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...AARP--who battled each other over old-age entitlement spending in the 1990s--joined the White House in support of a new $400 billion Medicare prescription-drug benefit. Odder still, the Wall Street Journal's ultraconservative editorial page opposed the bill, as did ultraliberal House leader Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy and most of the Democrats running for President. This, after a decade of Democrats pleading for just such a benefit and lambasting Republicans for blocking it. This, in the same week that Tom Daschle and George Bush joined forces to support the fetid enormity of a $31 billion energy bill...
...bedroom in his ivy-covered mansion. Ammon, 52, was days away from signing divorce papers with Generosa, his wife of 15 years. The two were separated and battling over custody of their adopted Ukrainian twins, Alexa and Gregory, 11. At the time of the murder, Generosa was dating Pelosi, whom she met when he helped renovate her Manhattan town house. Pelosi had also installed an elaborate alarm system in the Ammons' East Hampton home that failed to go off the night of the murder...
Three months later, the Long Island electrician and the Upper East Side socialite were married in a small ceremony in Queens. Soon after, Pelosi served four months in jail for a felony drunk-driving offense and was arrested for stealing $40,000 worth of electricity. By this summer, a grand jury was finally convened in the Ammon murder, with Pelosi as its focus. But one potentially crucial piece of evidence was missing--a laptop capable of remotely accessing the security system in the Ammon home. After being compelled to testify by a state judge, Generosa Ammon's attorney, Michael Dowd...
...homicide investigation plodded along, the Ammon-Pelosi marriage seemed to deteriorate. Ammon, gravely ill with breast cancer, moved back into the East Hampton home with her children in June. In July the couple signed a postnuptial agreement that left Pelosi $2 million and their Center Moriches, N.Y., home. At the same time, Ammon apparently had her lawyer draft a will to replace one she had written a year earlier awarding the bulk of her $34 million fortune to Pelosi "absolutely and forever." According to her attorney, the new, 37-page document was in effect when Ammon, 47, died...
Ammon's deathbed wishes may not be honored. Pelosi's attorney, Gerald Shargel, says his client is "considering" contesting the new will. In the old document, Shargel says, Ammon's signature is clear. In the new one, he says, it is illegible. Ted Ammon's sister, Sandi Williams, said she will fight to get custody of the twins. And Ammon's cremated remains, plunked down on the Stanhope bar, were supposed to go to the nanny for safekeeping, Ammon's lawyer says. Pelosi, who picked up the box of ashes at the funeral home, has said he plans to sprinkle...