Friday, June 27, 2008

Tricia Walsh-Smith and Philip Smith


Tricia Walsh-Smith said "horrible, terrible things, and she did it for the world to see, in front of millions and millions of people," her husband's lawyer, David Aronson, said at the start of their divorce trial today. The "Bonkers" playwright's hubby, Philip Smith, hasn't uttered a word publicly since his wife slammed him in a now-infamous YouTube video in April.
"We never had sex. He said it was because he had high blood pressure," she said in the first of her online rants."I accepted that. Then last year . . . I found Viagra, porn movies and condoms."
Smith, 77, finally got his day in court today, when Aronson argued before Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Harold Beeler that Walsh-Smith had been "cruel and inhuman" to him "and then some." Click here for the whole NY Post story.

Monday, June 16, 2008

Jessica Joyner and Jennifer Jones



The NY Post reports, "Jennifer Jones (with bag over face), half of a "Thelma and Louise" open-house robbery team, has agreed to plead guilty to grand larceny charges and spend a year seeing a therapist in lieu of going to the slammer. Jones, 33, will enter her plea on July 1, her lawyer and prosecutors said at a hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday. If she successfully completes the year of therapy, the charges against her will be dismissed. Had the case gone to trial, she could have ended up spending seven years in the Big House. Jones and pal Jessica Joyner (front), 39, were arrested last Nov. 24 and charged with swiping fancy furs, designer handbags, jewelry and cash while attending open houses of apartments for sale on the Upper East and Upper West sides and in New Jersey's Bergen County."

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Renaldo Clarke

The NY Post reports."Renaldo Clarke, the second man to climb the New York Times Building Thursday, may be doomed to the fate suffered by Buzz Aldrin and Tenzing Norgay.
But the Brooklyn computer technician and amateur skyscraper climber insisted to prosecutors it was his idea, and that it was purely "a coincidence" that French daredevil Alain Robert beat him to Mt. Sulzberger."

James Delayo

The NY Post reports, "One of the city's top crane inspectors pocketed thousands of dollars in bribes from a construction firm while selling copies of the crane-operator exam, authorities charged yesterday.
James Delayo, assistant chief inspector for cranes, allegedly took cash for eight years to falsify reports claiming that cranes were inspected and operators properly licensed, the Department of Investigation said.
This blatant corruption by one of the Buildings Department's most senior men comes as questions swirl around the agency's ability to safely manage the city's building boom. There have been two deadly crane accidents within 10 weeks."

Monday, June 09, 2008

Dr. Robin Motz


The NY Post reports, "A Manhattan doctor who pulled a "mini-Astor" - scamming his 92-year-old mother out of more than a half-million dollars to bankroll a luxurious lifestyle - took a plea deal yesterday that will keep him out of jail.
Dr. Robin Motz, an internist at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, agreed to a deal giving him five years' probation and requiring 150 hours of community service."

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Steve Loeb, Mao, Kelly Bucala

According to the NY Post, "The owner of a rare Andy Warhol silk screen sobbed in court yesterday, recounting how his prized artwork was stolen and wrecked - allegedly by an employee at a neighborhood frame shop.
Steve Loeb could barely look at his beloved "Mao" print yesterday as it sat bent, creased and nearly damaged beyond recognition on an easel inside Manhattan Supreme Court.
Loeb had taken his rare silk screen to Frameworks on Great Jones Street to have new UV-protected glass installed early last year. When he went to pick it up on Feb. 6, the store owners couldn't find it.
Authorities eventually traced Loeb's stolen Warhol to 33-year-old store employee Kelly Bucala, of Brooklyn, who is facing grand-larceny charges."

 
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