PERP WALK?: Who Has the Most to Lose From Luthmann's Lawsuit?

Child Molestation, Campaign Finance Violations, Perjury, Fake Facebook All Substantiated By Court Filing

By M. Thomas Nast

Last week, Richard Luthmann sent an explosive lawsuit for filing in New York County Supreme Court. The voluminous paper filing was received by the court at 60 Centre Street in Manhattan on Tuesday.

It is expected that the summons and complaint will be assigned an Index Number and uploaded to the public NYS e-filing system at any time.

The question today is, who has the most to lose from the Luthmann lawsuit?

NYC Councilmember Kamillah Hanks

There is a strong argument NYC Councilmember Kamillah Hanks has the most to lose from RIchard Luthmann’s recently-filed lawsuit. Not only will her non-payment of fees cost her money, but it will also create campaign finance issues. This comes at a time when the last thing NYC Mayor Eric Adams (a Hanks ally) needs is more campaign finance scrutiny.

Adams is already being investigated by the FBI for his alleged connection to Turkish campaign contributions as a quid pro quo to FDNY sign-off on the new Turkish Embassy in NYC in September 2021. The NYC Campaign Finance Board (CFB) aspects of Luthmann’s lawsuit may brush up on Adams, causing him more headaches, particularly when Adams’ office was given actual notice of the CFB’s non-action on the Hanks campaign finance allegations.

Luthmann’s newly filed complaint raises issues of whether Hanks and her campaign committed federal tax fraud by intentionally listing Hanks’ daughter’s boyfriend’s name incorrectly on the CFB report so that he wouldn't have to sign a W-9 or report the income he made. The individual also had a pending gun charge in Arizona while he worked for the Hanks campaign, the papers allege.

Luthmann further alleges that Hanks 2017 treasurer Lok Yung brought the issue of the missing W-9 directly to Hanks, who said, “Don’t worry, I’ll take care of it.” It appears that Hanks knowingly committed fraud, or she forgot about the W-9 and never read her campaign filings. And there’s no politician on God’s green earth that doesn’t read their campaign filings.

Also, CFB non-payment issues usually carry treble damages to the campaign in addition to proof of payment. Luthmann claims several individuals were not paid by Hanks in 2017. His claim, with statutory interest, exceeds $120,000. If Hanks were found to have failed to properly pay $150,000 in expenditures related to her campaign, she may receive a fine of $450,000 AND may become disqualified from the matching funds program.

All of these issues were presented to Hanks in an October 2022 certified letter. It will be nearly impossible for her to deny actual knowledge.

The CFB issues are also rolled into the “Fake Facebook” issues. Luthmann’s filing presents clear evidence that Hanks and her de facto agent, Kevin Barry Love, commissioned and directed the Debi Rose Fake Facebook page, even providing Luthmann with directives and pictures to use. According to a witness affidavit, Hanks distanced herself from Facebook altogether upon the advice of Scott Levenson of The Advance Group, but that was in August, a few weeks before the Primary Election, and the damage was already done.

In all, this case could be a legal, political, and monetary trainwreck for Hanks, her campaign, and her political career.

NYS Supreme Court Justice Ronald Castorina

Perjury is a career-ender for a judge. Luthmann’s complaint alleges perjury by NYS Supreme Court Justice Ronald Castorina in an August 2018 grand jury. Luthmann told Castorina as much in a certified letter from October 2022. Luthmann attached the full transcript of Castorina’s perjured testimony, corroborating phone records, Facebook Messenger messages, and other damning information. The letter said:

You testified before a Grand Jury convened by Richmond County Special District Attorney Eric A. Nelson beginning on August 1, 2018. In that testimony, you perjured yourself innumerable times. A copy of the Transcript is attached as “EXHIBIT “B” (the “Transcript”). I have taken the liberty of highlighting some (for old times’ sake) that you can give to your criminal attorneys so they can save your ass.

The statements that you made are demonstrably false. The Grand Jury subpoenaed my telephone records. I have enclosed the records between July 20, 2017, and September 10, 2017. A copy of the Phone Records is attached as “EXHIBIT “C” (the “Phone Records”). On those thirty-six pages of records alone (spanning about a month and a half), you and I spoke over the phone dozens of times. And you called me on many occasions. You and I talked more than I did with my wife at the time.

In your grand jury testimony, you said [I was “Someone you would typically like to avoid.”]

How do you have dozens of conversations in a 45-day period with “somebody that [you] would typically like to avoid”? If this were true, why would you call me? And why would you be on the phone with me for extended periods of time on numerous occasions? (8/1, 10:50AM - 15 minutes; 8/17, 3:28PM - 11 minutes; 8/21 7:27PM - 37 minutes). When you were in private practice, did you bill clients for phone calls?

Additionally, it won’t take a Former FBI Agent from the Organized Crime Task Force to decipher what we were doing from the phone records. You notice that many of our calls come in short 1-minute or less communications, and many of them come in pairs. We were operating like members of La Cosa Nostra concerning what we said on the phone because when there was a call, it was part of a scheme to evade detection and records. The first call would set up a meeting place between you and me. Then, a little bit later, there would be a call saying I was at the meeting place. In between, I sometimes called my former driver, Larry Gilder, to come and pick me up and bring me to our meetings. You are a former prosecutor. This evidence would stand up in Federal Court as part of a warrant application for drug dealers or organized crime members:

 8/1 10:50AM (set up) – 1:19PM (arrival)

 8/4 12:07PM (set up) – 5:31PM (arrival)

 8/7 6:06PM / 6:09PM (set up) – 6:58PM (arrival)

 8/31 10:48AM / 12:18PM (set up) – 5:03PM (arrival)

 9/1 12:19PM (set up) – 1:09PM (arrival)

 9/10 1:13PM (set up) – 2:55PM (arrival)

Larry Gilder drove me to every one of these meetings. If you look at the records on 9/10, I called him at 2:09 PM to pull the car around so I could get to the meeting.

This evidence, which is part of the Grand Jury record, establishes, at the very least, that you and I had a business relationship that was much more than what you stated in your sworn testimony…

[B]ehind closed doors, in Facebook Messenger communications that are part of the Grand Jury record, attached as “EXHIBIT “D” (the “Borelli conversation”), you and NYC Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli get a real kick out of my “juvenile, ridiculous stuff.”

Borelli says: “[w]e were talking about it...we all loved it.”

Not only should Castorina lose his black robe over his perjury, but he could also politically hurt the NYC Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli because of their awareness and involvement with Luthmann’s “Fake Facebook” page against Castorina’s primary rival Janine Materna.

Castorina stated under oath that he didn’t know about Luthmann’s Fake Facebook page. Borelli also testified before the grand jury. The clear evidence shows that they both knew Luthmann was behind it, and they were dishonest in their sworn testimony.

There is also an institutional issue with Castorina that must be addressed by the NYS Office of Court Administration (OCA). If Castorina is a perjurer from 2018, can any of the judgments he made as a NYC Civil Court Judge and then a NYS Supreme Court Justice withstand scrutiny? The law would presume Castorina’s dishonesty, and all of the proceedings would lose their presumption of regularity and their finality, much like how convictions for all the cases a dirty cop ever worked get thrown out.

Castorina has much to lose. And so does the court system.

Special Prosecutor Eric Nelson

Eric Nelson serves the People of the State of New York as a special Richmond County District Attorney. During the span of his appointment, he has committed crimes, broken ethical rules, and disregarded court orders. Luthmann sent him a certified letter in November 2022:

This letter is a formal request for you to agree to a stipulated motion to vacate the judgment of conviction and dismiss all charges against me in the above-referenced matters with prejudice. As Special District Attorney, you violated my rights under the Grand Jury Clause, aided and abetted the unauthorized practice of law, conspired with felon and disbarred attorney Perry Reich to circumvent your responsibilities as legal advisor to the Grand Jury, knowingly presented false testimony to the Grand Jury intentionally and with reckless disregard for the truth, and committed numerous other serious and substantial constitutional and legal violations. See the attached.

You presented false evidence to the Grand Jury and knowingly suborned perjury. Particularly, you reviewed and/or introduced my phone records for the period relevant to the prosecution. Based on those phone records alone, you knew and/or recklessly disregarded the perjured testimony of New York Supreme Court Justice Ronald Castorina, Jr., who stated he was only “placating” me. The relationship was clearly a relationship of master and servant under New York law, and your actions, omissions, and reckless conduct injected invidious falsity into the Grand Jury proceedings…

[Y]ou have clearly:

a. Violated RPC Rule 3.3 by knowingly making false statements of fact before the Court and the Grand Jury;

b. Violated RPC Rule 3.3 by failing to correct false statements of material fact made to the tribunal;

c. Violated RPC Rule 3.3 by failing to correct false statements of law made to the tribunal;

d. Violated RPC Rule 3.4 by knowingly using false evidence;

e. Violated RPC Rule 3.4 by participating in the creation of evidence that is obviously false;

f. Violated RPC Rule 3.4 by engaging in conduct contrary to the Rules of Professional Conduct;

g. Violated RPC Rule 4.2 by communicating directly with parties the lawyer knows to be represented by counsel;

h. Violated RPC Rule 8.4 by engaging in conduct that adversely reflects on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness, and/or fitness as a lawyer.

i. Violated RPC Rule 8.4 by engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation;

j. Violated RPC Rule 8.4 by engaging in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice;

k. Violated RPC Rule 8.4 by engaging in conduct that adversely reflects on the lawyer’s fitness as a lawyer;

l. Violated RPC Rule 3.8 by engaging in conduct that ignores the special responsibilities and duties of a prosecutor;

m. Improperly communicated with District Attorney Michael E. McMahon in the instant case;

n. Improperly followed orders of District Attorney Michael E. McMahon in the instant case;

o. Engaged in other improper, dishonest and/or sanctionable conduct.

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When the time is right, I intend to sue you personally, and you will enjoy no qualified immunity. Morse v. Fusto, 804 F.3d 538, 540 (2d Cir. 2015) (Qualified immunity is unavailable on a claim where that claim is premised on proof that a defendant knowingly fabricated evidence and where a reasonable jury could so find). You engaged in the knowing creation and introduction of false and/or misleading evidence by a government officer acting in an investigative capacity qualifing as an unconstitutional deprivation of my victim's rights. Morse, 804 F.3d at 540.

Not only may Nelson lose the Luthmann conviction, but he may also lose his law license and become personally liable for Luthmann’s damages resulting from Nelson’s lies and criminal conduct.

Costly indeed.

“Child Molester” Christopher Ambrose

Luthmann’s legal action extends to Christopher Ambrose, a suspended New York attorney, whom he sues for lying to federal agents and interfering with his practice of journalism. Luthmann says Ambrose caused him harm and abused the legal process to do it.

Ambrose attacked Luthmann for exposing in his reporting that Ambrose is a psychopath who molests his children. He tried to get Luthmann arrested for “criminal libel” in the State of Florida.

Luthmann will have the opportunity to expose Ambrose as both a liar and a pedophile and seek punitive damages against him for his brazen conduct against a member of the press. Ambrose may also be exposed to criminal liability for his activity with minors.

“Stoned” Kevin Barry Love

If he has one talent, Kevin Barry Love can flap his gums. He does it uncontrollably. Ask NYC Councilmember Kamillah Hanks whether she knows anything about a lawsuit against Love when they were both at the Downtown Council in St. George. Ask her why they had to settle for SIX FIGURES. The word is it was Kevin’s BIG MOUTH.

Now, his big mouth may have sunk him.

Love bragged he called the Federal authorities, including the FBI and the DOJ, on “Evil Luthmann” because he was harassing “witnesses” in his Federal case.

Love said: “I assure you the FBI is involved, and so is the Department of Justice. I have spoken to them both.'“ He also spoke to the US Probation Department and made menacing threatening phone calls to Luthmann’s collections lawyers.

Kevin’s big problem is that he lied. Neither he nor Kamillah were “witnesses” in Luthmann’s federal case. In fact, Kevin complained that he had to pay a “small fortune” to keep Kamillah from getting subpoenaed by the August 2018 Staten Island grand jury.

But what Kevin did constitutes a crime. Making false statements and misleading Federal Agents and the U.S. Probation Office violates 18 U.S.C. § 1001. It is a serious felony and is often prosecuted because the case is usually open and shut.

U.S. Probation Officers relied on Love’s lies in good faith. No one in their right mind would be so brazen as to intentionally lie to a federal officer. No one except Kevin Barry Love, who is a marijuana addict and is regularly stoned.

Love turned a debt of a little over $100,000 into potentially a $1 million case and a criminal prosecution. And all because of his big mouth.

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