Six Month Anniversary: New Rochelle Legal Threats Backfire

DUBLIN, IRELAND (June 2, 2025) — Six months ago, on December 2, 2024, I received a cease-and-desist letter from Lalit K. Loomba and Andrew C. Quinn of The Quinn Law Firm, representing New Rochelle Corporation Counsel Dawn Warren and Development Commissioner Adam Salgado. The letter demanded I retract reporting published on October 28, 2024, in my outlets, Talk of the Sound and Words in Edgewise, claiming statements about Warren’s “sordid” past involving “drug issues” and allegations that Warren and Salgado “got high together, at City Hall, during the workday” were “false and per se defamatory.” The letter threatened legal action, including a lawsuit for monetary damages, if I didn’t publish a retraction within one week. I didn’t comply.

I’ve since expanded my reporting, standing firm on the accuracy of my claims. My sources, highly knowledgeable and directly involved in a criminal investigation launched in March 2024, confirm that Warren and Salgado were seen getting high on City Hall property, viewed from a window, and confronted about it. This information was provided to the Westchester County District Attorney. There is much more.