Kimmelgate Update: No Rudder, Sinking Fast
(Photo: Marina City’s new rooftop lighting scheme. Credit: Looper). Resident discontent stemming from last week’s high-rise hooker scandal involving former condo board member Gary Kimmel continues to...
View ArticleKimmelgate: Read the USDOJ Complaint and Indictment
Much has been said about Gary Kimmel and his federal indictment on money-laundering charges for allegedly helping a national prostitution ring operate out of Marina City. An informed opinion is always...
View ArticleJohn Hancock: How the Other Half Lives
(Photo credit: Looper). If you’ve lived in one Chicago high-rise, you’ve lived in them all? Not by a longshot. While residents of Marina City allege deeply entrenched condo board mismanagement in the...
View ArticleGary S. Kimmel’s Next Day in Court: Friday, October 6
At the July 18 status hearing and notice of motion for Marina City’s most famous dentist, Gary S. Kimmel, the good doctor was granted a request to travel, but he and his attorney, Joseph Lopez, were...
View ArticleMarina City Sues…Marina City
You knew it had to happen. After a year of growing discontent with the current notorious state of affairs at Marina City, late last month a group of Marina City resident-owners filed suit against the...
View ArticleNew Kimmel Scandal Indictee: “Some of my best girls were minors…”
(Credit: Carol E. Sandgren.) A surprise development in the Gary Kimmel hooker scandal, the Marina City story that just keeps on giving. As reported in the Chicago Tribune (here and here), on Tuesday...
View ArticleHow I Helped CHICAGO MAGAZINE Pimp Gary Kimmel
[(October 5, 2006) Update: Now you can read Chicago Magazine's article on Gary Kimmel for free on their website, here.] Kimmelgate has officially hit the fan, and score one for the blogosphere. The...
View ArticleRead Chicago Magazine’s Gary Kimmel Article for Free
A quick posting for the Gary Kimmel Scandal followers among you. Chicago Magazine’s October 2006 article on Gary Kimmel, containing several quotes from Yours Truly and lots of, um, enlightening...
View ArticlePimp Dentist Pleads Guilty
Many have emailed me to ask if I am still covering the Gary Kimmel scandal. You may remember it as the case of Marina City’s alleged pimp dentist that brought unwanted attention to the towers in 2006....
View ArticleRime of the Pimp Dentist
There once was a dentist named Gary, Whose teeth were so white it was scary, But he had a Secret, And he couldn’t keep it, So now he has need to be wary. So Gary Kimmel was sentenced to prison today...
View ArticleWatch Me Discussing the Marina City Gary Kimmel Scandal Tonight on CNBC’s...
Tonight (Monday, February 27, 2017) at 10 p.m. Eastern/9 p.m. Central on CNBC, I will briefly appear on a premiere episode of the popular true-crime series American Greed, discussing Marina City’s...
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