After a summer-long investigation by its Hamptons beat-reporter Jim Rutenberg, the New York Times has discovered that the Hamptons are no longer the sole domain of the gilded elite (and the various news reporters who are supposed to be covering them), but are now becoming pretty trashy. Like Jersey levels of sleaze.
Since at least 2007, DEA agents and local police detectives have had regular access to a gigantic database that contains detailed records of every American phone call that's passed through an AT&T switch in the past 26 years. The program, named the Hemisphere Project, also pays AT&T employees to work alongside drug-enforcement officers stationed in three states.
Maybe you're spending your Labor Day weekend on the beach, or in the woods, or in front of a computer. Either way, you're probably not being paid by a Kazakh autocrat to bore his grandson's wedding guests, because that is already what Kanye West is doing this weekend.
Last April, a 20-year-old female U.S. Naval Academy midshipman woke up feeling groggy, with a sore back, and little memory of what transpired the night before.
Richard Schmidt, a white supremacist living in Ohio, was found last December with 18 guns, 40,000 rounds of ammunition, and a list of prominent black and Jewish leaders in the Detroit area. When federal agents busted into his apartment, they were amazed by what they came across— they thought they were cracking down on his knock-off sports jersey racket.
