Rupe's Rag NY Post Editor on DUI charges

Richard Johnson Editor (since 1985) of the infamous New York Post's Page Six notorious, no-holds-barred daily gossip column in the New York Post was charged on Friday with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and operating a motor vehicle while impaired.

Police (Officer Gluck) said they spotted him talking on his cell phone just after midnight while driving a 2005 black Ford Escape A Manhattan cop had spotted Johnson chatting on his cell phone without an earpiece at 12:23 a.m., as he drove his black 2005 Ford Escape down Ninth Ave. and turned onto W. 14th St.two blocks from celebrity watering hole SoHo House, where he had been drinking with his wife, Sessa.When stopped he slurred his speach and was ewvidently under the influence although Johnson decided to save the arresting officer time by declining to take a breath test.

The Post (is owned by slime ball Murdoch who thinks so highly of this blog), and is in financial trouble, existing only to satisfy Rupe's undernourished ego.

Poor guy ... remember it was his former part (very) time writer, the likeably honest, Jared Paul Stern, was accused of trying to bite on billionaire Ron Burkle for US$220,000. To ensure that Stern and the Post portrayed the California businessman in a favourable light in the well-read Page Six column... or as the wits now have it Paid Six, Page Fix ...etc

Manhattan prosecutors have now charged Johnson with driving under the influence, a misdemeanor. Johnson had a prior violation in 1997.

If found guilty he could cop for 12 months ... although that is unlikely.