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A Manhattan businessman has transformed his basement Tribeca condo into an “extreme party” spot — complete with “fire massages,” “flame feats” and a “stripper pole,” court papers charge.
In a bid to avoid possible legal liability for the bacchanalian bashes, the owner, James McGown, transferred the deed for the apartment to his six-year-old daughter, Annabelle, his disgusted neighbors claim in papers filed today in Manhattan Supreme Court.
McGown bought the basement unit at 109 Reade St. in 2006, and secretly switched the deed over to his daughter a year later, the suit says.
He then stopped paying condo fees and his mortgage papers, and in November of last year, leased the space to a tenant named Dimitri Dimoulakis, the filing says.

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NEW YORK (1010 WINS)  — A Brooklyn federal judge Wednesday gave the city until May to decide whether they will represent the three NYPD detectives charged in the wrongful death lawsuit of Sean Bell.
The judge rejected the city’s request for a six-month postponement of the civil suit filed nearly three years ago.
 
The case was put on hold while the three officers faced criminal charges and a civil rights investigation.
Juliet Papa reports
Officers Marc Cooper, Gescard Isnora and Michael Oliver were acquitted of criminal charges in the shooting that killed Sean Bell outside a strip club in 2006 while leaving his bachelor party on what would have been his wedding day. 
Bell’s two friends, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield, were also injured in the shooting.
The detectives are defendants in the federal lawsuit.
City attorneys say departmental action is pending for the officers.
Bell’s father William wants to see the three officers testify. “They got to say what they did,” he said outside the court Wednesday.
Attorney Michael Hardy says the officers will have to confront every issue that happened the night of the deadly shooting.

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Club Kalua owners charged with mortgage fraud
NEW YORK
The mother and son owners of the defunct strip club made infamous by the shooting of Sean Bell have been charged in a mortgage fraud case in Queens.
Martina Duran and Robert Arias were each ordered held on $250,000 bail Tuesday after being charged with larceny, identity theft and other crimes. The pair owned Club Kalua, where Bell’s bachelor party ended in tragedy in 2006.
Undercover detectives investigating reports of prostitution at the club killed the unarmed Bell and wounded two friends in a 50-shot barrage after following them outside. Three officers who claimed they believed the men had a gun were later acquitted of manslaughter.
Prosecutors in the fraud case allege Duran and Arias were part of a $2 million scheme to use stolen identities to buy and sell three properties. There was no immediate response to a phone message left with Duran’s attorney. Her son’s lawyer declined comment.

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This week Sam Sifton at the Times upgrades Strip House, the swank Greenwich Village steak house, to two stars. (The paper last reviewed it in 2000.) “William Grimes, in a review for Times that year, wrote that Strip House ‘wasn’t so much a steakhouse as a catalog of hip references to the idea of a steakhouse.’ He awarded the restaurant one star. Now it deserves two,” Sifton declares. “Age has given David Rockwell’s design for the room a kind of gravitas, and with it the restaurant has gained some of the clubby appeal you used to be able to find at places like Gino, on Lexington Avenue, which has a similar layout, or in the bar room at 21. (As at 21, there is great fun to be had in snooping about the place. In addition to portraits of Viennese strippers, torch singers and ancient celebrities on the walls, there is a signed portrait of Thurgood Marshall near the bar.)… And the food is generally marvelous, the steak often superb.”

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NEW YORK — The mother and son owners of the defunct strip club made infamous by the shooting of Sean Bell have been charged in a mortgage fraud case in Queens.

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An Associated Press report announced the same day that a group of black leaders in New York City rallied in support of the governor owning to the fact that he deserves his right to due process and should continue on in office.
Richard Reddy, sociology professor, has been closely following what he refers to as the New York State government’s “legislative and civic train wreck over the past few years.”
As to whether Paterson should resign, Reddy said, “There are some very serious charges being made about the Governor’s conduct, but, of course, technically in our legal system, you are innocent until found guilty.”
Paterson served as former Governor Eliot Spitzer’s lieutenant governor. He replaced Spitzer in the middle of his term in 2008. Involvement in a prostitution ring led Spitzer to resign and all but disappeared from the political scene.

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NY Archbishop Dolan hits scandal-scarred Capitol
(AP) ALBANY, N.Y. – New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan made his first trip to Albany on Tuesday and said the scandalous turmoil gripping the Capitol now, as it was two years ago, shows that government isn’t the savior.
It’s the first visit to Albany by a New York archbishop in 24 months, almost to the day when Dolan’s predecessor, Cardinal Edward Egan, was to meet with then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer. That meeting was canceled when Spitzer was named in a prostitution investigation that soon forced his resignation.
Now Gov. David Paterson faces two scandals that threaten his job.
“Somebody asked me yesterday, ‘What do you say to your people who seem dissatisfied, or scandalized by the political problems in the state of New York?’” Dolan recounted. “And I said maybe it’s teaching us-what we would feel is the fundamental issue in life-that government is not our savior. Government is not the messiah. Only God is. And so we should put our ultimate trust in God alone, and everyone else, we cut some slack.”

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL – FEBRUARY 19: Tiger Woods makes a statement from the Sunset Room on the second floor of the TPC Sawgrass, home of the PGA Tour on February 19, 2010 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Woods publicly admitted to cheating on his wife Elin Nordegren but maintained that the issues remain “a matter between a husband and a wife.” (Photo by Lori Moffett-Pool/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Tiger Woods Photo: Getty Images, Pool / 2010 Getty Images
NEW YORK – MARCH 10: New York Governor Eliot Spitzer speaks to the media with his wife Silda while delivering an apology to his family and the public following reported links to a prostitution ring March 10, 2008 in New York City. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Photo: Getty Images, Mario Tama / 2008 Getty Images

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The audience was up from the 36.3 million who saw “Slumdog Millionaire” win best picture last year and 32 million — Oscar’s smallest audience on record — in 2008, Nielsen said.
The Oscars had just over 42 million watch in 2005, when “Million Dollar Baby” was the big winner.
The Oscar ratings fall in line with bigger audiences for awards shows in recent months. The Golden Globes were up 14 percent over the year before, and the performance-heavy Grammys up 36 percent, Nielsen said. The Emmys, the Tonys and the Miss America pageant all saw higher ratings.
With a poor economy, more people are staying home.
D’Angelo caught trying to pay for sex
Authorities say D’Angelo was caught in New York City, offering $40 for sex with an undercover cop posing as a prostitute.

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Today In Theatre History: MARCH 10
By Robert Viagas and Ernio Hernandez and Anne Bradley
10 Mar 2010
1925 Ernest Truex is The Fall Guy for a group of dope dealers. This James Gleason-George Abbott comedy will run at the Eltinge Theatre for almost three months.
1926 East Lynne, based on the popular novel of the same title, opens at the Greenwich Village Theatre. It will run only 35 performances, but a 1930s film adaptation will win the Oscar for Best Picture.
1933 Sophie Treadwell’s unlikely story of a prostitute who inherits a ranch lasts just three performances. It’s a very Lone Valley at the Plymouth Theatre in New York.
1940 Birthday of playwright David Rabe, who will chronicle Vietnam-era angst in Streamers and The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, and will come back in the 1980s with a searing vision of Hollywood’s periphery in Hurlyburly.

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