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The US federal government does a bunch of things that mystify me. They cannot discriminate in conferring benefits based on race, oh, unless it is affirmative action. Government agents cannot search you or your home without first earning a warrant, unless they think they should. I’ve even accepted there are alternative truths; you can keep …
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Infamous art dealer Mary Boone is a free woman, according to ArtNet’s gossip column, Wet Paint. It reports that Boone — who was sentenced in 2018 to 30 months in jail for tax evasion — has been released after serving just 13 months in prison in Danbury, Connecticut, because of the pandemic. Apparently Boone, a …
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A federal judge on Thursday rejected Bernard Madoff’s request to be released early from prison because he was dying of kidney failure, saying the swindler had yet to show remorse for running his epic Ponzi scheme. Circuit Judge Denny Chin, who sentenced Madoff to 150 years in prison in 2009, wrote that while Madoff’s failing …
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Twitter exploded with outrage over terms of Lori Loughlin’s plea deal, with critics blasting the agreement as too lenient. The feds announced Thursday that the former “Full House” star and her husband Mossimo Giannulli agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges for scamming their two daughters’ way into the University of Southern California. Under the …
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Lori Loughlin may wind up serving less time in prison than expected — considering her plea deal was struck amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report. Lawyers pointed to the curious timing of the arrangement, in which Loughlin and her hubby Mossimo Giannulli have agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges in exchange …
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A Brooklyn federal judge Friday denied R. Kelly’s third bid for freedom amid the coronavirus outbreak, ruling that the jailed singer is still a flight risk and poses a danger to the community. In the R&B singer’s latest request, his lawyers argued that he’s now prediabetic and could be at grave risk if he contracts …
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Bill Mersey was Paul Manafort’s cellmate. Bill Mersey was also Jeffrey Epstein’s cell buddy. So is Bill Mersey writing a book? You can bet your behind on it. Mersey: “When I was incarcerated in the downtown [Metropolitan Correctional Center], we had a room companion program for monitoring prisoners who needed special protection or who might …
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Rosie O’Donnell has confirmed she is helping former nemesis Michael Cohen write a “spicy” tell-all about his years working for President Trump, as previously revealed by Page Six. O’Donnell told the Daily Beast that she visited the then-jailed lawyer in prison for six hours and agreed to help with his memoir, an unlikely partnership Page …
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Federal prosecutors don’t want a judge to free Fyre Festival scammer Billy McFarland from prison due to the coronavirus pandemic — and cited an exclusive Post interview in which he said he wasn’t scared of getting sick. Earlier this month, McFarland’s lawyers asked Judge Naomi Buchwald for early release — just two weeks after telling …
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Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine wants permission to record music videos in his backyard while he rides out the rest of his federal prison sentence under home confinement over fears he would catch coronavirus in the clink, his lawyer said in a letter to a judge. “I am writing today only to request the court’s approval to …
The US federal government does a bunch of things that mystify me. They cannot discriminate in conferring benefits based on race, oh, unless it is affirmative action. Government agents cannot search you or your home without first earning a warrant, unless they think they should. I’ve even accepted there are alternative truths; you can keep …
