“Politicians in Trouble!” Sounds like a great B-movie, doesn’t it?
Anyway, the NYT goes in search of the $177 bagel. Even in NYC, that’s hard to find.
The most expensive bagel at Norma’s, the restaurant at Le Parker Meridien Hotel on West 56th Street, has three layers, five ounces of smoked salmon and three kinds of caviar, for $23.
(The motivating factor for this story is the indictment of Larry Seabrook for money laundering, extortion, and fraud.
Mr. Seabrook, a Bronx Democrat and former assemblyman and former state senator, bought a bagel sandwich and diet soda for $7 one day and submitted a doctored receipt that inflated the cost to $177, according to the indictment.
So maybe the NYT needs to be looking for the $170 bagel, since I can easily see $7 for a diet soda in NYC. Especially with taxes.)