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Michael Cohen
back in prison
after this
pic

THE
LAST
SUPPER
This picture on the front page of
The Post of former Trump lawyer
Michael Cohen dining out on the
Upper East Side had feds take a
look at his behavior while on
furlough amid the COVID outbreak,
a source said. Yesterday, they
brought him in to sign a document
outlining the rules he must follow
Christopher Sadowski

— and when he refused, they took

him back into custody.

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Protests get
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Mayor de Blasio is permitting
Black Lives Matter protesters to

5th Ave. BLM mural

continue marching through city
New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020

streets while canceling all large

events through September.
Speaking on CNN Thursday
night, de Blasio said the calls for
social justice were too important
to stop after more than a month of
demonstrations have not led to an
outbreak of coronavirus cases.
By KhristiNa NarizhNaya “This is a historic moment of
and Lia EustachEwich change. We have to respect that
but also say to people the kinds of
Mayor de Blasio was greeted with gatherings we’re used to, the
jeers as he showed up to help paint parades, the fairs — we just can’t
a giant Black Lives Matter mural on have that while we’re focusing on
Fifth Avenue outside Trump Tower health right now,” de Blasio told
on Thursday — with a some angry host Wolf Blitzer.
onlookers shouting, “Douchebag de He cited the exception for pro-
Blasio!” upon his arrival. tests as New York’s rate of infec-
Fifth Avenue between East 56th tions have remained consistent
and 57th streets was closed off to through the civil unrest over the
traffic in the morning for the Minneapolis police killing of Ge-
de Blasio-commissioned project, orge Floyd.
which has been ripped by some, in- A late-June study from the Na-
cluding President Trump, as a polit- tional Bureau of Economic Re-
ical stunt. search found no evidence that
Department of Transportation coronavirus cases jumped in 315
workers measured the big block let- cities in the weeks after the first
ters and stenciled them with spray protests. Researchers determined
paint and tape. that the risks may have been offset
Then, more than 40 volunteers by an increase in social distancing
with the youth-focused organiza- among those who decided not to
tion Street Corner Resources filled march. Vincent Barone
in the words with yellow paint.
De Blasio arrived at around 11:30
Beaches short

a.m. and was greeted by two or
three men shouting, “Douchebag de
Blasio,” as he crossed the street.
He joined First Lady Chirlane
McCray, the Rev. Al Sharpton,
Brooklyn Borough President Eric
Adams and Rep. Carolyn Maloney
(D-NY) to fill in the letter “L.”
“This is such an important mo-
ment for our city,” the mayor told
volunteers, who chanted, “Black
lives matter!” while holding paint
rollers. “We are making a statement
today of what we value in New York
City.”
De Blasio left about 20 minutes
later without addressing the media.
As the volunteers got to work,
they were met with jeers from pas-
sersby, including Karen Braun, who
yelled, “Hitler told us all lives didn’t
matter, too! Shame on you!”
Susan Miller, 55, slammed
de Blasio for sanctioning the mural
everyone’s a critic: Volunteers on Thursday paint a giant Black Lives Matter mural on Fifth Ave-
nue in front of Trump Tower — attracting some complaints from passersby.and nasty digs at the mayor.
— one of several painted across the
five boroughs.
“There should be unity and not
division and this mayor created di-
vision,” said Miller. “Mayor
de Blasio did this out of hate. He
doesn’t like the president.”
Hizzoner hatched the plan for the
Trump Tower mural last month on
the heels of a similar move by DC
Mayor Muriel Bowser, who had
“Black Lives Matter” painted along
the road leading to the White
House.
Last week, Trump called the New
York mural a “symbol of hate.”
“NYC is cutting Police $’s by ONE
BILLION DOLLARS, and yet the
@NYCMayor is going to paint a
big, expensive, yellow Black Lives
Matter sign on Fifth Avenue, deni-
grating this luxury Avenue,” the
president tweeted.
De Blasio essentially has to curry
favor with Trump, having warned
of mass layoffs if the city doesn’t get
a federal aid from the administra-
tion due to the pandemic.
“Everyone is just completely fed
up,” a police source said about the
mural. “Shootings are at the highest
level they’ve been in decades and
Mayor’s Office
we have politicians who care more
about painting letters on the streets
and renaming streets rather than
trying to solve the shootings or find
a way to fix them.”
But dad of four Randy Williams
said the mural sends a positive mes-
sage to youth.
“I am solely out here for the fu-
ture. I want the world to be a better
place,” Williams, 38, said. “It’s not
about Trump or de Blasio. It’s about
the kids.”
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opened for swimming earlier this
month — but long stretches remain
off-limits due to a lack of lifeguards.
Empty lifeguard chairs dotted
large swaths of Coney Island’s
three-mile beach as temps soared
into the 90s on Thursday.
“I’m hot and I want to go in the
water, but without lifeguards, it’s
dangerous when the tide comes in,”
said Erica Flores, 28, who was on the
sand with her two kids.
Out of 22 bays on the beach checked
by a Post reporter, there were life-
guards spotted at just 13.
One said, “We are short-staffed
because of COVID. Half of the life-
guards who worked last season
haven’t come back.” Reuven Fenton

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New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020

By Tamar Lapin
She’s the most decorated American gym-
nast in history — and now Simone Biles can
add a Vogue cover to her mantel.
The 23-year-old champ makes her debut
as the fashion bible’s cover model in the Au-
gust issue (right) — and opens up to the
mag about the Olympics being postponed
due to the coronavirus, the USA Gymnastics
sex-abuse scandal and the nationwide pro-
tests against racism and police brutality.
“I felt kind of torn and broken,” Biles —
who was snapped by famed photographer
Annie Leibovitz for the magazine — said of
learning that she would have to wait until
next July compete in the Olympics in Tokyo.
“Obviously, it was the right decision, but
to have it finalized — in a way, you feel de-
feated because you’ve worked so hard.”
Quarantined at her Texas
home, Biles — who holds 30
Olympic and World Cham-
pionship medals — tried to
stay in shape by following
“twerk-out” videos on You-
Tube and taking part in
handstand challenges.
She was finally able to re-
sume training in mid-May
after the World Champions
Centre in Spring, Texas, re-
opened.
But it wasn’t just rearrang-
ing her training that troubled
Biles — she also dreaded hav-
ing to work with USA Gym-
nastics for an extra year.
“I just started crying,” she said. “Another
year of dealing with USAG. That, I don’t
know if I can take.”
Biles has been an outspoken
critic of the organization over
the scandal surrounding the
team’s former doctor Larry
Nassar, who is serving life in
prison after he was accused of
sexually abusing hundreds of
female gymnasts for decades.
“We need to figure out why
it happened, when it hap-
pened, and who knew what,
when,” said Biles, who has al-
leged that she was among
those abused by Nassar.
“We can’t feel comfortable
promoting our sport if we
fear that something might happen like this
again because they’re not doing their part,”
she added, referring to the USAG and the
nypost.com
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United States Olympic & Paralympic Com-
mittee.
Biles explained why it had been important
for her to come forward as a victim.
“For me, it was a weight that I carried so
heavily on my chest, so I felt like, if I shared
it with people, then it would be a relief for
me,” she told Vogue.
“And I knew that by sharing my story, I
would help other survivors feel comfortable
and safe in coming forward.”
Speaking to the magazine about the pro-
tests sparked by the May 25 death of George
Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, Biles
said, “We need change.”
“We need justice for the black commu-
nity,” she said. “With the peaceful protests,
it’s the start of change, but it’s sad that it
took all of this for people to listen.”
tlapin@nypost.com

Huh? Scrabble slurs were OK? Stones to expand ’73 album

Scrabble just became
W-O-K-E.
Players of the classic board
game will no longer be able
to rack up points for spelling
out racial and ethnic slurs.
A total of 236 bigoted
words were removed from
the official Scrabble word
list used at tournaments —
in order to make the game
friendlier to all types of
people, the North American
Scrabble Players Associa-
tion announced Wednesday.
“Removing slurs is the
very least that we can do to
make our association more
inclusive,” NASPA CEO
John Chew said.
Natalie O’Neill, Wires
The Rolling Stones will re-
lease a new version of their
1973 album “Goats Head
Soup” featuring three previ-
ously unheard tracks, includ-
ing one featuring Led Zeppe-
lin’s Jimmy Page.
The Stones announced on
Thursday that the release on
Sept. 4 will include a four-
disc CD and vinyl box-set edi-
tion that includes 10 bonus
tracks, including outtakes and
alternative versions.
Page appears on a song
called “Scarlet.” The Stones
also released a video for one
of the unheard songs, called
“Criss Cross.”
“Goats Head Soup” fea-
tures “Angie.” AP
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TV star Naya presumed drowned after son, 4,

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New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020

AFP via Getty Images

By Jackie Salo and JorGe Fitz-GiBBon “I can’t stress enough that this seems like
Tragic a tragic accident. Come out here for a great
ouTing: Naya Former “Glee” star Naya Rivera is be- day and something bad happens.”
Rivera — here lieved to have drowned after she went After a fruitless search on Wednesday, au-
with son Josey missing from a boat while out on a lake in thorities continued scouring the waters on
Dorsey in 2019 Southern California with her 4-year-old Thursday but said that Rivera was presumed
— vanished after son, authorities said on Thursday. dead and that the operation had turned into
taking the boy The 33-year-old actress rented the pon- a recovery mission rather than a rescue.
out on a pontoon toon boat at around 1 p.m. Wednesday with “Multiple teams of professional search-
boat in a lake in her son, Josey Dorsey, at Lake Piru — a res- and-rescue personnel are actively search-
California. The ervoir in the Los Padres National Forest ing Lake Piru for any clues to the location
youngster — that has been the site of many drownings, of Naya Rivera,” the sheriff’s office said
whom Rivera the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office said. Thursday afternoon.
had called “my When they did not return the boat by 4 “With over 80 people involved in the
greatest suc- p.m., the man who rented the craft to her search right now, we are using helicopters,
cess” — was went looking for them. boats, ATV vehicles and ground personnel
found alone in He found Josey sleeping in the boat, but to try to locate her.
the vessel with the boy said his mom had gone swimming “Our hearts and prayers go out [to] all of
his mother no- and never surfaced. the family and friends of the Rivera family.”
where in sight, “He found Ms. Rivera’s son on the boat Josey, Rivera’s son with ex-husband Ryan
authorities said. and Ms. Rivera was nowhere to be found,” Dorsey, was with family and in “good
Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Dyer said, noting health,” sheriff’s spokesman Capt. Eric Bur-
that no foul play was suspected. schow told reporters, adding, “The family is

found asleep, alone on lake boat Haunted by
Lake Piru
CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles
Pacific
Pacific
Ocean
Ocean
going through a very traumatic time right
now.”
Lake Piru, a 1,200-acre reservoir about
56 miles northwest of downtown Los An-
geles, has seen numerous drownings over
the years due to chilly temperatures that
can overwhelm swimmers and strong
winds that can tip small boats, the Los An-
gles Times reported.
Douglas West, the lake’s former parks-
and-recreation services manager, said he
knew of about a dozen drownings during
his 23 years on the job.
“The only thing I can emphasize is that
if swimmers are around the water, they
need to wear a personal flotation device
whether they know how to swim or not,”
West said. “That will save their lives.”
Authorities said Rivera had left her life
jacket on the boat when she jumped into
the lake.
“Josey was asleep on the boat wearing a
life jacket, but Naya’s jacket was sitting on
1 p.m.: Naya Rivera rented a pontoon boat Wednesday
1 with her 4-year-old son, Josey, at Lake Piru, about
60 miles from Los Angeles.
2 4 p.m: When the boat
Lake
Piru
3 The Los Angeles County district attor-
6:30 p.m:
Rivera’s
car is
found
in the
parking
lot.
the seat,” the man who found the boy, who
was not identified by name, told The Sun
on Thursday.
“Josey didn’t seem upset. He is maybe a
little too young to understand what was
happening.
“I assume the boat drifted and she
couldn’t swim back to it. Nobody knew
she was a famous actress. She was in
stealth mode,” he added.
Rivera was born in Valencia, Calif.,
about 20 miles from the lake.
She rose to prominence playing Santana
Lopez, the mean girl in the popular Fox
musical series from 2009 to 2015.
She married Dorsey, a fellow actor, in
2014, and they divorced in June 2018.
Rivera had tweeted a picture of herself
with her son on Tuesday, with the words,
“just the two of us.”
In her 2016 memoir, “Sorry Not Sorry,”
she called Josey “my greatest success, and
I will never do any better than him.”
MEGA
4
was not returned, the
man who rented the craft
to Rivera went looking
for the actress and found
Josey sleeping in the boat.
The boy said his mom
went swimming and never
came back.
MEGA
Following news of her disappearance,
many former “Glee” co-stars and other
celebs shared their thoughts and prayers.
“Sick to my stomach,” tweeted actor
Damian McGinty, who played Rory Flana-
gan on the show. “Please pray.”
Singer Demi Lovato — who appeared on
“Glee” as Dani, a love interest for Rivera’s
character — posted a photo of a candle in
an Instagram story.
“Please pray for @nayarivera to be
found safe and sound,” she wrote.
Actress Jackée Harry, who starred with a
4-year-old Rivera on the 1991-1992 CBS sit-
com “The Royal Family” — Rivera’s first
acting gig — shared a clip from that show
on Twitter.
“We starred alongside one another in
her first very television series, The Royal
Family, and I’ve watched her career blos-
som every since,” Harry wrote. “Please
God, don’t cut this life short.”
Additional reporting by Tamar Lapin
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New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020
cast ‘curse’
3 2
1
nypost.com
Naya Rivera’s (1) apparent drowning
would be the latest in a string of tra-
gedies and traumas associated with
“Glee.” Here’s a rundown on four
others hit by the “ ‘Glee’ curse”:
Mark Salling (2)
The actor, who played Noah “Puck”
Puckerman, pleaded guilty to possession
of child pornography in 2017.
According to authorities, Salling pur-
posefully downloaded thousands of illicit
images over eight months in 2015. He was
arrested in December of that year.
In 2016, a woman accused Salling of
forcing her to have sex with him at a ho-
tel four years earlier.
ney chose to not charge him with rape,
citing a delay in reporting the alleged at-
tack, as well as insufficient evidence.
A month after his guilty plea in 2018,
Salling died by suicide at age 35.
Cory Monteith (3)
The actor, who portrayed Finn Hud-
son, died at age 31 from an accidental
drug and alcohol overdose in 2013.
Monteith, who was co-star Lea Mi-
chele’s on-screen and real-life boy-
friend at the time, had been open about
his struggles with addiction.
The British Columbia Coroners Ser-
vice, which ruled the death accidental,
said investigators found a spoon with
drug residue and a used hypodermic
needle in the Vancouver hotel room
where his body was found.
Monteith’s death was written into the
show that year in an episode titled “The
Quarterback.”
Lea Michele (4)
The actress, who played Rachel Berry,
has come under attack by co-star Sa-
mantha Marie Ware, 28, who accused
Michele, 33, last month of making her
time on the show “a living hell.”
Other cast members backed Ware,
with Heather Morris (Brittany) calling
Michele “very much unpleasant” to
work with. Michele apologized for her
behavior, but lost a sponsorship with
HelloFresh over the accusations.
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Tax subpoena OK for DA, not Congress

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New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020

SAT rap
stirs big
racquet
Ex-tennis star Pam Shriver
pushed back against the explosive
allegation in a tell-all memoir by
President Trump’s niece that The
Donald had hired pal Joe Shapiro
— the former pro’s late husband —
to take the SATs for him.
Mary Trump wrote in “Too
Much and Never Enough: How My
Family Created the World’s Most
Dangerous Man” that Trump en-
listed the help of Shapiro to take
the exam so he could get the scores
needed to transfer from Fordham
to the Wharton School at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania.
AP

“To hedge his bets he enlisted

Split deciSion: While the court ruled “the President is not immune from state criminal subpoenas,” President Trump’s tax records are safe for now.
By EBony BowdEn
The Supreme Court on Thursday
ruled a New York grand jury can
subpoena President Trump’s tax
returns and financial records, but
blocked a similar request from con-
gressional investigators, sending
both decisions back to lower courts
and keeping the records under
wraps for the foreseeable future.
In two 7-2 verdicts, the justices
said the president was not immune
from subpoenas and criminal in-
vestigations but ruled an investiga-
tion from Democratic-led House
committees was too broad, and
that it claimed limitless powers to
pry into Trump’s financial dealings
that the committees do not have.
“The President is neither abso-
lutely immune from state criminal
subpoenas seeking his private pa-
pers nor entitled to a heightened
standard of need,” Chief Justice
John Roberts wrote in the majority
opinion in the first ruling.
The historic ruling will allow
Manhattan District Attorney Cy-
rus Vance Jr. to have a grand jury
subpoena eight years of the presi-
dent’s tax returns that Trump has
fought to keep private since he en-
tered public office.
However, such a subpoena will
have to be ruled on by the US Dis-
trict Court in Washington, DC,
and, even if it is issued, the records
likely would not be made public
before the November presidential
election, providing something of a
victory to Trump even in defeat.
Justices Clarence Thomas and
Samuel Alito were the dissenting
votes in each 7-2 ruling.
The Supreme Court also dis-
missed subpoenas from Congress
seeking the financial records and tax
returns of the president and his fam-
ily, arguing it was an overreach and
threatened the separation of powers.
That case has also been sent back to
the US District Court in DC.
“The House’s approach would
leave essentially no limits on the
congressional power to subpoena
the President’s personal records,”
Roberts wrote, arguing that the
subpoenas “lacked a legitimate
legislative process.”
“These separation of powers
concerns are unmistakably impli-
cated by the subpoenas here,
which represent not a run-of-the-
mill legislative effort but rather a
clash between rival branches of
government over records of in-
tense political interest for all in-
volved,” he continued.
The president railed against the
decisions, tweeting that New York
was “politically corrupt” and that
the decision was “not fair” to his
presidency or administration.
Vance’s office last September
subpoenaed Trump’s longtime ac-
counting company, Mazars USA,
for eight years of his financial
records and tax returns as part of
an investigation into whether he
paid hush money before the 2016
election to several women with
whom he allegedly had affairs.
The payments would be a potential
violation of campaign finance laws.
Trump’s personal attorney Jay
Sekulow, who argued the case,
welcomed the decision tempora-
rily blocking release of the records
and said they would continue
fighting the matter in the lower
courts.
Vance said he was also pleased
with the decision, which affirmed
the president is not “above the law.”
ebowden@nypost.com
Joe Shapiro, a smart kid with a rep-
utation for being a good test taker,
to take his SATs for him,” Mary
Trump wrote in her upcoming
book, ABC News reported.
“That was much easier to pull on
in the days before photo IDs and
computerized records. Donald,
who never lacked for funds, paid
his buddy well,” she wrote without
providing proof or attribution.
Shapiro, an attorney and a former
executive at the Walt Disney Co.,
died in 1999 of non-Hodgkin’s lym-
phoma, according to ABC News.
Shriver (above), now an ESPN
tennis analyst, said she is confident
the allegation is false. She said the
two men did not meet until after
Trump had transferred to Wharton.
“He was a man of great integrity,
honesty; he was a hard worker. He
was literally the smartest person I
ever met,” Shriver said of Shapiro
in a video posted on Twitter.
Yaron Steinbuch

Cutting off ‘Voice’ journos Esper: I wasn’t bounty-briefed

Dozens of foreign journal-
ists working in the United
States for Voice of America
will not have their visas ex-
tended once they expire,
NPR reported Thursday.
The report said Michael
Pack, President Trump’s
newly appointed CEO of the
Agency for Global Media,
which oversees interna-
tional broadcasting, indi-
cated he would not approve
the visa extensions.
Pack on Wednesday also
ordered the firing of ex-Ra-
dio Free Asia chief Bay Fang.
One VOA journalist told
NPR that some of the for-
eign journalists forced to re-
turn home would likely face
repercussions from their
own nations’ governments
that are hostile to the US.
Trump and his administra-
tion have been highly criti-
cal of VOA. Bob Fredericks
Defense Secretary Mark Es-
per testified Thursday that he
was not briefed on alleged
Russian bounties to kill US
troops in Afghanistan — but
would have been were there
credible intelligence.
“To the best of my recol-
lection I have not received a
briefing that included the
word ‘bounty,’ ” Esper told
the House Armed Services
Committee.
“If it was a credible re-
port — that’s important, a
credible, corroborated re-
port that used those words
— certainly, it would have
been brought to my atten-
tion by the chain of com-
mand,” Esper added.
Esper’s testimony implic-
itly supports President
Trump, who denied a report
claiming he had been briefed
on Russian bounties and
failed to act. Steven Nelson
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New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020

Seoul dead
The mayor of South Korea’s capi-
tal, Seoul, who vanished amid sexu-
al-harassment allegations, has been

Reuters
found dead — hours after his
daughter reported that he had left a
message that sounded like a will.
Police found Park Won-soon’s
body after a massive search in the
hills across north-
ern Seoul, where
his cellphone signal
was last detected,
the Yonhap news
agency reported.

nypost.com
Park (inset), long
seen as a potential
presidential candi-
date, reportedly faced allegations of
sexual misconduct.
His daughter said he left his home
after leaving a voice message that
sounded like “last words,” accord-
ing to Reuters. She didn’t specify
Cohen is
the contents of the message.
Seoul Metropolitan Government
official Kim Ji-hyeong said Park did
not come to work on Thursday and
rejailed
had canceled all of his meetings for
the day.
The Seoul-based SBS TV network
reported that one of the mayor’s
after pic
secretaries had lodged a complaint By Lois Weiss, Ben Feuerherd
with police a day earlier over al- and Bruce GoLdinG
leged sexual harassment.
Yaron Steinbuch His taste of freedom was short- All thAt’s left: Attorney Jeffrey Levine holds up Michael
lived. Cohen’s jacket and belt, removed when the feds took him into
Michael Cohen landed back be- custody Thursday. Saturday’s Post set off the chain of events.

Breonna cops’ hind bars Thursday after The Post’s

Page One exposé on his night out at
a Manhattan restaurant led federal

damage control officials to review his case, a source

Cops involved in the police killing
of Breonna Taylor knew immedi-
ately that they’d messed up, accord-
ing to newly released recordings.
A plainclothes officer told Taylor’s
boyfriend there had been a “misun-
derstanding” after the March 13
shooting, NBC News reported
Thursday, citing the recordings.
“Why’d he say to me that there
was a misunderstanding?” Kenneth
Walker asked police hours after the
raid in Louisville, Ky. He added, “I’m
not an idiot. They figured out some-
thing. They did something wrong.”
Taylor, 26, was sleeping when po-
lice executed a “no-knock” warrant
at 12:40 a.m. searching for drugs that
were never found. Only one of the
cops has been fired. Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
Holocaust memorial
Albania, where no Jews were
killed or handed over to the Nazis
during World War II, unveiled a
Holocaust memorial on Thursday.
The marble memorial is at an en-
trance to Tirana’s Artificial Lake
Park. The inscription, in English,
Hebrew and Albanian, reads, “Alba-
nians, Christians and Muslims en-
dangered their lives to protect and
save the Jews.” AP
familiar with the matter said.
“That dinner caught the eye of
Cohen lawyer and
pal Lanny Davis said.
has been returned to a BOP facility.”
The development came less than
bly has to do with the optics of
everything,” CNN reported.
those at [the Bureau of Prisons] When Cohen — who last week a week after The Post published a Another of Cohen’s defense
who feel he was released on fur- tweeted that he’d almost finished cover photo of Trump’s onetime lawyers, Roger Adler, told The
lough only due to the coronavirus writing a tell-all set for publication personal lawyer dining out with his Associated Press that his jailing was
situation but is acting like he’s a free in September — refused to sign the wife and another couple at a French an “overly draconian response to
man and not out under supervi- paperwork, the officials left the restaurant on the Upper East Side. what was, at worst, poor judgment.”
sion,” the source said. room. Last week, Levine claimed that Adler also said that Cohen
“The Post article was a catalyst to They returned about 90 minutes Cohen’s July 2 meal at a sidewalk ta- thought that being on medical fur-
take a closer look.” later with three deputy US mar- ble outside Le Bilboquet, around lough “did not prohibit venturing
Cohen, 53, was taken into custody shals carrying a set of shackles, Da- the corner from his Park Avenue beyond his apartment and dining
and sent to the Metropolitan De- vis said. apartment, “did not violate any of out.”
tention Center in Brooklyn follow- The former fixer for President the terms and conditions of his re- Cohen was sentenced in Decem-
ing a meeting with federal proba- Trump immediately changed his lease” on furlough on May 21. ber 2018 to three years in prison for
tion officials in the Manhattan fed- tune, Davis said, describing how he But experts told The Post that the crimes that include tax evasion,
eral courthouse, his lawyer Jeffrey vainly pleaded, “I’ll sign exactly brazen dinner — which didn’t end bank fraud and lying to Congress, as
Levine said. what you want me to sign so I don’t until around 11:30 p.m. — might be well as covering up Trump’s alleged
Cohen had been given a docu- have to go back to jail.” enough to send him back to prison. hush-money payments to porn star
ment outlining new, stricter condi- But the marshals told Cohen it Asked if The Post’s exclusive re- Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy
tions for home confinement that in- was too late, Levine said. port prompted the move, Levine model Karen McDougal.
cluded no communication with re- In an e-mailed statement, the didn’t dispute it, CNN reported. His prison term isn’t set to expire
porters or filmmakers, no use of so- BOP said simply, “Today, Michael “I would leave that to your view- until Nov. 22, 2021, according to the
cial media “and finally, that he Cohen refused the conditions of his ers,” Levine said. BOP’s Web site.
could not publish a book,” former home confinement and as a result He also suggested that “it proba- bfeuerherd@nypost.com
‘Roger’ that prison date: Justice Dept.
The Justice Department to Congress and obstruct- In a filing, the Justice De- to the Georgia prison until conviction and 40-month
won’t stand in the way of ing the Russia investiga- partment backed a district Sept. 3, citing “considera- prison sentence.
Roger Stone, a longtime tion, appealed to a federal court’s decision for Stone ble risk from serious The Justice Department
political ally of President appeals court in Washing- to report on July 14. health consequences, in- had been criticized for giv-
Trump, reporting to fed- ton, DC, to delay his prison Stone’s legal team asked cluding death.” ing Stone preferential
eral prison next week. term because of the coro- the appeals court on Mon- Stone, 67, is also appeal- treatment due to his ties to
Stone, convicted of lying navirus pandemic. day to delay his reporting ing his November 2019 Trump. Mark Moore
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NYers can’t
make rent
By NoAh MANSkAr
The coronavirus pandemic has
squeezed New York City tenants
so badly that a quarter of them
have gone four months without
paying rent, a report says.
The surge in overdue payments
is a facet of the crisis that has
harmed tenants and landlords
alike, according to Bloomberg
Businessweek.
The Community Housing Im-
provement Program, a group rep-
resenting owners of rent-stabi-
Shaende of the Fiscal Policy In-
stitute told Businessweek.
“There doesn’t seem to be any
plan, and the looming problem is
so large.”
The lack of income from rent
has landlords struggling to pay
their own bills. A survey found
that 39 percent of Big Apple
building owners could make only
partial property-tax payments
this month, while another 6 per-
cent couldn’t afford to pay at all,
as The Post reported last week.
The housing tensions came to a

lized properties, told the maga-
zine that 25 percent of the city’s
apartment renters have not paid
rent since March, when the state
shut down non-essential busi-
nesses.
Those closures put millions of
New Yorkers out of work, strain-
ing their ability to cover rent.
An estimated 735,000 house-
holds in the city lost employment
IsN’t aNY
head in Brooklyn on Tuesday
night when protesters intervened
to stop landlords from kicking 11
jobless tenants out of their
Crown Heights home.
A new state law bars landlords
from evicting tenants who face fi-
nancial hardship while the
COVID-19 restrictions are in
place.
But landlords can still get mon-

Teachers call reopen

income as a result of the pan-
demic, according to New York
University’s Furman Center for
Real Estate and Urban Policy.
While 526,000 of them have
sought unemployment benefits,
according to the center, the
amount of money they receive
will likely plunge at the end of
July, when the federal govern-
ment is set to stop paying jobless
workers an extra $600 a week.
“It’s going to be a mess,” Jonas
etary judgments for tenants’
overdue rent, which could add to
unemployed residents’ piles of
debt, according to Businessweek.
“Maybe you reduce the number
of people arriving at homeless
shelters, but you’re likely exacer-
bating generational poverty as a
consequence,” Neil Steinkamp of
Stout Risius Ross, a financial ad-
visory company, told the maga-
zine.
nmanskar@nypost.com
By SeliM AlgAr
Education Reporter
The city’s half-in, half-out model
to reopen schools this fall could
hurt children in the long run, a
teachers-union group warned on
Thursday.
“Inconsistent and chaotic rota-
the spread of coronavirus by allow-
ing for greater social-distancing in
classrooms.
In addition to a scheduling up-
heaval, the teachers group stressed
that the plan would have a dispro-
portionately harmful impact on
working parents who would have
to schedule and pay for child care
ing City Hall for not lending the
matter more urgency with school
slated to begin in eight weeks.
“We’ve been telling the city this
for months, and they still have not
gotten back to us,” he told The Post
on Wednesday. “This is a crisis we
know is coming right at us.”
The teachers group submitted a

Mitch un‘convention’al
Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell broke with the
White House on Thursday, say-
ing the pandemic may scuttle
plans for the Republican Na-
tional Convention.
“We will have to wait and see
how things look in late August to
determine whether or not we
can safely convene that many
people,” McConnell, 78, said in
his home state of Kentucky.
The Republican leader did not
directly answer whether he’s
willing to skip the Aug. 24-27
Jacksonville, Fla., gathering.
Sens. Lamar Alexander of Ten-
nessee, Susan Collins of Maine,
Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Lisa
Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt
Romney of Utah say they don’t
plan to attend. Steven Nelson
tion between in-school and remote
learning is a recipe for further dis-
integration of our students’ cogni-
tive and social development,” the
United Federation of Teachers Sol-
idarity Caucus said in a statement.
The group weighed in one day
after Mayor de Blasio and Chancel-
lor Richard Carranza laid out a re-
opening plan that would have the
city’s million-plus public-school
students alternating two- and
three-day weeks of in-class learn-
ing. The kids would continue with
remote learning on the other days
under the mock-up, meant to stem
to cover days when they have to go
to work but their kids are learning
from home.
“Parents who do not have the op-
tion of working from home or are
essential workers must be given vi-
able and safe solutions for their
child’s care,” the UFT wrote. “Re-
mote learning may not be the best
solution as parents cannot effec-
tively work from home while si-
multaneously supervising their
children’s education.”
UFT President Michael Mulgrew
had previously stressed the dire
need for a child-care plan, criticiz-
long list of concerns over the re-
opening of schools and questioned
the DOE’s ability to effectively ad-
dress them.
“We question the feasibility and
the ability of the DOE to prepare
for and implement such critical and
necessary protocols across one of
the largest school districts in the
nation in an effective and compe-
tent manner,” the group said.
All schools must provide neces-
sary cleaning and protective materi-
als, the group said, also calling for
the “daily monitoring” and regular
testing of students and staffers for

‘half’ CredIt
‘uncertain and unpredictable’
17 Catholic schools to shut
A total of 17 city Catholic schools will perma-
nently close due to the economic impact of the pan-
demic, officials announced Thursday.
With countless working-class parents thrust into
unemployment, hundreds of thousands of dollars in
tuition bills have gone unpaid and registrations for
the upcoming academic year have plunged, the New
York Archdiocese and Brooklyn Diocese said.
“Children are always the most innocent victims of
any crisis, and this COVID-19 pandemic is no excep-
tion,” Timothy Cardinal Dolan said.
COVID-19. But the UFT said Car- of teachers, students, parents and
ranza and de Blasio “have failed to families faced with an uncertain and
prove either their ability or willing- unpredictable start of the academic
ness to prepare for and implement year this coming September.”
effective measures during this pan- The group additionally blasted
demic” and haven’t sought to “ad- President Trump for threatening to
dress the urgent and valid concerns withhold funds from schools na-
outbreak
New York City’s famed White
Horse Tavern has been shut down
after being stripped of its liquor li-
cense for what state officials call
“numerous” violations of coronavi-
rus social-distancing rules.
The State Liquor Authority is-
sued an emergency suspension or-
der against the legendary Green-
wich Village bar during a special
meeting at which it was slapped
with 30 citations on Wednesday.
“Despite numerous warnings,
this licensee continued to reck-
lessly violate protocols that have
helped to dramatically slow the
spread of the coronavirus through-
out New York,” SLA Chairman
Vincent Bradley said in a prepared
statement.
“The SLA will not hesitate to take
action against licensees who jeop-
ardize lives and threaten the
progress our state has made.”
The alleged offenses include an
incident on Saturday, when cops
found “large crowds directly out-
side the establishment, without
masks or practicing social distanc-
ing” while celebrating the July 4
holiday, according to the SLA.
In addition, the NYPD said that
cops repeatedly found as many as
The casualties includes some of New York’s most
venerable parochial schools, including the 90-year-
old Our Lady of Pompeii in Greenwich Village.
The New York Archdiocese, which runs schools
in Manhattan, Staten Island and The Bronx, said 11
of its buildings will permanently close their doors.
The move will affect 2,500 kids and 350 employ-
ees, officials said.
The Diocese of Brooklyn, which also oversees
schools in Queens, announced that six of its build-
ings will close. Selim Algar
tionwide over reopening disagree-
ments. His positions “fly in the face
of proven scientific fact and actual
data” and “will not help the work-
ing poor of NYC or anywhere else
in the country,” the group wrote.
Meanwhile, the head of the fed-
100 patrons “gathered outside the
tavern with an illegal bar set up and
music blaring” on June 6, 9 and 13,
the SLA said.
Each time, the owner or manager
was warned that the situation vio-
lated an executive order issued by
Gov. Cuomo, and officers met with
the owner to discuss the incidents
on June 26, according to the SLA.
But the very next day, cops re-
sponded to a 311 call and found
about 100 people “drinking on the
sidewalk and street directly in
[front] of the bar, with the NYPD
issuing a summons for disorderly
premises,” the SLA said.
No one answered the phone
Thursday at the White Horse —
once a favorite watering hole of
poet Dylan Thomas — but a mes-
sage on its Facebook page says it’s
“temporarily closed for business.”
“We had multiple violations for
overcrowding on our sidewalk and
street cafe that the city granted as a
lifeline to help save local restau-
rants,” the message says. “We are
the first to admit we were over-
whelmed with the demand and
weren’t prepared with the staff to
deal with the overcrowding.”
Carl Campanile, Bruce Golding
eral Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention said the agency will
not revise reopening guidelines
after Trump ripped them as expen-
sive and burdensome.
“Our guidelines are our guide-
lines, but we are going to provide
additional reference documents to
aid basically communities that are
trying to open K-through-12s,”
CDC Director Robert Redfield said
Thursday on ABC’s “Good Morn-
ing America.” “It’s not a revision of
the guidelines. It’s just to provide
additional information to help
schools be able to use the guidance
we put forward.”
Redfield also rejected Trump’s
assertion they were too restrictive.
“Right now, we’re continuing to
work with the local jurisdictions to
how they want to take the portfolio
of guidance that we’ve given to
make them practical for their
schools to reopen,” he said.
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1st test
results
telling
A look at the first batch of
results for patients tested for
the coronavirus reveals how
swiftly the pandemic spread
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through New York earlier this
spring — particularly in black
and Asian communities, ac-
cording to a new study.
The analysis of 46,793 pa-
tients tested for COVID-19 be-
tween March 8 and April 10 by
Northwell Health’s lab found
that 57 percent were infected
with the bug. Nearly a third, or
more than 8,000, of positive
patients were sick enough to
require hospitalization, the re-
view by Northwell’s Feinstein
Institutes for Medical Re-
search found. The results
were published in the journal
Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The study found that 68 per-
cent of patients from Queens
were infected with COVID-19,
followed by positive rates of
62 percent in Brooklyn and 59
percent in The Bronx.
The lowest positive rates
were for patients in Westches-
ter County, at 46 percent, and
Suffolk County, at 51 percent.
A racial breakdown revealed
that 68 percent of black pa-
tients tested positive, followed
by 62 percent of Asians and 55
percent of whites.
Carl Campanile
One patient’s
eerie illness
The coronavirus may have
triggered a bizarre manic epi-
sode in a British patient, lead-
ing him to believe he was sent
from the future, touch nurses
inappropriately and confess to
his wife he’d had sex with men.
The 41-year-old man had
been in London’s St. Thomas
Hospital for 10 days when he
became delirious, uninhibited
and “highly aroused,” accord-
ing to the BMJ Case Reports
medical journal.
Doctors believe COVID-19
may have triggered a dormant
case of bipolar disorder.
“I began to think I was . . .
sent back from the future,”
said the unidentified patient.
Natalie O’Neill
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Gave her ‘the finger’
nypost.com
New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020
Depp ’fess
to bloody
‘love’ scrawl
By Lee Brown and AAron Feis
Johnny Depp scrawled, “I love
you,” on a mirror — with blood
from his severed finger — during
an alleged “three-day ordeal of as-
saults” on then-wife Amber Heard,
a London court heard Thursday.
The scene was described in gory
detail as Depp, 57, took the stand at
the High Court for a third straight
day in his libel suit against Britain’s
Sun newspaper for describing him
as a “wife-beater” in a 2018 article.
The Oscar nominee — who has
“vehemently” denied raising a hand
in anger against his now-ex-wife —
testified that during the 2015 row it
was Heard who hurled a vodka bot-
tle at him, claiming it “severed my
finger and crushed my bones.”
“When I realized that the tip of
my finger was missing — pouring
blood profusely, tip of the bone
sticking out — I believe I went into
some kind of breakdown, some
species of nervous breakdown,”
Depp told the court.
The “Edward Scissorhands” star
admittedly then went to a mirror
in the couple’s rented Australia
home and scrawled on it in his
own blood, “I love you.”
A message saying, “Call Carly Si-
mon, she said it better, babe” — re-
ferring to the singer’s hit, “You’re
So Vain” — was written on the
mirror by Heard after he went to a
hospital, Depp said.
But Heard, 34, in a written state-
ment read to the court, alleged that
Depp subjected her to a “three-day
ordeal of assaults” during their trip
to Australia — about a month after
their wedding — and claimed she
was eventually forced to barricade
herself in a bedroom for safety.
Depressed over filming the next
‘I don’t care’: Pelosi gives statue topplers a pass
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on
Thursday refused to condemn pro-
testers who toppled a statue of
Christopher Columbus in her native
Baltimore, blowing it off by saying,
“People will do what they do.”
“I think that its up to the commu-
nities to decide what statues they
want to see,” Pelosi (D-Calif.) said
when pressed on the July 4 attack on
flick in his “Pirates of the Carib-
bean” series and “completely off
[his] head on drink and drugs” —
including, at one point, 10 ecstasy
tablets plus vodka and wine in two
hours — Depp unleashed hell on
Heard, The Sun’s lawyer, Sasha
Wass, alleged.
He allegedly tore off her night-
gown, shoved her onto a pingpong
table and choked her up against a
refrigerator, according to Wass.
Heard wrote that she was
“scared for her life” during those
three days, which Wass claimed
left the “Aquaman” actress with a
the statue of the explorer, during
which a mob of activists pulled it
down, dragged it to the Inner Har-
bor and pushed it into the water.
Explaining her position, Pelosi,
80, said she wasn’t a sentimental
person, and even compared monu-
ments to her grandmother’s ear-
rings, which she hadn’t kept.
“I’m not one of those people
“broken lip, swollen nose and cuts
all over her body.”
The house was totaled, with an
estimated $190,000 in damage.
Depp admitted he and his wife
had a blowout, initially telling the
court that he lost it over her refusal
to sign a postnuptial agreement.
But on further questioning from
Wass, the actor said he also “possi-
bly” accused her during the melt-
down of cheating on him with the
actor Billy Bob Thornton.
But Depp dismissed allegations
of physical assault as “fabricated
and vicious,” as well as “pedes-
who’s wedded to, ‘Oh, a statue to
somebody someplace is an impor-
tant thing,’ ” she said at a press
briefing on Capitol Hill.
“If the community doesn’t want
the statue there, the statue shouldn’t
be there,” she said, skipping over the
rule of law. “I don’t care that much
about the statues.”
When a reporter pushed back on
PR chaos in
gov’t probe
Puerto Rico’s political turmoil
deepened on Thursday as the island’s
newest justice secretary resigned in
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the wake of an investigation targeting
the US territory’s governor.
Wandymar Burgos, who took over
the position a week ago, said the
prudent thing to do was step down.
“I have my head held up high,” she
said in a letter. “All my actions have
been motivated by my ethical and
upstanding work style.”
The resignation comes a day after
several top legislators who are
members of Gov. Wanda Vázquez’s
party demanded Burgos resign.
Burgos on Monday identified her-
self as the person who recalled six
files about to be delivered to Puerto
Rico’s Special Independent Prose-
trouble digits: Johnny cutor’s Panel. One of the files names
Depp (above Thursday) Vázquez, according to Dennise
testified that, amid a three-day Longo, the previous justice secre-
battle with then-wife Amber tary who recommended that the
Heard (below Thursday), she case involving the alleged misman-
severed his finger with a bottle agement of disaster supplies be fur-
of vodka, so he wrote, “I love ther investigated. Longo was asked
you,” on a mirror in his blood. to resign on Friday.
Vázquez has denied she made
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that request out of retribution.
Burgos said she requested the files
be returned to the island’s Depart-
ment of Justice because she had just
found out about them and needed to
know what they were about. AP
UN battle on
aid for Syrians
Russia on Thursday failed in its
second UN Security Council bid to
cut aid access to Syria from Turkey,
trian fiction” — despite testifying diplomats said, and the council will
that he told Heard multiple times, now vote on a last-ditch attempt to
“Listen, we are a crime scene wait- extend approval for aid deliveries
ing to happen.” before it expires on Friday.
The Sun is arguing that its “wife- The 15-member council has been
beater” report was not libelous split, with most members pitted
based on Heard’s allegations of 14 against veto-holding Syrian ally
incidents of violence by Depp be- Russia and China, which want to
tween 2013 and 2016. halve the number of border cross-
The couple’s divorce was final- ings for aid deliveries to Syria from
ized in January 2017 after less than Turkey to one, arguing those areas
two years of marriage. can now be reached with humani-
Depp will take the stand Friday for tarian help from within Syria.
a fourth — and, it is expected, final The UN says millions of Syrian ci-
— day of testimony before Heard vilians depend on the humanitarian
testifies next week. With Wires aid delivered from Turkey. Reuters
Pelosi, suggesting it would be better tion of President Trump, who wants
for local politicians to remove a prison terms for offenders.
statue than a “mob in the middle of Baltimore Mayor Bernard Young
the night,” the congresswoman said, said he would not tolerate the de-
“People will do what they do.” struction of the statue of the 15th-
Her nonchalance toward the top- century Italian explorer who colo-
pling of statues around the country nized the Americas.
in the wake of George Floyd’s death “This is not a peaceful protest,”
at the hands of cops in Minneapolis Young said. “It is unacceptable.”
stands in stark contrast to the posi- Ebony Bowden
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Worries for West
KANyE West’s announcement
that he’s going to run for presi-
dent this year comes while he’s
“struggling” with his bipolar dis-
order, according to People. The
rapper has talked openly about
his battle with the disorder, the
mag reports. “In the past, he has
suffered both manic and depress-
ive episodes related to his bipolar
disorder. Right now, he is strug-
gling again,” says their source.
West announced his supposed
White House bid on July Fourth
and gave a bizarre, rambling in-
terview to Forbes published
Wednesday about his proposals,
including forming a political
party called the Birthday Party.
Happy family
WELCOME to the “Family.”
Jesse Tyler Ferguson (above)
and lawyer hubby Justin Mikita
welcomed their first child, the
actor’s rep confirmed to
PageSix.com’s Leah Bitsky.
They’ve named the baby Beck-
ett Mercer Ferguson-Mikita.
“Modern Family” star Ferguson
revealed in January that they
were expecting a child via a sur-
rogate. “I’m very excited, but I’m
44 now. I’m like, ‘Let’s get this
show going,’ ” he said. The cou-
ple married in 2013.
ROBERT De Niro is running out of dinero. luxe Greenwich Hotel, both of which he has he can’t afford to keep up with his lifestyle.”
The actor claims in court that the coronavi- stakes in, have been closed for months. De Niro filed for divorce in December 2018.
rus dealt him a huge financial blow as his es- De Niro’s lawyer, Caroline Krauss, told the He’s required to pay Hightower $1 million a
tranged wife asked for an emergency order to judge that Nobu lost $3 million in April and year as long as he’s making $15 million. But she
raise her monthly credit card limit to $100,000. $1.87 million in May. The actor had to pay un- thinks he’s worth $500 million and wants half.
The “Godfather” star joined a hearing by specified investors $500,000, which he bor- Her lawyer, Kevin McDonough, fired back,
phone for his Manhattan divorce case with rowed, “because he doesn’t have the cash,” “Mr. De Niro has used the COVID pandemic
Grace Hightower, as her lawyer told a judge Krauss said. Nobu received as much as $27.7 . . . to stick it to his wife financially.”
that De Niro unfairly cut her monthly Ameri- million through 14 taxpayer-backed PPP loans, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew
can Express allowance from $100,000 to according to Department of Treasury data. Cooper issued a temporary ruling that De
$50,000 and that she and their children were Krauss bemoaned, “He is going to be lucky if Niro must keep Hightower’s credit card limit
banned from De Niro’s upstate compound.
But De Niro argues he cut Hightower’s
credit limit because he’s taken a huge financial
he makes $7.5 million this year,” adding, “In
spite of his robust earnings, [he has] always
spent more than he has earned so [he]
at $50,000 a month and pay $75,000 for her to
rent a summer home for their two kids, as De
Niro and his other children remain in his up-
hit as the high-end restaurant Nobu and the couldn’t retire even if he wanted to, because state compound.
Nation of Mnuchin
IT’S tough to up the absurdity in poli-
tics in 2020, but leave it to Flavor Flav.
The Public Enemy star on Thursday
posted a baffling picture of himself, in
his trademark giant clock chain, with a
stiffly buttoned-up Treasury Secretary
Steven Mnuchin (left). Flav included
the timeless caption, “F - - k politics —
but I’m always happy to talk to anyone
about the importance of knowing when
your time is up. [Donald Trump]
could’ve used that talk.” The photo is
several years old, taken before Mnuchin
joined the government, when he was a
hedge-fund manager and financed many
Hollywood movies. But the treasury sec
has been making waves with other leg-
endary wild men of ’90s music. He got
into a notorious Twitter spat with Axl
Rose in May when Axl posted, “It’s offi-
cial! Whatever anyone may have previ-
ously thought of Steve Mnuchin he’s of-
ficially an a - -hole.” Mnuchin re-
sponded, “What have you done for the
country lately?” Meanwhile, in March,
Flav was fake fired from Public Enemy
after he refused to play a Bernie San-
ders rally. The “It Takes a Nation of Mil-
lions to Hold Us Back” group later
claimed it was a prank and that Flav re-
mains a member. Flav’s post with Mnu-
chin created a big stir on social media,
with o ne commenter, @richtechexec,
writing, “One of these men irresponsi-
What time is it?! bly threw away an insane amount of
Flavor Flav (left), of money . . . and the other is Flavor Flav.”
the “Fight the Power”
rap group Public Enemy,
breaks bread with cur- Some Somers lovin’
rent head of Treasury
Twitter/@flavorflav
SuzANNE Somers celebrated hus-
Steven Mnuchin in an band Alan Hamel’s 84th birthday with a
undated photo. virtual party last week at the couple’s at-
LISTEN NOW!
home bar, which they call Big Al’s, on
their Palm Springs, Calif., property. But
the still-frisky pair also had a more inti-
mate celebration beforehand, we hear.
The couple partied privately, and a pal
Listen now! told us that Somers “put on a sexy gown”
Guilfoyle sparks party panic and made Hamel dinner. The source said:
“Suzanne toasted her husband with their
PEOPLE who partied with Kimberly Guilfoyle in the Hamptons rushed favorite Casa Dragones tequila, turned up
to get coronavirus tests after she announced she has COVID-19, Page Six is the music and danced around the terrace
told. We first reported that Guilfoyle and her boyfriend, Donald Trump Jr., before retiring for a romantic finish.
attended a “maskless” bash thrown by builder Joe Farrell in Bridgehampton They had their weekly shots to ensure a
on June 27. Guilfoyle said on July 3 that she’d tested positive. “There are private romantic evening.” Somers, 73, previ-
doctors running around the Hamptons doing testing,” said a source. They added that the news ously told Page Six podcast “We Hear,” “I
“put a damper on July Fourth weekend for all who attended.” We’re told one guest’s wife was so have a husband who I inject every Tues-
freaked out, she made him stay hunkered down in their bedroom until the test results came in. day with testosterone and Wednesday’s a
Another guest told us, “I tested negative, but I think it had a serious impact on people having par- very good day . . . My girlfriends go, ‘You
ties over July Fourth.” The source said that they’d heard about an otherwise-tempting glamorous do not have sex twice a day.’ It’s no forced
July Fourth party, “but I heard it was going to be a few hundred people, so I stayed away.” march.” They married in 1977.
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rainstorm. High 75 little rain in the 78/68 Riverhead
to 81. morning. High 84 Huntington 78/74 Southampton Montauk Point 1:15a 1:51p 2:03a 2:43p
to 90. Paterson Garden 78/74 77/73 Port Washington 3:27a 4:09p 4:11a 4:52p
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Tonight: Tropical Tomorrow 78/74 Forecasts and Regional cities TODAY TOMORROW
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New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020

Gabriella Bass
VILI & MARY KAY
From boy rape to marriage.

Anguish
of Mary

nypost.com
Kay’s ex
Vili Fualaau — whom Mary
Kay Letourneau raped when
he was 12 years old, then
went on to marry and have
kids with — “lost a piece of
himself” when she died of
cancer this week, a close
friend of his said.
Fualaau’s pal told People
magazine that although the
pair had been apart for three
years, Letourneau, 58, had
kept the 37-year-old informed
about her Stage 4 colon can-
cer and they “still had love
for each other.”
Letourneau, a former
Washington state teacher,
achieved notoriety for her
sexual relationship with the EARLY-MORNING MuRdER: A crime-scene cop on Columbus Avenue Thursday looks for shell casings in the slaying of Nayquan Garden (inset).
sixth-grader beginning in
1996, when police discovered By Kevin SheehAn who was “into fashion.” dents reported overnight Wednes- shortly before midnight in Stuyves-
them in a minivan parked in and AmAndA WoodS “He was very passionate about his day and early Thursday. ant Heights, where a 22-year-old
the suburban-Seattle city of fashion and music,” the friend said. The other three shootings took man was grazed by a bullet.
Des Moines Marina. A 29-year-old man was fatally shot “He was the greatest underdog.” place in Brooklyn and were not fatal, The victim was on Jefferson Ave-
“They didn’t speak every on the Upper West Side early Thurs- A teen resident of the Frederick according to police sources. nue at about 11:45 p.m. when an un-
day, but she would update day, another victim of the city’s Douglass Houses said he was shoot- The first took place shortly be- known gunman came up from be-
him on her cancer treat- weeks-long rash of gun violence. ing off Roman candles with friends fore 7 p.m. Wednesday in Browns- hind and fired multiple shots, with
ment,” the friend told the Nayquan Garden was blasted in around the time of the incident ville, where a 62-year-old man told one bullet grazing the victim’s leg.
magazine. the chest at West 104th Street and when he heard a loud snap. authorities he was on Rockaway He was taken to Methodist Hospital.
After she succumbed to the Columbus Avenue, on the grounds “I ran,” he said. “I heard the yelling Avenue he heard gunfire and The shootings come after bloody
disease, Fualaau “lost a piece of the Frederick Douglass Houses but I wasn’t going back. This block is quickly realized he had been shot in weeks of shootings in the Big Apple.
of himself,” the friend said. where he lived, at about 3:15 a.m., getting crazy!” the left leg. He was taken to Brook- Police said incidents last week
Yaron Steinbuch cops said. Investigators recovered several dale Hospital. were three times higher than in the
He stumbled to the east intersec- .38-caliber shell casings at the scene Less than an hour later, another same period last year, with 74 shoot-
tion of West 105th Street and Co- but had not made an arrest as of 62-year-old man was shot twice in ings and 101 victims over the course

5 arrests in lumbus Avenue, where he was dis-

covered, according to police.
Police said Garden was taken to
Thursday evening.
Garden’s family declined to com-
ment beyond telling The Post a
East New York, in the culmination
of a dispute.
He was struck in the left hand and
of the week — up from 26 shootings
and 33 victims in 2019.
Additional reporting by Tina
LA rap death Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital,
where he died.
memorial service for the slain man
would be held outside the housing
chest, and also taken to Brookdale
Hospital. His condition was not
Moore and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

Three men and two juve- One of Garden’s friends told The complex on Thursday evening. immediately known.
niles have been arrested in Post that the victim was a designer It was one of four shooting inci- The night’s final shooting came
Editorial / Page 18
connection with the Febru-

Cops’ ‘hands tied’ in graffiti-vandal vid

ary home-invasion death of
rising rapper Pop Smoke in
Los Angeles, police said
Thursday.
The 20-year-old New York
rapper, whose legal name
was Bashar Barakah Jackson,
was killed Feb. 19 at a home in
the Hollywood Hills. A 911
call from a friend of someone
in the house reported armed
intruders inside the home,
police previously said.
Authorities announced the
arrests on Twitter but gave
no details. AP
A vandal was caught on
video spraying graffiti out-
side a Manhattan court-
house while police watched
from nearby — and he
strolled away without cops
lifting a finger.
The undated video,
posted by the Sergeants’ Be-
nevolent Association on
Tuesday and taken in broad
daylight, shows the man tag-
ging the base of a lamppost
in front of the Surrogate’s
Courthouse at 31 Chambers
St., which had been vandal-
ized amid Occupy City Hall
protests last week.
After the man finishes his
scrawl, he strolls away, as
three cops on the corner —
and four on the next block
— stand idle.
“Watch this carefully, it’s
not another frustrated
COVID-19 excuse by de
Blasio,” the SBA tweeted.
“Nor is it an aspiring artist at
work.
“You are watching a graffiti
vandal add to the destruction
of a NYC building just a short
distance from City Hall and
yes the NYPD is not allowed
to make the arrest.”
Police did not respond to
follow-up inquiries about
the incident or NYPD pol-
icy on graffiti vandals.
However, police last week
arrested an 18-year-old man
and charged him with
scrawling graffiti on the
courthouse, and last month
two teenagers were charged
with spraying graffiti at
St. Patrick’s Cathedral dur-
ing Black Lives Matter
protests. Amanda Woods
and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
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Weird
Precautions amid suicide watch true BUT
nypost.com

These alleged crooks ran

into each other — literally.
An Oregon man driving a
New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020

stolen vehicle crashed into a

woman also cruising in a sto-
len car, landing them both in
jail, cops said.
Randy Lee Cooper, 27, was
being chased by police while
driving a Toyota Land
Cruiser when he slammed
into Kristin Nicole Begue, 25,
behind the wheel of a Buick
in the town of Newberg.

Meat workers may soon

have a bone to pick with ro-
bots.
By Ben Feuerherd The nation’s top-selling
chicken and beef company is
She’s gone from high-class turning to robot butchers to
designer duds to pure pulp. help prevent coronavirus
Accused Jeffrey Epstein outbreaks at factories.
madam Ghislaine Maxwell Tyson Foods has poured
has been forced to wear pa- $500 million into developing
per clothes and sleep on a an automation that can pluck
bare mattress in her jail cell and chop chickens at pro-
so she can’t hang herself with cessing plants in Nebraska
clothes or bedsheets like Ep- and elsewhere.
stein, according to a report. So far, the firm has found
Authorities at the federal that cleaver-wielding hu-

Bureau of Prisons have been
assigned to ensure that
Maxwell does not kill her-
self and is not harmed by
other inmates while she is
jailed at BOP’s Metropolitan
Detention Center in Brook-
lyn, a source told The Asso-
ciated Press.
In addition to her paper
clothes, Maxwell will also be
confined to a cell with a
roommate during her time
at the facility and will be
constantly monitored by
prison officials, AP reported.
The safety protocols are
far more stringent than those
applied after her arrest in
New Hampshire last week.
The new protocols were
put in place after Epstein, a
multimillionaire pedophile
arrested for underage sex-
trafficking, hanged himself
in August using a bedsheet
at the Metropolitan Correc-
tional Center in lower Man-
hattan.
FROM GLAM TO GRIME: Ghislaine Maxwell also must sleep
on a bare mattress at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.
tigating the disgraced Brit-
ish socialite’s ties to Epstein
arrested her in a sprawling
New Hampshire mansion.
She was slapped with a
six-count indictment for al-
legedly procuring underage
girls for Epstein to abuse in
the United States and in
London.
She’s also accused of per-
jury for lying in a deposition
about her alleged involve-
ment in the underage-sex-
trafficking scheme.
Maxwell is awaiting ar-
raignment at the Brooklyn
facility, which has a past of
power outages and a current
coronavirus outbreak.
A former warden at the
lockup told The Post this
week that Maxwell should
Sipa USA
mans are more skilled at
churning out certain cuts.
A father and son made an
explosive discovery when
ing her stay there. they reeled in a World War II
Prosecutors in her case bomb while magnet-fishing.
have asked that she remain Ben Austin and his 6-year-
remanded while awaiting old son, Finley, tossed the
trial, calling her an magnet into the Mole River
“extreme” flight risk, in a 10- in Dorking, England, and
page detention memo filed promptly realized it was a
after her arrest. small metal bomb.
They added that she has Police determined the dec-
about $20 million in several ades-old bomb wasn’t a
bank accounts in which she threat and removed it.
shuffled large sums of
money last July, when Ep-
stein was arrested. This sauce does what it
Prosecutors added she says.
had gone to great lengths to A jerk struck a shopper
conceal her whereabouts with a bottle of Boom Boom
after Epstein’s arrest. Sauce at a convenience store
A bail hearing is sched- in Pennsylvania, sparking a
uled for Tuesday and her police hunt for the culprit.
lawyers have been ordered The victim was standing
to respond to the detention outside a Sheetz store in
memo by 1 p.m. Friday. Shippensburg when a sus-
FilmMagic

Federal authorities inves-
be put on suicide watch dur-
bfeuerherd@nypost.com pect in a car tossed the bottle
of spicy mayo sauce and sped
off, cops said.
It struck the victim in the
face, causing eye irritation.

US will pay WHO before exiting Flynn judge appeals dismissal
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
said the United States would fulfill
its financial obligation to the World
Health Organization before quitting
the UN agency next year.
“We will work with Congress with
respect to the . . . funds,” he told Fox
News on Wednesday. “But the presi-
dent has made very clear we are not
going to underwrite an organization
that has historically been incompe-
tent and not performed its funda-
mental function.”
The Trump administration said
on Tuesday that it had notified
WHO that the US would be with-
drawing from the organization ef-
fective July 6, 2021. Mark Moore
Washington, DC, federal Judge Em-
met Sullivan is asking appeals-court
jurists to reconsider an order that he
dismiss Michael Flynn’s prosecution.
Sullivan’s lawyers on Thursday ar-
gued in an appeal that a 2-1 ruling by a
judicial panel last month ordering
him to drop the case was a “dramatic
break from precedent that threatens
the orderly administration of justice.”
Sullivan is asking for the full US
Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit
to review the panel’s decision.
Democrats allege that the Justice
Department is seeking to drop the
prosecution only to please President
Trump, who often bemoaned Flynn’s
treatment by the FBI. Steven Nelson
A town in Washington state
has begun printing its own
legitimate currency out of
wood to boost coronavirus
financial relief.
The blue “COVID Relief”
bills distributed to folks in
Tenino proclaim in Latin,
“We have it under control.”
Natalie O’Neill, Wires
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New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020

Zuck’s Stand
Facebook refuses to bow to leftist censors
Libertarian: Open Our Schools!
Unlike a few months ago, we now know that “elementary-school-age
children rarely contract” COVID-19, “rarely succumb to it” and “rarely
transmit it” — so, asks Reason’s Matt Welch, why did “relentlessly hap-
ARK Zuckerberg clearly less” Mayor de Blasio decide that “public schools would not fully reopen

M hasn’t gotten the memo.

The Facebook founder
persists in defending free
expression, even though free
speech has fallen decidedly out
this fall”? Maybe the mayor simply feels compelled to oppose President
Trump, who wants the schools open. Yet “stupid politics” aside, research
shows children, especially younger ones, are “less likely to catch the
infection and less likely to spread the infection.” Another “school season
of cabin fever, Zoom-wrangling and behavioral backpedaling,” mean-

nypost.com
of fashion. while, will only hurt kids. Officials should “move heaven and earth to
His reward for adhering to allow willing parents to send their children to class this fall.”
what once would have been a
commonsensical, if not banal,
view of the value of the free ex-
Campus beat: Profs Cave to Political Winds
change of ideas: being vilified for Michigan State University professor Joseph Cesario and University of
running a “hate-speech” machine Maryland’s David Johnson’s 2019 study, which found no “endemic police
and getting boycotted by major racism,” made it through “three levels of editorial and peer review” —
US companies. yet, Heather Mac Donald observes at The Wall Street Journal, it “set off a
At a widely noted speech at firestorm” when she quoted it in a Journal op-ed, and Cesario and John-
Georgetown University last fall, son have now “retracted their paper” exclusively because they claim she
Zuckerberg stated that it’s im- “misused” their findings. In truth, says Mac Donald, the “only thing
portant that “we hold each oth- wrong with their article, and my citation of it, is that its conclusion is
ers’ right to express our views unacceptable in our current political climate.” Alas, the retraction “bodes
and be heard above our own de- ill for the development of knowledge” — and will only further anti-cop
sire to always get the outcomes hostility that is igniting “a shocking rise in shootings in American cities.”
we want.”
He noted that free expression
Law prof: Why the Right’s Jurists Defect

AP
has been central to the world- He gets it: In a speech at Georgetown last fall, the social-media titan
wide struggle for democracy. noted that free speech has been essential to advancing civil rights. “The end of a Supreme Court term almost always sees one or more con-
And he hailed US Supreme servative justices” defect from the right, Harvard Law School’s Adrian Ver-
Court jurisprudence that has And again, this was a bad of attack. One has been to get meule notes at The Washington Post. “So it went this year”: Chief Justice
strengthened First Amendment thing. companies to stop advertising John Roberts struck down abortion restrictions in Louisiana, as well as Pres-
protections. In sum, he said, One flashpoint was Zucker- with Facebook, and many have ident Trump’s executive order ending protections for Dreamers. And he and
“I’m here today because I be- berg’s reference to the impor- been only too eager to lend Justice Neil Gorsuch interpreted gender identity and
lieve we must continue to stand tance of the First Amendment to their names to a trendy cam- orientation into the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Why do lib-
for free expression.” the cause of civil rights over the paign of intimidation. eral justices always remain firm while the right’s go
Once upon a time, the reaction years. This was a true and unas- The other has been to associ- wobbly? Because the justices, contends Vermeule, are
to such a speech would have sailable point, but one that ac- ate Facebook with the words bowing to “our real, unwritten constitution”: “a par-
been: “We’re glad tivists considered “racism” and “hate” as much as ticular set of commitments held passionately by ur-
that a titan of Sil- offensive, coming possible to create the slander- ban professionals and . . . ‘gentry liberals.’ ” These
icon Valley has from Zuckerberg ous misimpression that Face- include “a high rate of immigration” and “protecting
absorbed core rich — as if he’s Bull book makes its money off the sexual expression.” While not “spelled out explicitly
American values lowry Connor, rather posts of neo-Nazis and other in law,” these ideas “exert a gravitational force that
and is attempt- than a Silicon haters, rather than ordinary powerfully influences the justices’ interpretations” —
ing, however im- Valley executive people who find it, for better or including supposedly conservative justices, who
perfectly, to apply them to his with reliably progressive views worse, a useful platform. John Roberts themselves are from the gentry-liberal class, after all.
company.” In 2020, the reaction on social issues. I’ve been harshly critical of
instead has been: “Let’s get the Another was Zuckerberg’s Facebook over the years, but on
bastard.” insistence that Facebook this, it is right. The public is Cancel watch: Mobs Prove Their Power
Internet companies are always wouldn’t censor politicians or served by a robust debate on- “I’m not ashamed to find myself in the company of the canceled,” declares
going to be engaged in the fact-check political ads, taking line, where people can decide Margaret Wente at Quillette, as it includes “some of the finest minds in the
fraught business of drawing the an appropriately modest view for themselves the merits of world.” Wente was forced to quit the Quadrangle Society, a literary group at
line between what’s permissible of the company’s ability to fairly what Trump or Alexandria the University of Toronto’s Massey College, over her writing for the Globe
and not, but the current Face- police political content involv- Ocasio-Cortez says. and Mail newspaper, where her specialty “was deflating Canada’s numerous
book controversy is more conse- ing wildly divergent worldviews The stakes are especially high liberal pieties.” Critics painted her “as a racist, anti-feminist heretic, whose
quential than that. The company and values. in this fight. Facebook is an in- mere presence inside Massey’s halls would have presented a threat to stu-
is the target of left-wing activ- The final straw was Face- stitution too big to cancel. De- dents.” As one student put it: “How are my friends and colleagues supposed
ists, who, with the ready assent book’s holding out against pres- spite all the corporate names as- to feel safe sitting across from her at dinner?” The college head “hoped this
of corporate America, have been sure in late May to act against sociated with it, the advertising unpleasantness could be resolved by respectful dialogue,” notes Wente, but
able to force a wave of cancella- President Trump’s infamous boycott is a mere flesh wound in “mobs aren’t interested in dialogue. The whole purpose of a mob is to pun-
tions around the culture and post saying “when the looting terms of the company’s revenue. ish heretics and prove to everyone where the power lies.” It’s all “reminis-
now seek to bend a social-media starts, the shooting starts.” This If Zuckerberg can nonetheless cent of China’s Cultural Revolution,” when “students denounced their
behemoth to their will. was a stupid, inflammatory and be browbeaten out of his well- elders . . . before they were packed off to the pig farms for re-education.”
(Full disclosure: The publica- unpresidential thing to say, but it considered support for a free-
tion I edit, National Review, is wasn’t an incitement to violence. speech-centric approach to his
part of the Facebook News tab.) In keeping the post up, Facebook platform, it will be a particularly From the right: Cancel Obama
The Georgetown speech led wanted people to draw their portentous omen, in a period of Boeing recently forced out executive Niel Golightly because he argued
the activists to conclude, as a own conclusions; it wasn’t an our national life full of them. against putting women in combat roles back in 1987. “If this sort of thing is
report in Politico Magazine put endorsement, but an invitation Rich Lowry is the author of our new standard for corporate behavior,” muses National Review’s Kevin
it, that Zuck believes, “deep in to debate — exactly what activ- “The Case for Nationalism: How D. Williamson, “how can Netflix, which presents itself as a leader on
his bones, that his commitment ists want to curtail. It Made Us Powerful, United LGBT issues, maintain its relationship with Barack Obama, the remorse-
to free expression . . . was right.” They have pursued two lines and Free.” Twitter: @RichLowry less bigot who ran twice for president opposing gay marriage?”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
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America’s oldest continuously published daily newspaper Has ‘Central Park Karen’
A Fumbling Fraud Been Punished Enough?
New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020

Christian
 Cooper, the The Issue: The investigation into the woman who
ith the MTA fearing it will have to The mayor is simultaneously (he says) bird watcher, won’t coop-

W shut down whole subway lines, New

York City itself facing tens of billions
in red ink in the years ahead, shoot-
ings and homicides soaring, the city’s hous-
ing market collapsing and an ongoing pan-
still hoping for a bailout to the tune of sev-
eral billion from the federal government led
by the guy he’s so publicly insulting. But
that’s almost the least of it.
Black lives are being ended daily now in
erate with an investiga-
tion of Amy Cooper
(“Park vic: I won’t aid DA
vs. ‘Karen,’ ” July 8).
Cowardly District At-
called the police on a black man in Central Park.

was false. There is video

to prove it. Amy Cooper
accused Christian Cooper
demic that threatens to make Gotham sud- this city, thanks to the crime wave. De Blasio torney Cy Vance is un- of threatening her. He did
denly a far less desirable place to live, Mayor plainly has no clue how to stop it, or at least willing to prosecute law- not. There was no “nu-
de Blasio took the time Thursday to . . . help no will to take the lead in reversing the tide. breakers and looters for ance” in the situation.
paint a giant Black Lives Matter mural on And for his featured co-star in his painting real crimes against the Is Emmons really com-
the street outside Trump Tower. stunt, he opts to invite the Rev. Al Sharpton people who have lost pletely unaware of the
What a fumbling fraud. — a lifelong purveyor of racial division who livelihoods. Catering to extensive history of
The stunt was somewhat original when himself stands silent about the murder may- the ultra-blue Manhatta- white women calling the
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser did it near the hem in the city’s black neighborhoods. nites who put him in of- cops with false claims
White House a few weeks back. Copying it Most pathetic of all, none of this will win fice is obviously his against black men and
outside the president’s headquarters here is the mayor points with the people he’s des- most important objec- the violence and death
just a sad “me, too!” perate to please: They’re still mad at him for tive. Never mind doing that so often result?
It pretends to be an in-your-face to The not defunding the NYPD, and even (mildly) the job he was elected to Amy Cooper is not be-
Man — but de Blasio is The Man, too, occu- defending it in the face of the recent riots. do — bringing justice to Amy Cooper ing punished for a dis-
pying one of the most powerful elected of- It’s no wonder de Blasio is now heckled those who have harmed pute over a leashed dog.
fices in America. The only conceivable from the left and right: New Yorkers across our community. rectness that small state- She is being punished for
point here is to passive-aggressively accuse the spectrum see that his every move is Trying to be politically ments, no matter how deliberately involving
President Trump of racism. nothing more than a self-serving stunt. correct is not the way of a harmless, can be given law enforcement in a lie
district attorney’s office, monumental importance. that could have had dan-
sir. A hysterical woman Previously what oc- gerous repercussions for
Mush From the Mayor who ruined her own life
through her actions is re-
curred at Central Park
would have been re-
another human being.
Katherine Dieckmann
lot will be done preparing for this week- rests are way down. But the big picture is all ally not your business. solved with a handshake

‘A
Manhattan
end to change the reality on the ground,” too clear: Everything is turning against the Henry Moskowitz and no further action.
Mayor de Blasio vowed Tuesday, while policing that New York City needs. Forest Hills Nelson Marans It’s
 hard to define what
offering not a hint of concrete detail on how Lawmakers and other politicians have Manhattan makes a person “classy,”
he aims to end the surge in violent crime. been adding restraints on cops for a decade Libby Emmons doesn’t but New Yorkers know it
Thursday, he made noises about redeploy- now, while also reducing risks for lawbreak- get it (“‘Karen’ busted, but This
 entire episode is when they see it.
ing cops (as the NYPD has always done) ers. Some of it has made sense — but some she’s suffered enough,” being blown so far out of A classy guy was on dis-
plus bringing in community leaders to doesn’t, and they keep piling it on. PostOpinion, July 7). proportion. play in Wednesday’s Post.
change attitudes. That’s it? Decriminalizing low-level offenses, “Raise The Central Park “Ka- I believe Amy Cooper Central Park bird watcher
Last weekend saw nearly 50 people shot, the Age,” the no-bail law, disbanding the an- ren” incident wasn’t has been punished Christian Cooper said he
10 fatally. Murders this year are running 27 ti-crime units: The likely price for disorder about a dog off a leash or enough. Yes, she should wasn’t going to help in the
percent over last year; shootings are up a and crime keeps going down. someone being a busy- have had her dog DA’s case against the “Ka-
stunning 54 percent. Burglaries and auto Criminals are emboldened, and much of body. It was about a leashed, but we don’t ren” who called the cops
thefts are likewise off the charts. the general public feels justified in challeng- woman weaponizing know the tone of voice on him because he asked
What’s driving the surge? The mayor and ing and even harassing cops as they go about someone else’s race. Cooper used in telling her to leash her dog.
NYPD brass chalk it up to a “perfect storm” their work. Instead of responding her what to do about her He said she suffered
of factors: The lockdown and “what’s hap- NYPD brass deny that police officers are with: “You’re right, sir. unleashed animal. enough what with losing
pened in recent weeks” (the fallout from the shirking from their duties. But the morale My dog must be on a He only started record- her job and all the bad
George Floyd killing) play “a particularly problem is plain in the rash of police retire- leash in New York City,” ing her when she picked publicity. Cooper is the
central role,” says de Blasio, while caution- ments — so heavy that there’s a waiting line Amy Cooper called the up her phone to report kind of guy who’s not go-
ing not to “minimize” fallout from Albany’s to put your papers in. cops on “an African- him menacing her. She ing to pile on when
botched bail reform. The trend’s been building for years, and American man,” which probably would have someone’s down. There’s
Figuring out which of these factors matters it’ll take a lot more than hand-wringing to might have resulted in done the same thing if he a classy guy.
most is a pointless game, especially since ar- turn it around. his arrest. Sam Katz was white. Mike Reynolds
Manhattan No one was hurt, shot Oro Valley, Ariz.
or killed. So, all you do-
Biden’s ‘American’ Con There is no doubt in my
mind that Amy Cooper
nothing politicians, get
over it, and take care of
It’s
 disgraceful that
Amy Cooper was forced
ake it in America,” “Buy American,” cause it’s not everything Bernie Sanders has been punished the chaos at hand now. to apologize.

‘M “Stand up for America”: Those aren’t

President Trump’s campaign talking
points, but Joe Biden’s.
wants, just the “largest mobilization of pub-
lic investments in procurement, infrastruc-
ture and R&D since WWII.”
enough with loss of her
job, public disgrace and
critical media coverage. Emmons

S. Kane, Brooklyn

unwittingly
When a woman is ac-
costed by a large man in
a wooded area, the first
The Democratic candidate unveiled his It’s an Obama-plus program — including Fortunately, Christian reveals exactly why Amy thing that comes to her
economic platform Thursday, saying, “When lots of new taxes, on top of the $3.4 trillion Cooper has chosen not to Cooper needs to be mind is not “bird
the federal government spends taxpayers’ in tax hikes he promised months ago. cooperate with the DA, called to task and ar- watcher.” She was justi-
money, we should use it to buy American His staff claims it’ll create 5 million new apparently feeling she’s raigned on misdemeanor fied in calling for help.
products and support American jobs.” jobs, on top of recovering the tens of mil- been punished enough. charges. She was frightened.
This, from the man who voted for NAFTA lions of jobs lost to the lockdowns. Hey, it It is obvious in this era Her 911 call was not “al- Bill O’Toole
in 1993 and boosted the Trans-Pacific Part- worked under Obama . . . oops, it didn’t. of increased political cor- legedly” false, I’d say it Arlington, Va.
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Did You Vote Trump?

New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020

Prepare To Be Ruined
F you own a small business and voted for President Trump in 2016 or

I are thinking you might vote for him this year, you might want to keep
it to yourself. Because if your oh-so-tolerant, oh-so-open-minded pro-
gressive customers find out about your grave political transgressions,
they might just organize a boycott campaign against your firm and seek
to destroy your livelihood.
That’s exactly what happened to Thomas Bosco, who owns the Indian
Road Café in Manhattan.
In May, Bosco went on MSNBC to discuss the devastating economic
impact of the coronavirus lockdowns on his business. When asked by
host Ari Melber how he graded Trump’s performance during the pan-
demic, Bosco indicated that while mistakes were made, he still supports
the president. Bosco added that

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he also supports Gov. Cuomo and
Mayor de Blasio.
At this point, Melber, for God DaviD
knows what reason, asked Bosco Marcus
if he had voted for Trump. And
would he again? The answer to
both questions was yes. And that the time when everybody seems
is all it took. to agree a Great National Conver-
Here is how The New York sation is needed.
Times described the local reac- Vilifying Trump voters and tar-
tion: “The backlash was swift, as geting them for economic destruc-
you might expect. Neighbors tion serves absolutely no valuable
railed in the comments on various social purpose. It is a temper tan-
neighborhood Facebook groups, trum, it is scream therapy, it is a

Racist ‘Diversity’ Drive

posting hundreds of angry messa- way for mostly white, affluent pro-
ges aimed at the cafe — and one gressives to enjoy their weekend

AST month, the city of Seattle’s “comfort,” “physical safety,” “social The endgame is to make Seattle’s ‘ Vengeful targeting of nobodies will

L Office of Civil Rights sent an

e-mail inviting “white city em-
ployees” to attend a training
session on “Interrupting Interna-
lized Racial Superiority and White-
ness,” a program designed to help
white workers examine their “com-
plicity in . . . white supremacy” and
“interrupt racism in ways that are
accountable to black, indigenous
and people of color.” Hoping to
learn more, I submitted a public-
records request for all documenta-
tion related to the training.
The results are disturbing.
At the start, the trainers explain
that white people have internalized
a sense of racial superiority, which
has made them unable to access
their “humanity” and caused “harm
and violence” to minorities. The
trainers claim that “individualism,”
“perfectionism,” “intellectualiza-
tion” and “objectivity” are all ves-
tiges of this internalized racism
and must be abandoned in favor of
social-justice principles.
The city frames the discussion
around the idea that black Ameri-
cans are reducible to the essential
quality of “blackness” and white
Americans are reducible to “white-
ness” — that is, the new metaphys-
ics of good and evil.
Once the diversity trainers have
established this basic conceptual
framework, they encourage white
employees to “practice self-talk that
affirms [their] complicity in ra-
cism” and work on “undoing [their]
own whiteness.” As part of this pro-
cess, white employees must aban-
don their “white-normative behav-
ior” and learn to let go of their
status” and “relationships with
some other white people.”
As writer James Lindsay has
pointed out, this isn’t the language
of human resources; it is the lan-
guage of cult programming —
persuading members that they are
defective in some predefined
manner, exploiting their vulnera-
bilities and isolating them from
previous relationships.
This “interrupting-whiteness”
training is not an anomaly. In
recent years, nearly every depart-
ment of Seattle city government
has been recruited into the ideo-
logical struggle against “white
ChRistopheR f. Rufo
supremacy.” As I have documented
in these pages, the city’s homeless-
ness agency hosted a conference
on how to “decolonize [its] collec-
tive work”; the school system re-
leased a curriculum explaining
that “math is a tool for oppres-
sion”; and the city-owned power
company hired a team of bureau-
crats to root out “structural ra-
cism” in their organization.
Dozens of private firms now
offer diversity training to public
agencies. The idea is that all whites
have unconscious, “implicit” bias
that they must vigilantly program
themselves to overcome, and it has
become an article of faith across
corporate boardrooms, academe
and law enforcement, even though
the premise is unscientific and
impossible to verify.
municipal government the arbiter
of the new orthodoxy, and then
work outward. At the end of the
session on “internalized racial
superiority,” the diversity trainers
outline strategies for converting
outsiders and recommend specific
“practices for interrupting others’
whiteness.”
In effect, the activists have orga-
nized an ideological pyramid
scheme — using taxpayer dollars to
establish their authority within
government, then using that au-
thority to recruit others. As Lind-
say writes, “the goal is no longer to
indoctrinate on what is ‘right-think’
and ‘wrong-think.’ It is to make the
[subject’s] thinking be completely
in line with the view of the world
described by the cult.”
How far can this racial-justice
shakedown extend itself? The new
racial orthodoxy has seen exponen-
tial growth in the past few years
and has proved extremely difficult
for local governments and elite in-
stitutions to resist. The move-
ment’s key rhetorical premise is de-
signed as a trap: If you are not an
“anti-racist,” then you are a “racist”
— and must be held to account.
Skeptics might dismiss Seattle’s
“interrupting-whiteness” training
as a West Coast oddity, but it is part
of a nationwide movement to make
this kind of identity politics the
foundation of our public discourse.
It may be coming soon to a city or
employer near you.
Christopher F. Rufo is a contribut-
ing editor of City Journal, from
which this column was adapted.
Twitter: @RealChrisRufo
rip asunder our social fabric and make a
common life together impossible.
another. Some people called for a
boycott.” Note the term “as you
might expect.” What sane person
would expect this?
One member of the mob egging
on the destruction of this man’s
livelihood and that of his employ-
ees was Randi Weingarten, presi-
dent of the American Federation
of Teachers. She wrote, “It’s hard
to ever go back.” Really? Why?
Because he voted for Trump? The
American Federation of Teachers
has 1.7 million members. Guess
what, Randi? Some of them voted
for Trump. Are you comfortable
representing them?
To be clear, this is madness.
Bosco is a restaurant owner who
opened his business to a largely lib-
eral community that is now turning
its back against him. All this,
because he committed the same sin
as 63 million other Americans when
he cast his ballot for Donald Trump.
That is 63 million people that these
dour, nothing-better-to-do lunatics
wish to see bankrupted.
Do those Trump voters have kids
to feed? Too bad. Mom should have
thought of that before she voted for
the Bad Orange Man.
Does the left really want a civil
war? Because such vengeful poli-
tics targeting anonymous nobod-
ies is the kind of thing that will rip
asunder our social fabric and
make a common life together im-
possible. It will also have a chill-
ing effect on discourse at exactly
’
in the Hamptons guilt-free. It is lit-
erally the least they can do and
often the only thing they do. Noth-
ing gets accomplished at all, but
hey, at least, they showed that
awful restaurant owner guy who
voted for Trump!
What makes this situation all
the more sad is that if you watch
the MSNBC panel discussion in
which Bosco appeared, he seems
to be a deeply compassionate
human being. Restaurants that
choose to stay open in Gotham
are losing money; in many cases,
they are open to only keep their
employees afloat.
Bosco talked about how he felt
scared when the shutdown hap-
pened, and how the government
helped him with a generous
check. He spoke in the spirit of
partnership with an understand-
ing that we all need to help each
other. And for his trouble, he has
been stabbed in the back by his
neighbors.
So if you’re in Inwood one of
these days, stop by the Indian
Road Café and grab a sandwich,
support this local upstander, who
committed no sin other than
speak his mind. Don’t let the shal-
low souls of the cancel culture
claim another scalp. Send the
message that this a free country.
We aim to keep it that way, bozos.
David Marcus is The Federalist's
New York correspondent.
Twitter: @BlueBoxDave
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Blue-chip jolt
Stocks faltered on
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BLEAK jOB FRONT
Recovery pace disappoints as 1.3M more seek relief
cases will prevent a
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Future shock

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Nasdaq eked out a gain economist at MUFG Union
of 55.25 points, but the The coronavirus crisis has Bank.
Dow Jones industrial forced American workers to Graduates like this one from Columbia are entering a Jobless workers will likely
average declined 361.19 file nearly 50 million applica- recessionary job market — the worst since the Great Depression. see their unemployment
and the S&P 500 fell tions for unemployment bene- checks shrink by $600 at the
17.89, to 3,152.05. fits in just four months, includ- end of July, when expanded
ing 1.3 million last week, new benefits provided under the
Bankruptcies federal data show. federal CARES Act are set to
The pandemic has Thursday’s US Department Continuing jobless expire. That will amount to a
65.8 percent reduction in bene-
driven 110 companies to
declare bankruptcy, al-
of Labor figures suggest the vi-
rus has sidelined more than 30 claims * fits on average, according to a
though many will reset percent of the nation’s work- Century Foundation analysis.

18M
and restart, while a mi- force at some point since mid- The latest claim numbers
nority will sell assets March in the worst employ- came on the heels of last
and close up shop for ment crisis since the Great De- week’s closely watched jobs
good, Bloomberg re- pression. report, which showed the US
ported. While millions of Americans economy adding 4.8 million
have returned to work in the jobs in June while the unem-
S’bux ‘order’ last two months, COVID-19 is ployment rate fell to 11.1 per-
Starbucks said it will likely to keep the job market cent.
make it mandatory for under pressure as consumers But the surge in coronavirus
* For the week ended June 27
all customers to wear remain wary of the virus and cases that came after that data
masks to prevent the several states grapple with a was collected could threaten
spread of COVID-19 at surge in infections. the nascent economic recov-
every company-owned “The job market has recov- ery, experts warn.
store in the US starting ered — that’s positive, but the The spike has forced some
on July 15. Where there pace of recovery is not what states to close restaurants and
is no local mask man- people wanted it to be,” unem- bars a second time, once again
date, customers can use ployment insurance expert threatening jobs in the hard-hit
drive-throughs and Andrew Stettner told The hospitality sector. The virus
curbside pickups. Post. has also forced a growing
“Whether or not the virus is number of retailers into bank-
Wrist slap? spiking, and whether or not ruptcy, with Brooks Brothers
businesses are closed, people becoming the latest victim just

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Google’s pursuit of
Fitbit is taking heat are not engaging in the kind of this week.
from the EU, which is economic activity that re- “The rising cases are a pow-
launching an antitrust quires people to be close to- claims have plateaued at a weeks, well above the Great million the prior week and just erful reminder that the corona-
probe of their prospec- gether,” added Stettner, a sen- level that would have been un- Recession’s high of 665,000. 1.7 million in the first week of virus is in the driver’s seat —
tive merger. ior fellow at the Century Foun- thinkable before the pan- Continuing claims, which March, the feds’ data show. the economic recovery de-
dation think tank. “That’s be- demic, despite falling sharply track ongoing unemployment “We can’t keep getting pends almost entirely on how
Low times ing depressed everywhere.” from their peak of 6.8 million. on a one-week lag, also remain record amounts of unem- quickly the public health crisis
Hightimes Holdings Thursday’s numbers were The weekly totals have hov- startlingly high. There were 18 ployed and pretend that the can be contained,” said Glass-
is facing scrutiny from better than economists ex- ered between 1 million and 2 million during the week ended economy is OK and the reces- door senior economist Daniel
the SEC, which ordered pected, but initial jobless million for six consecutive June 27, compared with 18.7 sion is in its final days,” said Zhao. nmanskar@nypost.com
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cial Officer John Olin will leave the
company effective immediately. Darrell
@NYPOSTBIZ Thomas, treasurer, will become interim
chief financial officer, it said.
Harley-Davidson’s sales have been
nomic pain caused by the pandemic has
further dented retail demand.
In response to weak sales, the com-
pany has cut production, leading to 140
job cuts last month at its factories in
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The latest cuts are in addition to those
layoffs, a company spokeswoman said.
Zeitz, who took over in February, is
hailed for turning around the Puma
a leaner and more nimble organization.
It seeks to reset product lines, focus on
the company’s core strengths and prior-
itize profitable markets.
“Significant changes are necessary,
and we must move in new directions,”
Zeitz said.
Harley said the measures announced
on Thursday will lay the foundation for
a five-year strategic plan to revive sales
700 positions globally. It will result in a
$50 million restructuring charge in
2020, including $42 million in the sec-
ond quarter.
While the overhaul is expected to be
completed by the end of the year, Har-
ley said it will likely cause additional re-
structuring changes in 2021.
Harley’s shares closed up 16 cents, at
$25.75. Dow Jones
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hit record low

By AlExANdrA StEigrAd saw in March were volun-
tary, and it was hoped they
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Movie and TV production could be temporary. Looking

screeched to a halt last quar-
ter as stay-at-home orders
brought filming to a stand-
still in Tinseltown, accord-
ing to a new report.
Unsurprisingly, produc-
tion in Los Angeles plum-
meted 97.8 percent, to just
194 shooting days, compared
with the April-to-June year-
ago period, a FilmLA study
said.
The stark report, which
called the second quarter “a
near total loss for on-loca-
tion filming,” said the period
marked the “lowest filming
levels on record.” That’s
linked to the fact that pro-
duction remained shut from
March 20 to June 15 due to
the coronavirus.
“The first shutdowns we
back, it was hard to imagine
the impact the pandemic
would have on entertain-
ment projects in progress,
and the economic security
of local cast, crew and pro-
duction vendors,” said conor harley
FilmLA President Paul Aud- lamb rouda
ley.
During the second quarter,
television production was
down 98.2 percent, to 52
shoot days, as commercial
production slid 95.5 percent,
to 58 shoot days, and feature
film production declined
99.7 percent, to 3 shoot days.
Even as Hollywood has
been given the green light to
go back to work, the report
described the return to work anthony matt tj
nancy and
as “gradual and cautious.” brindisi cartwright cox paul pelosi
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Pays to know Dems
By EBoNy BowdEN
A handful of businesses associated
with Democratic lawmakers collected
millions of dollars worth of Paycheck
Protection Program loans after it was
revealed House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi’s husband also benefited from
the stimulus deal.
Companies linked to Reps. Matt
Cartwright (D-Pa.), Conor Lamb (D-
Pa.), TJ Cox (D-Calif.) and Harley
Rouda (D-Calif.) received coronavirus
loans, as did the family law firm of
Rep. Anthony Brindisi (D-NY), ac-
cording to the data released by the
Small Business Administration this
week.
Businesses linked to Cox collected
up to $1.7 million in federal bailouts.
His Madera, Calif., nut-processing fac-
tory received a loan between $100,000
and $350,000, SBA and financial-dis-
closure filings show.
An affordable-housing firm where
the congressman was listed as director
in 2019 also got between $350,000 and
$1 million from the federal govern-
ment, but a spokesperson said Cox
resigned as a director last year.
Trident Holdings received a loan of
between $350,000 and $1 million, ac-
cording to the SBA. Rouda’s wife,
Kaira, sits on the board.
The Mattress Factory contemporary
art museum, where Lamb’s wife, Hay-
ley Haldeman, serves as interim exec-
utive director, also took between
$150,000 and $300,000 in PPP funding,
records show.
Meanwhile, Cartwright’s former law
firm, Munley Law, where his wife still
works, took between $350,000 and
$1 million in coronavirus loans, ac-
cording to the SBA.
Their offices did not immediately
respond to requests for comment.
ebowden@nypost.com

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Paid training for a new job
Financial support while looking for new
employment or attending approved training
Allowances to:
R Pay travel expenses to job interviews
Musk vows Autopilot-plus
By NicolAS VEgA
outside the commuting area
R Relocate family and household goods to Tesla is “very close” to
a new job location bringing its self-driving car
x A wage subsidy for workers aged 50 years or tech to the next level, Chief
older, if they find a new job that pays less Executive Elon Musk said
Thursday.
In remarks made via video
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message at the opening of
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x Write to NYS Department of Labor, tificial Intelligence Confer-
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Bldg. 12, Room 222, Albany, NY 12240 dent” that Tesla will achieve
“the basic functionality for
level 5 autonomy” this year,
meaning that vehicles will be
able to navigate roads with-
out any driver input.
The distinction would con-
tinue to put Tesla at the fore-
front of the autonomous driv-
ing industry, a space where it is
competing with Uber and Al-
phabet-owned Waymo, which
are both investing billions of
dollars in self-driving efforts.
Tesla currently builds cars
with an Autopilot driver-as-
sistance system, which helps
Tesla drivers steer, accelerate
and brake automatically in
their lane, but asks them to
keep their hands on the steer-
ing wheel at all times.
The Palo Alto, Calif.-based
Tesla has been criticized for
the name of its Autopilot tech,
with Sen. Ed Markey
(D-Mass.) calling it “an inher-
ently misleading name” be-
cause the cars cannot actually
fully drive themselves.
Tesla Autopilot has been in-
volved in five fatal crashes
since 2016, including a grisly
accident in Mountain View,
Calif., just 15 minutes away
from the company’s headquar-
ters, which left the driver dead
after his Model X hit a highway
divider.
Musk also said that Tesla is
also developing new heat-pro-
jection or cooling systems to
enable more advanced com-
puters in its cars.
Tesla shares jumped 2.1 per-
cent, to $1,394.28.
With Post wires
nvega@nypost.com
Major layoffs due
at Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo is preparing
to cut tens of thousands of
jobs starting later this year,
Bloomberg Law reported
Thursday, citing sources.
The plans are due to pres-
sure to “dramatically re-
duce costs,” the report said.
A Wells Fargo spokesman
declined to comment.
Shares fell 2.1 percent, to
$24.04. Reuters
KEITH J.
KELLY
MEDIA INK
... is traveling

where’s the brick?
Free phone adapters vanish.
Samsung
won’t
‘adapt’
By Nicolas VEga
Apple’s biggest rival is fol-
lowing its lead in not includ-
ing a power adapter with its
upcoming phones.
Samsung will no longer
give customers a complimen-
tary charging brick when
they buy a new phone begin-
ning next year, according to
Korea’s ETNews.
The world’s biggest smart-
phone maker is making the
switch because many cus-
tomers have power adapters
already and the change will
help the company reduce
costs, according to the re-
port.
The news comes just days
after Japan’s Nikkei Asian Re-
view confirmed that Apple
will not be including a char-
ger or earbuds in the box with
this fall’s batch of iPhones.
Apple is reportedly trying
to shave costs by reducing the
size of its packaging, which
will reduce shipping costs.
The bulkiest item in the
phone’s packaging, besides
the device itself, is the 18W
power adapter.
nvega@nypost.com
Whatsapp’s
biz breakout
The messaging platform
WhatsApp said it has more
than 50 million users of its
business app worldwide each
month, a milestone showing
steep growth since the app’s
2018 launch and progress in
owner Facebook’s efforts to
generate revenue from the
service.
Its current pool of users, pri-
marily small to medium-size
businesses, reflects 10-fold
growth from early 2019, the last
time similar data were
released. Dow Jones
cozy ties: Public relations firms
that fronted A-list magnet Jho Low
— seen here at a charity ball with
Alicia Keys in 2013 — scored
$400,000 in PPP loans. FilmMagic
Jho Low p.r. advisers
pocketed PPP funds
By Noah MaNskar
A pair of public relations firms that rep-
resented Jho Low — the party-boy fugitive
at the center of a Malaysian bribery scan-
dal — has snagged hefty coronavirus relief
loans, records show.
Reevemark — a crisis-
management shop on
EXCLUSIVE
Madison Avenue that raked in $1.3 million
last year handling press inquiries and run-
ning an Instagram account on Low’s behalf,
according to federal records — said it
pocketed about $400,000 in cash from the
US government’s Paycheck Protection
Program.
Levick — a DC-based outfit that was paid
$52,400 to provide the playboy business-
man with “strategic communications coun-
sel” — got a loan worth $350,000 to $1 mil-
lion from the taxpayer-backed fund, which
is intended to help small businesses
stricken by the pandemic, records show.
Reevemark and Levick Strategic Com-
munications both won coronavirus loans
from the feds in April after helping Low
defend his public image. Both firms were
hired by Kobre & Kim, a law firm repre-
senting Low, whom the feds have accused
of siphoning billions of dollars from a Ma-
laysian state development fund.
The rogue money man — who helped
finance Martin Scorsese’s 2013 flick “The
Wolf of Wall Street” and spent his ill-got-
ten gains wining and dining celebrities
like Leonardo DiCaprio and Paris Hilton
— is now facing federal
charges linked to the 1MDB
embezzlement scheme. He
remains at large.
Reevemark’s relationship with Low
ended Dec. 31, while Levick cut ties with
him in October, according to federal filings.
But Reevemark bragged on its Web site
that its work led to “significantly more pos-
itive coverage” for Low and helped cast his
October civil settlement with the feds as
“the result of good faith negotiations.”
Small Business Administration data indi-
cate the PPP loan didn’t help Reevemark
retain any jobs, but the firm said it has in
fact kept all its staffers on board.
“Like dozens of p.r. firms, we accessed
these funds to retain our employees during
COVID,” Reevemark said in a statement.
The PPP funds helped Levick retain 20
jobs, according to federal data. Firm CEO
Richard Levick did not immediately re-
spond to a request for comment.
nmanskar@nypost.com
PE ‘RAPE’
LAWSUIT
SCANDAL
Retaliation charged
By ThorNToN McENEry
The son of a Wall Street ty-
coon allegedly violently raped
and sodomized one of his
dad’s employees — and the fa-
ther turned against the victim
when she spoke out, accord-
ing to her claims in an explo-
sive lawsuit.
Taylor Lawrence, a former
head of investor relations at
$2 billion private equity fund
Wellspring Capital Manage-
ment, accused Christopher
Dawson of drugging her and
raping her at his parents’
swanky Lenox Hill apartment
on the evening of Dec. 29,
2014, according to a complaint
filed Thursday in New York
state court.
Lawrence likewise claims
that when she reported the
grisly incident to her boss,
Wellspring Chief Executive
Bill Dawson, the elder Daw-
son responded with threats,
telling her “I will destroy you.
I will ruin you.”
According to the suit, Law-
rence sought out Bill Dawson
at his East 72nd Street co-op
after he missed an appoint-
ment earlier in the evening,
texting her that he had been
out drinking with his sons.
Lawrence alleges she was
greeted at the front door by
Christopher Dawson, who in-
formed her that his father was
asleep and then offered to
make her a drink. After ac-
cepting the offer, Lawrence
claims Christopher Dawson
became sexually aggressive,
turning on pornography and
then exposing himself to her.
At that point, Lawrence
claims she realized that Chris-
topher Dawson had drugged
her drink, leaving her incapa-
ble of fighting him off and that
he proceeded to repeatedly
rape and sodomize her.
Lawrence was awakened by
Bill Dawson’s other son, Will-
iam Dawson III, the suit al-
leges, and was covered in
23
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bruises and wearing only her
top.
“What are you doing here?
You can’t be here! You have to
leave,” Dawson’s son said,
forcing Lawrence to leave
without her purse, according
to the suit.
When Lawrence spoke out
at Wellspring, telling Dawson
and another senior exec, she
asserts that Dawson callously
mocked her claims of being
anally raped by his son, telling
her that Christopher had
bragged that “he plugged you
in the ass.”
When Lawrence spoke up
about her rape in front of a
Wellspring managing partner,
she alleges that the elder
Dawson was enraged, lashing
out with his threats to “de-
stroy” and “ruin” her.
According to his LinkedIn
page, Christopher Dawson is
now a director at New York-
based commercial real estate
startup Squarefoot. Based on
the dates provided on his bio,
Dawson would have been a
freshman at Kenyon College
when the alleged rape oc-
curred.
Lawrence is suing Christo-
pher Dawson, the sole defen-
dant in the complaint, under
New York’s Gender-Moti-
vated Violence Act, which al-
lows sexual assault victims to
sue their assailants after the
criminal statute of limitations
expires.
“Christopher Dawson ap-
pears to believe that his privi-
lege and wealth allow him to
behave with impunity,” said
Lawrence’s attorneys, Doug-
las Wigdor and David Got-
tlieb of law firm Wigdor.
Christopher Dawson’s em-
ployer, Squarefoot, did not re-
spond to a request for com-
ment. Wellspring also didn’t
respond to requests for com-
ment. Christopher Dawson
didn’t respond to a LinkedIn
message seeking comment.
tmcenery@nypost.com
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Big run Sony’s

Quibi falls short
nypost.com

on wood Epic get

Most trial subscribers dropped it: study
Gold is climbing toward a Epic Games, the creator
record high, oil futures went of the popular video game
New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020

from minus $40 a barrel to “Fortnite,” said on Thurs-

$40 in a month and a half, but
the hottest commodity in the
US these days is wood.
Prices for forest products
like lumber and plywood
have soared because of
booming demand from home
builders making up for lost
time, a DIY explosion
sparked by stay-at-home or-
ders and a race among res-
taurants and bars to install
outdoor seating areas.
Lumber futures are up more
than 85 percent since April 1.
Lumber for July delivery set-
tled Thursday at $499 per
thousand board feet, while the
more heavily traded Septem-
ber futures ended at $481.90.
Both are above the pre-pan-
demic high of $463.00, set dur-
ing the hottest home-building
market since 2006. Lumber fu-
tures seldom trade above $450.
The gains have lifted shares
of mill owners West Fraser
Timber and Weyerhaeuser,
which have outbounced the
broader market from its bot-
tom in late March. Dow Jones
By AlexAndrA SteigrAd
Quibi, the short-form
video app founded by Hol-
lywood mogul Jeffrey
Katzenberg, has retained
just 8 percent of customers
who signed up for a 90-day
free trial, according to a
new research study.
The mobile app —
which has corralled A-list
stars like Jennifer Lopez,
LeBron James and Liam
Hemsworth to crank out
video shorts — has logged
roughly 4.5 million installs
to date since the April 6
launch, according to app
measurement firm Sensor
Tower.
But this week, among
the 910,000 subscribers
who signed up between
April 6 and April 8, a max-
imum of 8 percent, or a
mere 72,000 customers,
have opted to pay for
Quibi, Sensor Tower said.
By comparison, about 1
November, had more than
10 million signups after the
first day of launch.
“The number of paid
subscribers is incorrect by
an order of magnitude,” a
Quibi spokeswoman said
Thursday, pushing back on
Sensor Tower’s data. She
said that “over 5.6 million
people have downloaded
the Quibi app,” as opposed
to Sensor Tower’s 4.5 mil-
lion estimate.
“Our conversion from
download to trial is above
mobile app benchmarks,
and we are seeing excel-
lent conversion to paid
slow go: Quibi, which is home to subscribers — both among
series like “Thanks a Million,” featuring our 90-day free trial sign-
Jennifer Lopez, is having trouble ups from April, as well as
getting traction with viewers. Quibi
our 14-day free trial sign-
ups from May and June,”
million users, or 11 percent A key difference is that the spokeswoman added.
of the 9.5 million down- Quibi opted for a lengthy Nonetheless, Quibi did
loads for Disney+ in its first three-month free trial, not say how many paying
three days of sign-ups, con- whereas Disney+ launched customers it has netted to
verted to paid subscrip- with a seven-day free trial. date.
tions, Sensor Tower said. Disney+, which launched in asteigrad@nypost.com
day it had received a
$250 million investment
from Japan’s Sony for a mi-
nority stake in the company.
Last month, Bloomberg
reported that Epic was
close to raising a $750 mil-
lion round of funding, from
investors including T.
Rowe Price Group and
Baillie Gifford, at a valua-
tion of about $17 billion.
Epic, which also devel-
oped the game engine “Un-
real,” in 2018 received
$1.25 billion in funding
from investors, including
KKR & Co.
Sony is gearing up to
launch its next-generation
console PlayStation 5 later
this year, with titles includ-
ing Ubisoft’s “Assassin’s
Creed Valhalla,” “Horizon
Zero Dawn 2,” “The Lord
Of The Rings: Gollum” and
Rockstar Games’ “Grand
Theft Auto V.”
Sony shares gained 2.5
percent, to $71.53, on
Thursday. Reuters

Sally Brompton Daily Horoscope

 cANcer
(June 22-July 23)
Make an effort to look on the
bright side today, even if there
are some pretty dark things
going on in the world. To a
certain extent you will always
create your own reality, so be
careful what you allow yourself
DiScOver MOre ABOut yOurSelF AND whAt the Future hOlDS At
SAllyBrOMptON.cOM
be there for you, or for anyone. something in your life then change
it. Don't worry that you seem to be
 liBrA
(Sept. 24-Oct. 23)
the only one to think it needs
improving, because that just
in some ways may even be a
little envious of you.
 piSceS
You can, if you wish, get tough
with someone who has offended
you, but will it make any
difference? Probably not. In
which case why not just ignore
them? You've suffered plenty
worse insults than this and lived
to tell the tale.

to believe. Always be upbeat and

positive.
 leO
(July 24-Aug. 23)
You hate it when you don't feel
in control of events, but that's
the way it is at the moment and
you just have to put up with it.
Look on the bright side: a little
over a week from now the
An idea may seem perfectly
sensible to you but other people
are not so sure, so expect some
opposition today. Ask them why
they are reluctant to back you
and listen carefully to what they
have to say. Their concerns need
to be taken seriously.
 ScOrpiO
(Oct. 24-Nov. 22)
means you have higher standards
than others. If something is wrong,
then start making it right.
 cApricOrN
(Dec. 22 - Jan. 20)
Don't waste time arguing with
people whose opinions are the
opposite of your own. You won't
be able to convert them, and
they won't be able to convert
(Feb. 20-Mar. 20)
There are so many people
throwing around so many ideas at
the moment that it's all getting a
bit much. Shut out the noise and
listen to what your inner voice
has to tell you. The truth has
nothing to do with shouting, and
everything to do with listening.
 ArieS
 geMiNi
(May 22-June 21)
You may have taken a wrong
turning of late but you seem to
have come out of it okay. The
good news is there is definitely a
higher power protecting you.
The not-so-good news is it can
only protect you so far, so don't
take silly risks.

universe will be on your side
again.
 virgO
(Aug. 24-Sept. 23)
You may be impatient to get
back out into the world and
explore but make sure you plan
ahead a bit. There has been so
much disruption of late that a
number of things you previously
took for granted may no longer
Everything seems right with the
universe at the moment and long
may that continue. However, a
friend has not been so lucky and
if you can you must help them. If
you share your good fortune
with them now they will share
even more with you later on.
 SAgittAriuS
(Nov. 23 - Dec. 21)
If you feel uncomfortable with
you, so accept that the way you
look at the world is different and
find ways to make that work.
 AquAriuS
(Jan. 21 - Feb. 19)
It's okay to look up to other
people and to want to be as
successful as they are, but try
not to be envious of their
position in life. The fact is they
have worries and woes too and
(March 21-April 20)
Minor irritations are likely today
but they will only cause
problems if you allow yourself
to get angry about them. Your
way of dealing with issues may
be to attack them head-on but on
this occasion a more relaxed
approach will pay dividends.
 tAuruS
(April 21-May 21)
BirthDAy FriDAy
You have made so many
plans of late, and made so
many half-hearted
beginnings, but how far
have you actually got?
Maybe you should stop
trying to map out your each
and every move and let your
heart guide you. Make that
your philosophy this year.

The latest in movies, music, theater, TV and more
By chUck aRnold
F
OR Rufus Wain-
wright, being out was
always in — going all
the way back to when
he made his 1998 de-
but as a rare, openly
gay artist signed to a
major label.
“When that happened, I
wasn’t really thinking about it
in those terms. I just was a ter-
rible liar,” Wainwright, 46, tells
The Post. “And on a more seri-
ous note, AIDS was still a
tremendous threat back then,
and I didn’t want to get AIDS
and have to lie about it . . . I
never was in the closet. Ever.”
It’s fitting that Wainwright’s
new album, out Friday, is ti-
tled “Unfollow the Rules,” be-
cause — from his sexuality to
his art-pop aesthetic — the
singer-songwriter
has always been
shaking up the sta-
tus quo in the mu-
sic industry. And
22 years after his
first, self-titled LP,
he’s come full cir-
cle. “I very much
consider this al-
bum to be a book-
end to my first
record,” he says.
“Unfollow the
Rules” is Wain- Wainwright’s new
wright’s first pop album “Unfollow the
album since 2012, Rules” is out Friday.
but he’s still been
busy making music
in classical circles.
“I really felt the need to give
back to the opera world for all
the inspiration it had given me,
and so I went off and wrote a
couple of operas and got them
produced,” says Wainwright,
whose first opera, “Prima
Donna,” is due to stage a new
production in Stockholm this
fall. “It was an amazing time.
But it was also quite brutal . . . I
had to fight tooth and nail to
garner respect.
“In the end, I felt honored that
they were taking me so seri-
ously by being so mean,” he
says. “And now it’s good to be
back where people take me seri-
ously and they’re not so mean.”
The new album was sup-
posed to come out in April, but
was postponed due to the cor-
onavirus crisis. Wainwright
25
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has kept the music playing
In his new
during quarantine with his daily
album,
#RobeRecitals streamed from his
Los Angeles home. songwriter
“I practice every morning in my Rufus
robe. When I was much younger, I Wainwright,
did it naked,” he says. “Then, once 46, returns to
nypost.com
COVID hit, [#RobeRecitals] was pop music.
just a real no-brainer. I just show
up in my kimono and pray to God
my face is on right.”
His at-home performances
have been filmed by Jörn Weis-
brodt, Wainwright’s husband of
eight years, to whom “Peaceful
Afternoon” is dedicated on the
new album.
“One of his demands is that on
every record there’s a song about
him,” he says. “And, luckily, they’ve
also gotten to be love songs.”
But Wainwright wasn’t always
big on the idea of gay marriage.
“I was very set in my ways in
terms of, you know, the old-school
homosexual habits:
drugs or sex or fash-
ion,” he says, with a
laugh.
Now, he’s also a
dad to 9-year-old
daughter Viva. Mom
is Lorca Cohen,
daughter of the late,
legendary Leonard
Cohen, who con-
ceived the child
with Wainwright’s
 sperm donation.
Given Viva’s musi-
cal lineage —
Wainwright’s par-
ents are folkies
Loudon Wain-
wright III and the late Kate
McGarrigle — it’s no surprise
that she’s already displaying an
artistic flair.
“Yeah, she loves to sing,” says
Wainwright, who still keeps a
Manhattan apartment in Gra-
mercy Park. “She asks many
times if she can be in a movie or
on a TV show, and we want her
to just finish her homework
first. But we’ll see. She’s defi-
nitely raring to go.”
As for the next generation of
out artists, Wainwright says,
“I’ve hung out a bit with Troye
Sivan, and I know that other art-
ists are also fluid at this point in
After taking a break to write operas, Rufus
terms of how they identify. Sexu-
ality definitely does seem to be
Wainwright opens up about his first pop
less of an issue.”
But, he adds, “I’m still looking
for that other Rufus down the line
album since 2012 — and life as dad to V. Tony Hauserferns
who will try to take my place.” Leonard Cohen’s granddaughter
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gone broadway?
The theater world is using some creative tactics to go on with the show — but it’s
going to take more than tricks to light up the Great White Way once more
By johnny oleksinski
T
HE “Lullaby of Broad-
way”? Theater fans and
pros would prefer an
alarm clock.
Since March 12, the 41
iconic theaters that
stretch from 41st Street to 65th
Street at Lincoln Center have
been shuttered as a result of the
coronavirus pandemic, putting
thousands out of work and de-
HAMILGONE
priving nearby restaurants and
shops of crucial business.
It’s the longest dark period in
history for Broadway, the life-
blood of New York tourism, and
it’s only getting longer. The
Broadway League recently an-
nounced that performances
would not resume until Jan. 3,
2021 — at the earliest.
Sure, last week’s Disney+ re-
lease of “Hamilton” was a nifty
nicotine patch for Broadway
addicts, but show buffs are none-
theless craving the real, unre-
corded, unedited deal.
How long will we have to “Wait
for It”?
“I would say that people are
cautiously optimistic that very
early in 2021 we’ll be back up,”
Sue Frost, producer of the musi-
cal “Come From Away,” told The
Post. “But I also think that we’re
just seeing the beginning of some
very creative ideas in terms of
how people are gonna manage
through this.”
Frost, whose hopeful musical is
also waiting to restart produc-
tions in London, Toronto and
Sydney, is talking about such
lauded efforts as Tony Award-
nominated director Michael Ar-
den’s recent “American Dream
Study.” An immersive show
staged in upstate New York, it
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featured performances from
Broadway actors and the Forest
of Arden dance company, while
rapt audiences drove their cars
through and strolled the grounds.
Producer Robyn Goodman told
The Post, “I loved it. Saw it twice.
Found it so original and moving.”
You can’t, of course, watch a
Broadway show from your sedan
on Eighth Avenue. But the Lon-
don production of the musical
“Six,” a pop-concert-style show
about the wives of Henry VIII, is
also putting butts in seat belts.
The West End and UK touring
casts are staging about 90 tick-
eted performances of the sing-off
at large, open-air venues around
Britain this summer. The socially
distant experience will cost be-
tween $78 for a two-person vehi-
cle and $217 for a seven-seater.
However, don’t get wedded to
the idea of carpool theater state-
N
side: A spokesman for “Six” on
Broadway said that there are no
plans for similar drive-in produc-
tions in the US. Plus, while hav-
ing a windshield for a fourth wall
may be adequate for a concert, it
would undoubtedly hinder an
intimate musical such as “Hades-
town,” or even a big play such as
“Harry Potter and the Cursed
Child.”
Producers tip their hats to all
the ingenuity, but don’t see these
strategies as a long-term solution.
“I think there is room for more
creativity on Broadway, as this
terrible situation drags on with
no end in sight,” said one pro-
ducer of a currently running
Broadway show. “I don’t think
there can be one model, though,
for how live theater can be pro-
duced, via Zoom or in innovative
ways outdoors, socially dis-
tanced, etc. Each individual show
requires such unique settings and
direction.”
Some plays, including “What
Do We Need To Talk About?” at
the Public Theater, have given
Zoom a shot, but just one in Lon-
don streamed from a real-life
stage. The bare bones relation-
ship dramedy called “Lungs,”
starring Claire Foy and Matt
Smith of Netflix’s “The Crown,”
staged a week of live, ticketed
HAMILGONE
shows via videoconference ear-
lier this month, and the tickets
were priced the same as the real-
life seats — $12 to $82 — in an ef-
fort to give its struggling theater,
the Old Vic, a financial boost.
Could a Broadway show copy
that model, and charge face-value
$200-or-more ticket prices for a
livestream to turn a profit?
“The answer is no,” Frost said,
adding that filmed productions
could, however, become more

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Across the pond, “Six” (above)
is doing outdoor drive-in-
theater-style shows, while
Claire Foy (near right) and Matt
Smith recently performed
“Lungs” in an empty West End
theater for a week.
normalized as hesitant audiences
slowly make their way back.
That said, to totally depend on
video to pay the bills won’t work,
said a backstage vet. While a
West End production might give
an onstage broadcast a try, it’s not
feasible for Broadway, which
and sky-high costs.
One of the first American thea-
ters to get back in the game will
be Barrington Stage in the Berk-
shires, which Actors’ Equity re-
cently gave the go-ahead to put
on one- and two-person shows
and concerts, performed either
outdoors or at one-third capacity
indoors. The theater has taken
out whole rows of seats to pro-
mote social distancing, enforces
mask use and even makes its au-
dience members sign liability
waivers.
One Broadway source said that,
while the end goal is a unified
strategy for a robust Broadway
comeback, we could see a few
slimmed-down auditoriums and
one-man shows here at first — at
least “in the short term.” Even so,
“that would be for the unique in-
dividual show that could accom-
plish that.”
For instance, an acoustic Bruce
Springsteen concert at one-third
capacity could make a buck, but a
big-cast spectacle like “Wicked”
wouldn’t see much green at all.
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“When we talk about ‘Broadway
is back and thriving,’ that means
with full capacity available,” the
source added.
One method being employed
across the pond that is sure to be
used on Broadway is enhanced
health technology. The govern-
ment-recommended modern
germ-killing devices, such as AC
filters and antimicrobial sprays,
will be added before reopening.
Composer Andrew Lloyd
Webber, who owns several thea-
ters in London, has retrofitted his
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Palladium with thermal sensors
and virus-squashing fogs.
Broadway League president
Charlotte St. Martin told The
Post we can expect to see the
same alterations made to creaky
old Broadway houses, especially
when it comes to new air-filtering
HVAC systems.
However, a major breakthrough
happened two weeks ago that, she
said, could lead to an on-sched-
ule reopening night on New York
stages.
“For the first time, we got posi-
tive — what I call ‘cautiously op-
timistic’ — indications from the
medical professionals that we’re
working with,” St. Martin said of
the league’s infectious-disease
expert approving a 15-second cor-
onavirus quick test for use by ac-
tors and crew members.
“It’s not assured, because you
get new information all the time.
But so far, we feel good about the
first quarter being open,” she
said.
costs roughly three times more It can’t come soon enough, said
per week to operate. one insider: “Let’s face it — the
It’s also unlikely, sources said, longer this shutdown goes, the
that Broadway theaters will be more New York will be brought
used for anything other than per- to its knees. Broadway is the cen-
formances — say, as a high-end ter of the city and there is no re-
cocktail bar or a cafe to make turn for New York without Broad-
ends meet — due to union rules way. And Albany knows it.”
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Charlize
Theron plays a
6,000-year-old
superhero in a
new action-
packed Netflix
flick.
This BC
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badass is
taking eon
the villains
Netflix has added yet another movie genre to its Godzilla-size
catalog: superheroes.
Every time the streaming behemoth nails a new film, you
greet it with equal parts elation and terror: “I can watch this
from my couch! Wait . . . am I supporting the Walmart of movies
that’s gobbling up vulnerable studios and distributors?!?”
Probably. But with “The Old Guard,” there is no moral quan-
dary, because it’s a comic book film, and you won’t find me
shedding any tears for Disney ever. Spider-Man is gonna be fine.
Unlike the Avengers, you likely haven’t heard of this unusual
crew of super soldiers. Netflix has made a smart move by grab-
bing hold of a story few people know, Image Comics’ “The Old
Guard” by Greg Rucka. Smart move No. 2 was getting Oscar
winner Charlize Theron to star in it as an immortal, impossibly
old, ass-kicking warrior called Andromache of Scythia. The ac-
tress has swapped “Mad Max” for a rad ax.
Andromache, called Andy, leads a band of five undying warri-
ors, cursed for unexplained reasons to survive any injury and live
unnaturally long lives. These mutants have chosen to use their
powers to fight the world’s evils, which never seem to end.
It’s a little hard to picture Theron having her heyday 6,000
years ago in Central Asia, but hey, if Lucy
Movie Review Lawless could pass as an ancient Grecian
princess with lustrous hair out of a L’Oréal
The old commercial, all’s fair, I say. Theron is terrific.
guard When a US soldier named Nile (an in-
★★★ stantly likable KiKi Layne) has her throat cut
by a terrorist in Afghanistan, she wakes up
to find that her wound has miraculously
healed. She too is an immortal. Andy and Co. seek her out, and
Nile joins the band of crime-fighting misfits.
The main baddie is an Elizabeth Holmes-esque medical inno-
vator, Merrick (Harry Melling), who wants to capture and exper-
iment on the team to produce Fountain of Youth drugs to pad
his coffers.
The best part of “The Old Guard” isn’t the plot, however, but
the combat. Two of its members, Joe (Marwan Kenzari) and
Nicky (Luca Marinelli), fought against each other during the
Crusades, and another, Booker (Matthias Schoenaerts), oui-
oui’d alongside Napoleon. Together, these AARP members con-
tain millennia of battle strategy and fighting technique, which
the movie has cleverly modernized.
Cool though the skirmishes are, director Gina Prince-Bythe-
wood’s film could use some more visual panache, given the
unique historical backgrounds of her characters. The look, by
and large, is rudimentary action flick.
Still, it’s good fun and has more than a few winning one-liners.
“You praying?,” Andy asks a nervous Nile. “You know, there
was a time I was worshipped as a god.”
Running time: 118 minutes. Rated R (sequences of graphic violence;
language). On Netflix today.
— Johnny Oleksinski
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Cristin Milioti and Andy
Samberg get stuck in a
time warp in the Hulu
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comedy “Palm
Springs.”
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I
N the Hulu comedy
“Palm Springs,” Andy
Samberg and Cristin
Milioti do the time warp
again. And again. And again.
And again. And . . .
Not the “Rocky Horror”
line dance, although there is
some dancing; their charac-
ters, Nyles (Samberg) and
Sarah (Milioti), are stuck in
the unenviable sci-fi
scenario of repeating the
same day over and over.
I know what you’re think-
ing — that these punks are
mocking Punxsutawney
Phil and Bill Murray — and
we’ll get to that, wood-
chuck-chuckers.
Sarah, a constant
screw-up, meets laid-back
Nyles at her little sister’s
California wedding cere-
mony and ends up scurry-
ing away with him to a
sandy nook for some
nookie. The lush follows
the smooth-talker, against
his wishes, into a cave ema-
Meet the 15-year-old star
of ‘Upside-Down Magic’
Siena Agudong’s showbiz
résumé reads like someone’s
twice her age.
The 15-year-old actress,
who hails from Hawaii, al-
ready has two series under
her belt — Nickelodeon’s “Star
Falls” and “No Good Nick,” a
two-season Netflix dramedy
co-starring Melissa Joan Hart
and Sean Astin.
On July 31, she headlines
“Upside-Down Magic,” a Dis-
Where have we seen this before?
There’s all the time in the world to
figure that out — but you’ll be
laughing too hard to truly care
Johnny
Johnny
Oleksinski
Oleksinski
MOvie Review
PALM SPRINGS
Running time: 90 minutes.
Rated R (sexual content,
language throughout, drug use
and some violence). Streaming
Friday on Hulu.
★★★½
nating a bright orange light,
and then wakes up back in
bed . . . on her sister’s wed-
ding day. Again.
Yes, the poor man and
woman are doomed to for-
ever endure what is, for
ney Channel movie based on
the popular fantasy book se-
ries about a group of kids with
magical powers.
Agudong spoke to The Post
and shared some insights into
her life and career.
Tell me about “Upside-
Down Magic.”
I play Reina Carvajal, who has
a flair for the ability to manip-
ulate heat. She and her best
many, one of life’s most
hellish punishments:
another couple’s nuptials.
“What did you do to
me?!” Sarah screams at the
Hawaiian shirt-clad Nyles,
who’s lounging on a pizza
float in the hotel pool. The
time-loop vet explains that
anyone who walks into the
light is forced to experi-
ence the same 24 hours ad
infinitum. Even death
causes a reboot. Nyles has
been inside so long, he
can’t remember what his
job was, and he optimisti-
cally thinks of his hopeless
circumstance as a mischie-
vous retirement.
I know, I know. Stop yel-
ling. The premise is a lot
like “Groundhog Day.”
True, this millennial-
driven laugher would not
exist had Harold Ramis’
classic not come before it,
however screenwriter Andy
Siara’s zany script is re-
freshingly absent of its hard
friend, Nory [Izabela Rose] at-
tend a school for magical
studies. They’re separated into
different classes because they
have different powers [Nory
can transform into different
animals] and they find all sorts
of challenges and adventures.
We shot the movie in Vancou-
ver Island and in the opening
scene we’re walking through
a forest with a lot of mist and
very tall trees. It was abso-
lutely beautiful.
What was it like working
with Melissa Joan Hart and
Sean Astin?
They’re the sweetest and
moral shell and Scroogey
turnaround. Nobody sucks,
and it’s about quantum
physics rather than godly
intervention.
“Palm Springs” — stream-
ing Friday on Hulu — also
answers the all-important
question, “What would hap-
pen if Andy Samberg was
trapped at a wedding for all
eternity?” Man up, is what.
During the “Brooklyn
Nine-Nine” star’s days on
“Saturday Night Live,” Sam-
berg, 41, was a Peter Pan
with a pot dealer — talented
but overblown and espe-
cially known for satiric mu-
sic videos. Back then, you
could only take his juvenile
antics for a few minutes. To-
day, however, he’s perfect
for this lovable indie, having
relaxed and grown into an
appealing lead.
He sure sparks with the
subdued Milioti, 34, who
brings approachable dark-
ness to the unreliable, emo-
most genuine people and they
took me under their wing like
their daughter. They took me
and [co-stars] Kalama [Ep-
stein] and Lauren [Lindsey
Donzis], who were the other
kids in the show [they played
Jeremy and Molly Thompson],
and we would go on trips we
called “Thompson Family
Nights.” They would take us to
dinner or we would just go
and hang out sometimes and
they would drive us. It felt like
we were a family on and off
the screen. We had the best
time laughing and getting to
know each other for about
seven months.
Deja View
Groundhog Day
A weatherman (Bill Mur-
ray) finds himself reliving
Groundhog Day on an
annoying loop, until he
discovers how to use it
to his advantage.
tionally bereft woman who
drinks like a beluga. Her
character’s resolution is too
tidy — a science-fiction Russian Doll
version of an old-school Nadia (Natasha Lyonne)
sports montage — but it fits keeps dying and waking
in fine with director Max up at the same NYC
Barbakow’s silly style. party, gazing into the
Perhaps the sharpest bathroom mirror and
casting is J.K. Simmons as a
gruff wedding guest named
questioning the meaning
of existence.
Roy, who got trapped in the
time-loop earlier after a
misguided cocaine binge
with Nyles. He pops up
occasionally to hunt Nyles
with a bow and arrow or a
shotgun to seek revenge.
You will cherish the 65-
year-old Oscar winner’s in-
terpretation of being high
on coke. Happy Death Day
“Palm Springs,” which A college student (Jes-
premiered at Sundance this sica Rothe) is brutally
year, was the highest seller murdered, then wakes
in the film festival’s history up the next morning re-
at $17.5 million. It’s easy to alizing she is unharmed.
see why Hulu and Neon She keeps reliving the
dropped all that cash on it. fatal day until she finds
This is the stuff of streams. her killer.
I hear you play the drums.
Is that a serious hobby?
It’s not a serious thing be-
cause I can’t read sheet music.
But . . . my dad and my sister,
Sydney [also an actress], are
very musical and one of our
favorite things growing up
was always jamming out —
even if I didn’t get the beat.
Mostly playing around to my
dad’s ‘80s music or random
songs that we’d make up. My
Siena Agudong sister would sing and my dad
would play the guitar and I
would drum out — it was very
loud and sometimes not at
the best time of the morning.
— Michael Starr
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Belmont Lock of Kitten By The Sea (5th)

Post Time: 1:15 p.m. Lock Record: 8 for 18 (44%)
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Analysis by Vic Cangialosi the Day Meet Record: 72/219 $464.50

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company. LEEWAY makes seasonal for Clement. Moved lower, graduated wire to wire 3 Winston's Chance(L),122 K Carmouche 5-7-2 Donk 10-1
 6 fur(T); $64,000; mdn; 2YO here at distance in year ender. Franco up. PRINCESS FAWZIA broke maiden here in the fall 1 a-Twisted Tom(L),124 R Gutierrez 2-4-1 Avila 3-1
New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020

Showtime! Career debuts for these 2YOs. KING OF MIAMI American Pharoah sired as well. Returned last month and got beat a head after showing the way. Can the Princess
4 Foolish Ghost(L),122 J Ortiz 1-3-2 B Brown 8-1
colt is bred/owned/trained by Wesley Ward. J Ortiz will pilot. Edge over PITAMAN and Leeway stay with top pick?
(Motion/Johnny V), SCARLETT SKY (Shug/Cancel) and BLAME THE BOOZE (Ward/Franco). PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds 5 Blugrascat's Smile(L),124 E Cancel 9-2-1 Sciacca 8-1
PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds 1 Sterling Beauty(L),124 J Alvarado 5-1-4 Donk 5-1 1A a-I Love Jaxson(L),124 J Lezcano 4-1-1 Rice 3-1
1 Centavo ,119 K Carmouche x-x-x C Martin 15-1 2 Wild North(L),120 E Cancel 1-4-6 Chichakly 15-1 6 Durkin's Call(L),122 J Velazquez 3-5-3 Mott 10-1
2 Pitaman ,119 J Alvarado x-x-x Motion 5-2 3 Leeway(L),118 M Franco 1-4-6 Clement 6-1 7 Doups Point(L),122 J Alvarado 6-7-4 Clement 6-1
3 Takecareyallchickn ,114 R Maragh 7-x-x Summers 15-1 4 Strike Magic(L),120 R Gutierrez 6-1-6 Hennig 12-1 8 Big Mountain(L),124 D Davis 6-5-1 Atras 15-1
4 Scarlett Sky ,119 E Cancel x-x-x McGaughey III 4-1 5 First Dawn(L),117 L Cardenas 5-2-3 Williams 8-1 9 Pipes(L),122 R Silvera 8-1-2 Rodriguez 20-1
5 Blame the Booze ,119 M Franco x-x-x Ward 5-1 6 Kitten by the Sea(L),126 J Ortiz 1-1-5 Pletcher 6-5 10 Our Last Buck(L),124 M Franco 1-1-4 Nevin 7-2

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6 King of Miami ,119 J Ortiz x-x-x Ward 1-1
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7 Overheated(L),124 D Davis 4-5-3 Handal 6-1

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6 fur; $80,000; Gold Fever; 3YO
 6 fur(T); $47,000 clm($25,000); 3up 8 Happycrest(L),117 L Cardenas 6-9-5 Goberdhan 30-1
Short price on LONG WEEKEND. Front-loving colt has won 4 of 5 and is 3 for 3 racing
9 Princess Fawzia(L),118 J Lezcano 2-1-x Rice 4-1 6 panels. Loss was in grade 2 Saratoga Special. J Ortiz picks up the Oaklawn shipper.
Jose Ortiz steals the early double with BANANA THIEF. Flat 5th as fave at Big A
before going on the shelf. Defeated similar here in the fall. DIRTY was 7th of 8 in seasonal. 10 Bossy Bride(L),126 J Alvarado 3-1-5 Atras 1-1 WONDRWHERECRAIGIS moves to stake after powering off pace to win both Laurel starts.

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Drops for J Englehart. Won a Laurel 100k last year. Cancel subs for Ortiz. DUNCASTLE won Lezcano chases top pick home. LISTENTOYOURHEART led, settled 2nd at 38-1 in the longer
wire to wire then moved higher and finished last of 10 at Laurel. Rebound in cards. WAR
STROLL upset a modest group at 27-1 and is 2 for 3 at Belmont.
 6 1/2 fur; $53,000; mdn; 3up(f)
They met here last month. JEWEL OF ARABIA was 2nd, VOICE OF SPRING a rallying
Mike Lee. Best value, 2nd off shelf, tightening. NEWSTOME Also 3 for 3 at distance after
winning a 100k at Woodbine. HOPEFUL TREASURE elevates after winning 3 of 5 on dirt.
PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds 4th and VIVAZANO a retreating 3rd. Top pick made board 2 other starts. Voice of Spring PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds
1 Field of Courage(L),123 M Franco 9-6-6 Rodriguez 9-2 and Vivazano may improve making their 2nd start. 1 Premier Star(L),120 K Carmouche 4-6-1 Trombetta 10-1
PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds 2 Newstome(L),124 M Franco 1-6-5 Trombetta 6-1
2 Fox Red(L),123 J Lezcano 2-3-10 Miceli 8-1
1 Bella Domenica(L),111 L Cardenas 6-4-8 Serpe 30-1 3 Hopeful Treasure(L),120 R Silvera 10-1-2 Pino 15-1
3 Bitumen(L),118 R Maragh 2-4-7 Romero 5-1
2 Masterof the Tunes(M),118 R Gutierrez x-x-x Lee 20-1 4 Listentoyourheart(L),124 J Alvarado 2-4-1 Clement 10-1
4 Banana Thief(L),123 J Ortiz 5-4-1 Asmussen 3-1
3 Love That Face(M),118 D Davis x-x-x Miceli 12-1 5 Wondrwherecraigis(L),120 J Lezcano 1-1-x Russell 5-1
5 Thousand Percent(L),118 L Cardenas 8-1-6 Friedman 15-1
4 Robin Sparkles(M),118 J Ortiz x-x-x B Brown 8-1 6 Long Weekend(L),124 J Ortiz 1-1-1 Amoss 1-2
6 Business Cycle(L),123 E Cancel 1-1-2 Shivmangal 8-1
5 Steal My Heart(L),118 T Alpander 8-5-4 Falk 50-1 7 Liam's Pride(L),118 D Davis 13-4-4 O'Neill 15-1
7 Outrageous Bet(L),123 D Davis 9-12-8 Chichakly 20-1

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6 Blitchton Lady(L),119 R Maragh 9-x-x Abreu 15-1
 6 fur(T); $39,000; mdn clm($40,000); 3up(f)
8 War Stroll(L),123 K Carmouche 1-4-8 Potts 8-1
7 Vivazano(L),118 C DeCarlo 3-x-x Gleaves 4-1
9 Duncastle(L),120 R Maragh 10-1-10 Morley 7-2 Clement's SILENT EMPRESS is a live 1st timer. RUNNING ON ENTRY returns. 2nd,
8 Bonus Baby(L),118 J Alvarado 8-x-x Englehart 8-1
10 Dirty(L),123 E Cancel 7-10-3 Englehart 5-2 then 5th here last year. Moves lower. FRENCHIE FROU FROU ran 3rd with similar. TINY
9 Voice of Spring(L),118 J Lezcano 4-x-x Rice 5-2 MAGOO debuted 2nd, this level, on dirt.
11 Direct Order(L),118 L Cardenas 5-1-5 Toscano 12-1
10 Jewel of Arabia(L),118 M Franco 2-2-3 Clement 2-1 PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds

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12 Vicar's Legend(L),123 Rider TBA 5-6-6 Avila 12-1

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1 Wall Eye(L),118 K Carmouche 12-6-x Chichakly 15-1

 1 mile; $28,000; mdn clm($20,000); 3up  6 fur(T); $42,000; clm($35,000); 3up(f)

NOBLE JEWEL sparkles again. 2 for 2 at Belmont and at distance after winning off
2 Idaka(L),118 R Silvera 6-8-9 Barker 50-1
Turf to dirt for Rice's STRIKING SPEED. Debuted 3rd on dirt with better after 3 Tiny Magoo(L),118 D Davis 2-x-x Miceli 5-1
the 10 month layoff. BRASS RING was a dull 7th, at 61-1 in her seasonal. Nipped allowance
showing the way. Proves tuff to reel in, same distance. ROAD HOME (wide 5th as fave) and 4 Nikki's Dream(M),118 J Lezcano x-x-x Gullo 12-1
at Spa last summer at 26-1. Shorter price moving sharply lower. Davis replaces Cardenas;
FULFILL (3rd after leading at 24-1) here last month. Road Home made board previous pair.
PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds stays on top pick. MERLINS MUSE was a weary 4th after pressing pace. Donk shaves a 5 Vinda Machine(L),117 L Cardenas 3-4-9 Weaver 20-1
furlong but she's 0 for 8 this distance. ROMAN CITY Up late to win twice. Capable. 6 Running On Entry(L),124 M Franco 5-2-x Toner 3-1
1 Heirloom Kitten(L),125 E Cancel 6-9-5 Rice 6-1 PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds
7 Mind of Gold ,111 H Harkie x-x-x Ramdat 30-1
2 The Primitive Man(L),118 B Hernandez 9-x-x Baker 20-1 1 Brass Ring(L),123 D Davis 7-9-9 Gyarmati 6-1
8 Little Red Button(L),118 J Ortiz 4-x-x Stephens 8-1
3 John Want Revenge ,111 L Cardenas 11-7-6 Persaud 50-1 2 Gentle Annie(L),123 E Cancel 6-3-6 Sciacca 8-1
9 Silent Empress(M),118 E Cancel x-x-x Clement 4-1
4 Buona Fina(L),118 M Franco 6-x-x Englehart 8-1 3 Makin' Out(L),123 K Carmouche 7-6-5 Levine 12-1
10 Adorable Maya(L),113 R Maragh 5-6-4 Bush 8-1
5 Tipazo(L),113 R Maragh 5-9-3 Friedman 30-1 4 Real Doozie(L),120 J Lezcano 4-3-2 Dini 5-1
11 She So Naughty(L),118 J Alvarado 7-x-x Rodriguez 8-1
6 Seediskid(L),118 H Harkie 10-7-4 Dharamjit 30-1 5 Ok Honey(L),123 Rider TBA 6-9-2 Jones 15-1
12 Big Red Girl(L),118 R Gutierrez 3-3-8 Baker 10-1
7 Fulfill(L),118 J Ortiz 3-4-4 Asmussen 6-1 6 Gracetown(L),125 J Lezcano 3-6-1 Rice 5-2
13 Fusi(L),124 J Alvarado 3-4-10 Atras 8-1
8 Road Home(L),125 J Alvarado 5-3-2 Mott 2-1 7 Sister Emily(L),123 R Gutierrez 10-7-6 Schettino 50-1
14 Frenchie Frou Frou(L),118 M Franco 3-8-x Sciacca 9-2
9 Striking Speed(L),118 J Lezcano 9-3-x Rice 9-5 8 Tiz a Kitten(L),123 B Hernandez 6-4-3 Persaud 15-1
15 Magical Romance(L),117 L Cardenas 4-3-4 Metivier 8-1
10 Little Mazzy(L),118 K Carmouche 7-5-2 Atras 12-1 9 Merlins Muse(L),123 J Alvarado 4-2-5 Donk 3-1

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16 Painite(L),113 R Maragh 9-4-10 Donk 6-1

 6 fur; $32,000; clm($12,500); 3up(f) 10 Noble Jewel(L),118 L Cardenas 1-8-5 C Martin 2-1
11 Spring Drama(L),123 M Franco 3-6-7 Lee 8-1
Chance COLD HEARTED PEARL rebounds. Tired 6th after winning wire to wire, this
distance 2 back. MISS ZAK shakes lower for Atras after landing midpack. Beat better at 12 Roman City(L),120 J Ortiz 1-1-4 S Klesaris 8-1
PLAY OF THE DAY
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Big A. Should get fast fractions to close into as should ZECHA. Passed tired rivals to get
2nd money last out. However she's 3 for 33 and was a 1/2 dozen back of top pick 2 back.
MALIBU MISCHIEF Fast filly is 3 for 4 at Belmont. Desperately held on here opening week.
 1 mile; $60,000; alw; 3up
Too long..too wet..too wide BLUGRASCATS SMILE walked home last of 9 in the
PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds muddy Flat Out. Scored at this level/distance 3 back. Can't pass on price. TWISTED TOM Refunds on Thursday as Sky Queen scratched.
2 Miss Jak(L),123 M Franco 4-3-3 Atras 2-1 was a clear 2nd with similar. Won twice at this level at Big A but mile is not his favorite Race 5: Playing a $10 double. Kitten by the Sea with
3 Starlite Mission(L),116 L Cardenas 8-3-6 Miranda 30-1 distance. The speedy OUR LAST BUCK won last pair by a combined 10 lengths. Plenty of Jewel of Arabia in the 6th.
speed in here to keep him busy. I LOVE JAXSON is 4 for 6 at distance.
1 a-Zecha(L),123 E Cancel 2-6-5 Persaud 12-1 PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds Race 8: Blugrascats Smile scored last time he raced
4 Camorra(L),120 R Maragh 5-5-1 Rodriguez 6-1 2 Not That Brady(L),117 R Maragh 5-6-4 Rodriguez 5-1 this level. $10 across board. — Vic Cangialosi
5 Malarkey(L),123 J Ortiz 6-3-9 Rice 6-1
6 My Last Million(L),123 M Luzzi 4-4-8 Baker 15-1
Belmont Results
7 Malibu Mischief(L),123 D Davis 1-8-4 Miceli 4-1
5 Hungry Kttn (Ortz) 13.00 5.30 5.50
8 Cold Hearted Pearl(L),125 K Carmouche 6-1-2 Englehart 9-2 FIRST-6 fur(T); $64,000; mdn; 2YO(f)
2 Alda (Velazquez) 4.20 2.70 2.20 6 Settng th Mood (Vlzquz) 7.40 6.70 • $1 Doubl (9-5) $218.00 • $1 Ex.(5-9) $17.80 EIGHTH-1 mile; $66,000; alw; 3up(f)
2 Grnd Cr Clss (Vlzqz) 6.50 2.50 2.10
1A a-First Forever(L),116 H Harkie 9-8-5 Persaud 12-1 4 Illegal Smile (Davis) 6.20 3.40 2 Whatdoesashrksy (Crmouche) 4.80 SIXTH-7 fur; $64,000; mdn; 3up(f) 5 Mrs. Danvers (Ortiz) 2.10 2.10
9 Cotton Candy Cutie(L),123 B Hernandez 2-3-4 Kantarmaci 8-1 6 Frankel At Ascot (Ortiz) 2.80 • $1 Double (9-5) $20.70 • $1 Ex.(5-6) $28.00 2 Pop Chc (Vlzquz) 28.60 9.00 5.10 3 The Great Johann (Crmouche) 2.40

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10 Harlem Heights (Ortiz) 4.10 2.80 Scr: Cobra Sophie.
• $1 Ex.(2-4) $15.00 • $0.5 Tri (2-4-6) $20.75 FOURTH-6 1/2 fur; $39,000; md cl($40,0); 3p 6 Back Channel (Lezcano) 2.40 • $1 Double (5-2) $7.10 • $1 Ex.(2-5) $5.00
 1 1/16 miles(T); $45,000; alw; 3up(f)
A winner twice from 3 starts at Gulfstream KITTEN BY THE SEA meets better
SECOND-6 fur; $27,000; clm($10,000); 3up
9 Mnymstr (Crmch) 7.30 2.80 2.30
9 Gnt Stell (Crdens)
7 Belleza (Ortiz,Jr.)
6 Madam Deputy (Castellano)
87.50 26.80 11.20
4.20 3.20
4.20
Scr: Sky Queen.
• $1 Doubl (5-2) $62.75 • $1 Ex.(2-10) $55.50 NINTH-1 1/16mT; $39,000; md cl($40,0); 3pf
8 Javelin (Ortiz,Jr.) 2.50 2.10 4 Cm Strmng (Cstlln) 4.10 3.00 2.40
making NY debut for Pletcher. J Ortiz will have her on/near the lead but she'll have SEVENTH-1 1/8 miles(T); $66,000; alw; 3YO 10 Wicked Happy (Maragh) 8.00 4.40
1 Vincero (Harkie) 2.40 • $1 Dbl (5-9) $165.50 • $1 Ex.(9-7) $165.25
5 No Word (Ortiz) 3.70 2.60 2.10 6 Simply Miss Red (Cancel) 2.80
Scr: Stoney Bennett, Zonic. FIFTH-1 1/16m(T); $42,000; clm($35,0); 3up 4 Shamrocket (Alvarado) 4.90 3.20 Scr: Acting Chipper, We Are Family.
• $1 Double (2-9) $9.30 • $1 Ex. (9-8) $7.40 5 Another (Lezcano) 9.70 4.90 3.60 2 Assiduously (Ortiz,Jr.) 3.50 • $1 Double (2-4) $8.60 • $1 Ex.(4-10) $16.20
Puzzles on Page 30 THIRD-1 1/4 miles(T); $66,000; alw; 3up(f) 9 C C Rider (Velazquez) 4.80 3.00 Scr: Arithmetic.
6 Quiet Out East (Franco) 3.20 • $1 Double (2-5) $43.00 • $1 Ex.(5-4) $8.30 Winner picked by Vic C

6 9 8 2 3 7 1 4 5 7 6 5 9 3 2 8 4 1 Debbie Little at Yonkers

2 1 3 4 5 6 8 9 7 3 4 1 8 5 6 9 7 2 FIRST: Mile pace; $14,250; cond THIRD: Mile pace; $14,250; cond FIFTH: Mile pace; $33,000; Open SEVENTH: Mile trot; $20,250; cond
5 Soho Wallstreet A (TButer) 1-2-2 2-1 2 Kenrick N (JBartlett) 3-3-4 2-1 7 None Bettor A (JBartlett) 2-4-1 7-2 6 Warrior One (GBrennan) 1-1-2 5-2
7 4 5 9 1 8 3 6 2 9 2 8 1 4 7 6 3 5 1 Jet Rock (GBrennan) 7-5-6 3-1 7 Artmagic (MMacDonald) 1-3-4 4-1 5 Micky Gee N (TButer) 2-1-5 4-1 7 Arabella's Cadet (JStratton) 3-2-4 3-1
8 Kimani N (JBartlett) 4-1-3 7-2 3 Perfectly Close (TButer) 4-3-5 4-1 4 Mach It So (BHolland) 5-4-3 7-1 3 Lindsey's Pride (BHolland) 1-2-1 4-1
3 6 9 5 7 4 2 1 8 6 1 3 7 9 5 2 8 4 2 Sportskeeper (ASiegelman) 4-4-5 7-1 1 Grand Master (ASiegelman) 8-4-4 20-1 1 Silas Seelster (MSimons) 3-1-1 4-1 1 Secret Bro (JMarohn) 2-3-2 6-1
3 Bettor Spirits N (JStratton) 10-2-1 15-1 4 Statesman N (BHolland) 9-7-2 7-1 2 Caviart Luca (GBrennan) 8-3-2 6-1 2 SummitCitySwan(MMcDnld) 1-4-3 12-1
8 7 1 6 2 9 4 5 3 2 5 7 4 6 8 1 9 3 4 Vapour N (PBerry) 7-7-2 5-1 5 You Said It (GBrennan) 7-1-2 4-1 3 One Off Delight A (JMarohn) 1-3-4 15-1 4 Money Maven (DDube) 5-3-6 20-1
6 Neptune (JChindano) 5-4-4 20-1 6 Aleppo Hanover (JMarohn) 7-5-4 20-1 6 RaukapukaRulerN (Stratton) 1-1-1 9-2 5 The Last Chapter (JBartlett) 10-1-1 6-1
4 5 2 1 8 3 6 7 9 8 9 4 2 1 3 7 5 6 7 Thefreedomfghtern (Smns) 7-8-3 20-1
SECOND: Mile trot; $17,250; cond
8 Ideal One A (JStratton) 4-2-6 20-1
FOURTH: Mile trot; $33,000; Open
8 Western Fame (DDube)
SIXTH: Mile pace; $20,250; cond
1-6-2 20-1 8 Lady Eagle (ASiegelman) 4-3-1 20-1
EIGHTH: Mile pace; $17,250; cond
1 3 6 7 9 2 5 8 4 5 3 9 6 7 1 4 2 8 1 Cash Me Out (ASiegelman) 1-6-3 3-1 5 Melady's Monet (GBrennan) 1-4-1 2-1 4 Our Max PhactorN(JBartlett) 1-2-8 5-2 3 Provocativeprincen (JStrttn) 1-1-2 8-5
5 Winning Shadow (GBrennan) 1-6-1 6-5 8 Swansea (ASiegelman) 1-3-1 3-1 1 Heaven's Gait (ASiegelman) 1-7-6 3-1 5 Ari Allstar (DDube) 2-3-6 7-2
5 8 7 3 4 1 9 2 6 1 7 2 3 8 4 5 6 9 4 ShorethingFashion (Bartlett) 3-4-2 9-2 4 Rich And Miserable (TButer) 11-1-8 5-2 7 Starznheaven (JStratton) 1-1-1 6-1 4 Half A Billion (MMacDonald) 6-2-2 7-1
2 Exs And Ohs (TButer) 5-6-1 20-1 1 Mostinterestingman (Strttn) 7-1-2 7-1 2 Theartofconfusion A(DDube) 7-4-1 5-1 1 Secrecy (ASiegelman) 8-5-8 8-1
9 2 4 8 6 5 7 3 1 4 8 6 5 2 9 3 1 7 3 Seven Knights (BHolland) 7-3-3 20-1 2 Elysium Lindy (JBartlett) 8-10-1 5-1 3 Lean On You (JMarohn) 6-3-1 15-1 2 Big Bad Bill (GBrennan) 6-1-3 4-1
6 Valloria N (JStratton) 4-1-5 9-1 3 PhotoBomber(MMacDonald) 2-1-3 SCR 5 Just N Ace (GBrennan) 3-2-5 6-1 6 Audi Hare N (JBartlett) 6-8-2 12-1
Solution to Very Easy #5,144 Solution to Difficult #4,934 7 Miami (DDube) 7-4-5 20-1 6 Lean Hanover (JMarohn) 7-2-9 20-1 6 Italian Delight N (BHolland) 2-4-9 8-1 7 Mr Profeta (JMarohn) 6-5-6 20-1
8 Barry Black (JMarohn) 6-4-2 12-1 7 Obrigado (DDube) 2-6-1 20-1 8 Apex Seelster(MMacDonald) 4-2-4 20-1 8 MilliondollarWave (Holland) 8-5-1 20-1
Lundqvist: ‘Feels Mets 2021 schedule
April 1-4
April 5-7
at Nationals
at Phillies
Yanks 2021 schedule
April 1-4
April 5-7
Blue Jays
Orioles
Devils tab Ruff, Fitz 33

April 8-11 Marlins

as coach and GM

New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020

April 9-11 at Rays

good to be back’
By Mollie Walker quarantine overseas. Accord-
April 12-15
April 16-18
April 20-22
April 23-25
April 27-28
Phillies
at Rockies
at Cubs
Nationals
Red Sox
April 12-14
April 16-18
April 20-21
April 22-25
April 26-29
at Blue Jays
Rays
Braves
at Indians
at Orioles
By Mollie Walker have the desire and fire to
get us on the road towards
ing to the Rangers’ official In- April 30-May 2 at Phillies April 30-May2 Tigers The Devils officially an- the Stanley Cup Playoffs
Henrik Lundqvist took the stagram account, Mika Ziban- May 3-6 at Cardinals May 4-6 Astros nounced Thursday that and beyond.”
May 7-9 D’backs May 7-9 Nationals
ice for the first time in New ejad also was at Thursday’s May 11-12 Orioles
Lindy Ruff, an assistant The Rangers confirmed
May 11-13 at Rays
York on Thursday after trav- voluntary workout. May 14-16 at Rays May 14-16 at Orioles coach with the Rangers for that Hartford Wolf Pack
eling back from Europe. Rookie goalie Igor Shester- May 17-19 at Braves May 17-20 at Rangers the past three years, will assistant coach Gord Mur-
The Rangers goaltender kin has been skating with the May 21-23 at Marlins May 21-23 White Sox serve as the club’s new head phy would join the Ran-
posted a photo to Instagram team since he returned from May 24-27 Rockies May 25-27 Blue Jays coach. gers in Toronto for the
of himself in net during the Florida at the end of June, May 28-30 Braves May 28-30 at Tigers In addition, the organiza- NHL’s return-to-play tour-
team’s Phase 2 voluntary while Alexandar Georgiev May 31-June 2 at D’backs May 31-June3 Rays tion revealed that the in- nament, temporarily fill-
June 3-6 at Padres June 4-6 Red Sox
small-group workouts, writ- first joined the voluntary June 8-9 at Orioles June 8-10 at Twins
terim tag has been removed ing the assistant position
ing: “Feels good to be back on workouts this week. June 11-13 Padres June 12-13 at Phillies from general manager Tom left vacant by Ruff ’s de-
the ice at the training center The Post reported last week June 14-17 Cubs June 15-17 at Blue Jays Fitzgerald, making him the parture.
again.” that all of the Rangers’ Euro- June 18-20 at Nationals June 18-20 A’s fifth GM in franchise his- According to Sportsnet’s

nypost.com
“A lot of unknown right pean-based players had re- June 21-23 Braves June 22-24 Royals tory. Elliotte Friedman, the 60-
now but hockey is fun, I know turned to New York. June 25-27 Phillies June 25-27 at Red Sox “I am excited to get back year-old Ruff beat out in-
that!” he added. With just a handful of days June 29-July 1 at Braves June 28-July1 Angels in the lead chair and guide terim coach Alain Nasred-
July 2-4 at Yankees July 2-4 Mets
Lundqvist, 38, had been until Phase 3, the start of July 5-7 Brewers July 6-8 at Mariners
the future of this team,” dine, former Islanders
waiting to be cleared to par- training camp on Monday, it July 8-11 Pirates July 9-11 at Astros Ruff said via the Devils’ re- coach Peter Laviolette, ex-
ticipate in Phase 2 after arriv- appears a majority of the Ran- July 16-18 at Pirates July 15-18 Red Sox lease. “This is a fantastic Golden Knights coach Ger-
ing from Europe last week, gers’ roster is back in the New July 19-21 at Reds July 20-21 Phillies opportunity to lead a group ard Gallant and former
along with a handful of other York area. All NHL teams July 23-25 Blue Jays July 22-25 at Red Sox of great young talent and Kings coach John Stevens
European players who spent have been holding Phase 2 July 26-29 Braves July 27-29 at Rays strong leadership to the for the job.
July 30-Aug. 1 Reds July 30-Aug1 at Marlins
the coronavirus pandemic workouts since June 8. next level. This will be Ruff’s third
Aug. 2-5 at Marlins Aug 2-4 Orioles
Aug. 6-8 at Phillies Aug 5-8 Mariners “Tom and I will sit down stint as a head coach in the
SPORTSCROSS Aug. 10-12 Nationals Aug 9-11 at Royals together and build a plan NHL after gigs with the Sa-
7/10 Aug. 13-15 Dodgers Aug 13-15 at White Sox for the coaching staff and I bres and Stars. Ruff com-
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Aug. 16-18 at Giants Aug 17-18 Red Sox will start to get to work on piled a 571-432-78-84 record
Aug. 19-22 at Dodgers Aug 19-22 Twins familiarizing myself with with the Sabres — the team
Aug. 24-26 Giants Aug 23-24 at Braves the players and staff. I look that drafted him in 1979 —
10 11 Aug. 27-29 Nationals Aug 26-29 at A’s
Aug. 31-Sept. 2 Marlins Aug 3-Sept.1 at Angels
forward to bringing this and made eight playoff ap-
12 13 Sept. 3-6 at Nationals Sept. 3-5 Orioles core together, developing pearances, including a
Sept. 7-9 at Marlins Sept. 6-9 Blue Jays our players and putting us Coach of Year nod in the
14 15 Sept. 10-12 Yankees Sept. 10-12 at Mets on a trajectory that can lead 2005-06 season. In four sea-
Sept. 14-16 Cardinals Sept. 14-16 at Baltimore to sustained success in a sons with the Stars, Ruff
Sept. 17-19 Phillies Sept. 17-19 Indians timely manner. It’s an excit- went 165-122-41 with two
16 17 18 19 20 21 Sept. 21-22 at Red Sox Sept. 20-22 Rangers ing time to be a part of the playoff seasons.
Sept. 24-26 at Brewers Sept. 24-26 at Boston
22 23 24 Sept. 28-30 Marlins Sept. 28-30 at Blue Jays
Devils’ organization, and I mwalker1@nypost.com
October 1-3 at Braves Oct. 1-3 Rays
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GOLF
Favorites to win
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Championship
Friday-Sunday,
Stateline, Nev.
PLAYER ODDS
By Lou Finocchiaro Tony Romo Even
Mark Mulder 13/5
T TOOK some deft last-minute

I dealing by the UFC to sign Jorge

Masvidal to fight Kamaru Usman
after the premier “Fight Island”
Mardy FIsh
John Smoltz
Stephen Curry
Derek Lowe
15/2
17/2
12/1
15/1
main event was jeopardized when
Usman’s original opponent, Jack Wagner 25/1
Gilbert Burns, was pulled due Case Keenum 30/1
to COVID-19. Kyle Williams 30/1
Masvidal originally had Adam Thielen 50/1
been negotiating for the op- Joe Buck 75/1
portunity to fight Usman Aaron Rodgers 100/1
but was unable to reach Carson Palmer 125/1
agreement with the UFC in
Bret Baier 125/1
contract talks. That was then, how-
Troy Mullins 150/1
ever. Now, this bout is scheduled to
be the main event on a UFC 251 card Dell Curry 150/1
Saturday night from Abu Dhabi that Vinny Del Negro 150/1
features three championship Jerry Rice 150/1
matches. Brian McManus 150/1
Usman was the -250 favorite at Patrick Peterson 200/1
BetMGM as of Thursday evening to Kevin Millar 200/1
retain his welterweight (170-pound) Cooper Kupp 200/1
title. Masvidal backers could get +200. Larry Fitzgerald 250/1
Masvidal, 35, took this fight on six Alfonso Ribeiro 250/1
days’ notice, which seems insane. Yet
Greg Maddux 250/1
he has been fighting professionally Let’s get ready to rumbLe! Kamaru Usman will be taking on Jorge Masvidal on short notice at UFC
Brian McCann 250/1
since 2003 and in high-octane “fight 251 in Abu Dhabi on Saturday. Usman, originally scheduled to fight Gilbert Burns, is the -250 favorite. AP
club”-type competitions for years be- Deron Williams 300/1
fore that. Masvidal lands 4.33 strikes per min- proving, and though Masvidal has If Masvidal gets smoked, he goes Ozzie Smith 300/1
Just based on his pedigree and his- ute and will need to use that volume fluidity, speed and precision, Usman from critic to savior for the UFC and Tim Wakefield 300/1
tory, I view Masvidal as more pre- to pepper Usman and gain points, but will use forward pressure and power still gets compensated in future mar- Chase Utley 300/1
pared for a short-notice fight than I don’t believe he’ll have the cardio to striking. quee bouts. If he defeats Usman, his Patrick Mahomes 400/1
anyone in the organization now or execute that plan for a full five Usman’s plan will be to eliminate burst becomes even brighter. Joe Don Rooney 500/1
previously, Gracie family excluded. rounds because of the short notice. any space for Masvidal — smother There’s no implication Masvidal Kyle Fuller 500/1
Masvidal makes up for being a I’m left with the impression that him, bully him up against the fence won’t give everything he has. I be- Marcus Allen 500/1
touch undersized for the division Masvidal needs another strategic ap- and then to the floor for top control. lieve he’ll use every ruse he is aware Mike Vrabel 500/1
with catlike movement, a savant’s proach, as he used against Darren Till, Usman’s size, devastating ground at- of and will utilize every advantage he Roger Clemens 500/1
fight IQ , precision striking and true or even another gimmick, like his KO tack and ability to sustain high effort can muster to try to defeat Usman.
Oscar De La Hoya 500/1
killer instinct. He was preparing for of Ben Askren, or he’ll eventually be for 25 minutes separate him from But I believe Masvidal might be ef-
Chauncey Billups 500/1
Usman before the negotiation snafu, dominated on the mat by Usman. most other fighters in the division. fective for only a short time before
and reportedly has remained in the Usman will be impacted by the Masvidal has been doing this for Usman’s physicality takes over. Jerome Bettis 500/1
gym since then, which I believe is short notice, too, for Masvidal brings years and has made it clear he needs The total is 4.5 rounds, with -110 Tim Brown 500/1
true — to an extent. very different tools to this tussle to get paid after compiling a 35-13 odds on either side. Eric Weddle 500/1
Masvidal needs to employ move- than did Burns. With a full camp, professional record. In my judgment, Betting recommendation: Lean to Canelo Alvarez 500/1
ment, quickness and unpredictability physical advantages of an inch of fame, riches and private jets seem at the Over Jimmy Rollins 1,000/1
early and often to keep the forward- height and 2 inches of arm and leg least part of Masvidal’s motivation Steve Young 1,000/1
pressing Usman at distance. In space reach plus the unrelenting pressure after all the years he served pioneer- Lou Finocchiaro handicaps MMA Shane Victorino 1,500/1
he might use kicks, strikes, knees and wrestling he employs, Usman earns ing this sport. And in this bout, he is for VSiN’s Point Spread Weekly. Get a A.J. Hawk 1,500/1
elbows to try to catch the advancing the position of heavy favorite. Us- the beneficiary of being in a win/win free subscription at VSiN.com/sub- (All odds by William Hill)
champion. man’s striking has been steadily im- situation. scribe
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Second
Shots in the arm

New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020

interview
for Thibs
By Marc BerMan

Tom Thibodeau, lead

candidate to coach the
Knicks, had his second
interview with the club
via Zoom on Thursday,
an NBA source con-
firmed.
Thibodeau, a former
Knicks assistant and
Crawford, Beasley could add scoring for Nets
By Brian Lewis my favorite player. When I went to
Michigan, he reached out and we’ve
After signing veterans Tyler John- been big brother/little brother ever
son, Michael Beasley and Jamal since,” Caris LeVert said. “I can’t wait
Crawford — and presumably rookie to get him here.”
Donta Hall — the Nets have added so This is a low-risk audition for cost-
many new faces, they may have to effective vets to fill out the roster
put names on the practice jerseys. next season should Brooklyn bring in

head coach of the Bulls
and Timberwolves, has
the inside track on the
job.
Thibodeau was repre-
sented by Creative Artist
Agency when Leon Rose
and William Wesley —
now members of the
Knicks front office — ran
its basketball department
and have a strong rap-
port.
Rose is interviewing at
least 11 candidates and al-
ready finished interviews
with coaches in the Or-
lando bubble — Jason
Kidd, Ime Udoka, Pat
Delaney and Jamahl
Mosley.
Rose said he would in-
terview each candidate
twice and figured he
would have a decision by
the end of the month, at
the latest.
Bulls assistant Chris
Fleming, the team’s of-
fensive coordinator, also
reportedly interviewed
Thursday.
Thibodeau’s stint in
Minnesota ended poorly,
with friction among his
young players and a
charge he didn’t buy into
“Somebody joked today if we were
going to have them wearing name
tags because it is a new roster,” GM
Sean Marks said in a teleconference
from Orlando, Fla., where the Nets
held their first practice inside the
NBA’s bubble. “What’s important is
to get these guys at least on the court
together bonding and playing to-
gether as soon as they can.”
The decimated Nets have lost six
players to injury or COVID-19, and
arrived in Orlando on Tuesday with
just a dozen available bodies. But
they’re bringing in a fresh faces, half
reinforcements for 2020 and half try-
outs for 2021. And it’s likely no coin-
cidence that Kevin Durant’s close
friend Beasley is among them.
“Obviously we’re in a situation
where you need bodies to play,” Joe
Harris said via Zoom. “We’re fortunate
to pick up two really good players.”
Johnson isn’t in Orlando yet due to
a personal matter, but he had already
signed and is expected to join the
Nets in Disney shortly. Crawford and
Beasley became official Thursday,
and will add some scoring punch for
a shorthanded team — eventually.
Beasley is in the team hotel, but
just beginning a six-day quarantine
during which he must pass repeated
COVID-19 tests. Then he’ll have to sit
out the first five games due to his
failed 2018 drug test.
It’s a start: Caris LeVert and Joe Harris take a break during the
Nets’ first practice in Orlando. The shorthanded team will soon be getting
reinforcements.
There will be plenty of rust, with
Beasley and Crawford both out of the
NBA this season.
Beasley hasn’t played in the league
since February 2019, spending this
season in China. But he averaged 13.2
points on 50.7 percent shooting two
years ago with the Knicks, and Du-
rant wanted Beasley to join him in
Golden State last season. Now he’ll
get his wish.
Brooklyn Nets
Meanwhile, Crawford poured in 51
points on 18 of 31 shooting — 7 of 13
from deep — in last season’s finale.
“We wanted this group to know
we’re here to win basketball games
and to maximize this team,” interim
Jacque Vaughn said via Zoom.
Even at 40, Crawford has a filthy
crossover and a midrange game that
works in the playoffs.
“When I was kid [Crawford] was
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a third star to join Durant and Kyrie
Irving. Building a Big Three means
following the blueprint of Miami,
Cleveland and Golden State, and us-
ing their taxpayer’s exception ($18
million over three years) wisely.
“We’re always going to be evaluat-
ing players, how they fit not only
with the group we have now but the
group that’s expected to be part of
this team next year and the year after
that,” Marks said. “The evaluation
process is ongoing for sure. Yes,
you’re right; we’re evaluating right
now for not only this year but next
year’s free agency as well.”
Durant surely will have a hand in
that evaluation.
“I don’t think that’s fair to call
Kevin on every single scenario we
do,” Marks said. “It’s probably well-
documented over the course of the
last few years that [Durant and Bea-
sley] are pretty close. But that wasn’t
a factor in this; we’re looking at who
is available and the talent, and Mike
certainly is that.”
The Nets are also expected to add
Justin Anderson and Hall, 22. Hall
was second-team All-G-League, av-
eraging 15.4 points, 10.6 boards and 1.5
blocks. He played four games for De-
troit, and would be the replacement
for DeAndre Jordan and backup to
Jarrett Allen.
brian.lewis@nypost.com

Vaughn, players adjusting to new digs

load management. But
the 62-year-old’s career
won-loss record is heady
(352-246, .589).
“I hope he gets another
opportunity to be a head
coach, because if you
look at his body of work
he certainly deserves it,
and any team that may
interview him or hire
him would be very fortu-
nate to have him as a
head coach,’’ said Jeff Van
Gundy, who hired Thibo-
deau as his assistant in
1996. “He gets thought of
as a defensive coach, but
if you look at his best
teams in Chicago and in
Minnesota, they were
very high-level, statisti-
cally speaking, offensive
teams and I think it’s
been overlooked.’’
marc.berman@nypost.com
By Brian Lewis
Welcome to The Bubble.
After a week of individual
drills, and two more days of
being quarantined in their
rooms in Disney World’s
Grand Floridian Resort &
Spa, the Nets finally got to
take the court Thursday for a
full practice at Wide World
of Sports.
“It just felt good to be back
on the floor; that was the
most exciting thing,” interim
coach Jacque Vaughn said on
a Zoom call. “We got a little
conditioning underneath us;
didn’t go too hard. After the
quarantine we wanted to get
guys to just run up and down
a little bit, feel the ball again,
feel playing with each other
again. Excited to be back on
the floor and more than one-
on-one and one-on-zero
workouts.”
With the coronavirus pan-
demic still running rampant
— and nearly out of control
in Florida as the NBA gears
up for a restart later this
month — things aren’t nor-
mal by any means. But their
first full team practice since
the NBA was halted on
March 11 is the closest
they’ve come.
“We went with the strategy
we’re going to complete, not
complain. On to the next
day,” said Vaughn. “I’ve cre-
nets notes
ated a routine, and that’s a
big part of our guys creating
a routine to feel safe and feel
secure.”
Part of that routine for
Vaughn was FaceTiming
with his family, doing Zoom
calls with coaches, front of-
fice staff and performance
team. He even got in some
pushups and enjoyed the
balcony, and Florida weather.
“It’s been a little weird, ob-
viously kind of being locked
in the hotel room,” Caris
LeVert said. “But it was good
to get out in the gym, be able
to run around a bit, get a lit-
tle sweat in. But it’s a differ-
ent experience for everyone
so we’re kind of taking it day
by day now.”
Joe Harris said the players
got tested upon arrival,
briefed as soon as they got
into the hotel and promptly
quarantined. But they were
still kept busy.
“We had different sessions
set up for us: Zoom, yoga,
corrective exercises, differ-
ent stretching and mobility
stuff to kind of keep us pre-
occupied during the day
[Wednesday],” Harris said.
➤ Kevin Durant just can’t
stay out of trouble on social
media. Another ill-advised
Instagram like has the Nets
star back in hot water.
Eagles receiver DeSean
Jackson started the fire-
storm by sharing anti-Se-
mitic quotes on Instagram
he attributed to Adolf Hitler,
saying Jews “will blackmail
America” for their “plan for
world domination.” He
praised Nation of Islam
leader Louis Farrakhan.
Durant liked a Jackson
post complimenting Farra-
khan after his July 4 speech,
where he ripped Jews and
said blacks shouldn’t take a
coronavirus vaccine because
Bill Gates and Dr. Anthony
Fauci are trying to “depopu-
late the Earth.”
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You ask, we answer. The Post is tivated for games this season
fielding questions from readers will all have special teams value.
about New York’s biggest pro How will the shortened off-
sports teams and getting our beat season impact most of the
writers to answer them in a series young players battling for a
of regularly published mailbags. roster spot, especially the
In today’s installment: the Giants. rookies and UDFA signings?
Should we expect Leonard — NY Giants News & Updates
Williams to make more of an Unfortunately, I fear it will
impact this season because he have an adverse impact on
will be with the team from young players and undrafted By BRIAN COSTELLO has even made it this far. GM Joe and a fumble recovery.
the start of the season? players. Not having any on-field Douglas is a fan of Winters, though. Williamson has a
— David Schildkraut work in the spring and early One in a series.
Position battles are always a high- The veteran guard impressed his salary-cap figure of
You would think so, but I’m summer figures to hurt the inex- new boss last season by playing $8.5 million, so the
not so sure we will see anything perienced players most of all. light of training camp.
Rookies and new acquisitions through a serious shoulder injury Jets could save some
much different out of Williams Coaches in training camp always for half the season. Winters is as money by going
than what he’s talk about the fight for jobs with holdovers. At
tough as they come and he won’t go with a cheaper
shown in his GIANTS need for “car- some positions, the competition
quietly. option at the posi-
NFL career. MAILBAG ryover’’ from can be fierce in practices and pre-
tion. However, he
Look, the guy the OTAs, and season games. This year, those Avery Williamson, is a talented play-
By Paul preseason games appear to be in
has played five
Schwartz
there will be
jeopardy, so practices will gain even
inside linebacker er and is popular
seasons, and at none of that One of the biggest issues last sea- in the locker
more importance. son was the Jets’ injuries at inside
some point a player is what he is, this year — there were no OTAs, room.
There are some camp battles
right? He is remarkably durable, and those Zoom meetings can be
that are not just for starting spots,
linebacker. It all started when Wil- Sam Ficken,
and an excellent and active run- only so useful. Undrafted guys, liamson went down during a pre- kicker
stopper. He can apply pressure such as Chase Blackburn and but for roster spots. The Jets have season game with a torn ACL and
a few players who played big roles The Jets went
from the interior of the defen- Victor Cruz and Rich Seubert, was lost for the season. through three
sive line. He is not a finisher needed all the time they could in recent years now just fighting for Williamson is expected to be
a spot on the team, including one kickers before
when it comes to getting the get in the summer to make an healthy for training camp, but he getting to Ficken
quarterback to the ground. He impression and find a way to who has been around longer than will have competition for his spot.
any other Jets player. in Week 2 of the sea-
gets a lot of “almost’’ sacks. Sure, stick on the roster, needing ev- The silver lining for the Jets with son. After years of hav-
the eight games with the Giants ery preseason game to show Here are the three Jets fighting to all of the injuries at inside line-
hold onto their jobs: ing Nick Folk as their kicker,
in 2019 allowed Williams to get their stuff. Now, with a maxi- backer is several players got play- the Jets have been mowing through
acclimated to his new team and mum of two preseason games — Brian Winters, guard ing time they normally would not different guys in recent years.
new teammates — he gets to and maybe none at all — these Winters stands as the longest- have. Now, Neville Hewitt, Blake Ficken kicked decently but was
work again with Dalvin Tomlin- undrafted guys are going to have tenured Jet. He has been with the Cashman and James Burgess will be not very consistent. He made 19
son and Dexter Lawrence, and a much more difficult road to the team since 2013, when then-GM fighting for playing time along with of 27 field goals, three of six from
that is a plus. But there is a new NFL. Coaches will likely have to John Idzik took him in the third Patrick Onwuasor, whom the Jets beyond the 50-yard line and missed
defensive system in place, mean- stick with who they know or round. He has lasted through three signed as a free agent. three extra points.
ing there is no continuity as far players with some history in the GMs and three head coaches. The Inside linebacker is probably the The Jets signed former Cow-
as scheme. Williams is 26 and league, because there will not be question now is: Can he make it to team’s deepest position. Williamson boys kicker Brett Maher just after
could be entering his prime. enough time to adequately eval- September? showed what he could do in 2018, last season ended to compete with
Maybe he has a career awaken- uate the newcomers. The Jets signed Greg Van Roten his first season with the Jets. He Ficken in camp for the starting spot.
ing, but I doubt it. Do you think that NFL in free agency to compete with was a high-impact player for Todd Special teams coordinator Brant
Since there will be an ex- games played without fans Winters for the right guard spot. Bowles’ defense. He led the team Boyer recently said it will be an
panded roster (from 53 to 55) would benefit the offense or They can save $7 million by cutting with 120 tackles and had three sacks, open competition.
on game days this season, what defense more? — Biff Fischer Winters, so it is surprising that he an interception, two forced fumbles brian.costello@nypost.com
positions do you think Coach Intriguing question, Biff. This is

Trio of experienced Giants

(Joe) Judge will look at more a new deal for all of us. I would
closely to fill the two spots? think quiet in the stadium will
Could this give the Giants an help the offense. A quarterback
advantage given his statement will not have to shout to be heard,
on versatility within the ros- and any adjustments he makes at
ter? — Daniel Chong the line of scrimmage will be easy By PAUL SCHWARTZ years, is enough to grease the skids NFL draft (this is good for Thom-
This is a new development this for all to hear — including the op- for an ouster. Add in the presence as) as the eventual replacement for
season, and I think every coach posing defense. This could lead to One in a series.
Longevity and the NFL are not of a new coaching staff and the Nate Solder, 32 (this is ominous for
will handle it a bit differently, an interesting cat-and-mouse urgency to impress now, not later, Solder).”
depending most of all on the game before the snap. There will brethren.
The call letters for the league do increases exponentially. Solder is entering his 10th NFL
health of the roster. If the Giants be no need for silent counts on Here are three Giants holding
are thin at one position or they offense on the road, greatly help- not mean Not For Long, but the season and his first two with the
sentiment is clear and evident to onto their jobs and their place on Giants were not great. Not at all.
have a player or two who can ing the offensive line. How many the roster:
play but are hobbled a bit, they times have we seen an offensive anyone involved in the most brutal He was serviceable in 2018 and less
could activate an extra player at lineman get a false-start penalty sport of them all. Careers come and Nate Solder, offensive tackle than that in 2019, when he allowed
that position as insurance. Dan- or get a late jump out of his stance go, contracts are not guaranteed There is this thing about play- 11 sacks — only two players were
iel, you mention Judge, and the because the crowd noise on the and players at times enter the scene ers and their ages. Before they are beaten for more. The Giants have
fact he has a background as a road leads to anxiety and uncer- and make their exit with little fan- 25 or so, including their age when been patient with Solder, a tremen-
special teams coach could come tainty? Games with no fans will fare and far too much haste. referring to them is a positive. They dous human being who is durable
into play here. Judge is always include none of this. Also, the of- Keeping hold of a spot on the are “only’’ 24, projecting plenty of and reliable. He needs to play sig-
going to be cognizant of how a fense will never have to call a roster is usually aided by how potential left to unearth. Once they nificantly better, though. His con-
player helps and fits in on spe- timeout to quiet the crowd or be- highly drafted a player is, but there hit 30, the age might as well be an tract extends through 2021, but it
cial teams, probably more so cause of miscommunication are no extended free passes. One albatross, as far as identifying them. is almost inconceivable he finishes
than most head coaches. You can based on crowd noise. down season is cause for alarm and As in: “The Giants selected Andrew that out unless he upgrades his per-
be sure the two extra players ac- paul.schwartz@nypost.com two of them, coming in successive Thomas, 21, in the first round of the formance.
 Three Jets
who should
focus on
keeping
roster
spot
Sam
Ficken
could be fighting to retain their jobs
B.J. Hill, defensive tackle
The encouraging signs from Hill
as a rookie in 2018 made it vogue
to suggest he was a steal of a draft
pick, arriving in the third round
out of North Carolina State. The
dreary signs from Hill following
last season put him squarely on the
hot seat. Is he a significant part of
the defensive line rotation or just
passing through?
Hard to tell. He started 12 games
as a rookie and had 5.5 sacks, more
than the Giants expected out of
him and giving real hope that he
would develop into a consistent
pass-rusher. Hill is an interior
lineman and that push from the
middle of the line was outstanding.
The same coaching staff enamored
with Hill soured on him in 2019,
when he started only five games
and managed to get only one sack.
His effectiveness against the run
actually improved, according to
Pro Football Focus, but his oppor-
tunities declined, as the drafting
of Dexter Lawrence and trade for
Leonard Williams severely cut
into Hill’s playing time.
At 25, Hill needs to show new
defensive coordinator Patrick Gra-
ham that he deserves to shoehorn
his way onto the field.
Wayne Gallman,
running back
The roster overhaul did not
leave the Giants with many older
Avery
Williamson
Brian
Winters
veterans hanging onto their live-
lihoods. Gallman, 26, is a young
veteran, and this is a year of deci-
sion for him. The arrow is pointing
down, but that does not mean it
has to stay that way.
There was nothing wrong with
Gallman. He arrived in the fourth
round out of Clemson with a
championship pedigree, and as a
rookie he rushed for 476 yards and
averaged 4.3 yards per carry. Per-
fectly acceptable. The Giants did
not expect greatness out of him;
they thought he could be a solid
complementary back.
In his second year, Gallman was
usurped by Saquon Barkley and,
for all intents and purposes, that
Red Bulls 37
getting
New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020
used to
bubble life
By Danielle Mohr
The Red Bulls are in the bubble.
And though it has already burst
for two MLS teams, they are get-
ting comfortable and not com-
plaining.
nypost.com
The Red Bulls will make their
first appearance in the MLS is
Back Tournament on Saturday in
Orlando, Fla., against the Houston
Dynamo.
“We came in, we had our regular
12-24-hour quarantine, passed our
tests, got to see the hotel, accli-
mate, get outside and play,” de-
fender Aaron Long said during a
Zoom call with the media on
Thursday.
Captain Sean Davis was im-
pressed that the team staff got ev-
ery player an N-95 mask.
However, all the preventative
measures couldn’t keep FC Dallas
and Nashville SC in the tourna-
ment. FC Dallas withdrew earlier
this week after 10 players tested
positive and Nashville bowed out
Thursday.
N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg; AP; Getty Images
“It’s a little bit worrisome, you
know,” Long said, “in these bub-
bles and in tight close quarters
things can spread really quickly.”
Manager Chris Armas said play-
ers are getting used to the isola-
tion.
“There is a lot more time in the
day where players are on their
own.” Armas said. “As the man-
ager, I try to make sure that we be-
come together a few times
throughout the day, and it’s not
just practice where we can take a
walk outside together and do
some healthy acclimating as well.”
dmohr@nypost.com
NYCFC fall in
was that. His rushing attempts
went from 111 to 51 to 29, and by
first game back
last season he was an afterthought.
It was a tough break that after he NYCFC got back on the field for
its first game since March, but re-
received his big chance — running
mained winless — and goalless on
for one touchdown and catch-
the season.
ing a pass for another — in a rare
Alejandro Bedoya scored in the
starting assignment subbing for 63rd minute and the Philadelphia
the injured Barkley in a victory
Union defeated NYCFC, 1-0, on
over Washington, Gallman suf-
Thursday morning in the MLS is
fered a concussion the very next
Back Tournament in Orlando, Fla.
game, curtailing his opportunity
NYCFC goalkeeper Sean John-
while Barkley was out. The Giants
son dove and got a hand on the
signed Dion Lewis as a veteran to ball but couldn’t keep Bedoya’s
back up Barkley and Gallman must
left-footed strike out of the net
find a way to convince new offen- after a scoreless first half.
sive coordinator Jason Garrett to NYCFC had been blanked in its
give him the ball once in a while. first two games of the regular sea-
paul.schwartz@nypost.com son before the MLS shut down
due to the coronavirus outbreak,

38
OU CAN come out, now, Roger!
Y In his continuing role as the
NFL’s Neville Chamberlain —
nypost.com
the British prime minister who ap-
peased Nazi Germany until it was
too late to prevent World War II —
Roger Goodell continues to pander
to the bad acts at the risk of imper-
iling the good and welfare — and
value — of the NFL.
New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020
Goodell has proven he would
rather offend the NFL’s most de-
voted, fair-minded fans than the
league’s most offensive players.
What was Goodell’s position on
Eagles receiver DeSean Jackson’s
astonishingly stupid, historically
fabricated, hateful posts about Jews
plotting to enslave blacks — as per
the thoughts of the considerable
Louis Farrakhan extremist wing of
Black Lives Matter?
We don’t know. Goodell didn’t
have the courage to attach his
name to an NFL “statement” con-
demning Jackson. The NFL’s
“statement” seemed to have been
dropped from a cloud. Read be-
tween the lines, Goodell may as
well have said, “Leave me out of
this.”
He has, however, eagerly at-
tached his name to statements de-
crying anti-black racism.
Meanwhile he shows up for pho-
tos with his minister of social jus-
tice — the N-wording, vulgar, wom-
en-degrading rapper Jay-Z, whose
lyrics he still hasn’t dared read
aloud in public. And you’ve seen
what the Super Bowl halftime has
become under Goodell, not to men-
tion those “good investment” PSLs.
But following the flagrant, sick-
ening anti-Semitism of a player, he
hides.
As for Jackson, he showed up a
fool — what would have been his
“first” NFL touchdown was lost
when he prematurely dropped the
ball at the 1-yard line, and he has
cost his teams multiple times by
showboating — and he’ll go out
one.
He has flashed Crips’ gang signs
on the field, and in 2014 reported
$250,000 in cash, plus jewelry, a gun
and ammo stolen from his home.
The gun no doubt was to protect
himself from marauding Jews.
His apology this week was ab-
surd. He claimed he’s not hateful
toward Jews but was merely trying
to “enlighten my people.” En-
lighten them to what? His appreci-
ation and admiration of Farrakhan
and Hitler? A Jewish conspiracy to
destroy blacks?
Meantime, those quotes Jackson
misidentified as Hitler’s made no
Good riddance to Redskins, but for the wrong reasons
EVEN as a kid, “Red- or Washington instead. To
skins” gave me the creeps. much ridicule, I advocated
How could a mascot be changing the team’s name
based exclusively on a race? — as a matter of respect
Before I knew what “racist” and dignity.
is, I knew this was racist. I never bought into that
I always avoided writing comparison/rationaliza-
Redskins, choosing ’Skins tion to Braves and Warri-
Phil Mushnick
phil.mushnick@nypost.com
sense to repeat under any condi-
tions. After all, the Nazi party
blamed Jews for bringing blacks
into the country to “bastardize”
their German “master race.” Or did
Hitler lead the Black Nazi Lives
Matter movement?
Naturally, the outrage was tem-
pered, nothing close to what would
have happened had a white player
similarly attacked blacks. That
player would have been “John
Rockered” out of the league. But
the pursuit for equality through in-
equality remains a fool’s mission.
The New York Times yesterday
carried not a word about the still
unraveling Jackson ugliness, but
did have a guest column decrying
racism in the NFL, written by
former NFL receiver Donte Stall-
worth. The NYT withheld word
that Stallworth resumed his NFL
career after 24 days in jail after
pleading guilty to DUI manslaugh-
ter of a Latino man.
One of the disturbing takes on
the matter, as reader Joe Smith
noted, was the ESPN headline ref-
erencing Jackson’s ignorant, insidi-
ous posts as “controversial” — as if
they were a close call at home plate
or a legitimate issue for debate.
Stephen Jackson, a former NBA
malfeasant and now the foul-
mouthed co-host of a Showtime
program, defended DeSean Jackson
as accurate, just short on the right
words. That’s all. He also threw in
ors, as both point to Na-
tive Americans’ noble
traits. Cleveland Indians?
It was too vague to create
a conviction, though that
clownish, grinning Indian
logo was low.
Now, but for all the
his own traditional Hitler/Farra-
khan-resurrected claims about
Jews controlling all the money. I’ll
never tell where I stash mine!
But now, if Showtime cans him
he can blame Jews.
DeSean Jackson’s teammate,
Marquise Goodwin, wondered why
poor DeSean is a bigger issue than
Black Lives Matter. I think he was
serious.
And perhaps NFL TV announ-
cers will soon explain Jackson as
having had “off-the-field prob-
lems” then move along.
Not that the front-line, select-
ively blind equality crusaders such
wrong reasons, Redskins
will soon be gone. The for-
ces of respect have noth-
ing to do with it. It’s the
combination of PC pres-
sure and corporate dough
that will do the trick.
FedEx, since 1999, has
EQUAL
EQUAL TIME
Cam to
break out
of shell
as Farrakhan, Goodell, Al Sharp-
ton, Bill de Blasio, Nike, Colin Kae-
pernick, LeBron James or either
Jackson know — or care — but the
preponderance of white blood
shed during the 1960s Civil Rights
movement was Jewish.
Two freedom marchers mur-
dered by the KKK in 1964 were
Michael Schwerner and Andrew
Goodman, both Jews.
They died as martyrs to racial
equality. Now they’re suckers to it.
Coast’s clear, Roger! Those up-
pity Jews won’t bother you any-
more. They know their place. You
can come out now!
paid the ’Skins $205 mil-
lion for corporate naming
rights. Follow the money.
As reader Joe Ascolese
wrote, “It took the FedEx
folks 21 years to realize the
Redskins played in their
name-sake stadium.”
NEW PATRIOTS quar-
terback Cam Newton
claims, “I’m tired of be-
ing humble.” His humble
act included that on-field
mime of unzipping his
uniform to reveal that
he’s Superman!
➤ I’m not convinced
there will even be an
MLB season, but if there
is you can anticipate
four-hour rain delays.
And which baseball will
Rob Manfred choose to
use? A real one or last
season’s records-smash-
ing, checked-swing-ho-
mers golf ball?
➤ The virus has caused
the cancellation of the
Fordham at Hawaii game.
Colleges and students
are going broke, but
there’s always money for
a 10,000-mile round-trip
football game.
➤ Fellow calls Mike
Francesa on Tuesday,
Ringo Starr’s 80th birth-
day. With a sweet cock-
ney accent, he says he’s
Ringo calling on his
birthday. Francesa
might’ve had fun with it,
engaged him. But he
grew angry, him a “mo-
ron” then hung up on
him.
➤ Midsummer Night’s
Baseball Story: A fellow
carrying an urn sneaks
into Wrigley Field and
heads to the outfield,
where he dumps the con-
tents over the fence and
onto the field.
A security guard ap-
proaches and demands
to know what he’s do-
ing. The fellow ex-
plains he dumped his
father’s ashes. His dad
had lived and died a de-
vout Cubs fan, and he
just fulfilled his father’s
final wish.
The guard thinks about
it a moment, then says,
“Well, your father can
stay, but you gotta go.”
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By MolliE WalKEr
In the wake of DeSean Jackson’s
anti-Semitic social media posts,
Patriots star receiver Julian Edel-
man has offered up his thoughts on
the matter.
Edelman, who is Jewish, took to
Twitter on Thursday to say he
wants to have “uncomfortable con-
versations” with Jackson about the
anti-Semitic quote falsely attrib-
uted to Adolf
Hitler he shared
this week. He
even extended
an invitation to
the Eagles wide
receiver to take
a trip to Wash-
ington to visit
both the U.S.
Holocaust Me-
JULIAN morial Museum
EDELMAN and the National
Museum of Afri-
can American History and Culture.
“I’ve been getting hit up by ev-
eryone asking me about this DeS-
ean Jackson post, and I wanted to
take some time before I responded
because it’s a complicated issue,
and I wanted to be thoughtful,”
Edelman said in the video.
After expressing his respect for
the 33-year-old Jackson as a foot-
ball player and acknowledging the
two have previously interacted on
social media, Edelman, 34, said that
Jackson “said some ugly things, but
I do see an opportunity to have
conversation.”
“I think the black and Jewish
communities have a lot of similari-
ties,” he said. “One unfortunate
similarity is that they are both at-
tacked by the ignorant and the
hateful.
“We need to listen, we need to
learn, we need to act. We need to
have those uncomfortable conver-
sations, if we’re gonna have real
change. So to that end, DeSean,
let’s do a deal. How ’bout we go to
D.C. and I take you to the Holo-
caust Museum, and then you take
me to the Museum of African-
American History and Culture. Af-
terward, we grab some burgers,
and we have those uncomfortable
conversations.”
The three-time Super Bowl
champion also reflected on his
own experiences as a Jewish man,
mentioning how he had an anti-Se-
mitic slur directed at him on the
football field in 2011.
mwalker1@nypost.com
Ka-ChiNg!
By Josh KosMan
and ThornTon McEnEry Cohen comes in with $2B offer,
The first round of bids for the Mets are in
— and for starters Steve Cohen appears to
have made the highest offer.
J-Rod remains in hunt for Mets
Cohen, the hedge-fund billionaire who
had previously offered $2.6 billion aire Vinny Viola, who is contribut-
only to see the deal fall apart at the ing about $200 million to the bid-
11th hour, delivered the Wilpons an ding group, and it appears all the fi-
offer for $2 billion this time, accord- nancing is in place, sources said.
ing to a Fox Business report. That A buyer can only borrow about
report stated Cohen is also willing $400 million against the Mets, so
to offer an additional $2 billion to would need to put down $1.3 billion
also acquire SNY. in a $1.7 billion bid, sources said.
Cohen’s bid wasn’t the only one to Cohen has cast a pall over the
come in before Thursday’s deadline. auction for weeks and can outspend
Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez any of his rivals.
have their necessary funding and The question remains whether he
made a bid that is likely good enough can be approved to buy the Mets by
to keep them in the game, sources the necessary three-quarters of MLB
told The Post. owners.
The former Yankee slugger’s bidding sell the team to J-Rod if their offer is close Soon the Wilpons, working with their ad-
group offered around $1.7 billion, two sour- to the best bid at the end of the auction, sev- viser Allen & Co., are expected to poll MLB
ces close to the situation said. eral sources said. owners to see how comfortable they are ap-
That is also in the range of the bid that Fred Wilpon’s Mets set Thursday as the proving Cohen, sources said.
came in from Philadelphia 76ers and New deadline for suitors to make opening-round MLB commissioner Rob Manfred in Feb-
Jersey Devils owners Josh Harris and David offers and disclose all their investors, and ruary took the Wilpons’ side when talks
Blitzer, sources said. what percentage of the team each of those with Cohen fell apart saying, “The assertion
Cohen would likely need to pay about investors would own. that the transaction fell apart because of
$250 million more than his nearest rival to In the coming days the Mets will decide something the Wilpons did is completely
buy the Mets after he tried unsuccessfully how many suitors to invite into the second and utterly unfair.”
to rework his $2.6 billion deal in February to round of the auction. The owners will want someone they can
buy the team and then walked away, sources A-Rod and J.Lo are believed to be worth trust to help in their upcoming collective
speculated. $750 million, putting them at a significant bargaining talks with the players, a source
That means he will need to pay more than disadvantage to their billionaire rivals. said.
$2 billion, sources said. But they showed their investor list that in- jkosman@nypost.com
Mets COO Jeff Wilpon would prefer to cludes Florida Panthers owner and billion- tmcenery@nypost.com
Opportunity to buy New York
HIS would have been a mo- ney Payson, who’d founded the Mets team. It is why someone like Alex
T mentous day anyway, because
this just doesn’t happen
around here very often. In the last
in 1962. Twenty-two years later, Wil-
pon would buy out Doubleday.
That’s it. These opportunities
Rodriguez covets the ownership
box, and why a noted behind-the-
scenes sports fan like Mike Repole
56 years there have only been two don’t come along very often — on seemingly wants to ride shotgun.
times — two — when our baseball average, once every 28 years or so Heck, it even explains outsiders
teams have — and that is like John Harris and David Blitzer
been put up why when they — who already own the Philadel-
for sale. do, they are phia 76ers and New Jersey Devils
On Jan. 3, viewed as — and a few others who were
1973, a group Thursday’s primed to officially throw their
led by George Mets bonanza hats — and their bucks — into the
M. Steinbren- was viewed: as ring Thursday.
ner III bought
the Yankees for
Mike Vaccaro once- or twice-
in-a-lifetime
All of this, of course, is of intense
interest to Mets fans, the folks who
$10 million extravaganzas. own the most essential element of
cash, ending the reign of ownership There are few assets more cov- the Mets: their soul and their insti-
VALUED ASSET: Fred Wilpon by CBS, which had begun on Aug. 14, eted than a baseball team in New tutional memory. As baseball slowly
is poised to sell the Mets for 1964. The Steinbrenner clan has York. It is why Steve Cohen, who amps up for what it hopes will be a
around $2 billion because of the been in charge ever since. On Jan. 24, obviously knows a thing or three July 23 Opening Day — the Mets
rare chance to purchase a New 1980, Nelson Doubleday and minor- about making a buck, certainly open against the Braves a day later
York baseball franchise. ity partner Fred Wilpon bought the seems eager to spend crazy money at Citi Field — Mets fans are slowly
N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg Mets from the estate of Joan Whit- — in excess of $2 billion — for the coming around to dreaming about

BACK IN THE
GAME: After his in-
itial deal to buy the
Mets fell apart,
Steve Cohen
appears to be once
again in the mix to
purchase the team,
reportedly making
a $2 billion offer,
and possibly
offering an addi-
tional $2 billion to
acquire SNY.
Celebrity power
couple Alex
Rodriguez and
Jennifer Lopez
(inset) offered
$1.7 billion, sources
told The Post.
Bloomberg; Getty Images
ballclub is as rare as it gets
Jacob deGrom’s slider, and Pete
Alonso’s swing, and even the possi-
bility of Yoenis Cespedes emerging
from witness protection.
But what really gets their juices
flowing right now, far more than
whatever a mysterious 60-game
season may have in store, is what
started in earnest on Thursday. Be-
cause if history holds, whoever
emerges from this will own the
team for a good, long while — two
Mets ownership groups since ’62,
remember — and that will define
so much of what’s to come and
what the future is going to look like.
“And it’s not just the fans,” one ri-
val baseball executive said Thurs-
day. “We have learned to live with
what the Yankees are as a part of
our everyday business. I’m not sure
anyone is quite ready for what hav-
ing two teams acting like the Yan-
kees in the same market might
mean for the rest of us.”
Part of Mets fans’ interest is their
chronic fatigue with the present
ownership group, which is only
partly fair. The Mets have spent
plenty of years — not always pro-
ductive ones — with fat payrolls.
Just not as often in the 12 years
since Bernie Madoff made off with
so much of their presumed wealth.
The last dozen years have been an
almost daily argument between the
Wilpon/Katz family and their fans,
the owners insisting they’re in the
game to win it, the fans less con-
vinced.
And as with real baseball games,
the fans have had their hearts toyed
with. In 2011, it was another deep-
pocketed savior named David Ein-
horn who flirted with buying a
huge stake in the team before that
faded. Cohen was thought to have
preemptively blown the field away
back in December, but that fell
apart two months later.
Thursday, though, felt different.
Thursday felt real. These are legit
bids. These are legit hopefuls, all of
whom want to join an exclusive fra-
ternity that has included names such
as O’Malley and Stoneham and Rup-
pert. There are few places quite like
it. The Red Sox have had three own-
ers since Tom Yawkey died in 1976.
The Dodgers have had three since
Peter O’Malley sold out in 1998.
The next opening to own a New
York baseball team isn’t scheduled
to arrive until sometime around
2048 or so, using history as our
guide. Make the bids good ones,
kids. You aren’t likely to get an-
other shot for quite a while.
mvaccaro@nypost.com
GOOD LUCK: The Big Ten is hoping to squeeze in a 10-game, confer-
ence-only schedule this fall during the coronavirus pandemic. AP
Big Ten non-conf. games
get nixed, others at risk
By Howie Kussoy
College football needs to com-
plete a Hail Mary to hold its season
this fall.
One day after the Ivy League be-
came the first Division I confer-
ence to erase fall sports due to the
COVID-19 pandemic, the Big Ten
announced it will eliminate all
non-conference games this fall.
The ACC and Pac-12 appear set to
follow suit, according to multiple
reports, dimming the increasingly
impractical notion of the 2020 sea-
son taking place at all.
“We are facing uncertain and un-
precedented times, and the health,
safety and wellness of our student-
athletes, coaches, game officials,
and others associated with our
sports programs and campuses re-
main our number one priority,” the
Big Ten said in a statement. “By lim-
iting competition to other Big Ten
institutions, the Conference will
have the greatest flexibility to adjust
its own operations throughout the
season and make quick decisions in
real-time based on the most current
evolving medical advice and the
fluid nature of the pandemic.”
Though leading decision-makers
in college football’s power confer-
ences have long presented an opti-
mistic and stubborn front that their
multibillion dollar enterprise
would kick off without postpone-
ment or alteration, the country’s
failure slowing the spread of the
coronavirus has put the season in
greater peril than Big Ten commis-
sioner Kevin Warren ever envi-
sioned.
“This is not a fait accompli that
we’re going to have sports in the
fall,” Warren said on the Big Ten
Network. “We may not have a col-
lege football season in the Big Ten.”
Though Ohio State athletic di-
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rector Gene Smith said spring foot-
ball currently is “not a high priority
for us,” it could be the only hope to
have a season. Less than 24 hours
earlier, Ohio State halted on-cam-
pus workouts due to an undisclosed
number of athletes testing positive
for COVID-19.
“I am very concerned,” Smith said
during a conference call. “I was
cautiously optimistic. I’m not even
there now. When you look at the
behavior of our country and you
consider that in May we were on a
downward trajectory with our [cor-
onavirus] cases. ... Now, we’re, if not
the worst in the world, one of the
worst in the world.”
The Big Ten hopes to have each
team play a 10-game schedule. The
potential for an in-season outbreak
was considered when switching to
a conference-only slate.
“We can hit the pause button and
provide a window of opportunity
for our student-athletes not to be
put at risk,” Smith said. “We can
move games. ... There’s a flexibility,
I can’t say that enough. That’s sig-
nificant.”
Among the 42 non-conference
games wiped away by the Big Ten’s
decision is Michigan’s trip to Wash-
ington, Ohio State’s visit to Oregon
and Wisconsin’s battle against No-
tre Dame at Lambeau Field.
The schedule change is most
painful for smaller schools, banking
on money from guarantee games to
help subsidize their respective ath-
letic departments. Bowling Green,
for example, was slated to collect a
total of $2.2 million for road games
at Ohio State and Illinois.
The Big Ten said student-athletes
are free to opt out of play in the up-
coming school year without jeopar-
dizing scholarships or standing
with their team.
hkussoy@nypost.com
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Cano away
nypost.com

from camp
yet again
By Dan Martin
New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020

Robinson Cano was not in

Mets camp on Thursday.
No reason was provided by the
Mets, but it marked at least the
second consecutive day Cano
wasn’t at Citi Field. His last
game action came when he took
part in a simulated game on
Monday.
The Mets have an organiza-
tional policy during spring train-
ing 2.0 of not commenting on
players’ absences and have
noted players are not always re-
quired to be at the stadium for
every workout. A BIG BOOST: The Mets’ single-
season record for batting average is held
METS NOTES by John Olerud (.354 in 1998), who
believes a 60-game season gives
But missing multiple workouts players like Jeff McNeil (right) a better
could be cause for concern, espe- opportunity to chase the .400 mark.
cially with the team opening the Corey Sipkin; N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg
regular season in just over two
weeks. The Mets are hoping the
37-year-old Cano avoids the
dreadful start he had a year ago
after arriving in a trade from Se-
attle, along with Edwin Diaz, in
exchange for a package including
top prospect Jarred Kelenic. He
is under contract through 2023.
Cano hasn’t been made availa-
ble to the media since the Mets
restarted camp in Queens.

➤ Of all the challenges teams

will face in their attempt to have
a season during a pandemic, Jeff
McNeil believes travel will be
the most difficult of all.
“We don’t know what it’s
gonna be like,’’ McNeil said. “We
don’t know if we’re gonna take
busses everywhere and how
many busses. What’s it gonna be
like in the hotel? The biggest
challenge will be trying to get
used to all that.”
For now, the Mets are focused
on how they can prepare at Citi
Field and even practiced how to
sit in the dugout on Wednesday,
according to Luis Rojas.
Michael Wacha said he ex-
pects travel to be “crazy” this
season.
Added McNeil: “It’s not gonna
be like a normal year, where
travel is extremely smooth and
they have it down to a science.’’
➤ Jed Lowrie smacked a lead-
off double to center off Jacob
deGrom in a simulated game.
Lowrie clearly wasn’t running
full speed on the basepaths. ...
Yoenis Cespedes homered off
Seth Lugo and that was fol-
lowed by a Pete Alonso double.
➤ The Mets are scheduled to
open the 2021 season in Wash-
HE ANSWER from Jeff
T McNeil never changes: Yes, I
believe I can lead the league
in hitting.
The question for Jeff McNeil
changes in a 60-game baseball
season.
How high is up for this line-
drive Hit Machine?
On a Zoom call on Thursday,
there was also
this question
for McNeil:
Could he hit
.400 over a
60-game sea-
son? Become
the first to do
it since Ted
Steve Serby
Williams hit
.406 79 years ago?
“It would be nice,” McNeil said.
“I know I had a really good first
half of the year last year, so hope-
fully can do it again, got 60 games
to go out there and get as many
hits as possible. Hopefully by the
end of the year, it is .400, but we’ll
see. My goal right now is just to
get on base as much as I can for
the guys behind me.”
Jose Reyes was the first and last
Met to lead the league in hitting
(.337) in 2011.
McNeil, who never met a pitch
he didn’t like to swing at, will
have Pete Alonso and maybe even
Yoenis Cespedes batting behind
him.
You’d be nuts to dismiss Squir-
rel’s chances
to surpass
Reyes and
lead the NL.
McNeil
doesn’t buy
that a walk is
as good as a
hit, so the 254
at-bat mini-
mum shouldn’t be a problem.
Then there is John Olerud, who
holds the Mets’ season record
(.354) when he finished second in
the 1998 batting race to Larry
Walker (.363).
What if McNeil, who considers
a game-day hot dog a good luck
charm, continues to draw inspira-
tion from Joey Chestnut?
McNeil was hitting .349 at last up with 16 homers over the final
season’s All-Star break before fin- 57 games last season to finish
ishing at .318.
Olerud hasn’t seen enough of
with 23 HR.
“I feel like I can do both,”
McNeil at the plate, but he be- McNeil said. “Last year in the sec-
lieves a 60-game season gives ond half I didn’t really change
someone a chance to hit .400. anything, the ball just started to
“I think not playing as many go over the fence a little bit more.
games does give somebody a This year I came in a little bit
chance to do that, for stronger, a little bit big-
sure,” Olerud told The ger, but I’m still not
Post by phone. “If you gonna change my ap-
are hot early in the run proach up there. I’m
and you’re able to main- gonna go up there, try to
tain that, you only have put the ball in play, try to
to maintain it for 60 set the table for big hit-
games as opposed to ters like Yo and Pete and
162.”
McNeil’s unbridled joy
J.D. [Davis] and [Mich-
ael] Conforto. ... My job’s
can be seen and heard JOHN to get on base, and if the
from the press box. He is
every bit the Boy of
OLERUD homers are there, it’s a
bonus.”
Summer that Alonso is at spring With the grind of a 162-game
training 2.0. season no longer a factor, there is
“It’s a lot of fun [to] be back a buzz to the “Can anyone hit
with the boys ... love to be back .400?” crowd.
out there and hitting again,” Chipper Jones was at .400 after
McNeil said. 73 games in 2008. Nomar Garcia-
McNeil’s challenge is to keep on parra was at .403 on July 20, 2000.
hitting for average after muscling Todd Helton was at .3995 as late

ington on April 1.

as Aug. 21, 2000.
The three foremost .400 threats
since the Splendid Splinter were
Tony Gwynn (.394 in the strike-
shortened 1994 season), George
Brett (.390 in 1980) and Rod
Carew (.388 in 1977). Brett was
over .400 as late as Sept. 19.
When Olerud won his AL bat-
ting title (.363) in 1993, he was hit-
ting .400 after his 107th game.
“I was significantly above .400
for the first month,” Olerud re-
called. “And people would come
up and talk to me, ‘Hey, should we
give Ted Williams a call?’ ... in
April. So I was like, ‘No, I wouldn’t
worry about it right now.’
“And my thought was, ‘I’m
gonna keep this going as long as I
can.’ My fundamentals were really
good, and my timing was good,
and I got into a groove where I felt
like the only way somebody was
gonna get me out is if I hit the ball
hard at somebody ... I kinda came
out of nowhere putting a good
year together.”
The growing media attention
didn’t bother Olerud.
“I never felt any pressure,” he
said. “I never felt like the expecta-
tion was that I was gonna be the
guy to hit .400.”
Alas, Olerud became his own
worst enemy.
“You don’t sneak up on any-
body,” Olerud said. “They know
they need to make good pitches,
and try to pitch you smart. I think
probably I got to August, and got
to thinking, ‘Wow, I’ve been doing
it for four months, maybe I can do
it the last couple of months.’ And
I think you start thinking too
much about the result and getting
hits as opposed to just having
good quality at-bats and taking a
good swing and getting a good
pitch to hit. You get away from
what’s been making you success-
ful, you know?”
Hitting .400 remains a long
shot, for anyone and everyone.
But Jeff McNeil, 28 years old
and in his prime and born to rake,
can absolutely win a batting title.
LFGM can also mean Let’s
(bleeping) Go McNeil.
steve.serby@nypost.com
Unusual measures for
Wacha to get prepared
By Dan Martin
Jacob deGrom pitched a simu-
lated game Thursday and looked
sharp over three innings, but if
the Mets plan on contending this
season, they will need contribu-
tions from their entire rotation —
which is where Michael Wacha
comes in.
The right-hander is one of the
Mets starters looking for a
bounce-back season — along
with fellow free-agent signee
Rick Porcello — and felt he was
in a good spot when spring train-
ing was halted in mid-March due
to COVID-19.
Now, Wacha is trying to get
ready for a truncated season set
to begin in just over two weeks.
Though he has been at Citi
Field and Clover Park in Port St.
Lucie when he could, Wacha also
took his preparation on the road.
“I’d play catch with some other
players in the area at random ball-
fields, when we weren’t getting
kicked out of them,’’ Wacha said.
“But it was tough staying in
shape, trying to find the resour-
ces we needed to stay at a high
level when we came back.”
There was the park where he
met Robert Gsellman on occasion
that was between Port St. Lucie
and where Gsellman was in Ju-
piter.
“A ranger
would kick
us off the
field and
we said,
‘Where are we
supposed to throw?’ ” Wacha said
Thursday.
Told the field was off limits,
they asked if they could use the
parking lot, so that’s what they
did.
ANYTHING
GOES: Michael
Wacha’s efforts
to get ready for
the 2020
season during
the pandemic
took him and
Robert
Gsellman to a
park parking lot.
Robert Sabo
“We threw there for about a
week and then they [relaxed]
rules,’’ Wacha said. “Crazy times.”
Wacha’s travels next took him
to Palm Beach, when Gsellman
invited him to Eric Cressey’s per-
formance center.
The setting has become the
stuff of legend, as a collection of
All-Stars, from Max Scherzer to
Justin Verlander to Giancarlo
Stanton, all worked out.
“[Gsellman] said we had some
bullpens and catchers to throw
to,’’ Wacha said. “He opened the
door.”
Wacha called the experience of
being around those players “very
beneficial.”
“It was a very cool experience,’’
Wacha said. “It’s definitely been a
wild time.”
And it left Wacha confident he
will be ready when the season be-
gins.
“I couldn’t have been happier
with everything I was able to get
my hands on and had access to
during quarantine,’’ Wacha said.
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He will be part of a rotation that
includes deGrom, who threw 42
pitches Thursday and is on track
to start Opening Day, as well as
Marcus Stroman, Porcello and
Steven Matz — with Noah Syn-
dergaard out for the season fol-
lowing Tommy John surgery.
“I’ve just been preparing to
come in and be a starter and to
try eat up as many innings as I
nypost.com
can,’’ Wacha said. “I’ll be good
and be ready to take the ball
whenever I’m asked.”
The Mets intend to use a tradi-
tional five-man rotation, which is
what Wacha is building toward,
but he knows this season could
mean something different for
some starting pitchers.
“I’ve heard six-man and a three-
man [rotation] to ride guys for a
shorter season,’’ Wacha said. “I’ll
be in communication with the
staff here.”
DeGrom, who allowed just one
run Thursday, figures to get one
more sim-game start and an exhi-
bition game against the Yankees
before the Mets open the year
against Atlanta in Queens. While
he and Stroman will lead the staff,
even in a shortened season, rota-
tional depth will be impor-
tant.
Wacha says
he’s ready.
“The ball had
been coming
out well,’’
Wacha said
of how he felt
this spring. “I was
pretty bummed out
about getting shut down so
close to the [regular] season.
But I’ve been able to build on
my mechanics and I’ve been
happy with how I’m feeling.”
dan.martin@nypost.com
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New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020
By GeorGe A. KInG III
With 13 days until the
scheduled Opening Day
game at Washington, the
Yankees don’t know if they
will have All-Star second
baseman DJ LeMahieu
back from the injury list.
As with pitcher Luis
Cessa, LeMahieu tested pos-
itive for COVID-19 before
spring training 2.0 opened
last week and has been
quarantining at home. Until
they each pass intake testing
at Yankee Stadium, neither
can begin working out.
Not having LeMahieu —
a three-time All-Star who
has won three Gold Gloves
at second base and finished
fourth in last year’s AL
MVP voting after hitting
.327 with 26 homers and
102 RBIs — would be a se-
rious blow to the Yankees
lineup. Regardless of who
manager Aaron Boone
plays at second, he won’t
be LeMahieu in the field or
at the plate.
Before Thursday night’s
intrasquad game at Yankee
Stadium, Boone was en-
couraged about where
LeMahieu, who turns 32
Monday, was physically but
addressed the possibility of
needing a fill-in.
“DJ, as much as any
player, I am going to feel
good about where he is at
— how much he takes care
of himself and is ready to
go. If anyone can handle
being out at the start of
camp, it may be DJ,’’ Boone
said on a Zoom call. “He
worked tirelessly during
the quarantine down in
Tampa. He was ready to go,
and he doesn’t feel sick. It
is not something that has
wiped him out. I do feel
good about the player be-
ing able to pick up once it
is time for him to come
back.’’
When that is, of course, is
unknown. It’s not likely the
Yankees would move Gley-
ber Torres from shortstop
back to second after
grooming him to be Didi
Gregorius’ replacement at
short, a position Torres
played in the minor leagues
and in 77 games (73 starts)
a year ago when Gregorius
was out.
Before LeMahieu tested
positive, Tyler Wade figured
to make the 30-man roster
because he is able to play
shortstop, second, third
base, in the outfield and pro-
vide speed as a pinch run-
ner. Now, the 25-year-old
left-hand-hitting Wade
could be the second base-
man until LeMahieu returns.
“We have a lot of confi-
dence in Tyler, especially
how he will impact the
game defensively there,’’
Boone said of Wade, who
has played second in 59
big-league games but hasn’t
hit (.197 in 109 games) in
limited playing time.
Boone didn’t stop with
Wade, who would appear
to be the frontrunner for
LeMahieu’s spot.
“We have a lot of confi-
dence in Thairo Estrada,
Rosell Herrera obviously
impressed us with the
spring he had, and we
brought in Matt Duffy, who
could figure into that mix,
an established big-league
player,’’ Boone said.
Estrada is the only one of
the three on the 40-man
roster.
“We feel like we have op-
tions there if we did have
to start the season without
DJ,’’ Boone said.
The 29-year-old Duffy is
intriguing because, when
healthy, the right-hand-hit-
ting infielder has been pro-
ductive. However, outside
of 2015 with the Giants
(.295 BA) and 2018 as a Ray
(.294), Duffy has been lim-
ited by injuries but still is a
career .282 hitter with a
.338 on-base percentage.
He played 91 games in
2016 and missed all of 2017
with an Achilles tendon
problem. Last season he
played 46 games for the
Rays and signed a minor
league deal with the Ran-
gers in the offseason. He is
in Yankees camp as a non-
roster invitee. Of the 452
games Duffy has played in
the majors, 377 of them
have been at third and 18
(12 starts) at second.
As for Wade, he simply
wants to play a lot more
than he has since reaching
the big leagues in 2017.
“I am preparing every
day to play every day,
whether it is short, second
or wherever it is going to
be,’’ Wade said before start-
ing at short for the Yankees
squad Thursday evening.
“Unfortunately, DJ is not
here, and there is a va- making a plan: DJ LeMahieu is
cancy. I am getting my reps sidelined with COVID-19 and might not be
all over the infield and all cleared in time for the opener later this
over the outfield. Right month. If he can’t go, the Yankees have
now I am prepared to play some backup plans, which could include
every day and whatever Tyler Wade (inset) at second base. AP; EPA
they need me to do.’’
george.king@nypost.com
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Say what you will

New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020

S
o MUCH power potential in this
2020 Yankees lineup.
So much power potential, far
Boone: Players free to express
more important, in this Yankees
brand at this pivotal juncture.
Aaron Boone declared Thursday
opinions on social matters
he’s just as on board with the latter as anything, we encourage our guys.”
the former. Yankees general manager Brian
“If they want their voice to be heard Cashman, citing Judge’s quiet nature,
on whatever the subject may be, said, “We have not even had a conver-
we’re going to always encourage sation with [Judge] about that. We ha-
them to speak their minds and their ven’t encouraged or discouraged
heart,” the Yankees manager said on a him.” Judge wasn’t available for com-

Zoom call.
The subject at hand, of course, is
race relations in the United States,
with the May 25 killing of George
Floyd while in custody of the Minne-
apolis police electrifying the country,
sparking discussions about systemic
racism and its countless tentacles.
Ken Davidoff
Many Yankees players have engaged
in those discussions — with Aaron
Hicks, Aaron Judge and Giancarlo
Stanton, as well as the recently retired
CC Sabathia (now a team adviser) par-
ticipating in a terrific video, featuring
a plethora of prominent African-
American baseball players, supporting
the Black Lives Matter movement.
“We’ve been told that our peaceful
pleas were not made at the right time
at the right place, in the right way,’’ a
quartet of players, led by Judge, say to
start the video, and that sure feels like
a reference to former 49ers quarter-
back Colin Kaepernick, whom the Na-
tional Football League disgracefully
didn’t support when, in 2016, he began
the trend of kneeling during the na-
tional anthem to call attention to po-
lice brutality and racial inequality.
Hence we wonder: Will any Yan-
kees of any background kneel during
“The Star-Spangled Banner” before
the Yankees and Nationals open the
baseball season (assuming we make it
that far) July 23 at Nationals Park?
Will they convey their calls for equal-
ity in other ways, be it on their uni-
forms or via some other mode?
“We’ll see. We’ll have conversations,”
Boone said. “I’m sure those things are
very possible across [sports]. We’ve al-
ready seen those in different leagues.
I’m sure that’s very much on the minds
and hearts of several players.”
A fantastic ESPN.com story on
former A’s catcher Bruce Maxwell,
the one baseball player who knelt
during the anthem (in 2017), reported
the Yankees “subtly discourag[ed]”
Judge from being publicly vocal about
racial issues. Boone said, “As far as I
know, that’s absolutely false. In fact, if
nypost.com
ment.
Since Floyd’s death, “We have talked
about [racial issues] throughout the
organization, within our team, within
our club, individually with different
guys as well,” Boone said. “It is some-
thing that I think is an important con-
versation and ... is obviously a huge
conversation in our country right now.
But it is a conversation we hope to ad-
vance and be better for, and hopefully
we’re having difficult conversations
amongst each other all the time.”
All players using their platform to
speak to these issues would enhance
the value of this coronavirus-short-
ened season, which is off to a shaky
start with testing problems, positives
tests and guys opting out. Already,
Reds future Hall of Famer Joey Votto,
who is white and Canadian, gener-
ated positive attention for wearing a
Black Lives Matter shirt while taking
batting practice. The Yankees’ plat-
form expands the widest. A statement
from a star Yankee carries more
weight than one from anywhere else.
If no such statements come, then no
judgments here; putting yourself out
there comes with the natural, poten-
tial consequences of social media
venom. Consider this more curiosity
and support, just as Boone publicly
professed for his players as they pre-
pare for this unprecedented season in
this unprecedented time.
kdavidoff@nypost.com

Stadium could add crowd noise

By GeorGe A. KInG III be opposed to crowd noise.’’ carlo Stanton’s first-inning
yankees fly ball in the sun/lights
According to Zack Brit-
ton, the Yankees are con- notes ➤ According to Carlos
Mendoza, the Yankees’
when he came in for it.

sidering piping in crowd

noise into games at Yankee
Stadium, which will be
without customers.
“I think it is a good idea if
they are going to allow
steady crowd noise to be
pumped in. That would be
good for the guys, obviously
it gets pretty quiet,’’ Britton
said Thursday night at the
Stadium. “I have heard of
teams, including ours, that
might be exploring putting in
some type of crowd noise
throughout the game. I am
not sure how loud it is going
to be and what it would look
like, but I think it is a good
idea, and our team would like
that and create some type of
atmosphere in the Stadium.’’
Kyle Higashioka isn’t
against it.
“I don’t think I would be
opposed to it,” he said. “We
have some light music out
there while we are playing
to break up the dead si-
lence. It’s better than it was
the first day, where we were
just playing in an abyss, just
a void of sound. I wouldn’t
bench coach and infield
mentor, the time Miguel
Andujar spent in Tampa
while the game was
stopped helped his fielding.
“The footwork is a lot
better and the throwing,
coming from an injury, is
so much better as well,’’
Mendoza said on a Zoom
call before Thursday
night’s intrasquad game at
Yankee Stadium.
Andujar started in right
field to further his develop-
ment as a player who can of-
fer versatility. He lost Gian-
➤ With rain expected Fri-
day the Yankees canceled
their intrasquad game. James
Paxton will throw and a few
players who require treat-
ment will be at Yankee Sta-
dium but there won’t be a
full-blown workout.
➤ Deivi Garcia is a long
shot to make the Yankees’
expanded pitching staff
when the regular season
starts on July 23, but what
he did Thursday night was
certainly impressive in the
intrasquad game.
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“Ramy,” starring Ramy Youssef, for a
of Sabrina” (left, with Gavin Leatherwood and star third season comprising 10 episodes.
Kiernan Shipka). The series will end later this year. It’s likely to premiere next year
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TV Friday
New York Post, Friday, July 10, 2020

BIG TIME
‘FEUD’
“Family Feud,” hosted by
Elarica Johnson (from Steve Harvey, pulled in nearly
left), Brandee Evans 9 million viewers for the week
and Shannon Thornton ending June 28 — big numbers
in the new Starz series for a traditionally slow time in
“P-Valley.” Inset below: the daytime TV universe.
showrunner Katori Hall.

‘P-Valley’: pulling back

the curtain at a THE NEW
‘BATWOMAN’
Mississippi strip club Javicia Leslie (above) is the
new “Batwoman,” replacing
Ruby Rose on The CW series,
back for Season 2 in January.
By lauren sarner sippi (Shannon Thornton, “Dynasty”), who’s to her that “P-Valley” should be her first Rose departed abruptly in mid-
fleeing domestic abuse. jump from the stage to the small screen. May without giving a reason,

T
HErE’S one big reason rookie show-
runner Katori Hall chose the world of
strip clubs for “P-Valley,” her new
Starz series premiering Sunday
at 8 p.m.
“It’s a space that has been done
wrong in so many different
ways,” Hall, 39, tells The Post. “I
think about the strip club in
‘The Sopranos.’ Oftentimes you
had Tony sitting in the front, and
women are in the back. All you
see is their body or their legs and
you don’t even see their faces.
“So, because we are always entering our
story from the perspective of the women, we
really were walking in a woman’s high-
heeled platform shoes though this world.”
“P-Valley” is an ensemble drama set at Pynk,
a strip club in the fictional town of Chucal-
issa, Miss. The various clashing personalities
there include new girl Autumn (Elarica John-
son, “A Discovery of Witches”), who’s flee-
ing from a mysterious past; veteran Mercedes
(Brandee Evans, “Lethal Weapon”), the
club’s star who’s preparing to leave; flamboy-
ant Uncle Clifford (Nicco Annan, “This is
Us”), who runs the show; and Miss Missis-
“The dancing that arose out of these spaces
has been appropriated by mainstream culture
— that’s why we have J-Lo on a pole during
the Superbowl,” says Hall. “Our show
is in conversation with a new line of
stories that have been helmed by
women, written by women that
show a complicated version of
what strip club culture is like —
[and] laying down the different
types of people who participate
in this sometimes very exploita-
tive world.”
It’s also part of an initiative from
Starz to focus on women’s stories in front
of and behind the camera ( 11 of its 16 current
showrunners are women.) Much like HBO’s
“The Deuce,” which was set in the porn in-
dustry, “P-Valley” is both a portrait of its vari-
ous characters — their struggles and home
lives both in and out of the club — and a look
at an oft-misunderstood setting.
The series began life as a play, written by
Hall, that opened in Minneapolis in
2015. Hall’s credits as a veteran playwright
include Broadway’s “The Mountaintop,”
which co-starred Samuel L. Jackson and An-
gela Bassett in 2011, but it soon became clear
“I grew up down South,” says the Memphis- though insiders said she and the
born Hall, who currently lives in New York. series were “not a good fit.”
“And I actually visited strip clubs all the time. “Those who know, know,” Rose
I would say it’s part of your coming-of-age said later in an Instagram post..
experience as a black woman now, where you
go to birthday parties at strip clubs or you
want to hang out with friends, bachelorette
parties, bachelor parties.
“You grow up appreciating the women not
always for how they look, but also for what
SIXTH
their bodies can do,” she says. “I started re-
searching the craft of pole dancing and
SENSE
started talking to a lot of women who dance Fans of “The
at clubs from New York City to Atlanta to Crown” rejoice:
LA. All of that research culminated in a creator Peter Morgan
play . . . When I saw it up on the stage, I and Netflix announced
was like, ‘This . . . is actually a TV show!’ ” a sixth and final season
Unlike other shows and movies that fea- of the series, which was
ture similar settings, almost everyone be- slated to end after its
hind the camera in “P-Valley” is a upcoming fifth
woman. All eight episodes have fe- season. Imelda
male directors. Staunton
“There aren’t a lot of black female replaces Olivia
showrunners out there — particu- Colman (left)
larly in the premium cable space,” as Queen
Halls says. “So I count myself re- Elizabeth in
ally blessed to have been given Season 5.
that opportunity.”
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