The porn identity German star snaps pix at WTC, cop HQ
6 financiers face insider trading rap
Former German porn star Annina Ucatis doesn’t take her clothes off for the camera anymore, but she hasn’t figured out when to stop smiling.
The “Inside Annina” star generated some heat on Instagram after posting a provocative picture of herself posing at the World Trade Center Memorial.
“It’s a memorial, not a place for a photo shoot,” posted one critic. “When you go to the grave of one of your loved ones do you smile and pose and perhaps take a few pictures? It’s a place to remember the loss of life and the sacrifices people made to save lives…show some respect!!!”
Ucatis posted two photos of herself smiling in front of one of the World Trade Center pools. She also posted video of the Freedom Tower and the Lower Manhattan complex with the words “Never Forget.”
The pictures were among a collection of snapshots she posted from what appeared to be a whirlwind visit to New York City that included photos of the Brooklyn Bridge, Trump Tower and police headquarters, where she received a special Columbus Day tour, including access to normally restricted areas.
The visit to 1 Police Plaza was arranged by a friend who is not a cop, she said.
“It was just a quick stopping there,” wrote Ucatis, who last took it all off in 2011 and now appears on reality TV shows. “I love N.Y.C. very much and am interested in getting to know the city better.
“A friend of mine arranged the tour for me.”
Tours are usually arranged in advance, and visitors are thoroughly vetted.
But sources said her tour was arranged by a police chief from another department, and NYPD brass was under the impression that she had law enforcement ties.
Ucatis also posted a picture taken inside the Real Time Crime Center, the centralized tech hub where cops monitor major incidents and assist investigators out working cases. Photos and videos are generally discouraged there because at any moment there might be sensitive information in plain view on computer screens.
The 40-year-old also posed outside Commissioner James O’Neill’s office and said she got a look at the Broadway building that houses the lower Manhattan Security Coordination
Center, a base for the NYPD’s counterterrorism efforts.
Another shot shows the reformed skin flick star smiling slyly next to an urn in the lobby of Police Headquarters that stands as a memorial to the 23 officers killed on 9/11.
The NYPD did not immediately comment or say if anyone violated department rules by showing Ucatis around.
O’Neill was not in the building at the time, a police source said.
While the emails sounded like the opening of a children’s book, the ensuing illegal profits were definitely for grownups.
A half-dozen members of a global insider trading ring that generated tens of millions of dollars in crooked cash were indicted for profiting from the lucrative scam fueled by secret information — with three of the suspects still on the lam, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.
“The insider trading charges lay bare a long-running international scheme stretching over the course of years, whose participants earned tens of millions of dollars in illicit profits from illegally trading on stolen inside information,” said Deputy U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss.
London-based investment bankers Benjamin Taylor and Darina Windsor, lovers and co-conspirators, used their computer access to garner material nonpublic information that was later sold by Taylor to investors in return for $1 million in cash, pricey vacations, dinners, expensive clothes, luxury watches and other perks from 2012-16, authorities charged.
“Once upon a time, there was a Pops searching for Truffles in the Forest,” was the subject of one email from Windsor to Taylor in October 2012. The missive, using the couple’s pet names for one another, allegedly contained an attachment with confidential information stolen from a company’s computer system.
The scam relied on the use of encrypted messaging apps and unregistered, burner cell phones to arrange meetings and exchange messages, authorities charged. The phones were routinely used and destroyed, officials said.
Windsor, 32, and Taylor, 35, were both on the run Tuesday as the indictments were announced. A third fugitive codefendant was identified as entrepreneur Georgios Nikas, 54, the founder and CEO of the GRK Fresh chain, with outlets in Manhattan, Washington, Dubai and Qatar.
Authorities also arrested New York-based investment banker Bryan Cohen, 33, and Telemaque Lavidas, 38.
British securities trader Joseph El-Khouri 52, of London, was arrested Monday.