Sam Antar is a forensic genius. He is a certified public accountant who made an incredible comeback, as I said earlier, from his brush with the law and an incredible career in white collar crime. He s the one who caught Letitia James in her 22-year crime spree. And when it comes to mortgage fraud, he has some shocking information regarding the astroturf nature of Zoran Mamdami s campaign.
00:11:15.740He keeps talking about seizing the means of production.
00:11:20.080That is a Marxist sentiment without any ambiguity.
00:11:24.940He's talking about city-run grocery stores.
00:11:27.620He's advocating for opening municipal grocery stores in each borough that presumably would compete with private grocers,
00:11:34.580although private grocers like John Katsimatidis right here on this station have said that they will either sell or close down their grocery stores under these circumstances.
00:11:48.620That would be freezing rents on one million stabilized apartments.
00:11:54.380He also wants, which of course would make it inefficient, impossible for landlords to either maintain their properties or to build new properties.
00:12:06.400He wants a $30 minimum wage as part of his xeronomics agenda, which would send the New York City housing market into chaos.
00:12:16.200He wants free buses and universal child care.
00:12:20.160He supports permanently providing free bus service and universal child care, but that's to be funded entirely by the redistribution of wealth that he talks about.
00:12:32.420Most dangerously, he wants to defund the police.
00:12:36.120He would abolish cash bail entirely, and he would stop prison expansion.
00:12:41.600He also talks about violence as some kind of abstract construct, implying that he would actually open Rikers Island and let everybody out.
00:12:53.720He wants to implement taxes, like I say, to punish white people.
00:12:59.120And in his words, shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.
00:13:11.620As a co-founder of the Badoin Students for Justice in Palestine and a longtime supporter of the anti-Semitic BDS movement, Mabdami has called Israel an apartheid state, has referred to its action in Gaza as genocide.
00:13:27.360And he supports the phrase, globalize the intifada.
00:13:32.680He actually says that he would arrest the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu if he visited New York City, as he is expected to do for an upcoming UN gathering.
00:14:49.080The Democrats platformed him and gave him implied credibility by allowing him into the party, even though he's a member of the Working Families Party.
00:14:58.420So what's happened now over the years is that the Democratic Party, my party, I'm a Democrat, okay?
00:15:04.500My party has now been infiltrated by these whack jobs, these far-left whack jobs, okay?
00:15:11.600They had no business being in the party in the first place.
00:15:14.420They've hijacked the Democratic Party.
00:15:25.180People don't realize this, but Bernie Sanders, the socialist, was not a Democrat until the year that he decided to challenge Hillary Clinton.
00:15:34.080He and his wife skimmed millions of dollars from his two presidential campaigns in, quote-unquote, media placement fees,
00:15:42.580which is not illegal but never disclosed to his donors, certainly sounds like free enterprise and capitalism to me.
00:15:50.760Comrade Bernie got quite rich doing it.
00:15:55.140Maybe that's why he now only criticizes billionaires.
00:15:58.200He rarely criticizes billionaires and millionaires.
00:16:01.580And he's still out there pushing the same old socialist baloney.
00:16:05.640He attacked the Republican Party last week saying, we were a cult.
00:16:08.720Dude, they cheated you twice out of the Democrat Party nomination, and instead of bolting, you endorsed Hillary Clinton and then Joe Biden, and you signed up with the war machine.
00:16:20.220So don't lecture us about our party, my party.
00:16:24.740This guy is a blowhard, but he's very happy with the rise of Mamdami and, of course, the poll position of AOC.
00:16:34.280There is no such thing as a moderate Democrat.
00:16:37.120They look at Chuck Schumer, of whom I'm not particularly a fan, and they think he's a dangerous right-winger compared to them, when he, in fact, he's just a corporate Democrat.
00:16:47.520It is shocking that the party of Harry Truman, who essentially is the president who founded Israel, supported the founding of Israel, will not stand up against anti-Semitism.
00:17:00.420Zemim Dami will not denounce the squad, that little coterie of virulent anti-Semite, anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah Democrats in the House, of which AOC is a prominent member.
00:17:17.160However, I think that the term moderate Democrat is an oxymoron at this point.
00:17:40.340When we come back, I want to ask Sam about some of his really groundbreaking reporting regarding New York Attorney General Letitia James, who says that no one is above the law except perhaps her.
00:17:55.860Sam Antar is the man who uncovered 22 years, I believe it is, of serial mortgage fraud, actually transgressions for which other people have actually gone to prison.
00:18:09.780And those charges have made their way to the Department of Justice when the head of the Federal Housing and Finance Administration reviewed them and sent them over to Attorney General Pam Bondi for prosecution.
00:18:24.700There are some who argue that even though she lied numerous times on sworn statements, that there is no crime.
00:18:33.360We're going to give Sam Antar a chance to refute that when we come back in the Stone Zone.
00:18:38.220In the meantime, please go over to Sam's website, whitecollarfraud.com, for some of the best investigative journalism out there today.
00:19:11.560We're with criminal fraud investigator Sam Antar.
00:19:14.660Sam has analyzed the campaign fundraising of Zoran Mandami's campaign.
00:19:21.700He calls it the Mandami deception because of the $1.7 million that he raised that was then matched by New York taxpayers to give him a war chest of $7 million plus.
00:19:34.520Not a single dollar of that, according to Sam Antar, came from any small donor who utilized the donate button on the campaign website.
00:19:44.980In fact, most of that money came from wealthy bundlers.
00:20:05.920And that bundler raised 1.6, approximately, of the $1.7 million.
00:20:11.020Now, when you go through the campaign disclosures of all candidates, this one bundler raised 10 times more money than bundler number two on the list for other candidates.
00:20:24.520In other words, second place was about $150,000 or $60,000.
00:20:43.620All of the money has been through bundlers.
00:20:47.600Specifically, 94% of it has been through one single bundler.
00:20:53.460Now, other campaigns use bundlers, yes.
00:20:57.260But not to the extent that if you see 30%, 20%, 5%, 2%, we get that.
00:21:03.460But this is 100% to bundlers, 94% one individual.
00:21:08.320So, basically, this guy, of course, has tried to position himself in a populist as a guy challenging a corrupted system.
00:21:17.180And in many ways, strangely enough, until you get into the specifics of his agenda, it sounds like Donald Trump.
00:21:22.800He's an outsider challenging a corrupted, crony-ridden system.
00:21:26.980It turns out that most of his campaign money actually came from New York taxpayers, who had to subsidize his campaign through the campaign matching system.
00:21:37.840And, frankly, I still believe that there is no way Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa will withdraw his candidacy and endorse another candidate.
00:21:49.160Eric Adams seems every bit as determined to run as an independent.
00:21:54.240It's unclear whether former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who still maintains a hold on a substantial block of voters, will stay in the race as an independent, although he did qualify to run as an independent.
00:22:08.300And, therefore, there's a reasonable probability that if the, let's call it the pool of sane voters, non-communist, non-socialist voters, is split between three candidates of different ideologies, that this fraud could actually become mayor.
00:22:29.620It's a chilling prospect, but I think it is a very real and genuine possibility.
00:22:34.540I want to go back to Attorney General Letitia James.
00:22:37.780She has emerged as Mamdami's number one cheerleader.
00:22:42.120But, Sam, you undercovered a 20-plus year serial mortgage fraud.
00:22:50.860And her response has been that although she wasn't truthful on sworn documents, that there's no crime here.
00:23:00.300You have a minute and 30 seconds to explain why that's wrong.
00:23:05.700First of all, if you make a false statement on the mortgage, even if the bank doesn't rely upon it, even if the bank doesn't suffer damages, it's a federal crime under, I think it's statute 1014, 1041, whatever the hell it is.
00:23:26.440Now, she bought the property in Brooklyn in 2001, and immediately, instead of listing it five families or more, because it was a five-family unit house, okay, she listed one unit, two unit, three units.
00:23:41.300That saved a lot of money on the mortgages that saved a lot of money on the mortgages and also meant less down payments than normal people would have had.
00:23:49.700Because five or more tenants is considered a commercial building.
00:23:55.520And this is based upon the C of O, which is a publicly filed document, and it says five units.
00:24:14.320That is the law of the land in New York City.
00:24:16.860She also has properties in Virginia, kind of like the same MO, false filings on mortgages, false declarations on mortgages, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.