I. THE BIG HOLES IN THE MAY 28, 2005 TIMES ARTICLE
One doesn’t need inside information to recognize that editors at the New York Times toned down their paper’s long awaited piece on the Fred Newman cult that controls the New York Independence Party--and that this was done to avoid political damage in an election year to a mayor strongly supported by the Times’ publishers.
The article as published on May 28, was more remarkable for what it left out than for what it said. For instance, readers were told
NOTHING about Newman and Fulani’s defense of social therapists having sex with their patients; NOTHING about social therapy’s practice of fleecing patients of their life savings or inheritances; NOTHING about the recent charges of All Stars exploiting and emotionally abusing teenagers, as contained in Molly Hardy’s complaint to New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer; NOTHING about the Newman group’s sinister support for Libya’s Gadhafi during his terror attacks on Americans in the late 1980s; NOTHING about the ongoing California-based FBI investigation of possible charities fraud by followers of Newman; NOTHING about the Long Island civil RICO lawsuit against the cult for alleged fraudulent electoral practices; NOTHING about the cult’s questionable treatment of children and teens in a variety of now defunct programs from the 1970s through the 1990s; NOTHING about the misleading information Lenora Fulani and other cult members provided to the city’s Industrial Development Agency while applying for the $8.5 million All Stars bond that was approved in 2002; and NOTHING about the cult’s bizarre views on the family, child abuse, NAMBLA and “friendosexuality.”
If the Times had published everything it knew--especially about the questionable nature of the Newmanite child and youth programs--the Bloomberg-Newman-Fulani alliance would probably be well on its way to dissolution by now. Instead, the Times helped Bloomberg dodge the bullet. IT IS THE CHILDREN OF NEW YORK CITY CURRENTLY BEING INDOCTRINATED AND EXPLOITED BY NEWMAN AND FULANI (WITH THE HELP OF TAXPAYER SUPPORT AND THE MAYOR’S PERSONAL FORTUNE) WHO WILL PAY THE PRICE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES’ TIMIDITY.
I can imagine how Times reporter Michael Slackman, who from all reports tried to do a good job, must have felt as his piece was turned into oatmeal. Last year I had a similar experience when a certain New York publication yanked at the last minute an op-ed I had written on the Mayor’s relationship to the Newmanites, and replaced it with an article by a staff writer that barely mentioned the mayor and avoided altogether the sensitive issue of child and teen exploitation in the programs of the city-subsidized All Stars Project.
After reading the Times article, I dusted off my 2004 op-ed and found that it’s not only still up to date in most respects, but that it probably includes a lot of what the Times knew, but decided not to reveal, in its May 28, 2005 article. Among other things, my piece names the names of the foolish celebrities like Dana Tyler and the “useful idiot” donors like Greg Fortunoff who give support to All Stars. The Times, by contrast, simply made a vague reference to how “high-profile artists, academics and businesspeople have lent their names and credibility to [All Stars].” (One possible reason for the Times’ reluctance was that naming names would have necessitated revealing that Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chairman of Harvard University’s African and African-American Studies Department, is a strong booster of Fulani and All Stars. Gates happens also to be a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board.)
I’m putting this article on the web (in a slightly expanded version) so Mayor Bloomberg will know that even if you shut up the Gray Lady you can't shut up the bloggers and you can’t buy off the entire New York media. The truth is out there about the mayor’s political and financial support for a Jew-hating, child-exploiting cult. And this truth will make itself known to the general public sooner rather than later.
(March 2004. King's more recent findings are here.)
The media warned Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Pataki repeatedly in 2002 about the folly of giving taxpayer dollars to a youth charity run by Independence Party (IP) leaders Fred Newman and Lenora Fulani--political cultists with a long record of odiferous extremism. Newman is the white psychotherapist and self-styled Marxist ideologue who, in a speech welcoming Louis Farrakhan to New York City in 1985, called the Jews (“as a people”) the “stormtroopers of decadent capitalism.” Fulani is the Newman acolyte who in a 1989 interview described the Jews as “mass murderers of people of color.” Together Newman and Fulani published until 1994 a weekly, The National Alliance, which idolized the likes of Palestinian terrorist Abu Jihad, the mastermind of the killing of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and Libyan strongman Muammar Gadhafi, who plotted the attack on Pan Am Flight 103 in which 270 people were killed.
The mayor and governor didn’t listen to the urgings of caution from the New York Post and other dailies. Instead, they orchestrated an $8.5 million tax-free municipal loan to Newman and Fulani’s All Stars Project for establishing a youth-oriented arts complex near Times Square. Not surprisingly, the first play staged at the charity’s new theater by teenage amateur actors was Newman’s “Crown Heights,” which portrayed the Jewish victims of the 1991 Brooklyn riots as the instigators. In Newman’s scenario, a character based on Yankel Rosenbaum, the Hassidic rabbinical student slain by a rioter, accidentally falls against a knife during an attack by Jewish thugs on black teenagers.
Hook, sinker and ballot line
The approval of the loan to All Stars, which offers programs for kids from age five through the teen years, appears to have been motivated more by politics than by any concern for New York’s kids. Newman and Fulani, through their loyal band of several score former psychotherapy patients (known as the “Newmanites”), control the IP, the state’s third largest party, and are adept at trading its ballot line to the highest major-party bidders.
In 2001, the IP provided 59,000 votes (the margin of victory and then some) to Bloomberg in his contest against Mark Green. Shortly thereafter, the city’s Industrial Development Agency (IDA) gave provisional approval to the All Stars bond issue. Governor Pataki had decided he needed the IP’s 2002 ballot line, and the bond issue was given final approval on May 14, 2002, only four days before the IP state convention endorsed Pataki for reelection. The governor took most of the media heat on this, but the final approval vote came from the IDA board, 14 of whose 15 members, including the chairman, Andrew M. Alper, were Bloomberg appointees. (In the upshot, the governor ended up with nothing--maverick billionaire Tom Golisano snatched away the IP line in a primary race).
Mayor Bloomberg’s subsidizing of All Stars with public funds appears all the more outrageous in the light of Fulani’s claim (in a letter posted September 15, 2001 on the website of the IP’s think tank) that the September 11 terror attacks were the fault of the U.S. government’s “aggression and arrogance.” When the budget crisis of 2003 hit, the mayor did not reexamine the city’s support for Fulani and All Stars. Instead, his budget cuts targeted the heroes of September 11--the police and firefighters. The mayor even closed six firehouses in Brooklyn, Queens and Harlem that could easily have been kept open with less money that was expended on Fulani’s dubious youth program.
Thirty years’ experience in exploiting kids
Equally outrageous is the fact that taxpayer money is being used to indoctrinate kids. For over 30 years the Newmanites have practiced something called “social therapy” (you get well through joining the revolutionary collective) on teenagers and children as well as adults. In the 1970s they set up an alternative high school on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and used it to recruit teenage girls. Later they hijacked a New Jersey Head Start program; when the ideological sessions began, the entire teaching staff quit. They also started a private elementary school in Harlem where social therapy sessions and pro-Tawana Brawley demonstrations replaced the 3 R’s (most parents eventually withdrew their kids, preferring even the New York City public schools to the Newmanites’ self-styled educational “laboratory”).
The All Stars Talent Show Network, the flagship program of today’s All Stars Project, started out in a promising manner in the early 1980s, organizing youth talent contests at inner-city high school auditoriums in New York City and expanding to include citywide and even nationwide contests. But disillusioned members of Newman’s organization who had worked on the talent shows came forward in the early 1990s and charged that Newman had transformed the program into nothing but a “cash cow” to get money out of wealthy liberals (and out of the young performers’ parents and relatives, who were pressured to sell blocks of tickets to the event their child was participating in). Today, the talent show network is a ghost of its former self; the ticket receipts report in All Stars' 990 tax filings, and the events schedule on the All Stars website, suggest that the program works with only a tiny fraction of the 20,000 kids per year claimed in its promotional literature.
By the standards of most New York parents, the Newmanites are poor role models for kids. Known in the early 1970s for their nude group-therapy sessions (one of which turned into a somewhat timid attempt at an orgy), they have long championed a boundaries-free therapy in which sex between therapists and clients is permissible. In the 1980s Newman proclaimed the goal of destroying the “bourgeois family” and began describing his alternative as “friendosexuality.” Newman has never been very specific about this concept (which is also referred to as “developmental sex”), but various statement in his writings and interviews, and in articles by his followers, suggest an ever-shifting network of heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual relationships among political activists who live in group apartments and regard Newman’s “development community” as their substitute for the traditional family.
Art, sex, and trust-fund babies
Newman outlined his personal lifestyle with relish in a 1990 article, “Women I Live With,” while relentlessly sexualizing the group’s rhetoric on every level. “Fulani for Prez--She’s a Sexual Preference” became the slogan of his leading disciple’s 1992 Presidential campaign.
The Castillo Cultural Center (now part of All Stars) served as the chief forum for the group’s adolescent-style fixation on sex. Newman began to write plays that required his amateur actresses/therapy patients to take off their clothes on the stage. According to former members, leaflets were circulated in the Times Square peepshow district to attract audiences. Newman told his mostly Jewish followers that the Castillo productions were a way to protest against the “emotional concentration camps in which all of us are forced to live.”
Castillo sponsored in 1990 an exhibit of paintings by Newman and several of his women followers entitled “Collective Sex.” The program notes written by Newman described the exhibit as a “dialectical synthesis between painting (the activity) and performing (the activity).” According to an article in Newman’s National Alliance, “the paintings invite you to jump in and join the marvelous sexual jumble of naked bodies….”
Newman persuaded one of the women artists, Judy Penzer, to obtain a half-million-dollar donation from her mother and to donate at least that much from her own inheritance. In the “Collective Sex” program notes, Newman boasted that Penzer, whom he described as coming from a “Long Island Jewish family,” had “literally given over all that she was given (obtained by the exploitation of working people) to our people. She is truly a gem!”
The cult also induced Penzer to name Lois Holzman, a top theorist of the social therapy movement, as executor of her estate. When Penzer died in a TWA plane crash in 1996, Holzman filed suit against TWA, claiming the airline had deprived her of Penzer’s companionship and earnings (in fact, Penzer had moved to Pittsburgh and was engaged in artistic endeavors apart from the cult). Holzman also filed suit on behalf of the estate against Penzer’s brother, claiming he should turn over $600,000 of his sister’s assets so they could be distributed to her and to the Community Literacy Research Project (a charity that later changed its name to the All Stars Project).
Since 1993, Newman has resided in a Bank Street townhouse with his chief paramour, Gabrielle Kurlander (the president of All Stars), and over a dozen past or present social therapy clients, mostly women. Fulani, who is not without a sense of humor, has described the ideology underlying this praxis as a “postmodern” form of Bolshevism.
Defending NAMBLA (and Gadhafi too)
The Newmanites have no history of sexually abusing small children, but their tolerant attitude on the issue calls into question their ability to properly screen and monitor All Stars’ many volunteers, as well as the appropriateness of public funding for this enterprise under any circumstances. In 1983 the Newmanites’ now-defunct newspaper fiercely supported the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) when it was under investigation by the FBI; accepted at face value NAMBLA’s description of itself as a support group for men and boys engaged in “consensual sex”; and stated, regarding NAMBLA’s call for legalized pederasty, that “[w]hat is desirable (what should be) is not always what is possible….”
Over the following 15 years, leading Newmanites provided political and/or legal backing for a succession of high-profile abusers such as Kodzo DoBosu, a former national “Father of the Year” accused of horrific physical and sexual assaults on his houseful of disabled and mentally retarded adoptees. Fulani, who has stated that the solution to child abuse is to involve abused child and abusing adult in a joint struggle to overthrow the traditional family, became DoBosu’s “political advisor” in 1991. In spite of her grandstanding, DoBosu pled guilty, and the court stripped him of all parental rights while barring him from ever adopting children again.
Since the 2002 IP primary debacle, Bloomberg rather than the governor has been the Newmanites’ main patron. Indeed, some observers believe that the mayor, isolated from much of his own party, has allowed himself to become a virtual captive of the group. Certainly he exerts himself to keep them happy. In February 2002, he allowed Newmanite IP operatives Cathy Stewart and Jacqueline Salit to co-chair with him a rally at Manhattan Republican headquarters to support John Ravitz’ unsuccessful state senatorial campaign.
The same month, Bloomberg donated $50,000 of his own money to the Newmanites’ arts center, then located in Soho, although a reasonable effort at due diligence would have revealed that the center had hosted events several years earlier in defense of Col. Gadhafi’s Libya and the Palestinian intifada. Next, the mayor appointed IP attorney Harry Kresky (a follower of Newman for almost 30 years) to his 2002 charter revision commission.
The mayor’s company, Bloomberg LP, lent its name as a corporate sponsor of the 2002 Lincoln Center gala for All Stars. His Volunteer Center at City Hall touted (and still touts) All Stars on its web page. His Parks Department purchased tickets to send kids to see Newman’s “Crown Heights” last February.
Millions of dollars in City contracts at stake
But the Newmanites had already set their eyes on much grander patronage. Fulani met with Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott in 2002, and with Schools Chancellor Joel Klein in 2003, to discuss a plan for All Stars’ involvement in supplemental education programs in the public schools. Millions of taxpayer dollars are apparently at stake, with the Newmanites pushing for City Council hearings on the school system’s after-school programs.
Finally, the mayor pumped $7.5 million into an unsuccessful referendum last fall to bring nonpartisan elections to the city--a proposal that the mayor had agreed to support back in 2001 in return for the IP ballot line. Fulani has said that Bloomberg “came to the party in order to get the line. And we asked him to pledge to support this reform issue….It’s not some private, secret thing.”
The IP ballot line has proved an irresistible lure to dozens of elected officials from both major parties and on all levels of state politics. State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, after receiving 257,000 votes on the IP line in 2002, showed up at the IP’s annual awards dinner that December to receive an “anti-corruption” award even though his office had announced an investigation of All Stars five months earlier (the probe has gone nowhere).
Chuck Schumer joins the bandwagon
U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, who is considering a race for governor in 2006, came to pay homage (as did the mayor and Republican State Senate majority leader Joe Bruno) at the awards dinner in December 2003. A press release issued four days before the 2003 event clearly stated that Lenora Fulani would be one of the attendees (in fact, she stood beside Schumer on the stage).
The excuse of some politicians is that Fulani (they don’t even mention Newman) is only one individual among the 270,000 registered IP voters, and it’s unfair to judge the entire organization by her antics. This certainly does not hold true for the Manhattan County IP, which sponsored the 2002 and 2003 awards dinners: All six executive officers listed on its web site are long-time Newmanites.
Newman and Fulani’s control on the state level is almost as tight, since their loyalists compose most of the party’s activist core; dominate the Committee for a Unified Independent Party (CUIP), the well-funded think tank that provides most of the IP’s strategy; and are able to ruthlessly purge their enemies from IP primary ballots through petition challenges by the Newmanite legal team.
Ms. Salit and Ms. Stewart, the two IP operatives who deal directly with the politicians (enabling the pols to claim that they barely know Fulani or Newman), are both long-time Newman followers. Last year, Salit wrote a letter to the Jewish newspaper Forward to defend a statement by Fulani that Jews are “mass murderers of people of color” (Salit claimed this was not anti-Semitic).
The ‘useful idiots’ of Wall Street
The momentum provided by the All Stars bond issue has helped the Newmanites raise additional large amounts from Fortune 500 companies and Wall Street brokerage houses. The big names listed on the All Stars website as sponsors of its annual fundraisers at Lincoln Center include, among others, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chevron, Deutsche Bank, Dun & Bradstreet, Ernst & Young, J.P. Morgan & Co., Lehman Brothers, Lucent Technologies, Morgan Stanley, Salomon Smith Barney and Seagram. Many of these and other large corporations are also providing internships for teens in Fulani’s dress-for-success program--the Joseph A. Forgione Development School for Youth.
The amazing range of individuals from the business world who have donated money to All Stars, or lobbied City Hall on its behalf, include Hunter Hunt (of the oil family), First New York Securities general partner Greg Fortunoff, Bear Stearns managing director Judith Albert, Family Management Corporation managing director Andrea Tessler, fashion mogul Alex Garfield (he bankrolled the original 1998 production of “Crown Heights”), and Mr. Forgione, Merrill Lynch’s former chief operating officer for investment banking, who raised much of the money for the program named after him.
One of the charity’s most enthusiastic supporters, who died in 2002 and left over $500,000 to the Newmanites, was Jean Reed Haynes, a partner at Kirkland & Ellis (Ken Starr’s law firm). All Stars has also energized several celebrity supporters, including actor Dominic Chianese (“Uncle Junior” on The Sopranos), ballerina Susan Jaffe and TV anchorwoman Dana Tyler.
Some of the corporate and celebrity sponsors of All Stars may be innocent dupes, but most top politicians in our city and state are well informed on the Newmanites’ history. Apparently, many of these pols are so greedy for IP votes that they couldn’t care less how many kids and All Stars volunteers get sucked into social therapy and the Newmanite political cult, or how much anti-Semitic poison gets spread to young minds in the process. New Yorkers should be outraged about this, and they should let the politicians, starting with Mayor Bloomberg and Senator Schumer, know it loud and clear.
Robbins quotes Molly Hardy (the complainant against All Stars that Attorney General Spitzer's office is trying to pretend doesn't exist) in the main June 22 article on the weirdness of All Stars and in the sidebar on Fulani's alleged mistreatment of kids. Robbins' articles confirm what this website has been saying for over a month (tabloids that doubted us, please take note). And much more is to come, Robbins promises.
Read here Robbins' June 8 article on how Newman and Fulani are trying to get millions of dollars in city contracts to work with public school kids (a subject also tackled in the "179 Questions for Lenora Fulani") with a sidebar here on how a Social Therapist appeared on "Growing Up Gotti" to succor Victoria and her surly kids.
I am contacting you regarding a program
called the All Stars in New York. I am
a writer in Los Angeles and was hired
by one of the founders of that program
who now operates a health clinic in Los
Angeles, St. John's Well Child. I
witnessed emotional and verbal abuse of
teenagers who were brought to New York
under the auspices of being 'program
leaders.' They were put up in a flop
house, verbally intimidated and abused
by Lenora Fulani and worked from 6 a.m.
until 11:00 p.m. or later that night.
They also pan handled on the streets to
earn money for the trip. I also
witnessed an All Stars show in the
Bronx and saw children turned away in
tears because they didn't have the
$5.00 entry fee (even though only 11
children showed up--they were expecting
300 and had over 50 volunteers
present). I was told that the All Star
talent show' is cover for what is
really a mental health program with
Marxist ideology and the talent show is
a way to get their beliefs into schools
and communities. I have filed a
complaint with the AG office in
California for misuse of federal funds
by St. John's (the director is one of
the original founders of this group and
has given over $300,000 from government
grants to this group in New York). I
think with some investigation you will
find that this group does not in fact
have what they claim is "tens of
thousands" of inner city children
participating in this program (they
advertise Los Angeles where they did a
talent show once for about 30 children
at the cost of over $17,000, money
which was not funded for the program).
As a person who has worked with
nonprofits and inner city children for
over 15 years, I find it appalling that
they are allowed to continue to take
money, abuse the most vulernable of our
children and continue to perpetuate
their Marxist ideology and promote
something called 'social therapy', a
way to get the volunteers in the All
Stars Program involved with their
ideology. Please feel free to contact
me if you need any other information.
I have also been contacted by the FBI
in Los Angeles who are aware of this
group. Thank you.
Molly Go to "179 Questions for Lenora Fulani" and read the new Part IV written by Jeremiah Duboff, a former social therapy patient and former member of Newman’s underground revolutionary party.
The following letter was sent by the President of the American Jewish Committee to the New York Times criticizing how the Times downplayed the bigotry of Newman and Fulani in its May 28, 2005 article. The letter was never printed--a sign that the Gray Lady is feeling nervous (and I would hope, embarrassed) by what she has wrought. How often does the Times turn down a letter from the head of such an eminent Jewish organization? Times ombudsman, take note!
May 29, 2005
To the editor:
Your article (news story, May 28) on the mainstreaming of the Newman/Fulani cult into the political fabric of New York and their alliance with leading Democrats and Republicans, severely understates the highly toxic level of their extremism and bigotry.
Among other things they, or their various enterprises, have praised Abu Jihad (the PLO terrorist whose group killed 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics); actively supported Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, even during the height of his terror attacks against Western democracies; blamed the United States for the horrid events of September 11; and produced a play which distorted the events of Crown Heights into an anti-Semitic story line.
Well before they developed a relationship with some mainstream politicians, they ran the late Dr. M.T. Mehdi on their New Alliance Party line for U.S. Senate, despite Mehdi's opposition to Holocaust education in New York City schools. (He called it "an attempt by the Zionists to use the city educational system for their evil propaganda purposes.")
Fulani and Newman haven't changed; rather, they have cleverly exploited control of a ballot line to make themselves seemingly indispensable to some politicians of both parties.
The excuse that Lenora Fulani is only one member of a larger party is a fiction. If David Duke were a leading figure in a Louisiana third party, no one in New York would accept such an excuse from politicians eager to take that ballot line.
Sincerely, PDF version is here.
The following articles and studies, among many others, are available on the Internet, mostly at http://ex-iwp.org. All of the ones listed are, without exception, more critical of the Newman-Fulani organization than was the Times article of May 28, 2005.
1. Jeane MacIntosh’s New York Post article (“Extremist Pol’s Shadow World,” July 22, 2002).
2. Liz Spikol’s June 12, 2002 article in Philadelphia Weekly (“Group Hug: Is Social Therapy a political cult, as some have said?”). Spikol answered her own question rather decisively in a follow-up piece here (“Boycott This Play! We should not support Social Therapy in any way!”). article)
3. Dennis Tourish and Tim Wolhforth’s On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left (2000).
4. David Grann’s cover article in The New Republic (“The Infiltrators,” Dec. 13, 1999). 5. George Gurley’s article in The New York Observer (“Guru Fred Newman Enchants Loyal Followers and Pat Buchanan,” Dec. 6, 1999).
6. The Anti-Defamation League’s 1995 report (“A Cult by Any Other Name”).
7. Lucas Rivera’s article in The City Sun (“Political Guru Fred Newman Exposed,” Sept. 1993).
8. Marina Ortiz’ 1993 New York Planet series. Anyone who tracks the journalistic lapses of the New York Times should enjoy comparing this well-researched and tightly organized series on the Newmanites’ New York political activities (written by a former IWP member who had no prior experience in investigative journalism and no backup from an established publication) with the confused, vague article the Times published on May 28, 2005.
9. George E. Jordan’s linked articles in the April 6, 1992 Newsday (main title: “For Alliance, System Works”).
10. Bruce Shapiro’s cover article in The Nation (“Doctor Fulani’s Snake-Oil Show,” May 4, 1992)
11. Chip Berlet’s Clouds Blur the Rainbow: The Other Side of the New Alliance Party (Political Research Associates pamphlet, 1987; updated on the internet in recent years).
12. Ken Lawrence’s Jackson Advocate series (1985-86)...[link temporarily down as of July 2009--DK].
13. Joe Conason’s Village Voice article (“Psycho-Politics: What Kind of Party Is This, Anyway?” 1982).
14. Dennis King’s Heights and Valley News article ("West Side Therapy Cult Conceals Its Aims," 1977) with follow-up article here.
ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE JUST FABRICATING THINGS? WHY THEN HAVE SCORES OF OTHER ARTICLES IN LOCAL NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES ACROSS THE COUNTRY RAISED MANY OF THE SAME QUESTIONS ABOUT THE NEWMANITES? WHY DO MOST ARTICLES OF NARROWER SCOPE ON INDIVIDUAL NEWMANITE ENTITIES OR INDIVIDUAL NEWMANITE POLITICAL EFFORTS ALSO END UP RAISING SERIOUS QUESTIONS? ARE HUNDREDS OF JOURNALISTS, AUTHORS, PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCHERS, EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS ALL INVOLVED IN A GIANT CONSPIRACY AGAINST FRED NEWMAN? (You can find scores more of these articles at http://ex-iwp.org and decide for yourself.)
For an archive of articles and letters by former members of the cult, go to the ex-iwp website. [Note: as of July 2009, the files in question are temporarily unavailable at the ex-iwp site, but many are available here in the interim.--DK]
For an archive of legal and financial documents (including 990 tax filings) pertaining to various IWP entities, go to the ex-iwp website [the files in question are temporarily unavailable as of July 2009, but I have provided links below to alternate sites for several of the documents.--DK]. You will find here many New York City Industrial Development Agency file documents, including embarrassing (to say the least) correspondence pertaining to the application for and approval of the All Stars Project bond. For instance, you can read Fulani’s August 20, 2001 letter to Mayor Giuliani in which she falsely claims that All Stars works with 20,000 kids a year. You can also find in the IDA documents the names of the bureaucrats, political hacks, and philanthropists-turned-City-Hall-lobbyists who helped with the approval process, thus placing New York City children, teenagers, parents and volunteers at further risk from the Newman-Fulani cult. Especially interesting is the August 8, 2001 letter from a group of “Jewish-American supporters of the All Stars program,” the majority of them Wall Street investment bankers (including a Bear Stearns managing director), urging Giuliani to approve the All Stars bond (the letter was probably sent to counter warnings the mayor had received about Newman and Fulani’s anti-Semitism). Most of the signers are still supporting All Stars today. Are they social therapy patients, IWP cadre, or what? And why do their email addresses appear on what are apparently lists of members of Newman’s “development community” in a collection of Newmanite electronic files that became available on the Internet some months ago?
The cult’s own description of how it has used social therapy and the Newmanite concept of “developmental sex” in its work with teens at New York’s Erasmus High School (paid for by YOUR tax dollars) can be read here.
Note that the archive also contains past New York Times articles that were sharply critical of Newman and Fulani. These articles were apparently forgotten by the Times editors in making their decisions about the May 28, 2005 piece. (It’s happened before: The followers of Lyndon LaRouche were dangerous fascistic cultists in the eyes of the Times editors until the LaRouchians began to make themselves useful to Mayor Ed Koch during his 1981 re-election campaign by red-baiting his chief Democratic primary opponent, Assemblyman Frank Barbaro. The editorial alchemists at the Times helped the mayor benefit from these smears by transforming the LaRouchians into a legitimate Democratic Party faction for the duration of the campaign.)
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE AND EASY TO FIND. THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES PULLING ITS PUNCHES ON THE NEWMAN-FULANI STORY. THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR CITY AGENCIES NOT PERFORMING PROPER DUE DILIGENCE BEFORE GIVING SUBSIDIES TO THE NEWMANITES. THERE IS NO BASIS WHATSOEVER FOR MAYOR BLOOMBERG, U.S. SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER, STATE SENATE MAJORITY LEADER JOE BRUNO AND STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ELIOT SPITZER CLAIMING IGNORANCE OF THE TRUE NATURE OF THEIR CHILD-EXPLOITING CULT-RACKET ALLIES.
1. You can contact the New York Times public editor (aka the "reader's representative" or "ombudsman") to demand that the Times tell the FULL story about the mayor's favorite cult.
[Note: As of 2009, the Times still has not addressed the issue of the inordinate influence Newman and Fulani have accumulated in New York City, their scams and deceptions, their seeming ability--at times--to manipulate Mayor Bloomberg as if he were a puppet on a string, and the threat that their Bloomberg-backed cult-recruitment youth program poses to children and teens. The current public editor of the Times is Clark Hoyt--write to him!] 2. You can send a message here to New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer demanding
a prompt and thorough investigation of Molly Hardy’s allegations regarding teen exploitation by Newman and Fulani’s All Stars Project, and a probe of the charges on this website that the Newmanites misrepresented material facts during the application process for their $8.5 million bond from the city’s Industrial Development Agency. If you have a complaint of your own to file with Spitzer regarding the All Stars Project or any other Newmanite charity, or regarding possible consumer fraud by social therapists or social therapy clinics, go here and select the most appropriate complaint form. Send a copy of your complaint to this website at dennisking@safe-mail.net (note: we will not reveal your name without your express permission) and to Tom Robbins of the Village Voice at
trobbins@villagevoice.com.
[Update as of 2009: Eliot Spitzer, who went on to become governor and then was forced to resign because of his addiction to hookers, quashed two investigations of the Newmanites, whose Independence Party faction had supported his reelection campaign for Attorney General and had given him an "anti-corruption award" at the same time that he was supposedly investigating them. The current Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, is one of the few prominent New York politicians who has no known history of making deals with Newman and Fulani. Write him (the links the the AG's office have been updated) and tell him it's time for a full probe of the finances of the cult's charities and other entities by the state's rackets bureau with the help of forensic accountants.] 3. If you are an employee of the New York State Attorney General’s office with knowledge of the quashing of any investigation of the Newmanite cult during Spitzer's disgraceful years in office, please contact me at dennisking@safe-mail.net. You can also contact Mr. Robbins of the Voice at trobbins@villagevoice.com or at 212-475-3300, ex. 12039 (direct line: 212-475-2096). In sending emails, you should take appropriate steps to conceal your identity, since no email system is completely secure. If you do not wish to talk or exchange emails with a journalist but simply wish to provide documents, you can send them to DENNIS KING, P.O. BOX 508, LENOX HILL STATION, NEW YORK, NY 10021.
4. If you have information on city or state political pressure being exerted to block investigations of the Newmanites by local or state prosecutors--or if you have information on illegal activity by the Newmanites across state lines (hint: the All Stars Project conducts fundraising in both New York and New Jersey), you should contact the FBI’s New York Office.
TO ALL READERS: You can find my "179 Questions for Lenora Fulani and her mentor Fred Newman” (actually 188 questions as of June 8) here.
[As of July 2009, Fulani and Newman have been not attempted to provide an answer to a single one of these questions. On NY 1 in 2008, Dominic Carter and Rita Nissan repeatedly asked Newman about whether he'd ever had sex with his patients--he refused to answer. And why should he? He's being protected all the way by Mayor Mike Bloomberg.--DK]II. THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE: DENNIS KING’S 2004 ARTICLE (BASED ON INFORMATION FROM MANY OF THE SAME SOURCES AND DOCUMENTS THE TIMES REPORTER HAD ACCESS TO)
The Cult to Which Mayor Bloomberg Can’t Say “No”
III. MORE TRUTH IS OUT THERE: TOM ROBBINS’ ARTICLES IN THE JUNE 8 AND JUNE 22, 2005 VILLAGE VOICE
IV. STILL MORE TRUTH IS OUT THERE: MOLLY HARDY’S JAN. 17, 2005 COMPLAINT ABOUT ALL STARS TO NEW YORK STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ELIOT SPITZER
Thank You
Office of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer [EMAIL LETTERHEAD]
Thank You. The following information has been submitted:
Form submitted on Mon Jan 17 02:32:13 2005
Personal Information:
Ms Molly Hardy
[Los Angeles address, phone number and email address deleted--DK]
Comments:
V. YET MORE TRUTH: A FORMER MEMBER OF THE NEWMAN CULT GOES PUBLIC (June 8, 2005)
VI. THE TRUTH KEEPS COMING: AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE LETTER TO NEW YORK TIMES (MAY 29, 2005)
E. Robert Goodkind
President
American Jewish Committee
VII. THE TRUTH HAS BEEN OUT THERE ALL ALONG: A STEADY STREAM OF INVESTIGATIVE ARTICLES AND REPORTS OVER THE PAST 30 YEARS HAS CONFIRMED AND RECONFIRMED THE CHARGES OF EX-MEMBERS THAT THE NEWMANITES ARE A DECEPTIVE AND EXPLOITATIVE CULT
VIII. THE TRUTH THE TIMES IGNORED IS EASY TO FIND AT THE EX-IWP WEBSITE--A VAST ARCHIVE OF EX-MEMBER AND EX-SOCIAL THERAPY PATIENT TESTIMONY, INTERNAL FINANCIAL AND POLITICAL DOCUMENTS, AND JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING EVER WRITTEN ABOUT THE NEWMANITES
IX. WHAT YOU, THE PUBLIC, CAN DO TO HELP STOP FRED NEWMAN AND LENORA FULANI FROM ACCUMULATING MORE POWER IN NEW YORK
