NYC Sheriff Anthony Miranda: Weed Shop Raids & Missing Cash (September 2024)

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[00:00:00]Anthony Miranda is uh he's the sheriff of New York City. He's appointed sheriff's not elected position. Uh he is spearheading this co enforcement. Uh what we've said on this show numerous times to be very arbitrary and capriccious.

[00:00:18]He's also been pictured with a Latino association that's helping Latino business over uh Latino business owners to secure marijuana licenses.

[00:00:33]So, that's pretty uh it's pretty weird to be working with a fraternal organization when you're going to be in charge of the enforcement of it. um the nightlife mayor or the executive director of the office of nightlife was actually or is I don't know if he is or was the president of that same organization. Uh and I'll bring all that stuff up, but I just got to uh I got to bring that in. But right now, uh we just had a city council meeting happen and uh the union president of that city council meeting had called for Miranda's uh resignation. Uh which something you never really heard, right? I've never seen a union leader go up at a city council meeting and talk about how the sheriff was completely abusive. Uh I do have an article here about it as well.

[00:01:21]Uh came out in the Daily News and uh New York City's deputy sheriff's union calling on Sheriff Anthony Miranda to resign over a hostile work environment.

[00:01:32]Eric, do you know anything about uh Miranda?

[00:01:36]>> You know what I know about Miranda is this? And this I was going to ask you John. I mean if you were Mayor Eric Adams and you had friends in your circle would Miranda with already the shroud and cloud of suspicion that's already been surrounded by him of irregular irreg irregularities. That's a hard word to say when it comes to his campaign uh donations. Would was that a guy that you would want in your circle? He's already had suspicion about campaigns, donations he's had to his own campaign where he's donated in the past to his own donation and received interest on his own loan.

[00:02:10]Is this someone that we want in our circle? Again, Mayor Eric Adams has his choice of appointments is quite interesting. Uh he always picks people that are shrouded by bad judgment.

[00:02:20]Speaking of comments here, Crazy107, thank you so much for donating to the podcast as always. 499 weekly crumbs, boys. I guess we getting our crumbs. We appreciate it. John, I mean, seriously, is this a friend that you put in your circle? Already known, especially the sheriffs when they do warrants, they're taking they're they're recovering money.

[00:02:40]Is this someone you want in your circle?

[00:02:42]>> Well, I mean, let's talk about uh Miranda's police career, right? I believe he, if I'm not mistaken, I believe he retired as a sergeant in the NYPD.

[00:02:52]Uh he was a rebel rouser in the NYPD. He was a police reform advocate in the NYPD. So basically he was a big fat zero politician the same way that Eric Adams was. So while Eric Adams is is running 100 blacks in law enforcement, I believe Miranda is was the president. I forget what organization. I don't want to I don't want to say it, but for for some Latino organization >> says Latino Association.

[00:03:21]>> There you go. Yeah. Nola. That's he was he was the president of Nola. So he was a rebel rouser. He wasn't somebody that was you would actually want in your circle for anything, you know. So, but that's every single person that Eric Adams appoints is somebody like this dude. So, yeah, absolutely not. I wouldn't want him around me. And let's not forget let's not forget he was he was pushing this another guy that was attempting to flout the CO rules when he was pushing this invisible mask. And so with the so again, all of us peasants had to follow the rules, right? I couldn't do anything. I couldn't take my kids to the Bronx Zoo. I couldn't take them to a Christmas party. I wasn't allowed in any Christmas parties. I wasn't allowed in any restaurants in New York City. I mean, I still went. There was a lot of places that, you know, there was a lot of places that just didn't didn't follow the rules. And those are places I still uh go till today. And those are the mainly the places that stayed open, too, because they didn't listen to these idiots. um you know and then the places that follow the rules we couldn't go right and so what what Anthony Miranda helped push was this uh invisible mask and what the invisible mask was was it was just a card it was like a it was like a business it was like a card and you could just put it in your pocket and it supposedly protected all around you from co I mean it was the biggest scam going um and it was basically done to flout the co rules and now this is the guy that you're putting in charge of doing the enforcement for CO rules for rules and regulations around marijuana. So again, it's just more low integrity people around each other.

[00:05:04]>> Yeah. I mean, absolutely. And I make the correlation, you know, it's it's quite simple, but when it came to his own campaign financing that he provided his his own loan and he received some interest on, it was a small amount that was looked backed into, but uh as that's someone that you want as the sheriff because they're making apprehensions and recoveries of large sums of money. Uh that's not someone I would want. you know, and also his affiliations with New York State Senator Haram Monzerat.

[00:05:37]That's another thing that shows the cloud of judgment and suspicions. I mean, Monzerat is like the the def the teflu don he seems to get out of everything. You know, even being a a a domestic abuser, but is this someone that you want in your circle? Again, Eric Adams appoints everyone in his circle that has a a sketchy past, that's a rebel rouser, that has uh is cannot be trusted when it comes to money and has nefarious friends around them. Auntie Miranda's friend uh Haram Monzerante, he's a nefarious character. Auntie Miranda, he's a nefarious character himself. But this is everyone that's appointed by Mayor Eric Adams. but also shows, John, what we've been speaking about is that the mayor of New York City has far too much power. These are not elected official positions. These are appointed positions. And that's somewhere we need to get back to the drawing board and have people elected in New York City, not necessarily appointed. I mean, we're seeing it right now with Mayor Eric Adams. It's corruption scandal after corruption scandal. Now we see a cloud of suspicion, a probe going on in a church involving Frank Coron. I mean, it's one after another, brother.

[00:06:51]Yeah. So, just real quick, I'll go through this article real quick and then I'll bring up a video about this. So, New York, this came out or I I believe this came out in June. So, this has been going on a while, but we just had a city council meeting last late last week uh where the we got to see the sheriff uh testify and it was pretty awful. Not for nothing, but he absolutely completely incompetent. Has no business running the sheriff's office, but that hey, that's like everybody else in in the uh >> that was terrible.

[00:07:21]>> That's like it's like everybody else, you know. So, uh, members of the New York City Sheriff's, uh, the Sheriff's Association are demanding Anthony Miranda's resignation, claiming he has created a hostile and work environment that has led to an exodus of rank and file members. Hm, sounds familiar. In documented complaints against Miranda, the union has claimed the city sheriff has discriminated and retaliated against union members. For approximately the last year, Miranda and the executive board have engaged in actions questionable legal basis, have unilaterally institute changes, having endangered the safety of deputies, according to a complaint filed with the office of collective bargaining. They have interfered with restraint and coerced the union's members, the exercise of their rights. Miranda's draconia mandates, unshaned changes to employees scheduled, and laser focus on raiding illicit pot shops over the AY's other duties have made working as a deputy sheriff unattenable. According to the union president, "Our members have simply left because they are not going to work for a tyrant who runs the agency with an iron fist." Union President Ingred Simikov told the New York Daily News, "Morale is incredibly low since he got here and 37 deputy sher sheriffs have left. the others are waiting for another agency to call before they go.

[00:08:36]So 37 that's a lot because there's only aboutund and something. So you're talking like a 20 30% hit. So it's very familiar to the Dream Team or the Gotham Brothers as we like to call them. Um, because of Sheriff Miranda's mishandling of the sheriff's office, mistreatment of our members, retaliatory actions against the union, and creation of a hostile work environment, the union demands his resignation, she said. A call to Miranda about the union allegations would not return. Mayor Eric Adams selected the politically connected Miranda to take over the city sheriff's office in May of 22 before becoming the city sheriff.

[00:09:12]Miranda was a police department sergeant, director of security for the Administration of Child Services, and a longtime head of the National Latino Officers Association. Over the past two years, the union has lodged 13 complaints against Miranda and his executives with the Office of Collective Bargaining, and the Public Employee Safety and Health Bureau, the New York's Department Finance Equal Opportunity Commission Office, the State Equal Opportunity Commission Office, and the New York's Office of Labor Relations about workplace misconduct. In comparison, the union only filed one labor complaint in the four years leading up to Miranda's employment.

[00:09:47]Unreal. Unreal.

[00:09:51]You know, you know, is strange, John, is that in most cases we see in New York City, especially when it comes to unions, particularly the NYPD, we see them buttoning up to the administration. We see them buttoning up, you know, pretty much in bed with the enemy. So, it must be pretty bad.

[00:10:07]Honestly, John, it must be a real hostile environment. It must be over the top for the unions to actually put themselves out there in uh in this battle against Auntie Miranda who's who's the sheriff. So, it must be terrible at this time. But again, this is someone that's a rebel rouseer, was uh not much of a cop. Kind of fits in lock step with Eric Adams, who wasn't much of a cop either. We have all these people that were in law enforcement and didn't do any law enforcement, but with Eric Adams in their appointments, you know, they become Zars and they become tyrannical. It it's interesting to see the hypocrisy and the paradox when it comes to this administration.

[00:10:49]>> Yeah. I mean, the the the police unions should be doing this at this point, though, you know, like I I I you know, we're like we have cops leaving left and right. There are numerous allegations about these people. Let's let's just let's just take John Shell for example.

[00:11:09]John Shell's office. Well, after last week, I mean, I think he got humbled a little bit, but now it looks like he's about to get a promotion. He just put out he's not retiring. So, I'm going to make the bet that he's your next chief of department, which is insane because that just shows how you could fail forward in the New York City Police Department. But all up until last week, every time John Shell walked in his office as the chief of patrol, his office had to give him a standing ovation like he was Stalin. Think about that. Every time the man walks, Is that not Is that a normal work environment for anyone? Everyone knows what's going on. All of the unions know what's going on. And that's just the little things.

[00:11:50]What about all the transfers from Cas Dory because people didn't salute at him or he thought they laughed at him on the phone or he thought something happened or he thought they gave him a bad look.

[00:12:01]People are wackos. So, it just shows what's going on, how bad it actually is.

[00:12:09]Um, this is this is something that the police unions should have been doing as well, but they haven't. And all of them have complaints about that. We've had inspectors, captains, lieutenants, sergeants, cops, detectives, all who have been abused by this administration and the unions have remained silent, have said nothing. Nothing actually cheered it on.

[00:12:33]It is abusive and it's it's an annoyance, right? That's why we we have uh kind of the unwritten rule when it comes to the police department, even the military, right? In the military, it would be ridiculous, right? If you passed by your commanding officer, whatever uh in the military and you were just constantly saluting every second, that would be absolutely ridiculous. It would look stupid. It would be annoying.

[00:12:56]So, one salute for the day, you know, maybe one salute in the morning as a courtesy and one salute the at at the close of the day. That makes sense. So, the same thing for the police department. It's a paramilitary organization. If every time someone above the rank of deputy inspector walked into the precinct and you had to stand at attention and call attention all day, it would be ridiculous. I mean, if you, you know, if you had an inspector as your commanding officer, every time you walked into the priest and you had call attention 50 times a day, it would be absolutely it's an annoyance. And no longer is it even a courtesy at that point. It's just uh it's just stupid and it's abusive, you know. So yeah, this is this is even far more to have people give you a standing ovation and and a for standing ovation to me that shows you just you have no care and compassion. You really don't care about people. If you could actually just abuse them in that manner and just get your kicks off and humiliate them, it shows a lot about yourself. But it is interesting. It did appear that John Shell was quite humbled. that press conference we saw that was a different John Shell, but it's starting to see that it might be weeding off a little bit and they're starting to revert back to themselves. Zebras don't change their stripes. I'm a firm believer on that.

[00:14:11]So, uh, yeah, I, you know, we had unconfirmed reports. John put out an amazing tweet about Jeffrey Madry and John Shell about unconfirmed reports about John Shell and Chief Madry retiring. I still believe that is coming soon depending on the movement of this new intram PC. But in the meantime, it is possible that John Shell does get a bump as an intram in the meantime while things are getting cleaned out. And I'm sure he's pretty excited by that. That's the only reason I can see him hanging on to this cliff.

[00:14:43]Yeah. I mean, I don't want to get into that yet, but uh while you're on it, let's let's talk about that real quick.

[00:14:48]Um, yeah, it it it doesn't appear that John Shell is is going to retire. Um, you know, this is has came out. Uh, I don't I don't know why this went so viral, you know, but he uh he's telling everyone now like this came out, this was on New York One this morning, John Shell's retirement plans with this tweet, right? receive an unconfirmed reports that both uh uh NYPD chief of department Jeffrey Madry and NYPD chief of patrol bold picture below appeared at 233 Broadway today and filed for retirement amidst the federal corruption probe. So this this tweet comes out, you know, I put that tweet out uh because I had reports they're packing up their office and they were at 233 Broadway, which uh I have no reason to believe was not the case. Um, considering I've been pretty spot-on about everything and we all know that John Shell had a offer from Newsmax, a very high offer to be head security and do so he was leaving. Both of them were going to get three quarters for more than likely not an injury related to police work, but their poor health, but they were going to get three quarters.

[00:15:54]Uh, but John Shell last night had put something else out last night. What did he say last night? He says he says that he had to clear something up. Hold on. I'm going to pull up his tweet so I don't miss his words so I'm not accused of spreading misinformation.

[00:16:13]Hi everyone. It's at this point now that I have clear up another piece of information. I'm not retiring.

[00:16:20]Eventually one day, but not now. More work to be done, baby. Exclamation exclamation. Hopefully this makes it easier to understand. Lol. So obviously what I see from here is John Shell is not only not leaving, he's more than likely going to be promoted. He's more than likely going to be the next chief of department. We may see something today possibly. Um so yeah, I mean I guess the panic's over. I guess a lot of people know where they fall. Uh we did an episode a while back calling it the fall guy and it was about John Shell and his uh his absolutely ridiculous and dumb plan of having these rookies run around New York City and crash cars and run people over uh and engaging in car pursuits. But I guess the fall guy was actually Ed Kaban. Ed Kaban stepped down. They should all stepped down because they all knew what was going on. They should all hang their head in shame about what happened, but yet they're going to uh celebrate themselves. And this guy's talking about more work to be done. I just wonder what kind of work he's talking about. Is it more work shaking down businesses or is it actually anything related to public safety?

[00:17:44]>> Sure. I see two things going on here.

[00:17:46]One, the obvious. John Shall no longer has access or is permitted to tweet or utilize social media on behalf of the police department on his chief of patrol Twitter handle. I mean, this is coming from his LinkedIn account. So, was John Shell is John Shell at this point? Uh, does he still even have access to his social media account? It's quite interesting. We've seen John Shell and Cas Dory. They haven't tweeted much at I think it was four days we didn't see four or five days we didn't see a tweet at all from them. So complete different uh dynamics right now with John Shell. I do believe that he if he's not going to retire it's because of a promotion but I do believe that promotion will be temporary while the inram PC is cleaning house. I do not believe that will be a temporary position. I think it will be short uh short-lived. That's my prediction. I I'm not sure if you think the same thing, John, but based on what I've seen in the military, get an idea of how they clean house and how you start to uh make movements to uh the different pieces.

[00:18:50]This is the way that I see it. It's my opinion. Uh also, what I see right now from John Shell and Cass Dore uh is definitely they've their their power has been removed. They're operating differently. And uh could they keep up this tempo under the new intram PC? You know, are they playing a game? Because eventually when the intram PC leaves and we get someone else in that place, will they revert back to their old ways if they stay on? This is this is going to be interesting to watch as it unfolds.

[00:19:25]Yeah. So, uh All right. So, that's it for John Shell. He says he's not leaving. Um we'll see what happens.

[00:19:31]We'll see what comes out of that. I'm going to make the case if he's not leaving, if obviously the the moment of panic is over, uh, they know what's going to happen. That means to me that, well, half of that tweet was right, half of that information was right. Jeffrey Maderie was out. John Shell's offer must have got rescended and he got an offer to stay on chief of department. Um, if I offered you a corporate job making $500,000 a year with your uh three quarters for being fat and getting $24,000 a year or $24,000 a month on top of that, which is about $200 something,000 pension a year plus $500,000.

[00:20:06]Would you stay to be the chief of the department or would you retire and take three quarters for being fat?

[00:20:14]>> Well, first of all, I'm not going to let myself get fat and stay in shape. But yeah, listen, but that I would take that job. So would you, John? I mean, that's a great opportunity. It It only makes sense, right? You're not bound by the police department. You get to be out in the private sector. You're out in the media. You got a great job. You get to give a police perspective, which could help other people. But what does it show, John? What does it show our friends and listeners right now? It shows these guys really, they don't care about the money. Because honestly, if they cared about the money, these guys would have retired 10 years ago with a $20,000 pension. You could live a really nice life with that. If you start investing, right, whether Bitcoin or real estate, you can pretty much have passive income. But that's not what this is about. It's about power. And that's why Casdore and John Shell, they thrive and they enjoy being the positions that they are. It's about status. It's about power. And that's what happens when we have weak, cowardice, inadequate, inept men in positions of power. It becomes abusive. We've seen it for the past two years. It's only gotten worse and worse.

[00:21:19]Thank God with this intram PC, we've seen a step back. But again, I believe zebras don't change their stripes. And when this interim PC is replaced by someone who's going to be permanent, will they revert back to their old ways? That's what I'm curious.

[00:21:36]And John, I think it's a great thing that you pointed out. We've been speaking out and this is the truth. Ed Caban has become the fall guy. We did think it was going to be John Shell when it comes to operations, but when it comes to a federal corruption probe, it turns out that Ed Caban is the fall guy.

[00:21:51]I mean, these guys stepped on him so fast, they b they put dirt on his grave so quick. There was so much loyalty when Ed Kaban was the PC. Even though he was insignificant and he wasn't there, there was so much loyalty. And the second he was gone, they were already kissing up to the new inim PC. They put dirt over his grave and they stepped all over him.

[00:22:11]We don't hear a peep. We don't hear John Shell or Cass Dory and anything say, "You know what? Uh we'd like to thank uh we like to thank positions and we'd like to thank things that we had under uh former PC Ed Caban." And at this time he's a missed uh appointment. He's a missed position and what we have missed and how we're going to go forward. We don't hear that. They stepped on his grave. In PC, we love you. This is what we have here. These are the these are the the men that we have at the police department.

[00:22:44]>> Yeah. So, let's get back to Miranda. So, this is the head of the sheriff's union, uh, Ingred Simov. Uh, apologize if I said your name wrong. I believe that's how it's pronounced. She had a pretty long speech. It was pretty good. It was actually really good. If you guys get a chance, go back and uh listen to the speech from 9:17 on the committees on oversight investigation, city council. I won't play the whole thing because it's too long and I got a bunch of clips around this, but uh yeah, I mean, I never heard this in a city council meeting. I listen, you know, like I said, I'm I'm a like I'm a geek when it comes to this [ __ ] I listen to this [ __ ] while I work out and I listen to [ __ ] while I'm running or if I'm working on the house or building something or painting, like I'll listen to this. Um, I was like, I was pretty like I was pretty shocked. One, I was shocked by his testimony. I was like, "Wow, this guy is dumb." I was like, "Wow, this guy is incompetent. If this was a business, these people I would literally if I could just fire him right there, I would have." Um, so, but listen to what she has listen to what she has to say.

[00:23:45]Listen to what she has to say about Miranda.

[00:23:48]>> For too long, Sheriff Miranda has operating his office like his own personal freedom.

[00:23:55]Even as far as traveling to work in his city vehicle with license silence when there is no emergency, the real emergency is the way my members have been bullied, mistreated, all while trembling on their rights as labor union members. I thank this committee for your time. Um, I'll take any questions anybody has.

[00:24:16]>> So, she said that, you know, apologies that it's low, but it just is. It just that's just how the video is. But she basically said that, you know, she said he runs the sheriff's office like his own private fem. Uh a fem is like a medieval like uh lordship like uh whatever like medieval times. He runs it like his own kingdom basically his own fifom like his little kingdom you know.

[00:24:41]And uh she said that he uh drives to work with lights and sirens on abuses authority. Um, and the real the real problem is is that the way that he treats his members, the way that he treat he tramps on this tramples on their civil rights and their worker rights. Uh, but I definitely recommend listening to her entire speech. Really good speech. Um, and it just shows you a little bit about who Anthony Miranda really is and how the people underneath him think about him. So unlike unlike Miranda and the New York City Police Department, the the rank and file have have much worse things to say about John Shell, Cas Dory, the rest of these clowns. And um people don't know that from the outside, but the rank and file absolutely despises these people. Other than a few young kids that, you know, like I said, they surround themselves with with young kids that they that you know, they let them play Xbox and PlayStation for the first three hours of duty and then they work out and they get unlimited overtime. So those people aren't going to tell you that. But the the majority of the people, the people that make the wheels turn in the New York City Police Department absolutely have much worse things to say about it.

[00:25:54]Unfortunately, they have no representation other than this podcast.

[00:26:02]I listened to the speech of Ingret Samanovic and I thought that Ingret's speech was on point. I thought that she was pretty expressive and that she seemed to be genuine to me when it came to the accusations that she made about the hostile environment under Miranda.

[00:26:15]So, what it said to me, I was like, this is so reflected of police department.

[00:26:18]Just as you had said, I agree with you, John. It's so reflected of police department. Why? Because leadership is is so important when it comes to an organization. And we see it now with the sheriffs. We see it with the police department. It's an abusive environment because they're under inadequate leadership, insecurities by men that are just weak cowards that should not be in these positions. And ultimately, John, let's be honest, who's responsible for this? Who's responsible for a hostile environment? Who's responsible for the New York Sheriff's Department going down the tubes because of anti Miranda? whose response to the New York City Police Department being low morale and abusive environment and exactly that the overwhelming majority of the police department is not satisfied with John Shell and Cash Dory. We speak to cops anonymous anonymously on a constant basis. Unless you're in khaki pants and you're you're part of general population, you're being treated like a dog. You're overworked, exhausted.

[00:27:14]They're not backing you up. They're not supporting you. They're not getting the amenities. And who's responsible? Mayor Eric Adams, the de facto leadership of this whole breakdown of this tyrannical environment because he's tyrannical himself.

[00:27:29]Nighthawk says, "Let's get rid of the competition in selling and weed selling and help my friends get their weed license so they can open up their own weed businesses." Yeah, we're going to get into that 100%. Uh, Eman Miranda was always shady even when he was with the Hispanic Society.

[00:27:45]Um, yeah, absolutely. It's uh completely ridiculous. Uh completely Nola, that's what it was. So, this is him testifying.

[00:27:55]Uh here's uh Justin Brandon asking him, "Apologies that this is a little low. Uh if you guys could just let us know if you can hear it, so I'll know if I should should continue to play these or not." Um but they are a little low. Um, so he's gonna ask him about how much money Justin Bran's gonna ask Miranda about how much money has been seized by the sheriff's office.

[00:28:19]And he has no idea, nor does he know if there was ever any money seized from one of these raids. He apparently the New York City Police Department is responsible to do all the vouchering.

[00:28:33]Now, I don't necessarily believe that.

[00:28:35]If that is true and that is the case, it's still your office had conducted the raid. Your office is overseeing it. So, you would still be responsible to work in conjunction because you have members of the New York City Police Department working with you. You should still know how many raids you've conducted, how much cash has been seized from businesses. The other thing I want you to take note of is Justin Brandon's asking him where his forefeer money goes, right? What account is for his forefeer money? And he doesn't know. He has no idea. And then Justin Brandon tells him how much money he has in his forefeer account and how much money has been put in the forefeiter account from 2023 when he was the sheriff. And he doesn't know. So, right there, I'm looking at this and I'm saying, "Wow, this guy has no idea how much money the sheriff's office has seized last year, and he doesn't even know where it goes."

[00:29:40]So, can he be trusted?

[00:29:43]Can the integrity of this cash be trusted? I don't think so, because he doesn't even have any records of it. So, here we go. You're going to listen to the to the illustrious sheriff in New York City right now. Sheriff does not seize cash from any of the locations. NYPD seizes cash for safekeeping and investigative review when necessary. Uh to the best of your knowledge, has any sheriff's office employee during any inspection of any of those shops ever seized any cash >> during patlock to protect operations?

[00:30:17]>> Yeah.

[00:30:18]>> Um I do not believe so.

[00:30:23]>> Okay. Which asset forfeite account does c cash uh get deposited into >> if if we haven't seized the cash. I think that's I can probably get that for you. Uh if there's any seized cash by the sheriff's office, what asset forfeite accounts they utilize, I can probably come back and and be able to give you that information. I don't have that available right now.

[00:30:42]>> Okay. Because NYPD, right, they have an asset forfeite account and the office of the sheriff has asset forfeite account or is there another account? There was a controllers report for FY23.

[00:30:54]The ending balance for the office of the sheriff asset for forfeite account was about $867,000 with about $295,000 in revenue from that year. So do you have a projected revenue from the asset forfeite for FY25?

[00:31:11]>> I do not.

[00:31:14]>> Does the seized cash fund any specific programs within DOF?

[00:31:20]>> No, you said you asset forfeite generally. I mean There are rules and regulations about how you can utilize any money that's uh taken by for asset forfeite and there are specific guidelines to that. So I don't have that information available but I think one of the things you can do is for training and other things like that but it's very specific about the use and we have somebody else in the office that's assigned to taking care of that. So there would be the person that will speak to the particulars on that or I can find out more for you at a later time. But right here today, do you have a total amount for cash that's been seized at these inspections?

[00:31:54]>> Okay, two different questions, right?

[00:31:56]You asked the forfeite and the general nature of where we get funding from.

[00:31:58]That may come from various resources not related to cannabis enforcement. We're talking about cannabis enforcement since paradlock to protect the vouchering process has been designated with New York City NYPD, New York City Police Department. So that currently they are the ones who voucher the property depending on the circumstances of the location. They will either voucher it as uh safekeeping or they will vouch it as investigatory evidence depending on the different circumstances. So it would depend on depend on the circumstances of each in particular inspection and how we got there.

[00:32:28]>> But you don't have a you don't have a total number for how much?

[00:32:31]>> I do not I can definitely get the information after afterwards by confirming with the New York City Police Department. Okay.

[00:32:36]>> Thank you.

[00:32:39]>> Also been joined by council member Stephen.

[00:32:42]>> So the dude knows absolutely nothing, bro. If if if is is this someone that should should should be running anything.

[00:32:53]>> So, first of all, this is news to me.

[00:32:55]John, hold on. I got a train coming by.

[00:32:58]Give me a second here.

[00:32:58]>> Yeah. Yeah. Mute that. Mute that.

[00:33:00]>> My RV.

[00:33:02]>> Yeah. All right. So, yeah, you you heard him right there. He doesn't know how much cash has been seized.

[00:33:09]>> He has offices assigned to him. He doesn't know how many. He doesn't know.

[00:33:15]He doesn't know anything about where the money goes. He has no projections based upon last year because he doesn't even know how much money he took in last year. I mean, this dude was a sergeant in the NYPD. That leads me to believe that he had absolutely he was probably one of the worst sergeants in the NYPD.

[00:33:36]He had no idea what was going on, what crimes his command was taking, who his officers were, what their activity was, what the community was complaining about. He had no idea. He just showed up at work. He put a uniform on. He drove around for a couple hours, probably flirted with some of the girls, and that's about all he did. He's like, "Yeah, I'm a sergeant, bro. I'm a sergeant." You know, this is the sheriff in New York City. Complete incompetence.

[00:34:01]>> John Bones, sorry about that. I had a train coming by. I'm traveling my RV. If anybody ever has an opportunity to travel by RV, it's outstanding. You get to be close to nature. It's about most free you could ever be. Uh Bones one uh Bones 1999 says it's all about the power with these guys. It was never about the money since the day they raised their hands. They're all egoomaniacs. You're absolutely right. I mean, first of all, he's in a position of leadership. He should understand, especially when it comes to money. Money is such an intricate thing when especially when you're working in a New York City agency, whether it's the police department, whether you work in the sheriff's office, when you're apprehending and you're seizing funds, that is something that you would think would be meticulous. Now, I'm not saying you're going to have the exact numbers on hand. You probably would have those reports, especially, I will give credit to that when it comes to the leadership of the NYPD. They would have those reports when it comes to money, I would assume. Uh, but at this point, what do we see? we see just a an abusive office when it comes to sheriff's office, the police department, inadequate leadership. So, it's one of two things. Either he's a complete [ __ ] or he's just being arrogant because there's things to hide behind the curtain when it comes to money. And that's why I said to you earlier, John, is this someone that you would put in your circle who's already been shrouded of suspicion when it comes to campaign funds? Is this someone we we want to put in a position that has their hands and their fingers on money of seizure? It's quite interesting. I to my knowledge, you know, I've done it all with the police department and I've done operations with the sheriff's office also. To my knowledge, I did not I don't remember the police department having to voucher money on behalf of the sheriff's office. That's news to me. I don't want to say that's not that is not the case because I don't remember. But I want to check on that because I don't remember that. E even if that's the case, what's so important when it comes to the seizure of money, if it's going to go to civil court or if it's something that's a criminal nature and with the sheriff's office, most likely something civil, there would have to be a chain of custody, especially when it comes to the seizure of money. We have to document who touches that money and how that money makes it to the bank. That's so important. And he can't even articulate which asset forfeite bank is is is holding that money. I think, you know, on behalf of Justin Brown and he's not a big friend of ours, you know, John took a picture with him, but I think the qu the question was was very simple and I think he was being shrewd about it and and rightfully so.

[00:36:28]Um, I don't see, you know, again, I think Justin Brandon's incompetent as well because this should have been a red flag right here and this should have this should have honestly at this point sheriff should have been seized. City council's there to ensure that what the mayor put in place is actually working.

[00:36:44]They're there to provide the oversight.

[00:36:46]This is oversight for the finance chair.

[00:36:48]Someone keeps posting red flags in here and 100% should be red flags. Cornpaw brings up what exactly the point that needs to be had here.

[00:37:00]During co the sheriff's office was raiding bars and and confiscating alcohol, expensive alcohol. And what they were doing was and this all came out in the paper by the way. What they were doing was they were taking the alcohol and storing it in a private location and using it for their own personal stash. So, God knows how many of those bottles also went home and went to friends houses and went to all these things, but they were keeping bottles of alcohol and that came out and people were arrested or and I don't think anybody was ever convicted and I think that kind of fell by the wayside. But there's been a problem in the chain of custody. When you listen to the union's testimony, she says there's big problems in the sheriff's office. She says the way that they keep evidence, they keep they store it in unsafe locations, ebikes, marijuana, exposing her her officers to toxins. But I think she's also doesn't understand that her officers are being exposed to a lot of frivolous allegations that honestly there's no way for it to be proven or disproven at this point because it's such a convoluted mess when you have the sheriff who has NYPD police officers assigned to him. So whether the NYPD is responsible for vouchering that money or not, they're assigned to his office.

[00:38:20]they fall under his ranks. Meaning that he is responsible to compile the data.

[00:38:26]He is responsible to ensure what has being taken from all of these seizures.

[00:38:31]He is the investigative arresting authority on that scene. Although he has been assigned police officers to him, the fact that he doesn't know how much money has been confiscated, the fact that he doesn't know where confiscated money goes, he doesn't understand how much money he has in forfeiture, he has no projection for what they are going to do in the future. Tells me that he has absolutely no idea what's going on. So, I'm gonna make the same statement again.

[00:39:04]Justin Brennan should have stopped the processes here. And there should have been numerous allegations made to the department investigations immediately after this hearing. There should been a department investigation immediately sparked by the finance chair, Justin Brennan, by the committee on oversight chair. They should have immediately notified DOI and said, "Wait a minute. The sheriff has no idea what's going on. does not appear to be in control of what they're confiscating and was not prepared to come here and speak today. And there are numerous red flags around this off around his office prior. We've had allegations of stealing prior that have been proven and he knows absolutely nothing. Yet he's here today to go over his budget that he knows nothing about.

[00:39:58]Hey, good morning. Uh, Frankie 197 says, "Totally incompetent, big problem." And with a question mark, appointed position. You're right, brother. Another appointed position by Mayor Eric Adams.

[00:40:12]John and I have explored, we discussed this, we both agree that most of the positions in New York City when it comes to agencies should be elected positions.

[00:40:23]these positions should be elected by the people because look, we we've we see an environment with Eric Adams just completely shrouded with clouds of judgment, suspicions when it comes to uh corruption. And I mean, I agree with you, John. You I think you nailed it here. Absolutely. I think that there should be immediate notifications and immediate investigation done. Again, it's either two things. Either he's just a complete [ __ ] or he's just playing possum because they're hiding money. And what I can tell you this, anyone here that knows anyone that owns a restaurant, if you own the restaurant yourself or a bar, you know what they call alcohol when it's sitting on the shelf?

[00:41:02]Money on the shelf. That's that's exactly when they're moving bottles and they're leaving bottles and they're taking it for their own for their own self-gratification.

[00:41:12]That's money. It's substantial. Alcohol is expensive. I mean, there's there's alcohol bottles. We know Johnny uh Johnny Walker Blue or high-end bottles that are two and 300 some odd dollars.

[00:41:24]These could be expensive bottles. Are they cheap bottles? Of course, but we're talking about a lot of money and there's a lot of money that gets that gets seized. And speaking of seizing, Eric's uh internet just seized. So, but yeah, uh listen, I agree. I agree with all you guys. It's not it's it's not it's beyond incompetence. It's either he's too stupid to run the office or there's some form of corruption going on, but it it in itself the incompetence is a complete is complete corruption because if he doesn't know how much money he doesn't know how much money I mean and me and Eric had showed it before when they did their raid with weed and uh with their marijuana raid and we showed it before we showed the mayor walking around sniffing weed packages.

[00:42:19]We showed you Viral News who was arrested for selling illegal marijuana.

[00:42:24]Uh I'm sorry, wasn't arrested. Had his had his uh his shipment confiscated.

[00:42:29]He's tweeted about it numerous times.

[00:42:32]He's in there on an exclusive. Why why any reporters are getting soul exclusives from the NYPD? I don't know.

[00:42:39]I've done Freedom and Press Loud Labs.

[00:42:41]Were you Have you gotten any exclusives?

[00:42:43]Have has Fox has New York Post? Has any of them gotten any exclusives? I don't know. But I don't know why we're giving favoritism towards some reporters and others, especially reporters who have been arrested for the same thing who could possibly taint a crime scene. So, we seen the mayor walking around sniffing weed packages. And what do we say? We said this stuff is not being cataloged properly. There's no way they could catalog all of this product properly. catalog it and voucher it and and and it's actually breaking the chain of custody which could alleviate which could get could ruin the work of these search warrants and all of these other things. So all that's being done. So if he doesn't know how much money was there which is probably I I I don't would you agree is the most is the biggest corruptionprone thing there. I'm not going to say it's much bigger than the drugs but it's it's pro it's it's definitely at least the top.

[00:43:36]if if the drugs and and the money should be similar right at the top. Those are the highest forms of of of evidence and most corruptionprone items that he's going to deal with, which is money and drugs, right? Or alcohol. Money, drugs, and alcohol, right? We already know that there was a problem with the alcohol.

[00:43:53]Now, he doesn't know how much money there is. Could anyone trust that he knows how much marijuana has been confiscated?

[00:44:01]John, let's be honest, John.

[00:44:04]And we know he's a complete idiot. He's a [ __ ] But make no mistake about it.

[00:44:09]The biggest morons know how much money they have. They know how much money's in their pocket there. Even if even though he's a big [ __ ] there's no way that he has no idea how they seize money, which bank it's going to, and where that money goes. Would you agree, John? I think it's hard to believe and hardressed that Anthony Miranda has no idea, especially when you're in the leadership position of the sheriff's office. Even though he's a complete [ __ ] he's a dummy. He doesn't know where the money's going.

[00:44:34]Come on. I don't buy it. He knows.

[00:44:37]>> Yeah. I mean, well, I'm not saying that he knows or he doesn't. He's saying he doesn't know here. So, he's too incompetent to run sheriff's office is what I'm saying. So, the calls for he's saying here he doesn't know. So, I have to have no know I can't say that I think he knows. I don't know that that he knows. I only know that I know that he's incompetent, that he clearly isn't a leader, that he clearly, if there's any corruption, it's either happening because he's incompetent or because he's in. So, I don't I you know, I I don't know what I I don't know. I don't know Anthony Miranda from a hole in the wall, but I can tell you right here after watching this hearing, and I recommend anybody that's looking into any of this, watch that hearing, look at those answers that he gives. He does not know one thing. He doesn't know how much money's been taken. They don't ask about the marijuana seizures because again, this is this isn't a hearing for that. This is a hearing for finances. But I guarantee he doesn't know. I guarantee he doesn't know because he doesn't know anything. Hassan, you're right, brother.

[00:45:41]Good morning. Thank you very much. And I'm with you. We're going to be in lock step when it comes to this. Bums. Hassan says bums at Eric's voice. You're right.

[00:45:48]They're bums. And you know what this shows, John?

[00:45:51]This shows that the the political system of New York is broken because what we're what what I've realized by this administration is that we're relying, you know, leadership is so important on every level. But we're relying on one man to make all the proper adjustments, the proper appointment so that New York City is flourishing and flowing properly. And if not, it just could completely fall because Mayor Eric Adams, he's pretty much a zar. He's a king. He has the ability to make all the appointments and put people in positions that are shrouded by judgment that are just like him. And this is the byproduct. This is what we get. This is why we have to push. We need the system to change in New York. We need elected positions by the people, not by Eric Adams. Because look, look what we have.

[00:46:37]We have idiots in charge. I mean, I think honestly we could get someone from the 124 room to be in charge of the sheriff's office and do a better job. We got a hostile environment. We have complete shroud of judgment. We don't know where this money's going. And and I can't believe that he actually honestly they're so arrogant.

[00:46:56]We see the arrogance of banks, you know, with Katie Honen. If anybody saw that, we'll put it up. But we see the arrogance of this entire administration as far as I I I I think Miranda is complete arrogant here. To actually not be embarrassed that you don't know where any of this money is going. This is insane.

[00:47:14]It's It's disgusting. It's honestly disgusting. And and again, I I today, even this morning, I received text after tax after text. It's going to be bad if Jamani Williams takes over. I'm like, this dude, they're literally I I I don't even want to say what I said, but I I don't even want to say what I said because I can't even say what I said, but look at who's appointed around him. Look at all of the lack of integrity from everybody that this guy appoints. He's the worst manager ever. Eric Adams.

[00:47:44]Anthony Miranda could not run a patrol squad. Thank God for the test. Thank God for the testing in the NYPD. Thank God for it because people like that would never get ahead.

[00:47:56]Listen, right now we're talking about a sheriff, the incompetent sheriff uh New York City, Anthony Miranda. His uh his uh sheriff's union is asking him to step down. We're also going to be talking about the cozar who worked under Bill Delasio. We got 962 people in here. If you guys could just do us a favor, like, subscribe, share out the space, repost it if you're on social media, wherever you're watching or listening. We appreciate everybody that's uh in here today and uh give us your thoughts.

[00:48:25]We'll try to get to your questions and comments as best we can, but they're flying in. Uh uh former Sergeant Stephen Lee, the system unfiltered, says Jumani might do a better job than Adams. I listen. I'm saying right now, put Jamani Williams in there. Put this there is money that is completely unaccounted for in the millions of dollars from this administration. Every piece of New York City, every agency is ran by incompetent, low integrity individuals.

[00:48:59]We don't know what's going on. The wheels are beginning to stop to turn, not only in New York City Police Department, but in every city agency in New York City. This guy needs to go.

[00:49:11]Give Jamani a few weeks. Let's see if he runs for mayor. I doubt he will even run for mayor to be honest with you. I doubt he's even gonna run. I personally think Cuomo is going to throw his name in the hat. Andrew Cuomo is going to be your next mayor. Um, that's how I'm seeing it. That's how I'm looking at it.

[00:49:27]Everybody needs to go. Everybody's talking about freakout parties on here.

[00:49:31]And I'm going to say right now, it looks like they were all having freakout parties. It looks like they were all having freakout parties. Let me play this one vid this last video showing just one more step about how incompetent this guy is. So, he doesn't know how many inspections they've conducted. He doesn't know how much money they've seized. Um he didn't know where his his forefeer money kept. He has no projections for the next year. He doesn't know anything. He just points fingers to the NYPD who are assigned to him by the way. So, he's clearly not supervising them. And let's see. Does the New York City Sheriff Anthony Miranda know how many arrests his st his team has made during business inspections? Let's see.

[00:50:15]>> Arrest and referrals. Um, how many arrests have been made during inspections?

[00:50:23]>> Okay, I don't have those numbers, but and again during the inspections, the people that are being arrested are not being arrested for cannabis related violations. If they're being arrested, they're being arrested because we found other illegal products that result in them being arrested.

[00:50:38]>> Absolutely. And those arrests, I know a lot of times you do.

[00:50:42]>> That's it. He He doesn't even know. He doesn't know.

[00:50:46]>> Yeah. Listen, I find it hard to believe that he doesn't know. I think that he's complete [ __ ] but I think that he's totally evading the questions. I think that he's purposely being evasive. I think that he knows. I think that he knows where this money's going. I think it's a complete lie. More gaslighting, more lies. this entire administration is is uh it cannot be trusted. I I just think it's all out lie. I find it hard to believe. He knows where this money's going. I'm tell you right now, if he was missing $50 from his bank account, I'm sure he would know where that money went or he would start making phone calls. He knows it's uh well, he doesn't know how many he doesn't know even know how many arrests. He don't even know how many arrests his team has made. And he says, "Oh, well, you know, they're not for marijuana. Who cares? We've conducted this many inspections. This is this is how many arrests we have. This many is related to marijuana offenses. Who is this hard? This is this is policing 101.

[00:51:40]This is police supervision 101. If this dude was a sergeant, he would get chewed out. Chewed out. No one's saying anything. City council sitting there like goes, "Yeah, I guess he doesn't know the answers." And her line of questioning just kept continuing around the rest. And he knew he knew nothing.

[00:51:58]It was honestly, I'm telling you guys, go back 9:17, go to city council, go to the videos, watch this. I can't play the whole thing because we'd be here for 4 hours just listening to this [ __ ] tell you he knows nothing. Again, [ __ ] does not look right and he is incompetent.

[00:52:19]So, he's obviously incompetent. So again, when when a corruption scandal breaks out, is anybody going to be shocked? Is anybody going to be shocked when if Anthony Miranda gets his house raided and he's a subject of a federal investigation? I'm not. I'm saying right now he should be.

[00:52:38]>> Wait a minute, John. Are you telling me that you would think that there would be a corruption probe in an administration under Mayor Eric Adams? Ah, I find that hard to believe. a corruption probe on the mayor Eric Adams in the sheriff's office. Why? Why would we think that would happen? Is there anything else going on that we would think that you know again what does this show? Also, John, you know who who else are idiots?

[00:53:03]New York City Council. They're stupid, too. They don't know. Maybe they don't know the questions to ask because they just don't know themselves. I mean, clearly they don't understand what's going on with the sheriff's office. They don't realize how much money these guys take in, how much property they recover.

[00:53:17]And and I agree with you. Does it matter? She didn't she didn't ask what type of arrest. She just said how many arrests. And yet you can't give that number. But I have to I have to give these guys credit. That's why I don't think they're as dumb as we think they are. They're great at deflecting questions.

[00:53:34]Miranda deflects questions. Banks deflects questions. We'll show you in a minute. You'll see that uh every one of this everyone in this administration, they do a great job at deflecting questions. So they're not as dumb as we think they are. They're they're they're they're a little smarter. They know they know how to move when it comes to money.

[00:53:52]>> Yeah. So Tom says the first day of BMC prisoners and property will jam you up and the finest uh the system unfiltered says Tom it's actually the three P's and we you guys could uh guess what that other P is, you know. Um, so, so here is the sheriff Anthony Miranda at a Latino organization that represents cannabis business owners, right? Do you think that there is arbitrary enforcement possibly not being done against Latinoowned cannabis owners? I don't know. Here he is at the event.

[00:54:33]Possibly, maybe not. We don't know. I mean, it's probably being alleged if you speak to the Yemen uh business owners, uh they're alleging that uh the ones who whose businesses have been raided, they're alleging that. And they're also alleging that there is a hands-off style of policing for when it goes into the Asian community as well. So, I don't know. That's just what I'm hearing. And then, so let's I So, I had to take a look. Someone sent me this. So then we looked into what's who else is uh like what what is this Latino organization like that that's been around and look who it is. The co-founder Latino Cannabis. Look who the co-founder of this is.

[00:55:16]LCA co-founder Jeffrey Garcia appointed to New York City Mayor Small Business Advisory Commission.

[00:55:24]So, for those of you that don't know who Jeffrey Garcia is, Jeffrey Garcia is now I don't know that he's still the the he was the one-time president of this. I don't know if he still is. Uh I haven't really looked in that deep, but he was the president of this and obviously they're touting him as the uh co-founder. So, now he is actually the executive director of the office of the nightlife of mayor. Who is the office of nightife of mayor? Let's go back to that video where the business owner said he reached out to the office of the nightlife mayor to a man named Ray Martin and told him he was having problems with the NYPD and he was trying to keep his business open. And when he reached out to him, man named Ray Martin had told him to call a private firm by a man um by former police commissioner Ed Kaban's twin brother, James Kaban. And that man alleges that he was being shaken down. He was asked to give him $2,500 and the New York City Police Department would lay off him. And when he didn't, his business was closed.

[00:56:35]So that's who Jeffrey Garcia is. He he runs that office where Ray Martin received that phone call.

[00:56:43]What a tangle web weewe weave. Eric.

[00:56:48]Yeah. You know, I I it's funny you say that. I always I always put that sometimes my tweets when it comes to Eric Adams. You know, what a tangle. We we've we like to deceive. And that's the deception of this administration.