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Counterfeiting

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2012

    After Angry Birds Incident, Scott Stringer Writes Letter to Ray Kelly

    This is a story about Angry Birds and a Manhattan pol who is probably going to run for mayor in 2013. More specifically, this is a story about an Angry-Birds-inspired police raid that prompted Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer to write a letter to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. On Novem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    Counterfeit Bag Ladies Could Go to Jail for Buying Fakes

    ​Today in a New York Post Exclusive we learn of a new law being proposed that would terrify us to our core if we'd ever purchased any counterfeit bags. But since we haven't done much shopping at all, in fact, since that old recession, we can breathe easy -- for now. Still, it might behoove you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    Counterfeit Cigarettes Just One More Reason to Quit Smoking in New York

    Mmm mmm good.​Smokers just can't catch a break in this city. Not only are packs up to 13 bucks a pop, those prices may be driving a rise in the Chinese black-market cigarette economy in New York, the Post reports. Exotic! You could be smoking such delicacies as "yak hair" and "chicken dropping ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Counterfeit Money Lesson: You Get It, You're Screwed

    ​The L.A. Times talks to a guy today who ended up with $800 in counterfeit bills after cashing a money order at the Post Office. He tried to spend one of the eight $100 bills he had, and almost got arrested, before insisting that he was on the receiving end of that transaction previously, and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2010

    U.S. Unveils New $100 Bill — It's All About the Benjamins Blankfeins

    News item: "U.S. Government Unveils New Design for the $100 Note." The U.S. Treasury announced today a redesigned $100 bill, aimed at stopping counterfeiters. We have our own suggested redesign, replacing Ben Franklin with Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Booze News: Soothing a Stuffed Belly with Amaro; Pairing Wine with Pumpkin Pie

    ​ Feeling overstuffed? No country can match Italy for the sheer variety of digestive liqueurs, called amari, which can soothe a fully belly at the end of a big meal... something you might want to look into this holiday season. [NY Times] Two cases of MacKinlay's Rare Old Whisky that Ernest Sh ... More >>

  • Film

    February 19, 2008

    Stefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters

    A morally ambiguous Holocaust tale of survival and collusion

  • Books

    September 14, 2004

    Fig Newton

    Mercury falling: Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle closes

  • Specials

    April 20, 2004

    Letters

    Mercury falling: Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle closes

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