March 11, 2010
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Brooklyn is known for many things. Now it’s known for harboring the state’s biggest tax debtor.
Irving Bilzinsky, a proud son of the borough of churches, was named the state tax department’s enemy number one.
Bilzinsky, a resident of Montauk Court in Sheepshead Bay and the former owner of the Scores strip club in Manhattan, owes over $15 million in back taxes between 2007 and 2009, according to a list of New York’s top 250 delinquent tax payers that was made public for the first time last week in a new shame campaign to recoup unpaid taxes.
Bilzinsky and Scores went bankrupt back in 1998. The taxes he owes are his individually, as well as back taxes from his popular flesh flashing joint never paid, officials said. Attempts to reach Bilzinsky were unsuccessful as this paper went to press.
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March 11, 2010
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Works included in the festival, which runs May 5-22, will also include Binding, conceived and performed by Jesse Zaritt, directed by Basmat Hazan; Monster, written by Daniel MacIvor, directed by Steve Cook, and performed by Avery Pearson; Puppy Love: A Stripper’s Tail, written and performed by Erin Markey; Remission, written & directed by Kirk Wood Bromley, performed by Daniel Berkey; Rootless: La No Nostalgia, written and performed by Karina Casiano; The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer, created and performed by Tim Watts; The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour, written and performed by W. Kamau Bell, directed by Paul Stein; and Wanted, written and performed by Shontina Vernon, directed by Kamilah Forbes.
See the full article from “TheaterMania.com”
March 10, 2010
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The Tribeca festival, founded in 2001 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff to help revitalize lower Manhattan in the wake of 9/11, announced 34 titles in its 2010 lineup on Thursday.
It will present 85 features from 38 different countries, including 45 world premieres beginning April 21.
The festival plans a sneak preview of a documentary about former New York governor Eliot Spitzer being created by Alex Gibney, the filmmaker behind Taxi to the Dark Side.
New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer announces his resignation Wednesday, March 12, 2008. (Stephen Chernin/Associated Press)
Spitzer made his reputation as a crusading attorney-general for the state of New York, taking on big tobacco and kickbacks in the music industry. He was in the governor’s office when he was caught seeing prostitutes, in a public scandal that ruined his career.
See the full article from “CBC.ca”
March 10, 2010
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The White Meadows (Keshtzar haye sepid), directed and written by Mohammad Rasoulof. (Iran) – North American Premiere. Poetry, mythology, metaphor, and the absurd are expertly woven to tell the fable-like story of Rahmat, who sails from island to island off the coast of Iran to collect tears. Moody and elegant, The White Meadows is acclaimed writer/director Mohammad Rasoulof’s (Head Wind, TFF ‘08) mesmerizing cinematic statement on conformity, social norms, and the collective condition of Iran. In Persian with English subtitles.
William Vincent, directed and written by Jay Anania. (USA) – World Premiere. The versatile James Franco (Milk, Spider-Man) stars in the story of William Vincent, a quiet and peculiar criminal uninterested in the fruits of crime. When he falls for a gangster’s (Josh Lucas) favorite call girl (Julianne Nicholson), William is forced to flee New York. But after four years in exile, William secretly returns, intent on rescuing the woman he loves from her dangerous fate.
See the full article from “Movieline (blog)”
March 10, 2010
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Waverly fatal fall A man on a sixth-floor fire escape at 164 Waverly Place was talking to people on the sidewalk below around 2:05 a.m. Sun., March 7, when he slipped and fell, police said. The victim, Thomas Brandon Leary, 28, was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital where he was declared dead on arrival. He was drunk, a police report said.
R & B bust
Police arrested Michael Archer, 36, who performs rhythm and blues and “neo soul” under the name D’Angelo, around 2:30 a.m. Sat., March 6, at Greenwich and Bethune Sts. for offering an undercover policewoman money to perform oral sex. Police said Archer was driving around in his S.U.V. when he stopped the woman and offered her $40 for her services. He was arraigned Saturday and released on his own recognizance pending a May 4 court appearance for soliciting a prostitute in the third degree, according to a spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney. The defendant had $12,000 in cash in the car at the time, according to a New York Post item.
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March 10, 2010
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Club Kalua owners charged with mortgage fraud
NEW YORK
The mother and son owners of the defunct strip club made infamous by the shooting of Sean Bell have been charged in a mortgage fraud case in Queens.
Martina Duran and Robert Arias were each ordered held on $250,000 bail Tuesday after being charged with larceny, identity theft and other crimes. The pair owned Club Kalua, where Bell’s bachelor party ended in tragedy in 2006.
Undercover detectives investigating reports of prostitution at the club killed the unarmed Bell and wounded two friends in a 50-shot barrage after following them outside. Three officers who claimed they believed the men had a gun were later acquitted of manslaughter.
Prosecutors in the fraud case allege Duran and Arias were part of a $2 million scheme to use stolen identities to buy and sell three properties. There was no immediate response to a phone message left with Duran’s attorney. Her son’s lawyer declined comment.
See the full article from “BusinessWeek”
March 10, 2010
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NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A Brooklyn federal judge Wednesday gave the city until May to decide whether they will represent the three NYPD detectives charged in the wrongful death lawsuit of Sean Bell.
The judge rejected the city’s request for a six-month postponement of the civil suit filed nearly three years ago.
The case was put on hold while the three officers faced criminal charges and a civil rights investigation.
Juliet Papa reports
Officers Marc Cooper, Gescard Isnora and Michael Oliver were acquitted of criminal charges in the shooting that killed Sean Bell outside a strip club in 2006 while leaving his bachelor party on what would have been his wedding day.
Bell’s two friends, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield, were also injured in the shooting.
The detectives are defendants in the federal lawsuit.
City attorneys say departmental action is pending for the officers.
Bell’s father William wants to see the three officers testify. “They got to say what they did,” he said outside the court Wednesday.
Attorney Michael Hardy says the officers will have to confront every issue that happened the night of the deadly shooting.
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March 10, 2010
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By DAREH GREGORIAN
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A Manhattan businessman has transformed his basement Tribeca condo into an “extreme party” spot — complete with “fire massages,” “flame feats” and a “stripper pole,” court papers charge.
In a bid to avoid possible legal liability for the bacchanalian bashes, the owner, James McGown, transferred the deed for the apartment to his six-year-old daughter, Annabelle, his disgusted neighbors claim in papers filed today in Manhattan Supreme Court.
McGown bought the basement unit at 109 Reade St. in 2006, and secretly switched the deed over to his daughter a year later, the suit says.
He then stopped paying condo fees and his mortgage papers, and in November of last year, leased the space to a tenant named Dimitri Dimoulakis, the filing says.
See the full article from “New York Post”
March 10, 2010
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Manhattan’s priciest high class escort comes clean
Call girl Natalia: “The dollars made me hot!”
10.03.2010 – 13:07 UHR
Some people work for $2,000 dollars a month. Natalie McLennan earned that in one hour as a high class escort in New York.
Known as Natalia, she was Manhattan’s priciest call girl and she revealed: “The dollars made me hot!”
Natalie came clean about her countless sex experiences with celebrities, politicians, sportsmen and super-rich bosses in the book ‘The Price: My Rise and Fall As Natalia’.
Was she ashamed? Not a chance! Natalie McLennan had no problems writing intimately about her body and about using ‘double dildos’ in her work.
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And she could easily name the most important thing she learned as a call girl: “To fake horniness a little isn’t enough. Men want to feel that you are excited by sex with them.”
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March 10, 2010
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Spitzer, a mere two years after having been outed for spending $5,000 a pop for a trysts with a sub-average, hard-as-nails looking Washington D.C. hooker Ashley Dupre, is now an ethics (!) lecturer on the college scene.
In November 2009, Spitzer addressed his alma mater Harvard University on “ethics in government.” One month earlier, Spitzer accepted a teaching position at the City College of New York. His class is titled “Law and Public Policy”
If you missed Spitzer in Cambridge, you have time to catch him at the State University of New Paltz on March 11.
My advice to campus administrators: lock up the coeds!
Unbelievable, considering that while in office, Spitzer broke the law as many as 80 times according to Kristin Davis, the madam who managed the prostitution service he frequented.
Davis, you should know, announced her candidacy for governor and will run on the pro-pot, pro-prostitution platform.
See the full article from “Before It’s News”