July 21, 2005
SEC PROBES FIDELITY TIES TO FRONT RUNNING
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Securities & Exchange Commission is investigating whether brokerage firms that did business with Fidelity Investments cheated by placing their own trades ahead of those of the big mutual fund...
JAY-Z MEETS WORLD
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amRapper Jay-Z is expanding his Roc-A-Fella empire with the launch of a new record label focused on the budding genre called world music. The label, to be called Roc La...
FIGHTING WORDS - GRASSO BACKS OFF SPITZER SETTLEMENT CHATTER
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amThe all-out war between former New York Stock Exchange boss Dick Grasso and New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer won't get settled, despite televised reports of a truce yesterday. Spitzer...
NEW CIRC RULES ROIL MEDIA
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amAdvertisers and media execs are scrambling to make sense of new, tougher circulation rules and their impact on past ad buys after an industry-wide crackdown on magazine publishers. The reaction...
FEDERATED $ETTLES UP
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amFederated Department Stores has started to reimburse some of its suppliers to settle disputes over chargebacks and other deductions taken by the retailer, The Post has learned. The refunds, which...
AD REBATES ARE LIKELY
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amAdvertisers and media execs are scrambling to make sense of new tougher circulation rules and their impact on past ad buys after an industry-wide crackdown on magazine publishers. The reaction...
ROSIE REUNION - THE WORKING-CLASS FAMILY'S TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amSOMEONE has a sense of humor. The first reunion of the Conner family - Roseanne, Dan and the whole gang - was staged this week at a Hollywood bowling alley....
MAKING A NEW 'MAN' OUT OF PREZ BARTLETT
July 21, 2005 | 4:00am'TWO and a Half Men" may get another man this season. The show is in serious talks with "West Wing" star Martin Sheen - real-life father of "Two" co-star Charlie...
BRATZ DOLLS GET TV SHOW FOR FALL
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Bratz girls are taking their "Passion for Fashion" to Fox Kids. The dolls, which rival Barbie in popularity among the young-girl set, will star in their own animated series,...
FROM BACKUP TO BREAKOUT
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amSINGER and guitarist Raul Midon, who's been blind since he was a baby, faced two major turning points of his flourishing musical career. Each had the same answer: New York....
BIG RETURN FOR BOLSHOI
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amMOSCOW'S Bolshoi Ballet - Bolshoi means big, but big isn't the half of it - bounced back to the Metropolitan Opera House Monday night, nearly 20 years since it last...
'WIVES' RETURN FOR A BURIAL
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amTHE women of "Desperate Housewives" returned to work this week - just in time for a funeral. It is believed that the service was for Rex Van De Camp (Steven...
DEVIL OF A TIME - ZOMBIE GOES FROM LOPPING HEADS TO BANGING 'EM
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amONLY Rob Zombie would consider playing heavy metal music to hordes of sweaty, foaming-at-the-mouth madmen all summer long "a vacation." But since Zombie's been concentrating on his new second career...
BEHIND THE BLOG - GOSSIP, AMBITION AND THE UNMASKING OF 'JOLIE IN NYC'
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amIT was this summer's version of "Primary Colors" - at least inside fashion circles. Who is "Jolie in NYC," the anonymous magazine editor writing about gossip, graft and garments? Her...
'DANCE' FEVER - AMATEURS' FEET TO THE FIRE
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amIF you didn't win the big one in the last bazillion-dollar poker tourney, take heart - and then switch aspirations - immediately! You still have a shot at becoming rich...
STARR REPORT
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amFuller brushed (off) Kelly Clarkson has nothing against "American Idol" creator Simon Fuller, with whose company she inked a management deal after becoming the first "Idol" winner in 2002. Not...
KATIE GOES BATTY
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amBATTER up! Yes, that is Katie Couric taking a couple of swings in the batting cage yesterday during a "Today" show segment on the plaza promoting the new "Bad News...
GANGS BANGED ON L.I. - TOP 'LATIN KINGS' JAILED
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amLong Island lawmen struck a decisive blow to the Latin Kings - three top "Crowns" were arrested, $1.2 million in drugs were seized and the group's so-called "constitution" was taken...
'DISABLED' L.I. COP IS BURNED IN PAY SCAM
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amA Suffolk County cop was busted for allegedly bilking the county out of more than $250,000 in illegitimate disability pay while he worked as a volunteer firefighter, authorities announced yesterday....
L.I. WOMAN THRONE FOR A LOO-P BY BURGLARS
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amA Long Island woman who got up at night to use the bathroom was stunned moments later to find herself locked out of her own bedroom by brazen burglars. The...
KIDS, MOM SLASHED IN FIGHT OVER PLAYSTATION
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amTwo kids and their mom were slashed last night by an enraged Bronx man wielding a shattered coffee mug - in a bizarre battle over a PlayStation game, police and...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amA Maine man was busted after a woman using an outhouse looked down and saw him in the raw sewage unit "staring up at her," cops say. But Gary James...
'SCOTTY' BEAMS UP - 'STAR TREK' ACTOR DOOHAN DIES AT 85
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amStar Trek's James "Scotty" Doohan has crossed the Final Frontier. The veteran actor, famous for playing the chief engineer on the classic sci-fi series - and for answering the call...
GOOD GUY GOV'S GOTTA GO: POLL
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki's favorable rating has climbed to its highest levels of the year even though a majority of New Yorkers still think it's time for a new governor,...
UNHEALTHY SITUATION FOR FIELDS
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amMANHATTAN Borough President C. Virginia Fields supports giving more New Yorkers health benefits - except if they work for her. Fields is the only candidate for mayor who is not...
MIKE HOLDS OUT FOR ROE STAND
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg said yesterday that he won't back President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, John Roberts, until the judge clarifies his position on abortion. "I don't know enough about this judge's...
MINISTER ADMITS HE STOLE 30G
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amA minister admitted yesterday he stole more than $30,000 from the Queens church over which he presided for 30 years. Rev. Charles Betts, 68, pastor of the Morning Star Missionary...
COURT JESTER - NOMINEE'S KID A FANCY DANCER
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amWhoa, little buddy! Dad hasn't gotten the job yet. As a dignified John Roberts was tapped by President Bush for the Supreme Court during a prime-time address from the White...
ASHANTI MAMA DRAMA - TESTIFIES AGAINST PRODUCER
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amThe mother of sultry pop singer Ashanti took legal swings at a disgruntled producer who worked with her daughter when she was a teen and is now suing for $4...
WORKER RIPPED OFF $1M: COPS
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amA crafty 25-year-old employee of a Long Island marketing firm managed to swindle more than a million dollars in cash by steadily sneaking small bills out of the office, police...
BROTHERLY LOVE - TEEN WHO SAVED POOL TOT A MODEST HERO
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amThe teenager who saved his toddler brother from drowning in a backyard swimming pool in Brooklyn said yesterday he wouldn't stop trying to revive the tot even when others believed...
L.I. CLIMBER DIED HIKING IN SANDALS
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amA Long Island climber killed by an avalanche in Pakistan hiked through snowy terrain in her sandals to scout an "irresistible" rock wall to scale, her traveling partner said yesterday....
EVIL BRIT'S JIHAD LINK IN OREGON
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amAn al Qaeda operative who once traveled to the United States to help set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon was identified yesterday as the chief organizer of the...
UNIONS DECLARE 'WAR'-MART
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amUnions are preparing to battle Wal-Mart for New Yorkers' loyalties after the company said it will launch a radio, television and print ad campaign here. "While they're going to have...
CON ED TO PLUG ITS 'LEAKS'
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amCon Edison will deploy a new power-leak detection device on city streets as part of a $10.6 million settlement with state regulators. The deal comes in the case of an...
DOC LOST NEEDLE IN PATIENT
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amA Manhattan surgeon who couldn't find a needle in his patient - but sewed him up anyhow - has been found liable in a malpractice lawsuit. In a decision made...
NEW RAP FOR HOWARD BEACH BAT-BEAT SUSPECT
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amProsecutors slapped accused bias bat-basher Nicholas "Fat Nick" Minucci with additional charges yesterday for violating probation - as the victim's mother cried out for justice. "I had a son that...
DEMS HOLD THEIR FIRE VS. 'SHOO-IN' ROBERTS
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee John Roberts was poised to coast to Senate confirmation yesterday as Democrats hunkered down with a wait-and-see approach and experts said it's a done deal....
MIKE LIKES GOP BALLOT CHALLENGE
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg said yesterday it's appropriate that GOP rival Tom Ognibene's petitions to get on the primary ballot be challenged. Ognibene's petitions are being challenged by four registered GOP voters...
MIRACLE WORKER NEEDS ONE OF HER OWN
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amTwo years ago, Shari Kurzrok spearheaded the nation's largest blood drive, the Save-A-Life Tour. Now, the 31-year-old public relations exec is fighting for her own life after doctors told her...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Police yesterday released this sketch (above) of a man who raped a woman at knifepoint in East Flatbush. The unidentified suspect confronted the 19-year-old woman as she was...
'HE-SHE' GUILTY OF HEEL STAB
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amA transvestite hooker sobbed in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday as he was found guilty of viciously slamming the 4-inch stiletto heel of his shoe into the head of a cabby...
JUDGE MAY GAG GOTTI JR. TRIAL
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amA judge overseeing the John "Junior" Gotti trial is considering issuing a gag order - as prosecutors accuse the ex-Gambino boss of trying to sway the jury pool. The feds...
'MAFIA COPS' GET SPRUNG TODAY IN HOME-ARREST DEAL
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amThe two reputed mob cops will be released today under the watchful eye of Uncle Sam. Disgraced NYPD detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa are expected to walk out of...
BLDG.-COLLAPSE VICTIM SUING
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amA woman trapped under the rubble of last week's Upper West Side building collapse is suing the companies that were demolishing the former supermarket. Lorna Hanson, a 56-year-old nurse's assistant,...
SPITZER TOOK 25G FROM WRIST-SLAP FIRM'S MAN
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - A giant insurer investigated by state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer got what was widely viewed as a slap on the wrist just days after Spitzer pocketed a $25,000...
LIL' KIM EX-FIANCÉ: I'M NO KILLER
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amThe accused ringleader of a vicious Brooklyn street gang, the one-time fiancé of rapper Lil' Kim, said murder and drug-dealing charges against him are fabricated. "It's all a lie," said...
MARTHA BIOPIC'S A TRASHY DELIGHT
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amAHA! Now we know how Martha Stewart triumphed through five months in the federal pokey. Two words: Liquid soap. About halfway through CBS's deliriously delicious new addition to the Stewart...
COMMUTE & COMPUTE - TAKE-HOME SCHOOL LAPTOPS
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amHundreds of sixth-graders will be getting free wireless laptop computers at the start of the school year - and they'll be able to take them home, The Post has learned....
EVIDENCE MOUNTS VS. OPERA MAN
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amFederal prosecutors in the case against philanthropist and opera buff Alberto Vilar yesterday hinted they've amassed a mountain of evidence. Assistant U.S. Attorney Marc Litt said he's begun providing Vilar's...
UNION CLAIMS TERROR TRAINING IS OFF TRACK
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amThe city's transit union says it's spending thousands of dollars to train its workers to spot potential terrorists on subways and buses - because the MTA won't. Roger Toussaint, president...
JUDE'S NANNY NOT SO DANDY - OH-SO-AVERAGE AU PAIR: I'M IN AWE OF LAW
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amHey, Jude, you burned Sienna for . . . this? Even all tarted up for a photo shoot for London's Mirror newspaper, nanny Daisy Wright looks more like a late-night...
'BIGOTS' BUST DOC - N.Y. SURGEON: N.M. COPS BEAT AND SLURRED ME
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amA black New York heart surgeon, who's an Army reservist, claims he was wrongfully arrested by Albuquerque cops - who allegedly taunted him by calling him "boy" and "drama queen"...
SLAIN POL'S BRO BARGES INTO MEET
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amThe brother of slain Councilman James Davis disrupted a televised town hall meeting last night in Brooklyn, barging into the auditorium and shouting that he would not "give one nickel...
SEA HUNTERS SHELL-SHARKED
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amTalk about the one that got away! Fishermen competing in an annual monster shark derby off Martha's Vineyard hauled in a massive, 1,181-pound tiger shark - yet lost the contest...
TOPLESS DIAZ WAS EAGER TO POSE: FOTOG
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The embattled shutterbug who photographed actress Cameron Diaz topless said yesterday the blond beauty eagerly posed for him because she needed a sexy edge for her modeling...
ZAHARA & MOMMY HAVE JOLIE GOOD TIME
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amHere's Angelina Jolie with her brand-new bundle of joy - and we don't mean Brad Pitt. The incandescent actress took one of her first public strolls with her newly adopted...
BOMB SCARE - B'KLYN BUS DRAMA
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn bus was evacuated yesterday after a passenger spotted an unattended bag near the back door - only days after cops began boarding buses and trains to remind passengers...
600G STATE INSURANCE 'SCAM'
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amSixteen state workers have been busted for submitting more than $600,000 in insurance claims for medical treatment they never received, Bronx DA Robert Johnson said yesterday. The workers pocketed $389,423...
HE-SHE HEEL GUILTY OF SHOE ATTACK ON CABBY
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amA transvestite hooker sobbed in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday as he was found guilty of viciously slamming the four-inch heel of his stiletto shoe into the head of a cabby...
BUILDING-COLLAPSE VICTIM SUES
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amA woman trapped under the rubble of last week's Upper West Side building collapse is suing the companies that were demolishing the former supermarket. Lorna Hanson, a 56-year-old nurse's assistant,...
DRIVER DIES IN E. SIDE SMASH
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amA truck driver died yesterday after he plowed through an Upper East Side intersection and smashed into a parked truck, police said. Alberto Sanchez, 48, a driver for Bronx-based Salad...
GRAMAN'S UP; FRANKLIN'S DOWN
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ARLINGTON - Joe Torre wasn't angry about the Yankee brass swapping Alex Graman for Wayne Franklin yesterday. But it was clear the decision was made above him. Even...
BACK WOES SHELVE HILL
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amLeading apprentice Channing Hill, who exacerbated back problem being thrown out of starting gate Sunday, took off all mounts yesterday, underwent MRI and will miss at least first few weeks...
MSG EYES LOTTERY DRAWING
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amTORONTO - MSG-TV Network is attempting to gain the rights to televise the NHL Entry Draft lottery drawing that will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at a midtown Manhattan hotel, The...
QUANTRILL GLAD HE'S NOT WITH YANKEES
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amPaul Quantrill said he's ecstatic he's not with the Yankees anymore. He said he's not bitter about being designated for assignment late last month, and he sure as heck isn't...
NYRA AX CLAIMS ANOTHER
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amThe New York Racing Association, which last Thursday sent shockwaves through the track by ousting four top officials including longtime racing secretary Mike Lakow, steward Dave Hicks and chief veterinarian...
TIME OFF FOR TAYLOR
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amA rematch pitting new undisputed middleweight champion Jermain Taylor against Bernard Hopkins will occur in December at the earliest, Taylor's promoter Lou DiBella said yesterday. While wresting the title away...
PLAYERS ARE READY TO RATIFY NHL PACT
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amTORONTO - They'll be voting aye today. They'll mean aye-yi-yi. Some believe today's expected ratification here of the collective bargaining agreement by the NHL Players Association will also be a...
WRIGHT ALL ALONG - A YEAR LATER, DAVID'S DOING FINE WITH METS
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amMike Cameron watched the flurry of activity in the Mets' clubhouse yesterday. Different reporters were asking different players about David Wright. One was camped out in front of Wright's locker....
AMERICA HAS 6TH SENSE IN NEW SOCCER RANKINGS
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amWhen FIFA's World Rankings came out yesterday, the U.S. had climbed up to sixth, its highest ranking ever. The Americans will have a golden opportunity to show themselves worthy of...
METS' STARTERS ALL PITCHING IN
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amVICTOR Zambrano, the Mets' pitcher this afternoon, has allowed three earned runs or fewer in 16 of his 17 starts. Pedro Martinez, who pitches tomorrow night, has yielded one earned...
FRANKLIN DEMOTED; GRAMAN GETS CALL
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amARLINGTON - Joe Torre couldn't be described as angry about the Yankees' brass swapping Alex Graman for Wayne Franklin yesterday. But Torre made it clear the decision was made above...
WOODWARD A REAL BIG HIT
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES Chris Woodward received a slew of phone calls after Tuesday night's walk-off homer, all the way down to some high school buddies. "It was a pretty big thrill,"...
CLOCK'S CRUCIAL TO SHAREEF DEAL
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amThe Nets' next move is putting a first-round pick on the table. As the NBA officially notified teams the moratorium placed on free-agent signings would extend into next week, the...
WHY '83 NETS BAGGED BROWN
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amThe luggage claim check from a Kansas airport was the tip-off. Rumors swirled for weeks back in April 1983. Larry Brown, who had coached the Nets to their first-ever 40-victory...
BOMBERS HOPEFUL ON PAVANO RETURN
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ARLINGTON - Joe Torre is still counting on Carl Pavano rejoining the rotation by July 30 even if the right-hander with a shoulder problem doesn't make a rehab...
LARSEN IS PAYING BIG DIVIDEND FOR S.I. YANKS
July 21, 2005 | 4:00am"Draft day was one of the worst days in the world for me. It was a shock more than anything." - KYLE LARSEN Kyle Larsen saw his name in all...
EX-BOSS: BROWN WORTH 10 EXTRA WS
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amPacers president Donnie Walsh thinks Larry Brown would immediately make the Knicks a playoff team, adding 10 wins to their 33-win total of last season. "I think they'll win right...
SOX, O'S FIGHT FOR BURNETT
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amARLINGTON - There is big action in his neighborhood, but George Steinbrenner can't get in the game. Worse, The Boss is likely to watch AL East rivals Boston or Baltimore...
LARSEN'S DREAM LIVES
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amKyle Larsen saw his name in all the baseball prospect magazines. Next, he thought, he'd see his name in lights. Then the two-day amateur baseball draft came. And went. Larsen,...
SMALL WONDER - YANKEES RIDE AARON'S ARM - AND 6 HRS
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 8 - Rangers 4 ARLINGTON - Small or long, the Yankees had a ball last night. Not knowing what to expect from journeyman Aaron Small against the muscular Rangers,...
BIG HAMPTONS SUMMIT ON TAP
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amKnicks president Isiah Thomas placed his first phone call to Larry Brown yesterday morning while Brown was golfing, according to Brown's wife, Shelly. Thomas left a message, asking if he...
WRIGHT ON TRACK
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES Exactly a year ago, David Wright arrived here. One of the people who saw him last, Triple A Norfolk manager Ken Oberkfell, is impressed by what Wright has...
BALK REVERSAL STEALS REYES RUN
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amJose Reyes may not be the prototypical leadoff hitter because of his inability to lay off pitches and draw walks. But when he gets on base, there may not be...
RIGHT AT HOMER - BELTRAN, PIAZZA CONNECT TO LIFT GLAVINE, METS
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amMets 7 - Padres 3 It seems like every time Carlos Beltran has failed in the clutch at Shea, he has been heckled. Meanwhile, Mike Piazza has been simultaneously coming...
LIKE OLD TIMES - GIAMBI & SMALL FUEL YANKEE WIN IN H.S. 'REUNION'
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amARLINGTON - Sixteen years ago they were teammates at South Hills High School in Southern California and key cogs in a powerhouse outfit. One became a huge star, the other...
STEPH'S NO BROWNIE POINT
July 21, 2005 | 4:00amTHIS is the fun part. This is the easy part. The endgame looms, and so do a few days of certain hand-wringing from Larry Brown, a Hall-of-Fame hand-wringer, and plenty...