Category Archives: Crime

Cause Of Death Unknown

March 2, 2012 – 2:19 pm

Controversy quickly filled in the gaps of knowledge about the death of Andrew Breitbart. The right-wing agitator had shared a few drinks at a LA restaurant with a marketing executive. The conservative provocateur sipped at his wine, while engaging the man about politics. The conversation was aggressive, yet friendly, and several other drinkers engaged the […]

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Do Not Pass Go

February 29, 2012 – 8:13 pm

The scion of the Murdoch Media Empire announced his departure as News International chairman. Both the corporation and James Murdoch have been plagued by accusations of criminal hacking by reporters and the payment of bribes to British policemen for assistance in squashing any investigations into wrongdoings. His 81 year-old father has resumed total control of […]

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I Sit Corrected

February 25, 2012 – 2:51 pm

Paris had been my home during the 1980s. I had good reasons to be out of the States. My name graced a FBI report about police corruption in New York and Ronald Reagan was in the White House. France was on the other side of the Atlantic and I felt safe in my hotel room […]

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Attica In Trang Prison

February 10, 2012 – 7:41 pm

In August 1971 over half the inmates at New York’s Attica State Prison took control of the correction facilities in response to a prisoner being subjected to torture in his cell. 33 officers held hostage by the rioters and state officials agreed to most of the demands, however Governor Rockefeller refused to grant amnesty and […]

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Ben Gazzara RIP

February 5, 2012 – 7:18 am

The actor Ben Gazarra passed away last week. He starred in TV and movies for over sixty years, but I will always remember him from his staggering honest role as a luckless LA strip club owner. The 1976 John Cassavetes film opens with Cosmo Vitelli paying off a gambling debt to a loanshark at a […]

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