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https://nypost.com/2020/10/19/manhattans-infamous-black-widow-makes-parole/
Victim cries foul as NYC’s infamous ‘Black widow’ makes parole: ‘She’s an animal’
On Friday, it will be 30 years to the day since three gunshots rang out over East 69th Street on the Upper East Side, and Mary-Louise Hawkins ran out of her apartment to find her married, millionaire boyfriend, George Kogan, dying on the sidewalk.
Fiercely private since the sensational Oct. 23, 1990 murder, Hawkins has kept her silence until now — because Barbara Kogan, the vengeful wife who paid for those three bullets, is getting out on parole.
“She’s an animal,” Hawkins told The Post of the woman reviled in the tabloids as the “Black Widow.”
“Barbara is extremely good at manipulating people — even parole officers.”
Kogan, 77 — who notoriously had her hair done as her estranged husband died in an operating room at a New York hospital, and who eluded justice for the next two decades before finally being arrested in 2008 — will be paroled next month after only 12 years behind bars.
The state is springing her despite a farcical, July 7 parole hearing, in which she claimed she never had designs on her estranged husband’s $4 million life insurance policy.
She also claimed she was shocked to learn he’d been shot, a transcript of the proceeding reveals.
“Actually, when he was murdered, I was so astounded,” Kogan told two parole board members via videoconference from Taconic Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, NY — flatly contradicting her 2010 plea to conspiracy to commit murder and grand larceny.
“I didn’t even — I didn’t think it was me,” insisted the Black Widow — nicknamed for the bespoke, funereal clothes she’d wear to court.
“I thought, ‘What is going on here?”
Kogan’s claimed befuddlement, her clean prison discipline record, and her brusque apology — “I feel horrible, okay?” she snapped at one point — were apparently enough to convince the parole board that she can be safely released back into society.
But Hawkins, who was 28 years old at the time Kogan, 49, was murdered, is not convinced.
https://nypost.com/2020/10/19/fauci-says-he-is-absolutely-not-surprised-that-trump-got-covid-19/
Fauci says he is ‘absolutely not’ surprised that Trump got COVID-19
White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci said he is “absolutely not” surprised that President Trump contracted COVID-19.
Fauci, in an interview that aired Sunday night on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” said he came to that assessment after seeing the lack of safety measures against the bug at the Sept. 26 Rose Garden ceremony announcing Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination.
“When I saw that on TV, I said, ‘Oh my goodness,’” Fauci recalled in the interview.
The infectious disease expert called the event “a completely precarious situation” with no social distancing and limited mask-wearing.
“Nothing good can come out of that,” Fauci said. “That’s got to be a problem — and then sure enough it turned out to be a super spreader event.”
It’s unclear where the White House outbreak began.
But a significant number of the Rose Garden ceremony’s attendees — including Trump, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — later tested positive for the coronavirus.
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