{"id":937,"date":"2006-04-07T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T17:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/ooh_page_six_freelancer_im_so_scared.html"},"modified":"2006-04-07T09:30:36","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T17:30:36","slug":"ooh_page_six_fr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/ooh_page_six_fr.html","title":{"rendered":"Ooh, Page Six Freelancer, I&#8217;m So Scared!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The worst thing about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/nothing_has_hur.html\">all<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/what_now_youre.html\">these<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/police_as_hitme.html\">mafia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/thats_allegedly.html\">stories<\/a> is that it creates a culture in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/62074.htm\">Page Six freelancers shake down their subjects for either favorable or no coverage<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A freelancer for The Post&#8217;s Page Six gossip column is under investigation by the FBI on suspicion of making &#8220;extortionate demands&#8221; in return for not writing any damaging stories about Beverly Hills billionaire Ron Burkle.<\/p>\n<p>Jared Paul Stern, who worked two days per week on Page Six, allegedly demanded $100,000 from Burkle, who made his fortune in supermarkets, plus an annual stipend of $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to the investigation say the FBI has been investigating for two weeks under the direction of Mark Weinstein, the chief of the economic-crimes division of the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Southern District of New York, and has Stern on video and audiotapes.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for money from Burkle, Stern allegedly would &#8220;refrain from writing damaging, negative stories and write puff pieces&#8221; flattering to Burkle.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who the fuck does this guy think he is? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/shh_dont_tell_h.html\">Cindy Fucking Adams<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worst thing about all these mafia stories is that it creates a culture in which Page Six freelancers shake down their subjects for either favorable or no coverage: A freelancer for The Post&#8217;s Page Six gossip column is under investigation by the FBI on suspicion of making &#8220;extortionate demands&#8221; in return for not writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26,33,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new_york_post","category-tragicomic_ironic_obnoxious_or_absurd","category-what_will_they_think_of_next","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}