One detail got sadly got cut for space in today’s mob trial story — “Blinded by the Light” was playing in the auto shop lobby as the wired-up extort victim walked in to meet the Bonanno crime family soldier. www.nydailynews.com/2024/10/09/e...

Extortion victim tell jury how Bonanno mobster John ‘The Maniac’ Ragano told him to strip naked

Vincent Martino’s pants were around his ankles and his shirt was rolled over his head when he realized he had to escape the rage of Bonanno soldier John “The Maniac” Ragano, the e…

Please enjoy this story by Rikers Island chronicler extraordinaire Graham Rayman (get a Bluesky account, Graham!) about the NYC Correction Department's top spox grabbing the phone from the agency's compliance director and flinging it at a Gracie Mansion shindig. www.nydailynews.com/2024/10/09/c...

Correction Department spokeswoman in dustup at Gracie Mansion party flings cellphone across room

The Correction Department’s top spokeswoman and the agency’s compliance director got into a dustup at Gracie Mansion Tuesday night during a Hispanic Heritage event that ended when the s…

Covering a mob trial means I get to write passages like this.

Someone should bring back Spy Magazine.

John "Bazoo" Ragano -- a Bonanno soldier who once bragged, "What are they gonna give me, three years? I’ll do that with my c–k on the bars” -- is set to go to trial for extorting the same guy he was awaiting sentencing for extorting. Gift link: www.nydailynews.com/2024/10/07/t...

Trial starts for Bonanno mobster John ‘Bazoo’ Ragano, aka ‘The Maniac,’ who feds say made loan sharking victim strip naked

John “Bazoo” Ragano kept demanding payments from a loan sharking victim even after he’d been convicted of extorting the man — and forced the debtor to strip naked during a meeting…

The year is 2014, and Phil Banks has resigned amidst a federal probe. The year is 2024, and Phil Banks has resigned amidst a federal probe. www.nydailynews.com/2024/10/07/n...

NYC Deputy Mayor Phil Banks resigns in latest Adams administration shakeup amid federal corruption probes

Banks, the deputy mayor for public safety, submitted a resignation letter to the mayor Sunday night, sources familiar with the matter said.

Took my kids to see The Wild Robot and when the Nicole Kidman theater ad came on, my son asked, “Is that the robot?”

Only Murders continues to be excellent this year.

This is not a change in the habits of Americans so much as it is a problem of availability. Most local papers are dying or dead. Want to know what happened at a school board meeting? Who’s running for town council? Good luck with that. The local news website is more focused on SEO and listicles.

NEW: Judge Chutkan has unsealed Jack Smith's 165-page motion for presidential immunity! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...