He built a reputation as a brash, magnetic and only-in-New-York persona with his reporting and writing style—for eight years taking on Post stunt pieces such as posing as a squeegee man on the Bowery, tracking down then-Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden’s drug dealers, and was embedded in Rev.
McDarrah was the award-winning byline behind a 1989 front page exposing cheating on state-wide high school exams: The Post published the answers to the New York State chemistry Regent’s Exam the morning of the test, forcing a cancellation for 80,000 high school students and costing the state $250,000 to re-do.
He was a regular guest on The Morton Downey Jr. Show in the late 1980s, and had weekly appearances on Nevada Public Radio in the early 2000s.
McDarrah was arrested in New York in June 2005 in an FBI sting operation on charges related to online solicitation of sex with a minor, and after an eight-day trial, was sentenced to six years in a minimum security prison.
The books are Kerouac and Friends: A Beat Generation Album, Gay Pride: Photographs from Stonewall to Today, and Anarchy, Protest & Rebellion.