June 5, 2002
SOLLY EXEC CHARGED WITH $20M FRAUD
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amA top executive at Salomon Smith Barney duped the Bank of New York into giving him a $20 million line of credit - partly by using tax returns signed by...
GALLERIES ARE SCARED STIFF
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amNew York's art world is shaken by the tax-evasion allegations, coming so soon on the heels of the price-fixing scandal at Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses. Manhattan District Attorney Robert...
ART OF THE STEAL ; DUMPED TYCO CHIEF KOZLOWSKI INDICTED
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amFormer Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski was indicted yesterday for cheating New York out of $1.87 million in taxes he should have paid on $13.2 million worth of art purchases. Kozlowski...
FRONT-RUNNING PROBE BACKS UP NASDAQ
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amKnight Trading is battling allegations of front-running by a former top trader at the firm, but it's the Nasdaq Stock Market that's cringing. The SEC and NASD investigations into Knight's...
CHARGE IT TO MICKEY MOUSE
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amMickey will soon be joining Master Card and AmEx in your wallet. The enterprising mouse has signed a five-year agreement with Bank One Corp. to issue a special Disney-branded Visa...
EDISON SCHOOLS IN $40M RESCUE DEAL
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amEdison Schools narrowly escaped flunking out of the business world yesterday after getting a $40 million rescue to forestall bankruptcy. The last-minute cash infusion sent shares of the battered private...
'THE LAST EDITOR' SHALL BE FIRST
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amJIM Bellows, author of "The Last Editor," is going to be the first editor of Common Good, the new political magazine planned by author Helen O'Donnell, the daughter of Kenneth...
450 LEX SWEEPSTAKES END
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amFINAL bids are due today for the million-square-foot, 40-story trophy tower at 450 Lexington Ave. that was designed by Skidmore Owings Merrill and developed by Mets owner Fred Wilpon's Sterling...
AS THE STOMACH CHURNS: ENTRÉES DON'T MELT IN YOUR MOUTH AT BUTTER
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amBUTTER 415 LAFAYETTE ST. (212) 253-2828 ONE night at Butter, the suave fellow at the next table - a dead ringer for Denzel Washington - confided to his buxom date:...
TIME TO BREAK OUT THE SUMMER WHITES
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amNOW is the time to find a good white wine to stock your fridge all summer long - for a picnic, a party or just to have on hand for...
DREAD RINGER
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amKAATERSKILLFALLS Leave your cell phone at home. Running time: 86 minutes. Not rated (violence, sex, brief nudity). At the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, Avenue A and East Third Street. IF...
AMERICAN'S KIDS DANCE RINGS AROUND FRENCH
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amSCHOOL OFAMERICAN BALLET WITH the sole exception of American Ballet Theater, all great ballet companies have equally talented schools attached. By staging public performances, the schools give their dancers much-needed...
BEER FOR A REAR
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amWHY did the chicken cross the road? Maybe to pick up a six-pack.This season's most fashionable barbecued birds have beer cans protruding from their posteriors. But grilling a hen on...
MAN IN THE MIDDLE
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amDAVID Emil is clearly a man haunted by the loss of his restaurant, Windows on the World. Emil was quick to set up a fund that raised $18 million for...
JUST WEEKS AFTER 'SURVIVOR' FINALE ; $1MILL. WINNER IS BACK AT WORK
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amTHE catchy lottery jingle says "If I had a million dollars. . .I'd be rich" - but after "Survivor" winner Vecepia Towery snagged the big-bucks prize last month she went...
STARR REPORT
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amColmes re-ups at Fox News Channel Fox News Channel has renewed Alan Colmes' contract as co-host of "Hannity & Colmes" with WABC talk-jock Sean Hannity. The show has been an...
TREASURE CHEST : JACKMAN BUCKS B'WAY DEBUT FOR $15 MILLION
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amONE of the big musical theater entries for next season has been delayed at least a year so its rising young star can first make a fortune in Hollywood. Hugh...
BOY, SHE SURE CAN TALK (BUT NOT IN NEW YORK)
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amIT would be better for all of us if some things would remain in California - smog, freeways and "Good Day Live," to name a few. The most generous thing...
THE REAL HAMPTONS ; HOW SLEAZY SERIES MISSED ALL THE BOATS
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amIF award-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple achieved nothing else with her overhyped "Hampton Summer" mini-series on ABC-TV, she drove some people to the terminally boring Tony Awards on CBS - and...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amHorrified employees at a hotel in Pennsylvania thought they had found a placenta - but an autopsy revealed it was just fermenting cola. The mystery began when a worker at...
TERROR STRIKE AT LEAST 10 DIE IN ISRAEL BUS BOMBING
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - At least 10 people died this morning when a suspected Palestinian homicide bomber struck a bus just north of the West Bank border, Israeli officials said. More than...
N.Y.C. ATTACKS IGNORED
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amTHE dramatic admission by fugitive terrorist Ahmed Rahman Yassin on last Sunday's "60 Minutes" that the perpetrators of the original World Trade Center bombing initially targeted Jewish neighborhoods in New...
SLAY 'VICTIMS' MAY DETERMINE FATE OF KILLERS
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - A state senator from New York City wants to give people the power from the grave to decide whether their own killers should face the death penalty. Sen....
STATE POLS PITCH FOR YANKS IN CABLE WAR
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - State lawmakers yesterday went to bat for Bronx Bomber fans, introducing a bill that would force Cablevision to carry the YES Network, home to 130 Yankees games this...
FDNY FIRES UP BID TO RECRUIT MINORITIES
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amThe Fire Department is launching a $2.7 million campaign to attract more minority and women recruits to boost their paltry ranks in New York's Bravest, officials announced yesterday. Posters emblazoned...
TERROR STRIKE: AT LEAST 10 DIE IN ISRAEL BUS BOMBING
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - At least 10 people died this morning when a suspected Palestinian homicide bomber struck a bus just north of the West Bank border, Israeli officials said. More than...
SKAKEL LOOKS BACK ON LIGHTER SIDE OF HIS LIFE
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amNORWALK, Conn. WITH his freedom hanging precariously in the balance, Michael Skakel yesterday was calm, even jovial as he reminisced about his family's wealth and prestige. "They were characters," he...
'93 HOSTAGE KID AIMS AT LAW CAREER
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amKatie Beers - the brave Long Island girl who was kidnapped and held hostage 9½ years ago by a sex molester in an underground dungeon - has just completed her...
LANDLORDS SUE FOR BACK RENT
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amLandlords are suing nearly 100 small businesses in lower Manhattan for back rent, leading court authorities to establish a special mediation program in hopes of reaching quick settlements. "Neither the...
MATT 'THE KNIFE' VS. LIE BUS DRIVER
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amA Long Island motorist flew into a "road rage," threatening to cut the throat of a bus driver, cops in Suffolk County said. Mathew Gruber, 26, of Holtsville, was charged...
GOV'S PLAYING STALIN: GOLISANO
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amStealing a campaign trick from Sen. John McCain, maverick gubernatorial candidate Tom Golisano yesterday stood outside the Russian consulate and accused Gov. Pataki of "Stalinistic" politics. Golisano - who is...
SENATE BACKS BLOOMY WITH EDUCATION END-RUN
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amFrustrated that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver hasn't agreed to a school-reform deal with Mayor Bloomberg, the state Senate yesterday passed its own education bill. Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno had...
CARL $$ LINK TO STATE DEPOSITS
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amJust weeks after pocketing hefty campaign contributions from executives of an investment company, state Comptroller Carl McCall tapped a bank linked to their firm to receive state government deposits, The...
FEUDING POLS CHOKING LIFE OUT OF ABUSE-REPORTING LAW
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amTHE proposed state law requiring clerics to report charges of sexual abuse to law enforcement is on life support and in extremely critical condition at a mental hospital otherwise known...
CITY TOOK BATH IN TOILET $CAM
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amInstead of installing eco-friendly toilets in New York, a contractor set up a bribery ring that flushed the city of $1.3 million. Frank Rizzo, 31, of Jamesburg, N.J., has pleaded...
GEPHARDT BACKS BUSH IRAQ ATTACK
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt, a possible 2004 challenger to President Bush, yesterday said he'll back Bush if he uses military force to try to oust Iraq's Saddam...
IT'S A MOB (MOVIE) SCENE AS LIFE IMITATES ART
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amThe roundup of wiseguys yesterday was a true-life act that evoked the Oscar-winning movie "On the Waterfront," where investigators break the vise-like grip of brutal union bosses and the Mafia....
DRUGGIE FACES LIFE IN DEADLY BLAZE
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amA 30-year-old crackhead faces life behind bars after being indicted on murder charges yesterday for setting the May 22 blaze that ripped through a Brooklyn house, killing the father of...
OFFICE BUILDINGS TIGHTEN SECURITY
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amFirst came extra security guards - now it's the prospect of optical turnstiles, face-scanning machines and bomb-sniffing dogs at city businesses and office buildings amid frightening warnings of future terror...
OLYMPIC BIGS COMING TO TOWN FOR FINAL AUDITION
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amThe U.S. Olympic Committee is coming to New York one last time before it decides whether the Big Apple will be the nation's choice to bid for the 2012 Summer...
'FREE PASS' FOR PERV PRIESTS ; CHURCH PLAN WOULD FORGIVE ONE-TIME PREDATORS
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amCatholic priests who sexually abuse children in the future would be defrocked under proposals released by church authorities yesterday - but a priest who molested a kid only one time...
SKAKEL JURORS RESUME
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amNORWALK, Conn. - Jurors at the Martha Moxley murder trial resume deliberations this morning after a full day spent closeted with the 101 pieces of evidence offered up during the...
23 TERROR THUGS HAVE SNUCK IN, FEDS ADMIT
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The FBI has located 23 known terrorists - including some linked to al Qaeda - inside the United States since November, a key FBI terror-tracking agent told The...
PAKISTAN'S PREZ HINTS AT NUKE USE
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf refused to renounce first use of nuclear weapons against India yesterday amid their tense standoff over disputed Kashmir. "The possession of nuclear weapons by...
JAILED DAPPER DON NEEDED LOW-PROFILE BRO TO FLY HIGH
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amPeter Gotti's indictment is likely to be a staggering blow to his kid brother John. The Dapper Don - the jailed and cancer-riddled Gambino family boss - had relied heavily...
YANKS HERO IN A CLASS BY HIMSELF
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amThe late Yankee Hall of Fame slugger Mickey Mantle is a hit with an Upper West Side school for disabled kids. PS 811 yesterday was renamed the "Mickey Mantle School"...
DEFENSE'S SLIMY CLAIM: THESE DOPE-SMOKE HIPPIES DESERVED IT
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amSINCE Day One of the Carnegie Deli Massacre trial, the defense has sounded a subtle - and deeply offensive - theme: They seem to suggest that the three people murdered...
JERUSALEM OKS 70-MILE FENCE TO PROTECT BORDER
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Even before this morning's bus attack, Israel's Cabinet had approved construction of a massive, high-tech fence to seal off parts of the West Bank to prevent Palestinian terrorists...
KIN'S SALUTE TO FIRE HERO
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amHero WTC firefighter Brian Bilcher was laid to rest on his second wedding anniversary yesterday, as his Bravest buddies wept and his widow silently rocked their baby boy in a...
FEDS: LINDH KILLED CIA HERO WITH HIS SILENCE
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - American Taliban John Walker Lindh played a direct role in killing heroic CIA agent Johnny Michael Spann by staying mum instead of warning him of an imminent deadly...
WOODY CHOPPED ; LAWYER SLAPS HIM ON SOON-YI ROMANCE
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amThe Woody Allen-Jean Doumanian court clash turned from comedy to drama yesterday as Doumanian's lawyer tried to play the Soon-Yi card, agitating the famed funnyman. The 66-year-old "Hannah and her...
WITNESS TO SLAUGHTER ; SURVIVOR'S TALE GRIPS POT-SLAY COURTROOM
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amLaying face down on the carpet, her arms duct-taped behind her back, 37-year-old jewelry maker Rosemond Dane listened horrified, she said, as one by one, single bullets were pumped into...
FEDS HAVE CASE ON TAP ; THUGS HAD BIG MOUTHS
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amIn building their extortion and racketeering case against the Gotti mob, the feds wiretapped a restaurant and a hair salon in Staten Island where the wiseguys did business. They also...
MOB HIT MAN WATTS' FUTURE DIMS
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amA once-powerful Gambino hit man won't be retiring to his lavish Florida estate any time soon - now that he's pleaded guilty to money laundering on the eve of a...
BRITAIN'S BUTCHERY SUSPECT IS SEEN HERE
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amA suspected psycho killer, wanted in England for chopping a man to bits and spreading the body parts across a country estate, has fled to New York - and was...
BIG BROTHER IS DON FOR COUNT ; FEDS SAY PETER RAN MOB'S EXTORTION RING ON THE WATERFRONT
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amThe feds broke the Gambino family's stranglehold on the Brooklyn waterfront yesterday, busting its new don, Peter Gotti, and 16 others on charges of shaking down the longshoremen's union, related...
BIZMAN FORRESTER WINS N.J. PRIMARY
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amCentral New Jersey businessman Douglas Forrester will be the Garden State GOP's candidate against Democratic Sen. Bob Torricelli this fall. Forrester, who has called Torricelli "an embarrassment," won 46 percent...
RAP FOR BAD CONDUCT ; HIP-HOPPER AMONG 13 BUSTED AT SCHOOL-BUDGET PROTEST
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amThirteen people, including music superstar Wyclef Jean, were arrested outside City Hall yesterday when thousands of frenzied schoolkids rallied with some of the biggest names in hip-hop to protest Mayor...
U.S. COOL TO ARAFAT'S 'REFORM' PLAN
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amYasser Arafat yesterday gave CIA Director George Tenet a plan to streamline his security forces, but the Bush administration remained skeptical. The Palestinian president, under U.S. pressure to make his...
ISRAELIS BUILDING ANTI-TERROR FENCE
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - After bitter debate, Israel's Cabinet has approved construction of a massive, high-tech fence to seal off parts of the West Bank - with the goal of keeping Palestinian...
TERRORISTS ALREADY HERE: FBI BIG
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The FBI has located 23 known terrorists - including some linked to al Qaeda - inside the United States since November, a key FBI terror-tracking agent told The...
ACTION STAR: I WAS MUSCLED BY THE MOB
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amShowing that fact is stranger than fiction, action hero-turned-Buddhist Steven Seagal sicced the feds on film producer Julius Nasso - accusing his longtime partner of using Gambino muscle to squeeze...
CLASSROOM EXTRA: THE DEEP UNFREEZING
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amABSTRACT: We recently said goodbye to one of the mildest winters on record. Summer is just around the corner, but temperatures are already rising around the world. This week's Classroom...
PATIENCE PAYS OFF FOR WHITE
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amRondell White spent weeks trying to pull the ball, and got nothing for all his huge swings but a lot of strikeouts and the worst slump of his career. It...
YANKS MAKE 'EM PAY
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 13 Orioles 5 Jeff Conine caught the return throw last night and the sixth inning should have died right there, with the Orioles holding a 5-4 lead. But the...
METS SEE SILVER LINING
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amATLANTA - On Monday night, for the first time all season, Roberto Alomar, Mike Piazza and Mo Vaughn drove in a run in the same game. That it took the...
CANES STUN WINGS ON FRANCIS GOAL
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amOTHurricanes 3Red Wings 2 DETROIT - Can you imagine Derek Jeter being pulled over and then ticketed for speeding on the Deegan the morning of the opening game of the...
WAR HOT TO TROT IN LATEST WORKOUT
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - What a difference a few days in the Kentucky heat made for War Emblem as he prepped for Saturday's Belmont Stakes, where he'll be heavily favored to become...
MEDAGLIA SUFFERS ENIGMA STIGMA
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amIN the field of 12 for the Belmont Stakes, one horse stands above all others as the great enigma - Medaglia d'Oro. Will he come running Saturday? Or will he...
METS A LIFELESS MESS
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amATLANTA - To watch the Mets is to sense that something terribly important is missing. What's missing is passion for a common goal. Sharing a goal requires coming together, and...
REFS' DEFENDER DEAD
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amMel Narol, an attorney renowned for representing amateur sports officials who had been assaulted during or after games, died Monday in his Princeton office after suffering a sudden heart attack....
NET MEMORIES LOW ON PHIL'S LIST
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Phil Jackson was a Net once and a Net assistant once. But that's about as much as he is willing to admit to concerning his time in...
MIGLIORE BELIEVES IN 'MAGIC'
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amWar Emblem has defeated 26 different horses in his two Triple Crown races. None came closer than Magic Weisner in the Preakness. "At the sixteenth pole I thought I'd nail...
L.A.'S FISHER: JASON POSES TOUGHEST TEST
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amEL SEGUNDO, Calif. - A larger-than-usual media throng surrounded Laker point guard Derek Fisher after yesterday's practice. Fisher has not reached a new star power despite two championship rings. Everyone...
XAVERIAN HURLER'S A ROYAL PICK
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amJoe Tomasulo was Ruddy Lugo's pitching coach at Xaverian when Lugo was drafted in the third round of the major league draft in 1999. "I thought I might get one...
WALTON: KIDD GIVES NETS A SHOT
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amFINALS NOTES LOS ANGELES - The Nets have a chance. Really. Oh, it will be hard and they are massive underdogs, but former NBA Finals MVP Bill Walton says New...
KIDD LEADS NETS INTO FINAL BATTLE ; SPARKPLUG'S ABILITY HAS LAKERS WORRIED
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - They were not supposed to finish .500, make the playoffs, win the Atlantic Division, progress through three postseason opponents. And most certainly, the Nets were not supposed...
CLOCK IS TICKING FOR SILENT MIKE
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amTUNICA, Miss. - The main attraction was separated from onlookers by metal crowd-control fences and an intimidating number of Mississippi state troopers. Mike Tyson worked out in a ballroom in...
MOORE RALLIES PAST TERRIERS
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amMoore Catholic, facing its fourth straight elimination game and down to its final strike, came back and scored three runs in the top of the seventh to take a two-run...
LEFT-HANDED DRAFTEE COULD BE REAL STEAL
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amATLANTA - According to his high school coach, Scott Kazmir is a can't-miss prospect. That's hopefully a good thing for the Mets, who watched Kazmir drop precipitously before selecting him...
SATHER TAPS TROTS AS RANGERS' COACH
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amDETROIT - Bryan Trottier, perhaps the greatest Islander in franchise history, will become the next head coach of the Rangers, The Post has learned exclusively. Sources have told The Post...
JASON PROUD TO BE NAMED MR. MAY
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amYANK NOTES After what can be classified as a sluggish April, Jason Giambi in his second full month with the Yankees turned May into his own personal proving ground. That...
L.A.'S FISHER WARY OF KIDD
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amEL SEGUNDO, Calif. - A larger-than-usual media throng surrounded Laker point guard Derek Fisher after yesterday's practice. Fisher has not reached a new star power despite two championship rings. Everyone...
KESTNER'S BIG PUTT EARNS OPEN SPOT
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amDarrell Kestner already has played in eight U.S. Opens, but getting to Bethpage Black for his ninth was something he craved. And so, when he sank a 10-foot birdie putt...
TROTTIER TO COACH RANGERS
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amDETROIT - Bryan Trottier, perhaps the greatest Islander in franchise history, will become the next head coach of the Rangers, The Post has learned exclusively. Sources have told The Post...
DAVID, MEET GOLIATH: THE MATCHUPS
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amIt's Destiny versus Dynasty. The problem there for the Nets is that a dynasty is proven, destiny is supposed to happen. This is David-Goliath matchup. The Nets believe, with their...
METS LEAN AROUND MIDDLE
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amATLANTA - If there are lies, damn lies and statistics, the 2002 Mets have produced a new column to the ledger: the damning statistic. After a winter of high expectations,...
CALL JASON MR. MAY
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amRemember when Jason Giambi was struggling and getting booed whenever he made an out at Yankee Stadium? Remember when it was in vogue to dwell on the muscular slugger's problems...
JOE NO INTERLEAGUE FAN
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES After they complete their series with the Orioles, the Yankees are headed for some interesting inter-league matchups. They face Barry Bonds and the Giants at Yankee Stadium in...
WITH TYSON, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amTUNICA, Miss. - There are those who stand on moral ground and believe Mike Tyson is less deserving of a fight for the heavyweight championship and less deserving to earn...
VANDY ANCHORS BERTH AT BLACK
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amFor Jean Van de Velde, the 18th hole was much less of a fiasco yesterday than it was in the 1999 British Open. Yesterday's 18th hole at Century Country Club...
ROBITAILLE THRILLED TO BE WINGING HIS WAY TO CUP
June 5, 2002 | 4:00amDETROIT - He has scored 30 goals or more in all of the 13 NHL seasons he has played at least 60 games, except for two - the two Luc...