Will Bredderman

2 months ago | thenevadaindependent.com | Will Bredderman

If Patel is confirmed, GOP megadonor accused of “bait-and-switch” vacation rental schemes could have a close associate at the highest levels of law enforcement. In January 2016, now-retired U.S. Navy chief petty officer Tim Clark says he was in Las Vegas with his wife — also a veteran — for a wedding when a solicitor for Starpoint Resort Group approached them “at the 50-yard line of the Strip” and urged them to buy a timeshare in the Jockey Club, the building directly above their heads.

Nov 20, 2024 | nysfocus.com | Will Bredderman

BEFORE YOU GO, consider: If not for the article you just read, would the information in it be public? Or would it remain hidden — buried within the confines of New York’s sprawling criminal-legal apparatus? I started working at New York Focus in 2022, not long after the outlet launched.

Nov 13, 2024 | nysfocus.com | Will Bredderman

At New York Focus, our central mission is to help readers better understand how New York really works. If you think this article succeeded, please consider supporting our mission and making more stories like this one possible. New York is an incongruous state. We’re home to fabulous wealth — if the state were a country, it would have the tenth largest economy in the world — but also the highest rate of wealth inequality. We’re among the most diverse – but also the most segregated.

Nov 1, 2024 | cityandstateny.com | Will Bredderman

Amid the pro-Palestinian protests that wracked Columbia University’s campus this spring, 77 WABC radio host Sid Rosenberg held his own Israel-boosting counter-demonstration near the school, flanked by two of the most embattled GOP congressmen in New York and the nation: Reps. Mike Lawler and Anthony D’Esposito.

Oct 1, 2024 | cityandstateny.com | Will Bredderman

One of the straw donor schemes described in the federal indictment of Mayor Eric Adams was in fact a bid by a pair of Turkish-American media operators to launch a social club – according to one of the businessmen who put up cash for the campaign as part of the deal.