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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Exposed: NYPD’s 2024 Crime Statistics Manipulation

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New York City faces its worst violent crime rate in over two decades, with 48,098 violent crimes reported in 2024 – levels not seen since 2002. Yet on January 6, 2025, NYPD Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch presented a different story, touting “a nearly 3% reduction in overall index crime” and claiming 3,662 fewer incidents meant “thousands of fewer victims of

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NYC Mental Health Crisis Unfolds at Kips Bay Starbucks: A Homeless Couple’s Story

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Today at Kips Bay, Manhattan Starbucks, I witnessed a scene that revealed the heartbreaking complexity of love, mental illness, and our city’s broken support system. It began when a homeless man knocked over a table, disrupting the calm of the coffee shop. The employee, maintaining remarkable composure, politely asked him to leave. Instead, he curled up and went to sleep

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Letitia James and Working Families Party: Luxury Travel and Creative Accounting

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When politicians need to conduct “urgent business,” campaign finance records suggest they have an uncanny knack for finding it in premium vacation destinations. New York Attorney General Letitia James and the Working Families Party both discovered such pressing matters requiring their presence at peak-season Martha’s Vineyard in August and Puerto Rico’s pristine shores during November’s Somos conference – somehow the

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NYC Cultural Affairs: The Art of Making Public Money Disappear

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Leather-clad violinists and sex educator clowns might have grabbed the headlines, but they’re just the sideshow. The real spectacle at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs is happening behind the scenes, where nearly a million dollars in taxpayer money performs a remarkable vanishing act. Our investigation of transactions from January 2021 through December 2024 reveals a systematic pattern

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A Christmas Eve in Brooklyn: When Life Turned on a Dime

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On Christmas Eve 1990, life’s precarious nature revealed itself to me in ways I never expected. As the former CFO of Crazy Eddie who had recently agreed to cooperate with federal authorities, I was already living through a period of profound change. Yet nothing could have prepared me for how events would unfold that evening at my brother’s furniture store

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