“Bernie Madoff, the most successful fraudster in US financial history, is in jail. Everything he once owned went on the auction block today. Hunter Walker was there to watch people purchase souvenirs of the American financial collapse…”
[Gawker]
![‘Twilight’ Connection in Big Heroin Bust
DEA Special Agent Erin McKenzie-Mulvey tells us the heroin baggies with “Twilight” characters were seized recently in West Hempstead, Long Island. The “Twilight”-themed baggies have been gaining popularity over the last couple of months.
[TMZ via synecdoche]](http://23.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktla6gmHdT1qz5yb4o1_500.jpg)
‘Twilight’ Connection in Big Heroin Bust
DEA Special Agent Erin McKenzie-Mulvey tells us the heroin baggies with “Twilight” characters were seized recently in West Hempstead, Long Island. The “Twilight”-themed baggies have been gaining popularity over the last couple of months.
[TMZ via synecdoche]
“This is crack, rock cocaine. It isn’t glamorous, or cool, or kid’s stuff… Look, everybody wants to be cool, but doing it with crack isn’t just wrong, it could be dead wrong.”
-Pee Wee Herman
Inside the Bernie Madoff Tchotchke Auction
Alleged Insider Trader Tries to Rally His Troops
“Billionaire businessman Raj Rajaratnam is out on bail, so he stopped by Galleon Group, the hedge fund he founded in 1997, to give a pep talk to the staff. Things aren’t going so well over there!…
Investors have been leaving Galleon Group in droves since Rajaratnam’s arrest last week on charges that he used a network of informants to acquire inside information that netted him $20 million in profits… Rajaratnam visited the Galleon Group’s Madison Avenue headquarters on Monday for a rousing ten-minute speech…
There is one bright spot for employees who don’t share Rajaratnam’s rosy outlook for the Galleon Group. Executive recruiters have alreay been approaching staffers at the dying hedge fund about jumping ship. Raj Rajaratnam may think his company still has some life left in it, but the vultures have definitely started circling overhead.”
[Gawker]
Obama's New Pot-Friendly Policy
“Barack Obama is telling the feds to stop, like, totally freaking out, man, and take it easy on medical marijuana…
This new policy may be limited, but it certainly makes things much more mellow for pot clubs than they were under the Bush Administration when DEA agents regularly raided medical marijuana operations. The different Presidential positions on pot aren’t surprising considering the fact that weed was Obama’s youthful drug of choice while Bush always preferred booze and blow.”
[Gawker]
Attacks, death and cocaine in a blender: Part one of a three part series about drug gangs in Colombia on CNN.com.
RIP Taz: The NYPD's Last 9/11 Rescue Dog
This evening, the NYPD Press Office reported the death of a nine year-old German Shepherd named Taz. Taz was the last remaining member of the K-9 Unit who served as a first responder during the September 11th attacks.
Official reports described Taz as a nine-year veteran of the K-9 Unit. Taz died on Sunday after suffering cardiac arrest. His handler, Police Officer Scott Ryan said Taz’s “passing is not just a loss to me, my family and fellow K-9 officers, but to the City that Taz and his K-9 comrades so proudly and courageously served.”
Taz would have celebrated his tenth birthday on Halloween. He was 62 in dog years.
