June 1, 2006
BANK EXEC IS FIRED AFTER SULTAN QUERY
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amFiduciary Trust International Co., a New York bank catering to the super-rich, allegedly fired its watchdog compliance officer after he tried to blow the whistle on an unexplained $2 billion...
PAULSON CAN'T FIX THE ECONOMY
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amPRESIDENT Bush has a problem. Unfortunately, Hank Paulson isn't the answer to it. First, let's figure out what the real problem is. Fact 1. Statistics say the U.S. economy is...
ATM LEADER EYEBALLS NEAREST COMPETITOR
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amCardtronics, the world's largest ATM operator, and a swath of middle-market private-equity firms are eyeing TRM Corp., the second-largest ATM company, in a deal that could top $275 million, The...
EXXON INVESTORS GREENLIGHT EXEC PAY
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amDespite public outcries, ExxonMobil shareholders think it's fine to reward oil bosses with oversized paychecks - including the whopping $357 million package for retired chief Lee Raymond. Shareholders overwhelmingly rejected...
VOICE NAMES EDITOR
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amAfter a five-month search, the Village Voice finally has a new editor-in-chief. Erik Wemple, the low-key editor-in-chief of the Washington City Paper, will take over on July 24. He'll be...
WOOD GETS TO THE POINT - THE TRENDS, THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amEACH year, the high point for thousands of furniture buyers and designers is a visit to High Point, N. C., for the International Home Furnishings Market, where it's decided what's...
GIMME SHELTER - BRADEN KEIL'S WEEKLY GOSSIP
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amMONTAUK MARKDOWN ANDY WARHOL's Montauk estate, the 5.6-acre oceanfront compound known as "Eothen," is now $10 million cheaper. The property had been on the market for $50 million since July...
'LIVES' IN DANGER
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amTHAT famous "Days of Our Lives" hourglass could be running out of sand - quickly. NBC, which airs "Days" but doesn't own the soap, is considering canning the 41-year-old daytime...
CHAPPELLE SIDEKICK KICKS DAVE - 'THE SHOW MUST GO ON'
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amWEEKS ago, in a dimly lit Upper West Side comedy club, Donnell Rawlings ran into his old boss, Dave Chappelle. "It was weird, because I wanted to hug him and...
STARR REPORT
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amArthur's landing An arbitrator has ruled that Ch. 2 "did not have cause" to fire Arthur Chi'en last year after he dropped the f-bomb during an on-air report. Chi'en, thinking...
HICKS IN THE CITY - 'SOUL PATROL' TAKES OVER MANHATTAN
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amTHE Post caught up yesterday with "American Idol" winner Taylor Hicks - who says he's "living the American dream." "I've been dreaming about this forever," Hicks said while lunching at...
UPPER-CRUSTY - PARIS AND NICOLE NOT SO 'SIMPLE' - OR FUN
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amThe TV gods should have done the humanitarian thing last season and just let "The Simple Life" die of natural causes - which would have put us all out of...
GIVING IT THE OL' 9 PERCENT TRY
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amPsychology assistant professor Martie G. Haselton talks about one of the strangest results of studying dating - that you should maybe date less, not more, to find your perfect mate....
GAL LETS SUBWAY TRAIN HIT HER
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amDoctors were fighting to save a woman's legs after she was hit by a subway train in Brooklyn last night, authorities said. The 34-year-old woman, whose name was withheld, climbed...
STAGE DELI SHUTTERED
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amThe Stage Deli has been served with two closing notices and a padlock on the side - the city Health Department has shut it down. The historic Midtown deli, known...
21 ARRESTS IN AIDS PROTEST
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amHundreds of AIDS activists marched through Manhattan yesterday to demand world leaders fight harder against the disease - and cops busted 21 protesters who chained themselves together at the U.S....
DELIVERY KILLER GETS 20 TO LIFE
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amThe teenage killer who eventually led Queens cops to the body of the Chinese-food deliveryman he murdered with two coldhearted cohorts said barely a word yesterday as he was sentenced...
KILLER QUEENS GI TO KIN: I'M SORRY - 12 YRS. FOR GUN IDIOT
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amAn Army private who carelessly fired off a shot into the night sky in Queens and killed an innocent woman at her window was slapped with four to 12 years...
KNIFING NYC - HOMELAND SECURITY DEPT. DECLARES WAR ON CITY
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amAS far as I'm concerned, the Department of Homeland Security has declared war on New York City. When it announced yesterday that it had slashed New York City's homeland-security funding...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * Police are asking for help identifying two men who terrorized restaurant workers during a knifepoint robbery in Morrisania. The suspects (above) threatened a cashier and other staff...
INSIDE S.I. 'BIG LOVE' - MY NIGHTS IN HIPPIE HEAVEN
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amIT ALL seems like a loopy and slightly depressing dream. I once lived at Ganas, the Staten Island commune where an apparently deranged former resident shot a respected longtime member...
ASININE POLS CAN'T ASSESS 'ASSETS'
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amThe risk-assessment scorecard used to distribute federal homeland security funds lists New York without a single national monument or "icon" - stunning mistakes that critics yesterday blasted as bewildering. The...
HILL'S '06 PEP TALK SETS STAGE FOR '08
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amBUFFALO - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton officially kicked off her re-election bid yesterday with a fiery, nationally themed speech that supporters acknowledged was geared as much toward a possible 2008...
HORROR X-RAYS IN NICK CASE
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amA doctor testified that the black man beaten with a bat by accused Howard Beach basher Nicholas "Fat Nick" Minucci had two skull fractures that had to come from "very...
THUG: HOW I PUT HIT ON POST MAN
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amFormer Bonanno underboss Salvatore "Good Looking Sal" Vitale testified yesterday about the ugly details surrounding the murder of a New York Post employee. The mobster-turned-canary explained how he ordered the...
HOT DANCER'S GORY MURDER
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amA gorgeous exotic dancer whose Brooklyn home life revolved around her teenage son died a gruesome death, cops said after her stabbed and burned body was identified yesterday. Police found...
OMAHA REAPS $WEET CORN
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sleepy Omaha, Neb., known more as a cow-and-corn town than a terror target, is due to receive a whopping increase in anti-terrorism funding in this year's Department of...
CLASS-SIZE ADVOCATES MAKE WAVES
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amThe United Federation of Teachers and advocates for smaller class sizes in city public schools are taking their case to the airwaves, launching a $1 million TV ad campaign today...
CABBY RETURNS
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amA terrorized cabdriver is back behind the wheel just days after being carjacked in Midtown. Huver Agudelo, 54, was parked on East 40th Street on Monday afternoon when a man...
ST. KATIE SOBFEST IS ICKY SICKY - NBC LAYS IT ON THICK WITH 'MOURNING' SHOW
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amWHAT'S next for Katie Couric? How about sainthood? Judging by yesterday's three-hour salute to Couric on NBC's "Today" show, canonization is the only logical next step for this TV superwoman,...
PERV'S MOLEST 'GUIDE' - FIRE-ESCAPE FIEND
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amKeep your fire-escape windows locked. That's the hidden warning in a sex fiend's detailed account of how he broke into an East Village woman's apartment - ultimately returning to allegedly...
SECURITY SIMPLETONS SELL WALL ST. SHORT
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amA new $81 million NYPD anti-terrorist initiative to help bolster security around the city's Financial District could be put on hold now that the feds are slashing homeland security funds...
MET MUSIC STRIKES OUT WITH FANS
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amIt's not a rallying cry - it's an outcry. The new Mets theme song, "Our Team. Our Time," is so bad that fans are petitioning online to have it killed,...
COMMUNE HONCHO FORGIVES HIS WACKO 'SHOOTER'
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amFlower Power trumps a bullet to the gut. The wounded co-founder of a Staten Island hippie commune yesterday forgave the disturbed former group member who allegedly shot him six times....
COURT COPS SAVE SUICIDE HANGER
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amA Manhattan courtroom erupted in gasps yesterday as the audience learned that an inmate was in the midst of hanging himself in the holding cell next door - and court...
JUDGE BAGS SUBWAY STING
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn judge says the NYPD should pack it in when it comes to a controversial sting that tempts passers-by with a seemingly unattended bag full of valuables. Criminal Court...
IDIOT RAPIST IS CONVICTED
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amA dimwitted rapist gave a Brooklyn jury all it needed to find him guilty - he left his photo ID at the scene. Alexander Morales, 29, was convicted of rape,...
RADICAL TURN TO TERROR - W'CHESTER GAL RAN WITH ECO-BOMB CROWD
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amThe Westchester eco-terrorist who pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up government buildings was an extreme leftwing romantic who called herself "Fireflie" and hitchhiked and train-hopped around the country searching...
SPUNKY MCFARLAND FORCES GOP PRIMARY
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amRepublicans are headed to a primary fight to take on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, after candidate Katherine "KT" McFarland staged a surprise late surge against party favorite John Spencer at...
SUGAR MOMMY - GAVE 'TRYST' BOY A BENZ: COPS
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amA "happily married" suburban soccer mom carried on a sick love affair with a 16-year-old neighbor and was busted only after she gave him an eye-popping token of her amour...
BADGE LURED LADIES - 'FAKE FED' BUSTED
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amA Long Island lothario who lured ladies into bed by claiming he was a U.S. marshal got a chance to see how real lawmen do it when he was arraigned...
TEEN SAW FLICK AFTER BABY SLAY
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amA 14-year-old Bronx mother went to the movies only hours after her newborn baby plunged to his death outside the teenager's window, a witness at her murder trial said yesterday....
D.C.'S STUPID SCROOGES SLASH NYC TERROR AID AND SPLURGE ON THE STICKS
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Less than five years after the murder of 2,749 people in the Twin Towers on 9/11, the feds yesterday shockingly slashed anti-terror funds needed to protect New York...
MARILYN MONROE 'AT 80' - HER 'MIGHT HAVE BEEN' B'DAY PORTRAIT
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amShe was the epitome of the blond bombshell. Women tried to imitate her. Men lusted after her. And one more thing - Marilyn Monroe was actually a bottle blonde. She...
4 DIE IN N.J. PLANE CRASH
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amA small plane broke apart and crashed into a wooded area in Southern New Jersey yesterday, killing the four people aboard. The single-engine Piper, which left Old Bridge airport at...
KID-ABUSE CASES PILE UP
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amReports of child abuse have surged 40 percent in the past six months and caused a backlog in closing some 4,000 cases, officials said yesterday. "These investigations have gotten under...
SEX-FIEND BREAK-IN MANUAL
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amKeep your fire-escape windows locked. That's the hidden warning in a sex fiend's detailed account of how he broke into an East Village woman's apartment - ultimately returning to allegedly...
HILL SETS STAGE FOR '08 - DEM TALK LOOKS BEYOND RE-ELEX
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amBUFFALO - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton officially kicked off her re-election bid yesterday, delivering a fiery speech with national themes that supporters acknowledged was geared as much toward a possible...
SUGAR MOMMY'S 'BENZ' BOY TOY - 'RAPED' KID GOT CAR: COPS
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amA "happily married" suburban soccer mom carried on a sick love affair with a 16-year-old neighbor and was busted only after she gave him an eye-popping token of her amour...
DINE-ASTY CONTINUES - NEW LE CIRQUE OPENS
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amIT'S not your mother's Le Cirque, but it's hip enough to be your kids' - that's the momentous news on Day One of Act III of Sirio Maccioni's epic ode...
BROOKLYN'S URBAN PARK OASIS - NEW LIFE FOR SPAN PLAN
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amIt seems like an urban fantasy now, but New Yorkers could one day ride along a bike path under the Brooklyn Bridge or cavort in a breathtaking setting across from...
CUPID SPEARED - WIDOW WINS $2M IN MATCHMAKER 'FRAUD'
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amA costly Cupid-for-hire had her wings clipped by California jurors who awarded $2.1 million to a lonely widow who claimed the matchmaker didn't keep a promise to fix her up...
DINE-ASTY CONTINUES - LE CIRQUE SPORTS FRESH LOOK, MENU
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amIT'S not your mother's Le Cirque, but it's hip enough to be your kids' - that's the momentous news on Day One of Act III of Sirio Maccioni's epic ode...
KID-ABUSE PROBES ARE PILING UP
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amReports of child abuse have surged 40 percent in the past six months and caused a backlog in closing some 4,000 cases, officials said yesterday. "These investigations have gotten under...
MY NIGHTS IN HIPPIE HEAVEN
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amIT ALL seems like a loopy and slightly depressing dream. I once lived at Ganas, the Staten Island commune where an apparently deranged former resident shot a respected longtime member...
PIZZA GUY DELIVERS MUGGER
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amAn armed parolee, believed to have robbed at least four food delivery men in Manhattan, got his just desserts when his latest would-be victim turned the tables and beat him...
JAILBIRD GOODEN'S BASEBALL PALS HAVE PLENTY OF SORROW
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amDwight Gooden's baseball family yesterday was shocked and saddened to learn about the life of the fallen superstar - who's living in a tiny jail cell with no TV, no...
BOFFO B'WAY'S BE$T YEAR - JULIA & CO. HELP SMASH RECORDS
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amBroadway should thank its lucky stars - Julia Roberts and "Jersey Boys" - for its biggest season ever. A record 12 million seats were sold during the 2005-6 season that...
CUTIE KT FLACK HAS JUICY PAST
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amSenate candidate KT McFarland's new press secretary once had a little-known title in a past life - Miss Florida Citrus. Morgan Ortagus, the willowy brunette who joined McFarland's campaign in...
HARRY S. TRUMAN - 33RD PRESIDENT, 1945-1953
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amThis former Missouri farmer-turned-president coined the phrase "The buck stops here." Harry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Mo., on May 8, 1884. He was a prosperous Missouri farmer. During...
HIJACK CABBY BACK ON ROAD
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amA terrorized cabdriver is back behind the wheel and ready for crosstown traffic, just days after being carjacked while waiting for a fare in Midtown. Huver Agudelo, 54, was parked...
ROCKET II NEVER DID TAKE OFF
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amDETROIT - As much as Yankee fans wanted to see Rocket II, Roger Clemens returning to The Bronx never really had steam to it. According to associates of Clemens, when...
NETS LOOKING AT BRAZILIAN
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amNets general manager Ed Stefanski admits pre-draft workouts of NBA hopefuls are nice tools, but not the dominant factors in assessing talent. The overall "body of work," compiled before the...
GIANT COMEBACK THRILLS JOHNSON
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amTwo years out of football is not forever, but it was long enough for Rob Johnson to consider that his career might be finished. So, Johnson enrolled in a junior...
JEROME: LARRY-STEPH 'HAS TO BE BROKEN UP'
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amJerome Williams knows how money alone can affect NBA decisions, not to mention all the off-court issues bogging down the Knicks' current situation. Williams, a former Knicks forward and current...
BROWN HEARS NOTHING NEW
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amFor the second straight day, Larry Brown conducted a clandestine roadside interview with Knicks beat writers 200 yards from the team's practice facility. Brown maintained yesterday that president Isiah Thomas...
LA SALLE IS REAL ROAD WARRIOR
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amCHSAA PLAYOFFS: La Salle 1 - Farrell 0 La Salle doesn't have a field, so it plays all of its games on the road. Coach Art Puritz is forced to...
RED STORM WARNING - SJU COACH HAS WINNING OUTLOOK
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amWhen Norm Roberts took over the downtrodden St. John's program, he vowed that year three would be his best team. The time has come. Bolstered by a recruited class that...
LO DUCA WON'T GET CAUGHT UP IN HIS STATS
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES In the first inning Tuesday, Paul Lo Duca threw a pea to second base. Attempted base stealer Craig Counsell was ruled safe, though, something that had happened 32...
COMPLETE WORK - MOOSE GUIDES HOBBLED YANKS PAST DETROIT
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 6 - Tigers 1 DETROIT - With close to $45 million worth of talent out due to injury but not on the disabled list, the Yankees put their four-game...
ISLES TAP TROTTIER AS EXEC
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amThe GM's position remains vacant, but the Islanders have hired franchise legend Bryan Trottier as the executive director of player development, a post where he'll work predominantly with prospects. Trottier,...
'VALUE' GAME? DARN RIGHT!
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amTHE Mets had designated last night as a "value" game within their multi-tiered price structure that represents a supply-anddemand approach to selling tickets unique among our area's nine major-league franchises...
PLENTY OF VALUE AT SHEA
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amTHE METS designated last night as a "value" game within their multi-tiered price structure that's essentially a supply-and-demand approach to selling tickets unique among our area's nine major league franchises...
CHAVEZ, METS OUTLAST ARIZONA
June 1, 2006 | 4:00am13 INNINGS: Mets 1 - D'Backs 0 Willie Randolph refuses to say that Jose Valentin is his new everyday second baseman, but Valentin is doing everything in his power to...
BOMBERS ARE FEELIN' BANGED UP
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amDETROIT - Gary Sheffield and Johnny Damon weren't expected to play last night against the Tigers at Comerica Park. Sheffield was in New York undergoing an MRI on his left...
ENDY ENDS IT IN THE 13TH - CHAVEZ, METS OUTLAST ARIZONA
June 1, 2006 | 4:00am13 INNINGS: Mets 1 - D'Backs 0 Willie Randolph refuses to declare Jose Valentin his new starting second baseman. If nothing else, the suddenly indispensable Valentin sparked quite an ending...
STRIKE IT RICH - DOLLARS & SENSE, NOT WINS & LOSSES, FUEL ROCKET DECISION
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amROGER Clemens, as it turns out, has just as much Terrell Owens coursing through his blood as Walter Johnson. Once again he talked about all the high ideals - camaraderie,...
THE CROSS IS NOT A CRISIS - EAGER MILLEDGE LEAVES JEWELRY IN HIS LOCKER
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amLastings Milledge made his major-league debut Tuesday night for the Mets when he was promoted to fill Xavier Nady's starting spot in right field. The 21-year old phenom went 1-for-4...
MOOSE-TERFUL - IRON MIKE GOES ALL THE WAY VS. TIGERS
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 6 - Tigers 1 DETROIT - Mike Mussina beat the Tigers and Joe Torre last night at Comerica Park. Mussina toppled the Tigers 6-1 with a completegame effort that...
BROKEN BOMBERS - BUM WRIST KEEPS JETER OUT AGAIN; DL LOOMS FOR SHEFF
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amDETROIT - Gary Sheffield and Johnny Damon weren't expected to play last night against the Tigers at Comerica Park. Sheffield was in New York undergoing an MRI on his left...
LASTINGS' ARM IS A HAMMER
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amPerhaps when his career is over and done with, people will still be talking about The Throw. Lastings Milledge came to Flushing this week with heaps of hype surrounding his...
LO DUCA NOT CAUGHT UP IN STATS
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES In the first inning on Tuesday, Paul Lo Duca threw a pea to second base. Attempted base stealer Craig Counsell was ruled safe, though, something that has happened...
LASTINGS' ARM IS A LASER
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amPerhaps years from now, people will still be talking about "the throw." Lastings Milledge came to Flushing this week with heaps of hype surrounding his quick bat, his five tools...
HORNISH'S 7TH INDY SPINS OUT A WINNER
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amLess than a week before last Sunday's Indianapolis 500, Sam Hornish Jr. reminisced about his very first Indy 500 seven years ago. He crashed on lap 153, an event that...
ISLES TURN TO TROTTIER
June 1, 2006 | 4:00amThe GM's position remains vacant, but the Islanders have hired franchise legend Bryan Trottier as the executive director of player development, a post where he'll work predominantly with prospects. Trottier,...