February 23, 2000
HEDGE FUND MANAGER CHARGED WITH FRAUD
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amA bogus hedge fund manager defrauded investors out of $59 million and used their money to buy himself luxury homes, cars and jewelry, the Securities and Exchange Commission said yesterday....
NEW ADS AIM TO LIFT LONDON FOG
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amSupermodel Maggie Rizer peers seductively at the camera, clad in a sleek leather jacket - and nothing else. Hunky Scott Barnhill flashes a spectacular washboard stomach under a stylish suede...
GABRIELLA FORTE IS TALKING TO TOMMY
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amSpeculating about Gabriella Forte's next move is turning into Seventh Avenue's version of "Where's Waldo?" The former President and Chief Executive of Calvin Klein was spotted at the offices of...
SEC SUES ALL-TECH OR LOAN VIOLATIONS
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amThe Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday sued two day-trading firms for violating margin-lending rules by loaning their customers too much money. The SEC alleged that All-Tech Direct, Inc. -- which...
FORTE TALKING TO TOMMY
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amSpeculating about Gabriella Forte's next move is turning into Seventh Avenue's version of "Where's Waldo?" The former President and Chief Executive of Calvin Klein was spotted at the offices of...
ANOTHER E-ZINE GETS INKY - THEKNOT.COM SPAWNS A CATALOG
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amWedding portal TheKnot.com is the latest Web site to hitch its online brand to offline publishing. The site for brides (www.theknot.com) has joined the likes of Yahoo! Internet Life and...
ARCHDIOCESE'S SCHOOLS LOG ONTO WEB FILTER
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amThe Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of New York have found Web filtering software that answers to a higher calling. ClickSafe.com, a new porn-blocking software from a company founded by...
JUDGE SAYS MICROSOFT JUST LIKE STANDARD OIL
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amThe judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial compared the software giant to John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil yesterday, further damaging the company's efforts to keep from being broken apart. Federal...
DISNEY EXEC LEAVES FOR RODALE
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amTHE long drawn out search to find a new president to run Rodale -- owner of Runner's World, Prevention and Men's Health -- has finally snagged Steve Murphy, the head...
FINANCIER IN BID FOR SOTHEBY'S - FRENCH MOGUL STEPS UP IN WAKE OF AUCTION SCANDAL
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amBernard Arnault, the Parisian financier who has gobbled up luxury brands around the world, is shaping up as a leading contender among possible buyers of scandal-wracked Sotheby's. Sotheby's archrival, Christie's,...
THE CITY TROUPE'S TRADITION
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amMOST ballet companies nowadays make a specialty of full-evening works, but New York City Ballet still chooses to concentrate on the mixed-bill programs of one-act pieces favored by its founder,...
'BOYS' TO MEN
February 23, 2000 | 5:00am'WONDER Boys" is a clever comedy with a decidedly literary feel that includes several firsts or near-firsts, not the least of which is a successful depiction of Pittsburgh as a...
HOUPPA HOUPPA HOORAY FOR LA HOUPPA
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amA restaurant can be perfect for its neighborhood without being a "neighborhood restaurant." Three-month-old La Houppa belongs to the Lower-Upper East Side, under Midtown's north-leaning nose. Globe-trotters who haunt these...
DAVE'S RETURN IS SUPER
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amDAVID Letterman's highly promoted return to the "Late Show" show after undergoing heart surgery was a ratings bonanza for CBS. CBS estimates that more than 12 million viewers or 9.3...
JACK NEWFIELD RECALLS FIRST-HAND SAD CIVIL-RIGHTS CHAPTER - A 'SONG' SUNG IN RIGHT KEY
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amFROM the opening scene to the soulful voice of Carole King singing the title song behind the credits, "Freedom Song" is everything a reality-based TV movie should be. It's full...
IT ISN'T JUST GENERAL TSO'S CHICKEN ANYMORE
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amFOR time-strapped urbanites, mealtime often means takeout time.And our city has some of the greatest of all imaginable foods to go, from chow mein to foie gras. To keep up...
GROCERS SINK TEETH INTO RESTAURANT BIZ
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amACTORS dream of directing. Athletes open sports bars and eateries. Chefs land television shows. So what do gourmet grocers do for a second act? Open restaurants, of course. There's evidence...
GET SET FOR GRAMMYS
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amBRITNEY Spears and the Backstreet Boys will prompt all the teen screams, but it's a boomer who will likely steal their thunder when the envelopes are opened at tonight's Grammy...
REFRESHING HER 'MEMORY'?
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amBETTY Buckley wants to return to "Cats" one last time before the show ends its record-breaking run in June. "It was one of the greatest experience of my life, and...
LEMME HAVE THAT EMMY! - CHUCK, SUE, KAITY TONG NAMED TWICE
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amWNBC/Ch. 4 dominated this year's local Emmy nominations -- but it was the crash of Ch. 4's helicopter last winter that gave a rival station, Ch. 7, the chance to...
TEXAS IS SET TO EXECUTE GRANNY
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amThe execution of a white-haired great-grandmother dubbed "the Black Widow" is set for tomorrow in Texas - despite political pressure on Gov. George W. Bush to call it off. Attorneys...
RUDY LOSES DECISION ON HOMELESS WORK RULE
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amA Manhattan judge struck down Mayor Giuliani's work-for-shelter plan for the homeless yesterday, finding that the controversial policy could cost human lives. In a 24-page decision, state Supreme Court Justice...
ARIZONAN ALSO HAS GORE GAP IN HIS FAVOR
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amANALYSIS DETROIT - John McCain's problem is that he can't attract enough Republicans. George W. Bush's problem is that he now turns off everyone but Republicans. So what McCain has...
MCDONALD BARRED AGAIN
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amThe judge in the Diallo case formally barred paralyzed cop Steven McDonald from attending the trial yesterday - saying the hero officer would sway jurors. It was the second time...
OUTSIDE, IT'S SURVIVAL OF THE LOUDEST
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY - Cries of "Amadou! Amadou!" filled the air outside the state courthouse and wafted into the fourth-floor courtroom as closing arguments began yesterday. Nearly 60 supporters of the Diallo...
BUSH PAYING FOR S.C. WIN WITH VOTERS IN THE NORTH
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amANALYSIS DETROIT - Republican George W. Bush's ugly win in South Carolina came back and bit him in the butt faster than anyone ever imagined. Anger at Bush - and...
CLINTON TARGETS HOSPITAL FOUL-UPS
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton yesterday demanded that states force hospitals to acknowledge their medical mistakes - but won't ask Congress to mandate it. Just months after a surgeon, dubbed "Dr....
BAKER'S MUSEUM WILL BE COOKING WITH JAZZ
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amJean-Claude Baker's lineage qualifies him as a logical choice to open the Jazz Foundation museum, a labor of love that will become the latest stop on New York City's black-history...
DEATH OF THE NEW DEMOCRATS - WHY IS AL GORE ASHAMED OF HIS MODERATE PAST?
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amIn 1988, the New York Post called on New York Democrats to cast their votes in the presidential primary for Al Gore. A Gore victory, we said then, would be...
JENNIFER STICKS WITH RAP-SHEET BEAU PUFFY
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amJennifer Lopez is still standing by her man, Sean "Puffy" Combs -- and here's photographic proof. The Latina lovely and the rapper strolled hand in hand in Beverly Hills over...
NEW COPS PUT THEIR IDEALISM ON THE LINE
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amHILLARY CLINTON convicts four cops before trial. Al Sharpton stages anti-police marches that tie the city in knots. And then, there are the bad guys. They shoot to kill. These...
DOC REMOVED WRONG KIDNEY, HOSP ADMITS
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amAn elderly man who had a diseased kidney removed at Maimonides Medical Center six months ago got shocking news yesterday: his doctor cut out the wrong organ. A spokeswoman for...
VEEP HOPING TO PLAY TRUMP CARD IN N.Y.
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amDonald Trump -- who last week kissed his own White House dream goodbye -- now is leaning toward endorsing Vice President Al Gore over his Democratic rival, Bill Bradley. Sources...
'MILLIONAIRE' MARRIAGE IS ALREADY A BUST
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amNot only is the honeymoon over -- it looks like the marriage is, too. Made-for-TV groom Rick Rockwell said last night that he and his bride, Darva Conger, signed an...
RUDY & HILL RARIN' TO GO IN DEBATES 'ALL OVER THE STATE'
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amTONAWANDA -- First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday offered to debate Mayor Giuliani "all over the state" -- and Giuliani quickly accepted. "It would be good to have ongoing debates...
SCORES DEAD IN MASSACRE BY RUSSIA: RIGHTS GROUP
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amRussian troops killed at least 62 civilians during a bloodthirsty rampage through a suburb of Chechnya's capital, an international human-rights group said yesterday. It was the worst massacre of the...
SMOKE BAN SPARKING COUNCIL DEBATE
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amAdvocates of tougher anti-smoking laws, and bar owners jittery about the economic consequences of a total smoking ban, get their first chance to sound off today at a City Council...
LET'S NOT TURN ONE TRAGEDY INTO ANOTHER
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY.HE couldn't have painted a better picture if Picasso were his coach. Gripped between the four fingers and thumb of his right hand was Amadou Diallo's wallet. About a half...
CHASE APOLOGIZES FOR DOING BIZ WITH NAZIS
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amChase Manhattan Corp. apologized yesterday for aiding Adolf Hitler's Third Reich by converting German marks into U.S. dollars between 1936 and 1941. Because many countries refused to accept German currency...
CAT LOVERS ENJOY PURR-DIEM
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amFelines of every stripe -- from alley cats to purebred aristocats -- came to Madison Square Garden yesterday hoping to find homes. The first-ever Adoptarama featured hundreds of cats, at...
RUDY LOSES DECISION ON HOMELESS
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amA Manhattan judge struck down Mayor Giuliani's work-for-shelter plan for the homeless yesterday, finding that the controversial policy could cost human lives. In a 24-page decision, state Supreme Court Justice...
INNOCENCE COULD HAVE BEEN SEALED AT FIRST TRIAL
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amANALYSIS A black courtroom observer had just heard Charles Schwarz tell a hushed courtroom yesterday he wasn't even inside the 70th Precinct station house when white cop Justin Volpe sodomized...
HOW HE YEARNS TO WEAR NYPD BLUE
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amEX-COP Charles Schwarz grabbed his wrinkled, short-sleeved NYPD shirt like a child holding on to a security blanket after a bad dream. As he clutched the navy-blue shirt in his...
D.A. MAKES A CASE FOR MURDER - TELLS DIALLO JURY COPS MUST 'PAY'
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- Amadou Diallo perished "frightened to death" in an indefensible, point-blank barrage of 41 police bullets, prosecutors said yesterday, capping the three-week murder trial of four Bronx cops. Alternately...
AGING SLUGGER MAY HAVE RUN OUT OF AT-BATS
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA.THE joke in Yankee camp had been how serene the atmosphere is, especially in comparison to their raucous past and also the Mets' wacky behavior on the other side of...
'WEAK' CARDINAL SKIPS CEREMONY
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amA "still weak" John Cardinal O'Connor skipped an awards ceremony where he was to be honored last night. "He just wasn't up to it. He's still recovering," said Auxiliary Bishop...
MCCAIN SWEEPS GW IN DOUBLEHEADER - UNDERDOG VICTORIOUS IN MICHIGAN, ARIZONA
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amDETROIT -- John McCain narrowly beat George W. Bush in Michigan's hot Republican primary last night as a surge of Democrats and independents scrambled their presidential race. McCain got the...
CATASTROPHE IS AVERTED AT JFK AIRPORT
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amA cockpit warning alarm averted an aviation disaster over the weekend when two passenger jets carrying hundreds of people were on a collision course near Kennedy Airport, The Post has...
IN THIS TALE OF TWO CANDIDATES, EACH NEEDS WHAT THE OTHER HAS
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amIF George W. Bush and John McCain could somehow morph into a single person, together they would make a Republican presidential candidate who would be impossible to beat in November...
I WAS OUT AT MY CRUISER, SCHWARZ TELLS LOUIMA JURY
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amConvicted torture cop Charles Schwarz told a Brooklyn federal jury yesterday he knew nothing about the attack on Abner Louima -- insisting he wasn't even in the station house during...
MCCAIN FIRES UP FAITHFUL WITH TWIN WIN - 'DON'T FEAR US, JOIN US,' HE TELLS PARTY
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amPHOENIX, Ariz. -- Sen. John McCain and his loyalists reveled last night in his resounding two-state sweep, imploring Republicans to join "a McCain majority." The senator, who won primaries in...
CAN CATHOLICS EMBRACE GEORGE W'S GOP?
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amTHE cutthroat GOP race has become a religious war, and the future of the Republican Party is in the crucible. Catholics in Michigan fought back yesterday against leaders of the...
NOT AGAIN!! STRAW FAILS A DRUG TEST
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amTroubled Yankee slugger Darryl Strawberry has flunked a court-ordered drug test, officials said yesterday -- raising the specter of another lengthy suspension, and throwing his baseball future into doubt. The...
HERE'S WHAT'S NEXT
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amHere are the the next big stops on the GOP campaign trail: *Tuesday, Feb. 29: Washington state (some delegates), Virginia and North Dakota. Bush had been leading by about 20...
IT'S SURVIVAL OF THE LOUDEST
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amNearly 60 supporters of Amadou Diallo who couldn't get seats at the trial protested outside yesterday, crying "Amadou! Amadou!" so loudly, they could be heard in the fourth-floor courtroom. And...
BOY DRAGGED TO DEATH BY CAR THIEF
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amA 6-year-old Missouri boy died a gruesome death at the hands of a car thief yesterday, when he was dragged several miles outside the car in a tangled seat belt,...
ERICK COULD PAY FOR PREP TUITION NOW
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amErnie Lorch, founder of the Riverside Church basketball program, has never met Tom Grant, founder of the foundation that his bears his name, but the Kansas City businessman feels a...
RANGER RIVALS HAVE THEIR OWN WORRIES
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amIf the Rangers were searching for some good news - and in the midst of an eight-game stretch in which they'd only been able to win once and had slipped...
NETS LOOKING TO DEAL
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amIf the Nets get through tomorrow's trading deadline without making a move, it certainly won't be from a lack of trying. The Nets have been trying to pry free-agent-to-be Maurice...
THE RISE AND FALL OF PROMOTER LEE
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amFourth in a series documenting the federal racketeering case against the International Boxing Federation. HE was supposed to be running "the other boxing organization." The "different" one. The American one....
IT JUST GETS BETTER & BETTER
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amA FOOT of fresh snow over the weekend added to the already impressive bases that northern ski areas have already been enjoying. At Hunter Mt. in the Catskills, the enthusiasm...
MINNY ACE INTERESTED IN METS
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE -- Minnesota ace Brad Radke will not re-sign with the Twins, but he would sign with the Mets, according to his agent. "It would be...
FAIR TO END HIS SEASON
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amA GOOD guy lost his mind in Vancouver on Monday night and as such, has lost his credibility, his reputation and probably his career, as well. Marty McSorley is smart...
RICKEY OFF AND RUNNING - CARDS, CONTRACT ARE DAY 1 TOPICS
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- As 41-year-old Rickey Henderson dressed around 8:30 a.m. yesterday for his first day of work, it was almost surreal as pitcher Lariel Gonzalez and infielder Domingo...
FIRST-PLACE KNICKS HAVE EYES ON THE BIG PRIZE
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES One of the things about veteran teams like the Knicks is that they don't tend to get too excited about much. Like being in first place in February....
RUDE REGGIE FINED 5G
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amMaybe this could be the start of something. For the reasonable price of $5,000, you could step on the court during a Knicks game at the Garden, make a lewd...
TAPSCOTT AXED
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amThe Knicks work in strange ways. On the day they announced they will boycott Charleston this spring over the Confederate flag controversy, the Knicks dismissed former interim GM Ed Tapscott....
KNICKS RED-FLAG S.C. - BOYCOTT CHARLESTON BECAUSE OF STARS AND BARS
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amThe Knicks announced yesterday they will boycott Charleston this April and not show up for their normal pre-playoff boot camp because of the hot-button political issue regarding the Confederate flag...
BOBBY V: BETTER 'D'= MORE ABS
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- Manager Bobby Valentine has an easy solution for Rickey Henderson's problem with coming out in late-inning situations. "He should work on playing better defense this spring,"...
CALL HENDERSON GOOD HUMOR MAN
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- Rickey Henderson is not a clubhouse cancer. Sure, he blasted his manager yesterday, told the world he was "furious" with the way Bobby Valentine replaced him...
JAYSON: I'M PRACTICING ON MARCH 7
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amThis is one time Jayson Williams wants to practice long and hard. And he doesn't care if Nets brass tells him he can't. Williams, in an angry and firm voice,...
GIANTS KEEP ONE, GET TWO - RE-SIGN CONRAD; ACQUIRE GARRETT, LOMAS
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amYes, the Giants are still in the game. They proved it yesterday with some important additions, most notably the signing of backup quarterback Jason Garrett and an agreement with a...
O'NEILL RECALLS BITTERSWEET FALL
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- Game 4 of last year's World Series took 2 hours and 58 minutes to complete, gave the Yankees' a second straight championship sweep and their third title in...
WHAT A WASTE - DARRYL'S SAD LEGACY ALL THAT FLUSHED TALENT
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amTHIS is how a grandfather a generation from now would have told his grandson about the baseball player with the funny name, the perfect build, the beautiful swing, if only...
STRAW WOES SHOCK CONE, YANKS' CAMP
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- The general public may be blase about Darryl Strawberry's urine coming back laced with cocaine, but the Yankees' universe was stunned last night when the news leaked out....
BOWLES JOINS JET STAFF
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amAl Groh yesterday completed the hirings for his first coaching staff with the Jets by naming Todd Bowles his defensive backs coach. Bowles played on three Super Bowl champion teams...
DEVILS' BOMBARDIR AIMS TO GO
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amMONTREAL -- On a league-leading team, it's stunning how many guys want to be ex-Devils. Add Brad Bombardir to the list that already includes Lyle Odelein and Brendan Morrison. Unlike...
SHAQ ATTACK DROPS NETS
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amLakers 97 - Nets 89 The Nets started with Jim McIlvaine and that didn't did stop Shaquille O'Neal. So on came Evan Eschmeyer and he fouled out. "Who else were...
SCHOOL: NCAA HASN'T ASKED ABOUT ERICK
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amSt. John's has three games left in its regular season, precious time while the NCAA continues its second investigation of the program in the last two months. The first probe...
RANGERS BACK ON 8TH AVE.
February 23, 2000 | 5:00amRangers 4 - Penguins 3 At this point of the season, the only point is to get the points. And so the uneven performance the Rangers came up with last...