NEW YORK POST DEFENDS VDARE vs. NYAG LETITIA JAMES!

Sort of. It's mainly attacking Letitia James. But we'll take it

PETER BRIMELOW writes: So Lydia and I just wrote a five-figure personal check to retain a personal lawyer, quite separate from the VDARE Foundation’s lawyers, to try to defend ourselves against New York State Attorney General Letitia James’ typically vindictive decision to sue us as individuals, along with the VDARE Foundation, on utterly specious grounds that we have long since rebutted. This is the nature of lawfare and prosecutorial abuse in modern America. They just wear you down. I guess it means our daughters (15, 13, 10) won’t be going to expensive colleges—if indeed we can even retain the family home. (General Michael Flynn could not).

After the initial wave of Leftist media inquiries following the NYAG announcement, obviously tipped off, we still have received absolutely no further queries i.e. none from my friends in “Conservative” media, some of whom I have known for more than forty years. The Conservative Movement, notoriously, does not retrieve its wounded.

But, without contacting us, the New York Post did just publish a powerful editorial on Letitia James and the VDARE case. I don’t know if this has anything to do with friends there from whom we’ve been begging for help for years.

New York Post associate editorial page editor Seth Barron, whom I don’t know, has a video version here).

Here’s the editorial, all links in original, with my comments in bold:

AG Tish James fixates on political enemies, ignores massive corruption in her home state

By Post Editorial Board. Published Sep. 7, 2025, 7:28 p.m. ET

VDare, an obscure [welp] anti-immigration website, moved out of state long ago, but was founded decades ago in New York; [The VDARE Foundation was registered in New York because our then-pro-bono lawyer was admitted to the bar there. But it never operated in New York] that was enough to let James focus her office’s efforts on looking into its apparent use of donor money to buy a headquarters in the Mountain State town of Berkeley Springs that doubles as a home for its founder.

{The Brimelow family does NOT live in the Castle. It was purchased to be the VDARE Foundation’s headquarters and a conference venue, because Letitia James’ Antifa friends bullied commercial hotels into cancelling more than a dozen VDARE.com conferences in the previous few years].

For reasons known only to Tish James and God, she has pursued a vendetta against this obscure [welp welp] right-wing blog for years: The press release announcing her latest lawsuit against VDare lists five section chiefs, assistant attorneys general and staff as working on this case.

[This is interesting because it shows the New York Post has actually read the complaint. VDARE’s lawyers report they are always massively outnumbered by NYAG personnel at hearings. Of course, it’s not like NYAG has anything else to do.]

New York Attorney General Letitia James endorses mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani at a rally on Tuesday, September 2, 2025.Stephen Yang for the New York Post

Meanwhile, politically juiced “service providers” truly active in New York maintain fat government contracts worth hundreds of millions a year, even though their corruption and other insider profiteering have been public, documented knowledge for years.

The profiteers are solid members of the local Democratic elite, so when it comes to investigating, let alone prosecuting, any of them, it’s radio silence from the AG: no press releases, no lawsuits — nothing.

The city’s Department of Investigation details a longstanding pattern of self-dealing, excessive payments, nepotism and other blatant irregularities and flat-out illegality in the city’s multibillion-dollar homeless-industrial complex.

SEBCO, a “nonprofit” shelter provider, hired a for-profit company to provide security services. Surprise: SEBCO owned the security company, chose it via a non-competitive process and paid its own executives hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary.

The husband of a SEBCO executive is affiliated with four of its for-profit subcontractors, providing a range of services from extermination to maintenance and cleaning.

Acacia Network, another homeless-shelter operator with a dodgy safety record, pays its top executive close to a million dollars in yearly total compensation, a figure the charity says is “reasonable” … according to a consultant it hired.

Before finally losing its city contracts, CORE Services raked in hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to shelter the homeless; it, too, hired its own for-profit subsidiaries to provide security, food, etc., paying the execs in fat-six-figure amounts.

The DOI found similar scams going on across dozens of homeless services providers; the feds have prosecuted a few of the insiders and sent them to prison,

[I say BOGGLE to this. Guess it’s a good job I don’t live in Manhattan any more]

while AG James devotes her resources to ideological lawfare.

VDare may [Appreciate the skeptical italics at least ! In fact, we are completely innocent, as we could have demonstrated if anyone had asked] have misallocated some of its meager contributions, but it never got a dime from the taxpayers: All its donors are private individuals.

[Of course, this is true, although it never occurred to us]

New York social service nonprofits, meanwhile, are built entirely around leeching taxpayer money and enriching and/or empowering their own leadership.

James is a genius at chasing headlines as she prosecutes her ideological enemies, but an utter failure at policing the “charities” that rob New Yorkers blind.