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$1M SCAM FUELED COKE & BET BINGE

Sat Jul 26 4:24am EDT

A high-living accountant used his daughter's college fund in an elaborate scheme to steal more than $1 million from his Long Island firm to bankroll his cocaine and gambling addiction, authorities said. Steven Rubenoff, 47, faces up to 9 years in...

  • 'HOUSE ARREST' AT THE CONNERYS' Sat Jul 26 4:24am EDT

    Sean Connery's family nemesis - his neighbor "Dr. No" - was at it again yesterday. Dr. Burton Sultan called the cops on construction workers doing more renovations on the East 71st Street townhouse he shares with the James Bond portrayer's son...

  • A DELAY DOOMED BRAVEST Sat Jul 26 4:24am EDT

    Rescuers struggling to save a Brooklyn firefighter's unconscious son had no idea the father was still in Lake Tahoe's churning waters, a teen who helped lifeguards drag him out said yesterday. Martin Simmons ended up drowning Monday trying to save...

  • ALISA & ASHLEY'S TANK WARFARE Sat Jul 26 4:23am EDT

    They could be twins. Thomas "TJ" Earle's wife had the moxie to step out yesterday in practically the same outfit worn by Ashley Dupre on a date with her husband. Alisa Earle, 36, emerged from the Earle home in Wall Township, NJ, for a day with...

  • BEACH TRAGEDIES - 2 DROWNED, 2 MISSING Sat Jul 26 4:23am EDT

    Two people drowned and two were missing after being swept to sea by powerful ocean currents yesterday in three separate incidents at beaches in the city and Long Island, authorities said. At 7:30 p.m., two Brooklyn men who were enjoying the water...

  • DEATH-SQUAD BOSS GUILTY OF FRAUD Sat Jul 26 4:23am EDT

    A former Haitian death-squad leader who murdered and tortured political enemies in the early 1990s was convicted in Brooklyn yesterday of far less sinister crimes - ripping off loan providers in a mortgage-fraud scheme. Emmanuel Constant, 51, did...

  • DENTIST 'DEATH THREAT' GAL FREE Sat Jul 26 4:23am EDT

    The sister-in-law of slain dentist Daniel Malakov was acquitted yesterday of charges she threatened the dead man's brother to keep him quiet about the murder. A Queens jury deliberated a day and a half before finding Natella Natanova, 39, not...

  • DIVAS: WE WILL GET WRITE ON IT Sat Jul 26 4:23am EDT

    Singers, divas and former jailbirds Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim are still hoping to add "author" to their résumés. Lawyers for the hip-hoppers said yesterday that both are still working on their book projects, even though each is getting sued by...

  • ELIOT MAY STILL FACE RAP ON DIRTY TRICKS Sat Jul 26 4:23am EDT

    ALBANY - The head of the state Commission on Public Integrity, which has accused four top aides to disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer with breaking state law, said yesterday that Spitzer himself may still be charged if ongoing investigations turn...

  • FASTER ASTOR OVERHAUL Sat Jul 26 4:22am EDT

    Construction on a long-promised pedestrian plaza at Astor Place and Cooper Square could begin by next summer after proceeding at a crawl for decades. The new open space - which will appeal to the neighborhood's students, skateboarders and the...

  • FELINE'S FINE - NOT HIM Sat Jul 26 4:22am EDT

    One Brooklyn man has given up everything - for a cat. After being locked in a loony bin for trying to save the feline when it got stuck in a building wall, cat lover Chris Muth has lost his home, his job and even his girlfriend. The 49-year-old...

  • GAS-BLAST INFERNO Sat Jul 26 4:22am EDT

    A fiery explosion rocked a six-story Queens apartment building yesterday, shortly after gas was restored following a month and a half without service, authorities said yesterday. Seventeen people were injured in the Flushing fireball and ensuing...

  • HIPPIE TOOK HER BEST $HOT: DA Sat Jul 26 4:22am EDT

    Ex-hippie Rebekah Johnson wanted cash from the Staten Island commune Ganas - and when they wouldn't pay, she went for blood instead, prosecutors said yesterday in opening arguments at her attempted-murder trial. Johnson, 45, is charged with...

  • HO-BROKEN! SHAMED NJ BIG 'FESSES TO KRISTEN TRYST Sat Jul 26 4:22am EDT

    It's all his asphalt. New Jersey road-paving mogul Thomas "TJ" Earle yesterday admitted he lied to his beautiful wife - and that he actually had a steamy monthlong affair with the saucy Jersey Shore call girl who brought down Gov. Eliot Spitzer...

  • MIKE: NIX $$ FOR PRIMARIES Sat Jul 26 4:22am EDT

    MINNEAPOLIS - Mayor Bloomberg yesterday proposed that the government stop funding primaries. "Why are taxpayers forced to pay the costs of each party's nominating meetings, especially when the parties so often exclude voters and pass laws that...

  • NY WOE ON MINORITY GRAD RATES Sat Jul 26 4:21am EDT

    Both the city and state rank near the bottom nationally in their ability to graduate black male students from high school, according to a new report. Just 32 percent of black males graduated on time from city high schools in 2006 - compared to 57...

  • POP-HIT ICON IN LI HOSP Sat Jul 26 4:21am EDT

    Singer Connie Francis, who recorded '50s and '60s pop hits including "Who's Sorry Now?" and "Lipstick on Your Collar," remains in a Long Island hospital after falling ill this week. Francis' agent, Mike Church, said she had been scheduled to...

  • RANGEL TO ETHICS PANEL: PROBE ME, PLEASE! Sat Jul 26 4:21am EDT

    Rep. Charles Rangel asked the House Ethics Committee yesterday to investigate allegations that he improperly received sweetheart deals on four rent-stabilized apartments at Lenox Terrace in Harlem. While denying any wrongdoing, Rangel is taking...

  • YOU BET YOUR KNIFE Sat Jul 26 4:21am EDT

    A pair of machete-wielding Brooklyn bodega owners turned the tide on three thugs - sending them screaming from the store and later tracking down the trio for the cops. Laison Evans, 20, Andre Avant, 20, and Jose Pichardo, 23, allegedly tried to...

  • YOUTUBE LOON IS DIVORCING THE BIG APPLE Sat Jul 26 4:21am EDT

    Toodle-oo, Tricia. YouTube yeller Tricia Walsh-Smith says she's moving back home to England. In her latest online rant, the ex-wife of Shubert Organization head Philip Smith said "I'm tired out. I'm going back to London. But will I get work...