Sam Zherka To Appear on ‘High Noon’
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Sam Zherka, the highly litigious, renegade newspaper publisher who has assumed a leadership role in the cause to eliminate county government in Westchester, will be a guest on my “High Noon” radio program, Thursday, Jan. 15.
The show airs at 12 noon on WVOX, 1460 AM and streams live at wvox.com.
Zherka owns The Guardian, a weekly newspaper based in New Rochelle that regularly scolds (scalds is a better word) a panoply of local officials—County Executive Andy Spano, DA Janet DiFiore, Yonkers Mayor Phil Amicone and so on. His personal feuds with them have quickly become the stuff of legend and lawsuits. Lots of lawsuits. In fact, you can’t tell the litigants without a docket sheet.
Of all the battles, however, the most incendiary involves DiFiore. Zherka, whose other businesses include real estate and New York City “gentleman’s clubs” claims that DiFiore called him an “Albanian mobster” and was instrumental in making him the subject of a New York City grand jury investigation in retaliation for a scathing piece he published about DiFiore’s husband. He said after the story ran, DiFiore called him up and threatened him. The DA said he allegations were “patently false.”
Zherka also sued Amicone and the city of Yonkers on First Amendment grounds after dozens of his newspaper honor boxes were confiscated.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
