Tale of the tape: 'Observer' won't retract story about 'Post' editor Col Allan and soccer-mom madam Anna Gristina
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5:07 pm Mar. 30, 20124
New York Post editor-in-chief Col Allan is demanding a retraction from The New York Observer, which reported yesterday in an item attributed to multiple anonymous sources that Anna Gristina, the alleged mastermind of a Manhattan prostitution ring, was on tape bragging about being good friends with him.
“My attorneys are today filing a formal demand of retraction from the Observer and its publisher," Allan said in an article the paper posted on its website late this afternoon. “The Observer’s report is nothing but a smear and a lie.”
But it dosen't look like Allan is going to get what he wants.
"It doesn't make much sense to retract," Observer editor Elizabeth Spiers told Capital.
At the center of the matter are transcripts of interviews and surveillance audio amassed by law enforcement, and uncovered by the Daily News, during the five-year investigation of Gristina's alleged prostitution ring.
In the original Observer report, reporter Foster Kamer cited "multiple" sources "familiar with the situation," but Kamer did not claim to have heard the tape in question himself.
"If she's saying now that she doesn't know Col, that's all well and good," Spiers said, "but that's not what she said on the surveillance audio according to our sources. It's certainly possible that she could have been lying on the audio. But note that we didn't report that she was a friend of Col's, only that she claimed to be."
The alleged connection between Allan and Gristina aside, it's been clear that Gristina has ties to the Post. As we pointed out earlier today, one of her associates now under investigation in the scandal, attorney David Jaroslawicz, has been giving soundbites to the tabloid since at least 1998. And Post reporter Jeane MacIntosh, who landed a big jail-house exclusive with Gristina earlier this month, was said to have known her well.
"The city’s journos were peeved when they lined up at Rikers all day, only for MacIntosh to sweep by them and get entry because she had a 'relationship' with Gristina," a source had told us.
In fact, it's largely through Macintosh that this latest development has, bizarrely, transpired. The long-time Postie wrote an article outing Gristina as a consistent source in her reporting, particularly on items she wrote for Page Six.
"Anna Gristina, the notorious soccer mom madam, does have a relationship with someone at the New York Post. It's me. Gristina has been a source on several stories I've written at the paper, most notably on Page Six," the piece began.
MacIntosh said she visited Gristina at Rikers again today to ask her about the Observer's story:
“I don’t know who Col Allan is,” she said. “I have never met him. I have never heard his name until today.”
She recalled having a 2008 conversation with [Ed. note: Name redacted here; see more below*], a woman who was allegedly working as an escort for madam Kristin Davis.
“She was very upset, and was being questioned in the Kristin Davis case, and was upset that bad things would be said about her if it got into the papers,” Gristina said.
“She had already been through a very bad custody battle and it didn’t make her look good. She was asking for help. She was afraid and thought it might hurt her custody situation.
"I told her I had a relationship with someone at The Post [meaning me, Jeane MacIntosh] who was a good friend, and that I had provided information to The Post in the past.”
Asked if she knew the conversation was being recorded, she said, “No, but apparently it was.”
Observer executive editor Aaron Gell tweets: "Macintosh piece notwithstanding, only that tape will show whether Gristina claimed a friendship with Allan."
At least one place has those recordings, or a transcript of them, if earlier reports are to be believed: The Daily News.
* Editor's note: The original report from The New York Post named a person here, using a first and last name; shortly thereafter, the Post updated the report on its website, replacing that name with a different name, an apparent alias, "Ashley." The Post has not annotated the change with any acknowledgement of the original report, nor provided any explanation for altering it. Because of serious ethical concerns raised to us by sources familiar with the situation, we are for the moment redacting the name in our report altogether, while we investigate further. We will update this post as soon as we understand the situation fully.
I am sure a lot of people are her good "Friend" and have been clients.
I wonder how many are reporters or editors or Media Icons ?
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Very clearly David Jaroslawicz is laundering money via various llc's in real estate holdings tied to illegal businesses.This is nothinig new for David Jaroslaiwcz. He's a dirty lawyer. In fact Mr. Jaroslawicz has dozens and dozens of faux llc's in Lower Manhattan for his other clients which all trace back to him with a very long reputation for making up stories when his clients are caught. Observer did the stories. Why would this be any different? Now he is going after the editor of the New York Post?
He threatened the SLA and the police with lawsuits when his client who owns Marquee was caught in a year long under cover drugs sting trafficking narcotics and claimed it was shut down over a water main break. Spencer Morgan did the story "Slish Splash Are Marquee's Claims Of Water Main Break All Wet" for TAO.
He made up another story when Matt Abramcyk started a fire 4 month after he appplied for an invalid CO at Smith and Mills by falsely claiming his neighbor's 8 bedroom home of 30 years was "vacant" on the CO because he is obstructing his neighbor's secondary means of egress with a partial petition which is a fire hazard. 4 months later Abramcyk started a fire at Smith and Mills and sued his neighbors asking the courts for their 8 bedroom home in "Baron Of Beatrice Inn" in the Observer. Mr.Jaroslawicz later admitted to Spencer Morgan in the Marquee story it was over a fire. Matt Abramcyk was eventually caught lying to the judge and is now being forced out of the garage at Smith and Mills 4 years later, after Jarosalwicz misused the judicial process, so his neighbors can finally go home.
He made up another story when his client BD Hotel had a construction accident at the Greenwich Hotel causing damage to adjacent property. The hotel caused 23 of the neighbor's 28 window to break, after they went down 3 floors instead of 1 and hit the water line, cracked 385 Greenwich across the street which caused all the windows to break one by one. Again Jaroslawicz again went full court press in "Legal Bar Brawl" falsely accusing the neighbors of "false DOB claims". But it turns this was aome veiled attempt to cheat the neighbors of the assumed liability for BD Hotel's which took 5 years to get the accident on record after they were caught paying off DOB inspectors. Oh, wait or was that the same story at Smith and Mills?
Jaroslawicz then threatened the New York Times with lawsuits at The Jane Hotel for BD Hotels "Why The New York Times Won't Be Running My Story" at the Jane Ballroom when his client was caught operating ion theatre licenses at The Jane threatening the Times reporter Teri Rogers when his clients were caught. This is what Mr. Jaroslawicz does for a living. He has been disbarred before.
Therefore, it comes as not suprize he would threaten Colin with adverse publicity when the Soccer Madam finally implicates him for laundering money through illegal businesses. He is behind literally dozens of phony llc's for Abramcyk in lower Manhattan involved in 28 buildings south of Canal all tied to illegal businesses, bribing city inspectors, who had a series of 2 construction accidents, 3 fires, 2 buildings with big red X's because the buildings were no longer safe to enter, another building evacuated where Abramcyk posed as "Yenen llc" across from the DOB all in under 2 years where not a sinlge city record adds up in a single buildings which all trace back to Jaroslawicz.
The DA had to hit pay dirt since all these buildings are all linked to the Syrian Jews in the rabbi scandal who were sued for theounterfeit Gucci handbags, caught laundering money in their temples and bribing government officials in New Jersey at the same time ths was going on in lower Manahattan. Exactly how far off is trafficking narcotics, insurance fraud, bars and illegal liquor licenses from prostitution?
What about Webway llc. 109 W Broadway llc, Randal llc, Yenen llc, 385 Greenwich llc, No Moore Oysters llc, 71 N Moore llc, 135 W Broadway llc and now Maritime llc in just 5 buildings alone? There are 28 buildings involved in Lower Manhattan alone with enough fraud to land these bad boys in jail for a very long time. The guy has dozens of fraud lawsuits.
This is just one more veiled threat because Jaroslawicz was caught. The man needs to go to jail for a very long time for what he did on N Moore alone. This is a 10 million dollar property they literally can't explain to the judge how they got 71 N Moore, why the city issued permits to repair a construction accident, the inspectors claim 49 times didn't exist which was handled by the LMCCC, or why the inspector admitted they falsify the records. Multiply this by a dozen buildings linked to Abramcyk alone at 10 million a property and they ain't got nothing on the Madam or Colin.
What is truly stunning is no one came to Colin's rescue when David Breitbart, Raoul Felder and Katan Muchin all similarly caught David Jaroslawicz making up similar stories in the press. He's another Milburh Weiss. The man needs to go to jail for a very long time. there is 500 million in property in Lower Manhattan alone all linked to faux llc'swhich all trace back to David Jarosalwicz. He has some nerve trying to link the editor to prostitutes. Its transparent with this clown.
thefatlady wrote on April 16, 2012, 1:04 AM [Link]
Very clearly David Jaroslawicz is laundering money via llc's in real estate holdings tied to illegal businesses.This is nothinig new for David Jaroslaiwcz. He's a dirty lawyer. In fact Mr. Jaroslawicz has dozens and dozens of faux llc's in Lower Manhattan for his other clients which all trace back to him with a very long reputation for making up stories when his clients are caught. Observer did the stories. Why would this be any different? Now he is going after the editor of the New York Post?
He threatened the SLA and the police with lawsuits when his client who owns Marquee was caught in a year long under cover drugs sting and claimed it was shut down over a water main break. Spencer Morgan did the story "Slish Splash Are Marquee's Claims Of Water Main Break All Wet" .
He made up another story when Abramcyk started a fire 4 month after he applied for an invalid CO at Smith and Mills by falsely claiming his neighbor's 8 bedroom home of 30 years was "vacant" because he is obstructing his neighbor's secondary means of egress which is a fire hazard. 4 months later Abramcyk started a fire at Smith and Mills and sued his neighbors for their 8 bedroom home in "Baron Of Beatrice Inn" in the Observer. Mr.Jaroslawicz later admitted to Spencer Morgan in the Marquee story it was over a fire. Abramcyk was eventually caught lying to the judge and is now being forced out of the garage at Smith and Mills 4 years later, after Jarosalwicz misused the judicial process, so his neighbors can finally go home.
He made up another story when his client had a construction accident at the Greenwich Hotel causing damage to adjacent property. The hotel caused 23 of the neighbor's 28 window to break, after they went down 3 floors instead of 1 and hit the water line, and cracked 385 Greenwich across the street which eventually caused all the windows to break one by one. Again Jaroslawicz went full court press accusing the neighbors of "false DOB claims" who had no claims since 1994. It turns out this was some veiled attempt to cheat the neighbors of the assumed liability which took 5 years to get the accident on record after they were caught paying off DOB inspectors. Oh, wait or was that the same story at Smith and Mills?
Jaroslawicz then threatened the New York Times with lawsuits for BD Hotels at the Jane Ballroom when his client was caught operating on theatre licenses threatening the reporter Teri Rogers when his clients were caught to kill a story. This is what Mr. Jaroslawicz does for a living. He has been disbarred before.
Therefore, it comes as not suprize he would threaten to link Colin to prostitution when his other "friend" the Soccer Madam finally implicates Jaroslawicz for laundering money himself. He is behind literally dozens of phony llc's tied to Abramcyk in 28 buildings south of Canal all tied to illegal businesses, bribing city inspectors, who had a series of 2 construction accidents, 3 fires, 2 buildings with big red X's because the buildings were no longer safe to enter, another building evacuated where Abramcyk posed as "Yenen llc" across from the DOB all in under 2 years where not a single city record adds up in a single buildings which all trace back to Jaroslawicz . How would they hope to explain this when the kid was not even 30 years old?
The DA had to hit pay dirt since all these buildings are all linked to the Syrian Jews in the rabbi scandal who were sued by Gucci for the counterfeit handbags, caught laundering money in their temples and bribing government officials in New Jersey, at the same time this was going on south of Canal. Exactly how far off is narcotics, insurance fraud, bars and illegal liquor licenses from prostitution?
And what about Webway llc. 109 W Broadway llc, Randal llc, Yenen llc, 385 Greenwich llc, No Moore Oysters llc, 71 N Moore llc, 135 W Broadway llc and now Maritime llc in just 5 buildings alone? There are 28 buildings involved in Lower Manhattan alone with enough fraud to land these bad boys in jail for a very long time. The trouble is all these llc's are Century Realty not Abramcyk.
This is just one more veiled threat because Jaroslawicz was caught. They could go to jail for a very long time for what he did on N Moore alone. This is a 10 million dollar property they literally can't explain to the judge how they got 71 N Moore, why the city issued permits to repair a construction accident the city inspectors claim 49 times didn't exist which was handled by the LMCCC, or why the inspector admitted they falsify the records. Multiply this by a dozen buildings at 10 million a property and they ain't got nothing on the Madam or Colin.
What is truly stunning is no one came to Colin's rescue. Jaroslawicz has some nerve trying to link the editor to prostitutes. The Observer knows David Jaroslawicz has no credibility to be feeding these stories about The New York Post. The Observer has caught this clown lying in dozens of stories themselves.
This is not who they are protecting. Don't be ridiculous. This story isn't about the johns. It's about money laundering bribing government officials over the raid on Jarosalwicz's office and what other documents were seized. They got the lawyer! This is Jaroslawicz's and his clients killing the story.
Very clearly David Jaroslawicz is laundering money via llc's in real estate holdings tied to illegal businesses.This is nothinig new for David Jaroslaiwcz. He's a dirty lawyer. In fact Mr. Jaroslawicz has dozens and dozens of faux llc's in Lower Manhattan for his other clients which all trace back to him with a very long reputation for making up stories when his clients are caught.
Observer did the stories. Why would this be any different? Now he is going after the editor of the New York Post? He threatened the SLA and the police with lawsuits when his client who owns Marquee was caught in a year long under cover drugs sting and claimed it was shut down over a water main break. Spencer Morgan did the story "Slish Splash Are Marquee's Claims Of Water Main Break All Wet" .
He made up another story when Matt Abramcyk started a fire 4 month after he applied for an invalid CO at Smith and Mills falsely claiming his neighbor's 8 bedroom home of 30 years was "vacant" because he is obstructing his neighbor's secondary means of egress. 4 months later Abramcyk started a fire at Smith and Mills and sued his neighbors for their 8 bedroom home in "Baron Of Beatrice Inn" in the Observer.
Jaroslawicz later admitted to Spencer Morgan in the Marquee story it was all over a fire. Abramcyk was eventually caught lying to the judge, and is now being forced out of the garage at Smith and Mills 4 years later after Jarosalwicz misused the judicial process so his neighbors can finally go home.
He made up another story when his other client the developer of the Greenwich Hotel had a construction accident causing damage to adjacent property. The hotel caused 23 of the neighbor's 28 window to break after they went down 3 floors instead of 1 and hit the water line and cracked 385 Greenwich across the street which eventually caused all the windows to break one by one. Again Jaroslawicz went full court press accusing the neighbors of "false DOB claims" who had no claims since 1994. They had a construction accident with the Greenwich Hotel handled by the LMCCC. It turns out this was some veiled attempt to cheat the neighbors of the assumed liability which took 5 years to get the accident on record after they were caught paying off DOB inspectors. Oh, wait or was that the same story at Smith and Mills?
Jaroslawicz then threatened the New York Times with lawsuits for BD Hotels this time at the Jane Ballroom when his client was caught operating on theatre licenses threatening the reporter Teri Rogers when his clients were caught to kill a story. This time all the neighbors on Jane were forced to lawyer up. This is what Mr. Jaroslawicz does for a living. He has been disbarred before.
Therefore, it comes as no surprize he would try to link the New York Post editor Colin to prostitution when the Soccer Madam finally implicates Jaroslawicz for laundering money. He is behind literally dozens of phony llc's tied to Abramcyk in 28 buildings south of Canal which all belong to the Gindi's tied to illegal businesses and bribing city inspectors who had a series of 2 construction accidents, 3 fires, 2 buildings with big red X's because the buildings were no longer safe to enter, another building evacuated where Abramcyk posed as "Yenen llc" across from the DOB all in under 2 years where not a single city record adds up in a single buildings which all trace back to Jaroslawicz . How would they hope to explain this when the kid wasn't even 30 years old?
The DA had to hit pay dirt when he raided Jaroslawicz'sffice since all these buildings are all linked to the Syrian Jews in the rabbi scandal who were sued by Gucci for the counterfeit handbags on Canal they were caught laundering money in their temples and bribing government officials in New Jersey. At the same time this was going on south of Canal? Exactly how far off is narcotics, insurance fraud, bars and illegal liquor licenses from prostitution?
How would they hope to explain the records for Webway llc. 109 W Broadway llc, Randal llc, Yenen llc, 385 Greenwich llc, No Moore Oysters llc, 71 N Moore llc, 135 W Broadway llc and now Maritime llc in just 5 buildings alone the DA hauled off from his office? There are 12 buildings involved in a pattern of fraud and racketeering in Lower Manhattan a with enough fraud to land these bad boys in jail for a very long time. And they go after the editor or John Edwards when they're caught? This is beyond ridiculous. This is just one more veiled threat because this time David Jaroslawicz was caught. The DA has all their records!
They could go to jail for a very long time for what he did on N Moore alone. This is a 10 million dollar property they literally can't explain to the judge how they got 71 N Moore, why the city issued permits to repair a construction accident the city inspectors claim 49 times didn't exist which was handled by the LMCCC, or why the inspector admitted they falsify the records. Multiply this by a dozen buildings at 10 million a property and they ain't got nothing on the Madam or Colin.
What is truly stunning is no one came to Colin's rescue when this time Jaroslawicz has the nerve to link the editor to prostitution again with no basis to these claims what-so-ever. The Observer knows David Jaroslawicz is a bold faced liar and has no credibility to be feeding these stories about The New York Post. The Observer has caught this clown lying in dozens of stories themselves in a half a dozen stories.