Craig Karpel

The first of a two-part series entitled "Ghetto Fraud" on the installment plan appearing in the current issue of New York. With the magazine's Managing Editor Jack Nissell is Craig Karpel who has recently completed a long and careful investigation into consumer fraud in ghetto neighborhoods of New York City.

Craig S. Karpel is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work has appeared in such venues as The New Republic, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Playboy, PJ Media, and The Wall Street Journal. He has been a Contributing Editor of Esquire and Harper's Magazine. As a community organizer fighting for "social justice" in the early 1970s, he was an adviser to the far-left firebrand Abbie Hoffman. He counseled John Lennon during the former Beatle's involvement in American leftist politics.

Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection

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