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Serving Farmersville and East Collin County Since 1885
• Farmersville, Texas, Thursday, February 21, 2019 • 2 Sections, 10 Pages $1.00
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Volume 133
Issue 12
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CALENDAR
Farmersville soFtball opens season – sports, 1b
By Wyndi Veigel
News Editor
[email protected]
A contested race has de-
veloped for the May 4 elec-
tion both for Farmersville city
council and Farmersville Inde-
pendent School District Board
of Trustees.
On Farmersville ISD school
board, both Tommy Monk and
David Ketcher have filed for
Place 5, which was formerly
held by Glenn McClain.
Ketcher, who is retired, has
30 years in public education
as a teacher, coach and a high
school principal.
He stated he is running
because of his experiences
give him the perspective
of being both a teacher and
an administrator.
Monk is retired from Gar-
land Power and Light. He cur-
rently works for Crown Pools
Company.
He is running for school
board to make a positive dif-
ference in the community and
leave the world a better place
than he found it, he said. He
also previously served on the
school board from 2010 to
2017.
Brian Brazil has filed for
Place 6 on the school board,
which was previously held by
Kenneth Roose who withdrew
his application early in the fil-
ing period.
Brazil’s professional back-
ground includes working at
State Farm Insurance after
graduating from Austin Col-
lege. After seven years and
multiple promotions at State
Farm, he became the vice presi-
dent of operations for a smaller
insurance company, and then
spent two years as the AVP of
Sales for a telecommunications
company.
Brazil is running for the
board because of his love of the
community and wanting to give
back to Farmersville.
For Place 7, Jason McTee
has filed. Incumbent and presi-
dent of the school board, Jeff
Hurst, did not seek reelection.
Professionally, McTee has
worked for ABB/Dodge for 10
years as a sales engineer cover-
ing East Texas and North Loui-
siana. He has been in the power
transmission industry for over
20 years starting in production
and working his way up to his
current position.
He is running for school
board because though he has
been a volunteer in myriad
ways he believes it is time for
him to focus on the education
of local kids.
For city council, a contested
race has emerged for Place 5,
which is currently held by Todd
Rolen.
Both Rolen and Dwain
Mathers filed for this seat.
Rolen, who is a warehouse
manager and sales engineer,
has lived and worked in Farm-
ersville his entire life and is a
1988 Farmersville High School
graduate.
“As a lifelong resident of
Farmersville, I was fortunate
to have so many help with my
development. It was their giv-
ing nature that shaped me into
who am I today. It is imperative
that others have the same op-
portunity. For this, I would like
to continue serving as a council
member for the city that served
me and my family,” he said.
Rolen said the most impor-
tant issue that Farmersville is
facing is imminent growth and
the path that the city will take
to deal with the growth will be
the biggest challenge.
“Building and financing im-
provements in infrastructure
will be our biggest limiting
factor. Infrastructure improve-
ments will facilitate growth in
all facets within our city. At
this point, I don’t think we are
See ELECTION page 5A
Contested race develops on council, school board
Wyndi Veigel/The Farmersville Times
Investigators look into the cause of a deadly house fire on Maple Street that occurred in the early morn-
ing hours of Tuesday, Feb. 19. For more photos see page 6A.
Double fatality fire under investigation
Former
police
officer
arrested
By Wyndi Veigel
News Editor
[email protected]
A former Farmersville police of-
ficer has been arrested on a felony
drug charge by the Texas Rangers.
Bradley Jason Dean, 33, of
Greenville was arrested Feb. 7 by
Hunt County Sheriff’s deputies on
a warrant filed by Texas Ranger
R e u b e n
Mankin.
T h e
charges are
for posses-
sion of a
controlled
substance
in penalty
group 3,
more than
or equal to
28 grams,
less than 200 grams, which is a
Third Degree felony.
According to information in-
cluded in the arrest warrant that
was signed by Hunt County Justice
of the Peace Sheila Linden, Mankin
began conducting an investigation
Aug. 29, 2018 into allegations that
Dean was purchasing additional
prescription medications, outside
his prescribed amount, through an
individual named Teri Trejo.
Mankin was able to confirm
it was happening, the document
said, and that the transactions were
See TEXAS page 2A
Bradley
Jason Dean
Teens evade police,
total car in wreck
By Wyndi Veigel
News Editor
[email protected]
A joyride turned danger-
ous as two teens fled from
Farmersville police Friday,
Feb. 15.
According to information
released by Farmersville
Police Lt. Marsha Phillips,
two 16-year-old males from
Princeton were traveling on
Hwy. 380 close to Brook-
shire’s when Patrol Officer
Korey Redding clocked them
for speeds over 100 mph in
a white 2010 Nissan Altima.
The teens fled from the
officer after he attempted to
initiate a traffic stop.
Continuing down Hwy.
380, the teens turned onto
CR 559, the road that leads
to the lake.
The car wrecked on CR
562 after hitting a tree.
Both teens were taken to
Medical City of McKinney
and then released to their
parents.
Farmersville Police will be
filing felony eluding charges
on the driver of the vehicle
and are investigating why the
teens were carrying counter-
feit currency with them.
The driver suffered inju-
ries to his knee and his nose
from the airbag deployment
See WRECK page 6A
Wyndi Veigel/The Farmersville Times
A car was totaled Friday, Feb. 15 after two 16-year-olds from Princeton slid into a tree
while trying to evade Farmersville police officers.
Boy Scout Troop 310 and
Cub Pack 309 will pick up
grocery bags at houses in
Farmersville Saturday, Feb.23
to collect non-perishable food
items for the Farmersville
Outreach Alliance Food Pan-
try.
Scouting For Food is an
annual community service
project done by scouts to help
fully stock local food pantries.
Most needed items include
canned meats, peanut butter,
canned fruits, beans, hearty
soups, diapers, and baby for-
mula.
Filled bags need to be
placed by front door for early
pick up prior to 9 a.m. Satur-
day, Feb. 23.
Anyone who does not re-
ceive a bag, may still donate
by dropping items off in the
box located at the family life
building at theFirst United
Methodist Church prior to
Feb. 23.
Scouting for food to
be held Feb. 23
Thursday, Feb. 21: 6:30
p.m. Farmersville EDC meeting
(4A), city hall, council cham-
bers
Monday, Feb. 25: 7 p.m.
Farmersville ISD School Board
meeting, Administration build-
ing
Tuesday, Feb. 26: 6 p.m.,
Farmersville City Council, city
hall
Saturday, March 2: 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m., Farmers and Fleas,
Onion Shed
Farmersville Historical
Society luncheon Saturday
The Farmersville Historical
Society will host its annual
luncheon and style show at 11
a.m. Saturday, Feb. 23 at the
Farmersville High School.
Tickets, which serve as
the society’s main fund-
raiser, are $20 and available
for purchase at Dyer Drug
Store, Main Street Antiques,
Fiber Circle or at the door.
One of the main high-
lights will be a style show
of historic women’s lounge-
wear, presented by Henson-
Kickernick, Inc.
Other entertainment in-
cludes a reading of Catharine
Ingelman-Sundberg’s “The
Little Old Lady that Broke
all the Rules.” Book review-
er Susan Boone will lead
the discussion.
By Wyndi Veigel
News Editor
[email protected]
A house fire on Maple Street quick-
ly turned deadly in the early morning
hours of Tuesday, Feb. 19 for two el-
derly individuals.
According to information released
by Farmersville Police Chief Mike
Sullivan, longtime Farmersville resi-
dents Delvin Sergent, 86, and Betty
Sergent, 88, were found deceased
within the structure.
Immediate family members who
responded to the scene are also from
Farmersville.
The initial 911 call came into Col-
lin County Dispatch shortly after 4
a.m. when a neighbor saw flames and
called emergency services.
Farmersville Police Officer Mag-
gie Olvera and Collin County Deputy
Jonathan McCann were the first on
scene and saw the home that was fully
engulfed by flames on one side.
According to Sullivan, Olvera and
the deputy saw a walker near one of
the windows and broke a window to
see if they could rescue a potential
victim.
They were unable to gain access to
the home as was the fire department
due to the home being engulfed by
flames.
As embers rained down throughout
the neighborhood it quickly became
evident that the fire was of a signifi-
cant size and due to the proximity of
the other houses, three other homes
were evacuated.
The fire department went defensive
to keep the fire from spreading to ad-
joining homes.
Farmersville Fire Department
and the Princeton Fire Department
See FIRE page 6A
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Celtics control Game One.
Boston dominated top-seed
Milwaukee in the opener of
round two in the playoffs. C1.
House Democrats and the Jus-
tice Department battled over
the parameters of Attorney
General William Barr’s planned
testimony this week, raising
the prospect that the hearing
might not happen. A2.
Spaniards appeared to hand
the governing Socialist Party a
decisive victory in an election
that featured heavy turnout
and bolstered a far-right na-
tionalist group. A3.
A California company said it
had created a breath analysis
test for marijuana impairment
among drivers. B1.
Apple has removed or restrict-
ed at least 11 of the 17 most
downloaded screen-time and
parental-control apps, frustrat-
ing users. D2.
Richard Lugar died. The six-
term senator (right) from Indi-
ana was an influential voice on
foreign policy who sought bi-
partisan solutions. D6.
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M o n d a y , A p r i l 2 9 , 2 0 1 9
By John Hilliard
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
Bryan Snow, an electrician from Peabody, knows
about the pain opioid addiction can inflict on a
family. The 41-year-old spent years battling the dis-
ease, not seeking the help he needed, in part be-
cause of attitudes in the construction industry.
Snow, drug-free now for seven years, said the in-
dustry must work to encourage those struggling
with addiction to come forward to get treatment.
“It needs to be out there: ‘If you need help, you
can come. It’s OK,’ ” Snow said.
As soaring numbers of construction workers
battle addiction, building trades leaders in Boston
are launching a conference this week intended to
do just that: show contractors and union members
how they can help those who are hooked on drugs
and alcohol.
“We don’t [push] someone away who gets can-
cer or diabetes; we shouldn’t get rid of someone
who suffers addiction,” said Thomas Gunning III,
director of labor relations for the Building Trades
Employers’ Association, which is organizing the
event.
“It’s a disease of the mind, and we want to help
them,” he said.
The goal of the weeklong conference is to help
break down the stigma surrounding substance
abuse disorder that discourages people in the in-
dustry from seeking help, Gunning said.
Organizers are also calling for Narcan to be
available at all job sites to help prevent overdose
deaths, he added.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh will speak Monday at the
conference, according to a spokeswoman; it kicks
off at 5 p.m. at IBEW Local 103’s headquarters on
ADDICTION, Page A6
By Jeremy C. Fox
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
Seventeen years after he pleaded guilty to his
role in the murders of two beloved Dartmouth Col-
lege professors, James Parker, who was 16 when he
and his best friend killed Susanne and Half Zantop,
wants to be a free man.
Parker, 34, is set to appear Tuesday in New
Hampshire’s Grafton Superior Court for a hearing
on a motion to suspend his sen-
tence of 25 years to life and re-
lease him from the New Hamp-
shire State Prison for Men in
Concord.
His attorney, Cathy Green,
contends that, while spending
more than half his life behind
bars, Parker has been a model
prisoner, rehabilitated himself,
and earned another shot at life.
If released, he initially would
live with his parents and take a
construction job with his fa-
ther, a contractor.
The state attorney general’s office argues that,
because the killings of Susanne Zantop, 55, chair-
woman of Dartmouth’s German studies program,
and Half Zantop, 62, a Dartmouth professor of
earth sciences, were brutal and premeditated, and
because Parker was given the minimum sentence,
DARTMOUTH, Page A6
By Jess Bidgood
GLOBE STAFF
HOUSTON — This wasn’t just any cam-
paign stop for Bernie Sanders: The forum
was aimed at women of color, and it offered
the irascible Vermont senator a chance to
connect with many voters who did not
warm to his last presidential bid, in 2016.
But when Sanders took the stage at the
She the People Presidential Forum last week,
he did not exactly win over the crowd.
He barreled through big policy propos-
als, speaking with his trademark brusque-
ness amid groans from the audience, while
moderators repeatedly urged him to more
specifically address women of color in the
crowd. Why, they asked, should they sup-
port him?
“Look at my record,” Sanders said, wag-
ging his finger for emphasis, “and look what
I have campaigned on.”
Afterward, several attendees described
Sanders as “agitated,” “frustrated,” and
seemingly underprepared.
“He was the same cantankerous person
that he always is,” said Marsha Jones, 58,
SANDERS, Page A6
By Evan Allen
GLOBE STAFF
Inside the mint-green house on Mattapan
Street, Eleanor Maloney hugged her chil-
dren, cradled her grandbabies, and tended
her mother until she died peacefully at 100
years old. She was the lifeline of a huge and
close-knit family that sprawled all the way to
Barbados, but had a home, always, at No.
17.
She was cooking for them on April 6
when she realized she needed something at
the corner store. She left her unseasoned
chicken and stepped out of her house, past
her brother, her daughter, and the grandson
she treasured, who had just gotten out of
prison and vowed to turn his life around af-
ter years of trouble.
She was on the sidewalk, according to her
family, when the shooting started: bullets
tearing through the warm spring air toward
her grandson.
To the neighbors who loved her, 74-year-
old Maloney was “Ma,” generous and funny
and patient, the boisterous barbecues she
hosted open to all. To the patients rushed to
Boston Medical Center, where she worked
for 44 years as an operating-room assistant,
she was a calm, quick, and sure presence,
MALONEY, Page A5
Building
trades
targeting
addiction
Conference aims to reduce
stigma, promote treatment
Confessed
killer seeks
early release
Man has served 17 years
for role in brutal murders
of Dartmouth professors
For Sanders, a charm defensive
Famously gruff, he leans
on policy, not personality
Loss, and mystery, linger
With no charges filed for the crime, a woman’s
slaying haunts her Mattapan neighborhood
MICHAEL WYKE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Some at a Houston forum last week thought
Senator Bernie Sanders came across as “agitated.’’
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Women dressed in hospital garb spoke to Police Commissioner William Gross at Eleanor Maloney’s funeral service on April 17.
By Naomi Martin
GLOBE STAFF
Each day, the cars would cruise onto the Milton driveway to the $1.9
million mansion. The drivers would retrieve plastic cases full of brown
paper bags, authorities said, returning hours later with cash.
The scene described in a federal agent’s affidavit led to the arrest this
month of the home’s owner, Deana Martin, 51. She was accused of con-
spiring to sell 220 pounds of marijuana through her unlicensed online
delivery service, Northern Herb, which employed 25 people and alleged-
ly paid no taxes.
With sales of $14 million, Northern Herb was one of the biggest Mas-
sachusetts marijuana operations shut down in recent memory. But even
now with recreational pot legal in the state, the size of Northern Herb
and its many competitors shows that the illegal market continues to
thrive — undercutting the legal trade and filling a need for many con-
sumers.
About 75 percent of the state’s cannabis sales this year will take place
under the table, according to industry analysts, who blamed the state’s
slow rollout of stores, many of them in far-flung communities. Two-and-
a-half years after voters approved legalization, home delivery is not al-
lowed and only 15 retail stores have opened statewide, with just one in
Greater Boston.
The Northern Herb bust was celebrated by police, some policy mak-
ers, and medical marijuana dispensaries, who called this month for a
systematic crackdown on illicit sellers.
MARIJUANA, Page A4
Crackdown on illegal pot splits cannabis community
Unlicensed dealers fill need, some say,
as legitimate industry struggles to grow
PHOTOS BY DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION
Federal authorities say an unlawful pot delivery business was
being operated from the house at this Milton address.
CHUCK ROBINSON/AP
James Parker in
custody in 2001.
Maloney was beloved by kin and friends
for her warm and loving disposition.
Mourners pay
their respects to
Lori Gilbert-Kaye,
who was killed in
the attack on the
Chabad of Poway
synagogue.
NICK OZA FOR
USA TODAY
ESCONDIDO, Calif. – Two religious congregations
about 12 miles apart – one Jewish and the other
Christian – were bound by tragedy over the weekend.
One was a synagogue ripped apart by gunfire; the
other was a church the suspected shooter’s family
regularly attended. What both shared Sunday: an
overwhelming sense of grief as worshippersgrappled
to make sense of the senseless.
Their leaders, a rabbi and a pastor, did their best to
show how they are rising above hate.
At the Chabad of Poway, Orthodox Jews had gath-
ered for Passover when a gunman burst in with a
semiautomatic rifle Saturday and started shooting,
Synagogue shooting wounded
– and united – 2 congregations
Chris Woodyard USA TODAY
See CONGREGATIONS, Page 4A
Chilling
plot in LA
Ex-soldier charged
with planning mass
terror attacks. 3A
FEARS
OF BIG
PHARMA
Bernadette Pajer doesn’t trust
the pharmaceutical industry. And
she doesn’t trust vaccines.
The founder of a Washington
state advocacy group says drug-
makers have a “pretty poor record
overall” on safety and transparency.
Not to mention the opioid epidemic,
though Pajer often does.
As distrust of the pharmaceuti-
cal industry grows, so has the anti-
vaccination movement – a critical
issue as the number of measles
cases in the USA surges.
Vaccine supporters – including
federal, state and local officials, the
public health community and most
doctors – say it wasn’t drugmakers’
idea to require protection from
largely eradicated deadly diseases.
It’s the government’s doing.
It’s also the government that
shields drugmakers from liability
when vaccines are found to cause
injury. To skeptics, including drug
safety advocate Kim Witczak, this
suggests they may be hiding or at
least getting away with something.
When voters were surveyed in
January about their feelings toward
industries that benefit from the
Many don’t trust industry.
Why would they trust its vaccines?
Jayne O’Donnell
USA TODAY
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IN NEWS
John Singleton,
filmmaker, dead at 51
Director, screenwriter earned Oscar
nominations for “Boyz n the Hood”
Rod Rosenstein
submits resignation
Deputy attorney general appointed
special counsel Robert Mueller
IN MONEY
Facebook plans to
return users’ privacy
CEO Mark Zuckerberg to reveal how
he intends to do it at F8 conference
IN SPORTS
Harper and Machado
making subtle impact
Top free agents aren’t on leaders’ lists,
but their teams are off to hot starts
Post-draft questions
for every NFL team
Mike Jones: With needs addressed,
clubs head into offseason practices
IN LIFE
‘Thrones’ cheats fans
with sparse death toll
Kelly Lawler: Writers’ refusal to kill
off major characters hurts the series
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See VACCINES, Page 3A
“Vaccines are largely a victim of their
own success. If you don’t fear the
disease, you’re more likely to fear
the vaccine.”
Paul Offit
Author and infectious disease physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
WASHINGTON – President Donald
Trump and congressional Democrats
will meet Tuesday in search of a fix for
the nation’s crumbling infrastructure,
but they’ll first have to swerve around
an escalating battle over special coun-
sel Robert Mueller’s report.
The meeting, which will mark the
first time Trump has hosted Demo-
cratic leaders since an acrimonious
gathering during the partial govern-
ment shutdown in January, comes as
the White House is resisting Demo-
cratic demands to question admini-
stration officials involved in the Muell-
er investigation into Russian election
interference.
Trump and Democratic lawmakers
have flirted with a bipartisan infra-
structure deal since the president took
office, but talks have stalled around
how to pay for the trillion-dollar-plus
investment needed to make a dent in
modernizing the nation’s highways,
transit systems and airports. And that
was before congressional subpoenas
started flying.
“The current climate seems less
than optimal for reaching a consen-
sus,” said D.J. Gribbin, a former assis-
tant to the president on infrastructure
issues, but he said he was neverthe-
less encouraged that an initial meeting
is taking place.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
Trump,
Dems
huddle
today
Infrastructure meeting
comes with tension high
John Fritze and Eliza Collins
USA TODAY
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
suggested the meeting in a call
this month with President Trump.
JARRAD HENDERSON/USA TODAY
See HUDDLE, Page 6A
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‘I AM PROUD TO BE
A GAY SON OF GOD’
Matt Easton, the 2019
valedictorian for Brigham
Young University, used his
speech at commencement
to come out as gay. 2A
FOOD & DRINK
VETS MAKE NAME
IN BEER MARKET
In Sacramento, the booming
beer industry is being
boosted by breweries owned
by military veterans and
police officers. 1C
LOCAL
CHARGES DROPPED,
WOMAN RELEASED
A judge ordered the release
of Maribel Menchaca after
six months in custody when
murder and robbery
charges were dismissed. 4A
BEIRUT
The shadowy leader of the
Islamic State group claimed to
appear for the first time in five
years in a video released by the
extremist group’s propaganda
arm on Monday, acknowledging
defeat in the group’s last
stronghold in Syria but vowing a
“long battle” ahead.
The man said to be Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi in the video also
claimed the Easter Day bomb-
ings in Sri Lanka which killed
over 250 people were “part of
the revenge” that awaits the
West.
Despite numerous claims
about his death in the past few
years, al-Baghdadi’s where-
abouts remain a mystery. Many
of his top aides have been
killed, mostly by U.S.-led coali-
tion airstrikes. He is among the
few senior IS commanders still
at large after two years of
steady battlefield losses that
saw the self-styled “caliphate”
AP
This image made from video
posted on a militant website on
Monday purports to show the
leader of the Islamic State group,
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, being
interviewed by his group’s
Al-Furqan media outlet.
claims
attacks
in Sri
Lanka
BY ZEINA KARAM AND
BASSEM MROUE
Associated Press
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NAMPA
In 1972, historic preserva-
tionists saved Nampa Train
Depot from destruction by
turning it into a museum. Now
that museum could be forced
to close if it can’t find more
funding.
“We are starting to run out
of money,” said Aldis Garsvo,
president of the Canyon Coun-
ty Historical Society, which
owns the 116-year-old building.
“Costs are going up, mainte-
nance requirement is already
going up. It takes $30,000 just
to keep the lights on.”
The Nampa Train Depot
Museum is a Nampa icon. It
offers visitors insight into the
Treasure Valley’s past and
serves as a reminder of the
vital role railroads, especially
the Union Pacific, have played
in the region’s growth since the
19th century.
Even today, with train pas-
sengers gone, Nampa has a
major Union Pacific rail yard
that is one of UP’s two termi-
nals in Idaho (Pocatello has the
other), and it is fed by local
freight shipments along the
Boise Valley Railroad from the
Boise area.
If the depot closes, Garsvo
says Nampa will lose part of its
identity.
“It removes the opportunity
for citizens of Nampa and Can-
yon County to experience his-
tory — to learn about how their
grandma and grandpa created
this county,” he said in an
interview.
But the building needs re-
pairs and its displays need
updates. Gutters need to be
stripped and replaced, Garsvo
said. The mortar of the exterior
brickwork has cracks that must
be filled in. He’d also like to
replace the carpet — blue and
KATE TALERICO [email protected]
Aldis Garsvo, president of the Canyon County Historical Society, worked on weekends alongside his son to restore this 1942 Union Pacific
caboose that sits outside the Nampa Train Depot Museum.
Nampa Train Depot, saved by
preservationists in the 1970s,
is in financial danger again
DARIN OSWALD [email protected]
The Nampa Train Depot Museum in downtown Nampa boasts one
of the fanciest structures of the Oregon Short Line series of depots
in Idaho. Inside the museum are displays and exhibits from the
railroad era, including the famed Dewey Palace Hotel.
BY KATE TALERICO
[email protected]
SEE NAMPA, 4A
Putting it all together
America’s page one
WASHINGTON — Attorney
General William P. Barr defended
himself on Wednesday against
withering criticism of his handling
of the special counsel investiga-
tion as Democrats accused of him
of deceiving Congress and acting
as a personal agent for President
Trump rather than a steward of
justice.
At a contentious hearing
marked by a deep partisan divide,
Mr. Barr denied misrepresenting
the investigation’s conclusions de-
spite a newly revealed letter by
the special counsel, Robert S.
Mueller III, protesting the initial
summary of its findings. Mr. Barr
dismissed the letter as “a bit
snitty” and the controversy over it
as “mind-bendingly bizarre.”
But in a series of aggressive in-
terrogations, Democrats on the
Senate Judiciary Committee ex-
pressed indignation and asserted
that the attorney general had
been “purposely misleading,” en-
gaged in “masterful hairsplitting”
and even “lied to Congress.” Sev-
eral Democrats on the committee,
elsewhere in Congress and on the
presidential campaign trail called
for Mr. Barr’s resignation or even
impeachment.
The conflict escalated after-
ward when Mr. Barr announced
that he would not show up for a
parallel hearing on Thursday be-
fore the Democrat-controlled
House Judiciary Committee. Mr.
Barr objected to the format of
questioning, which would have in-
cluded questioning by staff law-
yers, not just lawmakers. Demo-
crats may now opt to subpoena
him, setting up a possible show-
down in court.
“He is terrified of having to face
a skilled attorney,” said Repre-
sentative Jerrold Nadler of New
York, the committee’s chairman.
In just 11 weeks in office, Mr.
Under Fire, Barr Defends
Actions on Mueller Report
Will Skip Hearing in
House After Fierce
Session in Senate
By PETER BAKER
Attorney General William P. Barr navigated aggressive questioning in the Senate on Wednesday.
ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Senator Mazie K. Hirono exco-
riated the attorney general.
ANDREW HARNIK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Continued on Page A14
Female track athletes with na-
turally elevated levels of testos-
terone must decrease the hor-
mone to participate in certain
races at major competitions like
the Olympics, the highest court in
international sports said Wednes-
day in a landmark ruling amid the
pitched debate over who can com-
pete in women’s events.
The decision was a defeat for
Caster Semenya, a two-time
Olympic champion at 800 meters
from South Africa, who had chal-
lenged proposed limits placed on
female athletes with naturally ele-
vated levels of the muscle-build-
ing hormone testosterone.
At a time when the broader cul-
ture is moving toward an accept-
ance of gender fluidity, the ruling
affirmed the sports world’s need
for distinct gender lines, saying
they were essential for the out-
come of women’s events to be fair.
“The gender studies folks have
spent the last 20 years decon-
structing sex and all of a sudden
they’re facing an institution with
an entirely opposite story,” said
Doriane Lambelet Coleman, a law
professor at Duke and an elite
800-meter runner in the 1980s
who served as an expert witness
for track and field’s world govern-
ing body. “We have to ask, ‘Is re-
specting gender identity more im-
portant or is seeing female bodies
on the podium more important?’”
Semenya’s biology has been un-
der scrutiny for a decade, ever
since she burst on the scene at the
2009 world track and field cham-
pionships and was subjected to
sex tests after her victory. In
South Africa, leaders complained
of racism. The issue of whether a
rare biological trait was causing
an unfair advantage for Semenya
and a small subset of women
quickly morphed into a battle
about privacy and human rights,
and Semenya became its symbol.
Sports Court Backs Distinct Gender Lines, in Defeat for Olympian
By JERÉ LONGMAN
and JULIET MACUR
Caster Semenya, who has naturally high levels of testosterone, in a 1,500-meter race last year.
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Continued on Page A11
WASHINGTON — It was a for-
eign policy role Joseph R. Biden
Jr. enthusiastically embraced dur-
ing his vice presidency: brow-
beating Ukraine’s notoriously cor-
rupt government to clean up its
act. And one of his most memora-
ble performances came on a trip
to Kiev in March 2016, when he
threatened to withhold $1 billion in
United States loan guarantees if
Ukraine’s leaders did not dismiss
the country’s top prosecutor, who
had been accused of turning a
blind eye to corruption in his own
office and among the political
elite.
The pressure campaign
worked. The prosecutor general,
long a target of criticism from
other Western nations and inter-
national lenders, was soon voted
out by the Ukrainian Parliament.
Among those who had a stake in
the outcome was Hunter Biden,
Mr. Biden’s younger son, who at
the time was on the board of an en-
ergy company owned by a Ukrain-
ian oligarch who had been in the
sights of the fired prosecutor gen-
eral.
Hunter Biden was a Yale-edu-
cated lawyer who had served on
the boards of Amtrak and a num-
ber of nonprofit organizations and
think tanks, but lacked any expe-
rience in Ukraine and just months
earlier had been discharged from
the Navy Reserve after testing
positive for cocaine. He would be
paid about $50,000 per month for
his work for the company,
Burisma Holdings.
The broad outlines of how the
Bidens’ roles intersected in
Ukraine have been known for
some time. The former vice presi-
dent’s campaign said that he had
always acted to carry out United
States policy without regard to
any activities of his son, that he
had never discussed the matter
with Hunter Biden and that he
learned of his son’s role with the
Ukrainian energy company from
news reports.
But new details about Hunter
Biden’s involvement, and a deci-
sion this year by the current
Ukrainian prosecutor general to
reverse himself and reopen an in-
vestigation into Burisma, have
pushed the issue back into the
For Biden, a Ukraine Matter That Won’t Go Away
By KENNETH P. VOGEL
and IULIIA MENDEL
New Spotlight Falls on
Son’s Employer in a
Revived Inquiry
Continued on Page A10
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NEWS ANALYSIS
WASHINGTON — Nobody
said regime change was going to
be easy.
President Trump’s top advis-
ers woke up Tuesday believing
that a rebellion in the Venezuelan
military that day would galva-
nize a popular uprising and
topple a leader they have de-
scribed as a reviled despot who
must be replaced. But at day’s
end, President Nicolás Maduro
was still in power and Mr.
Trump’s advisers were left to
blame Cuba, Russia and three
influential Venezuelan officials,
who failed to switch sides, for
frustrating their plans.
The decision of the Venezue-
lans to stand with Mr. Maduro —
either because they were intimi-
dated, got cold feet or never
planned to defect — raised ques-
tions about whether the United
States had faulty intelligence
about the ability of the opposition
to peel away members of his
government.
It also raised questions about
whether Mr. Trump’s aides had
fallen victim to a misreading of
events on the ground, or whether
Mr. Trump, who officials say has
sometimes outrun his aides in an
enthusiasm for forcing out Mr.
Maduro, might lose faith in the
effort as it wears on.
Mr. Maduro has been weak-
ened at home and discredited
abroad, but he remains a stub-
born rival unwilling to step aside
for the opposition leader, Juan
Guaidó, recognized by the United
States as the country’s de facto
leader. While the administration
got off to a sure-footed start on
Venezuela, rallying dozens of
countries against the Venezuelan
president, critics said its re-
sponse had become haphazard
and chaotic as the crisis has
dragged on.
Mr. Trump’s aides banked on
Mr. Guaidó’s call for mass pro-
tests and the defection of the
Venezuelan officials on Tuesday
as a turning point in the three-
month campaign to oust Mr.
Pressure Rises
After Failure
In Venezuela
Questions for the U.S.
as Maduro Hangs On
By MARK LANDLER
and JULIAN E. BARNES
Continued on Page A7
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It was called the Economic Op-
portunity Act, a measure intended
to kick-start the sputtering post-
recession economy in New Jersey,
particularly in its struggling cit-
ies. The state would award lucra-
tive tax breaks to businesses if
they moved to New Jersey or re-
mained in the state, creating and
retaining jobs.
But before the bill was ap-
proved by the Legislature, a se-
ries of changes were made to its
language in June 2013 that were
intended to grant specific compa-
nies hundreds of millions of dol-
lars in additional tax breaks, with
no public disclosure, according to
interviews and documents ob-
tained by The New York Times.
Many of the last-minute
changes to drafts of the bill were
made by a real estate lawyer, Kev-
in D. Sheehan, whose influential
law firm has close ties to Demo-
cratic politicians and legislative
leaders in New Jersey.
Mr. Sheehan was allowed by
lawmakers to edit drafts of the bill
in ways that opened up sizable tax
breaks to his firm’s clients, ac-
cording to a marked up copy of the
legislation obtained by The Times,
which identifies Mr. Sheehan’s
changes.
Nearly six years later, the fall-
out from the legislation has set off
an uproar in the State Capitol over
allegations that the state’s $11 bil-
lion in economic development pro-
grams have been poorly managed
corporate giveaways that have
brought few benefits.
How $11 Billion in Tax Breaks
Has New Jersey in an Uproar
By NICK CORASANITI and MATTHEW HAAG
Continued on Page A22
THE SCIENCE An issue raises hard
questions about biology, fairness
and gender identity. PAGE B7
One professor’s quest to secure the
future of a collection of women’s every-
day clothing items. PAGE D1
THURSDAY STYLES D1-8
Rags or Riches?
Capri has banned plastic and wants to
limit boat traffic, too, to control the twin
Italian ills: tourism and trash. PAGE A6
INTERNATIONAL A4-12
An Isle Preserving Its Beauty
More people have been told that they
are under investigation in the college-
admissions scandal, while others worry
that they soon will be. PAGE A20
NATIONAL A13-20
Admissions Scandal Widens
The social media giant may create a
privacy committee as part of a deal
with regulators. PAGE B1
BUSINESS B1-6
Facebook Settlement Talks
Stephen Curry helped lift a series that
threatened to devolve amid feuds over
officiating, Marc Stein writes. PAGE B7
SPORTSTHURSDAY B7-12
Warriors Put Complaints Aside
Justin Gimelstob said he would resign
from the ATP board to focus on resolving
his personal and legal issues. PAGE B12
Gimelstob Exits Tennis Board
James Comey PAGE A27
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27
A student who charged a gunman in a
college classroom in Charlotte, N.C.,
“saved lives,” but he died in the attack,
officials said. PAGE A19
Victim Hailed as a Hero
Sedley Alley was executed based on
scant physical evidence and a confession
he said was coerced. His daughter hopes
DNA testing will offer answers. PAGE A13
Was Her Father a Murderer?
Companies are starting to offer com-
fortable, attractive undergarments for
transgender men and women. PAGE D1
A New Sexy for a New Time
A murder placed focus on the region’s
paramilitary groups. But economic
stagnation drives violence, too. PAGE A4
Conflict in Northern Ireland A man who said he was upset about
criticism of President Trump threat-
ened to kill former President Barack
Obama and a congresswoman. PAGE A22
NEW YORK A21-23
Prison for Racist Threats
WASHINGTON — When Attor-
ney General William P. Barr sum-
marized the special counsel’s con-
clusions in a March letter, prompt-
ing President Trump to crow that
he had been exonerated, the spe-
cial counsel’s prosecutors knew
immediately what the public
would learn weeks later: The let-
ter was a sparse and occasionally
misleading representation of their
exhaustive findings.
What followed was a dayslong,
behind-the-scenes tussle over the
first public presentation of one of
the most consequential govern-
ment investigations in American
history.
A richer picture of that battle
emerged on Wednesday — one of
testy letters (Mr. Barr described
one as “snitty”) and at least one
tense phone call between the spe-
cial counsel, Robert S. Mueller III,
and Mr. Barr. The two were long-
time friends who found them-
selves on opposite sides of an em-
battled president.
The growing evidence of a split
between them also brought fresh
scrutiny on Mr. Barr, who on at
least three occasions in recent
weeks has seemed to try to out-
maneuver Mr. Mueller. First, he
released his four-page letter on
March 24 outlining investigators’
findings; then he held an unusual
news conference on the day the
Mueller report was released; and
on Tuesday night, the Justice De-
partment put out a statement that
significantly played down the con-
cerns among Mr. Mueller’s team.
In other words, Mr. Barr, who
said at a Senate Judiciary Com-
mittee hearing on Wednesday
that “we have to stop using the
criminal justice system as a politi-
cal weapon,” now stands accused
of doing exactly that.
The drama began around mid-
day on March 22, when a security
officer working for Mr. Mueller ar-
rived at the fifth floor of the Jus-
tice Department to deliver copies
of his highly anticipated report to
the attorney general and his top
aides.
Mr. Barr worked through that
weekend reading the report, his
aides in occasional contact with
members of Mr. Mueller’s team.
Two days later, hours before Mr.
Barr’s letter was sent to Congress,
Mr. Mueller’s investigators re-
minded Justice Department offi-
cials about executive summaries
they had written to be condensed,
easily digestible versions of their
448-page report.
But Mr. Barr used almost none
Private Tussle About
Inquiry’s Summary
Gets ‘a Bit Snitty’
By MARK MAZZETTI
and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
Continued on Page A15
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States with its new model for how a big
bookstore chain can thrive. PAGE B1
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Having grown up riding the New York City subways
by herself at age 11 or 12, suburban New Jersey mom
Kasia Bardi was fine the first time her 12-year-old
boy, Fabrizio, rode an Uber alone to an “important
soccer game.” ❚ Bardi ordered and monitored the five-minute
drive, and it probably didn’t hurt that her son, even at that age, was
6 feet tall and looked older than he was. ❚ Now, 15 and 6-foot-4,
Bardi’s son rides in an Uber without an adult three to four times a
year, though always as a “last resort,” Mom says. ❚ “A comfy mon-
itored ride has got to be way safer than the subway in the ’80s,
right?” Bardi asks, though she concedes that her neighbors, and
for that matter her husband, aren’t quite as comfortable with the
idea as she is. ❚ As it turns out, neither is Uber or Lyft.
Would you let
your kids ride
by themselves?
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Barr’s testimony in a grueling four-
hour Senate hearing, his first public re-
marks since Mueller’s redacted report
was publicly disclosed last month, had
been widely anticipated. But the ses-
sion took on new urgency in the hours
before it opened when the Justice
Department revealed that Mueller had
privately objected to Barr’s initial sum-
mary of the investigation, which he said
“threatened to undermine” the purpose
of the inquiry.
Because Mueller’s office declined to
draw a conclusion about whether Trump
had committed obstruction, the attorney
general told the panel that he acted to re-
solve the question that had threatened
to derail Trump’s presidency.
WASHINGTON – Attorney General
William Barr repeatedly clashed with
lawmakers Wednesday over his han-
dling of special counsel Robert Muell-
er’s Russia investigation, rebutting
Democrats’ complaints that he misrep-
resented the report to favor President
Donald Trump while defending his own
conclusions that the president had not
sought to obstruct the probe.
In pointed exchanges, attorney general
defends his handling of Mueller report
William Barr repeatedly asserted that
the report didn’t establish that a crime
was committed. JACK GRUBER/USA TODAY
Kevin Johnson and Bart Jansen
USA TODAY
See BARR, Page 3A
“We’re out of it. We have
to stop using the criminal
justice process as a
political weapon.”
Attorney General William Barr
Barr, lawmakers do battle
WASHINGTON – Sexual assaults
in the military rose nearly 38% from
2016 to 2018, according to survey re-
sults obtained by USA TODAY.
That spike in crime within the
ranks comes after years of focused ef-
fort and resources to eradicate it.
The report, due to be released
Thursday by the Pentagon, surveyed
Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine
personnel in 2018. Based on the
survey, there were about 20,500 in-
stances of unwanted sexual contact –
an increase over the 14,900 estimated
in the last biennial survey in 2016. Un-
wanted sexual contact ranges from
groping to rape.
Enlisted female troops ages 17 to 24
were at the highest risk of being
assaulted, said Nathan Galbreath,
deputy director of the Pentagon’s
Sexual Assault Prevention and Re-
sponse Office. The Pentagon will
target troops in that age range for pre-
vention efforts, he said.
“We’re very concerned about that,”
Galbreath said.
More than 85% of victims knew
their assailant. Alcohol was involved
in 62% of the total assaults.
The findings require Congress to
intervene, said Rep. Jackie Speier, D-
Calif., chairwoman of the Armed Ser-
vices Committee’s personnel panel.
“The department must accept that
current programs are simply not
working,” Speier said. “Congress
must lead the way in forcing the de-
partment to take more aggressive ap-
proaches to fighting this scourge.”
The Pentagon is set to release the
recommendations of a task force
formed at the urging of Sen. Martha
McSally, R-Ariz., to deal with sexual
assaults in the military. McSally, a re-
tired Air Force officer and fighter pilot,
revealed during an Armed Services
Committee meeting in March that she
Military
sexual
assaults
rise 38%
Troops reported more
than 20,000 instances
Tom Vanden Brook
USA TODAY
See ASSAULTS, Page 6A
USA TODAY EXCLUSIVE
“What’s frustrating is that the brass
keeps refusing to consider any bold
changes like reforming the military
justice system.”
Don Christensen
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Bramson has a home and
raises horses.
The fight over the future
of Barclays will help deter-
mine whether any of Eu-
rope’s banks can retain global
ambitions.
For centuries, the U.K. was
synonymous with interna-
tional banking, and London
was the first stop for compa-
nies and governments look-
ing to raise money. Then its
banks ventured overseas to
grab a greater share of lend-
ing and trading, bringing
some of them close to death
during the financial crisis a
decade ago.
Today, U.S. banks domi-
nate fundraising and trading,
buoyed by healthier balance
sheets and robust American
capital markets.
Mr. Staley has a vision for
Barclays, which absorbed
much of Lehman Brothers af-
ter its collapse. He wants it
to become a compact version
PleaseturntopageA10
Jes Staley runs one of the
last full-service banks left in
Europe that compete with
Wall Street. The way the 62-
year-old American banker
sees it, his restructuring of
U.K.-based Barclays PLC has
primed it to take on the likes
of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
and Morgan Stanley.
British-born investor Ed-
ward Bramson couldn’t agree
less, and his New York firm
has bought a sizable stake in
Barclays. He is trying to force
the bank to scale back its
Wall Street ambitions, to be-
come a consumer and com-
mercial lender with smaller
investment-banking opera-
tions.
So far, Mr. Staley, the chief
executive, is having none of
it. “He wants us to retreat
into a foxhole? He should go
back to Connecticut,” Mr.
Staley has told colleagues, re-
ferring to the state where Mr.
BY MARGOT PATRICK
Barclays CEO
Wages Fight to Stay
Wall Street Player
A big investor, who is seeking a board seat,
opposes Jes Staley’s global ambitions
Billy Joel
Didn’t Start
The Fire
i i i
But his helicopter,
and others, are
irking Long Island
BY LESLIE BRODY
CENTRE ISLAND, N.Y.—In a
decade as mayor of a wealthy
enclave perched on Long Is-
land’s North Shore, Lawrence
Schmidlapp has presided over
countless meetings of the
board of trustees, which nor-
mally draw just a handful of
neighbors.
There is one issue that can
pack Village Hall: Whether to
ban personal helipads.
“We can run out of chairs,”
says Mr. Schmidlapp, who is
also the police commissioner
and husband of the village
clerk.
Four private helipads sit
among roughly 185 households
on this small island about 40
miles east of Midtown Manhat-
tan on the northern coast of
Long Island. A helicopter flight
home from Manhattan can take
less than 15 minutes. By con-
trast, driving in evening rush
hour can take about two hours.
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opposition leader Juan Guaidó.
The talks would mark the
first known contact between
the government and the opposi-
tion since Mr. Guaidó declared
himself interim president in
late January, sparking the most
serious challenge yet to Mr. Ma-
duro’s rule. Fifty-four countries,
including the U.S., recognize the
opposition leader as Venezu-
ela’s legitimate president.
“We know that a part, a
large part, a majority of the
high command were talking
with the Supreme Court and
Juan Guaidó about a change, a
change in government, with the
departure of Maduro, and with
guarantees for the military,”
Mr. Abrams told Venezuelan
online TV network VPItv on
Wednesday.
The opposition believed it
was close enough to a deal that
PleaseturntopageA8
WASHINGTON—Attorney
General William Barr criticized
Robert Mueller’s decision not to
reach a conclusion about
whether President Trump ob-
structed justice during a conten-
tious hearing that laid bare a
rift between him and the special
counsel over the politically
charged investigation.
In his first congressional tes-
timony since releasing a re-
dacted version of Mr. Mueller’s
448-page report, Mr. Barr faced
pointed criticism from Senate
Democrats over his handling of
the findings on Russian election
interference in 2016.
for Thursday over disagree-
ments about the format of the
appearance—and that an unre-
dacted version of the Mueller
report, which had been subpoe-
naed by the committee,
wouldn’t be provided.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D., N.Y.),
who leads that committee, also
threatened to hold the attorney
general in contempt of Con-
gress—a prelude to a possible
court battle—for his continued
refusal to turn over the unre-
dacted Mueller report, a poten-
tially big escalation of tensions
between Democratic lawmakers
and the Trump administration.
Mr. Barr has said he can’t re-
lease the entire unredacted re-
port in part because it contains
grand-jury material and infor-
mation about ongoing criminal
cases that can’t be made public.
The attorney general has invited
some top lawmakers and their
staff to view a less redacted re-
port in a special facility, an offer
Democrats have refused.
Wednesday’s Senate hearing
offered a dramatic public dis-
play of the behind-the-scenes
jockeying to give Mr. Mueller’s
findings their proper airing.
It came just after the Justice
PleaseturntopageA4
“If [Mr. Mueller] felt he
shouldn’t go down a path of
making a traditional prosecutive
decision, then he shouldn’t have
investigated,” Mr. Barr told the
Senate Judiciary Committee
Wednesday. “That was the time
to pull up.”
Meanwhile, the Justice De-
partment late Wednesday told
House Democrats that Mr. Barr
wouldn’t appear at a Judiciary
Committee hearing scheduled
By Sadie Gurman,
Byron Tau
and Kristina Peterson
Attorney General, Democrats
Clash Over Mueller Report
WASHINGTON—Federal Re-
serve officials agreed to keep
their benchmark interest rate
unchanged and signaled com-
fort that their wait-and-see
posture had steadied the econ-
omy after fears of a slowdown
had sent markets reeling at
the end of last year.
Fed Chairman Jerome Pow-
ell, speaking at a news confer-
ence Wednesday, played down
concerns that recent soft in-
flation might hint at broader
economic weakness. He re-
peatedly highlighted individual
price declines that could prove
transitory and, in doing so,
pushed back against some
market hopes the Fed might
be preparing to lower interest
rates later this year.
“Overall the economy con-
tinues on a healthy path, and
the committee believes that
the current stance of policy is
appropriate,” Mr. Powell said
after officials ended their two-
day policy-setting meeting.
For now, “we don’t see a
strong case for moving [rates]
in either direction,” he said.
All 10 members of the cen-
tral bank’s rate-setting com-
mittee, comprising the five
Fed governors and five regional
PleaseturntopageA2
BY NICK TIMIRAOS
Powell
Signals
No Need
For Cuts
Markets slide as Fed
holds rates steady and
chairman plays down
low-inflation worries
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Barr criticized Mueller’s
decision not to reach a con-
clusion about whether
Trump obstructed justice
during a contentious Senate
hearing that laid bare a rift
between the attorney general
and the special counsel. A1
Venezuela’s opposition
held secret negotiations
with members of Maduro’s
inner circle in recent
months in an ill-fated bid to
get him to leave power. A1
A family from China paid
a college counselor $6.5 mil-
lion for help securing a spot
at Stanford and connected to
the counselor via a Morgan
Stanley financial adviser. A6
May fired her defense
chief, saying he leaked infor-
mation surrounding a review
into the use of Huawei gear in
the U.K.’s telecom network. A9
The Trump administration
requested $4.5 billion from
Congress to respond to the
growing surge of migrants
at the southern border. A4
The administration urged
an appeals court to strike
down the entire ACA, pre-
senting its position oppos-
ing all of the health law. A4
Sri Lankan authorities
released the names of the
bombers in the Easter attacks
after completing DNA tests
to confirm their identities. A7
The administration has
hired consultants to estimate
potential losses in the govern-
ment’s student-loan portfolio,
and is weighing selling all
or portions of the debt. A6
A British judge sentenced
Assange to 50 weeks in jail
for skipping bail in 2012. A9
Fed officials agreed to
hold their benchmark
interest rate steady and
signaled comfort that their
wait-and-see posture had
steadied the economy. A1
U.S. stocks fell, with the
Dow down 0.6% at the close
after the Fed reiterated that
it will stay patient. Treasury
prices fluctuated before
ultimately ending lower. B11
Qualcomm said it
would receive at least $4.5
billion from Apple as part
of a legal settlement be-
tween the companies. B1
The largest U.S. compa-
nies are beginning to heed
the demands of investors
focused on environmental
and social issues. B1
Disney shuffled execu-
tive ranks at its film oper-
ation, elevating studio Pres-
ident Alan Bergman to help
oversee the division. B3
CVS reported stronger-
than-expected results as a
combined health-care firm,
easing concerns about its
acquisition of Aetna. B3
Two big life insurers
posted divergent earnings,
with MetLife’s profit in-
creasing 8% and Pruden-
tial’s dropping 32%. B10
E-cigarette maker NJOY
is pursuing a funding round
that would value the firm
at as much as $5 billion. B3
UBiome’s co-chiefs have
gone on leave in the wake
of a search of the com-
pany’s offices by the FBI. B3
Carlyle posted stronger
profit for the first quarter,
as the private-equity firm
recorded gains in invest-
ment income and fees. B10
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A fossil jaw found in Tibet’s Himalayan highlands belongs to a vanished human species called
Denisovans, deepening the mystery of human evolution in Asia, a new study said Wednesday. A6
Venezuela’s opposition held
secret talks with members of
President Nicolás Maduro’s in-
ner circle in recent months in
an ill-fated bid to get Mr. Ma-
duro to leave power and install
a united interim government,
according to U.S. officials and
Venezuelan opposition figures.
The talks involved the high-
est levels of Mr. Maduro’s re-
gime, including Defense Minis-
ter Gen. Vladimir Padrino,
Supreme Court Chief Justice
Maikel Moreno and the presi-
dential guard commander and
head of military intelligence,
Gen. Iván Rafael Hernández.
The goal was to remove Mr.
Maduro and restore democracy
in the country, according to U.S.
special envoy Elliott Abrams
and people close to Venezuelan
BY DAVID LUHNOW
AND JOSÉ DE CÓRDOBA
Caracas, Opposition
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your pole and head to the water, you’ll need a license.
The fine for fishing without a license last year was $222.90,
so you’ll want to make sure you have one before casting a line.
“These fees directly impact the quality of fisheries in Wisconsin by
funding habitat work and stocking efforts throughout the state,” Antho-
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MANITOWOC - Two-year-old Gilbert
A. Grant II was repeatedly beaten and
abused by his mother and her two room-
mates in the months prior to his April 26
death inside a Two Rivers apartment,
court documents show.
Grant turned 2 just days prior to his
death, on April 21 — the same birth date
of his mother, Rena L. Santiago, 27.
Probable cause statements for the ar-
rests of the suspects after his death —
his mother and her roommates, Bianca
M. Bush, 25, and David R. Heiden, 28 —
show the boy was repeatedly beaten by
the three with open hands, a shoe, a belt
and a sandal, and had things thrown at
him by his mother on several occasions.
The documents also state Grant had
food shoved down his throat and was
forced to eat his own vomit by Bush af-
ter she shoved her fingers in his throat.
In the week prior to Grant’s death, Hei-
den said he saw Bush slap Grant in the
face with an open hand, ground him to
the couch all day and night, throw
things at Grant’s face, head and chest,
and grab Grant by the sides and shake
him while yelling “What are you doing?”
He said she “would go to town” hitting
him.
Santiago, according to the court doc-
uments, told police she witnessed all of
the physical discipline and approved it.
She also said she was aware of bruises
on Grant’s body and avoided taking him
to the doctor for regular check-ups as a
result.
On April 26, the day Grant died, Hei-
den said he spanked Grant on the but-
tocks with an open hand approximately
three times, then picked Grant up by his
Boy, 2, was repeatedly abused prior to death, court documents show
Brandon Reid
Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter
USA TODAY NETWORK - WISCONSIN
See ABUSE, Page 5A
Bush Heiden Santiago
Mother, roommates would hit child, throw things
MILWAUKEE - As the most severe
wave of measles in 19 years spreads
across the country, state representa-
tives are trying, for the second time, to
eliminate Wisconsin’s “personal con-
viction” vaccines waiver.
Rep. Gordon Hintz, D-Oshkosh, rein-
troduced the bill to do so Tuesday, three
years after his first at-
tempt failed to make it
out of committee.
As of yesterday, the
U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
reported confirmed mea-
sles cases in 22 states,
the highest number since the disease
was eliminated from the country in
2000.
Elimination of endemic measles does
not mean the disease no longer exists, it
means the disease is no longer native to
the U.S. Measles cases can still exist in
the U.S. due to travelers bringing it here
and then spreading it to people who are
not vaccinated.
Wisconsin is one of 18 states that al-
lows parents to opt-out of the vaccines
recommended for children before the
start of school. Only three states — Mis-
sissippi, West Virginia and California —
don’t allow any nonmedical waivers, ac-
cording to the National Conference of
State Legislatures.
Wisconsin has a 5.3 percent exemp-
tion rate. Only four states — Arizona,
Alaska, Idaho and Oregon — had higher
rates of students who did not get the
measles, mumps, rubella vaccine for a
Amid measles scare, lawmakers trying to stop vaccine waivers
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal leg-
islation that would protect the Mashpee
Wampanoag Tribe’s beleaguered reservation
is headed to the House floor for a full vote.
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reserva-
tion Reaffirmation Act, introduced by U.S.
Rep. William Keating, D-Mass., was the first
bill debated Wednesday during the full U.S.
House of Representatives Committee on
Natural Resources markup session. Keating
crafted the legislation in response to a law-
suit brought in 2016 in the U.S. District Court
of Massachusetts by neighbors of the tribe’s
proposed $1 billion casino in Taunton. That
lawsuit resulted in the U.S. Department of
Interior reversing a decision it made the year
before to take 321 acres of land in Taunton
and Mashpee into trust on the tribe’s behalf.
The legislation would clarify the tribe’s
eligibility for that federal trust protection
and prevent future legal challenges to the
reservation.
The committee voted 26-10, mostly along
party lines, to move the bill to the floor.
The tribe has one of the oldest relation-
ships with the federal government, and
has been “intentionally and systematically
stripped of their lands,” U.S. Rep. Ruben
Gallego, D-Ariz., said during an explanation
Tribe bill
headed to
House fl oor
for vote
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
Reservation Reaffi rmation Act
moves forward in Congress
amid internal turmoil
By Geoff Spillane
[email protected]
HYANNIS — The Barnsta-
ble County Fire and Rescue
Training Academy could
soon have a new home on
the Upper Cape.
Brig. Gen. Christopher
Faux, executive director of
Joint Base Cape Cod, and
Barnstable County Adminis-
trator John “Jack” Yunits Jr.
have confirmed discussions
are underway to relocate
the academy from Hyannis
to the base.
The proposed relocation
of the facility aligns with
the vision of base leadership
to establish a multijuris-
dictional first responder
training center there,
according to Yunits.
“It’s something that we
definitely want to do,” Faux
said. “There’s a lot of excess
property on the base, and
using it for first responder
training is compatible with
where we are going. We are
waiting to hear more about
what they need, and we are
Fire academy
may move to base
County, military offi cials in talks to create
regional fi rst responder training site
SEE ACADEMY, A4
By Eric Tucker
wand Mary Clare Jalonick
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Pri-
vate tensions between Justice
Department leaders and spe-
cial counsel Robert Mueller's
team broke into public view
in extraordinary fashion
Wednesday as Attorney Gen-
eral William Barr pushed back
at the special counsel's "snitty"
complaints over his handling of
the Trump-Russia investiga-
tion report.
Testifying for the first time
since releasing Mueller's
report, Barr faced sharp ques-
tioning from Senate Democrats
who accused him of making
misleading comments and
seeming at times to be Presi-
dent Donald Trump's protector
as much as the country's top
law enforcement official.
The rift fueled allegations
that Barr has spun Mueller's
findings in Trump's favor and
understated the gravity of
Trump's behavior. The dis-
pute is certain to persist, as
Democrats push to give Muel-
ler a chance to answer Barr's
testimony with his own later
this month.
Barr separately informed the
House Judiciary Committee
Rift aired over Mueller report
Attorney
General
William Barr
testifies during
a Senate
Judiciary Com-
mittee hearing
on Capitol Hill
in Washington
on Wednes-
day. [ANDREW
HARNIK/THE
ASSOCIATED
PRESS]
SEE TRIBE, A4
Attorney General William Barr denies misleading
Congress and showing bias toward Trump in Russia probe
SEE BARR, A10
In a plan to buy Sipson Island for preservation, the main house may be converted into an education center and the boathouse will remain. Private backers of the
Orleans island sale have gone public in an attempt to persuade town meeting to purchase the property. [MERRILY CASSIDY/CAPE COD TIMES]
By Ethan Genter
[email protected]
ORLEANS — In the middle of
Pleasant Bay sits a 24-acre, $7.9
million island. It is well mani-
cured and surrounded by sandy
beaches.
Sipson Island has been in
private hands since the 1700s,
when it was bought by a group
of colonists from a Native
American sachem, but if a plan
coordinated by the Friends of
Pleasant Bay, the Sipson Island
Trust and the town is approved
by town meeting, the public
could have access forever .
On May 13, voters will have
the chance to approve $1.5 mil-
lion in community preservation
funds to buy a conservation
restriction on 18 of the 24 acres.
Cheryl and Rich Nadler, of
Orleans, have a purchase-and-
sale agreement with the current
owners, and all but two of the
acres eventually will be owned
by the Sipson Island Trust, a
soon-to-be nonprofit orga-
nization that plans to in turn
buy the land from the Nadlers
through fundraising. The two
remaining acres have a cottage
on them and would continue to
be privately owned.
The conservation restriction
would guarantee public access
on the long stretches of sandy
beach and the grassy trails that
run across the island.
Rich Nadler initially got
involved with the island through
his seat on the Conserva-
tion Commission. He saw the
potential for development on
the island and suggested to his
wife that they could play the role
of a private partner to preserve
the island.
“I understood its unique
beauty, historic and environ-
mental significance, as well as
its fragile vulnerability,” Nadler
wrote in an open letter to the
A ‘one-time opportunity’
Orleans voters must decide if private island is worth cost of public access
SEE ISLAND, A4
By Beth Treffeisen
[email protected]
FALMOUTH — Acts of hate
aimed at Jewish people and
institutions in Massachusetts
have hit all-time highs over the
past two years, according to an
audit by the Anti-Defamation
League, and community lead-
ers on Cape Cod say it’s time to
acknowledge the problem.
Confronting
hate: Cape
group raises
awareness
Anti-Semitic incidents
in state skyrocket
SEE HATE, A4
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Nearly half of all Lamar County house-
holds struggled to make ends meet in
2016, according to a recently released
report from The United Way.
The study aimed to assess the Asset Limited,
Income Constrained, Employed population of
Texas. It defined these households as those
earning more than the federal poverty line but
less than the area’s basic cost of living.
By The Numbers
In 2016, 20 percent of Lamar County house-
holds were below the poverty line and 25 percent
more were ALICE while the remaining 55 per-
cent were classified as stable, the data shows.
Lamar County’s median household income
was $40,283, compared to the state median of
$56,565, and the county’s 7 percent unemploy-
ment rate was much higher than the state’s aver-
age of 5 percent. The poverty also was higher
here, 20 percent compared to the state’s 14 per-
cent average, according to the report. Although
the report found 58 percent of Texans were
stable, it also found 28 percent were ALICE.
“We all know ALICE,” United Way Executive
Director Jenny Wilson said. “We see her every
day. She is our friend. She goes to church with
us; her kids go to the same schools. That’s why I
think saying ALICE is so important. It human-
izes the problem.”
In a breakdown of local cities, Roxton was
found to have the highest percentage of strug-
gling households, with 59 percent being below
the poverty line or ALICE. Forty-nine percent
of Paris households were ALICE or below
the poverty line, with Deport coming in at 45
percent, Blossom at 41 percent, Sumner at 38
SURVIVAL
$1,616/month
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
LAMAR COUNTY
Stable/Surviving
ALICE
20% 25% 55%
Poverty
(Asset Limited, Income
Constrained, Employed)
TEXAS
Stable/Surviving
ALICE
14% 28% 58%
Poverty
MINIMUM BUDGET
SINGLE
One adult living alone
HOUSEHOLD
Two adults and
two school-aged children
$589 $547
$322 $158
STABILITY
$19,392/year
SURVIVAL
$4,031/month
STABILITY
$52,403/year
$2,198 $664
$525 $644
Other expenses
Transportation Food
Housing
SOURCE: The United Way of Lamar County
Mardi Gras event breaks record
By Tommy Culkin
[email protected]
More than 400 people joined
together Friday evening at
Love Civic Center to raise tens
of thousands of dollars for the
area’s needy.
The Lamar County Human
Resources Council’s annual
Mardi Gras offered a night of
music, food, laughter and fel-
lowship. Executive Director
Shelly Braziel said there were
about 100 more attendees than
last year’s festival, and they
were all part of what possibly
is the largest turnout the event
has ever seen.
“We go back and forth. Some
years we’ll sell out and some
years we’ll have a couple tables
left open, but this year we sold
out, added additional tables,
and then sold out of those, too,”
she said.
With so many in attendance,
the Mardi Gras celebration
brought in more funds than
ever before. Funds raised typ-
ically range from $40,000 to
$65,000, but this year, Braziel
said, they raised roughly
$83,000, exceeding the previ-
ous record of about $68,000
The night also featured 12
more sponsors and underwrit-
ers than last year, making it
the most in the event’s history,
too.
Not failing the record-set-
ting trend, Braziel said the
funds raised through the live
auction, totaling $36,500, is the
most ever raised — and that’s
See MARDI, pg. A5
Financial fight
United Way report shows
low-income struggle to get by
See REPORT, pg. A5
By Aliyya Swaby
The Texas Tribune
On the night of the deadline to file bills
this legislative session, Texas Senate lead-
ers turned in their first crack at legislation
designed to reform school finance — round-
ing out a series of proposals in the upper
chamber aiming to address rising property
EMREE WEAVER/The Texas Tribune
State Sen. Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood, is the
author of the Senate’s school finance bill.
Texas Senate
unveils its school
finance reform bill
By Annabelle Smallwood
Special to The Paris News
Jackie Robinson had a
dream for years — she want-
ed a quilt show right here
in Paris. There was never a
more ideal time, however,
until after she joined the Red
River Valley Quilt Guild.
Robinson had some hesita-
tion at first when her friends
See SENATE, pg. A7
Submitted Photo
The Last Supper Quilt, which took Dr. Donald
Locke more than two years to complete, will
be on display during the Red River Valley Quilt
Guild’s Eiffel in Love with Quilts show in May.
Guild to host
Eiffel in Love
with Quilts
Raffle will raise funds
for local nonprofits
ROBINSON
See GUILD, pg. A5
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at the Love Civic Center.
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Children found locked in dog kennel
NEWARK
‘Just horrendous’
BY BRIAN KNOX
[email protected]
Four children discov-
ered living in what Sher-
iff Lane Akin described as
“horrendous” conditions
T u e s d a y
near New-
ark were
doing well
in foster
care later
in the
week.
It’s a far
cry from
what offi -
cers saw
when they
e n t e r e d
the metal
shop in the
100 block
of County Road 4930 not
far from Seven Hills Ele-
mentary School Tuesday
morning.
An arrest affi davit in
the case provides details
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WASHINGTON — Attorney
General William P. Barr defended
himself on Wednesday against
withering criticism of his handling
of the special counsel investiga-
tion as Democrats accused of him
of deceiving Congress and acting
as a personal agent for President
Trump rather than a steward of
justice.
At a contentious hearing
marked by a deep partisan divide,
Mr. Barr denied misrepresenting
the investigation’s conclusions de-
spite a newly revealed letter by
the special counsel, Robert S.
Mueller III, protesting the initial
summary of its findings. Mr. Barr
dismissed the letter as “a bit
snitty” and the controversy over it
as “mind-bendingly bizarre.”
But in a series of aggressive in-
terrogations, Democrats on the
Senate Judiciary Committee ex-
pressed indignation and asserted
that the attorney general had
been “purposely misleading,” en-
gaged in “masterful hairsplitting”
and even “lied to Congress.” Sev-
eral Democrats on the committee,
elsewhere in Congress and on the
presidential campaign trail called
for Mr. Barr’s resignation or even
impeachment.
The conflict escalated after-
ward when Mr. Barr announced
that he would not show up for a
parallel hearing on Thursday be-
fore the Democrat-controlled
House Judiciary Committee. Mr.
Barr objected to the format of
questioning, which would have in-
cluded questioning by staff law-
yers, not just lawmakers. Demo-
crats may now opt to subpoena
him, setting up a possible show-
down in court.
“He is terrified of having to face
a skilled attorney,” said Repre-
sentative Jerrold Nadler of New
York, the committee’s chairman.
In just 11 weeks in office, Mr.
Under Fire, Barr Defends
Actions on Mueller Report
Will Skip Hearing in
House After Fierce
Session in Senate
By PETER BAKER
Attorney General William P. Barr navigated aggressive questioning in the Senate on Wednesday.
ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Senator Mazie K. Hirono exco-
riated the attorney general.
ANDREW HARNIK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Continued on Page A14
Female track athletes with na-
turally elevated levels of testos-
terone must decrease the hor-
mone to participate in certain
races at major competitions like
the Olympics, the highest court in
international sports said Wednes-
day in a landmark ruling amid the
pitched debate over who can com-
pete in women’s events.
The decision was a defeat for
Caster Semenya, a two-time
Olympic champion at 800 meters
from South Africa, who had chal-
lenged proposed limits placed on
female athletes with naturally ele-
vated levels of the muscle-build-
ing hormone testosterone.
At a time when the broader cul-
ture is moving toward an accept-
ance of gender fluidity, the ruling
affirmed the sports world’s need
for distinct gender lines, saying
they were essential for the out-
come of women’s events to be fair.
“The gender studies folks have
spent the last 20 years decon-
structing sex and all of a sudden
they’re facing an institution with
an entirely opposite story,” said
Doriane Lambelet Coleman, a law
professor at Duke and an elite
800-meter runner in the 1980s
who served as an expert witness
for track and field’s world govern-
ing body. “We have to ask, ‘Is re-
specting gender identity more im-
portant or is seeing female bodies
on the podium more important?’”
Semenya’s biology has been un-
der scrutiny for a decade, ever
since she burst on the scene at the
2009 world track and field cham-
pionships and was subjected to
sex tests after her victory. In
South Africa, leaders complained
of racism. The issue of whether a
rare biological trait was causing
an unfair advantage for Semenya
and a small subset of women
quickly morphed into a battle
about privacy and human rights,
and Semenya became its symbol.
Sports Court Backs Distinct Gender Lines, in Defeat for Olympian
By JERÉ LONGMAN
and JULIET MACUR
Caster Semenya, who has naturally high levels of testosterone, in a 1,500-meter race last year.
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WASHINGTON — It was a for-
eign policy role Joseph R. Biden
Jr. enthusiastically embraced dur-
ing his vice presidency: brow-
beating Ukraine’s notoriously cor-
rupt government to clean up its
act. And one of his most memora-
ble performances came on a trip
to Kiev in March 2016, when he
threatened to withhold $1 billion in
United States loan guarantees if
Ukraine’s leaders did not dismiss
the country’s top prosecutor, who
had been accused of turning a
blind eye to corruption in his own
office and among the political
elite.
The pressure campaign
worked. The prosecutor general,
long a target of criticism from
other Western nations and inter-
national lenders, was soon voted
out by the Ukrainian Parliament.
Among those who had a stake in
the outcome was Hunter Biden,
Mr. Biden’s younger son, who at
the time was on the board of an en-
ergy company owned by a Ukrain-
ian oligarch who had been in the
sights of the fired prosecutor gen-
eral.
Hunter Biden was a Yale-edu-
cated lawyer who had served on
the boards of Amtrak and a num-
ber of nonprofit organizations and
think tanks, but lacked any expe-
rience in Ukraine and just months
earlier had been discharged from
the Navy Reserve after testing
positive for cocaine. He would be
paid about $50,000 per month for
his work for the company,
Burisma Holdings.
The broad outlines of how the
Bidens’ roles intersected in
Ukraine have been known for
some time. The former vice presi-
dent’s campaign said that he had
always acted to carry out United
States policy without regard to
any activities of his son, that he
had never discussed the matter
with Hunter Biden and that he
learned of his son’s role with the
Ukrainian energy company from
news reports.
But new details about Hunter
Biden’s involvement, and a deci-
sion this year by the current
Ukrainian prosecutor general to
reverse himself and reopen an in-
vestigation into Burisma, have
pushed the issue back into the
For Biden, a Ukraine Matter That Won’t Go Away
By KENNETH P. VOGEL
and IULIIA MENDEL
New Spotlight Falls on
Son’s Employer in a
Revived Inquiry
Continued on Page A10
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NEWS ANALYSIS
WASHINGTON — Nobody
said regime change was going to
be easy.
President Trump’s top advis-
ers woke up Tuesday believing
that a rebellion in the Venezuelan
military that day would galva-
nize a popular uprising and
topple a leader they have de-
scribed as a reviled despot who
must be replaced. But at day’s
end, President Nicolás Maduro
was still in power and Mr.
Trump’s advisers were left to
blame Cuba, Russia and three
influential Venezuelan officials,
who failed to switch sides, for
frustrating their plans.
The decision of the Venezue-
lans to stand with Mr. Maduro —
either because they were intimi-
dated, got cold feet or never
planned to defect — raised ques-
tions about whether the United
States had faulty intelligence
about the ability of the opposition
to peel away members of his
government.
It also raised questions about
whether Mr. Trump’s aides had
fallen victim to a misreading of
events on the ground, or whether
Mr. Trump, who officials say has
sometimes outrun his aides in an
enthusiasm for forcing out Mr.
Maduro, might lose faith in the
effort as it wears on.
Mr. Maduro has been weak-
ened at home and discredited
abroad, but he remains a stub-
born rival unwilling to step aside
for the opposition leader, Juan
Guaidó, recognized by the United
States as the country’s de facto
leader. While the administration
got off to a sure-footed start on
Venezuela, rallying dozens of
countries against the Venezuelan
president, critics said its re-
sponse had become haphazard
and chaotic as the crisis has
dragged on.
Mr. Trump’s aides banked on
Mr. Guaidó’s call for mass pro-
tests and the defection of the
Venezuelan officials on Tuesday
as a turning point in the three-
month campaign to oust Mr.
Pressure Rises
After Failure
In Venezuela
Questions for the U.S.
as Maduro Hangs On
By MARK LANDLER
and JULIAN E. BARNES
Continued on Page A7
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It was called the Economic Op-
portunity Act, a measure intended
to kick-start the sputtering post-
recession economy in New Jersey,
particularly in its struggling cit-
ies. The state would award lucra-
tive tax breaks to businesses if
they moved to New Jersey or re-
mained in the state, creating and
retaining jobs.
But before the bill was ap-
proved by the Legislature, a se-
ries of changes were made to its
language in June 2013 that were
intended to grant specific compa-
nies hundreds of millions of dol-
lars in additional tax breaks, with
no public disclosure, according to
interviews and documents ob-
tained by The New York Times.
Many of the last-minute
changes to drafts of the bill were
made by a real estate lawyer, Kev-
in D. Sheehan, whose influential
law firm has close ties to Demo-
cratic politicians and legislative
leaders in New Jersey.
Mr. Sheehan was allowed by
lawmakers to edit drafts of the bill
in ways that opened up sizable tax
breaks to his firm’s clients, ac-
cording to a marked up copy of the
legislation obtained by The Times,
which identifies Mr. Sheehan’s
changes.
Nearly six years later, the fall-
out from the legislation has set off
an uproar in the State Capitol over
allegations that the state’s $11 bil-
lion in economic development pro-
grams have been poorly managed
corporate giveaways that have
brought few benefits.
How $11 Billion in Tax Breaks
Has New Jersey in an Uproar
By NICK CORASANITI and MATTHEW HAAG
Continued on Page A22
THE SCIENCE An issue raises hard
questions about biology, fairness
and gender identity. PAGE B7
One professor’s quest to secure the
future of a collection of women’s every-
day clothing items. PAGE D1
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Rags or Riches?
Capri has banned plastic and wants to
limit boat traffic, too, to control the twin
Italian ills: tourism and trash. PAGE A6
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An Isle Preserving Its Beauty
More people have been told that they
are under investigation in the college-
admissions scandal, while others worry
that they soon will be. PAGE A20
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The social media giant may create a
privacy committee as part of a deal
with regulators. PAGE B1
BUSINESS B1-6
Facebook Settlement Talks
Stephen Curry helped lift a series that
threatened to devolve amid feuds over
officiating, Marc Stein writes. PAGE B7
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Warriors Put Complaints Aside
Justin Gimelstob said he would resign
from the ATP board to focus on resolving
his personal and legal issues. PAGE B12
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James Comey PAGE A27
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A student who charged a gunman in a
college classroom in Charlotte, N.C.,
“saved lives,” but he died in the attack,
officials said. PAGE A19
Victim Hailed as a Hero
Sedley Alley was executed based on
scant physical evidence and a confession
he said was coerced. His daughter hopes
DNA testing will offer answers. PAGE A13
Was Her Father a Murderer?
Companies are starting to offer com-
fortable, attractive undergarments for
transgender men and women. PAGE D1
A New Sexy for a New Time
A murder placed focus on the region’s
paramilitary groups. But economic
stagnation drives violence, too. PAGE A4
Conflict in Northern Ireland A man who said he was upset about
criticism of President Trump threat-
ened to kill former President Barack
Obama and a congresswoman. PAGE A22
NEW YORK A21-23
Prison for Racist Threats
WASHINGTON — When Attor-
ney General William P. Barr sum-
marized the special counsel’s con-
clusions in a March letter, prompt-
ing President Trump to crow that
he had been exonerated, the spe-
cial counsel’s prosecutors knew
immediately what the public
would learn weeks later: The let-
ter was a sparse and occasionally
misleading representation of their
exhaustive findings.
What followed was a dayslong,
behind-the-scenes tussle over the
first public presentation of one of
the most consequential govern-
ment investigations in American
history.
A richer picture of that battle
emerged on Wednesday — one of
testy letters (Mr. Barr described
one as “snitty”) and at least one
tense phone call between the spe-
cial counsel, Robert S. Mueller III,
and Mr. Barr. The two were long-
time friends who found them-
selves on opposite sides of an em-
battled president.
The growing evidence of a split
between them also brought fresh
scrutiny on Mr. Barr, who on at
least three occasions in recent
weeks has seemed to try to out-
maneuver Mr. Mueller. First, he
released his four-page letter on
March 24 outlining investigators’
findings; then he held an unusual
news conference on the day the
Mueller report was released; and
on Tuesday night, the Justice De-
partment put out a statement that
significantly played down the con-
cerns among Mr. Mueller’s team.
In other words, Mr. Barr, who
said at a Senate Judiciary Com-
mittee hearing on Wednesday
that “we have to stop using the
criminal justice system as a politi-
cal weapon,” now stands accused
of doing exactly that.
The drama began around mid-
day on March 22, when a security
officer working for Mr. Mueller ar-
rived at the fifth floor of the Jus-
tice Department to deliver copies
of his highly anticipated report to
the attorney general and his top
aides.
Mr. Barr worked through that
weekend reading the report, his
aides in occasional contact with
members of Mr. Mueller’s team.
Two days later, hours before Mr.
Barr’s letter was sent to Congress,
Mr. Mueller’s investigators re-
minded Justice Department offi-
cials about executive summaries
they had written to be condensed,
easily digestible versions of their
448-page report.
But Mr. Barr used almost none
Private Tussle About
Inquiry’s Summary
Gets ‘a Bit Snitty’
By MARK MAZZETTI
and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
Continued on Page A15
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both the number and
percentage of
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Bill would OK
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owners to carry their
weapons — openly or
concealed — in
public for up to a
week in any area
where a local, state
or federal disaster is
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WASHINGTON — Pri-
vate tensions between
Justice Department lead-
ers and special counsel
Robert Mueller’s team
broke into public view in
extraordinary fashion
Wednesday as Attorney
General William Barr
pushed back at the spe-
cial counsel’s “snitty”
complaints over his han-
dling of the Trump-Rus-
sia investigation report.
Testifying for the first
time since releasing
Mueller’s report, Barr
faced sharp questioning
from Senate Democrats
who accused him of mak-
ing misleading com-
ments and seeming at
times to be President
Donald Trump’s protec-
tor as much as the coun-
try’s top law enforce-
ment official.
The rift fueled allega-
tions that Barr has spun
Mueller’s findings in
Trump’sfavorandunder-
stated the gravity of
Trump’s behavior. The
dispute is certain to per-
sist, as Democrats push
to give Mueller a chance
to answer Barr’s testimo-
ny with his own later this
month.
Barr separately in-
formed the House Judi-
ciary Committee that he
would not appear for its
scheduled hearing on
Thursday because of the
panel’s insistence that he
be questioned by com-
mittee lawyers as well as
lawmakers. That refusal
sets the stage for Barr to
possibly be held in con-
tempt of Congress.
At Wednesday’s Sen-
ate Judiciary Committee
Barr, senators clash
at hearing on report
Susan Walsh / Associated Press
Attorney General William Barr testifies Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
By Eric Tucker
and Mary
Clare Jalonick
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Attorney general refuses House
appearance as Dems accuse him
of lying under oath about probe
Barr continues on A8
“There is now
public
confusion
about critical
aspects of the
results of our
investigation.”
Robert Mueller, written
to Attorney General
William Barr
Voters in seven Greater
Houston school districts
will decide Saturday
whether to authorize
about $3.6 billion in bonds
aimed at keeping up with
constantly-growing enroll-
ments, renovating older fa-
cilitiesandupgradingcam-
pus security following
deadly school shootings.
Districts considering
large bond issues include
Cypress-Fairbanks ISD,
which is seeking a district-
record $1.76 billion pack-
age, and Conroe ISD,
which faces some Republi-
can opposition to its $807
million proposal.
Residents of Brazo-
sport, Channelview, Cleve-
land, Goose Creek and
Sweeny school districts
will vote on bonds ranging
from $28 million to $335
million. The bonds likely
would result in tax increas-
es for most voters, though
many residents would see
only nominally larger tax
bills if the packages pass.
School districts use
bonds to finance costs as-
sociated with facility con-
struction, transportation
vehicles, technology up-
grades and other capital
purchases. The bond mon-
ey cannot be used to pay
for staff salaries, employee
benefits or other day-to-
day operations costs.
Locally, school bonds
rarely are rejected by vot-
ers, with 66 out of 72 pass-
ing over the past decade in
Brazoria, Fort Bend, Gal-
veston, Harris and Mont-
gomery counties.
Bonds continues on A11
$3.6B
in school
bonds
on ballot
Seven districts
seek approval at
polls on Saturday
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AUSTIN — In 2020, vot-
ers will pick a president.
But 2019 is shaping up to
be a big election year in
Texas, too.
Gov. Greg Abbott and
other Republican leaders
want to ask voters in No-
vember whether to dedi-
cate a 1 percent increase in
the sales tax to raise bil-
lions to reduce property
taxes.
By putting the choice to
voters, lawmakers can de-
flect blame if the measure
succeeds and the state’s
sales tax rises to 9.25
percent for most Texans,
which would be the high-
est rate in the nation. But
legislators also run the risk
of rejection, which would
unravel a crucial part of
their plan to deliver home-
owners meaningful prop-
erty tax relief.
The sales tax swap is
one of many proposals Ab-
bott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick
and House Speaker Dennis
Bonnen are backing to
make good on promises to
Sales tax vote a
gamble for GOP
Property relief
plan put at risk
if measure fails
By Allie Morris
AUSTIN BUREAU
Tax continues on A11
Regulators have found
Baylor St. Luke’s Medical
Center in violation of sev-
eral patient safety and
quality of care require-
ments, according to a let-
ter sent to the hospital
Tuesday.
The Texas Department
of Health and Human Ser-
vices has given St. Luke’s
10 days to submit a de-
tailed plan of correction or
risk losing Medicare fund-
ing later this year, accord-
ing to the letter.
Doug Lawson, St. Luke’s
president, said he is confi-
dent the hospital will meet
all of the requirements and
maintain federal funding.
“Clearly, this is a very
significant situation that
we take with the utmost se-
riousness,” Lawson said in
a written statement Wed-
nesday. “We have already
made significant improve-
ments across the hospital
and we are confident re-
maining findings will be
immediately addressed.”
The Medicare termina-
St. Luke’s again
faces funding cut
Hospital must
develop plan for
fixes by June 9
By Mike Hixenbaugh
STAFF WRITER
Funds continues on A8
Another tense day in Venezuela
Fernando Llano / Associated Press
Thousands gather Wednesday to demand
President Nicolas Maduro’s ouster and support
opposition leader Juan Guaidó. Story on page A7.
Video obtained
Surveillance video at the Go N’ Gas
convenience store in Hamden,
obtained Wednesday, shows the
interaction between Paul Witherspoon
III and a newspaper delivery man that
led to a police search for
Witherspoon’s car and the eventual
shooting and wounding of
Witherspoon’s passenger in
neighboring New Haven on April16.
Connecticut, Page B1
Slow growth
Connecticut’s economy last year
posted just its second annual spurt of
growth in a decade, the U.S.
Department of Commerce reported.
Connecticut, Page B1
Vaccination rates
Newly appointed public health
commissioner Renée D.
Coleman-Mitchell has ordered the
release of school-by-school
vaccination information, following two
separate Freedom of Information
requests. School immunization data,
from both public and private schools
across the state, will be posted on the
health department’s website by the
end of the week.Connecticut, Page
B3
ICE protest
Hundreds of local immigration
activists built a human wall in front of
the federal court in Hartford and led an
impromptu march through downtown
to protest federal immigration officials
and policies late Wednesday
afternoon. Connecticut, Page B3
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Mostly cloudy, chance
for a shower. A2
OPPOSITION MOVEMENT
Guaido supporters look to increase
pressure on Maduro. A3
ASSANGE SENTENCED
WikiLeaks founder gets 50 weeks
in prison for skipping bail. A9
RED SOX SWEEP A’S
Moreland, Vazquez homer
in 7-3 victory. C1
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HARTFORD — Democratic legislators
called Wednesday for higher taxes on the
rich in a wide-ranging revenue package
that would also charge the state sales tax
for the first time on items ranging from dry
cleaning and parking to interior design
some parking services, interior design
services, safety apparel like a hardhat,
ride-share companies such as Uber and
Lyftand dry cleaning and non-coin-op-
erated laundry. Despite Lamont’s request,
the sales tax was not extended to legal
services, which some insiders said was
because too many legislators work as
lawyers.
The package also does not include
Lamont’s controversial tax on soda and
other sugary drinks after some Democrats
complained the tax would be higher on
services.
The legislature’s finance committee
offereditsfirstformalresponsetoGov.Ned
Lamont’s tax package, which called for the
largest expansion of the sales tax in recent
years. Rather than increasing the current
6.35 percent rate, Lamont wants to raise
more money by expanding the levy to
include a wider range of products and
services.
Rejecting many of Lamont’s list of more
than25itemsthatwasreleasedinFebruary
as part of his two-year budget, the
Democratic-written bill says the sales tax
should be expanded only to five areas —
By Christopher Keating
Finance committee
responds to Lamont’s
call to expand levy
State Dems debate tax package
Turn to Tax, Page A4
Marijuana taxation clears panel, setting stage for bill
HARTFORD – For the third time this
year, a key legislative committee voted in
favor of a controversial bill that could lead
to the legalization of recreational marijua-
na in Connecticut.
The finance committee voted Wednes-
day night on taxation issues related to
marijuana that would be merged in the
comingweeks into an overall billtolegalize
the drug. Previously, the general law and
judiciary committees both approved legal-
ization in bills that focused on the regula-
tory and legal aspects.
The issue has moved further than ever
before as three committees have never
approved marijuana bills at the state
legislature. Now, legislators will weave the
legislation together to create a final,
omnibus bill to be debated on the floor of
the state House of Representatives and
Senate.
“The war on marijuana is growing
increasingly unpopular, and there is a
growing sentiment in Connecticut and
around the country that legalization is
inevitable,” said Adam Wood, the co-
director of a pro-legalization coalition.
“The three bills passed to date propose a
comprehensive and well-planned exit
strategy for the state. They would establish
a well-regulated, thoughtfully taxed canna-
bis market that takes production and sales
out of the shadows and brings them above
board.”
Noting the tightness of the votes and the
complications of the issue, House Speaker
JoeAresimowiczofBerlintoldtheCourant
recently that the marijuana legislation
could be pushed into a special session if
legislators cannot reach a compromise
before the regular General Assembly ses-
sion ends on June 5.
Rep. Sean Scanlon, a Guilford Democrat,
By Christopher Keating
Next step is for legislators
to weave plans together
Turn to Bill, Page A5
The Churchill Club, a 10-member group
that describes itself as “dedicated to the
preservation, dissemination and extension
of the Western moral and philosophical
tradition,” was recognized by the college
earlier this year. Last weekend, the student
government association rejected funding
for the group, citing student “discomfort
with this club” after its members “referred
to members of the community in degrad-
ing terms.”
In a statement, the Churchill Club said
that its members “stand firmly against
racism, discrimination, and white suprem-
acy, as well as any and all other insidious
ideologies.”
Trinity sophomores Daishly Diaz, 19, from left, Stephanie Cerda-Ocampo, 19, and Janita Delgado, 20, hold placards during a protest
Wednesday at Trinity College. About 200 Trinity students, including members of the student organization Justice 4 Marginalized Per-
sons, protested the college’s recognition of the Churchill Club, a 10-member group that describes itself as “dedicated to the preserva-
tion, dissemination and extension of the Western moral and philosophical tradition.”
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HARTFORD — Amid the controversy
over a conservative student organization
and free speech at Hartford’s Trinity
College, hundreds of students Wednesday
demanded that President Joanne Berger-
Sweeney revoke recognition of the
Churchill Club.
By Nicholas Rondinone
Trinity students protest recognition of Churchill Club, a conservative group
IDEALS COLLIDE
Turn to Protest, Page A4
WASHINGTON — Attorney General
William Barr staunchly defended his
handlingoftheRussiainvestigationduring
a contentious Senate hearing Wednesday,
as Democrats attacked his credibility and
accused of him of spinningand mischarac-
terizing the final report from special
counselRobertS.MuellerIIIinanattempt
to protect President Donald Trump.
Officials later said Barr would not show
up to testify at a sched-
uled hearing Thursday
in the House Judiciary
Committee.Earlier,the
Democratic-led panel
had overruled Barr’s
objections and voted to
allow staff lawyers to
question him.
Barr’s apparent boycott escalated the
battle between the White House and
congressional Democrats, who have
launched multiple investigations of
Trump. The president has so far refused to
honor several subpoenas, and recently
sued the chairman of the House Oversight
and Reform Committee to block him from
obtaining documents.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., chairman of
the House Judiciary Committee, accused
Barr of “trying to blackmail the commit-
tee” by refusing to testify, and said the
panel would consider issuing a subpoena.
“Congress cannot permit the executive
branch, the administration, to dictate to
Congress how we operate.”
During his Senate testimony Wednes-
day, Barr repeatedly pushed back at critics,
saying he was “frankly surprised” that
Mueller did not reach a conclusion on
whether Trump obstructed justice, and
that he was “absolutely” confident in his
judgment that Trump did not try to
unlawfully impede the investigation.
He also dismissed a letter of complaint
from Mueller as a “bit snitty,” a hint of the
growing friction between the attorney
general appointed by Trump and the
former FBI director who investigated the
By Chris Megerian
and Del Quentin Wilber
Los Angeles Times
Attorney general grilled
over his response to
Mueller investigation
Turn to Barr, Page A4
Officials
say Barr
will skip
hearing
Inside
Blumenthal calls
for Barr's
resignation, A4
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9 Welcome and introduction
9:15 The American reader and the newspaper
9:45 History and anatomy of page one
10:20 BREAK
10:30 Language of design
11 Modular design and designing modules
Noon LUNCH
12:45 America’s page one – PART ONE
1:45 America’s page one – PART TWO
2:45 BREAK
3 Putting it all together
3:55 Wrapping it all up
4 Conclusion
Conclusion
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