Pedophiles and Politics
“Forgive your enemies but remember their names.” — John F. Kennedy While all of this Epstein shit is swirling stupid shit is still going on — like the petty action of the government in removing the flag commemorating the Stonewall rebellion in Greenwich Village. But what is now spilling out raises some interesting questions. While…
Rent Control
“I love real estate” — Donald Trump One of the campaign issues that Mamdani championed was the protecting of rent-stabilized and rent-regulated apartments in New York City. It is a worthy cause. Of the roughly 2.3 million apartments 960,000 are rent-stabilized and 16,000 are rent-controlled (down from over one million) apartments. About 229,000 are subsidized…
Pedophile Rapists in America
I was sent to prison for exposing DA Thomas Spota, Joseph Lombardo, Patrick Heaney, David Betts, James Burke and Thalia Stavrides in the Hamptons — writing about corruption, con artists, thieves, killers, drug dealers, liars, pedophiles, rapists, racists and misogynists. Aside from my landlord Mark Ramer and his partners, I named politicians for their crimes.…
The Canal Street Shopping Experience
“Anything can happen to anyone at any time.” — The Big Short I remember being played in prison. The D.A. who had prosecuted me for writing about the corruption in his office, known as a “criminal enterprise” after they finally got him for a variation on thievery – you know, like what we see every…
Holiday Shopping in SoHo
“Fuck you, pay me!” — Henry Hill describing Paulie’s attitude in Goodfellas. The new shopping plan from our dear leaders in the DOT where widening the sidewalks to accommodate shoppers (buying from African immigrant sidewalk “shopkeepers”) is what we deserve on Canal Street, right? Well, at least, that’s what we’re going to get. As it…
Mental Health in New York
“Insanity is contagious.” ― Joseph Heller Having worked as a therapist in a NY State psychiatric hospital decades ago and treated mentally ill clients whose psychopathology ranged from schizophrenia to drug addiction, I was not please that a profit-making organization was planning on taking away my ticket to ride. After all, I’d spent years in classes,…
DOT Redux
“You’re either on the bus, or you’re off the bus.” — Tom Wolfe Twenty years ago I was a member of Community Board Two. I was assigned to Traffic & Transportation committee. The DOT sent a few of Bloomberg’s Harvard boys to the meeting to describe the changes that would be implemented in SoHo, the…
The Pit and the Pendulum — Part Deux
‘It wasn’t about me.” — Donald Trump Okay, those of us who now think twice about leaving the house — not because there really are roving bands of criminals taking over Manhattan, or even SoHo (they’re not) — and not about drivers on the way to New Jersey who exit their cars to attack pedestrians…
Truth & Justice in the Hamptons
“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”― Honore de Balzac For those of you who’ve not had the pleasure of doing time, rejoice! I’m going to save you a trip. I pissed off DA Thomas Spota (which ultimately got him a prison sentence) with the collaboration and…
A Day In the Life
“He who loses wealth loses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But, he who loses courage loses all.” – Miguel de Cervantes An attorney sent me an article in the New Yorker written by a journalist who had written about prison, C.O.s, inmates and the vicissitudes of life for those behind bars. She…
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