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New American Golden Age Mamdani Threatens Netanyahu While Secret NYPD Paperwork Exiles a Journalist—and a Convicted Bangladeshi War Criminal Lives Freely in Queens The Mayor of Make-Believe: Mamdani threatens Netanyahu while ignoring secret NYPD I-Cards and a convicted war criminal living in Queens. LUTHMANN NOTE: Zohran Mamdani has mastered the politics of imaginary courage.

New American Golden Age Families of terror victims descend on Washington demanding that America enforce its own courts and stop handing leverage back to Iran. Tehran’s Unpaid Blood Debt: Victims of state-sponsored terrorism demand Congress make Iran pay all unpaid judgments before financial rewards. LUTHMANN NOTE: The families of murdered Americans should never be forced to crawl through congressional hallways begging the government to enforce judgments already entered by its own courts.

FL Gulf News Judge John Steele’s death leaves Fort Myers federal court with an overloaded docket, unresolved cases and a judicial system built without an orderly exit plan. The Empty Robe: Judge John Steele’s sudden death leaves a massive Fort Myers federal docket unresolved, reviving the lifetime tenure debate. LUTHMANN NOTE: John Steele’s death is not an invitation for conspiracy theories. It is an invitation for institutional honesty.

NY News Press The Government secured a Lawfare conviction, but the Ken Jowdy transfers and investor-authority battle never disappeared. LUTHMANN NOTE: The Kenner case is not compelling because a convicted man says the government wronged him. Federal prisons are filled with men making that claim. It is compelling because the documents refuse to behave. Lawsuits, judgments, bank records, witness statements, and federal exhibits keep dragging Kenneth Jowdy back into the center of the story.

NY News Press Greg Maresca defends his affectionate roast of Pennsylvania Italians and explains why families that laugh together preserve their heritage together. Leave the Gravy Alone: Greg Maresca revisits Pennsylvania-Italian satire celebrating immigrant grit, family traditions, faith, food and humor LUTHMANN NOTE: Italian-American culture does not need to be preserved beneath glass like some museum relic.

FL Gulf News Lisa Lee, Robbie Keszey, and Richard Luthmann dissect the lies, filings, and courtroom theater surrounding Jeremy Hales. Two Lees One GERM: Jeremy “GERM” Hales, Randy Shochet, Doreen Turner-Inkeles, EXPOSED! Trademark lawfare, CPS smears, and the Halesverse. LUTHMANN NOTE: Lawfare survives on repetition, fear, and paper fog. The Halesverse is a microcosm.

NY News Press Self-proclaimed civil rights attorney demands accountability from institutions while running from scrutiny of his own conduct. The Sirens Follow Eric Sanders: He markets himself as an ethics crusader, but his record, federal confinement, and denials scream louder. LUTHMANN NOTE: Eric Sanders wants to be judged by the accusations he makes against everyone else, never by the record attached to his own name. Too bad. Ethics is not branding. It is conduct.

NY News Press NYPD pushes bodycam response to Nov. 30 as sources say Internal Affairs and Richmond County prosecutors have already reviewed footage from the Bay Street McDonald’s sweep Kevin Barry Love’s Christmas Goose: NYPD sets a Nov. 30 response date for bodycam footage as IAB and prosecutors have likely reviewed it. LUTHMANN NOTE: Kevin Barry Love remains presumed innocent. No public record proves that he bought or sold narcotics, cooperated with law enforcement, or received special treatment.

Family Court Corruption New Jersey mother Isabella Alfano asks the public to witness Friday’s family-court showdown before controversial Morris County Judge Peter Bogaard. LUTHMANN NOTE: Family-court judges wield powers that would make medieval tyrants blush. They can separate parents from children, drain families financially and bury lives beneath orders protected by judicial immunity.

NY News Press New source account places NYC Council Whip Kamillah Hanks’ husband inside a July 10 Staten Island narcotics operation—but the arrest trail remains hidden, the docket sealed, and the NYPD silent. Sealed After The Sweep: A source places Kevin Barry Love in a July 10 Staten Island drug sweep, but the arrest trail and docket remain hidden LUTHMANN NOTE: Kevin Barry Love remains presumed innocent.