This week, a single mother was arrested and charged with harassing and stalking Yankees general manager Brian Cashman amidst her claims that she had been Cashman's mistress since last April. Cashman's life has gotten increasingly messy since then: his wife has filed for divorce, the Post has been trailing him everywhere he goes, and now, emails between him and alleged mistress Louise Neathway have been released, including one which contained an ultrasound picture "proving" Cashman got her pregnant: “What Brian Cashman has done to me is both incomprehensible and unforgivable...I am going to the press and informaing [sic] them of the preganacy [sic] and the abortion. And everything else.” more ›

Last week, State Supreme Court Justice Alice Schlesinger ordered the city to release email correspondence between Mayor Bloomberg's office and former Schools Chancellor Cathie Black shortly before she took office, because Black and her staff were "de facto agents of the city." The city had argued that the documents weren't subject to New York's FOIL, and would be an invasion of privacy if released. Schlesinger called this logic "particularly specious," and gave the city 15 days to turn the documents over. The city has decided to appeal the ruling. Connie Pankratz, the Law Department's deputy communications director, tells us, "We believe the emails are exempt from FOIL and are filing an appeal tomorrow." more ›

Yesterday became Political Nerd Christmas as a trove of 14,482 of Sarah Palin's emails totaling more than 24,000 pages were released almost 3 years after they were first requested, when she was tapped by John "Country First" McCain to be his VP candidate. The emails are from the first 21 months of Palin's time as governor, do not include her final 10 months (those also have been requested) and 953 have been redacted altogether. While the emails are riddled with typos (whose aren't?), exclamation points, and folksy substitutions for curse words ("holy flipping crap") they are largely lacking in surprises. This hilarious graphic from the Guardian tells the tale: more ›

Mayor Bloomberg has made no secret of his support for the would-be "Ground Zero Mosque," a proposed Islamic community center for lower Manhattan that isn't actually at Ground Zero. But the dallies seem mildly shocked by the "revelation" that his administration was actively trying to help Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf make the Park 51 project a reality. Among the emails released yesterday include a drafted letter written by Community Affairs Commissioner Nazli Parvizi for Rauf's wife, Daisy Khan, to send to Community Board 1, which was voting on the project at the time. more ›

Yesterday, realizing that he hadn't done or said anything sufficiently crazy in nearly a month, former Republican gubernatorial punching bag Carl Paladino sent out a lengthy, ranty letter to reporters lambasting Capital Tonight anchor Liz Benjamin and biased journalists everywhere with his usual aplomb and class: "Liz, your opinions on me are like armpits, everyone has them and most of them stink." Do you hear that? It's the sound of Carl enjoying the kerplunk of another turd in the punchbowl! more ›

Besides a desperately needed pee break, Carl Paladino was practically a ghost at Monday night's gubernatorial debate. He stammered and stumped his way through the evening, ignored by the other candidates, and overshadowed in outrageousness by Jimmy McMillan's karate moves. However, one person has got his back: Larry Flynt. “He is a natural pornographer who has a skilled eye for unusual views and acrobatics," he wrote in a press release. more ›

We've all dreamed of becoming pen pals with future bikini-waxer Carl Paladino, but one man claims to have lived the dream. Zach Nikonovich-Kahn forwarded Gawker a series of angry email exchanges he claims to have had with the Republican gubernatorial candidate. Will this be the Paladino scandal-of-the-week? more ›

If we were to make a list of all the people who dislike Carl Paladino, it would be a damn long list at this point. But right at the top of that list would have to be WNYMedia, the liberal Buffalo political blog who has been gunning for Carl since before he was a twinkle in our speedo-jiggling eyes. They released the bestiality emails last spring which started our state's love affair with Crazy Carl, and they've now set up a new website, Paladinoporn.com, with tons more salacious, inappropriate, salty dog Paladino-mails. more ›

The Times got a hold of some petty e-mails exchanged between unhinged members of the co-op board at 301 East 62nd Street, a 130-unit brick building that went co-op in 1984. These people kind of hate each other, and it's not really clear why, so we're assuming one their sons accepted an astronaut pen as a gift from one board member, thereby setting off an irrevocable chain reaction of gossip, resentment, and backbiting. The e-mails are certainly entertaining: more ›

The gaffe-prone gubernatorial-wannabe Carl Paladino, who likes his bestiality videos best when they're forwarded, continued his hot streak of apologizing without apologizing yesterday. The "determined" millionaire told Talk 1300 AM in Albany that "he's absolutely in the race," and "will not pull out for any controversy." Paladino admitted he was "careless" with his emailing, but then backpedaled with the grace of a ballerina: "I would say the e-mail was racist...Was I being a racist in forwarding them? Most of them I never even read." No man is an e-mail (or responsible for what he happens to forward in the middle of the work day)! more ›

After it was revealed yesterday that governor hopeful Carl Paladino had sent or forwarded a series of emails containing hardcore porn, racial slurs and videos of bestiality, he attempted to explain his actions to the press. However, he didn't seem too apologetic. YNN has a video of the conference, where he starts off saying, "I confess to being human and imperfect, as are all of God's children. I'm not a racist and I say that even in some of the e-mails they have hacked from my computer." more ›

Yesterday, Governor Paterson's lawyer, Theodore Wells, fired off a letter to the commission that investigated his client's alleged solicitation of free World Series Yankees tickets. The letter [pdf] disclosed e-mails between Paterson's staff and the Yankees which seemed to contradict the Commission on Public Integrity's allegation that Paterson's aide David Johnson shook down the Yankees for free tickets, then belatedly forged his boss's name on a post-dated check after people started asking questions. But today the commission's chief hit back, insisting that these e-mails don't actually pertain to the World Series! more ›

The scandal around emails that Assemblyman Sam Hoyt (D-Buffalo) reportedly sent a colleague's teen intern is currently out of Assembly Leader Sheldon Silver's hands, as the Ethics Committee looks it over. However, the NY Times notes that accusations of sexual misconduct by lawmakers or staffers is "especially sensitive for Mr. Silver, who has faced criticism that he mishandled a 2001 complaint that his former chief of staff sexually assaulted an Assembly employee." more ›

Dina Matos McGreevey is having her days in court this week, as the divorce proceedings between her and former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey drag on ever-longer. Having settled the child custody portion of the divorce, Dina and Jim are now squabbling about the important stuff: money. more ›