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NY's junkies for justice

Every day at lunchtime, an 85-year-old redhead from Brooklyn leaves her seat in Manhattan federal court and kneels in the pew at the Catholic church next door to pray for mobster John "Junior" Gotti. As Gotti waits for the jury to return a verdict on ...

From STEFANIE COHEN, New York Post,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Peter Gotti

Jury duty? Pick me, please!

The dreaded jury duty is a little less dreadful -- thanks to the recession. A flagging job market is good for courts desperate to fill juries, officials said, adding that, for the first time in years, people are actually volunteering to play their ...

From STEFANIE COHEN, New York Post,  15 Nov 2009

It's 'Huh?'-loween for Octo-nun

She's got some unusual habits. Octomom Nadya Suleman poked fun at herself by dressing as a pregnant nun for some early Halloween trick-or-treating with her brood. Her eight adorable babies were dressed in tiny red devil costumes, and their giant ...

From STEFANIE COHEN, New York Post,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Nadya Suleman

Cavemen dabba-did Neanders

There was a whole lot of monkey business goin' on. Early humans and Neanderthals had sex, according to a top geneticist who heads up a genome project studying the DNA of both. Professor Svante Paabo, director of genetics at the Max Planck Institute in ...

From STEFANIE COHEN, New York Post,  25 Oct 2009

Ivanka Trump merger today

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner -- each the child of a real-estate mogul -- are expected to get married today before 500 guests at a Bedminster, NJ, golf club owned by The Donald. The bride, 27, is an executive at her father's real-estate firm and has ...

From STEFANIE COHEN, New York Post,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ivanka Trump,  Jared Kushner

My prison, my home

On Dec. 30, 2006, Iranian scholar and journalist Haleh Esfandiari was on her way to the airport in Tehran when she was robbed. Three men with long knives threatened to kill her, stole her luggage, and took her Iranian and American passports. Esfandiari ...

From STEFANIE COHEN, New York Post,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: George Soros,  United Nations,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Barack Obama

City's main mob power

STATEN ISLAND jeweler Louis Anto nelli didn't know he was being watched when he left El Sabor Tropical restaurant in April 2008. As he placed containers of takeout food in the back of his GMC Yukon, two hooded men pulled up beside him and demanded the ...

From STEFANIE COHEN, New York Post,  18 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  John Gotti,  Frank Costello

Little bird of heaven

In Joyce Carol Oates’ 57th (!) novel, Zoe Kruller, a pert blonde waitress who gives children extra scoops of ice cream at the diner and also happens to be the sexy lead singer of a local bluegrass band, is found gruesomely strangled in her bed. Police ...

From STEFANIE COHEN, New York Post,  18 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Joyce Carol Oates

Green fables

The diva of Tavern on the Green is ready for her swan song. But before Jennifer LeRoy makes her exit -- passing the torch to new leaseholder Dean Poll on Jan. 1, 2010 -- she talked to The Post about her family's 33-year reign over one of the city's ...

From STEFANIE COHEN, New York Post,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Frank Sinatra,  John Gotti,  Tavern on the Green,  Tupac Shakur,  Anita Baker

The butcher

They called him Tommy “Karate” Pitera, but he should have been known as “The Butcher.” After the infamous Bonanno capo killed his victims, he dragged them into a bathtub and dismembered them limb by limb with the precise skill of a professional, ...

From STEFANIE COHEN, New York Post,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jim Hunt,  Cindy Crawford

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