Conversations with Allan Wolper

['Yukie Ohta has created a Soho Memory Project in New York City to educate the throngs of visitors who have turned the one time haven for mafia landlords, struggling artists and sweat shops into an international destination for fashionistas and foodies. She discusses the impact that the May 25, 1979 disappearance of six year old Etan Patz had on the Soho area and the country. He was declared dead in 2011.', OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', 'Yukie Ohta has created a Soho Memory Project in New York City to educate the throngs of visitors who have turned the one time haven for mafia landlords, struggling artists and sweat shops into an international destination for fashionistas and foodies. She discusses the impact that the May 25, 1979 disappearance of six year old Etan Patz had on the Soho area and the country. He was declared dead in 2011.')])]

["Frank Casey was the first investment analyst to blow the whistle on rogue financier Bernard Madoff whose Ponzi scheme looted the savings of thousands of people around the globe. Casey, managing partner of Peaq Capital, testifies on behalf of victims who file law suits against banks and financial institutions allegedly involved in Madoff's corrupt enterprise. Casey is one of the featured\ninvestigators in Chasing Madoff, a documentary on a 10 year attempt to bring the Ponzi schemer to justice. He tells the tragic story of a French aristocrat who was ruined by Madoff\nPonzi investment", OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', "Frank Casey was the first investment analyst to blow the whistle on rogue financier Bernard Madoff whose Ponzi scheme looted the savings of thousands of people around the globe. Casey, managing partner of Peaq Capital, testifies on behalf of victims who file law suits against banks and financial institutions allegedly involved in Madoff's corrupt enterprise. Casey is one of the featured investigators in Chasing Madoff, a documentary on a 10 year attempt to bring the Ponzi schemer to justice. He tells the tragic story of a French aristocrat who was ruined by Madoff Ponzi investment")])]

New York City Public Advocate Letitia James is a fierce fighter for low income tenants facing eviction from predatory landlords. James is pained by the fact 60,000 people have to sleep in homeless shelters every night. She recently started a campaign to win equal pay for women working in City Hall. She is the first woman of color to hold citywide office in New York, a former city council member,a Legal Aid Society public defender and an assistant attorney general.

['James Reiss has written six books of poetry. His critically acclaimed work has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire Magazine, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Chicago Tribune The Nation, Atlantic Monthly Magazine, and Slate.His poems have been published in numerous textbooks, both in English and Spanish. Reiss is a Professor Emeritus of English at Miami (Ohio) University in Oxford, Ohio. He is a founding editor of The Miami University Press.', OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', 'James Reiss has written six books of poetry. His critically acclaimed work has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire Magazine, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Chicago Tribune The Nation, Atlantic Monthly Magazine, and Slate.His poems have been published in numerous textbooks, both in English and Spanish. Reiss is a Professor Emeritus of English at Miami (Ohio) University in Oxford, Ohio. He is a founding editor of The Miami University Press.')])]

['In 1987, Rev. Al Sharpton accused Steven Pagones, then an assistant district attorney in Dutchess County, New York, of being one of six white men who raped Tawana Brawley, an African American teenager. A grand jury, after interviewing 180 witnesses, concluded the rape charges were a hoax. Pagones later won defamation suits against Sharpton and Brawley. But Sharpton refuses to apologize.Pagones recounts the impact the case had on his life.', OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', 'In 1987, Rev. Al Sharpton accused Steven Pagones, then an assistant district attorney in Dutchess County, New York, of being one of six white men who raped Tawana Brawley, an African American teenager. A grand jury, after interviewing 180 witnesses, concluded the rape charges were a hoax. Pagones later won defamation suits against Sharpton and Brawley. But Sharpton refuses to apologize.Pagones recounts the impact the case had on his life.')])]

["Victoria F. Pratt, the Chief Judge of the Newark,New Jersey Municipal Court, has won an international reputation for her efforts to reform the criminal justice system. She recently returned from a London judicial conference where she discussed the Newark Community Solutions court project. Pratt is the first person in the city's history of Dominican descent to become a Municipal Court Judge.", OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', "Victoria F. Pratt, the Chief Judge of the Newark,New Jersey Municipal Court, has won an international reputation for her efforts to reform the criminal justice system. She recently returned from a London judicial conference where she discussed the Newark Community Solutions court project. Pratt is the first person in the city's history of Dominican descent to become a Municipal Court Judge.")])]

['Lacey Schwartz has written, produced and directed a documentary, Little White Lie, detailing how she grew up as a white, Jewish girl in Woodstock, New York, only to learn in college that her biological father, Rodney Parker,was black and a friend of her mother. Parker, who was featured in a best selling book, Heaven is a Playground, was a legendary New York City college basketball scout. Lacey married, Antonio Delgado, an African American man she met when they were both students at Harvard Law School. She considers herself a woman of color, but retains her Jewish heritage.', OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', 'Lacey Schwartz has written, produced and directed a documentary, Little White Lie, detailing how she grew up as a white, Jewish girl in Woodstock, New York, only to learn in college that her biological father, Rodney Parker,was black and a friend of her mother. Parker, who was featured in a best selling book, Heaven is a Playground, was a legendary New York City college basketball scout. Lacey married, Antonio Delgado, an African American man she met when they were both students at Harvard Law School. She considers herself a woman of color, but retains her Jewish heritage.')])]

['Kim Ann Curtin, known as The Wall Street Coach, has written a book, Transforming WALL Street, a Conscious Path for a New Future, that she hopes will generate an ethical movement in the financial world. Curtin poses questions like this: "Can you work on Wall Street without selling your soul? She dedicated her book to Monsignor Tom Hartman, an associate of Rabbi Marc Gellman, who were moderators of a television show called The God Squad.', OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', 'Kim Ann Curtin, known as The Wall Street Coach, has written a book, Transforming WALL Street, a Conscious Path for a New Future, that she hopes will generate an ethical movement in the financial world. Curtin poses questions like this: "Can you work on Wall Street without selling your soul? She dedicated her book to Monsignor Tom Hartman, an associate of Rabbi Marc Gellman, who were moderators of a television show called The God Squad.')])]

["Sam Schwartz is known worldwide as Gridlock Sam, a nickname the media gave him for his role in coining the term, Gridlock. As New York City's traffic commissioner in the 1980's, he designed routes for numerous crowded corners. Schwartz says New York would rather hand out parking tickets then crack down on illegal drivers because it brings in more money. He is also a columnist for The Daily News.", OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', "Sam Schwartz is known worldwide as Gridlock Sam, a nickname the media gave him for his role in coining the term, Gridlock. As New York City's traffic commissioner in the 1980's, he designed routes for numerous crowded corners. Schwartz says New York would rather hand out parking tickets then crack down on illegal drivers because it brings in more money. He is also a columnist for The Daily News.")])]

['The late David Carr was posthumously named a Pulitzer Prize finalist this year for his 2014 columns on cable in the New York Times. He passed away on Feb.12, 2015. Carr was the most influential media and cultural writer in America. In 2011, he shared some of the most revealing moments of his personal and professional life, including his fight to overcome alcohol and drug abuse,chronicled in his memoir, Night of the Gun. One of his most cherished journalism moments? His first byline. A story in the now defunct Twin Cities (Minnesota) Reader on police misconduct.', OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', 'The late David Carr was posthumously named a Pulitzer Prize finalist this year for his 2014 columns on cable in the New York Times. He passed away on Feb.12, 2015. Carr was the most influential media and cultural writer in America. In 2011, he shared some of the most revealing moments of his personal and professional life, including his fight to overcome alcohol and drug abuse,chronicled in his memoir, Night of the Gun. One of his most cherished journalism moments? His first byline. A story in the now defunct Twin Cities (Minnesota) Reader on police misconduct.')])]