News from The Smoking Gun

Dear Friends:


Along with monitoring street gangs, Mafia figures, and anarchists, the New York Police Department's intelligence division keeps tabs on rap music stars like Jay-Z, P Diddy, and 50 Cent. In fact, the NYPD has compiled a confidential investigative dossier on the hip-hop community, excerpts of which you'll find here:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1008041hiphop1.html


The Gotti family's devotion to hair products--as seen on that reality TV show starring those three gel-lovin' mooks--is not new. When he was a young man, Dapper Don John Gotti apparently had a Brylcreem addiction, according to a beautiful old mug shot we've obtained. See it here:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1008042gotti1.html


After a wheelchair-bound cerebral palsy victim was robbed on a Pennsylvania street, cops determined that the crime was orchestrated by the victim's husband. He probably would have simply asked for the money if he wasn't going to use it to buy crack:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1007042wheelchair1.html


A federal judge has ruled that the woman who accused Kobe Bryant of assaulting her in a Colorado hotel room will have to be identified by her real name--not the Jane Doe pseudonym--in her civil case against the NBA star. Details at:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1007041kobe1.html


Billy Joel and Paula Abdul are the newest additions to our backstage concert rider collection, which now includes a whopping 191 performers:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstagetour/index.html


Regards,

Your pals at TSG


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