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Trump impeached
President is THIRd in U.S. history to face Senate trial
BYP HILIP R UCKER,
F ELICIA S ONMEZ
AND C OLBY I TKOWITZ

The House of Representatives

voted late Wednesday to im-
peach President Trump on
charges that he abused his office
and obstructed Congress, with
Democrats declaring him a
threat to the nation and brand-
ing an indelible mark on the
most turbulent presidency of
modern times.
After 11 hours of fierce argu-
ment on the House floor between
Democrats and Republicans over
Trump’s conduct with Ukraine,
lawmakers voted almost entirely
along party lines to impeach
him. Trump becomes the third
president in U.s. history to face
trial in the senate — a proceed-
ing that will determine whether
he is removed from office less
than one year before he stands
for reelection.
on Trump’s 1,062nd day in
office, Congress brought a mo-
mentous reckoning to an unor-
thodox president who has tested
America’s institutions with an
array of unrestrained actions,
including some that a collection
of his own appointees and other
government witnesses testified
were reckless and endangered
national security.
The Democratic-controlled
House passed two articles of
impeachment against Trump —
abuse of power and obstruction
of Congress — related to the
president’s attempts to withhold
military aid to Ukraine and pres-
sure its government to investi-
Matt McclaIn/tHe WasHIngton Post gate former vice president Joe
House speaker nancy pelosi (d-calif.) gavels the close of voting Wednesday night on the second article of impeachment against president trump, obstruction of congress. see ImpeAcHment on A6

How the House members voted Unclear path to

Article 1:
Abuse of power
Article 2:
obstruction of congress
a virtually certain
President trump is accused trump is accused of blocking Senate acquittal
of using the power of the congress’s investigation into his
presidency for his own benefit. alleged wrongdoing. BY S EUNG M IN K IM

230 to 197 229 to 198 As President Trump prepares

to stand trial in the senate next
month — proceedings that were
For both articles 228 Democrats and one independent triggered with his impeachment
by the House on Wednesday —
senators are hurtling toward an
acquittal that is all but assured
but with much uncertainty about
how the chamber will arrive
Rep. Justin Amash (I-Mich.) there.
For one article One Democrat
For now, there is no clarity on
Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) how long a trial will last or even
when it will begin. It is almost
Against both articles 195 Republicans and two Democrats certain that there will not be a
bipartisan agreement on witness-
es. With very limited exceptions,
senators are taking their cues
from their party leaders, with
Rep. Collin C. Peterson (D-Minn.) senate Republicans increasingly
Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-N.J.) coordinating with the White
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) voted present, three members did not vote and there are House on a trial strategy that they
four vacancies in the 435-seat chamber. insist will be fairer than what the
House afforded Trump. Adding to
the uncertainty: speaker nancy
more coVerAGe InsIde Pelosi (D-Calif.) late Wednesday
as proceedings move to the senate, here’s what happens next A4 BrIttany greeson For tHe WasHIngton Post
left open the possibility the House
In surreal split screen, president rallies supporters during historic vote A9 president trump greets supporters Wednesday during a rally in Battle creek, mich., as impeachment may not immediately send the
@PKcapitol: Pelosi becomes trump’s most powerful political adversary A9 proceedings he called “a suicide march for the democratic party” neared a vote in Washington. see senAte on A4

An impeachment that mirrors his tHe tAKe

Three-month battle tested
presidency: Disruption and division In an endless fight, a momentous vote the political will of both parties
BY M ARC F ISHER Facing a historic rebuke by the turns into just another moment BYR ACHAEL B ADE, Pelosi had all but made up her
Democratic-controlled House, M IKE D E B ONIS mind.
Tumbling toward impeach- Trump has countered with an BY D AN B ALZ nary. split sharply along party AND J OSH D AWSEY Two days earlier, while she was
ment, Richard nixon recognized exaggerated version of his life- lines, with only the barest of de- in a Madrid hotel for a climate
the reality of collapsing political long approach to conflict, aiming The impeachment of a presi- fections among the Democrats House speaker nancy Pelosi conference, Pelosi took a call from
support and became the only to win by dividing. He has dent is a rare moment in the his- and none among Republicans, sat quietly at the head of the long anxious moderate members of
American president to quit the slammed his opponents in lurid tory of the country, and so the people’s House became the table inside her ornate confer- her Democratic caucus who were
office. A generation later, when language. He has urged his sup- Wednesday’s vote in the House nation in miniature, a people ence room early this month, lis- feeling heat in their home dis-
the House voted to impeach Bill porters to wage battle against puts President Trump into the torn over the conduct of a presi- tening as her deputies debated tricts about supporting impeach-
Clinton, the president oscillated those who sneer and scoff at annals of the nation in the most dent who has defied political the last major decision in the ment. The speaker, they said,
between apologies for his oval them and their beloved presi- ignominious of ways. The stain odds and broken the rules of pol- impeachment of President should resist liberal calls to ex-
office behavior and fervent pleas dent. And he has expressed zero of the House action on his biog- itics — and who is braced for Trump. pand the investigation.
for Americans to turn away from remorse. raphy and legacy, whatever the more to come. Her senior lieutenants argued Pelosi did not tip her hand on
“the politics of personal destruc- If the other two impeachment final resolution in the senate, is The word “history” can be an for an expansive bill of charges the call. But it was a compelling
tion.” processes of the past 45 years now part of his permanent re- overused term about matters of encompassing the Mueller re- argument from her “majority
As the House voted Wednes- were marked by a certain solem- cord. the day, tossed around casually port. others pressed for articles of makers,” the group whose mem-
day evening to impeach Donald nity, by members of Congress But in the annals of Trump’s and often without good reason. impeachment focused solely on bers flipped pro-Trump districts
Trump, the president was stag- struggling publicly with their presidency, Wednesday’s delib- That cannot be said about im- Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to in 2018, helping make Pelosi
ing a defiant campaign rally in consciences and, in some cases, erations in the House reflected peachment, which was included help his reelection bid. speaker for the second time, and
Michigan. see trump on A8 nothing particularly extraordi- see tAKe on A11 Ultimately, it didn’t matter. see decIsIon on A12

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Horowitz: FBI should have rethought probe of former Trump adviser Page
BY M ATT Z APOTOSKY
Justice Department Inspector
General Michael Horowitz said
Wednesday that he was con-
cerned the FBI did not reevaluate
whether to continue investigat-
ing a former Trump campaign
adviser as agents failed to uncov-
er evidence of wrongdoing in late
2016, and that missteps in the
case might indicate a broader
problem within the bureau.
Testifying at a Senate Home-
land Security and Governmental
Affairs Committee hearing,
Horowitz criticized how the FBI
handled its probe of former
Trump campaign adviser Carter
Page, asserting that agents used
inaccurate information to obtain
court orders to surveil Page, even
as they discussed among them-
selves that the investigation was
coming up empty.
While Horowitz said he did not
find evidence of those problems
“infecting” the rest of the FBI’s
investigation into whether the
Trump campaign coordinated
with Russia to influence the 2016
election, he asserted he was so
alarmed that he launched a
broader review of the FBI’s use of
the Foreign Intelligence Surveil-
lance Court.
“The concern here is, this is
such a high-profile, important
case,” Horowitz testified. “If it
happened here, is this indicative
of a wider problem?”
The hearing is the second time
Horowitz has discussed his as-
sessment of the FBI’s 2016 inves-
tigation of the Trump campaign.
As with his last appearance be-
fore the Senate Judiciary Com-
mittee, his remarks offered fod-
der for Democrats and Republi-
cans to validate their divergent
views of the politically sensitive
probe, which was ultimately tak-
en over by special counsel Robert
S. Mueller III.
Horowitz said that the bureau
was justified in opening the in-
vestigation, though he noted the
threshold for doing so was low.
He also said he found no evidence
of political bias affecting the in-
quiry.
But Horowitz said, too, that as
the investigation went along and
the FBI applied to surreptitiously
monitor Page, the bureau includ-
ed “significant inaccuracies” and
omitted important information
in its bids to do so. He said he
found evidence that agents dis-
cussed “not finding anything
with regards” to Page but pressed
ahead anyway, instead of reas-
sessing whether the probe was
worthwhile.
“We’ve got agents talking with
one another about why is Page
even a subject anymore,” Horo-
witz said.
That assertion is important
because Republicans have sug-
gested that even if the FBI’s inves-
tigation was opened legitimately,
it should have been shut down
long before Mueller was appoint-
ed.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.),
chairman of the Homeland Secu-
rity Committee, said in his open-
ing statement that he believes the
inspector general report shows
that the FBI’s Russia investiga-
tion should have been shut down
“within the first few months of
“The concern here is, this is such a high-profile,
important case. If it happened here, is this
indicative of a wider problem?”
Michael Horowitz, Justice Department inspector general
2017.” Instead, he said, the Trump
administration was “tormented
for over two years . . . all based on
a false narrative.”
The probe was opened in the
summer of 2016; Mueller submit-
ted his final report to the attorney
general in March. The special
counsel did not find enough evi-
dence to allege that the Trump
campaign conspired with the
Kremlin to influence the election
and declined to come to a conclu-
sion on whether Trump had
sought to obstruct the probe.
Under questioning from Sen.
Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Horowitz
noted he found no evidence that
the missteps in the Page case
sullied the FBI’s other work.
The FBI’s opening of the um-
brella investigation involving the
Trump campaign was based not
on Page, but a different Trump
campaign adviser, George Papa-
dopoulos, whose boasts to an
Australian government official
about the Russians potentially
having dirt on Trump’s opponent,
Hillary Clinton, sparked the bu-
reau’s interest.
Horowitz said he was unable to
get satisfactory explanations for
some of the FBI’s misconduct,
and certain witnesses agreed to
cooperate only late in the investi-
gation.
Conservatives have also noted
that Horowitz’s report is not the
last word. Attorney General Wil-
liam P. Barr tapped the top feder-
al prosecutor in Connecticut, U.S.
Attorney John Durham, to do a
similar review of the Russia case.
Barr and Durham have said they
disagree with some of what
Horowitz found, especially on the
FBI’s basis to initiate the investi-
gation. Horowitz said such dis-
agreement “isn’t a problem” and
noted that no one seemed to be
disagreeing with the facts he had
found, only the conclusions he
had drawn from those facts.
While Horowitz’s report un-
dercut some of Trump’s most
forceful attacks on the Russia
investigation, his assertions on
the FBI’s use of the Foreign Intel-
ligence Surveillance Court could
have wide-ranging implications.
On Tuesday, the court issued a
rare public order in response to
Horowitz’s findings, calling out
the FBI for its wrongdoing and
ordering the agency to submit a
plan by Jan. 10 “to ensure that the
statement of facts in each FBI
application accurately and com-
pletely reflects information pos-
sessed by the FBI that is material
to any issue presented by the
application.”
“The frequency with which
representations made by FBI per-
sonnel turned out to be unsup-
ported or contradicted by infor-
mation in their possession, and
with which they withheld infor-
mation detrimental to their case,
calls into question whether infor-
mation contained in other FBI
applications is reliable,” presid-
ing judge Rosemary M. Collyer
wrote.
Some lawmakers have suggest-
ed that they might consider strip-
ping the Foreign Intelligence Sur-
veillance Court of its legal basis if
it and the bureau do not institute
changes. FBI Director Christo-
pher A. Wray has promised to
implement corrective steps. He
said Wednesday that he felt
Horowitz’s report “describes be-
havior and performance that I
consider unacceptable and also
unrepresentative of who we are
as an institution.”
Johnson called the court’s
statement a “dramatic rebuke” of
the FBI’s conduct. He said his
previous belief that applications
to the Foreign Intelligence Sur-
veillance Court were reviewed
rigorously and at the highest lev-
els of law enforcement had been
“completely blown.”
“I think the FISA court is in
jeopardy, personally,” Johnson
said, referring to the Foreign In-
telligence Surveillance Act.
Appearing at a news confer-
ence in Detroit on Wednesday,
Barr, the attorney general, said
the act was a “critical tool to
protecting Americans” and noted
that he and Wray were working to
implement changes to address
the inspector general’s concerns.
“We are committed to preserv-
ing FISA, and we think all Ameri-
cans should be committed to pre-
serving FISA,” he said.
matt.zapotosky@washpost.com

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Plan would allow cheap drug imports
Trump seeks to let
states, others bring in
medicines from Canada
BY Y ASMEEN A BUTALEB
AND L AURIE M C G INLEY
The Trump administration laid
out a plan Wednesday to fulfill the
president’s long-standing vow to
lower prescription drug prices by
allowing states, drug wholesalers
and pharmacies to import some
cheaper drugs from Canada. But
officials could not say when the
plan might go into effect, and
many questions about its possible
scope remain unanswered.
Curbing high drug prices has
been a top priority for President
Trump ahead of the 2020 election,
and he demanded advisers pursue
options long opposed by many Re-
publicans, including importing
cheaper drugs from other coun-
tries and using some overseas pric-
es as a benchmark for some drugs
in Medicare. While the president
had sought to give voters access to
cheaper drugs before the election,
Health and Human Services Secre-
tary Alex Azar told reporters that
while the administration is “mov-
ing as quickly as we possibly can,”
it still needs to collect public input
and that he could not predict the
timetable for the plan’s implemen-
tation.
Azar announced the policy in an
appearance Wednesday with Flor-
ida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), a
Trump ally, who has sought federal
approval to allow the state to im-
port Canadian drugs for the state
Medicaid program. Trump pushed
his advisers to speed things up as
he woos voters in Florida, a battle-
ground state that played a key role
in his 2016 win.
“For the first time in history,
HHS and FDA are open to impor-
tation as a means to lower drug
prices,” Azar said on the call with
reporters, referring to the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Ser-
vices, and the Food and Drug Ad-
ministration. “No president in his-
tory has had an FDA willing to
ELISE AMENDOLA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Curbing high drug prices has been a priority for President Trump,
but questions remain on whether a new plan will be implemented.
open the door to safe importation Trump’s political foes said the
of drugs from Canada.” initiative does not go far enough.
Azar said he could not predict “Once again, the Trump White
possible cost savings because he House is tiptoeing around Big
didn’t know how many states Pharma with a spectacularly
might come forward with plans or pinched and convoluted proposal
what would be in them. Several that excludes insulin and has no
states have shown interest in im- actual implementation date,” Hen-
porting drugs from Canada. ry Connelly, a spokesman for
It also remains unclear whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-
the plan will survive expected legal Calif.), said in a statement. He said
challenges from the pharmaceuti- the Republican-controlled Senate
cal industry and whether it will be should take up the House-passed
possible to import significant bill to lower drug prices.
quantities of drugs from Canada. The administration’s an-
The Canadian government has nouncement comes as Congress
fiercely pushed back against im- failed to pass bipartisan drug pric-
portation proposals, warning that ing legislation, backed by the
the drug supply for Canada’s White House, in a year-end spend-
37 million residents cannot possi- ing bill, and as infighting and poli-
bly fulfill the demands of the much cy disputes have thwarted much of
larger U.S. market and that allow- the administration’s efforts to low-
ing importation would cause se- er drug prices. Democrats already
vere drug shortages for Canadians. have begun rolling out ads about
Analysts said it could be years their own efforts to lower drug
before any drugs are actually im- prices with House legislation that
ported from Canada — if they ever would allow Medicare to negotiate
are — given myriad regulatory and the prices of up to 250 drugs each
legal requirements involved in fi- year, and are expected to attack
nalizing and implementing the Republicans and the White House
plan. for failing to work with them to
“If you put Canadian drugs on a pass that legislation. Several presi-
dog sled and pointed it in the dential candidates, including vice
direction of Florida, the dogs president Joe Biden and Sen. Ber-
would arrive long before any drugs nie Sanders (I-Vt.), also support
through this regulatory proposal,” importation.
said Chris Meekins, a former HHS The administration’s newly is-
official who is now a research ana- sued blueprint would provide two
lyst at Raymond James, a financial pathways to allow for the importa-
services firm. tion of drugs. The first, released as
a proposed rule, would enable
states, along with wholesalers and
pharmacies, to develop programs
to purchase certain brand-name
prescription drugs from Canada,
where they are cheaper because a
federal body sets a price ceiling for
patented drugs. Those plans
would require federal approval.
Under this option, states could
not import more complex — and
often more expensive — medica-
tions, such as biologic or intrave-
nous drugs, products injected in
the spinal column or eye, or con-
trolled substances. Any medica-
tions that are imported also must
be approved by Canadian regula-
tors and meet all U.S. standards,
undergo testing in the United
States to ensure authenticity and
demonstrate they will result in
significant cost savings.
The second pathway, issued as
draft “guidance” that is likely to go
into effect sooner, would allow
drug manufacturers to import to
the United States cheaper versions
of their medications from any
country under certain conditions.
Many experts doubt most pharma-
ceutical companies would choose
to do so.
Just last year, Azar dismissed
the idea of importation as a “gim-
mick” because he said it would be
difficult to ensure counterfeit
drugs from other countries are not
routed through Canada. But he
said Tuesday that the administra-
tion’s plan would not “put patients
or our drug supply chain at risk.”
In the 2003 law that created a
Medicare drug benefit, Congress
allowed the importation of limited
types of drugs from Canada if the
HHS secretary certified it would
pose no safety risks and resulted in
significant cost savings. No HHS
secretary has ever made such a
certification.
The pharmaceutical industry
has fiercely pushed back against
the administration’s importation
proposal. In July, it called the plan
a “scheme” with “no way to guar-
antee the safety of drugs that come
into the country from outside the
United States’ gold-standard sup-
ply chain.”
yasmeen.abutaleb@washpost.com
laurie.mcginley@washpost.com
High court will consider
religious employers
BY R OBERT B ARNES
The Supreme Court will con-
sider how much leeway religious
organizations have in firing their
employees in two cases from
California filed by teachers who
lost their jobs at Catholic
schools.
The court said Wednesday that
it will combine the cases, in
which panels of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San
Francisco said teachers could
proceed with their lawsuits
against the schools. One teacher
alleged age discrimination, and
another, now deceased and rep-
resented by her husband, said
she was fired after informing the
school that she had breast can-
cer.
The cases ask the court for
further guidance on when an
employee should be considered
secular and, thus, able to take
advantage of anti-discrimination
laws — or religious, and thus
unable to do so.
Religious organizations — and
dissenting conservative judges
on the 9th Circuit — said the
decisions in the two California
cases did not follow precedent
set by the Supreme Court in 2012.
In the unanimous decision, the
court said the “ministerial excep-
tion” meant that a former teach-
er at a Michigan Lutheran school
could not sue her employer.
The decision said, in part, that
the First Amendment protects
religious organizations in decid-
ing whom to employ to espouse
religious training. It added that
courts should look not just at an
employee’s title, but also duties,
in deciding whether religious
instruction was an important
function of the job.
The Becket Fund for Religious
Liberty said in a brief asking the
Supreme Court to intervene that
only the 9th Circuit has inter-
preted the standard so narrowly
that only cases exactly like the
one decided by Hosanna-Tabor
Evangelical Lutheran Church &
School v. EEOC were prohibited.
“Seven federal courts of ap-
peals and seven state supreme
courts, in cases involving Catho-
lic, Protestant, and Jewish em-
ployers and many different kinds
of roles, have all concluded that
the presence or absence of reli-
gious function is the touchstone
of the ministerial exception in-
quiry,” it said.
“In the face of that united
approach among its sister courts,
the Ninth Circuit decided to flout
the consensus,” the brief said,
and conclude that “important
religious functions could never
be enough, by themselves, to
prove an employee’s ministerial
status.”
But attorneys for the women
said the religious groups are
trying to expand the Supreme
Court’s decision to mean that if
an employee performs any reli-
gious function — even if she has
not received any religious train-
ing — she is barred from filing
suit.
The 9th Circuit panels con-
ducted fact-intensive inquiries
and concluded that the totality of
the circumstances meant that
the women were not religious
employees, lawyers representing
them told the Supreme Court.
The Catholic schools take the
position that “if the individual
employee performs even a single
religious function, that employee
would be covered under the min-
isterial exception as a ‘minister,’ ”
said a brief filed by Agnes Mor-
rissey-Berru, who sued alleging
age discrimination against Our
Lady of Guadalupe School in the
Los Angeles area.
In the other case, Kristen Biel
sued St. James School in Tor-
rance. She said her contract was
not renewed in 2014 after she
told school officials that she was
being treated for breast cancer.
Biel sued under the Americans
With Disabilities Act, and her
suit is being pursued by her
husband.
The cases are Our Lady of
Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-
Berru and St. James Catholic
School v. Biel.
robert.barnes@washpost.com

DI GEST

NEW YORK
Ex-WorldCom chief
freed over ill health
A former top executive
sentenced to 25 years in prison in
one of the largest corporate
accounting scandals in U.S.
history was ordered freed from
prison Wednesday for medical
reasons.
U.S. District Judge Valerie E.
Caproni ordered the release of
former WorldCom chief Bernard
Ebbers after hearing lawyers
discuss his medical problems.
Ebbers was not in court, and his
lawyers said he was hospitalized
Wednesday.
Caproni said it fell within her
discretion to order the early
release after a lawyer cited severe
medical problems for the 78-year-
old Ebbers and said his weight
had dropped from above 200
pounds to 147 pounds last week.
The Mississippi-based
WorldCom collapsed and went
into bankruptcy in 2002, causing
losses to stockholders, including
people who had invested through
retirement plans.
The collapse followed
revelations of an $11 billion
accounting fraud that included
pressure by top executives on
subordinates to inflate numbers
to make the company seem more
profitable.
WorldCom emerged from
bankruptcy in 2004 and
rebranded itself MCI, the name of
a telecommunications company
WorldCom bought years earlier.
During bankruptcy, the company
moved its headquarters from
Clinton, Miss., to Ashburn, Va. In
2006, Verizon Communications
bought MCI.
Ebbers was convicted in New
York in 2005 on securities fraud
and other charges and received a
25-year sentence. He has been
imprisoned since September
2006. Five other WorldCom
executives were convicted of their
roles in the fraud.
— Associated Press
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purged from voter rolls
Georgia election officials
purged nearly 309,000 voter
registrations from the state’s
voting rolls this week, according
to a list of canceled registrations
released by the secretary of state’s
office on Wednesday.
A federal judge is set to hear
arguments Thursday about
whether some of those
registrations should be
reinstated. The hearing comes
after Fair Fight Action, a voting
rights advocacy group founded by
Democrat Stacey Abrams, filed an
emergency motion earlier this
week asking the court to stop part
of the purge.
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allowed the purge to move
forward Monday after a lawyer
for the state said the voter
maintenance program was
already running and that any
voters deemed to have been
wrongly removed could have
their registrations reinstated
within 24 to 48 hours.
Fair Fight says a new law
allows voters nine years of
inactivity before being removed
— compared with seven years
under the old law. But the lawyer
for the state said the people in
question were placed on the
inactive list before the law took
effect. Voter purges in Georgia
became a hot-button issue during
last year’s race for governor
between Abrams and Brian Kemp
(R), who won the race. Kemp
served as secretary of state before
being elected governor and
oversaw aggressive voter purges
during his tenure. More than
1.4 million voter registrations
were canceled between 2012 and
2018.
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Impeachment vote

senate from a1 ing is going in favor of no impeach-

articles of impeachment to the Sen-

ate, saying she wants to know more
about how the trial will proceed.
What is certain is that the bipar-
tisan bonhomie that at least helped
launch President Bill Clinton’s Sen-
ate trial two decades ago is gone.
The chamber is already locked in a
bitter struggle over how the pro-
ceedings for Trump will be con-
ducted, as the two sides trade accu-
sations of impartiality and a rush to
judgment.
Even before the two men have
spoken privately, the bad blood be-
tween Senate majority Leader
mitch mcConnell (r-Ky.) and Sen-
ate minority Leader Charles E.
Schumer (D-N.Y.) has spilled into
the open, with the pair trading
barbs in dueling floor speeches and
media interviews rather than ne-
gotiating one on one.
Yet senators are balancing their
partisan roles with a desire to pro-
tect the integrity of the Senate,
particularly as a recent Washing-
ton Post-ABC News poll shows that
more than 6 in 10 Americans say
they’re confident the Senate will
give Trump a fair trial.
Some senators concede that the
task may be more difficult today
than it was during the Clinton im-
peachment.
“It’s not just the individuals, the
players, but I think the game is
different today than it was back
then,” said Senate majority Whip
John Thune (r-S.D.), who will play
a central role in ensuring there will
be a majority of GoP senators for a
swift impeachment trial.
As Thune prepares for January,
he met privately Wednesday with
former senator Trent Lott (r-
miss.), who as majority leader
helped steer Clinton’s trial.
“for something like this, it really
needs, I think, to move forward in a
way that builds upon some sort of
bipartisanship and some level of
cooperation that suggests, you
know, that it isn’t just chaos around
here,” Thune said.
But any semblance of biparti-
sanship on setting the parameters
of Trump’s trial has largely evapo-
rated — if it ever existed.
for days, Democrats have been
infuriated at mcConnell’s public
acknowledgment that he was coor-
dinating with the White House — a
complaint republicans have
shrugged off, saying they don’t con-
sider themselves impartial jurors
in what they contend is a political
process.
Schumer fired the opening shot
in the trial negotiations this week,
requesting the testimony of four
witnesses from the Trump admin-
istration who had rebuffed re-
quests and subpoenas from the
House to testify in its impeach-
ment inquiry. Schumer has threat-
ened to force floor votes during a
trial on calling those witnesses.
mcConnell pointedly noted that
Schumer went to the news media
with his requests first rather than
to him. Thune said the minority
leader’s tactic “just rubbed a lot of
our members the wrong way.”
Indeed, Schumer’s offer was de-
signed largely to pressure a hand-
ful of GoP senators who Demo-
crats think could break with their
party and demand that the Senate
hold a more thorough trial because
they face tough reelection contests
or are retiring or considering how
their role in the impeachment bat-
tle will affect their legacies.
“We have to do everything we
can to conduct a fair trial, but
whether that happens depends on
Senators hurtle toward
acquittal that is all but assured
senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has made clear that he wants a limited trial with no witnesses and, according
to Republican officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity, has been in regular contact with the president’s legal team.
whether or not we can find four tensified their coordination with
republicans who will vote to do the administration in recent days.
this the right way,” said Sen. Brian mcConnell — who has made clear
Schatz (D-Hawaii). “republicans his preference for a limited trial
have to decide whether their job is with no witnesses — has been in
to be loyal to the Constitution or to regular contact with the president
their party.” and his legal team, according to
In the absence of bipartisan GoP officials who spoke on the
talks, Senate republicans have in- condition of anonymity to discuss
the private talks.
on Capitol Hill, Senate republi-
cans have regularly fielded visitors
from the administration, such as
White House Counsel Pat Cipol-
lone, Vice President Pence and, on
Wednesday, White House counsel-
or Kellyanne Conway, who met
with GoP senators for lunch to
MelInA MArA/THe WAsHIngTOn POsT
discuss impeachment strategy.
Inside the meeting, Conway pre-
sented a ream of recent polling,
making the case that public senti-
ment in recent weeks has turned
against the Democrats’ efforts to
impeach the president, according
to senators who attended.
“You see increasingly, the poll-
ment and removal from office,”
Conway said as she left the lunch.
Public polling his consistently
shown that Americans are about
evenly split on whether to impeach
the president.
As to the trial structure that the
White House prefers, Conway told
reporters: “I think short versus
long is less important than full and
fair.”
Senate GoP leaders hope to
make a final decision on witnesses
deep into Trump’s trial, after both
the House impeachment managers
and the president’s defense team
have had ample time in the well of
the chamber to make their argu-
ments. At that point, senior repub-
licans hope there will be 51 sena-
tors who will be ready to move to a
final vote on acquitting Trump,
short-circuiting any need for wit-
nesses.
“We’re intent on trying not to
look for opportunities that need-
lessly divide people until they’ve
heard both cases,” said Sen. roy
Blunt (r-mo.). “I think that’s our
focus, is making sure that happens
first.”
The House voted to impeach
Trump on charges that he tried to
leverage a White House meeting as
well as military aid sought by
Ukraine to combat russian mili-
tary aggression, as a means of pres-
suring Ukrainian President Volod-
ymyr Zelensky to announce an in-
vestigation of former vice presi-
dent Joe Biden and his son Hunter
Biden, as well as a probe of an
unfounded theory that Kyiv con-
spired with Democrats to interfere
in the 2016 U.S. presidential elec-
tion. The House also approved an
article of impeachment that accus-
es Trump of obstructing Congress
by preventing members of his ad-
ministration from cooperating
with the investigations.
Calls by Trump and White
House officials to have an assort-
ment of controversial witnesses
testify in the Senate — including
Hunter Biden over his role on the
board of a Ukrainian energy com-
pany while his father was vice pres-
ident and the obama administra-
tion’s policy leader regarding Kyiv
— have largely quieted in recent
days.
“We can look at these accusa-
tions outside of impeachment,”
said Sen. Lindsey o. Graham
(r-S.C.), a close Trump ally who
chairs the Senate Judiciary Com-
mittee. “So I’m going to tell the
president no to his witness request,
because I think what’s best for the
country is to get this behind us as
soon as possible.”
Senate leaders hope to resolve at
least some of the other lingering
questions this week.
In a lunch with republican sen-
ators on Tuesday, mcConnell said
he hopes senators will know before
leaving for the holidays this week
when the impeachment trial will
begin in January, said a senator
who was in attendance. That infor-
mation was confirmed by two offi-
cials familiar with the discussion.
once the articles of impeach-
ment have been delivered to the
Senate, the chamber will have to
take them up. What the Senate
does then will not be finalized until
mcConnell and Schumer have had
a chance to discuss the trial, but
senators are likely to have to reach
some sort of agreement to set a trial
date in January.
seungmin.kim@washpost.com
Karoun Demirjian contributed to this
report.

THe FIX

After House vote, proceedings move to Senate. Here’s what happens next.
BY A MBER P HILLIPS
President Trump entered the
history books in a new category
Wednesday: He is the third presi-
dent in U.S. history to have been
impeached by the House. The two
votes on impeachment bring to an
end the House’s months-long in-
quiry into whether Trump im-
properly pressured Ukraine to
conduct investigations that would
benefit him politically.
Here’s how we got to this mo-
ment and what you can expect in
the Senate trial that comes next.
What happened Wednesday?
The House spent Wednesday
debating the two impeachment
articles on the House floor. The
first article accused him of abus-
ing his power by leveraging the
federal government and taxpayer
money for his personal and politi-
cal gain, and the second accused
him of obstructing the congressio-
nal inquiry into his actions on
Ukraine.
republicans who spoke almost
universally accused Democrats of
looking for an excuse to impeach
Trump, while Democrats argued
that Trump’s conduct regarding
Ukraine necessitated impeach-
ment.
Both articles passed, meaning
Trump is impeached. The article
on abuse of power passed 230 to
197, and the one on obstruction
passed 229 to 198.
But he’s not removed from of-
fice. The Senate determines
whether that will happen.
What the Constitution says
about what happens next
A president who has been im-
peached by the House can still
serve as president. It’s up to the
Senate to hold a trial to decide
whether to remove him from of-
fice. The two other presidents im-
peached by the House, Bill Clinton
and Andrew Johnson, were both
acquitted by the Senate.
The Constitution says only that
the Senate has to hold a trial, with
the senators sitting as jurors,
House lawmakers serving as pros-
ecutors known as managers, and
the chief justice of the United
States presiding over it. Senators
must take a public vote, and two-
thirds of those present must agree
on whether to convict the presi-
dent and thus remove him from
office. But the Constitution
doesn’t lay out exactly how to hold
a trial.
How a senate trial works
rules the Senate approved in
the 1980s give some guidelines,
but the really important stuff —
such as whether to call witnesses
and what kind of evidence to ad-
mit and how long to make it — is
up to the senators themselves to
decide. The only modern guide is
the Clinton impeachment trial,
which allowed no new evidence
and only taped witness testimony
of key witnesses. It was largely
considered a successful example
of bipartisan cooperation, as re-
publicans worked with Democrats
to put together as fair a trial as
possible.
A majority of senators need to
agree on the rules for Trump’s
impeachment trial. Senate major-
ity Leader mitch mcConnell
(r-Ky.) and Senate minority Lead-
er Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) will
probably try to come to a compro-
mise beforehand on what witness-
es to call to avoid a big, dramatic
battle during the trial. But they
have vastly different views on how
to do this. Schumer has said he
wants people close to the presi-
dent during the period scrutinized
in the impeachment inquiry, such
as Trump’s acting chief of staff,
mick mulvaney, or former nation-
al security adviser John Bolton, to
testify. The Washington Post has
reported that mcConnell wants no
witnesses at all. republicans are
also feeling pressured by Trump,
who appears ready to use the Sen-
ate trial to attack his political op-
ponents and try to undermine his
impeachment.
Even though the Senate trial is
in republican hands, The Post’s
mike DeBonis reports that some
House Democrats are trying to
influence what happens. As many
as three dozen want to hold back
the impeachment articles from
going to the Senate immediately,
which could delay the Senate trial
Trump so badly wants to clear his
name — and perhaps put pressure
on republicans to consider invit-
ing witnesses who could be dam-
aging to Trump. House leadership
has not ruled that out, but it seems
like a long shot.
minutes after the vote, House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
told reporters she wouldn’t be
naming House managers until she
saw the parameters of the Senate
trial and was assured it was fair,
strongly suggesting she believes a
fair trial includes witnesses.
Assuming they get the articles
without delay, senators will come
to an agreement on a start date for
a trial, expected to be in January.
Senators will start by taking an
oath of impartiality and will work
six days a week until they’ve voted
on both articles of impeachment.
If there are witnesses, senators
can ask them questions in writing,
which the presiding official, Chief
Justice John G. roberts Jr., will
read out loud. The president can
choose his own lawyers, and they
can cross-examine witnesses. The
chief justice can overrule some-
thing that happens in the trial that
he feels is out of line with the rules,
but senators can overrule him.
If Trump is convicted on even
one count, the Constitution says
he has to be removed from office.
Senators could take yet another
vote to prevent him from running
for office again.
What is the likelihood of the
senate convicting trump?
It’s low. House republicans dis-
played remarkable unity during
the impeachment process — none
of them voted for impeachment.
outside Congress, Trump remains
popular among his base. Against
that backdrop, it’s hard to see
mass defections among Senate re-
publicans to override their party’s
voters and kick the president out
of office.
A mass defection by members
of his own party is what it would
take to convict Trump and remove
him from office. Twenty of the 53
republican senators would need
to join all Democratic-voting sena-
tors to reach the two-thirds su-
permajority the Constitution re-
quires for impeachment. The Post
counts 14 who have expressed at
least some level of concern with
Trump’s behavior on Ukraine poli-
cy, but there are only three repub-
lican senators who have a track
record of speaking out against
Trump consistently: Susan Collins
of maine, Lisa murkowski of Alas-
ka and mitt romney of Utah. In
addition, it’s not a given that all
Senate Democrats stay together.
Someone like Joe manchin III of
West Virginia has crossed party
lines before.
So, there probably aren’t
enough senators to convict Trump
as the evidence stands now. But
there are enough senators in the
middle of the political spectrum to
put weight on Senate leaders to
conduct a fair trial.
What does the public say
about impeaching trump?
Americans started out skeptical
of removing Trump from office,
and after more than two months,
they are split basically 50-50, ac-
cording to a Post-ABC News poll.
The all-important independents
are also split, the poll found.
amber.phillips@washpost.com
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House Speaker nancy pelosi (D-calif.) oversees a vote on the second article of impeachment against president trump on Wednesday night. the votes came after 11 hours of frequently contentious debate.
As fate nears, Trump cites ‘assault on America’
impeAcHment from A1
Biden, a potential 2020 Demo-
cratic opponent.
The House voted 230 to 197 to
approve the article charging
abuse of power, with the gavel
falling about 8:30 p.m. on the
obstruction of Congress vote,
which followed soon after, the
tally was 229 to 198.
All republicans voted against
both articles. Among Democrats,
two voted no on the first article
and three on the second, with one
— rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii)
— voting “present” both times.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.) framed the day’s pro-
ceedings through the long lens of
history, reciting the Pledge of
Allegiance and singling out the
line “the republic for which it
stands.”
“Very sadly, now our founders’
vision of a republic is under
threat from actions from the
White House,” Pelosi said. She
added, “If we do not act now, we
would be derelict in our duty.”
The Senate is widely expected
to acquit Trump, since conviction
and removal would require 67
votes in a chamber where Demo-
crats and their allies hold 47
seats. If Trump is acquitted, it
would launch an unpredictable
stretch of his presidency; his
reaction would be uncertain after
opponents had taken a powerful
but ultimately unsuccessful shot
at removing him.
After Wednesday’s votes, Pelosi
left open the possibility of delay-
ing a procedural step that trig-
gers a Senate trial, saying she
might not name House impeach-
ment managers and deliver the
articles to the Senate unless re-
publicans there establish a “fair”
process. In doing so, Pelosi was
effectively attempting to gain le-
verage over the Senate’s process
for weighing the charges against
Trump.
“So far we have not seen any-
thing that looks fair to us,” Pelosi
said.
Wednesday’s action punctuat-
ed a quarter-century of increas-
ingly poisonous partisanship in
Washington, one that arguably
began during Bill Clinton’s presi-
dency, was extended with rebel-
lions against presidents George
W. Bush and Barack obama, and
is culminating in the Trump era.
The intensity and polarization
of the debate on the House floor
vividly illustrated the extent to
which leaders of the two parties
now believe entirely different ac-
counts of what occurred and are
motivated by different concerns.
At times they sounded almost as
if they were representing differ-
ent countries.
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Democrats characterized
Trump as an immediate threat to
the nation he was elected to lead,
casting his actions as an unprece-
dented affront to American val-
ues. republicans denounced
those charges as unsubstantiated
and the process as illegitimate,
repeatedly accusing the Demo-
crats of seeking to illegally over-
turn the results of the last elec-
tion.
Trump, who has nursed deep
feelings of persecution as his
impeachment has grown more
likely, watched the debate unfold
from the White House. Ten min-
utes after press secretary Stepha-
nie Grisham issued a statement
saying the president was “work-
ing all day,” Trump vented his
fury on Twitter: “SUCH ATro-
CIoUS LIES BY THE rADICAL
LEfT, Do NoTHING DEmo-
CrATS. THIS IS AN ASSAULT
oN AmErICA, AND AN AS-
SAULT oN THE rEPUBLICAN
PArTY!!!!”
Just before the House voted,
Trump took the stage in michi-
gan, where he rallied an estimat-
ed 10,000 supporters at a sports
arena in Battle Creek — a muscu-
lar display of political potency
even at the historic low point of
his presidency.
“This lawless partisan im-
peachment is a suicide march for
the Democratic Party,” Trump
told the crowd. He added, “After
three years of sinister witch
hunts, hoaxes, scams, tonight
House Democrats are trying to
eZ sU
Impeachment vote
nullify the ballots of tens of
millions of patriotic Americans.”
Back in Washington, Pelosi
sought to rebut allegations from
republicans that her party has
cast about since Trump took of-
fice for a reason to impeach him,
saying no lawmaker of either
party came to the Capitol to
remove a president. She said
Trump had forced Congress’s
hand because he had “violated
the Constitution.”
“He gave us no choice,” Pelosi
said, drawing applause from
Democrats by declaring that “we
are here to defend democracy for
the people.”
Barring a drastic shift in mo-
mentum, Trump is expected to be
acquitted in the Senate, where a
two-thirds supermajority is re-
quired to remove a president who
has been impeached. Senate ma-
jority Leader mitch mcConnell
(r-Ky.) has said he is planning a
short trial and declared himself
partial to protecting Trump.
Nevertheless, Trump’s im-
peachment by the House will be a
defining mark on his legacy.
Wednesday’s action cemented on
a constitutional level the opposi-
tion party’s view that Trump is
unfit to serve, elevating the infor-
mal resistance to his presidency,
which has raged from coast to
coast, into the permanent histori-
cal record.
After Democrats surfed an an-
ti-Trump wave in the 2018 mid-
term elections to seize the House
majority, Pelosi reclaimed the
speaker’s gavel she had lost eight
years before with a clear mandate
from her party’s base to serve as a
check on the president’s power
and investigate his conduct.
Pelosi at first resisted pressure
from the left to impeach Trump,
however, arguing that such a
move would be unnecessarily di-
visive. But she formally opened
an inquiry in September after a
whistleblower reported concerns
about Trump’s conduct on a July
25 phone call with Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky, in
which Trump explicitly asked
Zelensky to investigate Biden.
marathon hearings last month
before the House Intelligence
Committee produced damaging
testimony detailing Trump’s ac-
tions and those of his personal
attorney rudolph W. Giuliani,
among others. That helped solidi-
fy the support of even centrist
Democrats for moving against
the president, and the House
Judiciary Committee then draft-
ed the two articles of impeach-
ment.
Democrats said Wednesday
that declining to punish a presi-
dential demand that a foreign
government influence an Ameri-
can election would be an unac-
ceptable abdication of constitu-
tional responsibility. Such an ac-
tion clearly meets the standard of
“high crimes and misdemeanors”
that the Constitution lays out for
impeachment, they said.
“The evidence is clear that
President Trump took advantage
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of Ukraine’s vulnerability and
abused the powers of his office to
pressure Ukraine to help his re-
election campaign,” said Judicia-
ry Committee Chairman Jerrold
Nadler (D-N.Y.). “This is the high-
est of high crimes, and President
Trump must be held to account.”
Democrats and republicans
took turns at the rostrum deliver-
ing short, impassioned speeches
— a furious debate that in many
ways showcased how much
Trump has remade the two par-
ties.
The republicans, mostly white
men, stood staunchly behind the
president and repeated many of
his statements vilifying the oppo-
sition. The Democrats, notably
more diverse in race and gender,
uniformly attacked the presi-
dent’s conduct as an affront to
American values.
“When we say we uphold the
Constitution, we are not talking
about a piece of parchment,” said
rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.),
chairman of the House Intelli-
gence Committee. “We’re talking
about a beautiful architecture in
which ambition is set against
ambition, in which no branch of
government can dominate anoth-
er.”
He added, “That is what it
means to uphold the Constitu-
tion. If you ignore it, if you say the
president may refuse to comply,
may refuse lawful process, may
coerce an ally, may cheat in an
election because he’s the presi-
dent of our party, you do not
uphold our Constitution.”
republicans responded that
Democratic leaders had concoct-
ed a scheme to oust the president
because they were afraid they
could not beat him in next No-
vember’s election.
House minority Leader Kevin
mcCarthy (r-Calif.) said, “Demo-
crats have wanted to impeach
President Trump since the day he
was elected — and nothing was
going to get in their way, certainly
not the truth.”
Though some republican law-
makers defended Trump on the
substance of the allegations,
many spent most of their time
airing grievances about the pro-
cess. They often echoed the ram-
bling, six-page letter Trump is-
sued to Pelosi on Tuesday, and
they repeated the president’s
claims of personal persecution in
sometimes overheated terms.
“When Jesus was falsely ac-
cused of treason, Pontius Pilate
gave Jesus the opportunity to face
his accusers,” said rep. Barry
Loudermilk (r-Ga.). “During that
sham trial, Pontius Pilate afford-
ed more rights to Jesus than the
Democrats have afforded this
president in this process.”
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other GoP House members
described impeachment as the
outgrowth of insidious forces.
“I have descended into the
belly of the beast. I have wit-
nessed a terror within,” said rep.
Clay Higgins (r-La.)
rep. mike Kelly (r-Pa.), mean-
while, drew a parallel to the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
in 1941. After quoting President
franklin D. roosevelt calling
Dec. 7 “a date that will live in
infamy,” Kelly said, “Today, De-
cember the 18th, 2019, is another
date that will live in infamy.”
Democrats captured the House
majority last year in part by
winning in suburban areas where
Trump had prevailed two years
earlier. Virtually all the Demo-
crats from such republican-lean-
ing districts announced they
would vote to impeach Trump,
risking their seats in the face of
aggressive campaigns in their
home districts pressuring them
to break ranks.
The Democrats’ defectors were
reps. Collin C. Peterson of min-
nesota and Jeff Van Drew of New
Jersey. rep. Jared Golden (D-
maine) voted in favor of the
abuse of power article but
switched to no for obstruction of
Congress.
While no republicans sup-
ported impeachment, rep. Justin
Amash of michigan, who left the
party earlier this year to become
an independent over frustration
with the GoP’s fealty to Trump,
did so.
republicans vowed to use the
impeachment vote as a political
cudgel against Democrats in next
year’s elections.
“Those who vote yes on today’s
articles of impeachment must
carry the heavy burden of shame
and guilt for as long as they serve
in Congress — which won’t be
long, because the American peo-
ple will remember in November,”
said rep. matt Gaetz (r-fla.).
Democrats, meanwhile,
seemed eager to turn the page
and refocus on health care and
other issues that propelled them
to victory in 2018.
“No one came to Congress to
impeach a president,” said rep.
Ben ray Luján (D-N.m.), who ran
House Democrats’ campaign or-
ganization last year. “We came
here to solve the mighty issues
that impact the lives of the con-
stituents we pledge to serve.”
But, he added, “this moment
has found us.”
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Trump’s Ukraine conduct troubles him, but GOP moderate can’t back ouster
BY C OLBY I TKOWITZ
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick refuses
to defend President Trump’s con-
duct toward Ukraine, but the
Pennsylvania Republican did not
vote to impeach him.
A past critic of the president
who has sought to build a reputa-
tion on Capitol Hill as a politician
untethered to party, Fitzpatrick is
also a former FBI agent who spent
time in Ukraine advancing anti-
corruption efforts. He serves as
co-chair of the Congressional
Ukraine Caucus.
And he’s one of only two House
Republicans running for reelec-
tion in a congressional district
Hillary Clinton won in 2016 — all
others retired or were wiped out in
the Democrats’ 2018 rout — mak-
ing him a top target for national
Democrats. The other Republican
is Rep. John Katko (N.Y.).
But Fitzpatrick is banking on
swing voters come November
2020 caring less that he voted
against impeachment and more
that last week he and just one
other Republican joined Demo-
crats to pass a bill to lower drug
prices or that earlier in the month
he was the only GOP member to
vote with Democrats on restoring
voting rights protections.
He voted no on both articles of
impeachment Wednesday. On the
floor, he approached House Mi-
nority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-
Calif.) and shook his hand. He did
not speak on the floor to explain
his vote.
But ahead of the vote, Fitzpat-
rick spelled out his opposition to
impeachment in a lengthy state-
ment in which he called it “a con-
stitutional nuclear option of last
resort,” criticized the House probe
as rushed and argued that it was
“poisoned from the start” when
Democratic leaders tapped the In-
telligence Committee rather than
law enforcement to investigate.
Sitting in his Washington office
on Tuesday, his 46th birthday, he
said he doesn’t oppose impeach-
ment because he finds Trump’s
July 25 phone call in which he
pressured Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky to help his
reelection bid defensible. It’s be-
cause, like many of his GOP col-
leagues, he opposes the process
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Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania is one of two House Republicans running for reelection in a district Hillary Clinton won in 2016.
Democrats took to get there.
“I’ve just been very, very disap-
pointed with how this has trans-
pired because I haven’t reached
the conclusion I have because I
don’t view the allegation as seri-
ous, quite to the contrary,” Fitzpat-
rick said. “The reason I’m here
now is because I thought it was
such a serious allegation that was
treated in such a fundamentally
unserious manner.”
The question is whether Fitz-
patrick will pay a political price in
November 2020 for his vote. There
were no protests at his Capitol Hill
office Tuesday in a corner of the
Longworth House Office Building
— though around 1,000 people
gathered at his district office that
night to make their displeasure
known. The phone rang every 10
minutes or so in the otherwise
silent Washington office, and a
young aide recited the same nice-
Impeachment vote
ties, promising to pass the mes-
sage along. Those calls were all
pro-impeachment, he said.
It’s so different, Fitzpatrick
said, from the health-care debate
in 2017, when his office was inun-
dated with calls and foot traffic
from people urging him to save the
Affordable Care Act. That spring,
he voted against Republicans’
plan to repeal the law.
“I would have expected to hear a
lot more than I do. That’s not to say
that I don’t hear about it, I do. But
just not to the level that you would
expect given the magnitude of
this,” Fitzpatrick said.
That doesn’t mean there hasn’t
been pressure. In early November,
a veterans group called Defend
American Democracy released a
cable ad in the Philadelphia mar-
ket calling on Fitzpatrick to “hold
the president accountable.” Over
Thanksgiving, a coalition of liber-
EZ RE
al groups drove a billboard around
his district that urged people to
tell Fitzpatrick to “defend democ-
racy” by voting to impeach Trump.
And last week, the editorial board
of the region’s major newspaper,
the Philadelphia Inquirer, wrote
that Fitzpatrick needed “to step up
on the impeachment vote.”
The two-term congressman
eked out a narrow win in 2018 over
an unseasoned opponent in a sub-
urban Philadelphia district that
has long trended Republican but
has in recent years started to turn.
Democrats swept local elections
this year in vote-rich Bucks Coun-
ty, which makes up the largest
share of the district. National
Democrats see it as an opportuni-
ty to pick up a seat in a cycle in
which they’ll otherwise be defend-
ing their own moderates.
The Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee held a focus
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group with swing voters in his
district in October, said a national
Democratic strategist who spoke
on the condition of anonymity to
talk freely about internal activity.
The strategist said the focus
group participants were “con-
fused” by Fitzpatrick’s effort to
build a record as an independent
and his vote against impeachment
— a narrative the Democrats in-
tend to hammer him on next year.
Chris Pack, spokesman for the
National Republican Congressio-
nal Committee, said in an emailed
statement that “Fitzpatrick has al-
ways put the people of his district
above politics and it’s no different
when it comes to this sham im-
peachment process.” He predicted
Fitzpatrick would be reelected.
Former Republican congress-
man Charlie Dent, who represent-
ed a similarly bellwether district
in southeastern Pennsylvania be-
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fore retiring in 2018, believes it’s a
“manageable political risk” for
Fitzpatrick. But Dent said it did
surprise him that no Republicans
— other than Rep. Justin Amash
(I-Mich.), who left the GOP in July
— supported impeachment given
“the facts and the weight of the
evidence.” If he were still in Con-
gress, he said, he would have voted
to start an inquiry and likely for
the articles of impeachment.
“If your argument is this is bad
behavior, highly inappropriate,
but not impeachable, which is
what a lot of them are using, it’s
not a great argument,” Dent said.
“If these aren’t impeachable of-
fenses, what are? I thought I un-
derstood the rules that you can’t
use the office for naked political
gain. That’s why I keep scratching
and slapping my head.”
Fitzpatrick’s call for an inde-
pendent law enforcement investi-
gation to remove politics from the
process is dismissed by Demo-
crats, who argue that Attorney
General William P. Barr wouldn’t
have launched a probe of Trump.
“You don’t not do the right thing
because you’re afraid that some-
body is going to thwart that. You
proceed down the right path and if
people try to impede that, then
you deal with that and you call
them out for doing that,” Fitzpat-
rick said. “But to never go down
that path because you’re assuming
that people are going to conduct
themselves in an unbecoming
manner? I’m not sure that’s the
way to go here.”
Asked whether he was worried
about Democrats’ campaigning
against him next year based on his
impeachment vote undermining
his independent brand, Fitzpat-
rick dismissed the concern.
Former Democratic congress-
man Patrick Murphy represented
Bucks County for two terms after
beating Fitzpatrick’s older brother
in 2006, then losing to him in 2010
over support of the Affordable
Care Act. Murphy understands
better than anyone how quickly
the political winds can turn.
“I had death threats, but I said,
‘Hey, I didn’t know if I had two
years or 20 years to serve, but I did
what I believed was right,” he said.
“I think it’s going to haunt him.”
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This time, deeper divisions and fewer tuning in
trump from A1
crossing party lines to vote
against their president, the
Trump impeachment is like the
Trump presidency — a deliberate
disruption of the way things have
always been done.
The Trump impeachment has
been a hurtling, one-party dash
through the constitutional pro-
cess, taking place in a startlingly
accelerated media whirlpool be-
fore a starkly divided audience of
Americans who are alternately
exhausted by the country’s politi-
cal divisions and energized by
their journeys to ideological ex-
tremes.
This impeachment looks and
feels different from the Nixon
and Clinton messes: Even as the
two Americas, red and blue, have
dug in against each other, they
have paid less attention to the
possible removal of their chief
executive. Even as a presidency
faces its ultimate crisis, the polit-
ical rhetoric remains far more
bellicose than inspiring or in-
structive. And even as investiga-
tions and hearings go through
the motions of finding out what
the president really did, the
country seems not an inch closer
to any consensus about the facts.
Since the launch of the Demo-
crats’ impeachment inquiry in
September, public opinion on the
merits of removing Trump from
office has moved hardly at all,
according to myriad polls over
the past three months. That
stands in sharp contrast with the
past two impeachment process-
es, when Nixon’s popularity
plummeted and Clinton’s surged
as voters’ minds were changed
and emotions shifted.
This time, America is locked
in. The battle lines were drawn
long ago, in most cases well
before Trump even took office.
Chris Cannon, a former republi-
can congressman from Utah who
served as a House impeachment
manager during the Clinton pro-
ceedings, said the country is now
divided into two dueling factions
— the “I’m going to wear my
mAGA hat and punch you in the
face if you disagree” group and
the “I’m going to punch you in
the face because of your mAGA
hat” group.
That political and cultural gulf
virtually guarantees that this im-
peachment cannot end with any
consensus like the one that
emerged after the proceedings
against Nixon and Clinton — that
the system had worked.
Then, facts emerged through
House investigations that led
large majorities of the public to
accept a single narrative about
the president’s actions.
This time, however, a certain
hopelessness has pervaded the
process.
Lanny Breuer, who was special
counsel to Clinton during his
impeachment and later served as
assistant attorney general during
the obama administration, saw a
sadly accurate reflection of that
hopelessness on “Saturday Night
Live,” which last week aired a
sketch depicting pro- and anti-
Trump families sitting down to
dinner conversations that re-
flected diametrically opposing
views of reality.
“People are always saying that
these politicians are going to
have a hard time looking their
grandchildren in the face. But,
really, not one of them will ever
have to explain this to their
grandkids,” Breuer said. “Every-
body will be proud of what they
did. That’s how divided we are.
And that’s not new: John mcCain
voted to impeach Clinton, and
nobody says that’s a blot on
Senator mcCain’s memory.”
Impeachment is by design a
last-ditch tool for dealing with a
presidency gone terribly wrong,
so it naturally involves a certain
amount of bitterness and sad-
ness. Yet the Nixon and Clinton
impeachment efforts had the na-
tion glued to TV sets. The Trump
matter has proved to be a much
less powerful magnet.
The House vote on Clinton in
1998 was a TV ratings bonanza.
CNN recorded its highest num-
bers since the bombing of the
oklahoma City federal building
three years earlier, and fox News,
then the laggard among the three
cable news outlets, scored its
highest ratings since the channel
debuted in 1996. on CBS, news
anchor Dan rather interrupted a
Buffalo Bills-New York Jets game
nine times to update his audi-
ence on the progress of the House
votes.
The ratings for this fall’s con-
gressional hearings have been
healthy but far from record-set-
ting. A recent Washington Post-
ABC poll found that 62 percent of
Americans said they were closely
following this impeachment sto-
ry, a sharp drop from the 82 per-
cent who said they closely fol-
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only American president to quit the office, exiting before a House impeachment vote. ABOVE: president Bill Clinton — flanked by
Chief of Staff John podesta, House minority Leader richard A. Gephardt (D-mo.), Vice president Al Gore and first lady Hillary
Clinton — is applauded after his statement in response to the House vote to impeach him on Dec. 19, 1998.
lowed Clinton’s impeachment.
At the other end of the spec-
trum, 18 percent say they are not
following Trump’s impeachment
too closely and 20 percent say
they are not following it at all. In
1998, only 5 percent reported
paying no attention.
“Even I don’t watch this stuff,”
said retired congressman David
E. Bonior, a Democrat from
michigan who was the House
minority whip during the Clinton
impeachment. “If it bores me,
and I’m a political person, it’s
going to really bore a lot of other
people.”
Bonior attributed the shift to
the decline of traditional news
outlets and the ascendancy of
“We weren’t as divided back then. . . . The process
was very solemn, in part because there was much
more respect for government then.”
David E. Bonior, a retired democratic congressman
from michigan who was the house minority whip
during the impeachment of President bill Clinton
social media. many Americans
are now channeled into informa-
tion silos, making it far easier for
them to view impeachment as
either the witch hunt Trump
claims it is or the righteous
reaction to a rogue president that
many Democrats perceive.
This impeachment also seems
to lack the gravity of the previous
two processes, at least according
to some who lived through those
times.
“We weren’t as divided back
then,” Bonior said. “You could
always find people to work with
on the other side who were fair.
The process was very solemn, in
part because there was much
more respect for government
then.”
The Clinton impeachment de-
bate led some lawmakers to vote
against their president — an act
eZ re
Impeachment vote
that today might get them
drummed out of the party, said
Bob Barr, a former republican
congressman from Georgia who
was one of the first to seek
Clinton’s ouster.
“It wasn’t hugely bipartisan
back then,” Barr said, “but given
the absolute absence of biparti-
sanship now, it was something
worth noting. Now, you’re a pari-
ah if you simply disagree with
your party, whether it’s the re-
publicans pushing out Justin
Amash or the Democrats turning
on Jeff Van Drew.” Amash, a
House member from michigan,
left the GoP and became an
independent after calling for
Trump’s impeachment. Van
Drew, a Democrat from New
Jersey who opposes impeach-
ment, plans to join the republi-
can Party.
“I don’t remember this con-
stant anger that we see now,”
Barr said.
others warn against waxing
too nostalgic about any comity
surrounding the Clinton im-
peachment.
“Let’s not overstate the
amount of struggling with con-
science from last time. It was
pretty damned partisan,” Breuer
said. “I don’t remember there
being a roadblock every minute,
with everyone so angry like now.
But we were already heading
down this road.”
Cannon also challenged the
idea that the debate back then
took place on a higher plane.
“When was America civil?” he
asked, listing examples of parti-
san warfare starting with the
very first Congress more than
two centuries ago. “What we’re
seeing now is a petty struggle for
power in Washington instead of
focusing on governance, and that
same thing happened from the
very beginnings of our country. It
always boils down to ‘I want
power.’ ”
In 1998, Cannon argued that
Clinton’s lies and misbehavior
was a threat to the survival of
American democracy: “What we
do here will set the standard for
what is acceptable for this and
future presidents,” he said on the
House floor.
A generation later, Cannon
says Clinton’s impeachment left a
trail of bitterness, even as it built
sympathy for a beleaguered pres-
ident.
“We gave people who already
didn’t like Clinton more reason
not to like him,” Cannon said,
“but it’s pretty clear that we only
improved Clinton’s popularity.
Being an impeachment manager
was miserable. It took years for
even my friends to see me as
anything but unduly harsh.”
The lack of movement in pub-
lic opinion today stems in part
from the fact that “we are two
camps, frozen in place,” Barr said.
But he argued that it is also a
result of the difference in subject
matter in this impeachment.
Nixon’s crimes were literally
caught on tape and included the
burglary of his opponents’ head-
quarters and all manner of
scheming to cover up his acts.
“The issues in the Clinton matter
were far more relatable — lying,
perjury, sex,” Barr said. “This
time, you have issues the average
voter can’t relate to. The average
voter would have trouble finding
Ukraine on a map or knowing
what a whistleblower is.”
Americans have become so
jaded that misdeeds that once
had the power to shock across
ideological lines now seem to
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have little or no impact.
“This time,” Cannon said, “you
have a guy who said he’d grab
women by the privates, and
America looks at that and says
that’s locker room trash talk, and
they elect him. So nothing can
shock the American people about
him. So they judge him on the
issues, and the issues are pretty
good for him. There’s so much
coarseness now, it makes you
want to cry.”
In 2016, Luzerne County in
northeastern Pennsylvania
flipped from blue to red, from a
12-point margin for President
Barack obama in 2012 to a 20-
point victory for Trump. This
week, the county has reflected
the country’s divisions, with du-
eling demonstrations on the
streets of Wilkes-Barre, as Trump
supporters waved signs saying
“Drain the Swamp” and “four
more Years” and the president’s
opponents assembled across the
street.
“No matter what side you’re
on, it’s all people are talking
about,” said ron ferrance, the
former chairman of the county’s
republican Party. “The people
who supported Trump last time
are even more dug in, and people
in the middle are jumping in
because they see the Democrats’
motives being so partisan. And
my friends across the aisle are
just as strong as ever against
him.”
ferrance sighed over the loss
of the consensus that once pre-
vailed where he lives but said
that the president’s defiant style,
though too coarse for his taste,
nonetheless mirrors the state of
the nation.
“It’d be great if we could go
back to when you passed people
on the street and everybody said
hello, but it’s a little more selfish
times now,” he said. “This is our
new normal. If this wasn’t what
the country is now, he wouldn’t
have been elected.”
marc.fisher@washpost.com
. THURSDAy, DECEMbER 19 , 2019
What
they said
“Very sadly, now our founders’
vision of a republic is under threat
from actions from the White
house. that is why today, as
speaker of the house, i solemnly
and sadly open the debate on the
impeachment of the president of
the united states. if we do not act
now, we would be derelict in our
duty.”
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
“it is a political vendetta. but if
they’re going to go through with
this, madam speaker,
impeachment will not just be a
stain on this democrat majority.
impeachment will be their
legacy.”
House Minority Whip Steve
Scalise (R-La.)
“madam speaker, i think when
the history of this time is written,
it will record that when my
colleagues found that they lacked
the courage to stand up to this
unethical president, they
consoled themselves by attacking
those who did.”
House Intelligence Committee
Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.)
“this vote, this day, has
nothing to do with ukraine. it has
nothing to do with abuse of
power. it has nothing to do with
obstruction of Congress. this
vote, this day, is about one thing
and one thing only: they hate this
president. they hate those of us
who voted for him. they think
we’re stupid. they think we made
a mistake. they think hillary
Clinton should be the president.
and they want to fix that. that’s
what this vote is.”
Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah)
“american elections belong to
the american people, not the
american president and not
foreign powers. no president may
cheat the people by working with
foreign governments to steal from
us a free and fair election. and no
president who attempts it may
cover up that cheating by
systematically obstructing
Congress in our work.”
Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.)
“When Jesus was falsely
accused of treason, Pontius Pilate
gave Jesus the opportunity to
face his accusers. during that
sham trial, Pontius Pilate afforded
more rights to Jesus than the
democrats have afforded this
president in this process.”
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.)
“When you see something that
is not right, not just, not fair, you
have a moral obligation to say
something, to do something. our
children and their children will
ask us: ‘What did you do?’ ”
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.)
“today, we have seen a rushed
process divide our country.
accusations have been hurled at
each other, questioning one
another’s integrity. today, a
dangerous precedent will be set
— impeachment becoming a
weaponized political tool.”
Rep. Will Hurd (R-Tex.)
“i rise today not to disparage
and embarrass the president of
the united states, but to defend
our precious democracy. i speak
today not because i hate this
president, but because i love this
body, the people’s house.”
Rep. Cedric L. Richmond (D-La.)
“i have descended into the
belly of the beast. i have
witnessed a terror within. and i
rise committed to oppose the
insidious forces which threaten
our republic.”
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.)
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As Democrats tally their votes, Trump rallies his base
BY J OSH D AWSEY
AND A SHLEY P ARKER
BATTLE CREEK, MiCh. — Presi-
dent Trump took the stage at a
rally here Wednesday night just
before the House began voting to
impeach him — a striking and
surreal split screen for a presi-
dent who had journeyed 600
miles from the Capitol but was
unable to escape the reality that
he would become only the third
president in the nation’s history
to be impeached.
“By the way, it doesn’t really
feel like we’re being impeached,”
Trump said moments into his
speech. “The country is doing
better than ever before. We did
nothing wrong — we did nothing
wrong — and we have tremen-
dous support in the Republican
Party like we’ve never had be-
fore.”
When the House impeachment
vote actually happened — just 17
minutes after Trump emerged to
applause in this critical 2020
battleground — the president was
in the midst of a meandering and
free-associating riff that includ-
ed, but was not limited to, the
Space Force, nuclear submarines,
the recent budget deal with Con-
gress, a military F-35 plane and a
pilot who looked like Tom Cruise.
But Trump also devoted a sig-
nificant portion of his rally to the
topic of the day, offering an out-
raged denunciation of Democrats
and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.) for leading the im-
peachment effort.
“After three years of sinister
witch hunts, hoaxes, scams, to-
night, House Democrats are try-
ing to nullify the ballots of tens of
millions of patriotic Americans,”
Trump said.
He added later: “This lawless
partisan impeachment is a sui-
cide march for the Democratic
Party.”
The president’s furious visage
— red-faced to the shade of burnt
sienna, sweat beading on his up-
per lip — belied the image aides
had scrambled to project all week
of a leader in high spirits even as
he faced a historic low point.
His rally, which lasted almost
exactly two hours, also took on a
manic tone, with Trump de-
nouncing everyone from sitting
members of Congress (Pelosi and
Democratic Reps. Debbie Dingell
of Michigan and Carolyn B. Malo-
ney from New York), former resi-
dents of the White House (Bill
and Hillary Clinton and Barack
Obama), current 2020 Democrat-
ic hopefuls (former vice president
Joe Biden; South Bend, Ind., May-
or Pete Buttigieg; and Sen. Eliza-
beth Warren of Massachusetts),
failed 2020 Democratic hopefuls
(former congressman Beto
O’Rourke), and a slew of media
outlets (including the New York
Times and The Washington Post).
Trump’s tone was also particu-
larly nasty at times. He joked that
Bill Clinton perhaps refers to his
wife simply as “Crooked” and
imagined a conversation between
the couple, with the former presi-
dent berating his wife during the
2016 campaign for not visiting
swing states such as Michigan
and Wisconsin.
“You horrible human being,
you better start listening to me, or
you’re gonna get your ass
whooped,” Trump pretended Bill
Clinton told Hillary Clinton.
As speaker, Pelosi has made herself Trump’s most powerful political adversary
In December
@PKCapitol 2018, President
PAUL KANE Trump mocked
Rep. Nancy
Pelosi’s leadership
skills in an Oval Office meeting,
suggesting she needed help to
secure enough votes to become
the House speaker.
The California Democrat sent
a warning shot that set the table
for their relationship going
forward. “Mr. President,” Pelosi
interjected. “Please don’t
characterize the strength that I
bring to this meeting.”
Over the next year, Pelosi
firmly established herself as the
president’s most powerful
political adversary, winning a
showdown with him in January
on the budget and regularly
winning other one-on-one
confrontations. A caucus filled
with younger Democrats who
questioned the 79-year-old’s
liberal bona fides now stands
firmly behind her.
All that culminated
Wednesday night when, for only
the third time in history, the
House impeached a president.
Pelosi presided over the
chamber, wielding the gavel that
Trump once doubted she could
reclaim.
“Our founders’ vision of a
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President Trump departs the White House on Wednesday for a rally in Michigan. Before the rally, Trump remained in the White House residence for much of the day, and
while he issued dozens of tweets decrying House Democrats before the impeachment vote, those close to the president said he took solace in Republican displays of unity.
Trump extolled his decision to
fire former FBI director James B.
Comey, asking, “Did I do a great
job when I fired his ass?”
And of Dingell, Trump called
her “a real beauty,” noting he was
watching her on television during
impeachment proceedings.
He said he gave her family “a
treatment” after the death of her
husband, congressman John Din-
gell (D-Mich.), and that she told
him, in an emotional call, that
John Dingell was “thrilled” look-
ing down from heaven.
“Maybe he’s looking up,”
Trump said, drawing some moans
from the Michigan crowd.
Vice President Pence, who
spoke before the president, told
the crowd that Trump was going
to wait a bit before coming out
because he wanted to watch the
impeachment vote and take in
the display of Republican unity.
That pause, as well as the delayed
start of the rally, created the stark
contrast with the historic event
unfolding in Washington.
The rally came after a full day
of House debate over the evening
vote to impeach the president,
who hunkered down in the White
House residence on Wednesday
with no public events on his
schedule before the campaign
trip — and who weighed in on
Twitter no fewer than 49 times.
A rage-filled letter laced with
falsehoods that Trump sent Pelosi
on Tuesday had offered an episto-
lary preview of what Trump deliv-
ered in performative fashion on-
stage in Michigan on Wednesday
republic is under threat from
actions from the White House.
That is why today, as speaker of
the House, I solemnly and sadly
open the debate on the
impeachment of the president of
the United States,” Pelosi said
early Wednesday afternoon,
formally launching the
impeachment debate.
In a dark suit to reflect what
she has called a “somber” time,
Pelosi wore a brooch that was a
replica of the Mace of the
Republic, the symbol for the
power of the House.
That power dynamic left the
president fuming, watching the
proceedings from the White
House and sending out angry
tweets, sometimes focused on
Pelosi.
“Will go down in history as
worst Speaker,” he tweeted.
“Already thrown out once!”
Even the architect of the anti-
Pelosi campaign in 2018
recognized Wednesday that the
speaker had more than overcome
the tens of millions of GOP
dollars spent against her,
winning 40 seats and boosting
her image in the first year back
in charge of the House.
“I admit she has rehabilitated
her image from 2006, 2008,
2010,” said Rep. Steve Stivers (R-
Impeachment vote
night.
The outcome of the political
struggle was largely preordained:
House Democrats voted to im-
peach Trump on Wednesday
night, but the Republican-con-
trolled Senate probably will vote
to acquit him early next year.
Those in Trump’s orbit said the
president took solace in the GOP’s
unified front and in regular brief-
ings from his campaign team,
who counseled optimism.
The campaign repeatedly
showed Trump its impeachment
polling and reassured him that, at
least in the short term, the pro-
cess has ignited fundraising, fur-
ther solidified his core supporters
and even helped boost him slight-
ly in some key battleground
states, a senior campaign official
said.
Perhaps it is not surprising
that the impeachment of Trump
— who said Tuesday that he bore
“zero” responsibility for his pre-
dicament — will ultimately play
out not just on separate screens,
but also across almost entirely
separate realities.
By midafternoon, as the debate
on the House floor raged on,
counselor to the president Kelly-
anne Conway appeared in the
White House briefing room,
where she did not officially brief
the press but stood just to the side
of the lectern and denounced the
impeachment inquiry.
The statements on the House
floor, too, took on a tale-of-two-
impeachments tone. Rep. Mike
Kelly (R-Pa.) — who in 2012 gener-
Ohio), who chaired the National
Republican Congressional
Committee last year.
But Stivers, like other
Republicans, suggested that
Pelosi’s decision to move forward
with a partisan impeachment,
after months of resisting such an
approach, has exposed her to
great risk in the 2020 elections,
with several dozen Democrats
sitting in districts that Trump
won or narrowly lost in 2016.
The impeachment bet places
Pelosi back at the center of the
political stage, serving for now as
the stand-in for whomever the
Democrats eventually nominate
to challenge Trump in November.
“I don’t know that I know
exactly where all this goes,”
Stivers said, “but I know that the
bright spotlight is on her again.
And sometimes that melts
Icarus’s wings.”
Pelosi’s first stint as speaker,
from 2007 through 2011, ended
with a disastrous 63-seat loss in
those midterm elections. She
became the symbol Republicans
used to paint Democrats as
careless with federal dollars and
forcing an unpopular new health
law through Congress on party-
line votes.
Republicans spent the next
eight years pillorying any
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ated considerable criticism after
comparing the Affordable Care
Act’s birth control mandate to the
bombing of Pearl Harbor —
wielded the historical allusion
again, saying that Trump’s im-
peachment and Pearl Harbor
were both December days “that
will live in infamy.”
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.)
seemed to compare Trump to
Jesus, who he claimed received a
fairer trial than the president
before his crucifixion.
“When Jesus was falsely ac-
cused of Treason, Pontius Pilate
gave Jesus the opportunity to face
his accusers,” Loudermilk tweet-
ed. “During that sham trial, Pon-
tius Pilate afforded more rights to
Jesus than the Democrats have
afforded this president in this
process.”
House Majority Leader Steny
H. Hoyer (D-Md.), meanwhile,
urged House Republicans to look
past partisan politics and instead
be “profiles in courage” by voting
to impeach the president.
Competing realities emerged
even from within Trump’s own
White House. Press secretary
Stephanie Grisham claimed the
president was “working all day,”
though a cursory read of Trump’s
Twitter feed on Wednesday cast
doubt on that notion. His first
tweet, as he watched “Fox &
Friends,” came just after 7 a.m.,
and by midafternoon, he had
tweeted nearly four dozen times.
He had no publicly scheduled
events beyond his rally and re-
mained in the White House resi-
Democratic candidate as a Pelosi
clone, believing they had a silver
bullet to maintain the majority.
Failures in 2012, 2014 and 2016
left the Democratic caucus
anxious, wondering whether it
was time to turn the page to a
new generation of leadership.
Pelosi understood the stakes
and helped recruit a new
generation of candidates,
including many first-time
candidates and many former
national security officials who
saw Trump’s presidency as an
existential threat.
Many of these 2018 candidates
ran campaigns promising to vote
for other, younger Democrats as
speaker, and, for a moment, after
the Democratic wave gave the
party a 40-seat pickup and the
majority, Pelosi spent weeks
rounding up enough votes to win
the race.
Many of those doubts have
faded over the course of the year,
particularly every time she
challenged Trump, especially on
impeachment.
“I thought it was time for new
leadership, and I’ve got to tell
you: Thank goodness, thank
goodness, that we have Nancy
Pelosi speaking for the House of
Representatives,” said Rep. Dean
Phillips (D-Minn.), who won a
dence for much of the day. White
House officials said he participat-
ed in several private meetings,
including on the spending pack-
age and prescription drug pric-
ing.
Even his fiery Tuesday letter to
Pelosi proved something of a Ror-
schach test, eliciting different
takeaways depending on the au-
dience.
The six-page missive contained
more than a dozen false and
misleading claims, decrying im-
peachment as “egregious,” “terri-
ble” and “illegal,” and under-
scored the starkly personal lens
through which Trump views the
inquiry.
“You do not know, nor do you
care, the great damage and hurt
you have inflicted upon wonder-
ful and loving members of my
family,” he wrote at one point.
At another, he accused Pelosi of
offending not just the nation’s
founders, but also Americans of
faith “by continually saying ‘I
pray for the President,’ when you
know this statement is not true,
unless it is meant in a negative
sense.”
Pelosi, the letter’s intended re-
cipient, described it as “sick.” A
White House official happily not-
ed that Trump had managed to
dominate news coverage with his
letter, amplifying the defiant pos-
ture he has maintained through-
out the process.
“I don’t think the tone was
new,” said the official, who spoke
on the condition of anonymity
because they were not authorized
suburban GOP seat. “Because I
do not think there is a better,
more qualified, more principled
and more effective person for
these times and these
circumstances than her.”
There were plenty of ups and
downs over the past year,
including a generational clash
over the summer with a quartet
of young first-term
congresswomen who wanted
more direct confrontations with
Trump on border issues. Younger
members questioned her
reluctance to push for
impeachment over the special
counsel’s investigation into
Russian interference designed to
benefit the Trump campaign in
2016.
Even when she did shift to
support impeachment, it left
some anti-Trump Democrats
wanting. She limited the inquiry
to Trump’s withholding military
aid to Ukraine as he pushed the
country’s new president to
investigate his political rivals.
She also charted a fast-break
impeachment strategy that held
the vote before court challenges
might have forced Trump
advisers to testify.
But, once she shifted gears,
Pelosi placed herself at the
center of the case. On Sept. 24,
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to discuss the matter publicly.
“The letterhead was new, but the
tone was not.”
Other Republicans viewed the
letter as not especially produc-
tive, but as part of the “normal-
ized crazy” even allies have now
come to expect from Trump, said
one Republican Senate aide.
Brendan Buck, a longtime for-
mer Hill aide who is now a Re-
publican operative, said the his-
toric import of the moment was
undermined by the drastically
different political perspectives
that dominated the proceedings
from the outset.
“This debate never felt as
weighty as it should because the
issues were just no match for the
tribalism,” Buck said. “From the
very start, the process was pre-
dictable and the outcome obvi-
ous. And at the end of it all, we’re
basically right back where we
started. There’s a stain on his
legacy but no appreciable change
in the political dynamics.”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.)
shared on Twitter what he called
a “true story” of a White House
staffer making the rounds among
Senate offices to deliver, as a
single holiday package, a copy of
Trump’s scathing letter to Pelosi
alongside two White House
Christmas cards — one large
white one and one smaller red
one with Trump’s signature
marker scrawl in gold.
“What a day,” Murphy conclud-
ed.
ashley.parker@washpost.com
josh.dawsey@washpost.com
Pelosi stood alone to announce
the formal inquiry’s launch — a
move she informed the president
of when he called her earlier that
day and defended his actions.
“I was going to call you to tell
you what I was thinking about
this. But since you called me and
made this assertion, you have to
know that this is wrong,” Pelosi
told Trump, according to her
recollection in an interview with
The Washington Post’s Rachael
Bade and Mike DeBonis.
Earlier this month, with little
warning, she again stood alone
to announce that impeachment
articles would be voted on. And
when preliminary procedural
matters were settled, Pelosi
kicked off Wednesday’s formal
impeachment by declaring
Trump an “ongoing threat to our
national security.”
Almost exactly a year ago,
when Trump mocked her and
offered to push GOP votes her
way, Pelosi stood firm in the Oval
Office. When she got back to the
Capitol, she recounted the
conversation to her colleagues,
according to a Democratic aide.
“We can go two routes with
this meeting — with a knife or a
candy,” Trump told her.
“Exactly,” she said.
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Impeachment vote

230 House members voted for at least one article of impeachment

229 Democrats 1 Independent 0 Republicans

DISTRICT VOTED FOR CLINTON How each legislator’s district voted for president in 2016 DISTRICT VOTED FOR TRUMP
Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) voted to impeach for
abuse of power but not for obstruction of Congress.

Of the 31 Democrats who represent districts

President Trump won, 29 voted to impeach.

Rep. Justin Amash (I-Mich.), a former

House Freedom Caucus member, left
the Republican Party in July.
Clinton by 80 points 60 40 20 Even 20 40 60 Trump by 80 points

197 voted against both articles of impeachment

2 Democrats 0 Independents 195 Republicans
Rep. Collin C. Peterson (D-Minn.) represents a district
Trump won by more than 30 percentage points.

Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-N.J.) is expected

to switch parties in the coming days.

Clinton by 80 points 60 40 20 Even 20 40 60 Trump by 80 points

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) voted present, three members did not vote and there are four
vacancies in the 435-seat chamber. Pennsylvania has redrawn its House districts since 2016.
A Washington Post analysis approximated the presidential results for the state’s new House districts.
Source: 2016 election data is from Polidata. KEVIN SCHAUL, TIM MEKO AND BRITTANY RENEE MAYES/THE WASHINGTON POST

Roll call: How House members voted on the two articles of impeachment
Article 1: Abuse of power. | Article 2: Obstruction of Congress.

Democrats Jesús “Chuy” Garcia (IL-4) Y Y Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) Y Y Republicans Sam Graves (MO-6) N N Bill Posey (FL-8) N N
Article 2

Article 2
Article 1

Article 1

Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) Y Y Ilhan Omar (MN-5) Y Y Tom Graves (GA-14) N N John Ratcliffe (TX-4) N N
Plus Independents Jared Golden (ME-2) Y N Frank Pallone Jr. (NJ-6) Y Y Garret Graves (LA-6) N N Tom Reed (NY-23) N N
Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) Y Y Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) Y Y
Alma Adams (NC-12) Y Y Ralph Abraham (LA-5) N N Mark Green (TN-7) N N Guy Reschenthaler (PA-14) N N
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) Y Y Chris Pappas (NH-1) Y Y
Pete Aguilar (CA-31) Y Y Robert B. Aderholt (AL-4) N N H. Morgan Griffith (VA-9) N N Tom Rice (SC-7) N N
Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) Y Y Bill Pascrell Jr. (NJ-9) Y Y
Colin Allred (TX-32) Y Y Rick Allen (GA-12) N N Glenn Grothman (WI-6) N N Denver Riggleman (VA-5) N N
Al Green (TX-9) Y Y Donald Payne Jr. (NJ-10) Y Y
Justin Amash (Ind., MI-3) Y Y Michael Guest (MS-3) N N Martha Roby (AL-2) N N
Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-3) Y Y Nancy Pelosi (CA-12) Y Y Mark Amodei (NV-2) N N
Cindy Axne (IA-3) Y Y Brett Guthrie (KY-2) N N Phil Roe (TN-1) N N
Deb Haaland (NM-1) Y Y Ed Perlmutter (CO-7) Y Y Kelly Armstrong (ND) N N
Nanette Barragán (CA-44) Y Y
Josh Harder (CA-10) Y Y Scott Peters (CA-52) Y Y Jodey Arrington (TX-19) N N Jim Hagedorn (MN-1) N N Harold Rogers (KY-5) N N
Karen Bass (CA-37) Y Y
Alcee L. Hastings (FL-20) Y Y Collin C. Peterson (MN-7) N N Andy Harris (MD-1) N N Mike D. Rogers (AL-3) N N
Joyce Beatty (OH-3) Y Y Brian Babin (TX-36) N N
Jahana Hayes (CT-5) Y Y Dean Phillips (MN-3) Y Y Vicky Hartzler (MO-4) N N Francis Rooney (FL-19) N N
Ami Bera (CA-7) Y Y Don Bacon (NE-2) N N
Denny Heck (WA-10) Y Y Chellie Pingree (ME-1) Y Y
Don Beyer (VA-8) Y Y Jim Baird (IN-4) N N Kevin Hern (OK-1) N N John Rose (TN-6) N N
Brian Higgins (NY-26) Y Y Mark Pocan (WI-2) Y Y
Sanford D. Bishop Jr. (GA-2) Y Y Troy Balderson (OH-12) N N Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-3) N N David Rouzer (NC-7) N N
Jim Himes (CT-4) Y Y Katie Porter (CA-45) Y Y
Earl Blumenauer (OR-3) Y Y Jim Banks (IN-3) N N Jody Hice (GA-10) N N Chip Roy (TX-21) N N
Kendra Horn (OK-5) Y Y Ayanna Pressley (MA-7) Y Y
Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE) Y Y Clay Higgins (LA-3) N N John Rutherford (FL-4) N N
Steven Horsford (NV-4) Y Y David E. Price (NC-4) Y Y Garland “Andy” Barr (KY-6) N N
Suzanne Bonamici (OR-1) Y Y French Hill (AR-2) N N Steve Scalise (LA-1) N N
Chrissy Houlahan (PA-6) Y Y Mike Quigley (IL-5) Y Y Jack Bergman (MI-1) N N
Brendan Boyle (PA-2) Y Y
Steny H. Hoyer (MD-5) Y Y Jamie B. Raskin (MD-8) Y Y Andy Biggs (AZ-5) N N George Holding (NC-2) N N David Schweikert (AZ-6) N N
Anthony Brindisi (NY-22) Y Y
Jared Huffman (CA-2) Y Y Kathleen Rice (NY-4) Y Y Trey Hollingsworth (IN-9) N N Austin Scott (GA-8) N N
Anthony G. Brown (MD-4) Y Y Gus M. Bilirakis (FL-12) N N
Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18) Y Y Cedric L. Richmond (LA-2) Y Y Richard Hudson (NC-8) N N F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (WI-5) N N
Julia Brownley (CA-26) Y Y Rob Bishop (UT-1) N N
Pramila Jayapal (WA-7) Y Y Max Rose (NY-11) Y Y
Cheri Bustos (IL-17) Y Y Dan Bishop (NC-9) N N Bill Huizenga (MI-2) N N John Shimkus (IL-15)
Hakeem Jeffries (NY-8) Y Y Harley Rouda (CA-48) Y Y
G.K. Butterfield (NC-1) Y Y Mike Bost (IL-12) N N Duncan D. Hunter (CA-50) Mike Simpson (ID-2) N N
Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30) Y Y Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) Y Y
Salud Carbajal (CA-24) Y Y Kevin Brady (TX-8) N N Will Hurd (TX-23) N N Christopher H. Smith (NJ-4) N N
Hank Johnson (GA-4) Y Y Raul Ruiz (CA-36) Y Y
Tony Cárdenas (CA-29) Y Y Mike Johnson (LA-4) N N Adrian Smith (NE-3) N N
Marcy Kaptur (OH-9) Y Y C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-2) Y Y Mo Brooks (AL-5) N N
André Carson (IN-7) Y Y Bill Johnson (OH-6) N N Jason T. Smith (MO-8) N N
William R. Keating (MA-9) Y Y Bobby L. Rush (IL-1) Y Y Susan Brooks (IN-5) N N
Matthew Cartwright (PA-8) Y Y
Robin L. Kelly (IL-2) Y Y Tim Ryan (OH-13) Y Y Vern Buchanan (FL-16) N N Dusty Johnson (SD) N N Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) N N
Ed Case (HI-1) Y Y
Joe Kennedy (MA-4) Y Y Linda T. Sánchez (CA-38) Y Y Jim Jordan (OH-4) N N Ross Spano (FL-15) N N
Sean Casten (IL-6) Y Y Ken Buck (CO-4) N N
Ro Khanna (CA-17) Y Y John Sarbanes (MD-3) Y Y David Joyce (OH-14) N N Pete Stauber (MN-8) N N
Kathy Castor (FL-14) Y Y Larry Bucshon (IN-8) N N
Daniel Kildee (MI-5) Y Y Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-5) Y Y
Joaquin Castro (TX-20) Y Y Ted Budd (NC-13) N N John Joyce (PA-13) N N Elise Stefanik (NY-21) N N
Derek Kilmer (WA-6) Y Y Jan Schakowsky (IL-9) Y Y
Judy Chu (CA-27) Y Y Tim Burchett (TN-2) N N John Katko (NY-24) N N Bryan Steil (WI-1) N N
Andy Kim (NJ-3) Y Y Adam B. Schiff (CA-28) Y Y
David N. Cicilline (RI-1) Y Y Michael C. Burgess (TX-26) N N Fred Keller (PA-12) N N Greg Steube (FL-17) N N
Ron Kind (WI-3) Y Y Bradley Schneider (IL-10) Y Y
Gil Cisneros (CA-39) Y Y Mike Kelly (PA-16) N N Chris Stewart (UT-2) N N
Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-2) Y Y Kurt Schrader (OR-5) Y Y Bradley Byrne (AL-1) N N
Katherine M. Clark (MA-5) Y Y Trent Kelly (MS-1) N N Steve Stivers (OH-15) N N
Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-8) Y Y Kim Schrier (WA-8) Y Y Ken Calvert (CA-42) N N
Yvette D. Clarke (NY-9) Y Y
Ann Kuster (NH-2) Y Y David Scott (GA-13) Y Y John Carter (TX-31) N N Peter T. King (NY-2) N N Van Taylor (TX-3) N N
William Lacy Clay (MO-1) Y Y
Conor Lamb (PA-17) Y Y Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-3) Y Y Steve King (IA-4) N N Glenn Thompson (PA-15) N N
Emanuel Cleaver II (MO-5) Y Y Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (GA-1) N N
Jim Langevin (RI-2) Y Y José E. Serrano (NY-15) Adam Kinzinger (IL-16) N N Mac Thornberry (TX-13) N N
James E. Clyburn (SC-6) Y Y Steve Chabot (OH-1) N N
Rick Larsen (WA-2) Y Y Terri A. Sewell (AL-7) Y Y
Steve Cohen (TN-9) Y Y Liz Cheney (WY) N N David Kustoff (TN-8) N N William Timmons (SC-4) N N
John B. Larson (CT-1) Y Y Donna Shalala (FL-27) Y Y
Gerald E. Connolly (VA-11) Y Y Ben Cline (VA-6) N N Darin LaHood (IL-18) N N Scott R. Tipton (CO-3) N N
Brenda Lawrence (MI-14) Y Y Brad Sherman (CA-30) Y Y
Jim Cooper (TN-5) Y Y Michael Cloud (TX-27) N N Doug LaMalfa (CA-1) N N Michael R. Turner (OH-10) N N
Al Lawson (FL-5) Y Y Mikie Sherrill (NJ-11) Y Y
J. Luis Correa (CA-46) Y Y Doug Lamborn (CO-5) N N Fred Upton (MI-6) N N
Barbara Lee (CA-13) Y Y Albio Sires (NJ-8) Y Y Tom Cole (OK-4) N N
Jim Costa (CA-16) Y Y Robert E. Latta (OH-5) N N Ann Wagner (MO-2) N N
Susie Lee (NV-3) Y Y Elissa Slotkin (MI-8) Y Y Douglas A. Collins (GA-9) N N
Joe Courtney (CT-2) Y Y
Andy Levin (MI-9) Y Y Adam Smith (WA-9) Y Y James Comer (KY-1) N N Debbie Lesko (AZ-8) N N Tim Walberg (MI-7) N N
TJ Cox (CA-21) Y Y
Mike Levin (CA-49) Y Y Darren Soto (FL-9) Y Y Billy Long (MO-7) N N Greg Walden (OR-2) N N
Angie Craig (MN-2) Y Y K. Michael Conaway (TX-11) N N
John Lewis (GA-5) Y Y Abigail Spanberger (VA-7) Y Y Barry Loudermilk (GA-11) N N Mark Walker (NC-6) N N
Charlie Crist (FL-13) Y Y Paul Cook (CA-8) N N
Ted Lieu (CA-33) Y Y Jackie Speier (CA-14) Y Y
Jason Crow (CO-6) Y Y Eric A. “Rick” Crawford (AR-1) N N Frank D. Lucas (OK-3) N N Jackie Walorski (IN-2) N N
Daniel Lipinski (IL-3) Y Y Greg Stanton (AZ-9) Y Y
Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Y Y Dan Crenshaw (TX-2) N N Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-3) N N Michael Waltz (FL-6) N N
David Loebsack (IA-2) Y Y Haley Stevens (MI-11) Y Y
Joe Cunningham (SC-1) Y Y John Curtis (UT-3) N N Kenny Marchant (TX-24) N N Steve Watkins (KS-2) N N
Zoe Lofgren (CA-19) Y Y Thomas Suozzi (NY-3) Y Y
Sharice Davids (KS-3) Y Y Warren Davidson (OH-8) N N Roger Marshall (KS-1) N N Randy Weber (TX-14) N N
Alan Lowenthal (CA-47) Y Y Eric Swalwell (CA-15) Y Y
Danny K. Davis (IL-7) Y Y Thomas Massie (KY-4) N N Daniel Webster (FL-11) N N
Nita M. Lowey (NY-17) Y Y Mark Takano (CA-41) Y Y Rodney Davis (IL-13) N N
Susan A. Davis (CA-53) Y Y Brian Mast (FL-18) N N Brad Wenstrup (OH-2) N N
Ben Ray Luján (NM-3) Y Y Bennie Thompson (MS-2) Y Y Scott DesJarlais (TN-4) N N
Madeleine Dean (PA-4) Y Y
Elaine Luria (VA-2) Y Y Mike Thompson (CA-5) Y Y Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-25) N N Kevin McCarthy (CA-23) N N Bruce Westerman (AR-4) N N
Peter A. DeFazio (OR-4) Y Y
Stephen F. Lynch (MA-8) Y Y Dina Titus (NV-1) Y Y Michael McCaul (TX-10) N N Roger Williams (TX-25) N N
Diana DeGette (CO-1) Y Y Jeff Duncan (SC-3) N N
Tom Malinowski (NJ-7) Y Y Rashida Tlaib (MI-13) Y Y Tom McClintock (CA-4) N N Joe Wilson (SC-2) N N
Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-3) Y Y Neal Dunn (FL-2) N N
Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12) Y Y Paul Tonko (NY-20) Y Y
Suzan DelBene (WA-1) Y Y Tom Emmer (MN-6) N N Patrick T. McHenry (NC-10) N N Rob Wittman (VA-1) N N
Sean Maloney (NY-18) Y Y Norma J. Torres (CA-35) Y Y
Antonio Delgado (NY-19) Y Y Ron Estes (KS-4) N N David B. McKinley (WV-1) N N Steve Womack (AR-3) N N
Doris Matsui (CA-6) Y Y Xochitl Torres Small (NM-2) Y Y
Val Demings (FL-10) Y Y Drew Ferguson (GA-3) N N Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-5) N N Rob Woodall (GA-7) N N
Ben McAdams (UT-4) Y Y Lori Trahan (MA-3) Y Y
Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11) Y Y Mark Meadows (NC-11) N N Ron Wright (TX-6) N N
Lucy McBath (GA-6) Y Y David Trone (MD-6) Y Y Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-1) N N
Ted Deutch (FL-22) Y Y Dan Meuser (PA-9) N N Ted Yoho (FL-3) N N
Betty McCollum (MN-4) Y Y Lauren Underwood (IL-14) Y Y Charles J. Fleischmann (TN-3) N N
Debbie Dingell (MI-12) Y Y
A. Donald McEachin (VA-4) Y Y Jeff Van Drew (NJ-2) N N Bill Flores (TX-17) N N Carol Miller (WV-3) N N Don Young (AK) N N
Lloyd Doggett (TX-35) Y Y
Jim McGovern (MA-2) Y Y Juan Vargas (CA-51) Y Y Paul Mitchell (MI-10) N N Lee Zeldin (NY-1) N N
Mike Doyle (PA-18) Y Y Jeff Fortenberry (NE-1) N N
Jerry McNerney (CA-9) Y Y Marc Veasey (TX-33) Y Y John Moolenaar (MI-4) N N
Eliot L. Engel (NY-16) Y Y Virginia Foxx (NC-5) N N
Gregory W. Meeks (NY-5) Y Y Filemon Vela (TX-34) Y Y
Veronica Escobar (TX-16) Y Y Russ Fulcher (ID-1) N N Alex Mooney (WV-2) N N NOTE: P = voted “present.” Three
Grace Meng (NY-6) Y Y Nydia M. Velázquez (NY-7) Y Y members did not vote. Four seats in the
Anna G. Eshoo (CA-18) Y Y Matt Gaetz (FL-1) N N Markwayne Mullin (OK-2) N N
Gwen Moore (WI-4) Y Y Peter J. Visclosky (IN-1) Y Y chamber are vacant.
Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) Y Y Mike Gallagher (WI-8) N N Gregory Murphy (NC-3) N N
Joseph Morelle (NY-25) Y Y Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) Y Y U.S. Congress
Dwight Evans (PA-3) Y Y Dan Newhouse (WA-4) N N
Seth Moulton (MA-6) Y Y Maxine Waters (CA-43) Y Y Greg Gianforte (MT) N N
Abby Finkenauer (IA-1) Y Y Ralph Norman (SC-5) N N
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (FL-26) Y Y Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) Y Y Bob Gibbs (OH-7) N N
Lizzie Fletcher (TX-7) Y Y
Stephanie Murphy (FL-7) Y Y Peter Welch (VT) Y Y Louie Gohmert (TX-1) N N Devin Nunes (CA-22) N N
Bill Foster (IL-11) Y Y
Jerrold Nadler (NY-10) Y Y Jennifer Wexton (VA-10) Y Y Pete Olson (TX-22) N N
Lois Frankel (FL-21) Y Y Anthony Gonzalez (OH-16) N N
Grace F. Napolitano (CA-32) Y Y Susan Wild (PA-7) Y Y Steven M. Palazzo (MS-4) N N
Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11) Y Y Lance Gooden (TX-5) N N
Richard E. Neal (MA-1) Y Y Frederica S. Wilson (FL-24) Y Y
Tulsi Gabbard (HI-2) P P Paul A. Gosar (AZ-4) N N Gary Palmer (AL-6) N N
Joe Neguse (CO-2) Y Y John Yarmuth (KY-3) Y Y
Ruben Gallego (AZ-7) Y Y Kay Granger (TX-12) N N Greg Pence (IN-6) N N
Donald W. Norcross (NJ-1) Y Y
John Garamendi (CA-3) Y Y Scott Perry (PA-10) N N
Tom O’Halleran (AZ-1) Y Y
THURSDAy, DECEMbER 19 , 2019
THE TAKE
The people’s House becomes the nation in miniature, divided over the president
tAKe from A1
in the Constitution by the
framers as an ultimate remedy
for the legislative branch to
check the power of the president.
Trump became only the fourth
president to face articles of
impeachment and the third to
see the House approve those
articles. It is a club no president
would seek to join.
Trump has been defiant
throughout the process and
perhaps for reasons beyond his
assertions that he did nothing
wrong in pressuring Ukraine to
investigate a potential 2020
political rival. The president’s
angry letter to House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi, released a day
ahead of the House vote, seemed
to reflect his understanding of
what was about to transpire. As
always with this president, the
six pages of blistering language
highlighted his determination to
have both his words and his
feelings clearly reflected in the
historical record.
But that written record, like
much else that emanates from
the president in tweets, speeches
and other public appearances,
was replete with exaggerations,
distortions and outright
falsehoods. Which is how the
extraordinary has become
ordinary, if no less an issue of his
presidency. However much he
has deviated from the truth, he
has shown the ability to tell the
story the way he wants people to
hear it, especially those in his
base.
Wednesday brought about the
split screen of history and
spectacle. House Democrats
were admonished to avoid
gloating or displays of
celebration as the articles were
being read, debated and voted
upon. Trump’s loyalists at a
campaign rally in michigan on
Wednesday evening displayed
their support for the president
and their disdain for what the
Democrats had done. There was
no remorse to be shown.
Twenty-one years ago, almost
to the day, a republican-
controlled House voted for
. THE WASHINGTON POST
President trump held a rally Wednesday evening in Battle Creek, Mich., as the House voted to impeach
him. trump spent much of the day on twitter weighing in on the proceedings.
articles of impeachment against
President Bill Clinton, for lying
about an affair with an intern.
That day was extraordinary in its
own way, for all that was swirling
about the Capitol.
Days earlier, Clinton had
launched strikes against Iraq and
was being condemned by
republicans for trying to create
what they said was a distraction,
though Newt Gingrich, on his
way out as speaker, defended
Clinton on the House floor. In
perhaps the day’s most dramatic
moment, Gingrich’s designated
successor, Bob Livingston,
announced that he would not
seek the office because of his own
marital indiscretions. Turmoil
reigned as history was made.
Coverage of that day
highlighted all of those events,
but it was impeachment and the
forces that brought the country
to that decision that occupied
center stage in the acres of
newsprint the stories consumed.
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grievance goes unnoticed or un-
attacked. And then there is the
breakdown in the acceptance of
facts and truth, amplified by the
president’s strategy of keeping
his base both loyal and inflamed
toward his detractors. As much
as anything, this has created a
noxious atmosphere in which to
conduct debate or to govern.
America was certainly
polarized two decades ago, but it
is worse today. The gulf between
the two camps has widened, and
the lines of resistance have
hardened. one small but not
insignificant measure is the
difference between the approach
of Senate leaders then and now
as preparations for an
impeachment trial get underway.
Two decades ago, then-majority
Leader Trent Lott (r-miss.) and
then-minority Leader Tom
Daschle (D-S.D.) sought
cooperatively to set the terms for
the Senate trial. Today, majority
Leader mitch mcConnell (r-Ky.)
and minority Leader Charles E.
Schumer (D-N.Y.) are in a war of
BRITTANY GREESON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
words without signs of a cease-
fire.
Another measure of the
differences between then and
A consistent theme of analysis written about this moment, but now is public perception about
focused on the broken politics of few today see the period of two the charges against the
the time, the rancor and rank decades ago as equivalent to presidents. Clinton was
partisanship that had taken hold what the country is going condemned even by members of
in Washington and the through now. Whatever his own party for personally
continuum of events that had conditions existed then have reprehensible acts, but by 2 to 1,
the public did not see that
private conduct as worthy of
impeachment.
America was polarized two decades ago, but it is The actions that brought
about Trump’s impeachment
worse today. The gulf between the two camps has involved his role as president of
the United States in seeking
widened, and the lines of resistance have hardened. foreign help for personal
political objectives. Support for
impeachment, though closely
brought the country to that dark grown worse. many factors divided, is much higher than in
moment. contribute to the mix: the Clinton’s case. one after another
After the vote that day, Clinton velocity at which information republican took to the floor on
rallied with fellow Democrats on moves; the endless news cycles; Wednesday to assert that the
the South Lawn of the White the fractured and more partisan charges against Trump were
House, condemning the politics media; the toxicity of social baseless and politically
of personal destruction as his media. motivated. Some republicans
accusers spoke of his trampling Among the most important privately are troubled by what
on the honor and dignity of the differences are the way Trump Trump did, even if elected
oval office. runs the office of the presidency, leaders have been reluctant to
The stories that day provide an the degree to which everything say so publicly.
echo of what is being said and has become personal and no for all the gravity of the
A11
moment, reflected in the general
tone of much of Wednesday’s
floor debate in the House (there
were some who strayed into
histrionics and distortions), the
impeachment proceeding is
likely to become one more way
station in a four-year struggle
between those who oppose this
president and fear his conduct
will have long-term detrimental
effects on the country, and those
who support him as the person
who is willing to do combat daily
with forces and institutions they
see as destructive to their way of
life.
Given the near-certain
outcome in the Senate, where
Trump is expected to be
acquitted by a party-line vote, the
issues that resulted in the
impeachment vote on
Wednesday will fold into the
ongoing political conflict as the
nation heads toward the 2020
presidential election.
Those who practice politics for
a living disagree on just how
much impeachment will be a
factor when people cast their
votes in November. But as the
impeachment of this president
moves to its next phase, it’s likely
that what this process has
wrought will at the least be in the
minds of many in the electorate.
Trump’s character is one, and
now that his conduct has drawn
the stiffest rebuke the
Constitution allows, short of
removal from office, the question
of presidential character could
loom larger in the minds of some.
The strength of institutions now
feeling the stress of a president
who has attacked various
agencies in the executive branch
is another. The exhaustion felt by
many Americans because of the
never-ending turmoil of Trump’s
presidency is another.
The political fallout from
impeachment is uncertain, for
Pelosi’s Democrats and for the
president as well. Answers will
not come until next fall. But as
William Galston of the Brookings
Institution said Wednesday,
“There will be no calm after the
storm.”
dan.balz@washpost.com
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Impeachment vote

How both parties wrestled with a constitutional crisis

decision from A1

have guided her thinking from the

earliest moments of the three-
month impeachment saga.
“It was not much of a debate,”
Pelosi (D-Calif.) recalled in an in-
terview Tuesday. “When we made
our decision to go forward, there
was no opposition to it.”
The back and forth was a clos-
ing snapshot of how Democrats
proceeded toward Wednesday’s
momentous vote to impeach
Trump on two counts, abusing his
power and obstructing Congress.
While the Democrats voted almost
entirely in lockstep, and the out-
come was never truly in doubt, the
result belied an emotional and of-
ten caustic behind-the-scenes dra-
ma that exposed — and at times
exacerbated — divisions within
the House Democratic caucus.
The experience tested the will
of centrist Democrats from pro-
Trump districts, forced liberals to
settle for what some considered to
be a far narrower list of charges
than the president deserved, and,
ultimately, showcased Pelosi fo-
cused on protecting her majority.
republicans, meanwhile, faced
their own anxious moments, un-
sure how to confront an avalanche
of damning facts and compelling
testimony about Trump’s interac-
tions with Ukraine and how to
publicly defend a president who
operated on his own gut and not
based on any traditional strategy.
Trump was reluctant about es-
tablishing a “war room,” con-
cerned about showing weakness,
while some in the White House
had no sense of the political dy-
namic in the Democratic caucus.
MELINA MARA/THE WASHINGTON POST
In october, Trump was so
dispirited, according to people fa-
miliar with the president’s ac-
tions, he told visitors he found it
depressing to walk by the White
House portrait of former presi-
dent richard m. nixon — who
resigned in disgrace.
In the end, each side wound up
largely where it began — with
republicans dismissing the evi-
dence amassed against Trump as
they stood to oppose his impeach-
ment, and Democrats sticking to-
gether to do what they said was
their solemn duty.
The result illustrated one of the
MELINA MARA/THE WASHINGTON POST MATT MCCLAIN/THE WASHINGTON POST BILL O'LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST
fundamental realities of modern-
day America, a country riven by cLocKWise FRoM ToP: Rep. Adam B. schiff (d-calif.) speaks with House speaker nancy Pelosi (d-calif.) on an elevator on capitol Hill on oct. 2. That day, House
political tribalism whose leaders democrats promised to subpoena the White House by the week’s end if officials refused to produce documents related to President Trump’s July phone call with Ukraine’s
cannot even agree on a common president. The White House would refuse to cooperate with the inquiry. Gordon sondland, ambassador to the european Union; Marie Yovanovitch, former U.s. ambassador
set of facts. And now, with GoP to Ukraine; and Lt. col. Alexander Vindman, director for european affairs on the national security council, were among those witnesses to testify last month.
senate leaders promising a speedy
trial that will almost certainly ac-
quit the president, the pitched consequences, refused to break bate that sunday morning by ap- than 24 hours later, she would tell corroborate the details, however, White House official. “The closed
warfare will spread from Capitol despite harboring private con- pearing to confirm he did, in fact, the world an impeachment inqui- was hardly guaranteed, as the hearings were the darkest days.”
Hill to the national campaign trail. cerns about Trump. discuss Biden on the call. ry was officially underway. Trump administration had re- meanwhile, republicans start-
This account of the days leading In fact, in the final days before Later that day, in a room off the In the interview, Pelosi praised fused to comply with scores of ed to feel desperate and helpless.
to Wednesday’s vote making the vote, a confident White House church sanctuary, Pelosi began the freshmen and said their deci- Democratic requests for witnesses Trump frequently complained to
Trump the third president in his- scored a minor political coup by calling several House committee sion made it “easier” to move for- and documents. And within a associates about becoming an im-
tory to be impeached is based on persuading an anti-impeachment chairmen, three of whom had qui- ward with the inquiry. week, those fears were realized peached president. After Lt. Col.
interviews with more than 38 law- Democrat, rep. Jeff Van Drew of etly been investigating the matter “They were so courageous. But when secretary of state mike Alexander Vindman, a Purple
makers, congressional aides, new Jersey, to switch parties, with for nearly two weeks. Her mes- they weren’t asking permission or Pompeo, whose department and Heart recipient, testified that he
White House officials and allies of Trump promising a tweet and sage: start thinking about the next consulting with me,” she said. personnel were at the center of the was disturbed by Trump’s de-
the president. many spoke on the event supporting him, according steps. “They were just informing me as affair, objected to House subpoe- mands on Ukraine, the president
condition of anonymity to speak to people familiar with the inter- meanwhile, several moderates to what they were going to do, as nas and told investigators their told allies he did not want to “ever
frankly about private delibera- action. The GoP gain, however, from swing and GoP districts with members do all the time. That they deposition requests were “not fea- see that guy again,” in the words of
tions. helped solidify Democratic sup- national-security backgrounds did it en bloc made it very, very sible.” on oct. 8, the stonewall the White House official — even
Publicly, Pelosi declared that port for impeachment as wavering would have a consequential im- important.” became official Trump adminis- though Vindman still worked at
impeachment had “zero” to do moderates quickly fell in line. pact on the course of the probe. tration policy when White House the White House.
with politics. Democrats allege Throughout, the partisan ran- for months, members like rep. ‘Really making this case’ Counsel Pat Cipollone sent a blis- on one early call to House mi-
that Trump tried to leverage a cor intensified. republicans ac- mikie sherrill (n.J.), a former navy Pelosi’s internal political chal- tering letter to the House, reject- nority Leader Kevin mcCarthy (r-
White House meeting and mili- cused Pelosi of being pressured by fighter pilot; rep. Jason Crow lenges, however, were only begin- ing the “highly partisan” impeach- Calif.), Trump asked whether
tary aid to pressure Ukraine to her party into ousting a man the (Colo.), an ex-Army ranger officer; ning. some liberals — particularly ment inquiry. Democrats had the votes to im-
help his reelection bid, including voters elected. and rep. elissa slotkin (mich.), a those on the Judiciary Committee But things quickly began to fall peach him as Cipollone, unfamil-
conducting investigations of for- “never in the history of our former CIA officer and Defense who had been pressing for im- into place for Democrats, surpris- iar with Democratic caucus poli-
mer vice president Joe Biden, a country has an impeachment Department official, had tried to peachment for months — were ing party leaders. tics, suggested Pelosi might come
2020 candidate, and his son Hunt- been partisan — never,” House mi- steer the caucus away from im- discussing inclusion of alleged of- It began when marie Yovano- up short, according to a GoP offi-
er Biden, who once served on the nority Whip steve scalise (r-La.) peachment and toward the policy fenses by Trump, from potential vitch, the former ambassador to cial familiar with the conversa-
board of a Ukrainian gas company. said in an interview. “That’s a stain agenda they had campaigned on. obstruction of justice to apparent Ukraine who was abruptly re- tion. mcCarthy, who has a better
The accusations came to light in a on Pelosi’s record.” But over a week in september, violations of the Constitution’s moved from her post in may, testi- understanding of Congress, told
whistleblower complaint filed in Pelosi bristled at the criticism, they had been reading reports de- ban on accepting foreign gifts em- fied despite instructions from the him Democrats already had the
August. arguing that republicans might tailing Trump’s actions — and over bodied in Trump’s refusal to divest state Department not to do so. she votes.
But privately, those close with ignore their oath of office but text messages on the encrypted his business interests. described in frank terms how forc- Instead of persuading Demo-
her said she kept an eye on pro- Democrats would not. “It’s so pa- signal app and late-night dinners moderates facing tough reelec- es she barely understood, seem- crats, the GoP leader was focused
tecting her vulnerable members thetic. After they impeach some- at a navy Yard bar, they realized tion races did not want an expan- ingly centered around Trump’s on his own party, aware that a
as she navigated her caucus body for having a personal indis- that the potential abuse of power sive impeachment inquiry. personal lawyer rudolph W. Giu- single defection could lead to
through one of the most turbulent cretion and lying about it to pro- could not be ignored. on sept. 26, dozens of the vul- liani, had conspired to derail her many more. one lawmaker he
three months of her 30-plus-year tect his family, they’re calling this “We all just said, this cannot nerable “frontliners” crammed distinguished diplomatic career. watched closely was rooney, who
career. partisan? That’s so ridiculous,” a stand,” Crow said in a recent inter- into a small meeting room in the At a news conference, acting abruptly announced his retire-
“We’re talking not apples and reference to the impeachment of view. “We have to stand up against Capitol basement, where they White House acting chief of staff ment after the Ukraine scandal
oranges, we’re talking Venus and President Bill Clinton 21 years ago. this.” made clear to the top three House mick mulvaney admitted to condi- broke and surprised both parties
mars,” she said of the separation “This is our responsibility,” she Crow began to draft an op-ed leaders how they wanted things to tioning Ukrainian military aid on when he suggested he might be
between impeachment and poli- said. “That’s where we have to go.” embracing an impeachment in- proceed: focused, efficient and political favors, before walking open to voting for impeachment.
tics. “It’s the facts and the Consti- quiry. The draft went into a Google fast. the comment back. And several sitting in his office in late octo-
tution of the United states. That’s ‘This cannot stand’ document; others logged in and They knew who they wanted to republicans, including sen. mitt ber, as revelations emerged from
all that matters.” Pelosi’s path to impeachment made edits. lead the inquiry — Intelligence romney (Utah) and rep. francis the closed-door depositions,
A longtime impeachment skep- began amid a grim backdrop — on sunday night, sept. 22, as Committee Chairman Adam B. rooney (fla.), publicly indicated rooney admitted he was torn, re-
tic who declared in march that two weekend funerals as reports Pelosi returned from south Caroli- schiff (D-Calif.), whom they had they were troubled by the allega- calling his own political whiplash
Trump was “not worth” impeach- of Trump’s potential Ukrainian na, nine freshmen convened a come to trust as the unflappable tions and open to impeachment. growing up in a pro-nixon family
ing “unless there’s something so misdeeds reached a fever pitch. conference call that stretched on face of the probe into the Trump Plus, the witnesses kept gener- during Watergate.
compelling and overwhelming on sept. 20, the Wall street Jour- for more than an hour as they campaign’s alleged ties to russia. ating headlines of damaging in- He described celebrating mass
and bipartisan,” Pelosi radically nal reported that Trump had debated the piece and its impact. fairly or not, they saw Judiciary formation for Trump. William B. at Georgetown’s Holy Trinity
shifted over a few crucial days in urged Ukrainian President Volod- Ultimately, all but two — reps. Committee Chairman Jerrold na- Taylor Jr., the U.s. military Acade- church with his father and some
september as details of a phone ymyr Zelensky to investigate Jared Golden (maine) and max dler (D-n.Y.), who had openly cam- my graduate and veteran diplo- conservative friends on oct. 21,
call between Trump and Ukraine’s Hunter Biden “about eight times” rose (n.Y.) — agreed to sign. paigned for the post on his readi- mat, led investigators though a 1973, the morning after the satur-
president emerged. in the July phone call, news that on monday afternoon, Crow ness to preside over impeach- blow-by-blow of how he learned day night massacre when nixon
over several weeks, a handful of greatly disturbed Pelosi, accord- and reps. Abigail spanberger ment, as a symbol of liberal zeal to that a Ukraine meeting and mili- fired special prosecutor Archibald
freshmen played a key role, urging ing to an individual close to her. (D-Va.) and Chrissy Houlahan oust Trump. tary aid was leveraged on investi- Cox and accepted the resignations
her to keep tight reins on an inqui- The next morning, Pelosi at- (D-Pa.) huddled in Houlahan’s of- But Democrats were unsure gations of Trump’s political rivals. of Attorney General elliot rich-
ry they feared would spin out of tended the funeral of Cokie rob- fice and hammered out the final whether they would be able to Gordon sondland, the megadonor ardson and Deputy Attorney Gen-
control. The speaker listened, cul- erts, the journalist, political com- edits. Around 6 p.m., the group make their case. To most, Trump’s turned ambassador to the europe- eral William ruckelshaus.
minating in her decision to keep mentator and daughter of two for- called Pelosi and told the speaker decision to release the rough tran- an Union, who helped broker “The priest asked for a moment
the impeachment effort focused mer members of Congress. The what they would say. script of his July 25 call with Zel- Ukrainian relations, eventually of silence for those two — my dad
on Ukraine. speaker then traveled to south “These new allegations are a ensky immediately appeared to admitted he delivered the quid and these business guys got up,
The strategy worked in the Carolina for the funeral of emily threat to all we have sworn to vindicate their worst fears. pro quo message to Ukraine. walked out cussing and scream-
short term: only two House Dem- Clyburn, the wife of the House protect,” they wrote in the op-ed, Trump’s own words — “Do us a “every witness that testified, ing,” rooney said. “But lo and be-
ocrats voted against impeach- majority Whip James e. Clyburn, which The Washington Post favor, though” — appeared to con- the reaction was: Damn, they’re hold, about six months later, they
ment on the first article, three on one of her closest allies. would publish four hours later. firm the quid pro quo the anony- really making this case,” said realized the depth of this thing. . . .
the second. They were somber occasions Pelosi did more listening than mous whistleblower had suggest- House majority Leader steny H. And so I just thought: okay, I’m
not a single republican backed where the politics of the moment talking. “Thank you for leading on ed, in a complaint that was re- Hoyer (D-md.). not going to jump out here before I
the charges. even retiring repub- would be an inescapable topic, this issue,” she told them, knowing leased publicly oct. 16. “We were getting crushed in the even know any facts.”
licans, liberated from political and Trump contributed to the de- the political dam had broken. Less Getting those around Trump to closed hearings,” said one senior see decision on A13
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Impeachment vote

deCIsIon from A12
GoP strikes back
The drip, drip, drip of revela-
tions that had so troubled rooney
flowed from the secure facility
three floors below the Capitol
where access is tightly controlled
and electronic devices are verbo-
ten.
As witnesses testified in the
House investigation, reporters
and cameras staked out the
closed-door sessions that
stretched on for hours. House re-
publicans decided to take advan-
tage of the ready-made media to
stage an event to highlight what
they characterized as a secretive
star chamber.
The night before the protest on
oct. 23, Trump hosted some of his
most fervent loyalists at the White
House. His message: fight harder,
something republicans were also
hearing back home from pro-
Trump constituents.
The next day, they gave Trump
the sort of televised spectacle he
craves. Scalise led the protest out-
side the facility’s locked doors,
which was initially planned as lit-
tle more than a raucous news con-
ference. But things quickly esca-
lated when the doors opened and
rep. matt Gaetz (r-fla.) barged in,
leading a parade of unauthorized
lawmakers, some holding cell-
phones, into the conference room
where Pentagon official Laura
Cooper was about to be ques-
tioned about the hold on military
aid to Ukraine.
The stunt had clearly violated
House rules, but it stole the spot-
light from Democrats and domi-
nated cable news and headlines
that day — showing GoP leaders
that they had the ability to knock
Democrats off their game.
for the first few weeks of the
inquiry, Trump strongly resisted
the idea of creating a “war room” as
Clinton had to ensure a unified
communication strategy. He wor-
ried it would make him look weak
— even as republicans such as rep.
mark meadows (r-N.C.) told him
he needed a more robust response.
There was also plenty of tension
in the White House, including
over the initial decision to release
the rough transcript of Trump’s
call with Zelensky, according to
administration officials. Senate
majority Leader mitch mcConnell
(r-Ky.), Cipollone and Justice De-
partment officials told Trump that
Congressional intern sydni nadler, left, stands at the head of the line for a House Judiciary Committee
impeachment hearing at the Longworth House office Building on dec. 4.
releasing the transcript would
take the heat off. But others, in-
cluding Treasury Secretary Steven
mnuchin, Pompeo and communi-
cations officials warned releasing
the document would be like pour-
ing gasoline on a fire.
When the White House re-
leased the transcript, finger point-
ing ensued. Trump exploded at his
lawyers and advisers, furious over
news coverage and convinced the
release of the transcript had only
hurt him more.
White House officials, however,
would later argue that the move
proved prudent. It put the most
damaging evidence out first, rais-
ing the bar for any further findings
discovered by Democrats — none
of which would be so explosive as
the transcript. Trump eventually
clutched the document as a shield:
“read the transcript!” became a
frequently tweeted defense.
While the White House dith-
ered on a counter-strategy, mc-
Carthy deputized members to lead
the pushback, countering damag-
ing emerging facts and argu-
ments, attacking the rapid im-
peachment process and assailing
the credibility of key players.
Throughout the three-month
inquiry — and multiple explana-
tions — republicans held firm to
one talking point: The process
Democrats had settled on was un-
fair to Trump, and the speed and
secrecy of the probe had lent it an
irreparable partisan taint.
many Democrats saw those
complaints as a sign of weakness
— that republicans had no ability
to defend Trump’s conduct. rep.
Seth moulton (D-mass.), in fact,
confronted mcCarthy in the gym
as the GoP process complaints
mounted in early october, telling
him republicans were “losing” on
impeachment. “All you can talk
about is process,” moulton told
mcCarthy, telling the leader he
was “full of s---.”
To mcCarthy, moulton and oth-
er Democrats were missing the
point. The process arguments
weren’t aimed at Democrats or
even swing voters. They were
aimed at republicans in Congress.
“You’ll see in the end,” mcCa-
rthy shot back at moulton, accord-
ing to the recollection of both
men.
The barrage of attacks on the
process and criticism of Schiff
worked. on a key oct. 31 test vote,
republicans were united against a
resolution that set rules for the
remainder of the impeachment
MATT MCCLAIN/THE WASHINGTON POST
process.
“Trump hunkered down and
said it’s a ‘perfect call’ — which
means I am not backing down an
inch,” said Stephen K. Bannon,
Trump’s former chief strategist. “It
was a Trumpian defense. Now ev-
ery republican is in agreement.”
meanwhile, Trump worked be-
hind the scenes to woo republi-
cans. mulvaney turned Camp Da-
vid into a retreat center for select
House members to escape. Trump
invited groups of Senate republi-
cans to the White House for lunch,
frequently telling senators they
should not give an inch because
the Democrats wouldn’t.
But republicans suffered set-
backs in their defense of Trump as
well. on Nov. 15, Trump attacked
Yovanovitch by tweet before she
had barely completed her opening
statement. The social media as-
sault, republicans said, played
right into Democrats’ hands as
they sought to elicit public sympa-
thy for the former ambassador.
Trump realized the misstep im-
mediately as Vice President Pence,
Cipollone, son-in-law and adviser
Jared Kushner and others met in
the oval office. Universally, he
was told the tweet was a mistake.
“The fact that he was even ask-
ing if it was a mistake tells you he
knew it wasn’t a good tweet,” one
White House official said.
As the public hearings contin-
ued, it became increasingly clear
to Democratic leaders that the re-
publican wall of support wasn’t
crumbling. If anything, it was
stronger. multiple Democrats cit-
ed the striking transformation of
rep. Elise Stefanik (r-N.Y.) from a
sometimes Trump critic to a bold
Trump defender as a telltale sign
that they weren’t making any
headway with the GoP.
many Democratic hopes were
also dashed in the final Intelli-
gence Committee hearing on
Nov. 21 when rep. Will Hurd (r-
Tex.), a former CIA official and
frequent GoP critic of Trump who
had chosen to retire, called the
president’s pressure on Ukraine
“inappropriate” but not a crime.
The announcement deflated se-
nior Democrats, who saw Hurd as
a potential defector.
“I cannot believe he believes
that this is not an impeachable
offense putting at risk our nation-
al security and our election integ-
rity,” Hoyer recently vented about
Hurd.
Some Democrats made a last-
ditch appeal to their GoP col-
leagues. reps. Gerald E. Connolly
(D-Va.) and Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.)
approached retiring rep. Paul
mitchell (r-mich.) to try to per-
suade him to back impeachment.
mitchell, a former businessman in
GoP leadership, had decided to
quit Congress after only two
terms, partly out of frustration
with the party’s unwillingness to
call Trump out. mitchell also told
his colleagues he believed Trump’s
call with Ukraine was entirely in-
appropriate.
Cohen pulled mitchell aside af-
ter an early December hearing.
“You could be the one,” he told
him. “You could be the first repub-
lican to break.”
“Your wish won’t come true,” he
told Cohen.
mitchell had recently reread
The federalist Papers and con-
cluded that Trump’s conduct sim-
ply hadn’t met the standard for
impeachment. Like rooney,
mitchell wanted to hear from
close Trump aides who has re-
fused to testify, such as mulvaney
or former national security advis-
er John Bolton. While Bolton
asked a judge to referee the dis-
pute, Democrats had decided they
didn’t want to waste time in the
courts enforcing subpoenas. The
decision carried a price: no re-
publican defections.
“People can be compelled to
testify, evidence can be turned
over, there’s a legal process to do
that,” mitchell said, citing the Nix-
on investigations. “It seems to me,
it was just inconvenient. It ap-
pears to me that [Democrats] had
a schedule.”
Toward the end of the House
impeachment saga, the president
repeatedly sought to show he is
working — signing deals, traveling
the country. But he also couldn’t
hold back from punching at Dem-
ocrats, even his 2016 rival. Speak-
ing to donors at his hotel Saturday
night, he talked about the Army-
Navy football game and how he
visited both sidelines, stopped in
the locker rooms and stood in the
cold for hours. “Hillary couldn’t
have done it,” he said.
Trump also privately mocked
Democratic suggestions that he
engaged in a quid pro quo. And he
bragged to advisers repeatedly
that republicans have stuck be-
hind him, his mood brightening as
impeachment inquiry came to a
close.
In recent days, the president
publicly called Pelosi “crazy,”
while privately he made the un-
founded claim that the speaker
was deteriorating and needed
aides to care for her.
“She would have never done
this” if her mental faculties were
intact, he told an ally at a White
House holiday party, according to
a senior administration official.
A spokesman for Pelosi, Drew
Hammill, dismisses Trump’s com-
ments as “projection.”
With Trump refusing to express
even a smidgen of remorse and his
attorney traveling to Ukraine to
continue pushing for investiga-
tions of Trump’s rivals, Democrats
realized that while their inquiry
was over, their epic clash with
Trump was not. In fact, as lawmak-
ers neared the vote on Wednesday,
some liberals privately lobbied
Pelosi to consider an unusual
move, according to Democratic of-
ficials: Hold the articles rather
than sending them to the Senate,
to continue investigating Trump
— and, perhaps, even impeach
him again.
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Uproar after Chinese university cuts

‘freedom of thought’ from its charter
BY A NNA F IFIELD
beijing — One of China’s most
prestigious universities has delet-
ed a commitment to “freedom of
thought” from its charter and has
demoted “academic indepen-
dence” to a spot lower than patrio-
tism, triggering alarm among fac-
ulty and students alike.
The changes to Fudan Universi-
ty’s charter come amid a widening
crackdown on freedom of expres-
sion under Communist Party
leader Xi Jinping. Predictably,
criticism of the move was swiftly
removed from China’s heavily
censored Internet.
The Education Ministry an-
nounced the changes to Fudan’s
charter on Tuesday. The previous
version included the line, “The
educational philosophy of the uni-
versity is academic independence
and freedom of thought as ex-
tolled in the university anthem.”
The revised version says: “The
university upholds the motto of
‘Rich in Knowledge and Tenacious
of Purpose; Inquiring with Ear-
nestness and Reflecting with Self-
practice.’ We promote the spirit of
‘unity, service and sacrifice,’ prac-
tice earnestly patriotic dedica-
tion, academic independence,
pursuit of excellence.”
Another part of the charter was
expanded to pledge allegiance to
the party. “The university adheres
to the leadership of the Chinese
Communist Party and will fully
implement the party’s education-
al policy,” it says.
“For people who are willing to
praise the current leadership, it’s
the best time to be working. But if
you really want to do real research
and have independent thoughts,
it’s tough,” said Peidong Sun, a
sociologist who teaches at Fudan.
“But this might not be the tough-
est time. In five years, we might
look back on 2019 and say that this
was just the start.”
She could face discipline for
speaking to The Washington Post
in this way but said it was her duty
as an intellectual to speak out
against an entrenched practice
that is becoming worse.
Established in 1905 by a Jesuit
priest, Fudan was the first univer-
sity to be founded by a Chinese
person. Its name, meaning “re-
turn” and “dawn,” comes from a
classical Chinese poem that says,
“Brilliant are the sunshine and
moonlight, again the morning ra-
diance returns at dawn.”
Based in Shanghai, it has en-
joyed some political (and geo-
graphical) distance from the seat
of communist power in Beijing. It
is renowned for excellence in the
humanities, science and medicine
and as a relatively free space in
China. It is also one of the institu-
Aly sOng/reUters
tions tapped by the Chinese gov-
ernment for its “Double First Fudan University graduates pose for a picture in front of a statue of Mao Zedong after their graduation
Class University Plan” to become a ceremony. Fudan has been renowned as a relatively free space in China.
world-class center by 2050.
Fudan also promotes what it the National University of Singa- Wang Huning, a top aide to Xi and is the Yale-Fudan Center for Re-
calls a “strategic partnership” pore. a member of the Politburo Stand- search in Cultural Sociology. Be-
with universities such as Yale and Famous graduates include ing Committee, the Communist ginning in 2016, the center has
Party’s seven-member top deci- organized academic exchanges
sion-making body. and workshops between Yale and
Even in China’s increasingly Fudan professors, researchers
constrained political space, where and doctoral students.
the country’s leader has promoted Yale sociology professor Jeffrey

You Inspire Us. the “Xi Jinping Thought” and

moved to silence all criticism, the
apparent move to constrain Fu-
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Some Fudan graduates con-
trusting us to make something special. tacted the vice secretary of the
Communist Party unit at Fudan,
The one place in the world that’s yours. Xu Zheng, to tell her they felt
“hurt and humiliated” by the
Inspiring Homeowners Since 1961. change.
The moves were sharply criti-
cized online Wednesday, but al-
most all of the posts were deleted
by China’s eagle-eyed censors.
Human rights advocates said
the move was a continuation of
Xi’s steady encroachment on ex-
pression or independent thought.
“I think the change in the char-
ter represents yet another step
toward the closing of minds in
China,” said Maya Wang, a China
researcher at Human Rights
Watch. “Since President Xi came
to power, we’ve seen these pockets
of freedom, where people can
come up for air, disappearing.”
One academic partnership be-
tween Fudan and Yale University
Alexander, one of the center’s two
Yale-based program directors,
told The Post that the center will
continue its partnership with Fu-
dan through summer 2022.
The Yale media office did not
immediately respond to questions
regarding the status of other col-
laborations with Fudan or the
changes in Fudan’s charter.
Since Xi became the leader of
the party at the end of 2012, publi-
cations that are even remotely
critical of Chinese authorities
have been shuttered, academics
who dare to offer different opin-
ions have been demoted or fired,
and think tanks with alternative
ideas have been closed. Lawyers
have been arrested, and religious
institutions, including churches
and Buddhist temples, have been
closed or brought under party
control.
anna.fifield@washpost.com
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Beijing and Miriam Berger in
Washington contributed to this report.

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The former president agrees with parts of a Washington Post exposé about trouble-plagued U.S. efforts in his country
BY P AMELA C ONSTABLE
kabul — Hamid Karzai was once
handpicked by U.S. officials to
lead his war-ravaged country, but
he ended up bitterly estranged
from them after spending a de-
cade in office, a period when
American aid money flooded Af-
ghanistan and the United States
struggled to build Afghan defense
forces to fight Taliban insurgents
in a war that continues today.
Now, the former president has
been out of power for five years,
although he remains an influen-
tial player in Afghan politics. His
version of U.S.-Afghan relations
during his tenure is sharply at
odds with the American version,
and he has often depicted himself
as the maligned victim of a West-
ern juggernaut that used Afghani-
stan — and him — for its own
ends.
But a Washington Post series
this month that exposed years of
wasted or trouble-plagued U.S.
efforts in Afghanistan — based on
hundreds of previously classified
interviews with U.S. officials —
has partly vindicated Karzai’s ar-
guments, even as it portrays his
past government as a dysfunc-
tional “kleptocracy” that was un-
prepared for modern governance.
“Much of it is true,” Karzai said
of the Afghanistan Papers during
a wide-ranging interview Tuesday
at his highly secure residence
here. He cited new findings in the
report that echoed two of his long-
time assertions: that Afghan con-
tracts with U.S. agencies were
widely plagued by corruption and
that U.S. military officials played
down problems with civilian ca-
sualties.
“A lot of effort was made to hide
the facts, especially on civilian
casualties,” he said. He described
a “major fight” with U.S. military
officials in 2007, in which he
pressed them to stop raiding
homes and bombing villages. “I
told them so many times, ‘If you
want to fight terrorism and bad
people, I won’t stop you, but
Karzai defends his role in Afghanistan
“A lot of effort was made to hide the facts, especially on civilian casualties,” former Afghan president Hamid Karzai said. In addition, he
said he was “shocked” at the extent of corruption and the pushback by his top foreign and military allies.
please leave the Afghan people
alone,’ ” Karzai said.
The Post series was based on
interviews conducted by the U.S.
Office of the Special Inspector
General for Afghanistan Recon-
struction, which were not made
public until The Post won a law-
suit demanding their release. The
interviews showed widespread of-
ficial disillusionment with efforts
to build a modern Afghan state,
economy and defense force, even
as public U.S. official statements
routinely painted a more upbeat
picture.
The World
In the Post report, Karzai is
depicted as presiding over a dys-
functional and corrupt govern-
ment. Some U.S. officials cited in
interviews expressed frustration
that he was buying off warlords
and tribal chiefs instead of acting
like a modern elected leader.
“He was never sold on democ-
racy” and did not work through
democratic institutions, one offi-
cial said.
But some officials interviewed
privately expressed the same frus-
trations that Karzai did while he
was president, especially about
the problems created by excess
American aid. “Instead of bring-
ing stability and peace,” the report
said, “the United States inadver-
tently built a corrupt, dysfunc-
tional Afghan government that
remains dependent on U.S. mili-
tary power for its survival.”
Karzai has not been accused of
personal corruption, but officials
in his past administrations have
been implicated in cases of fraud
and financial crimes. The largest
bank in Kabul, of which his broth-
er was a board member, collapsed
in 2010 after its officers stole hun-
ALTAF QADRI/ASSOCIATED PRESS
dreds of millions of dollars. Karzai
was accused by Afghan rivals and
U.N. officials of stealing the 2009
election via ballot stuffing.
In the interview, Karzai said he
was initially naive and then in-
creasingly alarmed about corrup-
tion, but he maintained that his
efforts to curb it were opposed by
U.S. officials for various reasons.
Ultimately, he said, he concluded
that corruption was an inevitable
product of massive foreign funds
pouring into a poor, conflicted
country that had no way to prop-
erly use or monitor them. The U.S.
government has spent more than
$133 billion in Afghanistan since
2001.
Karzai said the pivotal incident
in this narrative was his attempt
in 2008 to ban all Afghan compa-
nies from obtaining U.S. security
contracts after realizing that huge
sums were ending up in individu-
al pockets. He said that he came
under “huge pressure” from U.S.
and British officials to allow the
contracts to continue but that he
insisted on carrying out the ban.
“I was shocked,” he said, at both
the extent of the corruption and
the pushback by his top foreign
and military allies. He said he also
came to realize that civilian aid
contracts were hemorrhaging
money to subcontractors while
projects languished.
“They were building cardboard
schools and clinics, roads that
blew away in the wind,” he said.
Several U.S. officials quoted in
the Post report made similar ob-
servations. One said the vast flow
of aid was like pouring too much
water into a funnel too fast.
“We were flooding the ground,”
he said. Another described emer-
gency funds sent to strengthen
governance in neglected provinc-
es as “crack cocaine” that addicted
“every agency it affected.”
Ryan Crocker, a former U.S.
ambassador to Afghanistan and
Pakistan, said in an interview
published in the report, “I always
thought Karzai had a point, that
you cannot just put those
amounts of money into a very
fragile state and society, and not
have it fuel corruption. You just
can’t.”
But Karzai insisted Tuesday
that U.S. officials in Afghanistan
had actively worked to under-
mine him, accusing them of wag-
ing an unseen “war” against him
in the media and elsewhere, in
part because he refused to renew
a bilateral security agreement. “I
saw the war against me intensify-
ing,” he said. “I concluded that I
was being used as a tool.”
pamela.constable@washpost.com

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Why India’s new citizenship law has triggered protests

Opponents say focus
on religion runs counter
to founding principles
BY J OANNA S LATER
new delhi — The passage of
India’s new citizenship law has
sparked protests nationwide this
week in a major display of opposi-
tion to Prime Minister Narendra
Modi. A coalition of civil society
organizations has planned pro-
tests in 20 cities Thursday, but
authorities in Delhi denied per-
mission for the demonstration.
Here’s what you need to know
about the legislation roiling the
world’s largest democracy.
What is India’s new
citizenship law?
The Citizenship Amendment
Act was approved by India’s Par-
liament on Dec. 11 and makes
religion a criterion for nationality
in India’s citizenship law for the
first time. It creates an expedited
path to citizenship for migrants
from three countries — Pakistan,
Bangladesh and Afghanistan —
who illegally entered India by
2014, provided they belong to six
religions. The religions are Hin-
duism, Buddhism, Christianity,
Sikhism, Jainism and Zoroastri-
anism. Notably absent from the
list: Islam, the religion practiced
by about 200 million of India’s
more than 1.3 billion people.
Why is the law controversial?
The law has sparked backlash
on several levels. When India be-
came independent in 1947, its
founders sought to create a secu-
lar nation where all religions were
welcome — in contrast with Paki-
stan, which was conceived as a
home for the subcontinent’s Mus-
lims. By giving preference to cer-
tain religions in citizenship law,
the government is moving away
from that ethos.
The measure is “the first legal
articulation that India is, you
might say, a homeland for Hin-
dus,” Pratap Bhanu Mehta, one of
India’s most prominent political
scientists, told The Washington
Post.
The law has deepened worries
that Modi, who leads the Hindu
Indian Muslims in Mumbra demonstrate their solidarity with Jamia Millia Islamia University students and against the country’s new
citizenship law. Police stormed the university’s New Delhi campus late Sunday, setting off a fresh round of protests this week.
nationalist Bharatiya Janata Par-
ty, is pursuing policies that effec-
tively turn India’s Muslims into
second-class citizens. In August,
the prime minister stripped In-
dia’s only Muslim-majority state
— Jammu and Kashmir — of its
autonomy and statehood, revers-
ing seven decades of policy. In
November, India’s Supreme Court
allowed the construction of a
grand Hindu temple at the site of
a 16th-century mosque illegally
destroyed by Hindu extremists.
While some critics of the citi-
zenship law view it as discrimina-
tory and counter to India’s found-
ing principles, for others the op-
position to the measure is rooted
in different concerns. In India’s
northeast — a collection of seven
states bordering Bangladesh, Chi-
na and Myanmar — there are
long-standing tensions over mi-
grants entering the region. Resi-
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dents there worry that the law gious minorities from three Opponents say there are sever-
makes it easier for migrants to neighboring countries who have al problems with the govern-
become citizens, hastening demo- entered India. Such communities ment’s logic. The first is that the
graphic and linguistic change. have faced hardship and, at times, law applies only to migrants who
entered India by 2014 and does
not help religious minorities liv-
ing in those countries. The second
is that the government has re-
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights stricted its concern to religious
minorities, not members of other
said the law was “fundamentally discriminatory” types of persecuted communities.
Experts say the government could
and appears “to undermine the commitment have achieved its stated goal with-
out using language that explicitly
to equality before the law enshrined excludes Islam.
in India’s constitution.” What has been the reaction so
far?
International observers have
expressed serious concerns about
Why does the government say violence in Pakistan, Afghanistan the measure. The U.S. Commis-
the law is necessary? and Bangladesh — all Muslim- sion on International Religious
The Modi government says the majority nations — and the gov- Freedom said the legislation
law is a humanitarian measure ernment says India has a moral marked a “dangerous turn” and
aimed at helping persecuted reli- responsibility to help them. called upon Congress and Presi-
dent Trump to consider sanctions
against Amit Shah, Modi’s power-
ful minister of home affairs. The
U.N. High Commissioner for Hu-
man Rights said the law was “fun-
damentally discriminatory” and
appears “to undermine the com-
mitment to equality before the
law enshrined in India’s constitu-
tion.”
In India, the furor shows little
sign of ebbing. Days of protests
broke out in India’s northeast fol-
lowing the passage of the mea-
sure, particularly in Assam, where
four people were shot and killed
by police. Protests have also taken
place in cities and at universities
across the country, including in
the capital New Delhi, where po-
lice stormed the campus of Jamia
Millia Islamia University late Sun-
day. A fresh round of demonstra-
tions broke out this week in re-
sponse to the actions of the police.
Protests also spread beyond In-
dia, with demonstrations taking
place in the United States and
Britain. More than 10,000 aca-
demics issued a statement con-
demning police brutality against
students and calling the citizen-
ship law “discriminatory and un-
just.”
What happens next?
Opponents of the measure are
preparing to challenge its legality
in India’s Supreme Court, but a
verdict in the case could take
months or longer.
Shah, Modi’s second-in-com-
mand, has described the citizen-
ship measure as a first step. The
next priority is to implement a
nationwide register of citizens in
which all Indians could be re-
quired to provide documents
proving their citizenship. The ex-
ercise would be modeled on a
registry carried out in Assam, a
byzantine process that threatens
to leave 2 million people stateless.
Shah says no Indian citizen has
anything to fear from a nation-
wide register of citizens that aims
to weed out illegal “infiltrators.”
(He has also called such migrants
“termites.”) But many Indian
Muslims are afraid the exercise is
an excuse to target their claims to
citizenship — and some have be-
gun to assemble their ancestral
documents ahead of a possible
registry.
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In just a generation,
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To meet the needs of today’s students, high-
er education needs to have the same agility,
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way education providers think to focus on the
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CONTENT FROM SEI in sight, they beat the man with a
Leader opposes easing metal bar, raped the woman and
church-state boundary used the bar to brutalize her. The
pair were dumped naked on the
President Andrés Manuel roadside, and the woman died
López Obrador said Wednesday
that he does not support a
two weeks later.
All the accused were tried
proposal to further relax Mexico’s relatively quickly, a rarity in a
both serving working adult students — have credit hour bachelor’s program. strict legal separation of church country where sexual assault
revamped their general studies curriculum to and state, throwing cold water on cases often languish for years.
include teaching the skills and behaviors that
We can also reduce the time students spend a draft bill that would upend Four were sentenced to death.
on housekeeping tasks. Strayer University cre- long-standing political doctrine Another hanged himself in prison
employers identify as vital for any job, such as
ated an AI-powered virtual assistant named in the country. before his trial began. The sixth
communication, data analysis and agility.
Irving to manage students’ administrative in- López Obrador said the issue was a minor at the time of the
This approach is helping to produce strong quiries, freeing up time for faculty and coach- “was resolved over a century and attack and was sentenced to three
results. Researchers at the Georgetown Uni- es to help students with more critical matters. a half ago.” years in a reform home.
versity Center on Education and the Work- The proposal, presented last One of those sentenced to
force just released new data showing Capella week by a senator from the death filed his review petition
University in the top 2% (93 out of over 4500 president’s Morena party, would this month, after the other three
schools) for “net present value” over 40 years modify the Law on Religious had theirs rejected. On
— what the study calls “the most comprehen- Associations and Public Worship Wednesday, the Supreme Court
sive benchmark for judging value.” to eliminate historical language rejected his appeal as well.
enshrining the “separation of the — Associated Press
Disruption also means investing in possibil- State and churches.”
ities outside of university walls that could Among specific measures, it Bolivian prosecutors order
improve the experience and success of stu- reportedly would allow religious Morales’s arrest: Prosecutors in
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ture fund, we’ve invested in six start-ups manner of media, relax for ousted president Evo
doing just that: from creating new pathways
regulations on church ownership Morales, accusing him of
to high wage healthcare jobs to enabling of property, provide for sedition and terrorism. Interior
course-integrated internships. These are in- cooperation between church and Minister Arturo Murillo recently
vestments in our students’ education-to-em- Engaging content state on cultural and social brought charges against Morales,
ployment journeys. development, and allow alleging that he promoted
The rise of online learning has been a game
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on religious grounds. before and after he left office.
engagement challenge. Adopting some of
the best practices of binge-worthy content López Obrador’s party and Officials say Morales ordered
allies control both houses of supporters to blockade cities to
at streaming services like Netflix and Hulu,
Mexico’s Congress, and without force the ouster of interim
Strayer University launched Strayer Studios in
his support, it is hard to imagine president Jeanine Áñez, who
2016 to infuse course curriculum with docu- the bill winning approval. took over when Morales resigned
mentary-style films to engage students. Initial
The Mexican state long had an Nov. 10 after mass protests and
review of the program in 2017 shows that Stu- antagonistic relationship with under pressure from the police
dios content increased students’ online class the Roman Catholic Church. And and military. Morales, who is
attendance, completion of assignments and though many of the tougher now based in Argentina, has
participation in class discussions. anticlerical laws have been eased denied the charges.
Disruption doesn’t require dismantling. The in modern times, church-state
separation remains entrenched Hariri removes himself from
traditional education system remains an im-
portant foundation, but it must be improved. as a core political concept. consideration for premier:
Flexibility and affordability — Associated Press Lebanon’s caretaker prime
Just as with any industry, our success is de-
Learners need flexibility to fit school into termined by how well we meet the needs of minister said he is no longer a
their busy schedules. The old model of seat those we serve. Our nation, our workforce and INDIA candidate for the post,
time doesn’t work for everyone; how long a eliminating himself from
student sits does not necessarily tell you if
our students have evolved. It’s time for higher
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Death penalty appeal consideration with no clear
they will be successful. in ’12 gang rape denied alternative on the eve of
consultations between the
Competency-based direct assessment learn- Read more at India’s Supreme Court on president and parliamentary
ing formats are making learning more acces- washingtonpost.com/brand-studio/sei/ Wednesday rejected the final blocs for naming a new premier.
it’s-time-to-disrupt-higher-ed-here’s-how
sible and affordable by providing flexible op- appeal of one of the four men Saad Hariri’s move comes amid
tions at a reduced cost. Capella University’s sentenced to death in the 2012 uncertainty and heightened
FlexPath program provides a unique, sub- fatal gang rape of a woman in tensions following recent
scription-based tuition model where students New Delhi, paving the way for the violence that threatened to
have full control to accelerate their courses four to be hanged. plunge Lebanon further into
based on their schedule and skill. The more The case made international chaos and ignite sectarian strife
courses they complete each 12-week session, headlines and exposed the scope after two months of protests and
the sooner they graduate and the less they THIS CONTENT IS DEVELOPED AND PAID of sexual violence against women a spiraling financial crisis.
pay. A five year review of the program shows FO R B Y S E I . T H E WA S H I N GTO N P O ST in India, prompting lawmakers to Politicians have been unable to
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FlexPath bachelor’s program was 59% faster CREATION OF THIS CONTENT. The victim, a 23-year-old, was Hariri resigned Oct. 29 in
than similar students in Capella’s equivalent heading home with a male friend response to the protests.
when six male attackers lured — From news services
THURSDAy, DECEMbER 19 , 2019
Newly elected Parliament is Britain’s most diverse ever
Includes record women,
gay members, minorities,
blue-collar Conservatives
BY W ILLIAM B OOTH
london — Britain’s new Parlia-
ment, sworn in this week at West-
minster Palace, is the most di-
verse in the country’s history —
and one that may see greater
unity within the ruling party than
has been on display in years.
The House of Commons is
dominated by Prime Minister Bo-
ris Johnson’s thick slab of Conser-
vatives, who won 365 of 650 seats.
The elected chamber also has
record numbers of women, gay
members and minorities, includ-
ing Conservative Imran Ahmad-
Khan, Britain’s first gay Muslim
lawmaker.
At least 45 lawmakers are gay,
lesbian or bisexual, according to
their public statements. One pub-
lication called it the “pinkest”
Parliament in the world.
There are many new members,
too, who attended state-run
schools and universities — along-
side the usual outsize number of
graduates from posh Eton and
Oxford, like Johnson.
Plus: a former dolphin trainer,
a reality TV star and a bodyguard.
New members this week wan-
dered the confusing maze of cor-
ridors and winding stairs to no-
where.
There was the smell of roasts
and beer in the hallways, as elec-
tion wins were celebrated in the
Damages awarded in landmark rape case in Japan
Civil court verdict is a
win for country’s nascent
#MeToo movement
BY S IMON D ENYER
AND A KIKO K ASHIWAGI
tokyo — A Japanese civil court
awarded about $30,000 in dam-
ages to a journalist who alleged
she was raped by a powerful tele-
vision bureau chief, in a case that
highlighted Japan’s outdated rape
laws and the obstacles women
face in alleging sexual misconduct
in a nation run by a conservative,
male-dominated establishment.
Although the compensation
was about one-third of what Shio-
ri Ito had sought, the verdict
Wednesday marked a victory for
women’s rights in Japan and for
the country’s nascent #MeToo
movement.
Outside the court, Ito thanked
her many supporters as she pur-
sued the case in the face of a
significant backlash. She said she
hoped the ruling would help other
cases see the light of day.
“I am truly glad I was able to
deliver everyone a good result,”
she said. “Even with this much
support, a victim can become ner-
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the crumbling Westminster es-
tate.
At a packed opening session
Tuesday to confirm House of
Commons speaker Lindsey
Hoyle, the chamber looked differ-
ent.
For one thing, it looked young-
er — and is. A lot of the old-timers
retired, were booted from the
Conservative Party or lost seats
long held by the Labour Party.
With her win last week in
Nottingham East, Nadia Whit-
tome became the youngest law-
maker in Westminster. She’s 23
and a committed Labour activist
who embraced outgoing leader
Jeremy Corbyn. She made head-
lines when she promised to do-
nate two-thirds of her new
$105,000 salary to charity.
In a short BBC clip, Whittome
said that during the campaign,
she was still sussing out tempo-
rary Christmas jobs back home.
Coming into London, she told
the broadcaster, “It feels a little
bit like starting Hogwarts, but
when the Death Eaters have all
taken over” — the Death Eaters in
her Harry Potter metaphor being
the Conservatives.
Among the new Conservative
members are candidates who pre-
vailed in the traditional Labour
heartland in the north and Mid-
lands of England, in struggling
working-class, postindustrial
towns.
Some of these new Tory law-
makers grew up in public hous-
ing, raised by single mums, and
came from families that for gen-
erations worked with their hands
— like schoolteacher and trade
vous, worried. Even today, there
are so many people who are fight-
ing alone. I hope it will become
easier for them to feel less worried
going forward.”
In her case, Ito said she felt
dizzy and lost consciousness dur-
ing an evening in 2015 spent
drinking and eating with a well-
known male journalist, Noriyuki
Yamaguchi, after he offered to
help her find a job. She said she
awoke hours later to find him
raping her and believes he
drugged her.
Tokyo police initially tried to
discourage her from pressing
charges and could not provide a
female police officer able to re-
cord her testimony.
Evidence amassed to support
the charges. A taxi driver testified
that he had heard Ito ask to get out
at a train station, then saw her
lose consciousness. Security foot-
age showed Ito being taken, ap-
parently unconscious, through
the lobby of a hotel where Yama-
guchi was staying.
Police eventually handed the
case to prosecutors, and an arrest
warrant was issued for Yamagu-
chi — but then suddenly dropped
on the instructions of a senior
police officer.
Yamaguchi was Washington
bureau chief of the Tokyo Broad-
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day of Parliament. The room was so packed with new members of his party that many sat on the floor.
unionist Jonathan Gullis, from
Stoke-on-Trent North. His victory
unseated a Labour candidate in
that constituency for the first
time since World War II.
As the Telegraph noted, “Mr.
Gullis is as far from the archetyp-
al Tory toff as you could possibly
get.”
The working-class Tories from
the north could reshape the party
— or collide with Conservative
traditionalists, who embrace low-
had written books about Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe. Opposition
lawmakers held hearings in 2017
and asked whether the case was
dropped due to Yamaguchi’s ties
to Abe, but officials denied this,
arguing there was insufficient evi-
dence to charge him.
Yamaguchi argued that he took
Ito to his hotel room because she
was too drunk to get home safely.
He denied raping her, saying she
had aggressively asked for sex.
In 2017, Ito broke with conven-
tion by going public with her
claims at a news conference, but
Japan’s male-dominated and pro-
establishment media was reluc-
tant to champion her cause, citing
the lack of a criminal indictment.
Instead, she faced threats and
insults over social media, by email
and telephone, as well as articles
attacking her in a conservative
magazine.
She braved the backlash and
took Yamaguchi to court in a civil
case. She wrote a book entitled
“Black Box” about her experiences
and the difficulties she faced get-
ting information on her own case,
let alone other similar cases.
When she went public, Ito esti-
mated that only around 5 percent
of rapes were reported in Japan,
because of stigma in Japanese
society, police indifference and
reluctance to open a case, the
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benches so packed with new To-
ries that many were sitting on the
floor.
Standing at the despatch box,
Johnson looked around the
difficulty of obtaining a guilty ver-
dict and the risk of a backlash
against the victim.
But her testimony has helped
galvanize Japan’s #MeToo move-
ment. The number of rape cases in
which the Justice Ministry began
proceedings rose 35 percent in
2018 to 410, although the figure
remains very low by international
standards considering Japan’s
population, about 127 million peo-
ple.
More women are also speaking
out about sexual harassment and
protesting the way cases are han-
dled after acquittals and minimal
sentences for those found guilty.
Monthly “Flower Demonstra-
tions” began in Tokyo in April and
have spread to 25 other Japanese
cities.
“Looking at him at the court, I
was trying to imagine what was
going on in his mind,” Ito said
outside the court Wednesday. “I
hope he will speak sincerely from
now on.”
Yamaguchi had sought about
$1.2 million in compensation
from Ito in a countersuit, and he
demanded that she take out full-
page advertisements in Japan’s
newspapers apologizing for dam-
aging his reputation. His lawyer
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Parliament is a vast improvement
on its predecessor.”
He asked the House: What are
we going to do?
And his party behind him
roared, “Get Brexit done!”
A humbled Corbyn stood and
received a tepid response from
his side. The 70-year-old socialist
is stepping down as leader, with
the fight to succeed him under-
way. Corbyn blamed Brexit and
Japanese journalist Shiori Ito holds a banner reading “Victory”
outside the Tokyo District Court on Wednesday.
said he planned to appeal the
verdict and maintained he had
done nothing illegal.
“We presented a multitude of
objective evidence that supports
my arguments,” he said. “I am very
dissatisfied with the court, which
allowed Ito’s argument one-sided-
ly to be the truth.”
Meanwhile, Ito is campaigning
for changes to Japan’s rape law,
which fails to mention the con-
cept of consent and sets the legal
age for sex at 13. At a news confer-
ence later Wednesday, Ito said the
penal code, which is due to be
revised next year, should be
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but many in his party blame him
and an agenda that was too radi-
cal for voters in 2019.
Corbyn did get one good dig in,
when he hailed the record num-
ber of women in the Parliament —
but pointed out that the surge
was all on his side of the chamber.
A total 220 female lawmakers
were elected last Thursday, 12
more than the previous record in
2017.
Of Labour’s 202 lawmakers,
more than half, 104, are women.
Among the Liberal Democrats’ 11
members, seven are women.
Johnson’s side is decidedly
more male — less than a quarter
of Conservative members are
women: 87.
Jill Rutter, of the U.K. in a
Changing Europe research initia-
tive, said the Conservative Party
under Johnson is “very different”
from the one he inherited in July
from prime minister Theresa May
— who remains in the Commons
as a backbencher.
Some of the Conservatives who
rebelled against Johnson in the
fall have lost or given up their
seats. Meanwhile, the lawmakers
at the start of their parliamentary
careers are less likely to fight the
party machine.
“This will be a much less rebel-
lious Conservative Party,” Rutter
predicted. “This is very much a
Conservative Party that will see
itself in debt to Boris Johnson for
delivering this massive and unex-
pected victory.”
william.booth@washpost.com
Karla Adam contributed to this
report.
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rape victims to file a case.
But she said more far-reaching
changes are essential, including
addressing the massive shortage
of female police officers who can
deal with rape cases, opening up
the “black box” of Japan’s prose-
cution system, and breaking open
the male-dominated political,
legal and media establishment.
Still, Ito said she was glad the
civil case had shed light on what
happened to her and allowed wit-
nesses to testify in a courtroom.
She said the overall situation has
begun to change for the better in
Japan, however slowly.
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Politicians fight to preserve divisive Facebook ad tools
Advertisers from both major parties have been angered by proposals to curb ‘microtargeting’ abilities that critics deem a possible threat to democracy
BY C RAIG T IMBERG
As Facebook sought to recover
from its disastrous 2016 election
season, company officials debat-
ed ways to curb distortions and
disinformation on the platform.
One of the most potentially pow-
erful — limiting advertisers’ abili-
ty to target narrow slices of voters
with political messages — strug-
gled to find support and was
abandoned, say people familiar
with those discussions.
But today, as disinformation
begins to spread ahead of the
2020 presidential vote, Facebook
again is discussing “microtarget-
ing” and weighing whether to
restrict a set of advertising tools
so powerful that, critics say, it
may threaten democracy itself.
Although political advertising
is a relatively small source of
revenue for Facebook, which took
in nearly $56 billion overall last
year, the stakes are high because
many politicians, including Presi-
dent Trump, are avid users of its
microtargeting tools. These in-
clude the ability to tailor messag-
es to lists of individual voters or
to small groups based on charac-
teristics such as age, education,
Zip code, income, relationship
status, interests, political lean-
ings or combinations of the
above. Politicians and operatives
from both major parties have
reacted angrily to proposals to
curb these powers.
Facebook has been reluctant to
meddle with this profit-making
machinery, and even now its offi-
cials are downplaying talk of
major changes as it discusses
what new restrictions if any to
announce. Nick Clegg, Facebook’s
head of global affairs and com-
munications, told reporters earli-
er this month in Brussels that the
company would not alter the
“fundamental architecture of our
approach” to political advertis-
ing.
But pressure to change the
rules on microtargeting is being
applied to Facebook from several
directions.
Disinformation experts and re-
searchers say limiting or banning
political microtargeting would
help slow the spread of false-
hoods online by exposing prob-
lematic ads — by politicians or
political interest groups — to a
wider audience, where inaccura-
cies or outright lies would be
more likely to be noticed and
exposed.
Actions by rival tech compa-
nies also are increasing the pres-
sure. Last month, Twitter an-
nounced it was banning ads by
political candidates, and Google
sharply limited microtargeting
for political campaigns, adding to
the company’s long list of adver-
tising topics, including gambling,
alcohol consumption and medi-
cal treatments, for which the
company has targeting restric-
tions.
Some U.S. officials also have
spoken out against microtarget-
ing of political ads. Federal Elec-
tion Commission Chairwoman
Ellen L. Weintraub has repeated-
ly warned about microtargeting,
including in a Washington Post
opinion piece last month in
which she called the practice “a
potent weapon for spreading dis-
information and sowing discord.”
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a
longtime advocate of Internet
freedoms, called for restrictions
on microtargeting in October in
an addendum to a Senate Intelli-
gence Committee report detail-
ing Russian interference in the
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2016 campaign. Wyden issued a
statement recently reiterating his
call. “Now that Google and Twit-
ter have taken responsible steps
to guard against shadowy politi-
cal influence campaigns, Face-
book should do the same, rather
than continuing to chase political
advertising dollars,” he said.
Facebook spokesman Kevin
McAlister acknowledged that Fa-
cebook is discussing how it han-
dles political ads. “We are looking
at different ways we might refine
our approach to political ads.
We’re continuing to collect feed-
back and are considering the
options,” he said.
Facebook began its efforts to
address rampant falsehoods on
its platform soon after the 2016
election and intensified them the
following year, when it reported
that the Internet Research Agen-
cy, a Russia-based troll farm that
mounted a major online influ-
ence operation during the U.S.
presidential campaign, had
bought ads using Facebook’s tar-
geting tools.
That prompted congressional
hearings and intense debate
within Facebook over how to
address the increasingly obvious
problems on the platform. The
company gradually adopted sev-
eral remedial actions, including
expanding teams to combat dis-
information campaigns, creating
an online archive so outsiders
could monitor political ads and
establishing systems for verifying
the identities of ad purchasers.
Limits on microtargeting did
not make the cut, and discussions
about the idea quieted. But the
backlash over Facebook’s politi-
cal ads policy, which in Septem-
ber officially exempted the claims
of politicians from the company’s
network of outside fact-checkers,
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No name for the new company
has been decided, executives
said, but Tavares and Manley
insisted it was not a “touchy
subject.”
The deal, unveiled in October,
was billed as a 50-50 merger, but
PSA has one extra seat on the
board and Tavares at the helm,
giving the French carmaker the
upper hand in daily
management.
The executives said they
expect the deal to take a year to
15 months to close. It will create
a company with revenue of
nearly $190 billion, producing
8.7 million cars a year — just
behind Volkswagen, the Renault-
Nissan alliance and Toyota.
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other ways to curb disinforma-
tion and jump-started the conver-
sation on microtargeting.
Amid mounting external pres-
sure, an October employee letter
to chief executive Mark Zucker-
berg, which said the political ads
policy “allows politicians to
weaponize our platform,” also
called for limits on microtarget-
ing, according to a New York
Times report that underscored
the internal unrest on the issue.
Still, the changes Facebook ul-
timately undertakes are likely to
be far less sweeping than the ones
imposed by Twitter or Google, say
people familiar with internal dis-
cussions who spoke on the condi-
tion of anonymity because they
were not authorized to discuss
the matter publicly.
One leading idea under discus-
sion is setting a larger minimum
size for microtargeted groups.
The standard limit of 100, for
example, could be raised to 1,000
or 10,000 for political ads, in-
creasing their transparency
somewhat, say those familiar
with the discussions.
Even that modest change
would upset political campaign
operatives who have become de-
pendent on microtargeting to
communicate messages not only
to potential supporters but also
to people who are likely to donate
to a political campaign.
Microtargeting also is a lucra-
tive staple of corporate advertis-
ing, and Facebook has built its
business around its remarkable
ability to deliver messages tai-
lored to individual Facebook us-
ers.
But disinformation experts say
that, in the political context, mi-
crotargeting opens the door to
distortions because no outside
observer has a full view of the
torrent of tailored messages be-
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ing delivered. This essential fact
of microtargeting undermines
the routine scrutiny undergone
by television ads or billboards,
where any demonstrable false-
hood is on display for all to see
and potentially challenge.
Disinformation experts say
very narrow targeting fractures
political understanding far more
severely than the traditional red-
blue partisan divide.
“Instead of two Americas,
you’re potentially looking at hun-
dreds of thousands of Americas,”
said Alex Stamos, the former
Facebook security chief, who now
is head of the Stanford Internet
Observatory, which studies disin-
formation campaigns. “I don’t
think our democracy can survive
that kind of Balkanization of the
electorate.”
The impact of microtargeting
is multiplied by the frenetic pace
of modern politics, in which a
campaign might create thou-
sands of ads a day, each destined
for a separate tiny audience.
Trump’s campaign in 2016, for
example, produced more than
50,000 ads a day, many with just
slight variations in graphics,
wording or colors, according to
Brad Parscale, who was the cam-
paign’s digital adviser and now is
the campaign manager of
Trump’s reelection effort, while
describing the operation in a
“60 Minutes” interview in 2017.
“Facebook now lets you get to
places and places possibly that
you would never go with TV ads,”
Parscale said in the interview.
“Now, I can find, you know, 15
people in the Florida Panhandle
that I would never buy a TV
commercial for. And we took
opportunities that I think the
other side didn’t.”
Cambridge Analytica, a former
Trump campaign consultancy
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Facebook data it had obtained to
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types of voters determined via
preferences expressed through
“likes” and other social media
signals. While many political pro-
fessionals considered such claims
overblown, the practice of har-
nessing social media posts and
other personal data to direct ad-
vertising remains popular, de-
spite the demise of Cambridge
Analytica itself, experts say.
Advertisers can pursue similar
tactics using Facebook’s own mi-
crotargeting tools, based on the
company’s vast troves of data on
its nearly 2.5 billion users, includ-
ing a large majority of U.S. voters.
The sources include what users
voluntarily post, what they do
elsewhere on the Internet and
what commercial data brokers
collect about personal character-
istics and financial histories.
Facebook also allows microtar-
geting by letting advertisers up-
load lists of people — by name,
phone number, email address or
other identifying characteristics
— to create a matched “Custom
Audience” of Facebook users. Ad-
vertisers that create “Custom Au-
diences” also can create a second-
ary list called “Lookalike Audi-
ences” of people with similar
characteristics.
“No other advertising platform
in history comes close to having
Facebook’s capabilities,” said Jon-
athan Albright, research director
of the Tow Center for Digital
Journalism at Columbia Univer-
sity. “If there was no Custom
Audiences, then we probably
wouldn’t be talking about micro-
targeting right now.”
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to paralyze the World Trade
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lodged a formal appeal of a
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crotargeting say the simplest and
most effective approach would be
to ban “Custom Audiences” and
“Lookalike Audiences” for politi-
cal ads, but there is not wide
support for such dramatic action
within Facebook, say people fa-
miliar with discussions there.
The company has seriously dis-
cussed limiting the number of
ads a single candidate can run
simultaneously, imposing a
blackout on political ads in the 72
hours before a vote and raising
the minimum number of people
that a campaign could target with
a particular ad.
The Russians at the Internet
Research Agency used Custom
Audiences in 2016 for some of its
Facebook ad purchases, targeting
people who had visited websites
and Facebook pages the Russians
had created on such hot-button
issues as illegal immigration, Af-
rican American political activism
and the rising prominence of
Muslims in the United States. But
Custom Audiences and microtar-
geting in general go far beyond
such nefarious actors. Their use is
routine in political online adver-
tising by campaigns on the right,
left and middle.
The reaction to Google’s ban on
microtargeting and reports that
Facebook might impose its own
restrictions highlighted the polit-
ical stakes involved.
“Google has made an extraor-
dinarily poor decision which will
lead to less-informed voters, low-
er voter engagement, and voter
suppression,” said a joint state-
ment last month from Trump’s
reelection campaign and three
national Republican groups.
“Google should immediately re-
verse its decision in order to
ensure they do not suppress voter
turnout during both the Demo-
crat primaries and the 2020 gen-
eral election.”
The Democratic National Com-
mittee sent a letter to Facebook
Chief Operating Officer Sheryl
Sandberg last month, the day
after Google announced its re-
strictions on microtargeting, urg-
ing Facebook not to follow suit
and calling instead for more
transparency, policy enforcement
and fact checking. “Banning po-
litical ads or severely inhibiting
targeting capabilities on Face-
book would not be in our party’s
best interest nor in the best
interest of promoting voter par-
ticipation,” said the letter, a copy
of which was obtained by The
Post.
But the record of Facebook’s
third-party fact-checking system,
created in 2016 as one remedy to
disinformation, is viewed as a
mixed success within the technol-
ogy industry because it has
proved impractical for reviewers
to keep up with the flood of
falsehoods that appear online ev-
ery day.
Limiting microtargeting
wouldn’t directly address false
claims, but it could make their
circulation easier to spot and
challenge.
“We’re used to seeing the ads
where the candidate turns to the
camera and says, ‘I approved this
ad.’ This is so far from that
context that it’s hard to compre-
hend,” said Ashley Boyd, vice
president of advocacy for the
Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit
group that supports an open and
inclusive Internet and has called
for curbs on microtargeting.
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appellate body no longer has a
sufficient quorum of members to
sign off on new rulings, the U.S.
move will effectively act as a veto
of the ruling because the case
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IBM on Wednesday said it has
come up with a new battery
technology that uses materials
extracted from seawater and
requires no cobalt, as the race to
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IBM said it has partnered with
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A Democratic fight over ‘future of American capitalism’
Top contenders for 2020
separated sharply by cost
of their policy proposals
BY J EFF S TEIN
One side of the Democratic
Party wants the nation’s billion-
aires to pay a slightly higher tax
rate on their income. Through an
unprecedented wealth tax, the
other side would target the stock
holdings, real estate and other
property of the nation’s billion-
aires to raise trillions of dollars of
new revenue.
One side has virtually no plans
to have the government take over
private industry. The other has
an armada of proposals for feder-
al interventions, including gov-
ernment control of U.S. health
insurance, public production of
prescription drugs and mandat-
ing worker control over their
companies.
With Democrats set to debate
again this week, the presidential
primary campaign has revealed a
sharp split in the party over core
tenets of American capitalism.
The leading candidates for the
Democratic presidential nomi-
nation have separated into two
camps, with Sens. Bernie Sand-
ers (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren
(Mass.) leading a liberal flank in
the polling and former vice presi-
dent Joe Biden and Pete But-
tigieg, the mayor of South Bend,
Ind., leading the moderate side.
The eventual nominee will de-
termine the party’s position on
vital economic questions includ-
ing the taxes paid by the richest
Americans; the size of the federal
welfare state; the makeup of the
health-care industry; and the
relationship between workers
and corporations.
The gap is so large that Warren
and Sanders would spend up to
10 times as much as Biden over
the next 10 years and about eight
times as much as Buttigieg.
“At the heart of this primary is
a debate over the future of Amer-
ican capitalism,” said Timothy
Naftali, an associate professor of
history at New York University.
“The Democratic Party is try-
ing to come to terms with where
it stands on the kinds of issues
Warren and Sanders raise — on
the tax system, on debt and
education, on the nature of how
we deliver health care,” he said.
“These are big issues, and Sand-
ers and Warren are on one side,
and most of the other Democrats
appear to be on the other.”
The jostling comes as Presi-
dent Trump and White House
officials have seized on recent
economic news to argue that
their agenda of low taxes, re-
duced regulations and a shake-
up in trade policy has helped
push the stock market and labor
market to record levels. The
White House has tried to seize on
the more liberal proposals ema-
nating from the Democratic pri-
mary and accuse Trump’s eventu-
al rival of running on a platform
of socialism.
“Sanders and Warren have ag-
gressively pushed this pretty far-
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South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, left, and Joe Biden, second from right, propose smaller
spending expansions than are favored by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
left agenda on the economy, and
Biden has tried to run up the
middle,” said Stephen Moore, a
conservative at the Heritage
Foundation who advises Trump.
“But at the end of the day, if you
have a President Biden or a
President Buttigieg with a Demo-
cratic Congress, you could get
much higher taxes, a Green New
“The Democratic Party
is trying to come to
terms with where it
stands on the kinds of
issues Warren and
Sanders raise — on the
tax system; on debt and
education; on . . . how
we deliver health care.”
Timothy Naftali,
New York University history professor
Deal and a pretty aggressive step
toward socialized medicine.”
Democrats say the recent
strong economic data overlooks
the deeper economic suffering
confronting broad sections of the
working class. But their solutions
to that suffering are markedly
different.
Adding up the cost of his
various policy proposals, Sand-
ers is calling for new federal
spending that would amount to
more than $50 trillion over the
next decade — a number about
equal to one-fifth of the entire
U.S. economy over that time.
Warren, who has called herself a
“capitalist to my bones” but
agrees with many of Sanders’s
policies, is proposing upward of
$30 trillion of new spending.
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Warren and Sanders is her less
costly estimate of what it would
take to pay for expanding Medi-
care to all Americans. His cli-
mate, housing and student debt
plans are also significantly big-
ger than hers.)
By contrast, Buttigieg is pro-
posing about $6 trillion of new
federal spending over the next
decade, while Biden has laid out
how he would pay for about
$3 trillion of spending over that
time.
Warren and Sanders have also
pushed a wealth tax that could
raise more than $4 trillion, tax-
ing accumulated wealth and as-
sets in a departure from the
traditional Democratic policy of
taxing income. Biden released a
significantly less aggressive tax
plan this month that would raise
taxes on investors and firms, a
plan much closer to the position
of the Obama administration
toward the end of its second
term.
Some academics said the cur-
rent division on economic policy
between the Democratic Party’s
leading presidential candidates
may be wider than that between
Republican and Democratic
presidential candidates in recent
general elections.
Judging by their tax policies,
for instance, Sanders and Biden
are about 10 times further apart
today than John McCain and
Barack Obama were in the 2008
presidential campaign.
The last time a party faced
such divergence may have been
the 2016 GOP primary, when
most Republican candidates
pledged a conventional approach
to fiscal conservatism — includ-
ing entitlement cuts and free
trade — while Trump promised
to leave Medicare and Social
Security untouched and criti-
cized trade agreements.
The Democratic campaigns
will continue to announce new
economic policies. Biden’s cam-
paign, for example, is working on
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a trade policy aimed at seeking a
contrast with Trump by high-
lighting the former vice presi-
dent’s experience working with
countries worldwide, according
to two people who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to dis-
cuss the campaign’s internal
planning.
And Buttigieg aides are craft-
ing a tax plan — he is the only
candidate in the top tier without
one — that probably would aim
to tax the rich but not go as far as
Sanders and Warren, two other
people said.
These diverging approaches
reflect not only differences in the
value of specific policies, some
experts say, but also illustrate
philosophical questions about
the degree to which American
capitalism requires massive fed-
eral intervention.
A central part of the division
includes disagreements over how
to reform the welfare state, with
Sanders and Warren pushing for
universal programs such as a
Medicare-for-all health-care sys-
tem and tuition-free colleges and
universities and Sanders also
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calling for eliminating all stu-
dent debt.
Sanders has long pitched uni-
versal programs as generating
greater political support and re-
ducing administrative inefficien-
cies, while Buttigieg has criti-
cized the liberals’ plan for univer-
sal free college as benefiting “the
children of millionaires and bil-
lionaires.” Sanders responded
this month by telling MSNBC:
“I’m very glad that Mr. Buttigieg
is worried that I have been too
easy on upper-income people
and the millionaires and billion-
aires.”
The camps also differ in the
extent to which they target cer-
tain powerful financial interests,
with Warren and Sanders calling
for significantly curbing the in-
fluence of actors such as Wall
Street banks, the fossil fuel in-
dustry, private health insurance
companies and the nation’s ap-
proximately 750 billionaires.
Part of the split with the
moderates emerges from a belief
among those on the left that the
harm created by these special
interests cannot be mitigated if
their clout and their influence
over the political system are not
significantly reduced.
“Both Warren and Sanders
would make the Democratic Par-
ty a social-democratic one. It
would really change the funda-
mental basis of the party,” said
Dean Baker, a left-leaning econo-
mist who supports Warren and
has called this primary campaign
“without a doubt” the starkest
policy choice in Democrats’ mod-
ern history.
Warren began her campaign
with a proposal to create a gov-
ernment-run drug producer to
bring down pharmaceutical pric-
es. Sanders last week announced
a plan to create publicly owned
Internet providers and universal
broadband access. Both liberals
have called for giving workers
some voting power over large
corporations, although Sanders’s
proposal would apply to many
more companies and also give
workers a percentage of compa-
nies’ stock holdings.
“Public ownership ideas have
suddenly become core parts of
the [Democratic] economic agen-
da,” said Peter Gowan, an eco-
nomic expert at the Democracy
Collaborative, a left-leaning
A19
think tank. “We’re not just talk-
ing about the welfare state now
— it’s the welfare state plus plans
to democratize the economy.”
To some of the moderates’
defenders, their approach repre-
sents a more pragmatic attempt
to address some of the economy’s
bigger challenges, quickly pro-
viding help to those who need it
most rather than pursuing
sweeping programs with little
likelihood of being enacted in a
divided political system.
Some also view the Sanders
and Warren plans as inadvisable,
either because they aim to raise
taxes too steeply or would force
Americans to give up their pri-
vate health insurance.
“It’s not just about being real-
istic; he just doesn’t like the
idea,” one Biden adviser, who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity to discuss the campaign’s
thinking, said about the single-
payer plan. “We don’t think you
can raise $3 trillion a year in
taxes. It’s absurd.”
Biden and Buttigieg have also
ridiculed the math of their oppo-
nents as overly optimistic and
said the middle class would be
hurt by the tax increases re-
quired in their large government
expansions.
But they have also dismissed
the idea that they are less con-
cerned about the social crises in
American life.
Or as Sen. Amy Klobuchar
(Minn.), another moderate, put it
at the last debate: “I have bold
ideas. . . . Just because they’re
different than Elizabeth’s doesn’t
mean they’re [not] bold.”
Still, there are signs that can-
didates are under pressure to
make adjustments. Biden told
CNBC this month that he would
support a new financial-transac-
tion tax on Wall Street. His
comments came one day after his
campaign released tax proposals
that rejected the idea.
“If one side wins, it’s economic
disruption in advantage of the
people, with the losers being
billionaires and defense contrac-
tors,” said Alex Lawson, execu-
tive director of Social Security
Works, a liberal group. “And if
the other side wins, it’s less clear,
but it probably looks basically
similar to how it looks now — but
without Trump.”
jeffery.stein@washpost.com
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Texas and Google battle over experts in antitrust case
Investigators say in filing
that tech firm is trying to
hinder states’ probe
BY T ONY R OMM
Texas investigators are defend-
ing their decision to employ some
of Google’s longtime foes as part
of an antitrust probe into the
search giant, saying in a court
filing that the recent legal objec-
tions raised by the company
threaten to “severely compro-
mise” states’ scrutiny.
At issue are a number of con-
sultants retained by Texas Attor-
ney General Ken Paxton, who is
leading an inquiry into Google’s
ad business that’s backed by 50
other attorneys general. The ex-
perts include people who previ-
ously have worked on behalf of
Google’s rivals, including News
Corp., in antitrust battles around
the world.
Boeing faces key test of craft intended to carry astronauts to space station
Firm sees Starliner
launch as opportunity
to restore its reputation
BY C HRISTIAN D AVENPORT
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. — Boeing
has been under siege for months
after two of its 737 Max aircraft
plummeted from the sky, killing
346 people. Members of Congress
are accusing the industry stalwart
of putting profits over safety. A
whistleblower testified that
schedule pressure created a “fac-
tory in chaos.”
Even Jim Chilton’s part of the
company — the space division —
was the subject of a searing
watchdog report last month that
found it had received hundreds of
millions of dollars in “unneces-
sary” payments stemming from
an unusually cozy relationship
with NASA. For Boeing, the tim-
In October, Google lawyers
asked a Texas court to limit those
consultants’ access to the tech
giant’s secrets. Almost two
months later, Texas officials told a
judge in Travis County that
Google’s requests are highly prob-
lematic, serving only to try to
block much-needed experts from
contributing in a complicated
matter. The Washington Post ob-
tained the documents, dated
Dec. 9, through an open-records
request.
“Google’s Petition, under the
guise of protecting confidential
information, seeks to frustrate
the [Office of the Attorney Gener-
al’s] statutorily-prescribed inves-
tigative authority by severely
hampering the [office’s] lawful
ability to employ the services of
experts, consultants, and others
for purposes of the investigation,”
lawyers for Texas argued in their
filing.
In response, Google spokes-
man Jose Castaneda in a state-
ment described the attorney gen-
eral’s hires as an “extraordinarily
ing of the report couldn’t have
been worse, coming as it was
preparing to fly a key test of the
Starliner space capsule designed
to carry NASA’s astronauts to the
International Space Station.
That launch is now scheduled
for 6:36 a.m. Friday from Cape
Canaveral, and while no astro-
nauts will be on board, the first
launch of NASA’s new spacecraft
has taken on far greater impor-
tance for Boeing than just a test.
It’s a shot at a bit of redemption.
A successful launch would be a
moment of triumph amid the tu-
mult that has dogged the compa-
ny the past year and the news this
week that it will halt production
of the 737 Max in January, a deci-
sion that could not only harm
Boeing’s bottom line but send
shock waves through the econo-
my.
Friday’s launch also comes as
Boeing, long one of the major
dominant players in space, now
faces increased competition from
a growing space industry, includ-
EZ RE
irregular arrangement,” adding it
is “only fair to have assurances
that our confidential business
information won’t be shared with
competitors or vocal complain-
ants.”
The back-and-forth between
Texas and Google reflects the
high stakes in what’s likely to be a
long, sweeping antitrust review
of Google’s business practices.
The probe, announced in Septem-
ber, is focused on Google’s online-
advertising operation, which
helped generate $117 billion for
the company last year. Paxton
and his Democratic and Republi-
can colleagues are probing
whether Google’s ad practices
harm a wide array of businesses,
including news publishers, and
result in higher prices, worse
service or fewer choices for con-
sumers online.
The states’ effort is one of
several major antitrust probes
into Google in the United States
and around the world: In Wash-
ington, the Justice Department
similarly is scrutinizing the com-
ing from rivals such as Elon
Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s
Blue Origin. (Bezos, the Amazon
founder and chief executive, also
owns The Washington Post.)
So in the face of the critical
report from NASA’s inspector gen-
eral last month, Chilton, a soft-
spoken engineer who has risen
through the ranks during a 35-
year career at Boeing, sent an
email to his staff.
He reminded the team that it
was building on a heritage that
stretched to the dawn of the Space
Age: “We have been part of every
NASA human spaceflight — from
Mercury, Gemini and Apollo to
the space shuttle and [the Inter-
national Space Station] — and
we’re proud to continue that un-
wavering partnership.”
And he issued an emotional call
to arms, both defending the com-
pany and its workforce while also
pushing back against critics and
competitors. The email, a copy of
which was obtained by The Post,
is part of a broader strategy inside
pany, while House lawmakers
have pored over Google records
as part of a review of big tech and
federal competition laws.
Abroad, competition watchdogs
in the United Kingdom have
opened their own review into
Facebook and Google. On
Wednesday, they issued an inter-
im report finding the companies
“may have become entrenched
with negative consequences for
the people and businesses who
use these services every day.”
In response, Google has de-
fended its practices on each of
those fronts, claiming it has actu-
ally created competition, not lim-
ited it. But the company has taken
special exception with Texas and
Paxton in response to two experts
the Lone Star State tapped this
year to study the matter.
The first, Cristina Caffarra, is a
top competition expert at Charles
River Associates, where she has
represented clients including the
Rupert Murdoch-backed News
Corp., which previously has
called for a breakup of Google.
Boeing to fight back aggressively
that includes a radio ad playing in
Washington touting the flight,
saying it is “paving the way for the
new age of space exploration.”
“Let’s not allow this inaccurate
report or the critical media cover-
age it’s generating to become a
distraction,” Chilton wrote. “Our
Starliner teammates have put
their hearts and souls into devel-
oping a spacecraft that we can all
be proud of, and they need all the
support they can get from our
broader space and launch team in
the countdown to first flight.”
If successful, the flight would
be a critical step toward helping
NASA restore human spaceflight
from U.S. soil. Since the space
shuttle was retired in 2011, NASA
has been unable to fly people to
space. Instead, it has needed to
pay Russia as much as $84 million
a seat to carry astronauts to and
from the space station about
240 miles above Earth.
In 2014, NASA embarked on a
risky experiment, awarding con-
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Caffarra has been most active in
Europe, where regulators have
repeatedly fined Google for vio-
lating competition laws.
The second expert, Eugene
Burrus, has been behind lawsuits
and investigations into Google’s
business practices, the tech giant
contended in its October filing.
Much like Caffarra, Google has
expressed concerns with his se-
lection, including fears he could
take the knowledge gleaned from
the Texas probe and battle the
tech giant again in the future.
In October, Google urged a
judge to impose an order on
Caffarra, Burrus and others from
disclosing certain information or
working for any of Google’s rivals
for a year after the probe con-
cludes.
In their response, Paxton’s
team argued it had already
sought to protect Google’s confi-
dential information. The attorney
general’s team said its contracts
“expressly provide that any infor-
mation obtained via the investi-
gation is not to be shared with
tracts to Boeing and SpaceX to
develop spacecraft capable of car-
rying people. As part of what’s
called the “commercial crew pro-
gram,” NASA awarded Boeing
$4.2 billion and SpaceX $2.6 bil-
lion to build capsules capable of
flying at least four NASA astro-
nauts.
The first flights with people on
board were originally scheduled
for 2017, but both companies have
suffered delays and setbacks. In
March, SpaceX successfully
launched its Dragon capsule to
the space station and returned it
successfully. But weeks later the
spacecraft exploded during a test
of its emergency abort engines, a
problem the company says is now
fixed.
Boeing also has had some prob-
lems — from a propellant leak last
year to a problem with its para-
chute system during a test of its
abort engine last month.
But now it says it is on track,
and NASA hopes the launches
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any third party or used for any
purpose other than the investiga-
tion.”
The order that Google pro-
posed, however, would be “so
expansive that it would severely
compromise the [office’s] ability
to hire an expert, court reporter,
or even graphic support for this
investigation,” Paxton’s lawyers
said.
And Texas charged that Google
essentially would “gate an inves-
tigative process which is, by its
nature, fluid depending on the
evidence that is uncovered.” In
doing so, Texas offered the latest
indication that the 51 attorneys
general involved in the investiga-
tion could easily expand their
focus well beyond advertising.
“As the subject matter of the
investigation is initially broad
(Google’s potentially anticompet-
itive conduct), the specific behav-
ior and acts at issue will likely
change and evolve as the investi-
gation progresses,” lawyers for
Paxton wrote.
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time next year.
“I’m happy to announce we’re
go for launch,” NASA Deputy Ad-
ministrator Jim Morhard told re-
porters last week.
At a news briefing on Tuesday,
John Mulholland, Boeing’s com-
mercial crew program manager,
said “the spacecraft is in really
good shape” and that the compa-
ny was “looking forward to a
short and successful mission.”
If all goes well Friday, the first
flight with people, scheduled for
2020, will carry into space two
NASA astronauts, Nicole Mann
and Mike Fincke, as well as Chris
Ferguson, a former astronaut who
works for Boeing.
“We consider this a dress re-
hearsal for the first flights with
crew members on board,” said Pat
Forrester, the chief of NASA’s as-
tronaut office. “I don’t think
there’s anybody in the office, as
they’ve gone about their work,
who hasn’t thought about Chris
and Nicole and Mike.”
christian.davenport@washpost.com
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Despite shutdown, insults and vacancies, federal workers still find plenty to like
It’s the time of
year when the
widely anticipated
Best Places to
Work in the
Federal
Federal Government
Insider rankings are
JOE released.
DAVIDSON But after a
month-long
shutdown of
many government agencies to
begin the year, a festering
problem of high-level vacancies
and a flow of Trump
administration policies and
insults against federal
employees, perhaps this is the
better question to ask: Is the
federal government a good place
to work at all?
For most federal workers — a
hardy and loyal bunch — the
answer remains yes.
That’s reflected in the Best
Places rankings released Tuesday
by the Partnership for Public
Service, a nonpartisan nonprofit
that strives to improve the
federal government, and the
Boston Consulting Group.
The good news is the
reputation of the government as
a place to work didn’t drop much,
despite good reasons to expect a
fall. The overall federal employee
engagement score fell to 61.7,
only a half-point drop from 2018.
Scores on engagement,
roughly analogous to morale, are
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based on three survey questions:
Would you recommend your
agency as a place to work? How
satisfied are you with your job?
How satisfied are you with your
organization?
“On the heels of the largest or
longest shutdown that we’ve ever
had in our government, I would
have anticipated more decline
. . .,” said Max Stier, the
partnership’s president and CEO.
“One of the things that stands
out for me, and I’ve certainly
been giving this a lot of thought,
is just the resiliency of the federal
workforce. I mean, it’s really
quite extraordinary. They take a
licking and they keep on ticking.”
“Resiliency” is another way of
saying federal employees put up
with a lot of mess but remain
focused on their missions as
public servants. About 800,000
of the 2.1 million federal workers
were not allowed to work during
President Trump’s 35-day partial
government shutdown that
began just before Christmas.
The appointments tracker
published by The Washington
Post and the partnership
indicates about one-third of key
appointed positions in the
Trump administration lack
confirmed officials. The
administration at one point
unsuccessfully sought to freeze
federal pay while slashing
retirement benefits and often has
been seen as hostile to federal
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A plane over the Pentagon in September. The Defense Department’s
Office of Inspector General has reason to be proud of its record.
employees.
The Best Places report is based
largely on the government’s
Federal Employee Viewpoint
Survey, which was administered
between May and early July.
Among the various ups and
downs in the ratings, certain
important indicators changed
less than 1 percentage point.
Ratings for training and
performance-based awards and
advancement were up, as was
effective leadership. But views on
pay and the administration’s
support for diversity dropped.
Those items and others must
Facebook a weapon for Trump’s impeachment fight
President Trump thinks the
impeachment fight has galvanized
his base to rally around him. And he
helped to stoke that enthusiasm by
pouring a chunk of his 2020
campaign’s resources into an
aggressive Facebook ad campaign
in the weeks leading up to
Wednesday’s historic House vote.
Trump spent an estimated
$648,713.27 on anti-impeachment
Facebook ads in three weeks
beginning Nov. 23, according to
an analysis of Facebook data by
the Democratic digital firm Bully
Pulpit Interactive.
Trump’s ads take direct aim at his
Democratic rivals in Congress,
urging voters to add their names to
a list to fight back against House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and
House Judiciary Committee
Chairman Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.).
“Nancy and Jerry are trying to
brainwash the American People
like the 2016 Election never
happened — like YOUR VOTE
never happened,” one ad on
Facebook said Wednesday. “WE
NEED TO FIGHT BACK. ”
Trump’s 2020 campaign has
also been running ads for months
calling for donations to an
“Official Impeachment Defense
Fund.” “Democrats hate the idea
of you being in charge of our
country! Donate now! We are
CRITICALLY SHORT of our
goal!” one ad warned.
Trump and Republicans are far
outspending Democrats on
impeachment-related Facebook
ads, according to data collected by
Bully Pulpit, highlighting how the
social network’s powerful ad tools
are a key prong of the president’s
Congress to review Trump’s vigorous hacking policy
National-security-focused
lawmakers won the right to
review the Trump
administration’s muscular new
offensive hacking policy after a
nine-month battle, turning the
tables on an administration that
has resisted oversight of its
cybersecurity policy.
The shift, which comes after
the policy has already been used
to justify hacking operations
against Russia and Iran, marks a
rare win for lawmakers who have
pressed the administration to
open up its cybersecurity work to
broader oversight.
But it also comes amid
concern in Congress that
overeager Trump officials might
stumble into a tit-for-tat digital
conflict that harms U.S.
businesses or even escalates into
a conventional military fight. The
administration has also
eliminated top cybersecurity-
coordinator positions at the
White House and State
Department that might have
acted as a check on operations
that were poorly thought-out.
“Given the sensitive nature of
cyber operations and this
administration’s dramatic shift
in official cyber policy, this . . .
was necessary to ensure proper
congressional oversight,” said
Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.), who
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improve if federal employee
engagement is to match that in
the private sector, which rates
15 points higher.
“Only 11 of the government’s
70 large, midsize and small
agencies included in the Best
Places to Work rankings scored
above the private sector average
this year, including NASA, the
Federal Trade Commission and
the Peace Corps,” according to
the partnership.
NASA, the perennial
champion, is the top large agency
for the eighth straight year. The
Department of Health and
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strategy to win reelection.
“The impeachment issue has
been a real win for them,” said
Eric Wilson, a Republican digital
strategist. “Their supporters
realize the president is under
attack, and they need to chip in
and get their skin in the game.”
By contrast, Sen. Elizabeth
Warren (D-Mass.) was the top-
spending Democratic
presidential candidate on
impeachment ads on Facebook in
the same three-week period. She
spent an estimated $62,274.38 on
Facebook impeachment ads,
analyzed by Bully Pulpit, with ads
reminding readers she was the
first 2020 candidate to call for
impeachment. “It’s long past time
to hold Donald Trump
accountable,” one ad said.
The Trump campaign ads seem
to target likely supporters, being
largely focused on soliciting
donations and voter contact
information. But given the
thousands of ads the campaign
has on Facebook, it wasn’t
immediately clear which kind of
voters the campaign was
specifically targeting with its
impeachment messaging.
Nonetheless, Trump’s
campaign thinks the issue is a
winning one. Campaign manager
Brad Parscale told reporters last
week that the impeachment
process was benefiting the
campaign by every metric he
tracks, including voter sentiment
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helped lead the bipartisan charge
to disclose the hacking policy.
Langevin and other lawmakers
inserted a provision allowing
Congress to review the policy
called National Security
Presidential Memorandum 13, or
NSPM 13, into a mammoth
$738 billion defense policy bill
that cleared Congress on Tuesday
and that also establishes a Space
Force and parental leave for
federal workers. Trump has
pledged to sign the bill quickly.
The secret policy had been
withheld for more than a
year from lawmakers — even
those who regularly review
classified material. In general, it
loosens the reins on military
hackers to engage enemies under
a far simpler approval process for
actions that fall beneath a level
that would cause death,
destruction or significant
economic impacts, individuals
familiar with the policy told The
Washington Post last year.
When national security
adviser John Bolton announced
the policy in September 2018, he
pledged the United States would
no longer sit by while Russia,
. THURSDAy,
Human Services, in second place
among large agencies, improved
for five years running.
Best among midsize agencies
is the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, while the
International Trade Commission
leads the small agency group.
Among agency
subcomponents, the Office of the
Inspector General at the
Tennessee Valley Authority is
tops for the fourth time since
2015. Kudos to the Secret Service,
which increased its rating by
more than 20 points since 2016,
and to the Selective Service
System, whose 17.1-point jump
this year was the most of any
agency.
Among the lower scores, the
Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), the Education
Department, the Corporation for
National and Community
Service, and the DHS Countering
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Office rank last in the large,
midsize, small and
subcomponent agency listings,
respectively.
One agency justly proud of its
record is the Defense
Department’s Office of Inspector
General. Its Best Places
engagement score leaped nearly
24 points from 47 in 2015 to 70.9
this year.
“We have made a concerted
effort to focus on employee
engagement because our
and fundraising.
“This lit up our base, lit up the
people that are supporters of the
president. They’re frustrated,
they’re upset, and that motivates
voters,” Parscale said. “They have
ignited a flame underneath them.”
Trump’s campaign isn’t acting
alone — other groups on the right,
including America First Policies,
American Action Network and
the Presidential Coalition are
running ads calling out
individual Democratic members
of Congress for supporting
impeachment. These groups have
been targeting Democrats such as
Nadler who are in the
impeachment spotlight, as well as
specific members from swing
states, according to an analysis of
Facebook ad data prepared by the
progressive firm Acronym. The
right-leaning group American
Action Network, for example, ran
ads urging people to contact
Democrats including Rep. Haley
Stevens (D-Mich.) and Rep. Conor
Lamb (D-Pa.) and tell them to
vote “no” on impeachment.
Meanwhile, ads on the left have
largely been directed at Trump.
The Democratic Party has run a
Facebook ad asking people to sign
a petition to impeach Trump, and
groups including Stand Up
America have run ads urging
readers to impeach Trump now,
according to Acronym’s analysis.
The firm found only one major
Democratic Senate candidate in a
2020 battleground state running
ads on impeachment, former
Columbus, Ga., mayor Teresa
Tomlinson, challenging Sen.
David Perdue (R-Ga.). Her ads
China and Iran pummeled it in
cyberspace. “Our hands are not
tied as they were in the Obama
administration,” he declared.
Bolton later boasted that U.S.
hacks had successfully deterred
Russia from interfering in the
2018 midterm elections, and
Trump himself approved a
cyberstrike that disabled Iranian
computer systems used to plan
attacks on oil tankers in the
Persian Gulf.
The Obama administration
didn’t ban offensive hacking by
the military, but decisions about
operations went through a far
more rigorous review. That policy
was also regularly reviewed by
congressional overseers.
The shift to a more aggressive
posture was good news even for
many Democratic lawmakers and
cybersecurity hawks who feared
the Obama administration’s
cautious approach to punching
back in cyberspace had
emboldened adversaries and was
out of step with an increasingly
dangerous digital world.
But Democrats and some
Republicans were also worried
the administration could easily
go too far — especially without
congressional oversight. And an
escalating hacking conflict might
pose outsize dangers for the
United States, which is more
DECEMbER 19 , 2019
employees are our key asset,” said
Glenn A. Fine, the Pentagon’s
acting inspector general. “We
need them to go the extra mile to
perform the critically important
work, so we have made this a
priority of ours.”
How did he do that?
“I think the most important
thing is we communicate more,”
he said, noting his 90 office visits
to employees around the world
since he took over in January
2016. His managers also meet
with staffers regularly. “That’s
very, very helpful,” he said. The
office holds brown bag lunches
for employees and uses
“employee engagement councils”
to gather staff views.
During a time when Congress
is focused on big things like
Trump’s impeachment, small
things can make a big difference.
At one point, Fine’s employees
couldn’t get assigned parking
spots in their office building,
which is south of the Pentagon,
even though many spaces were
unused.
“I went all the way up to the
secretary of defense and asked
him about that . . . and as a
result, we got new spots,” Fine
recalled. “One minute we’d be
talking about, you know,
oversight in the wars in Iraq and
Syria. Next minute, I would ask
him for parking. And it sounds
trivial, but it’s important.”
joe.davidson@washpost.com
began running over the summer
before the impeachment inquiry
in Congress began, according to
Facebook Ad Library data.
Trump’s heavy reliance on
Facebook ads comes as the
campaign has been highly critical
of any moves by technology
companies to limit online
advertising tools. The Trump
campaign last month criticized
Facebook after company
executives said they were
considering changes to rules on
political ads that could affect the
campaign’s ability to target
potential donors and volunteers
on the platform, The Washington
Post’s Tony Romm and Isaac
Stanley-Becker reported. With
red siren emoji, the Team Trump
Twitter account warned that the
company was trying to eliminate
important tools.
As impeachment proceeds, the
Trump campaign is expected to
continue its campaign online.
Axios reported on Wednesday
that the campaign is planning to
continue heavy online advertising
against impeachment, bolstering
the effort with videos that aim to
make Democrats look like
hypocrites. They will feature
lawmakers talking about
impeaching Trump since the
earliest days of his presidency, as
well as comments Democrats
made about impeachment during
the Clinton era.
“The Trump team really
understands the value of
advertising to build and grow
their list and to drive
fundraising,” Wilson said.
cat.zakrzewski@washpost.com
reliant on the Internet than
many of its adversaries.
“Cyber is a rapidly evolving
domain of warfare, and Congress
has to understand how any
president is approaching it,” said
a Republican aide on the House
Armed Services Committee.
The aide, speaking under the
condition of anonymity to speak
candidly, compared it to the
authority to capture and kill
enemy fighters outside active war
zones — an area where Rep. Mac
Thornberry (Tex.), the top
Republican on the Armed
Services panel, demanded more
congressional oversight in 2016.
“[Thornberry] sees this
spectrum of very dynamic
domains of warfare, of which
cyber is one, where they move so
fast that Congress really has to
stay very current on how
operations are being executed,”
the aide said.
Thornberry is among the
lawmakers who pushed for the
Trump administration to be
more transparent about its
hacking policy along with
committee Chairman Adam
Smith (D-Wash.), Langevin, who
leads the committee’s emerging
threats panel, and that panel’s
ranking Republican, Elise
Stefanik (N.Y.).
joseph.marks@washpost.com
THURSDAy, DECEMbER 19 , 2019
RANA AYYUB
Are India’s
protests at a
tipping point?
ahad’s rebellion was marked by
F red paint on his face and a black
band on his head. On Monday,
facing a statue of B.R. Ambedkar,
the father of the Indian constitution,
Fahad read aloud from its preamble as a
crowd of close to 500 students sat in a
circle, swaying to revolutionary songs of
freedom.
A woman standing next to me searched
Google for the preamble and started
reading along. When I told Fahad this, he
smiled and said, “This is what we wanted:
for the citizens of this country to revisit
the constitution that has been long for-
gotten. We need to remember the secular-
ism enshrined [in it].”
Fahad is one of thousands of students
who have taken to the streets of India to
protest the citizenship bill that was
passed in Parliament last week. The bill
allows the Indian government to grant
expedited citizenship to persecuted mi-
norities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and
Afghanistan, excluding Muslims.
On Sunday, police entered New Del-
hi’s Jamia Millia Islamia — a pioneering
university established by some of the
leading freedom fighters of the Muslim
community — and attacked hundreds of
student protesters. They fired tear-gas
shots and hit students with sticks, injur-
ing dozens. Reports said protesters were
admitted to Delhi hospitals with bullet
injuries.
According to the newsmagazine Cara-
van, a 25-year-old protester was brutally
beaten and then taunted by the police,
who asked him to beg in the name of
Allah. Another protester, a student pre-
paring for his law exams, lost his eyesight
to police brutality.
The crackdown that occurred simulta-
neously at Aligarh Muslim University in
Uttar Pradesh had a common thread.
Both institutions had their genesis in the
Muslim revolutionary movement of In-
dia. Police in Aligarh entered the univer-
sity on Sunday night and fired tear-gas
shells, injured students and asked them
to vacate the hostels. Many Kashmiri
students, who have been the victims of
prejudiced attacks, had to flee overnight
to protect themselves.
The crackdown on these institutions
was anticipated when Prime Minister
Narendra Modi made a veiled reference
to Muslims at an election rally on Sunday.
In yet another one of his consistent dog
whistles, Modi said, “We can recognize
the people who start the fire from their
clothing.”
Then, at another election rally on Mon-
day, Home Minister Amit Shah — who has
yet to condemn the attack on student
protesters — referred to the demolished
Babri mosque in Ayodhya, which has
been a contentious issue for Muslims. He
promised the electorate that a Hindu
temple touching the sky would be built at
the site of the mosque within four
months.
But this time, the Modi government
has faced unprecedented backlash. Majid
Ahmed, a student who held up the Indian
flag at the protests, told me that the
country had moved beyond the language
of silence: “The citizenship bill is the
biggest challenge to India since the parti-
tion of the country.”
On Monday, social media in India was
abuzz with revolutionary images from all
over the country, with women leading the
protests. A student from the recent pro-
tests screamed: “People in Hong Kong are
protesting, in Chile they are protesting,
and they are not scared. We are not
scared, too.”
The air of despondency in the country
has been replaced by pockets of rebellion.
The nationwide protests have begun to
cast doubt on Modi’s image as a leader
who means development. I spoke to dip-
lomats from two important embassies
who said they were being asked to pre-
pare reports on Modi’s track record on
minorities, the allegations of fascism and
Modi’s role in promoting religious divi-
sion in Gujarat.
Even some in the Indian film industry,
which has often been accused of complic-
ity in whitewashing Modi’s majoritarian
agenda, have started speaking up. Many
believe that Modi has gone too far this
time — the visuals of the attack on
students are too compelling for all but the
most rigid, indifferent fence-sitters.
The prime minister has a nefarious
record of turning protests such as these in
his favor, giving resistance a communal
hue and using it to consolidate his majori-
tarian vote bank. Modi’s finance minister,
Nirmala Sitharaman, has already called
the student protests an act of vandalism
by “jihadists, Maoists and separatists.”
Yet, as demonstrations grow from
Hong Kong to India, the world’s largest
democracy could place its faith in the
history of protests that have proved to be
a tipping point for authoritarian regimes.
India has a long way to go in fighting a
regime that will stop at nothing to imple-
ment its idea of a Hindu nation. But for a
country accused of losing its soul to
small-minded, petty and vindictive ideas,
students are proving to be its conscience-
keepers. And that should give some hope
to India and the world as we witness one
of the darkest periods in our history.
rana Ayyub is a global opinions contributing
columnist.
. THE WASHINGTON POST
THURSDAY Opinion
President Trump walks across the South Lawn to board Marine One after leaving the White House on Wednesday.
DANA MILBANK ImPeAcHment dIAry
A victory for Trumpism
or only the third time in histo-
F ry, the House of Representa-
tives on Wednesday night dealt
a president the greatest pun-
ishment in its constitutional arsenal.
The stain of impeachment will follow
Donald Trump to his grave and be
noted long after he’s gone.
But in one sense, Trump won.
Wednesday’s 10-hour impeachment
debate on the House floor and the
party-line vote that followed proved
that Trump’s multiyear campaign
against the truth — 15,000 lies and
counting — has succeeded. Republi-
cans, united, didn’t spend much time
defending Trump on the (unfavor-
able) merits. Instead, in an appalling
spectacle of mass projection, they
took turns accusing Democrats of the
very offenses Trump committed —
with Trumpian language and disre-
gard for reality.
Democrats are the ones, Rep. Tom
McClintock (R-Calif.) said, who com-
mitted a “stunning abuse of power.”
Democrats are the ones, Rep. Tom
Rice (R-S.C.) said, who “colluded with
Russia and Ukraine.” Democrats are
the ones, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa)
said, who engaged in “the largest and
most massive coverup of such a list of
crimes against our country.” Demo-
crats are the ones, Rep. Peter King
(R-N.Y.) said, who committed an “as-
sault on the Constitution.” Democrats
are the ones, Rep. Tim Walberg
(R-Mich.) said, who are “interfering in
America’s election.” Democrats are
the ones, Rep. Roger Marshall
(R-Kan.) said, who “have dangerously
shattered precedents.”
It was as though Alex Jones and
Tucker Carlson had taken over the
House floor. Even during the most
solemn constitutional ritual, Repub-
licans were auditioning for an audi-
ence of one — and outbidding one
another with conspiracy theories in
hopes of scoring a favorable tweet
from the boss.
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) said
Democrats are “insidious forces
How Clint Eastwood blew it
BY K EVIN R ILEY
t a time when truth itself is
A under siege, filmmakers’ deci-
sions matter. Films marketed as
conveying “a true story” have an
obligation to respect the moments — and
people — upon which the narrative turns.
When they malign real people, distort
the facts or invent them to amp up the
drama, they disrespect their audiences.
In Clint Eastwood’s film “Richard Jew-
ell,” those distortions join the sustained
and alarming assault on the credibility of
the nation’s news organizations.
A ludicrous and short scene in the film
sets the table: We’re at Jewell’s apart-
ment, where the hero-turned-suspect in
the 1996 Atlanta Olympic bombing lives
with his mother. The media swarms
outside.
As Jewell’s lawyer escapes in his car, a
reporter for the Atlanta Journal-
Constitution pops up in the back seat to
demand an interview. The lawyer refuses
and insists she get out.
That never happened. And serious
journalists, which AJC reporter Kathy
Scruggs certainly was, don’t operate that
way.
It’s just one of the film’s many phony
cheap shots at journalists. But it’s not
close to the worst. The film reinforces
misinformed beliefs about professional
reporting with a series of situations that
portray journalists as untrustworthy and
unprincipled.
Eastwood succumbs to a false and
sexist Hollywood trope for his biggest
roundhouse aimed at the media:
Scruggs, who broke the story that law
enforcement considered Jewell the lead-
ing suspect, gets the story by promising
sex to an FBI agent.
Again, it’s made-up.
The FBI character has a made-up
name. The character based on Kathy
eZ
which threaten our republic” with
“betrayal.” This “threat from within,”
he said, did “conspire to overthrow
President Trump.”
Republicans on the floor applauded.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) ac-
cused Democrats of pursuing im-
peachment to conceal “Ukraine’s in-
terference into the U.S. election in
2016” — earning Gohmert a rebuke
from Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) for
spouting this false Russian propagan-
da.
Gohmert, ignoring the speaker’s
gavel, shouted and pointed at Nadler,
then walked to the Democratic side to
stand over Nadler, berating him some
more.
It was all a triumph for alternative
facts, for Russian dezinformatsiya, for
Fox News and for social media toxicity.
The losers aren’t the Democrats — the
public remains as split as before — but
democracy. Just as after the Mueller
report, Trump will only grow more
emboldened in breaking the legal con-
straints on his presidency.
Trump, and Republicans, succeed-
ed in making impeachment just an-
other political fight. (“They don’t just
hate Donald Trump, they hate the
63 million Americans who voted for
this president.”) As such, Wednesday
felt oddly routine at the Capitol. Only
a few dozen lawmakers watched most
of the debate. Outside, a few hundred
rallied for impeachment; a lone figure
dressed as Santa Claus rallied against.
There was little of the fire that greet-
ed Obamacare’s passage in 2010.
To look down from the gallery was
to see a House divided: almost all
white men on the Republican side, a
mosaic of color and gender on the
Democratic side. Rep. Justin Amash
(I-Mich.), forced to leave the GOP be-
cause he supported impeachment, sat
with the Democrats; Rep. Jeff Van
Drew (N.J.), about to leave the Demo-
cratic Party because he opposes im-
peachment, hobnobbed on the Re-
publican side with new colleague
Steve King.
Scruggs is named Kathy Scruggs. She
died in 2001 and can’t defend herself.
The AJC and its parent company, Cox
Enterprises, asked Eastwood and War-
ner Bros. for a public acknowledgment
of the made-up scenes and a prominent
disclaimer in the film. The studio re-
sponded by criticizing us for criticizing
the film.
Audiences who come to films “based
on a true story” rely on the moviemakers
to get the important things right. Every-
one understands that these films are not
documentaries. But we expect that what
we see so vividly on the screen honors the
truth.
Understanding what really happened
has become more urgent, because when
Eastwood maliciously uses a sexual ste-
reotype to attack the media, it’s difficult
to avoid parallels with our public life.
A bit about the real story, and the
tragedy that befell Jewell:
On the evening of July 26, 1996,
thousands of people were in Atlanta’s
Centennial Olympic Park for a concert.
Sometime after midnight, Jewell discov-
ered a U.S. military field pack that
contained three pipe bombs.
He alerted law enforcement, and he,
along with others, began clearing the
area. Before they could, the device ex-
ploded. It killed one person and injured
111 others.
Jewell saved lives. CNN and NBC’s
“Today” put him on the air, and he
became an overnight celebrity.
But then law enforcement began fo-
cusing on him as the possible bomber.
The AJC was the first to report the
FBI’s focus on Jewell in Scruggs’s July 30
story, “FBI Suspects ‘Hero’ Guard May
Have Planted Bomb.”
Though the article was accurate —
Jewell was indeed the top suspect — the
FBI was wrong.
Our initial report led to a three-month
sU
JABIn Botsford/tHe WAsHIngton Post
The Rev. Patrick Conroy, the House
chaplain, prayed for “wisdom and dis-
cernment.” But it wasn’t to be found.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) com-
pared Democrats unfavorably to Pon-
tius Pilate. Rep. Fred Keller (R-Pa.) lik-
ened Democrats to those who killed
Jesus (“they know not what they do”).
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) likened im-
peachment to the attack on Pearl Har-
bor. Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) repeat-
ed the same misquote of House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi — three times.
Democrats, in response, kept re-
peating the evidence. “The president
withheld congressionally approved
military aid to a country under siege
to extract a personal political favor.
That’s a cold hard fact,” said Rep. Jim
McGovern (Mass.).
But Republicans met hard facts
with protests (they began by forcing a
vote to adjourn and ended by refusing
to use their electronic voting cards),
intermittent and then frequent heck-
ling, booing and jeering, maligning of
Democrats’ motives, demands for
Adam Schiff’s indictment and Pelosi’s
expulsion, and hours of Trumpian in-
sults directed at Democrats: Phony.
Fraudulent. Socialist. Stalinist. McCa-
rthy(ism). Sham. Witchhunt. Coup.
Kangaroo court. Joke. Rigged. Hoax.
Charade. Circus. Stunt. Lies. Corrup-
tion. Swamp creatures. Star chamber.
Illegal. Illegitimate. Hit job. Delusion-
al. Elitists. Total Schiff show! READ
THE TRANSCRIPT!!!
And Trump chimed in on Twitter
with more of the same — “ATRO-
CIOUS LIES . . . ASSAULT ON AMER-
ICA” — before heading to a campaign
rally.
History will note that at 8:24
Wednesday evening, the People’s
House impeached Trump for high
crimes and misdemeanors. The pun-
ishment was necessary and just. But
though Trump stands rebuked, the
Republicans’ ugly defense of an unre-
pentant offender shows that Trump-
ism has prevailed.
Twitter: @Milbank
period during which Jewell suffered un-
der relentless media coverage, with even
late-night talk-show hosts joining in.
The media, and the AJC in this case,
aren’t immune from scrutiny. We have
accepted criticism for the way we attrib-
uted our story’s information to confiden-
tial sources.
Jewell’s story is important to under-
stand and a worthy subject for a feature
film. It’s a compelling tale that doesn’t
need lazy stereotypes villainizing the
media.
In the film, the media is falsely por-
trayed as allied with the FBI to railroad
Jewell, a narrative that ignores reporting
that probed weaknesses in the FBI’s case.
Months before the FBI finally backed
off its hunch about Jewell, the AJC
reported on its front page that the
scenario was impossible. A 911 call made
from a pay phone by the bomber 30 min-
utes before the explosion could not have
been made by Jewell; an AJC reporter
simply paced off the time it took to walk
from the pay phone to Jewell’s position
when he found the bomb.
In Eastwood’s “true story,” Jewell’s
lawyer makes that walk.
That bit of imaginary script might
have made for a better drama, but the
important, and accurate, story is that we
report what police do — whom they’ve
detained, charged or shot — subjecting
law enforcement to public scrutiny. We
question the government’s pursuit of
suspects and investigative techniques.
Every film has its heroes and villains,
but Hollywood must acknowledge that
an audience will likely accept as true
what it sees memorably portrayed on the
screen. People trust that “based on a true
story” means that essential moments are
true. Eastwood has let them down.
Kevin riley has been editor in chief of the
Atlanta Journal-constitution since 2011.
A23
HENRY OLSEN
This warfare
targets Trump
and his voters
ednesday was a historic day.
W With their final push to im-
peach President Trump,
House Democrats
heightened the real threat to American
democracy: ideological warfare.
have
Taken out of the context of our times,
it’s easy to see why some people would
view Trump’s call with Ukrainian Presi-
dent Volodymyr Zelensky as impeach-
able conduct. Using public office for
private gain is about as basic an abuse of
power as there is. Trump’s request that
Ukraine cooperate with his personal
lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, suggests
that personal rather than public benefit
was Trump’s aim. If we lived in normal
political times, this argument would
likely have more persuasive power than
it has to date.
But we don’t live in normal political
times. We are in the third year of the
Democrats’ unprecedented, relentless at-
tack on Trump. A majority of Democrats
thought he should be impeached and
removed less than one month after he
took office. Such a result can be ex-
plained only by a simple fact: Most
Democratic voters don’t believe he
should have been elected in 2016, and
they view impeachment and removal as
the proper remedy to undo that election.
That view is ultimately fatal to democra-
cy, which requires the losers to submit
voluntarily to an election’s outcome.
Even this, however, understates the
peril this impeachment portends for our
democracy. Trump is not the only target
here. Increasingly, Democratic activists
and their media allies hold Republican
legislators and voters complicit in what
they consider “high crimes and misde-
meanors.” It has thus become increasing-
ly clear that Trump is merely the conve-
nient target, the big boat at which to aim
the missiles. The Republican voter is the
real target.
We don’t live in normal
political times. We are in the
third year of the Democrats’
unprecedented, relentless
attack on Trump.
Republicans feel this keenly. It may
have started with Hillary Clinton’s label-
ing half of Trump’s supporters as “de-
plorables,” but it goes much further than
that. Republicans are frequently labeled
as racists or traitors because they dared
to support Trump. Indeed, a recent poll
by PRRI found that 80 percent of Demo-
crats believe the GOP has been taken
over by racists. Because everyone knows
Trump was elected by voters, that means
most Democrats think the tens of mil-
lions of Republicans who voted for him
are racist, too.
That sentiment, that Republicans
themselves are beyond the pale, is one of
the biggest reasons Trump is able to rally
them behind him in this fight. And that
makes the impeachment vote a water-
shed in American democracy. It is the
first time that impeachment is advanced
on almost purely partisan grounds to
gratify a segment of the electorate whose
objection is as much about a president’s
supporters as it is about the president
himself.
Stirring up and intensifying these
passions is a much greater affront to our
system of government than anything
Trump is alleged to have done. Nearly
half the country views this impeachment
as a naked coup, much as some Demo-
crats viewed the attempt to impeach and
remove President Bill Clinton as a coup.
By moving forward with impeachment
under these circumstances, Democrats
are merely increasing the partisan bitter-
ness that is dividing us into two warring
camps.
That bitterness — which exists in both
Democrats and Republicans — is the
greatest threat American democracy fac-
es today. Democracy cannot exist when a
country is divided into two camps, each
of which sees the other as an enemy
rather than an adversary. Democracy
relies on the suspension of partisan
rancor in the interest of the nation,
which in turn relies on the belief that
one’s adversaries can be loyal to the
country even as one bitterly disagrees
with the course they plot for the country.
That belief is under extreme pressure
today, and an impeachment that is
widely viewed as the culmination of a
partisan crusade places even more pres-
sure on our weakened political constitu-
tion.
The outcome of this particular battle
is preordained. Republican senators will
act as partisanly as House Democrats
and acquit Trump of the charges. We, the
people, will then be able to pass judg-
ment on Trump in the election. We
cannot be sure who will win that battle.
But if the victor gives in to the spirit of
partisan hatred that the past three years
and this impeachment have heightened
to a frenzy, American democracy is sure
to be the loser.
Twitter: @henryolsenEPPC
A24
ABCDE
Necessary and proper
The impeachment of Mr. Trump for a gross abuse of his office was unavoidable.
HE HOUSE of Representatives’ impeach-
T ment of President Trump on Wednesday was
proper and necessary. Mr. Trump withheld a
White House meeting and U.S. military aid
in an attempt to force Ukraine’s president to aid his
reelection campaign. This was a gross abuse of his
office that Congress could not allow to go unpun-
ished. Nor could it acquiesce in Mr. Trump’s stone-
walling a constitutionally authorized inquiry with a
blanket refusal to cooperate with lawful subpoenas
for documents and the testimony of senior aides.
Whether or not a Senate trial leads to his
conviction and removal from office, Mr. Trump has
deservedly suffered an indictment imposed on only
two previous American presidents. The two articles
of impeachment reinforce essential, and what
should be self-evident, norms of our democracy: that
presidents cannot use their powers to extort politi-
cal favors from foreign governments, and that they
cannot comprehensively reject congressional
checks. That Mr. Trump denied all wrongdoing
made the House action only more necessary.
The vote to impeach was difficult and politically
risky for many Democrats. Some who won seats only
last year in swing districts carried by Mr. Trump
Secrecy cannot
be so abused
The FBI deserved its rebuke for
mishandling of surveillance requests.
T IS hard to exaggerate how unusual it was when
I Rosemary M. Collyer, the presiding judge of the
U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, is-
sued a public rebuke to the FBI on Tuesday. Yet her
action made sense. The court operates in secret be-
cause it deals in sensitive national security matters. It
relies on public trust that federal judges and law
enforcement officials balance the government’s need
for information against Americans’ Fourth Amend-
ment rights against unreasonable search and seizure.
Judge Collyer has good reason to worry about any
evidence this system does not ensure that the govern-
ment is using extraordinary spying tools on Americans
only when necessary.
Judge Collyer wrote that, by providing false infor-
mation and withholding material detrimental to the
FBI’s case in four applications to surveil former Trump
campaign aide Carter Page, the agency misled both the
Justice Department, which is supposed to supervise
FBI surveillance, and the court over which she pre-
sides, which is supposed to authorize it only when
warranted. The FBI must have probable cause to
believe that a surveillance target is a foreign power or
an agent of a foreign power. The court relies on
applicants to provide accurate information, sworn
under oath. Unlike in criminal cases, the public, includ-
ing the surveillance target, practically never sees the
applications at the time of approval or after the fact,
limiting the opportunity to complain about unwar-
ranted surveillance.
“The frequency with which representations made
by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or
contradicted by information in their possession . . .
calls into question whether information contained in
other FBI applications is reliable,” Judge Collyer wrote
of the Page case. It was particularly egregious that an
FBI lawyer altered an email that would have otherwise
painted Mr. Page in a less concerning light. The judge
ordered the government to describe what it will do to
prevent such disasters in the future.
This is not just a matter for the FBI. Among the
The White House has done little to help campaigns combat online propaganda.
NE ENTITY is most likely to know when a
O campaign is the target of a disinformation
operation: the campaign itself. But retaliat-
ing against an army of invisible enemies
isn’t exactly an easy task — especially without an
army of your own.
The lies and propaganda that ran amok on the
Internet during the last election cycle still appear to
be sprinting: Misleading political posts have al-
ready topped 158 million views this year. The New
York Times reports that few, if any, 2020 candidates
have employed teams devoted to rooting out this
malicious content. The reality is a little more
complicated.
The Democratic National Committee says cam-
paigns do have staff devoted to rooting out mali-
cious content. The question is where exactly those
individuals are leading: fully staffed war rooms that
spend their days drawing up battle plans, a hodge-
podge of staffers pulled in multiple directions or
t A K I n g ex C ePtI o n
Misreading the anti-Semitism executive order
In contrast to suggestions made in the Dec. 13
editorial “More victims of anti-Semitism,” President
Trump has supported what many believe to be the
most pro-Israel policies in U.S. history. Moreover, the
recent shooting at a Jewish deli in Jersey City was
purportedly committed by an African American
fringe group, which bears no logical connection to
the Charlottesville riots.
Furthermore, mainstream Jewish organizations
such as Hillel and the Anti-Defamation League track
and report on anti-Semitism, specifically on college
campuses. Their findings demonstrate that the boy-
cott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement
unfairly targets the state of Israel and illegally dis-
criminates against U.S. students. The BDS movement
provides cover to sideline free speech and outright
harassment and abuse of Jewish students and others
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eDItorIAls
acknowledged they might be endangering their
careers. Representatives such as Abigail Spanberger
(D-Va.) and Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) deserve credit
for putting their allegiance to the Constitution over
political calculations.
The absence of Republican votes for impeach-
ment, in contrast, revealed the party’s fundamental
corruption by Mr. Trump. Though some GOP repre-
sentatives have acknowledged that the president’s
actions were improper, none were principled
enough to break with him. Many cravenly adopted
Mr. Trump’s indefensible position that there was
nothing wrong with the pressure campaign he
directed at Ukraine’s neophyte president.
Mr. Trump himself set the tone for his defense
with a ranting, falsehood-packed letter to House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in which he repeated
the proven lie that Joe Biden sought the dismissal of
a Ukrainian prosecutor to protect his son and the
Ukrainian gas company that employed him. Even as
he faced impeachment, Mr. Trump was still pursu-
ing the primary aim of his extortion of the Ukraini-
ans — to smear his potential 2020 opponent.
The president’s refusal to acknowledge error and
the likelihood that he will continue to violate
tom toles
reforms that created the Foreign Intelligence Surveil-
lance Court was the establishment of supervisory
congressional committees. The last time Congress
thoroughly examined the foreign intelligence surveil-
lance process, it made tentative moves toward trans-
parency. The Page case demands another look.
The Justice Department inspector general, who
disclosed the problems with the Page surveillance, is
conducting a wider review of FBI foreign intelligence
surveillance applications. This might offer lawmakers
a sense of whether the Page fiasco was an exception or
On their own
something in between? Even bids for federal office
are constantly cash-hungry, and local-level hopefuls
have a harder time still mustering the resources to
carry out any but the most essential functions.
The problem is that tracking disinformation has
become one of those essentials, with foreign ene-
mies following in Russia’s meddling fingerprints,
and domestic actors who refuse to respect free and
fair elections close behind. That puts campaigns in a
tough spot. It’s also discouraging to mount a truth
offensive when companies refuse to fact-check even
the political advertisements they accept money to
promote: Former vice president Joe Biden did
report an ad relying on a conspiracy theory, after all,
and Facebook didn’t help.
These failures in firms’ policies mean even smart
steps like those recommended this week by the
DNC, such as developing plans in advance to deal
with viral falsehoods, will land campaigns only in a
constant game of catch-up. The committee is
who support Israel and the civil exchange of ideas.
Jewish citizens and organizations have urged
governors, state legislatures, Congress and the presi-
dent to take effective action to combat the rising
anti-Semitism on college campuses, often masked,
but no less malicious, as anti-Zionism. Several enti-
ties have already passed such legislation, and thank-
fully Mr. Trump acted with an executive order that
codifies that no opinion on the Arab-Israeli conflict
can justify harassing, abusing, silencing and deni-
grating Jewish students.
The editorial suggested that “robust debate and
academic freedom will suffer.” Unfortunately, that is
precisely the current state of college campus anti-Se-
mitic culture that this executive order appropriately
seeks to correct.
Asher Weinberg, Silver Spring
democratic norms make imperative a full and
impartial Senate trial of the charges against him.
Unfortunately, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
(R-Ky.) has made clear that he has no intention of
allowing such a trial. Bluntly declaring that “I’m not
an impartial juror,” Mr. McConnell indicated Tues-
day that he will seek a vote of dismissal on the
charges against Mr. Trump before allowing any
testimony — even though crucial witnesses to
Mr. Trump’s behavior, including former national
security adviser John Bolton and acting chief of staff
Mick Mulvaney, have never been heard from.
That ought not to be acceptable to Republicans
who have criticized Mr. Trump’s behavior, such as
Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), or those who have said
they will take their duty as jurors seriously, such as
Sen. Susan Collins (Maine). They should tell Mr. Mc-
Connell they cannot judge Mr. Trump’s guilt or
innocence until they have heard those firsthand
accounts Mr. Trump has tried to suppress. Republi-
cans have accused Democrats of cheapening the
impeachment remedy, but if they fail to hold a
credible trial of the serious charges against
Mr. Trump, it is they who will damage our constitu-
tional system.
whether the system is more broadly unreliable. Until
then, lawmakers and Justice Department officials
should ask themselves what further surveillance court
reform might look like. A defense advocate to argue for
those the government is attempting to surveil? En-
hanced punishments for government agents who
mislead the court? New forms of review, keeping in
mind that some FISC cases require great speed?
The nation deserves a real debate, as divorced as
possible from the conspiracy theories, Twitter raging
and blame-mongering that define today’s toxic politics.
helping by providing campaigns with training,
disinformation detection tools and points of contact
at social media companies. But the committee has
focused more on arming candidates than on taking
up arms itself — by acting as an official conduit
between campaigns and companies, say, or conduct-
ing more counterspeech on campaigns’ behalf.
That’s in part because party committees are
overwhelmed, too. This is, as the DNC stresses, a
whole-of-society problem — yet one of society’s
crucial components is glaringly missing. President
Trump has made it nigh impossible for the govern-
ment to formulate a comprehensive policy: leaving
any explicit mention of Internet disinformation out
of a signature executive order imposing sanctions
on meddlers, refusing to lead a Cabinet meeting on
election security, spreading Russian conspiracy
theories from the bully pulpit. Campaigns, commit-
tees and companies now must figure out for
themselves how best to safeguard democracy.
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Where are the other women?
The Dec. 16 Metro article “With a diverse crop of
newcomers, a year of change for county council,”
about the composition of the Montgomery County
Council, was interesting, but it missed a key element
for consideration and conversation.
It definitely is great that fresh, young talent has
appeared on the county political scene and that a
county as diverse as Montgomery has more color
than ever before on its local council.
But, one must ask, where are the women?
When most other large and diverse communities
are electing women up and down the ballot, it is
unacceptable that we have only one seasoned coun-
cilwoman.
That needs to change. Montgomery County needs
to catch up to its neighbors. Our political institu-
tions, organizations and leaders need to make this
happen. Otherwise, they might find themselves
sidelined in election cycles or even defeated at the
ballot box.
Duchy Trachtenberg, North Bethesda
Seeking impartial Senate jurors
The Dec. 16 news article “Freshman Democrats
push for ex-Republican to be impeachment manag-
er” reported that Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.)
said he wasn’t “trying to pretend to be a fair juror.”
In an interview with CNN, Mr. Graham also predict-
ed that impeachment “will die quickly.” Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) an-
nounced he was working in “total coordination”
with the White House.
Are these potential Senate jurors acting impar-
tially as the Constitution envisions? Are they subject
to challenge? Can their individual impartiality be
examined under oath? Would Mr. McConnell chal-
lenge seating a Democratic senator who announced
in advance of trial that he would convict?
What remedies, if any, can be applied to assure the
nation that “impartial justice according to the
Constitution and laws” (required by the senators’
individual oath) to decide the impeachment articles
will occur?
Will the Senate rules allow for challenging the
seating of senators based on their pretrial state-
ments? If not, shouldn’t the Senate rules, to be
adopted by majority vote, expressly allow for an
examination and challenge of such pretrial prejudi-
cial utterances?
Benjamin L. Zelenko, Chevy Chase
The writer was general counsel for the House
Judiciary Committee from 1966 to 1973.
Untruth and consequences
In Glenn Kessler’s Dec. 15 Fact Checker column,
“In annual roundup of biggest Pinocchios, more
than half of them are Trump’s,” we learn that the
president probably will soon pass the 15,000 lies/
false claims mark. We all know he is a serial liar.
Missing in so much of the commentary is why that is
so bad. His lying shows complete disregard and
disrespect for the people of this country. It shows
arrogance and lack of conscience. The result is that
people who believe him make very important deci-
sions based on untruths, with disastrous results. We
see it every day in the damage being done to our
environment based on his rejection of the truth of
climate science. We see it in the reputations of fine
public servants being tarnished by the president’s
false accusations. The lies about immigrants are
tearing families apart. Every single lie he tells
magnifies serious harm.
Andrea Ingram, Laurel
Afghanistan is another Vietnam
Ryan Crocker’s Dec. 13 Friday Opinion essay, “I
served in Afghanistan. No, it’s not another Viet-
nam.,” confused sincere intentions with facts on the
ground. As with our Vietnam debacle, the problem
confronted in Afghanistan was one that never had a
military solution. Notwithstanding endless mission
reevaluations, replacement of commanders and
sloganeering, the basic problem confronted was one
of culture. No matter what Western resources were
applied, the Afghan people were not going to change
their long-standing way of life for lofty, intangible
promises of Jeffersonian democracy. One can only
hope the lessons of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan
have finally been learned and will guide our respons-
es to future challenges.
Eric R. Carey, Arlington
In light of his distinguished career in the Foreign
Service, it was disappointing and dismaying to read
former ambassador Ryan Crocker’s Dec. 13 Friday
Opinion essay. Although he cited “The Afghanistan
Papers: A Secret History of the War,” it appears he
missed the major point. The papers clearly demon-
strate that we have pursued this endeavor for 18 years
with no clear mission in mind and no ability to
enunciate an end goal. We remain stuck there in
worsening conditions.
It is fine to be proud of having built schools, roads,
etc., but how many are necessary to achieve “suc-
cess”? By engaging in an open-ended adventure in
Afghanistan, we have again — as in Vietnam —
entered an arena about which we were truly igno-
rant. Had we declared victory in the first few months
of our engagement, with the Taliban routed, we
would have saved some 2,300 American lives,
uncounted Afghan lives and a trillion dollars. And
Afghanistan would be no worse off than it is —
perhaps better. Don’t think so? Compare Vietnam
today with when the United States pulled out.
Alan Neuschatz, Chevy Chase
I am a Vietnam veteran, and my opinion on that
lousy, misbegotten war is that it was a tremendous
waste of young lives and valuable resources expend-
ed in the service of propping up a corrupt regime
because our political leaders and their advisers at
the time couldn’t tolerate the possibility of having an
insignificant, corruption-ridden country half a
world away being lost to communism on their
watch. Sound vaguely familiar? In Afghanistan, it’s
not the communists, it’s the Taliban, and it is just as
tenacious and determined to rule over Afghanistan
as the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese were over
South Vietnam. Not another Vietnam? Oh, yes it is,
Mr. Crocker, yes it is.
Roger Elmore, Beaufort, S.C.
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MARC A. THIESSEN
These have
been the best
few weeks
for Trump
he House of Representatives
T spent hours Wednesday debat-
ing the impeachment of Presi-
dent Trump. Yet these past few
weeks have arguably been the best of
Trump’s presidency — not despite im-
peachment, but in no small part because
of it.
Consider the string of successes
Trump has racked up in recent days.
First came news that the U.S. economy
added 266,000 jobs in November, far
exceeding economic forecasts. And a
new Quinnipiac poll found that 57 per-
cent of Americans said they are better
off financially since Trump took office.
In a move that will further bolster the
economy, Trump reached agreement
with House Democrats to move forward
on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement
(USMCA), giving the president a major
win. Within days, Trump also reached a
“Phase 1” trade deal with China, post-
poning new tariffs on Chinese goods
that were set to kick in and cutting
tariffs on some Chinese products he had
previously imposed in half. The admin-
istration expects a $200 billion boost in
exports over two years from the deal.
Both deals will certainly bolster the
president’s standing with the rural and
working-class voters who defected to
Trump from the Democrats in 2016.
That’s not all. Trump also reached
agreement with Democrats on a spend-
ing bill averting a government shut-
down. He secured Democratic support
on a tax bill that would repeal three
Obamacare taxes, including the “Cadil-
lac tax” on high-cost employer-
sponsored health insurance — a major
win for union workers. And the House
approved a $738 billion defense spend-
ing bill that would authorize the cre-
ation of his Space Force and his parental
leave policy for civilian federal workers,
while not including restrictions Demo-
crats had threatened on the use of
defense dollars to build a border wall.
Trump also got good news from
across the pond, where Boris Johnson’s
Conservatives trounced the Labour Par-
ty by effectively following Trump’s 2016
campaign script — appealing to work-
ing-class voters with an anti-globalist
message and promises to protect enti-
tlements and make “colossal” invest-
ments in infrastructure. The Tory victo-
ry showed that Trump’s brand of conser-
vative populism is still potent.
To top it all off, Trump learned that
the Justice Department inspector gen-
eral found the FBI had falsified evidence
in its applications to the Foreign Intelli-
gence Surveillance Court to conduct
surveillance on former campaign advis-
er Carter Page, as part of its counterin-
telligence investigation into Trump’s
presidential campaign, and that — con-
trary to former FBI director James
B. Comey’s claims — the Democratic
National Committee-funded Steele dos-
sier played a “central and essential role”
in authorizing that surveillance.
Ah, say the critics, but this good news
was bookended by the dark cloud of
impeachment, which dimmed the lus-
ter of Trump’s successes. The opposite
is true. Many of these successes hap-
pened precisely because of impeach-
ment. Until now, House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi (D-Calif.) had been dragging her
feet on the USMCA and other Trump
priorities. So why did the legislative
logjam break precisely the same week
that Democrats introduced their arti-
cles of impeachment?
Because Democrats know that voters
see them focusing on impeachment at
the expense of getting things done.
Moderate Democrats running in Trump
districts have seen the polling showing
that two-thirds of swing-state voters
who cast their ballots for Trump in 2016,
but then voted for Democrats in 2018,
plan to back Trump again in 2020. One
of them, Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-N.J.),
was so alarmed that he is switching to
the Republican Party. As the rest of the
Democrats are forced to walk the plank
on impeachment, they are desperate to
show they are also working with Trump
on the kitchen-table issues they cam-
paigned on. Trump didn’t get all this
done despite impeachment; impeach-
ment is the reason Democrats allowed
gridlock to finally give way.
Impeachment is both a legislative
and political plus for Trump. After
weeks of hearings, most polls show that
support for impeachment and removal
has gone down — especially in swing
states. Before the impeachment hear-
ings began, a GOP poll by Firehouse
Strategies showed Trump trailing his
Democratic challengers; now, in the
wake of the impeachment hearings,
Trump is leading them all. The politics
will only get worse for Democrats going
forward. The next phase of impeach-
ment will be in the Republican-
controlled Senate. When the Senate
acquits Trump, as it inevitably will, the
spirits of the “Resistance” will be damp-
ened — while Trump supporters will be
energized by his victory and claim vindi-
cation.
Bottom line: The economy is hum-
ming, Trump’s accomplishments are
accumulating and impeachment is
backfiring — and that makes these the
best weeks of Trump’s presidency so
far.
Twitter: @marcthiessen
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President Trump at the White House on Tuesday.
E.J. DIONNE JR.
Impeaching Trump is just
the end of the beginning
hen the history of the events
W of Dec. 18, 2019, is written,
two earlier moments will
loom large.
The hinge decision was made by sev-
en politically vulnerable House Demo-
crats in September. Veterans of service
in either the military or the intelligence
agencies, they published a Post essay
endorsing the opening of an impeach-
ment inquiry.
Let’s give all of them the recognition
they deserve: Reps. Gil Cisneros of Cali-
fornia, Jason Crow of Colorado, Chrissy
Houlahan of Pennsylvania, Mikie Sher-
rill of New Jersey, Elissa Slotkin of
Michigan, and Abigail Spanberger and
Elaine Luria of Virginia.
“The president of the United States
may have used his position to pressure a
foreign country into investigating a po-
litical opponent, and he sought to use
U.S. taxpayer dollars as leverage to do it,”
they wrote. “This flagrant disregard for
the law cannot stand.”
Now it won’t, thanks to them, and to
Wednesday’s vote.
The national security seven ignored
the pundit chatter that impeachment
would only help President Trump. In-
stead, they insisted that their “oaths to
defend the country” took priority. A
majority of the House agreed. If this
meant angry town meetings and, possi-
bly, electoral defeat, so be it. “How can I
sit in a bunker?” Slotkin, a veteran of the
CIA and the State and Defense depart-
ments, asked on MSBNC’s “Morning
Joe” shortly before the impeachment
debate opened. “There are some mo-
ments when you can’t just look at a poll.”
The other key date, of course, is
Nov. 6, 2018, when America’s voters
turned out in record numbers to elect a
Democratic House majority — by a mar-
gin of nearly 10 million votes — that
included Slotkin and her colleagues. Yes,
Senators have a duty to keep an open mind
BY R USS F EINGOLD
o one deciding to run for the
N U.S. Senate gives much thought to
the Senate’s role in impeachment.
After all, before its dramatic vote
Wednesday, the House of Representatives
had impeached a president only twice
since the nation’s founding. But now, the
Senate will conduct a trial to determine
whether President Trump will be removed
from office. No proceeding in the Senate is
more rare, and, with the possible excep-
tion of voting on whether to declare war,
no duty of a senator is more solemn or
consequential.
The Constitution specifically provides
that when the Senate is trying an impeach-
ment, senators “shall be on Oath or Affir-
mation.” Senate rules adopted in 1868 for
the trial of President Andrew Johnson
prescribe the oath that all senators will
take: “to do impartial justice according to
the Constitution and laws.”
As a senator from Wisconsin, I took this
same oath in 1999 for the impeachment
trial of President Bill Clinton. Taking the
oath seriously led me to break with my
party and oppose a motion to dismiss that
would have ended the trial before the
House managers had a chance to present
the evidence they deemed most important.
I also voted to permit the House managers
to take new testimony from central wit-
nesses in the case, including Monica
Lewinsky.
My view both then and now is that,
because senators have a singular role in
impeachment proceedings under the Con-
stitution, they must treat their responsi-
bilities with the utmost seriousness and
care. This admonition applies equally to
Democratic and Republican senators, re-
gardless of how they may ultimately vote.
That is why it was so troubling to hear the
eZ re
health care, guns and economics mat-
tered on that day. But it was revulsion
over Trump’s many outrages that pow-
ered the surge to the polls.
Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) was an under-
dog in a Trump district when I spoke to
him the summer before the election. He
sensed something special was happen-
ing. The questions that “cut through”
with voters, he said then, were these:
“Do you feel like there is a steady hand at
the wheel? Do you feel like you’re in
good hands right now?”
There is no middle ground.
Either senators support a
full accounting of the facts,
or they are covering up
for Trump.
It was thus not surprising that despite
his very narrow 2018 margin, Kim, an-
other national security policy veteran,
announced his support for impeach-
ment. And his queries about the absence
of a steady hand at the top seemed all the
more appropriate after Trump’s un-
hinged letter on Tuesday to House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) de-
nouncing impeachment.
The letter was the rant of an extrem-
ist. The president even accused Pelosi of
“offending Americans of faith” by saying
that she prayed for him. His words
would, in normal times, have embar-
rassed a talk-radio host, let alone a
president. They were also, predictably,
disconnected from the truth. The Post’s
Glenn Kessler wrote that the letter
would “add a couple dozen new entries”
chairman of the Senate Judiciary Commit-
tee, Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), say re-
cently, “I’m not trying to pretend to be a
fair juror,” and to hear Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) say, “We’ll
be . . . working in total coordination with
the White House Counsel’s office.”
It is most certainly true that the role of
senators in an impeachment trial is not
precisely to be “jurors.” Indeed, then-
Supreme Court Chief Justice William
H. Rehnquist ruled in the Clinton impeach-
ment that “the Senate is not simply a jury;
it is a court in this case.” Judges in court
cases are not limited to the arguments
made by the parties. They conduct their
own research and evaluation of the appli-
cable law. They issue rulings based on the
totality of their experience and knowledge.
Senators can and should do the same.
The Constitution gives senators alone the
responsibility to determine whether an
abuse of presidential power occurred, and
whether it is serious enough to warrant
removal from office. While the chief justice
presides over the trial, he will not provide
instructions for senators to follow in
reaching their verdict. Nor must their
decisions be made in a vacuum, insulated
from history and consideration of conse-
quences. Indeed, I believe it is entirely
appropriate for senators to consider the
impact on the country of removing a
president duly elected by the American
people through the democratic process.
But judges, like jurors, are required to
be impartial, and that is what the Senate
impeachment oath requires. Working
hand in glove with one side or the other as
the trial proceeds is not consistent with
that oath. And it is highly inappropriate
for a senator to declare in advance that he
or she cannot or will not be impartial in an
impeachment trial.
While Senate Republican leaders have
JAbIn bOTsfOrD/THe WAsHIngTOn POsT
to the paper’s Fact Checker database of
false or misleading Trump claims.
But the letter only underscored
Trump’s determination to lie and bully
his way to reelection. As a result,
Wednesday’s impeachment must be
seen in light of Winston Churchill’s
celebrated declaration when the tide in
World War II began turning in Britain’s
favor: “Now this is not the end. It is not
even the beginning of the end. But it is,
perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
Which means that what happens
next will be decisive. Republican claims
that this is purely a partisan process
must be challenged at their core. It is
partisan only because Republican poli-
ticians lack the guts to acknowledge the
obvious: A president who presses a
foreign power to smear a domestic
political opponent is engaged in despo-
tism. Period.
So when the issue comes before the
Senate, Democrats cannot back down
from their leader Charles E. Schumer’s
demand that witnesses be called in a
real trial. Those Republican senators
who have claimed independence from
Trump — particularly those up for re-
election — must be forced to go on
record, repeatedly if necessary.
There is no middle ground. Either
senators support a full accounting of the
facts, or they are covering up for Trump.
In the meantime, the House vote
cannot halt efforts to hold Trump ac-
countable. On the contrary, every re-
source House committees have must be
used to help expose the profound cor-
ruption of Trump’s government — and to
be on watch for further abuses of power.
For one sentiment in Trump’s letter
was true. “The voters are wise,” he wrote.
They are, and they deserve all the infor-
mation that can be unearthed so they
can exercise that wisdom.
Twitter: @EJDionne
been failing their constitutional responsi-
bilities, their Democratic colleagues must
remember to uphold them. As the trial
approaches, Senate Democrats, including
or perhaps especially those who are run-
ning for president, must be cautious in
their comments. Many of them have ex-
pressed strong views about what the presi-
dent has done and have urged the House to
impeach the president. They are entitled
as political leaders to express those views.
But soon they will take the oath to do
impartial justice. They must keep an open
mind and consider the defense presented
by the president and his attorneys before
deciding whether to convict him.
Comments from Sen. Patrick J. Toomey
(R-Pa.) this past weekend offered a reas-
suring contrast to those of his party’s
leaders: “I think it would be extremely
inappropriate to put a bullet in this thing
immediately when it comes over. I think
we ought to hear what the House impeach-
ment managers have to say, give the
president’s attorneys an opportunity to
make the defense and then make a deci-
sion about whether, and to what extent, it
would go forward from there.” All senators
should heed his words.
Whatever one thinks of the Clinton
impeachment 20 years ago, the trial in the
Senate is generally seen as having been
fair. How the Senate handles this impeach-
ment trial will not only determine whether
Trump completes his term, it will also set
important guideposts for the future of this
very rarely needed, but still crucial, consti-
tutional remedy for abuse of power. Sena-
tors would do well to keep that in mind as
they prepare for the upcoming trial. Histo-
ry will not look kindly upon them if they
don’t.
The writer, a Democrat, represented Wisconsin
in the senate from 1993 to 2011.
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KAREN TUMULTY
A script
that’s already
written
he last time the House of
T Representatives impeached a
president, Donna Shalala was
watching it on television
from her office.
Twenty-one years ago, as Bill Clin-
ton’s secretary of health and human
services, she felt betrayed when she
discovered that the president in
whose Cabinet she served had lied
under oath about his affair with a
White House intern. Shalala told
Clinton so to his face.
As debate in the impeachment
proceedings against President Trump
began on Wednesday, Shalala — now
a freshman member of the House
from Florida — sat in the second row
on the Democratic side of the cham-
ber, waiting her turn to speak in favor
of removing the president from of-
fice.
She had been promised 90 seconds
but got cut off after a minute. In the
next hour or so, her office received a
few dozen phone calls, mostly from
people who had seen her on Fox
News, none of whom live in her
district.
When I asked her what it felt like to
experience impeachment again, this
time from such a different perspec-
tive, she told me: “Painful. It is just as
painful now as it was then.”
Shalala had not been eager to do
this. When other Democrats had been
urging impeachment for Trump’s al-
leged obstruction of justice during
the investigation of Russian interfer-
ence in the 2016 presidential election,
she had urged restraint.
“So soon,” she said. “It’s not what I
came to Washington to do, and not
what I expected.”
What changed Shalala’s mind was
the subsequent revelation — con-
firmed by the testimony of seasoned
civil servants — that Trump had
pressured a foreign government for
ammunition that could be used
against a political rival. No longer
was it possible to argue that this was
not an impeachable abuse of power
or that it should be left to voters to
render a verdict next November.
There are at least a few similarities
between 1998 and now. One is that
both Clinton and Trump admitted the
actions that brought them — and the
country — to this juncture.
But one big difference is that
Trump claims not to see anything
wrong with what he did.
Nor, it seems, does his party. “I
confronted a president,” Shalala
keeps telling her Republican col-
leagues. “What are you afraid of ?”
Shalala was far from the only one
who found herself unsettled to be
witnessing a second impeachment in
such a short span of the nation’s
history.
Count me among them. On Dec. 19,
1998, I was sitting in nearly the exact
spot in the House gallery as I was on
Wednesday. On that day, there was an
additional, unexpected twist when
Bob Livingston, the Louisiana con-
gressman whom Republicans had
designated to be their next speaker,
announced that he would resign
instead because he, too, had been
caught in an extramarital affair.
What stands out most in my mem-
ory from that debate was a passionate
cry by Missouri’s Richard
A. Gephardt, then the Democratic
leader of the House: “The only way we
stop this spiral is for all of us to finally
say — enough. Let us step back from
the abyss and let’s begin a new
politics of respect and fairness and
decency which raises what has come
before.”
Of course, the spiral continued its
downward trajectory.
Two decades later, lawmakers in
both parties intoned about the histor-
ic and momentous step they were
taking. But it felt pretty much like an
ordinary day on Capitol Hill, with
each side talking past each other as
they always do in a chamber that was
mostly empty.
About an hour before the House
debate began, a few hundred pro-
impeachment demonstrators gath-
ered in an area of the Capitol lawn
that they probably did not realize is
known as “the swamp.” Even the
protests seemed dutiful — certainly
nothing like the intensity everyone
could feel the day the House passed
the Affordable Care Act in 2010, when
thousands of protesters surrounded
the building, screaming so loudly
that they could be heard inside.
That is probably because, from
here, the script has already been
written. Trump seems virtually cer-
tain to be acquitted in the Senate,
which he will claim as a vindication.
On cable news, there will be end-
less speculation as to which party
gets helped and which gets hurt.
But if things play out as they
usually do in the Trump era, all of this
will soon be subsumed in the next
thermonuclear burst of chaos gener-
ated by a president who cannot be
chastened or shamed.
Once again, the House has made a
notch in history. What’s different this
time, however, is that no one really
believes anything will change as a
result.
karen.tumulty@washpost.com
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Senators press Trump on North Korea strategy
Bipartisan group
pushes for stronger
economic sanctions
BY D AVID N AKAMURA
Senators from both parties are
seeking to force President
Trump’s hand on North Korea,
with leading Democrats warning
Wednesday that his diplomatic
outreach is “on the brink of fail-
ure” and a bipartisan group press-
ing for stronger economic sanc-
tions on Kim Jong Un’s regime.
The moves illustrate growing
alarm on Capitol Hill that the
administration’s stalled nuclear
talks with Pyongyang could lead
to an increase in hostilities on the
Korean Peninsula, with Kim
promising an unwelcome “Christ-
mas gift” by year’s end.
The increasing pressure from
lawmakers could put Trump in a
difficult spot as his administra-
tion has struggled to persuade the
North Koreans to reengage and
has moved to defuse tensions in
recent weeks by limiting joint
military drills with South Korea
and blocking a U.N. forum on
human rights abuses.
Despite those gestures,
Trump’s top North Korea negotia-
tor, Stephen Biegun, left Seoul
empty-handed this week after
Immigration proposal would deny asylum to low-level o≠enders
Regulations are aimed at
reducing backlog of
1 million pending cases
BY N ICK M IROFF
The Trump administration
proposed new regulations
Wednesday that would deny asy-
lum protections to immigrants
with criminal convictions — in-
cluding some low-level offenses
and misdemeanors — measures
that would raise new legal barri-
ers to those seeking refuge in the
United States.
The proposed change from the
Justice Department and the De-
partment of Homeland Security
would disqualify asylum appli-
cants found guilty of serious of-
fenses such as driving while in-
toxicated and domestic battery, as
well as lesser violations such as
the use of false documents and
reentering the United States ille-
gally.
The Trump administration has
made multiple moves in recent
months to make it significantly
more difficult for immigrants to
qualify for humanitarian protec-
tion in the United States, mea-
sures the government says are
necessary to cope with a record
influx of Central American chil-
dren and families who have over-
whelmed U.S. courts with flimsy
or false claims.
If implemented after a public
comment period, the new regula-
tion would help the government
sort through an immigration
court backlog that exceeds 1 mil-
lion pending cases, according to
the Justice Department.
“Upon finalization of the rule-
making process, the departments
will be able to devote more re-
sources to the adjudication of
asylum cases filed by noncriminal
aliens,” the department said in a
statement.
Immigrants with pending asy-
lum claims include those who
recently arrived at the border and
others who have applied for pro-
tections as a way to halt deporta-
Double jeopardy cited in Manafort’s N.Y. fraud case dismissal
District attorney in
Manhattan says he plans
to appeal the decision
BY S HAYNA J ACOBS
new york — A state judge in
Manhattan dismissed Paul
Manafort’s residential mortgage
fraud case Wednesday, deciding
the local charges brought against
President Trump’s disgraced for-
mer campaign chairman amount-
ed to a double-jeopardy violation.
It is a significant victory for
Manafort, 70, who was previously
convicted in a pair of federal cases
stemming from special counsel
Robert S. Mueller III’s investiga-
tion of 2016 election interference.
The Manhattan District Attor-
ney’s Office brought its case in an
effort to ensure that Manafort,
calling on Pyongyang to resume
talks.
At a news conference Wednes-
day, a bipartisan group of sena-
tors said the time had come to
enact stricter “secondary sanc-
tions” approved by Congress that
would punish international
banks and other entities that do
business with North Korea. They
called the current international
sanctions program “leaky” and
said the Kim regime has been able
to skirt some of the restrictions
and buy time to develop its weap-
ons program.
The new sanctions measures
are included in the sweeping Na-
tional Defense Authorization Act
being sent to the White House for
Trump’s approval this week.
“It seems to me the best chance
we have in changing the path
North Korea is on is with crip-
pling sanctions. The current
sanctions regime is not enough,”
said Sen. Patrick J. Toomey
(R-Pa.), a key architect of the
provisions. He was flanked by
legislative colleagues as well as
Fred and Cindy Warmbier, the
parents of Otto Warmbier, a col-
lege student who died in 2017,
days after being released from 17
months of captivity in North Ko-
rea.
In a separate action, eight Sen-
ate Democrats, including Minori-
ty Leader Charles E. Schumer
(D-N.Y.), sent Trump a three-page
letter Wednesday citing “grave
Migrants seeking asylum wake up at a camp near a legal port of entry bridge to the United States in Matamoros, Mexico, in October.
Asylum applicants with low-level convictions, including the use of false documents and drug possession, could soon be disqualified.
tion to their home countries,
where they say they fear for their
lives. Central America’s Northern
Triangle nations — Guatemala,
Honduras and El Salvador — have
some of the highest murder rates
in the world.
The Trump administration in
recent months also has moved to
deny asylum protections to
border-crossers who did not seek
protection in other nations while
traveling to the United States.
And the United States has been
removing some asylum seekers
who arrive at the U.S. southern
border, flying them to Guatemala
and requiring them to apply for
shelter there instead.
Current U.S. law already dis-
who is serving a 71/2-year prison
sentence, would be held account-
able and remain in custody
should Trump pardon him for the
federal convictions.
Manafort was hospitalized in
recent days and did not appear in
court. Trump has watched the
proceedings closely, suggesting
he sympathized with Manafort,
though the president has not said
publicly that he would pardon
him.
In announcing his decision, Su-
preme Court Justice Maxwell Wi-
ley said that New York state law
prohibits the type of case brought
by Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the district
attorney. With limited exceptions,
the premise of double jeopardy
prevents multiple prosecutions
stemming from the same crimes.
“Basically, the law of double
jeopardy in New York state pro-
vides a very narrow window for
prosecution,” Wiley said during
Wednesday’s brief court proceed-
eZ re
and growing concern” at the pros-
pects that the administration’s
North Korea policy is headed
toward failure.
“We are disturbed that almost
two years after the Singapore
Summit your administration has
yet to develop a workable diplo-
matic process to structure real,
serious and sustainable negotia-
tions with North Korea,” the
Democrats wrote, referring to
Trump’s first meeting with Kim in
June 2018.
The group supported contin-
ued diplomatic outreach to
Pyongyang and cautioned against
a return to Trump’s “fire and fury”
rhetoric toward Pyongyang in
2017.
The lawmakers instead called
on Trump to pursue a “phased
process to verifiably dismantle”
key North Korean nuclear weap-
ons production facilities. Pyong-
yang has called for the United
States to lift some economic sanc-
tions in return for a partial dis-
mantlement, but the Trump ad-
ministration has insisted that the
North relinquish its entire pro-
gram.
White House officials declined
to comment Wednesday.
Biegun left Seoul on Tuesday
after meeting with senior South
Korean leaders in a visit that was
viewed as a last-ditch effort to
resuscitate engagement with the
North that has been stalled since
a working-level meeting in Stock-
qualifies major criminal offend-
ers from obtaining asylum pro-
tection in the United States, but
the new proposal would add sev-
eral additional categories of man-
datory bars.
They would include any felony
conviction at the federal or state
level, and offenses such as driving
while intoxicated, domestic vio-
lence — even when no conviction
results — and any “federal, state,
tribal, or local crime involving
criminal street gang activity.”
Possession of a controlled sub-
stance or drug paraphernalia also
would be grounds for disqualifi-
cation, with the exception of
those who have a single offense
involving a small amount of mari-
ing. He issued a 26-page ruling
detailing his finding.
Danny Frost, a spokesman for
Vance’s office, said litigation will
continue.
“We will appeal today’s deci-
sion and will continue working to
ensure that Mr. Manafort is held
accountable for the criminal con-
duct against the People of New
York that is alleged in the indict-
ment,” he said in a statement.
The district attorney’s office al-
leged that Manafort defrauded
three banks — Citizens Bank, Fed-
eral Savings Bank and Banc of
California — to obtain loans for
four properties in New York City
and Long Island.
Prosecutors had made techni-
cal arguments to explain why the
case should beat a double-jeopar-
dy challenge, saying there were
“fresh elements” that overlapped
with Manafort’s 2018 indictment
for bank fraud brought in the
Eastern District of Virginia.
holm in October ended without a
breakthrough. Pyongyang, which
has ramped up short-range mis-
sile tests since the spring, per-
formed a “crucial test” at a long-
range launch site last week,
prompting U.S. Air Force Gen.
Charles Brown to speculate that it
could portend a long-range mis-
sile test.
That could force Trump into a
reckoning over one of his most
important foreign policy initia-
tives at a time when the White
House has been consumed by
impeachment proceedings on
Capitol Hill. As congressional
lawmakers press for tougher
sanctions, China and Russia have
moved at the United Nations to
ease sanctions on North Korea,
scrambling international consen-
sus.
Biegun, who was in Tokyo on
Wednesday, was scheduled to vis-
it Beijing before returning to the
United States.
The secondary-sanctions legis-
lation calls on the administration
to designate entities for sanctions
within four to six months of the
bill becoming law. The president
can waive the sanctions only if he
makes a case that they adversely
affect U.S. national security, law-
makers said.
The sanctions are modeled on
punitive measures Congress ap-
proved against Iran in 2010 and
2012 that are credited with push-
ing the regime to negotiate the
juana.
Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst at
the Migration Policy Institute in
Washington, said she believes the
changes would be “more symbolic
than impactful,” affecting a rela-
tively small number of appli-
cants, because criminal convic-
tions are already derogatory fac-
tors for those seeking U.S. asy-
lum.
“I don’t believe it will make a
huge dent in the ultimate number
of asylum grants,” she said, refer-
ring to approvals.
Pierce said the new regulations
are consistent with the adminis-
tration’s broader attempt to tight-
en the asylum system — “and how
thoughtfully and thoroughly they
The jury in that case was unde-
cided on 10 counts, which were
eventually dismissed as part of
Manafort’s plea deal. The district
attorney’s office argued that sev-
en of those were fair game for
Manhattan prosecutors to charge
him with corresponding crimes at
the state level.
Manafort’s lawyers had argued
that he was already charged and
convicted of the same crimes in
one of his federal cases — the tax
and bank fraud case tried in fed-
eral court in Alexandria, Va. The
other case was tried in federal
court in the District.
Wiley, the New York judge, de-
cided that the leftover counts
from Virginia were “previously
prosecuted” and that a new case
based on the same conduct is
prohibited. He wrote in his deci-
sion that the district attorney’s
office disregarded the “clear
meaning” of the words of the
federal judge in Virginia when he
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nuclear deal secured by President
Barack Obama but abandoned by
Trump.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.)
said the senators expect the presi-
dent to enforce the sanctions pro-
visions “unless we see very con-
crete moves made by North Korea
to reduce their aggressive ac-
tions.”
One Capitol Hill aide expressed
skepticism that Trump would en-
act the sanctions unless the North
conducts a major test of nuclear
weapons or long-range missiles.
In the face of pressure from China
and Russia to relieve sanctions,
“the idea of more is a reach when
the real struggle will simply be to
stay running in place,” said the
aide who was not authorized to
talk publicly and spoke on the
condition of anonymity to offer a
frank assessment.
At the Wednesday news confer-
ence, the Warmbiers professed
their support for the legislation.
Fred Warmbier said the bill “gives
us more tools to force North
Korea to engage at some level.”
Asked whether she had a mes-
sage for Trump on his North
Korea strategy, Cindy Warmbier
replied, “I always say the same
thing: Don’t make a bad deal, and
don’t believe a word of what they
say. And nothing’s changed.”
david.nakamura@washpost.com
Karoun demirjian contributed to this
report.
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go about accomplishing their
goals on immigration.”
The proposal follows two rul-
ings issued by Attorney General
William P. Barr in October that
expanded the government’s pow-
ers to deport immigrants with
criminal violations.
One allows the government to
deny legal status to immigrants
with two or more convictions for
driving under the influence on
the basis that they lack “good
moral character.” The other deci-
sion renders immigrants eligible
for deportation even when their
prior criminal convictions have
been expunged by state and local
courts.
nick.miroff@washpost.com
formally dismissed the counts
last year.
Although prosecutors demon-
strated that there were new ele-
ments at play, they failed to show
that their case represented “very
different kinds of harms or evils,”
Wiley wrote.
Manafort was tapped to lead
Trump’s 2016 campaign in March
of that year and held the role until
August, when he resigned amid
scrutiny of his past work as a
political consultant in Ukraine.
In that time, Manafort had ex-
tensive contacts with influential
Russians and Ukrainians and re-
mained involved in Ukrainian
politics into 2018, after he was
indicted by Mueller, authorities
have said. He has admitted to
violating U.S. law by failing to
register as a lobbyist for Ukraine.
Manafort is serving his prison
term at a federal penitentiary in
Pennsylvania.
shayna.jacobs@washpost.com
. THURSDAy, DECEMbER 19 , 2019
Court raises
concerns
over email
surveillance
BY E LLEN N AKASHIMA
The government’s warrantless
collection of emails and other
Internet data for national securi-
ty purposes is lawful, but search-
ing that information for Ameri-
cans’ communications raises
constitutional privacy questions,
a federal appeals court in New
York ruled Wednesday.
At issue is an appeal by a
former Brooklyn man who plead-
ed guilty to supporting a foreign
terrorist group and now is seek-
ing to overturn his conviction,
saying the evidence against him
was obtained through warrant-
less surveillance that violated the
Fourth Amendment.
The surveillance program in
question, sometimes referred to
as PRISM, is used by the National
Security Agency to gather intelli-
gence on foreign targets. It al-
lows the NSA to gather data from
American tech companies under
court oversight but without indi-
vidual warrants.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for
the 2nd Circuit is now the second
appeals court to rule that this
form of surveillance is lawful.
But it is the first to state that
querying the stored data has
“important Fourth Amendment
implications” — and that doing
so should be seen as a separate
act from collection that must be
“reasonable” under the Constitu-
tion.
The defendant, Agron Hasba-
jrami, was arrested in 2011 as he
attempted to board a flight to
Turkey. The government alleged
Hasbajrami, an Albanian who
became a lawful permanent resi-
dent in 2008, was seeking to join
a terrorist organization in Paki-
stan and fight against U.S. forces.
He pleaded guilty in 2013 and
was sentenced to 15 years.
He was informed in 2014 that
the government had used evi-
dence gathered through warrant-
less surveillance to conduct its
investigation of him. A lower-
court judge allowed him to with-
draw his guilty plea to challenge
the surveillance, but eventually
found the surveillance lawful.
Hasbajrami appealed that deci-
sion, which led to Wednesday’s
decision by a three-judge panel.
In targeting people overseas,
the U.S. government sometimes
obtains the emails of Americans
in communication with the tar-
get. The government calls this
“incidental” collection.
“The primary issue, affecting
the bulk of the evidence against
Hasbajrami, is whether the inci-
dental collection of the commu-
nications of United States per-
sons, without a warrant, violates
the Fourth Amendment,” the rul-
ing said. “We conclude, as did the
district court, that such collec-
tion is lawful.”
But data-gathering is not the
only issue, the court said.
PRISM collection takes place
under Section 702 of the FISA
Amendments Act, a 2008 law
that the intelligence community
considers its most valuable for-
eign intelligence gathering tool.
(FISA stands for Foreign Intelli-
gence Surveillance Act.) Hun-
dreds of millions of emails are
gathered annually through
PRISM.
“If such a vast body of informa-
tion is simply stored in a data-
base, available for review by
request from domestic law en-
forcement agencies solely on the
speculative possibility that evi-
dence of interest to agents inves-
tigating a particular individual
might be found there, the pro-
gram begins to look more like a
dragnet, and a query more like a
general warrant,” the court said.
The panel sent the case back to
the lower court to rule on three
questions: What evidence rele-
vant to Hasbajrami was obtained
by querying the database? Did
any of those queries violate the
Fourth Amendment? And did
any such violation lead to his
conviction?
“The decision recognizes the
threat that NSA mass surveil-
lance poses to Americans’ priva-
cy, and the urgent need for
stronger safeguards,” said Patrick
Toomey, a staff lawyer for the
American Civil Liberties Union.
“Critically, the court holds that
the government does not have
carte blanche to amass Ameri-
cans’ emails and phone calls and
search through them at will.”
Some lawmakers have pressed
to require that the government
obtain warrants to search the
Section 702 database for Ameri-
cans’ communications — what
they call a “backdoor search.”
The government maintains no
warrant is necessary to query
data it already gathers lawfully.
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Indictments sought against Park Police o∞cers in Ghaisar case Conviction

BY T OM J ACKMAN
FAIrFAx pLANS tO SeeK CrImINAL ChArGeS
Prosecutors in Fairfax County
Federal officials must clear FBI agents to testify
are pursuing a possible criminal
case against two U.s. Park Police
officers in the fatal shooting of
unarmed motorist Bijan Ghaisar
in 2017, a Ghaisar family lawyer
said Wednesday. But plans to
present the case to a grand jury
were delayed as federal officials
consider whether to allow FBI
agents who investigated the inci-
dent to testify in state proceed-
ings.
in killing of
black Army
lieutenant
officers Alejandro Amaya and
Lucas Vinyard followed Ghaisar’s
Jeep Grand Cherokee down the
George Washington Memorial
Parkway on nov. 17, 2017, after he
left the scene of a minor fender
bender. They later fired 10 shots
into Ghaisar’s Jeep as it started to
roll away from a traffic stop in
Fairfax County, fatally wounding
Ghaisar. After two years of inves-
tigation by the FBI, the U.s. Attor-
ney’s office for the District of
Columbia announced last month
that it would not file federal
criminal civil rights charges
against the officers, but it also
said its decision did not preclude
other agencies from looking into
the case.
Fairfax Commonwealth’s At-
torney Raymond F. Morrogh de-
cided to take up the investigation,
even though he will be stepping
down at the end of the month
after losing a reelection bid. Roy
L. Austin Jr., an attorney for the
Ghaisar family, said Morrogh’s
office informed him Wednesday
that it “attempted to present the
case to the grand jury, but was
unable to do it because the U.s.
attorney in D.C. refused to clear
an FBI agent to testify.”
Kadia Koroma, a spokeswom-
an for Jessie K. Liu, the U.s.
attorney for the District of Co-
lumbia, said federal prosecutors
were not blocking the agents
from testifying. “The normal ap-
proval process can take up to a
few weeks,” Koroma said of the
request by Fairfax County to use
FBI testimony. “It’s not a rush,
two-day process.” she said Liu
Former U-Md. student
needed to consult with the assis- Urbanski is found guilty
tant attorney general who han-
see gHAIsAr on b2
of first-degree murder

BY F REDRICK K UNKLE

A former University of Mary-

land student who admitted to
fatally stabbing a black Army
lieutenant at a campus bus stop
was convicted Wednesday of first-
degree murder.
The guilty verdict against sean
Urbanski came the day after a
judge dismissed a hate crime
count against him in the May 20,
2017, killing of Richard Collins III.
A Prince George’s County jury
took only two hours to return the
verdict.
Urbanski, who is white,
stabbed Collins after the two met
by chance at a bus stop on a night
when many college students were
celebrating their imminent grad-
uations.
Prosecutors, citing Urbanski’s
membership in a Facebook group
called “Alt Reich: nation” and
racist memes that were stored on
his phone, said Urbanski had
filled his mind with hatred and
acted on that hatred after a night
of heavy drinking.
“He poisoned his mind with
white-supremacist propaganda
— nazi-style propaganda,” Assis-
tant state’s Attorney Jonathon R.
Church told jurors in closing ar-
guments Wednesday in Prince
George’s County Circuit Court.
Defense attorneys acknowl-
edged that Urbanski, 24, had fa-
tally stabbed Collins but argued
that he had been so drunk — as
much as three times the legal
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amanda VoIsard for tHe WasHIngton Post

Airport
To the kids, ‘I’m just Santa’ workers
When Antonio way, so why not have one?” appropriate one. saint nick — and, although it
win ‘Fight
“Tony” Covay
stepped into a
$500 santa suit,
That “why not” led to Covay
standing in that red suit on
Constitution Avenue on a recent
Sweet Mrs. Claus
Good times never seem so
good
wasn’t his main intention when
he put on that costume, he also
walked into a wider
for $15’
he wasn’t sure teeth-chatteringly cold Sweet Mrs. Claus conversation about
what to expect. afternoon, singing his hat off. I believe they never could representation.
theresa All he knew That’s not a euphemism. His Sweet Mrs. Claus From behind a pair of fake
Vargas was this: He had red-and-white hat hits the Covay is a seasoned street wire-rimmed glasses, he is
MWAA board approves
never seen a sidewalk as he moves to the performer who can be found getting a firsthand view of how hourly wage increase at
black santa in person. melody of “sweet Caroline.” throughout the year crooning people respond to a black santa.
“Have you?” he asks me. “All He doesn’t miss a beat. He outside the White House, When Covay bought the
National, Dulles by 2023
we see is white santas. Why not continues to sway and sing, nationals Park or the national costume online — opting for
have a black one? We all swapping out the name Museum of natural History. But “one of those expensive ones
celebrate Christmas the same “Caroline” for a more this season marks his first as ol’ see VArgAs on b2 BY L ORI A RATANI

Contract workers who serve

Antonio “tony” Covay, 63, performs as santa Claus outside the smithsonian national Museum of natural History. meals, clean terminals and help
the seasoned street performer can be found crooning throughout the year at various locations across the District. transport people with disabilities
at Dulles International and Rea-
gan national airports reached a
years-long goal Wednesday when
the authority that runs the air-
ports agreed to give them a $15
hourly wage.
Under a plan approved by the

D.C. statehood hearing In Capitol’s shadow, calls to impeach board of the Metropolitan Wash-
ington Airports Authority, con-
tract workers will be paid $15 an

hits bump — over Evans BY M ARISSA J . L ANG

BY F ENIT N IRAPPIL
D.C. Council member Jack ev-
ans (D-Ward 2), who is set to be
expelled from the council over
ethical misconduct, has declined
a request from House Republi-
cans that he testify on Capitol
Hill as Congress considers D.C.
statehood.
Republicans are using the on-
going scandal about evans —
including investigations finding
that he used his office to assist
his private consulting clients —
as a way to cast the District as too
corrupt to become the 51st state.
After evans and other officials
refused to testify at a hearing
scheduled for Thursday, Republi-
cans on the House Committee on
oversight and Reform demand-
ed a delay of the hearing, which
is their opportunity to manage a
meeting about the statehood bill
and a vote on the legislation.
“The Committee cannot mark-
up H.R. 51 until the Committee
fully understands and assesses
the nature and extent of D.C.
Councilmember’s evans’s mis-
conduct,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-
ohio), the ranking Republican,
wrote in a Wednesday letter to
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-n.Y.),
who leads the committee.
A spokeswoman for Maloney
said the Thursday hearing will
not be delayed and that corrup-
tion allegations have no bearing
on statehood.
see eVAns on b3
Hundreds of demonstrators —
wrapped in winter scarves and
puffy jackets to protect against
the morning cold — gathered
Wednesday in the shadow of the
Capitol to show lawmakers that
they have constituents across the
country who support the im-
peachment and removal of Presi-
dent Trump.
The rally began as a conten-
tious and historic debate kicked
off inside the House of Represen-
tatives. some rallygoers lament-
ed not being able to listen to
lawmakers as they debated the
articles of impeachment. But
many more said they felt it was
important to bring their message
directly to Congress’s doorstep.
In the biggest show of support
see protest on b4
hour starting in 2023.
The board’s approval drew
cheers from many workers who
attended the meeting at Dulles
Airport.
Joyce Wood said that when she
started at Dulles six years ago she
made $9.25 an hour and strug-
gled to support her 10-year-old
son and mother. While making
ends meet will still be a chal-
lenge, each pay increase has
helped, she said.
Tadious Yalew, who works in
food services at national, still has
to work two jobs to support his
family, but the additional pay
means he can send more money
back home to ethiopia. “This
means so much,” he said. “It’s a
great day.”
The plan amends the airport
saraH L. VoIsIn/tHe WasHIngton Post
worker wage policy that the
Demonstrators gather near the Capitol on wednesday to urge board first approved in 2017. Un-
lawmakers to vote to impeach and remove president trump. see wAge on b4
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THERESA VARGAS

A veteran D.C. street performer wanted to see a black Santa, so he became one
Vargas from B1
with satin on the inside” — his
goal was simple. He purchased it
earlier this month, the day after
the National Christmas Tree
Lighting Ceremony, hoping to
make some extra cash during a
season that can see a day’s work
wiped out by weather that
makes people not want to pull
their hands from their pockets.
He also figured, worst case, if he
didn’t make his investment
back, he would at least give kids
the chance to see what he never
did as a child, a Santa that
doesn’t look like most of the
ones found in books or malls.
I discovered Covay by chance.
I was looking through Craigslist,
as I sometimes do to gauge
what’s happening economically
in the region, when I noticed a
small cluster of postings for
Santas for hire. Among the
detailed listings from seasoned
Santas, his post appeared out of
place. It seemed like a quiet
knock on the door by someone
who wasn’t sure he had the right
address.
one Santa advertised having a
“real beard,” nearly 40 years of
experience and the ability to
“perform magic.”
Another Santa claimed to
have more than 30 years of
experience, a way with kids and
“a deep voice in which to do my
ho, ho, ho’s!” He wrote: “I will do
about anything within reason
except come down the chimney
or jump off of the roof.”
Covay’s post was titled
“Singing Black Santa” and
contained little more than his
phone number.
“I wasn’t sure if I did it right,”
he confesses.
He is 63 and is used to
conducting business in person,
so he wasn’t familiar with how
to market himself online. He
also didn’t fully know what he
was tapping into. He didn’t
know that there was an app for
black Santas, or that some
parents go in search of one every
year.
“We get asked where black
Santa is all the time,” says
Simona Noce, who along with
Nikki osei-Barrett founded
District motherHued, a D.C.-
based group that brings together
millennial moms of color.
The group’s Instagram page
recently featured a picture of
two children posing with a black
Santa, along with this request:
“let us know where to find
#BlackSanta in the #DmV in the
comments.”
“representation, it really does
matter,” osei-Barrett says. She
recalls how three years ago,
some people were angry because
the mall of America in
minnesota featured its first
black Santa. “Even though our
kids don’t know it, Santa is a
fictional character. Santa can
reflect any ethnicity, any
demographic — and Santa
should.”
Noce says she grew up in
Ghana, and even in Africa,
father Christmas was a white
man. As a mother, she says, it’s
important to her that her
children see that “this guy who
brings so much joy and
excitement can look like you,
can look like your dad.”
for the past two years, the
group’s Christmas gatherings
have featured a black Santa and
mrs. Claus, played by a couple
known online as Kier & Them,
who volunteer their time to read
a story and hand out small gifts.
Last year, from that gift-filled
PHotos BY AmAndA VoIsArd for tHe WAsHIngton Post
bag came tiny puzzles of a black
Santa.
“It’s just amazing to be
getting to a place where we
normalize a black Santa,” Noce
says. She recalls only one child
this year looking at Santa with
some skepticism. “one of the
kids asked, ‘Hey, isn’t Santa
white?’ And he was like, ‘Santa is
whoever you want him to be.’ ”
antonio “Tony” Covay, the son
of r&B artist and songwriter
Don Covay, has been a fixture
throughout the streets of the
District for years. Earlier this
month, he spent $500 on a
santa costume — opting for
“one of those expensive ones
with satin on the inside” —
hoping to make some extra cash
during the holiday season.
Covay says that since putting
on that white beard, he has
learned that most children,
regardless of their race or
ethnicity, notice only the colors
of his costume.
“They call me Santa,” he says.
“They just see me like that. Even
though they look at my color,
look me in my face, I’m just
Santa.”
Some children, he says, come
up and hug his leg while he’s
performing. others sing along
with him. more than a few have
stood near him, waiting for their
parents to snap photos.
“Chinese, white, black, all of
them are taking my picture,”
Covay says. “I do Bruno mars,
and a lot of them go crazy when
I do. They don’t expect Santa to
do Bruno mars.”
Covay is the son of Don
Covay, an r&B artist and
songwriter who was friends with
otis redding, helped discover
Jimi Hendrix and wrote “Chain
of fools” for Aretha franklin.
music was a huge part of Tony
Covay’s upbringing, and when
he’s in front of that microphone,
his voice booming through an
amp that he lugs on the metro
from his home in Suitland, md.,
he looks at home. He switches
easily between musical genres
and comfortably interacts with
onlookers.
As he sings in front of the
museum that day, he waves at a
woman who is aiming her phone
at him.
“merry Christmas,” he tells
her. “Come give Santa a hug.”
She smiles, but keeps her
camera focused on him for a bit
longer. The sidewalk is mostly
empty because it’s a cold day in
the middle of the week, but a
few people walk by and drop
bills in the clear plastic bin by
Covay’s feet. on a slow day, he
says he can make $100. on his
best, which was the day white
supremacists marched through
the District, the bin was
brimming because of the
counterprotesters.
Sometimes, people also toss
in currency from countries
Covay has never visited. one
child gave him a marble.
After a week of that Craigslist
ad sitting mostly dormant,
Covay accepts that he’s not going
to get that extra work. Even so,
he doesn’t regret buying the
suit. He says it keeps him warm,
and it makes kids happy.
A couple and their four
children, ages 2, 5, 7 and 9, walk
by as he sings “Stand by Santa”
to the tune of “Stand by me.”
So darlin’, darlin’
Stand by Santa, oh, stand by
Santa
The 7-year-old smiles, waves
and then cranes his neck to
watch Covay until his parents
herd him inside.
A short while later, a group of
second-graders spill out of the
museum’s doors, all puffy
jackets and laughter. A cluster of
bushes block their view of
Covay, but curiosity causes one
boy to stand on an elevated
piece of concrete to get a better
look.
“oh,” he shouts, “it’s Santa!”
theresa.vargas@washpost.com

Fairfax prosecutors are seeking a case against U.S. Park Police o∞cers
gHaIsar from B1
dled the Ghaisar case for the Civil
rights Division of the Justice
Department, “but the decision is
made by the U.S. attorney.”
fairfax prosecutors apparently
planned to present the Ghaisar
case to a county grand jury on
monday, using one or more fBI
agents as their witnesses. To do
that, local prosecutors must ob-
tain permission from the U.S.
attorney under a Justice Depart-
ment rule known as the “Touhy
regulation,” named for a Supreme
Court case. “No present or former
employee of the Department of
Justice,” the regulation states,
“may testify or produce Depart-
mental records in response to
subpoenas or demands of courts
or other authorities issued in any
state or federal proceeding with-
out obtaining prior approval by
an appropriate Department offi-
cial.”
In a court hearing Wednesday
morning, fairfax Chief Deputy
Commonwealth’s Attorney Casey
m. Lingan explained to fairfax
Circuit Court Judge Brett A.
Kassabian why a grand jury em-
paneled by Kassabian had not
gathered this week.
“We called the jurors off last
night,” Lingan said in court. “I got
the word the fBI agents have not
received approval to testify today.
The case was turned over to us in
November, once federal charges
were not brought, to see if we
could bring a case. We worked
tirelessly with the fBI. The fBI
has been professional in working
with us. . . . Because of their
professionalism, we were aiming
to present, to have the grand jury
consider it in this term.”
Grand juries in fairfax typical-
ly meet on the third monday of
each month to consider cases,
and this grand jury apparently
was extended to a Wednesday
“A high-profile case is
not something that can
be rushed in two days.
We have to do a proper
and thorough process.”
Kadia Koroma, spokeswoman for
the u.s. attorney for the district of
Columbia, about clearing
fBI agents to testify
session, which was then canceled,
causing Lingan to appear before a
judge to explain why. Virginia
grand juries typically do not in-
vestigate cases. They hear from
one or two police officers or
agents, who provide an overview
of evidence, and then decide
whether to hand up an indict-
ment. A grand jury refusing to
indict, or handing up a “no true
bill,” is rare in Virginia.
Lingan told the judge of the
Touhy rule requiring approval for
the agents’ testimony from Liu,
who oversaw the federal investi-
gation jointly with the federal
Civil rights Division of the Jus-
tice Department. “It’s my under-
standing,” Lingan said, “the DoJ
did approve, but we also needed
approval from the D.C. U.S. attor-
ney. . . . I was told yesterday it
would not be approved by the U.S.
attorney’s office by today, but they
would let us know when they’re
ready.”
Lingan did not mention the
subject of the case in open court.
Lingan and morrogh declined
to comment, citing a pending
investigation. In a statement, the
Ghaisars said they “appreciate all
of the recent efforts by Common-
wealth Attorney ray morrogh to
obtain justice for Bijan. After the
Commonwealth Attorney’s office
did what the federal Government
has never done — kept them
informed of the status of the
investigation — it is now more
clear than ever that individuals at
DoJ are not only refusing to do
their jobs but are preventing
others from doing what is right.”
fairfax lawyers familiar with
the Touhy process, both prosecu-
tors and defense attorneys, said
local prosecutors are frequently
able to obtain such approval
within a day for federal agent
testimony. Koroma said that each
request is reviewed individually
and that “a high-profile case is
Elahe Zanganeh holds a photo of Bijan ghaisar at a vigil on Nov. 17
at the Lincoln Memorial to mark the second anniversary of his
death. ghaisar was shot and killed by U.s. Park Police officers.
not something that can be rushed
in two days. We have to do a
proper and thorough process,
which is what DoJ is known for.”
Liu has not commented public-
ly on the shooting investigation
beyond a news release issued
Nov. 14, which said that the Jus-
tice Department “cannot prove,
beyond a reasonable doubt, that
the two USPP officers committed
willful violations of the applica-
ble federal criminal civil rights
statute when they shot mr.
Ghaisar.” Her office declined to
issue a written report on the case,
as has been done in other high-
CrAIg Hudson for tHe WAsHIngton Post
profile police shootings. Last
week, the White House an-
nounced that President Trump
intends to nominate Liu to serve
as the Treasury Department’s un-
dersecretary for terrorism and
financial crimes.
morrogh will leave the fairfax
prosecutor’s office on Dec. 31, to
be replaced by Steve Descano,
who defeated morrogh in a pri-
mary in June and then won the
general election in November.
Descano said he had not been
contacted by morrogh about the
Ghaisar case and could not dis-
cuss the new developments or
how he might handle the case
when he takes office Jan. 1. Lin-
gan is leaving office at the end of
December.
Lawyers for Vinyard, 38, and
Amaya, 40, did not return mes-
sages seeking comment Wednes-
day. Both officers have been on
paid administrative duty since
shortly after the shooting. Vin-
yard has been a Park Police officer
for 12 years, and Amaya for 10.
The Park Police has not yet start-
ed its own internal investigation,
as it waits to see whether criminal
charges will be filed in fairfax.
Ghaisar was a 25-year-old ac-
countant, single with no children,
who worked for his father’s firm
in mcLean. He was born and
raised in Northern Virginia and
had no criminal record. After his
Jeep was rear-ended by a Toyota
Corolla in Alexandria, he left the
scene, and the Corolla’s passen-
ger called police to report a hit-
and-run. Vinyard and Amaya
spotted Ghaisar’s vehicle in the
fairfax section of the George
Washington Parkway and sig-
naled Ghaisar to pull over, which
he did three times. But each time,
Ghaisar drove away. During his
third stop, Vinyard and Amaya
opened fire on him, an episode
that was captured on video by a
fairfax County police lieutenant
who followed the pursuit with an
in-car camera recording it. feder-
al police do not have body-worn
or in-car cameras.
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eVans from B1
The panel held a hearing in
September on the statehood leg-
islation, when republicans un-
successfully attempted to compel
Evans’s testimony.
House republicans tried again
this week, also summoning offi-
cials from the Washington met-
ropolitan Area Transit Authority,
where Evans had served on the
board until an investigation
found that he violated ethics
rules.
The transit officials declined
to testify as well.
In a letter dated monday, Ev-
ans said the attempts to have him
answer questions from republi-
can lawmakers were part of a
“political agenda” to distract
from the merits of statehood.
“Using my individual prob-
lems as a tool for opponents of
D.C. Statehood is a transparent
tactic to avoid their real non-
meritorious reasons to stand in
the way of what should have been
done decades ago,” Evans wrote
to maloney.
metro officials also wrote let-
ters saying they have no “exper-
tise or relevant experience” to
provide about statehood legisla-
tion.
Supporters of D.C. statehood
say republicans are using Evans
as a distraction and that the
behavior of individual politicians
Marlena sloss/tHe WasHIngton Post
D.C. Council member Jack evans (D-Ward 2), whose colleagues
want him out because of ethics issues, said House Republicans are
using him to distract from the pending D.C. statehood matter.
should have no bearing on the
enfranchisement of city resi-
Evans has been under dents.
The statehood bill needs to be
federal investigation but approved by the oversight com-
mittee before it can be consid-
has not been charged ered on the floor of the House,
where it is expected to pass
with a crime. He has because a majority of lawmakers
— all of them Democrats — has
denied wrongdoing. signed onto the legislation.
Approval by the House would
be the first time statehood legis-
lation has passed a chamber of
Congress.
But the bill is expected to die
in the republican-controlled
Senate, where majority Leader
mitch mcConnell (r-Ky.) opposes
statehood for the nation’s capital.
The D.C. Council took the
unprecedented step this month
of voting to recommend expel-
ling Evans, the city’s longest-
serving lawmaker, after probes
found that he used his public
office to benefit private clients
and employers who paid him
hundreds of thousands of dol-
lars.
Evans has been under federal
investigation but has not been
charged with a crime. He has
denied wrongdoing.
A council hearing, where Ev-
ans could defend himself, and an
expulsion vote are scheduled for
next month.
on Wednesday, republicans
on Capitol Hill cited Evans and
the refusal of congressional
Democrats to demand that he
testify in an effort to criticize
impeachment proceedings
against President Trump.
“It’s rich that on the day Dem-
ocrats are impeaching the presi-
dent for allegedly obstructing
Congress, they are obstructing
Congress by denying the minori-
ty a legitimate hearing to exam-
ine serious misconduct within
the District’s government,” said
russell Dye, a spokesman for
republicans on the oversight
committee.
fenit.nirappil@washpost.com
Death of coach ruled
justified homicide
The death of a popular youth
baseball coach on Capitol Hill
who was severely injured during
an altercation in may outside a
restaurant has been ruled a
justified homicide, according to
D.C. police.
The ruling by the U.S.
attorney’s office in the District
ends a months-long
investigation into the death of
Berner r. Johnson III, 48, known
as “Bud.”
Johnson got into an argument
may 15 outside the Scarlet oak
restaurant in the 100 block of K
Street SE. Police said at the time
that the incident involved a
group of people.
Police said Johnson died
may 19, and his death was later
ruled a homicide. He lived with
his family in an apartment
across the street from the
restaurant, in the Navy Yard
area.
Authorities had described
difficulty in trying to determine
the aggressor in the incident. A
D.C. police spokesman said no
charges will be filed in the case.
Police had said that the cause of
death was blunt-force trauma to
Johnson’s head and that alcohol
intoxication was a factor.
— Peter Hermann
Ex-Baltimore mayor
Pugh faces new charge
maryland State Prosecutor
Charlton Howard on Wednesday
announced the additional
criminal charge of perjury
against former Baltimore mayor
Catherine Pugh, alleging she
broke the law by failing to list
her “Healthy Holly” children’s
book business on financial
disclosure forms during her time
as a state senator.
The charges, filed in Anne
Arundel County Circuit Court,
allege that Pugh disclosed other
business ties but not her interest
in Healthy Holly LLC.
Steven Silverman, Pugh’s
attorney, declined to comment.
Pugh, a Democrat, was in the
state Senate from 2007 to 2016,
when she became mayor. She
resigned as mayor in may.
The charge follows Pugh’s
federal indictment and guilty
plea last month on charges of
conspiracy to commit wire fraud,
conspiracy to defraud the U.S.
government and two counts of
tax evasion. She is set to be
sentenced on those counts in
february.
The U.S. attorney’s office
declined to comment on the
latest charge.
— Baltimore Sun

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Activists’ chorus: ‘Country over party’
Protest from b1
since a House impeachment in-
quiry into Trump’s conduct began
in late September, liberal advoca-
cy groups coordinated more than
600 events across the country
Tuesday evening, where voters
vowed to demand action from
elected leaders. organizers said
the nationwide protests — which
took place from Hawaii to maine
— demonstrate how widespread
support for impeachment is.
Images from the previous
night’s demonstrations were
printed on poster board and held
aloft by protesters in the District
as they cheered for gatherings
the previous evening in cities
such as Lexington, Ky., and Port-
land, maine, where demonstra-
tors stood in the snow.
“It helps send a message to the
traitors in the Senate,” said Bob
Smither, 65, who recently moved
to the District from Kentucky.
“Do your jobs.”
No lawmakers spoke at the
Capitol demonstration, where
more than a dozen activists ad-
dressed the crowd.
“We saw hundreds of thou-
sands of people out last night in
the freezing cold, in snowstorms
— also in sunny florida,” said
rahna Epting, executive director
of moveon, a lead organizer of
the demonstrations. “We demand
a fair trial for the United States of
America . . . because no one, not
even the president, is above the
law.”
Protesters called for action
from the republican-controlled
Senate, which so far has declined
to call witnesses at next month’s
expected impeachment trial.
Brandishing signs that said
“Impeach now” and “Country
over party,” the crowd joined in a
chant: “Nobody is above the law.”
moments later, a bald eagle
soared overhead. The crowd
cheered as demonstrators spot-
ted the bird gliding past.
“I believe in omens,” said reg-
gie Hubbard, a rally organizer
and moveon’s congressional liai-
son and D.C. strategist. “So, if a
bald eagle flies over you when
you’re supporting the Constitu-
tion, I’m into that.”
The country's guiding legal
document was a major theme of
the event.
Speakers spoke to the found-
ing fathers’ reasons for including
impeachment in the law of the
land, and participants pointed to
the document as the reason they
stood in near-freezing tempera-
tures Wednesday.
“I'm really more pro-Constitu-
Workers win ‘Fight for $15’ at Dulles, National
wAge from b1
der that policy, companies doing
business at the airports were re-
quired to pay contract workers a
base hourly wage of $11.55 start-
ing in January 2018. By 2020, the
hourly wage would have risen to
$12.75 an hour, and after that,
raises would have been tied to
inflation.
Before the board approved the
policy, many workers made as
little as $7.25 an hour.
Under the new proposal, ap-
proved by a vote of 13 to 1, more
than 8,000 workers will see their
pay increase gradually: In Janu-
ary 2021, they will make $13.50 an
hour; in 2022, $14.25; and in
2023, $15.
The hour-long debate on the
proposal showcased the differing
viewpoints of board members,
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trump and several of his republican allies. nearby, tom McCain, 68, also wearing a santa costume,
held a sign that declared: “santa says save money. Impeach the impeachers. Vote them out.”
tion than I am pro-impeachment,
but because of that I do believe
that President Trump has violat-
ed the Constitution and obstruct-
ed Congress trying to do its job,”
said Adilah Wutoh-Baylor, 52, a
maryland middle school teacher
who attended the rally with her
“When a president
thinks that he is above
the law, we have to
correct him.”
Diallo Brooks, senior director of
outreach and public engagement for
People for the American Way
14-year-old son, KesUranNu.
“The U.S. Constitution is the
greatest single artifact in the
history of all of mankind.”
The House, which for days had
been inching closer to impeach-
ing Trump, debated Wednesday
over whether Trump’s dealings
with Ukraine violated his oath of
office. By Tuesday, Democrats
had enough votes to adopt the
articles charging Trump with
abuse of power and obstruction
of Congress.
on Wednesday evening, the
House approved both articles.
with some raising concerns about
the impact on small businesses
and others — including Walter
Tejada, who represents Virginia
— saying that $15 an hour is still
not enough to survive in the
Washington region.
Board members from the Dis-
trict in particular said the author-
ity should not wait until 2023 to
increase the wage to the full $15
an hour. Their position was not
surprising given that D.C. mayor
muriel E. Bowser had urged
mWAA board members to sup-
port the measure.
David Speck, a Virginia mem-
ber who chaired the ad hoc com-
mittee that examined the wage
policy, said the ultimate outcome
is a compromise that will be
“important and significant for
the entire airport family.”
“It’s a delicate balance,” he said.
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House meeting and military sup-
port, sought by Ukraine to defend
against russian aggression, to
pressure Ukrainian President Vo-
lodymyr Zelensky to investigate
possible 2020 presidential rival
Joe Biden and his son Hunter
Biden.
Wednesday’s vote will lead to a
trial in the republican-led Sen-
ate, where the push to remove the
president is expected to fall
short.
“Patriotism means doing the
hard stuff,” said Diallo Brooks,
senior director of outreach and
public engagement for liberal
advocacy group People for the
American Way. “We are asking
our Congress to do the hard stuff.
We don’t want to impeach a
president . . . but when a presi-
dent thinks that he is above the
law, we have to correct him.”
A handful of Trump supporters
also turned out at the Capitol.
one group gathered on the edge
of the pro-impeachment crowd
and waved a large red, white and
blue flag with the president’s
name emblazoned in big letters.
on the northeast corner of
Delaware and Constitution ave-
nues NE, a man in a fuzzy red suit
held a sign that declared: “Santa
says save money. Impeach the
impeachers. Vote them out.”
Even so, board member Joslyn
N. Williams said that by 2023, $15
an hour won’t be worth the same
it would be if the increase were to
go into effect immediately.
“To those employees who work
here and to those workers who
come here every day and give
their all, they deserve more than
what we are doing,” said Wil-
liams, who represents the District
and previously served as presi-
dent of the metropolitan Wash-
ington Council AfL-CIo. “I would
say to them, ‘Don’t give up. Don’t
look to 2023.’ Keep the pressure
on, because you deserve $15 an
hour and you shouldn’t have to
wait until 2023.”
But he conceded the votes to
accomplish that “simply aren’t
there.”
Said board member Thorn L.
Pozen, who also represents the
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“I think if [Ukraine] gets our
tax dollars — or any country — we
ought to make sure it’s going to
people trying to do the right
thing, like investigate Biden and
his son,” said Tom mcCain, 68,
peering over his white beard and
half-moon spectacles. mcCain
said he did not know the pro-im-
peachment rally was scheduled
Wednesday but came to the Dis-
trict from his home on mary-
land’s Eastern Shore because of
the House vote.
Yards away, another Santa
Claus held court as people
stopped to admire his “Naughty
List” printed on poster board and
a scooter he had transformed
into a tiny sleigh.
on the list were Trump, Vice
President Pence, Senate majority
Leader mitch mcConnell (r-Ky.),
rep. Devin Nunes (r-Calif.) and
Sen. Lindsey o. Graham (r-S.C.).
“I’m the nice Santa Claus; he’s
the naughty Santa Claus,” said
Daniel Bernier, 41, gesturing in
the direction of his republican
rival. “I feel like sometimes in
D.C., you just have to shock
people out of their stupor, and
when people see the red suit, they
light up. Then they read my sign
— some people give me a thumbs
up or they want a picture, some
disagree and then they flip me
off. But hey, that’s America.”
marissa.lang@washpost.com
District: “I am supporting this
because to do anything else is to
do damage to the same people we
are trying to support.”
However, mark Uncapher, the
sole “no” vote, cited statistics that
showed decreases in both the
number of work hours and the
total number of employees at
businesses affected by the previ-
ous wage increase. In 66 percent
of the cases, he noted, businesses
affected by the wage policy
showed a reduction in the total
number of workers they em-
ployed.
“I appreciate given our extraor-
dinarily robust national econo-
my, this very clear trade-off be-
tween fewer jobs and higher
wages may now be more palat-
able,” said Uncapher, who repre-
sents maryland. “In 2023, howev-
er, this may not be so.”
The campaign at the Washing-
ton-area airports was led by the
32BJ Service Employees Interna-
tional Union, whose members in-
clude janitors, and Unite Here,
which represents airport conces-
sions and airline catering work-
ers. The push received support
from several high-profile elected
officials.
In July, Sens. Bernie Sanders
(I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-
mass.) joined airport catering
workers at a rally at National.
Local politicians, including 16
members of Virginia’s House of
urged mWAA to approve the mea-
sure.
The original fight for $15 push
began as a campaign by fast-food
workers in New York who walked
off the job in 2012. The campaign
has since spread to other indus-
tries, most notably airports. In
July, the House passed legislation
to boost the federal minimum
wage to $15 an hour from $7.25 an
not expected to advance in the
GoP-led Senate, Democrats de-
clared the vote a victory.
In approving the policy, the
mWAA board joins airports in
other major cities, including Chi-
cago, Denver, Los Angeles and
New York, that have boosted pay
for workers.
lori.aratani@washpost.com
THE WASHINGTON POST . THURSDAy,
MARYLAND
Police call Oct. slaying
gang-related, arrest 4
BY D AN M ORSE
AND P ETER H ERMANN
A 19-year-old from Washington
who was found shot to death in a
wooded area of maryland had al-
legedly betrayed local members of
the 18th Street gang, who ordered
her killed, according to records
filed Wednesday in montgomery
County District Court.
Police arrested four suspects in
the case Tuesday — three from the
District and one from montgom-
ery County. All four, including one
16-year-old charged as an adult,
were associated with 18th Street,
officials said.
“In this case we have multiple
gang members working together
in concert to plan and execute the
murder,” montgomery County ho-
micide detective Eric Glass wrote
in court records.
montgomery detectives began
investigating the afternoon of
Nov. 29 after a passerby called 911
to report a body in a wooded area
just off the route 109 exit of Inter-
state 270, near the border of fred-
erick County, police said.
“This location is very remote
and consists largely of forest,” de-
tectives said in court papers. “Evi-
dence at the scene where the vic-
tim was found suggests that she
was shot and killed at this loca-
tion.”
Police identified the victim as
Sara Gutierrez-Villatoro and
linked her to two residences in the
District, each roughly an hour’s
drive from where her body was
found.
Police charged four people with
first-degree murder: Jonathan
“Sniper” rivera-Escobar, 19; Geo-
vany “Perverso” Dominguez-Esco-
bar, 24; Jordan “Joker” moreno,
21; and rigoberto “Crazy” macha-
do, 16. rivera-Escobar is from Sil-
ver Spring, and the others are
from the District. machado was
charged as an adult, police said.
Gutierrez-Villatoro had been in
a relationship with an 18th Street
No hate crime charge in
Urbanski stabbing case
urbAnsKI from b1
threshold for intoxication — that
he could not form the intent
required for a first-degree-mur-
der conviction.
“The poison was not hate,”
defense attorney John mcKenna
told jurors. “It was alcohol. He
committed a crime he can’t re-
member and greatly regrets.”
Prosecutors have said they will
seek a sentence of life without
parole. Sentencing has been set
for April 16.
The killing of Collins, 23, came
during a time of racial tension on
college campuses in the United
States, including at U-md.
Judge Lawrence V. Hill Jr., in
response to a defense request
Tuesday, dismissed the hate
crime charge against Urbanski.
He ruled that prosecutors had not
met their legal burden in showing
that Urbanski was motivated by
racial hatred when he stabbed
Collins with a knife. Hill said the
statute requires prosecutors to
show that an act was committed
solely because of the identity of
the target.
Prince George’s County State’s
Attorney Aisha Braveboy (D) said
she had no doubt Urbanski had
been motivated by racial hatred,
despite the dismissed charge.
“This case was always about
intolerance,” Braveboy said.
After the trial, richard Collins,
the victim’s father, thanked pros-
ecutors and the many friends and
family members who attended
the trial. He said his son was “our
hero.”
“He was a kind and loving
individual,” the elder Collins said.
“He really didn’t see color. He
didn’t see gender.”
In a separate statement, the
family said it would honor the
victim’s legacy “by creating new
tools for fighting hatred and big-
otry — and pushing back against
those who work to spread divi-
sion and fear.”
Urbanski’s parents and other
family members stayed behind in
the courtroom after the convic-
tion was announced, clearly shak-
en. His mother began to cry after
the verdict was read, and several
family members came up to hug
and comfort her. Escorted by
sheriff’s deputies from the court-
room, they declined to comment.
Defense attorneys mcKenna
and William Brennan also de-
clined to comment after the ver-
dict.
richard Collins III was visiting
friends at the College Park cam-
pus the night he was killed. He
had received his commission as a
DECEMbER 19 , 2019
gang member but at some point
was accused by the gang of betray-
al, according to court records. Two
ranking members of the gang —
identified by police as moreno and
Dominguez-Escobar — “green-
lighted” the murder of Gutierrez-
Villatoro on oct. 30, detectives
alleged in charging papers.
The documents do not describe
the alleged betrayal.
Investigators learned that on
that same day, eight members of
18th Street were in the 600 block
of Longfellow Street NW, near a
location the victim was known to
reside, court documents state.
They also learned that three weeks
later, 18th Street gang members
were spotted about a mile from a
different D.C. residence where the
victim had lived and were looking
for a woman they intended to kill,
court records state.
It was not clear, from court
records, when or how the victim
had gotten to the wooded area of
montgomery County. Detectives
allege she was probably shot there
by at least two of the suspects,
court records state.
Gutierrez-Villatoro had been
reported missing 10 times from
2017 through 2019, according to a
D.C. police spokeswoman.
The last time she was reported
missing from the District was
Jan. 4 and she was found un-
harmed the next day, police said.
D.C. police said she had not been
reported missing in the time peri-
od leading up her killing.
The 18th Street gang, with roots
in Los Angeles, has strong ties to
Central America and is a bitter
rival of the mS-13 gang. Both
gangs have for years operated
“cliques” in the Washington metro
area.
Court papers in the recent mur-
der case describe 18th Street
members operating specifically in
the District, where police have
charged Dominguez-Escobar re-
cently with possessing handguns.
dan.morse@washpost.com
second lieutenant in the Army
about a week earlier and was a
few days from receiving his busi-
ness degree from Bowie State
University.
Church in closing arguments
suggested Urbanski, who ob-
served Collins and others talking
at the bus stop, had perhaps
overheard Collins discuss his
hopes for a bright future as an
Army officer. Urbanski walked
away and then minutes later
emerged from the shadows with a
knife already open in his hand,
Church said.
“Step left, step left if you know
what’s best for you,” Urbanski
said, according to witnesses.
Urbanski then bypassed two
other young people — a white
man and an Asian woman — and
attacked the only black person,
Collins. Holding up a can of mill-
er Lite, Church urged the jury —
which was majority African
American — not to let Urbanski
evade full responsibility by attrib-
uting his actions to alcohol.
“This case was always
about intolerance.”
Aisha Braveboy,
Prince george’s County state’s
attorney
Urbanksi’s attorneys had ar-
gued the state had failed to
produce evidence to connect
offensive images on Urbanski’s
devices to his actions the night
of Collins’s killing. The state
also could not produce any
witness from Urbanski’s past
who might testify that he advo-
cated violence against minori-
ties or wanted to harm a black
person that night, the defense
said.
Defense lawyers argued in-
stead that Urbanski was seething
with self-loathing because he had
left U-md. and had fallen behind
former classmates celebrating
their coming graduations.
Braveboy said she interpreted
the swift verdict as a sign that
jurors saw the case as prosecutors
did: a hate crime by a racist white
man against a black man who
represented promise and
achievement.
“They weren’t out long because
it was plain what happened here,”
she said. “We know there are
people out there who cannot tol-
erate a black man in that posi-
tion.”
fredrick.kunkle@washpost.com
THURSDAy, DECEMbER 19 , 2019
THE REGION
Shoppers prepare to
leave over a dozen sites
Union protests how
parent company has
handled process
BY R ACHEL C HASON
After nearly a year of uncertain-
ty, Shoppers Food & Pharmacy’s
parent company announced this
month that it is selling 13 stores to
other grocery chains and shutter-
ing four locations in the Washing-
ton region.
Employees and local officials
protested that decision Tuesday,
demanding new jobs for laid-off
workers and new shopping op-
tions for residents as United Natu-
ral Foods Inc. — which bought
Shoppers last year — considers
plans for the chain’s remaining
26 locations.
“When you suffer, Prince
George’s County suffers,” said
Prince George’s County Council
member Calvin Hawkins (D-At
Large) at a rally Tuesday with
union workers and politicians in
front of the Shoppers in Landover.
“It’s time to stop this foolishness.”
State Sen. Arthur Ellis (D-
Charles) said he planned to work
with leaders at United Food and
Commercial Workers Local 400,
which represents the Shoppers
workers, to introduce legislation
in January that would give more
The sake of argument
High school students visiting the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the
D.C. Circuit watched a
reenactment of the Supreme
Court case New Jersey v. T.L.O.,
about searches in public schools.
RIGHT: Lois De Julio, right,
argued the case in 1984 and was
portrayed by Tiffany Wright,
left, on Wednesday. ABOVE:
District Judge Ketanji Brown
Jackson gestures for students to
come take a photo. With her are
Judges Sri Srinivasan, left, and
David Tatel and Tatel’s guide
dog, Vixen.
HAYDEN FRY, 90
Coach who transformed
Iowa football program
BY R ALPH D . R USSO
Hayden Fry, the native Texan
who revived Iowa football and be-
came a Hawkeye State institution
over two decades as a Big Ten
coach, died on Dec. 17 at 90.
The cause was cancer, Mr. Fry’s
family announced through the
University of Iowa.
Mr. Fry had never been to Iowa
before taking over the Hawkeyes
in 1979, hired by then-athletic di-
rector Bump Elliott, the former
Michigan star who died earlier
this month.
The Hawkeyes had slogged
through 17 consecutive years with-
out a winning season when Mr.
Fry arrived. He changed every-
thing.
He had the uniforms rede-
signed to make them look more
like the black and gold ones worn
. THE WASHINGTON POST
protections to workers.
Currently, there are state rec-
ommendations that large compa-
nies provide 90 days’ notice before
closing and offer employees re-
training. But those are not legal
requirements.
Local 400 spokesman Jona-
than Williams said the union
learned about the most recent
round of closures minutes before
they were publicly announced
and “after we had been asking
[company officials] for a meeting
for almost a year.”
Williams said the union has
been told that the Shoppers in
Landover could close as early as
Thursday — a decision that could
leave its 72 employees without
work heading into the holidays.
Signs posted in the windows
Tuesday read: “Store closing,” “Ev-
erything on sale!” “Nothing held
back!”
Inside, many of the shelves
were bare.
UNFI, a major supplier for
Whole Foods Market, is commit-
ted to reducing its retail footprint,
chief executive Steven Spinner
said in a statement this month
announcing the sale of the
13 stores.
North Carolina-based grocer
Compare Foods will take over the
Shoppers location in Landover, in
addition to those in Coral Hills
and Colmar Manor in Prince
George’s County and two loca-
tions in Baltimore, said general
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by the Pittsburgh Steelers, the
NFL’s dominant team at the time.
The familiar Tigerhawk logo was
unveiled during Fry’s tenure. He
had the visitors’ locker room
painted pink, a tradition that still
stands. Roaming the sidelines in
his familiar dark sunglasses and
white pants, Mr. Fry coached the
Hawkeyes for 20 seasons, winning
143 games and three Big Ten
championships.
Mr. Fry’s greatest season at
Iowa was 1985, when the
Hawkeyes were No. 1 in the AP
rankings for five weeks and had
Heisman Trophy runner-up
Chuck Long at quarterback. Iowa
finished 10-2 as Big Ten champi-
ons and ranked 10th in the coun-
try. He coached three Rose Bowls
with Iowa, though he never won
one.
John Hayden Fry was born in
Union leaders, workers and politicians rally Tuesday in front of the Shoppers in Landover to protest
store closures. A Local 400 spokesman said the union has been told that the Landover location, which
is being sold to North Carolina-based grocer Compare Foods, could shutter as early as Thursday.
manager Leo Pena.
He said that Compare Foods
will receive the keys to the stores
around Jan. 10 and that the stores
will open 30 to 45 days after that.
Pena said Compare Foods will
offer “the same services as Shop-
pers, and more,” including free
delivery. He said the store is con-
sidering renegotiating a contract
with the union that serves Shop-
pers’ employees.
Lidl, a German grocery power-
house that is rapidly expanding in
the United States, plans to acquire
obituaries
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six Shoppers locations, said
spokesman William Harwood.
Those sites are in Annapolis,
Brooklyn Park, Oxon Hill, Takoma
Park and Wheaton in Maryland
and in Burke in Virginia.
“We will be making significant
investments in the redevelop-
ment of these sites, and will have
more to share in terms of the
grand opening timeliness and hir-
ing events at the end of next year,”
Harwood said in a statement.
The four Shoppers locations
that are closing by the end of Janu-
MARYLAND
A push to ban private detention centers
BY L ILLIAN R EED
baltimore — A Maryland law-
maker is working on a bill that
would ban privately run immi-
grant detention facilities and
phase out the state’s role in immi-
gration detention by October
2021 — a measure intended to
counter federal plans to open
such a facility near Baltimore.
Del. Vaughn M. Stewart III, a
Montgomery County Democrat,
confirmed Tuesday that he hopes
to introduce the bill when the
Maryland General Assembly’s
legislative session begins in Janu-
ary.
A draft version of the bill,
modeled off a similar law passed
in October in California, has gen-
erated interest from the Legisla-
tive Latino Caucus, of which
Stewart is an associate member,
he said.
Maryland has three existing
ICE detention centers in Freder-
ick, Howard and Worcester coun-
ties.
It’s too early to determine the
proposal’s prospects of becoming
state law. But Stewart is optimis-
tic about the bill’s potential for a
co-sponsor in the House of Dele-
gates and said he is searching for
a state senator willing to file a
version of the bill in that cham-
ber.
Stewart began work on the
measure after learning about an
advertisement published in April
by U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement officials seeking
parties interested in opening an
immigration detention center ca-
pable of housing 600 to 800 peo-
ple within 50 miles of Baltimore.
The ICE ad received responses
from companies including the
RODNEY WHITE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
RACHEL CHASON/THE WASHINGTON POST
ary are in Baltimore and Severn in
Maryland, and Alexandria and
Manassas in Northern Virginia.
This summer, the outlet in Chil-
lum, Md., shut its doors; a store in
Falls Church, Va., closed Sept. 1.
Kevin Freeman, a butcher who
has worked at Shoppers for
32 years, said the spirits of em-
ployees at the New Carrollton lo-
cation where he now works are
low, even though the fate of that
location is unknown. “People
don’t know where they are going
to live — they are already living
Virginia-based private govern-
ment contractor Immigration
Centers of America (ICA).
The contractor and its lobby-
ists spent the fall courting the
small Queen Anne’s County town
of Sudlersville to host a private
immigration detention center
similar to its ICE facility in Farm-
ville, Va. A company spokesman
said ICA has since halted efforts
to expand into Maryland for fed-
eral budgetary reasons.
Stewart cited federal immigra-
tion policies, including family
separations at the border, among
the reasons for bringing his pro-
posal to end the state’s role in
detention.
“Maryland should not be in-
volved in the depravity that ICE
has been perpetrating in this
country,” he said. “This legislation
sends a clear message that no one
should profit from other people’s
misery.”
An ICE spokesperson did not
respond to a request for comment
about the possible detention cen-
ter and proposed legislation.
Some Sudlersville leaders and
residents told the Baltimore Sun
this week that they were crestfall-
en that ICA abruptly shelved its
pursuit of building a private im-
migrant detention facility in their
town of about 500 people. Some
were counting on the facility to
help alleviate the municipality’s
approximately $6 million in debt
incurred from water and sewer
upgrades for a housing develop-
ment that fell through with the
housing bust.
Before ICA changed course,
Sudlersville officials were given
tours of ICA’s similar facility in
Virginia and were considering
zoning changes to allow for a
Eastland, Tex., on Feb. 28, 1929,
and raised in Odessa, Tex. A distin-
guished quarterback at Odessa
High School in the 1940s, he also
played at Baylor University before
graduating in 1951.
After Marine Corps service and
a series of coaching stints, he land-
ed his first college head coaching
job at Southern Methodist Univer-
sity in 1962. He was instrumental
in desegregating the team and the
Southwest Conference as coach
and athletic director. In 1965, Jer-
ry LeVias became the first black
football player to sign a scholar-
ship with a team in the Southwest
Conference.
“Coach Fry caught a lot of hell
for doing what he did,” LeVias said
in a statement released by Iowa.
“After he left SMU, he went to
North Texas, and he couldn’t get a
break in Texas — sometimes
coaching and having to go to good
bowl games. All of a sudden, Iowa
calls. When one door closes, the
Good Lord has plans. It was like in
the Good Lord’s plans for him to
University of Iowa football coach Hayden Fry encourages
quarterback Ryan Driscoll during a 1996 game against Iowa State.
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paycheck to paycheck.”
In Prince George’s County,
which had 12 Shoppers locations,
officials say they have been frus-
trated by the lack of information
they have received from UNFI.
About 15 percent of the suburb
is classified by the U.S. Agricul-
ture Department as a “food des-
ert,” and residents — especially in
poorer communities inside the
Beltway — have long complained
about a dearth of healthy grocery
options.
Prince George’s County Execu-
tive Angela D. Alsobrooks (D),
who has made bringing healthy
foods to the county a top priority,
said in a statement that she has
been working to make sure all of
the locations operating in Prince
George’s are purchased by other
grocers.
“We will be laser-focused on the
high-quality grocers and dining
options our citizens deserve,” she
said. “We also understand the
need for stability and job security
for the hundreds of workers and
their families who are impacted
by these closures, especially dur-
ing the holiday season.”
Williams, the union spokes-
man, said that according to the
terms of the union’s contract, if a
company buys more than 10 per-
cent of the stores and opens with-
in 30 days, then they also have to
also buy the union contract. But
he said he has little confidence
that UNFI will adhere to that con-
tract.
A spokesman for UNFI did not
respond to requests for comment
about the union contract.
Officials said there will be a
resource fair Jan. 11 for affected
workers to receive hardship funds
and help applying for other jobs.
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detention center within town
limits. Opponents had begun to
mobilize.
Ronald Ford, president of the
Sudlersville town commission,
said he was heartbroken by ICA’s
withdrawal and could not under-
stand opposition to the project.
“Write me a check, we’ll leave it
out of there,” Ford said of oppo-
nents to the project. “I can’t put it
any other way. We need a way to
pay our bills on time.”
As immigration authorities
have proposed creating new de-
tention centers across the coun-
try, grass-roots efforts opposing
the projects also have surfaced.
Stewart said he received a wave
of phone calls about his bill Mon-
day from concerned immigration
advocates who had learned of
ICA’s activity in Sudlersville.
“As someone who represents
all of Maryland, we all have a
stake if our state contributes to
the detainment and suffering of
people,” Stewart said. “My heart
goes out to any town, city or
locality that is cash-strapped, but
we should not let them receive a
get-out-of-jail solvency ticket on
the backs of immigrants.”
Isobel Fields, 80, has lived in
Sudlersville with her husband,
Gary, since the couple relocated
from West Virginia in 1959. A
retired schoolteacher, Fields felt
that people on “the other side of
the bridge” who oppose immigra-
tion detention centers do not
know what’s best for her town.
“I just feel those people way out
there who have nothing to do
with Sudlersville shouldn’t tell
me what to do,” she said. “Sudlers-
ville is in deep, deep debt. They
shouldn’t tell us how to live.”
— Baltimore Sun
come to Iowa.”
Mr. Fry went 49-66-1 in 11 sea-
sons with the Mustangs and then
did a six-year stint at North Texas,
where he went 38-25-3.
At Iowa, Mr. Fry not only pro-
duced winning teams but also a
long line of successful head coach-
es who worked and played for him.
Bill Snyder (Kansas State), Bar-
ry Alvarez (Wisconsin), Bob
Stoops (Oklahoma), Bret Bielema
(Wisconsin and Arkansas) and
Kirk Ferentz were among the 13
Fry assistants and players who
became college head coaches.
Mr. Fry retired as Iowa’s win-
ningest coach in 1998, a mark
since surpassed by Ferentz. He
was first diagnosed with prostate
cancer before his final season at
Iowa, and he did his best to keep
the news from his players and
coaches while he received treat-
ment.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Shirley Griffin; five chil-
dren; and two stepchildren.
— Associated Press
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obituaries
HERMAN BOONE, 84
Coach Herman Boone of Alexandria’s T.C. Williams High School in summer 1971 with guard Johnny
Colantuoni (62) and John Vaughn, center. Mr. Boone stamped out lingering segregation on his team.
‘Titans’ coach led integrated
Va. team to 1971 state title
BY M ATT S CHUDEL
Herman Boone, a football
coach who led Alexandria’s re-
cently integrated T.C. Williams
High School to a Virginia state
championship in 1971 and was
later portrayed in the Hollywood
film “Remember the Titans” by
Denzel Washington, died Dec. 18
at his home in Alexandria. He
was 84.
The cause was lung cancer,
said his daughters, Sharon Hen-
derson and Monica Merritt.
Amid desegregation during
the civil rights era, Alexandria
merged its three high schools —
George Washington, Hammond
and T.C. Williams — in 1971,
making T.C. Williams the city’s
only public high school for 11th-
and 12th-graders.
Most people expected Bill
Yoast, the coach of all-white
Hammond High, to be named
head coach at T.C. Williams. In-
stead, school officials chose Mr.
Boone, who had been an assistant
coach at T.C. Williams and had
previously compiled a remark-
able coaching record in North
Carolina. He was, at the time, the
only black head football coach in
Northern Virginia.
Mr. Boone told his players, he
recalled to The Washington Post
in 2000, “I’m not a black coach,
I’m a coach who was born black.
If you’re going to play for me,
you’re going to play based on
talent and character.”
At first, some white players
said they would refuse to play for
an African American coach. But
when the Alabama-born Yoast
agreed to become Mr. Boone’s top
assistant, the two coaches formed
a powerful and effective duo.
Mr. Boone was fiery, voluble
and profane — “I cussed, but I
never cursed a child,” he said —
and Yoast was quiet and re-
served. The bond they shared
ultimately came to be reflected in
the unity of their team, the Ti-
tans.
On a preseason training trip to
Gettysburg, Pa., Mr. Boone no-
ticed that the white players
boarded one bus, the black play-
ers another. He ordered them to
get off and share the buses equal-
ly. No one said a word on the trip,
but it was a first step toward
greater understanding.
In Gettysburg, Mr. Boone re-
quired every player to greet each
of his teammates. Soon enough,
the players were laughing and
joking together and giving one
another nicknames.
“When you nickname some-
body, it’s out of friendship,” Mr.
Boone later said. “We knew that
we had the beginnings of a team
that was trying to overcome their
fears. Fears that were taught to
them.”
The bus trip back to Alexan-
dria was filled with laughter and
team spirit.
“When you live together you
become more than acquaintanc-
es,” Yoast, who died in May, told
The Post in 2000. “When those
kids came back from that camp,
they were together. The student
body wasn’t, the parents weren’t,
the community wasn’t. But those
kids were.”
On the field, the Titans were an
unstoppable force. They swept
Mr. Boone, who was portrayed in the movie “Remember the
Titans,” speaks in support of then-Sen. Charles S. Robb (D-Va.) and
other Democratic candidates in Alexandria in November 2000.
through one team after another,
shutting out eight of their 12
opponents on their way to the
state championship game
against Andrew Lewis High
School of Salem, Va.
The Titans recorded their 13th
consecutive victory and ninth
shutout, winning 27-0. Some
sportswriters considered them
the best high school team in the
“Little did I know that
this wasn’t a movie
about a state
championship. It was
about how human
beings can come
together.”
Herman Boone,
on “remember the Titans”
country.
For Mr. Boone, however, the
perfect season was only one as-
pect of the team’s success, and
perhaps not the most important
one. He recognized the changes
that could be made in society
through a team working together
on the playing field.
“It’s the vehicle that transports
people,” he said, “that carries
people who are willing — wheth-
er they know it or not at the time
— to eat together, talk together,
sit together and live together. It’s
the big bus that will carry us all.”
Herman Boone was born Oct.
28, 1935, in Rocky Mount, N.C.,
one of 12 children. His parents
died when he was young, and he
was largely raised by his older
siblings.
He graduated in 1958 from
North Carolina Central Universi-
ty, where he was not a star athlete
but a keen student of teaching.
He later received a master’s de-
gree in physical education from
the university.
He began his coaching career
in Blackstone, Va., where he
coached football, basketball and
baseball before moving to E.J.
Hayes High School, a segregated
school for African Americans in
Williamston, N.C. Over a nine-
year period as an assistant or
head coach, his football team had
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a record of 99-8. He came to T.C.
Williams as backfield coach in
1969.
Mr. Boone retired from coach-
ing football in 1979 but continued
as a golf coach and physical
education teacher for another
decade.
When the screenwriter Grego-
ry Allen Howard expressed inter-
est in creating a movie about Mr.
Boone’s perfect season with the
Titans, “I thought it was a practi-
cal joke.”
But Howard saw something
heroic in Mr. Boone and his team.
“Herman is Shakespearean,”
Howard said in 2000. “If you’d
asked Herman when he took over
T.C. Williams, ‘Were you trying to
make a point with these kids?’ he
would have said, ‘No, I just want
to win football games.’ He had to
get the players to get along to win
football games. And it worked for
just that reason — because it
wasn’t self-conscious. He did
something quite great beyond
what even he realized.”
Washington, a former high
school quarterback, starred as
Mr. Boone in “Remember the
Titans,” which was produced by
Jerry Bruckheimer and became a
box-office hit in 2000.
Mr. Boone said the film took
some liberties with the facts: It
wasn’t a brick that was thrown
threw his window, for instance —
it was a toilet. On the whole, he
and Yoast agreed that the movie
captured the spirit of the team
and times.
“Little did I know,” Mr. Boone
said, “that this wasn’t a movie
about a state championship. It
was about how human beings can
come together, and a state cham-
pionship was just the icing on the
cake.”
His wife of 57 years, Carol Luck
Boone, died in March. A daugh-
ter, Donna Dulany, died in 2014.
Survivors include daughters
Sharon Henderson of Alexandria
and Monica Merritt of Plymouth,
Mich.; six grandchildren; and
two great-granddaughters.
In recent years, Mr. Boone
traveled throughout the country,
often speaking on college cam-
puses about “Remember the Ti-
tans” and the power of sports to
transform the human heart.
“I don’t think people outside
sports believe it,” he told The Post
in 2000. “They don’t want to
believe sports does that. They
need to think again.”
matt.schudel@washpost.com
DEATH NOTICE
BRUMITT
GRETCHEN MAY OWEN BRUMITT
(Age 92)
Of Arlington, VA passed away on Saturday,
December 14, 2019. Funeral services will be
Saturday, December 21, 2019. For full service
information and obituary, please go to
www.nationalfh-mp.com
BUSH
VELMA S. BUSH
On Sunday, December 15, 2019, VELMA S.
BUSH passed away peacefully. She leaves to
cherish her memory a devoted husband,
Horace Bush; two daughters, Eboni Edwards
(Altwann), and Teresa Williams (Michael); three
sons, Terry Jones, Pleaze Belcher and Stepfano
Bush; two brothers, Raymond and Willie Simp-
kins; 19 grandchildren; seven great-grandchil-
dren; and a host of other relatives and friends.
Family will receive friends on Friday, December
20, 2019 at the Le Detroit Baptist Church,
5306 Indian Head Highway, Oxon Hill, MD from
10 a.m. until time of funeral service at 11
a.m. Interment Bland Baptist Church Ceme-
tery, Johnston, SC. Arrangements by STRICK-
LAND FUNERAL SERVICES.
www.stricklandfuneralservices.com
DEATH NOTICE
CLARK
JESSICA LOIS CLARK
Died in Silver Spring, Maryland on December 9,
2019 at the age of 83.
Mrs. Clark is survived by her husband, Arthur
Edward Clark; children, Arthur Edward Jr.,
Christopher Joseph, Mary Justine (Buchanan),
Ann Marie (Humphrey); five grandchildren; and
sister, Barbara Nearing.
Mrs. Clark was born on November 28, 1936
in Scranton, Pennsylvania to Stanley and Mar-
garet Arbach.She graduated from Antioch Uni-
versity with a MS degree in Early Childhood
Education. She married Arthur, her high school
sweetheart, a physicist, in 1958. Mrs. Clark
moved to Maryland in 1961 after living for a
short period in Washington, DC. She raised
a family of four children in Adelphi, Prince
George’s County. Her children remember her
as a loving and kind mother who encouraged
them to pursue their goals. She resided in
Riderwood Village, Silver Spring, Maryland
since 2013.
Mrs. Clark was an accomplished Montessori
teacher, holding AMI and AMS certifications.
She was a beloved elementary school teacher
for the Prince George’s County school system
and retired in 1994. She was an active
and dedicated member of the St. Camillus
Catholic Church and School. She became an
accomplished painter of icons, through which
she expressed her deep spirituality. She
enjoyed extensive travel with family across the
United States, Europe, and Asia. Throughout
her life she enjoyed painting, singing, ceramics,
church ministry and volunteer activities.
A Catholic Mass will be celebrated in her honor,
details to be announced.
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need arises,
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DEATH NOTICE
DAVIS
GEORGE E. DAVIS
Entered into eternal rest on Monday, Decem-
ber 9, 2019. Survived by loving wife, Verona;
other relatives and friends. Visitation, 10 a.m.,
Service 11 a.m. on Saturday, December 21,
2019 at Tenth Street Baptist Church, 1000 R St.
NW. Interment Washington National Cemetery.
DEATH NOTICE
EGELANIAN
WALTON EGELANIAN (Age 90)
Passed away on Sunday, December 15, 2019 at
his home in Easton, MD.
Public Visitation will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. on
Thursday, December 19 at Fellows, Helfenbein
& Newnam Funeral Home, 200 S Harrison St.,
Easton, MD 21601. Funeral Services will be
held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, December 20 at
Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church,
1210 S. Washington St., Easton, MD 21601
followed by a private burial service.
For online condolences and full obituary, visit
www.fhnfuneralhome.com
FAIRLEY
MARY EDITH HALL FAIRLEY (AGE 92)
Passed away on Wednesday, December
11, 2019. She is survived by three loving
and devoted daughters, Carolyn, Louise
and Kathryn; four grandsons and a host of
other relatives and friends. Visitation and
viewing 10 a.m. until Mass of Christian
Burial at 11 a.m. Monday, December 23,
2019 at Saint Martin's Catholic Church,
1908 North Capitol St., NW. Washington,
DC 20002. Interment St. Mary's Catholic
Cemetery, 2121 Lincoln Rd., NE, Washing-
ton, DC 20002. Arrangements by McGuire.
www.mcguire-services.com
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HABERLE
WINIFRED G. HABERLE
MARTIN
Passed away peacefully on Monday,
December 16, 2019 at the age of 90.
Born in Central Square, New York, Win
graduated from Syracuse University with a
Bachelor of Arts in voice and taught music
for many years. She is Preceded in death
by her husband of 33 years, Benedict F.
Haberle, III; her daughter, Juliana Chisholm;
her parents, Abraham and Kathryn Goettel;
two sisters and a brother. She is survived
by her daughters Heidi Hildreth (Doug),
Alison Hunt (Tom) and son Benedict F.
Haberle IV; nine grandchildren and 13 great-
grandchildren. Friends may Call at the
Money & King Funeral Home, 171 W. Maple
Ave., Vienna, Va on Saturday, December
21st from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., followed by a
memorial service. Interment at a later date
at Arlington National Cemetery. The online
guestbook is available at
Dr. STEPHEN DOUGLAS MARTIN
Age 63, passed away at Georgetown Uni-
www.moneyandking.com versity Hospital on December 14, 2019,
after a nearly six-year long battle with
pancreatic cancer.
He was born on January 3, 1956, in Berlin,
Germany where his father was stationed as
a foreign service officer. The son of Stephen
HARRINGTON Douglas Martin and Pauline (née Somkuthy)
Martin, he was the oldest of five children
EVELYN YVONNE HARRINGTON and the only son.
Peacefully on Wednesday, December 11, 2019. Stephen attended primary school at Kalks-
Family will receive friends on Saturday, Decem- burg College in Austria, before moving back
ber 21, 2019 at St. Benedict the Moor Catholic to the US to attend high school at St.
Church, 320 21st. St. NE, Visitation 9 a.m., Anselm's Abbey School. He attended the
Mass 10 a.m. Interment Mt. Olivet Cemetery. University of Texas for both college and
Services by FREEMAN. medical school, before moving back to the
DC area for his anesthesia residency and
neuroanesthesia fellowship, both of which
he completed at George Washington Uni-
versity Hospital. After graduating from res-
idency Stephen practiced anesthesiology
at First Colonies Anesthesia Associates for
HART the rest of his life, serving as chairman of
the anesthesia department from 1992 to
1994 and again from 2002 to 2004.
He is survived by his wife of 35 years, Donna
Lunsford Martin, his two daughters Tracy
and Courtney Martin, as well as his mother,
sisters, and many nieces and nephews. He
is also survived by his beloved beagles,
Hunter and Scarlett.
The family will receive friends at Pierce
Funeral Home, 9609 Center Street, Manas-
sas, VA on Saturday, December 21, 2019 at
1 p.m., with funeral services to follow with
Elder Gary Utz officiating. Interment Hixson
Family Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, please donate to Johns
Hopkins Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer
Center, or the Pancreatic Cancer Action
Network.
EDGAR HART, SR. (Age 81)
Peacefully passed away at the Virginia Hospital
Center on Monday, December 9, 2019, sur-
rounded by his family. Edgar was born Decem-
ber 17,1937 in Trenton, South Carolina, he is
the son of the late Minnie Bell Hart Weaver
MAVES
and the eldest of four siblings, the late William
Weaver Jr., sister, Priscilla Nixon, and brother,
Calvin Weaver. Hart is survived by his six
children, Edgar Hart Jr., Vivette Hart-Finlayson,
Robin Hart, Karin Hart, Christopher Hart and
Patrick Hart. He is also survived by several
grandchildren and great-grandchildren, as well
as a host of relatives and friends. Peaceful
services will be held on Friday, December 20,
2019. Visitation 9:30 a.m. followed by services
at 11 a.m. MT Moriah Baptist Church, 1636
East Capitol St., NE, Washington, DC 20003.
Interment Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
JOHNSON-CANADY
MARY R. JOHNSON-CANADY ANGELA MAVES, M.Div. (Age 63)
Mary R. Johnson-Canady of Passed from a brain tumor on the morning of
Capitol Heights, Maryland December 8, 2019.
transitioned peacefully on Born in Doncaster, England, Angela grew up on
Saturday, December 14, 2019. her family’s farm.
Loving wife of Larry Canady
and devoted mother of Can-
dice Johnson. She leaves to
After moving to America, Angela became a
chaplain at George Washington University Hos-
cherish a host of relatives and friends. Visita-
tion will be held on Friday December 20, 2019
pital where her daughter had been born.
Angela also served as a Methodist Deacon at
Dumbarton Church in Georgetown.
at Union United Methodist Church, 14418 Old
Marlboro Pike, Upper Marlboro, MD, from 9
a.m., until Homegoing Service 11 a.m. Inter-
In her personal time, Angela pursued her real
passion- hosting groups of Native American
youths in order for them to learn about the
ment Maryland National Cemetery Laurel MD.
Services entrusted to Adams Funeral Home,
Aquasco, MD.
workings of the US government, and for them
to visit cultural artifacts still controlled by the
Smithsonian Institute.
www.adamsfuneralhomemd.com Angela is survived by two native Washingtoni-
ans- her husband of nearly 40 years, George,
and daughter Em in Detroit.
A memorial service to celebrate Angela’s life
will take place on April 4, 2019 at Dumbarton in
Georgetown at 3 p.m.
LENNON
DOLORES E. LENNON (Age 90)
Of Fairfax, VA, and previously of Chapel Hill,
NC and Garden City, NY, widow of Kenneth
McKNIGHT
G. Lennon, passed away on September 8,
2019. Born March 29, 1929, in Brooklyn, NY,
she was the daughter of the late Thomas
and Victoria Egan. She is survived by her
daughter, Susan (Edward) and son, Kenneth
(Suzanne); her brother, James and her two
granddaughters. She was predeceased by two
brothers, Thomas Egan and Gerard Egan. The
Funeral Mass will be held on Friday, December
20, 2019, at 10:30 a.m. at Holy Spirit Catholic
Church in Annandale, VA. In lieu of flowers,
the family would appreciate donations to the
American Cancer Society or St. Jude's
Children's Research Hospital.
MANASSE
GEORGIANNA B. McKNIGHT (AGE 100)
Peacefully departed this life on
JEFF L. MANASSE (Age 45) Wednesday, December 11, 2019
On December 14, 2019 of Bethesda, Mary-
land. Beloved father of Kyle Manasse devot-
at her residence. She is survived
by one son, Fred Douglas Harrell
ed partner of Shannon Pettit; son of Patricia (Annette); two daughters, Barbara
Manasse and the late Gabriel Manasse,
loving brother of Emily Manasse and Kt
J. Parker and Monta "Terry" Har-
rell; several grandchildren; nieces; nephews;
Paxton. Jeff is also survived by many loving other loving relatives and friends. Viewing will
and caring family members and friends
Services will be held 1 p.m., Saturday
be held on Saturday December 21, 2019, 9
a.m. followed by Homegoing Service 10 a.m.,
December 21, 2019 at PUMPHREY’S at United House of Prayer For All People, 1721
BETHESDA CHEVY CHASE FUNERAL HOME 7th St. NW. Interment Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
7557 Wisconsin Avenue Bethesda, Mary- Services by McLaughlin Funeral Home.
land 20814. Interment will be private.
Please view and sign the family guest book
at www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com
MILNER
MARTIN
DOROTHY JEAN MARTIN
On December 14, 2019, passed away in
her home with her loving family around
her. Beloved mother and grandmother.
Survived by son John (Chris), daughters Ann
Miller and Mary (Mike) Koditek, as well as
10 grandchildren and three great-grandchil-
dren. A memorial service will be held in the
spring.
ZWAHEDI BOMANI MILNER
When the Beloved son, brother, and uncle peacefully
passed away December 12, 2019. He is sur-
vived by father, Arve Milner Sr.; mother, Delores
need arises, Milner; sister, Lisa Harris; brother, Arve Milner
Jr.; sister, Shamee Milner; sister, Nia Larry;
sister, Ayanna Purnell; 13 nieces and nephews
let families and five great nieces and nephews and a host
of other relatives and friends. Celebration of
Life will be held on Thursday, December 19,
2019 at Alexander Memorial Baptist Church,
find you in the 10675 Crain Highway, Upper Marlboro, MD,
20772, Viewing at 10 a.m. until time of service
at 11 a.m. Interment Harmony Memorial Park.
Funeral Services Arrangements by J.B. Jenkins Funeral Home,
Inc.
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NOVAK
CHARLES ANTHONY NOVAK, JR.
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Of Herndon, VA, passed away on Friday,
Funeral Services December 13, 2019. Born on October 21, 1947
in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. Chuck is survived
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children Alan (Jan) Novak and Erin Novak Ritter,
four grandchildren, Stacy, Benjamin, Jackson
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at 202-334-4122. brother, Michael Novak (Susan) and two sisters
Pam Andrew (Butch) and Debbie Bailey (Ron).
A memorial service will be held on Saturday
December 21, 2019 at 11 a.m. at Trinity Presby-
terian Church, 651 Dranesville Road, Herndon,
VA. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may
be made to the Trinity Presbyterian Church
Memorial Fund.
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O'BRIEN
ROBERT M. O'BRIEN "Bob"
Of Fairfax Station, Virginia passed away on
December 13, 2019. Bob was born on Decem-
ber 22, 1944 in Teaneck, New Jersey, the son of
Robert and Marguerite O'Brien.
Bob grew up in Northern New Jersey. He
received a Masters of Public Administration in
Urban Affairs and Land Planning and Masters
of Science in Real Estate and Development
Planning from American University. He com-
pleted a Masters Certificate in Procurement
and Contracting from the University of Virginia
and was a graduate of the Darden School's
Executive Program at the University of Virginia.
As a decorated Vietnam veteran, Bob was
a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Officer who
performed reconnaissance missions. He was
awarded the Bronze Star for his service. Bob
held several senior positions with the United
States Government including the U.S. Postal
Service, General Services Administration, and
the Defense National Stockpile Center where
he was the Deputy Administrator.
Bob is survived by his loving wife, Mary Ellen
(Cassidy); his son, David and his wife, Kelli, of
Little Silver, New Jersey; his daughter, Brianne
and her husband, Peter, of Fairfax Station,
Virginia, and his sister, Patricia and her hus-
band Adrian of Fort. Myers, Florida. Bob is also
survived by his four grandchildren, Jack, Gavin,
Joseph, and Grace whom he loved dearly.
Bob loved caring for his home which he built
and designed himself, spending time with his
family, and playing and watching sports includ-
ing golf. He was also an avid student of
American history.
Friends and family may call at Fairfax Memorial
Funeral Home, 9902 Braddock Road, Fairfax,
Virginia, on Thursday, December 19, 2019 from
2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. A
mass of Christian burial will be held at St. Mary
of Sorrows Historic Catholic Church, 11098
Fairfax Station Road, Fairfax Station, Virginia
22039 on Friday, December 20, 2019 at 11
a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made
to the American Heart Association. An online
guestbook is available at
www.fairfaxmemorialfuneralhome.com
PARROTT
JOHN ROBERT PARROTT (Age 91)
Passed away peacefully on Wednesday,
December 4, 2019. Loving son of the late
Catherine Rebecca Parrott-Caraway. Beloved
husband of the late Annie Mae Parrott, to
whom he was married for over 67 years.
Devoted father of Leon Parrott, Robert Parrott
(deceased), Gregory Parrott (deceased), Diane
Parrott, Annett Parrott, and Valerie Jackson
(Lynn). Cherished grandfather of seven and
great-grandfather of 15. Loving brother of Doris
Monts and brother-in-law of Jean Caraway.
Funeral Service will be held on Saturday,
December 21, 2019, at J.B. Jenkins Funeral
Home, 7474 Landover Road, Hyattsville, MD
20785, Visitation 9:30 a.m., Service 10:30 a.m.
Interment Harmony Memorial Cemetery.
PROVINCE
PHILIP EUGENE PROVINCE (Age 85)
On December 16, 2019, Philip E.
Province of Silver Spring, MD.
Devoted husband of Sarah
Province (nee Moore), beloved
father of Bonnie Nay (Matthew
Bogdan), Rose Azalde (Edmundo
Azalde), and Susan Phillips
(Andrew Gurganus). Loving grandfather of
Nicholas Phillips, Philip Nay, Claudia Azalde,
Kennedy Phillips, Mark Nay, Naman Nay, Cecilia
Phillips, and Antonio Azalde. Honorable, and
truly kind, he lived with a strong work ethic that
he passed on to his children and grandchildren.
He will be remembered for his quiet intelli-
gence, and his ability to inject levity into any
situation, with a joke and a smile. He graduated
from West Virginia University with a bachelor’s
degree in mechanical engineering. He earned
the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the US
Navy where he served a total of 20 years
including active duty and reserves. He had a
55 year career as a computer analyst in the
aerospace industry. He also devoted much
time into his hobby of restoring player pianos,
melodeons, and organs. He also had a lifelong
interest in classic cars, and lovingly restored
his father’s 1938 Plymouth. He will be forever
in our hearts. Relatives and friends may call
at Saint Luke Lutheran Church, 9100 Colesville
Rd, Silver Spring, MD on Monday, December 30
from 1 to 2 p.m., where Memorial Service will
follow at 2 p.m. Interment at Arlington National
Cemetery at a later date. Memorial donations
may be made to Saint Luke Lutheran Church.
www.COLLINSFUNERALHOME.com
ROBERTSON
HERBY H. ROBERTSON, JR. (Age 81)
Of Alexandria, VA passed away on Monday,
December 16, 2019. He was preceded in death
by his parents Herby and Ida Belle Robertson;
beloved husband of Janet L. Robertson; father
of James D. Robertson (Mindy), and Herby H.
Robertson, III; grandfather of Lauren Robert-
son; brother of Betty Barnett and a host of
relatives and friends. A viewing will be held
at Jefferson Funeral Chapel, 5755 Castlewellan
Drive, Alexandria, VA 22315 Friday, December
20, 2019 from 6 to 9 p.m. Funeral service will
be held the following morning at Mt. Calvary
Community Church, 6731 Beulah St, Franconia,
VA 22310 at 11 a.m. Interment Mount Comfort
Cemetery. Please view and sign the family
guestbook at
www.jeffersonfuneralchapel.com
TOLLIVER
JERRY L. TOLLIVER, SR. (Age 69)
Suddenly on Friday, December 13, 2019,
Jerry departed this life. He is survived by his
devoted wife, Cynthia Tolliver; two children,
Malik Tolliver (Rebecca) and Amali Redd
(Isaiah); a host of grandchildren; great-
grandchildren; other relatives and friends.
Family will receive friends on Friday,
December 20 from 9 a.m. until time of
service 11 a.m. at Gethsemane Baptist
Church, 5119 4th Street, NW, Washington,
DC 20011. Interment Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Services by John T. Rhines Funeral Home.
WALKER
PAUL H. WALKER "Mick" (Age 74)
Passed away on Sunday, December 15,
2019. He was born in Vandergrift, PA on
May 29, 1945. He graduated from Salem
College in West Virginia with a degree
in business. After college, he enlisted in
the army and served in the Vietnam War.
Mickey worked for P & P Contractors in
Rockville as a comptroller for 43 years. He
was an active member of the Washington
Rockville Elks Lodge 15. Mickey also helped
establish the OBGC youth tackle football
program in the late 1970s. He coach his
sons in football, baseball and basketball.
Mickey was a resident of Olney, MD from
1974 to 2019. After retiring from work,
Mickey enjoyed spending time with his
family, especially his twin grandsons Jack
and Lukas. He was the son of the late Paul
and Helen (Vicini) Walker. He is survived
by his wife, Barbara (Fischetti), sons Chris
(Anne) and Jeff (Sapna), two grandsons,
Jack and Lukas, a sister, Debbie (David)
Fornaciari and a brother Tom (Lorraine)
Walker, Cheswick, PA., and many nieces
and nephews and a great niece and
nephew.
Family and friends will be received at Roy W.
Barber Funeral Home, 21525 Laytonsville,
Rd. on Friday, December 20 from 2 to 4 p.m.
and 6 to 8 p.m. for the viewing. A mass
will be offered on Saturday, December 21
at 10 a.m. at St. Peter's Catholic Church
in Olney, MD. Interment will follow at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery. In lieu of flowers,
memorial contributions may be made to
Vietnam Veterans.org. Online condolences
may be expressed at:
www.barberfhlaytonsville.com
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DEATH NOTICE
WEAVER
DAVID J. WEAVER (Age 60)
Departed this life suddenly and peacefully
on Monday, December 9, 2019. David was
predeceased by his mother, Estelle Weaver,
brother, Anthony Weaver, and sister-in-law,
Cynthia Weaver. Left to cherish his memory
are his loving wife, Arcelia, his step-children,
Ralph and Ariel; his father, Harry; mother and
father in law, James and Sarah Coleman; his
brother, Gary (Audrey); his nephews, Garrett
and Gerard; his niece, Audra Weaver Harrison
(Micheal); his great-nieces, Chantel and Daniel-
la; and a host of family and friends. Visitation
will be held on Friday, December 20, 2019
at 10 a.m. until funeral mass at 11 a.m. at
Holy Family Catholic Church, 12010 Woodmore
Road, Mitchellville, MD 20721. Interment at
Resurrection Cemetery, Clinton, MD. Arrange-
ments by JB Jenkins Funeral Home.
IN MEMORIAM
CLYBURN
VIVIAN HILTON CLYBURN
May 28, 1942 - December 19, 2012
We miss you every single day.
John, Jeffrey (Alix), Erica (Ryan) and Kimberly,
Jordan, Marcus, Dexter, Shelby, Julius, Dylan,
and Naomi
KARLOW
HEATHER LEIGH KARLOW
March 28, 1953 – December 19, 2018
Dearest Heather,
Words alone cannot express how much we
miss you. We think of you every single day and
long to hear your cheerful voice and melodious
laugh. You touched so many lives and will
always be remembered with the utmost love
and tenderness by your many family members
and friends.
While Heaven gained an angel, we lost ours.
Steve, Ben, and Brian
DEATH NOTICE
AHMAD
Professor KABIR UDDIN AHMAD
Passed away on November 18, 2019 at his
home in Vienna, Virginia. The cause was com-
plications from stroke. Funeral services were
held on November 20, 2019.
Kabir was born in Satkanya in 1934 in what is
now Bangladesh. He earned his bachelor’s and
master’s from Dhaka University and his Ph.D.
from the London School of Economics. Kabir
taught economics at British and American
universities for 20 years. In the 1990s he
became a consultant in Bangladesh. During his
life, Kabir also built a school in his village of
Satkanya.
Kabir was a staunch advocate for an indepen-
dent Bangladesh. He played an active role in
the Language Movement at Dhaka University
in the early 1950s. His writings included the
pamphlet “Unhappy East Pakistan”, which doc-
umented the unjust transfer of resources from
East to West Pakistan. In 1970 and 1971, at the
behest of Abu Sayeed Chawdhury, he traveled
throughout England and to other countries to
lobby support for an independent Bangladesh.
His 1972 book was entitled Breakup of Pak-
istan: Prospects for Bangladesh.
Kabir’s wife Asgari Sudderuddin passed in
2015. Kabir leaves behind his children Sara,
Mekail and Fuad and two grandsons.
ALLEN
Lt. GEORGE R. ALLEN (Age91)
Died peacefully in his Annandale, VA home on
December 4, 2019. Lt. Allen enlisted in the
Navy at age 17 in 1945. He was a veteran
of World War II, the Korean and Vietnam
wars. He served two tours of duty in Vietnam.
Throughout his twenty-seven years in the Navy,
Lt. Allen received multiple awards and medals.
Lt. Allen was a Pomo Indian who was born on
the reservation on February 28, 1928 in Ukiah,
California. His mother was a renowned Pomo
Indian basket weaver whose baskets have
been displayed in the Smithsonian Museum
in Washington, DC Elsie Allen High School in
Santa Rosa, California is named for her.
Lt. Allen settled in his home in Annandale,
Virginia. He moved there with his family in
1964. He worked briefly for the U.S. Census
Bureau before his final retirement. His beloved
wife, Louise, to whom he was married for
56 years, preceded Lt. Allen in death. He
is survived by his four children, Gary Allen
(Terry) of Nokesville, VA, Debra Allen-Hensley
(David) of Chantilly, VA and twin girls, Sharon
Allen Rasheed (Aby) of Springfield, VA and
Karen Bailey (John) of Bealeton, VA; four grand-
children, Kenneth, Kevin, Sarah and Lauren;
and two great-grand-children; Kaylee and Bray-
den. Mr. Allen enjoyed hunting, and fishing and
was a passionate Redskins fan.
Lt. Allen will be buried at Arlington Cemetery
on Thursday, December 19 at 3 p.m. with
military honors. In lieu of flowers, the family
suggests that memorial gifts be made to
Humane Society of Fairfax County.
DEATH NOTICE
BANKS
VIOLA MERCILE BANKS
Passed at home on December 11, 2019. She is
survived by two devoted sons James L. Banks
(Terri) and Franklin Henderson, two grandchil-
dren, three great-grandchildren, and one great-
great-grandchild Family will receive friends
on Friday, December 20, 2019 at Simpson-
Hamline United Methodist Church, 4521 16th
Street NW, Washington, DC from 10 a.m. until
time of Service at 11 a.m. Service also on
Saturday, December 21 at Zion Baptist Church,
Spotsylvania, VA, 10 a.m., Services 11 a.m.
Arrangements by Robinson Funeral Home.
BRADY
MAUREEN MacINTOSH BRADY
(Reenie)
On Saturday December 14, 2019,
Maureen MacIntosh Brady (Ree-
nie) of Bethesda, MD. Beloved
wife of Rupert J. Brady; loving
mother of Rupert J. Brady, Jr., Laureen Brady
Zegowitz (Stephen), Kevin Brady (Patty),
Jeanine Patrice Brady (deceased at birth),
Warren Brady (Diane), Jeanine Brady Hart-
nett (Michael), Jacqueline Brady Rada
(Dave), Brian Brady (Kelly) and Barton Brady
(Lynne); grandmother of Kyle and Keith
Zegowitz; Kelly, Shannon, and Patrick Hart-
nett; Jack and Thomas Rada; Erin, Megan,
Miranda, Nick, Cooper, Jocelyn, Cailin and
Maia Brady. Friends may call at St.
Bartholomew Catholic Church, 6900 River
Road, Bethesda, MD 20817 on Friday
December 20, 2019 from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30
a.m. where a Mass of Christian Burial will
be held at 10:30 a.m. Interment: Gate of
Heaven Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memo-
rial contributions may be made in her name
to: St. Bartholomew Catholic Church or to
Catholic Charities. Please sign the family
guestbook at:
www.devolfuneralhome.com
FRANCIS
JAMES EDWARD FRANCIS, II
Peacefully passed away on Saturday, Decem-
ber, 14, 2019. Loving husband of 22 years to
Fern M. Francis. Also survived by a daughter,
Joy E. Shealey (Gerald); mother, Mary Francis;
three sisters, Saundra Powell, Jacqueline
Townsend, Carolyn Francis; and a host of
nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
On Saturday December 21, friends may visit
with the family from 10 a.m. until time of
service at 11 a.m. at Brightlight Baptist Church,
7300 New Hampshire Ave., Takoma Park, MD.
Interment Ft. Lincoln Cemetery.
www.marshallmarchfh.com
GEVLIN
MAUREEN ELIZABETH GEVLIN (Age 72)
Of Washington, DC, beloved wife, mother, and
sister, died peacefully Monday, November 25,
2019 at home in Washington, DC. Born in
Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of the late
James and Helen Gevlin, she graduated in 1965
from the Mary Louis Academy in New York, and
from LeMoyne College in 1969. She graduated
in 1972 from Harvard Law School, cum laude,
where she met her husband, Charles E. Roh,
Jr. “Chip”. She was an assistant special prose-
cutor under Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski
on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force,
1973-1975. After a number of years spent
raising her children, she resumed her legal
career at a small firm in Washington, DC. She
later spent 15 joyous years as a volunteer
school docent for the National Gallery of Art. In
addition to Chip, her husband of 48 years, she
leaves her three children, C. Michael Roh and
his wife Sara Clevering of Winchester, M.A.,
Colleen E. Roh Sinzdak and her husband Gerard
of Chevy Chase, Maryland, and Katriana G. Roh
of Washington, DC. She is also survived by four
grandchildren, C. Elliot Roh, O. Henry Roh, Cole
J. Sinzdak and Rory E. Sinzdak. A memorial
service will be held Saturday, December 21,
at 11 a.m. at Blessed Sacrament Church,
5949 Western Avenue NW, Washington, DC
20015. There are no calling hours. In lieu of
flowers, memorial contributions may be made
to Doctors Without Borders, or to a charity of
the donor's choice.
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During the family’s tour in Hawaii, Micki was
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ing with students with disabilities at Pokukaina Of Woodbridge, VA, on December 15, 2019. To place a notice,
School. Micki received her Bachelor’s Degree
in Speech Pathology and Audiology at Penn
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Deaf Education at Gallaudet University. She
sons Jerome, Jerel and Jay-Cee. The family
will receive visitors Thursday, December 19,
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was a well-respected and much loved teacher
at Rochester School for the Deaf for 30 years.
2019 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Miller Funeral Home,
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MARYLAND

Settlement in deadly gas explosion

Apartment Communities, Katie ment meter room. Washington
Blast killed 7, hurt Lischick, declined to comment, Gas disputed that finding, saying
citing the confidentiality of the the NTSB did not look closely
more than 30, displaced terms of the settlement, which enough at other potential causes.
dozens in Silver Spring was first reported by Fox 5 DC. NTSB officials said other
The lawsuits over the Aug. 10, breakdowns also contributed to
2016, explosion at Flower Branch the blast. Despite numerous in-
Apartments have pitted dozens stances of people smelling gas in
BY S TEVE T HOMPSON of low-income, Spanish-speaking the weeks before the explosion,
residents against their landlord neither Kay Management nor
A settlement has been reached and the complex’s supplier of firefighters notified the gas com-
in the lawsuits over a 2016 explo- natural gas. pany. And Kay Management
sion that destroyed two apart- The blast injured more than changed the meter room lock
ment buildings and left seven 30 people and displaced more without making a new key avail-
people dead in Silver Spring, than 100. Many people lost all of able to the fire department, as is
people involved confirmed Tues- their possessions, including required by law, the NTSB said.
day. clothing, furniture, important In an order issued in Septem-
“The terms are confidential, documents and cash, according ber, the Maryland Public Service
BILL O'LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST
but the litigation among all par- to the lawsuits. Commission demanded that the
ties has been resolved to the In April, the National Trans- utility explain what happened to Lawsuits over an August 2016 gas explosion at Flower Branch Apartments in Silver Spring pitted
mutual satisfaction of all par- portation Safety Board conclud- a 10-year program to replace all low-income residents against their landlord and the complex’s supplier of natural gas.
ties,” said Brian Edwards, a ed that a failed gas regulator and indoor mercury gas regulators by
spokesman for Washington Gas, a disconnected vent line — 2013. The commission also or- One of the plaintiffs’ lawyers, were both responsible, in what to provide more details.
which was a defendant in the equipment owned and operated dered the utility to say why, if the Cary Joshi, told The Washington proportions. Joshi called it a “global settle-
case. He said the settlement was by Washington Gas — were re- regulators were not replaced, it Post last year that the lawsuits On Tuesday, Joshi said the ment,” meaning the case will be
reached Friday but declined to sponsible for the tragedy and should not face a civil penalty. would come down to which de- lawsuits were “settled to the resolved for the more than 150
comment further. probably allowed gas to build up That proceeding remains ongo- fendant was responsible — or, if satisfaction of all of the parties” plaintiffs involved.
A spokeswoman for Kay “to an explosive level” in a base- ing. the gas company and landlord but that she was “not at liberty” steve.thompson@washpost.com

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CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

Pelosi brooches the subject of impeachment with a historic House symbol

BY R OBIN G IVHAN
The day was sober, no matter
what side of the Trump impeach-
ment debate one might be on. It
was a sad day, on that there was
bipartisan agreement.
And for House speaker nancy
Pelosi (D-Calif.), who was at the
center of it all, it was a day for
mournful black, not power pink.
not resistance white.
The members of the House of
Representatives, their round con-
gressional pins displayed promi-
nently, so many rank-and-file fac-
es unfamiliar to the public at
large, arrived Wednesday morn-
ing on Capitol Hill with an extra
coat of polish for the historical
impeachment vote.
The momentous event was
preceded by raw and bellicose
60-second, 90-second and two-
minute speeches on live televi-
sion. Although not every single
person made a concerted effort to
wear their sunday best as they
stood in the glow of national TV,
most men looked as though
they’d just pulled the packing
cardboard out of their dress shirt,
took a little more mirror time
with their tie and made sure they
slipped into their good suit — the
new one that fits especially well.
The women were duly acces-
sorized with their eagle brooches,
their gumball necklaces and their
discreet earrings. How many
hairstylists were up early for
impeachment day blow-outs?
The gentleladies were not merely
leaning into vanity, that often
misunderstood commitment to
caring about how one moves
through this world. They were
taking a moment to feel pulled
together and sharp. They wanted
to be their best selves on one of
the nation’s worst days.
Attire is no small thing. It’s an
integral part of the formal partic-
ulars of the impeachment pro-
cess — a process that allowed for
members debating the rules, vot-
ing on the rules and imagining
conversations with their children
and grandchildren about their
role in the ultimate decision.
The clock and the calendar are
terrible masters.
No one comes to Congress to
impeach a president.
I yield back.
The road to this day has been
fraught and exhausting for a
populace hoarse from resisting
and defending. It has often
seemed as though the only thing
keeping Congress tethered to a
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Bad faith at Trickling Springs?

The Pennsylvania dairy was built on Mennonites’ trust and money. Now they’re left holding the bag.
BY T IM C ARMAN farmers who grazed their cows on grass and were myron miller keeps an ing that its owners operated with the same principles
certified as organic. The company used a low-temper- eye on his grazing cows that define their denomination: honesty, integrity,

W
hen Trickling springs Creamery sud-
denly shut down operations in late sep-
tember, the owners lost more than their
18-year-old business dedicated to or-
ganic milk, butter and cheese. They lost
their respect and standing in the conservative Menno-
nite communities of Maryland and Pennsylvania.
From the moment they debuted the Pennsylvania-
based company in 2001, the founders were dedicated
to local farmers and agricultural practices that would
sync with their Mennonite beliefs to live in harmony
with the planet and be good stewards of God’s land.
Trickling springs purchased raw milk mostly from
ature pasteurization process to kill bacteria but keep at his Peace Hollow accountability and transparency.
most nutrients alive. It sold milk in returnable glass Farms in Knoxville, But even before the creamery closed, state and
bottles, an echo of a pastoral time and an elegant way md. the mennonite federal officials were looking into its business affairs,
to prevent more plastic from entering the oceans. farmer used to sell milk including the unorthodox ways the company raised
As Trickling springs grew from a small local to trickling springs capital to keep competitive in a dairy industry that’s
company to one that sold to chefs, coffee shops and Creamery before it already suffering from oversupply and changing
markets all along the east Coast, from Connecticut to closed down. American tastes. Their investigations coincided with
Florida, the creamery became something rare: a “everybody knows a rising fear in the Mennonite community that
multimillion-dollar enterprise in a Mennonite com- there were lies Trickling springs was not as stable as it appeared.
munity where people usually work with their hands involved. that’s what That the creamery was, in fact, a house of cards ready
on farms, in cabinet shops and at other modest, hurts everybody,” he to collapse.
family-run businesses. Proud of Trickling springs’ says. Last november, the Pennsylvania Department of
success, Mennonites supported the company, trust- see daIry on C2

Who merits top billing for fall of Fox News’s Ailes? Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine
BY P AUL F ARHI
The film ‘Bombshell’
In “Bombshell,” the new movie
about the fall of Roger Ailes at Fox
news, two famous and popular
TV anchors, Gretchen Carlson
and Megyn Kelly, provide the one-
two punch that brings down a
powerful boss in a heroic tale of
women fighting back against
their own exploitation.
But in real life, it’s not quite so
simple. There’s an argument
brewing over who deserves credit
for triggering Ailes’s demise, one
of the major events preceding the
start of the #MeToo movement.
The movie, opening Friday, has
given a 2-year sentence
plays up Megyn Kelly’s
role in CEO’s ouster
Gretchen Carlson, left, and
megyn Kelly are depicted in the
movie “bombshell.”
provoked crossfire between Carl-
son’s and Kelly’s camps about
how the Ailes saga actually came
about. Carlson’s supporters say
the movie insufficiently credits
Carlson and inflates Kelly’s role;
people close to Kelly counter that
it more or less accurately portrays
the real sequence of events.
Carlson, a former host of “Fox
& Friends,” filed her now-famous
harassment suit against Ailes in
early July 2016. Within two
weeks, Ailes, who had built Fox
news into a money-gushing pow-
erhouse, was gone in a corporate
coup engineered by two bitter
Ailes rivals, Lachlan and James
Murdoch, the sons of Fox co-
founder Rupert Murdoch.
What happened in between
makes up the heart of the movie
and the source of tension between
Team Carlson and Team Kelly.
The film suggests that Kelly
(played by Charlize Theron, in a
remarkable take on the real an-
chor) was the key figure, coming
forward with her own story about
Ailes’s harassment of her 10 years
earlier and then rallying women
at Fox news to do the same. Her
actions, the film implies, turned
Carlson’s long-shot lawsuit into a
triumphant revolt against one of
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BY S ONIA R AO
Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine has
been sentenced to two years in
prison over racketeering charges
stemming from his affiliation
with the street gang nine Trey
Gangsta Bloods, according to the
Associated Press.
The sentence, delivered
Wednesday in U.s. District Court,
is substantially shorter than the
maximum 47 years previously
faced by the 23-year-old rapper,
whose real name is Daniel Her-
nandez. Judge Paul engelmayer
attributed the leniency to Her-
nandez’s working with prosecu-
tors throughout the 13 months he
has already served. “Your cooper-
ation was impressive,” engelmay-
er reportedly said. “It was game-
changing. It was complete and it
was brave.”
Last week, Hernandez wrote
the judge a letter expressing re-
morse over the crimes he commit-
ted.
“I was blessed with a gift of an
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Was a beloved
Pennsylvania dairy
milking investors?
daIry from C1
Banking and Securities accused
the four most recent owners —
Philip riehl, Gerald Byers, Elvin
martin and Dale martin — of sell-
ing at least 175 promissory notes in
violation of the commonwealth’s
Securities Act of 1972. The com-
monwealth followed up with two
days of hearings in July to lay out
its case: In his opening statement,
Seamus Dubbs, assistant counsel
for the department, accused the
owners of not registering the
notes in Pennsylvania, as well as
not providing the financial infor-
mation investors needed to assess
the risks.
“These notes were sold and is-
sued while Trickling Springs was
insolvent,” Dubbs said, according
to a hearing transcript. “While
these notes were being issued, the
business of Trickling Springs was
acting as a fraud or operating as a
fraud on these investors.”
The exact amount invested is
not clear. The commonwealth not-
ed in its show-cause order that the
notes raised slightly more than
$7.8 million from february 2015 to
october 2017. But in his testimony,
riehl, the majority owner of Trick-
ling Springs and its de facto finan-
cial officer, said investors had
sunk closer to $18 million into the
company.
The former owners declined to
talk to The Washington Post for
this article, as did anyone with the
Pennsylvania Department of
Banking and Securities. But dur-
ing the hearings, the owners’ at-
torney, Norman Greenspan, said
his clients “simply did not know
that the notes could not be sold
without first registering with the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
There was no intent on their part
to mislead or to cheat anyone.”
The investment cash funneled
into Trickling Springs, Greenspan
added, “is but an extension of
what they do almost on a day-to-
day basis within the mennonite
community, and that is they loan
money to each other. They look
out for each other. They help each
other.”
he problem for Trickling
T Springs’ owners is that their
faith-based method of fi-
nancing ran headlong into the
legal demands of the Pennsylva-
nia banking and securities system.
The owners’ ignorance of the law
may be part of their defense, but
it’s also, in a sense, built into their
belief system, which often places
Christian law above civil law.
During the July hearings, the
company’s financial officer said he
was oblivious to the mandates of
the Securities Act. At the same
time, during the hearings, the
trickling springs Creamery had deep roots in the Mennonite community around its hometown,
Chambersburg, Pa., and neighboring Hagerstown, Md., home of Paradise Mennonite Church, above.
three of the creamery’s four most recent owners have been excommunicated by the denomination.
Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, who cooperated with prosecutors, faced 47 years
teKasHI from C1
opportunity that most people
dream of but I squandered it by
getting involved with the wrong
people and misrepresenting my-
self when I should have been true
to myself and my fans,” Hernandez
stated, reflecting on his decision
to align himself with the gang.
The New York Times reported
in September that Hernandez
joined the Nine Trey in 2017 to
earn “a stamp of street authentici-
ty that would guarantee musical
stardom.” He broke out that year
when an Instagram selfie — fea-
turing multiple face tattoos read-
ing “69,” as well as his rainbow
commonwealth’s attorneys ex-
pressed skepticism over the fact
that the four executives had not
taken advantage of certain legal
protections, whether filing for
bankruptcy or claiming the shel-
ter of a limited liability company,
which does not hold owners per-
sonally responsible for business
debts.
In terms of potential penalties,
the Pennsylvania case may be the
least of the owners’ worries. While
they wait for hearing examiner
ruth Dunnewold to issue her final
order, they’re dealing with the fall-
out of their decision to abruptly
shutter plant operations on Sept.
27, which left countless investors
holding the bag. many, if not most,
of those investors were menno-
nites, and the religious communi-
ty’s judgment has been swift:
Three of the owners have been
excommunicated. A fourth, Byers,
apparently asked to be excommu-
nicated to share in the suffering of
his former partners.
What did riehl, Byers, Elvin
martin and Dale martin do to
merit excommunication? Accord-
ing to interviews with half a dozen
members of the mennonite
church, many of whom spoke on
the condition of anonymity to pro-
tect their relationships in the com-
munity, in broad terms, the own-
ers turned away from God. But in
practical terms, they betrayed the
trust of the community by selling
promissory notes without fully re-
vealing — or perhaps without fully
realizing — the company’s finan-
cial struggles.
“Everybody knows there were
lies involved. That’s what hurts
everybody,” said myron martin, a
mennonite dairy farmer and own-
er of Peace Hollow farm in Knox-
ville, md., who used to sell milk to
Trickling Springs but is not an
investor. (He has no relation to the
two owners of the same last
name.)
“As mennonites, we’re ashamed
of what happened, on one side,”
martin added. “on the other side,
we’re not exempt from bad things
happening. . . . And every now and
then, it happens. And this is a bad
one.”
To understand the depth of be-
trayal, you have to understand the
dynamics of the community. The
members take care of their own,
and this often includes financial
matters. formal organizations,
such as Anabaptist financial, of-
fer loans or investments in men-
nonite, Amish and other conser-
vative businesses, which some-
times don’t have the necessary
credit history or insurance to
work with regular banks.
Then there are independent fi-
nanciers who operate outside the
conventional banking and securi-
hair and grill — went viral on
social media, drawing attention
to his debut song “Gummo,” re-
leased a few months later. The
single hit No. 12 on the Billboard
Hot 100, and he reached No. 3 the
next summer with the track
“fefe,” a collaboration with Nicki
minaj.
Hernandez became one of the
most popular rappers on Sound-
Cloud, the streaming service that
also gave rise to artists such as Lil
Pump and XXXTentacion. But
like the latter, who died last year,
Hernandez’s success was mired in
controversy from the start: In
2015, he pleaded guilty to one
felony count of sexual misconduct
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ties systems, borrowing and lend-
ing money within the mennonite
community for projects large and
small. riehl, a longtime tax ac-
countant in Pennsylvania, was ap-
parently one of them. According
to his testimony, riehl launched a
loan program within the menno-
nite community in 1995, long be-
fore he became an owner in Trick-
ling Springs in 2007. Before he
started shutting down the pro-
gram in 2018, he testified that he
had borrowed around $79 million,
which he would then lend to men-
nonite businesses. Those who lent
riehl money were promised rates
of return of 4.5 or 5 percent, de-
pending on the loan.
Several years ago, the Securities
and Exchange Commission
launched an investigation into
riehl’s loans, according to his tes-
timony at the hearing. (The SEC
declined to comment on the case.)
As a result, riehl started to wind
down his program and transfer
the loans under his name directly
to Trickling Springs. He said Trick-
ling Springs owed him about
$21 million, some of which he had
personally put into the business.
“How much of that $21 million
is your own funds and how much
of it is from the loan program?” a
commonwealth attorney asked
riehl.
“I don’t know exactly,” riehl
responded.
“You don’t know how much of it
is your money and how much of it
is investor money?”
“right.”
“So when you get money from
Trickling Springs on that debt . . .”
“It will all go to investors.”
hose in the mennonite and
T organic dairy communities
have many opinions about
why Trickling Springs failed de-
spite a beloved product line. They
say the company expanded too
involving a 13-year-old girl, for
which he eventually received four
years’ probation.
Though his music career con-
tinued to thrive, Hernandez’s le-
gal troubles worsened in 2018.
That January, he allegedly as-
saulted a fan. In may, he was
charged with two misdemeanors
for operating a vehicle without a
license and, the next day, report-
edly attacked a New York police
officer. In November, Hernandez
was indicted on the federal charg-
es that led to his Wednesday
sentencing.
Geoffrey S. Berman, the U.S.
attorney for the Southern District
of New York, said in a statement
fast, including leasing a missouri
farm to spread products into the
midwest and Southeast. They say
it was the victim of a volatile milk
market, which has also affected
organic producers who must com-
pete with large-scale farms in Tex-
as and Colorado. They say that the
owners, none of whom have more
than a high school education,
were not qualified to run such a
large company.
But the questions that eat at
many community members can
be answered by no one but the
owners themselves: Did the pro-
prietors take advantage of the
trust placed in them by the men-
nonites? Did those selling invest-
ment opportunities realize the
company’s poor financial health?
At the July hearing, the owners
said they believed Trickling
Springs was in a good financial
position in 2015, just before it
started issuing the promissory
notes. “Sales were very strong and
growing,” testified Dale martin,
former chief executive. “And we
had a lot of potential customers
coming in.”
But as a Department of Banking
and Securities attorney pointed
out, Trickling Springs had to bor-
row more than $2 million to cover
payroll and payroll taxes from
2008 to 2014, much of it from
riehl’s loan program, while pay-
ing back just $400,000 on $13 mil-
lion in existing loans.
And a year later, finances were
apparently in such poor shape
that the company couldn’t pay
dairy farmers, according to myron
martin and two other farmers
who had supplied raw milk to the
creamery. (The latter two spoke on
the condition of anonymity to pro-
tect their relationships.) for at
least two months in the spring or
summer of 2016, the farmers
stopped receiving checks. Soon af-
ter, said martin and the other
dairymen, the 20-plus farmers
who had been selling directly to
Trickling Springs moved their
supply to the competition, organ-
ic Valley, which in turn sold raw
milk to Trickling Springs until the
business closed.
“Creameries are difficult,” said
Tim Thomas, financial officer at
Anabaptist financial. “They take
large amounts of capital. It takes a
lot of money for infrastructure,
and in the best of times, it’s not a
at the time that the Nine Trey had
“wreaked havoc on New York City,
engaging in brazen acts of vio-
lence.” The indictment alleged
that Hernandez had participated
in an April 2018 robbery of rival
gang members and that he had
been among a group that agreed
to shoot someone who had disre-
spected the Nine Trey.
In february, Hernandez plead-
ed guilty to nine counts of racke-
teering conspiracy, firearms of-
fenses and narcotics trafficking.
He cut a deal with federal prose-
cutors and, in September, took
the stand as a star witness against
high-ranking Nine Trey members
Aljermiah mack and Anthony El-
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lucrative business. . . . We’re not
selling computer chips. Then on
top of it, the last 10 years in the
dairy industry have been very,
very rough.”
A business without the ability
to cover payroll or supplies would
soon find itself without operating
capital — and without banks will-
ing to lend it more money, said a
member of the mennonite finan-
cial community who spoke on the
condition of anonymity so that he
could speak freely. But Trickling
Springs had access to a ready pool
of cash within the mennonite
community.
“Problems would have been
more evident much quicker” with-
out the constant influx of money,
the mennonite financial expert
said. “But because they had access
to funds, it keeps them afloat lon-
ger than they should have been,
which makes the pain larger down
the road.”
of the 170-plus people who
were sold promissory notes, riehl
testified, “probably” fewer than 20
received any kind of information
to help them understand the risks
involved. riehl also said he had
not asked investors about their
risk tolerance.
Did he ask about their invest-
ment goals, a commonwealth at-
torney asked? If they were saving
for retirement or for a college
fund?
“Some would have said some-
thing about it,” riehl responded.
“But the majority, you didn’t
know?”
“That’s right,” riehl said.
he extent of the financial
T damage among mennonites
is not known. But between
the hearing testimony and anec-
dotes from members of the reli-
gious community, the amount of
money lost in Trickling Springs’
closure appears to be in the tens of
millions of dollars.
mennonite churches, said my-
ron martin and others, are work-
ing to collect funds to pay back
those who have lost the most, or
could least afford the loss. Some
investors, the mennonite finan-
cial expert said, lost hundreds of
thousands of dollars or all of their
life savings. Widows and the elder-
ly were among the investors, said
martin, the dairy farmer.
“That is the tragedy of this
lison, both of whom now face life
in prison. Hernandez, who has
since renounced his Nine Trey
affiliation, was derided as a
“S.N.I.T.C.H.” by rapper Snoop
Dogg, who also pointed out that
his close friend martha Stewart
“snitched on NoT oNE soul” be-
fore serving five months for lying
about a stock sale. Vince Staples,
a rapper known for his outspoken
nature, tweeted, “Did 69 tell on
you? find out next time, on Drag-
on Ball Z.”
Prosecutors have indicated
that Hernandez could enter a
witness protection program after
his release from prison, though
that could prove difficult given
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THE WASHINGTON POST
trickling springs Creamery in
Chambersburg, Pa., closed in
september, wiping out some of
its investors’ life savings. the
dairy’s owners are accused of
violating the commonwealth’s
securities act and their
neighbors’ trust.
case,” the mennonite financial ex-
pert said. “It’s of a size and nature
that makes it really tough to try to
make everybody whole.” Those
who can afford to take a loss, he
added, will probably do so to try to
make others whole.
mennonite churches are also
working with the former Trickling
Springs owners, who have been
stripped of their leadership roles
and are barred from taking Com-
munion. At least four committees
have been established to assist the
owners with their problems: spiri-
tual, financial and otherwise.
“Excommunication is a good
thing,” martin said. “It’s basically
to help the person realize who
they are. When you excommuni-
cate somebody, it’s for their own
soul’s good. It’s not to judge them.
It’s not to be nasty. It’s just to say:
‘You’re not following Jesus. You’re
following the devil in your flesh.’ ”
Among other things, the com-
mittees have been assisting the
owners with ways to repay inves-
tors, according to the hearing
transcript. In general, conserva-
tive mennonites do not believe in
bankruptcy. They take to heart the
lesson of romans 13:8, which says
“owe no man anything” in the
King James Version of the Bible.
mennonites take this passage to
mean that you pay all debts.
With no business left, the own-
ers have few ways to generate
cash. But they do have a plant for
sale, which is believed to be worth
about $3.5 million. Harry Davis &
Co., which is handling the sale, is
close to finalizing a deal, said Pres-
ident Leonard Davis. Davis said
the former owners told him that
they don’t expect to make a dime
off the sale; its proceeds will pay
off investors and secured credi-
tors.
What’s more, both riehl and
Dale martin testified that they’re
putting up personal assets and
cash to cover at least a fraction of
investor losses. martin pledged to
use profits from another business,
a farm-equipment company
called Agri-Service, to make good
on loans. riehl testified that he
was willing to sell his home.
“I made a personal commit-
ment to do everything in my pow-
er to repay those debts as long as I
am able,” Dale martin testified.
riehl testified that there is a
difference between corporate law,
which does not require owners to
cover business debts, and a higher
moral law. An attorney asked rie-
hl why he would ever feel obligat-
ed to follow the advice of the
mennonite committees, which are
pushing for the debts to be repaid.
“I want to get to heaven,” he
said.
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the prominence of his unusual
face tattoos. In a presentencing
letter to the judge, they wrote that
the rapper’s help “was extraordi-
nary” and that there is “no ques-
tion that the defendant’s life will
never be the same because of his
cooperation in this case.”
“He and his family will have to
take extra safety precautions
when being in public so as to
avoid potential reprisals from
others,” prosecutors continued,
per the Associated Press.
Hernandez’s representatives
haven’t responded to The Wash-
ington Post’s request for com-
ment.
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BY M ICHAEL D IRDA
These days the word “essayist”
sounds fussy and a little old-fash-
ioned, nearly as archaic as “book-
man” and “poetess.” The essay as
we once knew it has given way to
other forms of expression: Now we
blog, we tweet, we post to face-
book, our website and our news-
letter; we practice “long-form”
new journalism. Still, whatever la-
bel we attach to our personal piec-
es, at their best they strive to ex-
plore and reveal the writer’s self.
D.H. Lawrence famously pro-
claimed that his motto wasn’t “art
for art’s sake, but art for my sake.”
Even though his novels have fallen
out of critical favor and general
popularity, Lawrence’s nonfiction
and criticism remain forceful, im-
mediate and striking. “The essen-
tial American soul is hard, isolate,
stoic, and a killer.” That’s from his
book-length “Studies in Classic
American Literature,” but the
same vividness runs through the
“selected essays” of “The Bad Side
of Books,” recently published by
NYrB Classics. As Geoff Dyer em-
phasizes in his penetrating intro-
duction, Lawrence ignores genre
straitjackets as he blends travel
writing, memoir, philosophical
musings, storytelling and a novel-
ist’s flair for portraiture and de-
scription.
From left, Charlize Theron as megyn Kelly, Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson and margot Robbie as
the composite character Kayla in “bombshell,” which depicts the fall of Fox News boss Roger Ailes.
The film ‘Bombshell’ overplays Kelly’s
role in Fox News ordeal, some say
bombsHell from C1
the most formidable figures in
television news.
That Kelly dropped a bomb on
Ailes is undisputed; she told
Lachlan murdoch about Ailes
days after Carlson filed her suit
and later spoke to investigators
hired by the murdochs to look
into complaints about Ailes.
Several women interviewed for
this story say Kelly was instru-
mental in getting them to tell
their own stories to the investiga-
tor. “megyn had the moral charac-
ter to do the right thing, for
herself and for other women at
fox,” says a former fox employee,
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity because she signed a
nondisclosure agreement as a
condition of settling her harass-
ment claims against Ailes and
fox.
But did Kelly really provide the
shove that dislodged Ailes?
Carlson’s camp says the real
catalyst was Carlson (played by
Nicole Kidman), who publicly
took on Ailes after she was demot-
ed and then fired at fox, setting in
motion all that followed.
“There was one woman who
jumped off the cliff without a
parachute, who had very little
chance of success and almost a
guarantee of failure . . . and that
woman was Gretchen Carlson,”
said Julie roginsky, a former fox
News contributor who filed her
own harassment suit against
Ailes and then co-president Bill
Shine in 2017.
Carlson, she said, “paved the
way for other women to have the
courage to speak up.”
Carlson’s attorney, Nancy Erika
Smith, also disputes the Kelly-as-
hero depiction.
“The person who was the brav-
est was Gretchen, not megyn,”
says Smith, who has seen the film
(Smith is played in it by robin
Weigert). “megyn Kelly never
publicly revealed that she was
harassed by roger Ailes while
Gretchen’s case was pending. She
never expressed any support for
Gretchen, either. It was Gretchen
who took the leap. To portray it
otherwise is just wrong.”
Carlson said she hasn’t seen
the movie and declined to com-
ment for this article. Kelly said
she would make a public state-
ment about the movie “soon” but
declined further comment.
. THE WASHINGTON POST
In subject matter, Lawrence
ranges from considerations of
Thomas mann, Thomas Hardy
and Ernest Hemingway to reflec-
tions on religion, the novel, ob-
scenity, New mexico and our once
close relationship to nature (“Pan
in America”). No matter what he
writes about, though, Lawrence
generates — in language crackling
with passion and conviction — an
intensely reimagined experience.
Jonathan Swift, when challenged,
could produce a brilliant essay
about a broomstick; Lawrence
outdoes him in his tour-de-force
“reflections on the Death of a
Porcupine.”
my own favorite piece of Law-
rentiana, however, is the “memoir
of maurice magnus.” In it Law-
rence visits florence, monte Cassi-
no, Capri and other places in Italy
just after the end of World War I.
Through the writer Norman
Douglas — a notorious celebrant
of mediterranean decadence — he
meets maurice magnus, in some
ways his shadow or doppelganger.
m--, as Lawrence refers to him,
“was curious, always talking about
his work, even always working,
but never properly doing any-
thing.” Given that magnus is a
sponger, a con man, Catholic con-
vert and gay, he comes across as a
second cousin to that comparably
fascinating outcast, frederick
But people close to Kelly are
animated in their defense of her
role in Ailes’s demise. They say
that until she became involved,
women at fox were terrified of
challenging Ailes, and Carlson’s
lawsuit did little to prompt others
to speak up.
In her 2016 memoir, “Settle for
more,” Kelly said she refused to
issue any statements for or
against Ailes in the wake of Carl-
son’s lawsuit. When her reluc-
tance to join “Team roger” — as
Ailes loyalists dubbed themselves
— became noticeable, Ailes tried
to force her hand: He engineered
news stories, attributed to anony-
mous “fox insiders,” that said she
was being “selfish” for not de-
fending him, she wrote.
Kelly eventually told Lachlan
murdoch that Ailes had harassed
her when she was a fledgling
reporter in Washington years ear-
lier. murdoch then brought in an
outside law firm, Paul Weiss rif-
kind, to investigate allegations
against Ailes. Kelly also spoke to
the investigators.
Within days, Kelly persuaded a
colleague, meteorologist Janice
Dean, to speak to the Paul Weiss
team about Ailes, according to
Dean’s memoir, “mostly Sunny,”
published in march. Dean took it
from there, according to her book.
“Then I did something very
risky,” she wrote. “I reached out
to my female coworkers who I
knew had a roger story and
asked if I could come to see them
in their offices to talk. one by
one I told them my experiences
with the boss, how even though I
was risking my career I told the
lawyers at Paul Weiss my uncom-
fortable experiences with mr.
Ailes. If we all went in and
shared our stories, it could make
a difference in the future for
women at this company and
elsewhere. We could all make a
change somehow. I talked to
them in person and on the
phone. I listened to their stories
and cried with them, reminding
them that there is strength in
numbers and we were all in this
together.” (Dean, who remains
friendly with Kelly, declined to
be interviewed).
In “Bombshell,” the Kelly char-
acter approaches colleagues and
former colleagues to spur them to
action. one of the climactic
scenes involves Kelly and a tear-
ful fox producer named Kayla (a
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rolfe, the self-styled Baron Corvo.
“memoir of maurice magnus” is a
wonderfully evocative piece of
writing that should be far better
known.
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composite character played by
co-star margot robbie), who con-
fesses that she traded sex with
Ailes for a promotion. At Kelly’s
urging, Kayla finds the courage to
turn on Ailes.
The movie’s director, Jay
roach, said he tried to reflect the
contributions of both Carlson and
Kelly to the Ailes story. He praised
both women, as well as others
who spoke up, for their courage in
doing so. “I believe the film au-
thentically reflects the contribu-
tions of the women who dared to
speak truth to power and toppled
a serial sexual abuser who was
one of the most powerful titans in
media,” he said in an email.
People close to Kelly privately
suggest another theory: that both
Carlson and Kelly were pawns in a
larger power play by Lachlan and
James murdoch. The movie hints
at this — that Carlson’s lawsuit
gave the brothers a pretext to
initiate a plan to remove Ailes,
with whom they had feuded for
years, and Kelly provided valu-
able evidence against him. In fact,
Lachlan murdoch encouraged
Kelly to speak to the Paul Weiss
investigators, who compiled the
dossier against Ailes. (fox News
referred questions to its parent
company, fox Corp., which did
not respond to a request for com-
ment.)
In any event, Kelly left fox in
early 2017, joining NBC News for
a short-lived stint as a “Today”
show host; she left NBC a year
ago.
Carlson settled her lawsuit
with fox for $20 million about six
weeks after the murdochs kicked
out Ailes. roginsky settled her
litigation for an undisclosed sum
in 2017. She and Carlson are co-
founders of Lift our Voices, an
organization that seeks to stop
companies from using nondisclo-
sure agreements to cover up in-
stances of workplace harassment
and discrimination. Both women
signed NDAs to settle their law-
suits.
Given the simmering hostili-
ties between Carlson’s and Kelly’s
camps, one scene in the movie
seems to ring true. After Ailes’s
firing, Kelly’s character passes
Carlson as she sits at a table inside
a manhattan restaurant. The two
women exchange no words, and
merely gaze frostily at each other
before turning away.
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eZ re
much of D.H. Lawrence’s fiction
is almost innocently transgres-
sive, whether depicting sexual ec-
stasy in “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”
or reconceiving Christian dogma
in “The man Who Died.” As it
happens, Emmanuel Carrère —
arguably france’s greatest con-
temporary writer of nonfiction —
is similarly daring in his choice of
subjects for “97,196 Words” (from
farrar, Straus and Giroux). He is
invariably drawn to figures with
complex lives and even multiple
identities.
for example, he writes about
Jean-Claude romand, who mur-
ders his wife, children and parents
rather than allow them to learn
that he’s only been pretending to
be a doctor and medical research-
er for 18 years. Carrère later ex-
panded his initial reportage into a
chilling and unputdownable
book, “The Adversary,” which —
we learn from another essay — he
deliberately modeled after Tru-
man Capote’s “In Cold Blood.”
Some of Carrère’s other 97,196
words examine the visionary writ-
ings of Philip K. Dick, the cosmic
horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
and the kaleidoscopic life of the
russian writer and nationalist Ed-
uard Limonov. Dick and Limonov
would also become the subjects of
full-length books.
of all these essays, my favorite
How Jake Hoot won ‘The Voice’
after barely surviving the first round
BY E MILY Y AHR
Three words sum up Jake
Hoot’s journey on “The Voice”
this season: one-chair turn.
“A one-chair turn from Team
Kelly Clarkson, he goes all the
way to the finale and wins!” host
Carson Daly yelled Tuesday at the
end of the Season 17 finale, as
Hoot — a 31-year-old radio sales
rep from Cookeville, Tenn. — was
crowned the champion. “We are
so happy for Jake tonight.”
for those who wondered why
Daly was so ecstatic, a “one-chair
turn” means that Hoot barely
made it on the show. Clarkson
was the only one of the four
celebrity coaches during the ini-
tial “blind” audition who spun
around in her chair when Hoot
started crooning Luke Combs’s
“When It rains It Pours.” So, by
default, he was automatically on
her team.
This is a very unusual situation
for the winner. Chris Blue from
Season 12 is the other one-chair
turn champion in the show’s his-
tory — and in that case, the other
teams were full by the time he
auditioned, so only Alicia Keys
could offer him a spot. By com-
parison, for the other finalists
this season, all four coaches
turned for rocker ricky Duran
(second place) and blues pianist
Katie Kadan (third place). Two
coaches turned around for r&B/
soul artist rose Short, who fin-
ished fourth.
Throughout the past few
months, as Hoot became increas-
ingly popular to the voting audi-
ence, Clarkson often marveled at
his humble beginnings. “I’m the
luckiest coach in the world. How
are you a one-chair turn?!” she
exclaimed after he belted out a
particularly moving version of
the Eagles hit “Desperado.” Dur-
ing the live playoff episode, Clark-
son confided, “Jake Hoot, he’s a
one-chair turn and one of the best
country singers that’s ever been
on this show.”
So, how did Hoot manage to
win despite barely squeaking
through the first round? And why
did the other coaches initially
ignore him?
Both questions can be an-
swered the same way: He’s a
country singer. As viewers are
well aware, Nashville-bound per-
formers are very popular on this
show, and country fans love to
vote in reality singing competi-
tions. Hoot is the sixth country
singer to take home the show’s
prize of $100,000 and a recording
contract, following Cassadee
Pope (Season 3), Danielle Brad-
bery (Season 4), Craig Wayne
Boyd (Season 7), Sundance Head
(Season 11) and Chevel Shepherd
(Season 15).
But despite angry viewers who
claim country contestants just
automatically win (last season,
pop singer maelyn Jarmon tri-
umphed over three country sing-
ers), Hoot had to do more than
just sing cover songs from Willie
Nelson and Lonestar. He also
accomplished the second-most-
important task on a reality sing-
ing show: connect with viewers,
ideally with a devastating yet
inspiring backstory.
Hoot easily did this: Not only
did he seem like an all-around
nice guy, he spoke candidly of the
pain of going through a recent
is “In Search of the Dice man.” In it
Carrère describes his obsession
with Luke rhinehart and his cult
classic, “The Dice man,” the pur-
portedly autobiographical ac-
count of a psychoanalyst who
breaks free of all societal and mor-
al constraints by allowing his life
to be governed by the chance roll
of a die.
Carrère’s likable style isn’t just
conversational, it’s openly confes-
sional. We learn that Edith Whar-
ton’s “Ethan frome” is one of his
favorite novels, as well as one of the
world’s saddest: It “makes
‘Wuthering Heights’ seem like ‘The
Sound of music.’ ” In various essays
Carrère, without a hint of sensa-
tionalism, analyzes his erotic fanta-
sies and sexual experiences. In his
final piece, he probes the astonish-
ing charisma of france’s president,
Emmanuel macron. “No matter
what you think of him, whether
you see his rise as a political mira-
cle or a mirage destined to fade
away, everyone agrees: he could
seduce a chair.” Carrere’s own writ-
ing possesses a similar power.
Brooklyn writer Greg Gerke is
far more bookish than either Law-
rence or Carrère. “I read,” he de-
clares, “to apprise myself of the
distinguished enterprise of being.”
Such precise diction hints at the
character of the essays in “See
What I See” (published by Splice):
Kelly Clarkson and Jake Hoot, winner of “The Voice.” Without
Clarkson, Hoot wouldn’t have made it past the “blind” audition.
divorce, and cried when he talked
about how much he loves his
young daughter, macy.
“macy’s everything to me, so
it’s very scary to step away from
all that and come out here and
take the chance of doing this full
time,” he told the camera in the
premiere. “I would hope that
when she gets older, she can look
back and say, ‘Well, Dad chased
his dreams.’ maybe it will inspire
her to chase hers.”
Viewers responded to Hoot’s
story, as well as his powerhouse
vocals that drew comparisons to
country legend ronnie Dunn.
(“You are a magical country cow-
boy unicorn,” Clarkson pro-
claimed at one point.) His songs
had the highest streams on Apple
music of any artist this season,
and the tracks typically shot to
the top of iTunes download chart.
As for the other coaches miss-
ing out? Well, during the blind
audition, Clarkson jokingly
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Throughout Gerke strives to
transform each of his sentences
into a little work of art or, failing
that, of gorgeous artifice. In
Gerke’s view, writers too often set-
tle for producing the ephemeral
when they should be aiming to
create the eternal. Not that this is
easy: “There is no recipe for vivid
prose — the kind that gets into the
body, the kind that makes you
forget you have to pee — except
hard work.” He concludes, “A piece
of magisterial art: this is ultimate-
ly what we are after.”
In such admirably high-minded
sentiments, Gerke follows his
mentor, William H. Gass, whom
he refers to on his dedication page
as “the master.” The essays in “See
What I See” also revisit many of
Gass’s own touchstones — rilke,
Gertrude Stein, Samuel Beckett,
Wallace Stevens, William Gaddis.
Through his study of such distinc-
tive stylists, Gerke has made him-
self into what he calls a “page-hug-
ger” — “That is, I glorify each
individual sentence for its words,
and for the ‘world’ or ‘soul’ re-
vealed in its architecture.” As
Nabokov taught his students at
Cornell, in reading one should al-
ways caress the details.
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threatened Blake Shelton — who
usually lands all the best country
singers — not to turn his chair.
Afterward, Shelton said he
thought Clarkson was going to
block him. (Each coach can use
one “block” during the blind au-
ditions.) But those things have
never stopped Shelton before,
and he still didn’t attempt to turn
for Hoot.
Plus, Gwen Stefani and John
Legend may have assumed they
didn’t have a shot with Hoot
against two coaches with more
country experience. Although lat-
er in the season, Legend appeared
to regret it.
“It’s amazing to me that only
one of us turned for you in the
blinds,” Legend said after Hoot
brought down the house with
Jason Isbell’s “Cover me Up.”
“Anybody who heard this perfor-
mance today — you would have
been a four-chair turn.”
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suits and power dresses serving
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representatives should not be
comfortable and at ease because
too relaxed until the job is done.
The clothes aren’t the equiva-
lent of substance, of course;
they’re costumes. But any actor
will tell you that proper cos-
tuming is essential to slipping
convincingly into the role. Cos-
tumes remind the players who
they’re supposed to be even if
embodying that person is at
best an aspiration and at worst
a ruse.
The woman in charge, madam
Speaker, arrived on the House
line opened slightly for a little
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that would have been appropri-
ate for a funeral and reflected
Pelosi’s grave remarks: “our
founders’ vision of a republic is
under threat from actions from
the White House,” Pelosi said.
“That is why today, as speaker of
the House, I solemnly and sadly
open the debate on the impeach-
ment of the president of the
United States. If we do not act
now, we would be derelict in our
duty.”
her chest. It is an eagle with its
wings spread, perched on a pearl
mounted on a sheath of gilded
rods.
This Ann Hand brooch, which
exudes majesty and power and
old Washington style, was in-
spired by the mace of the House
of representatives. The original
artifact, created in 1841, sits in
the House chamber and serves as
a symbol of the sergeant at arms’
authority as well as his or her role
in maintaining decorum. The his-
toric mace is composed of an
bundled rods representing the
original colonies, along with the
idea that we are stronger togeth-
er than we are individually.
Throughout the long day, the
mace stood just beyond the
speaker’s chair. It has long been
there, and presumably it always
will be. It’s represented the role of
Congress, and it’s been a call for
comity. But it has also become a
symbol of endurance.
Pelosi dressed for a funeral and
her tone was dire. But her glittery
brooch made clear that it was not susan WalsH/associated Press

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quires uncomfortable, difficult bracelet sleeves and matching to miss the large golden mace the world’s continents are etched. bury. (D-Calif.) wore a pin inspired
decisions. It’s hard; and one pumps. The dress’s funnel neck- brooch pinned to the left side of The central shaft is actually 13 robin.givhan@washpost.com by the mace of the House.

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Richard Jewell (R) CC: 3:00
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Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
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Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) CC:
2:00-5:15-10:45
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Frozen II (PG) CC: 1:30-4:10-6:40-9:20 CC: 7:00
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (PG- Queen & Slim (R) CC: 4:30
13) CC: 6:00-8:00-9:30-10:30
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) CC: Cats (PG) CC: 7:00-9:50
2:00-4:50-7:40-10:25
Queen & Slim (R) CC: 1:10-4:20
Cats (PG) CC: 7:00-9:35
Jojo Rabbit (PG-13) CC: 1:05
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Parasite (R) CC: 3:40
Dark Waters (PG-13) CC: 1:00-4:00
Richard Jewell (R) CC: 2:30
Bombshell (R) CC: 7:00-9:40
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
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Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
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Knives Out (PG-13) CC: (!) 11:45-1:00- Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13)
3:00-4:00-7:00
Queen & Slim (R) CC: (!) 11:15-2:00- Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
4:45-7:20
Bombshell (R) CC: (!) 7:45
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A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
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The Two Popes (PG-13) 12:00-2:35-
5:15-8:00
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
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Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
(PG-13) CC: (!) 6:00-6:30-7:00-9:00-
9:30-10:00
Queen & Slim (R) CC: (!) 1:30-4:10-
7:10-9:50
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) CC: (!) Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13)
1:15-2:10-4:00-4:50-7:50-10:15
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood Richard Jewell (R) CC: 3:05
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Knives Out (PG-13) CC: (!) 2:00-2:20- (PG-13) 7:00-11:00
4:30-5:00-7:40-10:10
Landmark E Street Cinema
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Waves (R) CC: (!) 4:00-9:20
Parasite (R) (!) 1:05-4:05-6:55-9:30
The Kingmaker (R) CC: (!) 1:15-4:15-
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63 Up (!) 12:45-3:45-6:45-9:30
Marriage Story (R) CC: (!) 1:15-6:40
Dark Waters (PG-13) CC: (!) 1:00-
4:00-9:30
Honey Boy (R) CC: (!) 5:15
Jojo Rabbit (PG-13) CC: (!) 1:20-4:20- Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (PG-
7:20-9:40
The Two Popes (PG-13) CC: (!)
1:10-4:10
The Irishman (R) CC: (!) 12:50-7:30
A Hidden Life (PG-13) CC: (!) 7:30
Dark Waters (PG-13) CC: (!) 7:00
Landmark West End Cinema Queen & Slim (R) CC: 3:45
2301 M Street NW
When Lambs Become Lions (!)
2:00-5:00
Mickey and the Bear (R) (!) 1:45-
4:45-7:30
The Lighthouse (R) CC: (!) 1:30-7:15 Knives Out (PG-13) CC: 3:30-6:45-10:15
Pain and Glory (R) CC: (!) 4:30
Regal Gallery Place
701 Seventh Street NW
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13)
12:40-2:30
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
(PG-13) 6:30-7:00-8:00-8:30-9:55-
10:25-11:05-11:35-12:30
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 1:45 Jumanji: The Next Level - The IMAX
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D 2D Experience (PG-13) CC: 2:30
(PG-13) 6:00-9:35-1:15
Opening Night Fan Event: Star Wars : 3D (PG-13) CC: 7:00-8:00-8:30-9:30-
The Rise of Skywalker 5:00
Queen & Slim (R) 1:30
Harriet (PG-13) 12:30-3:40
Joker (R) 12:20-3:30
21 Bridges (R) 1:10-4:05
Cats (PG) 7:30-10:20
Midway (PG-13) 12:00-3:30
Knives Out (PG-13) 12:45-4:15
Black Christmas (PG-13) 2:40-5:10
Bombshell (R) 7:00-10:00
Frozen II (PG) 1:50-4:50-7:50-10:40
Knives Out (PG-13) 6:00-9:20
Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 12:00-4:00
Richard Jewell (R) 12:10-3:40-7:10- Frozen II (PG) CC: 10:30-1:10-3:45-
11:00
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
(PG) 12:00-3:00
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D 11:40-12:30
(PG-13) 7:00-12:00
Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13) 3:50 10:00-12:50-3:45-6:40-9:30
Smithsonian - Lockheed Martin Queen & Slim (R) CC: 10:00-1:00-4:00
IMAX Theater
601 Independence Avenue SW
D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D (NR) 1:20 Harriet (PG-13) CC: 12:15-3:10
Aircraft Carrier: Guardians of the Seas Knives Out (PG-13) CC: 10:15-1:30-
3D (NR) 10:20-12:45
Journey to Space: The IMAX 3D
Experience (NR) 10:50-3:05-5:00
Apollo 11: First Steps Edition IMAX 2D Black Christmas (PG-13) CC: 10:00-
11:55-2:10-4:05
Secrets of the Universe (NR) 11:25-3:35 Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13)
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker The CC: 10:30-12:00-3:00-6:00-10:00
IMAX 2D Experience (PG-13) 9:00
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker: An (PG-13) CC: 6:00-6:30-7:15-9:40-11:00-
IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) 6:00-11:55 12:00-1:00-1:15
Smithsonian -
Warner Bros. Theater
14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
Tornado Alley 3D (NR) 3:30
D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D (NR)
10:30-2:40-4:50
National Parks Adventure 3D (America
Wild 3D) (NR) 12:10-4:00
Apollo 11 (G) 1:00
Superpower Dogs 3D (G) 11:20-1:50
MARYLAND
AFI Silver Theatre
Cultural Center
8633 Colesville Road
Gremlins (PG) CC: 3:00
Parasite (R) 1:35-4:20
Marriage Story (R) CC: 2:15
The Two Popes (PG-13) CC: 11:05AM
Bombshell (R) CC: 7:05-9:25
White Christmas (NR) 12:30
The Ground Beneath My Feet (Der
Boden unter den Fussen) (NR) 9:35
Die Kinder der Toten (NR) 9:45
Zombi Child 7:35
The August Virgin (La virgen de
agosto) (NR) 5:00
The Truth (PG) 7:20
Stories From The Chestnut Woods
(Zgodbe iz kostanjevih gozdov) 5:30
AMC Academy 8
6198 Greenbelt Road
Frozen II (PG) CC: 4:15-7:15-10:15
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
(PG-13) CC: 7:00-7:30-7:50-8:00-
10:45-10:50
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13)
21 Bridges (R) CC: 4:50
Black Christmas (PG-13) CC: 5:15
Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13)
CC: 4:00-10:00
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
(PG-13) CC: 6:00-9:45
AMC Center Park 8
4001 Powder Mill Rd.
Frozen II (PG) CC: 1:30-4:00-6:45-9:30
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (PG-
13) CC: 6:00-9:45-10:10-10:45
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) CC:
2:15-4:15-5:10-8:00
Queen & Slim (R) CC: 1:30-4:30-7:30
21 Bridges (R) CC: 1:00-3:30
Cats (PG) CC: 7:00-9:40
Knives Out (PG-13) CC: 1:00-4:00
Black Christmas (PG-13) CC: 2:30-
5:00-7:40
Dark Waters (PG-13) CC: 1:10-4:10
CC: 1:15-7:15-10:10
(PG-13) CC: 7:00-10:30
AMC Columbia 14
10300 Little Patuxent Parkway
Frozen II (PG) 3:10-6:10-9:05
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
(PG-13) 6:00-9:45-1:15
Queen & Slim (R) 2:50
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13)
CC: 9:30
Cats (PG) 7:00-9:50
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
(PG) 2:40
Knives Out (PG-13) 3:00
Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 2:45
Frozen II in RealD 3D (PG) 4:15
Black Christmas (PG-13) 2:45-
6:25-9:15
Bombshell (R) 7:00-10:00
4:00
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker:
An IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13)
6:00-10:00-1:30
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
(PG-13) 6:00-6:30-7:30-7:45-8:30-
10:15-10:30-10:45-11:30-12:15
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13)
3:20-6:30
AMC DINE-IN Rio Cinemas 18
9811 Washingtonian Center
Playmobil: The Movie (PG) CC: 2:30
Frozen II (PG) CC: 2:30-5:15-6:45-9:30
13) CC: 6:00-6:30-6:45-7:30-7:45-9:00-
10:00-10:15-10:45-11:30-1:00-2:00
Panipat (NR) 3:30
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) CC:
4:00-7:00-8:00-10:00-11:00
The Body (Hindi) (NR) 2:50
21 Bridges (R) CC: 4:00
Harriet (PG-13) CC: 4:20
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
(PG) CC: 3:40
Cats (PG) CC: 7:00-9:45
Pati Patni Aur Woh (NR) 3:20
Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) CC: 2:30-6:00
Frozen II in RealD 3D (PG) CC: 4:00
Black Christmas (PG-13) CC: 4:20-5:20
Dark Waters (PG-13) CC: 2:40
Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13)
CC: 3:15
Bombshell (R) CC: 7:00-10:00
Richard Jewell (R) CC: 2:30-5:30
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
11:00-12:00
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
The IMAX 2D Experience (PG-13) CC:
6:00-1:45
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker: An
IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) CC: 10:00
Opening Night Fan Event: Star Wars :
The Rise of Skywalker CC: 5:00
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
(PG-13) CC: 6:30-10:30-2:30
AMC Loews
St. Charles Town Ctr. 9
11115 Mall Circle
6:20-9:00
(PG-13) CC: 7:45-10:10-10:40-11:15-
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) CC:
21 Bridges (R) CC: 11:30-2:00-4:30
Cats (PG) CC: 7:00-9:15
4:45
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
(PG) CC: 11:00-1:45-4:30
1:30-4:00
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
AMC Magic Johnson
Capital Center 12
800 Shoppers Way
Playmobil: The Movie (PG) CC: 12:30 XD: 4:00
Frozen II (PG) CC: 2:00-4:40-7:15-10:00 Queen & Slim (R) 11:15-12:55-2:25-
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (PG- 4:00
13) CC: 6:30-7:00-8:00-8:30-10:15
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) CC: Prati Roju Pandaage (NR) 2:30
2:30-5:25-8:20
21 Bridges (R) CC: 1:50-4:20
Harriet (PG-13) CC: 12:30-3:30
Waves (R) CC: 2:15-5:20
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood Ruler (Telugu) (NR) 2:40
(PG) CC: 3:00
Queen & Slim (R) CC: 12:30-3:45
Knives Out (PG-13) CC: 1:25-4:30
Cats (PG) CC: 7:00-9:55
Black and Blue (R) CC: 1:30-4:15
Frozen II in RealD 3D (PG) CC: 1:00- (PG-13) 8:05
3:40-6:15
Black Christmas (PG-13) CC: 5:45-
8:10-10:30
Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13) 8:50
CC: 1:30-4:25
Jumanji: The Next Level - The IMAX (PG-13) 6:30-8:30-11:00-11:45
2D Experience (PG-13) CC: 3:00
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
(PG-13) CC: 7:30-9:15
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker The Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (PG-
IMAX 2D Experience (PG-13) CC: 9:45 13) (!) 6:00-7:00-9:30-10:00-10:30
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker: An Knives Out (PG-13) 12:20-3:15-6:45-
IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) CC: 6:00 10:15
ArcLight Bethesda
7101 Democracy Boulevard
Playmobil: The Movie (PG) 2:35
Joker (R) 4:05
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
(PG-13) 7:30-9:25-10:35
Queen & Slim (R) 10:55-1:40-4:20
Harriet (PG-13) 11:00-1:20-3:05
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) (!)
(PG) 11:25-12:10-1:55-4:25
Waves (R) 4:50
Cats (PG) 7:05-9:35
Knives Out (PG-13) 11:05-2:10-4:55
Parasite (R) 11:30-2:15-5:00
Black Christmas (PG-13) 11:50-
2:05-4:15
Dark Waters (PG-13) 10:50-1:25-4:35 Frozen II (PG) CC: 12:00-1:00-2:30-
Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 11:50-1:05-4:15 3:40-5:00-9:20
Bombshell (R) 7:10
Frozen II (PG) 11:20-1:45-2:25-4:05- (PG-13) CC: 6:05-6:50-9:35-10:20-11:00
6:40-9:25
Richard Jewell (R) 11:00-12:45-
1:50-4:30
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13)
11:55-2:45
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D Harriet (PG-13) CC: 12:45-4:00
(PG-13) 6:15-7:30-9:45-10:45
Knives Out (PG-13) 3:40
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
(PG-13) 9:30
Jojo Rabbit (PG-13) 12:00-4:00
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 1:40- Black Christmas (PG-13) CC: 12:05-
4:40-7:35-10:20
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (PG- Dark Waters (PG-13) CC: 12:50-3:40
13) 6:30-6:45-7:00-7:15-7:45-8:00-8:15- Richard Jewell (R) CC: 12:40-4:00
8:30-9:00-10:00-10:15-11:00-11:15
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
(PG-13) 6:00
Bow Tie Annapolis Mall 11
1020 Westfield Annapolis Mall
Opening Night Fan Event: Star Wars :
The Rise of Skywalker (!) 5:00
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
(PG-13) (!) 11:00
Playmobil: The Movie (PG) 11:30AM
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13)
12:20-3:10
Midway (PG-13) 3:15
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
(PG) 10:40-1:15-3:50
Knives Out (PG-13) 10:15-1:10-4:20-
7:20-10:10
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
(PG-13) (!) 6:00-9:30
Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 11:45-12:50-4:15
Black Christmas (PG-13) 12:10-2:50-
5:20-7:50-10:15
Frozen II (PG) 10:10-11:30-12:30-2:00-
3:00-4:30-5:30-7:10-9:35
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
(PG-13) (!) 6:30-7:00-7:30-8:00-8:30-
10:00-10:30-11:30-12:00
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 10:20-
1:10-2:10-4:00-6:50-7:40-9:40-10:30
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
(PG-13) (!) 12:30AM
The Aeronauts (PG-13) 11:50-2:15-4:40
Bow Tie Harbour 9
2474 Solomons Island Road
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
(PG) 1:15-3:50
Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 11:50-3:10
Dark Waters (PG-13) 1:10-4:10-
7:15-10:10
The Two Popes (PG-13) 12:10-3:15
Frozen II (PG) 12:15-2:45-5:15-7:45-
10:15
Bombshell (R) (!) 7:00-9:50
Cats (PG) (!) 7:30-10:30
A Hidden Life (PG-13) 7:00-10:00
Cats (PG) (!) 7:00-10:00
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (PG-
13) (!) 6:45-10:10; (!) 6:00-9:40
Queen & Slim (R) 12:30-3:30
Harriet (PG-13) 12:45-3:40
Richard Jewell (R) 12:00-3:00-4:20-
7:20-10:20
Midway (PG-13) 12:50
Cinemark Egyptian 24 and XD
7000 Arundel Mills Circle
Terminator: Dark Fate (R) 1:25-4:25
Playmobil: The Movie (PG) 10:40AM
Frozen II (PG) 12:15-3:00
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
(PG-13) 6:15-6:40-6:45-7:00-7:40-8:00-
8:05-8:15-8:45-9:40-10:00-10:05-10:15-
10:35-11:15-11:25-11:35-12:05
Panipat (NR) 11:05AM
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 10:35-
11:30-1:35-2:30-4:35-5:30-7:35-10:35
The Body (Hindi) (NR) 10:40-1:35-4:25
Queen & Slim (R) 5:35-8:40
21 Bridges (R) 12:00-2:35-5:05
Cats (PG) 7:00-9:40
Harriet (PG-13) 10:40-1:40-4:35
Knives Out (PG-13) 10:50-12:20-1:50-
3:20-4:50-7:50
Pati Patni Aur Woh (NR) 3:05
Playing with Fire (PG) 10:55AM
Venky Mama (NR) 11:15AM
Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 10:35-2:00
Black Christmas (PG-13) 12:45-3:10-
5:35-8:00-10:25
Dark Waters (PG-13) 11:45-5:45
Mamangam (Tamil) (NR) 11:00AM
Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13)
XD: 4:00
Richard Jewell (R) 12:25-3:30-
6:35-9:45
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
(PG-13) XD: 7:10
Opening Night Fan Event: Star Wars :
The Rise of Skywalker 5:00
Unbreakable 1:10-4:10
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13)
XD: 1:00
Frozen II (PG) 10:50-11:35-12:55-1:30-
2:15-3:35-4:15-5:00-7:05-9:45
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
(PG-13) XD: 10:45
Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13)
Bombshell (R) 7:05-9:45
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
(PG-13) XD: 7:10-9:35
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) XD:
11:10-1:00-2:10
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
(PG-13) 12:05AM
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13)
11:30-2:30-5:30
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
(PG-13) XD: 6:00-10:45
Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13)
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas
Gaithersburg
629 Center Point Way
Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) (!) 12:10-3:00
Dark Waters (PG-13) 1:30-4:30
Richard Jewell (R) (!) 9:45
Frozen II (PG) (!) 12:30-3:30-6:15-9:00
Cats (PG) (!) 7:45
Richard Jewell (R) 1:00-1:45-4:00-
4:45-6:30
Bombshell (R) (!) 7:15
12:00-1:15-2:45-4:15; 12:45-3:45-
8:00-10:45
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
(PG-13) (!) 7:30-11:00
Hoyt's West Nursery
Cinema 14
1591 West Nursery Road
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) CC:
12:30-1:30-3:15-4:15-9:40
Queen & Slim (R) CC: 12:20-3:25-11:00
21 Bridges (R) CC: 12:10-2:45-10:45
Cats (PG) CC: 7:00-9:50
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
(PG) CC: 12:30-3:00
Last Christmas (PG-13) CC: 12:15-2:35
Knives Out (PG-13) CC: 12:25-3:20
Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) CC: 12:00-3:15
2:25-4:50-10:50
Landmark
Bethesda Row Cinema
7235 Woodmont Avenue
Parasite (R) (!) 1:15-4:10
A Hidden Life (PG-13) CC: (!) 7:45
The Irishman (R) CC: (!) 3:30
Pain and Glory (R) CC: (!) 12:55
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
(PG) CC: (!) 1:30-4:00-7:35-10:05
Dark Waters (PG-13) CC: (!) 1:05-4:40
Cats (PG) CC: (!) 7:05-10:00
Knives Out (PG-13) CC: (!) 1:45-4:45-
7:50-10:00
Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) CC: (!) 1:10-
3:45-6:50-9:20
Bombshell (R) CC: (!) 7:15-9:55
Richard Jewell (R) CC: (!) 1:00-4:05-
7:00-9:50
Jojo Rabbit (PG-13) CC: (!) 1:20-4:20
Old Greenbelt Theatre
129 Centerway
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood 10:15
(PG) 5:30-8:30
The Two Popes (PG-13) 5:00-8:00
Phoenix Theatres Marlow 6
3899 Branch Avenue
Frozen II (PG) 12:30-3:00-3:30-5:30
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
(PG-13) 6:05-8:00-9:30
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 1:30- Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
2:30-4:15-5:15-7:30-8:00
Harriet (PG-13) 1:00-5:15
Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13)
12:00
Queen & Slim (R) 1:00-4:00-7:00
21 Bridges (R) 8:05
Regal Bowie
15200 Major Lansdale Boulevard
Frozen II (PG) 1:25-2:10-4:45-6:50-9:35 10:10-11:15-11:45-12:15-1:00
Black and Blue (R) 1:10-3:50
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D 12:15-1:10-3:20-4:10-7:20
(PG-13) 6:30-7:30-8:30-10:15-11:15
Joker (R) 12:50-3:50
Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13) A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood Black Christmas (PG-13) (!) 1:30-4:30
5:30
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 12:30- Knives Out (PG-13) 12:35-3:50-7:05- Dark Waters (PG-13) 11:15AM
1:00-2:25-3:30-4:00-6:40-9:35
Queen & Slim (R) 12:35-3:45-4:25-7:10 Playing with Fire (PG) 12:15-3:00
21 Bridges (R) 12:10-2:50-5:30
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
(PG-13) 6:00-7:00-8:00-9:00-9:30-9:45- Black Christmas (PG-13) 1:30-4:15
10:00-10:30-10:45
Harriet (PG-13) 12:05-3:10-6:10
Knives Out (PG-13) 12:05-3:05-6:25
Black Christmas (PG-13) 12:45-3:20 10:35
Dark Waters (PG-13) 12:35-3:35-6:50 Richard Jewell (R) 12:10-3:30-6:40- Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Cats (PG) 7:30-10:15
Richard Jewell (R) 12:30-3:35-
6:45-9:50
Regal Cinemas Majestic
Stadium 20 & IMAX
900 Ellsworth Drive
Terminator: Dark Fate (R) 12:00
Playmobil: The Movie (PG) 12:00
Frozen II (PG) 12:50-1:10-3:30-4:00- 4:50-7:45-10:40
6:40-9:40-12:30
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
(PG-13) 12:45-1:15-1:30-1:45-2:00-
2:15-2:30-2:45-3:15
Joker (R) 3:45
21 Bridges (R) 3:15
Cats (PG) 7:10-9:55-12:35
Harriet (PG-13) 12:35-3:55
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood Harriet (PG-13) 1:00-4:05
(PG) 12:40-3:35
Playing with Fire (PG) 1:00
Knives Out (PG-13) 12:00-12:30-3:55- Knives Out (PG-13) 12:00-3:05
7:05-10:15
Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 12:30-4:00-
7:30-11:00
Black Christmas (PG-13) 12:00-12:15- Cats (PG) 7:05-9:50
2:45-3:00-5:25-5:40-8:15-11:00
Dark Waters (PG-13) 12:00-3:05
Bombshell (R) 7:15-10:10
Richard Jewell (R) 12:15-3:30-6:45-
10:00
Jumanji: The Next Level - The IMAX Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D Cats (PG) CC: 7:00-8:45-9:30
2D Experience (PG-13) 12:00-3:00
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
(PG-13) 3:00AM
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker The Playmobil: The Movie (PG) 1:20
IMAX 2D Experience (PG-13) 1:10AM Frozen II (PG) 1:25-4:10-7:00-9:40
(!) No Pass/No Discount Ticket www.washingtonpost.com/movies
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema -
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker: An
IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) 9:35
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (PG-
13) 6:30-7:00-9:00-10:05-10:45
Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) CC: 1:25-
4:50-8:25 One Loudoun
Knives Out (PG-13) 11:20-1:30-2:35-
4:30-5:35-8:30-10:10
Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 11:50-3:35
Black Christmas (PG-13) 11:55-
Opening Night Fan Event: Star Wars : Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) Frozen II in RealD 3D (PG) CC: 20575 East Hampton Plaza Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 12:00-3:40- 2:45-5:30
The Rise of Skywalker 5:00 12:25-6:45 1:00-6:45 Opening Night Fan Event: Star Wars : 7:05-10:10 Dark Waters (PG-13) 12:25-3:55
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Queen & Slim (R) 12:35-3:40-6:55- Black Christmas (PG-13) CC: 2:30- The Rise of Skywalker 5:00 Black Christmas (PG-13) 12:20-2:50 Bombshell (R) 7:25-10:25
(PG-13) 6:15-6:30-6:45-7:15-7:30-7:45- 10:05 8:15-11:30 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Richard Jewell (R) 11:10-1:10-2:10- Richard Jewell (R) 12:40-4:00-7:20-
8:15-8:30-9:00-9:50-10:05-10:20-10:50- 21 Bridges (R) 12:45-3:40 Dark Waters (PG-13) CC: 3:15 (PG-13) 6:00-6:20-6:40-8:00-9:45- 4:20-5:10-8:20 10:40
11:05-11:20-11:50-12:00 Cats (PG) 7:15-10:00 Bombshell (R) CC: 7:00-9:45 10:05-10:25-10:55-12:00-1:30 Bombshell (R) 7:40-10:15 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13)
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) Harriet (PG-13) 1:30 Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13) Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 1:25 Medal of Honor Theater - 12:00-3:15-6:30-9:50
12:30-1:00-1:30-1:50-2:30-3:45-4:15- A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood CC: 4:30-5:00-7:30-10:30 Dark Waters (PG-13) 1:35-3:30 NMMC Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
4:45-5:40-7:00-10:10 (PG) 1:30-4:15 Richard Jewell (R) CC: 2:15-5:35 Frozen II (PG) 12:10-12:35-3:20-4:45- 18900 Jefferson Davis Highway (PG-13) 7:00
Queen & Slim (R) 12:45-3:25-3:55
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
Knives Out (PG-13) 12:25-3:40-7:05- Jumanji: The Next Level - The IMAX 7:45-10:50
We, the Marines (NR) 10:00-12:00- Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 1:00-
10:25 2D Experience (PG-13) CC: 1:00-4:00 Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 1:45 1:00-2:00-3:00-4:00 4:15-7:25-10:35
(PG-13) 7:00-8:00-10:35-11:35 Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 12:10-3:35 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D Richard Jewell (R) 1:10-4:30-8:45- Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
Superpower Dogs (G) 10:00AM
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker The Black Christmas (PG-13) 11:40- (PG-13) CC: 8:00-9:00-11:45-12:45 11:20 (PG-13) 10:35
IMAX 2D Experience (PG-13) 6:00 2:20-5:00 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Regal Ballston Quarter
671 North Glebe Road Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Regal Germantown Bombshell (R) 7:10-10:05 The IMAX 2D Experience (PG-13) CC: (PG-13) 8:50-12:35 (PG-13) 7:15-7:45-8:15-9:55-10:55-
Playmobil: The Movie (PG) 1:15
20000 Century Boulevard Dark Waters (PG-13) 4:00 10:45-2:15 Knives Out (PG-13) 12:00-3:10-4:15- 11:10-11:25-11:40-11:55
11:55 Frozen II (PG) 10:35-11:05-1:10-1:40- Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
Frozen II (PG) 9:55-11:10-2:00-4:50- Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13) Opening Night Fan Event: Star Wars :
7:40-10:30 3:30-9:55 The Rise of Skywalker CC: 5:00 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 3:50-4:25-7:10-9:50 (PG-13) 10:15
11:45-1:00-2:50-5:25-8:40-11:30 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Richard Jewell (R) 12:00-3:15- Unbreakable 1:30-4:15 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
(PG-13) 6:00-6:30-7:00-7:30-8:00-9:45- 6:30-9:45 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) Angelika Film Center Mosaic (PG-13) 6:00-7:00-7:25-7:30-8:00-9:45- (PG-13) 6:00-6:15-7:30-8:00-9:35
10:45-11:15-11:30
10:15-10:45-11:00-11:30-12:00 Jumanji: The Next Level - The IMAX CC: 1:30-2:15-3:45-5:30-6:45-8:45- 2911 District Ave
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 10:00- 2D Experience (PG-13) 12:00-3:00 9:45-11:45 Parasite (R) CC: 10:00-7:35 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 10:00- Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
11:00-12:00-2:10-4:10-7:15-10:10 (PG-13) 6:30
11:00-12:35-2:10-3:30-6:45-9:55 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Richard Jewell (R) CC: 10:30-1:30-
Queen & Slim (R) 12:30-3:45 (PG-13) 7:30-11:15 (PG-13) CC: 6:30-7:30-8:30-10:15- Queen & Slim (R) 11:20-2:35 Regal Manassas & IMAX
4:30-7:30-9:35-10:30 11380 Bulloch Drive
Cats (PG) 7:05-9:50 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker The 11:15-12:15-1:00 A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood Cats (PG) 7:00-10:00
IMAX 2D Experience (PG-13) 6:00 Last Christmas (PG-13) 10:15- Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
Midway (PG-13) 4:00 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker: An (PG) CC: 9:45-12:15-2:45-5:15-7:45-
Harriet (PG-13) 10:00-1:05 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) 7:00 11:00 1:00-3:45 (PG-13) 6:30-10:00
Jojo Rabbit (PG-13) 12:15-3:15 Jumanji: The Next Level - The IMAX
Knives Out (PG-13) 10:20-1:25-4:30- IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) 10:00 AMC Potomac Mills 18 Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) CC: 10:30
7:35-10:40 Opening Night Fan Event: Star Wars : 2700 Potomac Mills Circle Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Knives Out (PG-13) 11:50-3:10-6:45- 2D Experience (PG-13) 11:00-2:35
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood The Rise of Skywalker 5:00 10:00 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker: An
Terminator: Dark Fate (R) CC: 5:50 (PG-13) CC: 6:00-9:35
(PG) 10:40-1:20-4:05 Regal Westview & IMAX Dark Waters (PG-13) CC: 1:00-4:00 Black Christmas (PG-13) 11:40- IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) 9:30
Playmobil: The Movie (PG) CC: 2:20-5:00 Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13)
Venky Mama (NR) 11:05-2:15 5243 Buckeystown Pike 1:45-4:20 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) CC:
Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 10:45-2:30 Bombshell (R) 7:20-10:10 11:10
Playmobil: The Movie (PG) 12:05-1:25 Frozen II (PG) CC: 2:40-5:15-7:50-10:35 11:00-12:00-1:30-2:30-4:10-5:05-7:00- Dark Waters (PG-13) 11:50-3:30 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13)
Black Christmas (PG-13) 10:50- Frozen II (PG) 12:35-1:35-2:25-3:15- Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 8:00-10:45
1:30-4:10 Knives Out (PG-13) CC: 9:45-10:00- Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13) 11:00-2:05-5:10-8:10
4:15-4:50-5:55-8:35 (PG-13) CC: 6:00-9:45-1:30
Bombshell (R) 7:05-10:05 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 11:15-1:05-1:15-2:10-4:25-5:10- 3:20 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (PG)
Dark Waters (PG-13) 11:30-2:50-5:50 12:30-1:40-3:40-4:55-6:50-9:55 CC: 1:50 8:10-11:00 Richard Jewell (R) 12:00-3:15- (PG-13) 7:00-7:30-8:00-8:30-9:00-
Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13) Joker (R) 4:00 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) Bombshell (R) CC: 6:30-9:00 6:30-9:45 10:30-11:00-11:30-12:00
1:10 Queen & Slim (R) 12:20-3:25 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker The
CC: 1:50 Bow Tie
Richard Jewell (R) 11:45-3:00- Cats (PG) 7:05-9:50 Queen & Slim (R) CC: 3:20-4:05 Reston Town Center 11 & BTX
(PG-13) 6:30-10:15 IMAX 2D Experience (PG-13) 6:00
6:15-9:30 Regal Countryside Black Christmas (PG-13) 11:55-2:35-
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood 21 Bridges (R) CC: 3:40-6:30 11940 Market Street
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D (PG) 1:25-4:00 45980 Regal Plaza 5:15-7:55-10:30
Midway (PG-13) CC: 4:10 The Aeronauts (PG-13) 2:40-5:10-10:40
(PG-13) 7:15-8:15-8:45-10:40 Last Christmas (PG-13) 12:05- Cats (PG) CC: 7:00-10:00-12:50 Frozen II (PG) 1:30-4:10-5:00-7:40- Playmobil: The Movie (PG) 11:25AM Cats (PG) 7:00-9:45
Regal Hyattsville Royale 2:35-5:05 10:00 Frozen II (PG) 11:45-2:30-5:10-7:50- Regal Potomac Yard
Harriet (PG-13) CC: 2:05-4:50
6505 America Blvd. Knives Out (PG-13) CC: 1:45 10:25 3575 Potomac Avenue
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 1:40-
Playmobil: The Movie (PG) 12:50 Playing with Fire (PG) 1:35-4:05 (PG) CC: 5:00 4:20-10:40; 2:50 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Playmobil: The Movie (PG) 12:30
Frozen II (PG) 12:45-3:25 Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 12:15-3:40 (PG-13) 6:00-6:15-6:45-7:00-7:15-7:45- Frozen II (PG) 12:45-2:05-3:20-5:55-
Knives Out (PG-13) CC: 1:40-4:55- Bombshell (R) (!) 7:00
Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 12:30-3:45 Black Christmas (PG-13) 12:20-2:40 7:45-10:50 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D 8:30-8:45-9:00-9:45-10:15-10:30 8:20-10:50
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D Bombshell (R) 7:00-9:55 (PG-13) (!) 6:00-9:30 Panipat (NR) 2:05 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 12:55-
Honey Boy (R) CC: 1:55-4:30
(PG-13) 7:00-10:45 Dark Waters (PG-13) 12:10-3:05 Playing with Fire (PG) CC: 6:50 A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood Arjun Suravaram (NR) 12:30 2:20-4:05-4:35-5:25-7:15-10:20-10:55
Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13) Jumanji: The Next Level - The IMAX (PG) 1:05-4:40 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 11:35- Queen & Slim (R) 1:35-4:35
Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) CC: 3:35
3:55 2D Experience (PG-13) 12:00-3:05 Frozen II in RealD 3D (PG) CC: 1:55 Knives Out (PG-13) 1:00-4:00-7:20- 12:35-2:45-3:50-6:00-7:05-9:05 21 Bridges (R) 1:35-4:10
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 12:45- Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D The Body (Hindi) (NR) 12:25-3:35
Black Christmas (PG-13) CC: 1:45-4:15 10:20 Harriet (PG-13) 12:30-3:35
1:15-1:45-4:20-4:40-7:25-10:20 (PG-13) 7:00-10:40 Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 1:00-3:40 Harriet (PG-13) 12:50-3:50 Cats (PG) 7:00-9:45
Dark Waters (PG-13) CC: 1:40
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker The Richard Jewell (R) 1:20-4:30-7:30- Cats (PG) 7:00-9:45 Midway (PG-13) 2:50
(PG-13) 6:00-6:15-7:15-7:30-8:30-9:15- IMAX 2D Experience (PG-13) 6:00-1:20 Bombshell (R) CC: 7:00-9:55-12:40
Richard Jewell (R) CC: 2:30-4:05- 10:30 A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood Knives Out (PG-13) 12:40-4:15-7:25-
9:45-10:00-11:00-11:15-12:15 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker: An
7:15-10:20 Black Christmas (PG-13) 1:10-3:30- (PG) 11:40-2:20 10:25
Joker (R) 3:20 IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) 9:40 Jojo Rabbit (PG-13) 11:50-2:25
Queen & Slim (R) 12:45-4:05-7:10-10:25 Opening Night Fan Event: Star Wars : Jumanji: The Next Level - The IMAX 6:10-10:30 A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
2D Experience (PG-13) CC: 2:50 Dark Waters (PG-13) 1:15-4:10 Mardaani 2 (NR) 12:20-3:20 (PG) 1:05-3:55
21 Bridges (R) 12:35-3:15-5:50 The Rise of Skywalker 5:00 Knives Out (PG-13) 12:15-3:30-5:00- Playing with Fire (PG) 12:30-2:50-5:10
Harriet (PG-13) 12:30-3:25-6:20 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D Cats (PG) (!) 7:00-9:50
(PG-13) CC: 6:40-7:20-8:00-8:40-9:00- Midway (PG-13) 1:50 10:35 Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 12:45-4:20
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood (PG-13) 6:00-6:30-6:45-7:15-7:30-8:00- 10:25-11:05-11:45-12:25-12:45 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker The Hero (Geroy)7:00 Black Christmas (PG-13) 12:30-
(PG) 2:00-4:50-7:40-10:30 8:40-9:40-10:10-10:25-10:55-11:10- (PG-13) (!) 7:00-8:30 Pati Patni Aur Woh (NR) 11:35-2:40
11:40-12:15-1:10 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 2:55-5:35
Cats (PG) 7:05-9:50 The IMAX 2D Experience (PG-13) CC: Cinema Arts Theatre Bala (Hindi) (NR) 11:50-2:50 Dark Waters (PG-13) 12:20-3:25
Black Christmas (PG-13) 1:40-4:25- Knives Out (PG-13) 4:55-8:10 10:05-1:50 9650 Main St Venky Mama (NR) 11:25-2:40
6:50-9:25 Richard Jewell (R) 12:10-3:25- Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13)
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker: An Harriet (PG-13) CC; DVS: 12:10-9:40 Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 11:30-2:55 1:25-7:45
Dark Waters (PG-13) 12:40-3:55 6:40-9:55
IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) CC: 6:20 A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood Parasite (R) 12:50-4:05 Richard Jewell (R) 12:40-3:55-7:10-
Knives Out (PG-13) 12:45-3:55-7:20- Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Opening Night Fan Event: Star Wars : (PG) CC; DVS: 9:45-12:00-2:30-5:00- Black Christmas (PG-13) 11:55AM
10:40 (PG-13) CC: 8:20 10:25
The Rise of Skywalker CC: 5:00 7:30-9:40 Dark Waters (PG-13) 12:05-3:15 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Richard Jewell (R) 12:55-4:20-7:30- Xscape Theatres Mamangam (Malayalam) (NR)
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) CC: The Good Liar (R) CC; DVS: 9:45-2:40- (PG-13) 6:00-6:30-7:00-7:45-8:00-9:00-
10:45 Brandywine 14 3:05-10:05
7710 Matapeake Business Drive
4:35-7:30-10:30-1:35 4:55-7:20 9:35-9:45-10:15-10:45
Regal Laurel Towne Centre Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Knives Out (PG-13) CC; DVS: 10:10- Mamangam (Tamil) (NR) 6:35 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
14716 Baltimore Avenue Frozen II (PG) CC: 9:30-10:30-12:30- (PG-13) CC: 7:00-7:40-8:20-9:15-9:30- 1:25-4:30-7:40-10:10 Mamangam (Telugu) (NR) 11:30AM (PG-13) 6:00-7:30-8:30-11:00
1:30-3:30-6:20-9:20
Playmobil: The Movie (PG) 12:00 10:45-11:25-12:05-1:00-1:15 Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) CC; DVS: 10:00- Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13) Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Frozen II (PG) 12:00-3:00-6:00-10:30 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) (!) 10:10
AMC Shirlington 7 1:00-4:00-7:00-9:50 (PG-13) CC: 8:20
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 9:45-10:15-10:45-11:15-12:15-12:45- Dark Waters (PG-13) CC; DVS: 9:40- Prati Roju Pandaage (NR) 2:30-10:20
2772 South Randolph St. Regal Springfield Town Center
(PG-13) 6:00-6:15-7:00-7:30-8:00-9:00- 1:15-3:15-3:45-6:15-9:15 Richard Jewell (R) 12:40-4:00-7:10-
10:00-10:15 Queen & Slim (R) CC: 9:50-1:00-1:50- Frozen II (PG) CC: 1:40-4:15-6:45-9:20 12:15-2:45-5:10-7:50-10:10 10:15 6500 Springfield Town Center
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (PG- Richard Jewell (R) CC; DVS: 10:05-
Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 3:55-4:50 1:15-4:15-7:10-9:45 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13)
13) CC: 7:45-9:30-10:00-11:10
12:15-1:15-4:30-7:10-10:20 21 Bridges (R) CC: 9:40-12:10-2:50 (PG-13) 6:30-7:30-8:00-10:00 3:10-6:50-10:10
Cats (PG) CC: (!) 10:10 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) CC: Cinemark Centreville 12 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (PG-
Queen & Slim (R) 2:20 6201 Multiplex Drive Ruler (Telugu) (NR) 7:00
21 Bridges (R) 2:55 Harriet (PG-13) 10:05-1:45-5:00 1:10-4:00-6:50-10:25 Thambi (NR) 9:30 13) 6:00-7:00-7:15-7:45-8:00-8:30-9:30-
Frozen II (PG) 11:20-12:45-2:10-3:30-
Cats (PG) 7:00-10:00 Knives Out (PG-13) CC: 10:40-2:45- Queen & Slim (R) CC: 3:20 10:30-10:45-11:15-11:30-12:01
Regal Dulles Town Center
Harriet (PG-13) 12:20-3:50 4:10 A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood 4:50-7:30-10:20 Opening Night Fan Event: Star Wars :
(PG) CC: 1:45-4:20 Panipat (NR) 11:55AM 21100 Dulles Town Circle
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13) The Rise of Skywalker 5:00
Frozen II (PG) 11:45-12:45-2:30-3:45- Cats (PG) 7:10-9:50
(PG) 12:15-3:10 (!) 2:15-5:15 Cats (PG) CC: 7:00-9:40 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) 11:00-
12:00-1:00-3:00-4:00-7:00-10:00 5:15-8:00-10:45
Knives Out (PG-13) 12:05-3:25-6:55- Richard Jewell (R) CC: (!) 11:50-3:00- Knives Out (PG-13) CC: 1:40-4:40 Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13)
6:25-9:40 Bombshell (R) CC: 7:00-9:45 Queen & Slim (R) 12:40-3:55 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 12:00
Cats (PG) 7:00-9:45 (PG-13) 6:00-6:30-6:45-7:00-9:30-
Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 11:55-3:45 Black Christmas (PG-13) CC: (!) 10:00- Dark Waters (PG-13) CC: 1:10-4:05 Richard Jewell (R) 12:00-3:15-
11:00-12:20-1:40-2:30-8:30-10:50 Richard Jewell (R) CC: 2:40 A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood 10:00-10:15-10:30-12:00 6:30-9:45
Black Christmas (PG-13) 1:40-4:30 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13)
Bombshell (R) 7:15-10:15 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D (PG) 11:05-1:50-4:35 Bombshell (R) 7:40-10:30
(PG-13) (!) 6:30-6:50-7:00-8:00-10:00- (PG-13) CC: 6:00 Mardaani 2 (NR) 11:10-2:05-4:45 12:00-1:00-3:00-4:00-7:15-10:20
Dark Waters (PG-13) 12:00-3:30 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D
Knives Out (PG-13) 12:35-3:50-7:10- Queen & Slim (R) 12:15-3:15
Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13) 10:05-10:30-11:20 AMC Tysons Corner 16
10:30 Cats (PG) 7:00-9:30
(PG-13) 6:30-10:00
3:30 Queen & Slim (R) 6:45-10:05 7850e Tysons Corner Center
Cats (PG) (!) 7:25 Pati Patni Aur Woh (NR) 3:45 A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood Regal Virginia Gateway & RPX
Richard Jewell (R) 12:25-3:45 Frozen II (PG) CC: 9:55-12:35-1:30- 8001 Gateway Promenade Place
Knives Out (PG-13) 6:50-9:50 Venky Mama (NR) 11:15-6:00-9:30 (PG) 11:10-1:30-4:15
3:10-6:25-10:35
(PG-13) 6:30-8:30-10:30 Jumanji: The Next Level 3D (PG-13) Knives Out (PG-13) 12:30-3:30-7:45- Playmobil: The Movie (PG) 1:10-3:50
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 11:00 Frozen II (PG) 12:15-1:15-2:45-3:45-
(PG-13) (!) 6:00-9:30 2:00-5:00
Regal Rockville Center (PG-13) CC: 6:00-10:00-1:45 Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) 11:15-2:45 5:15-6:15-7:45-10:20
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Prati Roju Pandaage (NR) 2:30
199 East Montgomery Avenue Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) CC: Richard Jewell (R) 12:30-3:40- Black Christmas (PG-13) 11:05- Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
(PG-13) (!) 7:30-10:55
Playmobil: The Movie (PG) 1:40 11:05-2:05 6:45-9:50 2:00-4:30 (PG-13) 6:00
iPic Pike & Rose Joker (R) CC: 3:20
Frozen II (PG) 12:45-1:25-3:35-4:10- 11830 Grand Park Avenue Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D Bombshell (R) 7:00-10:00 Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13)
6:20-9:15 Queen & Slim (R) CC: 9:55-12:55-3:55 (PG-13) 8:40-11:15
Frozen II (PG) 2:00-5:00 Dark Waters (PG-13) 11:00-1:45-4:45 12:00-3:00
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 21 Bridges (R) CC: 10:20-12:50-3:35 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (PG- Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker 3D Queen & Slim (R) 12:25-3:35
(PG-13) 6:00-6:30-7:45-8:40-9:40- A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood (PG-13) 6:00-6:55-7:20-7:45-8:15-9:30- (PG-13) 6:15-9:45 Cats (PG) 7:00-9:40
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CLASSIC DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU PICKLES BRIAN CRANE

RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

BOTH SIDES VULNERABLE

NORTH
♠ 876
♥ K874
♦ K53
! AJ5
WEST EAST
♠ K Q J 10 5 3 ♠ 942
♥ Q 10 9 5 2 ♥6
♦ None ♦ QJ8 MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES WUMO
! 10 7 ! Q98642
SOUTH (D)
♠A
♥ AJ3
♦ A 10 9 7 6 4 2
! K3

The bidding:
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST
1♦ 2♦ Dbl Pass
Pass 2♠ Pass Pass
3♦ Pass 4♦ Pass
6♦ All Pass CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ MIKE LESTER
MIKE DU JOUR
Opening lead — ♠ K

I read an instructional guide

— 15 steps — for getting
a Christmas tree, loading it
onto the car, lugging it into
the house and setting it up
so it won’t topple over. Every
even-numbered step was
“Curse.”
The cue bid of two dia-
monds by today’s West
showed length in both
RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JAMES ALLEN
majors. At six diamonds,
South took the ace of spades
and led a trump ... and West
showed out. South cursed
and took the K-A. He cashed
the ace of hearts and then,
knowing he had a heart
loser, tried a club to dummy’s
jack.
East won and cashed his
high trump. Curses! Down
one.
South can save himself LIO MARK TATULLI MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
some curses. East prob-
ably has only three spades
— with four, he might have
bid two spades over North’s
double — so after South
takes the king of trumps, he
can ruff a spade, cash the
ace of trumps, lead a heart
to dummy and ruff the last
spade.
South then takes the king
of clubs and exits with a
trump. As he hopes, East has HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
only clubs left and must lead
to dummy’s A-J, conceding
the 12th trick.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠876♥K874
♦K53!AJ5
Your partner opens one
diamond, you respond one
heart and he bids two clubs.
What do you say?
ANSWER: You have enough
strength to invite game but BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
not to force. If a jump-pref-
erence to three diamonds
would invite, fine. If it would
be forcing, you are stuck.
You can’t bid 2NT with poor
spades. Underbid with two
diamonds or (if your system
allows) try a “fourth-suit” bid
of two spades.
— Frank Stewart
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SHERMAN’S LAGOON JIM TOOMEY

SUDOKU

CURTIS RAY BILLINGSLEY

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HOROSCOPE

BIRTHDAY | DECEMBER 19
This year, you will
be more diplomatic
and sensitive to
your audience. Your
sensitive yet social nature
draws many admirers. Your
friendship and encouragement
also mean a lot to your friends
and loved ones. If single,
you might quickly change
your mind about somebody
after several dates. Be
DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY wise, say little and minimize
expectations. If attached,
living with you could never
be boring because of your
complex nature and ability
to see the positives in nearly
all situations. Your sweetie
appreciates your versatility but
might not share that quality.
He or she has learned that you
can swing from one opinion
to another. Libra understands
you particularly well.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
Defer to others knowing that
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL the ramifications and results
could be mixed. Rather than
reacting, be positive and
encourage greater flexibility.
Extremes seem to be the
nature of the day.
TAURUS
(APRIL 20-MAY 20).
Be gracious about what
another party volunteers. You
might not agree or want to
accept the offer. Know that the
offer is heartfelt. Detach and
you will note ideas coming in
from left field.
GEMINI
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
You perk up and feel far
more relaxed, even in tense
situations. You feel as if you
have the wherewithal to get
to where you want. You have
energy and drive on your side.
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
Defer to others with clarity
and some expectations. One
specific person means a
lot to you. Do not think that
this situation is a one-way
street. Be open to this person
STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER STAN LEE & ALEX SAVIUK and worry less about being
DUSTIN THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN defensive.
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
Others open up with ease, and
you have a lot to share. You
might not be sure about the
best way to share your feelings
around a hot-button issue.
You do not want to exclude
someone, yet you need to
communicate.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
Spending goes haywire before
you know it. Listen to your
PRICKLY CITY SCOTT STANTIS LOOSE PARTS DAVE BLAZEK inner voice yet be willing to
call in all the self-discipline
needed. Ultimately, you will
free up more choices. Your
creativity emerges.
LIBRA
(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
You will be more forthright and
direct than you have been for a
while. Others seem to open up
and enjoy the moment. Push
comes to shove with a person
who is closed-minded and has
an impact on you.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT Speak your mind, but do not
engage in a conversation that
you might not be open to.
Listen to what is being said.
Do not feel that you need to
respond yet. Flow with the
moment.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
You clearly have a winning
idea, or you are working
with one. The feedback you
get, though not all positive,
supports your objectives.
Listen to what is said even
though you might not agree.
BIG NATE LINCOLN PEIRCE ON THE FASTRACK BILL HOLBROOK
CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
Listen to your inner voice.
You have a decision to make.
Others will observe carefully
which way you decide to go.
Your ideas and leadership are
valued. Be forthright and direct
in your dealings.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
Look for more information in
search of the right decision.
Others will appreciate your
research, but also your choice
BEETLE BAILEY MORT, BRIAN & GREG WALKER PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS will be sounder. Attempt to
walk in another person’s
shoes.
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
One-on-one relating takes
you down a meaningful path.
How you deal with someone
could change radically. Honor
your needs yet be willing to
take a risk. A friend could
become contentious at the last
moment.
— Jacqueline Bigar
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on this day in 1984, national Hockey league coach High temperatures struggle to get find more of fred bowen’s
scotty bowman won his 691st regular-season game to past the low to mid-30s, and winds columns about all your
become the nHl’s career leader in victories. bowman blow 5 to 10 miles per hour. favorite sports in our
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b I rT H dA y s o f T H e W eeK
Sport climbing reaches
mondAy, december 23
fairfax county’s dash Taylor (2011).
actor finn Wolfhard (2002).
the Summer Olympics
the capitals’ t.J. oshie (1986).
The big sports way to deal with stress because
football coach Jim Harbaugh (1963). The Score news is that climbing requires “complete
TuesdAy, december 24 FRED BOWEN 2020, which is focus.” You can’t worry about
just around the other things when you are
mclean’s brooks Allen (2007). corner, is an climbing.
Taylor Allen singer louis tomlinson (1991). Olympic year. The Summer The sport also helps people
tV host ryan seacrest (1974). Games will take place in Tokyo, face their fears and learn to trust
WednesdAy, december 25 Japan, from July 24 to August 9. others. In most climbs, the
The big Olympic news is there climber is working with someone
canadian prime minister Justin will be five new sports at the else on the end of the safety rope.
trudeau (1971). Summer Games: baseball/ As Gava likes to say, “Climbing
singer Jimmy buffett (1946). softball, karate, skateboarding, can create good people.”
nurse clara barton (1821). sport climbing and surfing. That includes kids. David
THursdAy, december 26 It’s hard to think about surfing Rosman is a freshman at
when it’s December. But Washington-Liberty High School
great mills, maryland’s competitive climbing is an indoor in Arlington, who has been
Derisavi O. Clarke Isabella derisavi (2008). sport in which athletes climb climbing for three years. He
actor christian J. simon (2007). walls covered with “rocks” made recently gave up soccer to
singer Jade thirlwall (1992). of hard, molded resin. concentrate on competitive
puppeteer caroll spinney (1933). There will be three types of climbing. (David still runs track
competitive climbing in the for Washington-Liberty.)
frIdAy, december 27 Summer Olympics. In speed David, who is 14, was
springfield’s owen clarke (2010). climbing, two athletes race up a introduced to the sport when he
actor timothée chalamet (1995). 15-meter wall (almost 50 feet) as attended the Maryland
singer Hayley Williams (1988). quickly as they can. Don’t worry! Renaissance Festival and spent
Journalist cokie roberts (1943). They have safety ropes that keep much of the day on a climbing wall
them from falling. there. He found Earth Treks, not
Bouie Carbo sATurdAy, december 28 Bouldering is when the far from his home, and soon he
singer David archuleta (1990). athletes move across routes laid was a regular visitor.
singer John legend (1978). out on much lower walls. While he competes in
snowboarder todd richards (1969).
Finally, lead climbing is when bouldering and lead climbing,
athletes with safety ropes try to David says he enjoys the climbing
sundAy, december 29 see how high they can climb a community.
super-difficult course in six “I’ve met a lot of good friends
fort Washington’s mason bouie
minutes. through climbing,” he says.
(2012). Nick Gava, the gym director of “Climbers are friendly.”
bowie’s Zoe carbo (2008). the Earth Treks climbing center Still, David is excited the sport
arlington’s Kiko mataka and in Arlington, thinks the speed will be in the Olympics.
K. Mataka S. Mataka sachi mataka (2008). climbing will make the biggest “Some kids say it’s not a sport,”
springfield’s ella clarke (2007). splash in the Summer Games. he says. “I’ve tried lots of sports,
actor ross lynch (1995). Gava says the sport is “like and none are as hard as climbing.
actress mary tyler moore (1936). sprinting . . . vertically.” But that’s why I like it. I like the
While the Olympics will throw challenge.”
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printed on a first-come, first-served basis. they do
not appear online. a parent or legal guardian must the sport, most climbers will not
give permission. We need photos at least a month become Olympians. According to bowen writes the sports opinion
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not desired) at least a week before publication. Gava, climbers enjoy the mental column for Kidspost. He is the author
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E. Clarke Roberts 1301 K st. nW, Washington, D.c. 20071. Gava says climbing is a great chapters set at a climbing gym. as well as baseball/softball, karate, skateboarding and surfing.

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Up 18 late,
Wizards
manage to
fall in OT
BuLLs 110,
WIzARDs 109 (OT)
BY C ANDACE B UCKNER

Bradley Beal’s final shot

bounced around on the rim,
teasing the Washington Wizards
and their fans at Capital one
Arena. If the jumper from inside
the paint had gone through, then
Wednesday night would not have
been an epic collapse. The Wiz-
ards would have made up for
blowing an 18-point lead. They
would have left the floor cele-
brating another spectacular
shooting display by Davis Ber-
tans.
Instead, the Wizards lost in
overtime to the Chicago Bulls, a
defeat sealed when Beal’s shot
rolled off the rim. Moments earli-
er, Wendell Carter Jr. converted a
layup to give the Bulls a 110-109
margin that held as the final,
dropping the Wizards to 8-18
after an abysmal and inexcusable
loss.
“We’re showing signs that
we’re doing the right things on
the defensive end, but moments
like tonight, we got to be better,”
said Beal, who made only 4 of 19
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As baseball weighs minor league cuts, major league hopefuls foresee a narrower path to reaching the top
Withering fields of dreams?
BY D AVE S HEININ
In the waning hours of the 2017
Major League Baseball draft,
Gabe Klobosits was sitting glum-
ly with family members, watch-
ing his baseball life pass before
his eyes and contemplating a
career spent behind a desk, when
suddenly the Washington nation-
als called. They had decided to
draft the Auburn University
right-hander in the 36th round.
The signing bonus would be
$2,500.
He quickly agreed to the offer
and spent most of that summer
with two of the nationals’ lowest
minor league affiliates, the short-
season Class A Auburn (n.Y.)
Doubledays of the new York-
Penn League and the low Class A
Hagerstown (Md.) suns of the
Young Terps
need a leader,
south Atlantic League.
and Morsell
This fall, when Klobosits, now
24, heard about MLB’s proposal
has emerged
to eliminate the big league affilia-
tions of 42 minor league teams — BY E MILY G IAMBALVO
including the Doubledays and
suns — and reduce the draft from When Maryland’s men’s bas-
40 rounds to 20 or 25, his ketball team ventured up to Penn
thoughts immediately turned to state last season, the game fea-
what would have happened to tured a familiar sluggish start
him in 2017 had such a system but then spiraled into a gloomy
been in place. 40 minutes, one of the low points
“Plain and simple, I wouldn’t of the campaign. nobody had a
be where I am today,” said Klobos- performance that offered much
its, a 6-foot-7 reliever who, from reassurance, but Darryl Morsell’s
his humble beginnings, has self-assessment is particularly
turned himself into a legitimate critical.
big league prospect, with a career Morsell finished that game
1.83 eRA in the minors and a with six points, four rebounds,
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chance to reach Class AA Harris- one assist and four turnovers. He
gabe Klobosits developed into a prospect after being burg in 2020. “I’d probably be said he wasn’t patient enough or
drafted by the nationals in the 36th round. A proposed working a desk job, with a lot where he needed to be mentally.
mlb plan would end the draft after 20 or 25 rounds. see mInor leAgues on d6 That disappointing loss deep in
the regular season showed Mor-
sell how when he plays poorly,
“that’s draining to not just me,
but it’s bringing my teammates
down.”
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Haskins sick of looking back
at first game against Giants
BY L ES C ARPENTER
Washington Redskins quarter-
back Dwayne Haskins stood be-
hind a microphone Wednesday
afternoon and started talking
about vomit.
“I throw up watching that
film,” he said.
The footage in question is the
tape of his first nFL game, a 24-3
loss at the new York Giants on
sept. 29, in which he was thrust
onto the field not long before
halftime and looked unprepared
for the moment as three of the
17 passes he threw were intercept-
ed. It was about as disastrous a
debut as a rookie quarterback
could have.
“I don’t want to talk about it,”
Haskins continued. “It’s done
with.”
A lot has happened since that
forgettable afternoon in new Jer-
sey. Haskins has been sent back to
the bench, thrown back on the
NATIoNAL SIGNING DAY
st. John’s five-star Wr
rakim Jarrett flips from
Lsu to maryland. D5
Giants at redskins
sunday, 1 p.m., WTTg-5
field, finally been handed the
starting job and has completed
enough passes and led enough
comebacks for the new York
game to be a distant memory.
now, with the Giants coming to
Fedex Field on sunday, Haskins
can look back and not want to
look back.
“It isn’t that I don’t like the
tape. It’s just I’m a whole different
player than I was back then,” he
said. “I feel watching that tape is
not me and it wasn’t me out there.
You want to look at it and be like,
‘That’s what I messed up on,’ and
move on from it. I don’t mind
watching it. I just prefer to watch
something else.”
Back in september, the stories
were about Haskins and Daniel
Jones, the Giants rookie quarter-
back chosen nine spots before
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oBITUArY
Herman Boone, coach of
T.c. Williams immortalized
on film, dies at 84. B6
Fledgling U.S. rugby league brings in a global star
South Africa’s Mtawarira wants to be an ambassador for the sport, signs with the new D.C. franchise
BY S AM F ORTIER
Tendai Mtawarira was skeptical
at first. He’s one of the world’s best
rugby players, the size of a vending
machine with the agility of a run-
ning back. He commands such
respect that, when he carries the
ball, crowds across continents
roar his nickname: “Beast!” He
heard it in Japan in november as
he helped south Africa to its third
title at the World Cup.
But earlier this month Mtawari-
ra was in Washington, meeting
with a team that had never played
a game, in a country that considers
rugby a niche sport, finalizing a
contract worth a fraction of what
he could make elsewhere. Two lo-
cal business executives had
brought him to the nation’s capital
in hopes that someone of his stat-
ure could help propel the sport
into the spotlight in the United
states.
Mtawarira told them he would
like to give it a try. The south
African superstar signed saturday
with Washington’s new Major
League Rugby franchise, old Glo-
ry.
Mtawarira says he wants to be
nIc BoTHma/ePa-eFe/sHuTTersTocK an ambassador for the sport in the
Tendai mtawarira will play for old glory, washington’s new major league rugby team, in 2020. see rugby on d5
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Ravens’ It’s a first:

Jackson is A woman
a runaway wins match
fan favorite at worlds
BY D ES B IELER BY D ES B IELER

The NFL announced its Pro History was made Tuesday in

Bowl rosters Tuesday, a day after
releasing the results of fan voting
that confirmed Lamar Jackson
has become the league’s most pop-
ular player.
With 704,699 votes, the Ravens’
quarterback ran away from the
field in much the same way he
dusts would-be tacklers on a regu-
lar basis for Baltimore.
The next-biggest vote-getter,
per the NFL, was his only plausi-
ble challenger at this point for
league MVP honors, Seattle Sea-
hawks quarterback Russell Wil-
son. However, with 539,768 votes,
Wilson was far closer to the
406,477 garnered by the fifth-
place player, Carolina Panthers
running back Christian McCaf-
frey, than he was to Jackson.
Jackson has helped the Ravens
to the best record in the NFL at
12-2. And it’s not just that Jackson,
in his second season, has overseen
so much success. His playing style,
including running skills that have
resulted in a single-season rush-
ing record for an NFL quarter-
back, has electrified the league.
The NFL would be smart to
rush Jackson’s Pro Bowl merchan-
dise to store shelves because his
skyrocketing popularity has
turned previously produced items
into scarce commodities ahead of
Christmas. In fact, the best the
Ravens’ official online team store
can do is promise that a Jackson
jersey will be shipped “no later”
than Jan. 17, while claiming, “It’s
worth the wait!”
“It’s the highest demand for any
single Ravens player that I’ve ever
seen — and I’ve done this for the
Ravens for 11 years,” Ravens Se-
nior Director of Retail Chris In-
ouye told the team’s website.
And good luck finding anything
from Jackson’s personal line of
apparel, Era 8 (as in his jersey
number). As of this writing, 99 of
100 items listed at that company’s
website were sold out, and a hood-
ed pullover sweatshirt featuring a
design with the word “Pressure”
was only available in size 3XL.
ESPN reported this month that
on Cyber Monday, Jackson-related
merchandise outsold that of every
other athlete at Fanatics.com.
desmond.bieler@washpost.com
Quotable
“We’ve been
approached about
interest in buying the
team, but there’s been
no serious discussions.”
rod Wood,
Lions team president, responding to
media reports that amazon Ceo Jeff
Bezos (who owns the Washington
post) may want to buy the nFL team.
LSU quarterback Joe Burrow spoke emotionally Saturday night about the problem of hunger in his hometown.
A moving speech in many ways
BY C INDY B OREN
Joe Burrow’s big moment was
unscripted, and it came straight from
the heart.
After winning the Heisman Trophy
by a historic margin Saturday, LSU’s
record-breaking quarterback used his
acceptance speech to tearfully
remember those who are less fortunate,
specifically highlighting the problem of
hunger in his hometown of Athens,
Ohio. That kind gesture went viral and
sent ripples nationally, sparking an
impromptu fundraiser that left the
Athens County Food Pantry with nearly
$435,000 in donations by Wednesday
morning.
“Coming from southeast Ohio, it’s a
very impoverished area,” the 23-year-
old Burrow said on the stage in New
York, wiping away tears after he won the
award. “The poverty rate is almost two
times the national average, and there’s
so many people there that don’t have a
lot.
“I’m up here for all those kids in
Athens and in Athens County that go
home to not a lot of food on the table,
hungry after school,” he added, telling
those kids, “and you guys can be up
here, too.”
It was a moment that was pure and
unscripted, his father, Jimmy Burrow,
told The Washington Post.
“About an hour before we were to go
to where the presentation was being
held, I asked my wife, ‘You know, we
haven’t even really talked to Joe about
whether he’s prepared any words or
anything.’ So I went down to his room,
and he was sitting at his desk, making a
few notes on a very small piece of paper,
and I asked, ‘Hey, are you putting down
some thoughts?’ and he said yes,”
Jimmy Burrow recalled.
“I didn’t have any idea what he was
going to say, and to see him up there
speaking from the heart, you knew that
was probably nothing he had written
down. Afterward, I said, ‘Joe, you really
didn’t use anything you put on that
piece of paper, did you?’ And he said,
Burrow’s Heisman acceptance
spurs donations to food pantry
in hometown of Athens, Ohio
‘No, not really.’ That’s the beauty of it. It
was genuine, not prepared and not
planned. He really did speak from his
heart.”
The speech spurred Will Drabold, an
Athens resident, to create a fundraising
page the next day on Facebook for the
Athens County Food Pantry.
“I started this because, like everyone
else from Athens, I cried during Joey’s
speech and felt like there had to be a
way to harness that,” Drabold, a
graduate of Athens’s Ohio University,
wrote.
Contributions poured in from
around the country, particularly Ohio
and Louisiana, where Burrow has led
No. 1 LSU into a Dec. 28 College Football
Playoff semifinal game against No. 4
Oklahoma. With CNN planning a visit
to Athens and NBC interested as well,
his hometown food pantry is suddenly
in the national spotlight. “We’re still
trying to come to terms with the reality
that this isn’t a dream,” Karin Bright,
the food pantry president, told NPR.
“It’s amazing.”
Burrow, who grew up in Athens,
initially played at Ohio State but
transferred to LSU in 2018 after
graduating in three years with a degree
in consumer and family financial
services. At LSU, he has become a
beloved star and the likely No. 1 pick in
next spring’s NFL draft, as popular in
the Bayou State as he is in Ohio. “It’s like
Joe has become everybody’s next door
neighbor,” Bright said, “the kid that
everybody knows.”
Not surprisingly, people from
Louisiana were eager to donate, too,
with one caller, Bright said, telling her
daughter, “Thank you for Joe, from
Louisiana.”
Jimmy Burrow noted that a
London, where a woman defeated
a man for the first time at the PDC
World Darts Championship.
“I feel really happy because I
have proven something for wom-
en’s darts, that women can play
the men and beat them, so fingers
crossed this is a move in the right
direction,” Fallon Sherrock said
after she topped Ted Evetts in a
first-round match.
The win didn’t come easily:
The 25-year-old Sherrock fell be-
hind 1-0 and 2-1 in the best-of-
five-sets contest.
When her final dart hit the
double 18 she needed for a match-
ending 36, a raucous crowd at
Jason szenes/assoCIated press
Alexandra Palace in London cele-
brated wildly.
“I’m over the moon. I can’t
believe it,” Sherrock, a native of
England, said after her victory
(via the Guardian).
Arguably the most prestigious
tournament in its sport, the PDC
World Darts Championship
reciprocal food drive in Baton Rouge is boasts the largest prize pool, al-
in the offing, with LSU keeping a most $3.3 million, of any such
watchful eye to ensure no NCAA rules event.
are violated. Having assured herself of ap-
“The power of words spoken by the proximately $20,000 by reaching
right people can make a big difference,” the second round, Sherrock could
Jimmy Burrow said. “The good thing is haul in almost $655,000 if she
that people saw how sincere Joe was in wins the final Jan. 1.
his thoughts about Athens County and One evening earlier in the tour-
southeast Ohio. It struck a nerve.” nament, Japan’s Mikuru Suzuki
Athens is the poorest county in Ohio, nearly pulled off the trailblazing
with an Ohio Development Services victory, but the reigning women’s
Agency report indicating that more world champion fell just short in
than 30 percent of its population lives in the final leg against James Rich-
poverty — a rate nearly three times the ardson.
national average. The local pantry Sherrock said watching Suzuki
served more than 2,100 families last come so close inspired her. “With-
year. Athens Mayor Steve Patterson told out her, I don’t think I would have
the (Baton Rouge) Advocate that the believed in myself,” she said.
town, which was founded in 1798, has The fourth-ranked women’s
seen its industrial base in the timber, oil player in the world, Sherrock was
extraction and coal businesses wither the fifth woman to compete in the
away. The top employer is Ohio PDC World Darts Championship,
University, with an enrollment of following Suzuki, England’s Lisa
23,000 students across all levels, Ashton, who competed last year,
followed by the hospital and Walmart. Russia’s Anastasia Dobromyslova
“Hunger is a real problem in our (2009 and 2018 appearances) and
county. We don’t have much in the way Canada’s Gayl King (2001).
of industry. So economically, we When the tournament expand-
struggle and we’re rural, so ed to 96 players last year, the
transportation makes it very difficult Professional Darts Corporation
for people to get jobs and be able to get announced it was reserving two
there,” Bright told NPR. “People are spots for women, with more able
struggling, and they do their best. But to gain entry through qualifying
it’s really, really challenging here.” events.
Burrow’s speech helped ease the “I think with the PDC giving
humiliation of asking for help. Drabold the opportunity for us women to
told NPR that a student in his wife’s play, it definitely opened it up,”
elementary school special education Sherrock said. “But honestly,
class had spoken proudly about using what I’ve just done tonight, I hope
the food pantry after Burrow’s remarks. it just proves that women, we can
“As we all know, sometimes people are beat the men. We can play well
embarrassed that they have to utilize against the men.
something like a food pantry,” Jimmy “We just need more opportuni-
Burrow said, “so I guess it’s okay now ties to prove ourselves,” she add-
that Joe Burrow talked about it.” ed.
This episode figures to increase the As for the enthusiastic support
community’s connection to Burrow. she received Tuesday, Sherrock
“For him to bring that up . . . this is a said: “I loved the crowd tonight.
man who has not forgotten where he I’ve never experienced something
came from, and I don’t think he ever like that in my life. . . . It was just
will,” Bright told NPR. overwhelming.”
cindy.boren@washpost.com Sherrock moves on to face Aus-
tria’s Mensur Suljovic in the sec-
ond round.
desmond.bieler@washpost.com

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soccer
Amid unrest outside,
‘Clásico’ ends in draw
Barcelona and Real Madrid
played out a 0-0 draw for the first
time in 17 years Wednesday in a
politically supercharged “Clásico”
match played amid a large
separatist protest that turned
violent outside Camp Nou in
Barcelona.
The game inside the stadium
was completed without any
major incidents — either on the
field or in the stands. But in the
streets outside, a detachment of
riot police clashed with
protesters soon after the start,
and plastic trash cans were set on
fire. The smell of smoke from the
streets outside reached the stands
in the final minutes of the match.
The draw left the teams tied
atop the Spanish league, with
Barcelona in front on goal
difference. . . .
Roberto Firmino’s 90th-
minute winner sent Liverpool
into the Club World Cup final
with a 2-1 victory over Monterrey
in Doha, Qatar.
The Brazilian forward flicked
in Trent Alexander-Arnold’s
cross at the near post to set up a
meeting with South American
dI gest
champion Flamengo of Brazil on
Saturday. . . .
The two Manchester clubs will
meet in the semifinals of the
English League Cup after both
pulled clear in the second half to
beat lower-division opponents in
the quarterfinals.
City stayed on course to win
the competition for a third
straight season after Raheem
Sterling scored twice after
halftime in a 3-1 win at third-tier
Oxford.
United scored all of its goals
after the break to earn a 3-0 win
over Colchester, which arrived at
Old Trafford in ninth place in the
fourth tier.
Leicester will face Aston Villa
in the other semifinal after
beating Everton, 4-2, in a penalty
shootout. . . .
According to an ESPN report,
Mikel Arteta agreed to a 31/2-year
deal to become Arsenal’s
manager.
Arteta, 37, who played for
Arsenal from 2011 to 2016 and has
since served as an assistant for
Manchester City, would replace
Unai Emery, who was fired last
month. . . .
Dutch teenager Joshua
Zirkzee marked his Bundesliga
debut for Bayern Munich by
scoring a crucial goal in stoppage
time to help secure a 3-1 win over
Freiburg.
The win moved Bayern up to
third, four points behind German
league leader Leipzig and second-
place Borussia
Mönchengladbach, which beat
Paderborn, 2-0. . . .
Cristiano Ronaldo scored for
the sixth time in five matches
when the Juventus forward
netted a soaring header to secure
a 2-1 victory at Sampdoria,
putting the defending champion
back atop the Italian Serie A
standings.
baseball
The Boston Red Sox will pay a
franchise record $13.4 million
luxury tax after failing to make
the playoffs, and the New York
Yankees finished with a
$6.7 million bill, likely a fraction
of what they will pay next year.
Three teams owe tax,
according to end-of-year figures
sent to clubs and obtained by the
Associated Press.
The Chicago Cubs must pay
$7.6 million after a season that
ended with no postseason berth.
New York has run up a total of
$348 million in tax since the
payroll restraint system began in
2003, owing money in each year
except 2018. . . .
Three-time all-star outfielder
Matt Kemp agreed to terms on a
minor league contract with
the Miami Marlins and is
expected to take part in spring
training.
colleges
The University of Cincinnati
hired John Cunningham from
Minnesota as athletic director.
Cunningham was Minnesota’s
deputy athletic director from
2016 to 2019. He also worked in
various roles at Boise State, TCU,
Maryland and Syracuse.
The Bearcats had been looking
for an athletic director since
Mike Bohn went to USC in early
November.
eQuestrIan
A former Olympian charged
with shooting and wounding a
woman at his training center was
indicted on two counts of
attempted murder.
Michael Barison also faces a
weapons count in the indictment,
which was made public
Wednesday, handed up by a
Morris County (N.J.) grand jury.
Authorities have said the
Aug. 7 shooting culminated a
lengthy dispute involving
Barisone and a couple who had
been living and training horses at
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Barisone’s farm in western New year-old Lauren Kanarek twice
Jersey. Barisone has claimed the in the chest and then tried to
couple violated a verbal shoot her fiance, Robert
agreement to leave once they Goodwin, but missed.
were finished with the training, Kanarek was placed in a
and police had been called several medically induced coma and
times to the home in the 10 days underwent extensive surgery to
leading up to the shooting. repair damage to her left lung.
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THURSDAy, DECEMbER 19 , 2019
Capitals’ fourth line knows its role
Dowd, Hathaway and Leipsic have thrived this season by understanding what they do best
BY S AMANTHA P ELL
Washington Capitals center
Nic Dowd knew what he had to do
to make it in the NHL — same
with Garnet Hathaway and Bren-
dan Leipsic. All of them flashed
their strong suits in college and/
or the minors, up until they
reached hockey’s biggest stage.
But making it into the league is
one thing; staying in it when
you’re no longer a team’s biggest
star is another. And all three play-
ers have had to tweak their games
to fit in at various stops around
the NHL.
Since they arrived in Washing-
ton over the past year and a half,
the three members of the Capitals’
fourth line have established a nat-
ural chemistry on and off the ice,
built on a shared hockey IQ and
an understanding of how to carve
out their roles in the NHL.
“I had a coach in college that
said, ‘realize what you’re good at
and do that the best, and you’ll
continue to get better at the other
stuff because people can build a
role in the NHL,’ ” Hathaway said.
The “DHL line,” as some have
begun calling the unit — because
“they deliver” — has impressed
teammates and coaches alike
with Dowd’s defensive prowess
and ability on faceoffs, Hatha-
way’s physical presence and
forechecking ability and Leipsic’s
speed and quick-twitch move-
ments up ice.
When those players are on the
ice together, the Capitals have
scored six goals and allowed four,
according to Natural Stat Trick.
The line is enjoying a 49-30 ad-
vantage in even-strength scoring
chances over more than 100 min-
utes of ice time this season.
The three are even creating
offense for other lines, such as in
the Capitals’ 5-2 win Saturday
against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
The fourth line settled the game
down in an early shift that opened
the door for Washington to capi-
talize on Tampa Bay’s first true
mistake of the night: a turnover
that Nicklas Backstrom corralled
at the front of the net for the
game’s opening goal.
Each fourth-line player has
forged his own path to success.
Dowd said it really took him until
last season — his first with the
Capitals and fourth in the NHL —
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Philadelphia falls short, an 18-point
takes first loss at home lead vanish
in OT defeat straight game for the mavericks
HEAt 108,
76Ers 104
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Kendrick Nunn scored
26 points to help the miami Heat
hand the Philadelphia 76ers their
first home loss of the season, 108-
104, on Wednesday night.
The 76ers had been 14-0 at
home, including a 113-86 victory
over the Heat last month.
Tobias Harris buried a three-
pointer for the 76ers with 25.5 sec-
onds left that made it 106-104, and
they had sudden life when Nunn
missed twice at the line. Al Hor-
ford, though, missed an open
three from the wing, and the Heat
escaped in a thriller.
Bam Adebayo scored 23 points,
and Duncan robinson had 15 for
the Heat.
Jimmy Butler scored 14 points
for the Heat and was pretty much a
nonfactor until late in his second
game back in Philadelphia.
Butler was soundly booed the
first few times he touched the ball
and continued to get jeers
throughout the game.
l rAPTOrs 112, PIsTONs
99: Kyle Lowry had 20 points,
10 rebounds and 10 assists for a
triple-double, and Toronto had an
11-0 run in the third quarter on its
way to a victory in Detroit.
The raptors were without
guard fred VanVleet because of
knee injury. Then center marc
Gasol left with a hamstring strain.
The Pistons got frontcourt
standouts Blake Griffin and Andre
Drummond back from their inju-
ries for this game but still allowed
70 points in the first half and 40 in
the second quarter.
l CELTICs 109, MAVErICKs
103: Kemba Walker scored
32 points and Jaylen Brown had 26
as Boston won in Dallas.
Jayson Tatum added 24 points
to help the Celtics prevail on a
night when both teams were miss-
ing key players.
The Celtics held the mavericks
15 points below their season aver-
age, with Luka Doncic’s absence
felt more than in Dallas’s win
monday over milwaukee.
Doncic sat out his second
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Center Nic dowd (26) and left wing Brendan Leipsic (28) have given the Capitals a boost this year.
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to understand what his role
should be.
“It’s not like I didn’t know that
is what I needed to do,” Dowd
said, “but I think there was a little
resistance in myself wanting to
change from what I was: a point
guy . . . to a guy that plays lower
minutes and is relied upon in
different situations other than
what I was used to my whole life.”
During his first couple of sea-
sons in the NHL with the Los
Angeles Kings, the center “found
out pretty quickly” that he needed
to change his game to have a
chance to stay in the league. He
focused on being more responsi-
ble defensively, concentrating
more on faceoffs and being an
asset on the penalty kill.
This season, Dowd has been
part of the reason the Capitals are
with a right ankle sprain, while
Boston was without Gordon Hay-
ward (left foot soreness) and mar-
cus Smart (left eye infection).
Kristaps Porzingis led Dallas
with 23 points and 13 rebounds.
l THUNdEr 126, GrIz-
zLIEs 122: Dennis Schroder
scored 31 points, and oklahoma
City overcame a 24-point deficit to
beat memphis at home.
Danilo Gallinari and Shai
Gilgeous-Alexander each scored
20 points and Chris Paul added 18
for the Thunder, which rallied
from 26 points down to beat the
Chicago Bulls on monday.
The Thunder surged at the end
of the third. Abdel Nader hit a
three with nine seconds left, then
Schroder stole the inbound pass
and Gilgeous-Alexander hit a 16-
footer to cut the deficit to 100-93.
oklahoma City took the lead with
just over eight minutes to play.
l PELICANs 107, TIMBEr-
wOLVEs 99: Brandon Ingram
scored 34 points, and New orleans
snapped a 13-game losing streak
with a win against shorthanded
minnesota in minneapolis.
Jrue Holiday had 18 points and
Lonzo Ball added 10 points, six
rebounds and six assists off the
bench for the Pelicans.
Playing without Karl-Anthony
Towns, minnesota lost its seventh
straight.
l NUGGETs 113, MAGIC 104:
Jamal murray and Paul millsap
helped fuel a 24-0 run in the third
quarter as host Denver rallied to
beat orlando.
murray finished with 33 points,
including 13 in the pivotal third
quarter. millsap scored 14 of his
15 points during the third.
Trailing 69-50 in the third, the
Nuggets stormed back, holding
the magic scoreless for more than
six minutes, and led 84-76 by the
end of the quarter.
l CAVALIErs 100, HOr-
NETs 98: Collin Sexton scored
23 points, Cedi osman had 18, and
host Cleveland held off a late Char-
lotte comeback.
Cleveland led the entire game
but nearly squandered a 24-point
lead in the third quarter.
Terry rozier scored a career-
high 35 points for the Hornets and
hit five threes in the fourth.
fourth in the NHL on the penalty
kill at 85.4 percent.
“I think it took some maturing,”
said Dowd, who has two goals and
four assists in 23 games this sea-
son. “When I was in Los Angeles
in my first organization, I kind of
worked my way up from the
American League, made my way
up and earned at least an oppor-
tunity to play in the NHL. At the
AHL level I was a player that did a
little bit of everything, and I was
relied upon in big situations and
played a lot of minutes and was
relied upon to score and produce.”
Hathaway has built his game
on his ability to be physical and to
use his body to create chances for
others. He wasn’t a big scorer in
college the way Dowd was, but
during his time in the minors he
learned to adjust to different situ-
ations before reaching the NHL
level.
“I was fortunate enough to
have the same coach in the minors
the entire time, and he helped me
earn more responsibility and time
on the ice and basically be able to
play under different circumstanc-
es,” Hathaway said. “It was a lot of
building off of watching video and
watching other guys play and just
that firsthand experience of see-
ing what worked and what
didn’t.”
Hathaway has five goals and
five assists in 32 games this sea-
wIzArds from d1
shots but finished with seven
assists and seven rebounds. “Exe-
cute down the stretch, and I’ve
got to put it away. Plain and
simple.”
At the 8:21 mark of the fourth
quarter, Washington led 93-75
but then replaced team ball with
failed heroics. When the Wizards
weren’t missing shots — the
starters went a combined 2 for 11
in the fourth — they tossed away
important possessions, with
eight turnovers in the fourth
quarter and overtime. And on the
defensive end, they committed
untimely fouls.
“We may have depended on
Brad too much,” Isaiah Thomas
said of the stagnated fourth quar-
ter that produced merely
13 points. “We just didn’t execute
like we did to get us the lead, and
I think that hurt us. That was
probably the biggest thing. We
played like we were stalling, for
whatever reason.”
Still, the Wizards managed to
pull ahead 98-96 when Beal con-
verted a pullup jumper with a
half-second remaining in regula-
tion. That half-second proved to
be plenty of time for the Wizards
to make another costly mistake.
The Bulls inbounded needing
some heroics of their own — or
some help from the Wizards. The
hosts obliged. Isaac Bonga fouled
Zach LaVine under the rim be-
fore any time elapsed. LaVine,
who finished with 24 points and
five assists, made both free
throws as part of Chicago’s 23-5
run to close regulation.
“I thought they were going to
run a quick pin-down, so I want-
ed to make sure we had two
perimeter guys switching, which
we knew it could possibly hap-
pen that way,” Coach Scott
Brooks said, explaining his deci-
sion to keep starting center Ian
mahinmi on the sideline. “I
thought [Bonga] had good posi-
tion, but at the very last minute
they got tangled up and held
each other.”
Beal finished with 22 points,
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son. He had 11 goals and eight
assists with Calgary last season.
Hathaway spent his first four sea-
sons with Calgary and looked to
mark Giordano — an undrafted
player “who has made everything
in his career” — as a model for his
own development.
Leipsic said he didn’t watch
any particular players in trying to
mold his game. The year after he
was drafted by Nashville in 2012,
he tied for the Western Hockey
League lead with 120 points for
the Portland Winter Hawks
(49 goals, 71 assists).
But even he knows his offensive
capabilities aren’t unique to the
NHL. on his fifth NHL team since
the 2015-16 season, he entered the
season, at age 25, “still trying to
prove myself as an NHL player.”
So far, he has used his speed to his
advantage, taking pride in being
an “energy player” and doing the
gritty work on a team full of offen-
sive firepower. Leipsic has three
goals and six assists in 35 games.
“Kind of just have to be workers
and chip in offensively like I can,”
Leipsic said. “I’ve been in the
lineup every night, and I’m hop-
ing it can stay that way and just
keep contributing the way you
can.”
As Hathaway puts it, “You just
have to find out what works and
what doesn’t.”
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wizards guard Bradley Beal had his work cut out for him
wednesday, hitting just 4 of 19 shots and ending with 22 points.
while Bertans scored a team-high
26 and tied his career mark with
seven three-pointers. But both
were part of the Wizards’ closing
lineup that gifted the game to the
Bulls (11-19).
The Wizards might have been
in a giving mood from earlier in
the night when every player dis-
covered a shiny Gucci bag in his
stall. The contents of the bag:
Apple AirPods Pro (retail $249)
and a Gucci wallet (cost un-
known but certainly absurd),
courtesy of the team.
Before the game, the newest
Wizard, 7-foot-1 Anzejs Pasec-
niks, plugged his ears with his
gift, calming himself before mak-
ing his NBA debut.
Pasecniks signed a two-way
contract the previous day and
immediately became the Wiz-
ards’ backup center.
“Nice timing for me,” Pasec-
niks joked about joining the
17-man roster just before the
team gave out presents.
Pasecniks, the 25th pick in the
2017 draft by the orlando magic,
spent the past two seasons in the
EuroLeague. When he signed an
Exhibit 10 deal with the Wizards,
Pasecniks knew he would play
mostly in the G League but still
expected to step onto an NBA
floor this year.
“It’s been a long way. These
two years I’ve been preparing for
the NBA thinking I’m going to go
after this season, after next sea-
son, but that didn’t happen,”
Pasecniks said. “So it was kind of
a hard three years, but finally I’m
here and I’m ready to play to-
night.”
In a debut that lasted 28 min-
utes, Pasecniks scored nine
points and grabbed eight re-
bounds. The addition of Pasec-
niks came on the heels of rookie
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DUCKs 1
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Nico Hischier and Kyle
Palmeiri scored second-period
goals in their first game since
linemate Taylor Hall was traded,
and the New Jersey Devils beat
the Anaheim Ducks, 3-1, on
Wednesday night in Newark.
Sami Vatanen also scored and
mackenzie Blackwood made
26 saves as the Devils gave inter-
im coach Alain Nasreddine his
second straight win. It was only
the fourth time this season New
Jersey has won consecutive
games.
“I think it’s for the young guys
coming up, it’s those close games
and finding ways to win or finding
ways to close them out,” Palmieri
said. “Tonight, finding a way to
come from behind and find a lead
going into the third and come out
there and keep playing on our
toes. They had a couple looks but
we held the fort.”
Adam Henrique scored against
his former team for the Ducks,
who squandered an early 1-0 lead
in losing to New Jersey for the
first time in four games. ryan
miller had 17 saves as Anaheim
lost its second straight on a four-
game East Coast trip.
Anaheim defenseman michael
Del Zotto had a hand in the Devils’
goals. He had a giveaway on His-
chier’s goal early in the second
period and was in the penalty box
for interference when Palmieri
gave New Jersey a 2-1 lead at 11:29
of the second.
The journeyman defenseman
lost a battle with No. 1 overall
draft pick Jack Hughes in the
corner early in the third period,
leading to Vatenen’s goal and a 3-1
lead.
Henrique gave Anaheim the
lead, capping a two-on-none with
ondrej Kase 3:33 after the open-
ing faceoff.
The tide changed early in the
second period when Del Zotto
misplayed a puck sent around the
boards. It deflected toward the
net, where Jesper Bratt got the
puck and found Hischier for a
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rui Hachimura’s groin injury
that will cause him to miss at
least five games. Hachimura did
not appear inside Capital one
Arena on Wednesday night.
Hachimura became the sixth
Wizards player on the injury list,
and the team’s waning depth
showed as the Wizards needed to
get creative. Brooks began the
second quarter with the pair of
two-way players on the court,
Pasecniks and Garrison
mathews. Point guards Ish Smith
and Thomas played together for
a stretch. rookie Admiral Scho-
field, a 6-foot-5 wing, again spent
time as an emergency center.
The motley rotation made for
some unpleasant moments as the
Wizards — at least their remain-
ing healthy players — rolled
around in the mud with the Bulls
in the first half.
The teams combined for
17 giveaways, and while four
Bulls starters collected two fouls
apiece, three of the Wizards’ top
frontcourt players couldn’t stay
on the floor: Bonga and mahinmi
spent the closing minutes on the
sideline with three fouls, while
Pasecniks also was whistled for
three in his 13 minutes.
The Wizards shot only
39.6 percent in the half, and Beal
went 1 for 5 and even airballed a
three-pointer. Just one of the
10 players who checked into the
game made more than two shots.
That was Bertans, who salvaged
the team’s shooting percentage
as he has done many times this
season.
Although Bertans had a flub of
his own in missing a wide-open
dunk, he was much more suc-
cessful away from the rim.
Beginning near the three-min-
ute mark, with Washington
ahead 44-43, Bertans went on
d3
shot low in the right circle at 1:28.
Palmieri got his 13th of the
season in the closing seconds of
the penalty against Del Zotto. He
made a toe-drag move on defense-
man Cam fowler and beat the
screened goaltender from the
right circle.
Vatanen extended the margin
to two goals with a tally against
his former team, and Blackwood
made the lead stand up, making
11 saves in the final 20 minutes in
giving New Jersey its first home
win since Nov. 23 against Detroit.
l AVALANCHE 4, BLACK-
HAwKs 1: Ian Cole and mikko
rantanen each had a goal and an
assist, and Colorado won in Chi-
cago.
Nathan macKinnon and Andre
Burakovsky also scored for Colo-
rado, which is 9-1-1 in its past
11 games. The Avalanche lost at
St. Louis on monday. Colorado is
3-0 against the Blackhawks this
season and has outscored its Cen-
tral Division rival 16-5.
ryan Carpenter got his second
goal of the season for the fading
Blackhawks, who have lost five of
six.
Pavel francouz made 31 saves
for Colorado. Corey Crawford
blocked 32 shots for Chicago.
The Blackhawks failed to bene-
fit from the return of defenseman
Duncan Keith, who missed nine
games with a groin injury after
leaving midway through a contest
against Colorado on Nov. 29. The
36-year-old two-time Norris Tro-
phy winner entered leading Chi-
cago with 23:51 of ice time per
game and played 23:16 in this one.
The score was tied at 1 after one
period, though Colorado outshot
Chicago 19-6 in the frame.
l BLUEs 2, OILErs 1:
Brayden Schenn scored, Jake Al-
len made 35 saves, and St. Louis
defeated visiting Edmonton.
mackenzie macEachern also
scored for the Stanley Cup cham-
pion Blues, who won their fourth
straight.
ryan Nugent-Hopkins had a
goal and mikko Koskinen stopped
42 shots for the oilers, who lost
for the fifth time in six games.
Edmonton went 0 for 3 on the
power play, snapping an eight-
game scoring streak with the man
advantage.
Bulls 110, Wizards 109 (ot)
chIcaGo ....................... 23 29 21 25 12 — 110
WaShINGtoN .............. 27 31 27 13 11 — 109
chIcaGo: Dunn 5-10 4-6 15, Markkanen 12-19 2-2 31,
Carter Jr. 3-8 3-4 9, Satoransky 7-11 1-1 17, LaVine 6-23
11-11 24, Gafford 1-1 0-0 2, Young 1-10 0-0 2, Arcidia-
cono 1-3 0-0 2, Harrison 0-0 0-0 0, White 1-6 0-0 3,
Valentine 2-6 0-0 5. totals 39-97 21-24 110.
WaShINGtoN: Bonga 1-1 0-0 2, Bertans 8-15 3-3 26,
Mahinmi 4-9 0-0 8, Thomas 5-15 3-4 16, Beal 4-19 13-14
22, Brown Jr. 3-8 2-4 10, Schofield 2-8 0-0 5, Pasecniks
3-7 3-4 9, Smith 3-10 0-0 6, Mathews 1-3 3-3 5. totals
34-95 27-32 109.
three-point Goals: Chicago 11-37 (Markkanen 5-10,
Satoransky 2-3, Dunn 1-2, White 1-4, Valentine 1-4,
LaVine 1-8, Arcidiacono 0-2, Young 0-4), Washington
14-45 (Bertans 7-13, Thomas 3-9, Brown Jr. 2-5,
Schofield 1-6, Beal 1-9, Smith 0-1, Mathews 0-2). Fouled
out: Mahinmi, Dunn. Rebounds: Chicago 53 (Markkanen,
Carter Jr., Young 9), Washington 55 (Pasecniks 8).
assists: Chicago 25 (Satoransky 6), Washington 21
(Beal 7). total Fouls: Chicago 24, Washington 20. a:
14,987 (20,356).
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one of his unconscious spells. He
played far beyond the arc — the
deeper, the better — and nailed
three consecutive threes from at
least 31 feet.
After making his last of the
half with less than a minute
remaining, Bertans held out
three fingers. However, he could
have used both hands to properly
count his three-pointers. Behind
his six threes, the Wizards
opened a 58-52 lead at half.
The intermission, however,
did more to cool him off than the
Bulls’ defense. When the Wizards
returned to the court, Bertans
attempted just one shot in nearly
71/2 minutes as the Bulls’ defense
adjusted and the offense shifted
toward the backcourt.
“We definitely could’ve done a
better job in the second half of
just moving the ball and looking
for open guys,” Bertans said. “At
the same time, after I made those
six, [the Bulls] definitely paid
attention to me a lot more. I
wasn’t so open most of the time.”
Instead, the ball remained in
the hands of Beal and Thomas.
Though Beal attempted six shots,
Thomas found a rhythm in mak-
ing 3 of 4 shots, all coming from
three-point range.
The lead grew late in the third
quarter and early in the fourth.
Up 18, however, the Wizards had
only managed to set the stage for
their own undoing.
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NATIONAL MEN’S ROUNDUP
Bearcats send
No. 21 Vols
to a second
straight loss
CINCINNAtI 78,
tENNESSEE 66
A SSOCIATED P RESS
A defense that had been among
the nation’s best got shredded,
and that wasn’t the only thing that
went wrong for 21st-ranked Ten-
nessee in its first true road game.
The Volunteers couldn’t hit a
three-pointer and couldn’t run
anything consistently on offense
during a 78-66 loss to host Cincin-
nati on Wednesday night that left
Coach rick Barnes befuddled.
“We did some things that were
mind-boggling,” Barnes said.
Trevon Scott scored 15 points,
the Bearcats had six players in
double figures, and Cincinnati got
46 points in the paint, attacking
the out-of-place Volunteers with
backdoor layups.
for a second straight game,
Barnes came up short again in his
attempt to get career victory
No. 700. He would be the
22nd coach to reach that mark in
Division I.
The Volunteers (7-3) were com-
ing off a 51-47 loss to No. 13 mem-
phis that highlighted their offen-
sive shortcomings. This time, the
biggest problems were on a de-
fense that hadn’t given up
70 points in a game this season.
The Bearcats (7-4) got the bet-
ter of a back-and-forth game by
going on a late run.
Tennessee has lost back-to-
back games for the first time since
it lost to Arkansas and Auburn
two seasons ago.
l GOnZAGA 94, nOrTH
CArOlInA 81: In Spokane,
Wash., Corey Kispert scored
26 points, filip Petrusev added 20,
and the second-ranked Bulldogs
sent the reeling Tar Heels to their
fourth straight loss.
one of the most highly antici-
pated games ever inside Gonza-
ga’s gym was a party for most of
the night for the home team. The
Bulldogs (12-1) won their fourth
straight since suffering their only
loss of the season against michi-
gan in the final of the Battle 4
Atlantis.
more importantly, the Bulldogs
finished off an unbeaten stretch of
three marquee games at Washing-
ton, at Arizona and against the Tar
Heels.
Garrison Brooks led North Car-
olina (6-5) with 16 points, but the
Tar Heels have dropped four
straight for the first time since the
2009-10 season.
l lOUISVIllE 70, mIAmI
(OHIO) 46: Jordan Nwora scored
20 points, and the third-ranked
Cardinals pulled away with a 17-0
run to rout the redhawks in Lou-
isville.
ryan mcmahon added
11 points for the Cardinals (11-1),
and Dwayne Sutton tied a career
high with 15 rebounds.
mekhi Lairy led the redhawks
(5-6) with 10 points.
While the Cardinals never
trailed, it was much closer than the
final score indicated. Louisville
used a 14-2 first-half run to take a
12-point lead, but the redhawks
cut it to 28-25 on Dalonte Brown’s
dunk 1:10 into the second half.
l mICHIGAn STATE 77,
nOrTHWESTErn 72: Cassius
Winston scored 21 points and
Xavier Tillman had 15 points and
10 rebounds, helping the 15th-
ranked Spartans hold off the
Wildcats in Evanston, Ill.
Winston went 8 for 16 from the
field in the Spartans’ 11th consec-
utive victory against the Wildcats.
Boo Buie scored a career-high
26 points for Northwestern (5-5,
0-2 Big Ten), and Pete Nance fin-
ished with 14 in his return from a
one-game suspension.
michigan State (8-3, 2-0) led by
as many as 16 after Winston hit
two foul shots to make it 47-31
with 14:56 left. But the Wildcats
responded with a 13-2 run.
l SAn dIEGO STATE 92, SAn
dIEGO CHrISTIAn 48: Yanni
Wetzell scored 17 points and the
20th-ranked Aztecs trounced the
NAIA Hawks in San Diego to re-
main undefeated.
San Diego State (11-0) was play-
ing for the first time in 10 days and
for the first time since it jumped
into the top 25. The Aztecs moved
up five spots monday despite not
playing last week.
The Aztecs are off to their best
start since they opened 20-0 be-
hind Kawhi Leonard in 2010-11,
when they reached the Sweet 16
for the first time and finished
34-3. They are one of four remain-
ing undefeated teams.
San Diego Christian consid-
ered this an exhibition game.
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Sharpshooting Terrapins pour it on vs. Panthers Cavaliers
MAryLAND 114,
gEorgIA StAtE 41
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Taylor mikesell and Blair Wat-
son each scored 23 points, three
other maryland players had dou-
ble-doubles, and the 13th-ranked
Terrapins beat Georgia State, 114-
41, on Wednesday in Atlanta.
Watson made six three-pointers
in the first half and scored
20 points to help maryland lead
57-17 at the break. The Terrapins
opened the game on a 20-2 run
and added two 10-0 runs in the
second quarter. mikesell and Wat-
son finished with seven three-
pointers apiece — career highs for
both — as maryland made a sea-
son-best 15 from distance.
Shakira Austin, Kaila Charles
and Stephanie Jones each record-
ed a double-double for maryland
(9-2). Austin had 12 points, 11 re-
bounds and four assists; Charles
had 13 points, 10 rebounds, five
assists and three steals; and Jones
had 14 points and 10 boards.
maryland, which has topped 100
points four times this season, will
host No. 24 michigan on Dec. 28.
l STAnFOrd 78, TEnnES-
SEE 51: Kiana Williams had
19 points and seven assists and the
No. 1 Cardinal beat the No. 23 Lady
Junior guard darryl morsell is averaging 9.1 points per game while providing elite defense and guiding maryland’s younger players.
Morsell has been Terps’ unsung hero
mArylAnd from d1
So after the team returned
home, the guard met with Coach
mark Turgeon, who essentially
told morsell, then a sophomore,
that he needed to play at a higher
level — well, “his words were
definitely more harsh,” morsell
said. But then it all changed.
morsell had 16 assists and three
turnovers in the final five games
of the season. He scored at least
10 points each time, including a
career-high 18 in an NCAA tour-
nament victory over Belmont,
during which morsell also admi-
rably guarded the opponent’s
best player.
morsell has carried that confi-
dence and energy into his junior
season. He is one of two upper-
classmen in the rotation and
feels comfortable enough in his
position to lead the younger
players. Though turnovers have
been an issue at times, morsell’s
defensive ability has helped carry
No. 7 maryland (10-1, 1-1 Big Ten)
as it nears the end of its noncon-
ference slate. His value to the
team rose to the forefront at the
orlando Invitational over
Thanksgiving, when he notched
the first two double-doubles of
his career.
“He’s committed to winning,”
Turgeon said. “Little things, de-
tails, preparation — that’s really
been the big difference. Hopeful-
ly it starts to rub off on more of
the young guys for us because
that’s a big deal.”
morsell brings a cool energy to
the group. He is proud of his
toughness, which, he says, char-
acterizes players from Baltimore.
morsell provides direction on the
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college basketball
do enough
defensively
to earn win
Baylor guard Juicy landrum (20) set an nCAA record with 14
three-pointers in a victory over Arkansas State on Wednesday.
Vols in Stanford, Calif., to improve
to 10-0.
Lexie Hull added 11 points and
nine rebounds to help the Cardinal
move within a victory of the pro-
gram’s best start since it opened
11-0 in 2012-13. freshman frances-
ca Belibi came off the bench to
contribute seven points and three
blocked shots before fouling out.
rennia Davis scored 14 points
to lead Tennessee (8-2) but shot
just 5 for 20, and no other Lady
Vols reached double figures.
Davis scored eight of Tennes-
court, but he still plays loose and
lets himself enjoy the game.
“He has a swagger about him,”
sophomore guard Aaron Wiggins
said. “He’s out there. He’s just
playing comfortable.”
for a team that’s working to
develop a strong defensive iden-
tity, morsell is the centerpiece.
He is usually tasked with
guarding the opponent’s best
player, and each time, he men-
tions how he loves that role. He
has helped contain high-profile
scorers such as Purdue’s Carsen
Edwards and marquette’s
markus Howard.
morsell lets his defensive ef-
fort fuel his offense by forcing
turnovers or scoring in transi-
tion. Though points are the most
recognized piece of a player’s stat
line, morsell (9.1 points, 5.9 re-
bounds per game) keeps his focus
on the other end of the floor.
“We instilled that in him — not
just me, his coaches and all,”
morsell’s father, Duane, said.
“You’ve got to play defense to
win. It seems like he’s taken it to
another level now.”
morsell was set to receive
another challenging individual
matchup Thursday at Seton Hall
(6-4) until Pirates standout
myles Powell was sidelined in-
definitely by a concussion Satur-
day against rutgers. Before that
game, Powell averaged
22.9 points, including outbursts
of 37 points against michigan
State and 32 against oregon. He
also scored 27 points to lead
Seton Hall to a 78-74 win over the
Terps last year.
In addition to Powell, the Pi-
rates will be without 6-foot-11
forward Sandro mamukelashvili,
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see’s initial 12 points with a pair of
early three-pointers but picked up
her second foul at the 4:49 mark of
the first quarter. Davis sat down,
and Stanford responded with a
10-0 run to finish the quarter to
lead 20-12.
Tennessee missed its final
10 shots of the opening period,
then another four in the second
before Jordan Horston’s layup at
the 7:17 mark.
The Cardinal have won six of
the past nine meetings but are
12-25 overall against the Lady Vols
their No. 2 scorer at 10.9 points
per game who is out with a
broken wrist.
Those absences, coinciding
with consecutive losses that
dropped Seton Hall from the
rankings, have tempered excite-
ment over what once appeared
destined to be a matchup of
top-15 teams. But after their first
loss of the season last week —
again at Penn State — the Terps
need a bounce-back outing, a
situation in which the group will
look toward the older players for
guidance. on a team that still
heavily relies upon freshmen and
sophomores, morsell provides
one of the most experienced
perspectives.
He arrived at maryland with
Bruno fernando, the 6-10 for-
ward who produced seismic
bursts of energy. But now fer-
nando plays for the Atlanta
Hawks, leaving maryland with a
void that players such as morsell
and Wiggins have worked to fill.
Especially with a young core of
big men — sophomores Jalen
Smith and ricky Lindo Jr., along
with freshmen makhi mitchell,
makhel mitchell and Donta Scott
— morsell feels a responsibility
to lead these players who he said
have “to be the quarterback for
everything defensively.”
morsell has been a regular
starter all three years at mary-
land, but as a junior, nothing
feels new. He went to the NCAA
tournament for the first time last
season. There, when Belmont
trailed by one and looked for a
late, go-ahead basket, morsell
grabbed a steal with four seconds
on the clock to effectively seal the
game. In the next game, he
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— and nine of Stanford’s 12 victo-
ries in the series have been at
home.
l BAylOr 111, ArKAnSAS
STATE 43: Juicy Landrum didn’t
have any trouble finding a rhythm
after a two-week layoff for the
No. 7 Bears.
The senior guard set an NCAA
record by making 14 three-point-
ers for all of her career-high
42 points, leading the Bears to a
victory over the red Wolves in
Waco, Tex.
Landrum attempted all but one
of her 24 shots from three-point
range as Baylor (9-1) shot 46 per-
cent from beyond the arc (15 for
33) and 59 percent overall. She
also had eight rebounds and seven
assists.
Landrum had nine threes in the
second half and made her record-
breaking shot with just over two
minutes left in the game. She was
immediately replaced, getting a
standing ovation as she walked to
the bench.
l FlOrIdA STATE 70,
nOrTH FlOrIdA 41: freshman
forward river Baldwin scored a
season-best 19 points, Kiah
Gillespie added 13 points and eight
rebounds, and the No. 8 Seminoles
won in a rout in Tallahassee.
florida State is 11-0 for the sec-
ond time in school history. The
school record for the best start is
12-0 in 2004-05.
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experienced the gut punch of a
failed comeback attempt when
LSU scored a late, game-winning
layup.
Those are the moments he
brought into this season — the
holes maryland has climbed back
from, the leads that have slipped
away, games in all the Big Ten
venues and postseason play
when stakes are at their peak.
“He’s just calm,” Turgeon said
before the season began. “He
knows he can play at this level.
He knows his game has gotten
better. He knows he can guard
the best players. He understands
who he is.”
When the Terps faced mar-
quette in orlando, morsell’s dad
saw his son flash a few smiles
early on; that’s when morsell
plays his best. Throughout the
game, morsell helped shut down
Howard, the nation’s leading
scorer. morsell scored 17 points, a
standout performance that end-
ed with the crowd chanting his
name. When Anthony Cowan Jr.,
the tournament mVP, was inter-
viewed on the television broad-
cast, he pulled morsell onto the
screen and praised his team-
mate.
Was that the best game of his
career? morsell hesitates a bit to
answer. maybe statistically, sure.
And morsell thought about how
kids watching might have appre-
ciated the value of defense. But
then he returned to his simple
yet genuine answer: He was just
glad maryland won.
“I’ve seen everything,” morsell
said. “I feel like this year I’m truly
a veteran in every sense of the
word.”
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VIrgINIA 56,
StoNy BrooK 44
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Virginia Coach Tony Bennett
still ranks as the NCAA’s career
leader in three-point shooting
percentage at 49.7 percent, so he
is able to tell his players from
experience what to avoid to get
themselves out of a shooting
slump.
The players take his words to
heart.
“You can’t obsess to the best of
your abilities on your shot,” Ben-
nett said Wednesday night after
Virginia struggled again on of-
fense but did enough to beat
Stony Brook, 56-44, in Charlot-
tesville. “You have to be a plus in
all the other areas: defensively,
not turning it over, being sound,
and at times you pass up some
shots. You need to, and then
there’s times you have to take
them.”
Kihei Clark scored 14 points
and Jay Huff had eight of his 12
during a second-half run for the
Cavaliers, who haven’t let their
offensive difficulties affect their
defense. They came into the game
leading the nation in scoring
defense (44.2) and field goal per-
centage defense (31.6 percent)
and hit their marks again.
Until the offense improves,
Bennett said, “this may sound
funny, but we started trying to
tighten up our defense even more
to keep us in there.”
Huff ended a five-minute sec-
ond-half scoreless drought for
the Cavaliers (9-1) with a putback
dunk with 12:11 remaining and
added six more points as Virginia
turned a 35-30 lead into a more
comfortable 49-38 edge.
The burst also included a pair
of three-pointers from Tomas
Woldetensae, one of which
banked in, leaving Seawolves
Coach Geno ford shaking his
head.
“That three banks in, and it
almost feels like it’s worth nine
because you just don’t have a lot
of possessions to make up for it,”
he said.
Elijah olaniyi scored 11 to lead
Stony Brook (7-6). The Seawolves
hurt their cause with 17 turnovers
and shot just 37.8 percent (17 for
44).
“They do all the little things
well, and they’re honestly what
teams around the country want
to emulate and who they want to
be,” ford said.
mamadi Diakite added
13 points while Clark added six
assists and five rebounds for
Virginia.
The Cavaliers outscored the
Seawolves 14-2 in the opening
5:43 before Kody Stattmann’s
three-pointer finally caused ford
to call a timeout.
“maybe I should have called a
timeout a couple of possessions
sooner,” he said. “It was just bad
body language. I didn’t like how
we looked.”
The Cavaliers managed just
14 points the rest of the first half
to lead 28-21 at the break. The
Seawolves kept pace the rest of
the game, with both teams scor-
ing 42 after Virginia’s fast start.
l HOWArd 105, rEGEnT
47: Charles Williams finished
with 24 points and eight re-
bounds, and the Bison beat the
royals at Burr Gymnasium.
Howard (2-10), which had six
players score in double figures,
shot 56.3 percent (40 for 71) from
the field and limited regent
(0-8), a member of the National
Christian Collegiate Athletic As-
sociation, to 29.2 percent shoot-
ing (14 for 48).
l rICHmOnd 62, Old dO-
mInIOn 59: Grant Golden had
19 points and seven rebounds,
and the Spiders edged the mon-
archs in Norfolk.
Blake francis added 18 points
for richmond (10-1), which
earned its fifth consecutive win.
Xavier Green had 14 points for
old Dominion (3-9), whose los-
ing streak stretched to eight
games.
l VCU 76, COllEGE OF
CHArlESTOn 71: marcus San-
tos-Silva had 17 points and 11 re-
bounds, and the rams beat the
Cougars in Charleston, S.C.
De’riante Jenkins and marcus
Evans added 16 points each for
VCU (9-2), which overcame an
eight-point halftime deficit.
Grant riller had 26 points for
Charleston (5-6).
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Terps land blue-chip recruit, and it’s a surprise
St. John’s wide receiver
Jarrett switches
commitment from LSU
BY E MILY G IAMBALVO
michael Locksley received the
biggest recruiting victory of his
young tenure as maryland’s foot-
ball coach, but even he didn’t see it
coming.
rakim Jarrett, a standout wide
receiver at St. John’s College High
in the District, on Wednesday
signed to play for maryland, be-
coming the Terps’ first five-star
recruit since 2014. The decision
capped a recruiting process that
Locksley said Jarrett handled in a
“unique” way.
Jarrett, who had committed to
LSU months ago, announced ear-
ly in the week that he planned to
wait until february to sign his
national letter-of-intent, rather
than taking advantage of the early
period that began Wednesday.
Then he made his decision any-
way.
“His process was all over the
place from our standpoint be-
cause you didn’t have informa-
tion,” Locksley said. “Even the way
he signed and committed today,
we had no idea he was signing
today. We had no idea that he was
even coming to us, and then all of
a sudden he puts out a tweet that
says, ‘Committed.’ We’re like,
‘What is this?’ ”
The pleasant surprise arrived
late Wednesday morning, a cou-
ple of hours after more than a
dozen players already had signed.
Jarrett, The Washington Post’s
All-met offensive Player of the
Year, is the No. 20 overall prospect
How bad was Haskins’s first game against the Giants? Don’t ask.
redsKIns from d1
him in April’s NfL draft. Jay
Gruden, the redskins’ coach at
the time, had preferred Jones — a
three-year starter at Duke — to
Haskins, who had just 14 starts at
ohio State, according to people
with knowledge of the situation.
Ever since, the two have been
connected, the way first-round
quarterbacks from the same draft
often are, with each game stand-
ing as a metaphorical measuring
stick on each other’s progress.
Sunday appears poised to be
another moment of judgment,
with Jones looking more and
more likely to play after missing
the previous two games with an
ankle injury.
on the surface, Jones’s statis-
tics look better. He has completed
61.6 percent of his passes for
2,374 yards, with 18 touchdowns
and 11 interceptions, compared
with Haskins, who has completed
56.9 percent of his throws in three
fewer games for 1,232 yards, five
touchdowns and seven intercep-
tions.
But Haskins’s season has been
on a steady rise, with his passer
rating jumping significantly in
his past three games from 69.9 in
a victory at Carolina to 121.3 in
Sunday’s last-minute loss to Phil-
adelphia. Jones’s games have
been more uneven. He twice
threw four touchdown passes in
the past month, and yet looked
dreadful with three interceptions
in his most recent game, a 31-13
loss at Green Bay.
In the end, there’s probably
Mtawarira joins Old Glory in e≠ort to grow fledgling rugby league
rugby from d1
Washington area.
“I want to go to a place where I
can make a meaningful impact,
and from what I heard, there’s a lot
of African American kids in D.C.,”
mtawarira said in an interview. “I
want to come out and be a role
model and teach them a lot about
my game.”
This signing was, in a way, the
result of U.S. rugby’s comeback
from the dead. football effectively
relegated the once-popular game
to cult status until 2009, when the
International olympic Committee
announced it would return to the
olympic Games. This sparked a
sharp increase in rugby participa-
tion, attendance and viewership,
big enough that in 2018 major
League rugby began its inaugural
season with seven teams and a
television partnership with CBS
Sports Network.
Now, with the league’s third sea-
son beginning feb. 8, old Glory
has signed the biggest star to hit
the United States in hopes it will
grab attention here while legiti-
mizing the league globally.
“This is a huge deal,” said Chris
Dunlavey, a co-owner of the fran-
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st. John’s wide receiver rakim Jarrett, now Maryland-bound, was
The Washington Post’s Offensive Player of the year this season.
in the country and the second-
best receiver, according to
247Sports. While Locksley at-
tracted a couple of highly rated
players in last year’s class, along
with a few marquee transfers, get-
ting a blue-chip prospect in Jar-
rett epitomizes the way many
hoped he would transform the
program.
Jarrett figures to boost the
team immediately, with both his
on-field performance and also in
how his decision could help
change perceptions. Locksley not-
ed multiple times how peer pres-
sure still influences recruiting, yet
Jarrett chose maryland over a pro-
gram that will compete for a na-
tional title in the coming weeks.
“If a guy like rakim Jarrett
thinks maryland is good enough
to help him develop on and off the
“It wasn’t me out there,” dwayne Haskins said of his three-interception nFL debut against the giants.
little to say about the matchup
between the two except to agree
with Haskins’s assessment that
he is far better now than he was in
that first Giants game.
“I think the way to learn how to
play this game is by playing,” New
York Coach Pat Shurmur said on a
conference call with Washington
reporters Wednesday.
Later, he added: “for Daniel
and Dwayne, they’ve had a
chise. “We think it’s a game-chang-
er for our league.”
major League rugby has a
roughly $500,000 salary cap per
team to fill out a roster of 30 to
40 players, and old Glory co-own-
er Paul Sheehy compared the
league’s economics to professional
lacrosse — though rugby propo-
nents believe lacrosse will hit a
ceiling in North America while
rugby’s international popularity
gives it a much greater upside.
This potential, combined with a
rare overlap of events for U.S. rug-
by — the World Cup, the major
League rugby regular season and
the 2020 Summer olympics all
within a year — left Sheehy with a
sense of urgency.
“We’re at a critical juncture for
U.S. rugby,” Sheehy said. “This is
rugby’s opportunity to get out of
the niche sports and get into the
mainstream.”
Expanding the game’s reach is
important for Sheehy, who owns
Sheehy Auto Stores, and Dun-
lavey, president of the D.C. man-
agement firm Brailsford & Dun-
lavey, because this is a passion
project. The former rugby players
met at the South African embassy
and later discussed the potential
DOUG KAPUSTIN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
field,” Locksley said, “the chal-
lenge is for other guys to believe
the same.”
once Locksley became mary-
land’s coach last year, building a
recruiting class became one of his
first objectives. But Locksley had
only a few pieces of his staff in
place, and he spent limited time in
College Park because he remained
Alabama’s offensive coordinator
through the College football Play-
off.
Now, after Locksley’s first full
season at maryland, he has assem-
bled his first true recruiting class.
The result of a full year’s worth of
work came Wednesday with sig-
natures from Jarrett, one four-
star recruit (linebacker ruben
Hyppolite II) and 21 three-star
players. Jarrett’s decision helped
the Terps’ 2020 class surge to No. 6
chance to play and play a lot. I
think that’ll help them in their
development.”
Haskins, whose comments in
news conferences can be short,
has never welcomed the compari-
sons to Jones. When asked
Wednesday what meaning he
takes from playing against Jones
again, Haskins was curt.
“Absolutely none,” he said.
The film that seemed to inter-
for a team after watching South
Africa play Wales in front of more
than 21,000 at rfK Stadium last
summer. They jumped into the
league because they believe a
sport with the time commitment
of soccer (80 minutes) and the
physicality of football will attract
American sports fans. Dunlavey
also says the values of the game are
appealing.
“In rugby, there’s no 22-year-old
millionaires yelling in the face of a
referee,” he said. “The ref is ad-
dressed as sir and only addressed
by the team captain. There’s a level
of respect and civility and deco-
rum that you're expected to main-
tain.”
Sheehy said he trusted the D.C.
market could support profession-
al rugby because of the area’s in-
ternational population and the
sport’s popularity in local Catholic
high schools. Sheehy coached and
his three sons played at Gonzaga
College High in the District, and
Sheehy himself played in a World
Cup.
old Glory ownership pitched
this opportunity to mtawarira. It
pointed out that mLr is expand-
ing from nine teams to 12 this
season. The league is negotiating
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in the Big Ten and No. 27 in the
nation, according to 247Sports’
rankings. four players who are
committed to maryland did not
sign Wednesday.
The Terrapins’ staff began an
overhaul of the roster immediate-
ly following the team’s disap-
pointing 3-9 season. Locksley and
his staff received a number of
commitments in recent weeks,
bolstering positions of need, such
as the offensive and defensive
lines.
The Terps signed five offensive
linemen and four defensive line-
men, with a handful of them set to
join the Terps after playing for
junior colleges. Locksley targeted
players who are further along in
their development because they
can offer more immediate help.
“If you look at this class as a
whole,” Locksley said, “the premi-
um for us was getting better in the
trenches.”
Nine players plan to enroll ear-
ly: Hyppolite; offensive linemen
Johari Branch and Ja’Khi Green;
linebacker TJ Kautai; wide receiv-
er DeaJaun mcDougle; and defen-
sive backs Shane mosley, Jakorian
Bennett, Beau Brade and Devyn
King.
That also will help expedite
development for a team hoping
for a 2020 campaign better than
the previous season.
maryland’s depth at running
back thinned once Anthony mc-
farland Jr. and Javon Leake an-
nounced their decisions to forgo
their remaining eligibility to enter
the NfL draft.
The Terps signed two running
backs Wednesday, Peny Boone
and Isaiah Jacobs. Jacobs’s broth-
er, Josh, plays for the oakland
raiders and was coached by Lock-
sley at Alabama.
running back Kyjuan Herndon
JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST
est him (and probably the red-
skins) more was Sunday’s game
against the Eagles. Playing with-
out two starting tight ends — as
he has for most of the season —
and without starting wide receiv-
ers Paul richardson Jr. and Trey
Quinn, Haskins had his best
game, completing 19 of 28 passes
for 261 yards and two touch-
downs with no interceptions.
Washington interim coach Bill
to add two more nationally tele-
vised games per season, for a total
of six, and splitting into East Coast
and West Coast divisions.
That appealed to mtawarira. At
34, he has earned a lot of money
and, after the World Cup win, re-
tired from international competi-
tion. He estimated he could have
earned more than $800,000 play-
ing for well-established profes-
sional leagues in france or Eng-
land, as his teammates have, but
he wanted something different.
He wanted — in addition to living
abroad and expanding his busi-
ness interests in security and real
estate — to help expand rugby in a
market that the rest of the world
considers, as Dunlavey put it, “a
sleeping giant.”
He signed a one-year contract
with old Glory worth a league-
maximum $45,000.
The message “resonated [with]
me because, at this point in my
career, I want to contribute to
rugby becoming a force in the
U.S.,” mtawarira said. “I sacrificed
a lot of money . . . but this will help
my legacy.”
The 6-foot, 256-pound mta-
warira won’t transform old Glory
into one of the league favorites,
committed to maryland this
month, but he announced
Wednesday that he would attend
Colorado State instead. Three-
star running back Ebony Jackson
said on Twitter that he remained
committed to maryland but won’t
sign during the early period.
maryland’s class does not in-
clude a quarterback, but when
that was mentioned at Locksley’s
Wednesday news conference, he
interjected, “Yet!” Locksley said
the staff will pursue help at that
position and others during the
february signing period, as well
as through transfers. Jeff Sims, a
four-star quarterback from Jack-
sonville, fla., chose Georgia Tech
over the Terps. The former florida
State commit reopened his re-
cruitment after the Seminoles’
coaching change.
While many praise Locksley for
his deep recruiting ties to the
Washington area — and the top-
rated player from this class at-
tends high school in the District —
the group mostly features players
from all over the country. mary-
land reeled in seven players from
florida, compared with just four
from the D.C. and Baltimore area.
The Terps’ footprint stretched to
California, michigan and Texas.
Some local high school stars spent
their mornings signing with
schools such as Clemson, Georgia
and Alabama. So Locksley and his
staff looked elsewhere for the
players who they hope will elevate
the program.
“If we can get to where we
control the DmV, we probably
don’t have to go out as far, but
we’re a national brand,” Locksley
said. “And if these local guys don’t
think our program’s good enough,
we’ll go find them somewhere
else.”
emily.giambalvo@washpost.com
Callahan said monday that the
coaches had simplified the of-
fense to basic West Coast princi-
ples, which gave Haskins a
chance to fire off several quick
throws to neutralize Philadel-
phia’s pass rush.
It was a good adjustment for a
quarterback who is quickly mak-
ing more and more of them in his
brief time as a starter, and it was
probably the game that makes
many around the team hopeful
his growth will continue to move
upward.
“Probably [my] best game sta-
tistically,” Haskins said. “But
[also] probably the best game as
far as putting everything on tape,
I would say. I mean, we were
doing that all week in practice
and just trying to translate it to
the game, and I felt like that game
was the game that we capitalized
[upon] the most.”
And something that would
keep him from having to watch
the film of his first game — the
one that makes him sick.
scherff set for surgery
Callahan said guard Brandon
Scherff, who was placed on in-
jured reserve Tuesday, will have
labrum surgery friday. . . .
Safety Landon Collins (Achil-
les’) and cornerback fabian
moreau (hamstring) missed
Wednesday’s practice. Defensive
tackle Jonathan Allen (toe), cor-
nerback Quinton Dunbar (ham-
string), safety montae Nicholson
(ankle) and tackle Donald Penn
(knee) were limited.
les.carpenter@washpost.com
said the team’s coach, Andrew
Douglas. Douglas predicted mta-
warira has “at least” two great
seasons left in him, but that with a
young roster, old Glory won’t be
able to topple San Diego or Seattle
as the class of the league.
Sheehy believes that for the
franchise to prove its viability it
must sell out each of its eight home
games this season at 3,500-seat
Cardinal Stadium on the campus of
Catholic University. This is about
the size of the other stadiums
around the league, which also has
teams in New York; Boston; Atlan-
ta; Toronto; Glendale, Colo.; Seat-
tle; San Diego; Salt Lake City; Aus-
tin; New orleans; and Houston.
mtawarira didn’t think he
would like Washington, but the
city surprised him. It’s larger than
he expected, he said, and he was
impressed with its restaurants
and apartments. It blended monu-
ments and modernity without be-
coming “crazy busy” like New
York, he said. Everything he liked
crystallized in one popular resi-
dential neighborhood.
“I went to Dupont Circle,” mta-
warira said, “and I think I fell in
love.”
sam.fortier@washpost.com
D5
NFL NOTES
Jaguars fire
Coughlin
after report
by NFLPA
F ROM NEWS SERVICES
AND STAFF REPORTS
The Jacksonville Jaguars failed
miserably in their bid this season
to return to top-contender status
in the AfC, and their expected
dismantling is underway. The
team ousted Tom Coughlin as its
front-office football czar Wednes-
day.
Team owner Shad Khan said in
a written statement released by
the Jaguars that he previously had
decided to fire Coughlin as execu-
tive vice president of football oper-
ations at season’s end but decided
instead to make the move sooner.
“I determined earlier this fall
that making this move at the con-
clusion of the 2019 season would
be in everyone’s best interests but,
in recent days, I reconsidered and
decided to make this change im-
mediately,” Khan said. “I thank
Tom for his efforts, not only over
the past three years but for all he
did from our very first season,
25 years ago, to put the Jackson-
ville Jaguars on the map.”
The Jaguars are 5-9 and in last
place in the AfC South.
The move comes two days after
the NfL Players Association in-
formed players in a memo mon-
day that it had prevailed in a griev-
ance challenging the practice of
teams requiring players to report
to team facilities during the off-
season for medical appointments
and rehabilitation.
The NfLPA said the Jaguars
had fined one player, later con-
firmed as linebacker Dante fowl-
er, more than $700,000 for 25 in-
stances of missing offseason ap-
pointments. The union called the
practice a “blatant overreach by
the Jaguars” and said that more
than 25 percent of the grievances
filed by NfL players over the past
two years had been filed against
the Jaguars.
— Mark Maske
l brOWns: odell Beckham Jr.
dramatically ended the drama.
Tired about speculation over
his future, the flashy wide receiver
emphatically said he’s not looking
to get out of Cleveland after just
one frustrating season.
After reports over the past sev-
eral weeks saying he was unhappy
and had been telling other teams
to “come get me” during games,
Beckham stopped the conjecture
by insisting that he’s committed to
helping the Browns win.
“It’s done. It’s over with,” Beck-
ham said to reporters. “I’m not
going anywhere. I’ll be here. We’re
going to figure this thing out. It’s
just too special to leave.”
l bengALs: Cincinnati kept
wide receiver A.J. Green on the
active roster all season, hoping he
could return from ankle surgery
and put some life back into their
foundering offense. Turns out that
was wishful thinking.
Green said he has decided not
to try to play in either of the final
two games because his ankle isn’t
fully healed.
l PAnTHers: Carolina is pre-
paring rookie quarterback Will
Grier to play Sunday against the
Indianapolis Colts.
Interim coach Perry fewell said
Grier is taking reps with the first
team at practice this week but
stopped short of naming him the
starting quarterback. fewell said
he will make a decision Thursday.
Kyle Allen started the past
12 games for the Panthers and
committed 22 turnovers.
l COWbOys: Dallas quarter-
back Dak Prescott has a shoulder
injury that is limiting him in prac-
tice but shouldn’t keep him out
Sunday when the Cowboys try to
qualify for the playoffs at Philadel-
phia.
The Cowboys and Eagles are
tied for the NfC East lead at 7-7,
and Dallas would advance to the
postseason with a victory.
l beArs: Chicago placed in-
side linebacker Danny Trevathan
on injured reserve because of a left
elbow injury.
l TITAns: Tennessee made yet
another move at kicker, placing
veteran ryan Succop back on in-
jured reserve and signing Greg
Joseph off Carolina’s practice
squad.
Joseph will be the fifth kicker
the Titans (8-6) have had on the
roster this season.
l buCCAneers: Tampa Bay
wide receiver mike Evans and
safety Jordan Whitehead will miss
the remainder of the season be-
cause of hamstring injuries.
l MIsC.: former NfL star
Deltha o’Neal was charged with
felony drunken driving in connec-
tion with an August high-speed
crash that seriously injured him
and a passenger, florida court re-
cords show.
— Associated Press
D6
Hibner’s surprise path to Michigan highlights signing day
BY R OMAN S TUBBS
matthew Hibner woke up early
and signed his national letter-of-
intent with michigan on Wednes-
day morning, yet he still wanted
to hold a ceremony after school at
Lake Braddock. He needed to
celebrate how unlikely this all
was. A year ago, Hibner had no
scholarship offers and was not
ranked among the country’s top
1,000 players by recruiting servic-
es. Now he’s one of the country’s
top tight ends and is expected to
bolster the Wolverines’ passing
game in the years to come.
“I just want to soak in this
moment, feel this moment,” Hib-
ner said.
Hibner carries a 4.3 grade-
point average — he has never
earned a B in his life and scored a
1400 on his SAT — and he is
accepting his Eagle Scout medal
this year. But even he let his mind
wander during school Wednes-
day as he followed all the early
national signing day action on
social media. There were plenty
of headlines across the Washing-
ton area. Damascus defensive
end Bryan Bresee, long the coun-
try’s top-ranked player, signed
with Clemson, while rakim Jar-
rett, a five-star wide receiver from
St. John’s College High, pulled a
stunner and flipped his commit-
ment from LSU to sign with
maryland.
Hibner was far from the na-
tional spotlight, but that’s fine
with him. He will arrive in Ann
Arbor knowing what it’s like to fly
under the radar. Last December,
he sat in Lake Braddock’s cafete-
ria and watched a couple of older
teammates sign with Division I
schools, and he wondered wheth-
er he would ever reach that level.
He sat down with his coach,
Major league hopefuls see proposed minor league cuts as a loss of opportunity
mInor leagues from D1
more student debt than I’ve
incurred. I don’t even know what
I’d be doing.”
mLB’s negotiations with minor
League Baseball for a new Profes-
sional Baseball Agreement — the
contract that governs the com-
plex partnership between big
league teams and their affiliates
— exploded into public view fol-
lowing the revelation of the pro-
posal, which would end the affili-
ated status of 42 teams. The
purpose of the plan was player
safety and comfort, streamlined
geography and, as you could
guess, cost savings.
mLB’s 30 franchises have
working relationships with
162 minor league affiliates. The
organization proposed reducing
that number to 120 in the new
agreement. To cushion the blow
for the eliminated teams, it also
proposed launching a “Dream
League,” with mLB’s financial
backing, that would operate inde-
pendently but still give excep-
tional players a pathway to grad-
uate to affiliated ball.
a public and political fight
minor League Baseball reacted
with outrage to the plan, appeal-
ing to Congress and the public
and trumpeting the history and
romance of minor league ball, in
hopes of thwarting it. The strate-
gy appears to be working. four
House members whose districts
include teams on the cut list
formed the bipartisan Save minor
League Baseball Congressional
Task force and vowed to fight the
proposal. Sens. Bernie Sanders
(I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-
mass.), both Democratic presi-
dential candidates, wrote scath-
ing letters opposing it.
“Shutting down 25 percent of
minor League Baseball teams, as
you have proposed would be an
absolute disaster for baseball
fans, workers and communities
throughout the country,” Sand-
ers’s Nov. 25 letter read.
During a news conference at
baseball’s winter meetings in San
Diego last week, mLB Commis-
sioner rob manfred appeared to
back off the plan as it was initially
reported, indicating it was only
an opening proposal and lament-
ing that details were leaked by the
other side.
“This has been portrayed as a
decision that has been made,” he
said. “The fact of the matter is, at
the point in time this became
public, we had precisely three
negotiating sessions. It is by no
means a fait accompli as to what
the agreement is going to look
like.”
manfred called on the minor
leagues to work with mLB on
proposals for improving facilities
and working conditions for play-
ers.
minor League Baseball consid-
ers any proposal that includes the
unwilling contraction of affiliates
to be a non-starter, saying the loss
of their major league affiliations
lake Braddock’s matthew Hibner, rated as the 14th-best tight end in the country, will attend michigan.
mike Dougherty, and they decid-
ed they would do whatever it
took. He had always been tall at
6-foot-4, but he needed to add
weight to his 195-pound frame if
recruiters were going to take him
seriously as a tight end.
“Schools like michigan are typ-
ically recruiting eighth and ninth
graders right now more than ris-
ing seniors,” Dougherty said as he
introduced Hibner on Wednes-
day. “We were definitely behind
the eight ball with recruiting.”
So Hibner loaded up a plastic
tub each day, full of eggs and meat
wrapped in lettuce, carrying it
around the hallways of Lake
Braddock. He added nearly 40
First baseman matt adams, an eight-year big leaguer, was picked in the 23rd round. under an mlB proposal, that round might not exist.
would be a “death sentence” for
the franchises. much of their ap-
peal with fans, the teams say, is
the chance to see future big
league stars as they climb the
minor league ladder. They claim
even the threat of losing affiliated
status down the road would harm
the surviving teams’ civic part-
nerships.
“my message to the 120 [non-
threatened teams] has been: ‘If
you’re not on the list of 42 and you
think you’re safe, you’re a damn
fool,’ ” minor League Baseball
President Pat o’Conner said. “If
this happens now, who’s to say
this won’t happen again in the
future? Who’s to say the next plan
isn’t a 90[-team] plan?”
But mLB is beginning to use its
leverage to its advantage, threat-
ening to cut out minor League
Baseball entirely by finding a new
set of affiliates, out of indepen-
dent leagues and current minor
league teams already owned by
mLB teams.
“We don’t need to agree with
[minor League Baseball] on a
deal,” mLB deputy commissioner
Dan Halem said. “There are mi-
nor league teams all over the U.S.
and many independent leagues,
and many of them have much
nicer facilities than our affiliated
eZ su
pounds. Dougherty also set Hib-
ner up with former NfL tight end
Leonard Stephens, who runs a
sports training operation called
Perfect Performance. Hibner be-
gan to learn the intricacies of the
position, and despite having
played all over the field at Lake
Braddock — including at line-
backer and punter — he knew he
wanted to make it as a tight end.
“It’s just been a grind. It’s just
been all about developing,” said
Hibner, who posted 942 yards
receiving and 12 touchdowns as
senior. “once it all came together,
it just came together as a perfect
fit, at the perfect time.”
on may 31, he was the 1,007th-
leagues. And they would all jump
for joy if one of our [big league]
clubs affiliated with them.”
much of the discourse regard-
ing what would be lost under the
“120 Plan” has focused on the
42 targeted teams. many of those
teams consider themselves essen-
tial parts of their communities,
and in some cases their major
league tie-ins are essential parts
of their identities.
“We’ve been an orioles affiliate
since Day 1 — since we started in
1989,” said Dave Ziedelis, general
manager of the high Class A
frederick Keys, who were on
mLB’s list of 42 teams targeted
for contraction. “I don’t think we
could remain viable under [the
Dream League] model. our fans
are used to seeing the manny
machados and matt Wieterses
and Zack Brittons.”
But if there is a certain ro-
mance to a small-town minor
league team, there is also a cher-
ished history of the late-bloom-
ing, late-round draft pick who
becomes an unlikely big leaguer
and sometimes even a superstar.
Hall of fame catcher mike Piazza
was a 62nd-round pick in 1988.
five-time all-star pitcher mark
Buehrle was a 38th-round pick in
1998. Nationals first baseman
Roman stubbs/tHe WasHIngton Post
rated player in the country by
247sports. After a stellar showing
at several workouts, his stock
rapidly climbed, and by June, he
was in Coach Jim Harbaugh’s
office at michigan for a visit. He
shook Harbaugh’s hand and com-
mitted, and the assistants eaves-
dropping in the next room
stormed through the door to cele-
brate with him.
It was a surreal moment for a
player who just two years earlier
was playing junior varsity and
whose first offer came from How-
ard, a football Championship
Subdivision school. By the time
he signed with michigan on
Wednesday, Hibner was rated as
matt Adams, an eight-year big
leaguer, was a 23rd-round pick by
the St. Louis Cardinals in 2009.
Klobosits, who hopes to join
that list at some point, wonders
whether such a thing would even
be possible under the proposed
plan.
“I think it’s unfair,” he said,
“because a guy like me, a 36th-
rounder, [might] never get that
opportunity of a lifetime that
we’ve gotten in years past.”
mLB says its teams don’t need
so many affiliates and so many
minor league players because
only 3.7 percent of draftees taken
in the 25th round of the draft or
later ever make the majors. And
those long-shot players would
still be found, just through non-
traditional pathways.
“The cream always rises to the
top,” Halem said. “. . . We have to
find those guys that would have
made it, and our clubs will find
them.”
economics vs. opportunities
Although mLB has detailed the
facility-related and geographical
problems regarding many of the
teams it has targeted for contrac-
tion — grounding its proposal as
a workplace issue — there is little
doubt the conflict is primarily an
THE WASHINGTON POST . THURSDAy,
the 11th-best prospect in Virginia,
the 14th-best tight end in the
country and the 156th-best player
overall by 247sports.
Bresee, The Washington Post’s
All-met Defensive Player of the
Year, made his signing with Clem-
son official after committing to
the Tigers in April. Jarrett, who
was named the All-met offensive
Player of the Year, had been
pledged to LSU since April as
well, but maryland made a late
push and flipped the five-star
wide receiver Wednesday.
St. John’s produced five of the
top 10 prospects from Washing-
ton to sign with their respective
schools, including linebacker me-
khail Sherman (Georgia), defen-
sive lineman Tre Williams (Clem-
son), cornerback mordecai mc-
Daniel (florida), defensive end
Greg Hudgins (Purdue) and quar-
terback Sol-Jay maiava (BYU).
The city’s top two ranked offen-
sive linemen — Carroll’s Anton
Harrison (oklahoma) and olu
fashanu (Penn State) — also
signed. Dematha running back
marShawn Lloyd signed with
South Carolina, while Wood-
bridge linebacker Antoine
Sampah signed with LSU. michi-
gan also signed Good Counsel
defensive end Kris Jenkins.
“Signing day is just so enter-
taining to me,” Hibner said with a
smile.
That Hibner was among that
group of elite players put his past
year into perspective. His foot is
in the door with one of the coun-
try’s top programs, but he intends
to go to michigan and prove
himself again all over.
“I have no problem going in
with a whole new mind-set. Bot-
tom of the food chain again,” he
said. “I worked my way up toward
the very end of high school. It’s all
JoHn mcDonnell/tHe WasHIngton Post
economic one.
After a lengthy legal fight, mi-
nor league players are soon to be
due a significant, across-the-
board pay raise, and because
mLB teams pay their minor
leaguers’ salaries, the teams want
financial relief in the next agree-
ment.
“We told them on Day 1: This is
a cost-sharing arrangement,”
Halem said. “If we’re going to
enter into this arrangement with
you and we’re going to guarantee
you players for all these affiliates,
we’re going to have to renegotiate
who’s paying for what. on the
player side, our costs are going
up. We’re going to have to share in
that. And on the facilities side, we
have all these facilities that need
improvement, and you’re going to
have to tell us how you’re going to
do that.”
And, barring that, the alterna-
tive could be eliminating affili-
ates. recent negotiations, includ-
ing a round last week in San
Diego, have been more cordial,
both sides say, than the first
several.
“Even in the productive con-
versations we had recently, we all
agreed there are 25 or so teams
that are in really bad shape and
players shouldn’t play there,”
DECEMbER 19 , 2019
More Washington area
prospects who signed with
major college programs:
R.J. adams, ol, Woodbridge (Kentucky)
aaron beckwith, ol, northwest (u-mass.)
beau brade, s, River Hill (maryland)
Jahmeer carter, Dt, spalding (Virginia)
elijah gaines, s, episcopal (Virginia)
mitch griffis, Qb, broad Run (Wake Forest)
Jalen Hampton, Rb, georgetown Prep
(Virginia tech)
golden Israel-achumba, ol, Dematha
(Penn state)
coziah Izzard, De, Dematha (Penn state)
teylor Jackson, s, H.D. Woodson
(east carolina)
Jestus Johnson, ol, gonzaga (Virginia)
noah Kim, Qb, Westfield (michigan state)
timothy lawson, ol, national christian
(louisville)
Vershon lee, ol, Freedom-Woodbridge
(south carolina)
Robert longerbeam, athlete, t.c. Williams
(Rutgers)
Jalen mcleod, cb, Friendship collegiate
(appalachian state)
mitchell melton, lb, good counsel
(ohio state)
Joshuah moten, cb, national christian
(texas a&m)
aaryn Parks, ol, national christian
(oklahoma)
alex Peitsch, long snapper, st. John’s
(notre Dame)
luke Petitbon, ol, gonzaga (Wake Forest)
Jason scott, cb, good counsel
(boston college)
sean tucker, cb, H.D. Woodson (east carolina)
David Vincent-okoli, cb, bullis (West Virginia)
Jordan White, ol, Dematha (West Virginia)
about being confident in yourself
and not losing that confidence.”
roman.stubbs@washpost.com
Halem said. “I don’t think it
makes sense for every community
to have a major league [affilia-
tion]. many of these communities
would be great for an indepen-
dent league team because they
wouldn’t have to meet our facility
standards, which are designed to
develop a player for the major
leagues.”
But Klobosits is among those
who wonder: If there were no
Auburn Doubledays or Hager-
stown Suns as Nationals affili-
ates, would there still be a Gabe
Klobosits as a major league pitch-
ing prospect?
“Could Hagerstown use some
renovation? Yes,” he said of the
Suns’ municipal Stadium, often
cited as one of the minors’ most
problematic facilities. “But I
think a lot of towns, like Auburn,
they thrive on minor league base-
ball. You take that away, and the
economy in that town dwindles.”
Klobosits’s rise from “organiza-
tional player” — the phrase often
attached to non-prospects who
only serve to fill out rosters in the
low minors — to legitimate pros-
pect began with the Doubledays.
His pitching coach at the time,
former Nationals starter Tim
redding, made a tweak to his
delivery, building more drive
from his lower body, that quickly
led to a velocity gain of about
5 mph on his fastball.
“You hear the phrase ‘fresh
start’ — I got that fresh start,”
Klobosits said. “I went in open-
minded and said, ‘No one is going
to outwork me.’ I had a chip on my
shoulder, and I did everything the
Nationals said. Wherever they
sent me, I was going to go full-
force and try to make it to the
top.”
Still, without the large signing
bonus to draw from, Klobosits,
whose progress was slowed by
elbow surgery in 2018, has spent
the past three years barely scrap-
ing by on a minor league salary
that has topped out so far at
$6,500. During his three offsea-
sons, he has worked in his home-
town of Katy, Tex., as a salesman
at a mitsubishi dealer, an Uber
driver and, this winter, a club-
house attendant at a country
club, where he cleans golf clubs
and shoes for members.
“You can’t live off [a minor
league salary]. You can’t work
out. You can’t eat right,” he said.
“You can’t do the things your
team wants you to do.”
But as difficult as his road has
been, Klobosits is grateful it was
there for him in the first place —
and worried it won’t be for the
next late bloomer like him who
comes along.
“It is a business — I get it,” he
said. “You’re not expecting some-
one past the 20th round to make
it all the way [to the majors]. You
can kind of understand where
they’re coming from.
“But at the same time, it’s a sad
thing to see because so many guys
now would be losing out on the
opportunity that I got.”
dave.sheinin@washpost.com
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Dallas ............................ 7 7 0 .500 378 288 Boston..........................................18 7 .720 — orlando: Isaac 3-6 1-1 7, Gordon 4-14 0-1 9, Vucevic 0-0 2, Hyland 2-4 0-0 5, Clark 0-1 0-0 0, Curry 2-6 2-4 6, Boston.......................... 35 21 7 7 49 118 90 KIPP 80, Paul Public Charter 62
Philadelphia .................. 7 7 0 .500 334 328 Toronto ........................................19 8 .704 — 7-16 5-6 20, Fultz 4-10 2-2 10, Fournier 4-10 2-2 13, Buffalo ......................... 35 16 12 7 39 110 108 maryland
Williams 0-3 0-0 0. totals 29-63 11-14 76.
N.Y. Giants .................... 3 11 0 .214 283 382 Philadelphia .................................20 9 .690 — Iwundu 1-1 2-2 4, Bamba 4-9 0-0 9, Carter-Williams 3-4 Montreal ...................... 34 16 12 6 38 108 108 Churchill 65, Kennedy 52
Washington .................. 3 11 0 .214 215 347 Brooklyn .......................................15 12 .556 4 coll. of charleston (5-6) Toronto ........................ 35 17 14 4 38 115 112 Damascus 86, Richard Montgomery 81
0-0 6, Augustin 4-9 7-7 18, Ross 3-8 0-0 8. totals 37-87
New York........................................7 21 .250 121/2 McManus 0-2 0-0 0, Miller 3-7 0-0 8, Riller 8-15 7-8 26, Tampa Bay ................... 32 17 12 3 37 114 103 Gaithersburg 68, Sherwood 66
19-21 104.
Jasper 4-7 0-1 10, Galloway 5-11 0-1 15, Epps 0-1 0-0 0, Florida .......................... 33 16 12 5 37 115 109 Glen Burnie 38, Atholton 36
SoUth w l t pct. pF pa dEnVEr: Barton 4-11 0-0 9, Millsap 4-9 6-7 15, Jokic Smart 0-0 2-2 2, McCluney 2-6 1-2 5, Richard 1-1 0-0 3, James Hubert Blake 56, Wheaton 47
z-New Orleans ............ 11 3 0 .786 378 303 SoUthEaSt w l pct gb Ottawa ......................... 35 14 18 3 31 94 113
7-14 2-2 18, Murray 11-19 9-10 33, Harris 3-7 2-2 9, Grant Reddish 1-1 0-0 2. totals 24-51 10-14 71. Magruder 72, Paint Branch 69
Tampa Bay .................... 7 7 0 .500 416 398 Miami ...........................................20 8 .714 — Detroit.......................... 36 9 24 3 21 79 141
3-8 0-0 8, Craig 0-1 0-0 0, Porter Jr. 2-3 0-0 4, Plumlee 3-6 North Point 59, Northern 51
Atlanta .......................... 5 9 0 .357 329 365 Orlando.........................................12 16 .429 8 halftime: Coll. of Charleston 46-38. three-point goals:
3-4 9, Morris 2-4 0-0 5, Beasley 1-2 0-0 3. totals 40-84 Northeast 59, Wilde Lake 56
Carolina ......................... 5 9 0 .357 324 390 Charlotte ......................................13 18 .419 81/2 VCU 7-20 (Evans 2-4, Simms 2-5, Jenkins 2-6, Hyland mEtropolitan gp w l ot pts gF ga
22-25 113. Northwood 64, Einstein 50
Washington ...................................8 18 .308 11 1-3, Clark 0-1, Curry 0-1), Coll. of Charleston 13-26 Washington ................. 35 24 6 5 53 125 100
three-point goals: Orlando 11-29 (Augustin 3-5, Fourni- (Galloway 5-9, Riller 3-5, Miller 2-3, Jasper 2-4, Oakland Mills 82, Old Mill 63
north w l t pct. pF pa Atlanta ...........................................6 22 .214 14 N.Y. Islanders............... 32 22 8 2 46 95 80 River Hill 48, Meade 45
er 3-6, Ross 2-4, Bamba 1-4, Vucevic 1-4, Gordon 1-5, Richard 1-1, McManus 0-1, McCluney 0-3). Fouled out: Carolina ........................ 34 21 11 2 44 113 89
y-Green Bay ................ 11 3 0 .786 330 283 Isaac 0-1), Denver 11-27 (Grant 2-3, Jokic 2-4, Murray None. rebounds: VCU 37 (Santos-Silva 11), Coll. of Rockville 82, Northwest 73
Minnesota ................... 10 4 0 .714 378 259 cEntral w l pct gb Pittsburgh.................... 34 20 10 4 44 114 90 Seneca Valley 69, Walter Johnson 66
2-8, Morris 1-1, Millsap 1-1, Barton 1-2, Beasley 1-2, Charleston 27 (Miller 12). assists: VCU 14 (Williams Philadelphia ................. 34 18 11 5 41 105 100
Chicago ......................... 7 7 0 .500 256 253 Milwaukee ...................................24 4 .857 — Harris 1-4, Porter Jr. 0-1, Craig 0-1). Fouled out: None. 4), Coll. of Charleston 10 (Riller 4). total fouls: VCU 18, Severna Park 51, Howard 46
Detroit .......................... 3 10 1 .250 304 373 Indiana .........................................19 9 .679 5 N.Y. Rangers ................ 33 16 13 4 36 105 106 Springbrook 60, Whitman 51
rebounds: Orlando 35 (Gordon, Vucevic 7), Denver 52 Coll. of Charleston 17. technical fouls: Vann. a: 3,938 Columbus ..................... 34 14 14 6 34 87 101
Detroit..........................................11 17 .393 13 (Millsap 12). assists: Orlando 25 (Augustin 7), Denver (5,100). St. Charles 77, Leonardtown 48
Chicago.........................................11 19 .367 14 New Jersey .................. 33 11 17 5 27 80 116 Watkins Mill 65, Bethesda-Chevy Chase 63
wESt w l t pct. pF pa 28 (Jokic 12). total Fouls: Orlando 19, Denver 17.
y-San Francisco .......... 11 3 0 .786 419 258 Cleveland........................................7 21 .250 17 technicals: Orlando coach Steve Clifford, Augustin, wEStErn conFErEncE Westlake 89, Patuxent 26
y-Seattle ..................... 11 3 0 .786 371 345 Gordon. a: 18,182 (19,520). Virginia
wEStErn conFErEncE cEntral gp w l ot pts gF ga Briar Woods 62, Champe 52
L.A. Rams ...................... 8 6 0 .571 332 306 richmond 62, old Dominion 59 St. Louis ....................... 36 21 8 6 50 109 96 Forest Park 48, Gar-Field 31
Arizona ......................... 4 9 1 .321 310 398 SoUthwESt w l pct gb
richmond (10-1) Colorado ....................... 34 22 9 3 47 123 92 James Madison 61, Marshall 52
Dallas ...........................................18 9 .667 — Loudoun County 70, Broad Run 46
Cayo 2-6 4-4 8, Golden 7-10 4-7 19, Francis 7-17 1-2 18, Winnipeg...................... 34 20 12 2 42 104 97
aFc Houston........................................18 9 .667 — celtics 109, Mavericks 103 Sherod 3-7 0-0 7, Gilyard 2-8 2-2 6, Koureissi 0-0 0-0 0, Dallas ........................... 35 19 12 4 42 91 82 Riverside 74, Tuscarora 41
San Antonio .................................10 16 .385 71/2 priVatE
Memphis ......................................10 18 .357 81/2 boSton ............................ 29 21 26 33 — 109 Burton 0-2 0-0 0, Grace 0-0 0-0 0, Wojcik 0-0 0-0 0, Nashville ...................... 33 16 12 5 37 115 106
EaSt w l t pct. pF pa Fairfax Christian 83, Loudoun County Home School 34
New Orleans ..................................7 22 .241 12 dallaS ............................. 29 26 18 30 — 103 Gustavson 0-1 4-4 4. totals 21-51 15-19 62. Minnesota.................... 35 16 14 5 37 107 115
y-New England ........... 11 3 0 .786 372 181 St. John’s 74, Takoma Academy 32
Chicago......................... 35 13 16 6 32 95 114
y-Buffalo ..................... 10 4 0 .714 291 222 old dominion (3-9)
N.Y. Jets ....................... 5 9 0 .357 247 343 boSton: Ojeleye 1-3 0-0 3, Tatum 10-23 2-3 24, Theis Carver 0-1 0-0 0, Wade 3-5 3-4 9, Curry 4-12 1-2 10, Oliver girlS’ baSkEtball
northwESt w l pct gb
Miami ............................ 3 11 0 .214 241 435 1-3 0-0 2, Walker 9-18 9-11 32, Brown 8-18 8-8 26, 2-10 2-3 8, Green 5-11 3-3 14, Dickens 0-0 2-2 2, Reece paciFic gp w l ot pts gF ga
Denver..........................................18 8 .692 — diStrict oF colUmbia
Williams 2-5 2-2 7, Kanter 2-10 2-2 6, Wanamaker 1-4 1-2 0-0 2, Ezikpe 5-6 1-2 11, Hunter 0-0 0-0 0, Godwin 1-5 Arizona......................... 36 20 12 4 44 100 86
Utah..............................................16 11 .593 21/2 McKinley 50, School Without Walls 17
4-4 7, Green 1-2 0-0 2, Langford 0-0 0-0 0. totals 35-86 0-0 3. totals 21-52 12-16 59. Vegas ........................... 37 19 13 5 43 112 105
SoUth w l t pct. pF pa Oklahoma City..............................13 14 .481 51/2 maryland
27-30 109. Edmonton..................... 36 19 14 4 42 109 112
Houston ........................ 9 5 0 .643 341 330 x-Portland ....................................11 16 .407 71/2 halftime: Richmond 31-27. three-point goals: Richmond Bethesda-Chevy Chase 73, Watkins Mill 29
Minnesota....................................10 16 .385 8 dallaS: Finney-Smith 2-7 2-2 8, Porzingis 8-19 5-8 23, Calgary ......................... 36 18 14 4 40 96 108
Tennessee ..................... 8 6 0 .571 339 279 5-19 (Francis 3-7, Golden 1-2, Sherod 1-5, Burton 0-1, Blake 71, Wheaton 33
Powell 2-6 3-4 7, Brunson 4-13 0-0 10, Hardaway Jr. Vancouver .................... 35 16 15 4 36 111 108
Indianapolis .................. 6 8 0 .429 303 329 Gustavson 0-1, Gilyard 0-3), Old Dominion 5-22 (Oliver Churchill 67, Kennedy 14
4-17 2-2 13, Jackson 1-4 2-2 4, Kleber 2-4 2-2 7, Wright San Jose....................... 36 16 18 2 34 98 125
Jacksonville .................. 5 9 0 .357 250 353 paciFic w l pct gb 2-6, Green 1-4, Godwin 1-4, Curry 1-5, Wade 0-1, Reece Douglass 57, Crossland 6
2-3 2-2 6, Curry 8-13 0-0 20, Broekhoff 1-1 2-3 5. totals Los Angeles.................. 36 15 18 3 33 94 114
L.A. Lakers ...................................24 4 .857 — 0-1, Ezikpe 0-1). Fouled out: None. rebounds: Richmond Anaheim....................... 35 14 17 4 32 89 104 Great Mills 66, La Plata 34
L.A. Clippers.................................21 8 .724 31/2 34-87 20-25 103. 28 (Golden 7), Old Dominion 31 (Wade, Ezikpe 6). North Point 57, Northern 26
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z-Baltimore ................. 12 2 0 .857 472 257 Sacramento..................................12 15 .444 111/2 three-point goals: Boston 12-38 (Walker 5-10, Brown assists: Richmond 14 (Golden, Gilyard 4), Old Dominion tUESday’S rESUltS Poolesville 52, Quince Orchard 47
Pittsburgh ..................... 8 6 0 .571 269 259 Phoenix ........................................11 16 .407 121/2 2-8, Tatum 2-10, Wanamaker 1-2, Ojeleye 1-3, Williams 9 (Curry 4). total fouls: Richmond 17, Old Dominion 14. Richard Montgomery 46, Damascus 39
x-Golden State...............................5 23 .179 19 a: 6,219 (8,472). at Tampa Bay 4, Ottawa 3, OT Rockville 55, Northwest 40
Cleveland ...................... 6 8 0 .429 297 329 1-3, Theis 0-1, Green 0-1), Dallas 15-43 (Curry 4-8,
Cincinnati ...................... 1 13 0 .071 211 359 Hardaway Jr. 3-10, Finney-Smith 2-5, Brunson 2-6, at Toronto 5, Buffalo 3 Sherwood 71, Gaithersburg 42
x-Late game Porzingis 2-7, Broekhoff 1-1, Kleber 1-3, Powell 0-1, Los Angeles 4, at Boston 3, OT Walter Johnson 68, Seneca Valley 55
Jackson 0-2). Fouled out: Porzingis. rebounds: Boston Nashville 8, at N.Y. Islanders 3 Whitman 62, Springbrook 11
wESt w l t pct. pF pa tUESday’S rESUltS
54 (Kanter 13), Dallas 42 (Porzingis 13). assists:
ncAA women at Philadelphia 4, Anaheim 1 Virginia
z-Kansas City .............. 10 4 0 .714 394 284 Briar Woods 52, Champe 43
Oakland ......................... 6 8 0 .429 274 386 at Charlotte 110, Sacramento 102 Boston 13 (Walker 3), Dallas 23 (Brunson 11). total wEdnESday’S rESUltS Columbus 5, at Detroit 3
at Indiana 105, L.A. Lakers 102 Fouls: Boston 21, Dallas 20. technicals: Dallas coach James Madison 64, Marshall 43
Denver ........................... 5 9 0 .357 239 284 EaSt Carolina 6, at Winnipeg 3
at New York 143, Atlanta 120 Mavericks (Defensive three second), Hardaway Jr., priVatE
L.A. Chargers ................ 5 9 0 .357 299 290 Pittsburgh 4, at Calgary 1 Oakcrest 43, Jewish Day 33
Brooklyn 108, at New Orleans 101, OT Powell. a: 20,181 (19,200). Dartmouth 66, New Hampshire 47
Fairmont St. 84, Wayne (Mich.) 73 Montreal 3, at Vancouver 1 Stone Ridge 58, Sidwell Friends 53
y-clinched playoff spot; z-clinched division at Utah 109, Orlando 102
Glenville St. 145, Carlow 64 at Vegas 3, Minnesota 2 Clovis 37, National Christian 33
wEEk 16 at L.A. Clippers 120, Phoenix 99 Liberty 71, St. Francis (Pa.) 52 Arizona 3, at San Jose 2 Riverdale Baptist 49, Millenium 44
SatUrday’S gamES
c o l l ege b A sKetb A l l Rider 77, Wagner 63
wEdnESday’S rESUltS wEdnESday’S rESUltS
S. Connecticut 65, St. Thomas Aquinas 63
Houston (-3) at Tampa Bay, 1 Chicago 110, at Washington 109, OT Widener 78, Ursinus 53 at New Jersey 3, Anaheim 1
Buffalo at New England (-61/2), 4:30 at Cleveland 100, Charlotte 98 ncAA men Williams 98, Delaware Valley 50 Colorado 4, at Chicago 1 b oys’ b A s Ke tb A ll
L.A. Rams at San Francisco (-61/2), 8:15 Miami 108, at Philadelphia 104 wEdnESday’S rESUltS at St. Louis 2, Edmonton 1
SoUth
Toronto 112, at Detroit 99
SUnday’S gamES EaSt Birmingham-Southern 74, Millsaps 65 thUrSday’S gamES top 20
New Orleans 107, at Minnesota 99
N.Y. Giants at Washington (-21/2), 1 Buffalo 82, Canisius 73 Delta St. 79, Ark.-Monticello 59
at Oklahoma City 126, Memphis 122
Emmanuel (Ga.) 94, King (Tenn.) 93
Buffalo at Philadelphia, 7 no. 10 gaithErSbUrg 68, ShErwood 66
Baltimore (-10) at Cleveland, 1 at Denver 113, Orlando 104 Dartmouth 76, CCSU 60 Los Angeles at Columbus, 7
La Salle 74, Wagner 60 Florida St. 70, North Florida 41 g (4-0) Ituka 24, Tarke 20, Kouemi 10, Jacquet 6, Darego
Cincinnati at Miami (PK), 1 Boston 109, at Dallas 103 Dallas at Tampa Bay, 7
New Hampshire 64, Marist 56 Maryland 114, Georgia St. 41 6, Lewis 2 totals 14 13-22 68.
New Orleans (-3) at Tennessee, 1 Golden State at Portland, Late McNeese St. 81, LSU-Shreveport 77 N.Y. Islanders at Boston, 7 S (1-2)totals 0 0-0 66.
St. Bonaventure 87, Niagara 70
Pittsburgh (-3) at N.Y. Jets, 1 Montreat 71, St. Andrews 63 Nashville at Ottawa, 7:30 halftime: Gaithersburg, (37-27).
thUrSday’S gamES St. John’s 85, Albany (N.Y.) 57
Carolina at Indianapolis (-7), 1 Syracuse 74, Oakland 62 Morgan St. 71, Texas St. 62 Chicago at Winnipeg, 8 three-point goals: G 9 (Tarke 5, Jacquet 1, Ituka 3).
Jacksonville at Atlanta (-7), 1 Utah at Atlanta, 7:30 U-Conn. 66, St. Peter’s 56 Roanoke 78, Elizabethtown 68 Carolina at Colorado, 9
Oakland at L.A. Chargers (-61/2), 4:05 Sam Houston St. 79, Northwestern St. 69 damaScUS 86,
L.A. Lakers at Milwaukee, 8 Montreal at Calgary, 9
SoUth St. Augustine’s 63, Claflin 61 no. 16 richard montgomEry 81
Detroit at Denver (-7), 4:05 Brooklyn at San Antonio, 8:30 Minnesota at Arizona, 9:30
Arizona at Seattle (-10), 4:25 Alabama 105, Samford 87 Webber 74, Northwestern Ohio 69 d (2-0) Stone 29, Mangan 15, Linthicum 14, Murray 10,
Houston at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 Vegas at Vancouver, 10
Dallas (-3) at Philadelphia, 4:25 Ball St. 65, Georgia Tech 47 Thomas 8, Shaw 7, Gottfredson 3 totals 23 10-13 86.
Friday’S gamES midwESt rm (3-0)totals 0 0-0 81.
Kansas City (-51/2) at Chicago, 8:20 ETSU 74, LSU 63 Friday’S gamES
Howard 105, Regent University 47 Anderson (Ind.) 70, Eureka 56 halftime: Damascus, (43-35).
Memphis at Cleveland, 7 Cent. Michigan 65, Oakland 47 Washington at New Jersey, 7 three-point goals: D 10 (Stone 7, Thomas 2, Mangan 1).
monday’S gamE Jacksonville 81, Presbyterian 58
Sacramento at Indiana, 7 Concordia (Wis.) 73, Spalding 62 Dallas at Florida, 7
Jacksonville St. 92, Delaware St. 80
Green Bay at Minnesota (-5), 8:15 Detroit at Boston, 7:30 Evansville 76, Chicago St. 42 Toronto at N.Y. Rangers, 7
Louisville 70, Miami (Ohio) 46
wEEk 17 Washington at Toronto, 7:30 Loyola of Chicago 78, Vanderbilt 70 Fort Hays St. 89, Harding 48 Pittsburgh at Edmonton, 9
SUnday, dEc. 29
Dallas at Philadelphia, 8 McNeese St. 109, Paul Quinn College 67 Hastings 66, St. Xavier 52 MArylAnD
New York at Miami, 8 Mississippi St. 77, Radford 68 Purdue 67, W. Kentucky 50 SatUrday’S gamES
Washington at Dallas, 1 Phoenix at Oklahoma City, 8 Nicholls 64, Texas A&M-CC 58 Robert Morris 69, Norfolk St. 62 magrUdEr 72, paint branch 69
Anaheim at N.Y. Islanders, 1
Richmond 62, Old Dominion 59 Walsh 96, West Liberty 74
Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 1 Minnesota at Denver, 9 Los Angeles at Buffalo, 1 pb (1-2) Wright 22, Bell 14, Alphonso 13, Stallings 6,
UCF 70, Bethune-Cookman 65 Wittenberg 72, Franklin 57
Chicago at Minnesota, 1 Orlando at Portland, 10 Youngstown St. 83, Lake Erie 48 Winnipeg at Minnesota, 2 Negash 6, Sanon 4, Ximinies 4 totals 22 13-17 69.
VCU 76, Coll. of Charleston 71 m (0-3)totals 0 0-0 72.
Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 1 New Orleans at Golden State, 10:30 Florida at Carolina, 7
Valparaiso 87, High Point 72 SoUthwESt halftime: Magruder, (37-30).
Miami at New England, 1 Virginia 56, Stony Brook 44 Nashville at Boston, 7
Tennessee at Houston, 1 three-point goals: PB 4 (Stallings 2, Negash 2)
Abilene Christian 76, New Orleans 62 Detroit at Toronto, 7
Green Bay at Detroit, 1 midwESt Baylor 111, Arkansas St. 43 New Jersey at Columbus, 7 north point 59, northErn 51
Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 1
cavaliers 100, Hornets 98
Cincinnati 78, Tennessee 66 Montreal at Edmonton, 7
wESt np (3-2) Taylor 18, Brown 14, Gleaton 8, Brantley 8, Rose
Cleveland at Cincinnati, 1 charlottE ....................... 21 20 23 34 — 98 DePaul 73, Cleveland St. 65 Philadelphia at Ottawa, 7 6, Powell 3, Suber 2 totals 25 6-15 59.
L.A. Chargers at Kansas City, 1 clEVEland ....................... 29 24 23 24 — 100 Illinois St. 67, UIC 66 Arizona St. 70, New Mexico St. 47 Tampa Bay at Washington, 7 n (0-0)totals 0 0-0 51.
N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 1 Indiana St. 78, Tennessee St. 72 Ball St. 77, Loyola Marymount 72 Chicago at Colorado, 9 halftime: Northern, (26-26).
charlottE: Bridges 3-7 0-0 6, Zeller 6-10 3-4 15, Michigan St. 77, Northwestern 72 Boise St. 75, W. Oregon 32
Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 1 Biyombo 2-4 0-3 4, Rozier 12-27 4-4 35, Graham 3-16 1-2 Pittsburgh at Vancouver, 10 three-point goals: NP 1 (Taylor 1)
S. Dakota St. 75, Florida Gulf Coast 56
New Orleans at Carolina, 1 9, Co.Martin 2-6 1-1 5, Kidd-Gilchrist 2-4 0-0 5, Williams St. Louis at San Jose, 10:30
Xavier 74, W. Carolina 61 riVEr hill 48, mEadE 45
Oakland at Denver, 4:25 4-10 0-0 10, Monk 2-4 0-0 5, Bacon 1-3 2-4 4. totals 37-91
San Francisco at Seattle, 4:25 11-18 98. SoUthwESt Upcoming top 25 SchEdUlE m (1-3) Speight 21, Beattie 9, Brockington 4, Barksdale
Arizona at L.A. Rams, 4:25 thUrSday’S gamES Devils 3, Ducks 1 4, Bishop 3, Hillman 2, Johnson 2 totals 17 2-3 45.
clEVEland: Osman 8-12 1-4 18, Love 5-9 2-2 16, Lamar 79, SE Louisiana 73, OT rh (0-0)totals 0 0-0 48.
Thompson 6-9 2-2 14, Garland 3-10 0-0 7, Sexton 10-14 Oregon St. 88, UTSA 78 No. 5 South Carolina vs. Duke, 7 anahEim ................................ 1 0 0 — 1 halftime: River Hill, (28-14).
3-3 23, Nance Jr. 1-3 1-2 3, Henson 0-0 0-0 0, Dellavedova Sam Houston St. 92, Northwestern St. 79 No. 6 Louisville at UT Martin, 7 nEw JErSEy ........................... 0 2 1 — 3 three-point goals: M 3 (Speight 2, Beattie 1)
0-2 2-2 2, Clarkson 4-9 2-2 10, Porter Jr. 3-6 0-0 7. totals Stephen F. Austin 96, Houston Baptist 68 No. 9 N.C. State vs. Chattanooga, 6:30
40-74 13-17 100. No. 10 UCLA at Georgia, 11 a.m. FirSt pEriod rockVillE 82, northwESt 73
playoFF ScEnarioS wESt
three-point goals: Charlotte 13-37 (Rozier 7-15, Wil- No. 15 Mississippi State vs. South Florida in Las Vegas, Scoring: 1, Anaheim, Henrique 10 (Kase, Fowler), 3:33. r (1-2) Ekpeso 18, Golan 8, Nchinda 6, Anderson 16,
Entering Week 16 Gonzaga 94, North Carolina 81 7 Hailegebriel 12, Mbogo 12, Ayungo 2 totals 27 10-16 82.
liams 2-4, Graham 2-9, Monk 1-1, Kidd-Gilchrist 1-2, SEcond pEriod
Bacon 0-1, Zeller 0-1, Co.Martin 0-2, Bridges 0-2), New Mexico St. 65, Ark.-Pine Bluff 40 n (2-0)totals 0 0-0 73.
aFc Saint Mary’s 96, Arizona St. 56 Friday’S gamES
Cleveland 7-26 (Love 4-6, Porter Jr. 1-3, Osman 1-4, Scoring: 2, New Jersey, Hischier 6 (Bratt), 1:28. 3, New halftime: Rockville, (38-32).
clinchEd: Garland 1-7, Dellavedova 0-1, Sexton 0-1, Nance Jr. 0-2, Utah St. 76, South Florida 74, OT No. 11 Texas A&M vs. Georgia Tech in San Juan, Puerto Jersey, Palmieri 13 (Gusev, Butcher), 11:29 (pp). three-point goals: R 6 (Ekpeso 3, Hailegebriel 2, Mbogo
Baltimore — AFC North Clarkson 0-2). Fouled out: Williams. rebounds: Char- Utah Valley 69, Wyoming 67 Rico, 5 1)
Kansas — AFC West lotte 35 (Zeller 9), Cleveland 48 (Love 14). assists: No. 16 DePaul at Loyola of Chicago, 8 third pEriod
Buffalo and New England — playoff berths Charlotte 25 (Graham 9), Cleveland 25 (Love 7). total No. 17 Gonzaga vs. No. 20 Missouri State, 9 Scoring: 4, New Jersey, Vatanen 5 (Hughes), 1:00.
Springbrook 60, whitman 51
Fouls: Charlotte 20, Cleveland 21. a: 17,023 (19,432). No. 19 Michigan State vs. Syracuse in Winter Park, Fla., w (1-3) Goldman 15, Niles 11, Caverly 11, Krauth 8,
baltimorE (at clEVEland, SUnday) Upcoming top 25 SchEdUlE 1:30 ShotS on goal Ravery 4, Meline 2 totals 16 4-8 51.
Clinches first-round bye with: thUrSday’S gamES anahEim ................................ 9 7 11 — 27 S (3-1) Curtis 17, Davis 15, Dembele 8, Lapierre 6, Green
l Win or tie, OR SatUrday’S gamES
nEw JErSEy ........................... 8 8 4 — 20 5, Cook 5, Simmons 2, Ukaegbu 2 totals 9 9-19 60.
l Kansas City loss or tie, OR raptors 112, pistons 99 No. 4 Duke vs. Wofford, 7 No. 3 Oregon vs. Kansas State, 3 power-play opportunities: Anaheim 0 of 2; New Jersey 1 halftime: Whitman, (29-27).
l New England loss No. 7 Maryland at Seton Halll, 7 No. 11 Texas A&M vs. Montana State in San Juan, three-point goals: S 11 (Davis 5, Curtis 5, Cook 1); W 5
toronto ........................... 30 40 26 16 — 112 No. 12 Auburn vs. N.C. State, 9 of 4. goalies: Anaheim, Miller 4-3-2 (20 shots-17 saves).
Clinches homefield advantage throughout AFC playoffs Puerto Rico, 1:30 New Jersey, Blackwood 10-9-4 (27-26). (Niles 2, Goldman 3)
with: dEtroit ............................. 29 35 15 20 — 99 No. 14 Kentucky at California, 7
l Win, OR Friday’S gamE
No. 18 Arizona vs. UC Santa Barbara, 3
l Tie and New England loss or tie, OR toronto: Anunoby 7-12 3-3 19, Siakam 10-23 0-0 26, No. 23 Penn State vs. CCSU, 6 No. 19 Michigan State vs. No. 22 West Virginia in
l Kansas City loss or tie and New England loss Gasol 0-1 0-0 0, Lowry 5-17 7-8 20, Powell 2-7 4-4 9,
Winter Park, Fla., 1:30 Avalanche 4, blackhawks 1 VIrgInIA
Miller 0-0 0-0 0, Hollis-Jefferson 2-4 1-2 5, Ibaka 10-18 SatUrday’S gamES No. 21 Arkansas at Little Rock, 2
nEw England (VS. bUFFalo, SatUrday) 4-5 25, Boucher 0-2 2-2 2, McCaw 1-3 0-0 2, Davis 2-4 0-0
No. 1 Kansas at No. 18 Villanova, noon No. 23 Tennessee at Portland State, 5 colorado .............................. 1 2 1 — 4
4. totals 39-91 21-24 112. riVErSidE 74, tUScarora 41
Clinches AFC East with: No. 2 Gonzaga vs. Eastern Washington, 5 chicago .................................. 1 0 0 — 1
l Win or tie dEtroit: Snell 2-9 0-0 5, Griffin 6-13 2-2 15, Drummond No. 5 Ohio State vs. No. 6 Kentucky in Las Vegas, 5:15 SUnday’S gamES t (1-3)totals 0 0-0 41.
9-16 4-7 22, Brown 5-8 1-2 12, Kennard 2-5 1-2 7, Morris FirSt pEriod r (5-1) Ziller 15, Anderson 13, Ntiamoah 10, Everett 9,
Clinches first-round bye with: No. 8 Oregon vs. Texas Southern, 10:30 No. 1 Stanford at Texas, 1
l Win and Kansas City loss or tie, OR 1-5 0-0 2, Wood 1-2 4-4 6, Maker 0-0 0-0 0, Rose 8-17 0-1 No. 11 Memphis vs. Jackson State, 1 No. 2 U-Conn. vs. Oklahoma in Uncasville, Conn., 4 Scoring: 1, Colorado, Cole 2 (Zadorov, Landeskog), 8:41. Dausch 9, Reichard 6, Darr 5, Koscinski 3, Ulloa 2, Kohl 2
l Tie and Kansas City loss 16, Galloway 2-7 1-2 6, Mykhailiuk 3-5 2-2 8. totals No. 12 Auburn vs. Lehigh, 6 No. 5 South Carolina vs. No. 25 South Dakota, Noon 2, Chicago, Carpenter 2 (DeBrincat), 9:48. totals 24 14-17 74.
39-87 15-22 99. No. 13 Dayton vs. Colorado in Chicago, 6:30 No. 8 Florida State vs. No. 24 Michigan in Uncasville, halftime: Riverside, (33-24).
hoUSton (at tampa bay, SatUrday) No. 14 Michigan vs. Presbyterian, noon Conn., 1:30 SEcond pEriod three-point goals: R 4 (Dausch 3, Koscinski 1).
three-point goals: Toronto 13-35 (Siakam 6-11, Lowry
Clinches AFC South with: 3-6, Anunoby 2-5, Ibaka 1-4, Powell 1-4, Gasol 0-1, No. 15 Michigan State vs. Eastern Michigan, 7 No. 10 UCLA at No. 12 Indiana, noon Scoring: 3, Colorado, MacKinnon 21 (Rantanen, Lind-
l Win, OR Boucher 0-1, Davis 0-1, McCaw 0-2), Detroit 6-35 No. 16 Arizona vs. St. John’s in San Francisco, 10 No. 22 West Virginia vs. Syracuse in Winter Park, Fla., holm), 7:49. 4, Colorado, Burakovsky 13, 10:08.
l Tie and Tennessee tie, OR (Kennard 2-4, Brown 1-2, Griffin 1-5, Galloway 1-6, Snell No. 17 Butler vs. Purdue In Indianapolis, 2:30 1:30 gI rl s ’ b A s Ke t b All
l Tennessee loss No. 19 Florida State vs. South Florida in, Sunrise, Fla., third pEriod
1-8, Mykhailiuk 0-2, Morris 0-4, Rose 0-4). Fouled out:
Clinches playoff berth with: None. rebounds: Toronto 47 (Ibaka 13), Detroit 48 noon Scoring: 5, Colorado, Rantanen 10 (Landeskog, Cole), 17:04.
l Tie and Pittsburgh tie, OR (Drummond 18). assists: Toronto 27 (Lowry 10), Detroit No. 20 San Diego State vs. Utah in Los Angeles, 6:30 top 20
l Pittsburgh loss 19 (Rose 5). total Fouls: Toronto 20, Detroit 17. No. 21 Tennessee vs. Jacksonville State, 1 no. 13 Maryland 114, ShotS on goal
No. 24 Texas Tech vs. UT Rio Grande Valley, 2 colorado ............................ 19 10 7 — 36
StonE ridgE 58, no. 3 SidwEll FriEndS 53
technicals: Lowry, Siakam, Drummond, Griffin. a:
nFc 15,319 (20,491). No. 25 West Virginia at Youngstown State, 1 georgia state 41 chicago .................................. 6 16 10 — 32 Sr (6-0) Nweke 23, Hollensteiner 11, Hollensteiner 8,
clinchEd: maryland ........................... 29 28 27 30 — 114 power-play opportunities: Colorado 0 of 2; Chicago 0 of 3. Lucas 6, Toukara 5, Carr 3, Irene 2 totals 13 11-21 58.
New Orleans — NFC South georgia St. ........................ 11 6 12 12 — 41 goalies: Colorado, Francouz 10-2-1 (32 shots-31 saves). SF (5-2) Donovan 23, Rice 15, Marshall 7, Miller 6,
Green Bay, San Francisco and Seattle — playoff berths Chicago, Crawford 6-10-2 (35-32). Gregory 2 totals 13 18-27 53.
maryland halftime: Sidwell Friends, (0-0).
grEEn bay (at minnESota, monday) Heat 108, 76ers 104 no. 9 Virginia 56, (9-2)
min Fg Ft o-t a pF ptS
three-point goals: SF 3 (Rice 1, Miller 2); SR 7 (Lucas 2,
Clinches NFC North with: miami ................................ 19 37 26 26 — 108 stony brook 44 Austin 29 2-6 8-10 1-11 4 5 12 Nweke 2, Toukara 1, Hollensteiner 2).
l Win or tie philadElphia .................. 29 19 26 30 — 104 Charles 24 5-9 3-3 5-10 5 2 13
Stony brook (7-6) Mikesell 23 8-14 0-0 0-1 2 1 23 blues 2, oilers 1 no. 12 JamES madiSon 64, marShall 43
dallaS (at philadElphia, SUnday) miami: Butler 5-11 4-5 14, Adebayo 9-16 5-6 23, Leonard Gueye 4-6 0-0 9, Olaniyi 4-14 2-4 11, Otchere 0-1 0-0 0, Owusu 25 3-9 0-0 1-1 7 1 7 m (8-0) Arnolie 14, Makrigiorgos 12, Makrigiorgos 11,
Edmonton ............................. 0 0 1 — 1
2-7 0-0 6, Nunn 9-18 4-6 26, Robinson 5-11 2-2 15, Jones Foreman 3-10 0-0 8, Garcia 3-5 2-2 8, Ochefu 0-0 0-0 0, Watson 21 8-12 0-0 2-2 3 1 23 Arnolie 10, Chapman 6, Glowasky 5, Kohler 4, Koshuta 2
Clinches NFC East with: St. loUiS ................................. 0 1 1 — 2
Jr. 5-9 1-1 13, Olynyk 1-2 0-0 2, Herro 4-11 0-0 9. totals Christie 0-0 0-0 0, Stephenson-Moore 0-0 0-0 0, McKenzie Jones 21 6-10 2-2 6-10 0 2 14 totals 19 5-7 64.
l Win
40-85 16-20 108. 0-0 0-0 0, Pierre Philippe 1-5 0-0 2, Latimer 2-4 1-2 6. Masonius 21 5-9 1-2 3-5 1 3 11 SEcond pEriod m (0-1)totals 0 0-0 43.
minnESota (VS. grEEn bay, monday) totals 17-45 5-8 44. Miller 19 4-8 1-1 3-8 5 4 9 halftime: James Madison, (26-19).
philadElphia: Harris 7-16 4-5 20, Horford 4-9 0-0 9, Virginia (9-1) Scoring: 1, St. Louis, Schenn 15 (Dunn, Schwartz),
Vujacic 17 1-3 0-0 0-0 2 2 2 8:04. three-point goals: M 7 (Glowasky 1, Arnolie 2, Makri-
Clinches playoff berth with: Embiid 8-19 5-5 22, Simmons 7-13 3-4 17, Richardson Diakite 4-9 5-6 13, Caffaro 0-2 0-0 0, Morsell 1-7 0-0 2,
l Win or tie, OR 6-17 2-2 17, Ennis III 1-3 0-0 3, Thybulle 2-3 0-0 5, Scott totalS 200 42-80 15-18 22-49 29 21 114 giorgos 2, Makrigiorgos 2).
Stattmann 3-9 0-0 7, Clark 5-10 2-2 14, Huff 5-10 2-2 12, Key third pEriod
l L.A. Rams loss or tie 1-6 0-0 3, Neto 0-1 2-2 2, Korkmaz 2-3 0-0 6. totals 38-90 0-1 0-2 0, Woldetensae 3-4 0-0 8. totals 21-52 9-12 56. no. 13 chUrchill 67, kEnnEdy 14
percentages: FG , FT . 3-point goals: 15-27, (Mikesell
16-18 104. Scoring: 2, St. Louis, MacEachern 6 (Perron, O’Reilly),
halftime: Virginia 28-21. three-point goals: Stony Brook 7-11, Watson 7-10, Owusu 1-4, Charles 0-1, Miller 0-1) k (0-0)totals 0 0-0 14.
6:23. 3, Edmonton, Neal 16 (Kassian, Draisaitl), 18:10.
three-point goals: Miami 12-31 (Nunn 4-8, Robinson 5-21 (Foreman 2-8, Gueye 1-2, Latimer 1-2, Olaniyi 1-6, blocked Shots: 6 (Austin 4, Jones 2) turnovers: 17 c (4-0) Hill 15, Martin 12, Coleman 10, Haramis 8, Wilson
3-9, Jones Jr. 2-4, Leonard 2-5, Herro 1-3, Butler 0-1, Garcia 0-1, Pierre Philippe 0-2), Virginia 5-16 (Woldeten- (Owusu 4, Jones 4, Austin 3, Charles 2, Miller 2, ShotS on goal 7, George 7, Rubino 3, Cuthbert 3, Stanish 2 totals 24
tr AnsAc t I o n s Olynyk 0-1), Philadelphia 12-39 (Richardson 3-10, Kork- sae 2-3, Clark 2-4, Stattmann 1-4, Huff 0-1, Key 0-1, Mikesell 1, Masonius 1) Steals: 22 (Watson 6, Austin 4, 10-18 67.
Edmonton ........................... 10 8 18 — 36
maz 2-3, Harris 2-6, Thybulle 1-2, Ennis III 1-3, Horford Morsell 0-3). Fouled out: None. rebounds: Stony Brook 29 Owusu 4, Charles 3, Masonius 2, Vujacic 2, Mikesell 1) halftime: Churchill, (42-6).
St. loUiS ............................... 15 19 10 — 44
1-3, Embiid 1-5, Scott 1-6, Neto 0-1). Fouled out: None. (Olaniyi 7), Virginia 26 (Huff 7). assists: Stony Brook 5 technical Fouls: None. three-point goals: C 3 (Haramis 2, Wilson 1).
mlb rebounds: Miami 47 (Adebayo 9), Philadelphia 41 power-play opportunities: Edmonton 0 of 4; St. Louis 0
(Olaniyi 2), Virginia 11 (Clark 6). total fouls: Stony Brook gEorgia St.
(Embiid 19). assists: Miami 26 (Herro 7), Philadelphia min Fg Ft o-t a pF ptS of 5. goalies: Edmonton, Koskinen 12-6-2 (44 shots-42 no. 18 grEat millS 66, la plata 34
kansas city royals: Agreed to terms with 3B Humberto 9, Virginia 8. a: 13,665 (14,593). (1-8)
24 (Simmons, Richardson 6). total Fouls: Miami 14, saves). St. Louis, Allen 6-2-2 (36-35).
Arteaga and 2B Erick Mejia on minor league contracts. Hosendove 14 1-5 0-2 2-5 0 4 2 lp (0-0)totals 0 0-0 34.
new york yankees: Designated RHP Chance Adams for Philadelphia 17. technicals: Philadelphia coach 76ers gm (6-0) Witherspoon 23, Daniels 12, Livingston 7,
(Defensive three second). a: 20,715 (20,478). All. Johnson 30 1-9 3-4 0-1 3 3 5
assignment. Agreed to terms with RHP Gerrit Cole on a no. 15 Michigan state 77, Miller-McCray 25 3-5 4-4 2-5 0 5 10 Turner 6, Dean 4, Saxon 4, Dyson 4, Hamilton 3, Proctor
nine-year contract. Lewis 26 3-12 0-0 2-5 0 0 6 2, Bernich 1 totals 23 8-13 66.
toronto blue Jays: Agreed to terms with RHP Tanner northwestern 72 Lyons 17 1-3 0-0 0-3 0 2 2
penguins 4, flames 1 halftime: Great Mills, (21-13).
Roark on a two-year contract. three-point goals: GM 4 (Livingston 1, Hamilton 1,
miami marlins: Agreed to terms with OF Matt Kemp, Cs
thunder 126, grizzlies 122 michigan St. (8-3) Joe. Johnson 6 1-2 0-0 0-1 0 0 2 Late Tuesday Witherspoon 2).
Bingham 2-4 2-2 6, Henry 1-9 0-0 3, Tillman 6-12 2-2 15, Williams 8 0-1 2-4 0-1 0 2 2
Ryan Lavarnway and Brian Navarreto, 2B Gosuke Katoh mEmphiS ........................... 32 36 32 22 — 122 Drash 4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 pittSbUrgh ............................. 0 2 2 — 4
Brown 4-8 0-0 11, Winston 8-16 3-4 21, Kithier 3-5 0-0 6,
and Christian Lopes and RHPs Aaron Northcraft and Josh oklahoma city ............... 27 32 34 33 — 126 Dziak 15 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 calgary ................................... 1 0 0 — 1
Hall 2-4 1-2 5, Loyer 1-1 4-4 7, George 0-0 0-0 0, Ahrens 1-2
A. Smith on minor league contracts. Ervin 18 0-3 0-0 0-1 2 0 0
0-0 3. totals 28-61 12-14 77. FirSt pEriod
milwaukee brewers: Agreed to terms with 3B Jace mEmphiS: Crowder 1-6 0-0 3, Jackson Jr. 4-9 0-0 9, Henderson 18 3-6 0-0 0-1 1 2 6 MArylAnD
Peterson on a minor league contract. Valanciunas 11-16 0-0 24, Morant 9-16 3-5 22, Brooks northwestern (5-5) Powell 12 1-1 2-2 0-0 0 0 4 Scoring: 1, Calgary, Gaudreau 10 (Backlund, Rieder), 16:05.
washington nationals: Agreed to terms with RHP Mario 5-12 3-4 15, Clarke 14-20 1-1 29, Anderson 3-5 3-3 9, Hill Nance 6-12 0-0 14, Kopp 2-9 4-5 9, Young 1-4 2-2 4, Taylor 7 0-1 2-2 0-0 0 0 2 doUglaSS 57, croSSland 6
Sanchez on a minor league contract. 2-5 2-2 8, Melton 2-7 0-0 5, Jones 0-3 0-0 0. totals 51-99 Spencer 2-6 0-0 4, Gaines 2-4 0-0 4, Beran 2-5 0-1 4, Jones SEcond pEriod
12-15 122. 1-1 0-0 2, Turner 2-7 0-0 5, Buie 8-13 5-7 26, Greer 0-0 0-0 totalS 200 14-49 13-18 7-24 7 18 41 c (1-1)totals 0 0-0 6.
nFl Scoring: 2, Pittsburgh, Marino 4 (Pettersson, Kahun), d (2-0) Ford 12, Hansberry 11, Muldrow 9, Carey 8,
0. totals 26-61 11-15 72. percentages: FG , FT . 3-point goals: 0-10, (All. Johnson 12:13. 3, Pittsburgh, Rust 13 (Letang, Malkin), 13:35.
oklahoma city: Ferguson 1-3 0-0 3, Gallinari 7-15 3-4 Taylor 8, Ford 7, Garvin 2 totals 18 0-0 57.
arizona cardinals: Placed LB Tanner Vallejo and CB 20, Adams 6-7 1-4 13, Paul 6-10 5-5 18, Gilgeous-Alexan- halftime: Michigan St. 37-27. three-point goals: Michi- 0-2, Lewis 0-4, Dziak 0-1, Ervin 0-3) blocked Shots: 2
third pEriod halftime: Douglass, (41-3).
Kevin Peterson on IR. Signed LB Vontarrius Dora from der 7-16 6-6 20, Bazley 2-4 0-0 4, Nader 3-4 0-2 7, gan St. 9-21 (Brown 3-4, Winston 2-5, Loyer 1-1, Ahrens (Miller-McCray 2) turnovers: 31 (All. Johnson 6, three-point goals: D 7 (Ford 2, Ford 1, Hansberry 3,
the practice squad, CB Andre Chachere from Carolina’s Muscala 0-0 0-0 0, Noel 4-6 2-2 10, Schroder 10-19 10-11 1-2, Tillman 1-3, Henry 1-5, Bingham 0-1), Northwestern Henderson 4, Hosendove 3, Miller-McCray 3, Lyons 3, Scoring: 4, Pittsburgh, Malkin 9 (Marino, Rust), 18:02. 5,
practice squad, LB Keishawn Bierria from Jacksonville’s Muldrow 1).
31. totals 46-84 27-34 126. 9-21 (Buie 5-7, Nance 2-6, Turner 1-3, Kopp 1-3, Beran Lewis 2, Dziak 2, Taylor 2, Joe. Johnson 1, Ervin 1, Pittsburgh, Letang 8, 18:22.
practice squad and CB Duke Thomas and LB Jamey 0-2). Fouled out: None. rebounds: Michigan St. 41 Powell 1) Steals: 10 (Henderson 3, Miller-McCray 2, waltEr JohnSon 68, SEnEca VallEy 55
Mosely to the practice squad. three-point goals: Memphis 10-25 (Valanciunas 2-3, (Tillman 11), Northwestern 22 (Nance 7). assists: Michi- Lyons 2, Hosendove 1, Dziak 1, Ervin 1) technical Fouls: ShotS on goal
chicago bears: Placed LB Danny Trevathan on IR. Signed Brooks 2-3, Hill 2-4, Morant 1-1, Melton 1-3, Jackson Jr. wJ (2-2) Assaker 27, Hackmann 13, Enright 10, Fox 5,
gan St. 17 (Winston 6), Northwestern 15 (Buie 4). total None. pittSbUrgh ............................. 6 16 11 — 33 Yamada 4, Sarnowski 4, Samuels 3, Rand 2 totals 26
DB Michael Joseph from the practice squad and WR Alex 1-4, Crowder 1-4, Anderson 0-1, Clarke 0-2), Oklahoma fouls: Michigan St. 12, Northwestern 15. a: 1,501.
City 7-24 (Gallinari 3-7, Paul 1-2, Nader 1-2, Ferguson calgary ................................ 17 9 8 — 34 10-20 68.
Wesley to the practice squad.
detroit lions: Signed DT Jamie Meder. 1-3, Schroder 1-5, Bazley 0-2, Gilgeous-Alexander 0-3). power-play opportunities: Pittsburgh 0 of 3; Calgary 0 of SV (1-0)totals 0 0-0 55.
indianapolis colts: Signed OT Travis Vornkahl and DT Fouled out: None. rebounds: Memphis 47 (Valanciunas 1. goalies: Pittsburgh, Jarry 10-5-0 (34 shots-33 saves). halftime: Walter Johnson, (34-19).
Roderick Young to the practice squad. 9), Oklahoma City 35 (Adams 10). assists: Memphis 28 Calgary, Talbot 3-6-0 (31-29). three-point goals: WJ 2 (Hackmann 2)
Jacksonville Jaguars: Released S Marcus Gilchrist. (Morant 7), Oklahoma City 25 (Schroder 7). total Fouls: cincinnati 78, no. 7 baylor 111, poolESVillE 52, QUincE orchard 47
Signed S Doug Middleton from the practice squad and RB Memphis 25, Oklahoma City 16. technicals: Memphis
Jeremy McNichols, DL Dewayne Hendrix and LB Joe coach Grizzlies (Defensive three second) 2. no. 21 tennessee 66 Arkansas state 43 Qo (1-0) Badmus 14, McNeal 8, Wright 7, McKenzie 7,
Dineen to the practice squad. tennessee (7-3) arkansas St. (3-7) coyotes 3, sharks 2 Kavadias 6, Dunda 5 totals 12 5-8 47.
kansas city chiefs: Claimed DE Terrell Suggs off waivers Fulkerson 6-8 2-2 14, Bowden 4-12 4-4 13, Turner 3-8 6-6 Martin 3-9 5-6 11, Tubbs 0-2 0-0 0, Ford 1-2 0-0 3, p (3-1) Lemarr 14, Cherian 11, Hobbs 10, Magaha 9,
from Arizona. 12, James 3-8 1-1 8, Pons 5-9 0-0 11, Nkamhoua 1-1 0-0 Wallace 2-7 1-2 5, Washington 6-10 4-5 16, Jackson 1-1 Late Tuesday Rohde 8 totals 14 9-23 52.
new orleans Saints: Claimed CB Janoris Jenkins off halftime: Poolesville, (23-21).
waivers from the N.Y. Giants.
pelicans 107, timberwolves 99 2, Pember 1-2 0-0 2, Johnson 0-1 0-0 0, Gaines 0-2 4-4 4. 1-3 3, Williams 0-10 0-0 0, Taylor 1-3 0-0 2, Tennison arizona ................................ 1 1 1 — 3
three-point goals: P 5 (Rohde 1, Cherian 2, Hobbs 2); QO
totals 23-51 17-17 66. 1-8 0-0 3, totals 15-52 11-16 43. San JoSE ............................... 1 1 0 — 2
new york giants: Signed DB Rashaan Gaulden from the nEw orlEanS .................. 32 31 24 20 — 107 6 (Badmus 2, Kavadias 2, Wright 1, McKenzie 1)
practice squad and DE Kevin Wilkins to the practice cincinnati (7-4) baylor (9-1) FirSt pEriod
minnESota ...................... 25 25 22 27 — 99 Scott 7-11 0-0 15, Vogt 5-8 1-1 11, Jar.Cumberland 4-9 Smith 6-6 3-5 15, Cooper 2-7 4-4 8, Landrum 14-24 0-0 bEthESda-chEVy chaSE 73, watkinS mill 29
squad.
1-1 10, Williams 4-9 3-6 11, Adams-Woods 3-6 4-4 11, 42, Richards 4-5 0-0 8, Ursin 2-5 0-0 4, DeGrate 4-8 3-4 Scoring: 1, Arizona, Soderberg 10 (Schmaltz, Keller),
philadelphia Eagles: Placed LB Kamu Grugier-Hill on IR. nEw orlEanS: Williams 0-2 0-0 0, Ingram 12-22 7-7 34, wm (0-0)totals 0 0-0 29.
Sorolla 4-4 1-2 9, Jae.Cumberland 4-7 1-2 11, McNeal 0-1 11, Egbo 6-10 1-1 13, Jor. Oliver 1-3 0-0 2, Tri. Oliver 3-3 4:57. 2, San Jose, Hertl 13 (E.Karlsson), 17:26.
Signed DT Bruce Hector from the practice squad and LB Favors 2-2 2-2 6, Holiday 5-20 5-7 18, Redick 4-10 2-2 12, b-cc (3-0) Orza 18, Katz 10, Fairbanks-Lee 10, Sosa 6,
Deshaun Davis to the practice squad. Okafor 3-5 0-1 6, Hayes 1-2 1-2 3, Ball 4-10 0-0 10, Hart 0-0 0. totals 31-55 11-16 78. 1-2 8, totals 42-71 12-16 111. Roberson 6, Haraldsson 5, Wrathall 4, Niman 4, Lawson
SEcond pEriod
pittsburgh Steelers: Signed WR Jamal Custis to the 4-5 0-0 11, Moore 3-7 0-0 7, Alexander-Walker 0-1 0-0 0. halftime: Cincinnati 38-34. three-point goals: Tennes- arkanSaS St. ................. 15 4 16 8 —43 4, Ellis 2, Posner 2, Stanley 2 totals 28 17-23 73.
practice squad. totals 38-86 17-21 107. baylor ............................. 30 28 27 26 —111 Scoring: 3, Arizona, Stepan 6 (Hinostroza, Crouse), halftime: Bethesda-Chevy Chase, (36-14).
see 3-15 (Pons 1-3, Bowden 1-5, James 1-5, Gaines
tampa bay buccaneers: Placed WRs Scotty Miller and three-point goals: Arkansas St. 2-18 (Martin 0-2, Ford 9:11. 4, San Jose, Hertl 14 (Burns), 13:55. three-point goals:
minnESota: Okogie 1-7 0-0 3, Graham 4-8 0-2 10, Dieng 0-1, Turner 0-1), Cincinnati 5-15 (Jae.Cumberland 2-3,
Mike Evans and S Jordan Whitehead on IR. Signed WR 5-7 2-4 13, Teague 1-8 2-3 5, Wiggins 9-23 7-9 27, Scott 1-2, Adams-Woods 1-3, Jar.Cumberland 1-5, 1-2, Wallace 0-1, Washington 0-2, Williams 0-4, third pEriod
Spencer Schnell from the practice squad, WR Cyril Bates-Diop 1-6 1-2 3, Vonleh 3-5 1-1 7, Bell 3-4 0-0 6, Williams 0-1, McNeal 0-1). Fouled out: Jar.Cumber- Tennison 1-7), Baylor 15-33 (Cooper 0-5, Landrum
Grayson from Dallas’ practice squad and DB Herb Miller land, James. rebounds: Tennessee 19 (Pons, James 4), 14-23, Ursin 0-1, Egbo 0-2, Jor. Oliver 0-1, Tri. Oliver Scoring: 5, Arizona, Ekman-Larsson 3 (Hall), 17:23.
Covington 5-17 2-3 15, Napier 4-10 2-3 10. totals 36-95
to the practice squad. 17-27 99. Cincinnati 28 (Scott 7). assists: Tennessee 13 1-1). assists: Arkansas St. 4 (Taylor 2), Baylor 37 ShotS on goal VIrgInIA
tennessee titans: Signed LB Nigel Harris from the (Bowden 6), Cincinnati 17 (Jar.Cumberland, Adams- (Cooper 10). Fouled out: Arkansas St. Martin, re-
practice squad and PK Greg Joseph from Carolina’s three-point goals: New Orleans 14-33 (Hart 3-4, Holiday Woods 4). total fouls: Tennessee 18, Cincinnati 16. a: bounds: Arkansas St. 27 (Wallace 6), Baylor 41 (Egbo arizona ................................ 5 6 8 — 19 briar woodS 52, champE 43
practice squad. 3-6, Ingram 3-9, Redick 2-4, Ball 2-7, Moore 1-2, Williams 12,012 (13,176). 10). total fouls: Arkansas St. 16, Baylor 14. Technical San JoSE ............................... 8 11 9 — 28
washington redskins: Signed DB Maurice Smith from the 0-1), Minnesota 10-39 (Covington 3-11, Graham 2-4, Fouls_None.a: 10,284. power-play opportunities: Arizona 0 of 3; San Jose 0 of c (0-4) Moore 13, Wilson 8, Hoffman 7, Favis 6, Galindo
practice squad and WR Emanuel Hall to the practice squad. Wiggins 2-6, Teague 1-2, Dieng 1-3, Okogie 1-5, Vonleh 4. goalies: Arizona, Kuemper 15-7-2 (28 shots-26 5, Yi 4 totals 14 6-8 43.
0-1, Bates-Diop 0-2, Napier 0-5). rebounds: New Or- saves). San Jose, Dell 4-5-1 (19-16). bw (1-1)totals 0 0-0 52.
mlS leans 55 (Favors 11), Minnesota 43 (Dieng 8). assists: halftime: Briar Woods, (27-21).
New Orleans 23 (Ball 6), Minnesota 20 (Teague 9). total three-point goals: C 3 (Hoffman 1, Favis 2)
columbus crew: Signed D Vito Wormgoor.
Fouls: New Orleans 19, Minnesota 18.
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
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IN THE MATTER OF
TERESITA UBINA DOTSON
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NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
PROBATE DIVISION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20001-2131
2019 ADM 001255
JOHN CLENTON GAINEY
PRO SE
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT,
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
Michael A. Gainey, whose address is
1621 Tanyard Hill Rd. Gaithersburg,
MD 20879 was appointed person-
al representative of the estate of
John Clenton Gainey, who died on
November 11, 2019 without a will
and will serve with Court supervi-
sion. All unknown heirs and heirs
whose whereabouts are unknown
shall enter their appearance in this
proceeding. Objections to such
appointment shall be filed with the
Register of Wills, D.C., Building A,
515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor,
Washington, D.C. 20001, on or
before June 19, 2020. Claims
against the decedent shall be pre-
sented to the undersigned with a
copy to the Register of Wills or
filed with the Register of Wills with
a copy to the undersigned, on or
before June 19, 2020, or be forever
barred. Persons believed to be heirs
or legatees of the decedent who do
not receive a copy of this notice
by mail within 25 days of its first
publication shall so inform the Reg-
ister of Wills, including name,
address and relationship.
Michael A. Gainey
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
Nicole D. Stevens
ACTING REGISTER OF WILLS
SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Landlord and Tenant Branch
CASE NO. 2019 LTB 026645
Next hearing:
January 2, 2020, AT 9:00 A.M.
UIP PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, INC.,
Plaintiff, V. JOHN CLENTON GAINEY,
Defendant, who lived at 6939 GEOR-
GIA AVENUE, NW, #208, Washing-
ton, D.C. 20012, at the time of
his reported death, is the subject
of a an action for a redeemable
judgment for possession by Plaintiff,
UIP Property Management, Inc. in
the Landlord and Tenant Branch of
the Superior Court of the District
of Columbia, Case No. 2019 LTB
026645. A judgment for possession
may lead to eviction and the loss of
personal property in the residence.
Any and all heirs and/or potential
heirs may enter their appearance in
the proceeding after publication is
completed. Interested parties are
to appear January 2, 2020, at 9:00
a.m. in the Landlord and Tenant
Court, located at 510 4th Street NW,
Washington, D.C. 20001. Inquiries
may be directed to: Michele C.
Meiners, The Meiners Law Firm,
PLLC, 10332 Main Street, Suite 101,
Fairfax, VA 22032, michele@meiner-
slawfirm.com, counsel for the Plain-
tiff.
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
PROBATE DIVISION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20001-2131
2019 NRT 000038
PAULINE GREGORY
Name of Deceased Settlor
NOTICE OF EXISTENCE
OF REVOCABLE TRUST
Pauline Gregory, whose address
was 3608 18th Street, NE Wash-
ington, DC 20018 created a revo-
cable trust on 7/15/14 amended
5/25/16; 7/18/18 which remained in
existence on the date of his death
on October 3, 2019, and Paul S.
Schleifman, whose address is 1600
Wilson Boulevard Ste 905, Arling-
ton, VA 22209 is the currently acting
trustee, hereinafter the Trustee.
Communications to the trust should
be mailed or directed to Paul Sch-
leifman at Schleifman Law, PLC,
1600 Wilson Boulevard, Ste. 905,
Arlington, VA 22209.
The Trust is subject to claims of the
deceased settlor's creditors, costs
of administration of the settlor's
estate, the expenses of the
deceased settlor's funeral and dis-
posal of remains, and statutory
allowances to a surviving spouse
and children to the extent the
deceased settlor's residuary pro-
bate estate in inadequate to satisfy
those claims, costs, expenses, and
allowances.
Claims of the deceased settlor's
creditors are barred as against the
Trustee and the trust property
unless presented to the Trustee at
the address provided herein or or
before June 12, 2020 (6 months
after the date of the first publication
of this notice). An action to contest
the validity of this trust must be
commenced by the earliest of (1)
October 3, 2020 (one year from the
date of death of the deceased sett-
lor or (2) June 12, 2020 (6 months
from the date of first publication of
this notice) or (3) ninety days after
the Trustee sends the person a copy
of the trust instrument and a notice
informing the person of the trust's
existence, the Trustee's name and
address, and the time allowed for
commencing a proceeding.
The Trustee may proceed to dis-
tribute the trust property in accor-
dance with the terms of the trust
before the expiration of the time
within which an action must be
commenced unless the Trustee
knows of a pending judicial pro-
ceeding contesting the validity of
the trust or the Trustee has received
notice from a potential contestant
who thereafter commences a judi-
cial proceeding within sixty days
after notification.
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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
an Amendment to the City of Rockville Comprehensive Master
Plan, the 2001 Town Center Master Plan, the 2004 East Rockville
1006 15TH STREET SE, WASHINGTON, DC 20003 1111 25TH STREET NW #709, WASHINGTON, DC 20037 33 NICHOLSON STREET NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20011
Neighborhood Plan, and the 2007 Lincoln Park Neighborhood Plan In execution of the Superior Court for the District of Columbia’s In execution of the Superior Court for the District of Columbia’s In execution of the Superior Court for the District of Columbia’s
Notice is hereby given that the City of Rockville Planning Commission Decree of Sale in Case #2018 CA 008736 R (RP), the Decree of Sale in Case #2015 CA 007309 R (RP), the Decree of Sale in Case #2016 CA 007856 R (RP), the
will conduct a public hearing on Wednesday, January 8, 2020. The undersigned Substitute Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property undersigned Substitute Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property undersigned Substitute Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
hearing will begin at 7:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the item
may be heard, in the Mayor and Council Chambers, Rockville City known as 1006 15TH STREET SE, WASHINGTON, DC 20003 known as 1111 25TH STREET NW #709, WASHINGTON, DC known as 33 NICHOLSON STREET NW, WASHINGTON, DC
Hall, 111 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD, in connection with a plan at public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST AUC- 20037 at public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST 20011 at public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST
amendment that would amend the City’s Comprehensive Master Plan
and associated Neighborhood Plans. TIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440, AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440, AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440,
The Planning Commission is inviting testimony on the plan amend- Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On JANUARY 7, 2020 Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On JANUARY 7, 2020 Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On JANUARY 7, 2020
ment draft. The amendment covers approximately 6 acres generally AT 11:00 A.M., the land and premises situated in the District AT 11:00 A.M., the land and premises situated in the District AT 11:00 A.M., the land and premises situated in the District
located around the intersection of Park Rd. and N. Stonestreet Ave.,
between the rail lines to the west and N. Grandin Ave. to the east. The of Columbia, and designated as and being Lot 0044 in Square of Columbia, and designated as and being Lot 2083 in Square of Columbia, and designated as and being Lot 0809 in Square
properties north of Park Rd. are bound on the west by the rail lines and 1079 and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust 0025 and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust 3383 and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust
on the east by N. Grandin Ave., extending north to England Ter. The
properties south of Park Rd. are bound by S. Stonetreet Ave. on the recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia, recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia, on recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia, on
west and N. Grandin Ave. on the east, extending south to Reading Ter. on MARCH 17, 2000 as Instrument Number 2000026682. MAY 29, 2007 as Instrument Number 2007071635. APRIL 14, 2006 as Instrument Number 2006049748.
The amendment includes proposed changes to the Land Use Plan for
the subject area and provides design guidelines for redevelopment.
The Planning Commission may make modifications to the proposed
The property will be sold by Trustee's Deed "as is" without The property will be sold by Trustee's Deed "as is" without The property will be sold by Trustee's Deed "as is" without
any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject
plan after the public hearings.
The Park Road and North/South Stonestreet Ave. Area Plan Amend-
to conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded to conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded to conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded
ment may be accessed via the City’s website at instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above, and instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above, and instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above, and
http://www.rockvillemd.gov/2004/Stonestreet-Corridor. Printed
copies may be reviewed at the City's Department of Planning and
subject to ratification by the Court subject to ratification by the Court subject to ratification by the Court
Development Services, Rockville City Hall.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $8,800.00 or 10% TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $13,000.00 or TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $12,000.00 or
Testimony may be sent in writing to the City of Rockville Planning of the sale price will be required at time of sale in certified 10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in certified 10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in certified
Commission, c/o Comprehensive Planning, PDS, 111 Maryland Ave.,
Rockville, MD 20850; by email to planning.commis- funds CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The deposit required funds CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The deposit required funds CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The deposit required
sion@rockvillemd.gov; or given in person at the January 8 public to bid at the auction is waived for the Noteholder and any of to bid at the auction is waived for the Noteholder and any of to bid at the auction is waived for the Noteholder and any of
hearing. Please include name, address and affiliation. More detailed
information is available by contacting Andrea Gilles at its successors or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the its successors or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the its successors or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the
agilles@rockvillemd.gov or 240-314-8273. credit and may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be credit and may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be credit and may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
Persons wishing to testify are requested to call the Department of announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is to be announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is to be announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is to be
Planning and Development Services at 240-314-8200 by 4:00
p.m. on the date of the hearing to place their names on the speakers’
paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the sale by the paid in cash within 30 days of final ratification of the sale by the paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the sale by the
list. Advanced sign-up is requested but not required. Court. Court. Court.
815 815 TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE: If purchaser fails to settle within TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE: If purchaser fails to settle within TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE: If purchaser fails to settle within
Legal Notices Legal Notices the aforesaid SIXTY (60) days of the ratification, the purchaser the aforesaid SIXTY (30) days of the ratification, the purchaser the aforesaid SIXTY (60) days of the ratification, the purchaser
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
VIRGINIA: agrees to pay the Substitute Trustees' reasonable attorney fees agrees to pay the Substitute Trustees' reasonable attorney fees agrees to pay the Substitute Trustees' reasonable attorney fees
PROBATE DIVISION IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
FREDERICK COUNTY
as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if the Substitute as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if the Substitute as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if the Substitute
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20001-2131
2019 ADM 656 FIFTH THIRD BANK
Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the Court to Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the Court to Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the Court to
resell the property. Purchaser waives personal service of any resell the property. Purchaser waives personal service of any resell the property. Purchaser waives personal service of any
And
FANN HARDING
PRO SE
SAMUEL I. WHITE, P.C., Trustee
Plaintiffs,
paper filed with the Court in connection with such motion and paper filed with the Court in connection with such motion and paper filed with the Court in connection with such motion and
v.
any Show Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees any Show Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees any Show Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, to accept service of any such paper or Order by certified mail to accept service of any such paper or Order by certified mail to accept service of any such paper or Order by certified mail
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DALE ALDERMAN, et al.
NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Defendants. and regular mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser and regular mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser and regular mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser
Mary Harding Stevens , whose Case No. CL19-677-00 and as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser and as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser and as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser
address is 1013 Birch Street, Falls ORDER OF PUBLICATION at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon
Church, VA 22046 was appointed
personal representative of the The reason for this cause is to the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States
obtain the whereabouts of any
estate of Fann Harding, who died
persons who may have an inter- Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that actual Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that actual Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that actual
on April 4, 2019 with a will and
will serve without Court supervi- est in the property located at 570 receipt of the certified mail is not required for service to be receipt of the certified mail is not required for service to be receipt of the certified mail is not required for service to be
Welltown Road, Winchester, Vir-
sion. All unknown heirs and heirs
whose whereabouts are unknown ginia 22603, (“Property”). effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the deposit effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the deposit effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the deposit
shall be forfeited to the Substitute Trustees and all expenses of shall be forfeited to the Substitute Trustees and all expenses of shall be forfeited to the Substitute Trustees and all expenses of
shall enter their appearance in this An Affidavit having been made
proceeding. Objections to such
appointment (or to the probate of
and filed showing that the Defen-
dants, the unknown party who
this sale (including attorney fees and full commission on the this sale (including attorney fees and full commission on the this sale (including attorney fees and full commission on the
gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged against and paid gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged against and paid gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged against and paid
decedent's Will) shall be filed with is the successor in interest to
the Register of Wills, D.C., Building
A, 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor,
Heirs, devisees, and successors in
interest to Margaret J. Newlin; and
from the forfeited deposit. In the event of resale the defaulting from the forfeited deposit. In the event of resale the defaulting from the forfeited deposit. In the event of resale the defaulting
Washington, D.C. 20001, on or the heirs, devisees, and succes- purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or
before June 19, 2020. Claims sors in interest to Margaret M. profits resulting from any resale of the property regardless of profits resulting from any resale of the property regardless of profits resulting from any resale of the property regardless of
against the decedent shall be pre- Arnold in the above-entitled
sented to the undersigned with a cause are unknown at this time any improvements made to the real property. Interest is to be any improvements made to the real property. Interest is to be any improvements made to the real property. Interest is to be
copy to the Register of Wills or and that due diligence has been
filed with the Register of Wills with used to ascertain the where-
paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in
a copy to the undersigned, on or abouts of the Defendants to no the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the
before June 19, 2020, or be forever effect, and that the last known
barred. Persons believed to be heirs post office addresses for said funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees. funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees. funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees.
or legatees of the decedent who do Defendants is unknown. In the event that the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON In the event that the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON In the event that the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON
not receive a copy of this notice
by mail within 25 days of its first Upon consideration whereof, this WHATSOEVER, there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes, WHATSOEVER, there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes, WHATSOEVER, there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes,
Order of Publication is GRANTED,
publication shall so inform the Reg-
ister of Wills, including name, and it is water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association
address and relationship. ORDERED that the above-named dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
Mary Harding Stevens
Defendants do appear at the Fred-
erick County Courthouse located
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to date of if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to date of if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to date of
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE at 5 North Kent Street, Winches-
Nicole D. Stevens
ACTING REGISTER OF WILLS
ter, Virginia 22601 on or before
January 27, 2020, which date is
sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
no sooner than fifty days after be responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary be responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary be responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE entry of this Order stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. Purchaser stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. Purchaser stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. Purchaser
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA of Publication.
PROBATE DIVISION And it is further Ordered that this
shall be responsible for physical possession of the property. shall be responsible for physical possession of the property. shall be responsible for physical possession of the property.
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20001-2131
2019 ADM 001213
Order of Publication be published Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the date of sale forward. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the date of sale forward. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the date of sale forward.
once a week for four successive
weeks in The Washington Post, a The sale is subject to post sale audit by the Mortgage holder The sale is subject to post sale audit by the Mortgage holder The sale is subject to post sale audit by the Mortgage holder
MARION L. FLETCHER
Maryellen William, Esq.
newspaper of general circulation to determine whether the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered to determine whether the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered to determine whether the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered
in Frederick County, Virginia.
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP into any repayment/forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid into any repayment/forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid into any repayment/forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid
Entered this 15th day of Novem-
8830 Stanford Blvd. Suite 400
Columbia Maryland 21045 ber, 2019. off prior to the sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees off prior to the sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees off prior to the sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees
Rebecca P. Hogan that upon notification by the Substitute Trustees of such event that upon notification by the Substitute Trustees of such event that upon notification by the Substitute Trustees of such event
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT,
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
CLERK OF COURT the sale is null and void and of no legal effect and the deposit the sale is null and void and of no legal effect and the deposit the sale is null and void and of no legal effect and the deposit
NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS I ASK FOR THIS: returned without interest. returned without interest. returned without interest.
Aubrey M. Cross (VSB # 90039)
Rodney Williams, whose address is SAMUEL I. WHITE, P.C. Substitute Trustees' File No. 521834 Substitute Trustees' File No. 501968 Substitute Trustees' File No. 567010
13403 Saint Simons Chapel Court, 5040 Corporate Woods Drive #120
Bowie, MD 20720 was appointed Virginia Beach, Virginia 23462 JAMES E. CLARKE AND RENEE DYSON, JAMES E. CLARKE, RENEE DYSON, JAMES E. CLARKE, AND RENEE DYSON ,
personal representative of the
estate of Marion L. Fletcher, who
(757) 217-3718 (Office)
(757) 337-2814 (Facsimile)
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE(S) SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE(S) SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE(S)
died on September 24, 2019 with Email: across@siwpc.com C/O ORLANS PC C/O ORLANS PC C/O ORLANS PC
a will and will serve without Court
supervision. All unknown heirs and
Counsel for Plaintiffs, Fifth Third
Bank, and Samuel I. White, P.C.
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310 1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310 1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310
heirs whose whereabouts are
unknown shall enter their appear- 820
Leesburg, VA 20175 Leesburg, VA 20175 Leesburg, VA 20175
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to such appointment (or to the
ABC LICENSE: Air Ventures, LLC trad-
probate of decedent's Will) shall ing as Wow Bao 1 Saarinen Circle,
be filed with the Register of Wills, Concourse D, Space D-DM302
D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, Dulles (Loudoun County) Virginia
N.W., 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C.
20166. The above establishment is
20001, on or before June 19, 2020. applying to the VIRGINIA ALCO-
Claims against the decedent shall HOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC)
be presented to the undersigned
AUTHORITY for a Mixed Beverage
with a copy to the Register of Wills Restaurant, Wine and Beer On-
or filed with the Register of Wills Premises license to sell or man- DECEMBER 12, 19, 26, 2019, JANUARY 2, 2020 12289280 DECEMBER 12, 19, 26, 2019, JANUARY 2, 2020 12289270 DECEMBER 12, 19, 26, 2019, JANUARY 2, 2020 12289412
with a copy to the undersigned, ufacture alcoholic beverages. Carl
on or before June 19, 2020, or be 825 850 850 851 851 851
forever barred. Persons believed to
Antonucci, Chief Financial Officer
NOTE: Objections to the issuance of
Bids & Proposals Montgomery County Montgomery County Prince Georges County Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
be heirs or legatees of the decedent IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
this license must be submitted to AppleTree
who do not receive a copy of this ABC no later than 30 days from the FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
notice by mail within 25 days of its Public Charter School
publishing date of the first of two REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS MARYLAND MARYLAND MARYLAND MARYLAND MARYLAND
first publication shall so inform the
required newspaper legal notices. JOHN E. DRISCOLL III, et al Diane S. Rosenberg, et. al,
Register of Wills, including name, Objections should be registered at James E. Clarke KRISTINE D. BROWN, et al. HUNTLEY SQUARE
address and relationship. Douglas Knoll Waterproofing Substitute Trustees Hugh J. Green Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
www.abc.virginia.gov or 800-552- Trustee(s) CONDOMINIUM
Plaintiffs Christine M. Drexel Plaintiff(s) Plaintiff, 4340 East West Highway,
3200. AppleTee Early Learning Public Suite 600
Rodney Williams v. Brian Thomas
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE Charter School is seeking an Substitute Trustees vs. v. Bethesda, MD 20814
ABC LICENSE: Lazy Dog Colorado organization to provide
Nicole D. Stevens OPS, LLC trading as Lazy Dog 11963 MING TAK YEE Plaintiffs YVONNE T FAVORS Substitute Trustees
ACTING REGISTER OF WILLS Basement and Foundation KAFFLE WAY,
U Fair Oaks Shopping Center Fairfax Waterproofing Please contact CYNTHIA YEE V. Defendant(s) Defendant. Plaintiff(s)
(Fairfax County) Virginia 22033. The Defendant(s) Mortgagor(s)
Dwight Crawford for details on Michael A. Dillon v.
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE above establishment is applying to Case No. CAEF19-14676
the RFP. The deadline for Civil Action No. 465586V Defendant(s) CIVIL NO: CAEF19-23631
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA the VIRGINIA ALCOHOLIC BEVER- Kimberly A. Mason
PROBATE DIVISION responding to the RFP is January Civil No. 456204V NOTICE OF SALE
AGE CONTROL (ABC) AUTHORITY for 10, 2020 at 5pm. Contact Dwight NOTICE NOTICE 4132 Silver Park Terrace
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20001-2131 a Mixed Beverage Restaurant, Wine Notice is hereby given this 25th day Suitland, MD 20746
Crawford, Chief Operating Notice is hereby given this 5th NOTICE PURSUANT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, this 5th
2019 ADM 001203 & Beer On- & Off- Premises license TO MD RULE 14-215 (A) of November 2019, by the Circuit
Officer, 1801 Mississippi Avenue day of December, 2019, by the day of December, 2019 by the Cir- Defendant(s)
to sell or manufacture alcoholic SE, Washington, DC 20020, or Court for Prince George's Coun-
ANNIE M. STEVENSON AKA Circuit Court for Montgomery ORDERED, by the Circuit Court cuit Court for the County of Prince ty, that the sale of the property,
beverages. Chris Simms, Manager e-mail at George's, Maryland and by the Case No. CAEF17-27871
ANNIE MAE STEVENSON County, Maryland, that the sale of for Montgomery County, Mary- 3312 Huntley Square Dr., Unit T-
NOTE: Objections to the issuance of Dwight.crawford@appletreein the property mentioned in these authority thereof, that the sale NOTICE
PRO SE this license must be submitted to land, this 27th day of NOVEMBER, 1, Temple Hills, Maryland 20748
stitute.org. proceedings and described as 2019, that the foreclosure sale made by Kristine D. Brown, William
ABC no later than 30 days from the made and reported by Craig B. Notice is hereby given this 26th
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, 18101 Parreco Farm Drive, of the property described in the M. Savage, Gregory N. Britto, R.
publishing date of the first of two Kip Stone, Trustees of the Real Zaller, Timothy S. Carey, and John day of November, 2019, by the
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: Darnestown, MD 20874 will be rat- deed of trust docketed herein Tsikerdanos, Trustees, will be rati- Circuit Court for Prince George's
required newspaper legal notices. ified and confirmed unless cause Property designated as 15833 East-
NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Objections should be registered at GMU-1629-20 and located at 17500 Shenandoah fied and confirmed, unless cause County, Maryland, that the sale of
to the contrary thereof be shown Court, Ashton, Maryland 20861, haven Ct, Bowie, MD 20716, and to the contrary thereof be shown
www.abc.virginia.gov or 800-552- 4132 Silver Park Terrace, Suitland,
Vernice A. Taylor, whose address is George Mason University will be on or before the 6th day of Janu- made and reported by James E. reported in the above entitled on or before the 26th day of
3200. cause, will be finally ratified and MD 20746 made and reported, will
11218 Cherry Hill Rd #101 Beltsville accepting sealed proposals to ary, 2020, provided a copy of this Clarke, Hugh J. Green, Christine December, 2019, next; provided be ratified and confirmed, unless
MD 20705 was appointed person- provide process improvement in NOTICE be published at least once M. Drexel and Brian Thomas, Sub- confirmed, unless cause to the
ABC LICENSE: Lazy Dog Colorado contrary thereof be shown on or however, that a copy of this cause to the contrary thereof be
al representative of the estate of the financial division. For further a week in each of three succes- stiture Trustees, Be RATIFIED and NOTICE OF SALE be inserted in shown on or before the 26th day of
OPS, LLC trading as Lazy Dog 14333 sive weeks in some newspaper before the 6th day of January, 2020
Annie M. Stevenson AKA Annie Mae Newbrook Drive Chantilly (Fairfax information and to receive a copy of CONFIRMED, unless cause to the some newspaper published in said December, 2019, provided a copy
Stevenson, who died on September the solicitation visit the Purchasing of general circulation published in contrary be shown on or before next; provided a copy of this Order County once in each of three suc-
County) Virginia 20151. The above be inserted in THE WASHINGTON of this notice be inserted in a daily
8, 2019 with a will and will serve Website at: said County before the 6th day of the 27th day of DECEMBER 2019; cessive weeks before the 26th day newspaper printed in said County,
establishment is applying to the January, 2020. POST, 1150 15th Street, Washing-
without Court supervision. All VIRGINIA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE http://fiscal.gmu.edu/purchasing/do provided a copy of this Order be of December, 2019. once in each of three successive
unknown heirs and heirs whose -business-with-mason/view-current- inserted in The Washington Post, ton, DC, MD in said County of
CONTROL (ABC) AUTHORITY for a The Report of Sale states the Prince George's once a week for The report states the amount of weeks before the 26th day of
whereabouts are unknown shall Mixed Beverage Restaurant, Wine & solicitation-opportunities/ amount of the sale to be once in each of three (3) succes- December, 2019. The Report of Sale
enter their appearance in this pro- sive weeks before the 27th day of three successive weeks before the sale to be $65,000.00 as of October
Beer On- & Off- Premises license to $402,000.00. 6th day of January, 2020. 23, 2019. states the amount of the foreclo-
ceeding. Objections to such sell or manufacture alcoholic bever- DECEMBER, 2019. sure sale price to be $207,000.00.
appointment (or to the probate of Seeking Consultants for Barbara H. Meiklejohn The report states the amount of Mahasin El Amin #544
ages. Chris Simms, Manager NOTE: The Report of Sale states the
decedent's Will) shall be filed with Objections to the issuance of this
projects to assist people Clerk of the Circuit Court For the sale to be $8,000.00. Clerk of the Circuit Court For Mahasin El Amin #544
the Register of Wills, D.C., Building with HIV/AIDS Montgomery County, Maryland amount of the sale at $666,000.00. Clerk of the Circuit Court
license must be submitted to ABC no Prince George's County, Maryland
A, 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor, BY THE COURT: Mahasin El Amin #544 Prince George's County, MD
later than 30 days from the publish- Dec 12, 19, 26, 2019 12288987 Dec. 5, 12, 19, 2019 12283795
Washington, D.C. 20001, on or ing date of the first of two required Northern Virginia Regional Barbara H. Meiklejohn Clerk of the Circuit Court For Dec. 5, 12, 19, 2019 12284452
before June 12, 2020. Claims Clerk of the Circuit Court County of Prince George's
newspaper legal notices. Objections Commission seeks applica- IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
against the decedent shall be pre- should be registered at www.abc.vir- tions from consultants FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Montgomery County, Md.
sented to the undersigned with a ginia.gov or 800-552-3200. MARYLAND Shapiro & Brown, LLP
copy to the Register of Wills or knowledgeable about MATL584889
10021 Balls Ford Rd, Suite 200 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
filed with the Register of Wills with affordable housing, conduct- SHANNON MENAPACE Orlans PC
PO Box 2548 Manassas, Virginia 20109 FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
a copy to the undersigned, on or Cellco Partnership and its ing focus groups, aging ser- 201 International Circle, Suite 230 703 449-5800 MARYLAND
Hunt Valley, MD 21030 Leesburg, Virginia 20177
before June 12, 2020, or be forever controlled affiliates doing vices, and advertising to Trustee File #19-282227
barred. Persons believed to be heirs business as Verizon Wireless Substitute Trustee Dec 5, 12, 19, 2019 12284232 HUNTLEY SQUARE
spearhead various projects Plaintiff Dec 12, 19, 26, 2019 12289155
or legatees of the decedent who do (Verizon Wireless) proposes designed to empower per- CONDOMINIUM
not receive a copy of this notice V. Plaintiff,
to collocate wireless com- sons living with HIV or to
by mail within 25 days of its first ESTATE OF BARBARA M. HAILEY
publication shall so inform the Reg- munications antennas at increase our knowledge 2717 Snowbird Terrace Apt 3 v.
ister of Wills, including name, two (2) locations. Antennas about serving this popula- Silver Spring, MD 20906
HOWARD A. JOHNSON
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address and relationship. will be installed on an exist- tion. Application deadline: Defendant
ing building with an overall January 20, 2020 at 5PM. Defendant. noodles…
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Vernice A. Taylor height of 20 feet at the For more info, see Case No. CAEF19-14678 Read “Medical Mysteries,”
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This notice must be mailed post- PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE NOTICE OF SALE

Renato Pedro O. Villa
Consul General
If only you had home delivery.
1-800-753-POST SF
marked within 15 days of its first
publication to each heir and qual-
ified beneficiary of the trust and
any other person who would be an
interested person within the mean-
ing of D.C. Code, sec. 20-101(d).
PAUL S. SCHLEIFMAN
TRUSTEE
approx. vicinity of 2800 12th
Nicole D. Stevens Street NE, Washington, DC
ACTING REGISTER OF WILLS
20017. Antennas will be
installed on an existing build-
Home delivery is so easy. ing with an overall height
1-800-753-POST of 79 feet at the approx.
SF vicinity of 710 21st Street
www.novaregion.org or
call 703-642-4632.
Subcontracting opportuni-
ty for certified MBEs &
WBEs with Fort Myer Con-
NOTICE OF SALE Tuesdays in Health
Notice is hereby issued by the Cir-
Notice is hereby given this 25th day & Science.
cuit Court of Montgomery County
this 5th day of December, 2019, of November 2019, by the Circuit
wapo.st/medicalmysteries
that the sale of the property, men- Muscles weak as Court for Prince George's Coun-
ty, that the sale of the property,
tioned in these proceedings, made
and reported by Shannon Mena- noodles… 3316 Huntley Square Dr., Unit A-
1, Temple Hills, Maryland 20748
pace, Substitute Trustee, be rati- Read “Medical Mysteries,”
“We want
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NW, Washington, DC 20052.
Nicole D. Stevens
ACTING REGISTER OF WILLS Public comments regarding
potential effects from this
site on historic properties
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wapo.st/medicalmysteries
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may be submitted within 30
days from the date of this
publication to: Trileaf Corp,
struction for DC Water Solici-
tation #170040 Small Diame-
ter Water Main Replacement
13D. Work includes 4"-12"
WMR, fire hydrants, valves,
appurtenances & replaces
water services at Broad
fied and confirmed, unless cause
to the contrary be shown on or
before the 6th day of January, 2020
provided a copy of this Notice be
inserted in The Washington Post,
a newspaper published in Mont-
gomery County, once in each of
three (3) successive weeks before
made and reported by Craig B.
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supper! & Science. Tsikerdanos, Trustees, will be rati- A nonstop
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fied and confirmed, unless cause noise in her
to the contrary thereof be shown
head…
supper!” on or before the 26th day of
December, 2019, next; provided Read “Medical Mysteries,”
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8600 LaSalle Road, Suite some newspaper published in said wapo.st/medicalmysteries
Home delivery ed paving, sidewalk, curb & The Report states the amount of
301, Towson, MD 21286,410- gutter, trench excavation & Sale to be $197,000.00. Home delivery County once in each of three suc-
cessive weeks before the 26th day
In with the good makes good More arts &
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is convenient. of December, 2019.
1/20/20. Must submit Sub- Clerk, Circuit Court for
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sale to be $68,000.00 as of October
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2019 EZ
840 840
Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC
16 ANACOSTIA ROAD NE, WASHINGTON, DC 20019
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of Columbia’s
Decree of Sale in Case #2019 CA 000517 R (RP), the
undersigned Substitute Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
known as 16 ANACOSTIA ROAD NE, WASHINGTON, DC
20019 at public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST
AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440,
Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On JANUARY 7, 2020
AT 11:00 A.M., the land and premises situated in the District
of Columbia, and designated as and being Lot 0810 in Square
5048W and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust
recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia, on
NOVEMBER 13, 2015 as Instrument Number 2015115456-
16.
The property will be sold by Trustee's Deed "as is" without
any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject
to conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded
instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above, and
subject to ratification by the Court
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $10,000.00 or
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in certified
funds CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The deposit required
to bid at the auction is waived for the Noteholder and any of
its successors or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the
credit and may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is to be
paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the sale by the
Court.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE: If purchaser fails to settle within
the aforesaid SIXTY (60) days of the ratification, the purchaser
agrees to pay the Substitute Trustees' reasonable attorney fees
as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if the Substitute
Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the Court to
resell the property. Purchaser waives personal service of any
paper filed with the Court in connection with such motion and
any Show Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees
to accept service of any such paper or Order by certified mail
and regular mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser
and as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser
at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon
the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States
Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that actual
receipt of the certified mail is not required for service to be
effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the deposit
shall be forfeited to the Substitute Trustees and all expenses of
this sale (including attorney fees and full commission on the
gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged against and paid
from the forfeited deposit. In the event of resale the defaulting
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or
profits resulting from any resale of the property regardless of
any improvements made to the real property. Interest is to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in
the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the
funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees.
In the event that the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON
WHATSOEVER, there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes,
water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association
dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to date of
sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary
stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. Purchaser
shall be responsible for physical possession of the property.
Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the date of sale forward.
The sale is subject to post sale audit by the Mortgage holder
to determine whether the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered
into any repayment/forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid
off prior to the sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees
that upon notification by the Substitute Trustees of such event
the sale is null and void and of no legal effect and the deposit
returned without interest.
Substitute Trustees' File No. 574575
JAMES E. CLARKE, HUGH J. GREEN ,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE(S)
C/O ORLANS PC
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310
Leesburg, VA 20175
(703) 777-7101
DECEMBER 12, 19, 26, 2019, JANUARY 2, 2020 12289403 DECEMBER 12, 19, 26, 2019, JANUARY 2, 2020
240 M STREET SW UNIT E705, PARKING SPACE UPPER 106,
WASHINGTON, DC 20024
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of Columbia’s
Decree of Sale in Case #2016 CA 008021 R (RP), the
undersigned Substitute Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
known as 240 M STREET SW UNIT E705, PARKING SPACE
UPPER 106, WASHINGTON, DC 20024 at public auction within
the offices of, HARVEY WEST AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335
Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015 202-
463-4567 On JANUARY 7, 2020 AT 11:00 A.M., the land and
premises situated in the District of Columbia, and designated
as and being Lot 2333 in Square 0546 and more particularly
described in the Deed of Trust recorded in the Land Records
of the District of Columbia, on MAY 19, 2010 as Instrument
Number 2010046158.
The property will be sold by Trustee's Deed "as is" without
any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject
to conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded
instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above, and
subject to ratification by the Court
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $11,000.00 or
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in certified
funds CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The deposit required
to bid at the auction is waived for the Noteholder and any of
its successors or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the
credit and may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is to be
paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the sale by the
Court.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE: If purchaser fails to settle within
the aforesaid SIXTY (60) days of the ratification, the purchaser
agrees to pay the Substitute Trustees' reasonable attorney fees
as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if the Substitute
Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the Court to
resell the property. Purchaser waives personal service of any
paper filed with the Court in connection with such motion and
any Show Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees
to accept service of any such paper or Order by certified mail
and regular mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser
and as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser
at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon
the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States
Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that actual
receipt of the certified mail is not required for service to be
effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the deposit
shall be forfeited to the Substitute Trustees and all expenses of
this sale (including attorney fees and full commission on the
gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged against and paid
from the forfeited deposit. In the event of resale the defaulting
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or
profits resulting from any resale of the property regardless of
any improvements made to the real property. Interest is to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in
the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the
funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees.
In the event that the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON
WHATSOEVER, there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes,
water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association
dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to date of
sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary
stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. Purchaser
shall be responsible for physical possession of the property.
Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the date of sale forward.
The sale is subject to post sale audit by the Mortgage holder
to determine whether the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered
into any repayment/forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid
off prior to the sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees
that upon notification by the Substitute Trustees of such event
the sale is null and void and of no legal effect and the deposit
returned without interest.
Substitute Trustees' File No. 573312
JAMES E. CLARKE, AND RENEE DYSON ,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE(S)
C/O ORLANS PC
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310
Leesburg, VA 20175
(703) 777-7101
DECEMBER 12, 19, 26, 2019, JANUARY 2, 2020 12289411 DECEMBER 12, 19, 26, 2019, JANUARY 2, 2020
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Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC
3126 BUENA VISTA TERRACE SE, WASHINGTON, DC 20020
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of Columbia’s
Decree of Sale in Case #2018 CA 000230 R (RP), the
undersigned Substitute Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
known as 3126 BUENA VISTA TERRACE SE, WASHINGTON,
DC 20020 at public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST
AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440,
Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On JANUARY 7, 2020
AT 11:00 A.M., the land and premises situated in the District
of Columbia, and designated as and being Lot 0063 in Square
5722 and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust
recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia, on
MAY 24, 2011 as Instrument Number 2011057894.
The property will be sold by Trustee's Deed "as is" without
any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject
to conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded
instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above, and
subject to ratification by the Court
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $13,000.00 or
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in certified
funds CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The deposit required
to bid at the auction is waived for the Noteholder and any of
its successors or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the
credit and may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is to be
paid in cash within 30 days of final ratification of the sale by the
Court.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE: If purchaser fails to settle within
the aforesaid THIRTY (30) days of the ratification, the purchaser
agrees to pay the Substitute Trustees' reasonable attorney fees
as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if the Substitute
Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the Court to
resell the property. Purchaser waives personal service of any
paper filed with the Court in connection with such motion and
any Show Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees
to accept service of any such paper or Order by certified mail
and regular mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser
and as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser
at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon
the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States
Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that actual
receipt of the certified mail is not required for service to be
effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the deposit
shall be forfeited to the Substitute Trustees and all expenses of
this sale (including attorney fees and full commission on the
gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged against and paid
from the forfeited deposit. In the event of resale the defaulting
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or
profits resulting from any resale of the property regardless of
any improvements made to the real property. Interest is to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in
the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the
funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees.
In the event that the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON
WHATSOEVER, there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes,
water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association
dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to date of
sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary
stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. Purchaser
shall be responsible for physical possession of the property.
Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the date of sale forward.
The sale is subject to post sale audit by the Mortgage holder
to determine whether the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered
into any repayment/forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid
off prior to the sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees
that upon notification by the Substitute Trustees of such event
the sale is null and void and of no legal effect and the deposit
returned without interest.
Substitute Trustees' File No. 567040
JAMES E. CLARKE AND RENEE DYSON,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE(S)
C/O ORLANS PC
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310
Leesburg, VA 20175
(703) 777-7101
12289144 DECEMBER 12, 19, 26, 2019, JANUARY 2, 2020
4606 BLAGDEN TERRACE NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20011
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of Columbia’s
Decree of Sale in Case #2015 CA 007492 R (RP), the
undersigned Substitute Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
known as 4606 BLAGDEN TERRACE NW, WASHINGTON, DC
20011 at public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST
AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440,
Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On JANUARY 7, 2020
AT 11:00 A.M., the land and premises situated in the District
of Columbia, and designated as and being Lot 0842 in Square
2659 and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust
recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia,
on AUGUST 20, 2009 as Instrument Number 2009092466.
The property will be sold by Trustee's Deed "as is" without
any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject
to conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded
instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above, and
subject to ratification by the Court
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $17,000.00 or
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in certified
funds CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The deposit required to
bid at the auction is waived for the Noteholder and any of its
successors or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the credit
and may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is to be
paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the sale by the
Court.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE: If purchaser fails to settle within
the aforesaid SIXTY (60) days of the ratification, the purchaser
agrees to pay the Substitute Trustees' reasonable attorney fees
as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if the Substitute
Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the Court to
resell the property. Purchaser waives personal service of any
paper filed with the Court in connection with such motion and
any Show Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees
to accept service of any such paper or Order by certified mail
and regular mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser
and as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser
at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon
the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States
Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that actual
receipt of the certified mail is not required for service to be
effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the deposit
shall be forfeited to the Substitute Trustees and all expenses of
this sale (including attorney fees and full commission on the
gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged against and paid
from the forfeited deposit. In the event of resale the defaulting
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or
profits resulting from any resale of the property regardless of
any improvements made to the real property. Interest is to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in
the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the
funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees.
In the event that the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON
WHATSOEVER, there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes,
water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association
dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to date of
sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary
stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. Purchaser
shall be responsible for physical possession of the property.
Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the date of sale forward.
The sale is subject to post sale audit by the Mortgage holder
to determine whether the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered
into any repayment/forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid
off prior to the sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees
that upon notification by the Substitute Trustees of such event
the sale is null and void and of no legal effect and the deposit
returned without interest.
Substitute Trustees' File No. 563514
JAMES E. CLARKE AND RENEE DYSON,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE(S)
C/O ORLANS PC
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310
Leesburg, VA 20175
(703) 777-7101
12289145 DECEMBER 12, 19, 26, 2019, JANUARY 2, 2020
OPQRS
840 840
Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC
4712 SOUTHERN AVENUE SE, WASHINGTON, DC 20019
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of Columbia’s
Decree of Sale in Case #2018 CA 005094 R (RP), the
undersigned Substitute Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
known as 4712 SOUTHERN AVENUE SE, WASHINGTON, DC
20019 at public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST
AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440,
Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On JANUARY 7, 2020
AT 11:00 A.M., the land and premises situated in the District
of Columbia, and designated as and being Lot 0092 in Square
5363 and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust
recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia, on
DECEMBER 12, 2006 as Instrument Number 2006167163.
The property will be sold by Trustee's Deed "as is" without
any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject
to conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded
instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above, and
subject to ratification by the Court
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $11,000.00 or
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in certified
funds CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The deposit required
to bid at the auction is waived for the Noteholder and any of
its successors or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the
credit and may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is to be
paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the sale by the
Court.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE: If purchaser fails to settle within
the aforesaid SIXTY (60) days of the ratification, the purchaser
agrees to pay the Substitute Trustees' reasonable attorney fees
as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if the Substitute
Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the Court to
resell the property. Purchaser waives personal service of any
paper filed with the Court in connection with such motion and
any Show Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees
to accept service of any such paper or Order by certified mail
and regular mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser
and as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser
at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon
the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States
Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that actual
receipt of the certified mail is not required for service to be
effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the deposit
shall be forfeited to the Substitute Trustees and all expenses of
this sale (including attorney fees and full commission on the
gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged against and paid
from the forfeited deposit. In the event of resale the defaulting
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or
profits resulting from any resale of the property regardless of
any improvements made to the real property. Interest is to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in
the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the
funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees.
In the event that the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON
WHATSOEVER, there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes,
water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association
dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to date of
sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary
stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. Purchaser
shall be responsible for physical possession of the property.
Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the date of sale forward.
The sale is subject to post sale audit by the Mortgage holder
to determine whether the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered
into any repayment/forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid
off prior to the sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees
that upon notification by the Substitute Trustees of such event
the sale is null and void and of no legal effect and the deposit
returned without interest.
Substitute Trustees' File No. 583269
JAMES E. CLARKE HUGH J. GREEN AND
SHANNON MENAPACE,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE(S)
C/O ORLANS PC
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310
Leesburg, VA 20175
(703) 777-7101
12289292
5206 CLAY STREET NE, WASHINGTON, DC 20019
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of Columbia’s
Decree of Sale in Case #2018 CA 003796 R (RP), the
undersigned Substitute Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
known as 5206 CLAY STREET NE, WASHINGTON, DC 20015
at public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST AUC-
TIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440,
Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On JANUARY 7, 2020
AT 11:00 A.M., the land and premises situated in the District
of Columbia, and designated as and being Lot 0010 & 0011
in Square 5238 and more particularly described in the Deed of
Trust recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia,
on MAY 23, 2011 as Instrument Number 2011057303.
The property will be sold by Trustee's Deed "as is" without
any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject
to conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded
instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above, and
subject to ratification by the Court
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $10,000.00 or
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in certified
funds CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The deposit required
to bid at the auction is waived for the Noteholder and any of
its successors or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the
credit and may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is to be
paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the sale by the
Court.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE: If purchaser fails to settle within
the aforesaid SIXTY (60) days of the ratification, the purchaser
agrees to pay the Substitute Trustees' reasonable attorney fees
as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if the Substitute
Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the Court to
resell the property. Purchaser waives personal service of any
paper filed with the Court in connection with such motion and
any Show Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees
to accept service of any such paper or Order by certified mail
and regular mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser
and as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser
at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon
the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States
Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that actual
receipt of the certified mail is not required for service to be
effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the deposit
shall be forfeited to the Substitute Trustees and all expenses of
this sale (including attorney fees and full commission on the
gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged against and paid
from the forfeited deposit. In the event of resale the defaulting
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or
profits resulting from any resale of the property regardless of
any improvements made to the real property. Interest is to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in
the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the
funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees.
In the event that the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON
WHATSOEVER, there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes,
water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association
dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to date of
sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary
stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. Purchaser
shall be responsible for physical possession of the property.
Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the date of sale forward.
The sale is subject to post sale audit by the Mortgage holder
to determine whether the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered
into any repayment/forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid
off prior to the sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees
that upon notification by the Substitute Trustees of such event
the sale is null and void and of no legal effect and the deposit
returned without interest.
Substitute Trustees' File No. 556128
JAMES E. CLARKE AND RENEE DYSON,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE(S)
C/O ORLANS PC
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310
Leesburg, VA 20175
(703) 777-7101
12289286 DECEMBER 12, 19, 26, 2019, JANUARY 2, 2020
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40 BRYANT STREET NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20001
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of Columbia’s
Decree of Sale in Case #2015 CA 008285 R (RP), the
undersigned Substitute Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
known as 40 BRYANT STREET NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20001
at public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST AUC-
TIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440,
Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On JANUARY 7, 2020
AT 11:00 A.M., the land and premises situated in the District
of Columbia, and designated as and being Lot 0101 in Square
3124 and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust
recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia, on
SEPTEMBER 7, 2005 as Instrument Number 2005125310.
The property will be sold by Trustee's Deed "as is" without
any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject
to conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded
instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above, and
subject to ratification by the Court
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $14,000.00 or
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in certified
funds CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The deposit required
to bid at the auction is waived for the Noteholder and any of
its successors or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the
credit and may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is to be
paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the sale by the
Court.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE: If purchaser fails to settle within
the aforesaid SIXTY (60) days of the ratification, the purchaser
agrees to pay the Substitute Trustees' reasonable attorney fees
as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if the Substitute
Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the Court to
resell the property. Purchaser waives personal service of any
paper filed with the Court in connection with such motion and
any Show Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees
to accept service of any such paper or Order by certified mail
and regular mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser
and as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser
at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon
the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States
Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that actual
receipt of the certified mail is not required for service to be
effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the deposit
shall be forfeited to the Substitute Trustees and all expenses of
this sale (including attorney fees and full commission on the
gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged against and paid
from the forfeited deposit. In the event of resale the defaulting
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or
profits resulting from any resale of the property regardless of
any improvements made to the real property. Interest is to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in
the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the
funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees.
In the event that the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON
WHATSOEVER, there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes,
water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association
dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to date of
sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary
stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. Purchaser
shall be responsible for physical possession of the property.
Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the date of sale forward.
The sale is subject to post sale audit by the Mortgage holder
to determine whether the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered
into any repayment/forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid
off prior to the sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees
that upon notification by the Substitute Trustees of such event
the sale is null and void and of no legal effect and the deposit
returned without interest.
Substitute Trustees' File No. 500422
JAMES E. CLARKE AND RENEE DYSON,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE(S)
C/O ORLANS PC
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310
Leesburg, VA 20175
(703) 777-7101
DECEMBER 12, 19, 26, 2019, JANUARY 2, 2020 12289285 DECEMBER 12, 19, 26, 2019, JANUARY 2, 2020
5229 KANSAS AVENUE NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20011
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of Columbia’s
Decree of Sale in Case #2015 CA 001420 R (RP), the
undersigned Substitute Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
known as5229 KANSAS AVENUE NW, WASHINGTON, DC
20011 at public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST
AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440,
Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On JANUARY 7, 2020
AT 11:00 A.M., the land and premises situated in the District
of Columbia, and designated as and being Lot 0015 in Square
3300 and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust
recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia, on
FEBRUARY 7, 2007 as Instrument Number 2007018179.
The property will be sold by Trustee's Deed "as is" without
any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject
to conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded
instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above, and
subject to ratification by the Court
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $11,000.00 or
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in certified
funds CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The deposit required
to bid at the auction is waived for the Noteholder and any of
its successors or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the
credit and may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is to be
paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the sale by the
Court.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE: If purchaser fails to settle within
the aforesaid SIXTY (60) days of the ratification, the purchaser
agrees to pay the Substitute Trustees' reasonable attorney fees
as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if the Substitute
Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the Court to
resell the property. Purchaser waives personal service of any
paper filed with the Court in connection with such motion and
any Show Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees
to accept service of any such paper or Order by certified mail
and regular mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser
and as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser
at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon
the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States
Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that actual
receipt of the certified mail is not required for service to be
effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the deposit
shall be forfeited to the Substitute Trustees and all expenses of
this sale (including attorney fees and full commission on the
gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged against and paid
from the forfeited deposit. In the event of resale the defaulting
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or
profits resulting from any resale of the property regardless of
any improvements made to the real property. Interest is to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in
the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the
funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees.
In the event that the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON
WHATSOEVER, there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes,
water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association
dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to date of
sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary
stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. Purchaser
shall be responsible for physical possession of the property.
Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the date of sale forward.
The sale is subject to post sale audit by the Mortgage holder
to determine whether the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered
into any repayment/forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid
off prior to the sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees
that upon notification by the Substitute Trustees of such event
the sale is null and void and of no legal effect and the deposit
returned without interest.
Substitute Trustees' File No. 563043
JAMES E. CLARKE, HUGH J. GREEN,
AND SHANNON MENAPACE,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE(S)
C/O ORLANS PC
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310
Leesburg, VA 20175
(703) 777-7101
12289277 DECEMBER 12, 19, 26, 2019, JANUARY 2, 2020
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3459 SUMMIT COURT NE, WASHINGTON, DC 20018
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of Columbia’s
Decree of Sale in Case #2015 CA 005899 R (RP), the
undersigned Substitute Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
known as 3459 SUMMIT COURT NE, WASHINGTON, DC
20018 at public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST
AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440,
Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On JANUARY 7, 2020
AT 11:00 A.M., the land and premises situated in the District
of Columbia, and designated as and being Lot 2369 in Square
4325 and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust
recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia,
on MARCH 10, 2006 as Instrument Number 2006031301.
The property will be sold by Trustee's Deed "as is" without
any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject
to conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded
instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above, and
subject to ratification by the Court
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $10,000.00 or
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in certified
funds CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The deposit required
to bid at the auction is waived for the Noteholder and any of
its successors or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the
credit and may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is to be
paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the sale by the
Court.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE: If purchaser fails to settle within
the aforesaid SIXTY (60) days of the ratification, the purchaser
agrees to pay the Substitute Trustees' reasonable attorney fees
as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if the Substitute
Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the Court to
resell the property. Purchaser waives personal service of any
paper filed with the Court in connection with such motion and
any Show Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees
to accept service of any such paper or Order by certified mail
and regular mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser
and as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser
at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon
the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States
Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that actual
receipt of the certified mail is not required for service to be
effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the deposit
shall be forfeited to the Substitute Trustees and all expenses of
this sale (including attorney fees and full commission on the
gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged against and paid
from the forfeited deposit. In the event of resale the defaulting
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or
profits resulting from any resale of the property regardless of
any improvements made to the real property. Interest is to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in
the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the
funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees.
In the event that the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON
WHATSOEVER, there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes,
water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association
dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to date of
sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary
stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. Purchaser
shall be responsible for physical possession of the property.
Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the date of sale forward.
The sale is subject to post sale audit by the Mortgage holder
to determine whether the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered
into any repayment/forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid
off prior to the sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees
that upon notification by the Substitute Trustees of such event
the sale is null and void and of no legal effect and the deposit
returned without interest.
Substitute Trustees' File No. 511950
JAMES E. CLARKE, RENEE DYSON,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE(S)
C/O ORLANS PC
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310
Leesburg, VA 20175
(703) 777-7101
12289266
4530 DIX STREET NE, WASHINGTON, DC 20019
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of Columbia’s
Decree of Sale in Case #2019 CA 001271 R (RP), the
undersigned Substitute Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
known as 4530 DIX STREET NE, WASHINGTON, DC 20019
at public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST AUC-
TIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440,
Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On JANUARY 7, 2020
AT 11:00 A.M., the land and premises situated in the District
of Columbia, and designated as and being Lot 0826 in Square
5133 and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust
recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia, on
SEPTEMBER 30, 2002 as Instrument Number 2002112856.
The property will be sold by Trustee's Deed "as is" without
any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject
to conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded
instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above, and
subject to ratification by the Court
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $10,000.00 or
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in certified
funds CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The deposit required
to bid at the auction is waived for the Noteholder and any of
its successors or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the
credit and may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is to be
paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the sale by the
Court.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE: If purchaser fails to settle within
the aforesaid SIXTY (60) days of the ratification, the purchaser
agrees to pay the Substitute Trustees' reasonable attorney fees
as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if the Substitute
Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the Court to
resell the property. Purchaser waives personal service of any
paper filed with the Court in connection with such motion and
any Show Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees
to accept service of any such paper or Order by certified mail
and regular mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser
and as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser
at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon
the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States
Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that actual
receipt of the certified mail is not required for service to be
effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the deposit
shall be forfeited to the Substitute Trustees and all expenses of
this sale (including attorney fees and full commission on the
gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged against and paid
from the forfeited deposit. In the event of resale the defaulting
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or
profits resulting from any resale of the property regardless of
any improvements made to the real property. Interest is to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in
the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the
funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees.
In the event that the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON
WHATSOEVER, there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes,
water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association
dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to date of
sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary
stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. Purchaser
shall be responsible for physical possession of the property.
Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the date of sale forward.
The sale is subject to post sale audit by the Mortgage holder
to determine whether the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered
into any repayment/forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid
off prior to the sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees
that upon notification by the Substitute Trustees of such event
the sale is null and void and of no legal effect and the deposit
returned without interest.
Substitute Trustees' File No. 562027
JAMES E. CLARKE AND HUGH J. GREEN,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE(S)
C/O ORLANS PC
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310
Leesburg, VA 20175
(703) 777-7101
12289273
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608 GALVESTON PLACE SE, WASHINGTON, DC 20032
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of Columbia’s
Decree of Sale in Case #2015 CA 002197 R (RP), the
undersigned Substitute Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
known as 608 GALVESTON PLACE SE, WASHINGTON, DC
20032 at public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST
AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440,
Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On JANUARY 7, 2020
AT 11:00 A.M., the land and premises situated in the District
of Columbia, and designated as and being Lot 0011 in Square
6212 and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust
recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia, on
DECEMBER 18, 2006 as Instrument Number 2006170548.
The property will be sold by Trustee's Deed "as is" without
any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject
to conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded
instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above, and
subject to ratification by the Court
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $11,000.00 or
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in certified
funds CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The deposit required
to bid at the auction is waived for the Noteholder and any of
its successors or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the
credit and may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is to be
paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the sale by the
Court.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE: If purchaser fails to settle within
the aforesaid SIXTY (60) days of the ratification, the purchaser
agrees to pay the Substitute Trustees' reasonable attorney fees
as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if the Substitute
Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the Court to
resell the property. Purchaser waives personal service of any
paper filed with the Court in connection with such motion and
any Show Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees
to accept service of any such paper or Order by certified mail
and regular mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser
and as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser
at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon
the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States
Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that actual
receipt of the certified mail is not required for service to be
effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the deposit
shall be forfeited to the Substitute Trustees and all expenses of
this sale (including attorney fees and full commission on the
gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged against and paid
from the forfeited deposit. In the event of resale the defaulting
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or
profits resulting from any resale of the property regardless of
any improvements made to the real property. Interest is to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in
the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the
funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees.
In the event that the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON
WHATSOEVER, there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes,
water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association
dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to date of
sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary
stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. Purchaser
shall be responsible for physical possession of the property.
Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the date of sale forward.
The sale is subject to post sale audit by the Mortgage holder
to determine whether the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered
into any repayment/forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid
off prior to the sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees
that upon notification by the Substitute Trustees of such event
the sale is null and void and of no legal effect and the deposit
returned without interest.
Substitute Trustees' File No. 514212
JAMES E. CLARKE, RENEE DYSON,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE(S)
C/O ORLANS PC
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310
Leesburg, VA 20175
(703) 777-7101
DECEMBER 12, 19, 26, 2019, JANUARY 2, 2020 12289262
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ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
18682 BROOKE ROAD
SANDY SPRING, MD 20860
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
GBOMAI L. JOHNSON AKA GBOMAI L. BESTMAN JOHNSON
AND BODGER JOHNSON, dated November 8, 2006 and
recorded in Liber 33427 , folio 257 among the Land Records
of MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD, default having occurred
thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No.431971V;
Tax ID No.08-03508262 ) the Sub. Trustees will sell at
public auction at the MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURTHOUSE,
located at 50 MARYLAND AVENUE, ROCKVILLE, MD 20850,
on
JANUARY 6, 2020 at 10:00 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD and more fully
described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to at the MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURTHOUSE, located at 50
conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the MARYLAND AVENUE, ROCKVILLE, MD 20850, on
same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $50,000.00 will be required at the
time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK OR BY
CASHIER'S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Balance
of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of
final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for MONTGOMERY
COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the purchaser. If the
purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited and the
property shall be resold at the purchaser's risk and expense.
The purchaser waives personal service and accepts service by
first class mail and certified mail addressed to the address
provided by said Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum
of Sale for any Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this
sale including a Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of
the Property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for MONTGOMERY
shall not be entitled to receive any benefit from the resale,
including, but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus
which may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid
purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note
from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the
Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement of interest in
the event additional funds are tendered at the time of sale or
any time prior to settlement or if the settlement is delayed
for any reason. In the event that the Secured Party executes
a forbearance agreement with the borrower(s) described in the
above-mentioned Deed of Trust, or allows the borrower(s) to
execute their right to reinstate or payoff the subject loan,
prior to the sale, with or without the Substitute Trustee's priorpurchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note
knowledge, this Contract shall be null and void and of no effect,from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the
and the Purchaser's sole remedy shall be the return of the deposit
without interest. Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps,
transfer taxes and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent,
water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association
dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if
applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed
thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the date and the Purchaser's sole remedy shall be the return of the deposit
of sale forward. If the Substitute Trustee(s) are unable to convey
insurable title for any reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in transfer taxes and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent,
law or equity shall be limited to a refund of the aforementioned water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association
deposit without interest. In the event the sale is not ratified dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity,
is the return of the deposit without interest. (File # 557510)
JAMES E. CLARKE,
RENEE DYSON,
HUGH J. GREEN,
SHANNON MENAPACE,
BRIAN F. THOMAS,
KHALID D. WALKER,
CHRISTINE M. DREXEL,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
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Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600 Rosenberg & Associates, LLC Samuel I. White, P.C. Pardo & Drazin, LLC
Bethesda, MD 20814 4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
611 ROCKVILLE PIKE Russell S. Drazin, Attorney
(301) 907-8000 Bethesda, MD 20814
www.rosenberg-assoc.com (301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUITE 100 4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND 20852 Washington, DC 20015
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF 202-223-7900
26124 VIEWLAND DR.
DAMASCUS, MD 20872 1906 BRISBANE ST. VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
SILVER SPRING, MD 20902
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from John
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Keith
KNOWN AS OF REAL PROPERTY
J. Burke, III dated January 18, 2013 and recorded in Liber 46058, folio
M. Bell a/k/a Keith Malcolm Bell and Meena R. Karithanom dated October
413 among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, default having
28, 2005 and recorded in Liber 31197, folio 539 among the Land Records
804 Daleview Drive 107 Swan Creek Road
occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public
auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House of Montgomery County, MD, default having occurred under the terms Silver Spring, MD 20901 Fort Washington, MD 20744
Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court Account No. 05-0397927
for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain
JANUARY 8, 2020 AT 11:16 AM Rockville, MD 20850, on
Deed of Trust to LAWYERS TITLE INSURANCE CORPORATION, Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and JANUARY 8, 2020 AT 11:15 AM
improvements thereon situated in Montgomery County, MD and more Trustee(s), dated July 10, 2002, and recorded among the ("Deed of Trust") from MFA Group LLC, as grantor, to Daniel
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and
fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #12-00934972.
improvements thereon situated in Montgomery County, MD and more Land Records of MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber Huertas, as trustee, dated August 13, 2018 and recorded on
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of
fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #13-01112158. 21824, folio 100, the holder of the indebtedness secured by August 29, 2018 in Book 41263 at Page 117 among the
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind. The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as this Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned Substitute Land Records of Prince George’s County, Maryland, with
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $13,000 in the form of certified check, record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind. Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among the aforesaid Land an original principal balance of $332,100.00, default having
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within Terms of Sale: A deposit of $37,000 in the form of certified check, Records, default having occurred under the terms thereof, and occurred under the terms thereof, and pursuant to a Deed of
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Montgomery cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
at the request of the party secured thereby, the undersigned Appointment of Substitute Trustee dated October 21, 2019 and
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate recorded on October 28, 2019 in Book 42699 at Page 448
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Montgomery Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction at
are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 50 among the Land Records of Prince George’s County, Maryland
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement
are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement MARYLAND AVENUE, ROCKVILLE, MD 20850 ON, appointing Russell S. Drazin (“Trustee”) as substitute trustee
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement under the Deed of Trust, Trustee will sell at public auction at the
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be JANUARY 6, 2020 at 1:30 PM
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE front entrance of the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County,
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges, to be adjusted FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements located at 14735 Main Street, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772, on
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Condominium fees
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges, to be adjusted thereon situated in MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD and described
and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Condominium fees as follows: JANUARY 3, 2020 AT 10:00 AM
purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all documentary stamps,
and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the
transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be borne by the purchaser.
Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all documentary stamps, LOT NUMBERED THREE (3), IN THE SUBDIVISION KNOWN ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND ANY IMPROVE-
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be borne by the purchaser.
AS "SECTION 3, MONTGOMERY KNOLLS", IN MONTGOMERY MENTS THEREON situated in Prince George’s County, Maryland,
Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to be announced at the
time of sale. property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property COUNTY, MARYLAND, AS PER PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN commonly known as 107 Swan Creek Road, Fort Washington,
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the
from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to be announced at the
PLAT BOOK 62, AT PLAT 5315, ONE OF THE LAND RECORDS MD 20744, and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of
time of sale.
purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND. Trust, as well as ALL PERSONAL PROPERTY encumbered by the
the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement,
the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of Deed of Trust (collectively, "Property").
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement, The property will be sold in an "AS IS WHERE IS" condition
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all without either express or implied warranty or representation, The Property will be sold in an "AS IS" condition and subject
this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of including but not limited to the description, fitness for a to recorded covenants, conditions, restrictions, agreements, and
sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross particular purpose or use, structural integrity, physical condition, senior liens, if any, and with no warranty of any kind (except as
sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited required by the Deed of Trust).
risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the construction, extent of construction, workmanship, materials,
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of
liability, zoning, subdivision, environmental condition, mer- TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $40,000.00 by cashier's check
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without
shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser chantability, compliance with building or housing codes or other will be required of the purchaser at the time and place of sale.
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
laws, ordinances or regulations, or other similar matters, and The balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash or certified
results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser
party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale. and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured subject to easements, agreements and restrictions of record funds within ten (10) days of final ratification of the sale by the
Trustees' file number 75787. party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale. which affect the same, if any. The property will be sold Circuit Court for Prince George’s County. Interest to be paid on
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees Trustees' file number 75556. subject to all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of the unpaid purchase money at the rate in effect under the debt
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC. The property will be sold subject to a 120 day right of redemption by the record affecting same including any condominium and of HOA instrument secured by the Deed of Trust from the date of sale to
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com
Internal Revenue Service.
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110. the date of settlement. Secured Party, if a bidder, shall not be
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Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees
required to post a deposit or to pay interest.
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC. TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $ 20,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY BY
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com
certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale. CASH WILL Purchaser shall settle within ten (10) days of final ratification of
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12288541
NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The balance of the sale by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County. TIME
the purchase price with interest at 7.375% per annum from SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO SETTLEMENT
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC Samuel I. White, P.C. the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within BY PURCHASER. Cost of all documentary stamps (recordation
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600 611 ROCKVILLE PIKE
Bethesda, MD 20814 TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments taxes), transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be borne by
(301) 907-8000 SUITE 100 on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments purchaser. Taxes, ground rent, water, and sewer, if applicable,
www.rosenberg-assoc.com ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND 20852
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed are to be adjusted for the current year to the date of sale and
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowner assumed thereafter by purchaser.
1220 BLAIR MILL RD., UNIT #303 VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY association dues and assessments that may become due after In the event purchaser does not settle as required for any reason,
SILVER SPRING, MD 20910
KNOWN AS the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser. purchaser shall be in default. Upon such default, Trustee may
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Patrick
C. Moloney dated December 18, 2006 and recorded in Liber 33536, folio 17160 Moss Side Lane, Unit 70 Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer file a motion to resell the Property at the risk and expense
792 among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, default having
Olney, MD 20832 taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement of defaulting purchaser. Purchaser hereby consents to entry of
occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public
auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for such resale Order without further notice. Defaulting purchaser
Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
Deed of Trust to HERBERT A. CALLIHAN, Trustee(s), dated shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting
JANUARY 8, 2020 AT 11:17 AM property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting from any resale of the Property, and the deposit shall be
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and April 16, 1998, and recorded among the Land Records of purchaser. The purchaser agrees to accept service by first class
improvements thereon situated in Montgomery County, MD and described MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 15782, folio forfeited to the Trustee and all of the expenses of this sale
as Unit No. 303 together with the appurtenant Limited Common Element mail and certified mail addressed to the address provided by (including attorneys' fees and full commission on the gross sale
Parking Space Number P62 and the Common Elements appurtenant 506, the holder of the indebtedness secured by this Deed of said Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any
thereto, in the Mica Condominium at Silver Spring Metro and more fully Trust having appointed the undersigned Substitute Trustees, by price) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #13-03553003. Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a deposit. Purchaser shall pay all attorneys' fees and costs, and
instrument duly recorded among the aforesaid Land Records, Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. If
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of default having occurred under the terms thereof, and at all other damages of any kind or nature, incurred by Trustee
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.
the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees are unable to and the secured party, and their respective agents, employees,
the request of the party secured thereby, the undersigned convey marketable title in accord with these terms of sale, the
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $30,000 in the form of certified check,
Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction at successors and assigns, in connection with any such default.
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time purchaser's only remedy is return of the deposit.
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 50 If Trustee is unable to convey title, purchaser's sole remedy at
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Montgomery
MARYLAND AVENUE, ROCKVILLE, MD 20850 ON, Trustee's File No. (65061) law and in equity shall be limited to a refund of the deposit
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds JOHN E. DRISCOLL III, et al and the sale shall be considered null and void and of no effect.
are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement JANUARY 6, 2020 at 1:30 PM
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE thereon situated in MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD and described of the Property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including
as follows: the Property from the date of sale forward.
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges, to be adjusted Trustee reserves the right, in his sole discretion, to reject any
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Condominium fees BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS CONDOMINIUM UNIT
and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the SEVENTY (70), IN THE PHASE 1, CHERRYWOOD TOWNHOUSE and all bids, to withdraw the Property from sale at any time
purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all documentary stamps, before or at the auction, to extend the time to receive bids, to
transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be borne by the purchaser. CONDOMINIUM", A CONDOMINIUM REGIME ESTABLISHED
Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the BY THE DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM MADE BY RYAN
www.hwestauctions.com waive or modify the deposit requirement, to waive or modify the
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property DECEMBER 19, 26,2019, JANUARY 2, 2020 12281934 requirement that interest be paid on the unpaid purchase money,
from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to be announced at the HOMES, INS., DATED JANUARY 8, 1985 AND RECORDED
time of sale.
JANUARY 14, 1985, IN LIBER 6630, FOLIO 99 AMONG
851
Prince Georges County 851 Prince Georges County and/or to extend the period of time for settlement.
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the
purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of THE LAND RECORDS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND Rosenberg & Associates, LLC Additional terms may be announced at the sale. Purchaser will
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement, AND ANY RECORDED AMENDMENTS THERETO AS OF THE Bethesda, MD 20814 be required to execute and deliver to Trustee a contract of the
the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all (301) 907-8000 sale at the conclusion of the bidding.
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the DATE HEREOF, AND BY CONDOMINIUM PLATS AND PLANS www.rosenberg-assoc.com
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of RECORDED IN CONDOMINIUM PLAT BOOK 38 AT PLAT 3994, SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE Neither the Trustee nor the secured party, nor their respective
this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross
sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited ET SEQ., TOGETHER WITH AN UNDIVIDED PERCENTAGE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY agents, employees, successors, and assigns, make any rep-
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the INTEREST IN AND TO THE COMMON ELEMENTS OF SAID 11822 BROOKEVILLE LANDING CT. resentations or warranties, express or implied, with respect
risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without CONDOMINIUM AS SAT FORTH IN SAID CONDOMINIUM. A/R/T/A 11822 BROOKVILLE LANDING CT.
BOWIE A/R/T/A MITCHELLVILLE, MD 20721 to the Property, or any tenancies or parties in possession,
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus The property will be sold in an "AS IS WHERE IS" condition Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Guy A. including, without limitation, the value, description, use, struc-
Williams, Sr. dated October 4, 2006 and recorded in Liber 27040, folio 442 tural integrity, physical condition, construction, extent of con-
results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured
without either express or implied warranty or representation, among the Land Records of Prince George's County, MD, default having
party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection including but not limited to the description, fitness for a occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public struction, workmanship, materials, habitability, subdivision,
auction at the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, 14735 Main St.,
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale.
Trustees' file number 66083.
particular purpose or use, structural integrity, physical condition, Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on zoning, environmental condition, compliance with building
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees construction, extent of construction, workmanship, materials, JANUARY 7, 2020 AT 10:47 AM codes or other laws, ordinances, or regulations, fitness for a
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC. liability, zoning, subdivision, environmental condition, mer- ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and particular purpose or merchantability of all or any part of the
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204 chantability, compliance with building or housing codes or other improvements thereon situated in Prince George's County, MD and more Property.
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #07-0701896.
laws, ordinances or regulations, or other similar matters, and The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as The information contained herein was obtained from sources
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12288741
subject to easements, agreements and restrictions of record is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of deemed reliable (including public records) and believed to be
which affect the same, if any. The property will be sold record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $49,000 in the form of certified check,
accurate, but is offered for informational purposes only. Said
subject to all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time information includes, without limitation, the street addresses
record affecting same including any condominium and of HOA and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within referenced herein, which may vary from information available
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110. ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Prince George's
from certain other public sources. No express or implied
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
ORLANS PC TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $ 20,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY BY pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds representations or warranties are, or may be, inferred with
are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310 certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale. CASH WILL of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement respect to the accuracy of such information. Interested bidders
LEESBURG, VA 20175 NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The balance or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
are urged to conduct such independent due diligence as they
703-777-7101 of the purchase price with interest at 7.5% per annum from FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including may deem appropriate.
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent, Russell S. Drazin, Substitute Trustee
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be
assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all
9901 EAST LIGHT DRIVE
SILVER SPRING, MD 20903 will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowner physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from association dues and assessments that may become due after damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to
be announced at the time of sale.
MARVIN I. BERRIOS, dated August 25, 2006 and recorded the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser. If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the
in Liber 33000 , folio 774 among the Land Records of Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of www.hwestauctions.com
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD, default having occurred thereun- the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement,
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all
DECEMBER 19, 26, 2019, JANUARY 2, 2020 12290545
der (Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No.443994V; Tax ID are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the 851 851
No.05-00302070 ) the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY,
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
purchaser. The purchaser agrees to accept service by first class deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the
risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of
MARYLAND MARYLAND
JANUARY 6, 2020 at 10:00 AM mail and certified mail addressed to the address provided by any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without KRISTINE D. BROWN, et al. James E. Clarke
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements said Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
Trustee(s)
Plaintiff(s)
Hugh J. Green
Christine M. Drexel
thereon situated in MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD and more fully Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured vs.
Brian Thomas
described in above referenced Deed of Trust. Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. If party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection ESTATE OF FREDDIE LEE BIDDLE
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiffs
the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees are unable to with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale.
Trustees' file number 67859.
C/O FREDERIC M. BIDDLE v.
The property will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to convey marketable title in accord with these terms of sale, the (SUCCESSOR)PER REP
The Estate of George R. Lewis
The property will be sold subject to a 120 day right of redemption by the Defendant(s)
conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the purchaser's only remedy is return of the deposit. Internal Revenue Service. Mortgagor(s) Defendant(s)
same, if any and with no warranty of any kind. Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees CIVIL NO: CAEF19-25096 Civil No. CAEF19-25045
Trustee's File No. (64745)
Terms of Sale: A deposit $36,400.00 will be required at the ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC. NOTICE NOTICE PURSUANT
time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK OR JOHN E. DRISCOLL III, et al 908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, this 13th
TO MD RULE 14-215 (A)
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com
BY CASHIER'S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES day of December, 2019 by the Cir- ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12288539 cuit Court for the County of Prince Prince George's County, Maryland,
PURCHASER ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE PROPERTY IS SUB- 851 851 George's, Maryland and by the this 27th day of November, 2019,
JECT TO AN IRS RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. Balance of the Prince Georges County Prince Georges County authority thereof, that the sale
made by Kristine D. Brown, William
that the foreclosure sale of the
property described in the deed of
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of final PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY,
M. Savage, Gregory N. Britto, R.
Kip Stone, Trustees of the Real
trust docketed herein and locat-
ed at 2217 Old Fort Hills Drive,
MARYLAND MARYLAND Property designated as 1401 Alber- Fort Washington, Maryland 20744
COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the purchaser. If the KRISTINE D. BROWN, et al. KRISTINE D. BROWN, et al.
ta Drive, District Heights, MD 20747
and reported in the above entitled
made and reported by James E.
Clarke, Hugh J. Green, Christine
purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited and the www.hwestauctions.com Trustee(s) Trustee(s) cause, will be finally ratified and M. Drexel and Brian Thomas, Sub-
Plaintiff(s) Plaintiff(s) confirmed, unless cause to the stitute Trustees, be RATIFIED and
property shall be resold at the purchaser's risk and expense. DECEMBER 19, 26,2019, JANUARY 2, 2020 12283052 vs. vs. contrary thereof be shown on or CONFIRMED, unless cause to the
The purchaser waives personal service and accepts service by 851 851 before the 13th day of January, contrary be shown on or before
first class mail and certified mail addressed to the address Prince Georges County Prince Georges County SETH B. JONES ESTATE OF HERBERT N. MARTIN SR.
C/O HEATH MARTIN
2020 next; provided a copy of this the 27th day of December, 2019,
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR ESTATE OF SETH B. JONES Order be inserted in THE WASH- provided a copy of this Order be
provided by said Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, C/O CHECUNYA JONES (SUCCESSOR)PER REP
Defendant(s)
INGTON POST, 1150 15th Street, inserted in The Washington Post
Washington, DC, MD in said County once in each of three (3) succes-
of Sale for any Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this MARYLAND MARYLAND (SUCCESSOR) PER REP
Defendant(s)
Mortgagor(s) of Prince George's once a week for sive weeks before the 27th day of
sale including a Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of KRISTINE D. BROWN, et al. KRISTINE D. BROWN, et al. Mortgagor(s) CIVIL NO: CAEF19-23634 three successive weeks before the December, 2019.
13th day of January, 2020.
the Property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser Trustee(s)
Plaintiff(s)
Trustee(s)
Plaintiff(s)
CIVIL NO: CAEF19-27503 NOTICE The Report of Sale states the
The report states the amount of amount of the sale at $179,000.00.
shall not be entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, vs. vs.
NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, this 13th the sale to be $177,000.00. Mahasin El Amin #544
day of December, 2019 by the Cir-
including, but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus THE ESTATE OF MARIA TERESA THE ESTATE OF ANN LOUISE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, this 13th
cuit Court for the County of Prince Mahasin El Amin #544
Clerk of the Circuit Court For
day of December, 2019 by the Cir-
which may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid GEORGE GLADMON cuit Court for the County of Prince
George's, Maryland and by the Clerk of the Circuit Court For
Prince George's County, Maryland
C/O CHANEL D THOMAS C/O CATHERINE A FARLEY authority thereof, that the sale
(SUCCESSOR) PER REP (SUCCESSOR) PER REP
George's, Maryland and by the made by Kristine D. Brown, William
County of Prince George's Dec. 5, 12, 19, 2019 12284456
authority thereof, that the sale
Defendant(s) Defendant(s) made by Kristine D. Brown, William
M. Savage, Gregory N. Britto, R. Shapiro & Brown, LLP IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
Mortgagor(s) Mortgagor(s) Kip Stone, Trustees of the Real
Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement of interest in M. Savage, Gregory N. Britto, R. Property designated as 4507 Samar
10021 Balls Ford Rd, Suite 200
Manassas, Virginia 20109
FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
MARYLAND
CIVIL NO: CAEF-19-17373 CIVIL NO: CAEF19-28499 Kip Stone, Trustees of the Real
the event additional funds are tendered at the time of sale or Property designated as 8616 Gle- St, Beltsville, MD 20705 and report- 703 449-5800
Diane S. Rosenberg
NOTICE NOTICE ed in the above entitled cause, will Trustee File #19-282027
any time prior to settlement or if the settlement is delayed narden Parkway, Glenarden, MD
20706 and reported in the above be finally ratified and confirmed, Mark D. Meyer
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, this 5th NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, this 16th Dec. 19, 26, 2019, Jan. 2, 2020 Maurice OBrien
for any reason. In the event that the Secured Party executes day of December, 2019 by the Cir- day of December, 2019 by the Cir- entitled cause, will be finally rati-
unless cause to the contrary there-
of be shown on or before the 13th John A. Ansell, III
12290555
a forbearance agreement with the borrower(s) described in the cuit Court for the County of Prince
George's, Maryland and by the
cuit Court for the County of Prince
George's, Maryland and by the
fied and confirmed, unless cause
to the contrary thereof be shown day of January, 2020 next; provided Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway,
above-mentioned Deed of Trust, or allows the borrower(s) to authority thereof, that the sale authority thereof, that the sale on or before the 13th day of Jan- a copy of this Order be inserted
in THE WASHINGTON POST, 1150 Suite 600
execute their right to reinstate or payoff the subject loan, made by Kristine D. Brown, William
M. Savage, Gregory N. Britto, R.
made by Kristine D. Brown, William
M. Savage, Gregory N. Britto, R.
uary, 2020 next; provided a copy
of this Order be inserted in THE
15th Street, Washington, DC, MD Bethesda, MD 20814
in said County of Prince George's IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
prior to the sale, with or without the Substitute Trustee's prior Kip Stone, Trustees of the Real Kip Stone, Trustees of the Real WASHINGTON POST, 1150 15th once a week for three successive FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiff(s)
Property designated as 5003 Property designated as 8801 Street, Washington, DC, MD in said
knowledge, this Contract shall be null and void and of no effect, Brookhaven Court, Oxon Hill, MD FRANK TIPPETT ROAD, UPPER County of Prince George's once a
weeks before the 13th day of Janu- MARYLAND
v.
ary, 2020.
20745, and reported in the above MARLBORO, MD, 20772 and report- week for three successive weeks James E. Clarke
entitled cause, will be finally rati- ed in the above entitled cause, will before the 13th day of January, The report states the amount of Remedios G. V. Daproza
without interest. Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, fied and confirmed, unless cause be finally ratified and confirmed, 2020. the sale to be $304,000.00.
Renee Dyson Dino Rey F. Daproza
Brian Thomas
to the contrary thereof be shown unless cause to the contrary there- The report states the amount of Erin M. August
5722 Everhart Place
on or before the 6th day of January, of be shown on or before the 16th Mahasin El Amin #544 Fort Washington, MD 20744
2020 next; provided a copy of this day of January, 2020 next; provided
the sale to be $270,000.00.
Clerk of the Circuit Court For
Hugh J. Green
Defendant(s)
Patrick M. A. Decker
Order be inserted in THE WASH- a copy of this Order be inserted Mahasin El Amin #544
County of Prince George's Substitute Trustees Case No. CAEF19-23622
INGTON POST, 1150 15th Street, in THE WASHINGTON POST, 1150
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if Washington, DC, MD in said County 15th Street, Washington, DC, MD
Clerk of the Circuit Court For Shapiro & Brown, LLP
Plaintiffs
NOTICE
County of Prince George's
applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed of Prince George's once a week for in said County of Prince George's 10021 Balls Ford Rd, Suite 200
Manassas, Virginia 20109
v.
Notice is hereby given this 27th
three successive weeks before the once a week for three successive Craig Faucette aka Craig Faucette,
thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible 6th day of January, 2020. weeks before the 16th day of Janu-
Shapiro & Brown, LLP
10021 Balls Ford Rd, Suite 200
703 449-5800 Jr. and Adrienne R. Faucette
day of November, 2019, by the
Trustee File #19-280431 Circuit Court for Prince George's
for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser The report states the amount of
ary, 2020. Manassas, Virginia 20109 Defendant(s) County, Maryland, that the sale of
703 449-5800 Dec. 19, 26, 2019, Jan. 2, 2020
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the date the sale to be $320,000.00. The report states the amount of
the sale to be $520,000.00. Trustee File #17-263150
Civil No. CAEF16-25483 5722 Everhart Place, Fort Washing-
12290558 ton, MD 20744 made and report-
of sale forward. If the Substitute Trustee(s) are unable to convey Mahasin El Amin #544 Dec. 19, 26, 2019, Jan. 2, 2020
NOTICE PURSUANT ed, will be ratified and confirmed,
Clerk of the Circuit Court For Mahasin El Amin #544 TO MD RULE 14-215 (A)
insurable title for any reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in County of Prince George's Clerk of the Circuit Court For 12290557
unless cause to the contrary there-
ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for of be shown on or before the 27th
law or equity shall be limited to a refund of the aforementioned County of Prince George's Prince George's County, Maryland, day of December, 2019, provided
Shapiro & Brown, LLP
deposit without interest. In the event the sale is not ratified 10021 Balls Ford Rd, Suite 200 Shapiro & Brown, LLP
this 26th day of November, 2019, a copy of this notice be inserted
in a daily newspaper printed in
that the foreclosure sale of the
for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, Manassas, Virginia 20109 10021 Balls Ford Rd, Suite 200 Wake up property described in the deed of said County, once in each of three
703 449-5800 Manassas, Virginia 20109
is the return of the deposit without interest. (File # 573383) Trustee File #19-279693 703 449-5800 to home delivery. trust docketed herein and located
at 4831 67th Avenue, Hyattsville,
successive weeks before the 27th
day of December, 2019. The Report
Trustee File #19-282654
JAMES E. CLARKE, Dec. 12, 19, 26, 2019 12289156 Maryland 20784 made and report-
ed by James E. Clarke, Renee
of Sale states the amount of the
foreclosure sale price to be
Dec. 19, 26, 2019 Jan. 2, 2020
HUGH J. GREEN, Dyson, Brian Thomas, Erin M. $229,500.00.
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851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
12431 HILLANTRAE DR.
CLINTON, MD 20735
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Brenda
M. Escano and James R. F. Escano dated May 26, 2006 and recorded in
Liber 25357, folio 387 among the Land Records of Prince George's County,
MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince George's County,
14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located
on Main St.), on
JANUARY 7, 2020 AT 10:50 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and
improvements thereon situated in Prince George's County, MD and more
fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #05-2853158.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $75,000 in the form of certified check,
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Prince George's
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds
are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent,
to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be
assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all
documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or
damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to
be announced at the time of sale.
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the
purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of
the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement,
the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of
this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross
sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the
risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured
party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale.
Trustees' file number 74288.
The property will be sold subject to a 120 day right of redemption by the
Internal Revenue Service.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC.
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12283524
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
6107 REED ST.
I/R/T/A 3107 REED ST.
HYATTSVILLE, MD 20785
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Alfred
Blackstone, Sr. dated August 19, 2004 and recorded in Liber 20259, folio
234 among the Land Records of Prince George's County, MD, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at
public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, 14735 Main
St., Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.),
on
JANUARY 7, 2020 AT 10:46 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and
improvements thereon situated in Prince George's County, MD and more
fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #18-2043701.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $11,000 in the form of certified check,
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Prince George's
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds
are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent,
to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be
assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all
documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or
damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to
be announced at the time of sale.
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the
purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of
the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement,
the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of
this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross
sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the
risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured
party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale.
Trustees' file number 72805.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC.
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12288740
ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
13464 Ansel Terrace
Germantown, MD 20874
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
CHERYL G. RICHARDS, dated December 27, 2012 and
recorded in Liber 45924 , folio 191 among the Land Records
of MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD, default having occurred
thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No.471825V;
Tax ID No.06-03064576 ) the Sub. Trustees will sell at
public auction at the MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURTHOUSE,
located at 50 MARYLAND AVENUE, ROCKVILLE, MD 20850,
on
JANUARY 6, 2020 at 10:00 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD and more fully
described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to
conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the
same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $29,000.00 will be required at the
time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK OR BY
CASHIER'S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Balance
of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of
final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for MONTGOMERY
COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the purchaser. If the
purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited and the
property shall be resold at the purchaser's risk and expense.
The purchaser waives personal service and accepts service by
first class mail and certified mail addressed to the address
provided by said Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum
of Sale for any Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this
sale including a Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of
the Property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to receive any benefit from the resale,
including, but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus
which may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid
purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note
from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the
Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement of interest in
the event additional funds are tendered at the time of sale or
any time prior to settlement or if the settlement is delayed
for any reason. In the event that the Secured Party executes
a forbearance agreement with the borrower(s) described in the
851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
3509 S. FOREST EDGE RD.
DISTRICT HEIGHTS, MD 20747
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Dorine
Reynolds dated June 26, 2007 and recorded in Liber 28289, folio 67 among
the Land Records of Prince George's County, MD, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the
Circuit Court for Prince George's County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro,
MD, 20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
JANUARY 7, 2020 AT 10:53 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and
improvements thereon situated in Prince George's County, MD and more
fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #06-0638924.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $22,000 in the form of certified check,
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Prince George's
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds
are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent,
to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be
assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all
documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or
damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to
be announced at the time of sale.
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the
purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of
the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement,
the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of
this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross
sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the
risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured
party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale.
Trustees' file number 74045.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC.
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12283530
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
5952 HIL MAR CIR. SOUTH
DISTRICT HEIGHTS, MD 20747
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Vincent
DePaul Biscoe, Jr. dated May 26, 2017 and recorded in Liber 39694, folio
423 among the Land Records of Prince George's County, MD, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at
public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, 14735 Main
St., Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.),
on
JANUARY 7, 2020 AT 10:55 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and
improvements thereon situated in Prince George's County, MD and more
fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #06-0432534.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $24,000 in the form of certified check,
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Prince George's
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds
are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent,
to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be
assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all
documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or
damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to
be announced at the time of sale.
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the
purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of
the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement,
the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of
this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross
sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the
risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured
party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale.
Trustees' file number 75513.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC.
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12283532
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
3000 PLAZA DR.
DISTRICT HEIGHTS, MD 20747
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Robin
Fennell and Louella Fennell dated August 9, 2014 and recorded in Liber
36280, folio 250 among the Land Records of Prince George's County, MD,
default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will
sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince George's County,
14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located
on Main St.), on
JANUARY 7, 2020 AT 10:54 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and
improvements thereon situated in Prince George's County, MD and more
fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #06-0498063.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $16,000 in the form of certified check,
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Prince George's
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds
are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent,
to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be
assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all
documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or
damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to
be announced at the time of sale.
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the
purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of
the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement,
the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of
this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross
sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the
risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured
party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale.
Trustees' file number 75688.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC.
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12283531
851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
MARYLAND MARYLAND
James E. Clarke James E. Clarke
Christine M. Drexel
Brian Thomas
Renee Dyson
Hugh J. Green
Jason Murphy Patrick M. A. Decker
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiffs
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiffs
v. v.
Monica Y. Solomon The Estate of Lula B. Jones
Defendant(s) Defendant(s)
Civil No. CAEF17-07519 Civil No. CAEF17-03286
NOTICE PURSUANT NOTICE PURSUANT
OPQRS
851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
9903 WELSHIRE DR.
UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Howard A.
Scott, II dated September 25, 2007 and recorded in Liber 28767, folio 356
among the Land Records of Prince George's County, MD, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public
auction at the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, 14735 Main St.,
Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
JANUARY 7, 2020 AT 10:49 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and
improvements thereon situated in Prince George's County, MD and more
fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #15-1782861.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $43,000 in the form of certified check,
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Prince George's
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds
are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent,
to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be
assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all
documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or
damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to
be announced at the time of sale.
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the
purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of
the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement,
the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of
this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross
sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the
risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured
party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale.
Trustees' file number 71116.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC.
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12283522
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
8103 BIRDSONG DR.
FORT WASHINGTON, MD 20744
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Ronald
Eugene Dasher dated November 9, 2013 and recorded in Liber 35648,
folio 448 among the Land Records of Prince George's County, MD, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at
public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, 14735 Main
St., Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.),
on
JANUARY 7, 2020 AT 10:51 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and
improvements thereon situated in Prince George's County, MD and more
fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #09-0886176.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $28,000 in the form of certified check,
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Prince George's
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds
are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent,
to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be
assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all
documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or
damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to
be announced at the time of sale.
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the
purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of
the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement,
the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of
this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross
sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the
risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured
party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale.
Trustees' file number 76107.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC.
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12283527
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
9000 TOWNSEND LA.
CLINTON, MD 20735
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from David
Dewan Sibert and Bernadette Laryce Sibert dated November 30, 2006
and recorded in Liber 26783, folio 136 among the Land Records of Prince
George's County, MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof,
the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince
George's County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval Wing
entrance, located on Main St.), on
JANUARY 7, 2020 AT 10:52 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and
improvements thereon situated in Prince George's County, MD and more
fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #09-0903179.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $42,000 in the form of certified check,
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Prince George's
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds
are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent,
to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be
assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all
documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or
damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to
be announced at the time of sale.
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the
purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of
the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement,
the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of
this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross
sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the
risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured
party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale.
Trustees' file number 16064.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC.
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12283529
851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
MARYLAND MARYLAND
Diane S. Rosenberg, et. al, JOHN E. DRISCOLL, III, et al
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC Plaintiffs, Substitute Trustees
4340 East West Highway,
v.
Suite 600
LEONOR FERNANDEZ
Bethesda, MD 20814
AMOR HERNANDO
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiff(s)
Defendant(s)
v.
Civil Action No. CAEF19-15752
Kimberly A. Mason
NOTICE
4132 Silver Park Terrace
Suitland, MD 20746
Notice is hereby given this 16th day
of December, 2019, by the Circuit
Defendant(s)
Court for Prince George's Coun-
851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
1503 SOUTHERN SPRINGS LA.
UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20774
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Crystal V.
Newman a/k/a Crystal Virginia Newman-Cugini dated September 30, 2008
and recorded in Liber 30060, folio 220 among the Land Records of Prince
George's County, MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof,
the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince
George's County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval Wing
entrance, located on Main St.), on
JANUARY 7, 2020 AT 10:48 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and
improvements thereon situated in Prince George's County, MD and more
fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #13-3504404.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $53,000 in the form of certified check,
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Prince George's
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds
are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent,
to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be
assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all
documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or
damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to
be announced at the time of sale.
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the
purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of
the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement,
the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of
this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross
sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the
risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured
party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale.
Trustees' file number 50624.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC.
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12283521
852 852
Anne Arundel County Anne Arundel County
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
8 DOGWOOD RD.
RIVA, MD 21140
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Tracy
Wampler dated June 19, 2006 and recorded in Liber 18022, folio 513
among the Land Records of Anne Arundel County, MD, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public
auction at the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, at the Court House
Door, 8 Church Circle, Annapolis, MD 21401, on
JANUARY 7, 2020 AT 9:31 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and
improvements thereon situated in Anne Arundel County, MD and more
fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #02-749-08566675.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $35,000 in the form of certified check,
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds
are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent,
to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be
assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all
documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or
damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to
be announced at the time of sale.
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the
purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of
the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement,
the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of
this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross
sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the
risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured
party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale.
Trustees' file number 74297.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC.
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com
LICENSE NOS. A000004, A000176, A000177, A000234, A000338, A000394,
A000424, A000429, A000445, A000465, A000479
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12283518
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
1525 BAY DR.
SHADY SIDE, MD 20764
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Dennis
A. Huie dated July 27, 2005 and recorded in Liber 16760, folio 175 among
the Land Records of Anne Arundel County, MD, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the
Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, at the Court House Door, 8 Church
Circle, Annapolis, MD 21401, on
JANUARY 7, 2020 AT 9:35 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and
improvements thereon situated in Anne Arundel County, MD and more
fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #07-156-00375200.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $60,000 in the form of certified check,
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds
are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent,
to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be
assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all
documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or
damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to
be announced at the time of sale.
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the
purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of
the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement,
the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of
this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross
sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the
risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured
party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale.
Trustees' file number 72363.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC.
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com
LICENSE NOS. A000004, A000176, A000177, A000234, A000338, A000394,
A000424, A000429, A000445, A000465, A000479
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12288538
D11
852 852
Anne Arundel County Anne Arundel County
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
556 EAST PARK CT.
GLEN BURNIE, MD 21061
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Pawan
Chona dated October 5, 2005 and recorded in Liber 16994, folio 673
among the Land Records of Anne Arundel County, MD, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public
auction at the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, at the Court House
Door, 8 Church Circle, Annapolis, MD 21401, on
JANUARY 7, 2020 AT 9:34 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and
improvements thereon situated in Anne Arundel County, MD and more
fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #04-231-90003762.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $15,000 in the form of certified check,
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds
are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent,
to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be
assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all
documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or
damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to
be announced at the time of sale.
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the
purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of
the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement,
the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of
this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross
sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the
risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured
party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale.
Trustees' file number 73285.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC.
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com
LICENSE NOS. A000004, A000176, A000177, A000234, A000338, A000394,
A000424, A000429, A000445, A000465, A000479
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12288536
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
145 MANNS RD.
SEVERNA PARK, MD 21146
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Ann Hall
dated April 2, 2009 and recorded in Liber 20945, folio 18 among the Land
Records of Anne Arundel County, MD, default having occurred under the
terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit
Court for Anne Arundel County, at the Court House Door, 8 Church Circle,
Annapolis, MD 21401, on
JANUARY 7, 2020 AT 9:30 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and
improvements thereon situated in Anne Arundel County, MD and more
fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #03-000-12786200.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $42,000 in the form of certified check,
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds
are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent,
to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be
assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all
documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or
damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to
be announced at the time of sale.
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the
purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of
the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement,
the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of
this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross
sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the
risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured
party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale.
Trustees' file number 73321.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC.
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com
LICENSE NOS. A000004, A000176, A000177, A000234, A000338, A000394,
A000424, A000429, A000445, A000465, A000479
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12283516
853 853
Calvert County Calvert County
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
4025 TODD DR.
PRINCE FREDERICK, MD 20678
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Mary M.
Ritts and Donald B. Ritts a/k/a Donald B. Ritts, II dated August 25, 2006
and recorded in Liber 2847, folio 386 among the Land Records of Calvert
County, MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub.
Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Calvert County,
at the Court House Door, 175 Main St., Prince Frederick, MD 20678, on
JANUARY 7, 2020 AT 3:31 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and
improvements thereon situated in Calvert County, MD and more fully
described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #02-118807.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $88,000 in the form of certified check,
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Calvert County.
Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate pursuant
to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are
received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent,
to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be
assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all
documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or
damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to
be announced at the time of sale.
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the
purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of
the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement,
the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of
this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross
sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the
risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured
party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale.
Trustees' file number 69945.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC.
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12289502

TO MD RULE 14-215 (A)
above-mentioned Deed of Trust, or allows the borrower(s) to
ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for
execute their right to reinstate or payoff the subject loan, Prince George's County, Maryland,
prior to the sale, with or without the Substitute Trustee's prior this 16th day of December, 2019,
that the foreclosure sale of the
knowledge, this Contract shall be null and void and of no effect, property described in the deed of
and the Purchaser's sole remedy shall be the return of the deposit trust docketed herein and locat-
ed at 1806 Ray Leonard Road,
without interest. Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, Hyattsville, Maryland 20785 made
transfer taxes and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, and reported by James E. Clarke,
Christine M. Drexel, Brian Thomas,
water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association Jason Murphy, Substitute Trustees,
dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual be RATIFIED and CONFIRMED,
unless cause to the contrary be
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if shown on or before the 16th day
TO MD RULE 14-215 (A)
ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for
Prince George's County, Maryland,
this 9th day of December, 2019,
that the foreclosure sale of the
property described in the deed of
trust docketed herein and located
at 5409 Emerson Street, Hyattsville,
Maryland 20781 made and report-
ed by James E. Clarke, Renee
Dyson, Hugh J. Green, and Patrick
M. A. Decker, Substitute Trustees,
be RATIFIED and CONFIRMED,
unless cause to the contrary be
shown on or before the 9th day
Case No. CAEF17-27871
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 26th
day of November, 2019, by the
Circuit Court for Prince George's
County, Maryland, that the sale of
4132 Silver Park Terrace, Suitland,
MD 20746 made and reported, will
be ratified and confirmed, unless
cause to the contrary thereof be
shown on or before the 26th day of
December, 2019, provided a copy
of this notice be inserted in a daily
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ty, Maryland, that the sale of the
property mentioned in these pro-
ceedings and described as 10765
S Campus Way, Upper Marlboro,
MD 20774 will be ratified and con-
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applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed of this Order be inserted in The
thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible Washington Post once in each of
three (3) successive weeks before
for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser the 16th day of January, 2020.
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the date The Report of Sale states the
of sale forward. If the Substitute Trustee(s) are unable to convey amount of the sale at $195,300.00.
insurable title for any reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in Mahasin El Amin #544
Clerk of the Circuit Court For
law or equity shall be limited to a refund of the aforementioned Prince George's County, Maryland
deposit without interest. In the event the sale is not ratified Dec. 19, 26, 2019, Jan. 2, 2020
for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, 12290562
is the return of the deposit without interest. (File # 584960)
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three (3) successive weeks before
the 9th day of January, 2020.
The Report of Sale states the
amount of the sale at $246,085.12.
Mahasin El Amin #544
Clerk of the Circuit Court For
Prince George's County, Maryland
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once in each of three successive
weeks before the 26th day of
December, 2019. The Report of Sale
states the amount of the foreclo-
sure sale price to be $207,000.00.
Mahasin El Amin #544
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Prince George's County, MD
Dec. 5, 12, 19, 2019 12284452
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amount of the sale to be
$199,000.00.
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Clerk of the Circuit Court For
Prince George's County, Maryland
Dec 19, 26, 2019, Jan 2, 2020
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Calvert County Calvert County Frederick County Frederick County Frederick County Frederick County Prince William County Prince William County Spotsylvania County Spotsylvania County
McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC
312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC Laurel, Maryland 20707 McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SALE
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600 www.mwc-law.com 312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800 NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SALE
14833 Elmwood Drive,
Bethesda, MD 20814 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE Laurel, Maryland 20707 Woodbridge, VA 22193 10625 Holleybrooke Drive,
(301) 907-8000 OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY www.mwc-law.com Spotsylvania, VA 22553
www.rosenberg-assoc.com SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed of Trust dated
306A MILL POND RD. June 27, 2007, and recorded at Instrument Number 200706290077101 By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed of Trust dated July
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE FREDERICK, MD 21701 OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 26, 2010, and recorded at Instrument Number 201000013506 in the Clerk’s
in the Clerk’s Office for the Circuit Court for Prince William County,
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 12511 SANDRA LEE CT. VA, securing a loan which was originally $354,893.80. The appointed Office for the Circuit Court for Spotsylvania County, VA, securing a loan
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Jacques which was originally $259,500.00. The appointed SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE,
11459 STIRRUP LA. Dandridge a/k/a Jacques M. Dandridge, Jr. and Sharda Dandridge a/k/a MONROVIA, MD 21770 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE, Commonwealth Trustees, LLC will offer for sale at
LUSBY, MD 20657 public auction at the front steps of the Circuit Court for Prince William Commonwealth Trustees, LLC will offer for sale at public auction at the
Sharda J. Dandridge, dated February 10, 2015 and recorded in Liber Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Daryl E. front steps of the Circuit Court for Spotsylvania County, 9107 Judicial
10398, folio 309 among the Land Records of Frederick County, MD, default Banks and Dana Banks, dated December 31, 2015 and recorded in Liber County, 9311 Lee Avenue, Manassas, VA 20110 on:
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Donna Center Lane, Spotsylvania, Virginia 22553 on:
L. Jones and Antonio L. Jones dated May 25, 2007 and recorded in Liber having occurred under the terms thereof and at the request of the parties 10987, folio 414 among the Land Records of Frederick County, MD, default January 10, 2020 at 1:00 PM
3117, folio 631 among the Land Records of Calvert County, MD, default secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale having occurred under the terms thereof and at the request of the parties January 7, 2020 at 10:00 AM
at public auction at the Circuit Court for Frederick County, at the Court secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale improved real property, with an abbreviated legal description of All of the
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at following parcel of real property, with improvements thereon, located in improved real property, with an abbreviated legal description of Being
public auction at the Circuit Court for Calvert County, at the Court House House Door, 100 W. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701, on at public auction at the Circuit Court for Frederick County, at the Court in Chancellor Magisterial District, Spotsylvania County, Virginia known
House Door, 100 W. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701, on the County of Prince William, Virginia, to wit: All of Lot 262, Section 7, Dale
Door, 175 Main St., Prince Frederick, MD 20678, on JANUARY 8, 2020 AT 1:06 PM City, as the same is duly dedicated, platted, and recorded among the Land and designated as Lot 14, Section 1, Holleybrooke Subdivision, as shown
JANUARY 7, 2020 AT 3:30 PM JANUARY 8, 2020 AT 1:05 PM Records of Prince William County, Virginia, in Deed Book 460, at Page 365. on plat of survey made by Sullivan, Donahoe and Ingalls, C.L.S., dated
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS November 12, 1985, and recorded in Plat Book 8, Pages 49A et seq., in the
THEREON situated in Frederick County, Maryland and described as Unit ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS This conveyance is made subject to covenants, conditions, restrictions,
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and easements and rights of way of record, and as more fully described in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and as
improvements thereon situated in Calvert County, MD and more fully 178 in Phase 2, pursuant to a condominium regime established by and THEREON situated in Frederick County, Maryland and more fully described more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust.
shown on a plat entitled "Market Square Condominium I" and more fully in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property is improved by a dwelling. aforesaid Deed of Trust.
described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #01-135449.
described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property is improved by a TERMS OF SALE: The property will be sold “AS IS,” WITHOUT REPRE- TERMS OF SALE: The property will be sold “AS IS,” WITHOUT REPRE-
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as dwelling. The property, will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to SENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND AND SUBJECT TO conditions, SENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND AND SUBJECT TO conditions,
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of conditions, restrictions, easements, encumbrances and agreements of restrictions, reservations, easements, rights of way, and all other matters restrictions, reservations, easements, rights of way, and all other matters
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind. The property, will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to record affecting the subject property, if any, and with no warranty of any of record taking priority over the Deed of Trust to be announced at the
conditions, restrictions, easements, encumbrances and agreements of of record taking priority over the Deed of Trust to be announced at the
kind. time of sale. A deposit of $20,000.00, or 10% of the sale price, whichever time of sale. A deposit of $20,000.00, or 10% of the sale price, whichever
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $34,000 in the form of certified check, record affecting the subject property, if any, and with no warranty of any
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier's or certified check, or is lower, will be required at time of sale, in the form of certified check, is lower, will be required at time of sale, in the form of certified check,
kind. cashier’s check or money order by the purchaser. The balance of the
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within in such other form as the Substitute Trustees may determine, at their cashier’s check or money order by the purchaser. The balance of the
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Calvert County. Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier's or certified check, or sole discretion, for $40,000 at the time of sale. If the noteholder and/or purchase price, with interest at the rate contained in the Deed of Trust purchase price, with interest at the rate contained in the Deed of Trust
Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate pursuant in such other form as the Substitute Trustees may determine, at their servicer is the successful bidder, the deposit requirement is waived. Note from the date of sale to the date said funds are received in the Note from the date of sale to the date said funds are received in the
to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are sole discretion, for $25,000 at the time of sale. If the noteholder and/or Balance of the purchase price is to be paid within fifteen (15) days of office of the SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE, will be due within fifteen (15) days office of the SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE, will be due within fifteen (15) days
received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement servicer is the successful bidder, the deposit requirement is waived. the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Frederick County, of sale. In the event of default by the successful bidder, the entire of sale. In the event of default by the successful bidder, the entire
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement Balance of the purchase price is to be paid within fifteen (15) days of Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase price at the rate deposit shall be forfeited and applied to the costs and expenses of sale deposit shall be forfeited and applied to the costs and expenses of sale
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Frederick County, of 5% per annum from date of sale to the date the funds are received and Substitute Trustee's fee. All other public charges or assessments, and Substitute Trustee's fee. All other public charges or assessments,
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase price at the rate in the office of the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased by including water/sewer charges, whether incurred prior to or after the sale, including water/sewer charges, whether incurred prior to or after the sale,
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including of 5% per annum from date of sale to the date the funds are received an entity other than the noteholder and/or servicer. If payment of the and all other costs incident to settlement to be paid by the purchaser. In and all other costs incident to settlement to be paid by the purchaser. In
in the office of the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased by balance does not occur within fifteen days of ratification, the deposit will the event taxes, any other public charges have been advanced, a credit the event taxes, any other public charges have been advanced, a credit
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private will be due to the seller, to be adjusted from the date of sale at the time of
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent, an entity other than the noteholder and/or servicer. If payment of the be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and cost of the will be due to the seller, to be adjusted from the date of sale at the time of
balance does not occur within fifteen days of ratification, the deposit will defaulting purchaser. There will be no abatement of interest due from settlement. Purchaser agrees to pay the seller's attorneys at settlement, settlement. Purchaser agrees to pay the seller's attorneys at settlement,
to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. a fee of $460.00 for review of the settlement documents.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and cost of the the purchaser in the event settlement is delayed for any reason. Taxes, a fee of $460.00 for review of the settlement documents.
assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all defaulting purchaser. There will be no abatement of interest due from ground rent, water rent, and all other public charges and assessments Additional terms will be announced at the time of sale and the successful
the purchaser in the event settlement is delayed for any reason. Taxes, Additional terms will be announced at the time of sale and the successful
documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be payable on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district bidder will be required to execute and deliver to the Substitute Trustees bidder will be required to execute and deliver to the Substitute Trustees
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining ground rent, water rent, and all other public charges and assessments charges, and front foot benefit charges, if applicable, to be adjusted for a memorandum or contract of the sale at the conclusion of bidding.
payable on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district a memorandum or contract of the sale at the conclusion of bidding.
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or the current year to the date of sale, and assumed thereafter by the
charges, and front foot benefit charges, if applicable, to be adjusted for purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:
damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to
be announced at the time of sale. the current year to the date of sale, and assumed thereafter by the if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. The Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground rent escrow, (Attorney for the Secured Party) (Attorney for the Secured Party)
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. The if required. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes (including 4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground rent escrow, 4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
agricultural transfer taxes, if applicable), and all settlement charges shall Bethesda, MD 20814 Bethesda, MD 20814
the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement, if required. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes (including be borne by the purchaser. If the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey
the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all 301-907-8000 301-907-8000
agricultural transfer taxes, if applicable), and all settlement charges shall good and marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity www.rosenberg-assoc.com
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the be borne by the purchaser. If the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey www.rosenberg-assoc.com
shall be limited to the refund of the deposit to the purchaser. Upon refund
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of good and marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity of the deposit, the sale shall be void and of no effect, and the purchaser December 19, 26, 2019 12289463 December 19, 26, 2019 12289903
this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross shall be limited to the refund of the deposit to the purchaser. Upon refund
sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the
of the deposit, the sale shall be void and of no effect, and the purchaser
shall have no further claim against the Substitute Trustees. Purchaser
shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. The
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Prince William County
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Stafford County Out-of-Town
risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without
shall have no further claim against the Substitute Trustees. Purchaser
shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. The
purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for the
property immediately after the sale. (Matter #19-601918). TRUSTEE'S SALE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF TRUSTEE SALE Real Estate
purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for the 4801 CHRISTIE JANE LN, 11203 Soldiers Court 32 Saint Williams Way,
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser property immediately after the sale. (Matter #18-604098). Laura H. G. O'Sullivan, et al., Substitute Trustees FAIRFAX, VA 22030 Manassas, VA 20109 DELAWARE New Move-In Ready
shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus Stafford, VA 22556
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results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser Laura H. G. O'Sullivan, et al., Substitute Trustees In execution of a Deed of Trust Beaches, Gated, Olympic Pool.
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204 In execution of a Deed of Trust In execution of a Deed of Trust
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC. 410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com in the original principal amount Homes from low $100’s.
party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection in the original principal amount in the original principal amount of of $442,500.00, dated February
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204 $295,000.00, dated December 30, No HOA Fees. Brochures Available
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale. 410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12289573 of $900,000.00, with an annual 9, 2011 recorded in the Clerk's 1-866-629-0770 or
Trustees' file number 73675. interest rate of 3.000000% dated 2014, recorded among the land Office of the Circuit Court of the
records of the Circuit Court for www.coolbranch.com
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12289578 Rosenberg & Associates, LLC May 25, 2006, recorded among Stafford County, Virginia, in Docu-
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees 4340 East West Highway, Suite 600 the land records of the Circuit Prince William County on Decem- ment No. 110004198, default hav- 225
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC. McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC
312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
Court for the COUNTY OF FAIRFAX ber 31, 2014, as Instrument Num-
ber 201412310093690, the under-
ing occurred in the payment of Collectibles
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204 as Deed Book 18598, Page 1969, the Note thereby secured and at SMALL COLLECTOR PAYS CASH
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com Laurel, Maryland 20707 www.rosenberg-assoc.com the undersigned appointed Sub- signed appointed Substitute the request of the holder of said
www.mwc-law.com Trustee will offer for sale at public FOR COINS/COLLECTIONS.
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE stitute Trustee will offer for sale Note, the undersigned Substitute Call Al, 301-807-3266.
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12289501 at public auction all that prop- auction, at the main entrance of
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY the courthouse for the Circuit Court
Trustee will offer for sale at public Will Come to you!
855 855 OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY erty located in the COUNTY OF auction at the entrance to the
Charles County Charles County 1017 CHINABERRY DR.
13 MAIN ST.
MYERSVILLE, MD 21773
FAIRFAX, on the courthouse steps
at the front of the Circuit Court
of Prince William County, 9311 Lee
Ave, Manassas, VA on January 9,
Judicial Center, 1300 Courthouse 237
Firewood
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC Road, Stafford, on January 7, 2020
FREDERICK, MD 21703 building for the County of Fairfax 2020 at 10:00 AM, the property at 10:00 AM the property MERRY CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Paul Dan described in said deed of trust,
Bethesda, MD 20814 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Gerald Pieklo, Jr. and Tricia S. Pieklo dated September 23, 2005 and recorded in located at 4110 Chain Bridge described in said deed, located 1 cord $195. 2 cords $375. 3 cords
Moncada, dated May 24, 2006 and recorded in Liber 6043, folio 471 Road, Fairfax, Virginia on January located at the above address and at the above address and briefly for $500. 4 cords $600. Seasonal
(301) 907-8000 Liber 5606, folio 238 among the Land Records of Frederick County, MD, briefly described as: LOT TWENTY-
www.rosenberg-assoc.com among the Land Records of Frederick County, MD, default having occurred default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will 22, 2020 at 2:30 PM, the property described as: Lot 176, Section 1E, Firewood. Call 703-357-2180
under the terms thereof and at the request of the parties secured thereby, with improvements to wit: Tax FIVE A (25-A), ''PARADISE, PARCEL St. George's Estate, with improve-
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Frederick County, at the Court H'', AS THE SAME APPEARS DULY
the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at Map No. 0552-11-074 THIS COM- ments thereon 610
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY the Circuit Court for Frederick County, at the Court House Door, 100 W.
House Door, 100 W. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701, on
MUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT DEDICATED, PLATTED
RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 1664
AND
Subject to any and all covenants,
Dogs for Sale
16015 WOODLARK DR. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701, on JANUARY 8, 2020 AT 1:15 PM COLLECTOR. AKC LABRADOOR RETRIEVER PUP-
AT PAGE 840, AS RESUBDIVIDED conditions, restrictions, ease- PIES. Ready for CHristmas w/ hunt-
BRANDYWINE, MD 20613 JANUARY 8, 2020 AT 1:07 PM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bid- IN DEED BOOK 1735 AT PAGE 823, ments, and all other matters of
improvements thereon situated in Frederick County, MD and more fully der's deposit of 10% of the sale ing bckground. Parents HIP certi-
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Darlene AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF record taking priority over the fied. No Sunday Calls.
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #16-354961. price, will be required in cash, Deed of Trust,if any, affecting the
Dale Burks and Beverly Wayne Burks, Jr. dated October 26, 2006 and THEREON situated in Frederick County, Maryland and more fully described PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VIR- $800 CASH ONLY. 540-879-2713
recorded in Liber 6104, folio 573 among the Land Records of Charles The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as certified or cashier's check. Set- GINIA. Tax ID: 7597-90-4435. aforesaid property.
in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property is improved by a dwelling. tlement within fifteen (15) days
County, MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of TERMS OF SALE: A bidder’s deposit TERMS OF SALE: CASH: A deposit Beabull puppies 3/4th English Bull-
Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Charles County, The property, will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind. of sale, otherwise Trustees may dog, family raised, 1 year health
conditions, restrictions, easements, encumbrances and agreements of forfeit deposit. Additional terms of $11,000.00 or 10% of the sale of $20,000.00 or 10% of the sales
200 Charles St., La Plata, MD 20646, (Sale will be held in the breezeway price, whichever is lower, will be price, whichever is lower, cash or guar, ready Dec 20th. $1100. Rot-
between the Circuit Court and the District Court), on record affecting the subject property, if any, and with no warranty of any Terms of Sale: A deposit of $21,000 in the form of certified check, to be announced at sale. Loan
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time required in the form of a certified certified check will be required tweiler puppies, 2 F, family raised
kind. type: Conventional. Reference 1 year health guar, both parents
JANUARY 7, 2020 AT 1:05 PM and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within Number 16-262114. or cashier’s check. Cash will not at the time of sale, but no more
Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier's or certified check, or ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Frederick be accepted as a deposit. Settle- than $10,000.00 of cash will be on prem. ready 12/14. $1100. 717-
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and in such other form as the Substitute Trustees may determine, at their PROFESSIONAL FORECLOSURE ment within fifteen (15) days of accepted, with settlement within 201-2952.
improvements thereon situated in Charles County, MD and more fully County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
sole discretion, for $31,000 at the time of sale. If the noteholder and/or pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA, Sub- sale, otherwise Trustee may forfeit fifteen (15) days from the date of Belgian Malinois Puppies- Ready Jan
described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #09-014616. servicer is the successful bidder, the deposit requirement is waived. stitute Trustees, C/O SHAPIRO & deposit. Additional terms to be sale. Sale is subject to post sale
are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement 2nd. Imported parents. CKC Reg.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as Balance of the purchase price is to be paid within fifteen (15) days of of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford announced at sale. This is a com- confirmation that the borrower $1850 717-380-2722.
is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Frederick County, or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be Road, Suite 200, Manassas, Vir- munication from a debt collector. did not file for protection under
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind. Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase price at the rate obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE ginia 20109 (703) 449-5800. This notice is an attempt to collect the U.S. Bankruptcy Code prior to BELGIAN MALINOIS PUPPIES
of 5% per annum from date of sale to the date the funds are received FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including Dec. 19, 26, 2019 12290563 on a debt and any information the sale which affects the validity 9 weeks, champ bloodlines, AKC,
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $71,000 in the form of certified check, in the office of the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased by obtained will be used for that pur- of the sale, as well as to post- family protection, vaccinated.
cashier's check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
an entity other than the noteholder and/or servicer. If payment of the charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent, 873 pose. sale confirmation of the status of $1500. Call 571-643-1213
and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Charles County.
balance does not occur within fifteen days of ratification, the deposit will to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Prince William County (Trustee # 589952)
the loan with the loan servicer
be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and cost of the Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be including, but not limited to, BICHON FRISE PUPS - AKC reg,
Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate pursuant defaulting purchaser. There will be no abatement of interest due from TRUSTEE'S SALE OF Substitute Trustee: ALG Trustee, determination of whether the bor- female, hypoallergenic, parents on
to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all
the purchaser in the event settlement is delayed for any reason. Taxes, documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be 9403 RIM ROCK CT, LLC, C/O Orlans PC PO Box 2548, rower entered into any repay- site, Available 1/1/20. $950
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of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
payable on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or 7101, website: paid off the loan prior to the www.bichonoasis.com
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be charges, and front foot benefit charges, if applicable, to be adjusted for http://www.orlans.com sale. In any such event, the sale
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to In execution of a Deed of Trust
the current year to the date of sale, and assumed thereafter by the be announced at the time of sale. in the original principal amount shall be null and void, and the K
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FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, Towne #: 5000.2565 Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the of $525,309.00, with an annual
if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. The interest rate of 4.250000% dated December 12, 19, 2019 12283060 or equity, shall be the return of French Bulldogs: AKC, have been vet
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent, purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground rent escrow, purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of his deposit without interest. Addi-
to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement, June 28, 2013, recorded among checked w/health rec, short, stocky,
if required. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes (including the land records of the Circuit tional terms may be announced show quality. Ready 12/20 & 12/30.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be agricultural transfer taxes, if applicable), and all settlement charges shall the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all TRUSTEE'S SALE OF at the time of sale. Pursuant to
assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the Court for the County of Prince 3491 MOUNT BURNSIDE WAY, mccoysbullies.com 540-742-2683
be borne by the purchaser. If the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey William as Deed Instrument Num- the Federal Fair Debt Collection
documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be good and marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of WOODBRIDGE, VA 22192 Practices Act, we advise you that French Bulldog - Beautiful, AKC reg
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross ber 201307010066830, the under-
shall be limited to the refund of the deposit to the purchaser. Upon refund signed appointed Substitute this firm is a debt collector Frenchy puppies avail. Rare colored
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or of the deposit, the sale shall be void and of no effect, and the purchaser sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited attempting to collect the indebt- blue & tan avail. Males & females.
damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the Trustee will offer for sale at public In execution of a Deed of Trust
shall have no further claim against the Substitute Trustees. Purchaser auction all that property located in the original principal amount of edness referred to herein and Visit our instagram @vaultkennels
be announced at the time of sale. shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. The risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of any information we obtain will be for photos. $2500+ 240-222-2424.
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without in the County of Prince William, $382,000.00, with an annual inter-
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for the on the Court House steps in front est rate of 4.000000% dated Octo- used for that purpose.
property immediately after the sale. (Matter #19-601810). reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPS - 2 M, 1 F
purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of of Main Entrance for the Circuit ber 13, 2005, recorded among SAMUEL I. WHITE, P.C., shots/ wormed, parents on premises,
the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement, shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
Laura H. G. O'Sullivan, et al., Substitute Trustees results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser Court building for the County of the land records of the Circuit Substitute Trustee AKC registered. $600 240-606-3815
the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all Prince William located at 9311 Court for the County of Prince
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC. and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured This is a communication from a
party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection Lee Avenue, Manassas, Virginia William as Deed Instrument Num- German Shepherd Pups, AKC, cham-
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of 908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204 on January 9, 2020 at 3:00 PM, ber 200510180179855, the under- debt collector. pion bloodlines, ready 12/18, cert-
this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross 410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale.
Trustees' file number 70661. the property with improvements signed appointed Substitute FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: negative for DM, health cert. $625
sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12289579 to wit: Tax Map No. 7794-36-7333 Trustee will offer for sale at public SAMUEL I. WHITE, P.C. (72523) 610-857-1932, 484-883-2560
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A auction all that property located 5040 Corporate Woods Drive #120
risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of DEBT COLLECTOR. in the County of Prince William, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23462 GIANT SCHANUZER 8 WEKS OLD.
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without ORLANS PC ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC.
on the Court House steps in front 757-457-1460 - Call Between PERFECT TIME FOR CHRISTMAS.
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204 TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bid-
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser 1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310 410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com der's deposit of 10% of the sale
of Main Entrance for the Circuit 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. $700 NO PAPERS, PARENTS ON
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shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus Court building for the County of
results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser LEESBURG, VA 20175 Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12289198 price, will be required in cash, Prince William located at 9311 or visit our website at
certified or cashier's check. Set- www.siwpc.net Goldendoodle / Bernedoodle - 8 wks,
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured 703-777-7101 857 857 tlement within fifteen (15) days
Lee Avenue, Manassas, Virginia
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party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE
Howard County Howard County of sale, otherwise Trustees may
on January 16, 2020 at 3:00 PM,
the property with improvements
Dec 12, 19, 2019 12288873
Health tested, exotic colors, loving
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC forfeit deposit. Additional terms 882 temperments, older pups also
Trustees' file number 73228.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 4340 East West Highway, Suite 600 to be announced at sale. Loan
to wit: Tax Map No. 8293074697
THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A
Frederick County available. 443-480-7572.
Bethesda, MD 20814 type: FHA. Reference Number 19- DEBT COLLECTOR. Goldendoodle - F1B, Ready now,
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC. 14035 Brown Road (301) 907-8000
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282056.
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908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204 Smithsburg, MD 21783 PROFESSIONAL FORECLOSURE TRUSTEE’S SALE OF guarantee. $1200 540-729-6365
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE der's deposit of 10% of the sale 123 Blossom Dr
CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA, Sub- price, will be required in cash, www.doodledogpups.com
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12289196 Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY stitute Trustees, C/O SHAPIRO & Winchester, VA 22602
certified or cashier's check. Set- GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPS - AKC,
14266 BURNTWOODS RD. BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford
856 856 JOHN PETER SATTERFIELD, HEATHER J. SATTERFIELD AND Road, Suite 200, Manassas, Vir-
tlement within fifteen (15) days Ready for Christmas 12/24, M/F,
Frederick County Frederick County LOIS B. KAUFFMAN, dated May 26, 2005 and recorded in
GLENWOOD, MD 21738
ginia 20109 (703) 449-5800.
of sale, otherwise Trustees may
forfeit deposit. Additional terms
In execution of a Deed of Trust
in the original principal amount
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McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Marcy L. meet near you. Call 540-939-4093.
Dec. 12, 19, 2019 12281548 to be announced at sale. Loan of $50,000.00, dated March 27,
312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800 Liber 5437 , folio 88 among the Land Records of FREDERICK Arnold a/k/a Marcy L. Hackett dated March 14, 2002 and recorded in Liber
type: Conventional. Reference 2008, recorded among the land Lab mixes & Retriever mixes- First
Laurel, Maryland 20707 6095, folio 606 among the Land Records of Howard County, MD, default
www.mwc-law.com COUNTY, MD, default having occurred thereunder (Foreclosure having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at TRUSTEE’S SALE OF Number 19-284979. records of the Circuit Court for shots & wormed, ready to pick up
8529 Piney Point Court Frederick County on April 14, 2008,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE Case docketed as Case No.C-10-CV-18-000707; Tax ID No.10- public auction at the Circuit Court for Howard County, at the Court House
Manassas, VA 20110
PROFESSIONAL FORECLOSURE as Instrument Number 080004500,
12/23. Laid back but playful. $250
540-478-4555.
Door, 8360 Court Avenue, Ellicott City, MD 21043, on CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA, Sub-
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 278449 ) the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at stitute Trustees, C/O SHAPIRO &
the undersigned appointed Sub-
JANUARY 6, 2020 AT 9:25 AM stitute Trustee will offer for sale LAB PUPPIES - AKC, all yellow,
4 MOUNTAIN ORE CT.
THURMONT, MD 21788
the FREDERICK COUNTY COURTHOUSE, located at 100 W. In execution of a Deed of Trust BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford at public auction, at the main shots & wormed, family raised,
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and in the original principal amount of Road, Suite 200, Manassas, Vir-
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Kevin
PATRICK ST, FREDERICK, MD 21701, on improvements thereon situated in Howard County, MD and more fully $291,305.00, dated May 3, 2007, ginia 20109 (703) 449-5800.
entrance of the courthouse for the
Circuit Court of Frederick County,
ready for Christmas.
Vaught, Sr. and Denice Vaught, dated September 20, 2013 and recorded described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #04-343727. recorded among the land records Call 301-643-6171
in Liber 9789, folio 272 among the Land Records of Frederick County, MD,
JANUARY 6, 2020 at 1:45 P.M The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an "as of the Circuit Court for Prince Wil-
Dec. 19, 26, 2019 12288928 5 N Kent St, Winchester, VA on
January 16, 2020 at 3:00 PM, the LAB PUPS - AKC, Yellow/Black/Choc
default having occurred under the terms thereof and at the request of the liam County on May 9, 2007, as 878
parties secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind. Instrument Number Stafford County property described in said deed of
trust, located at the above address
Pups, Shots/Wormings, Champ.
Bloodlines, Family Raised, 540-848-
for sale at public auction at the Circuit Court for Frederick County, at the thereon situated in FREDERICK COUNTY, MD and more fully Terms of Sale: A deposit of $5,000 in the form of certified check, cashier's
200705090056592, the under- and briefly described as: LOT 22, 4486, www.liberty-pups.com
Court House Door, 100 W. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701, on signed appointed Substitute
described in above referenced Deed of Trust. check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place Trustee will offer for sale at public
TRUSTEE SALE SECTION 1, WILKINS SHENAN-
DOAH HILLS ON THE PLAT OF Pomeranian - 9 weeks, ready 12/23,
JANUARY 8, 2020 AT 1:08 PM of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten auction, at the main entrance of 11 Brentsmill Drive, 2 boys, 2 girls, 2 year health guar,
The property will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to RECORD IN CLERK'S OFFICE OF
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Howard County. the courthouse for the Circuit Stafford, VA 22554 THE CIRCUIT COURT OF FREDERICK located in Northern Virginia Call /
THEREON situated in Frederick County, Maryland and more fully described conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate pursuant Court of Prince William County, Stafford County COUNTY, VIRGINIA IN DEED BOOK Text & mention Pomeranian puppies
in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property is improved by a dwelling. to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are 9311 Lee Ave, Manassas, VA on 271, AT PAGE 597. Tax ID: 55B 2 1 540-303-6591.
same, if any and with no warranty of any kind. received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement In execution of a Deed of Trust
January 9, 2020 at 10:00 AM, the in the original principal amount 22.
The property, will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement property described in said deed of Shepadoodle pups - Ready by Christ-
of $421,200.00, dated October 10,
conditions, restrictions, easements, encumbrances and agreements of Terms of Sale: A deposit $19,200.00 will be required at the or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be trust, located at the above address 2008 recorded in the Clerk's
TERMS OF SALE: A bidder’s deposit mas, M & F avail, vetted, 1st shots,
whites & blacks avail. No to low
record affecting the subject property, if any, and with no warranty of any obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE of $5,000.00 or 10% of the sale
kind. time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK OR BY FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including
and briefly described as: LOT 605,
SECTION 3, POINT OF WOODS, AS
Office of the Circuit Court of the price, whichever is lower, will be shedding. $800. 240-299-9592
Stafford County, Virginia, in Docu-
Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier's or certified check, or CASHIER'S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Balance agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private THE SAME APPEARS DULY DEDI- ment No. 080017955, default hav-
required in the form of a certified
Shih-Poo Puppies- Beautiful. Health
charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent, CATED, PLATTED AND RECORDED or cashier’s check. Cash will not
in such other form as the Substitute Trustees may determine, at their
sole discretion, for $23,000 at the time of sale. If the noteholder and/or
of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. IN DEED BOOK 561 AT PAGE 750,
ing occurred in the payment of be accepted as a deposit. Settle- charts, shots & dewormed, black,
the Note thereby secured and at brown or tan colors. Momma AKC
servicer is the successful bidder, the deposit requirement is waived. final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for FREDERICK Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF the request of the holder of said
ment within fifteen (15) days of
registered Shih Tzu, Daddy AKC reg-
assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VIR- sale, otherwise Trustee may forfeit
Balance of the purchase price is to be paid within fifteen (15) days of
the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Frederick County,
COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the purchaser. If the documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be GINIA. Tax ID: 112-43-00-605.
Note, the undersigned Substitute deposit. Additional terms to be istered mini poodle. $750 each.
Trustee will offer for sale at public 717-947-0954 delivery optional.
Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase price at the rate purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited and the borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or TERMS OF SALE: A bidder’s deposit auction at the entrance to the
announced at sale. This is a com-
munication from a debt collector.
of 5% per annum from date of sale to the date the funds are received SHIH-TZU PUPPIES - $700. Red,
in the office of the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased by
property shall be resold at the purchaser's risk and expense. damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to of $11,000.00 or 10% of the sale Judicial Center, 1300 Courthouse
Road, Stafford, on January 7, 2020
This notice is an attempt to collect Red/White and black/white.
price, whichever is lower, will be
an entity other than the noteholder and/or servicer. If payment of the The purchaser waives personal service and accepts service by be announced at the time of sale.
required in the form of a certified at 10:00 AM the property
on a debt and any information
obtained will be used for that pur-
CKC reg, vaccinated.
balance does not occur within fifteen days of ratification, the deposit will Falls Church, VA. Call 202-304-6161
be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and cost of the first class mail and certified mail addressed to the address If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the
purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of
or cashier’s check. Cash will not
be accepted as a deposit. Settle-
described in said deed, located
at the above address and briefly
pose.
SHIH TZU PUPS - 8 wks old, 1st shots,
defaulting purchaser. There will be no abatement of interest due from provided by said Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement, ment within fifteen (15) days of described as: (Trustee # 590276) wormed, parents on premises, pure-
the purchaser in the event settlement is delayed for any reason. Taxes, the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all
ground rent, water rent, and all other public charges and assessments of Sale for any Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the
sale, otherwise Trustee may forfeit
deposit. Additional terms to be
Lot 110, Brentsmill, Section 1A, Substitute Trustee: ALG Trustee, bred pups. F $550 M $500 540-743-
with improvements thereon. LLC, C/O Orlans PC PO Box 2548, 5906 or 540-860-8082.
payable on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district sale including a Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of announced at sale. This is a com- Leesburg, VA 20177, (703) 777-
charges, and front foot benefit charges, if applicable, to be adjusted for this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross Subject to any and all covenants, Shih Tzu puppies Teacup size,
the current year to the date of sale, and assumed thereafter by the the Property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
munication from a debt collector.
This notice is an attempt to collect conditions, restrictions, ease-
7101, website: and Shorkie pups 8 weeks
http://www.orlans.com
purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, shall not be entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the on a debt and any information ments, and all other matters of call doggoneyorkies
if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. The risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of obtained will be used for that pur- record taking priority over the Towne #: 5000.2779 240--298-2639
purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground rent escrow, including, but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without pose. Deed of Trust, if any, affecting the Dec. 12, 19, 26, 2019, Jan. 2, 2020 West Highland / Shih Tzu hybrid-
if required. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes (including which may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
(Trustee # 559980)
aforesaid property.
agricultural transfer taxes, if applicable), and all settlement charges shall shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus 12288809 M & F, S/W. Brindles & pure
be borne by the purchaser. If the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser Substitute Trustee: ALG Trustee,
TERMS OF SALE: CASH: A deposit
white. $700. Accepting credit
good and marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured LLC, C/O Orlans PC PO Box 2548,
of $20,000.00 or 10% of the sales MARYLAND cards. Ruby 540-645-1962
shall be limited to the refund of the deposit to the purchaser. Upon refund price, whichever is lower, cash or
of the deposit, the sale shall be void and of no effect, and the purchaser Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement of interest in party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection
with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale.
Leesburg, VA 20177, (703) 777-
7101, website:
certified check will be required Roommates West Highland Terrier Pups- AKC reg
shall have no further claim against the Substitute Trustees. Purchaser at the time of sale, but no more
shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. The
the event additional funds are tendered at the time of sale or Trustees' file number 76367. http://www.orlans.com than $10,000.00 of cash will be
S/W vet checked, credit cards
accepted M & F $900 +
ADELPHI - Recently renovated
purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for the any time prior to settlement or if the settlement is delayed Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees The Vendor Auction.com will be accepted, with settlement within
fifteen (15) days from the date of condo. Large BR. Quiet, clean. Ruby 540-645-1962
property immediately after the sale. (Matter #18-604012). used in conjunction with this sale
for any reason. In the event that the Secured Party executes ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC.
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204 sale. Sale is subject to post sale $700+1/2 utils. 301-807-6331
Yorkshire Terrier - Yorkie 1 M (3.5LB),
Laura H. G. O'Sullivan, et al., Substitute Trustees Potential Bidders: For sale infor-
a forbearance agreement with the borrower(s) described in the 410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com mation, please visit www.Auc-
confirmation that the borrower
did not file for protection under CAPITAL HEIGHTS - Sr. home to share. 6 mos, $800, home raised in DC,
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC. up to date shots, ACA reg, 15 yr
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204 above-mentioned Deed of Trust, or allows the borrower(s) to Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12288739 tion.com or call (800) 280-2832. the U.S. Bankruptcy Code prior to Furn rms. 2 baths, 2 kits, $300 sec
dep. $600mo. W/D. pvt pkg+sec fnce. 3 gen pedigree. Very small.
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com execute their right to reinstate or payoff the subject loan, 873 873 Towne #: 5000.1686 the sale which affects the validity
All util incl. Nr Metro. N/S inside. www.dcyorkies.com 202-251-8002
Dec 19, Dec 26 & Jan 2 12289580 prior to the sale, with or without the Substitute Trustee's prior Prince William County Prince William County December 12, 19, 2019 12283636
of the sale, as well as to post-
sale confirmation of the status of 1wk free. Text/Call 202-568-0792
620
855 knowledge, this Contract shall be null and void and of no effect,
NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SALE
TRUSTEE’S SALE OF
the loan with the loan servicer FT WASH-Avail Furn rooms in beau- Cats
Charles County and the Purchaser's sole remedy shall be the return of the deposit
2221 Montgomery Avenue,
Woodbridge, VA 22191 14501 Fullerton Road
including, but not limited to,
determination of whether the bor-
tiful house to shr. $600 Incl utils.
wifi & cable rdy. 571-283-2422 Maine Coons Kittens - Pure breed,
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT Woodbridge, VA 22193 rower entered into any repay- ACFA M,F White Red.
FOR CHARLES COUNTY without interest. Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed of Trust dated May
ment agreement, reinstated or HYATTSVILLE - Furnished BR , quiet $1600. 757-535-6609
24, 2007, and recorded at Instrument Number 200706010065592 in the
MARYLAND transfer taxes and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, Clerk’s Office for the Circuit Court for Prince William County, VA, securing In execution of a Deed of Trust paid off the loan prior to the area, clean place. $600. Light, micoons.cattery@gmail.com
DAVID A. ROSEN, Take The Post water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association a loan which was originally $244,000.00. The appointed SUBSTITUTE in the original principal amount of sale. In any such event, the sale water, cable inc and own fridge.
$62,900.00, dated June 8, 2005, shall be null and void, and the $500 deposit. 240-476-9245
Substitute Trustee, et al. shopping. dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual TRUSTEE, Commonwealth Trustees, LLC will offer for sale at public auction
recorded among the land records Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law
Plantiffs, wpost.com/podcasts at the front steps of the Circuit Court for Prince William County, 9311 Lee VIRGINIA
of the Circuit Court for Prince Wil- or equity, shall be the return of
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v.
ERIK HEINRICHSEN
DAPHNE HEINRICHSEN
Defendant(s)
Case # C- 08-CV-19-000303
NOTICE
Notice is hereby issued this 3rd
day of December, 2019, that the
sale of the property in this case,
3206 Bethesda Drive, Waldorf, MD
20601, reported by Brittany M.
Taylor, Substitute Trustee, be rati-
fied and confirmed, unless cause
to the contrary be shown on or
before the 3rd day of January,
2020, provided a copy of this
Notice be inserted in the Wash-
ington Post, a newspaper pub-
lished in Charles County, Mary-
land, once in each of three (3)
successive weeks on or before
the 3rd day of January, 2020.
The report states the amount of
sale to be $223,600.00
Sharon L Hancock
Clerk of the Circuit Court
RAS Crane, LLC
Charles County, MD
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if Avenue, Manassas, VA 20110 on:
liam County on June 24, 2005, his deposit without interest. Addi-
applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed January 10, 2020 at 1:00 PM as Instrument Number tional terms may be announced Roommates
200506240102569, the under- at the time of sale. Pursuant to
thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible improved real property, with an abbreviated legal description of All that
certain parcel of land situated in the County of Prince William and signed appointed Substitute the Federal Fair Debt Collection ALEXANDRIA- Furn BR for rent, $700
for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser Commonwealth of Virginia being known and designated as all of Lot 146, Trustee will offer for sale at public
auction, at the main entrance of
Practices Act, we advise you that
this firm is a debt collector
shared ba, kit, W/D. Free prkg, 1 blk
to buses, walk to King St. metro, no
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the date Section 2-C, Marumsco Hills, as the same appears duly dedicated, platted
and recorded in Deed Book 325 at Page 269 among the Land Records of the courthouse for the Circuit Court attempting to collect the indebt- pets, dog onsite, friendly, smoking
of sale forward. If the Substitute Trustee(s) are unable to convey Prince William County, Virginia, and as more fully described in the aforesaid of Prince William County, 9311 Lee
Ave, Manassas, VA on January 9,
edness referred to herein and
any information we obtain will be
outside. 703-370-6797
insurable title for any reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in Deed of Trust. FAIRFAX- 2 rooms $800 inc utils.
2020 at 10:00 AM, the property used for that purpose.
TERMS OF SALE: The property will be sold “AS IS,” WITHOUT REPRE- Avail now. Responsible person. Good
law or equity shall be limited to a refund of the aforementioned described in said deed of trust, SAMUEL I. WHITE, P.C., neighborhood. 703-520-3729
deposit without interest. In the event the sale is not ratified
SENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND AND SUBJECT TO conditions,
restrictions, reservations, easements, rights of way, and all other matters
located at the above address and
briefly described as: Lot 55, Sec-
Substitute Trustee LEGAL SERVICES
of record taking priority over the Deed of Trust to be announced at the tion 3, DALE CITY, as the same This is a communication from a FAIRFAX - Furnished. Pref male to
for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, time of sale. A deposit of $20,000.00, or 10% of the sale price, whichever is duly dedicated, platted and debt collector. share lovely spacious 2 BR, 1 full
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is the return of the deposit without interest. (File # 577921) is lower, will be required at time of sale, in the form of certified check, recorded in Deed Book 389 at page FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: BA. Condo unit is on the 3rd floor.
Shared kitchen amenities. Furn
Entitled To Significant Cash Award.
cashier’s check or money order by the purchaser. The balance of the 248, among the land records of SAMUEL I. WHITE, P.C. (33327) Call 844-591-5210 for information.
JAMES E. CLARKE, purchase price, with interest at the rate contained in the Deed of Trust Prince William County, Virginia. Tax 5040 Corporate Woods Drive #120 living area with free parking & walk-
ing distance to CVS. Snow removal
No Risk. No Money Out Of Pocket.
Note from the date of sale to the date said funds are received in the ID: 8191-97-0689.
HUGH J. GREEN, office of the SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE, will be due within fifteen (15) days
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757-457-1460 - Call Between in winter, swimming pool & lawn
TERMS OF SALE: A bidder’s deposit
CHRISTINE M. DREXEL, of sale. In the event of default by the successful bidder, the entire
of $6,200.00 or 10% of the sale 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. care in Summer. Laundry room &
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deposit shall be forfeited and applied to the costs and expenses of sale
and Substitute Trustee's fee. All other public charges or assessments, price, whichever is lower, will be
required in the form of a certified
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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES including water/sewer charges, whether incurred prior to or after the sale, Year lease signage, paid security SF
could have and all other costs incident to settlement to be paid by the purchaser. In
the event taxes, any other public charges have been advanced, a credit
or cashier’s check. Cash will not
be accepted as a deposit. Settle- Dec 12, 19, 2019 12288869 dep $800 in advance. No smoking,
no pets, no overnight guests.
will be due to the seller, to be adjusted from the date of sale at the time of ment within fifteen (15) days of 703-599-3798, 301-643-5199 Home delivery
home settlement. Purchaser agrees to pay the seller's attorneys at settlement,
a fee of $460.00 for review of the settlement documents.
sale, otherwise Trustee may forfeit
deposit. Additional terms to be
ask for Mike is convenient.
announced at sale. This is a com-
delivery. Additional terms will be announced at the time of sale and the successful
bidder will be required to execute and deliver to the Substitute Trustees
munication from a debt collector.
This notice is an attempt to collect
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How to
Remove stains on a berm over a fishpond without hurting fish
BY J EANNE H UBER
Q: Three years ago, we bought a
house with a backyard brick
berm and fishpond that are
probably around 20 years old.
We also have a brick wall
surrounding our entire
backyard. Mineral stains have
appeared on the brick, but only
over the pond. I’ve read on the
Internet that I could use baking
soda or vinegar to remove the
deposits, or power wash them
off. But my husband and I are
wary of doing anything that
could harm the fish that live in
the pond. We plan to ask
Harmony Ponds, the company
we hire each spring to clean the
pond, for advice. What do you
recommend as a way to remove
the white spots without harming
the fish? Assuming we are able to
clean the brick, are there steps
we should take to keep this from
happening again?
Falls Church
A: The white spots are
efflorescence, a crust that
develops when water laden with
mineral salts moves through the
bricks and evaporates, leaving
salt crystals behind. It’s ugly but
usually doesn’t cause damage, so
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you can take your time figuring
out a solution.
The salts can come from many
different things, including the
clay in the bricks or the Portland
cement, sand or even water used
to make the mortar between the
bricks. Because the deposits in
your yard are showing up only
on brick that is holding back soil,
the salts are probably in the soil
or in fertilizer used in the
planting beds.
Because you already hire a
company to clean your pond
each spring, dealing with the
efflorescence at the same time is
definitely the way to go. To
ensure that the cleaning doesn’t
harm the fish, ask the company
to scoop them out and
temporarily house them in a
container with lots of clean
water. Don Jump, owner of
Harmony Ponds in Lorton (703-
978-2800; harmonyponds.com),
said the company has a 1,000-
gallon tank they use for this.
Saving the pond water, along
with the fish, also helps them
because it avoids an abrupt
change in the chemistry of the
water. And getting the fish out of
the way safely before you tackle
the efflorescence is a lot less
stressful than doing it when the
F#)' S(%&#$&
The white spots on this brick berm are efflorescence, which is ugly
but doesn’t cause damage, so you can take time to fix the issue.
water is already contaminated
and you’re racing to keep the fish
from dying.
With the fish and water out,
the pond cleaners can remove
the mineral crust. The Brick
Industry Association, a trade
group, recommends starting by
scrubbing with a dry, stiff brush,
then switching to a brush with
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water and finally to a cleaner
formulated to remove
efflorescence from masonry.
Jump said his company starts
with these steps. If the
efflorescence is new, a brush
usually scrubs it right off, he
said, and if it’s been there for
about six months, a cleaner
usually works. “But what we’re
usually dealing with is years old,”
he said. For that, his crew turns
to an angle grinder fitted with a
wire wheel, which the team uses
as gently as possible.
He estimated cleaning the
bricks would take about one
hour, which would add $160 to
the spring-cleaning bill for
customers like you who have
signed a contract to have the
company do seasonal pond
cleaning. The spring-cleaning
service fee ranges from around
$240 for a small pond like yours
to $1,000 or more for large,
complicated ponds, Jump said.
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cleaning pay a higher hourly rate
of $240.
Waiting until spring to deal
with the efflorescence would
save you money and would
probably make the cleaning last
longer. Efflorescence tends to
show up more in the winter than
in the summer, because the
bricks tend to stay damp longer
in cold weather, allowing more
salts to move through. And, as
the Brick Industry Association
notes in a paper about dealing
with efflorescence, “It is usually
not advisable to wash
efflorescence off the brickwork
except in warm, dry weather,
since washing results in the
presence of considerably more
moisture, which may bring more
salts to the surface of the
brickwork.”
As for fixing the underlying
problem, you would need to keep
moisture from moving through
the bricks. What would have
been easy during construction is
more work now. You would need
to excavate the soil behind the
brick and either waterproof the
back of the brick or line the
planters so moisture can’t seep
out through the front. You’d still
need a way for excess moisture to
escape, however, both to keep
plants healthy and to keep
waterlogged soil from pushing
out the bricks. A common
solution is to install weep holes
through the wall at the base.
Outfitted with pipes that slant
downward toward the front of
the wall, the weep holes would
allow water to drip out beyond
the face of the brick. A
landscaping company that does
masonry work can offer advice.
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Winter brings dark, dreary days. Don’t let your space follow suit.
BY H ELEN C AREFOOT
When winter sets in and days
are shorter and darker, the
change in light can wreak havoc
on our sleep schedules and
moods. But coming home and
sitting in a poorly lit, dark space
doesn’t have to be part of the
season. Here’s how design ex-
perts make rooms feel bright and
cheery, even in the dead of winter.
Create layered lighting
You’ll get more use out of your
lights in the winter than any
other time of the year, so make
sure you’re adequately prepared.
And don’t despair if you don’t
have lots of windows, advises
Sarah Barney, owner and princi-
pal designer of BANDD Design in
Austin. “Embrace what you have
since there’s only so much you
can do.” Here’s how to build a
layered lighting scheme:
Overhead lighting: This is the
base that washes the whole room
in light. “The type of fixture
makes all the difference,” says
Erin Shakoor, the Chicago-based
founder of Shakoor Interiors.
“Put it as high above your head as
possible to avoid dead spots.” She
likes fixtures with adjustable
arms so you can redirect light
into areas as necessary. (Many
overhead fixtures in rentals can
be easily swapped and replaced;
check with your landlord.)
Wall and floor lamps: Place
wall sconces and floor lamps in
strategic locations where you
want to highlight wall decor.
“The best-lit rooms are the ones
where the walls are lit,” says
LeeAnn Baker, a Seattle-based
designer. She uses wall sconces
and washers to create “art-like”
lighting.
Tabletop lamps: Place these
where you need concentrated
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lighting, Barney says. She likes
lighter-colored shades with an
open top so light shines through
both ends.
Decorative lights: Think can-
dles, string lights and more. Bar-
ney prefers an arrangement of
pillar candles in an open fireplace
or on a tabletop. Kashi Shikuno-
va, partner and interior designer
at YAM Studios in London, likes
to put strands of string lights in
glass bowls.
Switch out your lightbulbs
Shakoor suggests switching to
lightbulbs that are between 2,700
Kelvin and 3,000 Kelvin. Bulbs in
this range emit a soft white light
that creates a pleasing, warm
glow as opposed to the harsh
hues we face from office lighting
and screens, which can affect the
quality of your sleep. Avoid bulbs
that look too orange, which can
give off an antique look.
Kashi Shikunova chose a warm white paint color for this room in Bina Gardens in London. To
create visual interest, she suggests layering complementary and contrasting shades of neutrals.
Consider your colors
Avoid dark wall colors if you
don’t have big windows: If you’re
trying to create the illusion of
brightness, lighter colors on the
walls are the way to go, experts
say. Dark paint is in, but it’s best
avoided if the goal is to make a
space brighter. Dark walls absorb
light, which will make a room feel
even darker if you don’t have an
abundance of natural light to
begin with, Shakoor says. “You
could paint a room black as long
as you have appropriate lighting
and floor-to-ceiling windows,”
she says.
Don’t make everything the
same white: White is the go-to
when creating a light, bright and
open space, but a room that’s
entirely the same shade washes
everything out. To avoid flatness,
Shikunova layers shades of neu-
trals that complement and con-
trast with one another to create
visual interest. “If you do every-
thing in all white, it may be
bright, but it’s not necessarily
warm,” she says. Texture and
contrast bring warmth.
Use a reflective paint finish:
Baker uses semi-gloss paints on
the walls and ceiling or reflective
and metallic wallpapers (she
likes grass cloth) to bounce light
around the room. “I love using at
least an eggshell because it makes
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the walls more reflective,” she
says.
Pick colors that work in low
light: “Using a warm, neutral
paint color is a great way to feel
cozy but not overpowered with
colors,” Baker says. She likes Ben-
jamin Moore’s Edgecomb Gray,
which works well in Seattle’s
winters. Cooler-toned blues and
greens, such as sage, interact well
with low light and provide a
subtle but pleasing hint of color
without looking too dark, Barney
says. Two of her go-to colors are
Sea Salt and North Star, both by
Sherwin-Williams. Beyond the
wall, Baker says, using lighter-
colored woods and furnishings
can also help the room seem
lighter. “Darker will always ab-
sorb more light, and lighter will
always appear brighter,” she says.
Paint the ceiling and wall the
same color: Unless your space
has crown molding, Shakoor sug-
gests keeping the wall and ceiling
the same color. It helps the space
feel brighter and more open be-
cause it doesn’t define the end of
the ceiling, she says. “It makes the
ceiling feel like it’s going away,”
Baker says.
Use mirrors, reflective items
You don’t want your space to
feel like a fun house, but mirrors
and wall decor with brass or
metal accents will help bounce
light around the room and will
create the illusion of a lighter
space. In rooms with only one or
two small windows, Shakoor sug-
gests hanging a mirror on the
wall opposite the window. Barney
likes to cluster several small mir-
rors together or to include them
in gallery walls.
Window treatments are an
easy way to apply this idea: “Fab-
ric with sheen will reflect light
and feel less weighty,” Shakoor
says. Just don’t pick anything too
heavy, because it will block light.
She likes cream, ivory, pale gray
and rose. White works well here,
too; it filters sunlight inside and
creates a glowing effect.
Add some greenery
“Coming in and seeing a bright
pop of life creates a good environ-
ment and adds visual texture,”
says Janine Dowling, founder of
Boston-based Janine Dowling In-
terior Design. She suggests buy-
ing several small bouquets (she
enjoys the selection and prices at
Trader Joe’s) and spreading them
around the areas of your home
where you spend the most time.
“Big Gerbera daisies are the hap-
piest flowers I’ve ever seen,” she
says. She also likes fiddle-leaf fig
trees because they’re low-mainte-
nance and do well in indirect
light. “The big leaves have a lot of
texture and would look great in a
pretty pot with moss,” she says.
And don’t think you need a dwarf
tree because you live in a small
space; Shakoor suggests picking
a tree that stops about four inch-
es below the ceiling to create
drama.
If you don’t want a live plant,
you can still add a botanical
element to the space. Shikunova
likes to “bring the outdoors in-
side.” One of her favorite holiday
tips for residents short on space
but not on holiday spirit: a
“Christmas tree vase.” Fill a tall
vase with pine leaves, pine cones
and branches and add decorative
embellishments.
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Is your car a disaster zone? It’s time to fix that — for good.
BY N ICOLE A NZIA
As a result of our fast-paced
lives, many people’s cars — espe-
cially parents’ cars — have turned
into something like a second
home. Many of us spend hours
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each day commuting or trans-
porting kids to activities, and
when you spend that much time
in your car, you need a lot of stuff.
I get it. You need hand wipes,
tissues, water bottles, plastic
utensils, cushions for pets, pens,
a stockpile of chargers, reading
glasses, sunglasses, snacks, pa-
pers, sunscreen, bug repellent,
first-aid kits and sports bags. And
so, just like at home, your car
needs to be regularly cleaned and
organized. A few minutes each
day or week will save you time in
the long run and go a long way
toward ensuring you have what
you need and are not distracted
while driving. Here are some
ideas.
Clear trash regularly
Make it a habit to take trash
from your car into your home
every day for disposal, and ask
your passengers do the same. Or
plan to remove all the trash from
your car every time you fill it up
with gas. Keep each door’s com-
partments clear of trash, and
remove cans and bottles for recy-
cling. You’ve heard it before:
Mess begets mess. Tidy up regu-
larly to avoid having to set aside a
significant amount of time for a
major cleanup.
It’s annoying to have food
wrappers and other trash on the
floor, but most people don’t have
a garbage can in their car. Buying
a designated receptacle for your
car is an easy fix, and there are a
lot of good, inexpensive options
available.
Get organized
Keep supplies such as hand
sanitizer, wipes, pens, pencils,
tissues, crayons and activity
books in a designated place.
Make sure they’re all easily acces-
sible to back-seat passengers so
you don’t have to help them find
what they need while you’re driv-
ing.
Over-the-seat organizers work
well for kids and can also be
easily accessed from the front of
the car, if necessary. Again, there
oRgAnIZIng
are a lot of good options avail-
able; just think through what you
want to put in the organizer
before making the purchase.
Some will hold a tablet in a clear
pouch for videos, while others are
great for water bottles, tissues
and other supplies. Some unzip
and fold down to make a little
desktop for kids.
Another option for storing
kids’ supplies — or just basic
supplies for a back-seat passen-
ger — is a simple, small bin with a
lid. Items such as crayons, sticker
books, juice boxes, snack packs
and toys can be stored in a clear
container that can be easily
brought in and out of the car and
restocked as necessary.
Lastly, there are some fancy
canvas organizers that can sit
between two kids on a back-seat
bench and are kept in place with a
seat belt. If you’re looking for
something more temporary and
easy to take in and out, one or two
regular canvas bins can also hold
snacks and supplies.
Compartmentalize the trunk
Unless you’re regularly hauling
large items around in your trunk,
keep a few bins in the back to
contain objects that are always in
your car — items such as reusable
shopping totes, a first-aid kit, a
blanket, a few water bottles and
snacks, and sports equipment. It
will save space to have these
items organized in bins, and you
won’t have random objects
strewn around your car or rolling
back and forth as you drive.
Again, a couple of basic bins will
work, but there are also storage
products designed for the trunk
of your car.
Clean consistently
Wipe surfaces and vacuum
your car regularly. Don’t wait
until your car floor is covered in
crushed pretzels or smells like a
dead animal to clean it. Keep
some wipes or a microfiber cloth
in your glove box for quick clean-
ings. If you have very young kids
and are constantly cleaning up
crushed food or dirt, you might
even consider a car vacuum. It’s
so much easier and less time-con-
suming to do a little cleaning here
and there, and you’ll also save
yourself from having to scurry
and clean if you have to transport
iStocK
a friend or family member at the
last minute. Plus, you won’t need
to do a major detailing when
you’re ready to sell your car or
your lease is up, because you will
have kept everything clean.
Taking care of your car not
only makes it more comfortable
for you and welcoming to your
passengers but also sets a good
example for your kids — they get
to see you taking care of a valu-
able possession. And although
many of us feel as though we live
in our cars, thank goodness they
have only one room to keep neat
and clean.
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Elle Decor editor Whitney Robinson on what’s next, what’s over
Whitney
Robinson,
editor in chief
of Elle Decor,
joined staff
writer Jura
Koncius last
week for our
Whitney Home Front
Robinson online chat.
Here is an
edited excerpt.
Q: Are dark colors still the “in
thing” for wall paint?
A: In a word: Yes! There was a
stigma around painting walls a
dark color for a long time. I
think it came out of the ’80s,
when rich reds and chocolate
browns ruled the day, and
people thought it made rooms
feel small. Dark colors actually
have the opposite effect in small
spaces, as we see in the
magazine all the time. We are
loving rich eggplants and
purples, teals and blues, and
bronzes and greens.
Q: What are your thoughts on
the longevity of subway tile?
A: Long live subway tile. It’s the
easiest, cleanest and most cost-
effective way to transform a
bathroom or kitchen. You can
use it in big (a whole room) or
small (a backsplash) ways, it
complements a variety of metal
accents (gold, nickel, brass,
etc.), and it’s coming in really
cool colors now. Our November
cover has a kitchen covered in
turquoise subway tiles from
wall to ceiling. It’s a WOW.
Q: We are building a house in
Florida and looking forward to
decorating with (tasteful)
coastal hues and themes.
Coastal never seems to go out of
style, but does it tend to change
with the trends?
A: I’m all about vernacular
design. That is to say, a coastal
house should “look” coastal,
just as a city apartment should
look “city” (no bamboo
armchairs in a Georgetown
townhouse, for instance). Palm
trees and pastel colors pulled
from the beach never go out of
style.
Q: What are the design trends
you think will be big in 2020?
A: The big trends in 2020 will
actually have nothing to do with
colors or styles in my opinion.
The big trend we are focusing at
Elle Decor has to do more with
how design makes you feel and
how it can improve your life:
make you richer (can painting a
wall a certain color make you
more productive, for instance),
Turquoise glass tiles cover this kitchen that was designed by
Steven Gambrel, who was featured on Elle Decor’s November cover.
make you smarter, make you
sleep better, make you happier.
There’s a term for it — universal
design — and we’re dedicating a
lot of column inches and space
on our website to the designers
and architects who are creating
a better future. My favorite
stories are about a deaf
architect who is reimagining
the sidewalk of the future and
the best home products for
people with a range of
disabilities.
Q: I have a midcentury modern
home and want to find some
appropriate furniture. I don’t
have the budget for high-quality
vintage pieces, but I also don’t
want to buy West Elm’s whole
midcentury modern line. Any
suggestions?
A: A flea market. Brimfield is
eriC PiaseCKi
still one of the best in the
country and worth the trip. Etsy
and eBay are also great
resources, and Design Within
Reach is good for re-editioned
classic pieces. Remember, when
a lot of midcentury furniture
was being mass-produced, it
was supposed to be priced for
everyone, not just for a select
few. So I think going the “new/
old” route is a good solution for
you. And remember the most
important thing: You don’t have
to buy everything at once.
Collecting quality pieces over
time is always a good idea.
Q: Please tell me these trends
are falling out of style: Mason
jars being used for everything
but canning; words on step
risers such as “We do
forgiveness,” “We are kind to
others” and so on; shiplap
boards inside the house; and
wooden word art on the walls
such as“Be Happy,” or “Live
Laugh Love.” What is new and
fresh?
A: I’m with you — no slogans on
the walls. Save it for the
classroom. And rooms that look
pulled straight from a catalogue
(no one is that organized). I do
think eventually all trends come
around, though (I’m living for
shag rug in winter, to be
honest). What’s new and fresh?
Decorating that is reflective of
you and your individual style.
Q: Our whole house is white
with white walls, beige carpets
and white trim. It’s all very nice
and warm and fresh, but I want
a dark, cozy bedroom. Any
specific color
recommendations? I was
thinking maybe a deep green.
We live in a forest and have
large windows.
A: Bring that forest in! Go into
the woods and pick the leaves
and color match a sample. I love
the idea of a green bedroom.
Really deep browns, burgundy
and ambers could be an
incredible accent.
Q: What are your thoughts on
faux interior brick as an accent
wall? We live in a rowhouse, so
it’s plausible that it was
original, but of course it would
not be. It seems as if the
materials have come a long way.
But would it be cheesy to add
this to our 15-year-old home?
A: I’m torn. I love the idea that
you want to add history to your
space and bring it in line with
the architecture of the
rowhouse. But in this case, I
would add texture with
wallpaper. There are so many
beautiful and historic patterns
that can add age and drama and
tell a story that aren’t faux
material.
Q: Do you think chintz is
coming back in a big way? Is
1980s design a thing again?
A: Chintz rooms aren’t my
personal aesthetic, but I was a
big fan of the late Mario Buatta,
and I have to say that a big
bouffanted flowery chintz’d
room puts a smile on my face. Is
’80s design a thing again? I
think ’80s everything is a thing
again. Excuse me while I lower
my Depeche Mode soundtrack
in my Reagan Red living room.
Q: Do you think the whole
decluttering organizing thing
will continue in a big way?
A: I have big respect for Marie
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Kondo, but I am an unabashed
maximalist and collector and
always will be. I think we’re
seeing a return to stuff, and I’m
all for it.
Q: We have a townhouse with
bones that are a bit more
traditional than our taste, so
we’re slowly making changes.
It’s a narrow space, and the
main floor has a single large
space with the living room and
dining area. The space is
divided visually, because the
dining space has a chair rail
and other molding, and there is
a column on the wall between
the two rooms. We’d like to take
all that down. Will we regret
taking away the delineation of
space?
A: How long do you intend to
live in the space? If it’s long-
term, make bold choices now.
You can always put up drywall if
you change your mind. Design
(even architecture) is not
permanent.
Q: My new-to-me house still has
its 1950s pink bathroom. What
kind of shower curtain should I
get to match? I’d like something
that it would originally have
had, but none of the “pink
bathroom” pictures I can find
online seem to have shower
curtains.
A: Please never change. There is
nothing better than your 1950s
pink tiled bathroom, and I love
that you love it. In this case, I
would go the clean white
shower curtain route as it
contrasts the best. Or you could
do black, which is more of the
era. Polka-dot would be
amazing and cheeky.
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Q: How has Instagram changed
the design world?
A: It’s not so much Instagram
for me as it is the camera
phone. I feel fundamentally as if
the camera phone has changed
the way we see the world
around us, in most cases in a
supersaturated color scheme,
through a 5 1/2-inch piece of
vertical glass. I see the rise of
maximalist design completely
as a result of the camera phone.
In the design industry, I think
Instagram has allowed more
people to call themselves
designers than should and
showcase a very narrow body of
work, and that’s disappointing.
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Paper receipts vs. digital copies: We weigh the pros and cons
BY L AURA D AILY
Like many soon-to-be empty-
nesters, Vered DeLeeuw and her
husband have been thinking
about downsizing. Surveying her
garage, DeLeeuw noticed boxes of
documents, pay stubs, bills, cred-
it card statements — 20 years
worth — and realized the harsh
truth: She was a paper pack rat.
Using a paper shredder, it took
her two months to trash every-
thing. “I don’t want to do this
again in 20 years,” she says.
“That’s why when a business asks
if I want to go paperless or receive
a receipt by email, I think, ‘Why
not?’ ”
There was a time when your
only checkout decision was paper
or plastic bag. Now, the question
is “paper or digital receipt?” We
must decide whether we want to
collect all the receipts we need —
for tax purposes, warranties, in-
surance benefits, mail-in rebates
and more — in paper or virtual
file folders. And we need to make
the same choice about bills and
all kinds of statements — credit
card, bank, investment and insur-
ance — as well as health records.
“The world is changing into an
expectation of convenience, what
I call ‘B-To-Me’ (business to me).
Thanks to technology, not only
can we bank through our smart-
phones, but receive bills and re-
ceipts digitally,” says Alice Frazi-
er, president and chief executive
of Bank of Charles Town in West
Virginia.
Digital bills, statements and
receipts alleviate the costs of han-
dling and processing for busi-
nesses. For customers, digital re-
ceipts save space and allow them
to quickly look things up. And
overall, digital bills, statements
and receipts are friendlier for the
environment, because they waste
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less money and require no physi-
cal delivery. The use of paper
receipts consumes more than
3 million trees, 9 billion gallons of
water and generates more than
4 billion pounds of carbon diox-
ide and 302 million pounds of
solid waste during production,
according to the 2019 report from
Green America, a nonprofit
group focused on environmental
issues related to consumerism.
Roberto Castaneda, program
director for Walden University’s
online master’s in finance degree,
says: “As we move into a digital
world, we will see more retailers,
medical offices, businesses and a
host of venues taking advantage
of digital processing of transac-
tions.”
Still, many of us grew up with
paper, and it’s hard to let go. You
shouldn’t beat yourself up if you
like paper, says Eileen Roth, co-
author of “Organizing For Dum-
mies.” “For bills that change
monthly, like credit cards, I like
the paper version to match to my
paper receipts from the store. I
could print a digital bill, but why
do I want to spend my ink, my
computer space and my time
when the company will mail me
the bill for free?”
Whether you prefer paper or
digital, you need an organization-
al system that works, especially
for receipts. Otherwise, you risk
turning your disorganized re-
ceipt-stuffed cardboard shoe box
into a digital one. Here’s a look at
both options.
Team Paper
Pros:
l Provides a sense of security
because the process has been in
place for a long time.
l Accurate paper trail at your
fingertips.
l No need for computer or
smartphone.
l Printed bill is a reminder
when bills are due.
l You’re more likely to look at
it.
Cons:
l Take up space.
l May make it difficult to find a
specific receipt.
l Receipt may deteriorate over
time.
l Not environmentally friendly.
l Slower response time be-
tween payment and confirmation
of receipt.
l Could get lost in the mail.
Tips for handling paper re-
ceipts, bills, statements:
Roth suggests a two-pronged
approach: one for bills and state-
ments (bank, brokerage, credit
card), and one for receipts. Label
one large plastic file folder “To
Pay” in which to sort all incoming
bills. Once a week, open this file.
Mark each bill with the date paid.
Sort paid bills into paper file
folders labeled by category, such
as utilities, insurance, medical,
donations and warranties. Place
statements in appropriately la-
beled folders for future reference.
For your receipts, buy a 12-
month check file folder. This is
where you will temporarily store
all your small paper receipts. Sort
by categories such as groceries,
restaurants, office, gasoline,
hardware stores, hobby/craft.
Each month, when your credit
card statement arrives, match the
receipts to your statement. After
matching, you can pitch grocery,
restaurant, carwash, gasoline
and similar receipts. Pull out any
receipt for warranties and place it
into the appropriate folder. Sta-
ple the remaining receipts to your
credit card statement. After a
year, shred or destroy the state-
ment and attached receipts.
You can toss warranties when
you no longer have the product or
the warranty expires. Hang onto
bank statements for one year
until you file your taxes. However,
says Roth, if you have no write-
offs, there is no need to keep them
more than two months once you
have balanced your statements.
Castaneda advises keeping in-
vestment and brokerage state-
ments until six years after you’ve
sold your stocks or bonds. Like-
wise, retain physical receipts of
the purchase of your home and
remodeling costs for, at mini-
mum, six years after selling your
IStocK
home and filing your taxes.
Though Castaneda prefers dig-
ital records, he does print and
store tax return documents in a
large envelope marked “Tax Re-
turn” and the year. “Many organi-
zations provide digital copies of
tax documents such as W-2s, bro-
kerage and mortgage statements,
and real estate taxes, which I also
print and store in my tax return
file,” he says. “Keeping tax docu-
ments in one folder eliminates
the hassle of trying to gather
them later if the IRS calls.”
Team Digital
Pros:
l Reduces clutter.
l Eliminates the need for
shredding.
l Environmentally friendly.
l Searchable from your com-
puter
l Can file and store receipts in
multiple categories.
l Can confirm your payment
was submitted properly and re-
ceived on time.
l Access from anywhere.
Cons:
l Easier to overlook or miss a
bill payment.
l Requires general technology
skills.
l Often requires signing into a
website to view.
l May require a scanner to digi-
tize receipts.
l Risks someone compromis-
ing your data.
l Could lose data in case of a
computer crash, unless you store
your data in the cloud.
l May require an online storage
service or external hard drive
large enough to hold your data.
Tips for handling digital re-
ceipts, bills statements:
Robert Berger, deputy editor of
Forbes Money Advisor and au-
thor of “Retire Before Mom and
Dad,” figured converting from
paper to digital was as simple as
buying a scanner to digitize his
receipts and bills, giving each a
unique name, then putting them
all into an online folder. “Because
I was selling my house and mov-
ing into a new one, I became
super-focused on decluttering
and finding an organizational
method that worked,” he says.
What sounded good in theory
didn’t pan out. “My paper mess
became a digital mess,” he says.
His solution: Create an online
filing system involving Dropbox
for storage and several Google
docs organized by topic, such as
“house” or “medical.” Invoices,
receipts for large purchases and
bills that come as attachments
instead of embedded within an
email get scanned and converted
to a PDF, as do any important
paper receipts such as his home
inspection and deed. Either the
email or PDF is saved to Dropbox.
A link for each is copied and
pasted into the appropriate
Google doc.
“I can see every service call for
home repairs by looking at one
master document. If I need the
receipt, it’s one click away,” says
Berger, who adds that you can
even give your master document
with embedded links to receipts
and statements to your accoun-
tant come tax season. There’s no
need to send credit card state-
ments or similar documentation
unless your tax preparer asks for
it.
For those who prefer what
Frazier calls “a virtual file cabi-
net,” consider downloading state-
ments and/or investment reports
to your online storage. Categorize
them into labeled folders such as
“retirement” or “Visa card.” An-
other option is to use a free online
financial management tool — for
example, Mint, which can auto-
matically connect to and import
your financial data, including
credit cards, bank and retirement
accounts, into one easily accessi-
ble place.
DeLeeuw’s two-month shred-
ding slog was worth it. Now she
stores all her bills and receipts on
an external hard drive in folders
sorted by topic and year. “It was
amazingly scary to shred all that
paper,” she says, “but once I got
started I realized, ‘Who needs a
20-year-old utility bill?’ ”
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What you need to know before hiring a carpet-cleaning company
BY K EVIN B RASLER
Washington Consumers’
Checkbook
Your halls are fully decked and
full of holiday guests. Fireside
hot cocoa in the hands of young
children. A feast with all the
trimmings (and red wine in
klutzy Aunt Shirley’s glass). In-
delible memories and seemingly
indelible stains on your new
carpet.
Whether you’ve got food or
beverage residue, muddy foot-
prints, pet stains, or just overall
dinginess, a good cleaning can
make carpets and rugs look new,
help them last longer and even
improve indoor air quality. When
it’s time to call in the pros
(ideally once you’ve wrapped all
your holiday hosting duties),
you’ll want to look carefully for
an outfit with a reputation for
doing good work at a fair price.
Washington Consumers’
Checkbook’s ratings of local car-
pet and rug cleaners reveal big
differences in the work compa-
nies do and how much they
charge. The highest-rated com-
panies in Checkbook’s compari-
sons were more than twice as
likely as the lowest-rated compa-
nies to get positive reviews from
their customers for survey ques-
tions on “doing work properly,”
“neatness” and “overall quality.”
Until Jan. 25, Washington Post
readers can get free access to
Checkbook’s ratings of local car-
pet-cleaning services on Check-
book’s website (checkbook.org/
washingtonpost/car-
petandrugs).
The company you hire will
determine how good your car-
pets and rugs look afterward —
and how long they stay that way.
With the least-competent com-
panies, you risk permanent dam-
age from over-wetting, improper
or poorly mixed chemicals, im-
proper brushing, and other shod-
dy practices.
Before hiring a cleaning com-
pany, ask about its methods. For
carpet, you’re usually best off
hiring a company that offers
hot-water extraction with truck-
mounted equipment. Rugs
should be cleaned outside your
home. Most companies advertise
that they “hand-wash” rugs, but
that’s just a generic term. Look
for one that hand-washes using
an “immersion” method. And
know that a lot of cleaners take
in rugs but don’t actually per-
form the work themselves; in-
stead, they send them to special-
ized cleaners. If possible, deal
directly with the company that
does the work.
Be sure to compare prices. If
you can provide accurate mea-
surements and descriptions,
most carpet and rug cleaners will
quote prices over the phone or
via email. Checkbook’s ratings of
local cleaners include pricing
details, collected by Checkbook’s
undercover shoppers, who found
some carpet and rug cleaners
charge a lot more than their
competitors for the same work.
For a sample 460-square-foot
medium-color, low-pile area rug,
prices for hot-water-extraction
cleaning ranged from $106 to
$414. For in-plant cleaning of an
8-by-10-foot, all-wool, hand-
knotted Oriental rug, including
pickup and delivery, prices
ranged from $80 to $600.
Paying less doesn’t mean
you’ll get shoddy work. Check-
book found that some of the
companies that received the
highest customer ratings for the
quality of their work also charge
lower-than-average fees.
For in-home carpet cleaning,
be wary of prices quoted by room
or “area,” as opposed to by square
IStocK
foot. Companies may envision
Don’t pay until you more rooms in your house than
you do — two separate rooms in
check the work. If you what you consider one L-shaped
room, for example. And don’t
aren’t satisfied with the overpay for add-ons such as soil
retardants and deodorants. The
finished job, explain add-ons can dramatically in-
crease the price with some com-
that you won’t pay until panies but cost little or nothing
with others. What the extra treat-
the work is done right. ments actually do and how effec-
tive they are also vary from
If you later discover company to company.
Ask for a written guarantee
spots or other problems, that the company will at least
redo the job if you find it unsatis-
speak up immediately. factory. Most carpet and rug
cleaning outfits provide guaran-
The longer you wait, the tees, but what they promise var-
ies. Give companies credit if they
more likely the talk candidly about their limita-
tions before they begin the work.
company is to suspect Some types of stains are extreme-
ly difficult or even impossible to
that the spot is new. remove once they have set, and
companies may not know wheth-
er they can remove them until
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they try.
Before work starts, be sure to
point out stains and tell workers
what caused them. For carpet
cleanings, remove or raise hang-
ing objects that might be
bumped by cleaning personnel,
who generally walk backward as
they work. Remove prized valu-
ables; cleaning personnel will
generally move such items for
you — but not necessarily with
the care you desire. To avoid
surprises, get in writing the total
cost of the job before service
begins.
Don’t pay until you check the
work. If you aren’t satisfied with
the finished job, explain that you
will not pay until the work is
done right. If you later discover
spots or other problems, speak
up immediately. The longer you
wait, the more likely the compa-
ny is to suspect that the spot is
new.
DIY stain advice
Stains can ruin a carpet, but if
you act quickly you can avoid
disaster.
l Immediately blot spills using
a clean white absorbent materi-
al.
l Pretest spot-removal agents.
Put a few drops of solution on
each color in the carpet. Then,
using white absorbent material,
hold it against each color, count
to 10, and examine the results. If
the dye has bled into the absor-
bent material, or if there has
been a change in the colored
area, call a professional.
l Don’t over-wet. Work with
small amounts of solution.
l Don’t rub or brush. Excessive
agitation may cause distortion.
l Work from the outer edge
toward the center of the stain.
l Be patient; some stains re-
spond slowly.
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l Remember, haphazard at-
tempts at spot removal may pro-
duce indelible stains and/or per-
manently damage fabrics. If you
have doubts, seek professional
advice.
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consumers get the best service
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checkbook’s ratings and advice
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Parallel efforts are close to reviving the American chestnut tree
It is hard to
overstate the
value and cultural
importance of the
American
chestnut tree for
Adrian those who came
Higgins before us.
GARDENING The native
hardwood was
once so
ubiquitous, it has been said, that
a squirrel could travel from
Maine to Georgia in the chestnut
canopy. The largest trees,
spreading 100 feet or more,
dropped 10 bushels of nuts, and
in the fall the ground was covered
with a nut blanket four inches
deep, writes sociologist Donald E.
Davis in a 2005 paper.
The bears and turkeys feasted,
the farmer’s hogs feasted, and the
people who lived in chestnut
territory feasted — on that
sweetened Appalachian ham but
also on the economic value of the
trees and their nuts. The
chestnut’s arrow-straight timber
was valued for its size and rot
resistance and today endures in
the posts and beams of old
farmhouses and barns.
For us city folk, the chestnut
evokes everything that is
nostalgic about yuletide season,
the notion of a vendor plying hot
roasted chestnuts on a street
corner. The aroma, the warmth in
the hand, the nutty flavor all
conjure one of the more cuddly
images of a Dickensian world.
Today, this diminished holiday
custom is carried on with nuts
from Asia and Europe, which are
bigger but less sweet.
The American chestnut was
killed off by the arrival of a blight
in 1904 that within a few decades
had virtually wiped out an entire,
dominant species. In modern
parlance the fungus,
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Cryphonectria parasitica, went
viral.
This environmental
catastrophe is widely known. Not
so broadly understood is that we
are closer than ever to returning
the American chestnut to its old
haunts — or something akin to it.
This resurrection has been
several decades in the making
and has taken two parallel tracks.
The first is in the slow,
methodical work of traditional
hybridization, attempting with
each successive generation a tree
that will be naturally resistant to
the fungus. This has been led by
the American Chestnut
Foundation, based in Asheville,
N.C. The second is by way of
genetic modification, undertaken
by scientists at the State
University of New York in
In western North Carolina, an American chestnut tree hangs on. Survivors have been part of breeding
efforts to return the noble tree to Appalachia. Hybridizers are also using genetic engineering.
partnership with the foundation.
In a world wary of organism-
mixing in the lab, this has proved
more controversial.
The conventional breeding
began by crossing the blight-
tolerant Chinese chestnut with
some surviving American
chestnut individuals that had
proved resistant to the fungus, if
only to die back to the roots after
reaching nut-bearing age.
The foundation was created in
1983 by plant scientists and
others who saw the potential of
systematic development of a
blight-resistant tree through a
series of “backcrosses” in which
successive generations of
American-Chinese hybrids could
be bred with resistant American
chestnuts. Once these crosses
produced trees that were
carrying chiefly the American
chestnut genome — as much as
90 percent — they were crossed
with each other. The challenge
has been to select seedlings with
enough Chinese blood in them to
ward off the disease and yet still
look like the American chestnut.
At maturity, the American tree is
tall and spreading with a thick,
straight trunk. The Chinese
species is shorter and more
branching.
Most of this work goes on at a
research station in southwest
Virginia named Meadowview
GreAt smoKy mountAIns nAtIonAl PArK
Giant chestnuts soon
succumbed to the blight,
discovered in 1904. The family
of James and Caroline Shelton
pose by a dead tree in Tremont
Falls, Tenn., circa. 1920.
Research Farms. The foundation
is supported by 5,000 members
and chapters in 16 states.
Jared Westbrook, the
foundation’s science director,
said that of 60,000 seedlings
planted and evaluated, 4,000
have made the cut so far. That
number will be reduced to 2,000
in the coming months, and a final
cut will leave 600 trees by 2021 as
the culmination of the breeding
program. These will be used to re-
AmerIcAn cHestnut FoundAtIon
populate the Appalachian forest
— though earlier-generation trees
produced at Meadowview have
already been planted on 40
private, state and national sites in
the chestnut’s historical range.
Westbrook is using a technique
called genomic selection to pick
the finalists — by analyzing their
DNA he can identify individuals
with the desired traits.
This is not to be confused with
genetic modification, which is the
tack employed by William Powell
and his colleagues at SUNY’s
College of Environmental Science
and Forestry. They have used a
wheat gene to counter the effects
of the disease and have asked the
Agriculture Department to sign
off on its release. Also, Powell
said, the Environmental
Protection Agency will decide
whether the antifungal
properties constitute a fungicide,
which would require pesticide
registration. In addition, the
Food and Drug Administration
will determine whether the nuts
are safe to eat.
The foundation is working
with the researchers. “If it gets
through the review process, the
American Chestnut Foundation
would breed that gene into a
diverse population,” Westbrook
said. “We are using all the tools
available to us.”
The genetically engineered or
Tip of the Week
A poinsettia should be watered
until the pot drains and then left
until the soil surface is dry to the
touch. overwatering will kill it.
remove decorative foil to ease
watering. Keep plants near a bright
window away from drafts and heat
sources.
— Adrian Higgins
transgenic chestnut is facing
opposition from an alliance of
environmental groups named
StopGEtrees, which claims its
release into the wild would be “a
massive and irreversible
experiment” and pave the way for
other forest tree species to be
genetically engineered and
released.
“This would be the first one to
be released into nature,” said
Rachel Smolker, co-author of a
report critical of the plan. The
restoration of the American
chestnut is such an appealing
idea that the proponents of
genetic engineering are using it
to win acceptance of the broader
biotechnology, she says. “It’s
about winning public support for
genetically engineered trees,
which has met with tremendous
public resistance,” she said. “It’s a
very deliberate strategy. A tree
engineered for biofuels doesn’t
win over the public in the same
way.”
Powell says the bacterium he
used to carry the wheat gene into
the chestnut chromosome is
already found, naturally, in the
DNA of some tree species,
including the walnut. “Walnut is
a natural GMO,” he said.
The biotechnology “can be
applied to other trees,” he says.
“But it’s a good thing, it can save
more trees.”
This fall, residents of the Lyon
Park neighborhood of Arlington
County gathered in their
community park to plant two
non-transgenic saplings from the
chestnut foundation to mark
Lyon Park’s centennial. They are
just a few inches tall, but they are
latent giants. “We are protecting
them and doing the best we can,”
said resident Gray Handley. A
hundred years after the demise of
the American chestnut, there is
hope that future generations will
witness something denied ours,
the return of the big old
American chestnut.
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Happiness in your 50s doesn’t have to mean the end of ambition
BY J OHN B RILEY

A couple of years ago, my

relationship with work started
shifting. For 25 years as a writer
and editor, I had run the rapids of
Washington’s river of ambition,
always seeking the next chal-
lenge, the next triumph. If I
wasn’t under a deadline or bow-
ing to a self-imposed task list, I
didn’t feel whole. I assumed that
the ambient unease this brought
was what experts call “good
stress.”
But then I started finding my-
self bobbing in an unfamiliar
eddy: contentment with my sta-
tion in life. I was a healthy
50-year-old with a wife, two kids
in elementary school, aging but
remarkably spry parents and a
deep community of friends. It hit
me: Perhaps I should enjoy this
setup while it lasts.
I began noticing changes, most
of which seemed to be happening
without purpose or intention on
my part. I became more selective
in pursuing freelance writing
gigs and less anxious about how
they would turn out (like many
creative types, self-doubt has
been a loyal wingman through-
out my career). I started shrug-
ging instead of stressing if my
kids were late for school, and I
began engaging wholly with my
family after work instead of
opening a computer to peck dis-
ISTocK
tractedly at a lingering task. The
work, the obligations, the annoy-
ances of daily life persisted, but
— lo and behold — they didn’t professor of psychology, econom- tivity. “When I was younger, I felt harm than good. “My younger Langer offers another example
gnaw at me like they once had. ics, and health policy and man- each journal article I published colleagues are so anxious all the of how the happiness continuum
Turns out a host of studies had agement at the University of would make a big difference. time, and that gets in the way of can liberate us, one she hopes
predicted this shift to a T — or, Southern California. He adds Now I realize it doesn’t matter. If their work and their happiness,” will help show younger folks that
more precisely, to a U, the shape that these realizations tend to I write fewer now, it’s not because Lyubomirsky says. their elders aren’t necessarily
of the average American adult- leave people with smaller but I don’t care; it’s because my I ask her why people get better losing it, and in fact are much
hood happiness curve: In gener- more enriching social circles, a values have changed.” Langer at shedding those anxieties as further along in getting it. “When
al, we tend to start our grown-up predilection toward happiness acknowledges that publishing they age. For example, I say, I can you’re a young woman wearing
years feeling pretty good, experi- over hassle and a higher likeli- was important earlier in her go out and enjoy a 45-minute run pantyhose and they rip, you im-
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ence a steady drop in self-per-
ceived well-being until around
age 50, then rebound until hit-
ting peak happiness somewhere
around age 65 to 72. The curve is
not universal — data from eco-
nomically struggling countries,
for example, don’t show the hap-
piness rebound. But a 2012 study
of 508 chimpanzees and orang-
utans found that they, too, experi-
ence the up-down-up pattern.
I wondered whether my new-
found contentedness signaled an
irreversible slide toward the sun-
set of my career. (If so, will I
care?) And why does it happen? I
turned to some experts for their
insights.
“This is about realizing that
we’re going to die one day and
being more selective in who we
spend time with [and] fully ac-
cepting that we’ll never achieve
many things,” says Arthur Stone,
hood of general contentment.
Far from signaling the death of
ambition, however, the calm we
gain with age can make future
achievement more possible, ac-
cording to psychologist Ellen
Langer. Our newfound equilibri-
um stems from experience and
knowing that most things will
turn out okay, says the Harvard
University professor and author
of “Mindfulness.”
“I was recently playing tennis
against two younger boys who
lacked wisdom of the game,” she
says. “They hit better than me
and were faster but, as an older
person, I have a sense of where
the ball is going to go so I don’t
have to race all over the place,”
says Langer, who is 72. “Wisdom
changes the game.”
She adds that it’s often perfect-
ly acceptable for older workers to
intentionally lower their produc-
career, and she doesn’t regret the
time or effort she spent pursuing
it.
Sonja Lyubomirsky, a psychol-
ogy professor at the University of
California at Riverside, and au-
thor of “The How of Happiness,”
doesn’t believe our 50s bring a
natural drop in ambition. “That’s
the peak of your career. I remem-
ber dreading turning 50, and a
friend said to me, ‘Sonja, 50 is
when you own it! People are
running the world in their 50s.’ ”
Um, other people, maybe, but
point taken. Perhaps sensing my
sudden drop in hedonic well-be-
ing, Lyubomirsky quickly adds,
“But if you’re slowing down at
work and feel good about it, that’s
great. You’re making the deci-
sions that make you happy.”
She echoes Langer’s point
about clarity and shedding anxi-
eties that almost always do more
at lunchtime even though I know
I have a mountain of work wait-
ing for me, something I couldn’t
achieve a decade ago.
It’s partly physiological, Ly-
ubomirsky says, citing the find-
ings of a 2006 study published in
the Journal of Neuroscience (ti-
tled “The Mellow Years?”), in
which researchers conducted
brain imaging on 242 healthy
individuals. The scans showed
that younger brains were more
attuned to fear and less to happi-
ness, and the reverse was true in
older subjects. Basically, as we
age, we suppress reactions to
negative stimulation — particu-
larly threats — while letting posi-
tive responses flow without re-
straint. As Lyubomirsky puts it:
“Positive emotions can neutralize
negative ones. It’s hard to be
bitter and angry at the same time
you’re happy.”
mediately worry about being
negatively evaluated. As you get
older, you realize that the people
who care about you aren’t going
to stop caring because of your
pantyhose, and that anyone who
is going to judge you doesn’t
matter.”
It’s not a situation I’m familiar
with, but I understand what she’s
getting at. And after talking with
Langer, Stone and Lyubomirsky,
I’ve concluded that my recent
ascent toward Zen doesn’t mean
my career’s over. In fact, I think it
means something better. In my
50s and beyond, I can be happier
in my work — and in everything
else.
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Sheet masks are everywhere. But are they worth the hype?
BY E LIZABETH K IEFER
With cold weather and holi-
day-party makeup wreaking hav-
oc on complexions, revelers
might find themselves reaching
for sheet masks to soothe their
skin and provide a bit of relax-
ation. The face-shaped, serum-
soaked sheets — which typically
come one to a pouch and promise
hydration, exfoliation or detoxifi-
cation, among other benefits —
have exploded in popularity,
linked to a rising interest in
Korean beauty products and to
Instagram postings.
“A sheet mask has become an
important element of the self-
care ritual,” says Larissa Jensen, a
beauty industry analyst at mar-
ket research firm NPD Group
who confirmed that, within the
prestige category, skin-care face
masks have nearly doubled in
volume over the past five years,
reaching $205 in million sales in
2019.
Along the way, they have also
turned into a mainstay within
various avenues of wellness cul-
ture: Once the purview of high-
end and luxury lines and Asian
markets, these products now reg-
ularly turn up in the checkout
aisles of Old Navy and Walmart.
“It used to be more unique,”
Jensen adds. “Now you can buy
them anywhere.”
Ubiquity aside, it’s not clear
whether they deliver on the hype.
Sheet masks haven’t been the
subject of much medical re-
search, and dermatologists see
limited benefit.
“The ingredients that are in a
sheet mask are often very similar
to those in a cleanser, toner,
serum or moisturizer,” says der-
matologist Arash Akhavan,
founder of the Dermatology and
Laser Group in Manhattan. As
with those products, a sheet mask
can have an obvious effect on the
appearance of your skin.
For example, a mask contain-
ing hyaluronic acid, which draws
in moisture, is anti-inflammatory
and can diminish the look of fine
lines and leave your visage with a
glow. The effects, however, are
ephemeral. “[Your skin] is hy-
drated so it appears better, but
that’s a short-lived improvement
that will fade with time as your
skin goes back to its more natural
hydration state,” Akhavan says.
In other words: Sheet masks
with moisturizing ingredients
are like a drink of water for your
skin. A glass now doesn’t mean
you won’t be thirsty again later.
Collagen will also supply that
instant boost, if only temporarily.
The protein, which provides
structure to skin and connective
tissue within our bodies, is anoth-
er trending ingredient in the
beauty and wellness landscape.
Though there are short-term,
skin-deep benefits with sheet
masks that incorporate collagen,
they don’t aggregate over time.
“I would say, whether it’s
topical or oral, the benefits [of
collagen] are zero,” says Akhavan,
although he has patients who
“swear by it.” “You can’t apply
collagen to your face and have it
incorporated into your actual col-
lagen below the skin, or take oral
collagen and have it somehow
work itself into the collagen in
your body,” the dermatologist
says. “There’s nothing actually
changing in the chemical or mo-
lecular structure of your skin.”
Graceanne Svendsen, a celebri-
ty facialist at Shafer Plastic Sur-
gery, says consistency and quality
are key for getting the most out of
sheet masks — as is choosing one
that addresses your specific
needs. Svendsen often sees her
patients reaching for a mask
that’s drying when they actually
need hydration. “Acne patients in
particular are guilty of over-
cleansing, over-stripping, over-
drying their skin,” she says. “That
can compromise that moisture
barrier and microbiome, which
are really important for skin pro-
tection.” In practical application,
that means not applying a purify-
ing or oil-absorbing mask when
your skin is parched.
It also means not overdoing it
in general. “Less is more,” Akha-
van says. “If you have a 12-step
regimen, you’re opening yourself
up to potential irritation, allergic
reactions, blemishes from con-
gestion.”
Price also doesn’t necessarily
equal a better outcome. “I don’t
think you necessarily need to get
the most expensive one because
it’s going to be better — that’s not
true of any skin-care category.
You just have to find out what
works for you,” Akhavan says. He
prefers products that prioritize
natural ingredients and recom-
mends steering clear of parabens
(preservatives that can be found
in a variety of topical products
and can have an estrogen-like
effect on the body).
Fancy versions aside, sheet
masks in general are hardly cost-
effective. You may see a similar
benefit from wearing a mask for
10 minutes as you would from a
good serum. But sheet masks are
thrown out after every use, while
you may get 60 applications out
of a bottle.
“The short time a mask is on
your face is really not enough
time to have key active ingredi-
ents penetrate,” Akhavan says. “Is
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it any different than applying it
with a serum or a moisturizer?
It’s not.”
There’s also the question of
sustainability. Eventually, sheet
masks may be subject to the same
line of questioning that revealed
flushable wipes to be an environ-
mental problem. “Consumers are
going to start wondering: Can I
recycle this material? Is it biode-
gradable? Could I compost it?”
says David Tyrrell, a global skin-
care analyst at market research
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firm Mintel as well as a biochem-
ist by training. “All those ques-
tions will be asked and more, and
some of the larger brands are
already putting it out there,” Tyr-
rell says. “The key would be cost
acceptability.”
The bottom line is that sheet
masks can provide a temporary
boost — but at a greater financial
and environmental cost than se-
rums. “A mask periodically, if you
find it relaxing or you’re prepar-
ing for an event where you want
to look super hydrated and
plump? Go for it,” Akhavan says.
“But it’s not a necessary step in
anyone’s routine.”
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BY M EGHAN L EAHY

There is so much going on —

so many events, so many pres-
ents to gather, so many activities
to join. Class parties, winter con-
certs. We’ve got complicated
families and countless issues
that pop up as we attempt to
come together.
So we invited parents to chat
about it. Here is an edited ex-
cerpt from that discussion.
Q: My toddler switches between
his dad’s house and my place for
Christmas. I suggested we have
Santa visit one (alternating)
house so there’s not an
exorbitant amount of gifts, but
the suggestion was ignored. I
want to keep Christmas gifts
low-key, especially knowing
Dad’s is going to be an explosion
of presents. But it does bother
me that at some point, my son
might prefer Christmas at Dad’s
simply because there are more
and bigger gifts. It’s already
headed in that direction after his
second birthday, when Dad
spent a lot on a child’s car. He
also kept the house, so I’m
worrying about my son not
wanting to stay with me at some
point because I have only a small
apartment. I guess this is an
overarching theme: Dad has a
lot, and I don’t. How do I stop
worrying about losing my son in
a war of materialism?
A: How about giving yourself the
gift of waving the white flag? You
have lost. Dad has won the war
of materialism. Good for him.
Now that you have left the
battle, you are free to cultivate
memories and traditions that
actually mean something. Oh,
sure, I remember coming
downstairs and getting that
Barbie house. But what I really
remember is sticky buns and
staying in PJs and feeling warm
and safe. The toys fell to the side.
You have less of what you
It’s the most stressful time of the year.
Here’s how parents can get through it.
planning aren’t working, try
more specific language: “I am
taking Roger and Michelle ice
skating on Saturday, and in the
interest of not burning them out,
could you do a movie on
Sunday?” Maybe your co-parent
doesn’t get it, but keep trying.
If your co-parent is set on
burning the kids out, it falls to
you to be responsible and plan
some other stuff. Can activities
be spaced differently?
Shortened? Can you swap out
something busy for something
quieter? There are tons of ways
to have fun with your children
Life is too short
to spend time with people
who don’t respect your
boundaries and, most
importantly, don’t care
about what the children
are subjected to.
different from ours, and it tends exit the situation when you feel
to be a part of pretty much all someone is emotionally or
their discussions. It would be physically abusing your
exhausting to be around them boundaries — pushing you
even if we were on the same side. without any regard for, well, you.
Now we have young children (6 If you are using words such as
and 9) who will no doubt listen “indoctrinate,” my flags go up.
and ask questions. I am certain You raising your children to be
the extended family will use this open-minded does not mean you
as an opportunity to try to subject them to bullies who
indoctrinate our kids. The thing refuse to see children for what
is, I actually want our kids to be they are: children.
able to listen to other people’s It is out of line. Period.
views and make up their own So, I would call Aunt Sue
minds, but I’m not eager to (don’t email) and say, “We are
devote an entire holiday to this. looking forward to this break. I
What are some good ways to talk am not allowing my children to
change his behavior.
Thanksgiving was a nightmare.
How do I tactfully bring this up?
It’s gone on too long.
A: When I read there was
chocolate ground into a rug, my
jaw dropped. How old is this
child? If he is 3, that’s one thing.
If he is 9, that’s another.
And does he have any needs
that aren’t being met with
proper supervision?
Let your sister know that
there was some “rudeness and
food messiness” over
Thanksgiving and that you are
going to sit everyone down for
some rules. That means all the
kids get the rules, and when the
rules are broken, there is a
consequence for all of them.
I am trying to help you avoid
lasering in on your nephew.
Being called out as the problem
doesn’t tend to go well, so make
“rules for all” and let your sister
know that if he cannot abide, he
will have to stay by her side all
night.
These boundaries may not go
over well, but give it a try. Be as
kind and firm as possible.
Oh, and roll up your rugs, and
don’t give the kids any food
except for in one room — and
monitor it.
Q: My kids (7 and 9) have two
weeks of Christmas break
coming, and it’s creeping up on
me fast! I’m lucky because I will
be able to work from home
during that time, and I will have
days off for Christmas Day, New
Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day,
along with the weekends. But
what can I do to make sure my
kids don’t turn into glassy-eyed
TV monsters? I want to plan
activities, but I know realistically
that I’m going to be pretty busy
and unable to directly be
involved with them all day. Any
ideas?
A: 1. Google activity ideas and
get the supplies sent to your

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think your son wants, but you
have an abundance of what he
needs: you.
Don’t play this losing game.
Focus on what you can do. And
celebrate all that stuff he gets at
his Dad’s house; invite him to
bring it over. It will never hold a
candle to love and connection.
Q: What is your advice for co-
parenting through the holidays?
I feel as if both parents want to
enjoy all of the experiences, and
the kids end up exhausted and
overstimulated. Conversations
and planning with the other
parent don’t seem to work.
A: The fact that you are aware
and care is a win. Some parents
cannot get out of their own way,
and I get it! There is time off,
and everyone wants to have fun
and make it special.
But.
If communication and
while bonding and not tiring
them out — baking, making
slime, old-school card and board
games, video game competitions
and more.
If you are angry about this, I
get it. It feels unfair. But trust
that your children will get older,
and you may be able to push the
boundaries a little bit more (in
terms of activities). In the
meantime, remember:
1. It is more important for you
to co-parent lovingly. (This has a
huge impact on your children.)
2. These quiet activities count
as connection, fun and good
memories.
3. Think outside the box about
when you can do the more
energetic activities (i.e. not just
on Christmas break).
Q: We are spending the holidays
with my husband’s extended
family, whose politics are quite
about differences in politics in
an age-appropriate way? Do we
disagree with “Aunt Sue” about
immigration to her face? Or
discuss it later?
A: Families are breaking up
because of politics in this
country. Father and son, mother
and daughter, entire branches of
families are being cut off due to
our inability to listen to each
other and find a middle ground
(what that middle ground is, I
don’t know).
I want, with all my parent-
coach heart, for families to stay
together.
This makes me think of the
broadcast I was listening to the
other day on NPR. Brené Brown
was talking about how hard it is
to stay in a conversation with
others we disagree with, and
how much courage it requires.
She mentioned that you can
civilly and strongly disagree and
be a part of political discussions;
we are focusing on gratitude and
family. If it comes up and the
boundaries are disrespected, we
will leave.”
And have a hotel ready.
You could also consider either
going for a day or simply not
going at all.
Life is too short to spend time
with people who don’t respect
your boundaries and, most
importantly, don’t care about
what the children are subjected
to.
Q: My sister’s son is extremely
disrespectful in my home. He
walks on furniture, throws food,
grinds chocolate into rugs, and is
fresh, rude and mean to my kids.
I discipline as best as I can for
someone else’s child (i.e., “if we
don’t like the candy, we throw it
in the trash, not the floor or
carpet”). But it does nothing to
house, stat.
2. Create play dates with
friends and neighbors.
3. Can they stay with some
family for a night or two?
4. Figure out your own
schedule so you can make proper
plans. For instance, everyone
goes to an indoor pool all
morning and plays video games
while you work in the afternoon,
etc.
5. Make a list of movies that
they want to see, and get
through them!
6. Do the best you can, and
don’t feel guilty.
 Also at washingtonpost.com
Read the transcript of a recent live
Q&A with Leahy at
washingtonpost.com/advice, where
you can also find past columns. Her
next chat is scheduled for Jan. 8.
 Send questions about parenting
to meghan@mlparentcoach.com.
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