Welfare recipients take out cash at strip clubs, liquor stores and X-rated shops

They’re on the dole – and watching the pole.

Welfare recipients took out cash at bars, liquor stores, X-rated video shops, hookah parlors and even strip clubs – where they presumably spent their taxpayer money on lap dances rather than diapers, a Post investigation found.

A database of 200 million Electronic Benefit Transfer records from January 2011 to July 2012, obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information request, showed welfare [...]

Bernie Madoff’s son can’t find home – because ‘realtors refuse to rent to family of disgraced financier’ (but how can he afford $20,000 a month on rent?)

Fiancée Catherine Hooper making appointments with realtors in TriBeCa and West Village areas of New York

The son of Bernie Madoff faces being homeless because realtors were refusing to rent to the family of the disgraced financier.

Andrew Madoff, 45, and his fiancee Catherine Hooper have been looking for a home in New York so that his children can go to school.

Ms Hooper, 39, shows up alone to view homes around $20,000 [...]

Diamonds are a call-girl’s best friend: Police hunt for prostitute who stole $500,000 worth of jewels from sleeping gem trader

The New York City Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in finding a prostitute who they say stole over $500,000 worth of precious jewels from her John’s hotel room.

Gem trader Kurt Kaiser, 47, said he met Erika Cooper, 34, innocently enough at the end of a rough day at the Whiskey Bar on Central Park South on April 17.

The two ended up back at his hotel, where they [...]

New York jeweler claims young Cuban prostitute drugged him and stole $500,000 of uncut diamonds in his briefcase

A New York gem trader claims he was drugged by a prostitute who then stole his uncut diamonds after he had lost out on a deal to sell them for half a million dollars.

Kurt Kaiser says he met the brunette while drinking at Whiskey Park in Manhattan where he was drowning his sorrows after losing out on the lucrative diamond deal, the New York Post reports.

The 47-year-old says he was drugged by the [...]