NOTE: This piece first appeared on NYNewsPress.com.
By Rick LaRivière with Richard Luthmann
Richard Luthmann sent a letter to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Corporation Counsel Muriel Goode-Trufant, copying NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani. He demands NYPD “withdraw and expunge” a July 2025 felony ICARD he calls “fraudulent and bogus.”
He says Staten Island DA Michael McMahon pushed the ICARD in retaliation for Luthmann’s reporting on anti-Muslim threats tied to Council Member Kamillah Hanks’s husband, Kevin Barry Love, and the DA’s failure to act.
He cites a recorded call in which NYPD Det. John Wilkinson allegedly boasted, “With the victim who it is… I get whatever I want,” and, “I ask for X, I get it. I ask for Z, I get it.”
Luthmann says the paperwork falsely listed his address as the federal jail in Brooklyn, and that McMahon lied by calling him a “stranger,” despite a long-standing public feud.
Luthmann reports an IAB complaint (Log 2025-24036) and warns the ICARD chills his reporting and bars him from traveling to NYC “under threat of false arrest.” He argues there was no probable cause, no exigency, and that the action violates the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Luthmann threatens to file an Article 78 petition and a § 1983 suit, including Monell claims, if the ICARD remains in place. He is also planning a suit against McMahon personally in Florida federal court…