Star's second favorite hobby – if calling Britney Spears a psycho is No. 1 – continues this month: raiding other tabloids for star reporters.

In this edition, we're hearing Candace Trunzo's camp just scored Kate Major, the In Touch trooper who's so enveloped in Lindsay Lohan's world that even OK! magazine couldn't resist a bite.

By one source's calculations, Kate is the sixth Bauer journo in seven months to decamp for the better pay scale at AMI, following West Coast reporter Tim Plant, New York's Aaron Rasmussen, Casey Brennan, and Cristina Everett, and In Touch's West Coast chief Martin Gould, who returned to Star as the No. 2 in October.

One source claims Kate told her Bauer bosses (including West Coast's David Thompson) on Friday of her decision to transplant to the East Coast, and turned down incentives to stay.

So if we've worked out the math correctly, it appears AMI chief David Pecker has the money to pay upper salaries for top reporters, editorial directors who do little to nothing, and late fees for missing SEC filing deadlines. It's like Michael Jackson is offering them financial advice.