July 13, 2004
HEDGE FUNDS' DIRTY SECRET
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amHERE'S a tip for those in Congress looking into the murky world of hedge funds, from some people who know about such things: Concentrate on something called the "commission recapture."...
MARKET UP FOR RENTAL HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amCOMPARED with the investment-sale market for office buildings, trades of large Manhattan apartment buildings are few and far between. But they're enjoying a boomlet, with both institutional and individual investors...
ADVANCED SEARCH - GOOGLE PLANS UPGRADE TO FIND VIDEO, AUDIO
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amGoogle is planning to launch a new feature to allow users to scour the Internet for audio and video clips, The Post has learned. The company has yet to announce...
NEWSDAY RIPPED - ABC SCOLDS PAPERS; ADVERTISERS AMEND FRAUD SUIT
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amNewsday was hit with a one-two punch yesterday, when it was publicly censured by an industry watchdog for inflating figures and slapped with additional allegations of fraud in a lawsuit...
LEUCADIA EYES MCI TAKEOVER
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amJust three months after emerging from bankruptcy on its feet, MCI is being stalked for a takeover by bottom-fishing fund Leucadia. Leucadia, which snaps up distressed companies ranging from insurance...
MOSCOW BRASS TO PROBE EDITOR SLAY
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amA high-level probe is under way on whether Forbes' Moscow editor Paul Klebnikov was shot dead in the street for publishing a list revealing Moscow's secret billionaires. Officials in Moscow...
-SEARCH ENGINE WILL BE LISTED ON THE NASDAQ (M)-NASDAQ LISTING IS BLOW TO RIVAL BIG BOARD (S, LCF)
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amGoogle announced yesterday it will list on the Nasdaq - a big blow to the all-electronic exchange's chief rival, the New York Stock Exchange. Many believed Google would dual-list, having...
INDEX TO TRACK SECURITY STOCKS
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amIn an effort to protect investors from shaky companies in homeland security and defense, a new index debuted this week reviewing only well-heeled and profitable players. Complaints have been on...
AUDIT BUREAU WILL CRACK DOWN ON VIOLATORS
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe Audit Bureau of Circulations announced new penalties yesterday to crack down on fraud in the publishing industry. The bureau unveiled the new rules as it looks to shore up...
STARR REPORT
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amTimes a- changin' I don't know if July 12 has any significance in TV history, but yesterday might have set a record for personnel announcements on both the national and...
ROYAL ROCKER - PRINCE OF THE CITY DAZZLES FANS AT MSG
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amMAKING old songs sound new again is a trick of the masters. Dylan does it, as do Bowie and Madonna. Last night at Madison Square Garden, Prince shook 20 years...
THE IDIOTS GUIDE TO THE HAMPTONS - DAVID LANDSEL DISCOVERS WHY EVERY NEW YORKER SHOULD TRY THE EAST END - AND HOW TO TRY IT RIGHT
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amNEW Yorkers who "summer" in the Hamptons are believed, in some circles, to be nothing more than snobs. After all, they choose to vacation in a place where money and...
TEST YOUR MEDAL - WANT TO GO TO THE SUMMER OLYMPICS? PROCRASTINATOR ALLEN SALKIN TELLS YOU HOW
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amHERE'S the secret to planning a trip to the Olympics in Athens (Aug. 13-29): Don't plan. Just show up. Accommodations prices are soft, events tickets are there for the buying...
CABLE RAINS ON NETS' SUMMER COMEBACK
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amSUMMER cable pro gramming is giving the big broadcasters sunstroke - more viewers are watching cable than all the big networks combined. In June, about 57.7 percent of the TVs...
RIBBIT! HE'S OUT
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amNOT-ready-for-prime-time player Chris Kattan isn't quite ready for prime time after all: The "Saturday Night Live" alumnus was bounced from Nathan Lane's "The Frogs" less than two weeks before its...
RUFUS GETS BY WITH HELP FROM FRIENDS
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amRUFUS Wainwright knows all too well what it's like to go blind from drug abuse. The flamboyant cabaret-pop singer, who turns 31 next week, says a lethal combination of crystal...
MILLION $ QUESTION - 'JEOPARDY' CHAMP'S STREAK HITS 30
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amKEN Jennings just can't escape it: He's now "The 'Jeopardy!' Guy" to an admiring public cheering him on during his remarkable winning streak on the popular game show. "I actually...
'BOSS' IS BACK - TONY DANZA DRIVING NEW TALK SHOW
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amUbiquitous entertainer Tony Danza will slug it out in the daytime talk show wars this fall. It's Danza's latest adventure in a career that's included boxing, acting, song and dance....
I NEVER MEANT TO KILL - POISONER JUST WANTED $$
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe New Jersey woman who served her brother-in-law a fatal cocktail didn't want to kill him, but incapacitate him to gain control of his money, her lawyer said yesterday. Maryann...
BLOOMBERG BIGS GET FAT RAISES
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg signed an order yesterday giving commissioners and other managers the same raises won by the city's largest municipal union - boosting his top deputy's paycheck to over $200,000....
HORROR CRASH KILLS 3 - TEENS IN L.I. TRAGEDY
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amA car carrying six young people from a Manhattan nightclub crashed on Long Island yesterday, killing three of them - including a teenage girl celebrating her 18th birthday - and...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amPotty-bashing punks have been running wild through Minnesota, torching portable toilets and mowing them down with their cars. And Bill Carroll, a spokesman for the porta-potty industry, says there's not...
DEM: I'M THE JUAN FOR LATINS
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amSen. John Kerry is courting Latin love with a $1 million Spanish-language media blitz in battleground states, touting the presidential contender as a man of faith, family and honor. Kerry...
KERRY VS. THE WAR - WORDS THAT PROMISE DEFEAT
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amJOHN Kerry has finally spoken the words that make the November election an unambiguous choice. On "60 Minutes" on Sunday night, according to the official transcript released by CBS News,...
NEW YORK HAILS ALEX THE GREAT
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amAlexander Hamilton - one of our nation's Founding Fathers - was lauded yesterday by business leaders from the institutions he helped found, including the New York Post, when they commemorated...
EXTENDED RIDE FOR RAIL TIX DEAL
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amA pilot program allowing straphangers to ride commuter rails within the city limits for $2.50 on weekends has been extended through September, officials said yesterday. CityTicket was supposed to end...
MIKE RIPS ELECTION TERROR DELAY
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday gave a big thumbs-down to any delay in the Nov. 2 presidential election in the event of a terror strike. "The election date is set by Congress,"...
FDNY'S HOTTEST GUYS
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amIt was hot, hot, hot at the South Street Seaport yesterday when the FDNY unveiled the latest squad of musclebound firefighters from its beefcake 2005 Calendar of Heroes. And the...
HOLY RALLY FOR GAY-WED BAN
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republicans brought Christian, Jewish and African-American clergy to the Capitol yesterday, hoping to rally support for a constitutional amendment to outlaw gay marriage. Democrats scoffed at the effort,...
BUDGET LAWSUIT LOOMS
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was threatened with an unprecedented lawsuit yesterday by a lawmaker disgusted by the state Legislature's ongoing failure to pass a new state budget. Assemblyman...
JAVITS EXPAND OK'D
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Assembly Democrats yesterday introduced a bill that would authorize the $1.4 billion expansion of the Jacob Javits Convention Center but ensure that it is not linked to the...
SCHUMER FOE RIPS STAFF TRIP
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Sen. Charles Schumer is among the Senate's biggest money-wasters when it comes to office expenditures, having even treated his staff to a "retreat" at a lavish upstate resort,...
REPORT BLASTS SCHOOL PARENTS
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amParent coordinators received an F for refusing to return phone calls after school hours, a city report charges. A survey conducted by Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum's office found that 77...
CONDO-MAXIMUM - PRICES WAY UP FOR MANHATTAN APTS.
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amNothing can slow down the soaring market for Manhattan apartments - not even the soaring interest rates. Leading the way, by a large margin, is the condo market, which posted...
COUPLE IN FORGERY & THEFT BUST
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island couple has been nabbed for allegedly running a theft and forgery scheme that involved the husband's committing house burglaries to swipe credit cards and the wife's then...
BOOK HIM! THIS AUTHOR WAS COURTING TROUBLE
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amLET'S set the record straight: I'm no fan of the Brooklyn DA's Office. But I'm on its side in its battle with former ADA Bob Reuland, a widely unread writer....
RAO'S KILLER GUILTY - MOBSTER COPS PLEA
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amLouis "Lump Lump" Barone took his yesterday, pleading guilty to gunning down a fellow diner inside the legendary East Harlem eatery Rao's. Barone, 67, admitted killing Albert Circelli and injuring...
PEACENIKS LAUNCH EXPLOSIVE SUIT
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amIs there a legal right to bomb on Broadway? A federal court will consider that question today, as peace activists battle to put up an anti-war billboard - featuring a...
HAMPTONS DIARY
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amCOMIC Andy Dick was having the time of his life on his first trip to the Hamptons over the weekend. "I love the Hamptons!" he shouted with glee outside Boutique...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Police want to question this man in connection with last month's shooting of a father of five on a Flatbush street. Cliff Hector, 22, (in both photos above)...
THOMPSON'S BIG WAR-CHEST BOO$T
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amComptroller William Thompson, a possible contender for mayor next year, added $1.2 million to his campaign war chest in the last six months - but Council Speaker Gifford Miller still...
CONVENTIONS WILL BE ALL OVER CABLE
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amCable will dominate political convention coverage this summer, while the networks will broadcast about as long as they did in 2000. Although mainstream viewers largely tuned out the 2000 convention...
KILLER HUSBAND - DUMPED NAKED WIFE IN THE RIVER
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amAn ex-Chamber of Commerce president on Long Island was sentenced to 12 years behind bars yesterday for killing his wife and dumping her body - naked except for a wedding...
CITY DIGS IN ON B'KLYN JAIL PLAN
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe Department of Correction stood its ground on its plans for the empty Brooklyn House of Detention yesterday and firmly reiterated its commitment to keep the jail in its inventory....
SPLIT DEFENSE - 'STARVE' COUPLE GET SEPARATE LAWYERS
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amCAMDEN, N.J. - The couple accused of horrifically starving four of their adopted children last year maintained a united front in a court appearance yesterday - but with separate lawyers....
LUNATIC CANNIBAL KILLER DEVOURS PORN O' PLENTY
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amJurors in the "Butcher of Tompkins Square" sanity trial were given a tour yesterday of a madman's library - a place of porn, satanic tracts and true-crime serial-killer thrillers. Murderer-dismemberer...
LIAR TO THE 'RESCUE' - 9/11 WORKER WHO GOT 650G 'NEVER LIFTED A BUCKET'
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amA rescue worker who collected almost $650,000 from the federal 9/11 fund, for dozens of ailments he claims resulted from his search for bodies in the "toxic soup" beneath Ground...
SOCIALITE COUPLE MUGGED IN PARK AVE. ATTACK
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amAn 83-year-old retired businessman, the brother of the head of Lincoln Center Theatre, was knocked to the ground and his socialite companion was robbed during a lightning-quick mugging near Park...
GOPERS WANT WHOOPI'S 'FAST' EXIT
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Some Republican activists are launching a boycott of SlimFast diet products to protest SlimFast spokeswoman Whoopi Goldberg's X-rated rant against President Bush at a New York fund-raiser for...
BIAS CHARGES IN BRAWL AT PARTY
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amCops nabbed a 26-year-old Long Island man yesterday in the streetside beating of two Sikhs outside a Queens catering hall and charged him with assault as a bias crime, police...
CHARGES IN QNS. FAMILY MASSACRE
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens man was arraigned yesterday on charges he blew away his father and brother - and now prosecutors have 120 days to decide whether to seek the death penalty....
COURTNEY IS OUT OF THE HOSPITAL - BUT SHE'S STILL A VERY SICK WOMAN
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amTHE broken woman formerly known as rocker chick Courtney Love was released from Bellevue at around 5 p.m. yesterday, and transferred to an unnamed facility. This, after Love spent the...
STATE SLICES APPLE DWELLERS FOR $11B
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe city is sending as much as $11 billion a year more in taxes to Albany than it's getting back in state aid, according to a study released by Mayor...
'ROT IN HELL' - 40 YEARS FOR EVIL NEIGHBOR-SLASHER
July 13, 2004 | 4:00am"The neighbor from hell." That's what Queens Supreme Court Justice Evelyn Braun yesterday branded one of two Queens tenants convicted of viciously slashing their upstairs neighbors almost to death in...
FAREWELL, WEEZIE - 'JEFFERSONS' STAR SANFORD DIES
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amLovable actress Isabel Sanford, who kept America in stitches as Weezie on the "The Jeffersons" and tore down racial barriers on TV, has died of natural causes at the age...
LEGAL DRAMA - NOVELIST RIPS DA OVER FIRING
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amA prosecutor-turned-novelist confronted Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes from the witness stand yesterday, accusing his former boss of wrongly firing him over embarrassing remarks the author made about the office while...
DEAL ENDS B'WAY STRIKE DRAMA
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amBroadway actors and producers reached a tentative contract yesterday, ending two weeks of prolonged and often contentious negotiations. The agreement between Actors' Equity and the League of American Theaters and...
DOUBLE 'AMNESIA' - VEEP RIPS JOHN-JOHN WAR VOTE
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday accused John Kerry and John Edwards of having "campaign amnesia" for forgetting their past strong support for toppling Saddam Hussein. "When Congress voted...
THUGS TO FREE HOSTAGE - PHILIPPINES GIVES IN
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Terrorists in Iraq agreed to free a Filipino hostage last night just minutes after his government promised on Arabic TV that it would withdraw a contingent of troops...
9 BILLS SIGNED INTO CITY LAW
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg signed nine bills into law yesterday, including a two-year extension of a moratorium on fines for archaic awning rules. The moratorium, which expired in January, prevents small retailers...
MORGAN $ETTLES SEX RAP - FIRM TO PAY $54M
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amRed-faced Wall Street powerhouse Morgan Stanley yesterday agreed to shell out $54 million to settle sex-bias claims from female traders who charged they were forced to endure bachelor-party antics like...
SCHOOL SNAPPLE IS LE$$ 'POP'ULAR
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe controversial Snapple deal fizzled in 27 city schools this year - vending machines stocked with Snapple juices and bottled water took in $178,000 less than they did last year...
RAO'S KILLER IN DEAL - SHOOTER GETS 15 YRS.
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amLouis "Lump Lump" Barone took his yesterday, pleading guilty to gunning down a fellow diner inside the legendary East Harlem eatery Rao's. Barone, 67, admitted killing Albert Circelli and injuring...
WALL ST. WOMEN WIN - MORGAN OKS $54M PAYOUT IN BIAS SUIT
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amRed-faced Wall Street powerhouse Morgan Stanley yesterday agreed to shell out $54 million to settle sex-bias claims from female traders who charged they were forced to endure bachelor-party antics like...
LET U$ PREY - PRIEST FLEECED FLOCK MEMBER FOR 500G: SUIT; SUIT RIPS $INS OF THE FATHER
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe monsignor of an East Side Catholic church swindled an elderly parishioner out of $500,000 - including $100,000 that he used to buy a luxury condo on the Jersey Shore,...
LATEST 'FRAUDSTER' IS NOT ALONE
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amDoug Copp's payout from the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund is not the first to be referred to the Justice Department for investigation, The Post has learned. A number of...
HERO TO ZERO - 9/11 WORKER WHO GOT 650G A FRAUD: PROBE
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amA rescue worker who collected almost $650,000 from the federal 9/11 fund for dozens of ailments he claims resulted from his search for bodies in the "toxic soup" beneath Ground...
WRITER RIPPED IN LEGAL DRAMA
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amA former Brooklyn prosecutor was a snobby writer wannabe who sought a job in the homicide bureau to get more publicity for his book - then whined like a "spoiled...
MAN ELECTROCUTED IN SUBWAY FALL
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amAn apparently drunken man was electrocuted yesterday when he accidentally fell onto the third rail in a downtown Manhattan subway station, police and witnesses said. The unidentified 41-year-old man was...
CANNIBAL KILLER DEVOURS PORN O' PLENTY
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amJurors at the "Butcher of Tompkins Square" sanity trial were given a tour yesterday of a madman's library - a place of porn, satanic tracts and true-crime serial-killer thrillers. Lining...
TV'S 'WEEZIE' DEAD AT 86
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amLovable actress Isabel Sanford, who kept America in stitches as Weezie on the "The Jeffersons" and tore down racial barriers on TV, has died at 86. In poor health since...
TRAGIC BODY MYSTERY SOLVED
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amA lifelong Newark resident will finally be buried today, more than a week after he died because a hospital delayed notifying next of kin and then couldn't produce his body,...
'LOST' BEATLES COLLECTION BOUGHT FOR $36
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amIt's a truly Fab discovery. One of the most extensive collections of Beatles memorabilia, missing for almost 30 years, may have turned up in a battered suitcase in Australia, The...
AL WILL MAKE PITCH TO BONDS
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amNOTES HOUSTON - When he gets to the plate tonight, Barry Bonds can expect something he hasn't gotten much of this year. Strikes. Both AL manager Joe Torre and AL...
TESTING THE LIMITS OF TRUST
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amSACRAMENTO - Michelle Collins' heat went off last night without her, perhaps because she couldn't take it. Citing a hamstring pull, she slipped out of town Sunday, her Athens dream...
MARION'S OLYMPIC HOPES DIM
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK SACRAMENTO - Marion Jones' quest to make the U.S. Olympic team is hanging by a thread. Jones, who finished a distant fifth in the 100-meters, barely advanced to the...
TORRES COULDN'T WAIT TO GO HOME
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amRicky Torres envied teammates Gavin Grant and Brian Laing when the duo went to the ABCD Camp last year and he looked forward to the day when he might get...
A FAMILY AFFAIR - CLARKS HAVE CORNER ON 800 SUCCESS
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amSACRAMENTO - Turns out Joe Clark did more than whip a woebegone New Jersey high school into shape. The former principal of once-notorious Eastside High School in Paterson must have...
IT'S ALL FOE ONE - CLEMENS & PIAZZA ALLIES . . . FOR A NIGHT
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amHOUSTON - They never say the words, exactly. They never quite come out and tell what you know is on their minds. They always dance around it. Or they try...
BIG LEAP MARION'S BEST SHOT
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK SACRAMENTO - Not all the alleged steroid users have seen their Olympic hopes dusted at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials here. Marion Jones, who finished a distant...
AL SQUAD A PINSTRIPED CONVENTION
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amHOUSTON - They wrapped around the room like an endless string of pinstripes, one Yankee after another. There was Tom Gordon, and to his left was Mariano Rivera. Then, along...
NETS, NUGGETS WORK ON DEAL
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe Kenyon Martin restricted free agency saga dragged on yesterday as the Nets and Nuggets examined all aspects of a sign-and-trade scenario for the 26-year-old All-Star forward. And in an...
DEVILS ADD STAR TO 'D'
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amBarely two months before the salary cap lockout, and still vowing to cut payroll, Lou Lamoriello's biggest-ever plunge into the Group 3 unrestricted free agent market smacks of Scott Stevens...
YANKS CAN'T GET ENOUGH
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amHOUSTON - Here is a juicy news flash for you: The Yankees would welcome Randy Johnson on their team. They said so. Lined up along two walls at the Four...
A-ROD TO UNIT: YANKEES HAVE YOUR NUMBER
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amHOUSTON - As far as Alex Rodriguez is concerned, the only question mark with getting Randy Johnson is Bernie Williams. Check that - Bernie Williams' number. "I think the only...
PLAYING IN TROON - LEONARD SHOOTING FOR HAPPY RETURN
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amTROON, Scotland - The way it often does for major championship winners, everything fell into place for Justin Leonard seven years ago at Royal Troon. No one was paying attention...
'BIG' NEWS: UNIT OPEN TO TRADE - RANDY ADMITS HE'D MULL DEAL TO CONTENDER
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amHOUSTON - Let the feeding frenzy for Randy Johnson begin. The Big Unit just might become available. At yesterday's All-Star Game workout day, Johnson was bombarded with question after question...
MULDER, AL PREPARED TO PITCH TO BONDS
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amALL-STAR NOTES HOUSTON - When he gets to the plate tonight, Barry Bonds can expect something he hasn't gotten much of this year. Strikes. Both AL manager Joe Torre and...
CRAWFORD-TO-KNICKS DEAL NOT DEAD: AGENT
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amThe agent for Jamal Crawford, having spoke with Isiah Thomas and Bulls GM John Paxson, claimed each was determined to get a deal done for the Chicago guard, although one...
A FAMILY AFFAIR - CLARKS TAKE 1ST, 3RD IN WOMEN'S 800 FINAL
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amSACRAMENTO - Turns out Joe Clark did more than whip a woebegone New Jersey high school into shape. Turns out the former principal of once-notorious Eastside High School in Paterson...
TEJADA BLASTS OFF - O'S SHORTSTOP TOPS BERKMAN, CAPTURES DERBY
July 13, 2004 | 4:00amHOUSTON - Miguel Tejada spoiled the hometown show. But in doing so, he put on a pretty good show of his own. Tejada beat hometown favorite Lance Berkman in the...