Results tagged “fraud”

A 21-year-old West Chester University student was found dead, shot in the face, in North Philadelphia. Police are questioning the student's boyfriend.

The courts say, if you get screwed, it's on your own dollar. At least that's what they're saying to John F. Peoples, a blind Delaware County resident who sued his lady visitor (or prostitute, if you will) and Discover for overcharging him for his biweekly sessions. Because he can't see the slips she printed for him, she frequently charged more than the negotiated standard rate. Peoples signed them.

D'oh. Philadelphians have been ranked the ugliest again. (Via Ross)

The Bleeding Statue

A 4-year-old in Southwest Philadelphia shot himself once in the throat about 4:50PM yesterday inside a rowhouse belonging to his family. He was pronounced dead forty minutes later at Children's Hospital. The weapon was a 9mm handgun, and there doesn't seem to be any information yet on how the child got his hands on it, or who it belongs to.

You gotta wonder about Penn students (and alums too, as it turns out): they shoot up terrorists, steal panties, and now apparently they adopt other people’s identities and swindle them out of loads of cash. To be fair though, Drexel does share some part of the latter, seeing as one of the accused is still a student there. You all know what we’re talking about right? Because it’s in the friggin international news! So Philly...

First, some updates on stories we linked to yesterday: the Inquirer has the unsettling details and about the shooting of a 5-year-old boy early yesterday morning, and how it connects with other recent incidents of violence in the city. As for the Turnpike shutdown, it lasted six hours, causing a ripple effect of traffic jams on adjacent roadways and stranding hundreds of motorists at the height of morning rush hour. The judge in the...

Everybody's favorite nanny-beating Villanova heiress, Susan Tabas Tepper, completed her 30 days of court-ordered psychiatric treatment and so yesterday was able to get a sentence of 15 months probation and a $600 fine for the latest incident in which she attacked an employee.

We can't say this is particularly exciting news to us, but we're sure it is to some people: more land records have been posted online by the Pennsylvania State Archives, at www.phmc.state.pa.us, "giving researchers and genealogists a wealth of new resources."

Despite their close relationship, Richard A. Sprague will be allowed to represent Senator Fumo in his upcoming trial for federal fraud and obstruction of justice, a judge ruled yesterday.

Pacifico Ford in Philadelphia and Springfield Ford in Delco have made an agreement with the government to reimburse African African customers who allegedly were charged higher interest rates than white buyers. Neither of the Ford dealerships are admitting any wrongdoing, but, hey, they're also paying up, so...

The Inquirer has an interesting profile of a group based in Center City called Iraq Veterans Against the War.

We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we're sensational, but it's very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we've decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite posts from this week.

The mayoral debates should be interesting when they finally happen, because right now the candidates can't even agree on when to have the debates, or how many to have, or what format they should be in. There's even a kind of debate cold war going on. Nutter's spokeswoman said of Fattah's recent debate proposal: "If he wants four, we want eight." That's so petty and ridiculous that it's awesome. Meanwhile, the Inquirer discusses endorsements and how important they really are for the candidates.

Common logic dictates that if, mere months ago you were indicted for tax fraud, your chances of winning a mayoral race are slim. Same for if you don’t live in the city where you are seeking office. Or the same state in which that city is located. Or if your brother is the much-maligned outgoing mayor.

People, the Philly mayor's race just got a whole lot more awesome. Milton Street, our current Mayor Street's older brother - you know, the one who's been indicted for tax fraud and embezzling, and who lives in New Jersey - walked into City Hall today and laid his thing down. That's right, he's running for mayor. When reporters asked him about the charges facing him, he said: "I haven't been convicted of anything. What do you want me to do?"

Two Philly Dems, State Reps. Dwight Evans and James R. Roebuck Jr., are proposing a $14 million initiative to get teachers into urban and rural districts in PA and keep them there.

NBC 10 managed to get an exclusive interview on Wednesday with Milton Street, the brother of Philadelphia mayor John Street. Milton Street was recently indicted with federal tax and fraud charges and this was his first interview with the media. The interview was handled by anchor Tim Lake.

Mayor Street's brother Milton and two officials with Philadelphia Airport Services were indicted this afternoon by a federal grand jury for corruption and tax fraud in relation to a contract at the Philadelphia International Airport. In January 2000, Milton Street "began hiring himself out as a highly paid consultant to area businesses who believed that Milton Street could help them obtain business with the city of Philadelphia." He also failed to report to the IRS about $2 million worth of income which he collected from 2000 to 2004.

- Identity fraud seems to be the hot crime this week. The feds shut down SIX separate id-theft related crime rings this week, and a would-be rapist got access to a building by claiming he was an FBI agent (allegedly). It's enough to make Phillyist paranoid. - July has gotten the dubious honor of being the deadliest month of the year. Let's hope none of the remaining month's in 2006 attempt to steal that title. - Speaking of dubious honors (and switching to a much more light-hearted vein) - according to Forbes magazine, Philadelphia just missed making the top 10 list of cities for singles - ranking 12th. The criterion: "nightlife, culture, job growth, number of other singles, cost of living alone, online dating and coolness." When did Forbes become the arbiter of cool? - When Phillyist stumbled across Steven Perry fan fic, we thought we'd reached the scariest fan fic place on the Internet...until we got the news from Philadelphia Will Do that there's Barbaro/human stories out there. Ah, the Internet. It truly is a bottomless pit of terrible, terrible wonders. Traditional style slash fic image by Flickr user joeltelling

After yesterday's uber-long Elite -ist, we're back with something a little more manageable. And we're going to start doing things differently. Instead of trying to figure out what's going on with our sister sites as it's happening, we've decided to go all time-delay and tell you what went down the previous day. Not only is it easier for us, it keeps us from getting confused about what's fair game, posting-wise. The time difference between here and Shanghai was really getting confusing!

DCist helps us make more sense of the world this week. Posts like this concert review are the reason for Scott Stapp. DCist also enumerates the reasons for playing ultimate frisbee, Condi's tight buns, their love of a local convenience store, and their jealousy of a person in Seattle calling the city.

Mayor John Street insists that Councilman Rick Mariano never planned to take a swan dive from the City Hall observation deck, although it's easy to understand why it's an easily jumped to conclusion. Fraud indictment looming, Mariano did comment earlier in the day that he wished a bus would run him over.

Of course, if that leads us to do our own research on candidates to wade through the bullshit, well...that's not such a bad thing.

We're number one! We're number one! For election fraud, anyway.