New York City Department of Investigation

What's your reaction to any of that?

Well, in addition to what we're talking about, the Department of Investigation is going to be doing a two-year how, when, and where, and a different kind of than looking at the documents, uh, we were able to get it funded.

I was able to get the $4 million they need.

They've hired a firm and they have started.

And when I was asked about this at the press conference by the, one of the reporters, like, are you going to, uh, indict anybody on this? Which is basically what the firefighters, some of them are asking for.

So that's the job of the department of investigation.

Obviously in the past they have definitely, sent information over to the DA or to one of the southern or eastern districts.

So that's where that information, I think, should be deposited.

I repeated our same arguments.

Simultaneously, about six months later, the City Council authorized New York City's Department of Investigation, which is one of the United States' premier law enforcement agencies, to investigate why there had been this stonewalling.

They were all rebuffed.

As soon as that legislation passed, lo and behold, DEP finds 68 boxes, some thir- 340,000 pages of records, tells our judge they made a mistake.

Um, so we filed this FOIA.

Um, I think the really sort of the breakthrough here, because other people had done it before, and the Adams administration was just saying no all along, was that I approached, uh, Co-Councilman Gale Brewer, and we were talking, and coun- uh, she said, "Well, I'll put in a bill." And her staff, doing some research, found that the city char-- the last major city charter revision had given the city council the power to order the Department of Investigation to do an investigation.

This power had never been exercised by the city council.

She put in the resolution.

86-47.

Yeah right and you're looking at whether or not I should send that hey you can investigate that when you're talking about the president of the United States and that means removing them and that means getting rid of them and a lot of other people would read that as a much more of a threat or a call to action and as a threat so those are not investigating political opponents just because you're investigating them for a reason and here I think this assistant attorney general will his issue was not probably that it was Donald Trump or Hewlett Packard it was that they were just being told by their higher-ups go after these people and that's it they didn't have a briefing paper of research they didn't have another agency that gave them hundreds of pages from the FBI that said you need this is what we found or or the New York the New York Bureau of Investigation the New York tax authority that anything like that to say that we feel like there's been a violation of law for these individuals that were listed or corporations that were listed That would have probably been a very different, it might not have even been right then, but it would have been very different.

This is like the worst of the worst is when you have an assistant AG say, they just gave us political targets to go after.

Right, right.

finding out that they wanted to sue or whatever it was in regards to new york city mayor zora mamdani and his i guess social influencer campaign there's a lot more to this so you take it away jack explain this to everyone because uh you know i saw and i was i was scratching my head not because of what you think though but go ahead

Yeah, well, before I go any further, let me just say that Jim Walden is more than welcome to come back on this program to talk about the nature of the letter that he sent to the Department of Investigation whenever he wants to, because we'd love to have him back on.

But seemingly so, he's went radio silent because he deleted his personal ex.

Now all he has is a professional one, and he barely posts there anymore.

So it's almost like Jim Walden disappeared somewhere.

after the mayoral election ended but anyway over the weekend uh...

there was an article written by the new york times about social media influencers in the impact they've had for both the left and the right and then the new york post follow that up with the article about zora mom donnie and his two hundred plus influencers many of whom who are essentially on city halls payroll because they're being paid through campaign contributions and taxpayer money as well and uh... they're not being listed as members of the payroll and similar to the other politicians who are doing this many of these people are from out of town look at this woman who's been talking about mom donnie being the most galvanizing politicians since bernie sanders yet she's based in columbus ohio and most of his most of her posts are about the dsa and anti-policing stuff and how not to interact with ice and all this other nonsense but the bottom line is mom donnie is running the secret operation and he's doing so sal through a signal chat which is encrypted that the public can't access so two kind of domino effect events have happened the first of which was jim walden writing a detailed letter to the Department of Investigation saying it's time to look into everything that took place and we want more transparency about influencers but then recently as Sally Goldenberg just reported the New York City Council is preparing to have a hearing on Zoram Mamdani's use of social media influencers and his team's use of Signal to communicate with them also hearing they're introducing a bill to require more influencer disclosure So good for city council for actually pushing this forward, Sal.

I think this needs to be a lot more widespread.

Hochul says the missing funds are impacting the NYPD's intelligence analysts and counterterrorism unit, the state's 12 certified bomb squads, and a whole lot more.

Meantime, the city's Department of Investigation getting ready to release a report on what the city may have known about the environmental toxins produced by the September 11th terror attacks.

City Council passed a law mandating an investigation into the matter.

DOI Commissioner Nadia Shehata says she takes that seriously.