


George Venizelos. Born, Jersey. Parents, Greek. Father, Merchant Marine. Mother, bookkeeper. College, Fordham. George — now retired — was head of NY’s FBI office.
Venizelos: “The FBI and Secret Service mix in credit card, money laundering, UN threats, counterfeiting seven days a week to keep us safe from terrorism, spies, white collar crime. But today’s politics has them going through tough times.”
“The political web’s troubling. The public needs to know about that Trump assassination attempt. Better communication’s needed to get trust back. Our responsibility is to protect us from Russian, Chinese, Iranian spies who try to politically divide us. The liberal side’s weakening our country, our police. Bad DAs. Splitting the US. It’s scary.
“Our training’s four months in Quantico, Virginia. Firearms, classroom legal stuff, 200 federal laws. Then four months in the field. An agent’s assigned to you two years. Their responsibility, another three months, is field training. Then there’s executive protection — the president, vice president.”
Of course, can’t discuss sensitive issues — but you’re human. Romance. Sex. Sleeping with somebody. Things happen, don’t they?
“Yes. It’s difficult. We’re on the job, but we’re human. Must stay as neutral as possible. But without going into it strongly, I believe this attempt on Trump was pure negligence.
“Look, New York is terrorism’s No. 1 target. Stands for all that our enemies don’t like. Melting pot. High Jewish population. The world financial capital. Actual center of the whole world. A lot symbolically. And why we were attacked on 9/11. It’s constantly getting threats. When I was in charge of the New York office, our Terrorism Task Force ran constant threats daily.
“New York will always be the world’s No. 1 target.”
So, like our nice little city hasn’t enough problems, now developers and businesspeople behind proposals to bring us casinos.
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Our five borough gambling fans sent five- and six-figure checks to the New York State Democratic Committee since 2023.
Not according to me, that’s according to state and federal campaign finance records.
Meanwhile, Laura Ingraham and her panel were ripping Tim Walz’s non-record as Minnesota governor. Ingraham declared: “If you know Minnesota, and I know it well, especially Milwaukee, it’s changed.”
Problem is, Milwaukee is in Wisconsin.
Maybe I’m being too picky.
Howard Stern has come out of the closet for Isaac Mizrahi.
Howard: “I could watch his videos for hours. He shows you his clothes, shoes, shorts, everything. It’s great. ‘Aren’t these shoes adorable?’ he’ll say. He’s not afraid to be himself.”
King of all Media likes the Queen of all shmattas.
Next up? September’s coming. Cool weather. Residents will soon be able to gather around a nice dumpster fire — and roast wienies.
Mostly in New York, kids, mostly in New York.