Subject: Deutsche Bank AG

• Unanswered Questions about the Deutsche Bank Fire

  August 20, 2007

• Two Firefighters Injured at Deutsche Bank site

  August 23, 2007

• Smoking Caused the Deutsche Bank fire: Mayor

  August 27, 2007

• Daily Flog: Campaign's rich laughs; Bolt beats Phelps; fatal wounds to Musharraf, John Galt, Georgia, and a boxer

  August 18, 2008

• Post Says DA Looking to Charge Deutsche Bank Inspectors, Contractors

  August 19, 2008

• Steamroller Cuomo Squeezes Int'l Banks for Big Bucks

  August 22, 2008

• Fighting Foreclosure: Subprime Borrowers Battle (and Beat) Lenders in Court

  September 3, 2008

• Daily Flog: McCain's speech; bikes and bloomers; three jeers for Giuliani

  September 5, 2008

• Midday Mashup: Shooting, Stabbing, Suing, Etc.

  September 5, 2008

• John Galt, 3 Men Charged in Deutsche Bank Fire; City Gets Off

  December 22, 2008

• We're saved! Yankees bail out New York City!

  December 24, 2008

• New York City's jobless rate soars; Toyota drives off a cliff; Sullenberger lands in limelight

  Heaven can wait: Chesley Sullenberger live, in "US Airways Flight 1549 Full Cockpit Recording" To try to counter the sickening economic news, remember another horror story that actually had a happy ending. Sully Sullenberger knows what "sickening" feels like, although his voice in the above cockpit recording doesn't reveal it. Now, Sully is talking in detail about his astounding, life-saving jet landing on January 15 in the Hudson River, as the Post reports this morning: First came the bird

  February 6, 2009

• SEC dumps chief 'enforcer' on Madoff scandal; Bernie reaches partial settlement with probers

  From HedgeFund.net: The Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement chief is out as the agency faces anger over its handling of the Bernie Madoff alleged Ponzi scam. The SEC said Monday that Linda Thomsen, its director of enforcement, was leaving to return to the private sector. There have been reports that newly appointed SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro was talking to ex-federal prosecutor Robert Khuzami about replacing Thomsen. Khuzami is currently Deutsche Bank's chief counsel for the Ameri

  February 9, 2009

• Hair Traffic

  March 21, 2006

• Gangsta Rule

  September 21, 1999

• Dealing With the Devil

  February 15, 2000

• Citizen CEO

  February 5, 2002

• Second Floor of 1886 Carriage House

  April 16, 2002

• Merit Mike Makes Hard Choices

  December 10, 2002

• Gift of Gab

  October 19, 2004

• The Roberts file

  July 19, 2005

• Life Support

  April 10, 2007

• Black-Car Blight

  March 28, 2006

• Quick Hits

  Calvary Cemetery, Queens. At Concierge, for tourists: "Ten Things Not to Do in New York." We concur except for the street dogs: if you get them grilled, not boiled, you're fine. "Deutsche Bank Predicts 40% Drop in New York Home Prices." Keep it up, folks, and maybe someday we can afford to live in our old neighborhood. "Unemployed and Struggling Lawyers Seek Solace." Experts advise them to cultivate an "upbeat" attitude. Maybe they can visualize screwing somebody. "Study Suggests Memory R

  June 16, 2009

• Bloomberg's Biggest Scandal—The Deutsche Bank Fire—Should Be His Downfall. Why Isn't It?

  July 22, 2009

• This Week in the Voice

  The Deutsche Bank fire is Mayor Bloomberg's "defining debacle," says Wayne Barrett, "a failure of leadership, accountability, and transparency, revealed in one law enforcement report or news story after another." But with the help of a complaisant press, the Mayor's getting off the hook. Asked why his union was endorsing Bloomberg, a political aide told Tom Robbins, "He's going to win." But are the unions getting enough from the Mayor in return? Tom suggests not. Michael Musto interviews Jeff

  July 21, 2009

• Barrett: Deal for Mayoral Control Close after Bloomberg Gets the Scalp He Wanted

  Senate Democrats and negotiators for the mayor have apparently worked out terms to settle the recent deadlock about extending the mayoral school control bill. Sources say the mayor has agreed to an amendment that would provide $1.6 million to the City University to oversee a parent training and exchange program, which was a key change sought by Senate Democratic Conference Chair John Sampson and other senators. Sampson is now trying to get the full Democratic conference to sign off on the four c

  July 23, 2009

• Barrett: Bloomberg All Fired Up for Builder Bovis

   By Wayne Barrett and Lucy JordanThe Voice's cover story this week, "Bloomberg's Biggest Scandal--the Deutsche Bank Fire--Should Be His Downfall" -- examined the determination of top city officials, including Bloomberg's longtime top deputy Dan Doctoroff, to ignore the risk of installing Bovis Lend Lease and its prime subcontractor Galt at the demolition site of the bank building. Doctoroff brushed aside warnings from the city's investigations department about Galt in deference to Bovis' re

  July 24, 2009

• Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

    Twitpic by tedsink. Last weekend's Siren Festival left many of us groggy, and a good thing too, as the week that followed was best seen in soft focus. President Obama and Henry Louis Gates were the comedy team of the week. Mayor Bloomberg, angry about the way mayoral school control was going, compared state senators to Nazis. Bill Thompson tried to throw him off with an audit of graduation rates, but despite universal condemnation of Joel Klein, he didn't get much out of it. In

  July 24, 2009

• Voice Deutsche Bank Fire Story Draws Reactions from Firefighters' Kin, Colleagues, Others

  ​by Johanna Barr and Tom Feeney Jr. In this week's Voice cover story, Wayne Barrett reports on the Bloomberg administration's "failure of leadership, accountability, and transparency" in its handling of the Deutsche Bank fire in 2007. Those involved reached out to the Voice in reaction to the piece, reinforcing Barrett's point that the administrative mishandling of the fire amounts to Mayor Bloomberg's worst scandal. Joseph Graffagnino Sr., father of Joseph Graffagnino Jr., one of the t

  July 28, 2009

• Letters: July 28, 2009

  July 28, 2009

• Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

  ​ Twitpic by iamawizard. The week started with an underwear run and went downhill from there. President Obama's Supreme Court pick, Sonia Sotomayor, rocked the Judiciary Committee. He felt so good about that he released unexpected stimulus money for New York cops, and announced Medal of Freedom recipients guaranteed to piss off the rightbloggers. Now if only he can do something about Cash for Clunkers. (More than this, we mean.) Mayor Bloomberg was grumpy at his deposition. God kn

  July 31, 2009

• City Has Fined Workers, Sites $1.8 Million for Smoking on the Job

  ​We knew the city didn't like construction workers drinking on the job. They apparently don't like the workers smoking, either. In less than a year the Department of Buildings has doled out 932 violations and $1.8 million in fines, says the New York Post, some for smoking, some for failure to post signs telling them not to smoke. The Deutsche Bank fire, which was caused by a carelessly discarded cigar, has made them more sensitive about it...

  August 3, 2009

• Fannie Mae Auction of Screwed S. Bronxites' Apartments Cancelled

  Foreclosed apartments in 19 South Bronx buildings that were going to be sold off in an online auction next week were saved today. The city announced that Fannie Mae canceled the auction. Financed by Deutshe Bank, the Ocelot Capital Group -- a real estate firm that was started by wealthy Wall Street investors and celebrated as a rising star investor in real estate magazines plunged headfirst into the New York City housing bubble back in 2006, spending nearly 30 million to buy low-income housing

  August 7, 2009

• Bloomberg and Schumer Happy About Ferry Cash, Reminding Us of a Certain Fatal Crash

  By Tom Feeney Jr. ​When Mike Bloomberg announced the injection of nearly $50 million of federal stimulus funds into the maintenance of the Staten Island Ferry recently, he issued a press release also crediting US senator Charles Schumer and other members of the New York's congressional delegation. Bloomberg's kind words for Schumer, however, bring to mind the fact that Schumer's wife, Iris Weinshall, was the Department of Transportation commissioner overseeing ferry operations at the time of t

  August 11, 2009

• Sparking Resentment: Bloomberg, FDNY Top Brass -- and Media -- Skip Deutsche Bank Fire Memorial Service for Firefighters (Updated)

  Mike Bloomberg boycotted the second memorial service yesterday for the two firefighters, Joseph Graffagnino and Robert Beddia, who died at the Deutsche Bank site, so the media boycotted it with him. Not a line about it appeared in any newspaper, and only Grace Rauh of NY1 bothered to report about it at all. Father Joseph Lorenzo, the pastor at Saint Anthony of Padua, told the crowd of family members, firefighters, and friends that he "almost didn't prepare a sermon" because he did in 2008 for t

  August 19, 2009

• Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

  ​ Museum of Natural History. Twitpic by ashelamb. The week was hot as hell -- which, a quick scan of our stories reveals, is an apt comparison. In a tribute to democracy, people with guns started following around President Obama. Busybodies were all over Michelle Obama's butt. Old people continued to bitch at the town halls, which we attributed to fear of younger hipster geezers. Mayor Bloomberg had a good week, starting with an alternately flattering and mischievous New York

  August 21, 2009

• Bloomberg Keeps His Billions Separate From His Mayoral Obligations? Yeah, Right!

  September 1, 2009

• A Bloomberg Score Card: The Mayor's Hits and Misses

  October 13, 2009

• John Galt Agent Gets Prison for Deutsche Bank Fraud

  When the city allowed Bloomberg pals Bovis Lend Lease to pick contractors to take down the Deutsche Bank building, which was contaminated by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, they got some lulus. John Galt Corp, named for the Randian superman, made a botch of the job, and its purchasing agent Robert Chiarappa, was indicted for stealing $1.2 million from the Lower Manhattan Development Corp, which owns the building, and from its own bonding company. Chiarappa filed bogus invoices for undone work and un

  October 20, 2009

• Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

  ​ "it's new york lol same shit lastnight some car was on fire in Fordham crazyy ass shit look." Twitpic by Itlabia. Can you believe last week at this time we were still thinking about Balloon Boy? Yes, that's how we passed our time before Steve Phillips, his "tubby temptress," and other exciting personalities. Thank God we'll always have Hiram Monserrate. His few friends stepped up for him, with Ruben Diaz Sr. saying the slashin' senator was just trying to be helpful. But the opposit

  October 23, 2009

• Barrett: Builder Blamed In Firefighter Deaths Is Building Bill Thompson's Wife's Museum

  ​Bovis Lend Lease, the contractor whose admitted failings contributed to the deaths of two firefighters at the Deutsche Bank fire in 2007, is building the $180 million museum and condo project on Fifth Avenue spearheaded by Elsie McCabe, the wife of mayoral candidate and Comptroller Bill Thompson. When the Uniformed Firefighters Association (UFA) endorsed Thompson last month, its president, Steve Cassidy, repeatedly cited the "egregious" mishandling of the takedown of the Deutsche bank b

  October 30, 2009

• Barrett: Bill Thompson Responds To Our Allegations, Sort Of

  ​A few hours after I posted yesterday's item about Bill Thompson's mysterious ties to the contractor implicated in the Deutsche Bank fire, I got an e-mail protesting the story from Ed Castell, the campaign manager for Thompson's mayoral run. My story revealed that the $180 million museum/condo project of Elsie McCabe, Bill Thompson's wife, is being built by Bovis Lend Lease, the construction firm whose site safety manager is under indictment for criminally negligent homicide in the death

  October 31, 2009