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FOIL Requests Launched: Investigating Letitia James’ Questionable Property Disclosures

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In light of the troubling financial disclosure inconsistencies detailed in my investigative reports, I’ve filed formal Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests with both the New York State Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government (COELIG) and the Office of the New York State Attorney General. This post explains why these formal actions are necessary and what they might accomplish. […]

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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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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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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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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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