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Cabbage Patch CEO Snags Madoff Pad

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:06:56 CST

The guy who brought you Cabbage Patch Kids and Pokemon has snapped up the penthouse apartment of erstwhile Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, reports the New York Post . Al Kahn is the CEO of 4Kids Entertainment, and will be calling the 4000-square-foot lux digs in Manhattan's Upper East Side home sweet...

NY Cops Seek Hooker in Holocaust Survivor Killing

Wesley Oliver — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:18:00 CDT

New York police suspect a prostitute and her male cohort of strangling a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor at his Upper East Side apartment this week, the New York Post reports. The pair allegedly stole a car and credit cards from Felix Brinkmann, who periodically brought prostitutes home and, during the Holocaust,...

Manhattan Jittery After Starbucks Bombing

Mat Probasco — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:21:40 CDT

Police and FBI agents hunted for clues after a homemade bomb blew out windows in a Manhattan Starbucks and jolted awake residents on the Upper East Side before dawn yesterday, reports the New York Times . No one was injured in the blast caused by a makeshift bomb tucked under a...