SERGEANTS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION
Op-Ed | SBA Fighting for Our LOD Families Including Our #9/11 Families
Dear Fellow Sergeant,
An article was recently published in the New York Daily News reporting on the Office of Labor Relations’ (OLR) refusal to provide the quarterly payments earmarked for the benefits for LOD families including 9/11 widows and children and the SBA’s continued efforts to hold them accountable for this blatant abandonment of the city’s moral and fiscal responsibilities.
Please see the article enclosed.
Fraternally,
Vincent J. Vallelong
President
Sergeants Benevolent Association
NY DAILY NEWS
NYC stiffing 9/11 widows and orphans of critical medical payments: unions
By Thomas Tracy PUBLISHED: September 10, 2025
For nearly a year, the city has failed to provide funds for critical medical payments to widows and children of first responders who died on 9/11 and other city employees killed in the line of duty, the Daily News has learned. Since November, the city’s Office of Labor Relations hasn’t made the $850,000 in quarterly payments that go to widows and children of fallen employees through the Health Insurance Stabilization Fund.
The money goes to the city’s unions, which use the money to offset prescription drug, eye, and dental exam costs for families of city employees who died on the job. The payments stopped after the Fund’s balance dropped to zero last year, and the Office of Labor Relations scrambled to bargain with vendors and restructure its debts. Municipal unions are picking up the tab to make sure that the widows and children aren’t out of pocket, said Vincent Vallelong, the president of the NYPD’s Sergeants Benevolent Association.
The union is currently supporting 165 widows and families of sergeants who have died in the line of duty.
“We have no choice but to pay,” Vallelong said. “But this money is earmarked for (widows and families). It should be put aside and never be a contention of any bargaining.” “Here we are approaching the anniversary of Sept. 11 and everyone is screaming ‘Never forget!’” Vallelong said.
“The city talks about how the first responders who died on 9/11 are heroes, but at the same time they’re giving the widows and children of these people a big zero in a sense.”
The city has provided the money from the Office of Labor Relations Health Insurance Stabilization Fund since 2001.
For more than two decades, the office hasn’t missed any of its quarterly payments, but in July 2024 the agency announced it won’t pay out anything from the fund until it can “collectively bargain” the debts it currently owes.
In October, The News reported that the Stabilization Fund wasn’t making its quarterly payments to the unions. When the story broke, the city made a payment in November, but hadn’t made another one since, said Vallelong.
“I’m disgusted. They’re now a year behind in making these payments,” he said about the city’s failure to make good on its promises. “We treat (9/11 widows and families) like royalty and the city should be treating them the same way.”
The city has a different take on the situation.
In a Sept. 9 letter from OLR Commissioner Renee Campion to union officials, Campion they said the city would continue to make payments through the 3rd quarter of 2025, but going forward it will be up to the unions to make sure the fund is solvent. “I want to be clear that this benefit has never been funded by the City, and the agreement is clear that it is not the City’s responsibility,” Campion wrote.
An email to the City Hall about the payments was not immediately returned. The city lost 343 FDNY members, 23 police officers, and 37 Port Authority police officers during the terror attacks on Sept. 11.
Their deaths were all considered line of duty deaths. The missing payments also affect families of cops and FDNY members who have died responding to crimes and fighting blazes.
City unions continue to demand the city makes good on its commitments, but so far they haven’t gotten a response, union heads said. “The city needs to honor its obligation to the families of our fallen heroes, and we are going to continue pressing until it does so,” Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry said.
“No matter what, the PBA is never going to allow our line-of-duty families to be deprived of the benefits they deserve.”
In a letter to Campion sent last fall, Harry Nespoli, the chairperson of the Municipal Labor Committee, which represents the city’s unions, said these families should be given the highest priority.
“Widows and orphans had their lives turned upside down by the death of their family member in the service of us all,” Nespoli wrote.
“This contribution, while not bringing them back, in some small way helps compensate them for that loss.”
Margaret Mosomillo, the widow of Police Officer Anthony Mosomillo, who was shot and killed while trying to arrest an ex-con in 1998, used these funds just this week, she said. “I just went to the dentist to get a cleaning yesterday,” she said. “I get eye exams yearly, so this personally affects me.”
Mosomillo found it disturbing that these payments are being used as a bargaining chip as the agency tries to right its fiscal ship.
“Why are they withholding these payments, but the city is still paying for migrants?” she asked. “I feel that the city is using us as a pawn. They’re playing games and we’re being victimized all over again.”
“I’m 56 years old, what’s going to happen when I’m older and I’m on more than one medication?” she asked.
“Cops, firefighters and EMTs make sure others are being taken care of every day. Why can’t they take care of us?”
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Op-Ed | A Political Revolution That New Yorkers Can’t Afford | amNY
Dear Fellow Sergeant,
An Op—Ed piece that I wrote has been published in today’s edition of AMNY.
The piece addresses the critical inflection point in this upcoming mayoral election, what’s at stake and the implications of a radical socialist administration on the NYPD and public safety in NYC.
Please click below to read the Op-Ed and share it with your family members and friends. We must make our voices heard in this election and make our votes count!
Op-Ed | A political revolution that New Yorkers can’t afford | amNewYork
Fraternally,
Vincent J. Vallelong
President
Sergeants Benevolent Association
Op-Ed | A political revolution that New Yorkers can’t afford
As our city begins to heal from the recent horrific shooting by a crazed gunman who claimed the lives of four innocent New Yorkers, including a beloved and highly respected police officer, Didarul Islam, we must recognize that our city is at a critical inflection point. In just three months, New Yorkers will head to the polls to cast their vote for the next Mayor of the City of New York in what will likely be the most consequential election in our city’s history in the last fifty years…
Mayor Adams gets endorsement from law enforcement unions
The rally was held a day after former Police Commissioner Thomas Donlon sued Adams and the NYPD. (Spectrum News NY1)
BY Kelly Mena | New York City
PUBLISHED 7:21 PM ET Jul. 18, 2025
A dozen law enforcement unions representing correction officers, sergeants and lieutenants, as well as sanitation workers, endorsed Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday.
“Four more years! Four more years!” the crowd chanted.
“Mayor Adams has been a profile in courage — standing up for the rights of our members and providing the support we need to make the jails safer for everyone,” Benny Bosio, president of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association, said.
“It’s my honor to endorse Eric Adams; he’s made the city cleaner and safer,” Dennis Schock, Local 831, said.
“Our voice is going to count moving forward here. Law enforcement will count,” Scott Munro, president of the NYPD Detectives Endowment Association, said.
The rally was held a day after former Police Commissioner Thomas Donlon sued Adams and the NYPD, saying the department was filled with cronyism and corruption since he took office. It was the fifth such lawsuit filed in two weeks.
Those at the rally showed little concern about the litigation.
“As a man, everybody has flaws. To run a city as big as New York, to run a union, there’s deficits all around, but I don’t necessarily think it’s corruption,” Paul Idlett, president of the Correction Captain Association, said.
“I don’t see it. I know there’s been scandals, but the mayor was not there when those individual scandals were taking place. He was running the city. It’s those individuals that need to take responsibility for what they did,” Vincent Vallelong, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, said.
One of the lawsuits was filed by a former chief of detectives, a fact dismissed by the leader of the detective’s union.
“If I was concerned about those lawsuits, I wouldn’t be standing here right today,” Munro said.
Notably missing from Thursday’s rally was the Police Benevolent Association, the largest police union in the country.
Todd Shapiro, the mayor’s campaign spokesperson, explained the PBA’s absence, saying the union doesn’t endorse until September.
Many of those in attendance took issue with Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani and claimed his plans for the city would be detrimental to public safety.
“Our city, New York City, will never run on empty promises. That will never happen,” Alexander Sadik, president of Local 1182, said.
Adams is a former police captain who has made public safety his top priority at City Hall.
“I am them. I know the prerequisite to prosperity is public safety,” Adams said. “You can romanticize public safety, it is real. And the men and women that are here today, receiving their endorsement means so much to me.”
Vincent Vallelong Appeared on The Joe Piscopo Show
Vincent Vallelong appeared The Joe Piscopo Show to discuss the endorsement of Mayor Adams.
Vincent Vallelong Appeared on Catsimatidis
Vincent Vallelong appeared on CATSimatidis to discuss the endorsement of Mayor Adams.
