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    By Tom Johansmeyer

    | 4:30PM 10/25/2009
    Tom Dart's crusade against Craigslist appears to have come to a close. The Cook County, Ill., sheriff sought to have the online classified site's erotic section shut down, filing suit in federal court to close what he called the "single largest source of prostitution in the nation." He didn't get...

    By Tom Johansmeyer

    | 11:20AM 8/28/2009
    Annie Leibovitz just might have enough real estate to cover her debt to Art Capital Group, according to real estate brokers. But, you'd have to believe a broker, which is always tough to do in Manhattan. The celebrity photographer is in the hole $24 million to art financier Art Capital Group. The...

    By Tom Johansmeyer

    | 6:00PM 7/27/2009
    If you're looking for love in all the wrong places, Craigslist is still in a position to help. The online ad machine, founded by Craig Newmark (right), vowed to get rid of its red-light district two months ago, by taking the "drastic" step of changing its "Erotic Services" section to "Adult...

    By Tracy Coenen

    | 4:30PM 10/08/2008
    If we ever needed an argument against using taxpayer money to bail out private companies who made bad decisions and are teetering on the brink of extinction, this is it. Less than one week after the U.S. government forked out $85 billion related to the American International Group (AIG) mess, the...