Parker appears to have taken advantage of that: During that 60-day gap, he spent at least $39,736 on mailings to constituents - putting his name and face on messages about home foreclosures, tourism and an East Flatbush farmers market.

Published by New York Daily News on August 25, 2008.

A single gunshot rang out just before 1:15 a.m., prompting several people in the Flatbush Gardens housing development in East Flatbush to call 911, police said.

Published by New York Daily News on August 24, 2008.

...independence. Tickets $40 in advance, $45 at the door. Dinner included. At Tropical Paradise Restaurant, 1250 Utica Ave., East Flatbush. (718) 629-3500. www.caribbean news.com/directory/tropicalparadise restaurant.html. For tickets...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 22, 2008.

Cornelius Abson, 36, a resident of the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, was arrested Wednesday for choking Lillian France in a Crown Heights elevator last Thursday and robbing her of $900. Police say he implicated himself in that crime, as well as the July 11 robbery of a 67-year-old man in Flatbush.

Published by New York Sun on August 22, 2008.

Police believe the man who attacked and robbed France of $900 and her cane in her own building is also responsible for at least a dozen similar muggings against the elderly - over the last two months in Flatbush, Crown Heights, and Kensington.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 21, 2008.