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A builder's cost-saving decision not to anchor an East Side crane was responsible for the monster machine's deadly collapse two years ago, not a rigger's recklessness, the attorney for the accused contractor told a judge Tuesday. Vibram Five Fingers Crane rigger William Rapetti "didn't do anything wrong" in the March 15, 2008 tragedy, attorney Artur Aidala said at the opening of his client's manslaughter trial in Manhattan Supreme Court. Aidala blamed the collapse - which claimed the lives of seven people and demolished several buildings - on a decision to place the massive tower on two I-beams straddling a Con Ed electic vault at a rising condo at 303 E. 51st St. ...

LOS ANGELES – The money is rolling in. The bills are being paid. And all those people who said Michael Jackson might earn more in death than in life are being proved right. Like the estates of Elvis Presley and Yves Saint Laurent, Jackson's has grown immensely since he died on June 25, 2009. Vibram Five Fingers Classic Without Jackson's lavish spending sprees, and with the help of new revenue pouring in from nostalgia over the reign of the King of Pop, estate co-executors John Branca and John McClain have dramatically turned around Jackson's finances. A kingdom that was on the verge of collapse from more than $500 million in debt now looks to be able to support his three children and his mother and donate healthily to children's charities. The estate has earned more than $250 million in the year since he died. Executors used some of that to pay off $70 million in debt, including the $5 million mortgage on the Jackson family compound in Encino, part of Los Angeles. The interest payments on the remaining debt are now covered by a steady flow of cash. "They're off to a spectacularly good start," said Lance Grode, a former Jackson lawyer and adjunct professor at the University of Southern California Law School. He added, however, "there's a long way to go before they pay off all of their debts."...

The Wall Street analysts who follow Apple (AAPL) -- and there are dozens of them -- have been taking a second look at their spreadsheets in the wake of those 2 million iPad sales, the iPhone 4 introduction last week, and the extraordinary flood of pre-orders this week. GHD MK5 Limited Edition Apple announced Wednesday that it had pre-sold a record 600,000 iPhone 4s in one day, despite server meltdowns that turned many customers away. AT&T said its iPhone 4 pre-order sales were ten-times higher than last year's iPhone 3GS pre-orders. As is their wont when Apple surprises them, the analysts have been bumping up their share price targets. Here are the ones we've heard about; we'll add more as they come in: * Susquehanna Financial's Jeff Fidacaro: To $335 from $325. "Given the size of the iPhone 4 pre-order and our analysis of the expected upgrade cycle, particularly the remaining 3G users, we believe the full launch weekend of June 24-27 is shaping up to potentially be a 2 mln-3 mln iPhone event." 6/18/2010 * Kaufman Bros.' Shaw Wu: To $340 from $320. "Based on our analysis of demand trends and supply chain data points, we believe our already above-consensus (which have been moving up) estimates are conservative, and thus raising estimates. Frankly, we find this remarkable as we are arguably still in a recession amid still high unemployment levels." 6/17/2010 * Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster: To $348 from $340. "Although it is difficult to gauge what percentage of units were set aside for pre-orders (vs. launch day walk-in sales), the fact that iPhone 4 had more pre-orders in one day than previous iPhone models is clearly a positive indicator." 6/16/2010 * Caris and Co.'s Robert Cihra: To $325 from $310. Cihra sees "a powerful succession of product cycle catalysts over the next three quarters," according to Barrons' Eric Savitz, including iPhone 4, iPad and eventually iPhone for Verizon (VZ). 6/8/2010 * Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty: To $332 from $310. "Our bull case assumes iPad is the fastest ramping mobile Internet device ever and our base case assumes it is the second fastest, after only netbooks." 6/8/2010 ...

WASHINGTON — A California police department did not violate the constitutional privacy rights of an employee when it audited the text messages on a pager the city had issued him, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Thursday. Cheap Christian Louboutin The decision represented only a preliminary effort to define public employees’ Fourth Amendment rights in the digital era, and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the court, took pains to say that it was narrow and closely tied to the facts. Still, the decision puts government employees on notice that electronic communications on devices provided to them may not be subject to the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches, as long as their employers have “a legitimate work-related purpose” for inspecting the communications. Justice Kennedy said the court was uncomfortable fashioning comprehensive legal rules, given the pace of technological and cultural change. ...