Largest Mafia Bust in History
In an unprecedented assault against seven mob families in New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, the FBI and local authorities arrested close to 130 people on charges including murder, racketeering, and extortion. The sweep began before dawn, and the targets ranged from reputed small-time book makers and crime-family functionaries to six reputed senior mob figures from three crime families, including the entire current leadership of the Colombo crime family. Among those charged were roughly 30 made members of New York’s five crime families and the families in New Jersey and New England, along with scores of mob associates and several union officials.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/nyregion/21mob.html
More than 100 members of alleged organized-crime families and their associates were arrested in a sweep by federal agents and police in three states. The arrests were made around the New York area, in New Jersey, and in Rhode Island on charges including labor racketeering, loan sharking, conspiracy, drug trafficking, arson, extortion, and murder. The arrests involved accused members and associates of all five New York organized-crime families: the Gambinos, Genoveses, Bonnanos, Luccheses, and Colombos. Also arrested were members of the DeCavalcantes in New Jersey and accused mobsters in Rhode Island. About 127 people in total were charged.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704881304576093730782661452.html
Somebody made a killing on 9/11
When the two towers that make up the World Trade Center were built, they were designed to withstand the impact of the largest airliner of the day, the Boeing 707 Intercontinental. The Empire State Building survived a B-25 medium bomber crashing into it on very foggy day. It was during the weekend when most people weren't there, but still, 14 people died. Anyone wanna bet that the World Trade Center could survive an 767-300 impact?
Airliners.NET Civil Aviation Forum, 30 Nov 2000http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/336291/4/
Dysfunctional Heterosexual
I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don’t want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option — it isn’t. I didn’t march in the gay parade this year — the gay pride parade this year. My opponent did, and that’s not the example we should be showing our children.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/nyregion/11paladino.html?pagewanted=print
Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone!
A teacher at a high school in Queens caught 12-year-old Alexa Gonzalez doodling on her desk with a lime green magic marker. Instead of just erasing it, the school called police and the girl was walked out in handcuffs. A day later, the principal of a public school on Staten Island nearly suspended 9-year-old Patrick Timoney for playing with an action figure who had a 2-inch gun.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2010/02/06/2010-02-06_grade_for_common_sense_f_.html
World's Worst Apartment Building
Hookers, Slot Machines, Rats: Life at The Bronx's 2320 Aqueduct Avenue.
Everything about the derelict apartment building at 2320 Aqueduct Avenue in the Bronx is a gamble. The place is pretty much a madhouse. From 1994 to 2007, the prewar building was owned by Jacob Selechnik, a former member of the Voice's "10 Worst Landlords" list, whom tenant activists dubbed "Jake the Snake" -- and not just for his rap sheet of more than 10,000 code violations on his vast array of Bronx properties. Not so long ago, pigeons were being raised on the roof of 2320 Aqueduct, prompting an invasion of rats on the floors below. More recently, prostitutes plied their trade in the lobby's utility closet. When the dope dealer out front concluded his business for the day, you could find him living in the building's elevator machine room. Currently, a makeshift casino and numbers parlor operates out of a first-floor apartment. http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-12-01/news/hookers-slot-machines-rats-life-at-the-bronx-s-2320-aqueduct-ave/
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