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Shuffling off to infamy

Buffalo doesn't have a counterfeiting problem — but it does need to curb its bad Bills
Tasering Donte . Sounds like a movie title, doesn't it?
By MATT TAIBBI  |  April 22, 2009

74. Darryl McCauley

BURGLAR KING
Daryl, we don’t think your younger half-brother, Dane Cook, is funny, either. But hell, we show our displeasure by simply refusing to buy tickets to his Garden frat-fests. You, on the other hand — having also been Dane’s boss at Burger King before he got famous — went a tad further, embezzling millions from your polarizing, overshadowing little brah. As pathetic as this story is, we feel even sadder for Louis C.K., who has now technically been robbed twice.
By Boston Phoenix Staff  |  March 25, 2009
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Interview: Ulrich Boser

Going after the Gardner thieves
As we reach the 19th anniversary of the theft of 13 priceless art objects from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, there's been a renewed effort to identify the thieves and retrieve the Gardner treasures.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  March 24, 2009
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Shattered Plax

Sports blotter: Burress edition
Sports blotter: Burress edition
By MATT TAIBBI  |  December 10, 2008
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Heightened anxiety

Sports blotter: "Attack of the seven-foot tall driver" edition
Look, it’s not easy being seven feet tall.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  September 03, 2008
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Fore!

The thief who reinvented himself as a Hollywood celebrity
The new guy showed up as a guest at the Lakeside Golf Club in 1932, and to the surprise of absolutely no one, he won the club championship the first time he entered it.
By GEORGE KIMBALL  |  June 10, 2008
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Imprisoned facts

Will the truth escape from a break in the prison wall?
Although I had already written a lot about abuse in the prison, this May 21 interview with Dorney, a 28-year-old Portland man serving 20 years for assault, was what I had been waiting for.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  May 28, 2008
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Must be the genes

Sports blotter: "Brother to brother" edition
You don’t often see sports-crime legacies.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  March 12, 2008
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Civil war

If Clinton can pull off a couple more victories, the democratic party is headed for a disastrous, fight-worn finish
The whole Democratic race is still only two steps away from becoming a train wreck that could derail the party’s chances of winning in November.
By STEVEN STARK  |  February 20, 2008
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Skell of the year

Sports crime: 2007 in review
Much less funny than usual, was 2007.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  December 18, 2007
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Can't drive 55

Sports blotter: "Sammy Hagar" edition
This past week, we snared an early candidate for the next Justin Miller Award, given to the athlete who most bollockses up his professional-draft status with an avoidable pre-draft arrest.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  December 12, 2007
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Protagonist

Modern tragidocumentary
A gay former evangelist, a kung fu expert, a German terrorist, and a bank robber walk into a documentary.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  December 05, 2007
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A leafy, green substance

Sports blotter: "Copious amounts of pot" edition
Just when you thought the “supernaturally large quantity of marijuana” sports bust was a thing of the past.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  October 31, 2007
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Free the Juice

Sports blotter: "Return of Orenthal James" edition
As you surely have heard by now, O.J. Simpson is up to his old tricks again.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  September 26, 2007
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Robbing a bank ain’t what it used to be

High-stakes crime has moved online, but a desperate few still seek bundles of cash
Bank robbers have long encapsulated the American penchant for high-stakes gambling, fast getaways, and a go-your-own-way ethos of living.
By TE-PING CHEN  |  August 22, 2007
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Replaying injustice

Sacco and Venzetti, 80 years later
They stare from faded photographs like ghosts: faces ashen, eyes doleful and accusatory.
By MIKE MILIARD  |  August 22, 2007
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True Wizardry

Sports blotter: "Puts up a brick!" edition
Question: what do you do when your team decides to offer you, a mere 20 year old, $12.5 million over five years?
By MATT TAIBBI  |  August 08, 2007
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Too high

Sports blotter: "T-High" edition
One wonders, at times, if there is some kind of Norse God of sports crime.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  July 25, 2007
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A Supermax “graduate”

Watch your backs
The Supermax makes mentally unstable prisoners worse, its critics say.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  July 11, 2007
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Streets of sorrow

Boston's murder survivors: nine familes, nine stories
Two years ago, in one of the most concentrated bursts of deadly violence Boston had seen in years, nine victims were killed in 20 days.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  May 09, 2007
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The curly-haried boyfriend

Sports blotter: "Knight of the keyboard" edition
This is the third or fourth time I’ve seen this guy’s name attached to an arrest of a high-profile athlete.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  May 02, 2007
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The lock box

Sports blotter: "Little League crime 2007" edition
I want everyone reading this column to start laughing right now, just to get a head start.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  April 04, 2007
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Countdown to draft day

Sports blotter: "NFL spies" edition
It’s a dramatic race against time in the American penal system and the NFL draft.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  March 28, 2007
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Low-flying Hawk

Sports blotter: "A different sort of 'making it rain'" edition
It has always surprised me that Seattle Seahawk tight end Jerramy Stevens didn’t figure more heavily in the sports-crime industry after he turned pro.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  March 21, 2007
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Crime without verbs

Sports blotter: Creative grammar edition
It’s getting to the point where you can write these sports-crime stories without verbs.
By MATT TAIBBI  |  March 14, 2007
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Cold War Kids

Robbers and Cowards | Downtown
Don’t be surprised if you find yourself thinking you’ve heard these guys somewhere before.
By MATT ASHARE  |  January 09, 2007

Law and disorder

 Diverse city
Recently, I awoke to the morning news on my clock radio that the previous day had three notable robberies, one by a white man, another by a pair of black men, and a third where the race of the perpetrator wasn’t mentioned.
By SHAY STEWART-BOULEY  |  December 13, 2006
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Cop or drug dealer?

Roberto Pulido’s story shows how easily the divide between law-keepers and law-breakers can break down — if nobody is paying attention
Meet Roberto Pulido, 41.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  November 09, 2006
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Soft on Crime?

Arrest rates for violent crimes have plummeted under the Romney-Healey administration
Republican gubernatorial candidate Kerry Healey has made much of her Democratic rival Deval Patrick’s efforts to free a Worcester-area rapist from prison, but it turns out that under her administration, few rapists have been jailed to begin with.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  October 18, 2006
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Waist Deep

A sugar buzz
In this hip-hop urban Bonnie and Clyde wanna-be, charismatic rapper/actor Tyrese ( Baby Boy , 2 Fast 2 Furious ) plays O2, a recent parolee whose efforts to go straight are derailed when a Crenshaw drug lord inadvertently kidnaps his son during a carjacking. Watch the trailer for Waist Deep (QuickTime)
By TOM MEEK  |  June 28, 2006

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