Eric Starkman is founder and president of STARKMAN, a public relations and crisis communications firm based in Los Angeles. He was previously a reporter at major newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. By Eric Starkman For ticklethewire.com Growing up in Toronto I had a quintessentially Canadian view about government authority: Only bad people ran afoul…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating voter fraud and financial mismanagement of politicians in The Bronx, the New Work Post reports. The probe comes at a time when Albany’s power shifted to Bronx politicians after Sheldon Silver stepped down as speaker of the New York Assembly following his arrest by the FBI. Replacing…
This piece originally appeared in Gang Land News on June 26 and is being reprinted with permission. It’s the most recent story Gang Land News has published about the case since disclosing that prosecutors gave sweet plea deals to two Gambino family gangsters on the eve of trial in January rather than allow their lawyers…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Racketeering, narcotics trafficking, assault, extortion, murder? Just another day-in-the-life of a Gambino mobster. Five Gambino wise guys pled guilty this week to a range of nefarious charges, announced Preet Bharara, NY U.S Attorney in Manhattan. Working as “soldiers” and “associates” of the Gambino crime family, Vincenzo Frogiero, Todd Labarca, John Brancaccio, Christopher…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Included in a list of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World are folks like President Obama, comedian Steve Colbert, movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. Bharara is in obviously good company. And in the media’s endless search for Superman…
By Charlie Gasparino Fox Business News All of the good publicity flowing from the crackdown on insider trading has one of the nation’s top law enforcement officials looking at what he might do in the future, and he’s seeing a lot of green. Preet Bharara, the US Attorney for the Southern District, is telling friends…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The massive scandal to rip off a charitable Holocaust fund designed to benefit victims who were persecuted by the Nazis, continued to unravel in N.Y. on Wednesday. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan announced the arrest of eight more people for being part of a plot to defraud the fund out…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mobsters have a reputation for enjoying free things: TVs, Rolex watches, meals, computers. You name it. Still, it’s fair to assume, Emilio Fusco, a made man in the New York Genovese Crime Family, was none to happy when he got a free plane ride back to the U.S. from Italy —…
