TIOGA-NICETOWN - May 17, 2006 - A Philadelphia man is recovering from an attack, allegedly at the hands of his wife. The assault on his private parts has become public knowledge. In an interview with Action News after his release from, the 52-year-old victim spoke of his terrifying ordeal.
The 52-year-old Tioga-Nicetown man, who we are identifying only by his first name of Howard, arrived home late Wednesday, hours after his wife allegedly tore off two parts of his genitalia with her bare hands. Surgeons at Einstein successfully managed to repair the damage. Howard/Tioga-Nicetown: "Doctors did a beautiful job in E.R. and the paramedics did a wonderful job, they only took 4 minutes to get here."
Howard says his 40-year-old wife Monica, who he says is bi-polar, somehow conceived the notion that he was cheating on her. So while he was asleep last night, she attacked him.
This is the reason for that old rule; "Don't sleep with anyone crazier than you."
By any chance, is Monica a) Thai b) Filipino c) Indonesian?
Howard: "I mean she just grabbed me all down there and yanking and yanking and tearing me up with those fingernails."
Thanks, we get the picture
Police and paramedics rushed to the man's row home in the 3800 block of Pulaski where they found him bleeding profusely. He was rushed to Einstein where doctors first labeled his condition critical. He was later upgraded to stable after having reattachment surgery and a few doses of morphine.
Howard still cannot believe his wife of 11 years would allegedly do this him.
Howard: "I can see doing something like that to a rapist, or mugger but not a husband, not something like..." Dann: "She thought that you were cheating on her?" Howard: "I wasn't cheating on nobody, I'm home in bed at 8' 0 clock every night, I mean I'm not out there messing around."
Brian Lawson/neighbor: "I mean men cringing when they hear the story, I mean uh, I'm just cringing thinking about it."
Me too
Antoinette Fortune/Neighbor: "Who would wanna do something like that?"
Unidentified Neighbor: "That's kinda nasty. That's drastic isn't it? He's lucky to be alive."
Some neighbors say Howard's had problems with his wife before and has thrown her out only to let her back in. They worry what'll happen next.
Dann Cuellar: "Howard, you're not gonna let her back in here are you?"
Howard: "Oh no, no, no. She's in jail where she belongs."
At one point, Howard's wife Monica was facing attempted murder charges but now, the D.A.'s office has asked that a psychiatric evaluation be performed before any charges are filed.
"Born to be wiiiillldddd", I know that song. LONDON - A retired businesswoman accused of vandalizing her neighbors' property and blocking local roads with dead animals and dog feces was served with an order Thursday banning her from engaging in anti-social behavior. Jeanne Wilding, 57, is accused of clashing with at least 15 individuals and organizations in the idyllic rural hamlet of Bottomley in northeast England.
Prosecutors said Wilding repeatedly and loudly played a choral work "about rape, pillage and the trashing of villages," caused extensive damage to neighbors' vehicles, beamed floodlights into a neighbor's home and tipped oil over his driveway at night. She also deposited dead animals, rubbish, dog feces, glass and nails on the road, obstructing other homes and communal spaces, they said.
In all, there were more than 250 alleged incidents involving Wilding in less than 16 months.
At Halifax Magistrates' Court, Deputy District Judge Sandra Keen granted Calderdale Council's application to give Wilding an anti-social behavior order, or ASBO. "It's clear she has little or no appreciation of the effect her behavior has on other people," the judge said. "If her views are challenged, she responds in a wholly inappropriate manner. She takes a confrontational stance, causing others harassment or distress."
Sounds like a Kos Kiddie!
Under the ASBO, Wilding is banned from damaging property, from entering domestic properties without the owners' consent and from spreading trash anywhere outside her property. She also is banned from playing loud music and from maintaining or installing lighting or closed-circuit TV equipment that covers anywhere outside the boundary of her property. Wilding also was ordered to pay 75,000 pounds ($135,000) toward the council's costs.
Introduced in 1999 to counter "loutish and unruly conduct," anti-social behavior orders have been used to ban thousands of people, some as young as 10, from associating with certain people or engaging in activities as varied as shouting, swearing, spray painting, playing loud music and walking down certain streets. Breaching an order is a crime, punishable by up to five years in prison.
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The ASBO can be applied in all kinds of circumstances...got a kid who acts up a lot in school? ASBO. Piss off your neighbors with the "wrong" campaign poster on your lawn? ASBO. I can see any number of civil rights and eco-lawyers hustling to get ASBO designations slapped on folks who disagree with them...
Bill Lerach is one of teh most loathsome POS's to be spawned in San Diego - and a major contributor (as are most trial lawyers) to the Donk money machine. Good riddance The securities class-action law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman was charged today with several criminal counts, including obstructing justice, perjury, bribery and fraud. The 20-count indictment, handed up by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles, represents the most prominent confrontation between the government and a law firm in years. While federal regulators won multimillion-dollar settlement from big corporate law firms over their role in the savings and loan scandals, no major law firm has faced a criminal indictment in recent memory.
Milberg Weiss has been the dominant law firm in winning multimillion-dollar lawsuits against huge corporations on behalf of shareholders who claimed they were wronged. Its success was so great that Congress raised the legal hurdle for winning such lawsuits in the 1990's. Today, the firm was accused of secretly paying kickbacks, beginning in 1981 and continuing through 2005, to plaintiffs in class-action lawsuits. While the indictment does not prevent the firm from practicing law, it is expected to have a huge impact on its business.
Talks in recent days to avert an indictment had stalled between prosecutors in Los Angeles and lawyers representing Milberg Weiss, lawyers involved in the negotiations said. The firm had been unwilling to sign a deferred prosecution agreement in which it have waived attorney-client privileges, put in new monitoring systems and made a substantial payment.
Two of the firm's prominent partners are named in the indictment: David J. Bershad and Steven G. Schulman. The two men, who sat on the firm's executive committee, decided to take leaves of absences late last week in the hopes it would stave off an indictment of the entire firm. While the indictment caps off a six-year investigation by the Justice Department into the firm's activities, prosecutors have been stymied in their efforts to bring charges against the two primary targets of the investigation, Melvyn I. Weiss and his former partner William S. Lerach. bingo!
Before a bitter split in 2004, when Mr. Lerach began his own firm, the two dominated the securities class-action arena through their firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach. Mr. Weiss ran the East Coast operations of the firm, "Milberg East," and Mr. Lerach headed up the San Diego operations, known as "Milberg West." Both men were told in February that they would not be indicted at this time, although people involved in the talks believe they still remain targets of prosecutors. God I hope so....
The indictment against the firm and Mr. Bershad and Mr. Schulman was included in a revised indictment that was originally handed up last summer against a retired California lawyer and former Milberg client, Seymour M. Lazar. Beginning in 1981 and continuing through about 2004, Mr. Lazar or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 70 lawsuits for Milberg Weiss and received about $2.4 million in "secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment.
While Mr. Lazar has long stated his intentions to fight the charges, another Milberg Weiss client, Howard J. Vogel, signed a plea deal with prosecutors last month, agreeing to provide information against the firm. A retired mortgage broker, Mr. Vogel admitted that he or members of his family served as plaintiffs in approximately 40 lawsuits from 1991 and as recently as 2005, receiving approximately $2.5 million in "secret and illegal kickback payments," according to the new indictment.
A third figure named in the indictment, a Beverly Hills ophthalmologist named Dr. Steven G. Cooperman, or members of his family acted as plaintiffs in nearly 70 lawsuits, receiving approximately $6.5 million in payments, the new indictment said. Testimony by Mr. Cooperman prompted the original investigation six years ago. He is a highly controversial figure, however, as he offered to provide evidence to prosecutors in hopes of receiving a reduced sentence on his conviction of art fraud charges.
Under New York law, it is illegal for a lawyer to promise or give anything of value to induce a person to bring a lawsuit or to reward a person for having done so, according to the indictment. Furthermore, the kickbacks created a conflict because the paid plaintiffs had a "greater interest in maximizing the amount of attorneys' fees awarded to Milberg Weiss than in maximizing the net recovery" to others in the class, the indictment said. no mention of their "political" activities? NYT bias writ large....
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The law profession (civil law in particular) has done a simple calculus - the party of big government regulation = more regulations and laws = more opportunities for lawsuits = income security.
As long as one understands this, it is easy to understand the dominance of support amongst trial lawyers for the Dems. They may be personally conservative but to support the other side means a diminishing market for their services. Ditto for strict constructionist judges, because this limits the areas where lawsuits can happen.
One of the great disappointments of this president and congress has been the lack of tort reform. Extensive tort reform that greatly limits lawsuits would liberate billions within our economy and move it into a much more free market zone.
It would be bad for the law profession, which would have to scrap and fight over a diminishing amount of income, but the less these legal ticks earn, the more there is for those of us who actually work and research and innovate and produce.
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I have a better idea about what things to do with these job killing and wealth stealing parasites.
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Nice graphic, Fred.
Could you maybe add some popcorn, too? ;-p
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BIG contributoer to both Dem sentaors in CA< and Pelosi as well.
A new banned substance is making its way around Chandler Basha High School ketchup. Bottles of the condiment have been smuggled into the cafeteria and promptly confiscated when students whipped them out for their burgers and fries.
The ketchup conspiracy began last week when school administrators, fed up with students stomping on ketchup packets and squirting the red goo on sidewalks and hallways, limited ketchup to three packets per burger. If they want more, they have to pay up: 25 cents per extra packet.
Outraged, about 50 students boycotted cafeteria food a week ago to send a message, and theyre still bringing their lunch this week, said Chris Goldsmith, a junior at the school.
"With a cheeseburger or a hamburger, they have, like no bun, so you have to use quite a bit of ketchup to make it taste decent," Goldsmith said. "I think its ridiculous that now we have to pay for ketchup."
A black market even started up. Some students are selling their contraband at five packets for 25 cents.
Goldsmith said he doesnt know anyone who stomped on the packets, but "as long as it doesnt get on me, Im fine. Thats what I think janitors are for."
Principal Kristine Marchiando said janitors have their work cut out for them when the sticky sauce bakes in the sun.
"We have to steam clean it and move all of the heavy tables" to remove the ketchup, Marchiando said.
In addition to the mess, Marchiando says the ketchup consumption escalated to more than 7,000 packets in one week.
"Thats just way over the edge," she said.
Shes heard complaints from students that they need more ketchup, but she says "Just be happy you get three. That should be enough," adding that junior high students get only one ketchup packet... Ketchup is just a gateway condiment to smuggling the hard stuff, like Mexican bologna.
A gruesome bit of litter that sparked originally sparked outrage has now turned into a macabre mystery.
Sarabeth Eason and her neighbors in Flint, Michigan have grown accustomed to the litter they find near the abandoned homes in their neighborhood. But nothing could've prepared them for the site two weeks ago of the headstone of a woman buried over 75 years ago.
"It's a complete disrespect of someone's resting spot," said Eason, 31. "I don't know where it came from."
The marble slab is etched with two flowers and reads "Mother Nora Little 1894-1929," but local cemeteries have no records of such a woman.
When Carl Schopieray read the story this past Mother's Day -- the day after celebrating his 60th wedding anniversary, it hit too close to home.
"That's my mother," he said.
Making the tale stranger still is that Schopieray's mother was buried 70 miles away in Standish. Why would someone steal her headstone and then dump it so far away?
With a heavy heart, Schopieray went to Standish to assess the damage to his mother's grave. What he found shocked him. His mother's grave was intact, headstone and all.
Which begs the question, whose headstone is being held at the Flint Police Department?
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LONDON - A retired businesswoman accused of vandalizing her neighbors' property and blocking local roads with dead animals and dog feces was served with an order Thursday banning her from engaging in anti-social behavior. Jeanne Wilding, 57, is accused of clashing with at least 15 individuals and organizations in the idyllic rural hamlet of Bottomley in northeast England.
The securities class-action law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman was charged today with several criminal counts, including obstructing justice, perjury, bribery and fraud. The 20-count indictment, handed up by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles, represents the most prominent confrontation between the government and a law firm in years. While federal regulators won multimillion-dollar settlement from big corporate law firms over their role in the savings and loan scandals, no major law firm has faced a criminal indictment in recent memory.
