A former state Tea Party organizer has become a target of a federal grand-jury investigation — after his newspaper ripped two prosecutors in Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bhahara's office, The Post has learned.
A front-page story that appeared in the free, acid-tongued weekly Westchester Guardian on March 27 called the prosecutors "unethical and corrupt hypocrites."
The paper's owner, Tea Party honcho and strip-club mogul Selim "Sam'' Zherka, even proudly admits to hiring a direct-mailing company, Promail USA, to tweak prosecutor Elliot Jacobson by sending roughly 15,000 copies of the edition to registered Democrats in Jacobson's hometown of Greenburgh.
Tens of thousands of other copies also were distributed through newspaper kiosks in Westchester.
Bhahara, who is a Democrat, signed off on a May 6 subpoena ordering reps from Yonkers-based Promail to appear before a grand jury and "produce all documents" related to dealings with the paper from March 15 to April 15. It's unclear what the subpoena is going after; the feds refused to comment.
But Zherka told The Post, "The timing is no coincidence. It's obviously retaliation for printing a story that pissed the feds off."
And "it is a clear attack on the First Amendment and free speech,'' he said.
The article accused Jacobson and fellow prosecutor Perry Carbone of assisting the IRS in an ongoing tax-fraud probe of Zherka.
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