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The Devil and Michael Alig
Busting the King of Club Kids By William Bastone and Jennifer Gonnerman In the final deluded days before his arrest, Michad Alig had convinced himself that he could trade Peter Gatien’s scalp for Angel Melendez’s torso. For the 31-year-old club kid, this surely seemed like a fair barter: in the debauched demimonde he once ruled, […]
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Why’s a Nice Man Like David Dinkins Running for Mayor?
Except for a 109-year-old woman and some of her family members, the Most Worshipful Enoch Grand Lodge in Bedford Stuyvesant was nearly empty on a recent April night. The 17 people in the masonic hall’s main meeting room were waiting for David Dinkins, mayoral candidate, to arrive to present a proclamation — on the occasion […]
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The Tax Evaders
The Voice has learned that Henry Kissinger, Frank Sinatra, Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Trump, and other celebrities were involved in a sales tax evasion scam that resulted in the indictment last year of an exclusive Fifth Avenue jeweler and two of its executives. Danaos Ltd., which operates the Bulgari jewelry store in the Hotel Pierre, […]
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Snapshots of Stanley’s City
Phone Log Fixes The following snapshots of the political life of the city — some sinister, some bizarre — are taken from the appointment diaries and phone logs of convicted former Bronx Democratic boss Stanley Friedman. The Friedman records, seized by the feds early last year and released as part of his criminal case, were […]
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Rudy Guiliani: The Friend Within
The Friend Within October 12, 1993 The 1989 mayoral race was one of the dirtiest in New York history. What appeared in print was bad enough — age-old tax matters, race- and red-baiting — but the gossip floating around political circles was far worse: speculation about Ed Koch’s sex life, rumors that a stack of […]
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Donald Trump: All Talk, No Votes
Donald Trump likes to lecture about how Ed Koch is duping the public and how, under the mayor’s leadership, the city has begun to fall apart. The developer/civics instructor talks a good game — and he has the newspaper clips to prove it — but when it comes to stepping into a voting booth, Trump falls […]