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Rich foreign students charged with not giving a damn

By adamg on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:33am

Brian McGrory reports on the Talaat brothers, late of Cairo, whom residents of the Ritz-Carlton say are making their lives a living hell.

The Talaats, whose father is currently a guest of the Egyptian government due to a conviction for hiring a hit man to murder his mistress, are not the first foreigners to be charged with ruckus causing at the Ritz.

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Comments

By Milagro on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 11:42am.

I'm guessing there was some pouting at L'Espalier when Mubarak was deposed. Now we have to deal with Cairo's old status quo.

If only we could stoke some kind of battle between the Egyptian layabouts and the Saudi layabouts. Maybe drop some layabouts from Tel Aviv into the mix?

By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:33pm.

Ugh. We need a new name for them.

By Dan Farnkoff on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:20pm.

Not that it's not sort of an interesting story, but it's not terribly important either. Egad- noisy neighbors!

By jonbowen on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:38pm.

doesn't believe the general public is mature enough to post comments on a story. It's really irksome!

By J. Dunne on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 1:54pm.

It was up for most of the morning, but must've taken it down somewhere between 11:00 and 12:30. The comments that were posted pretty well confirmed their belief that the general public isn't mature enough to post comments.

By Chris Dowd on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 6:06pm.

. . . is just darkly depressing. I hope their moderators have mental health coverage in their health plans.

By eeka on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 8:19pm.

...but health plans are required to have mental health parity.

By anon on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 8:49pm.

Why start now?

By Chris Dowd on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 10:05pm.

. . . know that. Another little tidbit of info learned today.

By Brian Riccio on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:42pm.

you think they're the only assholes in that place? Trust me, professional decorum prohibits me from telling tales about some of the real assholes in that building.

OK, let's just say the worst is a guy who made millions helping screw college kids on their loans....

By Jay Levitt on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 1:26pm.

It's SO high, a guy whose car was blocked in the North Tower driveway actually shouted at the valet, with no sense of self-awareness or irony, "Don't you know who I am?"

By Roslindalian on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 1:02pm.

Yawn. Have they stollen anyone's Porsche?

By MassMouse on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 4:44pm.

Simple case of a bunch of punks who think they are entitled to anything...

By Kaz on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 4:46pm.

Which reality show is this one again?

By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 5:09pm.

I think it might be called something like that.

By Mocker on Sat, 08/27/2011 - 8:42am.

I assume they are here on a student visa, right? So... do we let people on student visa stick around after they assault a police officer? I assume it's making its way through the courts, but one would hope that would get you the bum rush out of country.

Oh... his dad is rich? well, alrighty then, I guess that's a-ok.

By anon on Sat, 08/27/2011 - 2:55pm.

I have my ideas as to why they are still here. Apparently, if your daddy is rich enough, you can punch a police officer in the face and somehow not get charged with Assault and Battery, in this town.

Why only a slap on the wrist?

And whatever happened to the Saudis in the same building who giot into all sorts of similar trouble this past winter?

I'll bet they were allowed to stay here with just a slap on the wrist, also.

I'll bet somewhere in MA, some DA or judge just put on a new addition to his or her house, financed with Saudi/Egyptian payola.

I feel sorry for the other residents, some of whom might have had to, at some point, have worked hard to land a condo at the Ritz.

By Dan Farnkoff on Sat, 08/27/2011 - 5:42pm.

gets pretty much anybody a "slap on the wrist", I think. Especially if the victim isn't seriously injured.

By anon on Sat, 08/27/2011 - 7:07pm.

Let's be a little more fact-based.