Kati Cornell Smith
The Archive
Bear bombshell
The feds have uncovered new bombshell evidence against former Bear Stearns hedge fund manager Matthew Tannin -- diary-style e-mails he sent to himself in November 2006 saying, "We could blow...
Feds pick bunch of Bonannos
What a bunch of Bozos. The troubled Bonanno crime family took another crippling blow from the feds yesterday as 15 reputed mobsters were hit with a sweeping racketeering indictment --...
Feds arrest 15 alleged members of Bonanno mob family
The Brooklyn US Attorney's office unsealed a bombshell, 33-count indictment this morning charging 15 members of the Bonanno crime family with extortion, racketeering, bank fraud, drug trafficking and illegal gambling...
Bumbling wiseguys were dough-nuts
A crew of Keystone mob crooks that took two tries to blow up a Dunkin' Donuts in Brooklyn for insurance dough found the plot a whole lot more trouble than...
Queens 'terror' raid hits G-20 anarchist
FBI anti-terrorism agents raided the Queens home of a self-described anarchist charged with tweeting protesters with instructions on how to evade police at the G-20 summit. A dozen gas masks,...
'Spectacular' suit settled
A Web site that falsely reported that Cablevision boss James Dolan had weighed scrapping the Radio City Music Hall "Christmas Spectacular" settled a defamation suit yesterday and posted an online...
Cityfile apologizes to MSG over Rockettes flap
A Web site that falsely reported James Dolan was considering scrapping Radio City’s Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes has settled a defamation lawsuit by Madison Square Garden and posted an...
Canary: Gotti took me to slay spot
A brazen John "Junior" Gotti made his former top lieutenant drive back to a crime scene swarming with cops so the mob scion could verify that the hit man had...
'Junior' gleeful when describing murder: witness
A gleeful John "Junior" Gotti, joking and "creeping like the Grinch," described how a murder witness was forced to hang himself, the prosecution’s star witness testified today. Mob turncoat John...
NY businessman funded terrorists
A Westchester businessman man yesterday pleaded guilty to a plot to funnel $152,000 to terrorists at a training camp in Afghanistan. Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari, 56, of Ardsley, likely...
Goodfella lived large
The star witness against John "Junior" Gotti told a jury yesterday how he himself lived the good life as a goodfella -- spinning a tale right out of Martin Scorsese's...
Retired cop: Gotti associate killed drug dealer
A former NYPD detective who committed crimes on behest of the Gambino crime family testified today that he witnesed an associate of John "Junior" Gotti shoot a drug dealer to...
Colombian rebels face kidnap rap
A dozen members of a Colombian rebel group are facing federal charges for holding an American hostage and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, according to indictments unsealed yesterday...
Beauty shops' ugly ingredients
Five simple, easily purchased ingredients were all accused terror plotter Najibullah Zazi needed for a plan to unleash "mass destruction" on New York City, the feds said yesterday. Zazi's recipe...
Fiend put out SOS for bomb mix: feds
The Muslim fanatic charged with planning massive terror attacks on New York was frantically trying to get recipes for building a diabolical "weapon of mass destruction" in the days before...
Zazi sought explosive materials from salons, Internet, feds allege
Terror suspect Najibullah Zazi has been indicted on a charge of trying to detonate explosives in this country after allegedly seeking out bomb-making materials from beauty shops and on the...
Tom & Gisele photo-shoot suit
Two photographers filed a $1 million lawsuit yesterday against Patriot quarterback Tom Brady and his supermodel wife, Gisele Bundchen, claiming their bodyguards opened fire on them. The lensmen -- Yuri...
Tom and Gisele sued for wedding shooting
Two photographers have sued Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen for $1 million in damages after claiming the superstar couples' bodyguards attacked them after a wedding celebration in Costa Rica earlier...
2 held in $80M ATM scam
Two men have been busted for allegedly running a massive $80 million Ponzi scheme that involved fake investments in ATM machines, federal prosecutors in Manhattan announced yesterday. Vance Moore, 55,...
Met great caught up in Jr. case
He didn't take the stand, but one of the biggest names in New York Met history loomed large in Manhattan federal court yesterday as the fourth trial of John "Junior"...