Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'judithregan'
November 17, 2007
Fox News Porn Robert Greenwald, the man behind the 2004 documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism which concluded that Fox News Channel is biased to the right based on memos and footage from the network, is at it again. This time around he is using clips from the channel culled from six months of broadcasts featuring women in bikinis and pixilated nudity in a YouTube video and website that mimics a porn site called......
Continue Reading "Television Watching: Fox Porn, Rather, Strike, Rural Imus"November 14, 2007
Controversial publisher Judith Regan dropped a 70-page lawsuit on her old bosses at Harper Collins and News Corp yesterday. The $100 million defamation suit claims she was the victim of a smear campaign in order to protect Rudy Giuliani's presidential bid (read: Rupert Murdoch's political agenda). She states they asked her to lie to federal investigators about her one-time lover and former police commish, Bernard Kerik (who at the time was working with Regan on......
Continue Reading "Judith Regan Seeks Payback, Publicity"November 10, 2007
Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik was indicted in federal court yesterday and the U.S. Attorney prosecuting him pulled no punches describing his legal prey. "In meticulous detail, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia assembled count after count painting Kerik as a money-grubbing liar who tried to cover his tracks." Kerik allegedly had a mob-controlled contracting firm renovate his apartment for free, while telling city investigators that that same firm had no criminal ties.......
Continue Reading "Kerik Indicted, Legally and Personally"October 13, 2007
Former police commissioner Bernard Kerik's misdeeds continue to plague Rudy Giuliani's Presidential ambitions, with news that the former Mayor knew that his one-time right hand man vouched for a mobbed-up construction company before appointing him police commissioner. Before Kerik was appointed commissioner, one of Giuliani's top aides was made aware of the fact that Kerik––while commissioner of the Corrections Dept.––met with mayoral aides in a Tribeca bar and defended Interstate Industrial Corp. of criminal wrongdoing,......
Continue Reading "Kerik Continues to Haunt Giuliani in October"December 26, 2006
Midtown special on the Gothamist Newsmap: an overturned car at 11th and 44th Street, an armed robbery and pursuit on 43rd and 9th, and a hazmat condition at 47th and 9th. Noah Kalina, the oft-photographed everyman hero of Noah K Everyday, has recently expanded his self-portraiture by including a smattering of celebrities. A few days ago he discussed the project with the Washington Post: "I don't know if I would call it a catatonic......
Continue Reading "Extra, Extra"December 18, 2006
Our acquaintances over at The Morning News have developed the city's most hilarious holiday t-shirt: "The Squirrel That Ate Christmas". Buy one today! Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: many suspicious packages all over town, a motorcycle accident on East 47th Street, and a jumper down on East 20th Street. We're not sure what's happening in this photo, but it may well be the cutest thing we've ever posted to Gothamist. AMNY has a great......
Continue Reading "Extra, Extra"December 16, 2006
HarperCollins president and CEO Jane Friedman fired editor Judith Regan late-yesterday. The dismissal, which was announced while most employees were at the company Christmas party, comes after last month's O.J. Simpson book and Fox TV interview fiasco. Regan was the driving force behind the project, in which Simpson described how he might have hypothetically killed his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. After the project came under intense criticism, Rupert Murdoch, HarperCollins......
Continue Reading "Judith Regan Canned"November 20, 2006
Finally, a good decision from Fox: The O.J. Simpson special AND book have been canceled by the News Corporation! Apparently being criticized nonstop since last week, with threats from all parts - even its own Fox News ranks - finally knocked some sense into Rupert Murdoch and friends. Murdoch's statement:I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project. We are sorry for any pain this has caused the families......
Continue Reading "No More O.J. Special for Fox"November 18, 2006
Can we just never hear about O.J. Simpson again? The whole idea the book and planned TV special from O.J. Simpson who explains how he would have killed his wife if he did it is just so disgusting and exploitive, we can't believe it was ever allowed. But we're naive and such is life, and the story has been getting crazier, with the book's publisher Judith Regan issued a statement saying she published the book......
Continue Reading "Everyone Hates the O.J. Book, O.J. and Judith Regan"December 14, 2004
Honestly, the Bernard Kerik flap gets better and better each day. Forget affairs with Judith Regan or a correction co-workers. Forget the New York Region > Inquiry by City Found Kerik Tie to Building Firm" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/nyregion/14kerik.html?hp&ex=1103000400&en=6bc512697339c1ac&ei=5094&partner=homepage">possible mob tie. It's stuff like finding out that former police commissioner Kerik had a wife no one knew about. Gothamist wonders how much Kerik thought he could hide, 'cause Senates love to dig up everything about nominees - almost......
Continue Reading "Kerik of Truth"December 13, 2004
On Saturday morning, news broke the former Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik had resigned his nomination to head the country's Homeland Security nomination, using the illegal status of a housekeeper as his excuse. But it turns out, there were other things about his nomination that were questionable, leading to the use of "untenable" in a NY Times headline about the story. Like some questionable financial dealings, as well as scuttlebutt about Kerik's affairs, including one with......
Continue Reading "Former Commish Kerik: So Totally Not Right For White House Cabinet"
