Recommended Reading, August 10, 2025

DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 10, 2025) — The big news this week is that Dawn Warren and Adam Salgado — now on their third (or fourth? or fifth?) law firm over the past year— finally found a lawyer willing to file their personal defamation lawsuit — funded by the City New Rochelle, meaning the taxpayers of New Rochelle — against me.
I can read the lawsuit and can talk to a reporter but not engage with the lawsuit’s substantive claims due to what may be improper service. I need to research that further (I have 21 days to reply). I say talk to a reporter because before I even knew the substantive claims of the lawsuit I received an email from Bill Heltzel, a reporter from Westfair Business Journals, with a PDF of the filing attached. The complaint was filed in the United Slates District Court Southern District of New York on August 4, 2025.
SEE: Case 7:25-cv-06384-JGL_Dawn & Adam v Cox
I was entirely unaware of the filing until August 8, 2025 when (a) my wife received a FedEx package with a paper copy inside (but no cover letter or approval from a judge authorizing international service via a commercial delivery service) and (b) the reporter contacted me.
Heltzel wrote:
I am preparing a story about the attached complaint, for Monday's noon newsletter, and I would like to include your responses to the allegations. Please call or email.
I replied as follows:
Mr. Heltzel,
As an Irish citizen residing in Ireland and publishing on an Irish (.ie) website, I will not comment on the substance of any legal complaint where plaintiffs’ fail to comply with the Hague Service Convention and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure, which require service through Ireland’s High Court Central Authority.
However, I can confirm that on December 10, 2024, the City of New Rochelle took an extraordinary and unprecedented* step—never before seen in the history of the American Republic—to underwrite private investigations and litigation using taxpayer funds targeting a member of the press with the explicit aim of suppressing reporting which has triggered an ongoing, 17-month multi-agency criminal investigation led by the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office into corruption involving many of the very officials involved in legal threats and actions against me over the past year.
*Mayor Ramos used the term “unprecedented” before voting to approve the lawsuit funding resolution on December 10, 2024 (see links below)
I provide the following for further clarity.
Hague Service Convention
The Hague Service Convention, formally known as the Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters, is an international treaty adopted on November 15, 1965, under the Hague Conference on Private International Law. Its primary purpose is to establish a standardized, reliable method for serving judicial and extrajudicial documents across borders in civil or commercial legal proceedings, ensuring that defendants in foreign jurisdictions are properly notified while respecting the sovereignty of the receiving country.
New Rochelle Authorizes Unlimited Funding of Private Lawsuit to Suppress Reporting by Local Journalist
New Rochelle Corporation Counsel Seeking Blank Check from Taxpayer to Fund Her Personal Lawsuit Against Robert Cox
New Rochelle City Council Meeting 2024-1210
The lawyer who filed the complaint is David Lin of Lewis & Lin LLC based in Brooklyn, NY.

Meanwhile, I received a late reply to my copyright infringement lawsuit filed in the United Slates District Court Southern District of New York on May 27, 2025. The lawyer who replied is Brian Pete of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP.

Pete had requested an extension until July 30, 2025 to which I agreed then he skipped that and waited until effectively three days later to request a pre-motion conference seeking to dismiss the case with a fair use defense. I received his motion-letter at 8 pm on the Friday of a three day weekend. In any case, I have now replied to his letter-motion and we will next see about a date for a pre-motion conference with the court.
SEE: Copyright Clash: Journalist Battles Lawyer Over Article Sharing
It says something that I have yet to mention the puff piece in The Wall Street Journal which put forth the bizarre notion that the City of New Rochelle came up with a brilliant plan to have low rents. On any other day, a city having thousands of below-market rental apartments would be seen as a massive failure but this week it’s a sign of genius! To highlight how juvenile the reporting by the WSJ, I ran what was (shockingly) the first article about RXR’s Huguenot 360 going into receivership before being sold in January at a loss of $50,000,000 of its 2022 valuation.
I will have more on the Nate Adams story which some how was turned into a Hendo story by Henderson Clarke who is very angry about what I wrote despite defiantly stating over and over that he has not and will not read what I wrote. There is a bigger picture about all this and it goes beyond Nate or Hendo. Stay tuned.
On a more positive note, my reporting on bug and rodent infestation at The Hollow led to the New Rochelle Muncipal Housing Authority to dispatch a clean up crew within 48 hours of publication.
Check out my coffee shop story, too.
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- Copyright Clash: Journalist Battles Lawyer Over Article Sharing
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- Tell Me All the Ways The Wall Street Journal Failed Again in New Rochelle
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- Wall Street Journal Back Shilling for New Rochelle Developers
- The Rise of Boutique Coffee Shops in New Rochelle and Their Role in Downtown Revitalization
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