Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe STEALING DURING SEPT. 11 ATTACKS Another 74 people have been arrested and 44 more sought for taking money from disabled ATMs in New York City after the terrorist attacks in 2001. Advertisement People allegedly took advantage of the Municipal Credit Union's disabled ATMs during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Many are city employees. Last August, the city announced an investigation into as many as 4,187 members of the credit union for allegedly stealing $15 million, Long Island's Newsday reports. "Unfortunately, a lot of people took advantage of that situation," says Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau. OFFICER PEDDLES COCAINE A disgraced veteran police officer has agreed to a plea bargain on charges of peddling cocaine while moonlighting as a bartender. Thomas Coyle, 37, made a deal with the Brooklyn district attorney's office after he was arrested selling coke at a bar during a May 24 sting operation, the New York Post reports. Coyle, a cop for 17 years, was forced to resign earlier this month and forfeit the $1,291 he had made from drugs as part of the plea deal. He will serve 90 days in jail. Advertisement Coyle's attorney says the cop was broke and demoralized when he made the decision to take a second job as a bartender -- even though it is prohibited by the New York Police Department -- and began using and selling cocaine. BLACK YOUTH TARGETED BY ALCOHOL ADS A report from the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at Georgetown University says alcohol companies target underage black youth. Alcohol companies placed ads on the 15 television shows most popular with underage black youth and consistently exposed underage black youth to more alcohol ads than non-black youth in magazines and on radio in 2002, the study says. "This report clearly shows that black youth are being overexposed to alcohol advertising," says David Jernigan, research director for the center. In previous reports, the center found significant overexposure of all youth compared to legal-age adults to alcohol advertising in magazines and on television and radio. NEWSPAPER SUED FOR HARRY POTTER PEEK Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has filed a $100 million lawsuit against the New York Daily News after the newspaper published details about her latest book. The suit, filed by the author and publisher Scholastic, claims the newspaper damaged Rowling's intellectual property rights and harmed Scholastic's $3 million worldwide marketing campaign, the British Broadcasting Corp. reports. Advertisement The much-anticipated fifth Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" is set to be released on Saturday morning. Daily News spokesman Ken Frydman says, "We will vigorously defend any action and are confident we did nothing wrong journalistically or legally."
