Dripping with sarcasm, the Smoking Gun, co-founded by longtime Village Voice writer William Bastone, focuses on embarrassing documents such as celebrity arrest reports, strange lawsuits, search warrants in high-profile cases and generallunacy. Here you can find Mike Tyson's psychiatric report, the FBI file on John Steinbeck, customs agents' guidelines for performing cavity searches and a catalog of weapons and military vehicles from a Russian arms dealer.
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