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Hell hath no fury like a cousin scorned. |
Alex Rodriguez's infamous "Cousin Yuri Sucart" threatened to expose the Yankee superstar's doping secrets unless the scandal-ridden slugger coughed up "enormous sums of money," according to court papers filed last week in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. |
Rodriguez caved, entering into a confidential settlement with Sucart on June 5, 2013, agreeing to pay Sucart one $700,000 payment for his silence, in addition to three more payments made to Sucart that totalled $200,000. |
In a Dec. 18, 2012 letter, Sucart's former attorney, Jeffrey Sonn, had demanded $5 million and a "life estate" for Sucart and his wife, according to the court papers. |
By then, Rodriguez was already embroiled in Major League Baseball's investigation into the Biogenesis anti-aging clinic scandal that would result in the suspension of 14 players, including Rodriguez. A-Rod had previously made a limited confession of steroid use in 2009 when he said in a press conference that he had dec... |
In one telling passage in the 2012 letter written by Sonn, the lawyer wrote: "Yuri, even after he was accused of being a steroid mule for you, kept your confidences of all your activities while you played for the Rangers and the Yankees." |
Sucart is a defendant in the sprawling federal case involving Biogenesis and its owner, Anthony Bosch. Sucart has pleaded not guilty in the case; Bosch has pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing. |
Prosecutor Patrick Sullivan said in the court papers that Rodriguez "has a prominent role in the government's proof of Count 1 and Count 2 conspiraces to distribute testosterone and human growth hormone," which suggests the disgraced Yankee slugger may be a witness against Sucart. |
"That is what it sounds like. It sounds like A-Rod is a potential witness against his cousin," Sucart's court-appointed attorney, Edward O'Donnell IV, told the Daily News. "They are not allies, that's for sure, or friends." |
Rodriguez received the letter demanding money just as the investigations by MLB and federal agents in Florida were heating up. He didn't begin paying Sucart until two months before MLB commissioner Bud Selig hit Rodriguez with a 211-game suspension, eventually reduced to 162 games plus the postseason. |
"(Yuri) was trained to serve as a personal assistant to professional baseball players," Sonn wrote, referencing Rodriguez's refusal to continue to pay Sucart for his past services. "Due to your use of performance-enhancing substances, Yuri was wrongly blamed. Nonetheless, Yuri remains able and willing to continue to se... |
The letter coninued: "Given the sudden breach of your longstanding agreement with Yuri, he wishes to propose that you provide to him payment for his past services rendered, and for the loyalty he has shown you. Therefore, Yuri requests that you now pay him for the past services rendered and to fulfill your promise to s... |
The United States Attorney's office in Miami declined comment Monday. Rodriguez's spokesman did not immediately return a call from the Daily News. |
Sucart has been charged with conspiracy to distribute testosterone and human growth hormone, charges stemming from the MLB and federal investigations into Biogenesis. |
The court documents were posted Monday after a judge ordered Sucart to pay $600 a month for a court-appointed attorney to represent him; he had claimed indigence, saying he could not afford to pay a lawyer. |
The government, according to court filings, also obtained a summary-document from the Department of Revenue, which outlines Sucart's financial earnings as paid by Rodriguez, stretching back to 2003 and "continuing through the third quarter of 2013." |
"The government also has prepared a chart that summarizes the payments, and totals them up by year. Payments for 2008 totaled approximately $65,000; for year 2009, $93,000; for 2010, $110,000; for 2011, $105,000; for 2012, $68,000; for 2013, $42,000," reads the court document. "The sums of money obtained by defendant i... |
The motion goes on to say that the government will "prove that defendant personally arranged meetings between Rodriguez and Bosch, where Bosch injected Rodriguez with PEDs; and that defendant received an ample cut of the payments Rodriguez made to Bosch." |
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For long dividends have been a big draw for investors and a key selling point for mutual funds. But, now dividends are on their way out. Recently, Motilal Oswal AMC launched a hybrid fund offering that has done away entirely with the dividend option. Instead, the fund company is promoting the systematic withdrawal plan... |
Until recently, several fund houses were known to aggressively sell the dividend option of mutual funds as a source of regular income for those investors looking to capture more assets under management, particularly in equity-oriented funds. Previously, dividends were entirely tax free in the hands of the investor. The... |
This caught investors’ fancy and the corpus managed by balanced or hybrid schemes swelled sharply in a short span of time. However, the incentive was taken away with the government introducing a 10% tax on dividends from all equity funds. Tax burden along with the dwindling dividends in some of the schemes has led many... |
Irrespective of the tax consideration, the dividend option is not a healthy avenue. Dividends are paid out of the profits and distributable surplus accumulated by the fund over the years. The dividends are at the discretion of the fund house and may become erratic depending on the fund’s performance. Also, since the di... |
The alternative being promoted by Motilal Oswal AMC, the Cash Flow Plan, is actually an SWP option by another name. It will allow investors to withdraw a regular sum from their investments at a fixed percentage of the original investment amount. Withdrawals will be in a predefined frequency irrespective of the movement... |
A small investor may be able to avoid tax incidence altogether if the long-term capital gain accrued on the amount withdrawn through SWP is less than the Rs 1 lakh exemption threshold. With funds also starting to wean investors away from the dividend play, investors would do well to reconsider their own investing appro... |
Local governments across California are preparing to sue the state over a budget plan that would divert about $4 billion from their coffers next year. The association of city governments labeled the plan a "reckless Ponzi scheme" that will stall redevelopment projects, cut construction jobs and slash money for roadwork... |
"It's once again the state balancing its budget on the back of local government," Alameda County Administrator Susan Muranishi said after supervisors there voted Tuesday to back a lawsuit against the state. |
Their counterparts in Los Angeles passed a similar motion and local government groups have also pledged lawsuits, including the California Redevelopment Association, which in April won a legal challenge it filed last year against the state's attempt to tap $350 million in redevelopment funds. The case is on appeal. |
"Cities are going to have virtually no money to maintain city streets, to repair traffic signals, to sweep streets," said Chris McKenzie, executive director for the League of California Cities, which is drafting a lawsuit with the California State Association of Counties. "We have cities telling us they're going to hav... |
San Francisco will lose about $150 million, Mayor Gavin Newsom said. While painful, Newsom said the city's strong bond rating will allow it to borrow to bridge the gap, along with tapping $18 million in reserves. |
"Solving the problem by taking money from cities and counties is not solving problems - it's creating a new problem," Newsom said. |
In Alameda County, where officials already closed a $178 million budget deficit in part by eliminating 280 jobs, "everything is going to be on the table," Muranishi said. |
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Baldwin Vista (Los Angeles County), defended the deal she negotiated with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other leaders. |
"The agreement ... is far better for counties than the governor's original proposal," Bass said. |
The state plan to bridge a $26.3 billion deficit calls for major cuts in education and social services, which local leaders say will strain resources like emergency rooms. It also calls for using about $4.3 billion in local government funds. |
It first turns to local redevelopment agencies by diverting $1.3 billion in fiscal 2009-10 to the state from the slice of property taxes that would have gone to the agencies. In exchange, each agency's charter would be extended an extra year. The plan calls for another $350 million in redevelopment funds to be diverted... |
The state is also asking for redevelopment agencies to voluntarily extend their charters by up to 40 years in exchange for a $3 billion up-front payment to the state, a proposal many local officials dismissed as a bad deal. |
"That is the gimmick of all gimmicks," said Paul McIntosh, director of the California State Association of Counties. |
If enough redevelopment agencies don't volunteer, two other elements kick in. The state plans to generate $900 million by keeping the portion of the gas tax due to cities and counties for two years. Cities and counties largely use that money to maintain the 82 percent of all roadways in the state under their jurisdicti... |
"There's probably going to be far more accidents as a result," McKenzie said. |
The other element would allow the state to borrow $1.8 billion from local governments, which it would be required to repay with interest in three years. In the interim, cities and counties could borrow against the state repayment. |
"That's borrowing on top of borrowing," San Mateo County Supervisor Rich Gordon said. "It just doesn't make sense." |
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Gophers wrestlers Sean Russell and Gable Steveson, the top seed at heavyweight, advanced to the semifinals of the Cliff Keen Invitational in Las Vegas. |
Russell (8-1), the third seed at 125 pounds, won three matches easily on a technical fall, a pin in the second period and a major decision before a 1-0 win over Travis Piotrowski of Illinois on an escape in the quarterfinals. |
Steveson (11-0), a freshman, won three matches. He had a pin, an 18-3 technical fall and, in the quarterfinals, a 14-6 major decision over AJ Nevills of Fresno State. |
Two Gophers lost in the quarterfinals. Ethan Lizak (8-2) at 133 and Devin Skatzka (9-3) at 174. |
The semifinals will be held at noon Saturday, the finals at 5 p.m. |
The Gophers softball team released its 2019 schedule and it includes 24 games against teams that played in the NCAA tournament last season, including Florida State, the defending national champion, and Florida, another team that played in the Women’s College World Series. |
Minnesota, 41-17 last season, when it captured its third Big Ten tournament title in a row, will spend the first seven weeks and 32 games away from home. The Gophers will make three different trips to the state of Florida, including the first two of the season. |
The Gophers’ home schedule will begin against Purdue on March 29-31. |
• Lindsey Kozelsky and Max McHugh of the Gophers swept first place in the 100-yard breaststroke in the Minnesota Invitational, finishing in 59.73 seconds and 52.14, respectively. Teammate Tevyn Waddell won the 200 freestyle (1:46.58). |
• Freshman Amira Young of the Gophers won the 200-meter dash (24.70 seconds) at the South Dakota State Holiday Invitational. Running unattached, Minnesota’s Jack Wellenstein took first in the men’s 400 (47.68) and Teddy Frid in the 60 hurdles (8.16). The men’s 4x400 relay (3:16.08) also won; the four runners were Grant... |
Marcus Bent scored on his debut to earn Charlton a point and end Chelsea's 100% home record in the league this season. |
Eidur Gudjohnsen had put Chelsea ahead from close range after Thomas Myhre parried Hernan Crespo's header. |
But the Blues failed to finish off the Addicks and the visitors got a deserved equaliser when substitute Bent met Darren Ambrose's pass to nod home. |
Chelsea's frustration was compounded by Ricardo Carvalho's dismissal for a second booking late on. |
With Chelsea having won their previous 10 Premiership games, it was understandable that Addicks boss Alan Curbishley showed caution in starting with five across the middle and leaving Darren Bent as a solitary striker. |
Curbishley's tactic was to stifle the home side - and, initially, it worked, with the home side's best early attacks being stopped by the linesman's flag. |
But Chelsea were still the only team threatening and it was no real surprise when they did break the deadlock on 19 minutes. |
Damien Duff's corner was met by Crespo and although Myhre kept out his header, the ball dropped for Gudjohnsen, who bundled the ball home despite Radostin Kishishev's best efforts. |
That looked like being the platform for another routine Chelsea win - but, apart from a spectacular overhead attempt from Frank Lampard, they failed to trouble Myhre again for the remainder of the first half. |
Charlton came out all guns blazing after the break - with Bryan Hughes sounding a warning shot with a low effort that Petr Cech did well to stop after it came at him through a crowd of legs. |
That still failed to rouse Jose Mourinho's side from their slumber and instead it was Charlton who continued to press forward. |
And on the hour mark they got the equaliser their endeavour deserved when Bent ran on to Ambrose's lofted through-ball and flicked his header into the net. |
Mourinho's response was to send on Shaun Wright-Phillips and Maniche on for Damien Duff and Claude Makelele. |
Gudjohnsen sent a shot skidding just wide soon after as the Blues pushed forwards ominously. |
But Charlton hung on and were still looking dangerous themselves, Darren Bent finding room in the box to send a shot flashing just over. |
Carvalho's second booking - for a foul on Darren Bent with eight minutes to go - set up a grandstand finish. |
Both sides went for the win, with Ambrose going close for Charlton and Frank Lampard almost snatching it for Chelsea. |
But in the end a draw was a fair result from a pulsating game. |
Chelsea: Cech, Gallas, Ricardo Carvalho, Terry, Del Horno (Carlton Cole 79), Makelele (Wright-Phillips 63), Joe Cole, Lampard, Gudjohnsen, Duff (Maniche 63), Crespo. |
Subs Not Used: Cudicini, Paulo Ferreira. |
Sent Off: Ricardo Carvalho (81). |
Charlton: Myhre, Young, Fortune, Hreidarsson, Powell, Rommedahl (Marcus Bent 40), Holland, Kishishev, Hughes, Ambrose (Bartlett 90), Darren Bent. |
Subs Not Used: Andersen, Perry, Spector. |
Downlow Chicken Shack hosted a trial run for some friends and family last night and I eagerly slipped in early with my family to give it a shot. The bare bones, counter-service room looked to be 95% complete — no small feat considering the state the 1,000 sqft space was in when chefs Doug Stephen and Lindsey Mann took ... |
The patio platform next to the alley is still in need of a rebuild, but the 24 seat interior – as you can see in the shot above – is ready to go (though it was still missing its big menu board on the wall, a copy of which I’ve supplied below). It’s a utilitarian, no frills spot; its lack of pretense amplified by a cool... |
If you’ve never heard of that style before, it’s a Tennessee variant invented in the 1930s as means of revenge. According to its origins story, a girlfriend made it for her cheating fella as punishment for his infidelity, but he ended up loving it so much that he and his brothers replicated the method/recipe and opened... |
The marinated is meat is well seasoned, floured, buttermilked and deep fried before being sauced with a signature spice paste. The heat typically comes from cayenne, but its Scoville levels can be upped with any number of peppers (eg. Ghosts, even Carolina Reapers) depending on the lunacy of the person preparing it. Sp... |
Doug and Lindsey have perfected the recipe, and they’re aiming to serve half birds, wings and breast sandwiches. A preview version of the sandwich is pictured at top. It’s plenty of chicken with a bright, wet outer crunch that packs a sweet and spicy kick. A sweet and sour coleslaw cap complicates the flavour further a... |
Doug tells me they’ll do mild, medium, hot, and extra hot versions, plus an over-the-top iteration called “A Side of Milk” for the heat-crazies. The small restaurant (15-20 seats) will also serve cornbread, coleslaw and fries — either curly or waffle-cut (they haven’t committed yet, though waffle-cut is the way in Tenn... |
Chicken sandwich with sweet and slaw, DL sauce, house pickles and fries. |
I can report that they have settled on crinkle cut fries instead of waffle or curly fries. These are coated with potato starch so they keep their crispiness and internal heat longer. They’re also spice-dusted, but not as intensely as the chicken. And speaking of chicken, prices start at $9 for a quarter bird and go up ... |
Lol! I suspect this joint will last that long with prices like that. Fried chicken is one of the cheapest of foods, so charging $9 bucks for two pieces of dark chicken that doesn’t include any sides is farcical. Hell, even Juke, which is sort of upscale fried chicken only charges 5.75 for the same amount of chicken. |
Bob…Good ingredients, staff and execution come at a price. As someone who has enjoyed the hospitality and quality of food from Merchant’s I can gladly say that value is high on their list. Please enjoy your yellow label spam sandwich at home in peace. |
15 pieces of chicken at LA Chicken is $24.00, dark meat, $25.99, white meat. Yes, this place is expensive, but time will tell if people in this neighborhood will pay the price for the quality. I had the sandwich yesterday, and it was good, but not really something I would go back for again. I like Jukes for the quality... |
Low-key? Pah! Even without their pyro and stage tricks Matt Bellamy and co are unbeatable Kiss without the make-up. Brandon Flowers without the moustache. Iggy without the waggled wanger. Panic At The Disco without the !. Intriguing ideas, but could they ever really work? The same could be thought of Muse without the f... |
Yet stripped-down this is. No hydraulic satellite drum riser, no laser-spitting radar dishes, no firework fountains, not even the bubbling neon test tubes from Reading ’06. Nope, the entire stage set for tonight’s Teenage Cancer Trust show comprises a five-foot strip cut out of their usual big screen wall and spread ac... |
And The Rock devastatingly delivers. Any suggestion that Muse might defer to the majesty of their surroundings, concede victory in the grandiosity stakes to the venerable old fishbowl they’re playing and break out the acoustics and string quartets for a humble mumble through the hits is blown through the dome by the op... |
‘Map Of The Problematique’ and its stormtrooping (Depeche) modernity. ‘Supermassive Black Hole’’s loping space funk. The ecstatic clapalong of ‘Starlight’, the pogo rampage of ‘Time Is Running Out’. These are the pop moments between which Muse pull no punches, firing out a catalogue of the last decade’s most volcanic r... |
It’s the close-up details that make the night magical, though, the minutiae usually lost beneath the audiovisual blitz. The way that, during ‘Feeling Good’, the transparent lid of Matt’s piano reflects the strings lighting up. The knee-slides and guitar spins at the crescendo of a gargantuan ‘Plug In Baby’ or the super... |
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Post Iraq in 2003 (and largely based upon a speech in the Senate by then-Senator B. Hussein Obama), the doctrine of a unilateral strike with regard to “national interest” is not oblique.� A country may use force even when not attacked when “the very survival of the state would be at stake.” You’ll find that language on... |
It doesn’t matter whether Assad used chemical weapons. It only matters whether he was using them against the United States and in a manner in which there was no time for other options. As was noted on the BBC this morning, the British rep at the Security Counsel is now obligated to veto any UN resolution authorizing fo... |
SMU Basketball just finished its fourth straight 25-win season, yet once again failed to advance in the NCAA Tournament. |
It has been 28 years since the Mustangs have won a tournament game. |
But nobody should care about another lackluster ending to a season that began with promise. Why? Because the Mustangs proved they could win with the baggage of their previous head coach. |
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