Posts from — October 2007

In the midst of upcoming releases “American Gangster” and “Mr. Untouchable” much attention has been turned to the rise of the 1970’s Harlem dope trade.

Seemingly the two biggest names of their time Niky Barnes and Franks Lucas were not only competitors on 116th street but friends as well.

The New York Times has published an amazing article featuring a conversation by Barnes and Lucas discussing everything from prices, police, snitching, and the dope game.

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New Jersey state police can’t quite get a grip on Essex county.

As gangs continue to lock down neighborhood and control city blocks, the state is left with the delimma of how to spend funding.

With low budgets, the police have no way to to guarantee the protections of witnesses and are forced to drop cases when the witness refuses to testify. Even when someone is willing to take the stand they are often found dead before they get the opportunity.

The New Jersey witness protection agency also has a clause against relocating witnesses who have a criminal record or a drug problem, or are unemployed, saying that to do so might send criminals into unsuspecting cities and neighborhoods, which rules out most of Newark residents.

sucka ass police

Courtesy: New York Times

An excerpt from the New York Times, written by Michael Idov

Perhaps you’ve seen a memorable Louis Vuitton ad in the back of New York and other magazines: a pensive Mikhail Gorbachev being driven in a limo past the remains of the Berlin Wall, his only companion a trusty piece of LV luggage with some reading material sticking out. Well, we just now happened to take a closer look at that material, and Ho … lee … crap. It’s a Russian book or magazine, strategically posed so that the title is upside-down but readable: “Litvinenko’s Murder — They Wanted to Give Up a Suspect for $7,000.” Litvinenko, of course, is the Russian ex-spy whose death — by polonium-laced sushi — has been widely attributed to Putin’s goons.

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The House on Tuesday approved the Senate version of the Internet tax moratorium, which would ban Internet-only taxes such as access taxes for seven years. The current ban has been in effect since 1998, except for a lapse during most of 2004.

Don’t sleep. Uncle Sam is trying to turn the information superhighway into a toll road.

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California wildfires now believed to be the work of a child playing with matches…

Los Angeles County police will not release his name and age, however they claim the fire was accidental.

Courtesy: Times Online

MINNEAPOLIS (Oct. 30) - A woman who responded to an craigslist add for a babysitter told her roommate that the person who placed the ad “seemed kind of strange.”

Katherine Ann Olson went anyway, thinking she would be meeting a woman named Amy, or a couple. Instead, authorities say, she was lured to the home of her killer, who shot her in the back before stuffing her in the trunk of her car.
On Tuesday, prosecutors charged Michael John Anderson, 19, of Savage, with second-degree murder. Their evidence: blood spatters in the suburban home he shared with his parents, a gun in his bedroom and drag marks on the stairway.

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Cocaine Cowboys

Lynette Astaire taking it back to Chicago for another show and she is bringing along some dope sponsorship.

Free cognac !

11.3.07