22, 2025, marked a revealing moment in New York City politics. Over just 23 minutes, the city’s top law enforcement officials executed a coordinated media campaign that masterfully demonstrated how selective statistics can paint a misleading picture of public safety. The carefully orchestrated performance

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Weapons of Mass Deception: Letitia James’ Campaign Disclosures

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As New York Attorney General Letitia James pursues others for financial deception, her own campaign filings reveal a pattern of luxury spending masked by deceptive accounting. While securing a $355 million judgment against Donald Trump for what she called financial fraud, James’s campaign has perfected its own system of selective disclosure – one that deliberately obscures how donor money flows

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Sex, Lies, and Overtime: Inside the NYPD’s Financial Black Box

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The NYPD’s overtime system operates like a financial shell game, where millions of dollars can disappear into bureaucratic black holes with almost no accountability. This systemic dysfunction came into sharp focus with a recent scandal involving NYPD Lieutenant Quathisha Epps, who accused Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey of demanding sexual favors in exchange for overtime opportunities. Epps alleged that Maddrey

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NYPD Overtime Scandal: Failure of Legislative Oversight Laid Bare

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The explosive allegations of sex-for-overtime rocking the NYPD have exposed not one scandal, but two. The first involves alleged sexual coercion for overtime pay. The second – perhaps even more disturbing – is how City Council leadership failed to spot glaring red flags in their own budget documents that suggested systemic overtime abuse. Under Speaker Adrienne Adams and Finance Chair

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