TWO DIFFERENT OFFICERS TELL LOCAL BUSINESSMAN "MAKING MAYOR MAD" REASON FOR RAID ON FAMILY HOME, WARRANTLESS ARREST..."JUST ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS ABOUT ILLEGAL THINGS YOU DID WITH HOYT AND KEARNS AND WE'LL LET YOU GO" 24 YEAR OLD INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CEO SYAED ALI CLAIMS HE WAS TOLD BY OFFICERS....ALLEGES THREATS OF CHARGES USED TO GET HIM TO IMPLICATE ASSEMBLYMAN SAM HOYT AND COUNCILMAN MICKEY KEARNS IN SLANDER CAMPAIGN AGAINST BUFFALO MAYOR BYRON BROWN...THE SYAED ALI STORY, PART I...AN OVERVIEW

Syaed Ali, 24, first became the CEO of his own information technology firm when he was only 21. His company started out servicing local dentists and real estate offices and has gone on to to develop a nation-wide client list. He is a 2007 graduate of Buff State who has been honored as a USSA All American Scholar while also finding himself listed in Who's Who Among Executives and Professionals.

Yet, he feels that nothing in his educational or professional background prepared him for the recent early morning police raid on his family home on Breckenridge St. during which he alleges that several police officers, not wearing badges and putting on their uniform tops on his porch, ransacked his family home while initially refusing to show him their warrant.

"The officers told my brother that they had an arrest warrant for me charging me with computer fraud and aggravated harassment of the Mayor of Buffalo," he recalls. "Yet, when a family member and later I asked them why they were doing this, two differnt officers replied, 'Because you made the Mayor really mad!"

"They left my three year old niece and my four month old niece alone in a dark room for about an hour and wouldn't let their mother and any other adult go back up there to help them," Syaed adds. "The chldren were crying very loudly but they didn't care. I told them I wanted to call an attorney, but they wouldn't let me. I asked them to see the warrant, but they wouldn't show it to anyone until they had taken me away...As it turned out, they didn't have an arrest warrant. They only had a search warrant for computers in the home signed by Buffalo City Court Judge Hannah. Yet, they still took me away."

Once they did, Syaed alleges that he found himself in an unmarked car (The officers had arraived in a pair of unmarked SUVs) with a female Buffalo Police officer and an officer of the Attorney General's Office.

"One asked the other where they should take me, 'my place or yours," he reports. "They decided to take me to the NYS Attorney General's Office in the Main Place Towers."

Once they got him there, according to Syaed, the questions centered, not about any computer fraud accusations but on his political associations.

"They asked me what my relationship with Len Lenihan is," he says. "They asked me what my relationship is with Chris Collins, to whose campaign I had contributed $1,500. What was my relationshp with (Common Council Majority Leader) Rich Fontana, with Mike Bloomberg, with other political figures. They asked me where I got the money to make the political contributions I have made."

When the officers would pose these queries, he would often reply with the question, "Is it against the law" to have spoken with Lenihan or to have been involved in the abortive Draft Bloomberg movement, for example. The officers didn't reply...until they came to the names of Assemblymember Sam Hoyt, Mayor Brown's arch rival within the local political infrastructure and South District Common Council Member Mickey Kearns who is planning to challenge Brown's re-election in the 2009 Democratic Primary.

"When I asked them if it's against the law to associate with Hoyt, the female lawyer replied with the word, 'Maybe," Syaed alleges. "After that, for at least two to three hours, the questions centered on Hoyt and Kearns."

"We know you were involved in sending out those e-mails that said the Mayor is a homosexual and a crack addict, so why don't you just admit that Hoyt put you up to it and we'll let you go," he alleges they asked him again and again. "Look, just admit that you were involved with Hoyt and Kearns and we won't have to continue to bother your family. If you don't admit it, you're going to have a problem with the Buffalo Police. If we let you go, they are going to arrest you for computer fraud and aggravated harassment of the Mayor, so why don't you just tell us what you did with Hoyt and Kearns...Why are you protecting them?"

Syaed reports that the questioning went on in this vein for at least 2-3 hours as queries about Hoyt and Kearns were interspersed with threats and occasional attempts at psychoanalysis in an effort to get him to implicate the two mayoral opponents. It took place, not only at the downtown Buffalo AG's Office but also at the Buffalo FBI headquarters. The detainee claims that he was driven to the second location by someone who identified himself as an FBI agent but wouldn't reveal his name.

"(The female officer) told me I would feel better if I told them what they wanted to hear," he adds. "When I would ask if I was under arrest, they said no. When I would ask them if I could make a phone callto a family member, they would tell me that if I did, they'd arrest me, which was silly because I was already being kept there against my will. I would tell them that I wanted to talk to a lawyer and they wouldn't let me, nor did they ever read me my Miranda rights"

Finally, he reports that the officers tried to get him to implicate Hoyt and Kearns apparently whether it was true or not.

"They would tell me, 'Look, just say they did it and you can go home," he alleges. "Just say it. That's all you have to do and this will be all over. All you have to do is say they did it with you and you are free."

At one point, when he was at the FBI facility, the officers involved held a strategy session in another room.

"I could hear them talking easily from where I was," says Syaed. "One said to the others, 'Look, this guy is a piece of shit. Just scare the hell out of him and he'll implicate Hoyt and Kearns. We just have to scare him a little more.'...And, that's exactly what they tried to do when they got back, but I kept telling me that what they were trying to get me to do is illegal and is worse than the crimes they were accusing me of. Actually, I hardly knew Sam Hoyt and Kearns. How could I implicate them in anything?"

Coming tomorrow, The Syaed Ali Story, Part II...Questions About Joe Illuzzi and NewWNY Politics...Real Or Imagined Chat Room Transcripts Involving the Mayor...How Syaed Was Finally Released...Threats Allegedly Made Against Him If He Talked To A Lawyer Or The Media...His Plans For A Lawsuit