Results tagged “fraud”

With Boston as perhaps the world’s foremost college town, a large part of our population is staring down Fall Semester’s final exams. For some, this period is little more than another opportunity to display a sharp mind. For others, however, exam period is one of struggle, frustration, and pain. To this latter group we suggest an alternative: Just go back to high school. It’s been done before… A twenty-five-year old Kenneth Lickiss took a Greyhound...

Remember the crooked BPD cops who finally got snared by the FBI when they offered to protect a shipment of cocaine? It was clear they weren't nice guys, but one of them is so crooked and so flagrant about it that it's like he came straight out of a clichéd cop television show. And not a good cop show, either. The Herald had a field day once its writers got their mitts on taped phone...

With rare exception, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays is a different team when Scott Kazmir is on the mound. But on Tuesday night, the Red Sox was also a different sort of team - one that came back for only the second time in 43 games from a deficit heading into the eighth inning. Yeah, that's right. The Sox were down late in the game and they actually came back to win, 2-1. The game...

Perhaps the blue shirts calling the shots at Fenway Park on Friday night were just bitter that they couldn't hang out in Harvard/Hogwart's Square with several thousands of their closest Harry Potter fans. Maybe they were concerned that J.D. Drew would further aggravate his hamstring by running all the way around the bases. We'd even like to think that they were just curious about whether Terry Francona would get himself thrown out of a game...

--Lowe's Home Improvement stores have been getting a heap of negative publicity. First, their banner on the Boston Globe website's home page obscured the big news that legislators voted down the gay marriage ban. (See Adam and Spatch's appropriate sarcasm regarding these obtrusive Internet ads.) But it gets worse. The Lowe's brass is probably cringing at the news that a shootout erupted at the Danvers Lowe's last night. Imagine, you're at Lowe's, you're picking up...

--A New York City woman got caught in Framingham Tuesday sticking her bare behind out the back of a van. In WHDH's terms, Shantae Cammack "gave people an unwelcome sight." More specifically, she offended a mom with two kids, who called police. According to the MetroWest Daily News, police said, "Her pants weren't even on when they opened the van's door." She told police she was minding her business. Perhaps she's a nudist. --The BPD...

Two in a year. John J. Schulz who had held the post of Dean of Boston University's College of Communications took a fall for misrepresentations on his resume last May. Only eleven months later another local academic takes a fall. MIT Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones recused herself of her position today after it was discovered that she had made inaccurate statements on her resume. Jones has spoken out against the push for High...

Allegedly Robert P. Dooley has defrauded Home Depot of enough money to build his own house. Approximately $330k of merchandise was swiped by the former IRS official. The Boston Globe reports that the former Salem resident would walk into a Home Depot store, fill his cart with “floor tiles, casement windows, sliding doors, or other items” and bypass the checkout line. He'd head straight to the returns line (always a painfully long line in Bostonist's...

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. Torontoist Special Report: Rosie to Trump: "Fire 300 Bicyclists for Fraud!" On DCist: Students Go Wild for Slogans, Secrets and Sexual Harassment The action was thick...

The New England Patriots can't seem to get enough of the courtroom. Tom Brady filed suit against Yahoo! for using his image for their Fantasy Football promotion, and the Patriots also used an obscure Massachusetts anti-scalping law to file suit against Bay Area company StubHub.com, which allows Patriots ticket holders to resell their tickets at a profit.

One of the delights of being married (aside from companionship, tax benefits, etc.) is to hear about all the details and silliness of the dating game without suffering any emotional ups and downs. So it was that Bostonist was recently regaled by a friend with the tale of her date with one James Mitchell, a middle-aged gentleman who throws fabulous parties around town, and apparently fancies himself quite the catch (a notion with which our...

The Herald delights in the rhyming headline, the punny headline, and, above all, the hyperbolic headline. Fair enough - therein lies the Herald's charm. But today the tabloid was really unfair with the way its headline teased us. We saw this entry in the paper's ongoing series on welfare: "Welfare abuse runs rampant: Recipient admits: ‘Everybody lies’" We thought, "Really? How rampant? What percentage of welfare recipients are cheating the state?"

Don't forget Saturday is the Bostonist Anniversary Party at the Kinsale. In the interim please feel free to rev yourselves up with some of the great music rolling down the pike. Monday 3/20: Editors Neo-post-punk brits Editors (a la Joy Division & Bloc Party) with appropriately asterisked Stellastarr*. Roxy. Editors: Myspace | All Sparks.ram | purchase Tuesday 3/21: The English Beat, Westbound Train, The Sterns, and DJ Ford E. Buxworth More than just a...

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. LAist documented graf artist Banksy's most recent visit to LA in one two three posts. They also found the best possible use...

When Krispy Kreme doughnuts first came to the Commonwealth, lo those many years ago (OK, three years), Bostonist was excited. Sure, this is Dunkin' Donuts territory, but damn! Krispy Kreme's doughnuts tasted wicked good, like eating flavored fat with sugar on top (yum!). But now, it appears the frail craft that was our doughnut enthusiasm has been cruelly dashed against the rocky shoals of business futility: Krispy Kreme has now closed two of its Massachusetts...

The golden boys of Boston known as the Red Sox might not be so shiny anymore...well, at least not Pitcher Bronson Arroyo. A link has been circulating around the city this week of some female co-eds hanging out socially with Arroyo and fellow Sox pitcher Lenny Dinardo. No big deal, right? Well, the photos on this girl's photo site are pretty interesting and Arroyo's wife doesn't seem to be in any of them. [ed. note: seems the girls took down all the Arroyo shots last night...sorry to those who missed out] This college girl must be pretty tight with Bronson to call him "B" right? And for those who think this might be a fraud, these girls don't look like they are spending their time working with Photoshop...