An Enemy of The People - Andy Ostroy
Anti-Trump blogger, Twitter warrior, and marketing company executive. You can see some of his thought-provoking work on Huffington Post:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-ostroy/an-open-letter-to-mr-trum_b_13633110.html
Or his blog, or his Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/AndyOstroy
BACKSTORY
On November, 1 2006, the day after Halloween, Andy Ostroy’s wife, Adrienne Shelly, was found dead in her Greenwich Village work studio. While initially thought a suicide, NYPD later arrested a construction worker who confessed to murdering Adrienne Shelly when she caught him robbing her apartment.
There are conflicting details in the media reports about Shelly’s murder, and there are several suspicious elements in the narrative about the incident, but the man accused of killing Adrienne Shelly eventually confessed to the crime and was sentenced to 25 years without parole as part of a plea deal in 2008. (That is another dig).
The man arrested and sentence for the murder was Diego Pillcoa, 19-year-old Ecuadorian who was an illegal immigrant.
The story takes a turn in October 2016 (prior to Trump’s victory) when Andy Ostroy published an Op-Ed piece about his wife’s murder in the NYT. In the opinion piece he claims “Adrienne was not murdered by an illegal immigrant, per se. She fell victim to a depraved killer who simply happened to be an undocumented immigrant.”
In the Op-Ed, Ostroy passionately argues that the case of his wife’s murder shouldn’t be used as any sort of warning over illegal immigration, or that any sort of connection should be made between the immigration status of his wife’s murderer and his propensity to commit any criminal acts. “Attributing his heinous act to his immigration status dilutes the more relevant truth that he lacked the ability to know right from wrong and had zero respect for human life.”
Ostroy’s goes on to call Trump a “xenophobic agitator” who only wants to “scapegoat the millions of foreigners who have come to the United States in search of a better life.” The piece needs to be read in its entirety to fully appreciate, but Ostroy basically uses his wife’s murder as weapon against the Trump campaign and as a plank to support a larger political agenda.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/opinion/my-wifes-killer-was-not-an-illegal-immigrant.html
Hypocrisy, evidently, knows no bounds. In spite of Ostroy’s virtue signaling and Trump bashing, Ostroy had already demonstrated that he had his own PERSONAL concerns about illegal immigrants and those who might want to enable them. He even file a lawsuit about it.
In November 2005, Andrew Ostroy filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court against the construction company who hired his wife’s murderer, Bradford General Contractors. The lawsuit states that Diego Pillco was an undocumented immigrant and had the company not hired him Shelly could still be alive to parent her 4-year-old daughter Sophie.
“Ostroy, who is seeking unspecified damages on behalf of the little girl, further alleged in court papers that BGC was careless and negligent in the screening, hiring, training and supervision of its workers.” Furthermore, the lawsuit blames the owners and management of the building where Shelly died, claiming they are "vicariously liable" for her death, the Post said.
https://www.upi.com/Adrienne-Shellys-husband-sues-contractor/89571225896258/
Another article at the time states that Ostroy, “The husband of murdered actress Adrienne Shelly is suing the contractor who employed her murderer, contending she’d still be alive if the company hadn’t looked the other way while hiring illegal immigrants.
The suit notes that “Pillco was an undocumented immigrant,” as were his co-workers, and contends it was in Bradford General Contractors’ interest not to have “police and immigration officials [called] to the job site” because that would have ground their work to a halt.
https://nypost.com/2008/11/04/kin-sues-firm-in-actress-murder/
So evidently when you need to serve a political agenda, you need to downplay problems associated with illegal immigration. But when you want to score some cash from the spectacle of your wife’s murder, you actually blame the people that enable illegal immigration.
I’m starting to understand now. . .
You might remember Ostroy from this story:
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2017/12/21/huffpo-writer-andy-ostroy-racially-demeans-sen-tim-scott-black-prop/