Brad Hamilton

Background

B🌸rad Hamilton is a part-time reporter for The Post’s News Features department. He founded and ran The Post’s first investigations unit🐟, and previously served as its Sunday features editor. He has won several awards for his reporting and is a longtime university lecturer and guest speaker who runs his own journalism foundation, The Hatch Institute, which partners with other media outlets in publishing enterprise stories.

Latest Articles

♌ MS-13, Russian mobsters use migrants in elaborate injury scam — even getting spinal surgery to pull it off: sources

The crime outfits are swindling millions by staging sham trip-and🐼-fall accidents and bringing immigrants to NYC t༺o pose as victims, according to sources.

Billionaire reveals what he seeks in a job applicant, and the 'lifetime habits' needed to succeed

Bill Cummings built his billion-dollar fortune constructing commercial properties in the Boston area without ever borrowing a dime, so he𒆙 knows how to create wealth on his own terms.

Crack is back: Drug officials warn of crack, cocaine resu🐠rgence in NYC

Cops and prosecutors told The 🎐Post that a record influx of Colombian cocaine has spurred the return of crack in New York City, where a rock can be bou𝓀ght for...

Fashionistas throw wild bash at pricey Airbnb, 'damage' $120K piano

  The Airbnb host found out what really 🎀happened after seeing photos and video on Instagraౠm.

'Luigi the Zip' was mafia's Forrest Gump—in the middle of everything

Sicilian import Luigi "the Zip" Ronsisvalle — a heroin trafficker and hitman with 1🐲3 confirmed kills who flipped in 1979 — played a role in virtually every big Mafia event...

Harvard students schooling 'Professor de Blasio' over NYC admission exams, anti-police anger

🅷 In his new role as a visiting teaching fellow at Harvard, Bill de Blasio was blasted by a male Hispanic student from Queens who ripped his attempt to end magnet...

 EMT mom, 29, nearly killed by driver ‘high on fentanyl’ as drug sweeps NY𓂃C 🌌

Driver Nicole Marino was “heavily impaired” by the💖 potent opioid fentanyl when she rammed into Ashley Diaz, sources said, in “a tragic case that shows the impact of [the drug]...

Fights, deaths, suicides: How Disney keeps the dra🌄ma out of ꦬthe Magic Kingdom

♏ Even in th💃e digital age, reality is no match for the House of Mouse.

Erotic photogr𓆏aphy studio i൲n $2.6M mansion riles super-rich LI neighbors 

An erotic photography studio is riling the super-rich residents of Old Westbury, NY 🥂— inspiration for "The Great Gatsby" and the wealthiest ZIP code in Long Island.

 Martin Shkreliဣ🧸 out of prison, trying to start rap career

Newly out o🌃f prison, reviled "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli is hoping to stage a cool-guy comeback online. ﷽

How we fought New York’s No. 1 harassment lawyer — ไand won

How a tavern owner and her partner fought NYC's Nಞo. 1 harassment lawyer and 🌳won. 

 F🍎rom China to Mexico to NYC: How fentanyl became ‘a w✃eapon of mass destruction’ in the US

 From China to Mexico t🤪o NYC: How fentanyl became "a weapon of mass destruction" in the US🔯.

Helpless: Thieves steal $30K in Lululemon goods — and guards can't do anything about it

Workers at several high-end stores in NYC's West Village and Soho say they feel like sittingꦗ ducks as thieves loot their stores in broad da💝ylight with no consequences.

Former IRS a💯gents explain why department has guns, 3M+ rounds of ammo

Retired special agent Anthony Dominicis wants to reassure Americans that the IRS is not coming after them with guns. "It's just 🦄not true," he said. "The on♏ly people who need... 

ও X-rated star using OnlyFans millions to fund new busines𒊎s ventures

This sexy ex-nurse wants to lift up her bottom line. Allie Rae made $3 million by posting X-rated clips on OnlyFans during pandemic lockdown. She's now pumping that �❀�booty into a...

Inside the high-flying life and crimes of the woman added to FBI's 10 Most Wanted

🦩 "The Missing Crypto Queen," a new by Jamie Bartlett, chronicles Ruja Ignatova's journey fღrom a working-class family in Bulgaria to being named as the newest member of the FBI's Ten Most...

Why a small number of criminals perpe𝓰trate the 🍌worst crimes in America

A small number of 🦂criminals perpetrate the worst crimes in America, in a fe▨w small neighborhoods in major cities, a new book reveals.

NYC sex worker looking for clients to invest in film project — but it's not porn

Lily Lady is financing a featur🌞e film partly through her clients, who fork over at least four figures a pop for the pleasure of her company🔥 -- earnings that she's...

Man wants $2M in Bitcoin — not cash — for his NYC pad: ‘I believe in crypto’ ꧙

Manhattanite Ronen 🔥Segev is doubling down on cratering crypto — after his own investments have dropped by nearly $1M — by hawking his $2M Colum♕bus Circle condo for Bitcoin or...  

 How the melting Arctic c♔ould lead to huge riches—but also a world war

🎃 How the melting Arctic could lead to huge riches — but also a global conflict between Russia and the US.