Posted by in New York on 03 10th, 2010 | No Comments
Halderman Admits "Thinly Veiled Threat To Ruin" Letterman
Halderman Admits "Thinly Veiled Threat To Ruin" Letterman
Robert Halderman last November (AP) Robert “Joe” Halderman pleaded guilty yesterday for his attempt to extort $2 million from David Letterman by way of revealing Letterman’s many affairs. The former CBS News producer admitted his scheme to sell a movie treatment to the talk show host...
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Posted by in New York on 03 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Richmond Hill’s Buttkiss Gets More Press Before Birthday
Richmond Hill’s Buttkiss Gets More Press Before Birthday
Buttkiss, the old Queens fish we wrote about last year , has made it all the way to NPR ! The black pacu is about to turn 44 years old (though we were told he was 41 back in September), which is twice the normal lifespan of these fish. Owner of Buttkiss, and the Cameo Pet Shop in Richmond Hill, Steve...
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Posted by in New York on 03 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Landlords Barred From Evicting Rent-Stabilized Tenants
Landlords Barred From Evicting Rent-Stabilized Tenants
Upper West Side landlords were caught in a lie when they tried to evict rent-stabilized tenants on the grounds that they needed the rental property for their own family. Every other resident in the brownstone on West 92nd had been pushed out, except for Beverly West ( author of Pug Therapy ) and her...
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Posted by in New York on 03 5th, 2010 | No Comments
Terror Plot Imam Pleads Guilty, Signs "Death Sentence"
Terror Plot Imam Pleads Guilty, Signs "Death Sentence"
Imam Ahmad Afzali Two weeks after Najibullah Zazi pleaded guilty to plotting to bomb NYC subways , the Queens imam who let him know the police were investigating him has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. An upset Imam Ahmad Afzali told a judge , “When I was asked whether I had told Zazi about...
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Posted by in New York on 03 5th, 2010 | No Comments
Air Traffic Controller’s Kids Feel Guilty for Getting Dad in Trouble
Air Traffic Controller’s Kids Feel Guilty for Getting Dad in Trouble
Glenn Duffy The JFK air traffic controller who got busted for letting his young twins clear planes for takeoff on two consecutive days in February is caught in a media frenzy. TV crews staked out controller Glenn Duffy’s Long Island home yesterday, where a neighbor told them the family was “out...
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Posted by in New York on 03 4th, 2010 | No Comments
Spitzer’s Hookergate Scandal Lives On And On
Spitzer’s Hookergate Scandal Lives On And On
While Governor Paterson battles public perception about his administration—which just lost its third key official in a week —his predecessor’s scandalous fall is also news. Former governor Eliot Spitzer is the subject of a tell-all memoir from his former friend and adviser and a lengthy...
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