13 Year Old Girl Kept As Prostitute

When I first read this story, I had to do a double take. It reminded me a little about convicted felon, Stan "Pampy" Barre, III, who bragged to an informant that he had a prostitute working for him. It was later revealed that Stan "Pampy" Barre, III was the one who was servicing the prostitute. According to the source and the prostitute, Mr. Barre performed the oral sex acts on the prostitute for free. The following news story, from the NY-Times, makes Stan "Pampy" Barre, III tale of prostitution seem like child's play:

A police detective and his female companion kidnapped a 13-year-old runaway girl and forced her into prostitution with 20 men at private parties.The detective, Wayne Taylor, 35, and his companion, Zalika Brown, 29, of 173-37 Vaswani Avenue in Jamaica, were charged with kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, endangering the welfare of a child and promoting prostitution. They were arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Wednesday night and pleaded not guilty.

The girl left her home in Brooklyn on Jan. 10 and encountered someone identified only as Drama who offered to find her a job dancing at parties and introduced her to Ms. Brown. Ms. Brown told the girl that she had been “purchased” for $500 for use as a prostitute and introduced Detective Taylor as her husband, the police said, although they described the couple as boyfriend and girlfriend.

Detective Taylor, a 14-year-member of the Police Department assigned to the Housing Bureau, who was suspended without pay upon his arrest, set prices of $40 for oral sex and $80 for intercourse and instructed the girl to give her age as 19, investigators said.

The girl was taken to a party in a barbershop, where she was forced to have sex for money that was then turned over to the suspects, the police said. That routine was repeated in the following days as the couple drove her and other prostitutes to other parties in Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn, investigators said.

At one point, the suspects complained that the girl was not earning enough money, the police said, and Ms. Brown slammed the girl’s head to the floor and other prostitutes hit her. Detective Taylor threatened the girl that if she did not earn more, he would force her into streetwalking, the police said.

The girl escaped from the couple a few days ago and went to a police station, investigators said. She was able to provide the address where she said she was held, they added. She has since returned to her family, they said.


Maybe if Stan "Pampy" Barre, III had charged the prostitute for oral sex instead of performing oral sex on the prostitute for free, he would not have become the laughing stock of New Orleans, Louisiana and Federal Way, Washington.

Bill To Bar Sex Offenders From Social Networking Sites

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and other lawmakers are planning on introducing a new bill to keep sex offenders off the social networking sites, Myspace and Facebook:

The law would require all registered sex offenders to submit any e-mail addresses and other Internet identifiers, such as screen names used for instant messaging, to the State Division of Criminal Justice Services within 10 days of their creation, just as with their home addresses.

The bill also would allow the state to share the e-mail addresses with sites like Facebook and MySpace. Officials with both companies have agreed to check their databases against the lists provided by the state. If the addresses match, the companies said that they would terminate the users’ accounts and alert the authorities. When setting up accounts with the sites, users must submit valid e-mail addresses.

Although this bill is not 100% foolproof, it is a step in the right direction. The next bill that should be introduced needs to contain provisions where convicted felons, who engage in online scams, are banned from the social networking sites.

For example, Stan "Pampy" Barre, III, a convicted felon had his Myspace page deleted when the site realized that he was impersonating a famous rapper. That however, did not stop Stan "Pampy" Barre, III. He just started using the site again under another account. Social networking sites need to institute provisions that ban people, like Mr. Barre from using their sites since he used the social networking site, Myspace, to lure an underage person into engaging in drinking.

Martin Tankleff Hopes To Get Degree

I am so happy that Martin Tankleff has not let prison embitter him to the point where he cannot move on. It seem that Mr. Tankleff is moving in the right direction:

Martin H. Tankleff, the Long Island man whose conviction was dismissed 17 years after he was found guilty of murdering his parents, has begun taking classes toward a bachelor’s degree at Hofstra University in Uniondale, N.Y., a family spokesman said Monday.

Mr. Tankleff, 36, was freed from prison in December after a state appellate court vacated his conviction and granted him a new trial.

When I watched 48 Hours last week depicting how he was railroaded by the lead detective in the case, I cannot help but wonder what may be going on with that detective who deprived this young man of so much of his life. It makes you sit up and think how one incompetent and vicious detective can cause Mr. Tankleff and his family so much pain. I know Mr. Tankleff will do well and I expect he will become a valuable asset to others.

An Apology For Slavery

The institution of slavery invokes painful memories and has caused some to wonder how could anyone have thought that slavery was an acceptable practice. It appears that the state of New York has recognized and want to show how they now feel regarding the issue of slavery:

For the second straight year, the Assembly has passed a bill that would make New York one of the few states to formally apologize for slavery, which was legal here until 1827. The bill stalled in the Senate last year, but Assemblyman Keith L. T. Wright, a Democrat from Harlem and the bill’s sponsor, said he had been assured by the Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, that this time it would be passed in the Senate.

New York was the biggest importer of slavery in the United States of America except for South Carolina.

Let's hope other states follow suit in order to somewhat heal the wounds from slavery.

New York Unions Back Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton has a lot going for her before the Februuary 5 primaries. What is most impressive is that she has the backing of three powerful unions in New York:

Hundreds of members of the American Federation of Teachers, which represents 470,000 workers in the state, are making calls on her behalf from phone banks in Manhattan, Hauppauge, Utica, Plattsburgh and a dozen other communities. The Service Employees International Union has sent out a pro-Clinton mailing to more than 360,000 doormen, janitors, nurses, nurses’ aides, home care workers and others.

And District Council 37, a Manhattan-based division of the nation’s largest union for government employees, dispatched dozens of activists to ring members’ doorbells this weekend to urge them to vote for Mrs. Clinton.

Will this help Hillary Clinton? There is speculation that unions are a powerful force when it comes to getting the vote out; and union members also support other union members..I guess we have to wait and see if their backing will carry a lot of weight.

Chief Joseph Reznick Brought In To Handle Brooklyn Drug Scandal

Chief Joseph Reznick has been brought in to handle the drug scandal, in the Brooklyn Police Department, that has tainted the evidence in about 80 cases. Chief Reznick is a no nonsense type of guy with an impressive resume':

He was involved in the investigation of the torture and killing of Jonathan M. Levin, a teacher, in his Manhattan apartment in 1997; the murder of Irene Silverman in her Upper East Side town house in 1998; and the murder of the girl they called “Baby Hope,” a 5-year-old whose body was found packed into a picnic cooler off the Henry Hudson Parkway.

Days after Officer Russel Timoshenko, 23, was fatally shot in Brooklyn last July, Chief Reznick led the chase for the suspects in the killing; they were captured in an area off Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania. In 1988, he was equally determined in solving the killing of Officer Michael J. Buczek, 24.

Let's hope Chief Reznick gets to the bottom of all of this in order for public trust to be restored to the Brooklyn Police Department.

Corruption Scandal Widens In Brooklyn's Police Dept.

It seems that the Brooklyn Police scandal has taken on a new low:

Two narcotics officers, Detective Sean Johnstone and Officer Julio Alvarez, lied about the amount of cocaine they recovered from a suspect in September, collecting 28 bags but reporting 17. Detective Johnstone was later recorded boasting that he withheld the drugs and gave them to an informant, a clear violation of department policy, which allows informants to be paid with cash or leniency, but never drugs.

An inquiry by the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau followed, and led to the arrests last week of two other officers in the unit, Sgt. Michael Arenella and Officer Jerry Bowens. According to court papers, in November the pair took drugs and cash they had recovered and gave them to a confidential informant as payback. They had recovered 40 bags of cocaine and $250, but reported only 38 bags and $210, officials said.

As a result, the Brooklyn district attorney’s office has moved to dismiss 80 drug cases, and is analyzing whether 100 more are tainted.

Look how much work these corrupt cops have caused. I wonder how many innocent people are in prison as a result of their actions.

What Killed Actor Heath Ledger?

There has been so much speculation about what caused Heath Ledger's death. Some have even speculated that he may have committed suicide or that he died from a drug overdose.

An autopsy, however, was conducted Wednesday morning, but the results were inconclusive and blood and tissue tests need to be completed. Mr. Ledger, 28, the Australian-born star of “Brokeback Mountain,” was found dead on Tuesday afternoon in bed in his apartment in SoHo, with a bottle of prescription sleeping pills nearby.

Although a rolled-up $20 bill was also found in the apartment, tests of the bill found no trace of drugs and no illegal drugs anywhere were found in his apartment. Mr. Ledger also left no suicide note.

The authorities, however, did find six different types of prescription drugs in Mr. Ledger’s apartment, including sleeping pills and anti-anxiety medicine. Three of the drugs were prescribed in Europe, but that can be explained by the fact that Mr. Ledger had recently returned to the United States from London. therefore, let's not jump to conclusions until all of the facts are in.

Police Officers Become Crack Dealers To Make Arrests

All police forces use informants to make their case. These informants are usually paid with cash or leniency, however, some Brooklyn police officers decided to become crack dealers in order to make their cases.

Four police officers in Brooklyn are under arrest in a case that involves paying informants with the very drugs they craved, taken from the dealers who were arrested after the informants pointed them out. Two of the officers were charged in an internal sting last week after another was caught on a department audio tape bragging about the practice in September, officials said.

Prosecutors have moved to dismiss more than 80 criminal cases because the officers caught in the scandal were considered critical to successful prosecutions, law enforcement officials said, and the office of the Brooklyn district attorney is analyzing about 100 more potentially tainted cases.

Can you imagine how deep rooted this problem will get. They will probably have criminals pretending that the officers used this type of payment on them. This will definitely get nastier as time goes on. I wonder how many top officials knew about their activities and decided to turn a blind eye to it.

Rudy Giuliani--New York City's House of Vengeance

It appears that Rudy Giuliani was an evil man as Mayor. According to a New York Times report:

Mr. Giuliani was a pugilist in a city of political brawlers. But far more than his predecessors, historians and politicians say, his toughness edged toward ruthlessnessand became a defining aspect of his mayoralty. One result: New York City spent at least $7 million in settling civil rights lawsuits and paying retaliatory damages during the Giuliani years.

After AIDS activists with Housing Works loudly challenged the mayor, city officials sabotaged the group’s application for a federal housing grant. A caseworker who spoke of missteps in the death of a child was fired. After unidentified city workers complained of pressure to hand contracts to Giuliani-favored organizations, investigators examined not the charges but the identity of the leakers.

Would you want him as your President?

Rating New York City's Teachers

We have all heard new stories where teachers were accused of helping students cheat on test scores. Well what do you think some teachers might do if their performance was put under a microscope based on student's test scores? That is exactly the problem that New York City's teachers will be facing:

New York City has embarked on an ambitious experiment, yet to be announced, in which some 2,500 teachers are being measured on how much their students improve on annual standardized tests.

While officials say it is too early to determine how they will use the data, which is already being collected, they say it could eventually be used to help make decisions on teacher tenure or as a significant element in performance evaluations and bonuses. And they hold out the possibility that the ratings for individual teachers could be made public.

I am not suggesting that these teachers would do anything unscrupulous, I am merely stating that the temptation is there.

What Does Jerard Steuerman Know About The Tankleffs' Murders?

It is suspected that Jerard Steuerman knows more about the murders than he is willing to admit and judging by his behavior, he should be the prime suspect:

Mr. Steuerman, heavily in debt, borrowed $500,000 at a high interest rate from Mr. Tankleff. And on the eve of Sept. 7, 1988, Mr. Steuerman attended a poker game at the Tankleffs’ home, leaving before the couple were found assaulted: Mrs. Tankleff dead and her husband mortally wounded. Shortly afterward, he left for California under an assumed name.

Mr. Steuerman, now 68 and living in a condominium in Boca Raton, Fla., has been a figure in the case from the start, ever since the Tankleffs’ killings and the arrest of their son, Martin H. Tankleff, then 17, two decades ago.

Mr. Steuerman, if you are innocent, why not speak with the authorities?

Lawyer Blames Mother For Girl's Death

A lawyer for a Brooklyn man charged with killing his 7-year-old stepdaughter drew gasps from jurors on Friday after he submitted photographs of a fetus in a jar in his bid to show that the girl’s mother was responsible for her death.

The mother was driven mad by the miscarriage, the lawyer has said, and held the unruly girl, Nixzmary Brown, responsible, beating her viciously because of it.

Morial confidant to plead guilty on tax charge

Lawyer Roy Rodney, a member of former Mayor Marc Morial's inner circle whose business dealings have been under federal scrutiny for years, has agreed to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor charge of failure to file income tax returns, sources close to the probe said.

The sources said the deal does not represent a major break in the government's investigation, which began in 2002 and has revolved around contracts awarded by the Morial administration. Rather, it likely means the government is starting to wrap up loose ends in the inquiry.

Rodney, who has been living in Houston since Hurricane Katrina, figured prominently in the probe: He was a partner in numerous ventures with restaurateur and fellow Morial pal Stan "Pampy" Barre. Some of those deals, ranging from parking-lot contracts to landfill management, were described in a "counter letter" that became public in the government's separate but related probe of the city's massive energy contract with Johnson Controls Inc.

Barre wound up pleading guilty to three felony counts in that case, and has cooperated since with investigators, providing information that led to the subsequent bribery conviction of then-City Council President Oliver Thomas. Barre has also told the feds he delivered bribes from two local trash haulers to banker Dave Anderson in exchange for a promise that Anderson's wife, Orleans Parish School Board member Una Anderson, would steer a garbage-pickup contract to the pair.

But while Barre was facing a likely sentence of about nine years in prison, Rodney is likely to escape with probation, the sources said. His plea deal is not contingent on him providing useful information to investigators, the sources said, and he is not expected to do so.

No charges have been filed against either of the Andersons or either of the two trash haulers, Jimmie Woods of Metro Disposal Inc. and Alvin Richard of Richard's Disposal Inc.
Eddie Castaing, Rodney's lawyer, said he had no comment about the plea deal.

U.S. Attorney Jim Letten did not return a call seeking comment.

Giuliani 'Secrets'

On the presidential campaign trail, former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani often promotes the installation of electronic monitoring devices at the border to stem illegal immigration, without mentioning that until a few months ago, he was partner in a company trying to market such technology.

Mr. Giuliani and his consulting company were part owners of SkyWatch L.L.C., a closely held start-up company that says it has developed a sensor capable of monitoring illegal border crossings. SkyWatch, in collaboration with Raytheon, a large military contractor, is now looking to market the technology to the federal government and elsewhere.
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Should Giuliani have mentioned this little tidbit or do we protest too much?

Lawyer Blames Child For Her Own Death

In his bid to possibly become the next Johnnie Cochran, attorney Jeffrey T. Schwartz reached a new low when he insinuated that Nixzmary Brown, the 7 year old who was murdered by her stepfather, had it coming when he made the following argument in court yesterday:

Nixzmary was a force of destruction who terrorized her five younger siblings. What’s more, who refused to be disciplined, slipping the ropes that bound her to the chair in her room, just out of reach of the litter box she was forced to use as a toilet.

“She was a little Houdini,” who needed to be corrected and on the last night of her life, after she helped herself to a forbidden container of yogurt, her stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, administered a beating.

Mr. Rodriguez hit Nixzmary with his hands and with a belt, thrust her head under running cold water in the bathtub, and left her naked and shivering on the bare floor of her room.

This is a new low, Mr. Schwartz, and if your goal is to garner fame, you have definitely chosen the wrong approach.

Family Wins Case For 9/11 Rescuer's Benefits

Everyone has heard stories about disabled individuals who have had to battle the Social Security Administration for disability benefits. One would imagine that a family would not, however, have to battle the government for benefits after losing a family member in the 9/11 rescue. That is exactly what happened to a New York family:

After a five-year battle, the United States government has dropped its effort to prevent a volunteer firefighter killed at the World Trade Center from receiving a death benefit for public safety officers who die on the job.

The firefighter, Glenn J. Winuk, was a longtime member of the Jericho Volunteer Fire Department who rushed to the burning towers on Sept. 11, 2001.

Mr. Winuk, 40, died when the skyscrapers collapsed, but for years, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Assistance declined to award his family a $250,000 payment.

The agency contended that the benefit was intended for active-duty public safety officers, and Mr. Winuk had not been on regular duty since 1998.

Let's hope they show more consideration to other families in the future.

Who Will Be New York City's Next Mayor?

If it came down to dollars and cents and the mayoral race was held this second, it appears that William C. Thompson Jr. would be the next mayor of New York City.

William C. Thompson Jr., the New York City comptroller, has raised the most money so far in the quest for the Democratic nomination for mayor in 2009, but United States Representative Anthony D. Weiner raised the most in the past six months, according to numbers their campaigns provided on Monday.

During that period, Mr. Thompson raised slightly more than $1 million, bringing the amount he has raised for the mayoral campaign to $4.2 million. Mr. Thompson’s campaign aides said that he would report having $3.6 million on hand.

But don't count out Anthony D. Weiner just yet: Sometimes it takes a little more than just money to run a successful campaign.

Entertainers Named In Steroids Controversy

Say it ain't so: Is this just a smear campaign or do they have legitimate evidence?

Entertainers including the singer Mary J. Blige and the rapper 50 Cent are among thousands of people whose names are turning up in an investigation into obtaining steroids or human growth hormones, an Albany newspaper reported on Sunday.

The Times Union reported that the investigation, being conducted by the Albany County district attorney, P. David Soares, also found evidence that in addition to Ms. Blige and 50 Cent, other possible recipients included two other musicians, Wyclef Jean and Timbaland, and Tyler Perry, an author, actor and producer in theater, film and television.

Madea is not going to like the po, po sticking their nose in her business.

Cuomo to look into 1988 Long Island Murders

Gov. Eliot Spitzer appointed Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo on Saturday as a special prosecutor to investigate the 1988 murders of a Long Island couple whose son, Martin H. Tankleff, was recently released from prison after doubts arose over his conviction in their deaths.

Mr. Tankleff was convicted in 1990 of the murders of Arlene and Seymour Tankleff and sentenced to 50 years in prison.

After he had served 17 years, protesting his innocence throughout, a state appellate court last month overturned the conviction.

The decision cited the “cumulative effect” of new witnesses and extensive new evidence pointing to other suspects.

Will Obama Stomp Hillary In New York?

With Senator Barack Obama vowing to challenge Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on her home turf, the Democratic presidential primary in New York on Feb. 5 is shaping up as the state’s most competitive since 1992, when Bill Clinton took up a rival’s mantra of change to all but cinch the nomination.

While Mrs. Clinton’s supporters say they are certain she will win the state and, with it, the bulk of its 281 delegates, they acknowledge that to keep Mr. Obama from running even a close second, she may have to invest more precious time and money here. Twenty-one other states, including New Jersey and Connecticut, also hold primaries on Feb. 5.

Will Bloomberg Run? or Won't He?

Mr. Bloomberg’s dalliance with the idea of running for president has stretched on and on, with his enthusiastic approval despite the public denials. But even before actually entering the contest, Mr. Bloomberg may have already risked losing something: people’s patience.

The political parlor game — Will he run? When will he decide? How much could he spend? — that has so delighted Mr. Bloomberg is suddenly sparking a backlash. Editorial pages from The Wall Street Journal to The New York Post, The Village Voice and The New Yorker have taken him to task. Members of the administration have been rolling their eyes and referring to Kevin Sheekey, Mr. Bloomberg’s political architect, as the deputy mayor for presidential politics.

New York City: Return Those Plastic Bags

The City Council on Wednesday passed a bill requiring large stores and retail chains to collect and recycle plastic bags they give to shoppers. Under the new bill stores that give the bags to customers must provide recycling bins for the bags in a prominent place in the store. The legislation applies to stores of 5,000 square feet or larger, as well as all branches of chains with more than five locations in the city.

Shoppers will be invited to deposit plastic shopping bags as well as other stretchy plastic materials, such as dry-cleaning bags. Stiff plastic bags with cardboard bottoms are out, since they are considered reusable. Consumers can drop off bags from any store, not just the one where the bin is located.

Dumb Criminals Are Funny

Dumb criminals can be really funny if they were not so pathetic:


Stan "Pampy" Barre, III, a former New Orleans' resident was arrested on burglary charges and thought he could beat those charges by pretending he was a police officer. I guess he thought that the police would think it was okay for a police officer to commit burglary. He had been carrying around a badge and handcuffs that he had kept from a deputy sheriff's job he held nine years previously. Upon further investigation, the police discovered that he had been let go from that job and he failed to return the badge and handcuffs.

Now we have two idiots trying to cash a dead man's check by bringing the dead man to a check cashing place. James P. O’Hare, and his friend, David J. Dalaia, both 65 and unemployed, placed Mr. Cintron’s body in the chair and wheeled it around the corner, south along Ninth Avenue on Tuesday afternoon. The men parked the chair with the corpse in front of Pay-O-Matic at 763 Ninth Avenue, a check-cashing business that Mr. Cintron had patronized.

They went inside to present the check, but a clerk said Mr. Cintron would have to cash it himself, and asked where he was. “He is outside,” Mr. O’Hare said, indicating the body in the chair, according to Mr. Browne.

The two men started to bring the chair inside, but it was too late.

Their sidewalk procession had already attracted the stares of passers-by who were startled by the sight of the body flopping from side to side as the two men tried to prop it up, the police said. The late Mr. Cintron was dressed in a faded black T-shirt and blue-and-white sneakers. His pants were pulled up part of the way, and his midsection was covered by a jacket, the police said. While the two men were inside the check-cashing office, a small crowd had gathered around the chair. A detective, Travis Rapp, eating a late lunch at a nearby Empanada Mama saw the crowd and notified the Midtown North station house.

Police officers and an ambulance arrived as the two men were trying to maneuver the corpse and chair into the check-cashing office.

The two men were taken into custody and questioned. The police said they were considering charging them with check-cashing fraud.

"Sean Bell Case"Defendants Want Case Move

Everyone, across the nation, knows what happen in the Sean Bell case. That's what makes the following argument pointless:

Lawyers for three police detectives charged in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man in Queens in 2006 filed a motion yesterday requesting that the trial, scheduled to begin next month, be moved out of New York City, saying publicity has “incurably poisoned” the pool of prospective jurors.

Detectives Michael Oliver, Gescard F. Isnora and Marc Cooper are charged in the shooting outside a Jamaica strip club at which the man, Sean Bell, was shot and killed in the early morning of the day that he was to be married.

In the filing, their lawyers said they had polled 600 Queens residents and found that 60.5 percent of the respondents believed the shooting to have been unjustified. The motion also cites remarks made after the shooting by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who said the circumstances surrounding the shooting were “inexplicable” and “unacceptable.”

Do you think a change of venue will change the facts?

False Promises for Yankee Stadium

Did they lie to get what they wanted?

Several years ago, as the Yankees negotiated to build a new stadium in the South Bronx, the neighborhood faced the realities of a massive construction project in its midst: parks would be closed and moved, traffic would be horrendous, life would be, for a while, a hassle.

So, as one way to make up for these inconveniences, the Yankees and elected officials signed a community benefits agreement. It required that the team would give roughly $1.2 million a year, starting when the work began, to various community groups through a special panel.

But nearly 17 months after construction began, as workers race to complete the new Yankee Stadium by opening day 2009, none of that money has been distributed, and the group responsible for administering it has never met.

Maybe I should change the title of this post to: THE YANKEES LIED TO GET WHAT THEY WANTED

Felons Can Join The Army But Not The New York Police Department

On the day after he completed a one-year sentence at the Rikers Island jail, Osvaldo Hernandez walked into an Army recruiting office in Elmhurst, Queens. He was a felon with a plan to change his life.

Specialist Osvaldo Hernandez is trained to carry an M4 assault rifle and operate a machine gun from behind a vehicle turret.

It was late in 2003. Mr. Hernandez had been convicted of possessing an unregistered pistol the year before. The Army, struggling to meet its recruiting goals, granted him an enlistment waiver for the crime and soon swore him in.

According to a letter from New Orleans Sheriff, Paul Valteau, he is willing to accept a convicted felon into the foe.

Four years later, Mr. Hernandez, 25, is Specialist Hernandez, a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan.

His transformation from inmate to productive citizen would seem to be complete. His Army supervisors say he is reliable, honest and brave. Barring something unforeseen, he will be honorably discharged at the end of his 15-month combat tour this year and hopes to become a New York City police officer.

But Specialist Hernandez is finding that what the Army forgave is still remembered at home. The New York Police Department is among the broad mainstream of departments that say a felony conviction is an absolute bar to police work, no matter his exemplary military record, even in a combat zone.

Too bad Paul Valteau won't take heed when he wrote a letter on behalf of convicted felon, Stan "Pampy" Barre, III.

Did The Lawyer's Affair Lead To Murder?

Well, not according to his attorney:

Mr. Perez-Olivo’s lawyer, Robert A. Buckley of Manhattan, said on Friday that his client’s affair with the woman, Ileana Poole, ended about 18 months before the shooting. After the breakup, he said, Mr. Perez-Olivo maintained “continued limited contact” and sent the flowers simply “because it was somebody he still cared about.”

“The affair had nothing to do with the marriage,” Mr. Buckley said. “The relationship between him and Peggy was much deeper than sex. If we indicted every man for murder who underpaid his taxes and slept outside the marital bed, we’d need a lot more jails.”

Mr. Perez-Olivo, who moved into a house in the same cul-de-sac as the Clintons in early 2006, told detectives shortly after the shooting that he had met the woman, Ileana Santana, in 1996 at a shoe store in Puerto Rico where she was working, and continued to see her even after she married a man from Georgia and moved there, taking the married name Poole.

Sometimes I think this story gets so much press because he was Hillary and Bill's neighbor.

Broadway Actor Had Sex With Minor

We all thought Stan "Pampy" Barre, III was repulsive, however this one take the cake:

Broadway actor admitted on Thursday that in 2001 he seduced a 15-year-old girl who visited him backstage, and agreed as part of a plea bargain to reveal that admission to anybody he works for in film, television or theater for up to the next three years.

The actor, James Barbour, was accused of having criminal sexual contact with a high school student who was an aspiring actress when she attended a performance of “Jane Eyre” in June 2001.

The student’s drama teacher arranged for her to visit the Brooks Atkinson Theater with her parents. Mr. Barbour told Justice Micki A. Scherer of State Supreme Court in Manhattan that the girl visited him in his dressing room before the final curtain call and that he fondled her, knowing that she was only 15 years old.

He also told the judge that he had oral sex with the girl in his apartment the next month. She did not come forward with her account for several years.

Well, it do remind us of Stan, especially the oral sex part. Stan's, however, was on a 23 year old pro...

Martin Tankleff Won't Be Tried Again

D.A. Thomas Spota only made his decision because he felt he could not win. I guess we should accept this fact and move on. After all, Martin Tankleff will not have to face his raft again:

The Suffolk County district attorney said on Wednesday that he would not retry Martin H. Tankleff for the 1988 murders of his parents and that he would ask Gov. Eliot Spitzer to appoint a special prosecutor to reinvestigate the case.

The district attorney, Thomas J. Spota, said he would seek to dismiss all charges against Mr. Tankleff, who was 17 at the time of the murders and is now 36, “because it is no longer possible to reasonably assert that the case against Tankleff would be successful.”

So much was taken from Martin Tankleff. Lets' hope he receive some sort of compensation for this terrible miscarriage of justice. His story made me weep and I hope everyone will try to help him move on with his life.

New HIV Cases Drop

Take note Stan "Pampy" Barre, III. The Lacy factor deep mouth throat action may leave more than just crud between your teeth:

At a time when the number of new cases among older gay men is dropping — by 22 percent in New York City during the same period — AIDS experts are bearing down on what they say is a worrisome and perplexing growth of H.I.V. infection among young men.

So far, they say, the significant factors feeding the trend appear to be higher rates of drug use among younger men, which can fuel dangerous sex practices, optimism among them that AIDS can be readily treated, and a growing stigma about H.I.V. among gays that keeps some men from revealing that they are infected. There has also been a substantial increase in the number of new infection cases among young white men who have sex with men, but still that group had fewer new cases in 2006: 100, compared with 228 among blacks and 165 among Hispanics.

Brag on this Gangster Pamp. Dina K. did more than just chocolate. Her active sex chat line activity has been proven by the feds. Yes, that is correct. The feds were listening in on the action.

Could Mayor Michael Bloomberg Become President?

Is he qualified?

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, eyeing an independent presidential bid, faces a hodgepodge of local requirements to get his name on the ballot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

The mayor’s aides are confident that he can do it, and that he would deploy armies of paid signature-gatherers nationwide if he runs. The foot soldiers are typically paid about $2 for every signature collected, though sometimes higher if their services are in heavy demand.

And with about 650,000 signatures needed nationwide, the bill would come to a minimum of $1.3 million — pocket change for the billionaire mayor.

Would you vote for Michael Bloomberg?