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By Drew Grant 8/15/12 1:22pm

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Update: Progressive Auto-Tweets to ‘Killer’ Claim, Matt Fisher Shoots Back

Read: Comedian Matt Fisher Claims Sister’s Progressive Insurance Paid for Her Killer’s Lawyer

The media has picked up the torch of New York comedian Matt Fisher, whose family has been battling Progressive Insurance since his sister was killed in a car crash in 2010. According to Mr. Fisher’s Tumblr posting, his sister’s insurance company actually got its lawyer to defend the driver at fault for the accident, just so it wouldn’t have to pay out her policy to the grieving family.

Yesterday, Progressive responded by auto-tweeting this statement to people who wrote about Progressive on Twitter: Read More

By Steve Huff 2/03/12 5:54am

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‘Jewish Indiana Jones’ Pleads Guilty to Fraud

Menachem Youlus spun wild tales of daring and adventure in which he was the kippah-wearing hero, ferreting out Nazi-purloined Torah scrolls all over Europe, but his stories were money-making fictions. On Thursday Rabbi Youlus pleaded guilty to embezzling or defrauding contributors to his “Save a Torah” charity to the tune of $862,000. Read More

By Drew Grant 10/20/11 10:52am

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Suspect In Park Slope Serial Molestations Beats It

On Tuesday, we reported that the NYPD had arrested a second man in relation to the +20 sexual attacks in the Park Slope/Sunset Park area since March. The 32-year-old Midtown bartender Joshua Flecha was caught trying to break into a car…or at least that’s what detectives thought until they realized that he was actually looking at a pornography on his phone and pleasuring himself. One correct identification by a witness relating to a May 7th attack, and it looked like between Mr. Flecha and Adolfo Martinez (the first man arrested last week, who has already confessed to a groping), the case might be shut.

Except… Read More

By Drew Grant 10/19/11 2:16pm

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Brooklyn Looters Try to Recreate ‘The Town’

Usually when someone wants to become a criminal, they either have to be born into it (like Michael Corleone) or spend years proving their mastermind skills (Sean Connery in The Rock). That’s just how the law works. Very rarely are bad guys just allowed to watch a Ben Affleck movie and then recreate the scenarios in order to get off with heists. Which is just the sort of ingenious thinking a group of Brooklyn crooks used to evade the police when they did exactly that: taking the best plot devices from The Town to get away with…well, not murder. But a bunch of robberies. And they didn’t wear the nun masks. Read More

By Drew Grant 9/23/11 6:04pm

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Diplomat's 'Benzo Stolen For Joyride

Who knew that the United Nations had their guests pimping in such style? Well, besides the one carjacker who managed to steal a $100,000 Mercedes Benz on loan to senior United Arab Emirates diplomat Saeed al Shamsi. While his employer was busy with international politicking, Mr. Shamsi’s driver, Ghulan Rehmani, popped into a bodega for some tea and left the highly expensive car double-parked “for only a minute.” As this is New York City, that one minute tea-run (minus steeping time, we’re assuming) was just long enough for somebody to come along and jack the blue Benz. Read More