Results have been announced in a special rerun of elections held earlier this year for the Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800), as mandated by the Department of Labor.
Incumbent Guild President Nelson Coates defeated Joseph Musso. Jim Wallis defeated incumbent ADG Vice President Patrick DeGreve. Guild Secretary Tom Wilkins defeated challenger Patricia Klawonn, while incumbent Treasurer Oana Bogdan retained her position against Cate Bangs.
Board trustees elected from the four crafts within the Guild are Dawn Snyder, Art Directors (AD); Joel Cohen, Scenic, Title and Graphic Artists (STG); Chad Frey, Set Designers and Model Makers (SDMM), running unopposed, and Marty Kline, Illustrators and Matte Artists (IMA), also unopposed.
Elected to the ADG Council are Judy Cosgrove, Joseph Garrity, John Iacovelli, Vincent Jefferds, Patricia Klawonn, Rachel Robb Kondrath, Dina Lipton. STG Council members elected are Cristina Colissimo, Michael Denering, Russell Dunn, Lockie Koon and Timothy Swope. SDMM Council members are John P. Bruce, Adriana Dardas, Mark Haber, Karl Martin and Jim O’Donnell, while Tim Burgard, Benton Jew and Joseph Musso ran unopposed for the IMA Council.
Sean “Diddy” Combs seeks bail, citing changed circumstances and new evidence
Sean "Diddy" Combs filed a new request for bail on Friday, saying changed circumstances, along with new evidence, mean the hip-hop mogul should be allowed to prepare for a May trial from outside jail.
Lawyers for Combs filed the request in Manhattan federal court, where his previous requests for bail have been rejected by two judges since his September arrest on racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges.
He has pleaded not guilty to charges that he coerced and abused women for years with help from a network of associates and employees, while silencing victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings.
He has been awaiting a May 5 trial at a federal detention facility in Brooklyn.
In their new court filing, lawyers for Combs say they are proposing a "far more robust" bail package that would subject the entertainer to strict around-the-clock security monitoring and near-total restrictions on his ability to contact anyone but his lawyers. But the amount of money they attach to the package remains $50 million, as they proposed before.
They also cite new evidence that they say "makes clear that the government's case is thin." That evidence, the lawyers said, refutes the government's claim that a March 2016 video showing Combs physically assaulting his then-girlfriend occurred during a coerced "freak off," a sexually driven event described in the indictment against Combs.
They wrote that the encounter was instead "a minutes-long glimpse into a complex but decade-long consensual relationship" between Combs and his then-girlfriend.
The lawyers argued that the jail conditions Combs is experiencing at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn violate his constitutional... Read More