The Indiana Gazette, Aug. 20, 2016

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Manafort out amid scrutiny

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By JEFF HORWITZ and CHAD DAY Associated Press

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MATT SHUPE, left, and Seth Brown helped set up for the Back-to-School Bash held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Calvary Presbyterian Church in Indiana. More than 500 children were signed up to receive free backpacks, school supplies, haircuts and more. School begins for some local students next week. Shupe, 12, is the son of Christina Coleman, of White Township, and Brown, 12, is the son of Teresa and Chester Brown, of Shelocta.

IUP making preparations for start of academic year IUP News Service A host of programming is planned to mark the start of the academic year at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and to welcome new students into the community. Activity on campus is ongoing in preparation for the move-in of new students next week from Thursday to Sunday, and for continuing students on Sunday. The first day of class for

the fall semester is Aug. 29. On Friday at 9 a.m., IUP president Michael Driscoll will preside over the “Opening of the Academic Year: 201617,” in the IUP Performing Arts Center’s Fisher Auditorium. The program is open to the community. The day’s events continue with an IUP Picnic in the Oak Grove from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Picnickers may purchase food from Aramark in the Oak Grove or bring their own lunch. Cost

Machinery firm set to close doors By The Indiana Gazette A company in White Township that provides an array of products and services for a number of industries has laid off most of its workforce and will close for good by the end of October, according to local economic development leaders. Morgantown Machine and Hydraulics, 771 Indian Springs Road, let go about two dozen employees Thursday and just five remain for now. Two employees who contacted the Gazette this week said they had no notice of the layoffs. County officials said they also were not notified about the decision.

By MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press

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USAIN BOLT anchored the 4x100-meter relay for the winning Jamaican team on Friday. The win gives Bolt three gold medals at the Olympics in Rio and nine total in the last three Olympiads. Story on Page 13.

PAGE 3 • U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte apologized Friday for his behavior surrounding an incident at a Rio gas station.

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday ordered Hillary Clinton to answer questions in writing from a conservative legal advocacy group about her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan issued the order as part of a long-running public records lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch. The judge’s decision is only a partial victory for the group, which had sought to question the Democratic presidential nomi-

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TRENNEY, Anthony James, 88, Blairsville

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PAGE 7 • Donald Trump visited flood-ravaged Louisiana on Friday.

Clinton ordered to give answers

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When contacted Friday, Connor Tobin, vice president of human resources for Swanson, declined comment and would not even confirm that the plant was closed. The local company is owned by Swanson Industries, based in Morgantown, W.Va., which services industries dealing with hydraulics, mining, offhighway and steel. It is a provider of hydraulic cylinder manufacturing, remanufacturing and repair services for the mining and mobile industries. The parent company operates facilities in the U.S., South America, China and Australia, according to its website.

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for fill-your-plate picnic items is $7. In case of inclement weather, the picnic will be held in the Crimson Café. Freshman Convocation, the event that formally welcomes new students to the university, will be Aug. 28 at 5 p.m. at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex. Speakers will include Driscoll; Dr. David Downing, IUP’s 2016-17 distinguished university professor; Dr. Timothy Moerland, Continued on Page 12

WASHINGTON — The sudden resignation Friday of Donald Trump’s campaign chairman put renewed emphasis on revelations about his past work on behalf of Ukraine’s pro-Russian political leaders, including his firm’s role directing a covert Washington lobbying operation that would have required him under federal law to disclose his efforts to the Justice Department. Paul Manafort resigned from the Trump campaign amid scrutiny of his Ukrainian work — but others involved in the once-secret influence campaign remain working for Trump in senior roles, including Manafort’s deputy Rick Gates. The Associated Press reported Manafort’s connection to the lobbying effort Wednesday. On Thursday, the AP reported that it had obtained emails revealing further details: Gates directed an unregistered influence campaign that included attempts to gain positive press coverage for Ukrainian officials, sway U.S. legislators, gather political intelligence and undercut American pub-

lic sympathy for the imprisoned rival of Ukraine’s then-president. Meanwhile, new documents released by Ukrainian anti-corruption investigators appear to link the lobbying work the men directed in the U.S. to handwritten entries in ledgers listing $12.7 million in cash payments alongside Manafort’s name. Some of that money was listed as paid to Manafort through two founding memPAUL bers of MANAFORT the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine, a Brussels-based nonprofit whose lobbying efforts Manafort and Gates oversaw. Ukraine’s National AntiCorruption Bureau said it cannot prove Manafort actually received the money. While working under

nee in person and under oath. The judge said Judicial Watch must submit its questions to Clinton by Oct. 14 and gave Clinton 30 days to respond — a timetable that could push Clinton’s answers past the November presidential election unless Judicial Watch sends its questions earlier than mid-October. Judicial Watch is among several groups, including The Associated Press, that have sued the State Department over access to government records from Clinton’s tenure as the nation’s top diplomat between 2009 and 2013. Republicans are pressContinued on Page 12

Inside PROFESSOR SLAIN The body of a Penn State professor who had been missing for a week was found in a quarry, and police said they’ve charged a man with luring him there under a ruse. Page 5

ON THE DEFENSIVE The Obama administration on Friday defended its decision to pay Iran $400 million contingent on the release of American prisoners. Page 7

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