New York Desk
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CITYWIDE
BLOOMBERG SIGNS CONTRACT WITH HISTORY CHANNEL
Mayor Bloomberg announced a multiyear corporate marketing partnership with the History Channel yesterday that is aimed at boosting tourism to the city.
The pairing, valued by the city at $19.5 million, consists of $15 million in advertising, $3.5 million for historic preservation, and $1 million in programming. Working with the Department of Parks & Recreation, the History Channel will sponsor the restoration and refurbishment of key sites in the city, including the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum in Brooklyn; the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre in Manhattan; and the Bartow Pell Mansion Museum in the Bronx.
In addition, the History Channel will co-sponsor an “Adopt a Monument” program with the city and promised to donate History Channel DVDs to city schools; establish a program to recognize outstanding history teachers in public schools; provide the city’s NYC TV with $1 million in New York-based historical programming, and design free tours of City Hall, Tweed Courthouse, and historic houses, including Gracie Mansion.
– Staff Reporter of the Sun
MANHATTAN
DIAMONDS SEIZED FROM FINANCIER ARE AUCTIONED OFF
Just in time for holiday shopping, hundreds of diamonds seized from disgraced financier Martin Frankel were auctioned off yesterday to provide restitution for the victims of his schemes.
Those victims finally received some good news: The auction generated a total of $5,874,100, with a round 5.86-carat diamond bringing the biggest single price of $267,000.
More than 300 bidders – mainly diamond dealers, with a sprinkling of men seeking gifts – filled a hall at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on the first day of a two-day auction of 822 diamonds that Frankel purchased with his ill-gotten gains.
In 1999,Frankel triggered an international manhunt when he disappeared from his mansion in Greenwich, Conn. He was arrested in Germany four months later.
– Associated Press
STATEWIDE
A RECORD 71% VOTE FOR SCHUMER
Senator Schumer captured a record 71% of the vote in winning a second, six-year term last month, according to certified election results released yesterday by the state Board of Elections.
The official results showed Democrat Schumer with almost 4.77 million votes to less than 1.63 million, or 24%, for his Republican challenger, state Assemblyman Howard Mills.
The old record for a Senate race in New York – 67% – was set by the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat, in 1988.
The official vote tally had Democratic challenger John Kerry winning the presidential contest in New York with 4.31 million votes, or 57.9%, to President Bush’s 2.96 million votes, or 39.8%.
The 62.9% voter turnout for last month’s election in New York was almost the same as that for the past two presidential elections in New York, a far cry from the 89% of registered voters who showed up at the polls in 1960 to give John F. Kennedy the win over Richard Nixon.
New York’s 31 presidential electors meet in Albany on Monday in the state Senate chamber to cast their Electoral College ballots for Mr. Kerry.
– Associated Press
LONG ISLAND
ACCUSED KILLER MAINTAINS INNOCENCE UNDER EXAMINATION
Despite a withering cross-examination, a Long Island electrician coolly declared his innocence yesterday in the brutal 2001 killing of a millionaire investment banker, contradicting three prosecution witnesses who testified that he admitted committing the crime.
Testimony ended yesterday after the prosecution called one rebuttal witness and closing arguments were scheduled to begin Friday, followed by jury deliberations. State Supreme Court Judge Robert Doyle ordered jurors to be sequestered during deliberations.
– Associated Press
UPSTATE
COLLEGE ANNOUNCES RADICAL WITHDRAWS FROM TEACHING JOB
Hamilton College said yesterday that a former radical who served 16 years in federal prison for possessing explosives will not teach a half-credit writing seminar in January. Susan Rosenberg withdrew from teaching “Resistance Memoirs: Writing, Identity and Change” as an artist-in-residence because it was in the best interest of all parties, college officials said.
Faculty and outsiders criticized the college last month after a literature professor invited Ms. Rosenberg as part of a visiting professor’s program with The Kirkland Project, an on-campus organization that focuses on issues of social justice.
Since her 58-year prison sentence was commuted in 2001 by President Clinton, Ms. Rosenberg has worked as a writer and an activist for human rights, prisoner rights, and AIDS. She teaches literature at John Jay School of Criminal Justice in New York.
– Associated Press
POLICE BLOTTER
ACCUSED MADAM EXPECTED TO POST BAIL
The accused madam of a swank East Side brothel is expected to post $500,000 bail at Manhattan Criminal Court today, if she can prove that her money does not come from her profitable prostitution ring, according to a court source.
Jenny Paulino, 44, of Manhattan, was charged with first-degree money laundering and third-degree promoting prostitution. One of five suspects netted in the undercover prostitution sting, Ms. Paulino is accused of running a brothel at two adjacent apartments at East 60th Street under a front company called J.P. Consulting Ltd., which accepted credit cards for sex services that charged more than $1,000 per hour. Ms. Paulino used the proceeds to fund an extravagant lifestyle that included a suite at Trump Palace Townhouses at East 68th Street, according to court papers.
Ms. Paulino’s sister Elsa, 50, and another defendant, Monika Hajkoba, 27, were also charged with third-degree promoting prostitution.
Martina Gavrieli, 26, and Hetvig Kaeser, 34, were charged with prostitution after they allegedly accepted $3,750 for having sex with an informant, who was also charged, on December 2.
– Staff Reporter of the Sun
RAPPER DMX SURRENDERS SPORT UTILITY VEHICLE
The rapper DMX was forced to surrender his $13,000 customized sport utility vehicle to a Queens court yesterday and pay a $1,000 fine after admitting to driving recklessly in an airport parking lot while under the influence of pain killers, said the Queens district attorney’s office.
Police arrested Earl Simmons late last June when he crashed his vehicle, outfitted with a police-style light and siren system, through a parking-lot exit gate at John F. Kennedy airport.
Mr. Simmons insisted he be allowed to leave without paying his $9 parking fee, said the Queens district attorney’s office. Mr. Simmons, who was under the influence of Valium, is also accused of trying to pull a driver from another car while claiming to be an FBI agent.
– Special to the Sun