» Corrupt.

"Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has been convicted of lying about free home renovations and other gifts he received from a wealthy oil contractor. The Senate's longest-serving Republican, Stevens was found guilty on all seven counts of making false statements on Senate financial documents… Stevens faces up to five years in prison on each count but, under federal sentencing guidelines, will likely receive much less prison time, if any." [Time]

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» Campaign Collaboration?

"John McCain's Pennsylvania communications director told reporters in the state an incendiary version of the hoax story about the attack on a McCain volunteer well before the facts of the case were known or established — and even told reporters outright that the "B" carved into the victim's cheek stood for "Barack," according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions." [TPM]

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» Liar!

"A Pittsburgh police commander says a volunteer for the McCain campaign who reported being robbed and attacked near a bank ATM in Bloomfield has confessed to making up the story. Police say charges will be filed." Meanwhile, Fox News executive John Moody thinks this scandal could be the final nail for John McCain's campaign. [KDKA and HuffPo]

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This massage doesn't have a happy ending.

A Ghanaian immigrant in England filed criminal charges against his South London doctor after the medic allegedly molested him during a massage. The man couldn't have been too upset, though, because he used the abuse to make a buck:

The Ghanaian patient, who can't be named, fell into a trance as Dr Lewis Dickinson, 53, gave him a massage at his practice in Camberwell.

But when he came to he found the doctor holding a massaging machine in one hand and the patient's private parts in the other, the hearing was told.

Anxious not to endanger his immigration status, Patient A made another appointment instead of going to the police.

He recorded his next visit to the GP, when Dickinson mentioned something in relation to the alleged assault. Patient A confronted the doctor with his evidence, and he agreed to pay the patient - who was HIV positive - £100 a week for the rest of his life to keep him quiet, the hearing was told.

When the doctor stopped paying two and a half years later, the patient pressed charges. But the case against the doctor was thrown out because of a lack of evidence and Patient A was hauled to court to face blackmail charges.

Unfortunately for Dickinson, he still faces professional review for this sticky situation.

» Very Important Date…

"A courtroom showdown between the Democratic National Committee and its former gay outreach director, Donald Hitchcock, is likely to occur next year. Hitchcock was fired from his DNC post in 2006, shortly after his domestic partner, Paul Yandura, wrote an open letter to gay Democrats urging them to withhold donations to the party because he felt [Chairman Howard] Dean wasn’t doing enough to combat anti-gay state ballot initiatives. Hitchcock later filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Dean and the DNC alleging, among other things, anti-gay discrimination. The DNC has denied the claims. Final efforts at mediation failed in September and a pretrial conference has been set for Jan. 5." [NY Blade]

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» Retribution.

Mormon-founded Brigham Young University has yanked Chad Hardy's diploma for his role in creating the "Men On A Mission" calendar, which features twelve hunky Mormons bearing their chests and such. The Church of Latter-day Saints previously excommunicated Hardy. [Miami Herald]

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» Jail Bird.

Former Mr. Gay UK Anthony Morley has been sentenced to 30 years in jail for murdering and cooking his lover, Damian Oldfield. [Daily Express]

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Well that didn't take long!

After a mere three hours of deliberation, a British jury today found Anthony Morley guilty of murdering Damien Oldfield (right).

In addition to slashing his throat and stabbing Oldfield, Morley, a chef and former Mr. Gay UK winner, cut off pieces of his victim and then seasoned them for cooking.

Morley claimed the gruesome attack was an act of self-defense. Oldfield, he testified, had tried to rape him after Morley told the ad man he wanted to take their relationship slow. The prosecution described that defense as rubbish.

Morley will be sentenced at a later date.


Mathias Guerrand-Hermès' wife, Valesca probably has loads of questions.

The 39-year old heir to the Hermès fashion house found himself behind bars earlier this week after launching into a drunken, pill-induced rage on an Air France flight from Paris to New York.

In addition to harassing other passengers and generally acting a fool, Mr. Guerrand-Hermes went for the captain's crotch:

Court papers say that the socialite had drunk "quite a bit of alcohol', as well as taking the prescription drug, Propofan, before perching on the arm rest of a female passenger, who was sitting near him in first class.

As members of the flight crew tried to intervene, the captain stepped in asking him to calm down.

Instead, he allegedly grabbed the pilot's crotch shouting: "I am not going to behave myself," and tried to throw a punch.

He failed at throwing that bunch an could face up to 20-years in prison, but he's rich and powerful and probably hasn't gotten into that much trouble in the past, so experts are predicting six months in the slammer, where there will be all sorts of crotches to grab.

» Words…

"It made me look like I was performing a lewd act when I wasn't at all." - Model Ben Massing on his homophobia-tinged lawsuit against gay magazine Genre. [WESH]

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» Guy Going For Gold?

Speaking of greed, Madonna's reportedly prepared to offer soon-to-be ex-husband Guy Ritchie a $12 million estate and $15 million in cash as a divorce settlement. Realizing he could get more, some say, Ritchie's gearing up to pillage the pop star's bank accounts. The couple's worth a combined $521 million, most of which comes from the Missus, of course. [NYDN]

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» Not Goode.

Republican Congressman Virgil Goode of Virginia has some explaining to do! The politico, who regularly rails against the gays, earmarked $150,000 for a local theater whose creative director's named Jerry Meadors. Why is this a political problem? Well, Meadors wrote and produced an art house movie called Eden's Curve, which features plenty of gay sex and drug use. And, as if that's not queer enough, Goode's press secretary, Linwood Duncan, appeared in that movie and also sits on the local theater's board. Sounds to us like these kids are tighter than some voters may assume. [BlogActive]

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» Sex, Lies, Videotape.

"A 39-year old man has been arrested for allegedly blackmailing a Port Elizabeth [South Africa] businessman with gay sex video footage. The 44-year-old businessman, who has not been named, has already paid out more than R40000 in cash after being filmed at a Summerstrand home. Police believe more men may have been targeted. Zimbabwe-born Shepard Tito appeared in the Port Elizabeth magistrate‘s court yesterday on charges of extortion after he allegedly targeted high-profile businessmen to set up meetings where they were taped engaged in sexual acts with men." [The Herald]

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Alaska's former public safety commissioner Walt Monegan used the word "obsession" when describing Sarah Palin's interest in state trooper Michael Wooten.

Wooten was once married to the Republican running mate's sister. When their marriage began to crumble, some say, Palin used her power as Governor to oust him. Palin denies the claims, but an independent investigation suggests the politico and her husband were, in fact, obsessed:

In all, the commissioner and his aides were contacted about Trooper Wooten three dozen times over 19 months by the governor, her husband and seven administration officials, interviews and documents show.

“To all of us, it was a campaign to get rid of him as a trooper and, at the very least, to smear the guy and give him a desk job somewhere,” said Kim Peterson, Mr. Monegan’s special assistant, who like several other aides spoke publicly about the matter for the first time.

One of the alleged instances involved the state fair, where Wooten was set to appear as the kid-friendly "Safety Bear." Palin called Monegan and asked him to remove or shift Wooten's position at the fair. Why? Because she was going, as well, and didn't want to see him. Obviously the Governor lacks the maturity needed for the White House.

A full report will be released later today.

» Seized!

Sad news for New York's homos: popular and ever-troubled bar Mr. Black has been seized by the tax man. The exterior's covered in admonishing, embarrassing stickers. Never fear, however, because that place has more lives than a cat - the current set-up was its third incarnation. Or the fourth - we can't keep track! [La Daily Musto]

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