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Archive for July, 2010

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• From the Gothamist News Map: an overturned auto on 158th Street in the Bronx, two people shot by a perp armed with a shotgun in Queens and an all hands fire on Victory Boulevard on Staten Island.
• Police released a video of the man suspected of shooting an EMT in SoHo. Previously, that EMT had been accused of ignoring a dying woman in an Au Bon Pain.
• A woman has been hospitalized after losing consciousness while diving from a boat off the central Jersey shore.
• Albany is still working on a deal that would give SUNY and CUNY more freedom to set their own tuitions.
• Boo Hoo: Andrew Breitbart says that the aftermath of showing the edited video of Shirley Sherrod addressing the NAACP has been hard for him too.
• See something? Text it to Crime Stoppers!
• Politicians say the bootleg commuter vans running around town are unsafe.

Via Dealbreaker

Looks like we can officially call today Sexual Harassment Saturday. Two former employees of Titan Capital have filed a suit against President Russell Abrams, saying he repeatedly hit on them and called them derogatory names. Danielle Pecile and Cristina Culicea were fired from the company claimed they were called “idiots” by both Abrams and his wife, Sandra, and Pecile claims Abrams made her print topless photos of his wife.

Pecile claims Abrams asked, “You liked them, didn’t you?” after she printed a photo of Abrams and his wife in a hot tub. She called it, “creepy and embarrassing.” However, Sandra Abrams won’t stand for this treatment. She has filed a suit against Pecile and Culicea, claiming the two are refusing to return the topless photos unless the company pays them $2.5 million. In her $1 million suit, she calls the demand “nothing short of blackmail.” Pics or it didn’t happen?

A former security guard of the NBA Properties office in Secausus, NJ has been arrested after making multiple bomb threats against the building. Officials say Jose Quesada, 19, left at least seven threatening voicemails, including one which warned, “Leave the building. It’s gonna blow up…No where to go. It’s gonna go up. It’s gonna go ‘Boom!’” He turned himself in yesterday, and is being held at $100,000 bail. Man, some people are just not taking this whole LeBron thing easily.