New leadership team to run the Brooklyn GOP.....

Here is our newest pair of Republican and Conservative Party Leaders in and for Brooklyn.  ---  They will function as the co-leaders of the new joint Republican-Conservative operation in Brooklyn called simply  >>>  "The Kings County Conservative Party"

Conservative Party Chairperson Fran "Fester" Vella-Marrone
(without her Chia-pet wig)
&
GOP Chairman Designate Richard "Lurch" Barsamian,
currentyly Brooklyn GOP "Executive Director" 
(picture taken when "Lurch" Barsamian was more fit)

But the real new boss of the joint Republican-Conservative operation in Brooklyn is this guy  ---  who obviously didn't like the slightest show of a passive-aggressive attitude, the lack of enthusiasm and minimal involvement, and even the occasional pushback against both the Kagan and LaBella campaigns by former Brooklyn GOP Chairman Ted Ghorra.....  So, Jerry said  >>>  "It's Ghorra out and Barsamian in.....

The man with the scarier mug than either
Fran  "Fester" Vella-Marrone or
Richard "Lurch" Barsamian,
both depicted above.....

This is what the leadership of the Republican organization in Brooklyn will look like once Ted Ghorra has completed his exit, and Richard Barsamian gets to have his "turn in the barrell" as the nominal Brooklyn GOP "Chairman."

BTW  ---  are these two pix of different people ??? 

"Lurch" Barsamian

"Three-Lunch" Kassar

What if the man to the left were also to be wearing a cheap pair of glasses ?????

We would bet that each thinks the other is quite handsome, and that both don't know why they have difficulty dealing with women.....

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu..... Oh Teddy, we hardly knew yuh !!!

 

Following a bruising tenure of strife and division, the head of the Kings County Republican Organization is calling it quits with just a few weeks to go before what looks like will be more heartbreak and recriminations after November's high-stakes City Council elections  ---  We were called and told the good news by a Brooklyn GOP Executive Member rather early on Thursday evening   ---   and Ted Ghorra confirmed all of it  >>>  late Thursday evening to somebody at the Daily News who treated it as big news.....  Oh, hum !!!!!  This was a long time coming  ---  and lately Ghorra has been scarcer than hens' teeth anyway.....

According to the Daily News  >>>  Ghorra did not say when his last day as Brooklyn GOP Chairman would be. or offer any reason for his sudden exit stage left  --- "Heavens to Mergatroyd !!!!!"  However, a Brooklyn GOP source said to the News that Ghorra most likely would step aside after the GOP’s Oct. 6th formal reorganization meeting . In a statement, Ghorra said he would not be surprised if the Brooklyn GOP Executive Director, Richard Barsamian were to succeed him as County Chairman. (Oh, goody !!!!!!!)

Since most of the Daily News coverage of Ghorra's very quick and rather suspiciously unexplained departure contains nothing but Ghorra's own self-serving platitudes and evasive nonsense, we won't report any of that stuff. However, one of the outspoken Ghorra critics was quoted anonymously as follows:  "....  a disillusioned Brooklyn Republican Party source said Ghorra has not done enough to back Kagan....  'Ted Ghorra was absent every step of the way, not a part of the Kagan campaign, or for that matter the Brooklyn GOP whatsoever, it felt like,'  the source said. 'With contentious City Council races this year in Brooklyn … this entire situation has been a calamity.'...”

There will be more from us   >>>  when we here at this independent Republican blog for Brooklyn and Staten Island have prepared our remarks claiming a lion's share of the credit for dumping this POS   ---  and also explaining why "LURCH" Barsamian is not likely to be any kind improvement whatsoever.....

Two of former Brooklyn DA Hynes' scams with FBI & U.S. Attorneys are being defended in court by current Kings County DA Eric Gonzalez --- those two wrongful Brooklyn prosecutions have striking similarities with the very notable wrongful prosecution of two defendants for the murder of Malcolm X in 1965 [[[ PART 1 ]]] ***

 

This focus is on two currupt and phony cases cases brought by former Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes involving FBI scams to protect the guilty, and to frame a pair of innocent defendants in  >>>  People v Ronnie Wright (brought by Hynes as Brooklyn DA) & People v Joseph Fama ( "The Jusef Hawkins Case" prosecuted by DA Hynes, as Brooklyn DA successor to DA Elizabeth Holtzman) <<<  

Both cases presently are being being strongly defended by Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez against the two seperate and unrelated wrongly prosecuted defendants ---  in various stages of ongoing "actual innocence" proceedings brought by two seperate and unaffiliated legal representatives

These kinds of cases are nothing new in the sad history of corrupt and evil deals between various New York City area DAs, the NYPD, the FBI, and U.S. Attorneys in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.  ---   For example, less tha a year ago, two men exonerated in the killing of Malcolm X in 1965  >>> HAD THE CASES SETTLED <<< for their wrongful prosecutions and convictions in 1966 for $36 million in suits brought against the City and State of New York

Ronnie Wright and his lawyers: Kelly & Kerrigan and John Kennedy O'Hara have been conducting an "actual innocence trial" which is a trial where defendant has the burden to prove at a bench trial that the defendant Wright is actually innocent. 

Ronnie Wright had been convicted of committing a murder in  Brooklyn (((in 2007))), and he has already served 15 years of a forty year sentence.  During that whole time, the NYPD, the FBI, the Brooklyn DA's Office, and the NYS Unified Court System has had evidence in their joint and several possession(s) clearly indicating that the actual killer in the "Ronnie Wright case" was a person named Demetrius Williams.

In a very similar proceeding across the hall from the current iterration of the "Ronnie Wright case" was another case on the calendar to consider the actual innocese application by attorney Justin Bonus on behalf of a long-incarcerrated defendant named Joey Fama.....   Fama also was prosecuted and convicted by the office of DA Hynes for the murder of Yusef Hawkins in 1989.  Just like in the "Ronnie Wright case"  ---  Joey Fama had been convicted of committing a murder in  Brooklyn , and he has already served over 30 years of a 32-years-to-life sentence.  Also like in the "Ronnie Wright case"  ---  during that whole time, the NYPD, the FBI, the Brooklyn DA's Office, The U.S. Attorney's Office and the NYS Unified Court System has had evidence in their joint and several possession(s) clearly indicating that the actual killer in the "Yusef Hawkins case" was a person named Joey Serrano.

In both cases, the real killers were FBI informants and cooperating witnesses in important  prosecutions brought by U.S. Attorneys in unrelated major cases  ---  and in both cases, the actual criminal perpetrators  ---  both informants and cooperating witnesses  ---  needed to be protected from prosecution for the murders in the cases brought against the non-guilty defendants that were prosecuted and convicted instead  ---  Ronnie Wright and Joey Fama.

Another case involving the 1965 Malcom X assassination involved the Manhattan DA's office in an absolute miscarriage of justice in a very visible case was brought on many years ago well back in the Twenthieth Century by the long- but wrongly-revered Manhattan DA Frank Hogan, who was the Manhattan DA from 1942 until shortly before he died in 1974.  

By 1965 Malcom X, after his split from the Nation od Islam movement, and the recent conversion of his famous protégé Muhammad Ali, and his growing worldwide audience through his newly-formed Afro-American Unity movement, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and then NYPD Commissioner Michael J. Murphy agreed that Malcolm X had to be silenced “by any means necessary.” His religious and political philosophy had evolved, and he was gaining broader public support and influence. On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was shot and killed just as he was about to address a rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in the Washington Heights section of Northern Manhattan.  Both NYPD Commissioner Murphy and FBI Director Hoover had undercover agents seeded in the Audubon Ballroom audience when Malcolm was murdered. FBI Director Hoover ordered his agents involved in the investigation to tell the undercover operatives not to disclose their identity with local law enforcement.  In addition, the NYPD had received intelligence from a local reporter that Malcolm would be assassinated during his speech at the Audubon ballroom, and failed to act on that information or warn Malcolm X's personal security of that information.

Three Nation of Islam members, Khalil Islam (aka Thomas 15X Johnson), Muhammad A. Aziz (aka Norman 3X Butler) and Mujahid Abdul Halim (aka Thalmage Hayer) were arrested, and later convicted of the Malcom X murder in March 1966, and they were sentenced to 20 years to life in the New York State penetentiary system for the assassination.  

In addition to NYPD Commissioner Murphy's and FBI Director Hoover's having undercover agents in the Audubon Ballroom audience when Malcolm X was murdered; the FBI and NYPD had irrefutable evidence that defendants Islam and Aziz were not involved within hours of the murder.  The FBI had documentation indicating that two other men, not Islam and Aziz, were the actual shooters of Malcolm X.  Furthermore, Manhattan District Attorney Frank S. Hogan deliberately withheld the exculpatory evidence in his possession that Islam and Aziz were not involved, despite the constitutional "Brady v. Maryland" requirement that such evidence be disclosed.

The recent financial settlement of civil cases by Aziz and Islam for $36 million came very shortly after the former convicted defendants Mohammad Aziz and the estate of Khalid Islam sued New York City on July 14, 2021 seeking $40 million for malicious prosecution, denial of due process rights and government misconduct; and then  in December 2021, Aziz and the estate of Khalil Islam also filed multimillion-dollar civil lawsuits aimed at New York state government.

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*** Further details about these cases, which resulted from the corrupt deals between the NYPD, FBI, the Brooklyn and Manhattan DA's Offices with the U.S. Attorneys for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York,  will be posted by this independent Republican blog for Brooklyn and Staten Island during the coming days and weeks.

In case >>> YOU <<< might have missed it --- KGB-Komrade Ari Kagan's letter containing an admission about Anti-Asian hate rallies --- but lying about police defunding --- is a cynical appeal to racism plain and simple

 

Ari Kagan's letter (mentioned in a comment in the thread to the prior featured post below on this blog) obviously is aimed at certain Brooklyn Asian voters, and it is a cynical and mendacious exercise  >>>  that obviously seeks to exacerbate the existing and particular racial divides within Kagan's Southwest Brooklyn District  ---  which had previously been exploited by the Brooklyn Conservative Party most notably, between Asians and certain ethnic and religious groups of white people (and in the adjoining district to Kagan's, the Conservatives are presently running a similar anti-Asian campaign being aimed at Italian-American voters  ---  that mirrors exactly what they did last year in the same areas) ---  and now that racism is cynically being used in reverse by Ari Kagan and his Conservative Party allies to divide Asians from some white long-term residents of the area and some non-Asian people of color that traditionally vote Democrat

Here are excerpts from Ari Kagan's letter focusing on the most offensive, most cynical, and/or false elements in it:

1. Letter posted on the Conservative Party Facebook page doesn't mention that Ari Kagan was elected as a Democrat in 2021, but is now running as the Republican-Conservative candidate in 2023.....   

"...

..."

2. Letter mistakenly says that Ari Kagan "... hosted anti-Asian hate rallies..."  ---  but those "Anti-Aisian Hate Rallies" WERE a reference to rallies in the past that were supported by Kagan's recent allies of conveniece  >>>  the Brooklyn Conservative Party

"...

We have known Councilman Kagan for years as a staunch advocate for our community. He has hosted Anti-Asian Hate rallies and continues

..."

3. Letter says that Kagan's opponent Justin Brannan voted to defund the police in 2020-2021 to the tune of One Billion Dollars ($1,000,000,000)  ---  that is a bald-faced lie that often was repeated by Brian Fox when he was a candidate against Brannan during 2021  ---  it was completely denied by Justin Brannan at the time, but more important it was repeatedly rebutted, debunked and refuted by multiple newspapers and online media sources during the 2021 campaign and ever since.  The fact that Brian Fox is a conultant paid to run Kagan's campaign does not explain why Fox's lies are being repeated on behalf of Kagan  >>>  because of Kagan's own history of very strong support for defunding the NYPD in 2020, 2021, and 2023; and because Kagan was actually directly involved in the 2020-2021 budget negotiations, later bragging that he had participated in defunding the police..... ( Also, the so-called "diaphram law" does not effect a police officer's authority to make a lawful arrest; and it has been upheld by the state's appellate court as a proper exercise of municipal governance)

"...

Justin Brannan  voted in support of defunding the police and the 'diaphram law' which restricted officers' abilities to arrest

 ..."

Ari Kagan's letter from Wei Tang Liu and Xin Yan Li has absolutely nothing to do with any aspect of the City Council race between Kagan and Brannan.....   Kagan and his racist allies in the Conservative Party chose the parents of a murdered police officer to be Kagan's endorsers for only one reason they were Chinese..... 

The assasination-style murder of their son, Officer Wenjian Liu, happened in 2014 on Willoughby Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant miles away from any part of the City Council District where Kagan and Brannan are running in Southwest Brooklyn in 2023. The alleged perp, Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley, is alleged to have committed suicide in the presence of responding police officers in a subway not far from where the two police officers had been shot inside their patrol car.  It is also alleged that Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley had driven to the murder scene from Baltimore, where he had earlier committed another murder  

NOTE:  this case has been used repeatedly to stoke up racial animus since 2014  ---  and Ari Kagan and his allies are doing it again in 2023.....

Rank and file Republicans and Conservatives should be ashamed of this sort of thing happening so blatantly in 2023. 

They should call people like Kassar, Ghorra, Vella-Marrone and Fox to let them know that this is not acceptable and hurts the cause of law and order, and safety in our various communities.  

Another thing to do is register a protest by writing-in Kathy Khatari's name on election day or in early voting. 

Kathy Khatari's Write-in Campaign against Ari Kagan is now big news --- city-wide --- today in the "NY Daily News" --- and tomorrow ???

This in today's Daily News:

"...  GOP write-in campaign for Jan. 6 defender shakes up hotly-contested NYC Council race in Brooklyn...

Poster in Bay Ridge hyping write-in campaign for
Katherine Khatari,
a controversial Republican state assembly aide...."
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and write-in candidate 

against faux-Republican-Conservative 

Ari Kagan

the former KGB-Cadet-Soviet Security Operative, 

turned under-cover died-in-the-wool woke Democrat, 

and most recently, 

konveniently konvverted deep-kover operative 

as the  Republikan-Konservative Kandidate for 

Kity Kouncil in the 47th NYC Kouncil District  

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(Hey, Boris, where's Natasha ?)

And some folks in the Kommie Kagan Kabal still keep trying to say that the former Brooklyn Republican Organization Chairman Craig Eaton has no influence.....

Can an interview of the write-in candidate, and one true Republican in the race, Katherine Khatari by GOP influencer John Catsimatidis on his ABC Radio program be far behind ?????

According to a lengthy and well-placed article in today's print editions of the NY Daily News  >>>  "One of this fall’s most hotly contested City Council elections is taking an unconventional turn that could stand to harm the Republican in the race.... Katherine Khatari, a Republican state Assembly aide infamous for hailing the 2021 pro-Trump attack on the U.S. Capitol, is having her name pushed for a GOP write-in campaign in November’s high-stakes contest for Brooklyn’s 47th Council District...."  (See "   " by Chris Sommerfeldt, On-line, 9- 20-2023 at 10:53 AM; updated 9-20- 2023 at 5:29 PM,  New York Daily News/ 

Reporter Chris Sommerfeldt went on to note:  "The [city council] district, which spans Bay Ridge and Coney Island, is currently represented by Councilman Ari Kagan, a Republican who switched party registration from Democrat late last year. Because district lines were updated this year, Kagan is facing Democratic Councilman Justin Brannan in the Nov. 7 election, and the incumbent-versus-incumbent dynamic has made the race widely viewed as one of this cycle’s most competitive....  Enter Khatari....";er b

and that

"....  Khatari [is] a constituent services manager for Republican Brooklyn Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny,  [who] started having her name publicly floated for a Republican write-in campaign for the 47th last month...."

According to the Daily News reporting, and as you can see plainly from the top photo above   >>>  there was a Kathy Khatari poster affixed to a light pole on the corner of 90th St. and Third Ave. in Bay Ridge that described Kathy Khatari as the “real Republican” in the race and urged Republicans and Conservatives to write in her name on the Nov. 7 ballot. The poster also boldly declared:  "DON’T LET THEM STEAL THIS ONE!”.....

Exclusive report on statement by lead defense counsel in "The Ronnie Wright Case" pending in Brooklyn Supreme Court.....

 

One of our souces, close enough to the defense team to have been sent the actual E-mail, gave us a chance to look at something that has not yet been reported upon in the media  ---   an E-mail statement by lead defense counsel Dennis Kelly concerning the Ronnie Wright case and the actions of the Brooklyn DA's office during the ongoing "actual innocence proceedings" in Brooklyn Supreme Court :

"The district attorney’s office has repeatedly and deliberately lied in this matter in an attempt to validate the conviction of an innocent man. They concealed evidence at trial and continue to ignore all of the exculpatory evidence they have had for years which [evidence clearly indicates] that Ronnie Wright is innocent [of these charges]...."

Dennis Kelly then went further  ---  and he named names and cited ongoing wrongful activities by the Brooklyn DA's office:  

"....  More disturbingly [an ADA in the Brooklyn DA's office] Stewart was in constant contact with a witness the defense [had] been trying to subpoena yet [ADA Stewart did] not inform anyone that the witness had been actually and] obviously available. It is no coincidence that....  after ADA Stewart [informed Valerie] Smith of the hearing testimony [of another witness, and Smith called to intimidate that witness] ADA Stewart’s actions will necessitate his recusal as a [particpant] in this matter as the substance of his conversation with Valerie Smith certainly will be relevant [in the actual innocence proceedings involving Ronnie Wright], transforming [ADA Stewart] into a necessary witness in [future actual innocence proceedings involving Ronnie Wright, and] any [possible] prosecution of Smith for witness tampering...."

Defense lawyer Kelly concluded his E-mail statement with this:  

".... [Brooklyn DA] Gonzalez’s handling of this matter is devoid of the basic ethical obligations of a prosecutor to do justice and reveal the truth. The DA has obfuscated and withheld evidence throughout this prosecution that has nothing to do with justice or the truth...." (See E-mail from Dennis Kelly [Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 9:55 AM Dennis Kelly <dkelly@kgkfirm.com]).

The statement above by the lead counsel in the Ronnie Wright case is just a small part of the wrongful malicious prosecution of Ronnie Wright since 2007   ---   first by Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes, and now by Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez .....

The instant feature post on this independent Republican blog for Brooklyn and Staten Island is just a preview and a teaser of a full coverage feature about the wrongful collusion by NY area DA's offices and the politically weaponized FBI, from the days of J. Edgar Hoover to the present. and by the corresponding connivance by the U.S. Attorney's offices in the NYC metropolitan area with local DAs to convict innocent defendants as part of a protection racket to get the cooperation of the actually guilty parties to be  >>> FBI informants  and cooperating witnesses in various cases brought by the U.S.Attorneys in the NYC area.

Kagan seems to be very shy about being the Republican-Conservative candidate fot 47th Council District in 2023

Ari Kagan's latest mailer and his logo look like this: 

and his inside banner and feature photo looks like this:

and it says this in its first paragraph:

".. Your Councilman Ari Kagan here... For years, I have been a strong supporter of valuable youth programs, like Coney Island Sharks and Art's House Schools of Music, Dance & Fine Arts... That is why I am endorsed by [ ] many local community leaders...."

and it closes with this logo with the mailer's attribution statement:  

PAID FOR BY ARI FOR COUNCIL 2023

Copyright (C) 2023 Ari for Council 2023. All rights reserved. 

Do you see any mention of Ari Kagan's being the Republican-Conservative candidate for the City Council ?  ---  Do you see anything Republican or conservative in that text ???

This is a little more stark and graphic evidence in real time and in the real world that >>>  Ari Kagan is no kind of Republican, especially not any kind of conservative Republican or Republican-Conservative candidate.

Now it's official --- the Washington establishment believes that if President Biden runs for re-election in 2024 he is most likely going to lose to Donald Trump in the 2024 election

 

David Ignatius  ---  opinion piece  ---  WaPo  ---  thirteen months before the 2024 election  ---  it doesn't get any clearer than that.....  

For those that only see the NY Times as authoritative, another such opinion piece by Ross Douthat appeared in the NY Times.....

The difference is that David Ignatius at the Washington Post has long been viewed as expressing the thoughts and insights of the collective community(ies) of higher-ups in the nation's capital  ---  especially those installed at the highest levels of the CIA, FBI, Pentagon and Homeland Security  

Bottom line, important influencers are expressing their opinions in the NY Times and Washington Post that President Joe Biden is toast  ---  and by the time of the 2024 election, he will be the crust of stale burned toast  ---  with any of the somewhat blackened but close-to-edible middle long gone

The New York Times and Washington Post seperatedly released for publication "opinion pieces" in their respective Tuesday-Wednesday publishing cycles  >>> calling out like town criers that 80-year-old President Joe Biden is too old to run for re-election in 2024; and in the case of the Washington Post, saying that even if Biden did run in 2024, he most likely would be the loser in that election to Donald Trump. 

All of this is coming as President Biden faces a first time impeachment inquiry, and recent polling showing that most voters in all categories consider the president at too advanced in age to serve, or even run, again.

Who does this irresponsible public official and cynical pretender as a Republican candidate --- Ari Kagan --- think that he is fooling ???

 

The nerve of this Commie bastard  >>> Kagan !!!

>>> This by Komrade KGB Kadet and former Soviet Operative Arkady Kagan --- using as his cover name, the convient refugee to the U.S.A. assumed appellation "Ari Kagan" and as his title "Council Member" on this "X" (Twitter) social media page message:
"Council Member Ari Kagan...  @CMAriKagan47...
... The decision to cut city agencies budgets, including, NYPD, FDNY, DSNY, & others to deal w/migrant crisis is simply dangerous & will lead to deteriorating conditions & [a] public safety disaster. 1/2... 1:44 PM Sep 12, 2023" <<<

This wolf-in-sheeps'-clothing seems to forget that ---  based on his own recent vote against the entire NYC budget along with about a dozen of the most woke left-wing Democrats --- and against all of his Republican colleagues  ---  if it were up to Kagan there would have been no funds at all for any  >>> "... city agencies... including, NYPD, FDNY, DSNY, & others..."

Furthermore, just like a couple of months ago when he voted against the whole NYC budget without explanation,  Kagan has no alternative plan or proposal of his own. He says nothing about what NYC should do to address this funding crisis that the Mayor is now warning all NYC residents about. 

This is the classic revolutionary's trick of being a disrupter in all crises and times of distress. ---  And first and foremost, Communist operatives like Arkady ("Ari") Kagan are always revolutionaries and disrupters.

As we said above, this irresponsible and cynical pretender, Ari Kagan, was and continues to be one very nervy, active, real and true Commie bastard.

O'Hara in court today --- not on his own case for damages for the wrongful prosecution and conviction about twenty years ago in a Brooklyn criminal case involving registering to vote and voting --- but as an attorney in another case to prove the "actual innocence" of a wrongfully convicted defendant in a murder case, where the investigating detectives and the Brooklyn DA pretty much always knew that somebody else had committed the crime and the wrongly convicted defendant had nothing to do with it

 

Some time later today, John Kennedy O'Hara will be in a Brooklyn courtroom participating with the defense team in an “actual innocence trial” for Ronnie Wright (A defendant convicted after trial, who has already served 15 years of a 40-year sentence for a murder he did not commit). There is no dispute as to the actual innocence of Mr. Wright, because the real killer had already confessed to  prosecutors in the Brooklyn DA's Office of Charles Hynes,  some  time before Wright went on trial in 2008.  And ever since, delay has been the prosecutor’s strategy, up to and including the present day.....

As interesting and complex as the Ronnie Wright case seeking both freedom and justice might be to some of the readers of this independendent GOP blog for Brooklyn and Staten Island (and there have been offers made for belated freedom for Mr. Wright by representatives and successors of the original prosecutors, but without any real justice for what has been done to that wrongfully prosecuted and convicted man); the Wright case is not nearly as interesting and complex as O'Hara's personal quest for justice. 

In a Daily News Sunday "Op Ed" piece in yesterday's paper, John Kennedy O'Hara (who has been an occasional contributor to this blog's featured posts, and more often an "Anonymous...  " comment maker) indicated that  >>> 

Twenty years earlier O'Hara had been convicted for, “false registration and illegal voting,” the first case of its kind in New York.....  

What is it that O'Hara was alleged to have done ?  ---   He just registered to vote and voted in seven primaries and/or general elections. It resulted in seven felony counts and O'Hara was tried three separate times on the same charges, which was also the first time anyone had been tried three times over in Brooklyn since 1952. Obviously this involved lots of politics.   

According to O'Hara's Op Ed piece for the News,  an investigation by the Brooklyn DA's Conviction Review Unit revealed that   >>>  after O'Hara had run in a primary for the NY State Assembly decades earlier against an incumbent Democrat Assemblyman, a conspiracy was formed among O'Hara's former political opponent, a clubhouse lawyer and close associate of the incumbent Democrat Assemblyman, and Brooklyn DA  Hynes to get O'Hara disbarred by means of conviction of a felony offense or offenses. 

One of the things that unites the cases of both Ronnie Wright and John Kennedy O'Hara is that the prosecutor, Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes in both cases, had an actual ulterior motive and acted with evil intent throughout both prosecutions.  

In the Ronnie Wright case, the actual known perp was a cooperating witness and an informant on other very important cases.  The need to prosecute and convict Ronnie Wright was part of a convoluted plan and cooperation agreement with other prosecutors to protect a confidential informant and government witness in [an]other case(s).

In the John Kennedy O'Hara case, on Brooklyn DA Hynes' first day on the job, he opened an investigation into O'Hara at the behest of the incumbent Democrat Assemblyman, the clubhouse lawyer and close associate of the incumbent Democrat Assemblyman, and several other Democrat incumbent office holders. Once the DA was onboard with the others, the dye was cast, because as O'Hara observed his Daily News Op Ed  >>>  "The way our criminal justice system works, a prosecutor decides who is guilty and then figures out a way to prove it...."

Another thing that O'Hara mentioned in his News Op Ed item was this:   "....  With more than $500 million paid by taxpayers, no prosecutor has ever been held financially accountable until now. Sam Kellner, another wrongfully convicted person, and I have filed claims on Hynes’ estate. Our civil cases will both be tried in the next year or two...."  However, the only offers in the O'Hara case, thus far, have come from the representatives of the clubhouse lawyer and close associate of the incumbent Democrat Assemblyman, and arguably they have exhausted the limits to that lawyer's coverage available for the O'Hara claim (But because a variety of nuances are likely to apply to the various individual defendants in the O'Hara case, multiple "deep pockets" and multiple seperate policy periods are probably involved for some of the named defendants; and as to those individuals, concepts such as "borrowed servant" and "policy stacking," and additional coverage under other general liability, business or excess insurance might well be applicable to the total coverage amount available to indemnify them).

 

"NO" vote on 2024 NY CITY Budget --- "NO" to funding NYPD's 2024 "capital" and "operating" budgets --- Kagan and his team say "no contradictions" & "no problems" saying Kagan "obtained" police $$$ for public safety and security measures

About Kagan's attempted coverup of his recent  "defund the police vote"  ---  according to Kagan  >>>  “What I [have announced about police capital funding] is fair game. Every council district is given funding whether you voted for the budget or against the budget....  I feel no problem whatsoever. No moral problem and no political problem.” 

[[[Arkady (Ari) Kagan must have learned that kind of verbal trickery in those Soviet KGB-training schools and academies back in the USSR]]]

Thus, despite voting  against the budget, Ari Kagan and his team believe that it is 100% fine that Kagan is now claiming that he "secured the funding"  ---   since every council member is entitled to a say in  >>> "making choices"  dispensing  >>> "their own capital funding" 

According to a spokesperson on Kagan's staff, "Southern Brooklyn Councilman Kagan"  >>>  has and will continue to work with local precincts at the Consy Island end of his district, and other community groups in that part of his to gauge the needs and concerns of residents.....  

So what if Ari Kagan's "NO VOTE" on both the New York City Police capital and operating budgets would have defunded all of that kind of safety and security equipment throughout every corner of every precinct in the whole city going forward in 2024  ---  including those specific items Kagan's staff mentioned Kagan had "obtained" for the 47th Council District

As one local paper recently reported on the subject  >>>  "Despite his vote against the budget, [Kagan and his team] said there is nothing wrong with announcing that he secured the funding since every council member is entitled to their own capital funding."

In other words, the current 47th District Council Member Ari Kagan formally lied when he said that he had "secured funding" for police public safety and security equipment improvements in the Gravesend-Coney Island part of the 47th Council District a few short weeks after voting against the 2024 NYC budget the would actually have defunded those things. In fact, Chairman of the NYC Council Finance Committee Justin Brannan was the local Councilman that actually did secure the funding for the police, public safety and securty equipnent including those very items Kagan is trying to takeng credit for.  Kagan's only part in the process was to sign off on the relatively small disbursement of the overall police capital funding appropriated for the whole city.  Kagan's actions only effected the disbursement of those 2024 funds in a small portion of the current 47th District, where Kagan will continue as Councilman up to the end of 2023.

What's up with the creepy old guys in the Brooklyn GOP and Conservative Party lately ?

 

There maybe some very old fashioned trouble brewing for an older generation gentleman near the top of the Brooklyn Republican establishment  ---  and his special circumstance perhaps reflects a longtime personal flaw and even a behavioral problem that has been observed in a very special Conservative Party Chairman, as well  ---  oddly, the two Kings County Chairpersons of those respective parties, the Republicans and the Conservatives, are uniquely positioned to do something about it.  ---  However, do they have the courage, the integrity, and the wherewithall to do what needs to be done ???

Let's start with an example of what we have heard from some  ---   and have seen here and there  ---  which prompts us to ask:

Just what kind of Kassar sock puppet game is being shown in this pic ???

Is it political ?????  ---  OR  ---   as Olivia Newton- John used to intone  ---  Is it  >>> 

"...  [P]hysical- physical -...  I've been patient... I've been good... Trying to keep my hands on the table.... It's getting hard this holding back - you know what I mean....I'm sure you'll understand my point of view....  We know each other mentally....  You've gotta know that you're bringing out the animal in me.... Let's get physical- physical -...  Let's get physical- physical - ... Let's get physical- physical - ...  Let's get animal- animal -...  I wanna get animal...  let's get into animal... Let me hear your body talk- your body talk -...  Let me hear your body talk.... Let me hear your body talk..." ???????

Many have noticed that Jarry Kassar has been seen skulking very close and directly behind Nicole an awful lot for a very long time [this is the only pic that we could locate and Nicole doesn't seem to be very bothered in it]

But Nicole has had to put up with way more than this kind of Kassar stuff  ---  Just look at this series of pix generously provided by Brian Fox ---  and what they show is Nicole Malliotakis, the U.S. Congresswoman, looking pretty upset about something  ---  and it looks like it might also be about somebody nearby in particular.....

No real problem here, right ?
Things look fine  ---  maybe a little cool 
---  but basically fine, right ???

But now, look at this man's guilty look and Nicole's sudden dagger stare  ---  and Ted Ghorra seems to have noticed something unpleasant as well.....

Maybe a little distance might help  ---   and an extra body in between.....

...  or better still, two bodies.....

No, Nicole's dagger stare is back  ---  and it looks like a little more distance too ---  and maybe there were some clipped words, as well.....

Now maybe, like with Kassar above, it was all just something political.....

Some of you very well might think that Brian Fox's pictures from 2022 aren't telling quite the same tale that we have just described above.....  But one of our usually reliable sources inside the Brooklyn GOP establishment has told us on this independent GOP blog for Brooklyn and Staten Island that there have been complaints by women on the staff of Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krassny about the specific behaviors and attitudes of one senior member of Brook-Krassny's office staff.  Our source indicates that Ted Ghorra does know about this, but Ted has been allowing Richard Barsamian to run things in the Brooklyn GOP a lot this year of 2023, and who could expect that he would do anything or say anything about it.

Needless to say, both Ted Ghorra and Kings County Conservative Party Chair Fran Vella-Marrone are in positions to bring this sort of thing to a head, and possibly clean it up once and for all.  However, few of the complainants and/or the few people standing with them in their respective parties expect that Ted and Fran will do anything more than they have done so far.