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Thursday, August 14, 2008

08/14/08 WAKE UP GREENWICH TIME!!! Where is the coverage? Greenwich Time Reporters Are Out-To-Lunch!!!!!


When Is Greenwich Time Editor David Warner Going To Realize That You The Local Newspaper Is Supposed To Inform And Not Infuriate It's Shrinking Readership?

Here's the HOTTEST STORY of the Summer - now attracting global attention, with hordes of German, Austrian & Swiss press (among other European media) arriving in Boston to cover the Crockafellah Case - and local Greenwich Time reporters are busy reading the Lands' End Fall catalog. WAKE UP!

It's Not That The Greenwich Time Reporters Are Too Lazy To Go Out And Cover The Story

It's That They Just Don't Give A Damn

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It is A Damn Shane That Christopher Chichester, Christopher Crowe, Christopher Montbatten, Clark Rockefeller or Whatever He Is Calling Himself Today, Did Not Send Out A Press Release To The Greenwich Time Editor.

Then The Greenwich Time Could Have Ran Mr. Crockafellah's Press Release Through The Spell Checker Before Publishing It On The Web.

At Least Greenwich Time Readers Would Not Have To Learn About What The Crockafellah Did In Greenwich On....

The Geraldo Rivera Show!!!!

It's Up To Citizen Journalists And Local Bloggers To Step Up To The Plate And Crack Greeneich Crockafellah Story Wide Open For The Greenwich Time

1) ''JOHN DOE" (aka Christopher Chichester, Christopher Crowe, Christopher Montbatten, Clark Rockefeller, etc.) arrived in the Tri-State area sometime around May 1985. Using numerous aliases, "JOHN DOE" reportedly lived & frequented & worked in the vicinity of Greenwich CT in the late 1980s. Investigators said at the time that "JOHN DOE" was a con man who often "surfaces in affluent neighborhoods and mingles in social circles by making friends with wealthy influential people. He often volunteers for good causes like raising money for charity," a sheriff's press release said at the time. For example, he was seen at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club, and probably attended a highly-regarded Protestant church.

2) Among numerous residences occupied under a variety of pretexts & aliases, "CROWE" may have lived near/on LOCH LANE at some point in the late 80s. In this period, he reportedly drove a '65 Chevy and perhaps garaged another vehicle - a WHITE PICKUP TRUCK (1984? model) - somewhere in the Tri-State area. LA Police are especially interested to know anything about this vehicle, where it was parked or garaged, etc.

3) Please examine the WANTED! poster and if you have any detailed information about this individual, his whereabouts or activities in
Connecticut between 1985-89, please contact LASD police immediately, at (323)890-5500 to speak with Sgts Bobby Taylor or Timothy Miley regarding Case# 094-00061-3199-011.

http://www.insidesocal.com/sgvcrime/2008/08/chichester-rockefeller-the-wan.html

It's Time For Greenwich Time Editor David Warner

To Wake Up!!!!


When is David Warner, the new Greenwich Time Editor, going to get some reporters with the journalistic balls to cover NATIONAL news stories about Greenwich.

David Warner, previously metro editor of The Rockford (Ill.) Register Star and his reporters have to read about Greenwich Crockafellah Case in the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe.

Warner has also been deputy metro editor of The Detroit News and these reporters have to read about the Greenwich Crockafellah Case in the International Herald Tribune and the Times Of London.

Mr. Warner was editor of the Trentonian in Trenton, N.J. and they have to read about the Greenwich Crockafellah Case in the New York and Los Angeles Times.

Would David Warner Have Ignored The Greenwich Crockafellah Case if he was still the city editor of the Philadelphia Daily News; or the editor of the Daily Local News in West Chester, Pa?

Surely, David Warner would not have sat on the Greenwich Crockafellah Case when he was the city editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Why can't all of the reporters at these papers read what their old boss thinks about the Greenwich Crockafellah Case.

However. all of these reporters can go and see how a real editor covers the local, national and international angles of the
Crockafellah Case if they were to checkout a real newspaperman like Frank Girardot who is not only an editor but a working journalist who is willing to get his hands dirty.

Please Take A Look At:

FRANK GIRARDOT's

Crime Scene blog

With All Of The Money That Greenwich Has And All Of The Money That Greenwich Businesses Pay For Display Ads In THE GREENWICH TIME You Would Think This Town Could Afford A Newspaper Editor With The Caliber Of A Frank Girardot.

It Is Time For Greenwich Time Editor David Warner To Come Out Of His Self Induced Coma!!!!


In fact if you do have a news tip or remembrance about Mr. Crockafella I wouldn't even bother sending it to the clueless David Warner.


Perhaps, you would have a better shot of having your story published if your rememberances published if you contacted a mega international newspaper like the Los Angeles Times, New York Times Or Boston Herald.

Or maybe you should just send your tips to a small town reporter like....

Frank Girardot
Metro Editor
San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group
(626) 962-8811, Ext. 2717
http://www.insidesocal.com/sgvcrime

Or maybe you could send your Mr. Crockafella news tip or remembrances to a local blogs like....

For What It's Worth and Greenwich Gossip

But don't waste your time sending your Greenwich Crockefellah news tips or remembrances to David Warner at the Greenwich Time, because he will probably continue to sit on the story that is on National Television every single night.

There Is A Lot Of Interest In Greenwich About The The Greenwich Crockeffellah Saga.

One Greenwich Resident says that he is putting together a book proposal about Mr. Crockeffellah.

Just Three days ago Greenwich Roundup published a readers comment seeking more information about the Greenwich minister and his son who became suspicious of Mr. Crockeffellah reported him to to the Greenwich Police Department over the sale of a used car involved in a California Missing Persons / Murder Case.

Please See:

08/12/08 READER FORWARDED EMAIL ABOUT THE ROCKEFELLER CASE: Which ministers son? What Church? FW: Episcopal Church In Greenwich?

Remember how the Greenwich Time sat on the Martha Moxley Murder Mystery story and Los Angeles Detective Mark Furman had to come in a write a book called "Murder In Greenwich".

Now another Reader named

WhosieWho@hotmail.com

has forwarded us this email that was sent to ace reporter

Frank Girardot
(San Gabriel Valley Tribune)

Whoie Who's forwarded email says:


Any idea who the Minister's son was?

Chichester attended Episcopalian churches.


Chichester surfaced in 1988, when he tried to sell a truck belonging to John Sohus in Greenwich, Conn., police told "Unsolved Mysteries."

The seller used the name Christopher Crowe, the same name used on the stockbroker application, to sell the truck to the son of a local minister, who reported the episode to police after the man could not produce the truck's paperwork. Greenwich police did not return a call on Wednesday.



To: frank.girardot@sgvn.com
Subject: Episcopal Church in Greenwich CT?
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:21:43 +0000

I don't know Greenwich CT especially well, but I had many friends from the town & area. This looks like the kind of Church he'd attend:
http://www.stbarnabasgreenwich.org/concerts.html

It doesnt get any more Yankee than this : but The Rev. Canon Sydney A. Woodd-Cahusac (correct spelling!) was far too old - could it have been a grandson?? (Incidentally, Syd was an attorney before his late ministry - he was treasurer & house cousel to Rockefeller University.) Or was it another staff member's son?

Too young, but the current The Rev. Robert M. Alves, The Rector might help;
954 Lake Avenue, Greenwich, CT 06831 (203) 661-5526
Otherwise, other Protestant Churches in Westchester Co. (it must be there): http://www.westchestertowns.com/htm/lnk/Link0091.html

PLEASE ALSO SEE:

08/06/08 Did The Greenwich Police Department Question Clarke Rockeffeller Then Let Him Go Free

08/08/08 Is Frank Girardot Is Wondering Why The Lazy Greenwich Time Reporters Have Not Called Him Asking About The Fake Rockefeller

08/10/98 The Greenwich Time Won't Cover This Story On Their So-Called "News Website" So We Will Havee To Bring It To You.

  • Creepy con man Clark Rockefeller posed as the long-lost brother of serial killer David Berkowitz, Also Known As, The Son Of Sam Killer, and tried to use the Son of Sam's Social Security number to get his Wall Street broker's license.

    The fake Rockefeller - born Christian Gerhartsreiter in Germany and jailed for allegedly kidnapping his daughter, "Snooks" - called the killer's lawyer around 1985 claiming to need information to confirm that Berkowitz, who was adopted, was the sibling he never knew, the lawyer said.

    "He said that he'd been abandoned by his family, too," said lawyer Mark Jay Heller, who is convinced that the caller was Gerhartsreiter.

    Heller refused the caller's request for a Social Security number, but the bizarre Bavarian appears to have gotten it anyway.

    A former colleague said the faker got his first finance job in 1985, with venture capitalist Stanford Phelps in Greenwich, Conn., using the name Christopher Crowe.

    Phelps fired him within a year after learning from the National Association of Securities Dealers that he had used the Social Security number of David Berkowitz, said the ex-colleague.

    When Gerhartsreiter got a job at Nikko on Wall Street, Phelps called, and again "Crowe" was fired, the trader said.

    Rockefeller's lawyer, Stephen Hrones, said his client doesn't have a memory of using Berkowitz's ID.

    At his next job, at Kidder-Peabody, Gerhartsreiter "went into his manager's office saying his parents had been kidnapped in South America and he needed to go down there to pay a ransom," the trader said.

    The next day, FBI agents showed up at Nikko, looking for "Crowe," Barnett and the trader said.

    They wanted to question him about a truck he was driving in Connecticut that was owned by John Sohus, his ex-landlord, who'd vanished with his wife, Linda, from their San Marino, Calif., home four years earlier.

    They never found "Crowe" or the truck, but in 1994 contractors digging a pool at the home unearthed three plastic bags containing a hacked-up male skeleton, according to the LA County Sheriff's Office.

MORE INFORMATION:

The Suspect Known as Clark Rockefeller on Wall Street

Universal Hub

Dave Copeland, who knows something about criminals and New York, makes some calls to learn about "Rockefeller's" less than illustrious career on Wall Street back in the Gordon Gekko days:

... But after two days at Lehman, Rockefeller told his supervisors that he needed to take time off to search for his parents, who he said had gone missing in Afghanistan. Sources said Rockefeller – who told co-workers at Nikko he was film director Christoher Crowe – was dismissed by Lehman. Rockefeller even invited co-workers to the Greenwich, Conn. guest house he was renting for screenings of “his” movies. Rockefeller claimed he was living in the guest house because his own home was being renovated, a claim that co-workers assumed was one of his tall tales.

Within days of his dismissal from Lehman, Connecticut State Police detectives arrived at the offices of both Lehman and Nikko looking to question Rockefeller. ...

One guess what they might have wanted to question him about. Yep.

EVEN MORE INFORMATION:

08/01/08 The Fake Rockefeller Has A Greenwich Connection In Doctor Hedi Leistner

Is Rupert Murdock At The Fox News Channel Going To Have To Send Geraldo Rivera Break The Greenwich Crockeffelah Story For Greenwich Time Editor David Warner?

Geraldo Knows Greenwich And Some Of The Players, Because He Got His Big Break At WABC Channel 7, Which Is Just Down The Road From Greenwich.


I Bet Geraldo Could Easily Handle The Greenwich Crockeffelah Story For David Warner.

Geraldo Rivera was hired by WABC-TV in New York City as a reporter for Eyewitness News. In 1972, he garnered national attention and won an Emmy Award for his report on the neglect and abuse of mentally retarded patients at Staten Island's Willowbrook State School and began to appear on ABC national programs such as 20/20 and Nightline. After John Lennon watched Rivera's report on the patients at Willowbrook, he and Rivera formed a benefit concert called "One to One" (released in 1986 as Live in New York City.) Rivera would be one of the correspondents reporting Lennon's murder on Nightline on December 8,1980. Rivera also appeared in The US vs. John Lennon, a movie about Lennon and Yoko Ono's lives in New York City. It was released in 2007.

Around this time, Rivera also began hosting ABC's Goodnight America. The show featured the famous refrain from Arlo Guthrie's hit "City Of New Orleans" (written by Steve Goodman) as the theme. The song served as the later inspiration for the network's hugely successful morning show, Good Morning America.

After Elvis Presley died in 1977, various media mistakenly reported that he had died from a heart attack. Rivera then investigated Presley's prescription drug records and concluded that he had died from multiple drug intake. His conclusion caused Tennessee medical authorities to later revoke the medical license of Dr. George C. Nichopoulos, for overprescribing.

In October 1985, ABC's Roone Arledge refused to air a report done by Sylvia Chase, for 20/20 on the relationship between Marilyn Monroe and John and Robert Kennedy. Rivera publicly criticized Arledge's journalistic integrity, claiming that Arledge's friendship with the Kennedy family (for example, Pierre Salinger, a former Kennedy aide, worked for ABC News at the time) had caused him to spike the story; as a result, Rivera was fired. Sylvia Chase quit 20/20, although she returned to ABC News many years later. It has never aired.

In 1994, he began hosting nightly discussion of the news on CNBC called Rivera Live while continuing to host Geraldo. The show was portrayed in the final episode of Seinfeld, with Rivera as himself reporting on the lengthy trial of the show's four main characters.

In 1997, Rivera contracted with NBC to work as a reporter for six years for $30 million. During 1998 and 1999, he extensively covered the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001,

Rivera had a small, uncredited part in the 1990 film The Bonfire of the Vanities as a television reporter named "Robert Corso". He also has a short cameo on the series finale of Seinfeld with his former news colleague, Jane Wells. He was also the inspiration for the character Wayne Gale (portrayed by Robert Downey Jr.) in Oliver Stone's 1994 film Natural Born Killers; in fact, much of the character's interaction with the murders Mickey and Mallory Knox was inspired heavily from Rivera's interview with Charles Manson.

Kurt Vonnegut mentions Rivera several times in various novels, including Palm Sunday and Fates Worse than Death, never in a favorable light. Rivera was married to Vonnegut's daughter Edith. They divorced in 1974.

GERALDO JUST MIGHT BE THE GUY TO BREAK THE

GREENWICH CROCKEFFEHA STORY

WIDE OPEN FOR THE CLUELESS

GREENWICH TIME EDITOR DAVID WARNER.


Please send your comments and news tips about the Crockafellah to GreenwichRoundup@gmail.com

Here Is One Of Greenwich Roundup's Favorite Geraldo Clips

The World Famous 1988

"GERALDO RIVERA BREAKS HIS NOSE IN A SKINHEAD BRAWL"

Jerry Springer Will Never Top This.



08/14/08 Greenwich Post News Links For Thursday


Bob Button is most well-known in town for leading a number of musical groups including the Button and Bows, a group of female singers who performed swinging standards under his direction. Mr. Button provided piano accompaniment.

Button leaves behind musical legacy

After years of enriching the community with his music, Greenwich resident Bob Button has died. Those who knew him say he will be remembered and missed for his energy and creativity. The pianist used his skills to bring entertainment to members of the community. Peg Delacruz, member of Mr. Button’s local band Button and Bows, remembers his relentless passion for music and sharing it with the town.

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The trial for the man accused of being the notorious “Dinnertime Bandit” is under way at Stamford Superior Court.

Alan Golder was arrested in Belgium in November 2007 after years of eluding police, who believed him responsible for a string of burglaries in town in the late 1990s. Mr. Golder’s alleged tendency to break into occupied homes during the early evening hours earned him his colorful nickname, and stories about him were broadcast on America’s Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries.

Mr. Golder faces 10 charges connected to four burglaries in Greenwich in 1996 and 1997, including larceny, robbery and kidnapping for allegedly restraining a woman with neckties after she caught him stealing items from her home. Testimony began on Tuesday before Judge John Kavanewsky Jr. as Assistant State’s Attorney Joseph Valdes attempted to prove to jurors that Mr. Golder is the notorious burglar.....

...“We were watching TV and they had this report on about it,” Mr. Liepman said. “He said that it was him and the heat was on. I got a little shaken up and he said he was going to go on the run.”...

...Testimony in the trial was expected to continue Wednesday, after press time, and today. Court will not be in session on Friday, but will resume on Monday. Based on the current schedule, Judge Kavanewsky said he could anticipate the case going to the jury for deliberation on Tuesday.

Mr. Golder remains in custody in Suffield on a $3 million bond.


Despite hope earlier last week that it would be able to avoid it, the Board of Education has decided to go ahead with dispersing Glenville School students throughout the district for the first part of the new school year.
With completion of a new Hamilton Avenue School by Aug. 15 looking all but uncertain, the board decided last Friday to move Hamilton Avenue students back to the modular classrooms at Western Middle School and to disperse the Glenville students to four schools within the district. Once the school is completely ready, the Hamilton Avenue students will be sent to the new school, which will free up the modulars for the Glenville students, where they are scheduled to stay until the rebuilding of their school, which is set to be demolished, is complete.
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08/14/08 Greenwich Time News Links For Thusday


Convict recounts jewelry sales with Golder
An alleged accomplice of Alan Golder said he sold off ill-gotten jewelry provided by the suspected jewel thief throughout 1997 before Golder vanished as police investigated him for a series of brazen burglaries of town mansions.

Was primary a waste of money?
Here's some food for thought from Tuesday's Democratic congressional primary won handily by party-endorsee Jim Himes over petition candidate Lee Whitnum - she received about half as many votes as signatures she collected to get on the ballot.


Glenville parents pass out school supplies
The Parent-Teacher Association at Glenville School has made a yearly ritual of placing back-to-school supplies - from pencils and Magic Markers to sticky notes and glue sticks - atop each student's desk before they arrive for their first day of class.

Teens find summer work cleaning up townWorking with whips, sheers, hand pruners and rakes, is just one day on the job for a group of teens getting paid to help clean up Greenwich.

Town twins go for the gold
BEIJING -Greenwich rowers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss will compete for gold this weekend after finishing second in Wednesday's 2,000-meter qualifying race of pair's rowing.
Greenwich Water Polo makes waves at Junior Olympics
Greenwich Water Polo's four A teams proved that they could compete with the absolute best the sport has to offer at the boys USA Water Polo Junior Olympics recently
To the Greenwich Time editor:

In July of 2000 we moved from Greenwich to Walla Walla, Wash. In July of 2008 we received a bill collector's notice from the town of Greenwich demanding payment of unpaid taxes for 1999 due in July of 2000 for two cars we owned at the time plus eight years of interest. To say that I am ourtaged that the town of Greenwich would wait eight years to decide to tell us about a tax we may have owned, plus accumulated interest, would be an understatement.

The bill collector, American National Recovery Group Inc., has sent a sheet explaining that under Connecticut statue and case law there is no obligation for the tax collector to send a bill, and lack of receipt is no excuse for non-payment. Moreover, the taxing entity cannot forgive interest.
I am stunned. The absurdity of it is surpassed only by the injustice. If, in fact, we owe a tax, we will, of course, pay it, but eight years of interest? Either the town of Greenwich is incompetent in its record keeping, or this is a deliberate scam to raise funds in a most unethical way.

This is not simply a matter of legal equity, it is a matter of moral turpitude. After all, what is the difference between this behavior and the behavior of private entities engaged in the corrupt practices of organized crime?

Steven E. Woolley
Walla Walla, Wash.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

08/13/08 Public Defender Howard Ehring Keeps Stomping Assistant State's Attorney Joseph Valdez's Weak Dinnertime Bandit Case Into The Ground



Bit By Bit Valdez Is Getting Stomped By Ehring

Headline:

Why Didn't Assistant State's Attorney Joseph Valdez Tell The Greenwich Police Department To Get More Evidence And Better Witnesses?

Quotes:


"You would agree there are some wide discrepancies," Public Defender Howard Ehring asked alleged accomplice Robert Liebman

"Yes," Liebman replied.


The Story:

Testimony continues in Dinnertime trial


By Martin Cassidy

Greenwich Time Staff writer

An alleged accomplice of the Dinnertime Bandit testified that he sold jewelry given to him by Alan Golder between February and November 2007.

However, under cross examination by Public Defender Howard Ehring, Robert Liebman admitted to telling police that he gave them the false name of Neil as the person to whom he sold the jewels to protect his sister's boyfriend, a Manhattan jewelry dealer who bought the stolen items....

Please Read The Full Greenwich Time Story

So Far Prosecutor Joseph Valdes Has Presented A Case That Looks Like A Slow Motion Train Wreak.

Please See:

08/02/08 Prosecutor Joseph Valdes Falsely Claims That John Christoffersen's Testimony And Notes Are Needed To Prove Golder Is Guilty Of 10 Felonie

  • Disparate And Lazy Prosecutor Joseph Valde Wants The Associated Press To Save The Poorly Investigated Greenwich Police Department Case.
  • ”If people knew that every time they talked to a reporter they'd be talking to a state prosecutor, they'd stop talking to reporters,” New York attorney David Schulz said. “The state is trying to get the benefit of a reporter doing his job covering this case. That's exactly what the shield law does not allow.”
  • “It's a fishing expedition.”said Howard Ehring, Golder's public defender.

PLEASE ALSO SEE:

08/01/08 Judge John Kavanewsky Jr Would Be A Fool To Try And Weaken Connecticut 2006 Reporter Shield Law

  • Judge John Kavanewsky Jr had better tell the Connecticut States Attorney to have the Greenwich Police Department to hit the bricks and uncover another states witness. Otherwise Judge Kavanewsky is going to find his overturned decission in featured in law school text books.

Please also read:

07/17/08 When asked if anyone in the court room appeared to be the person that she described to police she said no.

  • Howard Ehring Says Greenwich Detective's Police Work Does Not Meet Judicial Standards
  • Patricia Solari identified Alan Golder a decade ago from an array of eight photos as the intruder who robbed her home in 1997. She said she only saw him for a few seconds and that he wore a ski mask and gloves.
  • "We have a photo array here that really does not meet the standard," said Howard Ehring, a public defender representing Golder.
  • Ehring said Golder's photo had a background distinctive from the other seven photos and that police presented Solari with all the photos at once, alloing her to quickly eliminate all but two based on eye color. Ehring also said the lead investigator should not have shown her the photos because of the potential for bias.
  • Solari only saw the intruder for a few seconds and was not certain of his eye color, Ehring said. He also said she felt badgered to make an identification.
  • Solari said last week she eliminated six of the eight photos quickly because their eye color was not blue or green.
  • Asked if anyone in the court room appeared to be the person she described to police, she said no. Golder, who has blond hair and blue eyes, was in court.
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08/13/08 Suspicious Package Send Three From Greenwich Plaza To The Hospital


Building evacuated after report of suspicous package

Greenwich Time, CT

Neil Vigdor and Meredith Blake

One Greenwich Plaza was evacuated shortly after 11 a.m. Wednesday after police said they received a report that a suspicious package had been found in the building.

A special operations vehicle, bomb squad truck, four GEMS ambulances and two fire trucks assembled at the scene just south of the central Greenwich train station. Several emergency personnel donned HAZMAT suits.

According to police, the incident began when a packaged opened up in the building's mailroom and a "suspicious" substance covered a mailroom worker.

That worker and two others in the mailroom at the time were being decontaminated early Wednesday afternoon, but had showed no ill effects from exposure to the unknown substance.

Officials said they were sending samples of the substance to the state Department of Health in Hartford to determine what it was.

MORE:

Greenwich Plaza evacuated this morning

Greenwich Post

Breaking News
Posted 12:36 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 13

Greenwich Plaza was evacuated this morning after what police are terming as a “suspicious package” was discovered.

A response by the fire department is ongoing and more details are not known at this time.

Police Public Information Officer Lt. Daniel Allen said that three people were transported to Greenwich Hospital for precautionary reasons, but they weren’t displaying any symptoms of toxic exposure.

The original call about the package was received at 9:49 and the people were taken to the hospital shortly after noon.

Greenwichpost.com will have more details as they become available.

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08/13/08 Greenwich Hedge Funds Not Welcome at Famed Eatery


Hedge fund managers are probably used to being considered next to various lower forms of life, but now at least one restaurateur has likened them to reality TV stars, as in, those are the kinds of people he does not want to see at his exclusive boite.

Editor-turned-restaurant owner Graydon Carter told The New York Times that the asset class and reality TV stars won’t find a welcome.

He was quoted as saying that the restaurant regularly screens out those calling from Connecticut’s 203 area code, known to be the home of many a hedge fund tycoon.

It is possible that Carter, who is the editor of Vanity Fair, might not be engaged in the kind of reverse snobbery that his exclusion list would imply. In addition to hedge fund executives, the restaurant won’t re-admit patrons who have been rude to the staff.

The Times article did not review the food, although it did note that $55 was a steep price for macaroni and cheese with truffles. Especially when hedge fund-types aren’t around to foot the bill.

An Insiders’ Clubhouse

By LESLIE KAUFMAN

FRAN LEBOWITZ, the New York City society commentator-at-large, tells of dining recently at the Waverly Inn & Garden in Greenwich Village.

Her companion was Toni Morrison, the winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature. When the two stepped out onto the sidewalk, the paparazzi who were waiting across Bank Street were stumped.

“Hey, Fran, who are you with?” they screamed.

Ms. Lebowitz is a friend of Graydon Carter, an owner of the restaurant — so much so that her likeness adorns the Edward Sorel mural in the main dining room. Still, she sighed at the state of fame as it relates to restaurant clientele....

....His second career, which seemed like a lark, now looks more serious. Last week, he and two partners bought the Monkey Bar from the Glazier Group, which had struggled to make a go of the place for the past few years. The Glazier family has been in the restaurant business in New York for about 25 years; Mr. Carter started operating the Waverly Inn less than two years ago....

.....In fall of 2006, the Waverly Inn began seating guests. Almost two years later, in what is becoming a long-running inside gag, the place is still not officially open. The phone number doesn’t work and “preview” is printed defiantly on the top of the menu. Clearly amused by his own cheekiness, Mr. Carter says he does not know when that will change. “Oh, we’re still trying to work the bugs out,” he said.....

.....Mr. Carter, too, insists that he is a man of the people, saying that his place “will seat just about anybody.”

Insiders just call Mr. Carter’s office directly but it is in fact possible to drop by the reservations desk at the restaurant and book a table for those netherworld hours before 6:30 or after 11:15 p.m., and on weekends from June through August. (The desk takes reservations for dinner, the only time the restaurant is open, just three days ahead....

...Mr. Carter and other insiders describe the cast of regulars — known to staff members as “friends and family” — roughly as follows:

Mr. Carter’s four grown children; Ronald O. Perelman, the billionaire; the Waverly’s landlord and his children; Barry Diller, the media mogul; two dozen neighbors who live within a radius of two blocks; Robert De Niro and Gwyneth Paltrow, the actors; Mr. Carter’s next-door neighbors, the fashion designers Calvin Klein and Donna Karan, often together; and a sprinkling of writers and editors from the Condé Nast empire....

...He said he tried to avoid “any stars of reality TV and hedge fund managers. For that reason, we screen calls from the 203 area code,” he said, poking fun at chateau country in the Connecticut suburbs.

That’s not all: “I don’t like people who are rude to our waiters,” he said....

....Has anyone been blacklisted? Mr. Carter won’t say, but Mr. Varda admits that there is one group. “B-list stars who call the paparazzi from inside the restaurant,” he said. “They are not invited back.” (Privacy is so sacred at the Waverly that Mr. Varda says he has stopped a major film star from photographing his own family at dinner.) Also, waiters have been dismissed for being overly attentive to celebrities.....

....These are uncertain economic times to open a restaurant, but so far, by all accounts the Waverly Inn has been lucrative. No one will say how lucrative, of course. But the Waverly’s prices can be precious, the $55 macaroni and cheese with truffles being the most notorious example. Ever cautious, Mr. Varda says that the downturn has been felt even in his hallowed halls. “Instead of paying $4,000 for a bottle of wine, people are paying $500,” he said....

Please Also See:

Graydon Carter Now A Restaurant Mogul, Too

The Business Sheet, NY

Hedge-Fund Managers Are Not Welcome at the Waverly
New York Magazine


Rules Of The Waverly Inn
Gawker


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08/13/08 Can't Bill And Lee Just Kiss And Make Up?


Some Times I Think Bill Clark At

Greenwich Gossip

Just Doesn't Like Ms. Whitnum Very Much



Greenwich Gossip

By Bill Clarke

Well, dear reader, the people of Greenwich have spoken, and Loopy Lee has been knocked for what one hopes is her final loop. The only astounding thing about the vote totals in yesterday's Democratic primary is that 73 other loonies apparently voted for Loopy Lee in addition to her own vote.

That is, of course, assuming that LL did not do what we were taught in grade school, namely not to vote for yourself in an election. Your scribe thinks it is possible, though perhaps not very likely, that Gentleman Jim Himes did in fact vote for his opponent out of old-fashioned sportsmanship, in which case there are only 72 certifiable loonies still at large in the Town of Greenwich.

But the damage has been done. Loopy Lee squawked loud enough and long enough to get both the local rag, AKA Yellowwich Time, and the local non-news station WGCH, otherwise known as the World's Greatest Communication Hoax, to take her seriously. Their craven kow-towing to her stridency has done our community a great disservice, spreading her hate-filled views as though they actually had a place in civilized society. Shame on the media of the Town of Greenwich for playing along as Loopy Lee's patsy!

And, of course, one of the most rational minds and skilled writers this Town has ever been privileged to call a citizen has lost her job for trying to maintain a sense of balance and fairness in this community. The local rag - which, quite appropriately, has just been taken over by the Hearst Corporation, long known for its propesnity for yellow journalism - chose to listen to Loopy Lee's malicious and largely false accusations against Sarah Darer Littman, and relieved Sarah of her long-running responsibilites on the op-ed page.

On second thought, dear reader, Loopy Lee may have won the election after all. The final score is Loopy Lee one, and the truth zero. And we are all the losers as a result.

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08/13/08 Boston Shocker: Search for library president narrows down to Mario

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08/13/08 Lower gas prices are not worth getting excited about knowing that we're paying roughly two times what we were paying last year


Prices drop to around $4 a gallon in CT

WTNH

Finally there is some relief at the pumps. Gas prices now appear to be decreasing. Many stations are posting prices well under $4 a gallon.

While many would say the pri

Finally there is some relief at the pumps. Gas prices now appear to be decreasing. Many stations are posting prices well under $4 a gallon.

While many would say the price of gas is still outrageous, they have noticed it has dropped. Some places a lot more than others.

In places like Putnam, it's as low as $3.69 a gallon while in Greenwich it's as high as $4.49....

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08/13/08 Milbank Avenue still draws opptomists


For What It's Worth

I see that yesterday two adjacent properties on Milbank Avenue, 196 and 198, went to contract. These are tear-down multi-families so I assume that a builder's planning condos on the site. Asking price for each lot was $1.6 million and, while asking and getting often aren't the same thing, it's encouraging that someone still has enough faith in the Greenwich condominium market to go to contract on this land.

The devil just whispered, "a fool and his money ..." but that's just mean.

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08/13/08 Boston Shocker: Search for library president narrows down to Mario.


MARIO MAY END UP IN BEAN TOWN

Two of the four candidates vying to become the next president of the Boston Public Library are women, and a third is a longtime leader of a Latino librarians’ organization....

... Amy E. Ryan, library director for Hennepin County, Minn.; and Mario M. Gonzalez, former director of the Greenwich, Conn., library, confirmed they are on the short list of candidates expected to take part in public interviews tomorrow at the central ...

...The full roster is scheduled to be disclosed tomorrow at 8 a.m., when interviews begin in a 50-seat glass-walled auditorium. The eight-member Boston Public Library board of trustees will question each candidate for about an hour, call one or more back for follow-up questions, and then begin deliberations at 3 p.m. If they fail to agree, they could continue deliberations Friday.

The entire process will be open to the public, although no one will be allowed to ask questions or provide input except the trustees. Still, it promises to be one of the most public selection processes for any Boston library chief or official in the Menino administration.

The extraordinary openness follows criticism last fall that the trustees' ouster of the former library president, Bernard A. Margolis, was orchestrated behind closed doors by Mayor Thomas M. Menino....

...Gonzalez spent nine years at the helm of the Greenwich library before resigning in May. The Greenwich library is second in circulation in New England only to Boston. During his tenure, children's programming increased, and the library and its patronage expanded, Gonzalez said.

Gonzalez left because it was time for him to move on and do other things, he said. A local newspaper, the Greenwich Time, reported earlier this year that an outside survey commissioned by the town showed poor morale among his employees. Gonzalez said that after the survey, taken by 24 of his 180 employees, he worked to build morale and improve communication.

He said that he is looking forward to the opportunity to work in "a city of neighborhoods" like Boston. "It's very diverse, and that appeals to me," said Gonzalez, an executive board member of the American Library Association and founder of the New England chapter of Reforma, a Latino librarians' organization....

From A Boston Globe Article

Comment:

Mario had better hope that the 14-member search committee, which winnowed down a pool of about 160 candidates doesn't read Bill Clark's recent posting in Greenwich Gossip.


Bye, Bye, Mario

After nine years of inept "management", highlighted by the misdeeds of his unsupervised deputy, convicted thief Inga Boudreau, and his own "dictatorial, controlling, and bullying" reign of terror over the rest of the employees, library director Mario Gonzalez has finally thrown in the towel. He and the library board have fought long and hard to try to prevent a recent consultant's report, which detailed the abysmal morale at the library and the reasons therefor, from ever seeing the light of day. But you can't fight that kind of rear-guard action against the truth for very long, and on Tuesday night Mario told the board he was jumping before he was pushed.

Well, perhaps not in those exact words, but that was clearly the general idea. He will be "pursuing other opportunities," the standard formula used to gloss over a forced resignation; what those oppotunities may be and just how, with his blemished reputation, he plans to pursue them is a matter for conjecture. Mario talks optimistically of "other opportunities that will come to my door," but if your scribe were he, he would not be holding his breath.

Meanwhile, the sigh of relief that has gone up from the library staff is clearly audible. Years of tyranny and mismanagement are now behind them, and while the library board has not been noted for its brilliant choices of directors since Nolan Lushington left, there is at least a fighting chance that the next director will not be as obnoxious and inept as Mario and his predecessor Beth Mainiero (whose deputy director also made off with tens of thousands of library dollars and was likewise convicted) have been......

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08/13/08 Greenwich Post News Links For Wednesday


At Ms. Whitnum’s home, she and supporters toasted “on to better things.” She told a Post reporter that regardless of the outcome, campaigning was a wonderful experience.

“This campaign was the most fun I had in my whole life but now I’m glad it’s over,” Ms. Whitnum said. “It was really so great to try and fight for things.”

Although Ms. Whitnum enjoyed her experiences on the campaign trail, she did admit that it would be nice to not having to worry about “one misstep ending up on the blogosphere.”

Himes takes primary; will face Shays

Breaking News
Updated 9:20 a.m., Wednesday, Aug. 13

By Ken Borsuk kborsuk@greenwich-post.com

As predicted, the Democratic primary contest between Greenwich residents Jim Himes and Lee Whitnum wasn’t much of a contest at all as Mr. Himes won handily Tuesday night.

According to totals Tuesday night, Mr. Himes bested Ms. Whitnum 90% to 10%.

In Greenwich, Mr. Himes received 1,079 votes to 74 for Ms. Whitnum, including absentee ballots. (See charts below for district breakdowns.)

Mr. Himes thanked his supporters at the campaign’s headquarters for the night, Black Bear Saloon in Norwalk, and said he is looking forward to focusing on the race against 4th District U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays in the general election.

Political observers consider Mr. Himes the Democrats’ best shot to unseat Mr. Shays, who has been in office for more than 20 years. Mr. Himes has already set fund-raising records among opponents of Mr. Shays.

“I love the energy we have here tonight,” Mr. Himes told the Post after arriving at his party and being mobbed by supporters. “I’ve said all along that I welcomed this primary and I’ve enjoyed all of this process. Tonight is a night for us to have a beer, but tomorrow we have to get right back out there and focus on the general election. This is an energy we need to harness for the fall.”....

Greenwich Votes by District
District Jim Himes Lee Whitnum
D180
11
D2
67
1
D3
31
3
D4
44
6
D5
116
6
D6
13611
D764
4
D8
117
5
D9
69
7
D10
61
1
D11
84
5
D1289
7
Absentee121
7
Totals1079
74

Democratic primary 2008 4th Congressional District

Town Lee Whitnum
Jim Himes
Official/unofficial numbers?
Bridgeport 1,017
3,468
official
Darien 9160
official
Easton
Fairfield 69
761
official
Greenwich 74
1,079
official
Monroe
New Canaan
8224
official
Norwalk
Oxford 9
79
unofficial
Redding
15
192
official
Ridgefield 24274
official
Shelton
Stamford
Trumbull 128
761
official
Weston 10
213
official

Wilton

6
237
official
Westport
District Totals

Results are being posted as they come in. The numbers include absentee ballots.

Please Read The Full Greenwich Post Story

Please Also See:

08/12/08 The Greenwich Post Is The First Newspaper In Town To Tell Christopher Shays That Jim Himes Beat Lee Whitnum In A Landslide

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Shop tax free next week




Written by Kristan Zimmer

Shop along Greenwich Avenue and you are likely spending a lot — but next week your money won’t be going to the state.

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Shays calls for offshore drilling at energy forum

Written by Chip Reid, Hersam Acorn Newspapers

Calling it the first of many, 4th District U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays went to Shelton Monday to play host to a “Community Energy Forum” at which alternate fuel ideas and heating assistance programs were the main topics.

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08/13/08 Greenwich Time News Links For Wednesday


Democrat Jim Himes speaks to a crowd of supporters at the Black Bear Saloon in Norwalk after winning the congressional primary on Tuesday night. ((Jesse Neider/Greenwich Time photographer))

Himes triumphs over Whitnum

By Greenwich Time Staff Writer Neil Vigdor,
who can be reached at neil.vigdor@scni.com or at (203) 625-4436.

NORWALK - Jim Himes dispatched fellow Democrat Lee Whitnum Tuesday with the ease of an incumbent - not a candidate making his first foray into national politics - in the first congressional primary in the 4th District in two decades....

....State Democratic Chairwoman Nancy DiNardo, who was not in attendance at festivities, called the primary a "trial run" for November.

"It just made people aware of the race that much sooner," DiNardo said in a telephone interview.

Himes echoed those comments in a brief interview before his victory speech, saying that the primary helped get him name recognition and mobilized his supporters.

"It's been a great rehearsal," Himes said.

- Staff Writer Jeff Morganteen contributed to this report.

Please Read The Full Greenwich Time Story


Low turnout at polls

By Greenwich Time Staff writer
Meredith Blake,
who can be reached at meredith.blake@scni.com
or at (203) 625-4434.


Voter turnout was low Tuesday for the 4th Congressional District Democratic primary that pitted Greenwich residents Jim Himes and Lee Whitnum against each other....

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For Lucy and David Nevin, Greenwich residents for more than 46 years, coming out to vote was their civic duty.

"We like having a good person who represents us. We are concerned because we are older citizens who feel we should be better represented," said Lucy Nevin.

The Nevins voted at Julian Curtiss School.

"We always vote and stay informed. It's very important," she said.


Please Read The Full Greenwich Time Story

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By Greenwich Time Staff writer Meredith Blake,
who can be reached at meredith.blake@scni.com
or at (203) 625-4434.


Verizon Wireless wants to build a 95-foot cell phone tower in Byram Park to replace the 70-foot AT&T cell tower that is already on the site.

The AT&T tower is not tall enough to hold the antennae that additional service providers want to install, according to Kenneth Baldwin, an attorney for Verizon Wireless. Both Verizon and T-Mobile would like to use the 36 Ritch Ave. site, along with AT&T....

Please Read The Full Greenwich Time Story


Golder trial begins

By Martin B. Cassidy
Greenwich Time Staff Writer

A young woman who encountered the "Dinnertime Bandit" in the middle of a backcountry burglary 11 years ago testified that she could only give a broad description of the intruder she saw in her parent's bedroom when she was 15.

"He was white or Hispanic and he wasn't obese," May Lynch Branson testified. "He had no facial hair and didn't wear glasses."....

...During the trial yesterday, Judge John Kavanewsky Jr. barred prosecutors from asking Branson, 26, to testify if Golder resembled the prowler she witnessed rummaging through her mother's bureau during a Sept. 25, 1997, heist at her Woodside Road residence....

...Yesterday afternoon, Kavanewsky Jr. ruled that Robert Liebman, another prosecution witness and alleged accomplice, should be blocked from testifying about alleged Westchester County break-ins in which Golder was never charged, as well as any incidental knowledge of Golder's admitted past as a cat burglar....

...Investigator in the case, testified that he had quickly ruled out the notion that the "Dinnertime Bandit" spree could be the work of a reconstituted version of a former band of thieves.

Between 1969 and 1974, Dominick Latella and Peter Salerno, known as the Dinner Set Gang, burglarized wealthy estates in Greenwich and elsewhere, stealing millions in jewelry and other goods while victims were at home during the early evening.

Salerno's son, who also became a cat burglar, was not as skillful as his father, and was an unlikely culprit in the 1996-1997 heists, Abruzzini said.

"Salerno's son was a house burglar, but you didn't investigate him?" Ehring asked. "Why not?"

"His name was mentioned but quickly disqualified," Abruzzini said. "He didn't have the capacity to act as his father did."....

Please Read The Full Greenwich Time Story


Please Note: This is a big improvement over yesterday's dinner time bandit story


Memorial service Wednesday for "Fixture of the Avenue"

By Greenwich Time Staff Writer Colin Gustafson,
who can be reached at colin.gustafson@scni.com
or at (203) 625-4428.

A singer. A poet. An actor. Most importantly, a friend to everyone he met.

That's how Greenwich residents remembered Garry Clemmons, a Stamford resident who spent many years traveling to Greenwich Avenue on a near-daily basis to sing for passersby and spread his message about kindness and love....

...One of those friends was Jim Genovese, a 19-year Greenwich police officer who regularly directs traffic at Greenwich Avenue and Havemeyer Place.

Clemmons used to arrive at the corner every day around noon, he recalled, and would spend as many as four hours at a time sitting on a corner bench, "just saying 'hi' to people"...

Please Read The Full Greenwich Time Story

Comment:

What Happened At The 6-year-old Greenwich resident David Archer Cohn Death case.

The story was put up on the Greenwich Time website last night at
04:17:49 PM, but it was removed.

All of these
older stories are still in the cue on the local news page, yet David Archer Cohn's story disappeared:

Twins win in Beijing


Article Launched: 08/12/2008 02:39:54 AM

Sternberg back at work


Article Launched: 08/12/2008 02:39:54 AM

Light turnout seen for Democratic vote


Article Launched: 08/12/2008 02:39:44 AM

Police blotter


Article Launched: 08/12/2008 02:40:35 AM

Thieves targeting GPS units

Article Launched: 08/12/2008 02:40:45 AM

Defrost cycle

Article Launched: 08/12/2008 02:40:44 AM

All of these stories are still on the Greenwich Time local news page but little David Archer Cohn's story disappeared. I wonder why?

Maybe This Is What Happened To Yesterday's Story

Is the Greenwich Time getting hyper sensitive about their incomplete reporting?

Did the Greenwich Time even send someone to cover the David Archer Cohn death trial story or did they just call up David Lionetti's attorney to see what happened?


Did the reporter even speak to the Cohn family attorney or prosecutors after Shoreline Pools President David Lionetti pleaded not guilty?

You would never know, because there is not one word quoted from either of them?

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

08/12/08 PRESS RELEASE: Himes Looks Forward to Match Up With Shays

Jim Himes for Congress

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 12, 2008
Contact: Michael Sachse, 646 265-0556, Michael@HimesforCongress.com

HIMES LOOKS FORWARD TO MATCH UP WITH SHAYS
Democratic candidate says Washington not working for middle class
BRIDGEPORT, CT - Jim Himes won the Democratic primary tonight, setting up a face off with 21-year incumbent Chris Shays in the fall. Himes issued the following statement in response to the news of his win:

"This campaign is about changing Washington," said Himes. "For too long, Washington has listened to big oil and big pharma while ignoring the needs of our families. While Washington has been running up deficits and fighting wars we didn't need while, the American dream was been slipping out of reach. In Congress, I will bring new energy for the American dream. This fall, voters will have a choice between the failed policies of the past, and opportunity for the middle class."

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