September 14, 1999
REPUBLIC NY EXEC CHARGED IN BILLION $ SCAM
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amA top executive of Republic New York Securities allegedly helped a client defraud Japanese investors in a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, prosecutors said yesterday. William H. Rogers, the former president of...
MARKETWATCH IN .COM-BAT VS. THESTREET
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amIt's Kramer vs. Cramer all over again. Larry Kramer, CEO of MarketWatch.com, will launch a new half-hour television program this weekend - less than two months after Jim Cramer's TheStreet.Com,...
LVMH ADDS $821M TAG HEUER BUY TO ITS FASHION ENSEMBLE
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amHow about a nice Swiss watch to go with that fabulous outfit and handbag? Luxury tycoon Bernard Arnault is bulking up his empire again, adding Tag Heuer to LVMH's stable...
GM'S NEWEST LINE: MONEY MANAGER
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amTHIS is definitely not your father's Oldsmobile, nor his General Motors. The world's biggest carmaker said yesterday that it is entering the money management business. Although GM has never managed...
TURNER PINNED TO MAT: TED BOOTS WCW PREZ TO ESCAPE WWF HOLD
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amTed Turner is getting body-slammed in the world of professional wrestling. Seeking to keep his floundering World Championship Wrestling in the ring with Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation, Turner yesterday...
WENNER MOVES ASIDE FOR MCDONELL AT US
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amJann Wenner is shaking up Us as he prepares to undertake a $50 million gamble to convert the monthly into Us Weekly starting March 17. The move to weekly has...
FROM REGS TO RICHES: HUNDT MAKES MILLIONS FROM CORPORATE BOARDS
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amFormer Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt has hit the jackpot - no thanks to Uncle Sam. When Hundt took the top job at the FCC in 1993, he earned...
RUSSIAN MONEY LAUNDERING CLEANUP TO TAKE A YEAR
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amThe probe - which now includes investigators from six countries and over a dozen agencies - is focused on a handful of bank accounts at BNY.The massive Bank of New...
RETRO ON THE MARC
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amMARC Jacobs is so cool. Instead of going futuristic for his first show of the millennium, he concocted a fun, stylish ode to the chic, casual fashions of the mid-'70s,...
BREAKING THE BCBG HABIT
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amI CONFESS: I'm a BCBG addict. For three years I've been hooked on the clothes that are suitably conservative officewear but also sexy enough for after hours. Still, I wasn't...
A REEL LETDOWN SO FAR
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amTORONTO - North America's largest and most important film festival has been under way for four days now - and spirits are low. The purpose of such a gathering is...
HEART OF GLASS: 'GMA' DOES WINDOWS - A LOT - IN NEW STUDIOS
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amMEMO: ABC News RE: "Good Morning America's" new studio GET over it! The studio that ate up untold millions of dollars ate up the first show produced in the Times...
TV TICKER
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amEmmy ratings! Fox's telecast of "The 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards" on Sunday snagged a prime-time victory for Fox. All or part of the Emmycast was watched by an estimated...
POP'S 'AVENUE B' A BREAKTHROUGH
September 14, 1999 | 4:00am*AVENUE B Iggy Pop Virgin Iggy Pop, the cadaverous king of hard core, turned 50 two years ago, and while that birthday may not have been as traumatic for him...
OL TO BALLET HISPANICO
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amT INA Ramirez's mother wanted her to be a teacher, but all she wanted to do was dance. The founder and artistic director of New York's Ballet Hispanico finds it...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amBlaze of glory Keep abreast of the best spots for leaf peeping in New York State by calling (800) 225-5697. You can also get foliage information and a color map...
CLEAN 'STREETCAR' LEAVES SOMETHING TO BE DESIRED
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amTHEATER REVIEW THIS is one clean "Streetcar Named Desire," the production by Dutch director Ivo van Hove at the New York Theatre Workshop. At least, hygienically. A bathtub is the...
JERRY'S A WIMP IN BENCH WARFARE
September 14, 1999 | 4:00am"The People's Court"3 p.m. weekdays on Ch.4 "Judge Judy"4 p.m. weekdays on Ch.4 AFTER seeing the Judges Sheindlin hold court back-to-back on TV, we can hardly wait for the inevitable...
THEY WUZ ROBBED!; H'WOOD BIAS WHACKED EMMY CHANCES OF 'SOPRANOS' MOB
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amT HE people who work in the TV industry in Los Angeles are more larcenous than a Mafia family. How else can you explain the way "The Sopranos" was robbed...
AGASSI ACES OTHER MAFIA
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amTHE U.S. Open tennis finals knocked off "Goodfellas." CBS had planned to air Martin Scorsese's epic gangster movie against Sunday night's Emmy Awards. But the network had to go to...
NOTHING FINER THAN CAROLINA
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amWHEN writing fashion-show reviews, I normally use the word "predictable" as a putdown. So I hope Carolina Herrera won't take it the wrong way when I use it to describe...
ANOTHER PAYING GIG FOR FERGIE: 'TODAY'S' WOMAN IN LONDON
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amAFTER months of back-and-forth negotiations, NBC has finally snagged Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson to become a "special correspondent" for the "Today" show. NBC is expected to announce the deal...
'THEN CAME'...NOTHING:ABC PULLS SITCOM BEFORE IT STARTS
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amABC's "Then Came You" - about an older woman falling for a younger man - is the first casualty of the new fall season. The sitcom, which never aired, has...
THRIFT SHOP MAY HOLD KEY TO OLD MURDERS IN N.J.
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amA cluttered thrift shop in Linden, N.J., may hold clues to a string of unsolved murders that have baffled authorities for three decades. Cops in the quiet middle-class suburb have...
SPITZER HAS 'RULED OUT' RUNNING FOR GOV
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amState Attorney General Eliot Spitzer - considered by some as the Democrats' best shot for governor - stunned party leaders yesterday by deciding not to run for the post in...
DEVASTATED TURKEY DEALS WITH ANOTHER DEADLY AFTERSHOCK
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amNearly a month after Turkey's catastrophic earthquake, a shattering new tremor struck the same area yesterday, killing at least seven people and injuring hundreds. Panic-stricken residents jumped from building windows...
GOV EYEING CRASHES BY DRIVERS IN CELL'S SPELL
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amCell phones pose "legitimate traffic-safety concerns." DMV COMMISSIONER The Pataki administration is launching a probe into whether drivers are causing too many crashes while yapping on their cell phones. "Cellular...
FRAUD EYED IN RUSH TO OPEN 'UNSAFE' BX. SCHOOL
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amThe School Construction Authority says it will probe charges it falsified paperwork to open a new Bronx school - without a complete safety system, The Post has learned. PS 340,...
EVERYBODY'S TALKIN' AS WNEW TUNES OUT MUSIC
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amFans of classic rock will remember yesterday as the day the music died. WNEW-FM, which embodied the spirit of progressive rock for more than three decades and boasted that it...
LONG-AGO AFFAIR LATEST TWIST IN BARREL-SLAY MYSTERY
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amThe suspect in the Long Island body-in-a-barrel murder admitted to an affair 30 years ago with a woman similar to the victim found in his old house - a confession...
VENTURA LIKES RING OF 'TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT'
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Wrestler-turned-Minnesota-Gov. Jesse Ventura seems to be looking to Donald Trump as his tag-team partner - to become the Reform Party's 2000 presidential contender instead of Pat Buchanan. "I...
FALNERS VOW TO REUNITE AT ACTIVIST RALLY
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amFreed FALN prisoners yesterday vowed to join forces to resume their political activism - starting with a mass rally next week - and claimed they have the OK from the...
JETS ARE SET FOR TAKEOFF, VINNY INSISTS
September 14, 1999 | 4:00am"At first, you say, 'Oh, God, it's Vinny.' But then you have to let it go." KEYSHAWN JOHNSON Fallen Jet quarterback Vinny Testaverde, off the gridiron for the season after...
BROOKLYN DEMS BUCK PARTY, BACK BRADLEY
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amA team of Brooklyn Democrats with grass-roots clout yesterday defied party leaders to back Bill Bradley over Vice President Al Gore - claiming "terminal Clintonitis" is fueling a Bradley boomlet....
2 DIE AS BULLETS FLY IN CHELSEA
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amDozens of bullets flew during a wild shootout on a Chelsea street early yesterday when cops tried to stop an "execution" and the gunmen turned on the officers, authorities said....
DUFF TO REVLON RON: COUGH UP $4,700 A DAY FOR KID
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amPatricia Duff wants her daughter to become the $24 million girl. That's the total amount of money the stunning socialite says billionaire ex-husband Ron Perelman should pay her in child...
DREAM TEAM IS SHELVING SUIT IN DIALLO SLAY CASE
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amDream Team lawyers have backed off their plans to sue the city for Amadou Diallo's police-shooting death - to the relief of Diallo's mother, who wants nothing to do with...
MOSQUITOES NOW LAND BRONX TEEN IN HOSPITAL
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amTwo more cases of St. Louis encephalitis were confirmed yesterday, including the city's youngest victim, a 15-year-old Bronx boy who is recovering in a hospital. The total number of confirmed...
JUDGE: STARR'S 'LEAKS' NOT ILLEGAL
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - In a belated victory for Sexgate prober Kenneth Starr, a federal appeals court yesterday nixed a judge's ruling that he broke the law by leaking secrets and should...
FRANKEL PAL: DOC USED ME AS SEX SLAVE
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amA woman who went on the lam with financier Martin Frankel is suing a Rockland County doctor for $4 million, charging he forced her to be his sex slave. In...
COURTS THROW OUT HOLOCAUST SLAVE-LABOR SUITS
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amAmerican courts can't try suits filed by Holocaust victims seeking damages against companies that used them as Nazi-supplied slave labor during World War II, two federal judges ruled yesterday. The...
TA LIFTS 18-MINUTE LOCKOUT FOR METROCARD USERS
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amThe Transit Authority yesterday dropped its policy of keeping unlimited-ride MetroCard users from re-entering the subway system or transferring to buses for 18 minutes, sources said. Transit officials installed a...
U.N. AIRLIFTS 1,300 FROM TIMOR
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amThe United Nations began evacuating 1,300 East Timorese today as officials warned there would be no delay in sending in an international peacekeeping force to restore order in the former...
DIVORCE, ABORTION WIN PAGEANT'S OK
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amMiss America is dropping her venerable virginal veneer. Giving new meaning to the beauty contest's anthem extolling, "There she is ... your ideal," pageant officials voted last month to lift...
THESE METS STEAL HEARTS: THEY'RE THE UNDERDOGS WHO FIND A WAY TO WIN
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amI KNOW we haven't made the playoffs in 11 years. I know that last year, we collapsed in the last week of the season, losing five straight games playing with...
U.S.: NO 'HAGGLING' ON TIMOR TROOPS
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amThe United Nations began evacuating 1,300 East Timorese today as officials warned there would be no delay in sending in an international peacekeeping force to restore order in the former...
$2M FOR HIS L.I. HOUSE IS OFFER GOTTI CAN REFUSE
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amA deal to sell "Junior" Gotti's Long Island home for nearly $2 million fell through yesterday when another potential buyer offered more money and time to the reputed mob scion,...
70 DEAD IN LATEST MOSCOW BOMB
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amRussia began tighter security measures yesterday after the second devastating apartment bombing in five days killed at least 70 people. Authorities called for a crackdown on suspected Islamic militants from...
FANS BLUE ABOUT GANG GREEN'S SUPER BOWL CHANCES
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amMonday-morning-quarterbacking Jet fans say Gang Green doesn't stand a chance of getting to the Super Bowl without their sidelined QB. "The whole season is down the tubes," Terron Breland, 31,...
D-LIVERING THE GOODS
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amQUARTERBACKS No points usually means no good. About the best that could be said of Kent Graham (12 of 23, 91 yards) is that he didn't give the ball away....
ODELEIN GOES APE ON BARNABY
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amThe summer of festering found its outlet, as much as it can in September hockey, when Lyle Odelein caught up with Pittsburgh's Matthew Barnaby Sunday night. "I really killed him,"...
VINNY NOT GIVING UP ON JETS: SAYS SUPER SEASON'S STILL WITHIN REACH
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amVinny Testaverde returned to the Jets' training facility yesterday, hobbling on crutches with his dangling left leg wrapped from foot to knee protecting the ruptured Achilles tendon he injured in...
PARCELLS KNOWS QBS DON'T GROW ON TREES
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amWith Vinny Testaverde out for the year and the Jets' season on the brink after only one game, Bill Parcells yesterday said he's sticking with the players he has in...
FASSEL LIKES 1-0, BUT WANTS MORE
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amIT WASN'T wasn't sure if Jim Fassel was trying to test my Olympic trivia or find the answer to a private bet he had made. "What was the score when...
KEYSHAWN: COMMENT NO RIP ON MIRER
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES In some circles, Keyshawn Johnson was criticized yesterday for being selfish following his angry exit from a post-game press conference after Sunday's 30-28 loss to the Patriots. Yesterday,...
VINNY CAN'T PIN IT ON TURF
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amThe Great Turf Debate raged again yesterday in the wake of Vinny Testaverde's season-ending ruptured Achilles. "I don't know that it was the turf," Testaverde said. "You can't really say...
NOT WHAT WE EXPECTED
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amJet Report Card QUARTERBACKS Vinny Testaverde (10-15, 96 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT) looked fairly sharp early before his season ended with a ruptured left Achilles tendon. Emergency QB and...
ISLES' LUONGO MAKES CASE TO STICK
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amRoberto Luongo tasted the good life over the weekend. You know, Westin Hotel, $65 meal money and a warm, cushy lockerroom. So with the Islanders in Pittsburgh for their opening...
BOSS VOWS NOT TO BUTT IN DURING YANKEE SKID
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - He has watched his high-priced Yankees lose five games off their AL East lead in 14 days as well as being swept by the Red Sox...
LOOKING FOUR-LORN: WELLS EXTENDS BOMBERS' SKID
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amTORONTO - So, you are looking for concrete reasons why the Yankees are desperately groping for the rip cord on the parachutes that will halt their free fall. You search...
BOOMER HAUNTS BOMBERS
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amTORONTO - The Yankees' lead, once fatter than the familiar silhouette haunting them last night, is down to skin and bones. They put out a bread-and-water lineup last night that...
METS SEE MOUNTAINTOP ; PIAZZA DASH CUTS BRAVE LEAD TO 1
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amDENVER - It's a tale of two numbers, 89 and 90. The Mets earned their 89th win for the first time in nine years and the Braves have only 90,...
AMAZIN'S GO 2-FOR-3 IN COIN TOSSES
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amDENVER - The National League conducted its second annual coin toss yesterday with representatives from the Mets, Braves, Astros and Reds, to determine home field advantage and tiebreakers in the...
'O', MY, WERE THEY AWFUL! - BIG BLUE OFFENSE MUST PICK IT UP
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amThe hands of Kent Graham were wrapped, but not enough to hide the purplish tint to his swollen right thumb or what he called a "blown-up" left hand. All that...
CAN KENT HOLD ON? - GRAHAM'S HANDS SORE, SWOLLEN
September 14, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES His season did not start the way he wanted it to, and now Kent Graham has another concern as he attempts to solidify his hold on the Giants'...