We Salute The Hard Working Citizen Journalists Bloggers Who Are From, Work In Or Used To Live In Greenwich.....
These Workaholics Don't Even Stop For New Years Day
Now That's Dedication !!!!!
The Blonde Excuse
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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
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Happy New Year! - I wish you all a very special New Year, a year in which all our dreams come true.
Exit 55 By Rob "WGCH" Adams - The Sports Voice Of Greenwich
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ALSO A BIG FAT HAPPY NEW YEAR TO.....
And Guess What, I Had Such A Great Time At The Harvest Time Church Party On New Years Eve I Am Going To Even Wish The Ex-Greenwich Time Editor Joe Pisani And The Other Failed Greenwich Time Reporters At "Our Greenwich" A Happy New Year.
Who Says Miracles Can't Happen In This So-Called Modern Age.....
Our Greenwich Should Have Listened A Little More To Successful Blogger Chris Fountain And His Neighbor Who Was An Expert On Optimizing And Monetizing Web Sites .... But We All Must Learn From Our Boneheaded Mistakes.
Speaking Of Chris Fountain And His "For What It's Worth" Blog,
The "I Am Busting My Tail On New Years Day" Award Goes To
Greenwich Blogger Chris Fountain....
I can find no record that he did, but this NYT article from 1995 says that he was convicted of crimes carrying a minimum mandatory 15 month sentence and faced up to 15 years for having his show horse Charisma electrocuted. I find it entirely plausible that the son of a Greenwich billionaire would never see the inside of a jail cell, but if anyone with access to Nexus or any other source of definitive information can confirm how George made it from convicted felon to Miami art patron all without a detour to Ossining, I’d appreciate learning of it.
UPDATE: Here he is being sentenced to three years in January 1996. Did he do the time? We’ll keep looking.
UPDATE II: To my amazement, he seems to have been hit with time, even though he fought his conviction all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. He reported to prison in February 1996 and was still there when he permanently lost his appeal, as we lawyers like to say.
Update III - 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon. Turns out that the father of John Edward’s mistress (she who bore his love child last year), a gentleman from Palm Beach named Druck, was a client of Tommy Burns, the same killer young George hired to electrocute Charisma up here in Conyers Farm. In fact, according to this story, Burns didn’t know how to do the job so Druck demonstrated the proper procedure. Absent that, George might still be a resident of our fair town and Miami would have lost a great benefactor. Isn’t life strange?
Druck doesn’t sound like a nice man. Besides being a crooked lawyer, the horse he electrocuted with Tommy Burns was his own daughter’s.
This Palm Beach newspaper says George served 18 months of his 33 - month sentence. And gave between $10,000-$25,000 to the ACLU to help in their fight to give Florida felons the vote. No doubt he was shocked to learn of his urban brothers’ disenfranchisement.
I heard last night of a $5 million offer made on a newly-constructed house that has been on the market forever (which I define as more than a year). I was first astonished that anyone is bidding $5 million for anything right now, and then further astonished when I learned that the builder’s counter-offer amounted to, in effect, “take a hike”. My personal suspicion is that that builder will be crawling, not hiking, soon, but he obviously is in no financial distress and can afford to wait for his price, or thinks he can.
I have been advising buyers to focus on new construction because builders are so financially vulnerable, but this is a good reminder that not all builders are in bad shape and won’t accept 80% offers......
When developer Building and Land Technology made a “private investment” last November in William Pitt, Pitt’s owners hailed the move as one that would benefit both organizations.....
......Now comes word that Pitt has defaulted on its debt and BL&T has forced out Jones and Breunich. It’s exactly what happened to Antares when they accepted an “investment” from BL&T last summer. Antare’s principal Joe Beninati, Mr. “Rent is as insignificant to hedge funds as the lunch bill” was asked about his new partner by The New Yorker’s Nick Paumgarten:.....
......For all I know, Derek Jeter is still at Harbor Point. Beninati and his partner Jim Cabrera are not, having been shoved off the dock just a few weeks after this interview. And now Casey Jones is gone, too. Perhaps he can start anew by selling off the Antares boys’ twin mansions on Moreland Road, the last vestiges of their fumbled attempt to sell residential real estate in Greenwich.
Congratulations are due to the anonymous realtor who posted the following on December 17, when the BL&T investment in Pitt was announced:....
I bank with Greenwich Bank & Trust and a fine bank it is. But it merged with Westport National Bank four years ago and became Connecticut Community Bank and now that larger entity is being sued by defrauded Madoff investors. It’s Walt Noel and Fairfield Greenwich Group, writ small: Westport Bank took a couple’s money, charged them 4% a year for the privilege of having them watch over it for them and on December 12, the day Bernie was arrested, sent them a letter saying that, gosh, they’d invested the whole thing with Mr. Madoff and would the couple like them to write a letter to Mr. Madoff, asking that he give their money back?
I have great faith in Greenwich Bank & Trust and I trust them to keep my piddling earnings safe but back when I hunted stockbrokers my colleagues and I cheered when banks went into the brokerage business. We were sure that they’d prove incompetent at suggesting wise investments and our subsequent paydays courtesy of arbitration panels proved us right. Never ever trust a bank’s retail “investment advisor’, is my advice. Certainly, don’t count on Westport National Bank to safeguard your money.....
Why Aren't The Corporate Suits At Hearst Newspapers Smart Enough To Fire Two Or Three Greenwich Time And Greenwich Citizen Reporters And Replace Them With Chris Fountain?
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