Jacob Albert
Jacob Albert
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In 2007, Alberto Morrero was charged with sexually assaulting a woman in Fair Haven, Connecticut. Three years later, after the crime had been squeezed through the pasta strainer of the U.S. justice system, Art DiAdamo, bail bondsman, turned the crime into a $17,000 profit for himself by signing Alberto a bail bond, allowing him to get out of jail until his trial, months or potentially even years away — provided that he pay Art his commission.
Chef, food-lover, ‘arepa’ master
Twenty-three-year old Ernesto “Wachas” Garcia Hernandez of Ay! Salsa tells scene about his culinary influences, what he would cook for Salma Hayek, the invaluable help of his sisters Yolanda and Yanirabel Acosta, and more importantly, he shares the secrets of the perfect arepa.
FEAR THE SINGULARITY
Coffee was our sole objective as we slunk and scuttled into the 92nd Street Y, in New York, last Saturday at 7 a.m.
Lies, lies and videotape
There’s a line that Mark Whitacre likes to share with almost everyone he meets. “I caught a lucky break,” he says to his shrink, his lawyer and eventually the FBI. After his parents died in an automobile accident when he was six, a rich amusement-park owner in Ohio adopted him, and so his story begins. But Whitacre, an excitable, sausage-fingered executive at A.D.M, a giant agribusiness corporation, is merely creating a façade — one that will complicate “The Informant!” and disintegrate during the film.