David Arquette to replace Rick Sanchez on CNN

CNN names Rick Sanchez replacement

New York- CNN has named David Arquette to replace Rick Sanchez who was fired 2 weeks ago for a racially charged statement. Arquette who recently was dumped by his wife Courtney Cox, is considered by CNN to be more level headed than Sanchez. Arquette is thought to be aloof and goofy by Hollywood critics, however Arquette publicists insist he is not aloof.

Wayne C. Brackett, of North Adams MA SCUMBAG

The RAT BASTARD needs to go to jail for a LONGGGG time.



Alleged Massachusetts rabbit killer behind bars
North Adams man charged for brutal animal slayings

By BRIAN NEARING, Staff writer
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Last updated: 1:41 p.m., Saturday, June 12, 2010

NORTH ADAMS -- A 23-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly killing and mutilating pet rabbits during a failed burglary of a construction business, according to the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The suspect, Wayne C. Brackett, of North Adams, was charged late Friday with five counts of animal cruelty, five counts of malicious killing of an animal, one count of breaking and entering at night, and one count of malicious destruction of property, said Sgt. Roy Sutton of the MSPCA law enforcement department.

Brackett remained in police custody and is scheduled to be arraigned Monday, according to North Adams Police.

Gruesome surveillance tape of the event, captured at Berkshire County Construction on Tuesday night, showed a man who apparently went into a rage after being unable to break into a truck. The man was shown kicking and dismembering the rabbits, and the surveillance tapes drew wide calls of outrage after the images were widely circulated over the Internet.

The bodies of the rabbits were found strewn about the property including a baby bunny and a severely mutilated rabbit left hanging by a chain after its ears and tail had been cut off.

Sutton said several people stepped forward to identify Brackett as the man in the surveillance tapes. After he was taken into custody by the North Adams Police, officials searched his home and found undislosed evidence linking him to the crime, said Sutton.

"We have thoroughly reviewed surveillance footage of the crime scene, examined the scene and bodies of the animals, secured a necropsy of one of the rabbits, enlisted the assistance of a state police tracking dog, and carefully interviewed numerous witnesses and the suspect," Sutton said.

"Regrettably, the savagery repeatedly inflicted upon the helpless rabbits exceeds any brutality I've seen in quite a while," said Peter Gollub, director of the MSPCA's Law Enforcement department. "These animals posed no threat to the suspect, and in fact some rabbits even curiously approached him. How anyone could systematically and completely ignore the suffering of these unsuspecting creatures dumbfounds me as much as it angers me. I am not surprised to hear that substantial concerns exist about this suspect's past and future encounters with humans and animals alike."

Federal raids targeted Albany brokerage firm -- Page 2 -- Times Union - Albany NY

Federal raids targeted Albany brokerage firm -- Page 2 -- Times Union - Albany NY

David K. Barber of Bennington VT

I hope this guy get jail time....


Last updated: 8:43 a.m., Tuesday, April 27, 2010

TROY -- The owner of a Vermont tree service company faces a grand larceny charge for charging a Brunswick resident $58,000 for work that was only worth about $8,000, according to the Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office.

David K. Barber of Bennington is charged with third-degree grand larceny after a two-month investigation, investigators said.

They said the probe began after they learned Barber may have overcharged the unidentified resident, who deputies described as elderly, for his services. The sheriff's office said Barber charged his victim $58,000 for a job that should have only cost $8,000.

Barber was arraigned by Town Justice Lawrence Kronau and sent to the county jail where he is being held on $15,000 bail.













Barber & Son Tree Service & General Contracting
4 N Branch St, Bennington, VT 05201
(802) 447-3140

Citizens Bank - Riverside R.I.

While the Federal Reserve announced new banking regulations last November ending the practice of charging overdraft fees on debit cards that exceed their limit, some banks like Citizens Bank of Rhode Island are slamming customers every chance they get right up til the date in which the new regulations go into effect.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/business/13regulate.html

While Bank of America voluntarily instituted the new rules last month...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/your-money/credit-and-debit-cards/10overdraft.html?pagewanted=print

Don Weeks- WGY

Don Weeks... you are not a funny guy... Why do you laugh at almost everything that comes out of your pie hole??

Fred Sharifipour- Don't Jersey Saratoga!

Congrats to Fred Sharifipour for making it here to TodaysRat. Fred Sharifipour successfully lowered the class bar for Saratoga Springs NY by hosting the sleazy "Girls Gone Wild Tour" at the once great former "Metro" nightclub. The current club, named "Mare" hosted the sleazebag Girls Gone Wild group as part of a "Wildest Bars in America" video shoot, undoubtedly heading for a reality TV show or scummy video to be sold via bawdy TV infomercials.

Sharifipour also owns & operates two Albany clubs called "Tryst" & "Plastic". I think from the names of these 2 clubs that we can see a common marketing theme going here...


read the following article

By MARK O'BRIEN

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Girls Gone Wild visited downtown Saratoga Springs on Friday night, hosted by MARE on Maple Ave. The event was billed as a wild and crazy party with the best people in Saratoga, but not everyone was excited about the festivities.

News 10 Cameras were not allowed inside MARE, but partygoers saw no problem in having Girls Gone Wild in the city.

"Why isn't it?" one man asked rhetorically. "Think about how much money they're going to bring."

TODAYSRAT : Really? think about it...How much and who cares? At the expense of the Cities reputation?

"It's 2010," said one woman. "It doesn't really matter."

TODAYSRAT: It doesn;t matter why? because Saratoga Already Jumped the shark?

MARE says the group is in town as part of the "Wildest Bars in the US" tour, criss-crossing the country in the hottest cities and getting video of the best clubs. Organizers were quick to point out that this was about the club, not the controversy associated with Girls Gone Wild.

Fred Sharifipour of MARE told News 10 off camera," It's not the girls flashing people from 10 years ago. It's a brand. They're not bringing girls, they're not bringing lewd acts, and I wouldn't stand for it either."

TODAYSRAT: Really? then why is EVERY Girls Gone Wild commercial on TV consist of young girls acting lewdly in public?? I think we know what the brand is

The bar also said Saratoga was lucky to get them to come, but not everyone agreed.

"I think it takes away from the type of community that Saratoga is," Linda Ambrosino said. She owns G. Willikers, a toy store on Broadway. Abrosino said she only found out about the party a few hours before it started. She said she would have opposed it had the known sooner.

"I don't think it's the type of image that we as a business community would like to portray," Ambrosino said.

Some also questioned why the party was in Saratoga.

"I don't personally approve of it," said a female Skidmore freshman, "but people can do whatever they personally want to do.

Organizers said it was only about putting a quiet town on the map and showing people a good time. Other entertainment scheduled to be at MARE in the next couple of months include a member of MTV's Jersey Shore, DJ Scribble, Kevin Rudolf, and Kim Kardashian.

TODAYSTRAT: Saratoga is hardly a "quiet town" Keep your Jersey Shore & Slutty porn star/ reality show socialites like Kim Kardashian back in Vegas where they belong..

Gregory Joseph Leary Child RAPIST SCUM...

scumbags.......


TRENTON, N.J. (CBS/AP) Police have arrested Gregory Joseph Leary on charges that he had sex with a 15-year-old girl. The 15-year-old is herself accused of selling her 7-year-old stepsister to a group of men who gang raped her.

Leary was booked Wednesday night on charges of statutory rape and endangering the welfare of a child. Under New Jersey law, the 15-year-old is too young to consent to sex.

Leary was being held Thursday in jail on a $200,000 cash bond.

Police said they are investigating whether Leary was involved with the rape of the 7-year-old at a party Sunday night in a public housing apartment building.

On Thursday morning, police arrested 27 people on unrelated outstanding warrants during a sweep of Rowan Towers. Capt. Joseph Juniak said the raid was planned before the girl's attack but that it was "somewhat beneficial for investigators" looking into the child rape.

Police believe as many as a dozen people were at the party and said that everyone in the apartment when the rape occurred could be legally culpable.

At the party, the 15-year-old starting having sex with several men for money and then gave the younger girl some cash to let a group of men touch her, police said. It soon escalated to rape and the men threatened to kill the child if she screamed or told anyone, according to police.

Police are reviewing surveillance videos at the complex.

According to police, the teenager and the 7-year-old were outside in the neighborhood Sunday when the older girl ran into two young men she knew who invited her to the party. The 7-year-old wanted to tag along because she was worried about the older girl's safety.

The 7-year-old later put on her clothes and left the apartment; her older sister stayed. Two women found the child crying outside the apartment and walked her home.

The teenager's name was not released because of her age, but the county prosecutor plans to ask the court to try her as an adult. It was not clear who was representing the girl in juvenile court.

Senator Jim Bunning Hall Of Fame Shithead

CATCHING UP ON SOME OLD RATS



Updated below: The Senate has now recessed for the weekend without taking action.

Jim Bunning, a Republican from Kentucky, is single-handedly blocking Senate action needed to prevent an estimated 1.2 million American workers from prematurely losing their unemployment benefits next month.
As Democratic senators asked again and again for unanimous consent for a vote on a 30-day extension Thursday night, Bunning refused to go along.
And when Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) begged him to drop his objection, Politico reports, Bunning replied: "Tough shit."


http://huff.to/aEjpwf

Thomas Hendricks SCUMBAG

HERE IS A HALL OF FAME SCUMBAG

Man accused of killing two pet dogs
Cops say a third animal badly injured; domestic disturbance led to find



SCHENECTADY -- The 28-year-old city man accused of torturing to death two small dogs and badly burning a third one over the past two months has an extensive criminal history, according to police and court records.

Thomas Hendricks II was arraigned Tuesday on three counts of felony aggravated animal cruelty and misdemeanor menacing in connection with the alleged crimes, which occurred on three separate occasions -- the most recent incident of which occurred on Sunday, according to the criminal complaint.

City Court Judge Vincent Versaci set bail at $2,500. He said the Schenectady man, who is married, has 10 prior convictions for a variety of offenses, including unlawful imprisonment, menacing and several charges of harassment.

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Police learned of the alleged abuse after responding to a domestic dispute call Monday at the Hendricks home at 122 Front St. in the city's Stockade area.

Police say the first dog was killed sometime during the second week of December after Hendricks apparently became upset after a female long-haired dachshund named Beary urinated in the house.

He is accused of drowning the animal in a bathtub by holding her nose and mouth under water and then "squeezing" the animal to death.

A second animal, a female toy poodle named Carmella, was badly burned on her legs and backside on Jan. 12 when Hendricks allegedly held her under scalding hot water. Police also said he pulled the hair from the dog's legs.

The most recent incident occurred on Sunday when Hendricks allegedly killed another long-haired dachshund named Fudge by hitting the animal once with a pool stick.

Tara Morelli dirtbag MOM

Tell my Mom 'I will never forgive her'
Girl, in statement, describes burglaries, living in filth; mother skeptical of letter



First published: Saturday, April 3, 2010

TROY -- A Rensselaer County courtroom on Friday heard a young girl disown her mother a confessed burglar for neglecting the child and forcing her into a life of crime.

"She has put me in harms way many times, making me squeeze through doggie doors and windows," a prosecutor read from the 12-year-old's victim impact statement. "Because of her, I know how to use a credit card to open locked doors."

Prosecutors said the girl was forced to help her mother, Tara Morelli, 31, and her boyfriend, Gregory Frank, 41, during daytime burglaries between September 2008 and January 2009 in various Rensselaer County towns.Both Morelli and Frank pleaded guilty to attempted burglary and criminal possession of stolen property, and were sentenced Friday before Judge Andrew Ceresia.

Assistant District Attorney Keith Muse read the statement from the girl, who was not present in court. Her name is being withheld because of her age and because she is considered a victim.

The girl explained that her mothers drug habits severely affected their relationship and led to the crimes."I would spend three to five days wearing the same clothes, I could not go to school and she did not keep me clean," the girl wrote.

While the statement was read, Morelli repeatedly shook her head in disagreement and at one point tried to interrupt.

"I now have a nice new home and I don't have lice anymore," the girls statement said. "Please tell the people I am sorry for what I did. Tell my mom that I will never forgive her. Telling the truth is one thing that I did not learn from my mother."

Morelli said the statement was coached by her daughters caretaker, and claimed the girl was never used in the crimes.

"The statement was not given by my daughter," Morelli said. "Something was done to her to come up with these lies."

Prosecutors said the girl cooperated in the investigation.

Morelli apologized for her crimes. "I am truly sorry for my daughter and not being the mother I could have been. Drugs took me away from her."

The child's words were read at Frank's sentencing as well, prompting him to complain that the statement had nothing to do with him.

"She did not mention my name in that once," Frank said. "It has nothing to do with me."

Morelli and Frank were each sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison, five years' post-release supervision and ordered to pay $6,299 in restitution to the victims.

The couple were originally indicted with 23 offenses, including burglary, possession of stolen property and child endangerment.

Court documents say police found a stash of stolen property at the couple's Telford Road home in Hoosick. The records say they targeted homes during the day when the occupants were away at work.

Michael Fuschino- career stalker

this guy is a piece of garbage....


Man gets probation for telephone harassment
Judge says he struggled to arrive at sentence appropriate for case



BALLSTON SPA -- Calling it a difficult decision, a judge sentenced a local man to probation rather than the jail time sought by prosecutors for harassing an elderly neighbor via telephone.

Village Court Judge Tom Schroeder said he grappled with how to punish Michael Fuschino, a repeat offender with a nearly 30-year history of harassing women. Fuschino was sentenced Monday to three years on probation after pleading guilty to aggravated harassment for repeatedly calling an 86-year-old neighbor on the phone, then hanging up.


Fuschino's record as a repeat offender shows jail is "just as ineffective" a deterrent in his case as probation, the judge said. Schroeder went against a request from District Attorney James A. Murphy III for jail time, choosing probation because it requires Fuschino to report to a probation officer for three years. The judge issued a five-year protection order that bars Fuschino from contacting the victim.

Fuschino, 48, was convicted 15 times between 1980 and 2006, including five times for aggravated harassment. He has been fined, spent time in jail and state prison and been on probation. He has also been found guilty of criminal contempt. His behavior ranges from hangup calls, mimicking a woman's voice to have his victim's power shut off and submitting false obituaries to local newspapers.

Fuschino's most recent victim has said he called her over the course of six years, never saying a word when she picked up the phone, and then hanging up. She figured out it was Fuschino when she overheard his father's voice speaking to him during a call.



Fuschino declined to comment while leaving the court.