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Subject 1
Are Hamdi & Shpend Nezaj Heading a Criminal Enterprise as Defined by NY Penal Law § 460?
— Or, Will the Manhattan DA Finally Investigate and Prosecute, Especially Given at least 5 Felony Perjuries by the Nezajs in NY Supreme Court in Jan 2025, or Continue to let Statute of Limitations Expire and to give carte blanche to the Nezaj Clan?
— Or, How Easy it is for an Albanian Clan to Gain Wealth, Power and a Foothold in America.
by Dr. Gregory L. Scott
Keywords: Kosova Properties, Gregory Scott, Hamdi Shpend Joey Nezaj, Lazer Plumaj, False arrest, Malicious prosecution, Aggravated Assault, Harassment, New York Supreme Court, DHCR, Tenants’ association union, 83 Park Terrace West, 83PeTA, Caitlyn Napolitano, Jane Yan, Jocelyn Goldstein Ali, corrupt 34th Precinct, CCRB, Robert Basil, Breach of Fiduciary Duty
Preface
NYC has indubitably some of the finest artists, academics, business professionals, engineers, architects and builders in the world, to mention just a few professions. Yet if the experience of the author over the last ten years is representative, too often there are deplorable and dysfunctional if not outright corrupt parts of the legal system. Because of a variety of criminal actions, including various felonies, by his landlord Hamdi Nezaj and the landlord's clan against himself and other tenants in the 38-unit rent-stabilized building at 83 Park Terrace West in Manhattan, NY, the author has experienced:
long on-going illicit activity by the 34th and in general the NYPD;
rank incompetence in the DA and Criminal Court;
dismaying if not illegal conduct by officials in Housing Court, New York Supreme Court (“NYSC”), the name for Civil Court in NY, and the DHCR, which is the agency responsible for administering rent-regulated apartments in NY and which has judges for trials that can run parallel to, or instead of, the Housing Court.
The primary goal in publicizing some of the author’s history, and ultimately offering solutions, is, in the short term, to persuade the DA to investigate and at least monitor, if not prosecute, the Nezaj clan and, in the long term, to make the NYC legal subculture as fine as the other subcultures, no matter how long it takes.
That is, are the Nezajs and their agents not a Criminal Enterprise according to the NY Penal Code definition, given the history of their felonies, misdemeanors, violations and harassments, ongoing since at least 2015, three of which were reported to the DA in 2016, 2019 and 2024, and five recent perjuries in NY Supreme Court in 2025, at least three of which seem to be First Degree, punishable by up to 7 years in jail?:
https://ypdcrime.com/penal.law/article460.php#p460.10
The Plan
The current plan is to explain the topics and to post the hard evidence in this order of importance, not in the numerical order of “Topics” below:
Preliminary: Topic 0--Summary of felonies, misdemeanors, violations and harassments against various tenants of Kosova Properties, from 2009 to at least 2025;
Evidence of felony perjuries by the Nezajs in the trial of Jan-Mar 2025;
Corruption at the 34th Precinct;
Unwillingness of the DA to investigate and then prosecute a clan for whom they have received complaints (with evidence) since 2016;
How the clan (and other landlords) can use Housing Court as a cudgel against tenants and the oddities of this part of civil court that the clan (and others) exploit;
The similarities and differences of the DHCR and Housing Court, and the DHCR’s own weaknesses, with examples of seeming incompetence, if not rank corruption;
The misconduct, some egregious, of lawyers associated with the Nezaj clan and with the court cases or other legal matters since 2016;
The remaining two suits against the Nezajs, one in NY Supreme Court and the other in Housing Court;
Miscellaneous incidents or considerations pertaining to the topics above.
Preliminary: Topic 0
Click here to see a list of many of the crimes, violations and harassments, along with hard evidence, by the Nezaj clan and its agents at Kosova Properties (“Kosova”), 83 Park Terrace West, NY, NY 10034, from 2009 to 2025 (and this list may well be updated in the future).
Topic 1
What follows below is some immediate proof of the first of two crimes, a misdemeanor and a felony, but we start even before that with some background of Shpend aka Joey Nezaj, son of, and managing agent for, the landlord-owner Hamdi Nezaj of 83 Park Terrace West ("83 PTW"), who with the superintendent Lazer Plumaj in 2015 had me falsely arrested for breaking a window. The DA dropped the charges in Feb 2016 and I filed suit for False Arrest and Malicious Prosecution (Index #155225/2016).
While this was progressing at a snail's pace in the NY Supreme Court system, Joey then initiated an assault in the lobby of the same building in Nov 2018 and, when I tried to defend myself, immediately knocked me unconscious, requiring an emergency room treatment for serious physical damage caused by me hitting my head on the marble floor. As the landlord, Joey (and his brother Fatos aka Lucky) somehow convinced the police that I was responsible, and only I was arrested, even though the security cameras were not working and only Joey knew that. Despite being 68 at the time, I was prosecuted for assaulting the larger Joey, 34, for nine months before the DA dropped all charges, at which point I filed suit for False Arrest, Malicious Prosecution and Aggravated Assault (Index #160924/2019).
Details, including the three 1st-degree perjuries by Joey on the stand during the just adjudicated trial (6 March 2025) are provided in Topic 1, below.
First, though, some more background: The above photo (in a computer browser, because a phone may force the image to the very bottom of the page) is of Joey at a Bronx Rent Guidelines in 2014; see also the article in the NY Daily News. He asks for a minimum 3% increase, despite his clan owning about 20 buildings and not fulfilling duties at 83 Park Terrace West ("83 PTW"), like:
installing lights in stairways that are dangerously black at night (and in 2025 there is still no illumination at nights for the stairs between the 4th-6th floors);
keeping the trash cans free from pigeon feces, forcing me to bring out the Health Department to resolve it around 2010 (and the problem has returned by 2020, with the problem still not resolved by 2025);
having scaffolding on the front of the building for long after the permit expired on 2021-2-21, until about 2023, when guidelines are that it be removed after 90 days;
not providing renewal leases to some tenants;
using certain tenants to harass other tenants who insist on their rights, even if they must file actions at DHCR or Housing Court;
Not posting water-out notices when there is no emergency (like renovating an apartment or having a scheduled boiler service);
threatening and harassing personally multiple tenants, sometimes with the help of his massive brother Fatos aka Lucky Nezaj, after Joey moved into 83 PTW with his wife Kelly Borbon and two children around Jan 2015, changing the dynamic in the building that according to not only myself but another tenant Caitlyn Napolitano, had been very peaceful for years before Joey appeared on the scene;
and much more, as shown now on this site and as will be introduced in these pages in the days or months to come.
Two false arrests of Scott by the Nezaj clan
(i) Gregory Scott v. Kosova Properties, Hamdi Nezaj, Shpend aka Joey Nezaj, and Lazer Plumaj, Index #155225/2016, in NY Supreme Court, for False Arrest & Malicious Prosecution.
The explanation and assets highlight not only my false arrest by at least one employee of Kosova, as just established by jury on 6 March 2025, but the importance of the following topics:
How little perjury means in New York Supreme Court (“NYSC”);
How Hamdi’s two recognized perjuries during trial had no impact on the jury’s verdict;
Why Joey’s three Class D 1st-degree felony perjuries were ignored by the court & jury (hint: my lawyer Robert Basil never introduced the hard evidence to disprove Joey's fabrications, which will be the basis of a future claim against him, both civil and criminal, for Breach of Fiduciary Duty with Fraud);
How easy it is, or would be, for a criminal enterprise to track down a juror and induce him or her to influence the deliberations;
Why it took 8+ years to get to trial after the suit was filed;
How my attorney Basil, for seemingly no good cause, helped the landlord and son evade accountability; both of them pinned all of the blame on their employee Lazer Plumaj, a superintendent of the 38-unit building, who:
was never on the books for almost three years (Jan 2015 - approx. Sept 2017);
disappeared by 2018;
was in official default;
and in 2024 apparently was living with a changed name, Lazeer Pllumaj, and fake SSN in an “unregistered” dwelling not far from the other property of the landlord. (See below, Topic 7, for more details of this issue.)
Click here to see Summaries, Exhibits and their Explanations, including proof of the 5 perjuries by the Nezajs
(ii) Gregory Scott v. Kosova Properties, Hamdi Nezaj, Shpend aka Joey Nezaj, and Fatos aka Lucky Nezaj, Index #160924/2019, in NY Supreme Court, for False Arrest, Malicious Prosecution and Aggravated Assault
This is still ongoing, with me alleging that Joey initiated an assault. Having written on previous occasions since 2015 that Joey had threatened to kill me, I tried to fight back but he, 34 to my 68 and the only one knowing that the security cameras were not working, immediately knocked me out in the lobby of the building, putting me into the emergency room with serious damage. Joey and his brother Lucky, who must have been waiting nearby outside because he appeared long before the police, told the police that he and Joey were the landlord and convinced them somehow to arrest only me (see also Topic 2 below). As noted, after 9 months of only me being prosecuted, the DA dropped the charges, and I filed suit in civil court. The DA refused to consider in any meaningful way my evidence (e.g., his iPhone recording in his pocket when the interaction in the lobby occurred): See Topic 3 below.
Joey had an obvious scratch on his face from the keys that I was holding and unable to drop when I instinctively defended myself, and Joey filed a frivolous countersuit, claiming that I initiated the violence. As of the date of this writing, my witness Dr. J. Noyes and I had finished our depositions over two years ago, by summer 2023, but the Nezaj clan have yet to do any of their own depositions, continually stalling with various tactics.
Exhibits: URLs forthcoming
Topic 2
Corruption at the 34th Precinct and NYPD in general, including the Internal Affairs Bureau (IAB).
As explained with the evidence below, the 34th has:
allowed a car repair shop on Broadway between 215th and 216th Streets to triple park since at least 2011, taking over the sidewalk, the curb (parking) lane and the first travel lane going north, creating a bottleneck for traffic from Monday to Saturday, 9:00-18:00 if not longer (see link under other topic showing some photos;)
after I repeatedly complained in 2012-2013 (because I was working for IBM at the time and sometimes would have to drive my Lexus to companies in New Jersey, returning mid-afternoon to my parking garage, which forced me to cope with the bottleneck) I finally wrote a letter to former Police Chief Bratton.; the NYPD forwarded my letter to the 34th so they could investigate themselves;
the 34th cleared the problem for about 4 months but in early 2014, it started again and if anything, it has gotten worse, with bus drivers caught on tape saying drivers get discounted or free repairs for not reporting the problem and police cars being photographed caught up in the triple parking with no change in the long-standing situation;
I clearly became persona non grata because the 34th had my letter, my name and address and because of their future treatment of me over years, as covered below;
in 2015, the 34th falsely arrested me in conjunction with Joey Nezaj and Lazer Plumaj, even though it was my word against theirs;
in 2016, after the DA dropped the charges against me on 2 February 2016 for breaking the window (as explained amply elsewhere in these webpages), my wife and I took to the 34th my evidence, which neither the NYPD nor the DA had ever seen, showing that Nezaj and Plumaj had lied to the police to get me arrested. However, Sgt. Marx refused to examine it, claiming he had "exculpatory evidence" that revealed I had indeed broken the window. However, as the trial in Jan-Mar 2025 revealed, there was no such exculpatory evidence, so Marx either lied because of my previous letter to Bratton or to protect the Nezajs or both. Later, around early to mid-2016, a Detective Curley said the false arrest had been merely "misidentification," and he was therefore letting Plumaj and Nezaj off the hook;
I then spent months trying to get the relevant ADA (Assistant District Attorney) to examine my evidence, as discussed below in Topic 3 (with details and evidence to be uploaded by about Oct 20, 2025). In a nutshell, in Nov 2016 two ADAs, Marissa Carro and her supervisor Jeffrey Levinson, promised to arrest Plumaj or Nezaj or both but then reneged after one spoke with the 34th, who dissuaded them somehow from prosecuting the two. As the trial in 2025 reveals, this was clearly a mistake by the DA. I had also sent in July 2016 a copy of the perjuries in Feb and March 2016 by Joey Nezaj in Housing Court and the DA never acknowledged receipt of the Certified Letter. I also sent a copy of the obscene text message by the super Plumaj to the tenant Goldstein Ali and they also just ignored it, of which more in the next point.
As also explained in the History of illegal activity of the Nezajs and their agents, the police swept under the rug the viciously obscene and scary message from Plumaj to Jocelyn Goldstein Ali in 2016;
On 3 May 2017, Joey used a fake parking permit and parked also illegally with part of his car jutting into the intersection of 217th Street and Park Terrace West; I videotaped the fake permit and called the police, who not only did nothing to him but let him eventually leave the car as it was, to the shock of my attorney at the time when I reported it to him because Joey tried to intimidate me during the incident [**videos and audios to be uploaded**];
the 34th swept under the rug the Attempted Grand Larceny by Hamdi Nezaj of $5326 from me in July 2017, which the San Francisco Police Department had found credible and forwarded to NYPD Fraud, which forwarded the charge to the 34th: Hamdi had tried to double-deposit three of my rent checks and Chase Bank Fraud had caught it. Because I was in San Francisco visiting my wife (who had left NYC in great fear after the death threat by Joey, the false arrest, the DA not following through with their promise to arrest the agents of Kosova, an agent of Kosova stalking her and a variety of harassments by Kosova such as turning off our electricity), and because I had sublet the apartment until August of 2018, I had to report the attempted theft to the SFPD. Eventually Sgt. Brooks of the 34th said the detective to whom the case (with Police Report #2018-03401431 from Mar 2018) had been assigned had retired; hence the case went away! Detective Kucyk is one who continued to communicate, promise me action and then never contact me again; Sgt. Garrett, supervisor of detectives, was another.
2018 was the year that the 34th was reported to be the worst precinct in New York City for substantiated complaints against officers. As reported by The Appeal, "Misconduct complaints against officers in the NYPD’s 34th Precinct have risen for three years straight. In 2018, 15 officers had complaints against them substantiated, the most of any precinct in New York City" -- from https://theappeal.org/34th-precinct-nypd
This article, by professional journalists, provides many more of the disgusting details, including how the CCRB and the IAB will not provide details of police misconduct, as I discovered in 2020-2023, of which more below, when two officers were found by the CCRB to have lied during an investigation of a cover-up by the 34th of a crime by Hamdi Nezaj, who vandalized my Ring Cam in June 2020. If the report by The Appeal and my own long history do not prove that the 34th is corrupt, then I have no idea what police corruption means.
This is the precinct that ADAs Levinson and Carro had recently trusted over me, and in the article the officer who had falsely arrested me, Moscoso, is reported as being part of the team that plants a gun on an individual. Moscoso, as explained in some detail in Preliminary: Topic 0 above (the list of some of the crimes by the Nezajs and their agents), was the one who booked me at the station in Sept 2015. On that evening, he was following orders of the other, clearly more senior officer, who herself trusted the account by Joey Nezaj; in that way, Moscoso was not apparently legally culpable, but when he was pushing me onto the street after 3 hours in jail and after I had signed a "Desk Appearance Ticket," which attests that I promise to show up in Criminal Court on the assigned date, I showed him the email of my neighbor Dr. Noyes from about 11:30 that morning. Noyes had seen the broken window about 11:24 in the morning, which meant it was impossible I broke the window in the evening in front of Joey or Plumaj or both. Moscoso blurted out "You should sue them big time." However he refused my request to go back inside and revisit the arrest, and a month later he signed the criminal complaint against me, indicating that he believed Plumaj. Clearly, someone had told him to ignore what I had showed him (all of this is covered in detail in the transcripts for the trial in 2025, revealing how wrong Moscoso was to suppress the email). As a modern-day Dante says, there is a special place in hell for lying policemen like himself.
On 24 August 2018, Joey Nezaj blocked me on the stairs and followed me while calling me names and intimidating me, when, the attentive reader will realize immediately, we were still in the middle of the NYSC case with me as a plaintiff for the false arrest & malicious prosecution of Sept 2015. He was videotaped throughout the incident and the 34th, although seeing the video and writing a Police Report #2018-034-4813 for Harassment, would do nothing to him. Arguably, it was in part because of their lack of action that Joey than knocked me out in the lobby a few months later, which takes us to the next indecent; [**videos to be uploaded**]
On 21 Nov 2018, and as discussed in more detail in these pages, Joey trapped me in the lobby, kneed me and when I tried to fight back, pulverized me with a single punch that knocked me out and caused much damage to my face, jaw, teeth and wrists as I fell face first on the lobby marble floor; as of this date (9 Oct 2025), he and the co-defendants have yet to do their depositions for the related NYSC case, with me as Plaintiff, but the important point for the moment is that the 34th arrested only me, the 68-year-old, despite my physical injuries, because he, the larger 34-year-old, claimed I hit him first (and he had a visible long scratch on his nose), notwithstanding I recounted how he hit me first and he was the only one who knew, it turned out, that the CCTV cameras were not working in the lobby. The DA prosecuted me for 9 months, never being willing to speak with my attorney and review a recording that had been secretly going in my pocket when the violence happened, of which more below. When they dropped the charges in July 2019, I filed a second suit in Nov 2019 for false arrest, malicious prosecution and aggravated assault, which is ongoing. One reason for this exposé is the pace of the legal action in NYSC, with the previous case haven taken almost 9 years to get to trial and this one well on its way to matching that length.
On and around 20 June 2019, I suffered a $11,000 Grand Larceny while I was travelling and making purchases in Germany: Someone claiming to be me called CapitalOne and gave a lot of my personal information to get a “lost card replaced.” Without calling me or sending a 2-factor authentication, CapitalOne stupidly sent a new card via FedEx to my apartment. According to the Fed Ex driver a week later (truthfully or not), a black man about 30 had a NY State id with his picture and my name and address and was waiting in front of the building (apparently for hours)! He signed for the card, and used it for $5000 in Apple purchases. CapitalOne also gave the PIN to my debit card, and it was used for another $6000 in Apple purchases. About 4 days after I returned and the police report was taken (#2019-034-3696), Det. Kucyk shows up unexpectedly, asks questions, promises to get back to me, but never does, even though I had two possible suspects and sent the information to the email the 34th told me to use. Eventually I received the Report # from the precinct: Police Report # 2019-034-3696.
When I checked in a few months later for any development, the same excuse was given as with the $5326 Attempted Grand Larceny (Police Report #2018-034-01431): “Case assigned to a detective (Gill) who retired as of mid-August 2019, so no action.” Yet, he was the one an Officer Walsh told me to send my materials to merely a month before. In addition, I had two suspects. On July 10, I was working in my home office and went to adjust the window a/c; I noticed an Albanian-looking man parked at the fire hydrant below my window, who I thought might be part of the Nezaj clan. While waiting for someone, who turns out two minutes later to be a black man about 30 carrying a large bag, the Albanian-type turns and looks right at my window on the 3rd floor, which was surprising, because there are at least 48 windows on the front of the building and he spent not a second looking at any other window. He noticed me and immediately averted his gaze; then 5 seconds later he looked again right at me, saw me still watching him and nodded at me! I ran and grabbed my iPhone to take a photo of him (wearing a blue baseball cap) and the black man who had been walking up to the car but couldn’t get the license plate as they drove away. I sent this to the police who have never said or done anything about it.
In Feb 2020, I installed a Ring Cam video on my front door because Joey Nezaj trapped me in the elevator (2 feet from my door) and acted as if he was going to repeat the violence of Nov 2018, notwithstanding that my attorney had filed the second suit just a few months before. Shortly thereafter, the mother of the superintendents, supposedly visiting from Albania/Kosovo, who was mopping the halls for them, tried to hit the Ring Cam with her mop handle but missed; a neighbor happened to appear on the stairs at the same time and she was scared off. A policeman later on saw the video when I reported other crimes, as explained in a moment, and indicated he also thought she was trying "by accident, on purpose" to hit the Ring, but since no damage was done, no charge was filed. I mention this to show that Albanian families even employ their mothers to harass tenants they want out. [** Video forthcoming **]
A month later, in March 2020, NYC was shut down for Covid-19. We were the apparent epicenter of the world, with life fraught with mysterious danger, fear and frequent death. We left our homes only to walk in the nearby parks or to shop and then with great effort: Washing all packages and skins and wearing masks & gloves, which were immediately discarded. The streets were eerily empty, always. On one trip, I returned home to find that my apartment had been entered. Someone had picked the Segal lock I had on the front door and only Kosova had the key to the other lock. Only a few small items were obviously missing (like the sink strainer that I had had for 20 years and used daily) and my sister, a former prosecutor, advised me not to call the police. Who would believe an illegal entry had occurred and nothing really valuable was taken? It was clearly the landlord or super because a Christmas card signed by the super had been left on the floor, as if it had been given three months before! A few days later, I inspected all drawers more carefully and found some cash had disappeared, along with a backup hard drive that was stored away, etc., but because everyone was a potential covid-carrier, I called the police. They advised me to wait to report anything because I could not report over the phone and any interaction with anyone was potentially a death-sentence.
In the meantime, I immediately ordered two high security locks, including a Mul-T-Lock, both types requiring a special code that only certain locksmiths could provide for extra keys. Also, I started conversations with Ring Support to determine how someone could have disabled the Ring, because it had been incapacitated for about an hour at the time an agent of the landlord entered the apartment in March 2020. They were baffled but over a period of a few months, with my videos capturing the landlord and agents using what is called an IR Blaster (similar to a TV remote control), I determined that they had been killing certain functionality of the Ring. For instance, the Ring would catch one of them clicking a device in hand that immediately caused the Ring to go from color to black & white. Similar actions had caused the Ring to finally quit recording and Ring actually provided me with a new Ring Cam around May 2020 in order to examine the older one to determine how such attacks were effective.
On or about 25 May 2020, when we were still quarantined, Hamdi and a massive son wearing a mask (either Fatos aka Lucky or Faton aka John) rang my doorbell and wanted entrance, even though there was no emergency (like a pipe leaking), with no notice. Because of the two-fold danger, not only from covid but because they could claim I hit the father and the son could then knock me out again or worse "to protect him," and it would be their two words against mine, I refused them entry. Their out-of-the-blue appearance and "request" to be let in was also against Real Estate code and has become one of the charges of Harassment filed later in Housing Court (Aug 2020), in a case that is now officially "stayed," i.e., postponed until the NYSC cases are adjudicated, at which point it can continue again without danger for Statute of Limitations.
On or about 26 June 2020, Hamdi hugged the wall and tried to twist the Ring Cam off, wearing gloves, apparently thinking the camera couldn't catch someone far to the side. He was wrong, and video caught clearly his face and hair, only partially covered by a mask. His action caused damage to the Ring and I called the police, setting up a computer monitor by the front door so I could speak to them from at least six feet away and not be at risk of contagion. Officers Byun and Kahn appeared and refused to even put Hamdi's name on the police report (Report #2020-034-3033) much less arrest him for Criminal Mischief, the same charge I had been arrested under for allegedly causing damage to the stair window 5 years before. [** Videos to be uploaded shortly **] As I discovered later, this went counter to police procedure because the suspect's name was not even in the criminal justice system.
I subsequently tried to have the 34th Precinct revisit and categorize correctly Hamdi's Criminal Mischief, because damage had been done (Byun downgraded the incited to Harassment 2nd degree, which is not an arrestable offense and which meant Hamdi would never be investigated, much less charged). Officers--notably Sgt. Pichardo, Sgt. Ahmed, Sgt. Cuesta, Sgt. Shea (Badge #4365) and Lt. Hennessey--continually ignored me or brushed me off over many communications during multiple weeks, and they also brushed off my brother, a sheriff in California who became the Chief of Police in a city attached to one of the premiere naval bases that does research and development of weapons for the USA. He had offered to speak with the 34th to get, as a typical courtesy between police departments, a "technical" summary of their decisions. On 27 July 2020, Byun called me on the telephone, in effect intimidating me, and I had to insist that he never call me again. More on Byun's intimidation in the next point.
Interwoven with the 34th sweeping under the rug the landlord vandalizing the Ring Cam was another incident involving one of the tenants who had started helping them: Michael Bliss in #3D previously had been a friendly neighbor to me since about 1999. Indeed, being a professional haircutter, he had occasionally cut my hair (for a fee) and had been at loggerheads for years before my false arrest in Sept 2015, in part because he had had a black boyfriend living with him for a few years in the early 2000’s. He was well known to detest the landlord and vice-versa, and Joey Nezaj, who was friendly with me until he stripped my wife and me of the third building key in July 2015 (shortly after we took in a black top French urban planner exchange student), told me around late 2014 that Bliss was on some kind of disability, perhaps for HIV. Kosova was unhappy, Joey said, at having to wait for benefit checks from NYC for the rent, at which point I gently but firmly suggested he should not be revealing private medical information about another tenant. Shortly after my false arrest, though, it was clear that Kosova had induced Bliss to change sides and one indication was him receiving a new kitchen in Nov 2016, after he testified for them at a DHCR hearing, when no tenant in the building ever received upgrades of any kind, even for a few dollars. See PhotosOfNewAppliancesEtc: First and Second. Bliss also harassed myself and my wife a few times before she left in fear June 2017 (and I left then, too, for a 14-month sublet). On 2020-8-13, not long after the covid-19 quarantine had started, he harassed me again when I was conversing with the official US Census Taker, threatening to “fucking come over” (at 0:33-0:35 of the video below) and implying that he would do worse than what Joey did to me when Joey concussed me in Nov 2018, putting me into the emergency room. Because Bliss is about 6’3”, significantly younger than I, and very large (although most of it is an obscenely huge belly), I called 911 and the first two officers—Santiago (Badge 7991) and Valentin (Badge 224)—did nothing, not even file a report I discovered. I had to call 911 again on 2020-8-18 and the next two officers—Murphy and Walsh—did make a report (2020-034-03978), but as always the 34th did nothing to prevent a repeat (I do not blame Murphy because he had shown himself to be one of the good cops of the 34th over the years on a few occasions). See SubsetOfVideosBlissHarass: CensusTakerAdmonishingBliss.mp4 and BlissThreateningToComeOver.mp4
Having devised a technique to stay away from officers during covid while reporting a crime, which, again, had to be done in person, I then called 911 on 18 Sept 2020 to report a handful of other crimes, one of which was noted above (entering illegally with various items stolen). Another was destroying my first Ring Cam. Five hours after my 911 call, Byun and Kahn appeared (when normally officers appear 10-30 min after a 911 call). They treated me nastily and left without taking any report, in effect driving home the point that I would never get help from the 34th. I then had to call 911 again the following morning, and two officers--El Sasser (Badge 6097) and Balsam (Badge 2657)-- took my report for some of the crimes in a formal if not cold manner, as if I were causing them an undue inconvenience (and El Sasser will be the focus of an upcoming Civilian Complaint Review Board [CCRB] investigation for his action in 2025, of which more later, assuming the CCRB does its job). Ultimately I was told to send the evidence to Detective McCormack, who ignored me for weeks. When I contacted Lt. Hart, the Commander of Detectives, to get results, I was then told that my evidence warranted no charges. For my notes and some emails for all of this, see 2020Crimes.pdf. Readers can decide for themselves who was correct, and although the instance of illegal entry and theft had no hard evidence that absolutely proved the crime, the first Ring was destroyed and the second had been so damaged by an IR Blaster and by Hamdi's twisting that the battery lights were always on when they are not supposed to be: Imagine someone sabotaging your car so that, as a result, your lights cannot be turned off and the police investigating immediately. They ask whether you can turn on the engine and at that moment you can, because the battery had not been drained. They then say "Oh, in that case the saboteur caused no damage, so we will only write a report for Harassment and not even put his name on the police report." This is exactly what Byun, Kahn, and the 34th did to me regarding the second Ring cam.
In July and August 2020, I filed two complaints with the CCRB because of the 34th sweeping under the rug the Criminal Mischief of Hamdi Nezaj, one for the improper downgrading of the charge to "mere" Harassment and the second for the 34th continually hanging up whenever I tried to contact them and go up the chain of command. In 2022, the CCRB substantiated all eleven of my charges against the 34th, ruling that two officers--Ismael Perez-Ortiz and Arianny Bernabel--had lied during the investigation and they put at least one of them on internal trial in 2023. See CCRBresults2022.pdf. I was called while traveling overseas for the 2-year sublet and invited to attend the trial but I could not fly back, nor would they allow me to attend remotely. When I finally returned in March 2024 and tried to get the ruling I was informed that the law does not allow me to see it, at least at this time and for any number of reasons, advertently or inadvertently, protect the officer. This is a copy of the exchange of emails in May-July 2024 for the FOIL request and CCRB's reasons for not allowing me to know the outcome: CCRBrefusalToProvideResultOfTrial.pdf
The limited role of the CCRB, the IAB and the DOI-OIG: The CCRB can only investigate minor issues with police misconduct. They cannot even investigate issues if, e.g., an officer answering a 911 call for a stolen Amazon package promises to pass on the report to a detective, who then gets the building's security recordings to determine who stole the package, as happened to me on 31 July 2020: The 34th jerked me around and never followed up with getting the security footage and when I filed a third CCRB complaint, I was informed that this was out of CCRB's scope because the responding officers never passed on the report to a detective! (By the way, this seems to be one way in which city crime figures are reduced--the officers simply trash or "lose" the reports.)
The IAB (Internal Affairs Bureau) is responsible for investigating corruption but it also reports to the Police Chief, so in effect it is the same agency, the NYPD, investigating and monitoring itself. At least two attorneys informed me that IAB will usually only publicize corruption if it is going to go public for other reasons and my own experience seems to confirm this. After the IAB helped the 34th suppress a few crimes, like the Attempted Grand Larceny and Grand Larceny of 2017 and 2019 respectively and the damaging of my Ring in 2020, I had no confidence they would ever hold the 34th accountable. I then discovered another agency, the OIG-NYPD (see the Org Chart for NYC: OrgChart.pdf):
"The Office of the Inspector General for the New York City Police Department (OIG-NYPD) investigates corruption within the NYPD. It is an independent office that investigates misconduct, can issue policy recommendations, and makes its findings public" (from a NYC website).
I then put together much of the history that I have provided in this website on the misconduct or corruption of the 34th and of the IAB helping the precinct, and I then submitted it all with the hard evidence on a USB stick in 2021. See CorruptionAtThe34thPrecinct.pdf
Subsequently, I received the shocking reply from Investigator Ian Spearman and then Deputy Inspector General Meagan Powers that I had to go to the IAB, when I was also reporting corruption on the part of IAB ! See OIG-NYPD_IABtoInvestigateItself.png. Why I say "shocking"is that if I, a novice when it comes to understanding police corruption, could discover that the 34th was the worst precinct in NYC in 2018 regarding misconduct as explained above, the OIG-NYPD, whose sole or primary mission is to expose corruption in the police, should have been also aware of the 34th's reputation and have been concerned enough to at least examine my material semi-rigorously and provide a reason why they were rejecting my detailed account. Either the OIG-NYPD, or Spearman and Powers, is utterly incompetent or the extensive details I provided over 27 pages (with accompanying evidence) was too much for them to handle (that is, they never read my accusations against the IAB) or the like, with one option mentioned below when I hypothesize about a fleetingly reported, dangerous criminal gang that has, or had, been operating in the same street as the triple-parking car repair shop that itself has seemingly been bribing police and bus drivers. In any event, it appears there is no credible state agency that seriously and independently investigates corruption of the NYPD and of the IAB (and I discovered that going to the FBI for issues like mine was met with silence or derision).
So far in this Topic 2 I have reported only some of the major incidents of corruption and misconduct of the 34th since 2012:
bribery for triple parking on Broadway between 215th & 216th, which has continued for at least 13 years and which would be confirmed by the dozens and dozens of other photos and videos I have not posted; presumably the handful that are already available on this site suffice, but I confirm it all still further with a final photo I took before escaping any ongoing potential danger in Sept 2025 to destinations undiscoverable by the Nezajs or the 34th—see 10Sept2025TripleParking.jpg (although part of the sidewalk is atypically very clear because the time is about 18:15). That is, given the motions for a re-trial of the farce in Jan-March 2025 because my own lawyer had helped the Nezajs, I imagine they will all become desperate when their felony perjuries (punishable by 7 years in jail plus a fine) and fraud during the recent trial fully surface and go in front of a judge, if even at the NY Appellate Court. Moreover, the Nezajs have contacts at the 34th and it will not be long, I venture to say, when my evidence about the 34th’s corruption also comes to light beyond this website. Police officers stand to be arrested and lose pensions. This means two groups with power and money will have a vested interest in silencing me, even though my family can continue the court cases with the existing evidence.
Two false arrests, with the trial for the first one already showing the 34th was wrong not to examine my evidence in 2016 once the DA dropped the charges against me;
The 34th sweeping under the rug an obscene text to a female neighbor by Kosova’s super, an Attempted Grand Larceny by the landlord, a successful Grand Larceny, a Criminal Mischief by the same landlord caught vandalizing my Ring Cam, etc., as already explained in greater detail at the link above in the document that went to the OIG-NYPD in 2021.
For the sake of brevity, I have left aside a host of other issues, for example, Harassment by the landlord and his agents that involve 28 charges in (civil) Housing Court (see Topic 6 below for the motions, other filings, trial transcripts and examples of some of the evidence already exchanged during “Discovery”). These charges are not in the criminal jurisdiction and scope of police work. Other minor issues that could and should be in the criminal system, like Kosova turning off my electricity, locking me into my apartment, subjecting me during the pandemic to life-threatening actions by the supers and a couple of neighbors who have been helping the Nezajs for years in exchange for benefits (like a new kitchen) or to help keep the building free of blacks (e.g., one white neighbor who has shown racism and who has a son on the police force) would unduly inflate this already expansive history. What follows are only the most recent incidents related to the 34th helping the landlord after I returned from a two-year sublet in March 2024. Some of the incidents also reveal the most planned out type of action on their part to destroy me and my legal cases (others were more simplistic or almost spontaneous, e.g., Joey claiming my doorbell for #3A was not working properly on 26 July 2015 so that when he stuck it a few days later as I was working for IBM in the afternoon in my home office, I would know he had done it, or his decision to frame me for a broken window that either they broke, if by accident, hours before or that someone else had just broken).
The first set of incidents revealing the most recent police misconduct started shortly after I returned from the two-year sublet in March 2024, and involved Kosova seemingly bribing a female neighbor in her late 20s or early 30s, Isabel Sender Guzman, who lives at #3F, between my apartment (#3A) and Dr. James Noyes (#3E): the six apartments are labelled in a circle, counterclockwise. As can easily be deduced from her statements and actions, the apparent bribe involved her trying to accomplish two ends:
to scare me into dropping the legal cases or to move out, under the threat of death, or to induce me to invite her into my apartment to help print out forms, showing that Kosova was (according to her) committing the same type of crimes against her that they had committed against me, at which point she would race out screaming that I tried to sexually abuse or rape her;
To dissuade Dr. Noyes from being a witness in both of my court cases, by Guzman repeatedly claiming publicly and posting for months that he had already tried to sexually assault or rape her.
Thus, with one “spy,” Kosova could destroy both me and my crucial witness, or at least cause him (Noyes) or me or both of us to leave the building or refrain from testifying. However, the role-playing on Guzman’s part would only be effective if I was persuaded that Kosova had been abusing her and to that end they made their super Anton Shabaj a fake target, with her also continually posting and saying (as captured on recordings) that he, too, had sexually abused her and had committed battery, although for him to really suffer, she would have to be willing to file a charge with the police or, better yet, since she claimed that the police were out to get her (in the same way that she suggested they would be out to get me), she would have to file with the DA. However, as can be seen from the evidence, I was able to persuade an ADA to help her, skipping the police. Yet at this point, Guzman went absolutely silent and would not return the ADA’s call, which immediately revealed that she was a plant by Kosova. Fortunately, this was right before she was to visit me after work to print out a complaint form against Kosova to DHCR, because she had claimed she had no working computer and printer. My printer/computer and office is one-third of a very large bedroom, and the reader can imagine whom the 34th would believe had she entered and then run out screaming and accusing me in this day and age of #MeToo. My court cases against Kosova would have probably been severely undercut or destroyed, and I would be fighting another criminal case.
At the links in Topic 3 below are the hard evidence and explanations I sent to the ADA at the new Tenant Protection Unit (which would not help me personally solo, because their policy is that at least two tenants must suffer criminal actions from a landlord after 2020). Once I was onto Guzman’s game, I called the police on 2024-10-29 when she contacted me after I had expressly told her not to, and at that point I also told them she had not-so-subtly suggested the police or landlord or both would have me “taken care of.” However, the policemen who appeared—Officers Arita (or Arrita) Badge 8115 and Winters (spelling?) Badge 21552 would take no report, even though Guzman’s statements were apparently a clever Intimidation of a Victim (since I was in court against the landlord and I had been the victim) and would cause emotional distress whenever she reminded me of the possibility of the police or landlord resolving the problem of me suing the landlord. The officers also lied to me about getting a Restraining Order, which I discovered is not possible in a situation like this unless they arrest her first. The officers inaction and falsehood will be now the subject of a new CCRB complaint.
The reader might be amused to know that either Kosova and Guzman are taking their pretense to a new level or she is double-crossing them, because she is now, at least for the sake of impressions, fighting an eviction in Housing Court. That this may well be continued pretense is shown by some timing: When I revealed in public on 21 Jan 2025 that I knew she had been working with Kosova since about May 2024 (for some reasons & evidence that I withhold in case they are needed in the future as proof of their collusion), within two hours Kosova filed an eviction notice electronically against her! Yet the eviction appears to be a sham given how Kosova actually evicted another tenant, Augusto Soto Caro/Cairo, who stopped paying rent about the same time as Guzman (she stopped in 8/1/2023, shortly before the landlord believed I would be returning from my sublet and Caro stopped paying in June 2023); the court filings show Kosova truly evicting Caro by late 2024 after minimizing the time to file a court action:
LT-311263-24/NY, Kosova Properties v. Augusto Soto Cairo, filed on 06/20/2024:
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/DocumentList?docketId=cyzhlq3UV0lt/fFm8W8RtQ==&display=all&courtType=New York County Civil Court - Landlord and Tenant Division&resultsPageNum=1
In short, Guzman was, and seemingly still is, getting free rent in exchange for assisting Kosova against both me and Noyes (about $37,822 as of Jan 2025) and it will be fascinating to see how their court case plays out and whether she actually provides any evidence that, e.g., the landlord’s “agents are physically & sexually assaulting her,” an accusation that can be read in one of her recent court filings on 06/02/2025: See the NYSCEF case LT-301042-25/NY, Kosova Properties v. Stefan Sender & Isabel Guzman, filed 01/21/2025:
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/DocumentList?docketId=_PLUS_FQ76p9zRs056lOG8VZ3yw==&display=all&courtType=New York County Civil Court - Landlord and Tenant Division&resultsPageNum=1
It is not fascinating, however, if Kosova and Guzman are pretending, because of how they are tying up court resources to hide their collusion, especially if they ultimately just “settle” and drop it all. The immediate question by a skeptical reader is why the landlord would incur such expense unnecessarily. Two replies: (i) He incurred thousands of dollars of legal expenses and rent reduction, especially from 2015-2017, in trying illegally, and failing, to prevent me from having a third high security building entrance key that costs $15 maximum, and (ii) if Guzman had succeeded in her drama with me, I might have lost the first trial in Jan 2025, saving Kosova anywhere from $150,000-$1,500,000 in compensatory and punitive damages (my law firm’s research showed typical compensation of $150,000 for what I went through, although Basil told the jury $175,000 would be fair; punitive damages, if awarded, depend on the wealth of the landlord and son and can be up to ten times the compensatory damages in NY). This leaves aside the still ongoing aggravated assault case and the stayed Housing Court case, which also would presumably be affected negatively for me if I were arrested for attempted rape. Again, for recordings and documents, see the section below, Topic 3, examining the behavior of, and communication with, the DA.
The second set of incidents, in 2025, involved (i) an attempted report at the police station for misconduct by an officer, given the results of the trial ending in March 2025, and then (ii) menacing by the tenant Michael Bliss (#3D), who, as shown above, had threatened me in 2020 when the Census Taker was asking me questions. I go in reverse order.
Readers will recall that a police report had been taken in Aug 2020 by Officers Murphy and Walsh, during the initial stages of the horrific pandemic and before I left for over two years to destinations mostly on other continents, unknown to the Nezajs. On 1 May 2025, Bliss menaced me (the technical term for walking right up to me, inches from my face, and putting fear into me that he might strike me) as I was entering the building. My new roommate, Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim, witnessed this. I called 911 and the officers who appeared--an Albanian-American named Perzazaj (spelling?) Badge 22155 and Mitchell Badge 7170-- would do nothing, not even take the statement of Dr. Ibrahim when I requested that they confirm with him what happened.
Earlier, in April (2025), I had gone to the police station to, among another reason, discover the procedure for reporting Sgt. Marx, now that the recently-finished trial revealed he had seemingly prevaricated about there being exculpatory evidence in favor of the landlord in 2016, because no such evidence was introduced at the trial by the last day 6 Mar 2025. A young officer very diligently took my report but Officer El Sasser, who had been to my apartment in 2020 in answer to a 911 call without helping me, happened to be at the desk and interrupted, nastily telling me to get out of the precinct as soon as possible! The young officer, who was seemingly willing to take my report to the detectives, never did (because I could get no report number later), presumably by order of the obviously more senior El Sasser.
A CCRB complaint is now being filed against El Sasser and against the officers who would not take a menacing report against Bliss. Yet again, the 34th clearly wants me out of the precinct and may be depriving me of my Federal civil rights.
Conclusion
The notoriety that the 34th has gained via other sources, only some of which are reported here, along with my history seems to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that corruption continues there. One topic worth finishing, which closes the circle, as it were, with the triple parking that has gone on since at least 2012, involves a criminal gang “known as either the 'Rodriguez Organization' or the 'Enterprise', according to court documents,” as reported on 21 Sept 2021 by Gus Saltonstall, Patch Staff — https://patch.com/new-york/washington-heights-inwood/luxury-rentals-coming-former-drug-kingpins-inwood-lot?utm_term=article-slot-1&utm_source=newsletter-daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
As Saltonstall also reports, the gang was headed by “Manuel Geovanny Rodriguez-Perez, a drug kingpin also known as ‘Shorty’ and ‘El Monstro’. He was given a life sentence in 2017 for nine murders, 10 attempted murders, racketeering, and selling copious amounts of marijuana,” and he owned the land/parking lot at 5055 Broadway, which, as Saltonstall does not report, is directly across the street from J&M Auto Road Helper, which has been responsible for the triple parking starting years before Rodriguez-Perez was given the life sentence. However, as Saltonstall also reports:
“Timber Equities, a New York City real estate firm, recently filed a new building permit with the city for the 100-car parking lot at 5055 Broadway, which it plans to turn into an eleven-story rental building with 60 apartments…In 2015, the lot was seized by federal authorities along with more than $500,000 in cash, a gold jewelry collection, three guns…[and] Jeff Torkin of Timber Equities told the Real Deal that he wasn't aware of the site's criminal history.”
Curiously, despite having lived a short two blocks away and having walked by this location dozens, if not hundreds, of times to get to the #1 (subway) train at 215th Street, I had never heard of Rodriguez-Perez and his prosecution. Was this purposely kept unpublicized or at least minimally publicized? Nor for a minute do I believe that a buyer of property directly across the street from long on-going triple parking, which impacts traffic going both ways on that whole block between 215th and 216th could be unaware of the recent history and how it was owned by a criminal gang (and then taken over in 2015 by the feds!). Simply look at Google Maps, which captures the illegal parking and congestion and ask yourself, "If I am going to try to sell luxury units to people with cars, how are they going to navigate getting into their parking spot or even to the front door if they are coming by taxi?":
How truly ethical is Timber Equities and do they have investors with a checkered reputation? Has J&M been left untouched because of influence of the 34th Precinct? As a result of their lack of policing, revenue from street parking does not go to the city, because the traffic police rarely ever enforce the cars parking without paying the meter, as handfuls of videos I have taken over years when I happen to be walking by confirm. Is money going into the pockets of the police instead? What other explanation could there reasonably be? Are the investigative agencies like OIG-NYPD letting me be a target because they have a years-long or decades-long investigation that might also involve the 34th or the Nezajs or both? If so, how many other innocent residents of the Inwood area will they sacrifice?
All I will say now is that it would be satisfying to read from my distant locations that some group in Inwood--or more logically a group of drivers from the Bronx, especially the famous Fieldston/Riverdale sections, who take the Broadway bridge a few blocks north of 218th Street every day to and from work--imitated peaceful traffic stoppage protests as found in Europe or California: They rent a large Hertz van and in the middle of rush hour park and lock it in the middle of the block (between 215th/216th), perpendicular to traffic, cutting off the one travel lane north that is the only one open because of the illegal triple parking, along with one travel lane south, with a film crew capturing the scene. (Whether this kind of protest is ethical depends on the debate about natural versus conventional justice or whether the kind of civil disobedience that Socrates famously practiced is legitimate; see the Home and Ideas section of this website.) Cars could still get through going north by using 10th Avenue instead but it would all be much slower and would create a massive traffic jam. However, once the recording goes public, the 34th and then the Mayor would be forced to respond and then to answer publicly questions as to why and for how long the improper triple parking had continued and who will reimburse NYC for the revenue it had lost over 12-15 years.
Maybe then the OIG-NYPD or the DA would do its duty and maybe finally some corrupt heads would roll. Speaking of the DA, let us turn to the next section, Topic 3.
Topic 3
The Dismaying Treatment by the Manhattan District Attorney (“DA”).
First false arrest:
Being framed for breaking a window in the building stairway
After Officer Moscoso pushed me onto the street after I had spent three hours in jail, been finger-printed and mugshot, and signed a DAT (Desk Appearance Ticket), which acknowledged I would have to appear for a criminal court hearing or be arrested, and after he saw the email described above but would not use to re-visit the arrest, I had to get an attorney. I learned that law enforcement would not speak with me until trial and had to pocket all my evidence. Actually, I also learned subsequently that I did not have to acquire and pay for an attorney, but some of my friends, one a lawyer at a top firm who had won a case in front of the US Supreme Court, advised me strongly to get one and she advised me of a candidate, whom I selected. In retrospect, the reason that I did not need one was that I had powerful evidence I had been framed, including an audio tape going in my pocket when the super Plumaj and I were speaking of the broken window an hour before he and Joey Nezaj claimed I broke it in front of them with a hammer around 6 p.m. (they claimed that in anger I got it from my apartment and then returned to break the window). During the first criminal court appearance, my attorney pled “not guilty” for me, with me not being allowed to speak at all. That was it, and the next step was for me to return later for a second hearing. If I had simply pled “not guilty” without an attorney, a public defender would have been provided for me, and once I showed my evidence (the audio tape, the email from Dr. Noyes from about 11:24 a.m. in the morning noting the already broken window, and my wife having seen it even earlier when she went to work about 8 a.m.) to him or her, we would simply insist on trial, as my new attorney and I did.
The Assistant District Attorney (“ADA”) who was assigned the case offered in the second hearing about two months later an ACD (Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal). This meant I would agree to not be in any other trouble for six months and at the end of that period the case would be dropped had I stayed “clean.” However, as my attorney said in the legalese that lawyers sometimes use in private, with my evidence “we would nail their balls to the floor,” and we insisted on trial. Weeks later, at the third and final hearing, on 2 February 2016, the ADA dropped the case with a “30.30,” namely, “the people concede,” as the phrasing goes (as if somehow I was not part of the people).
I then returned to the 34th, as mentioned above, but Sgt. Marx refused to look at my evidence. I then started the difficult process of getting in touch with ADA Marissa Carro, who had been responsible for me case. She refused to meet me and I had to persist, discovering who her supervisor was, ADA Jeffrey Levinson, and appealing to him, without success. Finally, I was able to speak with Deputy Bureau Chief Bovell (spelling?) and she had Levinson and Carro meet me on or about 12 Dec 2016. Given Carro’s reluctance to hear my evidence and hardly trusting law enforcement anymore (given that the police and DA work hand-in-hand, as was confirmed as matters progressed), I taped our conversation and the recording is here (with the substantive meeting starting about the 2:03 mark): MeetingWithADAsCarroAndLevinson.mp3
As the reader/listener will determine, at a certain point Levinson asked whether I was recording them (which is legal in NY), and, to their obvious surprise, I said yes. I pulled out my recorder and told them I would send them a copy of the recording. Needless to say, they were not happy but they asked me to step out for five minutes and when I returned they said they would effectuate an arrest after the Christmas holidays. I am not sure whether they were going to arrest Plumaj, Joey Nezaj or both but I took the positive news home to my wife and those in the tenants’ association who had been abused by Joey. Shockingly, when my wife and I returned to NYC in January 2017 after a Christmas trip, Carro told me she wanted to speak first with the 34th, and for reasons that should be clear from the aforementioned history, the officers there undercut my case (what was reported to me much later was that “it [the false arrest] was a misunderstanding," as if this justified the subsequent criminal prosecution for five months). Carro, then, reversed course and effected no arrest, which, among other things, caused my wife and neighbors in the tenants’ association to mistrust me from that point forward.
This was also was the beginning of the end of my marriage, because my wife felt that we had no legal protection whatsoever from the clan—the police would not help, nor would the DA. After Lucky (aka Fatos) Nezaj and two others showed up on a Sunday morning unannounced in early February 2017, to remind us of the death threat by Joey (“Lucky and two others will come over and you will be gone…”), my wife immediately gave notice at an ad agency for which she was a Director and started finding a mover to relocate to the West Coast, leaving NYC forever on 1 June 2017. One day I hope Levinson and Carro read the results (and even the full transcripts) of the trial in 2025 and realize, with shame and embarrassment, how badly they judged and what damage they have done to me, — and, arguably worse, how they in effect gave carte blanche to an apparent criminal enterprise to continue abusing tenants, including Joey knocking me out in Nov 2018, a few months after I returned from a 14-month sublet.
This takes us to the second false arrest and either incompetence or laziness or a predetermined decision to reject my case with banal platitudes to mollify me or something equivalent. The worse possibility is that the ADAs were thereby helping my landlord analogously to the way DA Cyrus Vance Jr and a female ADA at the same time were scandalously helping landlord Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, as also explained below.
Second false arrest:
The much younger (34 years old) and bigger Joey Nezaj, who was at the time still a defendant in the first false arrest case in NY Supreme Court, alleging that I (68 years old), out of the blue, punched him in the lobby
A brief history is important to provide context. Almost immediately after I returned on 1 Aug 2018 from a 14-month sublet, done in part to try to salvage my marriage by visiting my wife on the West Coast and, e.g., taking a Visiting Scholar’s position at the very prestigious Classics-Ancient Philosophy program at the University of Texas Austin, Kosova began harassing me. For instance, on Aug 24, Joey blocked me on the stairs and would not let me walk, followed me to my apartment while calling me names, and saying: “security cameras are being installed on each floor.” I captured it all on video and reported it to the police, who wrote a report (#2018-034-4813) based solely on seeing the second of the two videos are provided here: VideoOfJoeyCamerasComing4_25pm.mp4 (the “action” starts about 00:25 and Joey “forewarns” me at 1:05ff) and VideoOfJoeyBlocking4_27pm.mp4 (the action starts almost immediately at 00:07, with me walking beforehand).
As always, though, the 34th never followed up and did not even caution him to desist. A few months later, on or about 16 Nov, I distributed Newsletter #9 for the 83PeTA (the tenants’ association), which revealed that Kosova had been lying to tenants for years about window replacement costs (claiming they were upgrades and thus the responsibility of tenants when actually the landlord had to replace out of his maintenance funds). The newsletter also revealed, e.g., that Kosova paid $620,000 in Federal Court to settle a trial for racial discrimination, completely demolishing Kosova’s statements in hearings that they are one of the best landlords in NYC. See pages 8-9 of MissionNewsletterPlus7-10.pdf
A few days later, the afternoon of the day before Thanksgiving, Joey was waiting in the lobby and when I left to go shopping, he trapped me in the foyer of the lobby, kneed me and when I tried to defend myself, he immediately knocked me out, with my face slamming into the marble floor. I was taken to the emergency room and arrested by an officer Dillon, even though I had reported that Joey started the violence and that a police report had recently been done on him for harassing me. Joey had a scratch on his nose from the keys in my hand when he attacked me, which I had no time to drop as I tried to fight back. His brother Lucky, the one who had appeared unannounced in February 2017, scaring my wife so much she left NYC, was obviously waiting outside, because my phone recording captures him arriving long before the police arrived (Joey himself called 911 immediately after concussing me, claiming I hit him first.)
Instead of arresting both Joey and myself, because there was no security cameras working (despite a sign saying they were installed and despite only Joey knowing this), I was the only one arrested and chained to a gurney for hours as I awaited a CT Scan for brain damage. I overheard Dillon say that he wasn’t sure whom to arrest and some senior officer ordered him to arrest only me; experts later told me that in a situation like this, with no proof, the police arrest both parties and let the DA sort through the evidence, if any. I had a recording going in my pocket before and during the violence, which neither the police nor the DA heard or would listen to, but after being charged with assault and going to criminal court five times over nine months, insisting always on trial, the DA gave another 30.30, the “charming” people concede.
At that point, I filed a second suit, for false arrest, malicious prosecution and aggravated assault and in response Joey filed a countersuit, at the least to make it appear I was the initiator of the violence.
Dr. Noyes had happened to walk past me and the police as they were helping me from the floor as I became conscious and was deposed around May 2023. I myself gave a full two-part lengthy deposition from June to July 2023. Kosova’s three defendants have kept stalling and stalling with legal maneuvers, and to this day, 7 years after the event and 6 years after the court filing, still have not given their depositions.
Because the court case is still far from going to trial and because the primary focus now is on the behavior of the DA, I provide here no recording or other documents that are hard evidence (until after the trial), although motions, etc. are publicly viewable at the NYSCEF site for Index #160924/2019:
One final aside, though, before continuing: Legal experts might be curious to see an action to the NY Appellate Court for a ruling on the scope of the depositions for the Nezajs, and the lack of any action for going forward with the suit. This is because Robert Basil was also my attorney in this case and in the future it will be shown how he deviously sabotaged this case also in providing purposely weak and inadequate, if not preposterous, arguments to the Appellate Court, costing me $10,000, as became even clearer once the trial in Jan 2025 was finished.
Now to what is crucial for this Topic 3 and how the relevant ADAs again responded. As before, in 2016, the first, Kimberly Grinberg, resisted for months speaking with my lawyer and viewing the recording I had in my pocket. Again, I had to reach out to supervisors and supervisors of supervisors before finally she was told to listen to my side. I realize in retrospect that I should not have listened to my criminal attorney David Roche when he told me not to take her though the tape recording but to give “my story,” i.e., the background, etc., and to leave the recording with her. I have learned that evidence is absolutely crucial and that ADAs are busy and strapped for time; my advice to any reader is, if in similar circumstances, first show any evidence that reveals the other side falsifies or the like. Again, I taped surreptitiously but legally the interview, and unlike ADA Levinson, Grinberg never asked whether I was taping (and I never told her). Suffice it to say, she showed annoyance at having to meet with me and afterwards it became clear she never heard a crucial part of the tape, showing Joey to be falsifying about the incident. She indicated she would not prosecute and I thus went again up the chain to have her supervisor ADA Kathyrn Taylor confirm the decision (because Grinberg had interviewed me on her own around Nov 2019 and in 2016 I had both the ADA and the supervisor). The recording is here:
As the pandemic was just beginning, I travelled to the DA’s office and both of them interviewed me. Again, I was taping the meeting and, again, neither of them asked me whether I was recording. The tape is here: MeetingWithGrinbergAndTaylor2020.mp3
It became clear in the meeting that Grinberg had never heard the crucial prevarication by Joey, or at least never understood it, and had never explained it to Taylor, who seemed clueless about any of the facts/history. Although my motivation seemed very reasonable, I apparently made the mistake by starting to show that Joey committed not only a previous felony perjury for an Affidavit on 12 Feb 2016 in Housing Court (“HC”) before explaining the evidence of him assaulting me. Why that motivation is reasonable is shown below, but let me start with a preamble that might be helpful to the general reader.
Although the reasons I started the meeting with Joey’s perjury from 2016 should be clear by the end of the recordings and documents available at the URLs below, because the reader does not have the benefit of me pointing out elements in person, as happened with the two ADAs, I summarize the perjury. There are many pieces of evidence that any ADA would need to understand to gain a conviction beyond reasonable doubt. I had to explain them so there were no gaps but they amount to this:
The perjury was Joey’s sworn Statement #5 that: “Unfortunately, the Petitioner [Gregory Scott] denied access to my workers and me on January 26, 2016” and the access was needed so that Joey (and Kosova) could remedy violations.
Even though the violations were not serious—removing mold in the bathroom, painting three rooms and two hallways, and installing a legally-required chain guard on the front door—this perjury was not innocuous. Because of it, I was forced to return to court two more times, losing a half-day’s work each time (on the first occasion, neither Kosova nor their lawyer appeared and thus I had to file to have another hearing to resolve the matter). Worse, Joey’s perjury caused NY State to devote two court sessions to the matter, with all the attendant costs: electricity, heat, the salaries of the judge, court lawyers, other court officials including police, the administrative staff needed to process motions and decisions and to make available official audio transcripts, etc., of which more later at the end when I suggest how laws should be changed.
As became quickly clear during the hearing at HC on 11 Mar 2016, as shown by the official audio/transcripts below, I had allowed access to the workers and Joey on 25 Jan 2016 and the workers had finished all the painting as required by the court settlement of 8 Jan 2016. If Joey were speaking of the final violation that they had not addressed on 25 Jan, installing a chain guard on the front door, then maybe there could have been an issue for 26 Jan (although Kosova never appeared that day, so the claim that I denied them access on that day was completely false because I waited for them the whole morning, until the cutoff time of noon and even longer).
However, the testimony shows that the chain guard was never even discussed by Joey: Rather he claimed with his lawyer that the denial of access was, not that I refused entry, but that I did not provide access to the living room for painting! (This means in HC that the furniture is moved 3 feet from the walls so the painters have access to the walls.)
However, even this strange meaning of “denied access” was false on each of the two paths that Joey took:
(i) the living room (and the master bedroom) were not to be painted according to both the court settlement of 8 Jan and the list of violations (primarily because I would be having a long-scheduled major elbow operation the week before Jan 25 & 26 and would not be able to move the very heavy furniture). This therefore meant the issue of moving the furniture in the living room and providing access to the walls there was utterly irrelevant and a fabrication on Joey’s part.
(ii) Joey then tried another tack, falsely stating to the judge that the living room was the one listed on the violations (for painting) as “the northernmost room,” and that therefore I should have moved the furniture. However, the northernmost room is the dining room, and the table dining room table had been moved and the walls and ceiling had been correctly painted on 25 Jan! The photos of my apartment prove this (and although the judge would not let me show anything not printed out, refusing to let me show the photos on my computer and making it an issue of Joey’s word versus mine in the hearing, the two ADAs saw the photos & layout of my apartment, as are also available below).
Thus Joey falsified on both paths he took. The concepts and reasons proving the perjury are not abstruse metaphysics, although, again, there are a number of details (such as which rooms were on the list to be painted) an ADA would need to understand in order to prove beyond reasonable doubt that not only did Joey falsify under oath but that he then prevaricated repeatedly, at least 14 times, during the hearing on 11 Mar 2016 to hide his perjury, which, as lawyers understand, is important because his further falsehoods prove his intent to falsify.
Further evidence of Joey's intent is revealed by me telling him in person at the beginning of the painting, when he is harassing me in my own apartment, that the living room (and master bedroom) were not to be painted: JoeyDayOfPaint2016-1-25.mp3
The sensible reader will realize that Joey’s perjury on the Affidavit relates directly to his credibility for the assault. Before I met ADA Taylor (and Grinberg for the second time), I believed that once the ADAs understood the egregious perjury, they would know he could be convicted of a second crime and that he had absolutely no credibility with respect to the assault. This issue of credibility was therefore an overlapping commonality that seemed to be utterly unnecessary to explain to a professional ADA, but again was the reason I started the meeting by trying to show his felony perjury.
0-SummaryOfShpendPerjury1.docx
1-Dec-28-2015HPDopenViolations.pdf
2-Jan-8-16CourtOrder-Index6310_15CombinedOpenViol.pdf
3-Joey’s Perjury:
3-Joey-Perjured-Affidav-p1.JPG
3-Joey-Perjured-Affidav-p3.JPG
3-Joey-Perjured-Affidav-p4.JPG
4-AptPhotosProvingDiningRoomIsNorthRoom:
4-DiningRmFacingNorthFrontAndOnlyDoor.JPG
4-FacingDiningRoomAt83PTW3AfromFrontDoor.jpg
5b-03112016-JoeyPerjury+14AdditionalFalsehoods.mp3 (this is the official Housing Court recording provided for free by the court to any party)
5b-CourtTranscriptsJoeyPerjury+AddFalsehoods.pdf (this is the important parts of the official recording, with the requestor paying an approved transcriber by number of words)
6-March-11-2016StipOfSettlementIndex6310_15.pdf
While explaining the perjury to the two ADAs, I mentioned that Joey had threatened to kill me, saying “Lucky and two others will come over and you will be gone.” Taylor then stunningly said: “Well maybe he meant you will be out of apartment…” as if it were a mere prediction rather than a threat, and she adds “to a different apartment building” (47:49ff). Every lawyer to whom I have told this statement wondered where Taylor got her training, to put it politely. In short, she did not want to consider perjury, even though the Statute Of Limitations still had apparently almost year to run (but apparently only a year, even though I originally thought it had been six years, which was one urgent reason for bringing up the matter). She also cut the meeting short, but promised to review my other evidence/explanation that I would send, namely, six additional items helping show that Joey would have started the violence first. I should add, though, that Taylor suggested I had either fabricated or misunderstood all the evidence when she said “I find all of this little bit difficult to believe” (35:18-35:22). Maybe she believes all landlords are noble and all philosophers clever troublemakers.
The covid-19 pandemic quarantine then hit and when I sent the additional explanation and evidence, Grinberg replied that they thought it was the same material I had already explained, after making the decision not to prosecute Joey.
2020-6-10DAneverReadAddEvidence.pdf
I had clarified a number of issues and added additional evidence. However, it is not terribly surprising that they refused to indict Joey if they did not examine the additional evidence (assuming they were not already just stringing me along and trying to mollify me for the sake of public relations). I venture to say that after the upcoming trial is held and the evidence comes out under oath, both ADAs will, or should, be as ashamed and embarrassed as ADAs Levinson and Carro should be in their own mistaken judgment. However, to emphasize, the judgment by Taylor may not be the evaluation of the evidence but a decision even beforehand by her not to take my case seriously and to use standard phrases that are used in other cases to justify rejecting my case (“you have animus against Joey and so would be impeached on the stand”). Grinberg’s suggestion to go to the police if anything else comes up was almost mockery, given everything the 34th had done to me and given its reputation.
Is the DA utterly clueless about the integrity of different precincts? More on this topic at the end.
Communications with ADAs after 10 March 2020 Meeting
2020-4-12FilesSuccessfullySentNotDownloaded.pdf
2020-6-10DAneverReadAddEvidence.pdf
2020-6-20ReplytoGrinbergMay26.pdf
Again, see the end of this Topic 3 because Taylor’s behavior raises the questions of possible improper influence of businessmen on the DA’s office. On that theme, the just-mentioned email that Grinberg sent with the refusal to indict on 2020-5-26 came about 10 hours before Hamdi and son out of the blue tried to get into my apartment, when they had not been personally to my apartment in years. This unannounced visit, during the quarantine when the streets of NYC were completely empty, instilled significant fear in me (and such a visit is forbidden by NY Real Estate Code, even when there is no dangerous pandemic killing thousands mysteriously). How does this very suspicious timing get explained?
2020_5_26HamdiAndSon-AtDoor3A-1.MP4
2020_5_26HamdiAndSon-AtDoor3A-2.MOV
More recent: The Third Time the DA was Unwilling to Help (2024)
This pertains to the set of incidents with Isabel Sender Guzman, as introduced above in Topic 2.
The "new" Tenant Protection Unit created by the DA in Oct 2022, but the odd policies that do not protect a single tenant brutalized by a landlord.
How the ADAs were thrown off by a devious tenant operating in league with the landlord.
Exhibits: URLs forthcoming, including emails and audio recordings of the meetings with the ADAs.
Conclusion of Topic 3
As a philosopher functioning for the moment as a journalist, my weapons are words and hard evidence, not violence. Let me warn readers, though, about other potential individuals.
Others who are treated in the future by the legal system in NYC like I have been, even if only for a year or two rather than ten, might react more like the OK-city bomber Timothy McVeigh, the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski or Luigi Mangioni, especially if they have skills in electronic, engineering or flying drones. That kind of person (again, not me) might, if incensed at injustice in the system that is continually accepted, fly a drone laden with an explosive into the 34th or into a public, annual gathering of police officers or, worse, might cause an even more horrible disaster that would make the OK-city bomb seem like child’s play (and on this theme I will not provide details because I do not wish to plant ideas in anyone’s mind).
Law and order is extremely important but corrupt systems are infuriating and incredibly harmful to the culture, especially given the paragraph that started this whole Subject. New Yorkers have seen how high corruption has gone in the NYPD, starting with Serpico's time in the 1960s-1970s to, in the last five years, former policeman and current Mayor Eric Adams (as of the date of composition of this paragraph) and his colleagues in the NYPD. For those who do not follow the news, see “The NYPD was run like a ‘criminal enterprise’ under Mayor Eric Adams, lawsuit alleges” — 16 July 2025, by Mark Morales from CNN, at:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/us/eric-adams-nypd-corruption-lawsuit
Corrupt police systems are arguably as bad as dictatorships and surely even worse than criminal enterprises because the corrupt individuals are given the kind of power than criminal enterprises can only dream of: Those enterprises cannot hide behind the image and uniforms of a public servant who has taken an oath…
Moreover, the corruption is not only within NYPD—it appears some had weaseled its way into the DA’s office, at least during the time I was interacting with it, as I explain after a short recent history of the Manhattan DA.
The District Attorney from 1975 until his retirement in 2009 was Robert Morgenthau, who had an absolutely stellar reputation and who was admired by all sides of the political spectrum. As I can confirm from my life in New York City as a ballet student, starting in 1973 onwards, there was no publicly known impropriety. Apparently one of his mottos was not to give even the appearance of impropriety. (The Special Prosecutor Jack Smith of Trump worked for him.) Cyrus Vance Jr. followed Morgenthau, and he was in charge during my interactions with ADAs Levinson, Carro, Grinberg and Taylor. He hardly continued the lily-white reputation of Morgenthau, though, and did not seek re-election in 2019 in large part, it was widely understood, because of (at least) two scandals involving Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
I refer first to Vance’s dropping charges against Donald Trump after receiving a contribution from Trump’s lawyer: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/nyregion/cyrus-vance-manhattan-da-trump-lawyer.html
Why did ADA’s Carro and Levinson not take a case when overwhelming evidence was given to them? The DA has a mandate to investigate and prosecute independently of the police. Did I need to contribute to Vance’s campaign in order to get the same treatment as landlords?
The second scandal follows:
"In 2011, Epstein petitioned to have his sex offender status reduced in New York, where he has a home and is required to register every 90 days. In New York, he is classified as a level 3 offender — the highest safety risk because of his likelihood to re-offend. A prosecutor under New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance argued on Epstein’s behalf, telling New York Supreme Court Judge Ruth Pickholtz that the Florida case never led to an indictment and that his underage victims failed to cooperate in the case. Pickholtz, however, denied the petition, expressing astonishment that a New York prosecutor would make such a request on behalf of a serial sex offender accused of molesting so many girls. 'I have to tell you, I’m a little overwhelmed because I have never seen a prosecutor’s office do anything like this. I have done so many [sex offender registration hearings] much less troubling than this one where the [prosecutor] would never make a downward argument like this,' she said."— https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html
The prosecutor who acted for Vance was ADA Jennifer Gaffney, which is remarkable. A woman trying to protect Epstein (leaving aside Pam Bondi…)? How much more shameful can an ADA be. Oh wait, let me offer some ideas… (some other time).
Leaving aside the relative weight of my cases versus that of a serial sex offender, suffice it to say now that I can find nothing on the web about Gaffney’s future career or life, which seems fitting. When you have the power of an ADA—or, like Vance, of a DA— and you don’t act like Morgenthau, you deserve ignominy or oblivion or both. Grinberg herself now works at Slarskey LLC in NY, and I only hope she exhibits better judgment there. Carro seems to have disappeared from public life although someone with that name married a Nicholas Barnes in July 2025. Taylor is now Assistant Deputy Superintendent/Deputy Director of Enforcement for the NY State Department of Financial Services, and Levinson appears to be still at the Manhattan DA. Who knows whether landlords or knowingly corrupt police precincts will get undue consideration from either of them, and in the case of Taylor, I hope she has also gained more phronesis, what the Greeks called “practical wisdom,” as she has aged, although maybe simply some more common sense would suffice (recall that Levinson had at least the wherewithal to inquire whether I was secretly taping him and Carro).
In any event, and in retrospect, it appears that ADAs Grinberg and Taylor used the same kind of run-around that the police gave me in claiming, for example, that they never prosecute false arrests and that they were not prosecuting, e.g., an Attempted Grand Larceny of $5326 by the landlord and another $11,000 successful Grand Larceny by unknown parties because the assigned detectives had retired! [Forthcoming will be recordings/documents capturing the communication with the 34th in this regard.]
Considering that the perjury from 2016 was never prosecuted, Hamdi and Joey Nezaj had no reservation committing a total of at least 19 provable perjuries on their depositions on 1 May 2018 (and another 5 at least in the trial earlier in 2025, with the court having recognized two by Hamdi even during the trial). Surely the Nezajs will let others in their circles know that they can perjure in any number of venues and nothing will seemingly ever happen to them. Need I state that the consequences will be damaging, if not disastrous, for residents of New York City and for the state, and it is my civic duty to warn the public about this no matter what the DA does in the future in my cases. One problem with American culture now is that the felon President Trump and others in the major media prevaricate with impunity. Is that surprising when one of the major legal systems in the country, if not the major legal system, cares so little about perjury? All I will say, as a philosopher who taught Meaning of Life and related courses at NYU and at other universities for years, is that the rejection of the importance of truth has already and will continue to erode our cultural values and cause great pain. I myself will tend my garden, as Voltaire writes, and minimize my exposure to the public sphere but most people don’t have that option. They have to work and be often out in public and I venture to say will more and more have to cope with an increasingly foul and disgusting America.
I conclude on this whole theme with two other considerations, not only as a PhD and academic philosopher (whose publications, by the way, are known globally to specialists), but also as a former construction worker and real estate salesman during my late teens and early 20s, as an ex-Director of Doctoral Studies in Dance Education at NYU in the late 90s and as a technical consultant for IBM from 2001-2016, with two advisers, namely, a sister who was a former prosecutor and a brother who recently retired as a Chief of Police in a city outside of NY.
It is not unreasonable to expect the DA to question any arrest by police precincts with reputations of being corrupt, especially if the suspect has exculpatory evidence. Indeed, we should have a law requiring that the DA at least have a cursory conversation with charged persons or with their lawyers before mechanically advancing charges to the criminal court. A five- to ten-minute conversation would have saved much time and effort on the part of myself and the DA's office. (If the ADAs are overworked then they need to make that clear to legislators so the latter can budget more funds for the DA’s office--but it is not illogical to think that it is partly because they don't have a cursory conversation in the cases where defendants contend they have hard exculpatory evidence that the ADAs become over-worked in the long run.)
Finally, in my view, the jury is still out on DA Bragg, who, in an unrelated case that nevertheless reveals his character, allowed Trump to evade justice and then take the presidency, when he could and should have been jailed in 2024 for his felony convictions; cf. https://abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-hush-money-conviction-stand-manhattan-da-argues/story?id=116614131#:~:text=The%20filing%20mentioned%20the%20possibility,indictment%20and%20jury%20verdict%20altogether.%22
We see the ramifications now (in late 2025) of Bragg's refusal to support Judge Merchan in that case in ways that many have thought would have saved our country from the madness that has subsequently engulfed it. I believe history will show that Bragg, Joe Biden and Merrick Garland are the three most responsible for allowing our country to devolve to a condition where a convicted felon, who had absconded with top secret documents, who had obstructed justice in the investigation to have them returned, and, worst of all, who had provided aid and comfort to the insurrectionists of 6 Jan 2021, could not only, with the members of Congress who are known to have helped him with an attempted coup, stay out of jail but either stay in power or be able to run again for office.
While travelling on four other continents—S.A., Europe, Asia and Australia—from Feb 2022 to Jan 2024, I had many individuals, whether globally recognized scholars, admired artists and choreographers, successful businessmen or the like, ask me how it was possible that Trump was not in jail or executed already, asserting that in their country he would already be at least incarcerated for life (and as I write this even Bolsonaro in Brazil has been sentenced to 25 years for his copycat attempted coup). The individuals from other countries were utterly and disheartened that Trump could be free and, more shockingly, allowed to run for office again. Bragg and Judge Merchan, who had a modicum of courage but who was left to fend for himself by Bragg, were the ones who actually could have also legitimately jailed Trump and saved our Republic. Why Bragg chose to let Trump off the hook—whether out of cowardice (that is, a fear of MAGA), inducement, a Pollyannish sense that the American public would not vote Trump back into office, a distorted view of justice or anything else—is now irrelevant: As a result he has continued to provide Trump with a veneer of invincibility and now we see the result.
Of course, we all make mistakes in life but to be truly ethical we make whole the people who were harmed. Bragg could become the Black Morgenthau but that would mean devoting his life to ensuring justice and staving off crime, in ways better than what he has done in the past, to ameliorate the culture that he has so badly hurt. I for one will pay attention to what happens in the future in NYC, and I would advise him to spend a little less time eating, to exercise more and to spend an extra hour each day with the additional energy as a role model for his underlings. Morgenthau did not achieve his honors and legacy by treating such a position as a normal job. Of course, my own special concern will be to determine if anything is done by Oct 2027 to stop the Nezajs from committing additional crimes and abusing tenants (and to make sure they have their Albanian superintendents on the books, with all parties paying taxes, etc etc). That theme takes me to my final point.
Solicitation
Any reader who knows anything more about corruption in the 34th, whether the triple parking or something else, who might have tried on their own to get remediation, can contact me via editor@truejusticesociety.org. When I return on or after Oct 2027 (and at least before April 2028) to reclaim my apartment, if the DA or any other agency with responsibility and control has not cleaned up both the Nezajs and the 34th, I will immediately take friends, acquaintances, previous students, colleagues and others to demonstrate publicly and loudly with posters to various locations, including but not limited to newspapers, City Hall, and the entrance of the DA’s office downtown, distributing to any and all passerby's a single piece of paper with a brief summary of the topics and the important links to the exposés in this and other websites. Actually, I will do this before returning to the exact same apartment at which the Albanian clan and the 34th could easily target me because I know all too well what corrupt policemen will do to protect their jobs, their freedom and their pensions.
**// To be continued [27 Oct 2025] //**
Topic 4
Housing Court and its Dangers for Tenants
The initial hearings in 2015 and 2016 and the postponed trial in Housing Court (“HC”);
the rulings by DHCR in July 2016 giving Scott rent reduction, punishing Kosova;
Scott starting a third case in 2020, being a sitting and caged duck in the landlord’s building as they continued committing crimes against him as the pandemic forced everyone to quarantine, with no ability to travel, much less change one’s residence to escape danger (see Topic 6 below).
Stayed case: 28 charges of Harassment;
The peril of HC (judges selected by lawyers who might appear in front of them), etc;
Harassment charge(s): tenant takes the risk and expense and the fines go to NY State with no guarantee whatsoever lawyer’s fees will be reimbursed even if successful;
How landlords have a great advantage.
Exhibits: URLs forthcoming
Another law that should be passed pertains to an adjudicated criminal who had fraudulently forced a trial (or in HC even court hearings) because of a perjury. That criminal should be liable for the costs of the whole proceedings—not only, in business terms, direct costs (such as salaries of the judges, court attorneys and reporters, and police) but the indirect costs (light, heating/cooling, labor needed to process motions and results, etc). It is one thing to adjudicate disputes between honest individuals who have a difference of opinion on the legal matters, with taxpayers paying for everything (or most everything), but why should society pay for the waste of resources badly needed for other litigants because an individual perjures himself on a motion and thereby triggers substantial legal processes?
Topic 5
The DHCR and its own Dangers
How DHCR controls rent-regulated apartments;
Advantages and disadvantages of DHCR versus HC;
Variable practices and standards: differences between Coletti’s and Shade’s hearings (see the Appendix in forthcoming or existing link:
RozenConductInHousingCourtTrial
in Subject 2 of this page).
See also the rigorous study done showing grave problems with DHCR:
State Senator Kreuger's Recommendations to Ameliorate DHCR
and in my experience from 2015 to 2024, very little, if any, of Kreuger's recommendations has been done.
Like HC, the landlords and their lawyers have great experience at times and thus solid advantage over a tenant who comes in completely ignorant of the workings of DHCR;
How has the wife, Kelly Borbon, of Joey Nezaj, been allowed to work within the DHCR, gaining potential access to either cases pertaining to the many buildings they own or to individuals working on those cases? Although she is supposedly required to recuse herself, can that reasonably be expected or what mechanism is in place to ensure her lack of interference, direct or indirect, or even her ability to obtain valuable information about the tenants’ plans or strategies or evidence?
Partial Exhibits: More (URLs) forthcoming--
2016-2017
First DHCR Ruling (for Napolitano Hearing) by Senior Attorney J. Coletti, 21 Mar 2016
My Original Filing of Harassment 31 Aug 2016
Second DHCR Ruling (for my hearing of 2 Nov 2016) by Senior Attorney K. Shade
-- As shown by Hamdi Nezaj paying $620,000 in Federal Court in or around Sept 2017 in the suit for racial discrimination and by the jury verdict in Mar 2025, Shade clearly had atrocious judgment and in effect gave the Nezaj clan carte blanche to continue their harassments and crimes for years to come.
2024, given additional Harassments
DHCR disallows even a new hearing 16 May 2024
Proof of mailings to the Director and Commissioner of DHCR
Topic 6
Gregory Scott v. Kosova Properties, Hamdi Nezaj et al, Index # LT-301175-20/NY
Approximately 28 charges in Housing Court for Harassment
(date unknown for completion of trial, “stayed” in Jan 2023 until after the NYSC cases are finalized)
Summary and Exhibits forthcoming
Topic 7
The Gaming of the System and Clients by Lawyers — five cases revealing misconduct by attorneys for the Nezaj clan and even by two of Scott’s attorneys, who, with no good cause, help the clan more than Scott at crucial times
Summary and Exhibits forthcoming
Topic 8
Miscellaneous: Other Viciousness by the Nezajs, with Hard Evidence
Summary and Exhibits forthcoming
Would You Retain This Lawyer?: Jennifer Rozen
A Specialist in Housing Court, New York, NY, at Rozen Law Group, 48 Wall Street, Suite 1100, New York, NY 10005
— Or, Should She Even Be Practicing Law?
by Dr. Gregory L. Scott
Keywords: Rozen, Housing Court, New York, Kosova Properties, Gregory Scott, Hamdi Shpend Joey Nezaj, Lazer Plumaj, Carlos Perez-Hall, Zachary Cohen, Borah Goldstein Altschuler Nahins Goidel, NYSCEF Index LT-301175-20/NY, False arrest, Malicious prosecution, Harassment, DHCR, Tenants’ association union, 83 Park Terrace West, 83PeTA, Caitlyn Napolitano, Jane Yan, Jocelyn Goldstein Ali, corrupt 34th Precinct, CCRB, Breach of Contract, Fraud, Theft, Breach of Fiduciary Duty
This is a gateway to, first, the history and assets (including documents, transcripts, videos and the like) of Rozen representing me as Plaintiff in a NY Housing Court case and aiding the defendants Kosova Properties, Hamdi and Shpend aka Joey Nezaj in ways that seem very improper if not criminal. After helping Kosova obtain a mistrial, Rozen lied to me about our attorney/client relationship, withdrew from the case, and kept the $33,400+ she had been paid over two years.
The second section is a brief summary of some of the consequences of the mistrial, and the third section a prelude of my upcoming legal actions, which include a complaint to the NY Bar Grievance Committee, not only against her but the lawyers for Kosova, Carlos Perez-Hall and Zachary Cohen of Borah Goldstein Altschuler Nahins & Goidel, P.C., because of their improper conduct during the litigation from 2020-2022, now officially "stayed" until after the two NY Supreme Court cases (explained in Subject 1 of this webpage) are decided.
The fourth section provides advice to those considering a Civil Suit in NY. It is not legal advice, because I am not a lawyer but rather a philosopher who has taught Ethics and Business Ethics at universities in the USA and Canada. An attorney will offer better recommendations for a potential suit. Rather, the section intends to help someone prepare for obtaining legal representation and for dealing with them and the legal system, based on my personal experience since 2015 against the Nezaj clan, including Housing Court, NY Supreme Court and the DHCR, which can involve a trial with an administrative judge after a hearing by a DHCR lawyer.
The basic explanation of all four sections can be downloaded here (as a pdf file):
Rozen Conduct During Suit, etc.
The trial transcripts are downloadable (as pdf files) at the following links:
This page is ongoing, if very slowly, and will be updated, depending on legal developments.
Subject 2
Subject 3
Restaurant Noise Campaign
Dear Editor,
Thank you for your offer to help with our Restaurant Noise campaign and petition. A little history: In the fall of last year I finally had enough of going to restaurants, paying high prices for dinner and then sitting for two hours without being able to hear the conversation. At that moment, I decided to do something about it and came up with the idea of having the NYC Council amend the NYC Noise Law to compel all NYC restaurants to have a decibel reading by a NYC-approved acoustical engineer and then have the results posted on the front window of the restaurant and publicized by the NYC Health Department so that restaurant patrons can "Know Before They Go."
I prepared a petition to solve the noise problem and had the petition published on Change.org on November 16, 2024. The response was quite good. We have been interviewed by WPIX, Channel 11, which showed the interview 4 times as part of the news of the day. Thereafter, the story was picked up by the NY Post which published almost a full-page article on January 3, 2025 on page 3. A copy of the interview and NY Post article are below. We also gave a ZOOM lecture to the Center For Learning and Living.
In addition, at the moment, the petition has been viewed approximately 19,000 times and we have received 519 signatures supporting our idea to change the NYC Noise Law. And that's where you come in. I would gratefully ask that you sign the petition (copy below) and have your family and friends do so as well. Also, please ask your family and friends to send the petition to their family and friends. The link to sign the petition is:
https://www.change.org/p/restaurant-noise
Once we reach 1000 signatures I am going to ask the NYC Council to speak to them.
Howard Davis
Former Attorney, New York City
May 24, 2025
pix11.com story:
https://pix11.com/news/local-news/manhattan/i-have-to-keep-shouting-are-restaurants-too-noisy/
New York Post:
Petition to Reduce Restaurant Noise
What??
I can't hear you. This restaurant is SO loud!!
Have you ever been in a restaurant and not been able to participate in conversation? Wouldn't it be nice to know how loud a restaurant is before you decide if you want to eat there, especially since loud noise can cause hearing loss? We are asking that the decibel level be measured by an expert and publicly posted so that people can decide in advance where they want to eat.
Let's " HEAR" from you!
Please click on this link:
https://www.change.org/p/restaurant-noise
Or use this QR code:
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The Editor adds:
The NY Post's seeming attempt to add objectivity to the petition by claiming that reducing noise would denigrate the vibrancy of the night-life scene completely misses the point. The decibel requirement would only involve posting the decibel level (perhaps for various hours). It would not require restaurants to lower their noise. One wonders where the journalist who published such an "objective" response, probably desiring to appear "balanced," received their training in critical thinking. There are certainly questions to be posed, but this was not one of them, and we support this petition.
Subject 4
The Birmingham Philosophy Guild have been engaged in community justice activism for 12 years, recently by creating a new 501c3 nonprofit—"Defiant Justice"—that has rescued three undocumented-Americans from ICE concentration camps in Louisiana, as well as getting a publicly-identified Nazi (a recruiter for Identity Evropa) fired from UAB [The University of Alabama, Birmingham]. Links follow:
-The Birmingham Philosophy Guild's FB page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bhamphilosophyguild
-Defiant Justice: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61581001592493
