About This Page
This page is dedicated to the shady working and dealings of Nicholas “Nick” Kasoff. Mr. Kasoff currently holds a position on the Ferguson, Missouri City Council as one of the two representatives of Ward 2.
Mr. Kasoff has been known to be less than honest and truthful in his dealings as a City Councilman, yet he holds others to a standard much higher than he holds himself.
His hypocrisy and arrogance seemingly know no limits.
In the past, Mr. Kasoff has resorted to racist tropes by comparing members of the Black community and their behaviors to animals. Recently, Mr. Kasoff has been accused of targeting Black female-owned businesses by sowing seeds of dissension within the community. Many of the residents of Ferguson, Missouri, are tired of his bullying and underhanded methods.
This page will document events, past and present, where Mr. Kasoff’s character crosses the boundaries of human decency, let alone as an elected official.
If you have factual and verifiable information you would like to share, you may do so by contacting Information@ndkinfo.com.
Recent Controversy
At the City Council meeting for the city of Ferguson held on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, public comments were made by two local Black (female) business owners accusing Mr. Kasoff of harassment, intimidation, and having a direct negative impact on their business. One of the speakers claimed to have video footage of Mr. Kasoff taking photos of her vehicle and taking down information.
A local media outlet posted on Facebook about one of the business owners and the negative impact Mr. Kasoff’s actions have had on her business and income.
Councilman Kasoff
and
Councilman David Williams
Mr. Kasoff has often said that comments and behaviors that elected officials try to keep in the dark should always be shown the light.
In April of 2025, Councilman David Williams of Ward 1 found himself in hot water after a series of online attacks and threats against multiple Ferguson residents. Mr. Williams was even trespassed from one property after making threats.
Mr. Kasoff and several of his allies (past and present) on the City Council fully supported Mr. Williams’ campaign by collecting signatures, certifying petitions, and openly campaigning for his candidacy, all without seemingly vetting his morals, ethics, and integrity.
Following this series of events in April, Councilman Kasoff made full-throated assurances and promises that Mr. Williams would either be impeached or forced to resign (NOTE: The City Charter of Ferguson, unknowingly to Mr. Kasoff at the time, does not allow for impeachment of City Council members or removal of Council members by their peers). You can clearly hear Mr. Kasoff’s assurances and promises in the adjacent file.
It should be noted that on Tuesday, July 23, 2025, at a scheduled City Council meeting, Councilman Williams erupted in anger at the end of the meeting when a community member interrupted him. He told the citizen to “shut up,” followed by an obscene gesture directed at her. This will all be available for viewing once the City posts the meeting to its YouTube page.
Chaos ensued, and the Mayor was forced to clear the chamber with assistance from the Ferguson Police. Mr. Williams was told to leave the chamber by the Mayor. Mr. Williams, Mr Kasoff, and other Councilmembers left the building under police escort. During an attempt by one of his fellow councilmen to hold Mr. Kasoff accountable for his support of Mr. Williams in getting him elected to the seat, Mr. Kasoff responded to his Council peer with “Fuck you.”
Neither Mr. Kasoff nor Mr. Williams possesses the integrity to serve the people of Ferguson faithfully.
The adjacent audio clip of Mr. Kasoff further demonstrates his hypocrisy by highlighting the contradiction between his private words and public actions.
This portion of the call took place on April 9, 2025,
at approximately 10 PM.
This is a partial transcript of a call between Councilman Nick Kasoff and another community member. To avoid identifying the other person, we are sharing Councilman Kasoff’s words <Voice 1> in relation to the behaviors of Councilman David Williams and his future as a Councilman.
The above clip is edited so the listener can hear Mr. Kasoff’s thoughts and to protect the identity of Voice 2, as their identity has no relevance to this issue.
It is also interesting to note that Kasoff refers to a certain block of council members as “my party.” Ferguson doesn’t have parties in local municipal races. They are all non-partisan. Yet, he uses that wording (he has done it many times before in and around election season), and he ascribes the personal pronoun “my” to suggest he is in charge. That seems to reveal a certain level of arrogance and assumption.
<Voice 1, Kasoff> No, it's (Williams’ removal) going to happen. I want to get, he's going to get a talking to tomorrow and either he's going to agree to resign or we're going to, or we're going to have an impeachment.
Kasoff: I am pretty sure our charter has “impeachment” in it.
Kasoff: It'll be unanimous. I'm not worried about that.
Kasoff: <Name of Voice 2>, you're still trying to convince me. Not necessary.
Voice 2 makes a comparison between Williams’ behavior and the behaviors of former Councilwoman Toni Burrow.
Kasoff: Yes. It was different, but it was... Well, it was different. I don't know if it was less. Toni had the whole anti-gay thing going on, so...
Kasoff: He's (speaking of Councilman Williams) done. He's done. He’s done.
Kasoff: I am not saying worse than Toni or better than Toni … whatever.
Kasoff: He’s (meaning Williams) gone.
Voice 2 speaks of the harmful and disparaging rhetoric Councilman Williams uses on a regular basis.
Kasoff: Yep. He … he …
Kasoff: It's going to be … <sigh> I'll see if I can talk to Linda tonight and have her contact him tomorrow. And I will have the mayor to call a special meeting. I want to get this done ASAP. I mean, strictly speaking, my party …gets … has the majority both before and after the election. So we're going to be the ones that choose the replacement anyway. It's not a balance of power issue at all.
Voice 2 expresses concern about Councilman Williams’ pattern of threatening women.
Kasoff: Oh, I agree. I agree.
Kasoff: F**k .. I … I … And he's lighting himself on fire. I don't know what the hell's wrong with him.
Kasoff: But but this man is lighting himself on fire.
Kasoff: His term just ended. His term just ended, okay?
<End of Recording>
Kasoff and Social Media Hypocrisy
Mr. Kasoff is well known for his blatant hypocrisy, especially when it comes to social media usage. The expectations he has of others and the standards he attempts to hold them to do not apply to him. There are far too many examples to post or count, but the adjacent photo gives one example.
In a Facebook thread, you can see Mr. Kasoff state to his Ward 2 colleague how embarrassing it is to have “your group of supporters heckle and harass those who don’t agree with you.” The hypocrisy of such a statement is that this is the very environment created by Mr. Kasoff and some of his hand-picked moderators and admins of a Ferguson Facebook page he created and has weaponized as a tool to mock, demean, and in some cases, incite retribution and harm against local citizens and business owners.
Anyone can spend time reviewing the page to get insight into the behaviors, dysfunction, and hypocrisy of Mr. Kasoff and his relatively small group of vocal supporters.
Kasoff’s Past
In 2023, Mr. Kasoff unsuccessfully ran for Mayor of the city of Ferguson. He was defeated by the incumbent. During that election cycle, information and documents about Mr. Kasoff’s previous activities and beliefs began to circulate around the Ferguson community. Those are available in the adjacent column.
WHITE SUPREMACIST AND ANTI-GAY EXTREMIST
IS RUNNING FOR MAYOR OF FERGUSON, MISSOURI
FERGUSON, Missouri, March 22, 2023 – Nicholas Kasoff, a perennial candidate for elective office in Missouri, now running for mayor of Ferguson in the election scheduled for April 4, owned and published a national White Supremacist website, “The Thug Report,” from 2007 to 2011 and possibly longer. Kasoff also has made virulent anti-gay statements in published letters to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Funded by Absentee Landlords of Apartments Where Michael Brown Died
Kasoff’s mayoral campaign is bankrolled almost entirely by a pair of out-of-state real estate investors, Joseph Novoseller of Lakewood, New Jersey, and Jeffrey Juster of Dallas. They are the absentee landlords of apartment complexes in Ferguson including Canfield Green, where Michael Brown resided and was shot to death by a Ferguson police officer in 2014. Novoseller and Juster each contributed $5,000 to Kasoff’s campaign, accounting for $10,000 of the $11,500 Kasoff has reported raising.
Kasoff Cited as Hate Monger by Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s 2011 Intelligence Report listed Kasoff’s “Thug Report” as one of the Top 1000 Hate Groups in the United States. (see p. 73 of the PDF here) The site focused on posting lurid photographs and descriptions of Blacks who had committed violent crimes against Whites.
http://media.al.com/spotnews/other/Extremism%20Report%20by%20SPLC.pdf
Numerous White Supremacist and anti-Semitic organizations and individuals aligned with Kasoff are on the public record endorsing Kasoff’s racist activities.
According to Columbia University professor John McWhorter, “thug today is a nominally polite way of using the N-word.”
Kasoff’s provocations to racial hatred were exposed in 2008 by the distinguished journalist and television script writer David Mills (“The Wire,” “Treme”). Kasoff acknowledged to Mills that he was the owner and publisher of “The Thug Report,” but absurdly denied that it was racist.
David Mills also stated his belief, based on evidence that he had collected, that Kasoff was responsible for a malicious hoax intended to stir up strife, a website of a fake Black extremist called ‘Yakub 7 Ali.’ Mills died in 2010.
Others should continue their investigation into Kasoff.
http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com/2008/07/another-race-hoax-exposed.html
Kasoff is influential within the nationwide White Supremacist movement.
The White Nationalist organization Occidental Dissent’s leader Bradley Dean Griffin (a.k.a. Hunter Wallace) praised Kasoff’s Thug Report enterprise as a notable “pro-White website.”
http://occidentaldissent.com/2013/11/26/the-knockout-game-why-now/
‘A Jew-free, White ethnostate’
Kasoff’s ally and supporter Griffin is noted for combining the worst of anti-Jewish and anti-Black hate speech. He has declared: “Personally, I want to create a Jew-free, White ethnostate in North America. That’s why I call myself a White Nationalist.”
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/bradley-dean-griffin
Here is another specimen of the writings of Kasoff’s supporter Griffin:
https://occidentaldissent.com/2012/06/26/move-them-niggers-north/
Writing in the racist, anti-Semitic Unz Review, “Paul Kersey,” pseudonym for White Supremacist agitator Michael Thompson, also praised Kasoff’s Thug Report.
“Patrick Cleburne,” pseudonym of a blogger on the notorious White Nationalist site VDARE, called Kasoff’s crude Thug Report “brightly written and extremely valuable.”
https://vdare.com/posts/was-the-thug-report-a-victim-of-volunteer-fatigue
Anti-Gay Rants
Kasoff has a record of making inflammatory public statements against gays. In a letter published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he wrote: “It disturbs me to read a continuing commentary on the crimes committed against homosexuals, while crimes by homosexuals remain but sporadic pieces of news. The damage that homosexuals have done in our community, by flagrantly disregarding both decency and law, far exceeds the isolated incidents of violence that are aimed at them.” (06/12/1990)
In another letter published in the Post-Dispatch, Kasoff wrote: “It is bad enough when we must accept the continued influence of politicians who are discovered to be homosexual. To suppose that we might elect as a state representative Democratic candidate Tim Cusick, a man who openly practices homosexuality and who champions it as his primary area of interest, is utterly reprehensible.” (05/11/1990)
Perennial Fringe Candidate
Kasoff, also known for his feverish opposition to immigrants, is a fringe candidate who runs for office almost every time there is an election.. He has run for Missouri State Treasurer (he won 2% of the vote); St. Louis County Executive (4%), and St. Louis County Assessor (2%). His contest against the incumbent Assessor was a failed gesture of revenge because Kasoff, a landlord owning 15 low-income properties in Ferguson, objected to his tax assessments.
https://stc.mo.gov/legal/nicholas-kasoff-eugenia-kasoff-v-jake-zimmerman-assessor-st-louis-county/