‘Cannibal’ has bone to pick

Accused “cannibal cop” Gilberto Valle says he may have to take the witness stand if an FBI agent isn’t cross-examined about “substantially exculpatory statements” Valle claims he made while under interrogation after his arrest.In a letter to the judge, Valle’s lead lawyer complained that prosecutors “cherry-picked” only damaging testimony from Agent Anthony Foto from the nearly four hours that Valle...

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I’m all bark and no bite

The British nurse arrested after “mentoring” accused New York cannibal cop Gilbert Valle yesterday denied having ever basted — or tasted — human flesh, despite Internet boasts that he’d feasted on two women and a young child. “None of this is real. It is all fantasy,” Dale Bolinger, who allegedly coached Valle on how to kidnap, torture and eat women, said...

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‘Ma chop’ suspect in the bag

The Bronx man accused of killing and dismembering his mother before taking a picture of himself with her severed head appeared in court yesterday wearing only a garbage bag. At his bizarre appearance, Bahsid McLean, 23, also professed his innocence.“I didn’t do anything wrong!” McLean blurted out after his lawyer asked for medication for him. “I don’t need...

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Slaughter her like this goat!

Cannibal cop Gilberto Valle plotted to slaughter his future bride with the help of a depraved Pakistani “butcher” who bragged about his skills — and even sent the officer a video of a goat’s throat being slit, the feds said yesterday.In an online chat with Valle last year, a nut job who called himself Aly Khan said he “would love to slaughter a girl...

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Times ‘dead’ line

An Israeli-born Upper West Sider revealed his lifelong hatred for The New York Times — in a paid death notice that ran in The New York Times.Retired stockbroker Amos Shuchman, 84, “loved his family, his birth and adopted countries, finance, skiing, opera, ballet and biking in Central Park,” read his Feb. 2 death notice in the Times.But there was just one...

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Dismal show a gaffe-fest

Hey, Oscar: We saw your boob last night. His name is Seth MacFarlane.MacFarlane’s tone-deaf, unfunny, sexist, puerile, straight-from-the-ninth-grade-locker-room “We Saw Your Boobs” routine about nekkid actresses was lower than a cockroach’s pedicure. Charlize Theron’s pained reaction shot (which was part of the act, but fitting anyway) spoke for the...

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Exploiting addiction

Andrea Peyser He’s ringmaster in the Circus of the Damned.Dr. Drew Pinsky is the nation’s leading huckster for celebrity addicts — the go-to guy for almost-famous faces lost to liquor, sex, ecstasy and crack.Since 2008, Dr. Drew has glammed up and tarted up B- and Z-list celebs on his hit VH1 show, “Celebrity Rehab” — renamed “Rehab”...

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Man's legs sliced off after he falls into the path of subway train

Twitter.com/joeybootsEmergency crews help a man who fell into the path of a D train in The Bronx Saturday.A drunken man’s legs were sliced off last night when he fell into the path of a D train at a Bronx subway station, authorities said.The man, whose name was not released, got up from a bench, staggered across the platform, and fell to the track bed at...

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Hey, I’m a dude, Lucille

The women-only Lucille Roberts health club cluelessly peppered Alex Shiyan with text messages about a sweetheart membership deal. Just one problem — he’s a man.The Brooklyn resident became so fed up with the useless offer that he fired back at the fitness giant with a class-action lawsuit filed yesterday in Manhattan federal court.“1 Day Sale @ Lucille...

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‘I want these scumbags DEAD!!!’

A heavily armed ex-con from Rockland County was busted yesterday for threatening to kill Gov. Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg and a host of other politicians in a rage-filled Facebook post, police said.“I cannot wait to start killing the scum,” Lawrence Mulqueen, 49, wrote Tuesday on Facebook.He then named seven Democratic members of Congress, including Sen. Charles...

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Lead investigator in Pistorius case faces attempted murder charges in 2011 shooting: police

AFP/Getty ImagesDetective Hilton Botha, the lead investigator in the case against Olympian Oscar Pistorius, faces attempted murder charges in a 2011 shooting, police said.PRETORIA, South Africa — South African police say the lead investigator in the case against Olympian Oscar Pistorius faces attempted murder charges in an October 2011 shooting.Police Brig....

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Anne shines bright

In the run-up to the gala Academy Awards Sunday, Anne Hathaway makes a sparkling entrance last night in Beverly Hills at the annual Costune Designers Guild Awards. Anne is an odds-on favorite to score an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her command performance in “Les Misérables.” WireImage Anne Hathaway ...

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NYPD sarge cuffed in child-porn case

An NYPD sergeant was arrested yesterday for watching child pornography online, cops said. Alberto Randazzo, 36, of Queens, was charged with use of a child in a sexual performance, promoting sexual performance by a child and possessing a sexual performance by a child.Cops wouldn’t say if the arrest came after an ongoing probe. ...

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Campaign at your own ‘frisk’

Democrats vying to succeed Mayor Bloomberg can expect their views toward his stop-and-frisk policy to be a key campaign issue this year, according to the leader of the nation’s most influential civil-rights group.NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said his organization “will encourage every resident of the city to make stop-and-frisk one of the top issues.”...

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‘Private’ life of Ed

When Edward I. Koch was just a lanky 19-year-old Army draftee from The Bronx marching off to World War II, his mother, Joyce, handed him a gift. It was a new, leather-bound, gold-leafed diary in which she inscribed: “God bless you, my son.” Private Koch dutifully filled that diary during his days in basic training at Camp Croft, SC, in 1943. He would go...

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Magnolia is house of mouse

Cheese wasn’t good enough for these rodents.The city Health Department shut down Magnolia Bakery’s flagship West Village location because of an infestation of mice, authorities said yesterday.The popular cupcake shop, which gained fame after it was featured on “Sex and the City,” was shuttered Thursday after mouse holes and droppings were found.“It...

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Meteorite falls in Russia

MOSCOW — Russian officials say a meteorite has fallen in the Chelyabinsk region some 930 miles east of Moscow.A spokesman for the Russian Interior Ministry, Vadim Kolesnikov, said the Friday morning fall caused a blast that broke windows.There were no immediate confirmed reports of injuries, but Russian news agencies cited unnamed sources as saying several...

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Silver ‘cleared’ in Gropez case

A new report “exonerates” Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of any wrongdoing in regard to the sexual-harassment allegations against Assemblyman Vito Lopez. According to Silver’s spokesman, the report indicates that the speaker will be cleared of any legal misconduct in the ongoing investigation.“As we have said throughout, we are confident that the commission...

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Obama’s Rx is a liberal dose

WASHINGTON — President Obama confronted Congress withso his plan for a second term in last night’s State of the Union Address — demanding action on a laundry list of progressive policies that culminated with a fiery appeal for votes on tough gun-control laws.Emboldened by his re-election, Obama showed little sign of compromise in pushing an ambitious agenda...

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Cops pop gun-toting teen after rooftop firefight

Cops shot an armed teenager and apprehended another man after a gunfight erupted on a Brooklyn rooftop last night, sources said.Police said a 16-year-old male opened fire on a Brownsville rooftop at 10:13 last night. When the officers returned fire they shot him three times. The teenager was shot once in each arm and once in the leg.“They were just shooting...

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