Letter

Open Letter to the New York Attorney General’s Office: The Truth Still Missing from the Lane Schlesinger Report

By Marc Fishman | Disabled Victim of Police Misconduct
June 2025

📎 Related article: Why the NY Attorney General’s Office Failed to Act Despite the Evidence (Republic Dispatch, June 17 2025)

To:
Tyler Nims, Chief
Law Enforcement Misconduct Investigative Office (LEMIO)
Office of New York Attorney General Letitia James

From:
Marc Fishman, Disabled Victim of Officer Lane Schlesinger
📞 914-837-3665

Dear Mr. Nims,

Additional FOIL records from the New Rochelle Police Department reveal that your office was notified—via multiple internal emails—of other serious incidents involving Officer Lane Schlesinger, yet none of these were included in the Attorney General’s May 24, 2024 “pattern misconduct” report.

Why did your office omit these cases?
Why is Attorney General Letitia James withholding the full truth and protecting a known disability-discriminating officer?

Your investigation was supposed to expose all misconduct within the two-year reporting window. Instead, your 11-page report left out documented complaints, internal affairs findings, and the federal civil-rights history of Officer Schlesinger—even though similar AG reports for NYPD officers disclose every § 1983 and civil-rights lawsuit on record.

This selective reporting conceals wrongful arrests and convictions that remain unaddressed by District Attorney Miriam Rocah Cacace. Many victims—including myself—are still suffering from the aftermath.

I am formally calling on the Law Enforcement Misconduct Investigative Office to:

  1. Amend the May 24 report to include my own incident and the three 2023–2024 cases reported by Internal Affairs Officer Robert Wenzler.
  2. Disclose all omitted records and correspondence your office received concerning Lane Schlesinger.
  3. Acknowledge the ongoing pattern of disability discrimination, which your civil-rights division has an explicit duty to address under state and federal law.

Transparency demands the whole truth, nothing but the truth.
The disabled community deserves equal protection under the law—disability rights are civil rights.

Please advise when your office will issue an amended report.

Respectfully,
Marc Fishman
Disabled Victim of Lane Schlesinger

CC:
State Senator Gustavo Rivera • District Attorney Miriam Cacace • Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz • Assemblywoman Amy Paulin • New York State Office for People with Disabilities • NYS Human Rights Commission • Kim Hill (ADA Liaison to Governor Kathy Hochul) • Blaise Gómez (News 12 Hudson Valley) • Jon Bandler (LoHud/USA Today Network) • New York Post Metro Desk • New York Times Metro Desk • Ananda Morris (The Washington Post) • Evan Latainer (Westchester ADA Liaison)

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