Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Will State Senator Savino Fall Due to Corruption?

UP FRONT News May 15, 2015
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Published by Tom Weiss
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WILL NEW YORK STATE SENATOR DIANE SAVINO BE THE NEXT NYS LEGISLATOR TO FALL BECAUSE OF CORRUPTION?
POLITICAL CRIMINAITY IN STATEN ISLAND: A FERRY TRUE STORY. THE ROBERT CATALDO STORY. A "SOPRANO" IN GOVERNMENT.
    At the rate that New York State legislators are being dethroned because of political corruption, the U.S. government may have to budget money for a special federal penitentiary for crooks such as former NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D.-Manh.), Former NYS Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R.-L.I.) NYS Senate Deputy Majority Leader Thomas Libous (R.-Binghamton), et. al.
Largely because Staten Island is essentially a political fiefdom run by the almost hopelessly corrupt Democratic Party machine in the North Shore and by the right wing Republican Party Machine everywhere else in "the forgotten borough", and because their house organ, the multibillionaire Donald Newhouse- owned Staten Island Advance, via Publisher Caroline Diamond Harrison, Editor-in-Chief Brian Laline and reporters such as Tom ("Wrongleski") Wrobleski and Rachel Shapiro, have been covering up political corruption for years, Staten Island state legislators have escaped exposure - except of course in UP FRONT News.I
    I will again cover Assemblymember Matthew Titone, the fundamentally dishonest and inept and paranoid Hillary Clinton/Sheldon Silver/Christine Quinn puppet with the bizarre "gay" sense of humor, again in future issues of UP FRONT News. There have been "Matthews" who have qualified for sainthood. Mr. Titone is most certainly not among them. And it has nothing to do with the fact that Assemblymember Titone is gay and everything to do with the fact that he is a liar. Numbers of NYS legislators tend to lie to themselves, to each other and to the public almost habitually. Matthew Titone has lied to (and, I am certain, about) me!
    NYS Senator Diane Savino, one of those I call the "professional liberals" in politics, continues to protect her Chief Staff Robert Cataldo, who is guilty of a literal act of terroism against me, which he perpetrated in 2006 at my scheduled appointment with him in Ms. Savino's district office on an emergency matter when I was homeless, warranting Sen. Savino's immediate intervention. When I arrived for my scheduled appointment with Robert Cataldo the door to her one flight up at 36 Richmond Terrace, a short distance from the St. George Staten Island Ferry Terminal, was open and I found myself in an apparently unoccupied office. I waited for about two minutes and then announced my presence. With a nanosecond, a man, Robert Cataldo, came charging out of a rear room, doing a convincing imitation of one of the bulls of Pamplona, as he hurled profanities at me, repeatedly bellowing the accusation that I was having sexual relations with my mother. He forced me to back up against a wall as her came within a few millimeters of my face and spit at me, bellowing threats of violence and arrest. He refused my request to photocopy an important Social Security documemt as he shrieked that Sen. Savino's office was not a photocopy establishment.
    It became apparent that if I did not leave he might kill me, that there would be no witnesses, and and I made my way out.
    When I subsequently called Sen. Savino's office, to my surprise she picked up the phone. When I told her what had occurred she replied blithely, "Oh, don't worry about Cataldo" - and then she proceeded to mishandle the emergency Social Security-relater matter completely.
A few days later I went to the 120th precinct, which is less than a five minute walk from Savino's office on Richmond Terrace. The precinct refused to take my complaint.
I therefore contacted Sgt. Det. Al Fiore, then with the NYPD's Intelligence Division, who had assisted me on a number of very political law enforcement matters, starting with ending the paranoid NYC Public Advocate ex-CIA agent spouse Betsy Gotbaum's attempt to have me arrested because my work as a free lance investigative journalist made her so nervous that she developed the quite psychotic delusion that I was "stalking" her as she blurted out during a televised campaign debafe in August, 2005. (I set the record straight as my story was correctly reported in NYC Newsday by Dan Janison on August 26, 2005 and by Celeste Katz in the Daily News and by Jonathan Hicks in The New York Times on August 27, 2005. Among the reasons why the awful Staten Island Advance is facing a possible lawsuit from me is because Tom Wrobleski's falsehood-riddled article published with a front page lead on August 27, 2005 libeled me.) At my request Sgt. Fiore traveled from his office in Brooklyn to meet me in Staten Island and then went to the precinct and filed my complainy for.
The complaint, euphemistically classified as "criminal harassment" when in fact Robert Cataldo's actions against me fall under the dictionary definition of "terrorism" (the use of threats/intimidation/violence against others for political purposes), is NYPD #2006-120-8244. Robert Cataldo's act of de facto terrorism against me was politically motivated because, even as I was homeless at the time, I was already well known politically and I was in fact a Democratic write-in candidate for the U.S. Senate against Wall Street favorite and human rights adversary Hillary Clinton
Since then Diane Savino, while politely promising to assist me with a number of very serious constituent matters (that the awful Titone had willfully mishandled), reneged on those promises and has continued to protect Robert Cataldo, who, on the basis of his behavior with me, is clearly, at least episodically, psychotic. And rest assured that in my capacity as a retired professional social worker with much experience with psychiatric cases, I understand a lot more about psychopathology than does Diane Savino.
    It is a well established fact that psychopaths, some with considerable intellectual gifts, are notorious for camouflaging their malevolence by acting "normally" in public. For a time, Adolf Hitler succeeded in doing that - until he fell apart. There are more than a few psychopaths employed as police officers. The juries are still out on the "cannibal cop." A jury did however convict a psychopathic police officer named Francis X. Livoti, who some years ago choked young Anthony Baez to death with his nightstick because Mr. Baez had bounced a football off a police vehicle at Livoti's Bronx precinct.
    And the evidence suggests that Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who chokehold-killed Eric Garner and then lied about it to a grand jury (psychopath are by definition, habitual liars) is a psychopath.
    While psychopaths tend to be liars, Not all liars are necessarily psychopaths. Sen. Diane Savino seems to fit into this category and as such is unfit to be an elected official.
    Several months ago at my request Rev. Dr. Tony Baker, Pastor of the St. Philips Baptist Church in Staten Island, a largely African-American chuch, of which I am a member, at my request, arranged a meeting for me with Sen,. Savino in his Church office, primarily to discuss constituent matters that have remained unresolved. I assured Dr. Baker that during the meeting I would not bring up the Robert Cataldo matter. That assurance no doubt pleased Dr. Baker because of his personal relationship with both Sen. Savino and, at least as important, Robert Cataldo, as Dr. Baker had already told me that he had presided over Robert Cataldo's wedding - as I later learned to an Egyptian lady. That may explain why Robert Cataldo may have a Pharoah Complex. I guess that makes me a contemporary Moses!
    At the meeting Diane Savino blew it totally by, without any prodding from me or from Dr. Baker, bringing up the Cataldo matter and blatantly lying about the entire thing. I could understand Dr. Baker's discomfort as I recounted some quotations from Robert Cataldo's XXXXXXX-rated outburst against me, not the type of language usually heard in a house of worship. What Diane Savino does not understand is that psychopaths habitually lie and that Robert Cataldo has been lying to her for years. She is also in denial of the reality that, unless she has some secret credentials regarding expertise in mental health matters, she has no way of knowing (at this point except from me) that her of Staff is a dangerous lunatic.
   There is no question that Robert Catado's behavior vis a vis me, e.g. emptying Savino's office of all staff prior to my scheduled arrival to assure that there would be no witnesses to his planned act of terrorism, and then literally terrorizing me to the point that I thought he was going to kill me, is Mob-style behavior.
    And so the report that I've received from a respected political source in Staten Island's Jewish community that "Robert Cataldo is a member of the Sicilian Mob", who has terrorized others, will be of interest to Staten Island new District Attorney Daniel Master, NYPD Commissioner William Bratton, to Sgt. Det. Al Fiore, and of course to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch (who already has my initial complaint about Cataldo/Savino). The report that Diane Savino's Chief of Staff is a mobster should be of interest to religious leaders such as Dr. Baker; St. Philips Baptist Church Assistant Pastor Rev. Agnes McBeth; Deacons Beatrice Alleyne; Robert Tubbs; Jr., and Paul Gilliiam; the Mississippi-based National Baptist Convention President Jerry Young; Rabbi Gerald and Boni Sussman of Temple Emanu-el, a few blocks north of St. Philips Baptist Church in Port Richmond, S.I.; Rev. Dr. Demetrius S. Carolina, Sr. of the First Central Baptist Church in S.I.; and the clergy and members of The Church That Never Closes in Prince's Bay, S.I. and of course all the members of the NYS Legislature and the New York City Council as well as all members of Congress from New York.
    This article is being sent to the media. If the history repeats itself, the Staten Island Advance will continue to protect political criminals.  Like I said, it's a "Ferry True Story."
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Daniel Master - Staten Island District Attorney
William Bratton, NYPD Commissioner
Loretta Lynch, U.S. Attorney General
Robert Bocchino - Commanding Officer, 120th precinct
P.O. Quania Rios - Community Affairs, 120th precinct
Sgt. Det. Al Fiore
Hon. James Oddo - S.I. Borough President
Hon. Andrew Lanza - NYS Senate
Hon. Michael Cusick - NYS Assembly
Hon. Nicole Malliotakis - NYS Assembly
Erica Garner
National Baptist Convention
NAACP - Staten Island Branch
New York Urban League - Staten Island Branch
Council of Jewish Organizations of S.I.
Dr. William Fritz - President, College of S.I.
The Banner - College of S.I.
Geraldo Rivera
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Why Gentile Was Crushed by a Right Wing Republican

 WHY GENTILE WAS CRUSHED BY A RIGHT WING REPUBLICAN. TOM WROBLESKI BLOWS IT AGAIN AT "THE STATEN ISLAND RETREAT"

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Tom Weiss

2:27 PM (10 hours ago)


May 13, 2015  To Jerry Young - President, National Baptist Convention: My strong impression of St. Philips Baptist Church, Staten Island Deacon John McBeth is that, his Jesus-related pontifications in the Church and elsewhere notwithstanding, John McBeth sees himself as at politically (and, it seems, "religiously"), infallible and thereforf exempt from having to apologize for wrongdoing. Redemption, and what the Jewish people call "atonement", do not apply to John McBeth, at least in his mind.
   John McBeth is also given to being "religious" at political events such as at demonstrations protesting the police-inflicted death of Eric Garner, at which Mr. McBeth sometimes offers the closing prayer. On March 22 John McBeth led a demonstration ostensibly to protest the Garner killing but which was actually a voter registration rally geared at registering people to vote for his favorite candidate, Democratic Party Machine politician Vincent Gentile, an opportunistic fellow who in fact remained silent about the coverup of the facts of the Garner killing until I announced my candidacy for Congres in the May 5 special election, in which I made  it clear that the Eric Garner case was a major campaign issue. In fact at the March 22 demonstration John McBeth acted as a de facto dictator, permitting all candidates at the demonstration except me to speak.
   That was only one of several acts of political discrimination that John McBeth perpetrated against me starting in February, 2015, when I announced my candidacy for Congress in the May 5 special election. If you are in fact throughly investigating everything in the matter that I've brought to your attention, I'd suggest that you send an e-mail to John McBeth (sinypcrx@aol.com) asking that he send you copies of all the e-mails between him on the one hand and me and my campaign staff on the other. At your request I and my Campaign Director Andrew Mazzone will forward to you copies of our correspondences to Church Pastor Rev. Dr. Tony Baker, regarding my speaking about my candidacy berfore the congregation, none of which generated a response.
 Inasmuch as this matter is likely to become a legal (and very likely a media) issue I would urge you to conduct your communications with John McBeth and St. Philips Baptist Church, S.I by e-mail. John McBeth's off the record verbal communications are unreliable and contain falsehoods.
   The fact is that John McBeth's disrespects, acts of political discrimination against me, at least one threat, and general arrogance toward me  communicated are many.
   As you might imagine, this situation has been difficult for his wife, St. Philips Baptist Church, S.I. Assistant Pastor Rev. Agnes McBeth. In fact, although Rev. McBeth has said to me that, even as she teaches about "The Politics of Jesus" (using sections of a book by that name by Obery Hendricks) in her Bible class, which I hope to resume attending when this matter is resolved, she doesn't much care for political campaigns, she has tried to be helpful vis a vis John McBeth and me. She agreed to accept c.c.'s of my e-mails to John McBeth. I followed her advice regarding the best way to approach John McBeth to arrange a meeting. He sabotaged everything! She several times tried to arrange meeting between me and a member of my campaign staff with John McBeth, her efforts being rejected by John McBeth. In fact, she tried to help arrange a meeting for me and my Deputy Campaign Director Steven Gradman with John McBeth to take place at St. Philips after the Palm Sundayservice. In fact Mr. Gradman traveled from his home in Manhattan to the Church only to learn that John McBeth would not meet with us. It was of course necessary for me to respond to that insult, my reponse witnessed by some Churchmembers and by John McBeth's family, including as I recall at least one of the McBeth's three children, who are certainly far more polite and respectful to me than their father is. And I of course am always friendly and respectful to the children. (John McBeth has forfeited my respect!) And, outside the Church after the Palm Sunday service, when John McBeth approached me in what I very understandably took to be a very aggressive manner it was necessary for me to very audibly tell him several times to stay away from me.
   Until a couple of days ago I refrained from identifying John McBeth in my UP FRONT News coverage of the campaign. My responsibility as an investigative free lance journalist is to report the news - accurately. That is particularly necessary in Staten Island because the so-called "paper of record" in S.I. is the monopolistic multibillionaire Donald Newhouse-owned Staten Island Advance, has a history of political news suppression and biased reporting. In fact,the prominent African-American pastor and civil right leader Rev. Dr. Demetrius S. Carolina, Sr. of the First Central Baptist Church in S.I. once told me that he considers the Staten Island Advance to be a "controlled" paper. The well-known S.I. African-American political activist Kelvin Alexander has told me that he considers the Advance to be "the most racist paper in New York." They're both correct! And it is no surprise to me that many African-Americans simply do not buy or read the S.I. Advance. The Advance has covered up political criminality (e.g. against me), local politically connected anti-Semitsm (involving "Israel basher" and now indicted grand larcenist David Jones, a pal of John McBeth), all sorts of political corruption in S.I., all the facts on the Eric Garner case, which consider to be a de facto lynching of an innocent man, etc.
   A great many people in Staten Isand and beyond are aware of my activities as an activist and journalist to bring to an end the
illegal and genocidal occupation of formerly independent Tibet by Communist China. The Dalai Lama of Tibet, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D.-Mass), U.S. Congressmmember Jerrold Nadler (D.-N.Y.) and Chris Smith (R.-N.J.) NYS Senator Tony Avella (D.-Queens), Dr. Cornel West, Rev. Dr. Tony Baker, Rev. Agnes McBeth, Rev. Dr. Demetrius S. Carolina, Sr., and Rabbi Gerald and Boni Sussman (Temple Emanu-el in S.I., a short distance from St. Philips Baptist Church) are only a few of the many people who gets their facts on this racist oppression from UP FRONT News, another story suppressed by the S.I. Advance on an Island which is home to the world reknowned Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Arts. Unlike his wife, John McBeth has shown me he couldn't care less
  I have become personally acquainted with Eric Garner's daughter, Erica, who, at my invitation last January, spoke at a the Bowery Poetry Club-based U.S. Department of Arts and Culture/UP FRONT News "People's State of the Union Story Circle" last January and she knows my views on that issue and gets UP FRONT News.
  As far as I am concerned the two top political reporters at the S.I. Advance, Tom Wrobleski and Rachel Shapiro, who do not mind libeling others, e.g. me, qualify as the two worst journalists in New York - and perhaps America.
   And that is among the reasons why my reporting in UP FRONT News is very important as a means to counteract the local media monopoloy of the S.I Advance.
   The reality is that, as a candidate for Congress, I was the only candidate who spoke and wrote about all the facts of the Eric Garner case, including information that Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo, the cop whose chokehold caused the death of Eric Garner, lied to the Staten Island grand jury that wound up not indicting Pantaleo, who has since enjoyed the protection of now ex-Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan, whose well-financed Republican machine enabled him to win the May 5 election.
  My UP FRONT News article, headlined "Why Vincent Gentile Was Crushed by a Right Wing Republican. The Eric Garner Grand Jury Coverup Factor. The John Mancuso Factor. Tom Wrobleski Blows It Again at 'The Staten Island Retreat'", attached here gives the facts of why the fundamentally ethically compromised machine Democrat Vincent Gentile lost by alandslide. One can't win an election, no matter how "liberal" the candidate tries to appear, if the candidate has mob-impersonators and worse (a continuing probem in not entirely stereotyped Staten Island), in his campaign organization.
  And some of those "Sopranos"-types are John McBeth's pals.
  And by politically discriminating against me as a legitimate U.S. Federal Elections Commission-registered candidate who spoke (and continues to speak) the truth about the Eric Garner case, John McBeth in fact only helped the right wing Republican Dan Donovan who is majorly involved in the coverup of the facts of the police killing of Eric Garner..
   And the full story, including the facts on John McBeth, at this point, are only reported in UP FRONT News - John McBeth's silence notwithstanding.        Tom Weiss
c.c. Andrew Mazzone, Steven Gradman, Allen Smith