Flutterby™! : The news being made

These are AP stories, so they won't be around for long, but I saw 'em flow across the SFGate web site and thought it was an interesting conjunction.

The first was an article about Madoff asking the court to let him keep his penthouse apartment, I've actually seen a couple of articles about how it's either in his wife's name, or was purchased with funds from his legitimate businesses, or other such bullshit.

The second is a little puff piece about how he's relinquishing his theater(re?) tickets to the court.

I don't know which press-releases the AP authors rewrote those few paragraphs from, but I've got a theory, and I think it's a fascinating look at prosecutor leaks a story, Madoff's attorneys and PR folks read the story, and drop a press release from the other side.

Laws, sausages and headlines...