|
· Bag men richer at City Hall… · Celebrity firebug of landmark is tv realty star teen… · Putin covets Fifth Ave mansion of Ukraine… |
|
EXCLUSIVES ! |
|
Jay-Z’s first fortune, legend says, came dealing nickle bags at street corners. But tycoon John Catsimatidis can reap new riches from nickel bags the old–fashioned way at his supermarket empire — a tax, sort of, that helps him, not us. City lawmakers want shoppers to fork over a nickel at the checkout for each plastic/paper bag they carry out. Stores keep the nickels. Typically 6,000 bags a day are used at a single checkout. He’s America’s biggest grocery king. That’s a $12,000 cash windfall at each cash register each month. It’s a 400 % markup, beating a store’s top earning produce aisle at 70%. Solves litter? “We’re paying 2.2 cents a plastic bag, but the oil industry sets the price. When they see the new profits, they’ll probably start charging us 15 cents a bag,” says one chain manager. |
|
Nickle-bag dealing at City Hall |
|
Landmark firebug exposed — teen kin of TV-reality “Mob Wives” star |
|
Serial pipeline strangler Vladmir Putin is emboldened enough now even to claim ownership of the grand Fifth Avenue mansion of Ukraine Institute. The institute has been the global instigator since 1955 of that nation’s independence drive. A thorn in Putin’s side, the landmark mansion at 79th and Central Park remains a US hotbed of Kiev’s resistance to anti-Soviet thugs. Putin’s got more tricks ahead. Although it’s owned by the independent Ukraine institute, nothing has stopped Putin from stealing the country’s whole navy. |
|
Ukraine Jewel — Putin’s Pad? |
|
CITY NEWS REPORT.org |
|
Lot$ of lettuce |
|
Pleading Fifth |
|
The three teens caught torching an irreplaceable 1789 national landmark house in Historic Richmondtown for kicks in Staten Island are from a prank gangcrew led by a teen family member of a national TV reality show star, sources say. |
