Raffaello Follieri, the Italian playboy-con man, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy yesterday, in a plea deal that will land him a minimum of five years and three months in prison. Follieri, who claimed to be a representative of the Vatican, would take investors' money and spend it on his extravagant lifestyle, which included a Trump Tower apartment and squiring his girlfriend, actress Anne Hathaway. The new news is how he agreed......

A friend of financier-accused grifter Rafaello Follieri thinks Anne Hathaway told what she knew to the FBI. Why? Well, in the indictment, Hathaway, who had dated Follieri for years up until a week before he was arrested and jailed (he hasn't come up with the $21 million bail yet), is identified as his former girlfriend, and the friend goes on to tell the Daily News, "I think that in return for her cooperation, the feds......

Police arrested a former chauffeur and his cousin in the 2006 stabbing death of real estate mogul Andrew Kissel (pictured). The crime baffled Greenwich, CT police, given the long list of people who could be upset with Kissel. He had embezzled millions, including from fellow residents in his Manhattan co-op. His own father was quoted, "Andrew did bad things. He took money from a lot of people. He was killed in an extremely vengeful, angry......

Last year, the federal authorities had been looking for Esther Elizabeth Reed, a woman who faked her way into attending Harvard, Cal State and most recently Columbia University, by using a dead woman's identity. Reed was on the lam, but this past weekend's murders at a mall outside Chicago led the police to Reed, who had been living in the very same town the killings occurred. In 2006, while in NYC, Reed had applied for......