BY MELISSA GRACE DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Tuesday, June 08, 2010 Papa Smurf is broke - and behind bars. Lawyer Stuart Ross made millions introducing the bizarre blue Smurf cartoon characters to the U.S. in the 1980s. Now he stands accused in a twisted plot to extort as much as $11 million from his rich son-in-law, Blackstone Group exec
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Background Check At Time of Arrest Reveals Defendant Wanted On Rape Charges in Pennsylvania DISTRICT ATTORNEY QUEENS COUNTY 125-01 QUEENS BOULEVARD KEW GARDENS, NEW YORK 11415-1568 718-286-6000 Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced today that a former mortgage company employee whose civil lawsuit against the New York City
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By LUKAS I. ALPERT Posted: 5:08 am August 23, 2008 He was more Gargamel than Papa Smurf. The man who helped bring the Smurfs to America was busted yesterday for allegedly trying to shake down his son-in-law - a deep-pocketed executive at a top private equity firm - for $11 million, authorities said. Stuart Ross, 71, of Aventura, Fla., was
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By Laura Italiano An alleged cyber-sicko accused of posing online as a co-ed to trick college women into sending him their nude photos has hired a top forensic shrink to prove he's just a harmless nerd. Chubby Hunter College student Elvin Chuang, 20, of Brooklyn, is trying to avoid a possible 16-month prison sentence on charges of identity
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Fotog Was Louse Who Got The Cheese By Barbara Ross Friday, August 18th 2006, 7:20AM A FRENCH photographer admitted in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday that he ripped off his former roommate of thousands of dollars by pretending to be in financial deals with celebrities like Madonna. As part of a plea deal, Alexis Quinlin, 46, will be
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