May 20, 2000
CPA FRAUD CHARGE : TOP ACCOUNTANT DENIES HE LIED ON AFFIDAVIT
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amOne of New York's top accountants, responsible for keeping the books for a list of prestigious clients, has been charged with fraud. Jean Louis Vorburger, 41, a managing director at...
DOW FALLS 150, NASDAQ OFF 148
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amMany leading technology stocks fell for the third day in a row yesterday, with traders saying interest-rate fears are cooling investor demand for equities. Gloom lingered on Wall Street as...
LAUDERS ARE LOSERS IN $457M STOCK SALE
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe Lauders are unloading. Members of the Lauder family, including Estee Lauder Chairman Leonard Lauder and board member Ronald Lauder, are selling nearly a half-billion dollars worth of their company...
SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL!
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amThey make you want to scream. And whoop - and holler. Is it any wonder why kids of all ages love amusement parks? You can take your pick of any...
YANKEE FILM GO HOME! ANTI-H'WOOD BIAS ALLEGED AT FESTIVAL
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amCANNES, France - Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein said in public here what many American filmmakers at Cannes have been saying in private. Namely, that the reason that there have been...
LIVE ON THE INTERNET: CRAZED GUNMAN IN FIJI COUP ATTEMPT
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amA Fiji businessman last night was holding his country's prime minister and cabinet hostage in an attempted government takeover - and the entire drama was captured live on the Internet....
PROTESTANTS PUTTING IRA'S DISARM OFFER TO THE TEST
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amNorthern Ireland's Protestant leader David Trimble launched a weeklong campaign yesterday to convince his party to share power in a government with the IRA-allied Sinn Fein. Trimble said in Belfast...
REV. JESSE GETS TOUGH WITH SIERRA REBS
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe Rev.Jesse Jackson, working as President Clinton's Sierra Leone troubleshooter, yesterday urged rebels to free hundreds of U.N. peacekeepers they hold captive. "All the hostages should be freed and freed...
'LOVE BUG' VIRUS SPAWNS NEW AND SNEAKIER CYBERSCOURGE
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe FBI is investigating a smarter, sneakier and more destructive computer virus than the one that ruined tens of millions of files around the world earlier this month. The new...
LONG'S SHOT: THANK GOD FOR SPARING US!
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amRIGHT now, friends of Mark Green are locking up all the sharp instruments in his house because - in my lifetime, at least - he will never be mayor. "Thank...
$181M TOAST TO BREW-CREW COUPLE
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amA Chicago couple who own a microbrewery can belly up to the bank after stepping forward yesterday to claim half of the $363 million Big Game jackpot. Joe Kainz, 64,...
DUFF'S PAL: SHE TOLD ME PERELMAN BEAT HER
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amPatricia Duff repeatedly told a close friend that her multimillionaire hubby Ron Perelman was physically abusing her, the pal testified yesterday. Back in January 1994, "Miss Duff told me Mr....
HUNK'S IN VOGUE AS MAG COVERS CLOONEY
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amVogue is turning from high fashion to hunkdom - making sexy George Clooney its new cover boy! Calling the former "ER" heartthrob "the world's most eligible bachelor," the mag features...
IT'S GOOD NEWS FOR 2ND-TIER POLITICAL PARTIES
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani's withdrawal from the Senate race is good news for two very different political parties - the Liberals and Conservatives. On the Conservative side, it means the next Republican...
L.A. WAITING ITS TURN TO TRY KIMESES FOR MURDER
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Convicted killers Sante and Kenneth Kimes moved a step closer to judgment in L.A. when New York jurors nailed the murderous mother-and-son duo, prosecutors said yesterday. After...
WIFE-KNIFE JUDGE TRIED 'CRAZY' LOGIC ON L.I. COPS
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amA Long Island judge told cops, "I'm not crazy, but I'm insane," when they arrived at his house to bust him for stabbing his wife, a prosecutor said at his...
FLAGGING CHALLENGE LEAVES SILVER LOOKING GOOD AS GOLD
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - The hard-fought effort to oust Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver lost some of its steam yesterday as challenger Michael Bragman conceded his support has eroded. But Bragman, a...
CITY PROBES STARVATION OF PALSY KID
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amChild-welfare officials are investigating whether a 5-year-old cerebral-palsy-stricken girl who was found dead in her bed should have been removed from her mother's care before she withered to 17 pounds....
HOW SAD THAT IT TOOK HEALTH WOE TO SOFTEN HIS HARD EDGE
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amRUDY GIULIANI has made the right decision, the right way, with the right words. In withdrawing from the Senate contest, he seemed honest, vulnerable, intelligent, open, appealing, likable. Listening to...
CABLE GUYS BEAT THE FREE TV CHANNELS TO AIR
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amAt least 12 TV channels - including the major national-cable news operations - covered Mayor Giuliani's emotional late-afternoon news conference yesterday to announce his decision not to run for Senate....
YASSER'S TROOPS OPENED FIRE IN GAZA RIOT: ISRAEL
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Bloody clashes between Palestinians and Israelis spread yesterday to the Gaza Strip, where a 15-minute gun battle left at least four people wounded. The violence near the Jewish...
DOES RICK HAVE THE GUTS TO WIN? NO FRESH CANDIDATE WILL HAVE RUDY'S STRENGTHS, SO HILLARY'S NEW GOP FOE WILL HAVE TO GO NEGATIVE
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amWELL, it finally looks as though Hillary Clinton has broken the 43 percent barrier. The Quinnipiac poll ranking her against Rep. Rick Lazio, the Republican expected to succeed Rudy Giuliani...
GIULIANI'S INNER STRENGTH ; CITY WILL BE DULLER WITH NICE 'NEW' RUDY
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amSUDDENLY, life in this city is no longer so interesting. Rudy will be a kinder civilian. Hillary will be a dilettante senator. Donna will be taking Rudy to the cleaners....
THIS TIME, HE DID NOT KEEP DONNA IN THE DARK
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amThis time, he called first. Mayor Giuliani spoke with his wife yesterday before telling the world his plans for the future - unlike his surprise announcement last week that he...
YANKS BAN BLEACHER BEER 'FAMILY FRIENDLY' MOVE TO HALT RISE IN ROWDYISM
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amGet ready to cry in your beer, Yankee fans - the Bombers are banning brewskis in the bleachers. Effective next week, the concession stands in the bleachers will no longer...
MCCAIN'S TOP GUN RIDING IN FOR RICK
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amMedia guru Mike Murphy - who ran John McCain's presidential campaign, but who has little New York experience - is expected to lead Rep. Rick Lazio's Senate campaign. Referring to...
$9M WAR CHEST MAY YET BENEFIT SUCCESSOR
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani bailed out of the Senate race yesterday with his campaign war chest overflowing and his political future brimming with possibilities. Giuliani raised a whopping $19 million in campaign...
NO-NAME BOY SCOUT IS THRUST INTO THE GOP SPOTLIGHT
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Rick Lazio is everything Rudy Giuliani is not - young, boyishly cute and pretty much unknown. But don't let those Boy Scout looks fool you. Last year, Lazio,...
HILLARY TURNS HER GUNS ON LAZIO : TOP AIDE BRANDS HIM A GINGRICH GROUPIE
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amJust an hour after Hillary Rodham Clinton wished Mayor Giuliani well and refused to talk politics, one of the first lady's top advisers ripped into Rep. Rick Lazio, her likely...
GREEN'S DREAMS GET SNAGGED ON RUDY'S DECISION
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani's decision to drop out of the Senate race dealt a monstrous blow to Public Advocate Mark Green's bid for the mayoralty. Green would have succeeded the mayor if...
DAVE AND REV. AL: ACTIONS WILL SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amAn emotional Mayor Giuliani yesterday resolved to reach out and overcome "some of the barriers" between him and others - but longtime critics said they'll wait and see if he...
THE CANCER-STRICKEN MAYOR INTRODUCES A KINDER, GENTLER RUDY
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amVIEWERS watching Mayor Giuliani's extraordinary announcement yesterday that he was pulling out of the U.S. Senate race can be forgiven for wondering if they had mistakenly tuned in to "Oprah."...
BOTTOM LINE: HE DIDN'T REALLY WANT THE JOB
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Yankees' home opener - that's when Mayor Giuliani struck out. It came well before the prostrate-cancer diagnosis, before the public unraveling of his marriage, before the word of gal...
DECISION 'WAS REALLY 50-50 DOWN TO THE WIRE'
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amLike a slow-motion Hamlet, Mayor Giuliani spent a full evening wavering between the political being and nonbeing of a Senate run. The deciding, he said, happened partly in the full...
BRITS BUST MADONNA'S GUY FOR BELTING FAN
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amPolice said Ritchie approached the man, then hauled off and popped him.Madonna's boyfriend turned into Sean Penn II yesterday - attacking a fan outside the Material Mom's London home as...
GOP PLEDGING ; $UPPORT FOR RICK NAT'L PARTY LINING UP BEHIND LAZIO
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amRepublicans rallied behind Rick Lazio as their next-best hope for beating Hillary Clinton, and the Long Island congressman said yesterday he's going to fight with "enthusiasm." Even before Mayor Giuliani's...
IT'S A BABY BOY FOR BRITAIN'S BLAIRS
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair gave birth to a boy in London today - the first child to be born to a serving British prime minister in...
2 GUILTY IN LOVE TRIANGLE STRANGLE
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amNevada jurors convicted two people of murder yesterday in the sordid killing of an heir to one of Las Vegas' best-known casino families. Sandra Murphy and Rick Tabish face possible...
FINEST TACKLE BRAVEST
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amPolice officers yesterday won their annual football matchup with the Fire Department, 21-12. Officer Eric Spezio, a running back, was the game's star, scoring two touchdowns. The police team is...
CANCER FORCES RUDY TO PULL OUT MOVE LEAVES LAZIO AS FAVE TO DUKE IT OUT WITH HILLARY
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani reached a critical turning point in his political career yesterday, bowing out of the U.S. Senate race to treat his cancer - and leaving the GOP to find...
PROSTATE SURVIVORS: IT'S NOT AN EASY CHOICE
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amProstate cancer survivors say Mayor Giuliani's struggle to decide on his treatment and his new outlook on life are easy to understand. "It's not like having a simple headache where...
TEACHER BUSTED FOR SODOMY: COPS
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amA Brooklyn high school teacher was busted last night on charges of sexually abusing a teenage boy who was one of her former students, cops said. Nicole Philbert, 29, was...
TORRE HOPES BERNIE IN TWO HOLE CAN JUMP-START KNOBLAUCH'S BAT
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CLEVELAND - Joe Torre wasn't promising that Bernie Williams will hit second until the day Derek Jeter returns from the DL. However, Torre is hoping that having Williams...
MAJERLE DEFENSE BLANKETS HOUSTON
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amHEAT NOTES Dan Majerle, the Heat's veteran guard who's been a significant factor in the series both in shutting down Allan Houston defensively and in hitting some big 3-pointers, said...
NO MATTER WHAT, HEAT THROUGH AT GARDEN
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amWith the series clinching well within sight - sitting right in front of them in fact - the Heat went through their final Madison Square Garden shootaround of the season...
THE REGULAR SEASON TELLS KNICK STORY
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHE REGULAR season was supposed to be insignificant when it came to revealing anything substantial about the 1999-2000 Knicks. Their ups and downs, great games followed by bad games, and...
KNICKS PRAYING FOR A REPRIEVE: JEFF: REBOUND WITH VENGEANCE
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amIf Patrick Ewing wants the ball so much, Jeff Van Gundy has a solution to how he can get it more: Grab an offensive rebound or two. Following yesterday's morning...
KNICKS PRAYING FOR A REPRIEVE: EWING SHOULDERS LOAD ... AND BLAME
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amSOMEHOW, it always comes back to Patrick. No matter how much the Knicks change - and Latrell Sprewell and Marcus Camby were tremendous changes for the better last year -...
CHILDS GUARANTEES IT: SEE YOU IN MIAMI
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES In deflecting questions about his controversial spat with Patrick Ewing, Chris Childs "guaranteed" the Knicks would beat the Heat last night in Game 6. The "guarantee" was made...
PEGASUS AIMING TO GRAB A SECOND LEG SEVEN CHALLENGING FAVORITE IN PURSUIT OF CROWN
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Hi-ho, Pimlico. It's spring, and it's time for the Preakness. Despite a forecast of possible showers, cloudy skies and temperatures in the 60s, a crowd of 80,000 is...
DRYSDALE: WE WANTED A LITTLE QUIET
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - It wouldn't be the Preakness without a controversy. Two years ago, Pimlico was struck by a massive power outage that lasted all afternoon. Last year, a crazed fan...
PEGASUS MAY COAST BUT YOU CAN'T BET HIM
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - It remains to be seen if, in today's Preakness Stakes, Fusaichi Pegasus will be what he appeared to be in winning the Kentucky Derby, which is unbeatable. But...
EXPERTS DISAGREE ON FUSAICHI'S GREATNESS
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - As the field prepares to go to the post for today's Preakness, the burning question at Pimlico is not who is going to win the race but how...
JOSTLE TAKES 'SUSAN'
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Kent Desormeaux, who won the Pimlico Special last Saturday and pilots Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus in today's Preakness, continued his hot riding yesterday with he took Jostle...
SCARFACE IS PHILLY'S INSPIRATION
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amSealed with 36 stitches, John LeClair looked like he had a vertical zipper on the right side of his nose yesterday. LeClair's blood-pouring gash came late in the third period...
ALL DEVILS KNOW IS THEY'VE GOTTA WIN
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amNow they don't know what to think, these Devils. Go, stay, hit, run; they are being pulled in every direction. About the only thing they're sure of is that they'd...
SHARPEN YOUR ELBOWS AND PLAY WITH A SNARL
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHEY CAME into the playoffs determined to stay out of the penalty box, and when they rolled over the Panthers and Maple Leafs by adhering to a strict code of...
EARLY BIRD CATCHES PIMLICO DOUBLE
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amWith the first post at Pimlico slated for 10:45 a.m., parking and admission gates at Belmont will open earlier than normal. Parking gates will open at 10:15 a.m. with admission...
JARVIS ISN'T QUITE OFF TO SEE WIZARDS
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amContract talks between St. John's coach Mike Jarvis and the Wizards have stalled as representatives for both parties have dug in their heels. Michael Jordan, the Wizards' president for basketball...
NEEDY NETS EYE LOTTERY
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe Nets have needs. Lots of needs. Inside scoring. Rebounding. Defense. Not to mention a coach, president and director of basketball operations. But they hope to position themselves where they...
SORIANO HOPES TO PUT SHORT-STOP TO JITTERS
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - Insisting he learned from a hellish experience during his first trip through the big leagues, Alfonso Soriano predicted he will be more comfortable in second stint as a...
PAYTON: I'D BE BETTER ELSEWHERE
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amJay Payton thinks that Bobby Valentine and GM Steve Phillips have lost confidence in him. This is what he reads and they haven't told him otherwise. If this is the...
HAMPTON MOVED UP FOR START
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amBobby Valentine and pitching coach Dave Wallace have decided to start Mike Hampton and skip fellow lefty Glendon Rusch today against Arizona. "It's nice," said Hampton, who will be opposed...
JONES SHINES, PIAZZA HOMERS, METS WIN 4-3
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amLast night could've been about Mike Piazza playing like Mike Piazza, future Hall of Famer. He did hit the game-winning homer in the bottom of the fifth and he did...
BOMBERS BAIL OUT ABYSMAL PETTITTE
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amYankees11 Indians7 CLEVELAND -With the names Joe Torre puts in the lineup, the potential for the Yankees to win a slugfest is always present. However, given the choice of matching...
CHILDS' PLAY COMES WITH A GUARANTEE
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amBefore the game, Chris Childs guaranteed a Knicks' victory, telling reporters to go ahead and make their plane reservations for Game 7 in Miami. After he played a significant part...
KNICKS FINALLY SHOW TEAMWORK
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amMOST observers will agree that the Knicks came into this bitter series against the Heat with more talent, player for player. But entering last night's Game 6, it was questionable...
A MOMENT OF YOUTH FOR OLD EWING
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amHe has come out of the sky before, two hands rising to the Garden rafters to put back a John Starks miss, a tip-in that six years ago sent the...
WIN RATES WITH ONE OF KNICKS' GUTTIEST
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amALL year the Knicks told us they knew when they would have to turn off the cruise control. This self-confident attitude frustrated Jeff Van Gundy to the ends of the...
DOWN 18, KNICKS TAKE IT TO LIMIT : HOUSTON FTS SEND SERIES TO A GAME 7
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amJeff Van Gundy told the Knicks at halftime to be prepared to be part of one of the greatest comebacks in playoff history. Following orders perfectly, the Knicks lived on...
MAJERLE IT+]]QUESTIONS IT+]]FINAL FOUL
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amDan Majerle admits there was some contact when he was called for the game's key foul with :17.6 left, when Allan Houston went to the line and nailed two free...
HOUSTON WAKES UP FOR A DREAM
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amNo time to look back. That was the way Allan Houston had to approach what could have been the final game of the Knicks' season. No time to look back...
KNICKS REBOUND WITH A VENGEANCE
May 20, 2000 | 4:00amIf Patrick Ewing wants the ball so much, Jeff Van Gundy had a solution to how he can get it more: Grab an offensive rebound or two. How about five....