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  • September 2008

    • TV Lights Tone Down Former NY DA Pirro

      New York Times  |  Sep 29, 08 11:33 AM CDT

      TV Lights Tone Down Former NY DA Pirro

      (Newser) - Becoming a TV judge seems, in her own words, to have “mellowed” Jeanine Pirro, who long added color to New York’s state political scene with a fiery stint as Westchester County’s district attorney, spiced with a brief Senate run opposite Hillary Clinton and a rocky marriage to a man with alleged mafia connections. “I’m in a very good place,” she tells the Times . More »

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      television  • TV shows  • district attorney  • Jeanine Pirro

  • May 2008

    • Barkley Pays Up, But It's Not Over Yet

      Associated Press  |  May 21, 08 11:44 AM CDT

      Barkley Pays Up, But It's Not Over Yet

      (Newser) - Former NBA great Charles Barkley has paid off his $400,000 gambling debt to a Las Vegas casino, but he's still got a charge left to settle: the district attorney's office is levying a $40,000 processing fee. Barkley says he hadn't known about the extra charge, but plans to "make restitution on that promptly," AP reports. More »

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      basketball  • NBA  • gambling  • district attorney  • Charles Barkley  • Wynn Las Vegas

  • March 2008

    • Spitzer: Hooked on Covert Ops

      New York  |  Mar 17, 08 5:05 PM CDT

      Spitzer: Hooked on Covert Ops

      (Newser) - Eliot Spitzer didn't patronize a pricey call girl ring just for the sex, Chris Smith writes in a  provocative New York post-mortem. What really attracted him was the covert op. The silver-spoon-fed Ivy Leaguer was always rebelling against being squeaky clean; as a young prosecutor, he got "hooked on the clandestine" while running stings on the Gambino crime family. More »

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      New York  • Eliot Spitzer  • governor  • prostitution ring  • Gambino crime family  • Joe Bruno  • district attorney

  • November 2007

    • Rob Bank, Violate Parole, Lose $1M

      Boston Globe  |  Nov 29, 07 2:10 PM CST

      Rob Bank, Violate Parole, Lose $1M

      (Newser) - A Massachusetts man who scored a $1 million jackpot this week wasn’t allowed to buy his ticket to begin with: He’s a twice-convicted bank robber whose five-year probation bars him from gambling. Now, the Globe reports, Timothy Elliot will find himself betting on whether the state will revoke his winnings at an upcoming court date. More »

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      Massachusetts  • probation  • lottery  • district attorney  • bank robber

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