BY SAL GRECOMayor Zohran Mamdani entered office promising ambitious reforms designed to reduce the cost of living for New Yorkers. Two of the most talked-about proposals are the new pied-à-terre property tax and a plan to establish city-owned grocery stores.Both ideas have generated significant public debate—not only over whether they are good policy, but whether they can be implemented …
The Three Card Mamdani: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
BY SAL GRECOPolitics often resembles a game of perception. Sometimes the cards are shuffled just enough to convince the audience that something entirely new is happening when, in reality, the outcome remains largely unchanged. That is the impression many New Yorkers may take away from Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s decision to authorize a new emergency contract worth up to $1.86 billion to continue using hotels as …
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Two Turkish Networks, One Dismissed Eric Adams Case—and Serious Questions the Public Still Deserves Answered
BY SAL GRECOThe most important fact first: these are two different menThe newly arrested Mohammad Yousef Hasna, also known as “Orhan Korkmaz” and “Abu al-Baraa,” is not Sezgin Baran Korkmaz, the Turkish businessman identified by multiple news organizations as “Businessman-3” in the former federal case against Eric Adams.The similar use of the name Korkmaz creates understandable confusion, but the …
LAPD Officer Charged After Secretly Recording Colleagues: Whistleblower or Criminal?
BY SAL GRECOWhen a police officer risks his career to document what he believes is serious misconduct inside his own department, who should become the focus of the justice system?That question now sits at the center of one of the most controversial law enforcement prosecutions in America.Los Angeles Police Department Officer Daniel Flores has been charged with 16 felony counts of illegally recording …
Tony Romo’s Arrest Sparks Questions About Police Procedure, CBS Future, and What Comes Next
BY SAL GRECOThe arrest of former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and current CBS NFL analyst Tony Romo has quickly become one of the biggest sports stories of the summer—not simply because of the arrest itself, but because of the questions surrounding how the investigation was conducted and what it could mean for both Romo’s legal case and his future at CBS.On Episode 215 of The Sal Greco Show, Sal Greco, a former …
Bronx Dominican Day Parade Marred by Chaos as Short-Staffed NYPD Seizes 16 Illegal Guns
BY SAL GRECOThe NYPD’s recovery of 16 illegal firearms during and after the Bronx Dominican Day Parade may ultimately be remembered as one of the department’s most significant enforcement successes of the year. Police also recovered an assault-style rifle from a 19-year-old suspect, with body-worn camera footage released by the department showing one of the arrests. Authorities reported that the 16 gun-related …