Long Island

Back in March, Lindsay Lohan filed a suit against E*Trade, claiming that the baby in the brokerage’s latest commercial was based on her life. Lohan came to this conclusion because the character’s name is Lindsay, she’s referred to as a “milk-a-holic,” and there’s a suggestion that the young one is a man-stealing tramp (she also claimed that though the name “Lohan” is never mentioned, she’s attained first name recognition. Plus, the stuff about the baby being a strung out slut). For the grave offense, Lohan demanded the spots pulled, and $100 million for the emotional distress they caused her. At the time, E*Trade said the bitch be crazy, and claimed that they used the name Lindsay because it’s “a popular baby name” and not because they were trying to insinuate that Lohan is some sort of strung out whore (baby). Now the company is defending itself via comments that have been made online about Linds, a defense I don’t really understand but can appreciate nonetheless.

Lohan is “a pot-stirring, lazy, irresponsible, disrespectful little drama queen,” the papers — filed in Nassau County Supreme Court — quote one on-line commenter as saying.

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Picture 37.pngThen get thyself to Judge Jeffrey Spinner‘s court. East Patchogue couple Diane Yano-Horoski and Greg Horoski (left) did after their lender refused to negotiate and he wiped out $525,000 in mortgage payments and tore OneWest Bank a new one modeled after the linguistic stylings of Jackie Chiles.

Spinner excoriated OneWest for repeatedly refusing to work out a deal, for misleading him about the dollar amounts at stake in the case, and for its treatment of the couple over months of hearings. He erased up to $291,000 in principal and $235,000 in interest and penalties and said he canceled the debt because the bank “must be appropriately sanctioned so as to deter it from imposing further mortifying abuse against [the couple].”
OneWest’s conduct was “inequitable, unconscionable, vexatious and opprobrious,” Spinner wrote.

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