“On 9 May 2024, five days before my 84th birthday, twelve NYPD raided my studio/home in Queens, NY, looking initially for printed child pornography, following the receipt of a few mostly innocuous images from a book written by someone else that I tried to publish through Amazon KDP. Finding nothing in my collection of 25,000 books, they then filched all my MAC computers and backups — my lifework as a writer & artist — that I neglected to store externally. … [He has since learned that he’s not “a person of interest,” meaning he’s not suspected of a crime.] The NYPD still has invaluable material ten months later destroying my professional career. … I’d like to sue them for the return of my work and professional damages incurred.”
Kostelanetz is seeking an attorney to press his case.