The Mystery of the Authorship of the Anonymous Letter of New Rochelle Part II

Robert Cox

Aug 3, 2024 — 12 min read

This is Part II in a 4-Part Series

DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 3, 2024) — After I came to believe that the author of the Anonymous Letter was more than likely Robert Yamuder, I reached out to him multiple times, was ignored, then inundated with threats from his lawyer. To this day, he has never replied to me.

The lawyer said I had asserted “false and defamatory claims” and that if I wrote or even suggested Yamuder was the author of the Anonymous Letter, he would file a defamation suit against me in New York State Supreme Court. She said he denied being the author of the Anonymous Letter.

In Part III of this series, I will detail the legal threats. Part IV will describe the reasons why I came to believe it was more than likely Robert Yamuder who authored the Anonymous Letter.

Part I was about my use of forensic linguistics software to generate an Authorship Determination report: Flint AI Report on Unknown Author. The analysis found, within an 80% — 85% level of certainty, that the submission was authored by Robert Yamuder.

I would have liked to have had this analysis in March, but it was not until the end of June that I had enough writing samples from Robert Yamuder to create a single document of about 1,200 words with which to make a statistically significant comparison to the Anonymous Letter at just over 700 words.

On March 24, having decided to use forensic linguistics to analyze the anonymous letter, I made a Freedom of Information request to get writing samples for Robert Yamuder. It was the day before all hell broke loose with Mayor Yadira Ramos-Herbert moving to fire City Manager Kathleen Gill on March 25, 2024, and a week after the legal threats began.

This is the story — told through email exchanges with the City Clerk and Corporation Counsel over the following three months — of my battle to get 20 emails to use as exemplars.

New York Attorney General Clears New Rochelle Police Officer in Shooting Death of Jarrel Garris

I posted the press release from Attorney General James’ Office and a link to the Special Investigation Report on the Death of Jarrel Garris on Talk of the Sound. New York Attorney General Clears New Rochelle Police Officer in Shooting Death of Jarrell Garris Grocery Store CCTV July 2, 2023

Sustainable Westchester Body Count

Here is the body count since I first began investigating Sustainable Westchester on September 23, 2023. Below are a list of municipalities which voted not to renew their Westchester Power contracts, Councilmembers who voted against a contract with Westchester Power and links to articles about Sustainable Westchester. Noam Bramson sustained

New Developments in Criminal Referral of New Rochelle Police Lieutenant

DUBLIN, IRELAND (September 15, 2024) — I have obtained additional records from Lt. Sean Kane’s disciplinary file from the New Rochelle Police Department. The records indicate a previously unreported disciplinary action against Kane last year.