“It happened on a campus and the only thing I can conjure is that it happened in New York City, and so the powers that be as we come into an election season would rather these rape stories or these campus crime stories occur someplace far from New York where they could have any impact on the elections here,”

Paul Mauro · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-30

Mauro speculated that the FIT case received little media attention because of its proximity to New York City during an election season.