NEWS LITE : AMY FISHER'S WILES GET HER MORE LOCKUP FOR A WHILE.Amy Fisher's plan to use hot love letters to get herself moved to a better prison neighborhood has backfired, a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of state prison official said Saturday. Instead of winding up closer to home, as she apparently had hoped, the Long Island Lolita found herself this weekend locked in her cell 23 hours a day and threatened with being sent to a federal prison far, far from home. Fisher, 21, is serving a term of five to 15 years for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco, wife of her lover, Joey Buttafuoco, in 1992. She is doing her time in Albion Correctional Facility Albion Correctional Facility is a medium security women's prison in Albion, New York, USA in Orleans County that is operated by the New York State Department of Correctional Services. Most famously, Albion housed "Long Island Lolita" Amy Fisher. , near Niagara Falls, N.Y., ``but she has made it clear over the years she would prefer to be at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility'' in Westchester County, said James Flateau, spokesman for the State Department of Correctional Services. Amy's goal was no big deal. The problem was her chosen method of getting to Bedford Hills - a campaign of sending suggestive letters to guards, enticing them to break the rules, Flateau said. In her latest letter last month, she cooed to an employee that, among other things, she was just dying to fall asleep on his chest. That bought her 60 days of lockdown Lockdown A specified period when an employee of a public company is barred from selling - and occasionally buying - their company's stock. Notes: These types of equity transaction restrictions can be imposed by securities regulators or underwriting firms if a company has . Flateau says Amy's apparent hope was that if she caused enough problems with the staff, Correctional Services would move her just to get her off their backs. America: from she to shining she In honor of Independence Day, Glamour magazine asked prominent women who became U.S. citizens what they love about this nation of ours: Joan Chen, actress, born in China: ``Elvis Presley's `Love Me Tender.' When I first heard it, I thought, `That's it! I have to go to America.' '' Madeleine K. Albright, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, born in Czechoslovakia (before it disappeared from the map): ``I love America for its openness, its tolerance, its opportunity. ``When I was a girl, I watched in fear as Communists loyal to Josef Stalin seized control of Czechoslovakia and drove my family from its home. America opened its arms to us.'' Iman, model, born in Somalia: ``Freedom to choose. I have the right to vote, the right to an abortion and freedom of speech, rights that many women in other countries still do not have.'' Will Mafia bash sizzle or fizzle fiz·zle intr.v. fiz·zled, fiz·zling, fiz·zles 1. To make a hissing or sputtering sound. 2. Informal To fail or end weakly, especially after a hopeful beginning. n. ? New York police New York Police may refer to:
v. doused also dowsed, dous·ing also dows·ing, dous·es also dows·es v.tr. 1. To plunge into liquid; immerse. See Synonyms at dip. 2. the Dapper Don's annual fireworks fireworks: see pyrotechnics. fireworks Explosives or combustibles used for display. Of ancient Chinese origin, fireworks evidently developed out of military rockets and explosive missiles and accompanied the spread of military explosives westward to show. City Hall refused a permit for the food-and-fireworks bash in Queens begun by jailed Mafia boss John Gotti and carried on by his successors. Authorities said they will deploy an army of police to make sure the display doesn't go on anyway. Gotti for years thumbed his nose at city regulations by putting on a Fourth of July Fourth of July, Independence Day, or July Fourth, U.S. holiday, commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Celebration of it began during the American Revolution. display near his hangout. Police Commissioner Howard Safir said Thursday there will be zero tolerance The policy of applying laws or penalties to even minor infringements of a code in order to reinforce its overall importance and enhance deterrence. Since the 1980s the phrase zero tolerance has signified a philosophy toward illegal conduct that favors strict imposition of of fireworks. ``You will not see young men walking into emergency rooms with their hands blown off,'' Safir said. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Super fan Steve Geppi, owner and president of Diamond Comic Distributor Inc. in Baltimore, paid $61,900 for a rare 1938 Action Comics No. 1 at Sotheby's sixth annual comic books and comic art auction in New York on Saturday. Geppi, who also owns an interest in the Baltimore Orioles, now owns two copies of the issue in which Superman first leaped tall buildings in a single bound. The New York Times |
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