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I love this bit....

"The detectives in the vice unit as a whole should be proud of this investigation," he said. "There's no telling how many lives they may have saved by keeping these drugs off the streets."

Time flies:  he is due for release to a halfway house next week, on 6/17/09.

But a couple months ago while in prison in Florida, another inmate, who claimed connections to the NY mob, tried to break Donaghy's kneecaps.

Neither did Bill O'Reilly, Randall Terry, Pope Benedict or the little old lady praying the rosary outside Planned Parenthood.

The things I learned from him are legion about many marvelous people who have been much misunderstood.  But I miss when he was a she and the lead singer in a band of "drag kings," faux five o'clock shadow and all.  Who knew?  Not me, until fine young friend came into my life several years ago.

It erupted with the disclosure that a prisoner in the Tombs, a financial scammer who jumped bail back in the 80s and lammed it for twenty years or so, managed to have his son's bar mitzvah held in the gym at the Tombs.  (Math tells me the young'un got his start while dad was lamming....)  This shindig went off with scads (hundreds) of invited guests, catered food, china and (metal) silverware, and live musical entertainment.  

Who needs the Waldorf?

A wealthy inmate was allowed to host a lavish bar mitzvah behind bars for his son at the downtown lockup known as the Tombs, The Post has learned.

The proud papa, Tuvia Stern, is a financial-scam artist who jumped bail and spent nearly 20 years on the lam.

City Correction Department officials permitted him to use his own caterer, who supplied kosher food, china, forks -- and knives -- for about 60 guests who partied and danced the hora for six hours in the jailhouse gym.

Then it comes out that this special treatment was not just for one particular prisoner. Apparently, an Orthodox Jewish Jails Chaplain managed, through generously providing various people in the NY Jails hierarchy with Christmas gifts and patronage of all sorts, to get many (if not all) of the Orthodox Jews who came into the NY jails sent to the Tombs, instead of Rikers.

And, then, the Chaplain's car would be unloading catered food from outside, and it would go in to his co-religionist prisoners.  Roast beef, salmon, etc., etc.

The papers are comparing it to that scene in Goodfellas, where the mobsters in prison get salami, fresh Italian bread, lobster, etc., and wind up cooking their own meals.

People have <shudder> lost vacation pay over this.  People might get ... suspended.  Or even fired.