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Tribune paper in Connecticut sued for plagiarism
By Edward Ericson Jr. | 11/20/2009
The Hartford Courant, a Tribune-owned newspaper covering the capital city and suburbs of Connecticut, is being sued by a smaller paper over a discontinued policy of news "aggregation." The Journal Inquirer of Manchester, Conn., filed the suit in state court, which alleges violation of copyright law and the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, according to a story in the Journal Inquirer. Massive layoffs at the Courant (and other Tribune papers) before and since last year's bankruptcy filing ... [MORE]
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Report Analyzes Tax Policies of All 50 States
By Erin Sullivan | 11/19/2009
Today the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit, non-partisan research organization focusing on government taxation and spending, released a new report called Who Pays?, which analyzes the tax systems of each of the 50 states. Not surprisingly, the report determined that the tax policies of most states are regressive in nature: Nearly every state and local system the report looked at takes a greater share of income from lower- and middle-income families than from wealthy familie ... [MORE]
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Marlow Bates, Son of a Famous Gangster, Sentenced in Prison-Gang Conspiracy Case
By Van Smith | 11/18/2009
Marlow Bates' stint in prison, where he's been detained since his April arrest for aiding an alleged drug-dealing conspiracy by the Black Guerrilla Family (BGF) prison gang ("Black-Booked"), appears to have improved his health and outlook. As he stands before U.S. District Court judge William Quarles in court on Nov. 17, preparing to hear his sentence after entering a guilty plea in August, Bates' neatly cropped hair, smiling face, and alert bearing stand in stark contrast to his booking photo, ... [MORE]
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WSOP's Moon Owes Debts Back Home
By Van Smith | 11/9/2009
The Washington Post's coverage of Western Maryland's Darvin Moon, who's made it to the final table of the World Series of Poker, has been great entertainment. The writer, J. Freedom du Lac, has a blog about Moon, "Darvin Moon's World Series of Poker Adventure," and has filed some excellent stories, including today's, "The lumberjack fells some giants in Las Vegas." "He's the accidental folk hero baffled by his own celebrity," du Lac writes, quoting Moon as saying, "The last time I signed an aut ... [MORE]
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Omar Comin'
By Edward Ericson Jr. | 11/3/2009
In the wake of Hamid Karzai’s fraud-fueled resumption of power in Afghanistan, reported diplomatic overtures to the Taliban, and numerous other odd coincidences, we hereby present this handy comparison of Omar Little of ‘The Wire’ to Mullah Omar of ‘The Taliban.’ Omar Little Fictional legend of Baltimore, a violent, impoverished and corrupt city economically dominated by heroin Lived by a strict code of honor Gay; robs and kills drug dealers Orphaned ... [MORE]
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GoldenCasino.com's Payment Processor Targeted in Latest On-Line Gambling Seizures in Maryland
By Van Smith | 10/28/2009
As the Maryland-based federal probe of on-line gambling continues, the latest move to show up in court records in Baltimore is the seizure of $365,366.69 from two bank accounts in the name of Atrium Financial Group (AFG). According to the affidavit in the case (below), Delaware-based AFG disburses money to on-line gamblers, including those who try their luck using GoldenCasino.com. City Paper has been unable to reach representatives of AFG and GoldenCasino.com for comment. The AFG seizure— ... [MORE]
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Federal On-Line Gambling Investigation in Maryland Seized Nearly $800,000 from Payment-Processor Electracash
By Van Smith | 10/28/2009
Electracash, the California payment processor whose bank accounts were targeted in July by federal investigators probing illegal on-line gambling, is out nearly $800,000, according to court documents filed Oct. 21. On Sept. 30, Interstate Net Bank cut a $324,632.71 check to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), emptying Electracash's account in Cherry Hill, N.J., as a result of a Maryland warrant issued by U.S. District Court magistrate judge James Bredar on July 20 (see below: Electracash ... [MORE]
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Baltimore Director of Recreation and Parks Resigns
By Edward Ericson Jr. | 10/27/2009
Got word last night that Recreation and Parks Director Wanda Durden has resigned. Mayor Sheila Dixon's spokesman, Scott Peterson, confirms. He says he was told Durden is leaving for "personal reasons." Her replacement, at least for now, will be Dwayne B. "Doc" Thomas, who heads the Bureau of Recreation-a department under Parks and Recreation-Peterson says. ... [MORE]
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Accused Money-Launderer's Lawyer Says His Client No Longer Owns Payment-Processor Electracash
By Van Smith | 10/26/2009
As federal authorities continue their Maryland-based investigation into online gambling, the lawyer for one of the two people charged in the probe—Edward Courdy, accused last year of laundering illegal gambling proceeds—tells City Paper that a piece of the government's information is wrong. Courdy, Stanley Greenberg writes in an Oct. 21 letter, is no longer an owner of Electracash, despite an investigator's affidavit that says he is. Electracash, as City Paper has reported here, here ... [MORE]
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Federal On-Line Gambling Investigation in Maryland Seizes E-Mails of Payment-Processor Electracash
By Van Smith | 10/22/2009
Update: Accused Money-Launderer's Lawyer Says His Client No Longer Owns Payment-Processor Electracash Electracash, Inc., the California payment-processor whose bank accounts were seized in July by federal investigators in Maryland who are probing the online gambling industry, has been targeted again. This time, the Feds are going after evidence of gambling-related communications in Electracash's e-mail account with New York-based Intermedia. Electracash's chief executive officer, D. Lee Falls, ... [MORE]
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Gun Club
By Van Smith | 10/21/2009
On the morning of Oct. 6, the same day a federal racketeering indictment in West Virginia against 55 alleged members of the Pagans Motorcycle Club named a Maryland man, David Keith Barbeito, as the club's national president, a team of FBI agents executed a "no-knock" warrant on Barbeito's home at 4940 Ford Fields Road in Myersville, near Frederick. The search-warrant return was entered in U.S. District Court in Baltimore Oct. 19, and gives a six-page inventory of what was found at Barbeito's r ... [MORE]
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Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak Sickens Five, Kills One
By Edward Ericson Jr. | 10/15/2009
City and state health officials are investigating the water and heating and cooling systems at the Stadium Place senior housing complex on 33rd Street today after one person died and four others have confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease, the Baltimore City Health Department has announced in a press release. "We are saddened and praying for people who are affected with this disease," says Mitchell Posner, executive director of the non-profit Govans Ecumenical Development Corporation, which b ... [MORE]
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End of the Line for Jose? Or a New Beginning?
By Edward Ericson Jr. | 10/14/2009
Jose Joaquin Morales, the unlicensed mason, thief, firebug and drug dealer caught trying to smuggle six kilos of cocaine to Baltimore last August, has pleaded guilty to that crime, taken responsibility for his actions, and apologized to the government. He should have been sentenced today, Oct. 14, according to docket information available through the PACER system. But it's not clear what Morales' sentence is. UPDATE (10/15): Morales sentencing date has been delayed again, apparently because of ... [MORE]
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Anti-Gang Gravy Train?
By Van Smith | 10/8/2009
The Washington City Paper today published a lengthy investigative piece about Peaceoholics, an anti-violence, gang-intervention group that has been funded by the Washington, D.C., government to the tune of $10 million since 2005, but with little oversight as to whether the investment has paid off. The article, written by former Baltimore CP staff writer Jeffrey Anderson—who this week joined the staff of the Washington Times, which published his inaugural article today, about gang arrests ... [MORE]
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Eco-goats at Work in Druid Hill Park
By Erin Sullivan | 10/7/2009
Parks and People Foundation is hiring a herd of goats to clear some brush out of Druid Hill Park. A company called Eco-Goats from Davidsonville, Md., which specializes in environmentally friendly vegetation control, will provide the 40-goat herd to Parks and People for three days to clear invasive species and overgrown vegetation from the Auchentoroly Terrace area of the park. The goats arrive on Oct. 8 and will remain in the park for approximately three days. The Eco Goats get around-earlier t ... [MORE]
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Infamous Towerlight Column Still Posted Online
By Erin Sullivan | 10/7/2009
Not sure how long this is going to remain up on the web, but here's a link to the infamous Bed Post sex column in Towson University's Towerlight student newspaper that resulted in the resignation of the paper's student editor Carrie Wood. The column in question, which irked university administration, was about mutual masturbation, and we've seen it covered in the Baltimore Sun, Gawker, CNN, and Romenesko. Here's a statement from recently resigned Towerlight editor Carrie Wood and a statement m ... [MORE]
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New Online Publication to Cover Maryland State Politics
By Erin Sullivan | 9/25/2009
Remember Len Lazarick? He was the State House bureau chief for the Baltimore Examiner, when that daily was still a going concern. Before that, he was a producer at Maryland Public Television, and he worked first as political editor, then managing editor, at Patuxent Publishing before that. Suffice to say that the guy's been around Maryland journalism a while. The Examiner closed up shop in early 2009, leaving Lazarick and his fellow reporters without jobs in an economy that has not been kind t ... [MORE]
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Equality Maryland license plates available
By Erin Sullivan | 10/2/2009
Gay couples may not be able to legally marry in the Maryland, but there's a new way to show support for gay marriage and equality in the Free State: Equality Maryland license plates. The Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA) and Equality Maryland have partnered to come up with a specialty plate, a la the "Save the Bay" plates or the plates for retired police or firefighters, for the advocacy group, which lobbies Annapolis to secure the rights of the LGBT community. For just $50 you can trade in you ... [MORE]
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NASA Scientist Sentenced for Child Porn
By Van Smith | 10/2/2009
On Oct. 1 retired National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) senior scientist Per Gloersen (News Hole, May 13) received a sentence of five years' probation for downloading child pornography on his NASA computer. "In addition," writes U.S. Attorney's Office spokeswoman Marcia Murphy in an e-mail, "he may have no contact or interaction with anyone under 18 unless supervised by a responsible adult." She says that his use of computers must be monitored, and he must pay a $1,000 fine and $1 ... [MORE]
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Defendant in Historic 41-Kilo Coke Bust Gets 20 Years in Jail
By Van Smith | 10/2/2009
Trenell Murphy, who pleaded guilty in July to having 41 kilograms of cocaine that he intended to distribute, today received his sentence from U.S. District Court judge Benson Legg: 20 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Baltimore. When Murphy was first arrested in February, the Baltimore Police Department said the bust was the force's biggest cocaine seizure ever (Mobtown Beat, Feb. 23). In June, during a court hearing in th ... [MORE]
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