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This past week, the Post has had a series of articles about the 28 year old woman who seemed to be on the run and used a variety of identities, most recently in the New York area, to get by. Esther Elizabeth Reed attended Columbia using the name of a missing woman (which set off some alarms) and she might be in espionage, based on what an ex-boyfriend's father observed (she wanted them to launder money! she got a nose job! calls from Europe!). Today's article has Reed's father weigh in: "I got a phone call from her when she was living on other people's credit cards, and she said, 'Dad, I'm going to be doing things that you don't approve of - things that are not in your value system.'" Which might include forging her sister's checks. An old teacher described her as "never happy with who she was." While Reed doesn't seem to be doing anything illegal (aside from using other people's identities and still being wanted for the check forging in Seattle), her story is very strange.

-- Alarming News got a shot of dye-packs exploding in the aftermath of an Upper East Side robbery.

Somehow, Peter Braunstein has pleaded not guilty to the various crimes committed when he 1) set fires in an apartment building, 2) posed as a firefighter, and 3) molested a co-worker for thirteen hours. We can only begin to speculate why his beautiful blond lawyer is agreeing to go along with this, but Gothamist is sure that Braunstein is itching for a long, drawn-out trial with loads of media coverage. He's probably going to be going to jail for a long time, so what does he have to lose?

As Gothamist reads more and more about the NYU senior, Hakan Yalincak, and his scamming ways, the more we think we're reading a David Mamet play. The NY Post says that Yalincak and his mom rented an office "furnishing it with mahogany desks and plush, silk-upholstered chairs," "ordered thousands of dollars in computer equipment, hired temporary workers to monitor the Bloomberg stock tickers and shuttled investors in and out of the conference room." The man they rented the space from, Paul Ardaji, says that while the Yalincaks claimed they were started a hedge fund, they had their meetings all in one day and never showed up again - the computers weren't even online either. Even Bloomberg LLP has the FBI trying to help recover money they never got for the computers! The mother and son (and possibly father) are being sued by people who want their money back, and it seems that the Yalincaks bought a Porsche and Tiffany jewelry with the money. The mother, Ayferafet Yalincak, had actually served two years in an Indiana prison for practicing medicine without a license. Are you kidding? The Daily News says that perhaps the son was trying to "help his mom recover from an earlier scam," which sounds not only like The Grifters, but something two steps ahead of the Sante and Kenneth Kimes scandal. And now the question is whether or not the $21 million gift to NYU has real money behind it.

The Kimeses hatched a much more nefarious plot with the killing of Irene Silverman: They moved into an apartment in her townhouse, with the plot of eventually stealing the $7 million home.