February 2, 2010
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… Up until I started my cooperation (with the FBI) I would operate – I would lie, I would steal, I would cheat,” Dwek said in response to questions from Neary.
“I would do whatever I thought was necessary to further my real-estate business. Once I decided to cooperate (with the government), and I signed a cooperating agreement, I did not lie, cheat, steal. I obeyed,” he added.
Dwek was referring to a line Beldini used in one of many recordings Dwek made for the FBI in which she quotes a motto of Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy: “Don’t lie, don’t cheat, don’t steal.”
Dwek acknowledged swindling friends, family and members of his Jewish community in Deal, dishonoring his father, a rabbi.
He said he was in a partnership that ran a gambling boat and the boat was used for prostitution. Neary suggested this made Dwek guilty of helping others covet their neighbors’ wives.
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February 2, 2010
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There is more to the novel than the contrast of duplicity and authenticity, as important as that theme is. One cannot easily bring to mind another popular work of post-war fiction with so many scenes that remain imprinted on the reader’s mind for decades after last reading the novel: Holden’s recollection of holding a girl’s hand in a movie, his anxiety that his boorish roommate may have assaulted a young woman, his encounter with a prostitute whom he pays but does not sleep with, and, above all, the scenes with his sister Phoebe that reveal a real closeness (reinforced, one imagines, by the shared tragedy of their brother’s childhood death from leukemia). The lasting impact of such scenes is bound up with the fact that Holden is an intriguing character with a wide range of emotions on display; it does not take the reader long to discover a vulnerable—even despondent—side to his generally defiant posture.
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February 2, 2010
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New York’s governor gobbles some chicken and rice, then takes the podium to address the annual lunch for Jackson’s RainbowPUSH Coalition, which pressures mainstream financial firms to hire minorities and do business with minority-led companies. Paterson, an inveterate joker, immediately has the crowd laughing with a sly reference to the prostitution scandal that promoted him to the governorship. But then Paterson quiets the room and stirs the audience to tears. He turns the preservation of the African Burial Ground, and its proximity to Wall Street, into a parable about how African-Americans need to remember their ancestors’ sacrifices and never stop striving to break down the barriers they face. It’s a moving moment, one in which Paterson himself becomes a symbol of that striving, and as he finishes, he’s bathed in loud chants of Four more years! Four more years!
See the full article from “New York Magazine”