DON’T RANK HANKS: OUR PICK

June 24, 2025

In Staten Island’s 49th Council District, voters are rejecting scandal, hate, and corruption. Councilmember Kamillah Hanks stands accused of Islamophobia, racial discrimination, retaliation, and corruption—all backed by whistleblower recordings and official complaints. Now, Muslim groups are demanding an apology, while political insiders predict she’ll resign even if she wins. With NYC’s ranked-choice voting underway, a…
LUTHMANN NAME GOES LEGENDARY

June 21, 2025

Richard Luthmann’s name once meant “the crooked one” or “head man.” Today, it’s both. He was the Staten Island trickster who demanded trial by combat, exposed the rigged election game, and turned his legal downfall into a journalistic comeback. His enemies call him dangerous. His fans call him necessary. He hasn’t lived in New York…
KAMILLAH HANKS ISLAMOPHOBIA OUTRAGE: IMMEDIATE APOLOGY DEMANDED

June 19, 2025

NYC Council Member Kamillah Hanks is facing the political meltdown of her life. On June 18, the Islamic Leadership Council of New York demanded she apologize for anti-Muslim discrimination inside her City Council office. Their demand followed bombshell whistleblower claims released by journalist Richard Luthmann on The Unknown Podcast, where staffers accused Hanks and Chief…
THE UNKNOWN PODCAST 43: WAR, POLITICS & PERVERSION

June 19, 2025

Trump channels WWII with an “unconditional surrender” warning to Iran. ICE shakes up New York’s mayoral race by arresting progressive candidate Brad Lander. And Diddy’s federal sex trafficking trial takes a wild turn with explicit tapes, freak parties, and mounting evidence of coercion. On The Unknown Podcast, Richard Luthmann and Michael Volpe break it all…
HELL IN HANKS’ OFFICE

June 17, 2025

Three whistleblowers just dropped a political bomb on Staten Island. In over two hours of recorded interviews with journalist Richard Luthmann, staffers from Council Member Kamillah Hanks’ office alleged shocking abuses: anti-Muslim discrimination, racial slurs, political retaliation, and threats from Hanks’ partner. They claim top NYC officials ignored it all. With early voting underway, and…
Letitia James Cover-Up: Omitted by Design

June 16, 2025

New York Attorney General Letitia James promised accountability with her May 2024 report on disgraced former cop Lane Schlesinger. What the public got instead was a whitewashed document omitting key misconduct incidents, whistleblower referrals, and even a false arrest backed by falsified records. Records obtained by The Republic Dispatch reveal the AG’s office ignored damning…
CORRUPT ROBERT H. TEMBECKJIAN

June 12, 2025

Robert H. Tembeckjian, New York’s top judicial ethics enforcer, leads the Commission on Judicial Conduct. Yet he moonlights as an advisor to Kremlin-linked Balchug Capital. Critics allege he uses his position to shield judges like Ronald Castorina from perjury charges while aiding a Putin-approved hedge fund. Disabled veterans such as Marc Fishman say Tembeckjian refuses to…
KAMILLAH HANKS IN CRISIS

June 5, 2025

As NYC Councilmember Kamillah Hanks faces a heated June 24 primary, a staffer’s EEO abuse letter, combined with her deepening ties to the Mazzei crime family, threatens to implode her campaign. From workplace retaliation to fentanyl-fueled corruption, Hanks is in the hot seat—and possibly legal jeopardy.
MANHATTAN GOUN SQUAD SCANDAL

June 4, 2025

The “Goun Squad” scandal just detonated in Manhattan—and it’s shaking the foundation of the District Attorney’s Office. Assistant District Attorney Amanda Goun stands accused of using her badge, colleagues, and the NYPD to frame her estranged husband, NYT reporter Joseph Goldstein, with bogus domestic violence and child abuse charges during a divorce and custody war.…
Baseball’s Thorny Rose

June 1, 2025

Pete Rose’s lifetime ban from baseball was finally lifted – but only after he died. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred declared “permanent ineligibility” ends with death, seven months after Rose’s passing. MLB also lifted bans on “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and seven teammates in the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Rose, baseball’s hit king and 17-time all-star, never…

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