After a post Academy Awards scuffle left one man and witnesses saying that Sean "Diddy" Combs assaulted a man inside the famed Roosevelt Hotel last February, the Bad Boy Records mogul has been given a May 27 court date in Los Angeles.
Four witnesses were deposed yesterday (January 22) in Los Angeles, all agreeing that they saw Diddy physically assault Gerald Rechnitzer in the early hours of February 26, 2007. According to these reports, the parking lot incident began when Diddy allegedly speaking to Rechnitzer's fiancee Sofia Sokolov. A verbal altercation ensued, prompting Diddy, with his left hand, to back-hand slap the plaintiff, who reportedly fell into a taxi cab in the same parking lot.
No statements have been released from Diddy spokespeople. The mogul is also facing a $5 million charge in his home state of New York for a similar incident in a club, involving an altercation over a woman.
Presently, Diddy is wrapping up filming of his new season of MTV's Making the Band, which features male and female R&B/Pop groups competing for contracts and a release on Bad Boy Records.
The teen Hip-Pop phenomenon certainly had everyone 'cranking' that a while ago but now most people are giving him a rather perplex look with his latest comments.
The "Crank Dat" star, who's up for a Grammy, said he believes he's the number 1 hottest rapper out right now. If MTV did another list of hottest MCs right now, he had this to say. "I think if y'all did it right now, yeah, I deserve to be on there."
When Weezy's, Ye's and Jigga's name were thrown out there as to who's hotter he candidly replied "Right now, yes [I'm hotter than them]." "Today, January — whatever the date this is — 2008, yes [I am the hottest]."
Soulja Boy, who broke a digital-download records earlier this year by selling over 3 million, also considers himself a pioneer of sorts.
"They'll say I opened up a lot of doors for people. The first person who started this, what we call hip-hop, opened the door for me. It probably wasn't a party track or a 'Crank That,' it probably was something way, way, way different than what I'm talking about, but he still opened the door for what I'm doing, and if I never would have did this, [the next] wouldn't come."
Jan 24 - Sources: Tax Rebates may range from $600-$1,200 http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/...lus/index.html
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- American taxpayers would get checks of several hundred dollars from the government under a plan to stimulate the economy, sources said Thursday.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is the administration's point person for the economic stimulus plan.
Congressional leaders of both parties were still talking with their membership to sell the plan, sources said.
Sources on Capitol Hill and at the Treasury Department said congressional and White House negotiators agreed upon checks of $600 per individual and $1,200 per couple.
A Democratic aide and a Republican aide said there will be an additional amount per child, which could be in the neighborhood of $300.
Checks could be in taxpayers' mailboxes by June, according to an Associated Press report.
The numbers must still be analyzed by the Treasury Department to see what the total price tag of the stimulus package would be, sources said.
To get to the agreement, Democrats dropped calls for increases in food stamps and an extension of unemployment compensation. Republicans agreed to allow people who pay Social Security taxes but not income taxes to get the checks, sources said.
An announcement on the plan could come Thursday afternoon, the two sources said.
Aides in both parties said Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has been working aggressively in recent days as he tries to make progress before House Republicans head out of Washington for a legislative retreat at the end of the week.
To win over conservatives, the package also is slated to include business tax breaks, according to officials in both parties.
The stimulus package also may face resistance from fiscal conservatives in both parties over worries that it would increase the federal debt. The talks are occurring as auditors report that the federal deficit -- the difference between what the government takes in and what it spends -- is increasing.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated Wednesday the deficit would jump to $250 billion, mainly because of a weakening economy. That estimate does not include any additional spending that would be part of a stimulus package.
The proposal is intended to address economic worries stemming from a worldwide credit crunch created by the mortgage crisis and plunging stock markets. The president proposed the package last week. Watch a debate on whether the U.S. is heading into a recession »
Officials in both parties credited Paulson, the former Goldman Sachs executive known for a shrewd grasp of the markets, with pushing the package aggressively.
"He's been on the phone with practically every member of Congress -- some of them a few times," one Senate Republican aide said. "He's not fooling around." E-mail to a friend
CNNMoney.com's Jeanne Sahadi and CNN's Ted Barrett, Kate Bolduan, Ed Henry, Lesa Jansen and Deirdre Walsh contributed to this report.
Copyright 2008 CNN. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Associated Press contributed to this report
T-mobile Gets Jacked For 36,000 phones worth 8.2 Million So here’s what we just heard: one of T-Mobile’s warehouses were broken into over the weekend and around 36,000 phones were stolen! The phones stolen are said to be worth around $8.2 million! Yeah peoples, not fun. What’s even crazier is that the majority of what was stolen were the Sidekick devices. T-Mobile’s actively tracking the IMEIs to see if any are activated on their network and is said to be working with law enforcement officials to trace the handsets to dealers that potentially activate them. Totally insane! Here’s the internal email to T-Mobile dealers, after the jump!
"Wanted to let you all know that one of our warehouses was broken into over the weekend and some 36,000 phones were stolen (worth about 8.2 Million). The most significant phones stolen were the Sidekick phones. Please make sure you inform the dealers who like to purchase gray market handsets that we are aggressively working with law enforcement to prosecute anyone who has these handsets. We do know the IMEI’s of the stolen phones and once they end up on our network we will go to the dealer code that activated the phone. So if your dealers get a call about Sidekicks and the deal is too good to be true you will know why."
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After a post Academy Awards scuffle left one man and witnesses saying that Sean "Diddy" Combs assaulted a man inside the famed Roosevelt Hotel last February, the Bad Boy Records mogul has been given a May 27 court date in Los Angeles.
Four witnesses were deposed yesterday (January 22) in Los Angeles, all agreeing that they saw Diddy physically assault Gerald Rechnitzer in the early hours of February 26, 2007. According to these reports, the parking lot incident began when Diddy allegedly speaking to Rechnitzer's fiancee Sofia Sokolov. A verbal altercation ensued, prompting Diddy, with his left hand, to back-hand slap the plaintiff, who reportedly fell into a taxi cab in the same parking lot.
No statements have been released from Diddy spokespeople. The mogul is also facing a $5 million charge in his home state of New York for a similar incident in a club, involving an altercation over a woman.
Presently, Diddy is wrapping up filming of his new season of MTV's Making the Band, which features male and female R&B/Pop groups competing for contracts and a release on Bad Boy Records.
Soulja Boy up for grammy! and gets cocky and say he hotter then jay z and kanye west!
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The teen Hip-Pop phenomenon certainly had everyone 'cranking' that a while ago but now most people are giving him a rather perplex look with his latest comments.
The "Crank Dat" star, who's up for a Grammy, said he believes he's the number 1 hottest rapper out right now. If MTV did another list of hottest MCs right now, he had this to say. "I think if y'all did it right now, yeah, I deserve to be on there."
When Weezy's, Ye's and Jigga's name were thrown out there as to who's hotter he candidly replied "Right now, yes [I'm hotter than them]." "Today, January — whatever the date this is — 2008, yes [I am the hottest]."
Soulja Boy, who broke a digital-download records earlier this year by selling over 3 million, also considers himself a pioneer of sorts.
"They'll say I opened up a lot of doors for people. The first person who started this, what we call hip-hop, opened the door for me. It probably wasn't a party track or a 'Crank That,' it probably was something way, way, way different than what I'm talking about, but he still opened the door for what I'm doing, and if I never would have did this, [the next] wouldn't come."
Jan 24 - Sources: Tax Rebates may range from $600-$1,200
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/...lus/index.html
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- American taxpayers would get checks of several hundred dollars from the government under a plan to stimulate the economy, sources said Thursday.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is the administration's point person for the economic stimulus plan.
Congressional leaders of both parties were still talking with their membership to sell the plan, sources said.
Sources on Capitol Hill and at the Treasury Department said congressional and White House negotiators agreed upon checks of $600 per individual and $1,200 per couple.
A Democratic aide and a Republican aide said there will be an additional amount per child, which could be in the neighborhood of $300.
Checks could be in taxpayers' mailboxes by June, according to an Associated Press report.
The numbers must still be analyzed by the Treasury Department to see what the total price tag of the stimulus package would be, sources said.
To get to the agreement, Democrats dropped calls for increases in food stamps and an extension of unemployment compensation. Republicans agreed to allow people who pay Social Security taxes but not income taxes to get the checks, sources said.
An announcement on the plan could come Thursday afternoon, the two sources said.
Aides in both parties said Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has been working aggressively in recent days as he tries to make progress before House Republicans head out of Washington for a legislative retreat at the end of the week.
To win over conservatives, the package also is slated to include business tax breaks, according to officials in both parties.
The stimulus package also may face resistance from fiscal conservatives in both parties over worries that it would increase the federal debt. The talks are occurring as auditors report that the federal deficit -- the difference between what the government takes in and what it spends -- is increasing.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated Wednesday the deficit would jump to $250 billion, mainly because of a weakening economy. That estimate does not include any additional spending that would be part of a stimulus package.
The proposal is intended to address economic worries stemming from a worldwide credit crunch created by the mortgage crisis and plunging stock markets. The president proposed the package last week. Watch a debate on whether the U.S. is heading into a recession »
Officials in both parties credited Paulson, the former Goldman Sachs executive known for a shrewd grasp of the markets, with pushing the package aggressively.
"He's been on the phone with practically every member of Congress -- some of them a few times," one Senate Republican aide said. "He's not fooling around." E-mail to a friend
CNNMoney.com's Jeanne Sahadi and CNN's Ted Barrett, Kate Bolduan, Ed Henry, Lesa Jansen and Deirdre Walsh contributed to this report.
Copyright 2008 CNN. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Associated Press contributed to this report
T-mobile Gets Jacked For 36,000 phones worth 8.2 Million
So here’s what we just heard: one of T-Mobile’s warehouses were broken into over the weekend and around 36,000 phones were stolen! The phones stolen are said to be worth around $8.2 million! Yeah peoples, not fun. What’s even crazier is that the majority of what was stolen were the Sidekick devices. T-Mobile’s actively tracking the IMEIs to see if any are activated on their network and is said to be working with law enforcement officials to trace the handsets to dealers that potentially activate them. Totally insane! Here’s the internal email to T-Mobile dealers, after the jump!
"Wanted to let you all know that one of our warehouses was broken into over the weekend and some 36,000 phones were stolen (worth about 8.2 Million). The most significant phones stolen were the Sidekick phones. Please make sure you inform the dealers who like to purchase gray market handsets that we are aggressively working with law enforcement to prosecute anyone who has these handsets. We do know the IMEI’s of the stolen phones and once they end up on our network we will go to the dealer code that activated the phone. So if your dealers get a call about Sidekicks and the deal is too good to be true you will know why."
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