Fredric U. Dicker

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Fredric Uberall "Fred" Dicker is a former New York Post columnist. He was the New York state editor from 1982, covering the administrations of Hugh Carey, Mario Cuomo, George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer, David Paterson, and Andrew Cuomo. Before 1982 he worked as a state government reporter for the Albany Times Union.

In 1976, he broke a story about alleged Latvian war criminals in the United States, naming Vilis Hazners based on Latvian sources. The claim was later linked by some to a KGB hit list. Dicker also covered Hazners’ federal deportation trial.

In October 1987 he was physically shoved out of the New York State Assembly’s House Operations Committee offices by Norman Adler, a senior aide to Assembly Speaker Mel Miller, which drew broad attention. A 2005 New York Observer profile called him a political institution whose reporting drives news coverage.

Dicker broke the Troopergate scandal in 2007 and had a heated exchange with Republican candidate Carl Paladino in 2010, when Paladino accused him of arranging a photographer to take pictures of his daughter. He retired from the Post in September 2016.

Beyond newspapers, Dicker hosted talk shows on WGDJ in Albany and WVOX in New Rochelle from 1997 to 2018, ending the programs in November 2018 due to a family illness and his move to Florida.