Kati Cornell Smith
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Prison deal burns Kerik
Disgraced former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik is expected to cop to federal-corruption charges tomorrow -- and serve more than double the time he would have faced if he'd done the...
Sources: Kerik may cop plea
Bernie Kerik is reportedly close to copping a plea to federal charges in exchange for a prison term of 27 to 33 months behind bars. The former NYPD Commissioner finalized...
Jailbird Bernie gets psych 'out'
Bernie Kerik is off the brink and back in the clink. The former police commissioner was his dapper, swaggering self yesterday as a White Plains federal judge announced he had...
'Killer' mom goes to wake
A Brooklyn mother charged in the beating death of her 4-year-old son was allowed to leave jail yesterday to attend a private wake for the boy. Armed guards accompanied Myrna...
Kerik 'cracking'
Bernie's on the brink. Disgraced ex-top cop Bernard Kerik has been exhibiting psychiatric "symptoms" behind bars and is considered "at risk" by a jailhouse shrink, the judge in his corruption...
Bare-bone$ Hooters
Hooters waitresses are not only forced to wear trashy boob-clinging uniforms -- they also have to pay for them. Waitresses Gina Rosati and Amy Frederick filed a class-action lawsuit in...
Bernie buddy beaned
A judge yesterday questioned the value of any testimony from Bernard Madoff's right-hand man -- coldly declaring that anyone who could be hurt by Frank DiPascali is "in prison in...
Judge says testimony from Madoff's right hand man useless
A judge today questioned the value of any testimony from Bernie Madoff’s right hand man — coldly declaring that anyone who could be hurt by Frank DiPascali is "in prison...
Gambino geezer guilty
An 80-year-old Brooklyn gangster who made a lifelong career out of running the waterfront for the Gambino crime family was convicted of racketeering, conspiracy and extortion charges yesterday. Anthony Anastasio,...
'Hezbollah' dad tried to help thugs
Two men -- including a married father of two from Queens -- were hit with federal terrorism charges yesterday for trying to provide weapons, ammunition and vehicles to the Lebanese...
Headlines 'threaten' trial: Gotti
Poor "Junior" Gotti -- nobody understands the problems of a mobster looking at a life sentence. John Gotti Jr., charged with racketeering and murder, wrote a bizarre letter to Manhattan...
Guilty plea in jeweler death
A gunman who shot a Staten Island jeweler during a botched heist yesterdaypleaded guilty to robbery conspiracy and weapons charges that could land him in prison for 30 years to...
Prisoner # 210-717
Big, bad Bernard Kerik wants to bunk with the regular Joes -- even if they're accused killers, rapists and muggers. The disgraced former city police commissioner yesterday refused to ask...
Baker 'hit' plot charged
They made pastries to die for. A baker testifying for the state in a mob trial is planning on icing another prosecution witness -- his ex-partner in a chain of...
Cop tipped off 'coke' pal
An Internal Affairs sergeant on trial for obstructing justice admitted yesterday that he tipped off a narcotics-cop pal who was under investigation for an alleged cocaine-fueled sex romp at a...
Qns. 'riot' probe
The feds have launched a grand-jury probe into a Queens couple who call themselves anarchists and are suspected of participating in riots. Prosecutors revealed yesterday that Elliott Madison, 41, and...
'House' arrests
Federal authorities rounded up 31 people yesterday in a sweeping crackdown on bogus local mortgage schemes estimated to have cost banks and consumers $64 million. "It was a veritable smorgasbord...
'Drug' gang's suits soak city for 200G
Suspected members of a violent Brooklyn drug gang snatched up nearly $200,000 from the city, which decided to settle their civil rights lawsuits rather than fight them in court, records...
Angel earns wins
It was faster than you can say "unindicted co-conspirator." A Brooklyn jury took almost no time to decide Curtis Sliwa did not libel an imam who sued the Guardian Angels...
Sliwa says he once respected imam
Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa testified today that he once respected a Brooklyn imam who is suing him for libel -- but his opinion radically changed when the local Muslim...