The shocking secrets of Madison Square Garden’s surveillance machine

Multiple sources on the security team say that if these posts can in any way be construed as threats, Eversol will contact their hometown police. “He will take it upon himself to reach out to someone somewhere and introduce himself as Madison Square Garden’s security director and ask the local GM to take action,” the veteran security expert adds.

One of the teens posted a tweet, and MSG security asked local law enforcement to visit him. “They scared the crap (poop emoji) out of a 14-year-old in Colorado,” an MSG security employee texted. Cops sometimes ignore Eversole’s demands. The second veteran continues, “He and his deputies will panic when one of the partners somewhere doesn’t play ball.”

It is also alleged that Eversole would push his subordinates to act like municipal policemen. He has them patrol the streets around MSG, which is located in one of Manhattan’s most desolate neighborhoods, and functions functionally as a second artificial police force – without official permission from the real NYPD. “On numerous occasions, I was ordered to stop traffic, block sidewalks, unlawfully detain individuals in place and demand identification,” Moon, the former security worker, wrote in his filing. Moon added that these orders were “against New York State/City laws without the proper permits or NYPD clearance, which MSG did not maintain.” An NYPD spokesperson confirms that this authorization was never granted.

Eversole would have his teams catch people selling counterfeit merchandise and “remove brokers and drug dealers on a daily basis, in areas outside and around MSG properties, without the support, contact or assistance of MSG venue security or paid details from the NYPD,” Ingrasselino alleged in his lawsuit.

Ingracilino’s former colleagues stress that the work can be dangerous, possibly illegal, and is by no means a normal task for a private security force. Ingracilino, among others, claimed that a former NYPD assistant chief who now works for MSG was attacked by brokers and sent to the hospital. In his filing, Moon claimed that during his time “overseeing all security aspects” of several Dolan properties, he was “ordered to do numerous things that I felt were unsafe, unethical and illegal, all at the direction” of Eversole.

Ingracilino also alleges in his lawsuit that he was ordered to be present “in the middle of pro-Palestine or anti-Israel protests” that happened to be passing by a location in Dolan. Other security sources say that they were not ordered to participate in any demonstrations. But they maintain they were asked to monitor protests that went anywhere near Dolan’s location. Given the central location of these places, a lot has happened.

Some protests will be subject to special scrutiny. When the Professional Bull Riders tour came to the park, animal rights activists would sometimes gather outside, or in front of the MSG president’s apartment building. Leaders felt discriminated against and monitored.

Even people who work in state government have found themselves in MSG’s crosshairs.

In late 2022 and early 2023, as talk of banning lawyers began to circulate and the buzz around facial recognition software peaked, the state Alcoholic Beverage Authority decided to look into the matter; According to state law, according to the Service Level Agreement (SLA), you are not allowed to serve alcoholic beverages and arbitrarily shut people out of your venue. Dolan’s response may have been a touch exaggerated. He went to TVuploading a photo of the then head of the Alcoholic Beverages Authority with the man’s phone number and email underneath, asking the public to contact him and “asking him to stick to his knitting.”