William Bastone
William Bastone
William Bastoneis editor and co-founder of The Smoking Gun website. In 1997, Bastone and his wife, who is a graphic designer, created Smoking Gun. In 1984, Bastone worked as an investigative journalist for The Village Voice. He started at The Village Voice as an intern, then worked his way up to being a contributing writer, then ended as a staff writer and investigative journalist. As an investigative journalist, he was responsible for covering City Hall, criminal justice issues, and writing...
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In off-the-record interviews with us, Frey admitted embellishing facts in the book for dramatic impact.
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It's not often we have people who have been convicted of a crime -- in her case took a plea -- and have been photographed, booking photo taken, under supervised release, that they would think that the distribution of their police photo shouldn't be done. That's a new one for us.
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We were sitting here with our jaws dropping.
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Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell,
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The overall majority of contentions he makes in the book are not borne out by contemporaneous police records or by interviews we conducted with police and court officials in Ohio and Michigan.