The Chief Leader

The Chief-Leader is a well-established publication dedicated to civil service and local government matters in New York City. Founded in 1897 by Joseph J. O'Reilly, this privately owned newspaper originally targeted city firefighters.

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Ex-NYCHA super gets 18 months in prison for accepting bribes

5 days ago | thechiefleader.com | Crystal Lewis

Ex-NYCHA super gets 18 months in prison for accepting bribesBY CRYSTAL LEWISPosted 5/16/25 A former superintendent at the city Housing Authority has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for demanding $30,000 in bribes in exchange for granting $400,000 in contracts. Hector Colon, 47, who worked as a superintendent at several NYCHA developments across Manhattan, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman and ordered to pay $30,000 in restitution.
FDNY seeking to 'integrate' firefighting and EMS corps

5 days ago | thechiefleader.com | Duncan Freeman

Posted 5/16/25 The FDNY plans to further integrate its EMS and firefighting services by unifying the administration of both and bringing “critical resources” to beleaguered EMTs, paramedics and EMS officers, according to the department’s 2025 strategic plan.
AFGE president says downsizing threatens the union's survival

1 week ago | thechiefleader.com | Ryan Foley

The president of the nation's largest union for federal workers said the organization's ongoing staff downsizing will devastate the services it provides members and threatens the group's survival. Everett Kelley, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in March removed over 200,000 of its dues-paying members, or about two-thirds of the total.
Trump's push to save the fading coal industry gets a warm embrace in West Virginia

1 week ago | thechiefleader.com | Leah Willingham |John Raby

The winner of this year's West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 years ago and imagines the rusted remains of coal tipples and processing plants coming back to life. Ava Johnson knows West Virginia coal will not ever be what it once was.
Insurgent slate looks to topple Local 3005 leadership

1 week ago | thechiefleader.com | Duncan Freeman

Dissident members of Local 3005 who last year succeeded in passing a motion calling for the union's pensions to be divested from Israeli stocks and bonds are now seeking to oust the local's leadership in elections being held this month.
Nespoli, longtime San Man, retires

1 week ago | thechiefleader.com | Richard Khavkine

Posted 5/9/25 When Department of Sanitation workers went on strike in February 1968, Harry Nespoli was hard at work. On the gridiron. Nespoli, who had graduated from John Jay High School in Brooklyn a few years earlier, had gone to college in Kansas, starring as a running back. He then played with the minor league Bridgeport Jets, in Connecticut, the New York Jets’ minor league affiliate.
What to do if you get an IRS notice

1 week ago | thechiefleader.com | Barry Lisak

Each year, the Internal Revenue Service sends millions of letters and notices to taxpayers for a variety of reasons. Although some people may feel anxious when they receive one, many are easy to resolve. Here are items to know about IRS notices, just in case one shows up in your mailbox. Don’t panic. Many of these letters can be dealt with simply and painlessly. You generally have 30 days to respond to an IRS notice. Always check which tax year the notice relates to.
Additives, self-slaughter and excommunication

1 week ago | thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac

There's a lot of talk these days about cognitive impairment. When it's real and how it's measured is disputed, especially when the subjects are public figures. My original diagnostic test is the most reliable. It can be tailored to holders of officers of public trust who must tap their precocious memories to recall the sequence of their lies for future repetition and perhaps expanded to people who actually seek to heal the world.
500 bodegas to get 'SilentShield' panic buttons

1 week ago | thechiefleader.com | Richard Khavkine

Posted 5/9/25 Following a series of robberies, stabbings and killings inside city bodegas that have workers at the small groceries concerned for their safety and that of their customers, Mayor Eric Adams announced Sunday that the city would fund the installation of ‘SilentShield’ panic buttons in about 500 of the stores across the five boroughs.
Gresham, longtime president of 1199, loses re-election bid

1 week ago | thechiefleader.com | Crystal Lewis

Posted 5/9/25 George Gresham, the long-serving president of the Service Employees International Union Local 1199, has been ousted. Gresham, who has led the country’s largest health-care union since 2007, was soundly defeated by challenger Yvonne Armstrong in balloting that concluded last week. More than 38,000 members of the union cast ballots.