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Brown warns of deficit in new budget Governor predicts a $1.6-billion gap and urges fiscal prudence. Education spending would be hit hardest. By John Myers
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A RENDERING shows proposed Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, with Coliseum nearby. The newcomer
would alter the local art museum landscape; L.A.’s mayor says it will bring a legion of construction jobs.
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George Lucas sets sights on Exposition Park for museum By Deborah Vankin For months, “Star Wars” creator George Lucas held the art world in suspense: Would he put his $1-billion Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles or San Francisco? On Tuesday came the answer. Lucas’ personal collection of fine and popular art, including ephemera related to his “Star Wars” franchise, will fill a futuristic-looking new museum planned for L.A.’s Exposition Park that beat out a competing design for Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. The rivalry had pitted the two cities in the competition not only for Lucas’ collection and the tourism it will bring but also for the thousands of jobs that backers said the project will create. Lucas has said he will fund the project to the tune of about $1 billion, including building costs, his art and
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an endowment of at least $400 million. The Lucas Museum further expands the art museum landscape in greater L.A., which has become a global hot spot for art production. The Broad museum opened in late 2015 in downtown L.A., across the street from the Museum of Contemporary Art. The former Santa Monica Museum of Art will reopen in the Arts District this fall, renamed the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Meanwhile, the noncollecting Main Museum made a soft debut in downtown’s Old Bank District in October. “It feels like this incredible gift has come home. I always thought Los Angeles was the natural place to spread the vision of George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, to make art and creativity accessible and inspirational to the next generation,” Mayor Eric Garcetti said of the filmmaker and his wife. “It’s [See Lucas, A8]
SACRAMENTO — Less than four years after declaring California’s budget balanced for the foreseeable future, Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday said the state is projected to run a $1.6-billion deficit by next summer — a noticeable shift in the state’s fiscal stability that could worsen under federal spending cuts championed by President-elect Donald Trump. “The trajectory of revenue growth is declining,” Brown said in unveiling his $179.5-billion plan for the fiscal year that begins in July. The governor’s sober assessment comes on the heels of several months of lagging tax revenue collections, a change in the state’s fortunes that could stifle his fellow Democrats’ call for additional spending and give fuel to Republican demands for additional cuts. Brown’s budget advisors lowered the official tax revenue forecast, in part, because of slower than expected growth in wages. They also reduced expectations for sales and corporate taxes because of broader national trends. Brown proposed to address the deficit primarily by slowing the growth in spending on public schools by $1.7 billion, a change that brings funding down to the minimum required by for-
L.A. targets ‘pay to play’ image Officials seek to block campaign gifts from builders with projects under city review. By David Zahniser and Emily Alpert Reyes Real estate developers have long been a pivotal part of political fundraising at Los Angeles City Hall, bankrolling the campaigns of mayors, City Council members and other elected officials. That phenomenon has fueled persistent suspicions that campaign contributions — not established planning rules — influence
the votes of local lawmakers as they approve shopping malls, hotel towers and other building projects. Now a handful of Los Angeles lawmakers are calling for a ban on such donations from real estate developers, saying they want to counter the perception that money drives those decisions. The proposal, unveiled Tuesday by City Council members David Ryu, Joe Buscaino, Paul Krekorian, Paul Koretz and Mike Bonin, would direct city officials to draft a new law that would prohibit donations from development companies and their principals during, and shortly after, city reviews of their building projects. [See Contributions, A12]
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mulas enshrined in California’s Constitution. The governor also proposed scrapping $1.5 billion worth of spending ideas left over from last year’s budget negotiations, including higher subsidies for childcare programs and awarding new college scholarships to California students from middle-class families. “To manage unreliability requires prudence,” Brown said of his decisions to address the projected budget shortfall. The governor’s fiscal blueprint is the ceremonial first pitch in Sacramento’s annual budget writing season, and, as such, the details will shift in coming months to address changing fiscal conditions. That could include any effort by the nation’s ruling Republicans to rethink any of the $105 billion in federal funding promises the state expects to receive for a variety of services. The most consequential [See Budget, A9]
Sessions defends rights record At his confirmation hearing, he also vows to uphold laws at odds with his own views. By Del Quentin Wilber
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“I AM asking you to believe not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours,”
said Obama, with wife Michelle, daughter Malia and Vice President Joe Biden.
‘Yes, we did. Yes, we can’ In his farewell address, Obama warns of threats to democracy but calls for optimism. By Christi Parsons and Michael A. Memoli CHICAGO — President Obama reprised his message of hope and change Tuesday as an antidote to an unstable world, delivering a
farewell address in which he exhorted allies to keep the faith as President-elect Donald Trump assumes power but also painted a realist’s portrait of the threats to democracy. From his adopted hometown of Chicago, Obama spoke frankly about the dangers posed by economic inequality, divisiveness and a lack of a “common baseline of facts” in public discourse. He returned again and again to the importance of pre-
serving and upholding democracy. But in refashioning his winning 2008 campaign message for 2017, he asked the crowd of friends and supporters to hold fast to their optimism and to look within for leadership. “I am asking you to believe not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours,” Obama said. “I am asking you to hold fast to that faith written into our [See Obama, A6]
WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Sessions forcefully defended his civil rights record Tuesday and pledged, if confirmed as the nation’s next attorney general, to put aside his personal views and uphold laws protecting abortion and same-sex marriage. Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Justice Department, Sessions also vowed to recuse himself from decisions involving former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified material. The daylong confirmation hearing was a mostly collegial affair with fellow senators politely prodding the 70-year-old former federal prosecutor to explain his record on issues ranging from torture to immigration. As a longtime member of the committee now reviewing his expected nomination to become the nation’s top law enforcement officer, Sessions has sat on the opposite side of the witness table for five previous confirmation hearings for attorney general candidates. So it’s no surprise that the seasoned Alabama lawmaker avoided any self-inflicted wounds during his testimony, keeping his composure amid questioning and periodic disruptions from protesters in the audi[See Sessions, A9]
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A Palestinian lightning rod Hip-hop artist who found solace in American rap angers Israel’s right and left with his movie. By Joshua Mitnick LOD, Israel — Tamer Nafar fell in love with hip-hop growing up amid the faded public housing blocks and garbage-strewn public parks of Ramat Eshkol, a hardscrabble interethnic neighborhood in the central Israeli city of Lod where life was punctuated by daily spurts of gunfire. At a soccer field near the building where his family lived, drug dealers would stash weapons and warn kids to stay away. At school, his classroom had 45 students, no air conditioner, and a leaky roof. Just a fiveminute walk from his home, an upstairs neighbor was shot and killed in a gang hit that left multiple people injured. It took the police nearly an hour to arrive. “Just a month before, a Jewish guy was stabbed and they had a helicopter in the air within 10 minutes,” he said. “I found myself feeling [angry] about the police. At 18, my friends started dying.” Against this backdrop, Nafar found solace in the lyrics of African American rappers like Public Enemy and Biggie Smalls, learning English and absorbing their social commentary as he listened. Nafar and his friends would devour hip-hop videos. Scenes depicting confrontations between police and African American youths reminded them of Lod. “They would say, wow, they are talking about us,” he said. “That’s exactly what happened yesterday.” The audio samples in Tupac Shakur’s “White Man’z World” introduced Nafar to Malcolm X and Spike Lee. “I found Palestinian heroes through African American ones,” Nafar said. The nationalism of the Black Panthers, he said, prompted him to learn about the Palestine Liberation Organization; the verse of Maya Angelou led him to Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish. “I had to go West so I could find my Eastern identity.” As he grew older, he said, socially conscious hip-hop inspired him to write provocative protest rhymes in Arabic with his rap trio, DAM. When a suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv club prompted international outrage over Palestinian terrorism, Nafar and DAM threw the accusation back at Israel with the lyrics, “Who is the terrorist / You are a terrorist / You have taken everything I own in my land.” Now, Nafar’s youth and early years as a rapper have become the basis for a semiautobiographical movie, “Junction 48” — and he has become a cultural lightning rod, angering Israel’s right and left. Through a coming-of-age romance between two young musicians, the film depicts the struggles of a new gener-
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TAMER NAFAR says Israel’s left-wing cultural elites can’t accept a Palestinian rendering of their conflict.
“That’s how the Israeli left wing rolls: ‘We like your talent, but keep your Palestinian narrative outside.’ ”
ation of Palestinian Israelis who find themselves caught between two worlds, citizens of a country that is in constant existential tension with its Palestinian compatriots. The movie, which opens in the U.S. in March, follows the story of Kareem, an Arab Israeli with dreams of making it big. It shows Kareem trying to break into the Tel Aviv hip-hop scene, befriending rappers whose rhymes glorify the Israeli army and performing in Arabic for a Jewish audience. Like Nafar, Kareem is from Lod, a biblical-era town about 15 miles southeast of Tel Aviv that lies a bit closer to some of the Palestinian villages in the West Bank. It is one of the few mixed cities in Israel: Arabs make up 29% of the city’s population while they account for one-fifth of the national population. As Kareem navigates the obstacles of Israel’s music scene, there are also problems for him back home. His friends are involved in drug
trafficking. His girlfriend’s cousins have forbidden her to date. After the 1948-era home of a friend is destroyed by a government bulldozer, Kareem sets up a stage amid the rubble and raps an ode to “the land of my ancestors.” Each situation poses existential questions. “Kareem is at a junction — a crossroads. ‘Do I go with my girlfriend [in public], or not?’ Am I Palestinian? Or do I sing at an Israeli club?” Nafar said. “This whole junction and confusion started in 1948.” On the eve of Israel’s war for independence, Lod was an Arab village on the railway to Jerusalem. The British authorities built an international airport in Lod that serves the country today. Amid fighting there, the Israeli army killed hundreds of Arab civilians in the town and expelled tens of thousands more — part of a larger trauma of Arab displacement accompanying Israel’s birth that Palestin-
ians refer to as the Nakba, or disaster. Kareem’s struggles — to balance to his career ambitions in Israel with loyalty to his Palestinian heritage, and to reconcile modernity with traditionalist customs — reflect the political and cultural crosscurrents faced by the Palestinians who remained in Israel after 1948. Nafar’s grandfather, who left an Arab neighborhood in Jaffa after it was destroyed by Jewish forces, settled in Lod after the war. His father bought an apartment in Ramat Eshkol, originally built for Jewish immigrants who moved out as the neighborhood gradually fell into disrepair and crime rose. Director Udi Aloni, 57, the son of a noted left-wing Israeli Jewish leader and a longtime friend of Nafar’s, encouraged him to write about Lod. Aloni said that Nafar’s story represents the experience of young Arab Israelis living between worlds. “He connects me the to the reality of the third generation of
kids from the Nakba who speak Hebrew and Arabic perfectly, and move back and forth easily between the two.” Though told through a Palestinian lens, “Junction 48” did not stir much controversy after it premiered in Israel. Ticket sales in the tens of thousands were modest, and it didn’t draw much of a Jewish audience. In August, however, Nafar attracted controversy when he accused the Israeli Academy of Film and Video judges of passing over “Junction 48” for its top movie awards because the film presented a distinctly Palestinian narrative. He criticized the academy for having no Arabs among the nearly 1,000 voters. The academy chairman at the time denied the charges of discrimination in selecting its judges. The rapper said that while Israel’s predominantly left-wing cultural elites want to be politically correct by embracing Arab citizens,
they still can’t come to grips with a Palestinian rendering of their conflict. “Anything that had to do with the story itself, they iced me,” he said. “That’s how the Israeli left wing rolls: ‘We like your talent, but keep your Palestinian narrative outside.’ ” Then, at the film awards ceremony, Miri Regev, Israel’s right-wing culture minister, left the auditorium in protest during a performance by Nafar because it featured a recitation of passages penned by Darwish. Regev later unsuccessfully tried to have Nafar’s concert at a festival canceled, alleging in a letter that “Nafar elects at every opportunity and on every stage to come out against the idea of the state of Israel and its existence as the state of the Jewish people.” Nafar says the attacks by Regev reflect an effort by Israel’s government to censor art. “I was educated in an Arab Israeli school. I was denied Mahmoud Darwish before I was 20,” he said. “All they told us is that they saved the country. Nobody told us that they kicked out my grandfather. This whole piece is missing.” “Junction 48” also takes a swipe at traditionalism, showing Kareem’s girlfriend under pressure from male relatives not to be seen with him in public or perform together. “There is very strong selfcriticism,” he said. “The good guy in our movie is Palestinian and the bad guy in our movie is a Palestinian.” Nafar has come out against honor killings in Lod, and he once was threatened by local hard-liners for performing with a woman. Despite Nafar’s pointed criticism of the Israeli majority, his status as a rapper limits his popularity among Arabs in Israel, said one journalist. “Cultural figures are important, but they don’t sway the masses,” said Jackie Khoury, the news director of the Arabic radio station A Shams. “If you walk on the streets of Nazareth and talk to people, [anyone] over 40 wouldn’t recognize him.” Nafar said Palestinian audiences of the film in the West Bank were surprised at its portrayal of mundane, normalized interaction between Jews and Arabs. And for all Nafar’s biting criticism of the Israeli establishment and his bleak outlook on Israeli-Arab relations, he still sees potential for something better. Lod, despite the poverty, crime and nationalist tension, could be a cosmopolitan place if relations between its ethnic groups improved, he said. The collaboration in “Junction 48,” he said, could be a vehicle for reconciliation. “Our movie is a solution,” he said. “The solution is when the strong side, the privileged side, will be part of the story-telling of the oppressed side.... When Jews and Palestinians work together to tell the story of the oppressed, that’s where hope comes.” Mitnick is a special correspondent.
Taliban claims role in Kabul bombing attack; 30 killed By Sultan Faizy KABUL, Afghanistan — Two suicide bombs targeted a minibus in west Kabul on Tuesday, killing at least 30 people and wounding 80, Afghan officials said. A suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed vehicle toward the minibus as it neared the Afghan parliament building and then detonated the explosives, said Sediq Sediqqi, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry. A second explosion occurred moments later, after people rushed to help the victims of the first blast, Sediqqi said. Wahidullah Majroh, a spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health, said many of the wounded and the bodies of the dead had arrived at
hospitals, “and we are working to identify the victims.” The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying in a brief statement that the target was “Afghan intelligence forces.” Hasib Sediqi, spokesman for the Afghan intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security, denied that the agency was the target. The compound near the blast used to belong to the agency but now is a parliament facility, he said. Abdul Hakim, who lives near the bombing site, said he saw a scene of chaos. “I ran outside with my brother and saw several vehicles taking the injured,” said Hakim, 20. “I saw more than 40 people, including security forces, were killed and injured.” Ghulam Faroq Naziri, a lawmaker from Herat prov-
ince in western Afghanistan, said another member of parliament from that province, Rahima Jami, was wounded, the Associated Press reported. Separately, five people were killed and 12 injured when an explosion struck a guesthouse belonging to the governor of the southern province of Kandahar. Gov. Humayun Azizi and the United Arab Emirates’ ambassador to Kabul, Juma Kaabi, were wounded in the blast, said the governor’s spokesman, Samim Khpalwak. The deputy governor, Abdul Ali Shamsi, was among those killed, police said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for that attack. Faizy is a special correspondent.
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should something embarrassing turn up after they are confirmed. “These people who say, ‘Hurry up, hurry up,’ it’s like having the suspicious guy behind you in the airport line and telling the TSA to hurry up,” said Richard Painter, who served as chief ethics lawyer for Bush. Democrats scored a partial victory Monday when Republicans agreed to delay what would have been a ninth hearing this week, for Betsy DeVos, the billionaire whom Trump has chosen to lead the Department of Education. DeVos will testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee next week. Two others were removed from the Wednesday docket, which had been especially crowded, forcing senators to hopscotch among hearings.
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Clinton’s campaign, gathering information on both sides in the election but only publicly releasing information damaging the Democrats, according to CNN, which first reported on the briefing. The material alleged that Russia for years had been “cultivating, supporting and assisting” Trump’s political rise and possessed damaging personal and financial information that could be used to blackmail the president-elect. According to BuzzFeed and CNN, the dossier was compiled by a former British intelligence agent who was hired to do opposition research by Trump’s Republican opponents and later by Democrats. The report was prepared over the summer and was provided to U.S. analysts. The two-page summary contained allegations that there was a “continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for [the] Rus-
sian government,” CNN reported, citing two national security officials. It also alleged that information sharing between Trump’s team and the Russians went both ways. The Russians provided Trump’s aides with “valuable intelligence” on Clinton, the report said, while Trump’s associates gave Russian operatives information about Russian oligarchs. CNN reported that the U.S. intelligence community vetted the former British operative and found him and his network of sources to be credible enough to justify including some of the information in reports provided to elected officials. The existence of the file has circulated among political figures and reporters in Washington since at least October, when then-Sen. Harry Reid wrote a letter to FBI Director James B. Comey saying that the FBI possessed “explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian government.” Mother Jones ran an article at that time reporting on the existence of the file and saying that the former British intelligence operative had provided his dossier to the FBI. The report on Tuesday became a viral sensation on social media, and even provided fodder for questioning at Sen. Jeff Sessions’ Senate confirmation hearing. Sessions, who was picked by Trump to be his attorney general, said he was not aware of the report and had no contacts with the Russian government. del.wilber@latimes.com
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Church shooter sentenced to die In last words to jurors, Dylann Roof offers no apology: ‘I still do feel like I had to do it.’ By Jenny Jarvie CHARLESTON, S.C. — A federal jury on Tuesday condemned unrepentant white supremacist Dylann Roof to death for the June 2015 massacre of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina Bible study class. Roof stood stone-faced, showing no emotion, as U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel announced the jury’s unanimous verdict, which came after about three hours of deliberation. Relatives and friends of the victims were quiet. Some left court smiling and embracing. “Today we had justice for my sister,” Melvin Graham, the brother of slain churchgoer Cynthia Hurd, said outside the courthouse. “This is a very hollow victory because my sister is still gone.” Graham said the death penalty was fitting for Roof, who last month was convicted of the killings, because his act was so brutal and he showed no remorse. “He just took them away from us because he wanted to,” Graham said. “He decided the day, the hour, the moment that my sister was going to die. And now someone is going to do the same for him.... He’s in God’s hands now.” Before the jury of nine whites and three blacks began deliberating, Roof, who decided to represent himself during the sentencing phase of the trial, offered the panel no explanation or apologies for the shooting. He said only that he felt he had to do it. In his last words to jurors before they decided whether to punish him with death or life in prison without parole, Roof said he was misunderstood. Yet he ultimately declined to give jurors any explanation for the massacre
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JENNIFER PINCKNEY, in black coat, and others leave federal court in Charleston, S.C., after a jury ordered
the death penalty for Dylann Roof, who killed her husband, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, and eight others.
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or a single reason to spare his life. Roof acknowledged that he told FBI investigators after he was arrested that he had to do it. “But obviously that’s not really true,” he told the jury. “I didn’t have to do it. I didn’t have to do anything.… What I meant when I said that was that I felt that I had to do it, and I still do feel like I had to do it. “Anyone, including the prosecution, who thinks that I’m filled with hatred has no idea what real hate is,” Roof said awkwardly, his face flushed as he read haltingly from notes. “They don’t know anything about me. They don’t know what
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real hatred looks like. They think they do, but they don’t really.” Prosecutors, in turn, told jurors that Roof was a cold and calculated racist who dismissed a whole class of people as “brute animals” and continued to believe the shootings were worth it, even after hearing of the “immeasurable loss” of his victims’ loved ones. “He wants you to believe that you have been misled and that indeed he was justified,” Assistant U.S. Atty. Julius “Jay” Richardson told the panel. “He wants you to believe he was justified in committing a modern-day lynching. Don’t let that be.… Render the full measure of justice for this defendant. Sentence this defendant to death.” Last month, the same jurors found Roof guilty of all 33 charges against him, including multiple counts of committing a hate crime against black victims, obstructing the exercise of religion and using a firearm to commit murder. On Tuesday, prosecutors provided the jury with a lengthy list of aggravating factors that they said justi-
fied the death penalty rather than life in prison. Not only had Roof killed multiple victims and endangered others, Richardson said, but he also conducted substantial planning, was motivated by racial prejudice and hoped to incite others. Roof, the prosecutor said, showed “not one ounce of remorse.” After the verdict, Roof ’s family, which remained mostly silent since the shooting at the historical Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, issued a short statement. “We will always love Dylann,” the statement said. “We will struggle as long as we live to understand why he committed this horrible attack, which caused so much pain to so many good people.” Roof ’s defense lawyers, who served as standby counsel during the sentencing phase of the trial, said in a statement that the decision to impose the death penalty meant the case would not be over for a long time. “We are sorry that, despite our best efforts, the legal proceedings have shed so little light on the reasons for
this tragedy,” the defense statement said. Gergel set Roof ’s formal sentencing for Wednesday morning. Roof, who has developed a tense relationship with his defense team, asked the judge whether he would appoint new lawyers to help file a request for a new trial. Gergel told Roof, who faces a separate death penalty trial in state court, that he was “strongly disinclined” to appoint new attorneys but would listen to any motions Roof made Wednesday. In closing arguments, the trial’s lead prosecutor offered a window into each of the nine victims’ lives, showing jurors family photos of them at ballgames, weddings, vacations and graduations. “You now know the last moments this last group of 12 spent together,” Richardson told the jury, reminding them the nine victims were among a dozen who had gathered together that muggy June evening to study the gospel of the Book of Mark’s Parable of the Sower. “You also now know how extraordinarily good these people were.
“They welcomed the defendant with a kind word, a Bible, a handout and a chair,” he said. Yet Roof “had come not to learn, not to receive the word.… He’d come with a hateful heart and a Glock.” After showing images of Roof posing with a pistol and a Confederate flag and engaged in target practice in his backyard, Richardson argued that the defense had failed to show any possibility that Roof was capable of any meaningful change or redemption. On Tuesday, Roof did not offer jurors any reason for forgiveness. “From what I’ve been told, I have a right to ask for forgiveness on my sentence, but I’m not sure what good that will do anyway,” Roof told jurors before they deliberated. “But what I do know is that only one of you has to disagree with the other jurors.” The 22-year-old high school dropout also addressed the jury at the beginning of the death penalty hearing last week — only to insist he was not mentally ill. On Tuesday, as he spoke about how he felt the need to commit the killings, Roof said, “I think that it’s safe to say that no one in their right mind wants to go into a church and kill people.” Over the last week, Roof declined to cross-examine any of the prosecution’s 25 witnesses or present any witnesses of his own. Outside the courthouse, Graham said he hoped that Roof might at some point turn his life around and make a humble confession to God. “When he gets there, he can join my sister and the other eight in heaven.… For God said, ‘I will forgive you. For no matter what you do, I will forgive you,’ ” he said. Asked whether he had forgiven Roof, he paused. “I’m a work in progress,” he said. “I think that, in time, that will come. I can’t live in hate.… But right now, no.” Jarvie is a special correspondent.
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[Obama, from A1] founding documents: ... Yes, we can,” he said, voicing the familiar cadence from his first election. “Yes, we did. Yes, we can.” The address was the latest entry in an occasional tradition of outgoing commanders in chief that has produced some of the most memorable speeches in presidential history, including George Washington’s farewell and Dwight D. Eisenhower’s warning about the rise of the military-industrial complex. Obama was mindful of the apprehension his followers are feeling ahead of the inauguration of Trump, elected on promises to crack down on immigration, scrutinize Muslims in the U.S. and challenge what he derided as “political correctness.” The president tried to soothe their concerns by noting that a transfer of power is a hallmark of an advanced society. “I committed to President-elect Trump that my administration would ensure the smoothest possible transition, just as President Bush did for me,” he said. “Because it’s up to all of us to make sure our government can help us meet the many challenges we still face.” He acknowledged the moment without dwelling on Trump. Instead, Obama framed such 21st century challenges as growing inequality, terrorism and interconnectivity as part of a profound shift in the global order. “These forces haven’t just tested our security and prosperity, but our democracy as well,” he said. “And how we meet these challenges ... will determine our future.” He demanded modern solutions, calling for a “new social compact” that guaranteed education for children, access to unions for workers and a wide safety net. “If we don’t create opportunity for all people, the disaffection and division that has stalled our progress will only sharpen in years to
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Obama’s final big event was crafted as more of a rally than a speech, with the president striding onto the stage to the strains of his campaign anthem, “City of Blinding Lights,” and departing with his family to the frenzied applause of 18,000 people in attendance. After he leaves office, Obama plans to take time to “quiet” himself, said Valerie Jarrett, a longtime advisor and family friend. He wants Trump to have space to operate and won’t comment on relatively small developments, friends say. He wants to give Trump “room to do his homework,” Jarrett said. Yet Obama also wants to keep an open line of communication with Trump, who aides think may want to consult with him as the last person to do the job. Since
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just engaging in reverse racism or practicing political correctness.” Conversely, he said, blacks and other minorities must think about the middle-aged white man whose world has been upended by economic, cultural and technological change. “If every economic issue is framed as a struggle between a hardworking white middle class and undeserving minorities, then workers of all shades will be left fighting for scraps while the wealthy withdraw further into their private enclaves,” he warned. Throughout his presidency, Obama has used his bully pulpit to inspire, condemn and cajole. He was always heavily involved in writing his biggest speeches, and his team of young speechwriters spent as
much time with him as did more senior staff. Chicago writers have always been at the heart of his craft. His earliest message guru was Chicago political mastermind David Axelrod, who helped him come up with the “yes, we can” concept that propelled him into office. In his second term, his head speechwriter has been Chicago native Cody Keenan, who worked with Obama on the farewell address throughout the holidays. “This is where I learned that change only happens when ordinary people get involved, get engaged and come together to demand it,” Obama said of his hometown. “After eight years as your president, I still believe that.” Each time Obama mentioned his departure from the White House, the crowd voiced its objection. At the end, he singled out his wife, Michelle, for being his best friend and role model. She was dry-eyed, but daughter Malia teared up during the tribute. The loudest cheers were for Vice President Joe Biden, who was in the front row with his wife, Jill. Many Democrats now look to Biden, who has long championed the working class, for wisdom on how to connect with the disaffected white male voters who helped deliver the White House for Trump. Biden has offered advice, but he and Obama in recent days have been trying to turn the focus to a new generation of leadership. Some parts of the Obama coalition were not yet ready to follow that lead. When a protester began to shout during Obama’s speech, the crowd rose up to drown her out, in what may have been the loudest chants of the night. “Four more years!” they shouted. “Four more years!” christi.parsons @latimes.com michael.memoli @latimes.com Parsons reported from Chicago and Memoli from Washington.
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THE MUSEUM as envisioned by Chinese architect Ma Yansong. Lucas chose L.A., the museum’s board says,
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L.A. gets Lucas Museum
[Lucas, from A1] a natural place to have this museum in the creative capital of the world and in the geographic center of the city. It’s a banner day for L.A.” Garcetti said the 275,000square-foot Lucas Museum will lead to tens of thousands of jobs in construction, and he estimated the number of permanent jobs created by the museum at more than 1,000 — “and that’s a lowball estimate.” “People will visit from around the world to see the original Darth Vader mask and Norman Rockwell paintings,” he said. Entertainment and cultural leaders, including Los Angeles County Museum of Art Director Michael Govan, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures leader Kerry Brougher and DreamWorks Animation Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, gathered before the L.A. County Board of Supervisors in November to show their support for Lucas’ project. “This is a real triumph for the city of L.A., and this will be a transformative opportunity for L.A.,” Katzenberg said Tuesday after learning
of Lucas’ decision. “First and foremost for our residents, who are going to have an outstanding cultural, iconic new force here — the force will be with us — and I think for tourism, and for the continued, extraordinary transformation of downtown Los Angeles, and for Exposition Park and the other museums it will be joining.” Lucas, 72, has spent years trying to erect a museum for his art collection, which consists of about 10,000 paintings and illustrations, including works by Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth and R. Crumb, along with Hollywood memorabilia from films such as “Star Wars” and “The Ten Commandments.” In 2009, he set his sights near his home turf in San Francisco but faced community opposition from the city’s Presidio Trust about building in the historic park. Lucas then aimed for Chicago, Hobson’s hometown, but encountered resistance from Friends of the Parks about a downtown site along Lake Michigan. The newest proposals, both featuring designs by Chinese architect Ma Yansong, were aesthetically sim-
ilar but seemingly opposite in other respects. One was a remote, four-acre site on a breezy island in San Francisco Bay, beautiful but accessible only by bridge and ferry; the other was a sevenacre location in public transit-friendly, museum-heavy Exposition Park near Lucas’ alma mater, USC. Lucas declined to comment for this article, but the museum board’s announcement said he chose L.A. largely because Exposition Park positions the museum to “have the greatest impact on the broader community, fulfilling our goal of inspiring, engaging and educating a broad and diverse visitorship.” Exposition Park could become the Central Park of L.A., Garcetti said, adding that Lucas has expressed interest in helping to guide a master plan for the swiftly evolving area, already home to the California Science Center, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the California African American Museum. Plans for the new museum, which will rise along Vermont Avenue on land now covered by parking lots, will include
underground parking. “We have a new football stadium being built, the Coliseum being redone with more than $200 million in upgrades, and the science center is building a whole new building to permanently house the space shuttle and its rockets,” Garcetti said, also noting the proximity to the Expo light rail line and bus lines. The Lucas Museum, he said, “will be the jewel in the crown.” The museum board called Exposition Park “a magnet for the region and accessible from all parts of the city.” It also cited the location “surrounded by more than 100 elementary and high schools, one of the country's leading universities as well as three other world-class museums.” “There’s an understanding of L.A.’s growing cultural influence and growing and diverse audiences for museums here,” LACMA’s Govan said Tuesday. “We ended 2016 with over 1.5 million visitors.” He said the Lucas Museum will present visual culture from a different point of view, one that “makes so much sense in a city known equally for art and for film.” Philanthropist and Broad museum founder Eli Broad called the Lucas Museum “one of the most important cultural and tourist additions to our city in the last 25 years.” “I spoke to both George Lucas and Mellody personally about our great success at the Broad,” the philanthropist said. “We’ve had over 1 million visitors since we opened in 2015, and I’d expect the attendance at the Lucas Museum will be equal or even exceed that.” Art historian Don Bacigalupi, formerly president and executive director of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark., will serve as founding president of the Lucas Museum. He and Lucas still face the possibility of the kind of community scrutiny the project encountered in San Francisco and Chicago, but officials remain optimistic. Groundbreaking is planned before year’s end, a spokesman said, with the opening targeted for 2021. “We have exciting work ahead,” Bacigalupi said. deborah.vankin @latimes.com Twitter: @debvankin
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WASHINGTON — For more than a year, Donald Trump has rallied supporters by vowing to build a “big, beautiful” wall along the nearly 2,000-mile-long border with Mexico, calling it crucial to stop migrants, drugs and criminals from entering the United States. John Kelly, the presidentelect’s choice to head the Department of Homeland Security, which is responsible for guarding the nation’s borders, said Tuesday that a wall wouldn’t solve the problem. Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general, told his Senate confirmation hearing that cutting the flow of migrants and illegal drugs would require addressing rising violence and lack of opportunity in povertystricken countries in Central and South America, not just building a wall. “A physical barrier in and of itself will not do the job,” Kelly told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “It has to be really a layered defense.” Kelly endorsed using diplomacy and targeted foreign aid, not just arrests and deportations, to boost border security. He called for increasing counter-narcotics aid, investment and other assistance to Central America and as far south as Peru and Colombia, as well as for creating a “drug demand reduction campaign” in the United States. He said most migrants from the region who enter the U.S. are looking for jobs and to escape drug-fueled gang violence back home. In written answers to committee questions, Kelly said he had “only briefly discussed the wall with” Trump and had “no discussions” with him about who would pay for it. Rather than building a single long wall, he suggested one that would “funnel the flow in certain directions and into specific culde-sacs” as part of a multilayered defense that would include more border patrols, aerial drones, ground sensors and other devices. Kelly is expected to win easy Senate confirmation. No lawmaker on the panel voiced opposition to him. If confirmed, he would be the fifth head of a massive department that was cobbled together from 22 agencies after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It now has an annual budget of $41 billion and 240,000 employees who are responsible for border security, immigration control, cybersecurity, screening passengers at airports and other tasks. The sharpest questioning came from Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who was
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Kelly faced sharp questioning from Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.). elected in November, over the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA, as the program begun by President Obama is known, defers deportations for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children, grew up here and committed no crimes. Harris pressed Kelly about whether he would use the DACA information to identify and deport people. She asked him to honor the Obama administration’s promise not to use DACA applications to assist in deportations. Kelly said convicted criminals and other categories of undocumented immigrants might be a higher priority for removal, though he acknowledged he had not had discussions with Trump’s advisors about immigration policy. “There’s a big spectrum of people who need to be dealt with in terms of deportation,” he said. “I would guess that [DACA applicants] might not be the highest priority” for deportations, Kelly said. He added, “I promise you that I will be involved in the discussion.” Kelly also seemed to raise questions about Trump’s vow to use “extreme vetting” of refugees and immigrants to prevent Islamic militants from entering the country. “You can’t guarantee 100%, and if you are taking in large numbers of people from places where you really can’t vet them very well, you do the best you can,” Kelly said. A native of Boston, Kelly enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1970 after high school and became an officer after graduating from the Naval Academy. Known for his blunt, hard-driving style, he served three tours in Iraq. His son, Marine Lt. Robert Kelly, was killed in November 2010 in Afghanistan. Kelly has experience in Washington as a top military aide to two Defense secretaries, and as a Marine Corps liaison to Congress. He served as head of the U.S. Southern Command. The Pentagon command is responsible for U.S. military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean and works closely with the Department of Homeland Security. david.cloud@latimes.com
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Bracing for shifting fiscal climate [Budget, from A1] of those is the $16.1-billion subsidy for Medi-Cal, the program offering healthcare to the state’s most needy, provided through the Affordable Care Act. Those funds have helped the state add more than 3.8 million people to the MediCal system, a network of providers that reaches one in every three Californians. Republican leaders in Congress and the presidentelect have vowed to repeal the law championed by President Obama, though they have yet to identify when or how that will happen. That uncertainty is why Brown’s new budget plan does not officially lay out a path forward, though the governor made it clear on Tuesday that he thinks GOP leaders should rethink their political promises in regard to Obamacare. “That’s very bold and, I think, a move that isn’t very consistent with decency,” the governor said Tuesday. He also offered national leaders some advice as they weigh the merits of various federal subsidies. “I don’t think this country needs any more divisive kinds of moves that divide the poor and the rich, split the middle class and all those other things that will be the result if the rhetorical thrust, as suggested in the last few weeks, becomes the operational reality in Washington,” Brown said. But the governor offered a dash of his own brand of raw politics Tuesday by asking legislators to approve an extension of California’s system for buying and trading greenhouse gas pollution credits.
State’s 2017-18 budget spending California’s total expenditures, including selected bond funds: (In billions of dollars)
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Higher Corrections/ education rehabilitation $15 $13.8 Total: $179.45 billion Human services $19.2
Transportation Other $11.4 $27.01
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TAX REVENUE GROWTH is declining, says Gov. Jerry Brown, who unveiled his
$179.5-billion fiscal plan. “To manage unreliability requires prudence.” That cap-and-trade program faces an uncertain future beyond 2020 because business groups have challenged its legality in court. On Tuesday, Brown proposed that the Legislature officially reauthorize the program — which would require a supermajority vote in both houses — and hinted that he might otherwise block the spending of $2.2 billion in proceeds from the auctions of those credits. “Given the fact that the federal government is going in the opposite direction,” Brown said of the climate change debate, “I would think that Californians want
to strengthen their own commitment.” Advocates for social services, though, saw the budget plan as lacking any new strength for the state’s most needy. “This is just a very conservative budget that really doesn’t do anything to reduce poverty in the state of California,” said Mike Herald of the Western Center on Law and Poverty, who pointed to a lack of new money for welfare assistance efforts or affordable housing. The governor’s budget also offers less than expected for backers of Proposition 56, last year’s tobacco tax increase ear-
marked to boost healthcare funding. While Brown pegs the tax’s infusion of new money at $1.2 billion, it is offset by overall sagging tax revenues, and therefore is unlikely to boost the reimbursement rates sought by doctors who treat Medi-Cal patients. Democrats, in general, sounded positive notes about the governor’s proposal. One key source of early criticism, though, was his plan to phase out the scholarships offered to middleclass students attending University of California and California State University
campuses. The budget proposes to renew scholarships for 37,000 current recipients but offers no new assistance beyond that. Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount) said the plan, coupled with proposed tuition increases, would be unfair. “We must work to keep college affordable for California students,” he said, “and I will not support burdening them with higher fees and greater student debt.” In all, Brown’s budget continues a long trend toward allowing additional spending while restraining the political desires of Democrats to do more. And though the budget doesn’t spell out a specific need to respond to changes pushed by Trump and congressional Republicans that are on the horizon, the governor made clear that all budget decisions in Sacramento are in some way subject to the national debate. “That’s why we’re going
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to have to hold on to our hat here,” he said. “It’s going to be a rough ride.” john.myers @latimes.com Twitter: @johnmyers
A collegial first hearing for Sessions [Sessions, from A1] ence. When pressed on his opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage, for example, the conservative senator told Democratic colleagues that both issues had been settled by the Supreme Court and that he would abide by those decisions. Similarly, on the use of waterboarding against terrorism suspects, which Sessions has previously supported, he said Congress had clearly outlawed the practice. Sessions began his testimony by offering his most steadfast denial yet of allegations that as a U.S. attorney in the 1980s he had improperly targeted civil rights advocates for prosecution on voter fraud charges and had made racially insensitive comments about the Ku Klux Klan and minorities. “These are damnably false charges,” Sessions said, adding that he “did not harbor the race-based animosities I am accused of. I did not.” Those accusations, made by fellow Justice Department attorneys at the time, helped torpedo Sessions’ 1986 nomination by President Reagan to become a federal judge. “There was an organized effort to caricature me as something that wasn’t true,” he said. “It was very painful. I didn’t know how to respond and didn’t respond very well. I hope my tenure in this body has shown you that the caricature that was created of me was not accurate. It wasn’t accurate then and it’s not accurate now.” Sessions is again being assailed by civil rights groups, who point to his Senate record of voting against hate-crime legislation, immigration reform and efforts to ban torture as evidence that he would not fairly enforce laws protecting minorities. Sessions testified he hoped to work closely with local police and would aggressively combat gun violence, gang crimes and drug trafficking. He said he felt criticism of police misconduct should be “narrowly focused on the right basis” because too often mistakes were used to
“smear whole departments” and that “places those officers at greater risk.” The senator did not stray from his long-held hard-line views on immigration enforcement, testifying he would aggressively “prosecute those who repeatedly violate our borders” and support rescinding an Obama administration program that deferred deportation of hundreds of thousands of so-called Dreamers, those brought to the country illegally as children. “It is very questionable constitutionally,” Sessions said of President Obama’s 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA. He did not say whether he believed the 742,000 immigrants protected under the program should be deported. An unabashed opponent of marijuana use, Sessions was noncommittal about whether he might use his authority to resume raids of pot-growing operations and dispensaries. Such law enforcement actions, deeply unpopular in states like California and Colorado, were in effect halted in recent years. Marijuana is now legal for recreational use in both those states, among others. On counter-terrorism, Sessions said he would fight the “scourge of radical Islam” and believed that the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should continue to house terrorism suspects. Obama was unable to fulfill his pledge to close the prison, which still holds 55 detainees, 19 of whom have been cleared for release. Sessions added that he did not support “the idea that Muslims as a religious group should be denied admission to the United States,” a position Trump once backed. The hearing is scheduled to continue Wednesday with a long list of witnesses, including Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, who said he would take the unprecedented step of opposing a fellow senator’s candidacy for a Cabinet job. Sessions was the first of Trump’s Cabinet contenders to begin what is expected to be a combative confirma-
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SEN. JEFF SESSIONS (R-Ala.) said at his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that as attorney general
he would recuse himself from decisions related to Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information. tion process over the next few weeks. Sessions, one of the most conservative members of Congress, is widely expected to win confirmation from his colleagues in the Republican-controlled Senate. No sitting U.S. senator has ever been rejected for a Cabinet position, and GOP senators on the committee offered nothing but unstinting support on Tuesday. Even so, Sessions has a long and complicated history on racial matters, and the toughest questions posed by senators focused on how he would deal with civil rights laws, hate crimes and access to the polls. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the committee, set a tough tone by saying that since the election, many citizens have expressed “deep anxiety about the direction of this country and whether this nominee will enforce the law fairly, evenly and without personal bias.” “Today we are not being asked to evaluate him as a senator,” the California senator said, acknowledging that many of her Democratic colleagues like Sessions personally and professionally. “Will he be independent of the White House? Will he tell the president ‘no’ when necessary?” Sen. Al Franken (DMinn.) grew testy when questioning Sessions about several civil rights lawsuits Sessions had listed on his Senate questionnaire as examples of “significant” cases
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that Sessions personally litigated during his career. The Trump transition team later said that the cases were worthy of being mentioned, even though Sessions had not been actively involved in them. Franken suggested that the Trump campaign or Sessions were trying to inflate his civil rights accomplishments. Sessions replied that he had listed the cases because they were “historic” and that they “were the kind of cases that were national in scope, and deserved to be listed on the form.” The would-be attorney general waded into controversial issues that have long dogged the Justice Department, including whether it should reopen its investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while
serving as secretary of State. The FBI and Justice Department decided that criminal charges were not warranted despite having determined that Clinton and her aides unintentionally sent classified information over the system. During the campaign, Trump said he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the matter but has since backed off that pledge. Sessions, the first senator to endorse Trump’s presidential bid, said he would recuse himself from any Clinton-related matters because he had often attacked her on the campaign trail. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) asked whether Sessions believed Russia was behind the hacks of the Democratic National Com-
mittee and Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta. Emails hacked from the DNC and Podesta’s email account disrupted the Clinton campaign, and the intelligence community and the FBI have concluded that the cyberattacks were ordered by high-ranking Russian officials with the goal of hurting Clinton and helping Trump. Sessions said he had not been briefed on the investigation but had “no reason to doubt” the findings. As attorney general, Sessions would play a large role in helping decide how to respond to such an attack during Trump’s tenure. “When a nation uses their improperly gained … information to take policy positions that impact another nation’s democracy or their approach to any issue, then that raises real serious matters,” Sessions said. Trump, by contrast, has questioned the intelligence findings of Russian hacking, calling the assertions an effort to delegitimize his election. Sessions sidestepped questions about whether he would recuse himself from any investigations involving Russia and the Trump campaign, saying he had not publicly commented on that and would review any such case to determine whether “it should stay within the jurisdiction of the attorney general or not.” del.wilber@latimes.com Twitter: @delwilber
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Who polices the police? Those who support reforming the LAPD’s disciplinary process should be careful what they wish for.
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oth the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the Los Angeles Police Department may soon make changes to their disciplinary processes — but the proposals for the two agencies are moving in opposite directions. The sheriff is seeking something more like what the LAPD has while the police union and some self-styled police reformers want something more like the seriously flawed system used to discipline sheriff’s deputies. That phenomenon ought give the City Council at least a modicum of pause before moving ahead with a police discipline measure for the May ballot. At the heart of the issue is the degree to which civilians should be empowered to uphold or overturn disciplinary decisions made by each department’s top commander (the elected county sheriff and the appointed LAPD chief). For many years, police unions saw civilian participation as an unwanted intrusion into the clubby domain of law enforcement. The Los Angeles Police Protective League — the union that represents rank-and-file LAPD officers — adamantly opposed a recommendation by the Christopher Commission in 1991 to include a civilian among the high-ranking officers on the Board of Rights. That’s the panel that rules on the chief’s request for discipline. Voters adopted the measure over the PPL’s objection. Much to the surprise of union members, however, civilians ended up being more lenient than their sworn law-enforcement counterparts — an outcome echoed in a recent city study. It turned out that Board of Rights’ members drawn from within the department had little tolerance of misbehaving colleagues, who arguably tainted the entire agency. On reflection, that stands to reason: As with most law enforcement agencies, the LAPD models its discipline proceedings on military tribunals, which are not known for being gentle with uniformed personnel who defy orders or commit other improper acts. The civilian added to each Board of Rights to be the public’s eyes, ears and voice was more likely than officers to oppose the chief’s discipline recommendations. The PPL grew to appreciate the civilian presence
— to appreciate it so much, in fact, that last year it lobbied the council and Mayor Eric Garcetti to eliminate LAPD personnel from Boards of Rights altogether, in favor of all-civilian boards. Garcetti supports the proposal and the council is expected to vote Wednesday to order city lawyers to start drafting ballot language. Up the street, Sheriff Jim McDonnell (a former LAPD second-in-command) is struggling to weed out a subculture of dishonesty that grew under his predecessor and eroded morale in the entire Sheriff’s Department. To his credit, McDonnell has imposed tough penalties on deputies and others for making false statements in police reports and other misconduct. Under the county’s structure, though, fired sheriff’s personnel can appeal to the allcivilian Civil Service Commission, which also hears appeals from other county employees such as clerks, graphic artists, data analysts and nurses. As McDonnell has fired deputies, the commission has returned many of them to work — in part by relying on the previous, lower discipline standard that was set under then-Sheriff Lee Baca. That puts McDonnell in the position of trying to raise standards — as the public rightly demands — yet being thwarted by a panel of civilians that compels him to keep paying taxpayer money to deputies he deems unfit to wear a badge, carry a weapon or patrol the streets or jails. Neither the sheriff’s nor the LAPD’s system is perfect or irredeemable. The LAPD chief must essentially ask permission to fire an officer who he deems unfit to serve — but at least his process acknowledges the different impact on the public of an erring but armed law enforcement officer and an erring clerk or graphic artist. Meanwhile, the county Board of Supervisors has belatedly but appropriately ordered proposals for better training of their appointees to the Civil Service Commission. It is possible that reforms in both departments could bring improvements. It is possible — but not inevitable. The individual adjustments to the county Civil Service Commission, and the details of selection and training of civilian Board of Rights members, may be mundane but are of enormous importance. That’s something that should be kept in mind by a City Council — and a Board of Supervisors — that thrive on campaign contributions from law enforcement unions, and by the voters who count on them to act in the public’s best interest.
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ov. Jerry Brown sounded a bit like a broken record Tuesday when he released his proposed spending plan for next fiscal year, preaching prudence even as the economy seems to be booming. That’s what he said last year. And the year before that. Even the charts look the same. But Brown has solid reason for his financial caution. The downturn he’s been predicting for years seems to be, if not already here, then on its way. Although tax revenue is still up over last year, it’s consistently been coming up shorter than expected in recent months — particularly personal income tax receipts, which make up 70% of the state’s general fund revenues. Then there’s the Donald Trump factor. Although state officials are planning to actively oppose many of Trump’s initiatives, the state is banking on $105 billion in federal funding next fiscal year. That includes about $17 billion to pay for the Medi-Cal expansion in the Affordable Care Act, which Trump has pledged to repeal. If and when that rug will be pulled out from under California is unknown. “This is going to be a rough ride,” Brown said Tuesday during a briefing on the highlights of his budget proposal. “We can’t tell where we will be in a few months.” So a little caution seems to be entirely appropriate at the moment. As such, the governor is recommending a modestly larger budget — $179.5 billion in total — that keeps a lid on new spending and makes a few reductions too, including phasing out middle-class scholarships for the state university system and funding public schools at the bare minimum required by Proposition 98. Without this evasive budgetary action, Brown said, the state would have a $1.6-billion deficit in the fiscal year that begins July 1. Legislators weren’t thrilled with the spending plan outlined by the governor. Republicans griped about the cost of building the high-speed rail line and the two Delta tunnels while the state’s roads crumble, and Democrats grumbled that Brown is not spending as much as the state needs to fulfill its obligations to the public. “The governor’s opening budget proposal is typically cautious, with some expected issues and also some areas of concern,” As-
sembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount) said in statement. Specifically, Rendon is concerned about Brown’s proposal to cut the Coordinated Care Initiative program, which serves poor and disabled Californians. Rendon suggests it could be fixed rather than scrapped altogether. OK, that’s something that can be worked out when budget hearings begin later this year. But if Democratic lawmakers don’t like the governor’s “extremely cautious budget proposal,” as California Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) called it, there is something they can do beyond fight over the scraps. They can find more meat to go around in future years by using their rare supermajority to push through a restructuring of the state’s tax system to make it a more dependable revenue source. Because the state’s budget relies heavily on personal income tax and capital gains tax revenues that rise and fall with alarming unpredictability, it must be cautious even when the economy seems good. That’s why we and other concerned Californians have been urging a reform in the state’s taxing structure for years. (Another broken record.) Fundamental tax reform is hard to achieve because such a major change inevitably creates winners and losers. Beyond that, it’s been little more than a pipe dream because new tax laws require a two-thirds vote, which in past years has meant compromising with Republican legislators whose only interest in taxes was in cutting them. But Democrats’ gains in the last election have given them a two-thirds majority in each house, enabling them to overhaul the tax code without a single Republican vote. No longer able to stymie the Democrats, Republicans may finally be motivated to work with the other side on a bipartisan reform proposal. Democrats may be tempted to use their supermajority to jam more spending into the next budget — and deal with the uncertainty and deficits later. But that would be achingly shortsighted, potentially extending new services to vulnerable Californians only to slash them when times got tough. If there was ever a moment to update the state’s unstable revenue picture, this is it.
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No more tweeting Re “Trump vs. Hollywood,” Jan. 10 President-elect Donald Trump deludes himself in dismissing Meryl Streep’s reaction to his mocking of a disabled reported as mere Hollywood liberalism. Streep voiced the concerns of millions of Americans who find Trump offensive most profoundly on the grounds of character, before even considering his politics or emerging policies. Trump’s tactic of disparaging anyone who criticizes him or who counters his views is primary evidence of a serious character flaw. His inability to take responsibility for his utterances and their real impact, along with his spinning of his words as “fighting back” (in some imagined ongoing battle?), constitutes further evidence of such a flaw. A week before the inauguration, we face the prospect of the presidency being trivialized by Trump’s habitual pettiness. Perhaps his handlers should shut down his Twitter account, lest his only contribution to this hallowed office be as disparager in chief. D. Keith Naylor South Pasadena Streep is a dependably fine actress whose list of stellar movies is amazingly long. Judging by her interviews, she appears to be informed and intelligent. There are a number of other fine celebrities who are equally articulate. However, being recognized for one’s craft does not necessarily qualify one as “political philosopher nonpareil.” I respect Streep’s right to share her political views, but it would have been more appropriately done without exploiting an appearance at the microphone on the national TV broadcast of Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards. Today is another day, and now Streep is back among the real folk, whose opinions are also remarkably well formed. If she is truly open-minded and intelligent, she should consider some divergent perspectives. Vilma Kennedy Pallette Santa Clara :: What is “elite” about respecting the disabled? What is “elite” about calling out a person who makes fun of someone with a disability? Is it “talking down” to people by standing up for somebody who has been unfairly picked on? What Streep did was stand up for the value of each single human being. Jerry Small Venice :: Streep “overrated”? She’s been nominated for 19 Academy Awards and won three. She’s been nominated for 30 Golden Globes and won eight. She has received countless other awards and honors from the critics, her peers and the public at large. Some people may not like her work, and they are welcome to say so. But to call her overrated is just wrong. Art Verity Sherman Oaks
Moral, economic outrage at UC Re “UC tech jobs go to India,” Column, Jan. 8
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I was appalled to read Michael Hiltzik’s column about University of California system information technology jobs going to migrant workers from India. What message does it send that UC believes so little in the skills of its American IT employees that it not only puts profits above integrity, but also weakens our California
economy with unnecessary and unwarranted layoffs of skilled individuals? This is an outrageous abuse of the federal H-1B visa program that might be acceptable in the for-profit world but not UC. I have sent three children to UC schools, and I am outraged by this. The university’s move is the epitome of economic and moral blindness. Sheila Goldman Woodland Hills :: Hiltzik is appalled that UC is using a visa loophole to fire American workers and replace them with lower-paid immigrants. This action by UC should not be surprising in view of the fact that it admits illegal immigrants as students and even allows ones who live in California to pay the lower tuition rate reserved for state residents. In both cases, UC is flouting federal immigration law and putting the interests of immigrants ahead of those of Americans. Jeff Duncan Sherman Oaks
Testing kids: how the Finns do it Re “The wrong and right business lessons for schools,” Opinion, Jan. 8 Like Samuel E. Abrams, I subscribe more to the idea that merit ratings and pay undermine teamwork and to the educational practices in Finland than to the deeds of Betsy DeVos. DeVos, Trump’s nominee to be the next secretary of Education, is unqualified. She was a poor manager of charter schools in her home state of Michigan. As a part-time Michigan resident, I have witnessed firsthand the damage done by DeVos. When I ran the innercity K-8 Federation of Boston Community Schools in the 1970s, we administered high-quality exams to small groups of students, just as the Finns do now. Teachers did not teach to the test, and students received a wellrounded education. The success of these parentcontrolled community schools was documented in the 1974 Ford Foundation report “Matters of Choice.” Philip S. Hart Los Feliz
as is done in Finland. Research by education psychologist David Berliner and his colleagues supports this recommendation: More testing does not result in higher test scores. We can do this now using the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a highly respected standardized test given to small groups of students who each take a portion of the test every few years. Results are extrapolated to estimate how larger groups would score, and the NAEP is used to compare our achievement to that of other countries. Let’s find out if the NAEP tells us what we need to know about performance and whether the time-consuming and expensive tests we currently give students add any useful information. Stephen Krashen Los Angeles The writer is a professor emeritus of education at USC.
Putting seniors out on the street Re “ ‘Old Lives Matter,’ say seniors fighting eviction,” Column, Jan. 8 It is nothing less than despicable that Watermark Retirement Communities is cavalierly evicting nearly 200 seniors in order to replace them with wealthier seniors in a more lucrative facility. My 91-year-old mother has lived at the company’s Vintage Westwood Horizons for more than seven years. When my father passed away, my mother was devastated. Like many seniors, she resisted moving to a retirement facility where she knew no one. It is traumatic enough to have to move an elderly parent from her own home. It is another trauma to uproot her again after she has adjusted to this new environment. Vintage Westwood Horizons is much more than an apartment building; it is a community and the lifeblood for many seniors who have no other reasonable residential alternatives. Watermark should rescind the eviction notices and allow these elderly residents to continue living in this unique and affordable community. It is the right thing to do. Debra Tauger Los Angeles :: My mom, Sergee Summer, was a well-loved fixture at Vintage Westwood Horizons for 11 years. When even the modest yearly rent increases outpaced her ability to pay, the management — then under private ownership — froze her monthly payment. I will forever be grateful for this compassionate gesture, far different from today’s corporate ownership. Alison Mayersohn Los Angeles
Pay-to-play is a good investment Re “City Hall’s pay-to-play culture,” Editorial, Jan. 6 In 2014, the Los Angeles City Council granted $59 million in tax breaks to the Westfield Group in support of its boutique shopping mall, the Village, in well-todo Woodland Hills for no tangible return. Seen in that light, Westfield’s recent gifts totaling nearly $1 million to causes spearheaded by Mayor Eric Garcetti are less than a 2% cut of the money that the city is already providing Westfield through tax abatement. It is easy to see how that cycle just keeps going — because it is selfsustaining. We are actually footing the bill for Westfield’s bribes. Siegfried Othmer Woodland Hills
:: Abrams’ fifth “business lesson” for schools is to stop testing every student but use only “high-quality exams administered to small groups of students,”
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How many Latinos voted for Trump? By Francisco I. Pedraza and Bryan Wilcox-Archuleta
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hen Donald Trump won the presidency on Nov. 8, pundits, reporters and political wonks turned to the national exit poll to find out exactly what had happened. How had various groups in various states voted? One of the exit poll findings was particularly surprising: Although Hillary Clinton triumphed among Latinos overall — with 66% of their votes — she got fewer of their votes than Barack Obama got in 2012. And although Trump lost among Latinos, his share of their votes — 28% — was 1 percentage point higher than Mitt Romney’s in 2012. If those figures were accurate, they would represent a major reversal in Latino voting trends. Since the 1990s, scholars tracking Latino votes have seen the group’s increasing muscle at the polls, which in general, has been put to work for Democrats. Was the largest ethnic group in the nation suddenly starting to shift its party allegiances? And could that have happened even with a Republican candidate who called immigrants rapists, promised to build a border wall and claimed that a Mexican American judge couldn’t be impartial because of his heritage? As it turns out, a closer analysis in states with large Latino populations indicates that the national exit poll — which is still being cited as an authoritative source — is wrong. In Florida, Arizona and
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Texas — and in California, where we just finished analyzing the data — the exit poll has substantially overestimated Trump’s success among Latinos. The national exit poll is a stateby-state survey conducted by Edison Research and paid for by news media. It samples selected precincts in an attempt to gather an accurate overall count quickly on
election night. But, like all polls, it isn’t fail-safe. In California, the Edison exit poll data suggested that 71% of Latinos cast their votes for Clinton, and 24% for Trump. According to our research, the numbers are significantly different: 83% for Clinton, and just 11% for Trump. Instead of polling a sample of voters, our analysis is based on actual votes: The official 2012 and 2016
results in 10,121 precincts in 16 California counties (the most populous counties and the ones that certify their election results quickly). That data is combined with census information that tells us the demographics of each precinct. The accompanying graph shows you what we discovered. The dots represent the vote percentage for each candidate in each precinct. The more votes he or she won, the higher the colored dots rise on the vertical axis. Along the horizontal axis, the vote totals are sorted by the size of the Latino population in each precinct. And the colored lines track the overall estimates of precinct vote shares for all four candidates in both elections, arrived at by a separate statistical analysis. We know that Obama won California by 3 million votes in 2012, and Clinton expanded this margin to 4.3 million in 2016, so we would expect to see Clinton doing better and Trump doing worse than their counterparts in 2012. That is exactly what the dot pattern shows. Trump underperformed Romney across almost every precinct we analyzed, and the deficit widens as voting precincts get more heavily Latino. Clinton’s vote share largely mirrors Obama’s except in precincts where more than 75% of the population are adult Latino citizens. In these precincts, she captures a greater proportion of the vote share. (That increase is most likely the reason Clinton won the state by such a large margin over Obama in 2012.) One key finding from all of our analysis is this: It is virtually impossible that 24% of California Latinos cast their vote for Trump as purported by the exit poll. Instead of
winning 71% of Latino votes, Clinton won more than 80%. The discrepancy between the exit poll and our findings is similar to discrepancies found via research in Texas, Arizona and Florida. Taken together, these results suggest an “entrance poll” conducted in the days before the Nov. 8 election was much closer to reality than the national exit poll. The research firm Latino Decisions did the survey. It put the Latino vote for Clinton at 80% in California, and for Trump, 16%. Nationally, 79% voted Democratic, and only 18% Republican. More state level analysis needs to be done on the voting patterns in the 2016 election. At the very least, we expect scholars and policymakers will ultimately recognize that the trend in Latino voting — more turnout and more votes for Democrats — was buoyed and extended by Clinton’s candidacy, not interrupted or reversed. Voting patterns drive policy and party choices in Washington and in state capitals. And exactly how the vote stacks up in California is particularly significant. The demographics of the Golden State — where Latino voters are an increasingly influential bloc at the polls — are likely to be replicated in much of the rest of the nation in coming years. We know that democracy needs good data. When it comes to the Latino vote, the national exit poll isn’t good enough. Francisco I. Pedraza is assistant professor of political science and public policy at UC Riverside. Bryan Wilcox-Archuleta is a doctoral student in political science at UCLA.
Hysteria aplenty at the Sessions hearing By Matt Welch
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ode Pink may get a bad rap, disrupting as it does seemingly every significant event on Capitol Hill. But the most hysterical performances at Tuesday’s serially interrupted Senate confirmation hearing for attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions came not from scrappy protesters, but from the august senators within. “I would like to begin,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said to Sessions, “with the second largest criminal industry in this country, which is now — believe it or not, by revenues produced — human sex trafficking.” In other words, the California senator wished to lead off her critical cross-examination of the nation’s likely next top cop with a factually insane claim that will probably give him more power. In order for “human sex trafficking” to be the second largest criminal industry in the United States, it would at minimum need to supplant illegal narcotics (roughly $100 billion a year, according to a 2014 Rand Corp. estimate), or Medicare fraud (in the ballpark of $60 billion, according to the Government Accountability Office in 2015). So distant is reality from those numbers that even the commonly cited figure of $9.8 billion a year for all trafficking — and keep in mind that human smuggling dwarfs sex trafficking — was given “four Pinocchios” by Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler. Feinstein wasn’t done. “Trafficking victims,” she warned, average “12 to 14” in age. (“Four Pinocchios,” judged Kessler.) These fake numbers have consequences. Congress has leaned on such bogus statistics by periodically ratcheting up the penalties of the 2000 Trafficking Victims Protection Act — the 2015 reauthorization, for example, made websites liable for sex trafficking if a minor is found to have advertised services there. “In 2014 alone, 31 states passed new laws concerning human trafficking,” Elizabeth Nolan Brown wrote in Reason magazine 15 months ago. “Since the start of 2015, at least 22 states have done so.” And who is being prosecuted? Besides publishers such as Backpage.com, which shut down its “Adult” section this week after relentless pressure (including concurrent hearings on Capitol Hill on Monday), the criminals apprehended are disproportionately adult females who work in the sex industry by choice. There is a well-established connection between moral panic over disfavored behaviors and laws that produce grotesque injustices. What boggles the mind is how this clear causation seems to elude lawmakers even in the midst of a conversation about the enforcement of federal law.
In fact, the best parts of Tuesday’s hearings came when senators grilled Sessions over his opposition to scaling back previous hysteria-based overreaches, such as disparities in sentencings involving crack and powder cocaine. (The Alabama senator voted in favor of one such reform, but stands opposed to making the recalibrated sentences retroactive for people still languishing in prison.) Yet those moments were outnumbered by Judiciary Committee members trying to egg Sessions on to enforce laws against the monsters hiding under their beds. Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (RUtah) favorably cited a new Utah bill that describes pornography as a public health “epidemic,” and encouraged Sessions to reopen the Justice Department’s porno task force. As recently as President Obama’s first term, that unit was producing prosecutions that could have put pornographers in jail for as long as 32 years. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was a one-man hysteria generator, with each question designed to give the federal government more power. What did Sessions think about the Obama administration interpreting the Wire Act in a way to “allow online video poker”? “I was shocked,” Sessions replied. “Do you believe the threats to the homeland are growing or lessening?” Graham asked. “Growing,” said the likely next attorney general. Gitmo? Keep ’er open. Try suspected terrorists like criminals? Hell no! There are excellent reasons to oppose Sessions’ nomination, beginning with his enthusiastic support for the evil practice of civil asset forfeiture, by which the government can lawfully seize the property of citizens who haven’t even been charged with a crime. (Ninety-five percent of asset forfeiture cases, he has ludicrously claimed in the past, involve people “who have done nothing in their lives but sell dope.”) But maybe the most terrifying thing about the man is that he so faithfully reproduces the basic posture of his fellow senators: Everything is a threat, evidence be damned, and the federal government needs more power to keep us safe. We are at a point in this country where officials in the Justice Department can’t even tell you the number of federal crimes, the average American (according to the calculations of the civil libertarian Harvey Silverglate) commits “three felonies a day,” and there is no observable political penalty for grotesquely exaggerating real problems. Jeff Sessions might not be a good pick for AG, but maybe he’s the honest one. Matt Welch is editor at large of Reason and a contributing writer to Opinion.
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onald Trump is right. (I’ve been waiting weeks for a chance to write that.) “Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing,” the president-elect tweeted last weekend. “Only ‘stupid’ people, or fools, would think that it is bad!” That’s true; no sensible person wants a state of hostility with a nuclear superpower. But — and you knew a “but” was coming — Trump tweeted his foreign policy doctrine with an essential piece missing. The goal of American foreign policy is to protect U.S. interests, not to achieve “a good relationship” with any particular country — much less a country as troubling in its conduct as Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Trump hasn’t given a full-scale foreign policy speech since April, when he unveiled his “America First” slogan. He did, however, suggest during the campaign that he would focus on a few core goals: 8 Defeating Islamic State and other terrorist groups. 8 Negotiating better trade deals to bring jobs back to the United States. 8 Curbing Iran’s power in the Middle East, and canceling or renegotiating President Obama’s nuclear deal. 8 Renegotiating the NATO alliance to force other countries to spend more on their own defense — with a warning that the U.S. might not defend them against Russia if they don’t. Here’s the problem with Trump’s bromance with Putin: Of the four items on that list, the Russian leader might be helpful with one, the fight against Islamic terrorists. He’s not so interested in the others. Bringing U.S. jobs back? Not his problem. Curbing Iran and scrapping the nuclear deal? Actually,
Putin’s proud of the role he played in negotiating the agreement, and he’s been busy selling advanced weapons to the ayatollahs. Renegotiating NATO? Putin may want to encourage Trump on that one — but mostly to see if he can undermine the Western alliance. Putin’s priorities are different from ours. He wants to stay in power and stave off what he sees as Western pressure to democratize. He wants to restore Russia’s sphere of influence over the countries of the former Soviet Union, beginning with Ukraine, which he invaded in 2014. He wants to weaken the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which he views as a hostile military alliance. In other words, Putin’s goals conflict with U.S. interests more often than they coincide. In addition, Russia experts believe Putin prefers to cast the United States as an adversary, because it helps him maintain his hold on power. “The legitimacy of Putin’s system of repressive domestic controls depends on the existence of external threats,” William J. Burns, a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow, wrote last week. “If he can’t easily build Russia up, he can take the United States down a few pegs with his characteristic tactical agility and his willingness to play rough and take risks.” Republicans — including inside the new Trump administration — are divided over how much U.S.Russian cooperation is feasible. Trump’s nominees as secretary of Defense (James Mattis), CIA chief (Mike Pompeo) and national intelligence director (Dan Coats) have all described Putin as an adversary, not a friend. Meanwhile, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s choice as national security advisor, has long argued that an alliance with Russia is key to defeating Islamic terrorism. “We can’t do what we want to do unless we work with Russia, period,” he said last year.
And Trump’s top political strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, has said he thinks Putin can be enlisted in a joint effort to contain the growing power of both Iran and China. Trump has already proposed a way to settle the question: Just give Putin a chance. “Some say the Russians won’t be reasonable; I intend to find out,” he said in April. “If we can’t make a good deal for America, then we will quickly walk from the table.” But he still needs to define what a good deal would be. Here are three specific steps Trump should take: First, he should reassure U.S. allies that he doesn’t plan to walk away from NATO treaty commitments. (The three small Baltic states, which feel directly threatened by Russia, are already racing to meet their commitments on defense spending.) Second, Trump should announce that he won’t support any relaxation of Western sanctions against Russia unless Putin withdraws from eastern Ukraine. Former U.S. envoy Stephen Sestanovich says the Russians are waiting to see if Trump will act without asking for anything in return. “The other side never pays for something it expects to get for free,” he wrote. Third, the president-elect should wait for the 90-day review of cybersecurity he’s requested before tweaking any of the Obama administration’s added cybersanctions. Until now, he’s treated questions about Russian hacking as political attacks on his legitimacy; once he’s safely in office, he might be able to consider them more calmly as a question of U.S. security interests. Trump should take his own advice: Deal with Putin from a position of strength, not weakness — and seek good relations only in pursuit of a “good deal,” not as an end in themselves. doyle.mcmanus@latimes.com
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Eric Garcetti and several council members face challengers who have been highlighting public frustration over large-scale development projects. A bruising campaign is underway over a ballot measure that would temporarily halt the approval of some building projects. The proposed ban also follows a series of stories by The Times about the influx of political contributions as development projects are reviewed at City Hall. In October, a Times investigation found that donors with direct and indirect ties to real estate devel-
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not to take money from developers with city projects. School of Law. “It would be a close call for a court.” Ryu, one of the authors of the proposed ban, pledged not to accept campaign contributions from developers with current or upcoming city projects when he ran for office in 2015. The city should ban such donations citywide to restore trust with voters, he said. Still, the proposal may not ultimately cover some of the biggest recipients of developers’ money. A Ryu spokesman said the initiative would probably not apply to city ballot measure committees, which can accept donations of any size, or “behested” donations, which are made to charities or other organizations at an elected official’s request. In addition, one political
consultant said he fears that a prohibition on giving would simply prompt real estate developers to direct their money into “independent expenditure” committees. Those campaign committees cannot coordinate their activities with the candidates they support. They also face no legal limits on how much money they can accept. Those committees would then spend big on behalf of their favored candidates, said political consultant Michael Soneff. Money would shift to committees that lack contribution limits and accountability, he said. Three of the five council members who signed the proposal — Buscaino, Bonin and Koretz — are running in the March 7 election. Bonin
and Koretz, as well as other incumbents, face challengers who have publicly promised not to accept campaign contributions from developers seeking city approval for their projects. Among them is attorney Jesse Max Creed, who is running against Koretz and described the proposed ban as “cynical.” Koretz has long had the opportunity to stop such contributions and is only doing so now during a reelection fight, Creed said. “My campaign is calling Koretz out for his real estate contributions, and now he’s trying to be a born-again good-government person,” he said. Koretz said that as recently as six months ago, the council would not have been able to muster enough votes to carry out a developer donation ban. But the Measure S campaign and The Times’ coverage of developer contributions have fueled a public perception that there is a “pay-to-play culture” at City Hall, he said. Koretz said he does not believe such a culture exists. But it’s time to address the perception, he said. “That’s not a good reputation for the city to have, whether it’s real or not,” he said. david.zahniser @latimes.com emily.alpert@latimes.com
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Trump backers and pro-immigration activists square off over county Office of Immigrant Affairs. By Adam Elmahrek and Maya Lau After a public hearing marked by angry clashes between supporters of President-elect Donald Trump and pro-immigrant activists, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved the creation of a new office that would help immigrants receive county assistance. The Office of Immigrant Affairs would provide a “onestop shop” for those seeking help, according to a statement released by Supervisor Hilda Solis, who along with Supervisor Sheila Kuehl cosponsored the motion creating the office. It hasn’t been determined yet exactly what services the office would offer, but Solis’ office said it would help immigrants find legal representation to fight deportation cases and assist them in identifying other social services. A detailed plan — with a budget and staffing levels — is expected to be proposed later this year. “I want to remind our communities that the county will continue to stand against hate and pro[See Immigration, B7]
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Revived by weeks of rain
Water levels at state’s once-dwindling lakes have risen rapidly By Louis Sahagun, Matt Stevens and Joseph Serna
ANOTHER STORM last weekend helped raise the water level of Mono Lake by at least 6 inches. Above, environmental activist Geoffrey McQuilkin looks out over the lake on Monday.
Surviving the aftermath LAPD will increase training and support for its officers after shootings. B2
MONO LAKE, Calif. — Leaning against a wooden rail, environmental activist Geoffrey McQuilkin took stock of a parched geological wonderland that had been altered by a weekend deluge. The air was still thick with moisture, and this lake’s tributaries were cascading down from surrounding mountains, swollen by cargoes of fresh snowmelt and rain. Frothy whitecaps and wavelets lapped over grass meadows that had been dry ground only a week ago. The lake’s famous tufa formations — for so long a symbol of California’s lack of water — were capped with snow. Similar scenes were playing out at lakes and reservoirs across Northern California as weeks of heavy rain and snow brought them back to life. Throughout the course of California’s nearly six-year drought, the declining water levels at these places became a stark symbol of the state’s water shortage. Now they serve as barometers of the state’s rapidly evolving drought [See Lakes, B5]
Feds will retry Baca after first jury deadlock
STEVE LOPEZ It looked good. It sounded good. The Los Angeles City Council, in the wake of recent Times exposes by David Zahniser and Emily Alpert Reyes on City Hall’s legendary pay-to-play culture, took what seemed to be a positive step Tuesday to limit the influence of campaign donations from developers. But don’t send cards of congratulations or break out the party hats just yet. Just as no amount of Raid can kill all the cockroaches, in politics, money gets where it wants to go. Slam a door, and it finds two windows. So sure, let’s ban donations to City Council members and the mayor from developers who have projects up for review by the city. But I’m going to hazard a guess that such a ban wouldn’t be terribly effective, and I’m not even sure it’ll happen. First, would the system [See Lopez, B5]
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A BREAK on Monday in a series of storms moving across California highlights the snow-covered White Mountains near Crowley Lake.
New obstruction case against former sheriff will include charge of lying to investigators. Gary Coronado Los Angeles Times
REP. XAVIER BECERRA greets Assemblyman Tom Lackey before his confirmation hearing. He was recommended for state attorney general on a 6-3 vote.
Becerra clears 1st hurdle Gov. Brown’s nominee for state attorney general gets Assembly committee’s backing. By Patrick McGreevy SACRAMENTO — An Assembly panel on Tuesday recommended the confirmation of Los Angeles Rep. Xavier Becerra as state attorney general after the nominee pledged to aggressively defend state policies on immigration, civil rights and the environment against potential attacks by President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming adminis-
tration. Before the panel’s 6-3 vote in favor of confirmation, with all Republicans opposed, co-Chairman Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles) told Becerra that he expects the state will become involved in a “long and ferocious and hard-fought legal war” with the federal government. “Now more than ever we need an attorney general who will defend our values and stand up to the next administration’s backward vision for America,” JonesSawyer said during the hearing, denouncing Trump’s campaign rhetoric as “xenophobic.” Gov. Jerry Brown intro-
duced Becerra at the twohour hearing, warning that “there are big battles ahead” and calling his nominee an “outstanding candidate that can certainly champion the causes we believe in.” The nomination still must be acted on by the full Assembly, which is scheduled to vote Friday, as well as the Senate. The Senate Rules Committee will hold a confirmation hearing Jan. 18. Becerra was questioned for more than an hour by members of the Assembly Special Committee on the Office of the Attorney General. He told them he is ready to fight for the state’s values. [See Becerra, B4]
By Joel Rubin Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday that they will retry former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca following a recent mistrial in which a jury nearly cleared him of obstructing an FBI investigation into the county’s jails. The judge in the case also granted a request by the U.S.
attorney’s office to allow prosecutors to include the charge of making false statements to federal authorities in the retrial. U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson previously split that charge from the obstruction and conspiracy charges Baca faced at trial last month. During the two-week trial, prosecutors from the U.S. attorney’s office tried to convince jurors that Baca had played a central role in a scheme carried out by a group of subordinates to thwart an FBI investigation into abuses and corruption by sheriff ’s deputies working [See Baca, B6]
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LEE BACA , right, will return to court Feb. 21 on
allegations he obstructed an FBI probe of county jails.
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Capitol tug of war over a painting
Depiction of police officers as pigs triggers back-and-forth among Congress members. SARAH D. WIRE
WASHINGTON — The painting had been hanging in a Capitol hallway for six months, attracting no public complaints. Then, shortly before the new year, a conservative website published this headline: “Painting of Cops as Pigs Hung Proudly in US Capitol.” The story was picked up by Fox News and raised the ire of several law enforcement associations across the country. Now it’s the subject of a tug of war between House Republicans and some Democrats. Republican representatives have been pulling it off the wall, a Democrat who put it back tried to involve the police, and the speaker of the House has said he’ll overrule the office in charge of the building in order to get rid of the painting. The painting depicts a clash between police and protesters on a street. In it, gun-wielding officers have heads that resemble pigs, while one protester appears to be a panther or wolf, and people on the street hold signs that read “History,” “Justice Now” and “Racism Kills.” A black man hangs from a crucifix, the scales of justice in his hands. The painting was a winner of an annual high school art competition and is among hundreds that line a block-long tunnel used by visitors and members of Congress to travel between the House office buildings
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removed from a Capitol wall by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine) because he found its depictions of police officers as pigs offensive. and the Capitol. Frustrated that the painting remained on the wall, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine) pulled it down last week after it was discussed in a closed-door Republican meeting. He delivered it to the office of Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.), whose constituent painted it. “The U.S. Capitol, especially in this corridor ... is
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Assemblyman says hiring Holder breaks state law
GOP lawmaker blasts move to contract services with ex-U.S. attorney general. MELANIE MASON
SACRAMENTO — Legislative leaders brought in the legal big guns to fend off President-elect Donald Trump when they announced last week they selected former U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. to help craft policy and courtroom strategy against the incoming president. But Republican Assemblyman Kevin Kiley says the new hire is against the law. Kiley, a freshman lawmaker representing the Sacramento suburbs, asserted late last week that by retaining Holder’s firm, Covington & Burling, the Legislature violated the state Constitution. In a letter to the state attorney general’s office, Kiley cites Article VII of the California Constitution, which forbids the state from privately contracting for services that could be rendered “adequately and
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REPS. CEDRIC RICHMOND (D-La.), William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) and Alma Adams (D-N.C.) rehang a painting on Tuesday that was
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competently” by existing civil employees. Kiley notes that the state attorney general’s office consists of more than 1,500 attorneys and professional staff, including a division that coordinates the attorney general’s communications with the Legislature. “In light of these facts, I respectfully ask your legal opinion as to whether the 1,592 attorneys and legal staff at the State Attorney General’s Office can perform ‘adequately and competently’ the legal services for which Covington & Burling has been retained by the Legislature,” Kiley wrote. He requested that the attorney general’s office respond with a legal opinion to his query — a process that could take months. Aides to Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount) dismissed Kiley’s charge, noting the Legislature has retained outside counsel for legal advice in the past. “The Legislature has inherent power to obtain the services of the best resources available to it to understand the implications of public policy in its lawmaking function, including the interaction between state and federal law,” said Anthony Reyes, a spokesman for De León. “The provisions of law requiring a state agency to obtain the consent of the attorney general before employing outside counsel expressly exclude the Legislature.” melanie.mason @latimes.com
not a modern art museum,” Hunter’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper, said Tuesday. “It’s not the right place to have anything that calls attention to police officers as swine.” Clay gathered with members of the Congressional Black Caucus and a handful of other members to hang the painting back up Tuesday morning. “I do not agree or disagree with the painting, but I will fight to protect this young man’s right to express himself,” Clay, whose district includes Ferguson, Mo., told reporters afterward. Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) helped hang the painting back up and said a handful of House members shouldn’t be able to decide willy-nilly what is appropriate art. “It’s not the road we should be going down, and of all the things we should be dealing with, this is ...” Lowenthal said, trailing off. “For them to decide that they now are the censor of the Congress … is totally inappropriate.” Clay said he tried to seek theft charges against Hunter for removing the painting, but Capitol Police wouldn’t take the report. Kasper dismissed threats of theft charges as “grandstanding.” “That’s a punk move,” he said. Hours later, the painting was pulled down twice more, once by a Colorado representative, and a short time later by Reps. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa) and Brian Babin (R-Texas). Both times it was rehung soon after. “We support freedom of speech, but you don’t put something attacking policemen, treating them like pigs,
AFTER Clay and others replaced the painting, Hunter, above, said he would not
remove it again. But other Republican congressmen did, and it was rehung twice.
‘I do not agree or disagree with the painting, but I will fight to protect this young man’s right to express himself.’ — William Lacy Clay, Democratic congressman who rehung the painting done by one of his constituents
here in the Capitol,” Rohrabacher told Roll Call. While the Missouri painting is being criticized for depicting police as pigs, it’s not the only one in the tunnel dealing with race and police. A student painting from Georgia titled “The Rules” depicts two white
officers tearing a black man from his seat at a checkers table and cites a 1930s Alabama law that prohibited black and white people from playing board games together. As the day wore on, members of the Congressional Black Caucus became frustrated: “We may just have to kick somebody's ass and stop them,” caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond (D-La.) told Politico. Former sheriff and Rep. Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) is asking the Architect of the Capitol, the agency responsible for the building and grounds, to remove the painting. Reichert says it violates the competition’s rules, which state that “exhibits depicting subjects of contemporary political controversy or a sensationalistic or gruesome nature are not allowed.”
Hunter, who says he remains friends with Clay, will not personally pull the painting down again, Kasper said. Clay said he’s asked Hunter for an apology. “Sometimes you have to do things like that to draw attention of people and get it taken down,” Kasper said. “Mission accomplished.” House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) told Republicans in a closed-door meeting Tuesday that he and Republican leaders will pull down the painting if the architect chooses not to remove it, according to a staff member in the room who asked not to be named because the person is not permitted to release such information. Hunter also confirmed Ryan’s statement to Politico. sarah.wire@latimes.com
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LAPD bolsters training, support for its officers after shootings
They’ll have to take a refresher before they return to duty, and see psychologists more. KATE MATHER
The Los Angeles Police Department will now require officers who fire their guns on the job to complete training before they return to the field and to meet with department psychologists more often. The changes, approved by the L.A. Police Commission on Tuesday, represent a subtle but significant shift in how the LAPD treats officers after shootings. The civilian board directed top brass last fall to take a fresh look at the training, psychological help and other support officers receive after shootings. The
request was inspired in part by a report prepared for the commission that showed officers at other police agencies often spent more time away from work, in training and with a mental health professional after firing their weapons. Although police commissioners praised the department for the changes, some asked for more. Commission President Matt Johnson said he would like to see more mandatory counseling for officers before they return to work and asked whether they should be kept out of the field longer. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck typically decides whether to return an officer to the field after what’s known as a 72-hour briefing, where he reviews the initial investigation into the encounter, the officer’s history and whether the officer has been cleared by a depart-
ment psychologist. “Frankly, I think that 72 hours is just too short a period after someone has been in a traumatic event, like an officer-involved shooting, to be back in the field,” Johnson said. “I think there should be a longer period of time and a couple of sessions with a counselor to make sure that person is OK and ready to be back.” Beck said he would direct LAPD psychologists to prepare a report on the 72-hour time frame and whether there were suitable alternatives, such as extending the waiting period. “Every individual is different. I’m confident that many people are ready to return in that amount of time, but some may not be,” Beck said after the meeting. “We want to do the right thing for our police officers. We want to keep them safe. We want to keep them men-
tally sound.” Under the new approach, officers must meet with a psychologist two additional times, although officials said the first session would be a few weeks after the shooting and the second a few months after it. Psychologists may still instruct officers to attend extra sessions, officials said. Officers will also be able to take part in a new voluntary program in which they meet with others who have fired their guns on duty. In addition, officers will not be able to return to the field until they have completed a refresher training course that includes a review of LAPD policy and real-life scenarios that could lead to deadly force. Until now, officers could go back before they finished that training. kate.mather@latimes.com
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UCLA professor focus of protests Educator sanctioned in sex harassment case returns to campus but cancels his classes. By Teresa Watanabe A UCLA professor who has been accused of sexual harassment returned to teaching this week, publicly shamed and professionally damaged. History professor Gabriel Piterberg never admitted any wrongdoing in cases involving two former graduate students. But he agreed in a 2014 settlement with UCLA to pay a $3,000 fine, accept a one-quarter suspension without pay, be removed as head of the university’s Center for Near East Studies and attend sexual harassment training. UCLA also imposed restrictions on his behavior, including a threeyear ban on closed-door meetings with individual students. That wasn’t enough for many students, whose noisy protests outside his classroom Monday prompted the cancellation of his two classes. They vowed to continue their protests Wednesday morning when Piterberg’s courses on the Ottoman Empire and Middle East history from 500 to the present meet. “We wanted to send a clear message to the university and the history department that we don’t think someone accused of sexual harassment should be teaching undergraduate classes,” said Melissa Melpignano, a fourth-year doctoral student and member of Bruins Against Sexual Harassment.
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UCLA STUDENTS held a protest last year over the university's handling of sexual harassment complaints
against history professor Gabriel Piterberg. He faced more dissenters when he returned to teaching Monday. UCLA spokeswoman Kathryn Kranhold said Piterberg would continue to teach his classes throughout the quarter but that his lectures would be videotaped for students who prefer not to attend in person. She said students had the right to protest but also to access all academic coursework. All members of the UCLA community share the responsibility to promote the university mission of teaching, research and public service, she added. Piterberg did not respond to requests for comment. The professor, a Middle East specialist who
joined UCLA in 1999, was accused by two female graduate students of repeatedly harassing them over many years by making sexual comments, pressing himself against their bodies and forcing his tongue into their mouths. Nefertiti Takla and Kristen Glasgow filed a federal lawsuit against the University of California in 2015, alleging insufficient action on their complaints. They reached a settlement last September, with one student receiving $350,000 and the other $110,000 and a fellowship to support continued work on her disserta-
tion. The 2014 settlement between UCLA and Piterberg — which involved only Takla and was not publicly released until March 2016 — bars the university from pursing further action with the Academic Senate to oust him or jeopardize his tenure. UCLA also agreed to end its Title IX investigation into the harassment charges without reaching a conclusion. The settlement was widely criticized by students, faculty and staff for what they viewed as weak sanctions and unwarranted secrecy.
UC officials said new reforms have been launched since the Piterberg case. Proposed sanctions of senior leaders and faculty are now evaluated by campus peer review committees to make sure they were commensurate with the misconduct. UCLA also has created a new Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, led by Vice Chancellor Jerry Kang, and hired Kathleen Salvaty, a well-respected civil rights attorney, as its Title IX coordinator. “Since 2014, UCLA has taken significant steps to ensure an effective response to
sexual harassment and sexual violence,” Kranhold said in a statement. “UCLA is committed to maintaining an atmosphere where all students can live and learn free of discrimination, harassment, exploitation, or intimidation.” Viola Ardeni, a fourthyear doctoral candidate in the Department of Italian, said students want more transparency in how cases are handled and resolved, among other things, she said. “To obtain more transparency would be a bigger victory than having (Piterberg) removed,” Ardeni said. Still, students said they intend to resume their protests Wednesday. On Monday, they hung a poster in his classroom saying, “Good morning sexual harasser” and placed fliers about his case on the seats. A campus official removed the fliers and sign before Piterberg arrived for his 8 a.m. class but left intact a message written on the blackboard saying, “If a tenured professor sexually assaults his own students, it’s abuse of power,” Melpignano said. Five students in the classroom stood and held signs calling for his ouster, while dozens of others chanted protests outside his classroom. After about 20 minutes, Piterberg canceled the class. Piterberg’s second class, a survey of Middle East history from 500 to the present, also was also canceled. The Daily Bruin, which reported the story, quoted one student who said he planned to drop his class. teresa.watanabe @latimes.com
Singer’s star is vandalized $28 million in land forfeited in visa case
After New Year’s Eve fiasco, someone drew on Mariah Carey’s Walk of Fame spot. By Veronica Rocha Los Angeles police on Tuesday were trying to find the person who vandalized Mariah Carey’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The vandalism was reported to police Monday after a photograph of the damaged star appeared on Instagram, said Ana Martinez, spokeswoman for the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Someone had scribbled a blue question mark after the singer’s name. Crews removed the question mark and polished Carey’s star. The repairs cost $1,500, Martinez said. Carey made headlines last week after her botched New Year’s Eve performance in Times Square. The televised breakdown happened during the superstar’s performance of her hit “Emotions” on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest” on ABC. During the performance, Carey walked around the stage, sang bits of the song and said they hadn’t re-
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MARIAH CAREY made headlines after her botched New Year’s Eve perform-
ance in Times Square. Her Hollywood Walk of Fame star was vandalized Monday.
hearsed it in sound check. After the performance, Carey and her spokeswoman blamed the problems on technical difficulties. On Sunday, Carey posted a recorded message on Twitter, saying the production team “chose to capitalize on circumstances beyond our control.” “It’s not practical for a singer to sing live and be able to hear themselves properly
in the middle of Times Square with all the noise, the freezing cold, the smoke from the smoke machines, thousands of people celebrating, especially when their ear monitors were not working at all,” she said. “Listen guys, they spoiled me. Thus, it turned into an opportunity to humiliate me and all those who were excited to ring in the new year with me.”
But a Dick Clark Productions spokesperson told The Times that Carey had declined a sound check and should have been able to hear the prerecorded music. Carey said she was taking a break from social media to prepare for her tour but would continue to meet her personal obligations. veronica.rocha @latimes.com
Gift-wrapped drugs lead to charges Man is indicted on smuggling allegations after heroin was found in his luggage at LAX. By Veronica Rocha A Los Angeles man was indicted on suspicion of trying to smuggle heroin wrapped in Christmasthemed paper onto a flight departing Los Angeles International Airport, federal authorities said. A federal grand jury Tuesday indicted James Mitchell, 25, on one count of
possession with intent to distribute heroin on a Frontier Airlines flight to Cincinnati, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. If convicted, Mitchell faces up to life in federal prison, federal prosecutors said. Mitchell was arrested Dec. 21, more than a week after authorities discovered 13 pounds of heroin — estimated to have a street value of $2.1 million — inside his luggage, prosecutors said. After Mitchell checked in for his flight Dec. 10, he also checked a piece of luggage, according to federal prosecutors. As the luggage went through an image scan, se-
curity workers were “alerted to an unknown dense material” inside the bag, prosecutors said. After inspecting the luggage, security workers found “six packages of a suspicious gray brittle concrete-like substance,” according to the attorney’s office. One of the packages had a vinegar odor and triggered a closure in the airport’s Terminal 3 while it was examined by crews to determine whether it posed a chemical threat. Meanwhile, Frontier Airlines staffers called Mitchell, who told them he was in the restroom because he was ill,
prosecutors said. Instead, surveillance cameras showed Mitchell on his cellphone leaving the terminal, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. He was also seen removing a beanie from his head, changing his sweater and walking away from the airport, prosecutors said. Mitchell worked for Inglewood-based Aero Port Services and had access to secure areas in the airport, prosecutors said. He is scheduled to appear Jan. 18 in U.S. District Court. veronica.rocha @latimes.com
The former wife of a fugitive Chinese government official will forfeit an estimated $28 million in San Gabriel Valley property after pleading guilty this week to defrauding immigration officials as part of a scheme to escape to the U.S. with stolen Chinese public funds, the U.S. attorney’s office announced Tuesday. Shilan Zhao, 53, of Newcastle, Wash., falsely claimed that she was still married to her former husband, Jianjun Qiao, 53, during the application process for an EB-5 visa, a program that allows immigrant investors to obtain visas for themselves and family members in exchange for $500,000 or $1-million investments in U.S. enterprises. Zhao and Qiao were once married, but they registered a divorce in China in 2001, according to court records. Zhao also lied about the source of the money she was investing as part of the visa program, according to a news release announcing the guilty plea. She claimed the money came from her ownership stakes in two flour companies, Shoukou Luwang Flour Co., and Huaiyang County Huihua Flour Co., but she had no involvement in either, according to court records. Qiao, who is still at large, is the former director of the Zhoukou Municipal Grain Reserve, a Chinese government agency responsible for purchasing and selling grain in Henan province, according to a federal grand jury indictment unsealed in 2015. Qiao made illicit deals with the Chinese government’s grain and used the embezzled proceeds to buy property in the U.S., the indictment said. When Qiao and Zhao came to the U.S. in 2009, federal investigators say, they transferred about $4 million
in embezzled funds from China to banks in the U.S. A federal grand jury indicted Zhao and Qiao in 2014 on charges of transporting stolen money and lying on their visa applications. Zhao was arrested in 2015 in Washington. Qiao is now third on a list of 100 most-wanted corrupt officials that was created in 2015 as part of a crackdown on Chinese government corruption called Operation Sky Net. Two Chinese law enforcement agencies, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China, assisted the investigation, but U.S. attorney’s office spokesman Thom Mrozek declined to say how the agencies were involved. As part of the plea deal, Zhao will forfeit ownership of a home in Newcastle, a condo in Flushing, N.Y., and four properties in Monterey Park: Hong Kong Supermarket, a Best Western hotel, an apartment complex on Chandler Avenue and the empty lot next to it. The properties will be used to pay restitution and whatever monetary penalties a judge rules appropriate, according to the release. The Washington home was purchased with stolen money, according to the indictment. And Mrozek said some of the money from the illicit grain deals was also used to purchase the Monterey Park properties. County records show the properties have a combined assessed value of more than $28 million. Zhao, who has agreed to assist the ongoing investigation, faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. Her attorney, Kirk Davis, declined to comment Tuesday. Zhao’s sentencing is scheduled for November. frank.shyong@latimes.com Twitter: @frankshyong
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Child porn reporting law upheld on appeal Court affirms tossing of suit over a revision requiring therapists to report patients who admit viewing images. By Alene Tchekmedyian Mark Boster Los Angeles Times
THE SHOOTING of Alfred Olango, who was unarmed, was deemed justified by the San Diego County district attorney’s office. Above, a vigil is held in front of the El Cajon Police Department after the shooting last year.
El Cajon officer won’t face charges in fatal shooting By Dana Littlefield
SAN DIEGO — The fatal shooting of Alfred Olango — an unarmed black man — by El Cajon police last year was justified, officials said Tuesday, and the officer involved will not face criminal charges. In making the announcement, San Diego County Dist. Atty. Bonnie Dumanis said: “The law recognizes police officers are often forced to make split-second decisions in circumstances that are tense, uncertain and rapidly evolving. As prosecutors, we have an ethical duty to follow the law and only charge individuals when we have proof beyond a reasonable doubt. “The only reasonable conclusion was the officer’s actions were justified.”
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Olango have filed wrongful-death claims. The decision came more than three months after Olango, 38, was shot during an altercation in the parking lot behind a taco shop in a strip mall. According to police, the officers who confronted Olango on Sept. 27 believed
he was armed with a weapon — which was later determined to be an e-cigarette device. The day of the shooting, Olango’s sister had called police saying she wanted help for him because he wasn’t “acting like himself.” Others who called 911 said a man was acting erratically and walking into traffic. Two officers approached Olango in the parking lot, one with a gun drawn, the other with a Taser. Cellphone and security camera video released by authorities showed Olango backing up against a white pickup, then pulling a shiny object from his front pants pocket and aiming it at one of the officers. Officer Josh McDaniel fired the Taser and Officer Richard Gonsalves fired his gun, fatally wounding the
Ugandan refugee. Olango had had prior encounters with law enforcement. Because of drug and firearms convictions, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had twice tried to deport him. The Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network, a civil rights group, and the Rev. Shane Harris, president of the organization’s San Diego chapter, have called on the Justice Department to investigate the shooting. Olango’s relatives also have filed wrongful-death claims, which can be precursors to lawsuits, with the city. dana.littlefield @sduniontribune.com Twitter: @danalittlefield Littlefield writes for the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Becerra receives panel’s backing for post [Becerra, from B1] He told the panel that as the son of hardworking immigrants, he is committed to fighting any federal policy that takes away the rights of Californians who are playing by the rules. “As California’s chief law enforcement officer and legal advocate, I am going to be ready to deploy those values and life lessons to advance and defend the rights — big and small — of all Californians,” Becerra told the panel. “Everyone who plays by California’s rules deserves to know, ‘We’ve got your back.’ ” The 12-term congressman said he supports the state’s policies protecting the environment and civil rights. He said he opposes racial profiling by police and the stop-and-frisk policies of some cities. With Trump proposing mass deportations and registration of immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries, Becerra said, “the head winds from outside of California could threaten the basic rights of so many families like the one I grew up in.” “At risk is the notion that anyone who, like my parents and yours, works hard and builds this country can dream to own their own home, send their kids to college, earn a dignified retire-
A California appeals court has affirmed a judge’s decision to throw out a lawsuit challenging a state law requiring therapists to report patients who admit to viewing child pornography to the police, capping a twoyear legal battle over patient privacy rights. Two therapists and a substance abuse counselor who treat sexual addiction sued the state in 2015, arguing that changes to the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act violate a patient’s constitutionally protected right to privacy and deter them from getting help. The state countered that a patient’s right to privacy is outweighed by a far more compelling interest in protecting sexually exploited children. A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge tossed the case, ruling that there’s no “zone of privacy” for illegal conduct and that patients who seek therapy for downloading child pornography do so knowing they’ll be reported and may be prosecuted. In its ruling Monday, a three-judge panel for the 2nd District Court of Appeal agreed, stating that the conduct is not entitled to constitutional protection. “Not only is it illegal, the conduct is reprehensible, shameful and abhorred by any decent and normal standards of society,” the ruling stated, adding that the Legislature long ago determined that child abuse
should be reported to authorities. “There is no egregious breach of social norms in requiring reports of such criminal activity.” The state law is “reasonably calculated to further the purpose of protecting abused and sexually exploited children,” the opinion stated. Michael Alvarez, a Torrance therapist who was one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, was disappointed by the ruling, which he said endangers children by discouraging patients from seeking treatment. “There’s this whole category of people who want help and need help and aren’t going to get help,” Alvarez said, adding that he has stopped treating people who are attracted to children. Numerous patients admit to downloading and viewing child pornography but don’t present a danger to children, he said. Instead, they feel repulsed by the urges and seek help. “Professionals with my background and my expertise no longer have clinical discretion,” he said. “I cannot say, ‘I believe this person, even though they’re looking at child pornography, is not a danger to children.’ ” The law, which took effect in 2015, amended the definition of “sexual exploitation” that must be reported to include the acts of downloading, streaming or accessing child pornography electronically. That includes teens who exchange nude photographs of each other. Previously, therapists were required to alert authorities when there was a reasonable suspicion that a person knowingly developed, duplicated, printed or exchanged child porn. alene.tchekmedyian @latimes.com Twitter: @AleneTchek
Brother of terror shooter pleads guilty Gary Coronado Los Angeles Times
REP. XAVIER BECERRA pledged to aggressively defend state policies on immi-
gration, civil rights and the environment against “federal intrusion.” ment,” he said. Asked about threats of cuts in federal funding to socalled sanctuary cities, Becerra said cities will not protect violent criminals. “ ‘Sanctuary’ is simply saying we are not going to go out there and do the bidding of an aggressive immigration enforcement agency.” Becerra noted that federal law, on occasion, preempts state law, but he said he will be vigilant in ensuring that the state’s laws are preserved to the extent possible. “If we have laws in place, we have every right to protect those laws,” Becerra said. “And while the federal government has preemption authority in most cases against the state for matters that are federal in nature, the federal government would have to prove that what it’s doing is federal in nature and that it isn’t violating the state’s rights to enact laws that improve the welfare of its people.
“You will find me being as aggressive as possible working with all of you to figure out ways that we can make sure there is no federal intrusion in areas that are really left to the state in the U.S. Constitution.” Republican members called on Becerra to make fighting crime his top priority and said they had concerns about the attorney general failing to defend the rights of gun owners and religious institutions facing interference by the state government. Assemblyman James Gallagher (R-Plumas Lake) complained about religious nonprofits being told by the state they must inform clients of the availability of abortion services even if it is against their beliefs. Becerra tried to lighten the mood in the face of deeply philosophical questions. “You’re getting into some subjects that probably require a few beers,” Becerra
said, offering to buy Gallagher a round so they could talk about weighty issues. Some 50 people testified, with support coming from groups such as the Sierra Club, Los Angeles Police Protective League, Equality California and several labor unions. Only two people objected to the nomination, including an American Independent Party member who questioned whether Becerra had enough years serving as an attorney to be qualified. Craig DeLuz of the Firearms Policy Coalition said his group wants a state attorney general who can protect the constitutional rights of gun owners. “Unfortunately, based on the record, we simply do not believe that this nominee is capable of doing that,” DeLuz told the panel. The National Rifle Assn. also opposed Becerra in a letter. patrick.mcgreevy @latimes.com
Syed Raheel Farook admits role in a marriage fraud case unrelated to ’15 attack. By Paloma Esquivel and Richard Winton Syed Raheel Farook — whose younger brother was one of the two terrorists who killed 14 people at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino in 2015 — pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to conspiracy to commit a crime in relation to a marriage fraud case for which he was charged months after the attack. The FBI arrested Farook; his wife, Tatiana Farook; and her sister, Mariya Chernykh, on marriage fraud charges in April. The case centered on Chernykh’s marriage to Enrique Marquez Jr., who was accused of buying the weapons used by Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, in the Dec. 2, 2015, attack. Chernykh is a Russian citizen, and prosecutors said she married Marquez to obtain legal U.S. residency, even though the two did not live together and never had a marriage ceremony. Syed Raheel Farook and
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faces a maximum of five years in federal prison. his wife helped the couple plan and execute the fraud, prosecutors said. The case against the elder Farook, his wife and sister-in-law was not related to the Dec. 2 shootings. But authorities learned of the marriage scheme in the aftermath of the attack. Farook, who is free on bail, is scheduled to be sentenced in November. He faces a maximum of five years in federal prison under the charge. His attorney, Ron Cordova, declined to comment on why Farook agreed to plead guilty. paloma.esquivel @latimes.com richard.winton @latimes.com
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Rising water levels at state lakes [Lakes, from B1] picture. Lake Tahoe has risen 12 inches in just the last two weeks as the storms have dumped 33.6 billion gallons of water into the massive landmark, which measures 72 miles around and has a capacity for 37 trillion gallons of water. As of Tuesday morning, 154 of the largest reservoirs tracked by the California Department of Water Resources had filled to about 97% of their collective average for the day, said Maury Roos, a longtime state hydrologist. Just a year ago, many were at or below 50% of average. The storms dumped a combined 1.3 million acrefeet of water in those reservoirs from Jan. 1 to Tuesday, Roos said. That’s about 423 billion gallons of water — enough to serve more than 2.5 million families for a year. The turnaround at the 1million-year-old Mono Lake and its ecosystem has been particularly dramatic. Less than two years ago, it was within 2 feet of the level that state officials say threatens the alpine ecosystem at the base of the eastern Sierra Nevada. Officials worried that there would be so little water that coyotes would roam on the dry lake bed and go after the large gull colony there. Less than two weeks ago, hydrologists had worried that it would take a wetterthan-average winter to keep this drought-stricken body of saltwater at a level high enough to avoid having to halt diversions of its Sierra Nevada snowmelt to L.A. If the level drops below 6,377 feet above sea level, the city cannot export water from here. The California State Water Resources Control Board established the limit in 1994 to resolve a dis-
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THE BOARDWALK at the Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve splits exposed tufa towers near a spot where the lake level was in 1941.
pute between environmentalists seeking to protect the lake’s wildlife and the city 350 miles away defending its long-held water rights. Prospects for averting the crisis brightened significantly over the weekend after another storm drenched the slopes surrounding this high desert lake east of Yosemite National Park with enough rain and snow to raise its level by at least
Police kill man; woman found dead By Matt Hamilton Los Angeles police fatally shot a man late Tuesday afternoon during a confrontation downtown, authorities said. The shooting occurred about 4:50 p.m. on Hope Street between 11th and 12th streets, according to LAPD Capt. Andrew Neiman. Officers were flagged down by an L.A. City Department of Transportation officer and directed toward the man, who was wielding a large kitchen knife. The man was struck by gunfire from at least one officer. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Neiman said. No officers were injured. The officers were wearing body cameras at the time of
the shooting, Neiman said. As police investigated along Hope Street, which was closed to traffic between 11th and 12th streets, a woman arrived and notified officers of a dead woman in a nearby apartment. Officers went to an apartment complex in the 1100 block of Flower Street, one block from the shooting, and found a woman in her 40s who had died “of an obvious homicide,” Neiman said. The proximity of the slaying to the confrontation with the knife-wielding man raised suspicion. “At this point, we don’t know if they are connected, but we are looking at the potential for that,” Neiman said. matt.hamilton @latimes.com
6 inches. Now McQuilkin, executive director of the Mono Lake Committee, a nonprofit group organized to save and protect the bowlshaped ecosystem, said, “The worst-case scenario is probably not going to happen.... These weather events have put us all on a different track. Who knows what the rest of the winter will bring?” Many lakes and reservoirs have been slowly rising since October as Northern California saw increases in rain and snow. But January has been particularly wet thanks to “atmospheric river” storms. Jana Frazier, a tour guide for the Department of Water Resources at Lake Oroville, has a view of the dam and the reservoir from her office. The numbers tell part of the story: The lake has risen more than 90 feet since December, she said — 21 feet during the 24-hour span between Saturday and Sunday alone. But seeing the change in person is even more striking. Prior to this weekend’s storm, officials were launching boats from the bottom of one ramp. Water had risen to the top of the ramp by Tuesday morning, Frazier said. When Frazier returns to the ramp Wednesday, she expects to find that the parking area with the boat launch will be underwater and officials will have to move to a different ramp on higher ground. “It’s really weird,” Frazier said. “We’ve been so low in water for so long, it seems strange to drive across the
Gary Coronado Los Angeles Times
FOLSOM LAKE continued to rise as the Folsom Dam released water into the
American River on Monday. The lake had risen 13 feet since Sunday. dam and see it almost full.” Lake Oroville, Lake Shasta and other reservoirs in Northern California are key pieces of the state’s water system, which moves the resource from the Sierra Nevada to cities and farmlands. Although the recent rains are making a dent, officials said it’s still too early to say the drought is over. Rain and snow are expected to continue through Thursday, with some higher elevations expected to see up to 20 inches of snow over the course of the week. Several key rivers have overflowed, and more flooding is expected. In Sonoma County,
about 3,000 residents were asked to evacuate as the Russian River swelled, damaging some homes. Along the Cosumnes River in the town of Wilton, about 2,000 people were told to move to higher ground. The death toll from the storm also rose. A 20-yearold man was found dead Monday inside an overturned car submerged in a creek in Novato, authorities said. Three other deaths — including a woman who was killed by a fallen tree — are also believed to be tied to the storms. For all the water that has flowed into Lake Tahoe, the National Weather Service
said the lake was still below its long-term average for winter. Which is why Chuck Self isn’t batting an eye at the conditions. The 51-year Lake Tahoe resident, who runs Chuck’s Charter Fishing, said “the lake has come up, no doubt.” But historically, “this is absolutely nothing.” louis.sahagun @latimes.com matt.stevens@latimes.com joseph.serna@latimes.com Sahagun reported from Mono Lake, Serna and Stevens from Los Angeles. Times staff writer Paige St. John contributed to this report from Truckee, Calif.
Developers’ money not easy to quell [Lopez, from B1] be any cleaner if a developer could still make a donation several months before or after a project is in play? And as City Council members David Ryu, Joe Buscaino, Paul Krekorian, Paul Koretz and Mike Bonin noted in their motion for the drafting of a new law by the city Ethics Commission, part of the challenge will be to define “developers and their principals.” Would a developer’s spouse be banned from writing a check to a councilman or mayor, or a candidate? Would the developer’s employees, corporate partners, affiliated LLCs, lawyers, architects, consultants, neighbors, cousins, friends and golf partners also be banned, and if not, can anything really be accomplished? If a recent ruling by the state Fair Political Practices Commission is any indication, it’s not so easy to stop the flow of money. Pismo Beach City Councilman Erik Howell — also a member of the California Coastal Commission — received a $1,000 donation in 2015 for his Pismo reelection bid. It came from the business and
domestic partner of a powerful consultant with dozens of clients whose projects need approval from the Coastal Commission. Shortly after receiving the donation, Howell had dinner with the consultant and voted in favor of a project she represented. The deal, as I noted recently, stank worse than a bucket of dead clams. But the FPPC ruled that the donor did not herself represent the client whose project was in play, and there was no evidence her $1,000 was reimbursed by her company. Case closed. Now back to L.A. There are good and bad developers, and good and bad developments, here in a city where public officials have failed to come up with coherent planning guidelines, inviting chaos and influence-peddling. There are also good and bad development foes, some of whom write checks to politicians, as do members of building trades unions. Would a donation ban on developers, and no one else, be fair or effective in a city where it’s legal for lobbyists to host fundraisers for
elected officials and then do business before them? Regardless of the answers to all those questions, there’s a bigger reason the impact of this proposal would be practically nil. First of all, an individual developer can only write a $700 check to a candidate. But there are other ways to apply the grease, with no limits on donation amounts and arguably less transparency. You can make a lasting impression on an elected official by writing a fat check to his or her pet project, or to a ballot initiative he or she supports, or to independent expenditure committees that support or attack candidates and causes. The U.S. Supreme Court has opened the mother’s milk spigot wide, creating a national cesspool. When it comes to money and influence in politics, there’s no need to break the law. The biggest threat to good government is what’s perfectly legal. As Zahniser reported late last month, developer Rick Caruso’s charitable foundation has provided $125,000 to a nonprofit fund
set up by L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti. And Caruso’s companies gave $200,000 to Measure M, the transportation sales tax supported by Garcetti. And by the way, Caruso wants Garcetti and City Council members — many of whom he’s donated to — to greenlight a 20-story building on a Beverly Grove site where the current height limit is 45 feet. More from our man Dave Z.: Westfield, the mall people, want to build a $1.5billion project in the San Fernando Valley, and they gave $950,000 to two Garcetti initiatives. Twentieth Century Fox Film wants to add 1.1 million square feet to its Century City facilities, and Fox’s related companies have plowed $1.25 million into the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles and the transportation initiative Garcetti supported. In L.A., a ban on $700 donations by developers would be about as effective as a Band-Aid on organ cancer. So are we utterly helpless, with no better way to fumigate City Hall?
Yes and no. At the very least, says Jessica Levinson, Loyola Law School professor and president of the L.A. City Ethics Commission, we can shine a much brighter light on who’s writing checks to whom. “It would be useful to know if a City Council person gets 50% of his or her donations from dentists, or from real estate developers … something that allows people to infer something about the politician,” Levinson said. But that information isn’t readily available. “You look at the city’s Ethics website and it’s unbelievably outdated,” said City Controller Ron Galperin. “It was state of the art for 1984.” What we need, he said, is “radical transparency.” “There are some amazing tools out there that will help you connect the dots and know who’s giving, what their associates are doing, what projects they have,” said Galperin. Taxpayers should be able to go to the city Ethics Commission website and get that information easily, he said, and “there’s no good reason it shouldn’t be avail-
able in a day or two” instead of the months it now takes. “And then elected officials can decide if they want the cloud of a certain contribution to be over them, and developers, knowing everything’s going to be out there for everyone to see … can [decide] whether they really want to make that contribution.” In the last line of their motion for a ban on developer donations Tuesday, council members did ask for the Ethics Commission to improve transparency and report on the cost of “an accessible and easy-tonavigate website.” “If I could get some budget money to work on this with Ethics, I would love to do so,” said Galperin, adding that it wouldn’t cost a fortune for a serious upgrade. I’ve got an idea. Developers and other high rollers have donated millions to the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles, which is always looking for a good cause. Could there be a better one than cleaning up City Hall? steve.lopez@latimes.com
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Baca faces a retrial in FBI obstruction case [Baca, from B1] as jailers. Baca’s lawyers countered he had been unaware of the ploy. The panel deliberated for days, with all but one of the 12 jurors ultimately voting to acquit Baca. After the panel announced it was deadlocked, Anderson declared the mistrial. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney declined to comment on the decision. Baca’s attorney, Nathan Hochman, said, “The government will make its decisions based on whatever calculations it wants to make. Traditionally, many 11-to-1 cases haven’t been retried.” The retrial is scheduled to begin Feb. 21. Although it offered only a momentary reprieve for Baca, the verdict dealt a setback for U.S. Atty. Eileen M. Decker and the prosecutors from her office’s Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section that pursued the 74year-old former sheriff. Before leveling charges against Baca, Assistant U.S. Atty. Brandon Fox, who heads the anti-corruption unit, had methodically worked his way through the group of rank-and-file deputies and supervisors who were accused of having roles in the obstruction effort. In all, nine people have been convicted or have pleaded guilty, including former Undersheriff Paul Tanaka, who ran much of the sprawling agency’s day-to-day operations and was accused of spearheading the campaign to derail the FBI jail investi-
Mark Boster Los Angeles Times
A MISTRIAL was declared last month after all but one of the 12 jurors voted to
acquit former L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca, center, in the obstruction case. gation. At last month’s trial, Fox attempted to show that Baca was the “heartbeat” of the obstruction operation and had kept abreast of the effort as it unfolded over six weeks in 2011. The prosecutor argued that deputies carried out orders to conceal from agents the whereabouts of an inmate who was working as an informant, pressured other deputies not to cooperate with the inquiry and tried to intimidate the lead FBI agent by threatening her with arrest. Few of the government’s witnesses, however, testified
to direct interactions with Baca during the time of the alleged obstruction, and there was less hard evidence that implicated the former sheriff than his underlings. Jurors, except for the lone holdout, believed the case was weak and circumstantial. Fox and Decker had tried to avoid taking Baca to trial, opting to strike a plea deal with him early last year that called for Baca to admit to a less serious charge of making false statements to federal investigators during an interview. In exchange, Baca would serve no more than
six months in prison. Anderson, who had handed down stiff sentences in the previous trials, rejected the deal as too lenient and made clear he intended to sentence Baca to significantly more time behind bars. Baca chose to withdraw his guilty plea and take his chances at a trial. In trying to convince Anderson that the deal was appropriate, Fox acknowledged in court papers that the government’s case against Baca was weaker than the one against Tanaka and more circumstantial. Despite that assessment
and the lopsided verdict in the first trial, it was not surprising the government opted to press ahead with a retrial, legal experts said. Miriam Krinsky, a former federal prosecutor who led a commission on violence in the county jails and who has closely followed the trial, said the U.S. attorney’s aggressive prosecutions of the lower-level sheriff ’s officials meant there was little choice but to keep the pressure on Baca. “Fairness and equity demanded them to give it another go,” she said. And attorney Ken Julian, another former assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted former Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona on corruption charges, said it would have been unusual if Decker had backed off. “The U.S. attorney’s approach to the high-level public officials has always been to go after them hard,” Julian said. “So on that level, it is not a surprise they are taking another shot at him.” Heading into the first trial, Baca, who is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, faced a charge of making false statements to investigators — the charge to which he had pleaded guilty — as well as the conspiracy and obstruction charges. Baca’s attorney, Nathan Hochman, announced that he planned to use Baca’s deteriorating mind as a defense against the lying charge. That led the judge to
raise concerns that jurors’ view of Baca would be unduly tainted by testimony about the disease. At the judge’s urging, prosecutors moved to divide the case and have a separate jury decide later on the false statements charge. Although the decision kept any mention of Baca’s illness out of the trial, it also prevented prosecutors from making the case to jurors that Baca had lied to investigators to cover up obstruction efforts. Those restrictions had hamstrung the government’s case, Fox said Tuesday as he asked Anderson to include the false statements charge in the retrial. The judge readily granted the request. Although he had initially been opposed to the idea of severing the lying charge, Hochman on Tuesday tried to persuade Anderson not to rejoin the charges in a single trial. He told the judge the government was making the move purely for “strategic reasons” and was acting in bad faith. Anderson cut the attorney off, saying, “The matter is closed.” Hochman’s objections were strategic as well. During the first trial, he successfully hammered on the idea that Baca was a transparent leader as sheriff with nothing to hide from federal investigators. That argument will be more difficult to make in the face of the lying charge. joel.rubin@latimes.com
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County creates agency to help immigrants [Immigration, from B1] vide exceptional aid for our immigrant individuals,” Solis said in a statement. “This is one of the many steps we are taking towards protecting the immigrant communities that are so essential to Los Angeles County.” Tuesday’s action came weeks after the county set aside $3 million in a legal assistance fund for immigrants facing deportation. That funding is part of a joint effort between the county and the city of L.A., where leaders have also vowed to resist any federal plan to deport millions of people. The city is committing $2 million to the fund. The hearing reflected how divisive the issue is, even in a county with many immigrants and which overwhelming voted against Trump. The Migration Policy Institute estimates that 1
Al Seib Los Angeles Times
L.A. COUNTY Supervisors Sheila Kuehl, left, and
Hilda Solis, shown in December 2015, co-sponsored the motion creating the Office of Immigrant Affairs.
million of the 11 million residing in the country illegally live in L.A. County. During his campaign, Trump promised to deport millions of immigrants in the country illegally and to erect a wall along the Mexican
border. His populist candidacy energized many from the Republican Party’s base but inspired fear and protests from those opposed to his run for the presidency. His election stunned many, and soon cities, coun-
ties and states with largely Democratic voters, including L.A. County, promised to declare their jurisdictions as sanctuaries for immigrants. On Tuesday, supporters of Trump and those who back immigrant rights shouted complaints from the audience about the failings of county government, though for different reasons. Trump supporters accused supervisors of harboring and abetting people violating federal immigration law, while immigrant rights activists called for the county to end all cooperation with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some Trump supporters said immigrants had brought drugs and violence into their neighborhoods and should be deported. “Legal assistance for illegals is one of the most insane statements I can think
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Chinen, Yoshio. Age 85 passed away on January 7, 2017. Beloved father of Christine (Chris) Richard and Craig Chinen; grandfather of Heather (Tony) Park and Michelle Yamashita; greatgrandfather of Hailey Park; brother of Sakaye Nomura of Hawaii. He is also survived by many other relatives here and in Hawaii. Memorial service will be held on Wednesday, January 18, 2 p.m. at Green Hills Memorial Park Chapel, 27501 S. Western Ave., Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. The family requests Aloha attire. In lieu of flowers, a donation to the National Parkinson’s Foundation is appreciated. http://www.parkinson. org www.fukuimortuary.com 213-626-0441
April 15, 1942 - January 6, 2017 Peter Bayley O’Brien, Esq., 74, died on Friday, January 6, 2017 in Burbank, California. Born in Independence, CA to Marcus and Norma O’Brien, Peter grew up in North Hollywood, graduating from North Hollywood H.S. in 1960. He went on to attend the Univ. of Southern California and Southwestern Univ. School of Law, earning his J.D. and practiced law ever since. He had a long term law practice in Beverly Hills, CA, Bauer, O’Brien & Bernstein, and then on his own at the Law Offices of Peter B. O’Brien in Los Angeles, CA. Peter is survived by his wife, Laura O’Brien, Peter’s two children, Mark O’Brien and Megan O’Brien, and four grandchildren, Adam, Griffin, Natalie and Emma, along with his extended family from Laura’s side, the Duenckels. Laura’s sister, Kelly Duenckel, practiced law with Peter. Whether through divine intervention or pure luck, Peter and Laura met running in the North Hollywood Park, CA in 1978. They married on January 2, 1983 and enjoyed a wonderful 34 year marriage, full of mutual love, respect, and “no regrets”. Peter most enjoyed hiking and gazing out at the meadow behind his home in his beloved Lake Tahoe. He and Laura hiked every weekend in the Hollywood Hills with a group of friends that continually grew in numbers, in large part due to Peter’s charm and keen interest in others. Peter will be remembered by his family and friends as a man who was generous, knowledgeable, could tell a good tale, happy, and full of love. In his practice, Peter was a fierce defender of those in need, many times taking on lost causes because the person simply needed help. Funeral services will be held Sunday, January 15, 2017 at Forest Lawn, 6300 Forest Lawn Drive, with a viewing from 1-4pm and the memorial service at 5pm.
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of,” said Betty Retama, a member of the pro-Trump groups known as We the People Rising and America First Latinos. Immigration activists praised the county’s move to create an immigration affairs office, calling it an important effort at stopping “Trump’s deportation machine.” “Despite their being loud, they’re on the wrong side of history,” said Andres Kwon in response to outbursts from Trump supporters. “We need you to be on the right side of history.” Board Chairman Mark Ridley-Thomas grew so frustrated by discord that he ordered every member of the public out of the board chambers, and convened a closed session. “I think we’ve had more than enough,” he said as he had the room cleared. When supervisors
nakatsu, Mary
Cunningham, helen L.
September 19, 1926 - December 18, 2016
Beloved wife of V. Richard Cunningham, loving mother of Mary E., Thomas J., IV, Janet M. Cunningham and Catherine M. (James) Hamm. She was the sole survivor among her 7 siblings from Bradford, Pennsylvania. She is also survived by four wonderful grandchildren, Megan, Kevin, Justin and Sarah Hamm. Soon after moving to L.A., while working as a talent payroll supervisor at CBS (Television City on Fairfax), she met Dick Cunningham through the Young People’s Club at St. Ambrose. They were later married by Bishop Manning at St. Gregory Church. As she was quite fond of her job and co-workers, she remained an active member of the CBS “FROGS” Alumnae Group for decades. As a devoted mother, Helen was involved in the Mother’s Club at Cathedral Chapel, (18 yrs), Notre Dame Academy (12 yrs) and Loyola High School. In her spare time she was an active member of the Good Shepherd Guild, Holy Family Guild and enjoyed her Knights of Columbus bowling group. Mass of Christian Burial 11 am Thurs., January 12, 2017 at Cathedral Chapel (La Brea – Olympic) Private Interment. In lieu of flowers, Donations may be made to The GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER for Women (1640 Rockwood St., Los Angeles, CA 90026) or ST. JOHN OF GOD HOSP. (2468 w. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, 90006, CA) GATES, KINGSLEY, GATES Culver City (310) 837-7121 www.gateskingsley. com
MaruMoto, Mary
Mary Sumiko (Wada) Marumoto 102 was born on Dec. 24, 1914 in Redlands Ca. and passed away in Chula Vista, Ca on Dec. 27, 2016. She graduated Redlands High School in 1932. Mary lovingly cared for children at the Japanese Shonien Children’s Home in Los Angeles, Ca from 1932 through 1935. She is survived by her daughters Jeanne (Bill) Elyea, Allyne (Les) Tachiki, Linda McLemore, Joyce Kelly, son Steven, 11 grandchildren, 10 great grandchildren, many nieces and nephews. Brothers Frank, Henry and Robert Wada. Predeceased by Brothers Jack, Ted, sisters Fumiko Togino, Bessie Doiguchi and Helen Nakayama Memorial Service will be held on Saturday January 14, 2017 at the First United Methodist Church, 1200 East H St. Chula Vista, Ca at 11:00 AM.
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NAKATSU, MARY. Age 92, passed away on January 3, 2017. Predeceased by her beloved husband, George on December 27, 2016; she is survived by her children, Lynn (Mike) Ito, Wayne (Karen) Nakatsu, and Gaye (Bob) Tsudama; grandchildren, Kristen, Eric and Shawna Ito, and Geoff (Mickie), Kylie and Bryan Tsudama; greatgranddaughter, Meisa Tsudama; she is also survived by nieces, nephews and other relatives. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, January 18, 10:30 a.m. at Redondo Beach Church of Christ 6122 Pacific Coast Highway in Redondo Beach. www.fukuimortuary.com 213-626-0441
Serizawa, emi
Serizawa, Emi, age 81, passed away on January 8, 2016. She is survived by her beloved husband, Yoichi Serizawa; children, Julie (Kevin) Hubbard and Randy (LeeAnn) Serizawa; grandchildren, Trent and Katelyn Serizawa; brothers, Kyo and Kanya (Judy) Okamoto; she is also survived by nieces, nephews and other relatives. Memorial services will be held on Saturday, January 21, 11 a.m. at Centenary United Methodist Church 300 S. Central Ave. in Los Angeles. Free valet parking is available at the church. The family kindly requests no flowers. www.fukuimortuary.com 213-626-0441
siener, Paul
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September 30, 1921 - January 8, 2017
Eden Memorial Park, Eternal Light Chapel on Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 1:00 PM. Services provided by Chevra Kadisha.
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Zigrang, D.D.S., richard Charles December 28, 1929 - January 3, 2017
Wesolik, kenneth Francis May 10, 1931 - January 2, 2017
Husband, Father, Grandfather and great American patriot, Ken passed away on January 2, 2017 in the embrace of his family and friends in Manhattan Beach, California. Born in Belleville, Illinois, he was the son of immigrants from Prussia (eastern Germany). In time for high school years, the family moved to Berkeley, California, where he subsequently attended the University of California and obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Political Sciences as a Golden Bear. After school, he spent five years in the US Army as a Tank Commander, Armor Officer and finally military intelligence. While in the Army, he met his wife, Faye Hicks, who together had four children; Kenneth Jr., David, Patricia and Stuart. Learning Czech and German in the Army led him ultimately to work in the Central Intelligence Agency. Ken had a very successful, 35-year career in the CIA, with significant accomplishments relative to Cold War issues. He advanced quickly to the ranks of senior management. In October 1989, he received the Distinguished Intelligence Medal from then Director William Webster for major contributions to the mission of the agency and the country. Always a consummate professional and true American, he was driven to serve his country with great pride.
He is survived by his wife, Betty Shaw; children David, Patricia and Stuart Wesolik; son in-law Steve Delk and daughter in-law Julie Nemeth, respectively; as well as grandchildren Andrew, Morganne and Sophia. A memorial to celebrate his life will be held January 14, 2017 at 3:00pm at the Trinity Lutheran Church, 1340 11th Street, Manhattan Beach, CA. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America at alzfdn.org.
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Harold (Hal) Alden was an early pioneer in the home textile industry who began his career importing decorative pillows from Japan in 1958. He was a central figure in forging a path for how the world would later trade. Hal was an extraordinary visionary with the courage and spirit of the early settlers, venturing into uncharted territory and imagining a new way of doing business without borders.
Hal had a great zest for life, possessed a fine sense of dress and was an avid oenophile and epicure. He was highly respected in the world of art where he and his wife were collectors of many of the great contemporary artists. As accomplished as he was, Hal was also as humble. To meet him, one would never have known the greatness of the man and his achievements. But he was indeed a great man who will be missed by so many. Harold is survived by his wife, 3 children, 7 grandchildren and 1 greatgrandchild.
Dr. Zigrang had dental practices in Los Angeles and Rolling Hills Estates until his retirement in 2000. He loved dentistry and was very active in the dental community. He continued to do volunteer teaching at the USC Dental School well after retiring. Richard was passionate about his many hobbies which included flying, skiing, bagpiping, deep sea, stream and fly fishing, photography, reading and travel. Services will be held Saturday January 14, at 12:30 p.m. at St, John Fisher Church, 5448 Crest Road, Rancho Palos Verdes CA. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Palos Verdes Thrift Shop, 2321 Pacific Coast Hwy., Lomita, CA 90717.
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January 28, 1928 - January 7, 2017
Hal was the quintessential patriarch who cared for his wife and three children with an abundance of warmth and love. He had a wonderful sense of humor and a bright, twinkling smile, which lit up his face with endearing sweetness. He was a wonderful husband and father who provided comfort, security, support and love.
Richard Charles Zigrang, D.D.S. passed away suddenly on January 3, at Torrance Memorial Hospital. Born December 28, 1929, he was the son of Charles and Bonita Zigrang of Los Angeles. He attended Loyola High School and USC undergraduate and dental schools where he served as the coxswain for the Crew. Richard married his high school sweetheart and lifelong love, Patricia Gauthier on October 28, 1950. They had 9 children.
He remarried in 1974 to Betty Shaw. Devoted to one another, they enjoyed a happy and blessed life together married for 42 years. Known to all to be a gentle man, he was extremely well read and thoughtful. In retirement he kept very active with church, keeping his language skills sharp and living his final years close to all of his children and grandchildren.
Harold Alden
Hal Alden was a unique self made man whose success in business was a result of his extraordinary intelligence, talent and incredible grit. His business instincts were unparalleled and as a result he was a dominant force in his industry garnering as much as 70% of all pillow sales in the U. S. Hal’s ability to understand what consumers would respond to and his skills at producing product were some of the gifts that set him apart. In addition, were his ethical methods of doing business and his fair and respectful treatment of all whom he dealt with. Hal’s name was respected throughout the business world here and abroad. He was regarded as one of the giants of the textile industry.
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In the early 1970’s, Hal once again set the stage for the future of international trade when he petitioned China for a visa before Nixon opened trade relations with that country. By virtue of his efforts, he was able to be part of the first business delegation invited to China.
reopened the public session, nearly everyone had left. The motion passed 4 to 1. As part of the motion, the board moved to have the county’s civilian oversight commission oversee the Sheriff ’s Department’s interactions with immigrants and make sure the department is adhering to its own immigrant-friendly policies. It also directed the Office of Education to plan for providing bilingual information on resources and rights of immigrant students to a “free public education, regardless of their immigration status.” Supervisor Kathryn Barger voted against the creation of the Office of Immigrant Affairs and the Office of Education proposal.
Salvador Richard Naranjo July 20, 1945 - January 4, 2017 Salvador Richard Naranjo, 71, of Culver City, died January 4 after a brief illness. As the supervisor of grounds and gardens at the Getty beginning in 1974 until his retirement in 2006, Richard oversaw the original development of the Roman gardens that J. Paul Getty envisioned in Malibu, under the direction of Denis Kurutz and Emmet Wemple, and their later enhancement with the team of Machado Silvetti architects. Richard also played a key role in the design and installation of the Getty Center landscape under the architect Richard Meier and landscape architect Laurie Olin, and was closely involved with Robert Irwin on every detail of his Central Garden. Born and raised in San Fernando, Richard did two tours of duty in Vietnam as a helicopter door gunner, and later worked for Moulder Brothers, leading to his appointment at the Getty. He was known and loved across the organization, from grounds laborers to Museum directors, and widely respected for his professional experience, judgment, and unassuming demeanor. After retirement, Richard ran an independent landscaping business with an extensive clientele across Los Angeles. Richard is survived by his son Richard and grandson Christian, brothers Porfirio and Danny, sisters Socorro, Rosemary, Patricia and Connie, and longtime friend Annemieke Halbrook. Viewing and Rosary will be on Thursday, January 12, 2017 from 5-9 pm at Mission Hills Catholic Mortuary. A Funeral Mass will be held Friday, January 13, 2017 at 9:30 am at St Ferdinand’s Catholic Church in San Fernando, with burial to follow at San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, and a reception in celebration of Richard’s life at Casa Torres, 455 San Fernando Mission Blvd, San Fernando from 1-5 pm.
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Wells Fargo overhauls its pay plan for employees The banking giant changes the incentive system following a fake-accounts scandal. By James Rufus Koren
Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times
Related Cos.
THE GRAND AVENUE Project at Grand Avenue and 1st Street in L.A. would replace a parking structure,
top, across from the Walt Disney Concert Hall, which also was designed by Frank Gehry. The complex of condominiums, apartments, shops, restaurants and a hotel has been delayed several times since 2004.
Chinese funds give L.A. Gehry project a boost
Wells Fargo & Co. will change how it pays tellers and other bank workers, announcing on Tuesday a longanticipated overhaul of the incentive-compensation system that was at the root of the bank’s fake-accounts scandal. The bank for years used sales goals to push workers to open more accounts — checking, savings, credit cards — for customers. Trying to meet those goals, thousands of workers over the last several years opened as many as 2 million accounts without customers’ knowledge or approval, according to local and federal regulators, who fined the bank $185 million last year over those practices. The San Francisco banking giant said the new incentive system will no longer reward employees simply for opening accounts but will instead judge them on how often customers use their accounts and whether cus-
tomers are satisfied with the bank’s services. Wells Fargo executives have been working on the plan since soon after the settlements with federal regulators and the Los Angeles city attorney’s office were announced in September. The updated plan has been considered a high priority for Chief Executive Tim Sloan and Mary Mack, the head of Wells Fargo’s community bank division — both of whom took those jobs after the scandal emerged. “Do [customers] use the products they have with us? Do they think of us as their primary bank? Are we growing customers who consider us their primary bank? These are the metrics we are now measuring,” Mack said. Accounts that are used frequently, such as those for which customers set up direct deposits or use debit cards often, will be a positive factor for an employee’s pay. Idle accounts will not, and an account won’t be a factor toward incentives until it has been open three months. “Our goal here was to create a pay plan that would restore trust with our customers, team members and the public,” Mack said. In the months since the [See Wells Fargo, C4]
Architect’s $1-billion Grand Avenue development downtown will break ground in 2018, helped by $290 million from a Beijing builder By Roger Vincent For more than a decade, the prospect that another Frank Gehry development might rise across from the architect’s signature Walt Disney Concert Hall has tantalized downtown Los Angeles. Now the elaborate commercial and residential development designed by Gehry could finally get off the ground after a Chinese builder has put $290 million into the venture. Construction on the $1-billion Grand Avenue Project will begin next year, according to New York developer Related Cos., in part because of its partnership with one of China’s largest state-owned companies, China Communications Construction Group. The company, based in Beijing, builds transportation infrastructure such as roads, bridges and tunnels and reports annual revenue of more
‘We don’t just want to invest, take the money and go. We want to stay and work with U.S. people to build good things.’ — M ARK G UO
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than $67 billion. The Grand Avenue Project is the initial venture in the U.S. for a subsidiary set up to carry out foreign development. “For our first project in the U.S. we want to be in a city with a large population and a stable economy,” said Mark Guo, director of business development for the Singapore subsidiary, called CCCG Overseas Real Estate Ltd., or CORE. “Gateway cities such as Los Angeles are the most attractive targets.” The Grand Avenue complex of condominiums, apartments, shops, restaurants and a hotel has been delayed several times since 2004. That’s when Related was selected by city and county officials to transform land left mostly vacant since the former residential neighborhood was razed about 50 years ago in an urban renewal program. But this time, with CORE’s help, Related will finally be able to proceed, [See Project, C6]
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SYLVIA M. BURWELL , secretary of Health and
Human Services, defends Obamacare on Monday.
Democratic allies gird for battle to save Obamacare Their effort aims to reshape debate over health law amid GOP moves to repeal it. By Noam N. Levey and Michael A. Memoli
Abnormal funding setup put e-sports venture at risk Azubu, cash starved and reliant on one source, was said to be near collapse in 2016. By Paresh Dave Video games as a professional sport made no sense to Lars Windhorst, a European oil and agriculture investor, until a summer evening in Seoul. Before him lay an impressive sight: Thousands of kids in lawn chairs outdoors watching teams
battle in the 2012 championship for “League of Legends.” “It was exotic,” Windhorst recalled. “Huge energy and enthusiasm.” Over the next four years, his firm Sapinda Group invested upward of $40 million in Azubu, a Sherman Oaks start-up developed to stream such e-sports matches online. But in the last year, several employees resigned and the only other major investor clawed back funding, exposing long-simmering troubles inside Azubu.
Windhorst, 40, now admits he devoted insufficient attention to Azubu, allowing features to launch months late and its recently departed chief executive to work from Canada. And Windhorst acknowledges his loans to Azubu were unusual by Silicon Valley standards. Sapinda drip-fed funds — $1 million or so a month — in a tactic intended to accelerate the company’s march toward profitability. In effect, the strategy constrained budgeting, con[See Azubu, C5]
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WASHINGTON — Energized by Republican moves to roll back the Affordable Care Act, leading patient advocates, consumer groups, labor unions and Democratic officials are mobilizing a nationwide campaign to defend the law and protect millions of Americans who depend on the law and other government health programs. The campaign, which is quickly ramping up ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week, aims to reshape the debate over the law after years in which the public conversation has been dominated by its critics. But Obamacare supporters believe that as Republicans push to gut the 6-yearold law, Americans, including many who voted for Trump, will come to appreci-
ate its protections and fight to keep them. “This is about one of the most important things in every person’s life: the basics of your health,” outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell said in a speech Monday. “This is real, and it affects everyone’s lives.… That is what’s different, when the conversation shifts from the rhetoric to reality.” Already, there are signs of this new dynamic as a growing number of Republicans voice concerns about rushing to repeal Obamacare without first outlining a replacement, something the GOP has yet to do. Polls show thin support for the Republican strategy to repeal now but delay a replacement. No major organizations representing patients, physicians, hospitals or others in the nation’s healthcare system back the GOP approach. And Trump enters office with historically low public confidence, a weakness that Obamacare defenders figure to exploit. Democratic senators kept up the pressure Monday, taking to the Senate [See Obamacare, C4]
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BUSINESS BEAT Uber advisor Plouffe takes a new job He will lead the policy and advocacy effort for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. By Tracey Lien SAN FRANCISCO — First he advised President Obama. Then he advised Uber. Now political bigwig David Plouffe is headed for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the philanthropic organization founded by pediatrician Priscilla Chan and her husband, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg. Plouffe, until recently a senior advisor to San Francisco ride-hailing giant Uber, will remain a board member at the firm while leading the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s policy and advocacy effort. “Mark and Priscilla have built a great team, and I am honored to join them,” Plouffe wrote on his Facebook page Tuesday. “As the President of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Policy and Advocacy, my job will be to find creative ways to lift the voices of those who want to build a better future — no matter where they live, their background or their ideology.” Zuckerberg also announced on his Facebook page that the initiative brought on Ken Mehlman, a former campaign manager for George W. Bush’s presidential campaign, to chair its policy advisory board. Chan and Zuckerberg launched their philanthropic limited-liability company in 2015, shortly after the birth of their daughter, Max, with a focus on personalized learning, curing disease and connecting people. The couple pledged 99% of their Facebook shares — valued at more than $45 billion — to the cause over their lifetime, and last year pledged $3 billion to fight diseases. The hiring of Plouffe shows an understanding that Silicon Valley alone cannot solve the country’s biggest problems. It also falls in line with the tech world’s growing realization that it must overcome some of its wariness of government and take a seat at the table to bring about large-scale change. As the initiative seeks to make advancements in education and medicine, there are obvious benefits to having political movers and shakers on its side. Plouffe in particular has built a reputation as someone who can soften a company’s image and improve its relationship with lawmakers. “We must participate in policy and advocacy to shape debates,” Zuckerberg wrote in 2015 at the launch of the initiative. “Many institutions are unwilling to do this, but progress must be supported by movements to be sustainable.” tracey.lien@latimes.com Twitter: @traceylien
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CORPORATE TAX EXPERTS expect British lawmakers to pile on business-friendly policies as the country follows through on its sepa-
ration from the European Union, a plan nicknamed Brexit. Above, a woman takes a photo at the Houses of Parliament in central London.
Snap may dodge tax criticism Snapchat maker says it will collect much of its overseas ad revenue in London. By Paresh Dave By funneling much of its overseas revenue through London instead of a widely used tax haven such as Dublin, Ireland, Snapchat maker Snap Inc. stands to recognize similar benefits with far less uproar. Global corporations, led by tech giants Apple and Google, have faced in-
creased public scrutiny in recent years for complex schemes aimed at lowering their taxes. Even young, privately held software companies similar to Snap — including Airbnb and Uber — employ tactics that could pull their taxes well below standard rates. Many of them shelter overseas revenue in Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and other countries with favorable tax rules. The practice shields upward of $240 billion in potential annual income from taxes, according to economists. But pressure from regulators in Europe and politicians worldwide has put those cor-
porations on the defensive and spurred policy changes. In the new climate, Snap, which maintains its global headquarters in Los Angeles, took the path of least resistance. The company behind the popular ad-supported video-sharing app announced Tuesday that it would collect ad revenue from Britain and countries where it doesn’t have offices in London. In countries where it has branches, it will pay taxes locally on income generated there. Snap, for now, has ad sales office in the U.S., Canada, France and Australia. “This allows us to pay taxes in the U.K., which we
believe is part of being a good local partner as we grow our business,” the company said. “We want to pay taxes in the countries where we sell advertising, and this is an important step in building the infrastructure to achieve that goal.” Rules either recently enacted or in the works are turning locales such as Dublin into less-attractive tax havens than they were before 2014. For instance, the infamous “Double Irish” taxavoidance strategy employed by the likes of Apple and Oracle — where a pair of Irish subsidiaries separates a firm’s profits and taxation — is no longer available to
Ouster of agency chief urged Two GOP senators ask Trump to remove Richard Cordray from U.S. consumer bureau. By Jim Puzzanghera WASHINGTON — Two Republican senators are asking President-elect Donald Trump to quickly remove Richard Cordray, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, setting up a potential legal and political showdown over the controversial agency. “It’s time to fire King Richard,” said Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), a member of the Senate Banking Committee and like many Republicans a harsh critic of the agency created by the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulatory overhaul. “Underneath the CFPB’s Orwellian acronym is an attack on the American idea that the people who write our laws are accountable to the American people,” Sasse said. “President-elect Trump has the authority to remove Mr. Cordray and that’s exactly what the American people deserve.” Sasse and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) have written to Vice President-elect Mike Pence requesting that Trump take the action “promptly after his inauguration.” The lawmakers cited an October federal appeals court ruling that the independent consumer bureau’s structure is unconstitutional because it gives the director too much power. Under Dodd-Frank, the director serves a five-year term and can be removed only “for cause,” such as neglect of duty. In a 2-1 ruling, a threejudge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia ruled that structure was a violation of the Constitution’s separation of powers because it limited the president’s authority. The solution from the court was to strike down the law’s “for cause” provision, meaning the president could remove the consumer bureau director for any reason, the same as with other executive branch appointees. The CFPB is appealing the ruling, asking all of the court’s judges to review it. That challenge has led some legal scholars to argue that it could pose legal problems for Trump to remove Cordray immediately upon taking the White House. Cordray’s term doesn’t expire until July 2018. The move also would ignite a political dispute with Democrats such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (DMass.), who came up with the idea of the agency and helped launch it as an Obama administration aide. Supporters note that the bureau has returned more than $11 billion in refunds for consumers and helped to unravel Wells Fargo & Co.’s unauthorized accounts scandal. “Mr. Cordray is an extraordinary director who has done exactly what Congress told him to do — defend consumers and rebuild the financial system after a massive collapse just eight years ago,” said Ed Mierzwinski, consumer program director at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. “And now you’ve got senators pandering toward powerful special interests [trying to have him removed].” The court hasn’t yet accepted the appeal, meaning that the panel’s ruling is not formally in effect. And there is the risk that the court could overturn the ruling, restoring the consumer bu-
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won’t resign, an agency spokeswoman says.
reau’s structure as set up by Dodd-Frank. Cordray also could sue to challenge his removal. And he won’t resign, consumer bureau spokeswoman Jen Howard said. “Director Cordray was confirmed by a bipartisan group of 66 senators to serve a term until July 2018 and has no plans to step down,” she said. Sasse and Lee argued in their letter, sent to Pence on Monday, that Trump has the constitutional authority to remove Cordray. And they said Trump has a good reason: Cordray “has pursued costly regulatory policies that are radically opposed to the Trump administration’s pro-growth agenda.” Republicans have complained that the bureau wields too much power over financial products and that its attempts to help consumers with new regulations on mortgages, payday loans and other lending have restricted access to credit. GOP critics also have opposed the bureau’s structure, which includes a single director and a budget funded from the Federal Reserve that avoids the congressional appropriations
process. Republicans have unsuccessfully pushed legislation to change the agency’s leadership to a bipartisan commission and subject its funding to annual appropriations that would give lawmakers more leverage over bureau policies. President Obama has threatened to veto any such changes. Those legislative initiatives stand a much better chance with Trump in the White House, although Warren and Senate Democrats would probably try to block any bill changing the bureau’s structure. Trump has promised to dismantle Dodd-Frank. And a sweeping proposal by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) to replace the law would rename the bureau the Consumer Financial Opportunity Commission, replace the single director with five commissioners and subject it to congressional appropriations. Even if Trump doesn’t remove Cordray, House and Senate Republicans have the majorities needed to overturn bureau actions they oppose. They couldn’t take such a step under Obama because he would have vetoed the disapproval legislation, said Edward Mills, a policy analyst at investment bank FBR Capital Markets. And when Cordray’s term expires, Trump will be able to nominate a replacement with a less aggressive approach to regulation, Mills said. “I would expect that new director to likely significantly reduce the agenda and/or staff and focus” of the bureau, he said. jim.puzzanghera @latimes.com Twitter: @JimPuzzanghera
new firms. And the atmosphere remains turbulent: Apple is battling a $14-billion back-taxes charge sought by European Commission officials. “It would make sense for companies to think long and hard about moving their subsidiaries and affiliates to Dublin,” said Sepi Ghiasvand, an attorney at Hopkins Carley in Silicon Valley. In contrast, London has been boosting incentives and moved to bring down its corporate tax rate to 17% in the coming years — well below the U.S.’s 35% and close to Ireland’s 12.5%. The recent devaluation of the British pound has lowered the cost of doing business. Treatment of capital gains, foreign earnings and research spending is generous to businesses and their shareholders, corporate tax experts said. They also expect British lawmakers to pile on business-friendly policies as the country follows through on its separation from the European Union, a plan nicknamed Brexit. The European Union is hoping to standardize tax policies across its member nations. But Britain will be motivated to stop businesses from leaving for the EU by making concessions, the thinking goes. Financial analysts estimate that Snap isn’t yet generating profits, so it has time to wait out the legislative process too. “You could make the case London is the most favorable destination for companies right now,” said Robert Willens, a tax and accounting consultant who teaches at Columbia University. “The U.K. system might not be quite as good on every count as Ireland, but it’s comparable and you don’t risk the publicity damage now that Ireland has been so identified as a tax haven.” Snap has grown from a handful of employees in London to 75 in the last year. Last week, the company changed its corporate name in London from Snapchat to Snap Group to recognize its new structure. The London plans are far from likely to mollify critics of corporate America’s taxavoidance strategies. Snap could still end up paying very little in taxes, especially if rates continue to tumble. Should taxes hold steady, Snap still would come out ahead by avoiding the afterthe-fact liability that Apple is now battling. Snap’s finances and future plans are publicly unknown, leaving much in question. Revenue reached about $400 million last year, according to estimates. More could become clear if, as expected, the company files to trade its stock publicly in the coming months. paresh.dave@latimes.com
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The Mark Wahlberg film will battle the space-race drama and modern-day musical. By Ryan Faughnder “Patriots Day,” the new Mark Wahlberg movie about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, will battle spacerace drama “Hidden Figures” for the top spot on the box-office charts this holiday weekend. But both will face heavy competition from Oscar favorite “La La Land” as the modern-day musical tries to convert critical accolades into commercial success. Produced by CBS Films and distributed by Lionsgate, “Patriots Day” is expected to gross a Bostonstrong $18 million to $20 million at domestic theaters Friday through Monday during the long Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, according to people who have read pre-release audience surveys. “Patriots Day,” which follows the fatal bombing itself and the ensuing manhunt, is the latest collaboration between Wahlberg and director Peter Berg, who also made the 2013 heartland military hit “Lone Survivor” and last year’s oil-spill disaster movie, “Deepwater Horizon.” The new movie has played well in limited release since its Dec. 21 debut, scoring $870,000 from seven theaters in Los Angeles, New York and Boston. The film cost $40 million to make, counting a production rebate. It should defeat a crop of newcomers including Ben Affleck’s “Live by Night” and horror flick “The Bye Bye Man.” However, it remains to be seen if it can beat a strong lineup of holdovers. “La La Land,” from Lionsgate, is expected to get a boost from its record-setting seven Golden Globe Awards wins Sunday night as it expands to more theaters, including 100 Imax screens. The feel-good Los Angelesset musical, starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, has grossed $51.8 million so
far in the U.S. and Canada. Additionally, “Hidden Figures,” from 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment, should continue to pull audiences into theaters with its uplifting true story about African American female mathematicians and engineers who helped NASA get the first Americans into space. It opened wide with $22.8 million last weekend, narrowly defeating “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” “Rogue One” from Lucasfilm-Disney will also remain a player, adding to its $477-million total. The film will soon pass “Finding Dory’s” $486-million domestic tally to become the highestgrossing blockbuster of 2016. “Live by Night,” written, directed by and starring Affleck, will expand nationwide Friday after its limited run. Based on a novel by Dennis Lehane, the Warner
Bros. Pictures Prohibitionera crime thriller could swipe about $10 million during the four-day weekend. “Live by Night,” which cost an estimated $65 million to make, has been hampered by poor reviews. “The Bye Bye Man,” the latest from STX Entertainment, follows a group of college friends who must face an unspeakable evil. Targeting the Friday the 13th release date, the $7.4-million supernatural thriller is expected to open with roughly $10 million in ticket sales. “Sleepless,” a Jamie Foxx crime thriller from Open Road Films, should also land close to $10 million. Paramount Pictures will field two very different films during the holiday frame: Martin Scorsese’s longawaited religious epic “Silence” and kids’ movie “Monster Trucks.”
“Silence,” about two 17thcentury priests (Adam Driver and Andrew Garfield) who journey to Japan to find their mentor (Liam Neeson),” is expected to expand to more than 600 theaters Friday to capitalize on awards buzz. It cost $45 million to make. Paramount’s “Monster Trucks” is expected to be the big flop of the weekend, given its production cost. The $125-million movie about a teenager whose truck is inhabited by a tentacled, computer-animated monster, is headed for a weak $8-million to $10-million debut. Viacom, the studio’s parent company, has already announced that it will take a $115-million write-down for a movie widely thought to be “Monster Trucks.” ryan.faughnder @latimes.com
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Fox News settles sexual harassment claim By Stephen Battaglio Fox News settled a sexual harassment complaint by a former employee in September against Bill O’Reilly, its biggest prime-time star, and Jack Abernethy, the division’s co-president. Former Fox News personality Juliet Huddy claimed in a letter from her lawyers sent last August that her opportunities at the company ended in retaliation for not submitting to sexual advances by O’Reilly that began in 2011. She also said Abernethy had made unwanted advances toward her. No lawsuit was filed against O’Reilly or Abernethy, who was promoted to his post in August after the letter was received and was signed to a long-term contract following the settlement payment made in September. The agreement was first reported on the website Lawnewz.com. The settlement shows the sexual harassment issue
continues to shadow Fox News even after the ouster of former Chairman Roger Ailes, who was accused of sexual harassment in a lawsuit by former anchor Gretchen Carlson. The suit prompted 21st Century Fox to launch an internal investigation into Ailes’ conduct toward Carlson and other women at Fox News, including Megyn Kelly, the popular anchor who recently announced her move to NBC. The cable news juggernaut settled that lawsuit in September with a $20-million payment to Carlson. But other women have come forward with allegations, suggesting that sexually inappropriate behavior had been rooted in the culture of the company. Huddy received a six-figure monetary settlement from the company in return for agreeing not to file suit, according to people familiar with the discussions but not authorized to comment. Fox News denied the claims against O’Reilly and Aber-
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accused of harassing the network’s Juliet Huddy. nethy. “Juliet Huddy’s letter of intent to sue contained substantial falsehoods which both men vehemently denied,” a statement from Fox News said. Attorneys for Huddy could not be reached for comment. O’Reilly, 67, is the toprated personality in all of ca-
ble news. His 8 p.m. Eastern time program “The O’Reilly Factor” is the tent pole for the network’s prime-time lineup. His current contract with Fox News expires this year. Huddy first joined Fox News in 1998. She was the cohost of a Fox syndicated talk show that aired on broadcast stations in 2007 and in 2011 went on to appear regularly on “The O’Reilly Factor” segments. Huddy claimed that O’Reilly propositioned her on numerous occasions and tried to kiss her during a visit to his home in Manhasset, N.Y. The letter also describes other occasions when he allegedly repeatedly attempted to get Huddy to have sex with him. After rebuffing O’Reilly, Huddy said she was not asked to appear on his program — which is so popular it has served as a springboard for other on-air talent at Fox. She was eventually assigned to a predawn newscast on the local New York Fox TV station WNYW. She
remained in that position until last September. Huddy is the daughter of John Huddy, a former Fox News consultant and close longtime associate to Ailes. John Huddy was among a group of Ailes’ loyalists who were purged from Fox News shortly after the executive’s exit. The incident with Huddy is not the first time that Fox News has settled a sexual harassment charge against O’Reilly. In October 2004, O’Reilly was sued by a former associate producer, Andrea Mackris, who said he initiated phone sex and regularly used lewd language with her at work and in dinner conversations. O’Reilly countersued and called Mackris’ allegations a “shakedown.” A settlement was reached hours before a scheduled court hearing on evidence in the case that was said to include tapes of O’Reilly’s lurid phone calls. stephen.battaglio @latimes.com Twitter: @SteveBattaglio
Ad agency RPA wins back Honda account and is expected to hire 100 workers By Meg James Nearly four years after American Honda Motor Co. yanked its media planning business from advertising agency RPA, the car company is shifting gears again by returning the coveted account to its longtime partner. Late last week, Honda restored RPA, one of the largest ad shops in the Los Angeles region, as the agency of record for media planning and ad buying for its Honda
and Acura brands. RPA is one of the few major ad agencies that remains independent rather than being a division of a large holding company. The Santa Monica firm is expected to boost its staff by about 100 people to work on the Honda media planning account. RPA currently employs about 550 people and also handles ads for Southwest Airlines, the AM/PM convenience store chain, Farmer’s Insurance and La-ZBoy. American Honda, based
in Torrance, said RPA will replace the New York buying firm MediaVest in April. MediaVest had scooped up the Honda account in 2013 following a high-profile agency review, which dealt a heartbreaking loss to RPA. The Honda account covers about $600 million in annual ad spending. A MediaVest spokesman declined to comment Monday. RPA — which formed in 1986 as Rubin Postaer & Associates to handle Honda’s advertising needs — has
continuously held Honda’s separate creative advertising account, designing and producing commercial spots and digital advertising for the Honda brand. RPA is working on a Super Bowl spot for Honda’s CR-V vehicle. “In a media landscape that is increasingly content, social and data driven we made a decision to return to a more consolidated structure,” Tom Peyton, Honda’s vice president of national marketing operations, said in a statement announcing
the switch. “We expect to realize even greater effectiveness with an agency placing content it creates.” Another agency, Mullen, will continue to create ads for the Acura line. Bostonbased MullenLowe landed the Acura creative account in 2013, and then opened an El Segundo office. “This move speaks to the shift toward agency rebundling, and RPA’s ability as an independent, holistic agency to align strategy, creative, media and production (including digital) all under
one roof,” Bill Hagelstein, chief executive of RPA, said in a statement. Honda’s decision represents another big loss for MediaVest, which is part of the Paris-based advertising holding giant Publicis. Last year, the firm lost the WalMart ad-buying account. MediaVest has picked up several smaller accounts, including media planning for USAA insurance company and Viacom Inc.’s MTV networks. meg.james@latimes.com
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Nasdaq at record for 4th day in row 5.2% to $92 after the airline, which bought Virgin America in December, reported strong monthly results. Zimmer Biomet climbed 6.2% to $113.67 after the medical device maker projected better-than-expected fourth-quarter sales. Other firms’ outlooks put traders in a selling mood. Ascena Retail Group slumped 10% to $5.41 after the company slashed its profit forecast, citing holiday season sales, which fell for most of its store chains, including Ann Taylor, Lane Bryant and Dressbarn. Meanwhile, investors boosted Pacific Continental on news that the holding company for Pacific Continental Bank will be bought by Columbia Banking System for $644 million. Pacific Continental shares leaped 25.7% to $26.15. Columbia shares slid 2.9% to $42.05. Valeant Pharmaceuticals jumped 6.8% to $16.40 after the Canadian drugmaker said it will sell $2 billion in assets to pay down debt. U.S. benchmark crude oil fell $1.14, or 2.2%, to $50.82 a barrel. Brent crude fell $1.30, or 2.4%, to $53.64 a barrel. Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.38% from 2.37%. The pound held steady at $1.2163. The dollar fell to 115.73 yen from Monday’s 116.06. The euro fell to $1.0560 from $1.0577. Gold edged up 60 cents to $1,185.50 an ounce. Silver rose 17 cents to $16.85 an ounce. Copper rose 7 cents to $2.61 a pound.
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The Nasdaq composite index notched its fourth record-high close in a row Tuesday, eking out a modest gain on a day when the other major U.S. stock indexes barely budged. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index closed unchanged, while the Dow Jones industrial average posted a slight loss. More stocks rose than fell on the New York Stock Exchange. Consumer-focused companies, banks and healthcare stocks were among the biggest gainers. Real estate companies lagged the most. Energy stocks fell following a drop in crude oil prices. Encouraging reports on small-business confidence and job openings helped keep stocks in the green early in the day. But later, the indexes began to waver. “I do think the market stays kind of quiet until it really hits earnings season,” said David Chalupnik, head of equities for Nuveen Asset Management. Although the busiest stretch of the next corporate earnings season doesn’t begin until Friday, several firms reported outlooks or preliminary results Tuesday that pleased investors. Illumina jumped 16.6% to $165.04 after it reported better-than-expected fourthquarter sales. The San Diego company also launched a new genetic sequencing system called NovaSeq. Alaska Air Group rose
Bank revamps employee compensation system [Wells Fargo, from C1] scandal broke, the bank has reported lower customersatisfaction scores and a sharp drop in the number of new account openings. In November, Wells Fargo opened about 300,000 checking accounts, down from 500,000 accounts opened in November 2015 — evidence that the bank has a long way to go to rebuild its reputation with existing and would-be customers. By giving workers credit only for accounts that are active and still in use after several months, executives probably hope to prevent employees from opening unauthorized accounts to game the incentive system. Regulators found that workers not only created accounts without customers’ knowledge but also sometimes forged signatures, created fake customer email addresses and even moved money from existing accounts into new, unauthorized ones, all in an attempt to show that they were opening enough new accounts to meet onerous sales goals. Though the new incentive system is a big change for Wells Fargo, it is similar to incentive systems at other banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, which already give employees credit only for actively used accounts. Under the old Wells Fargo system, workers could get credit for opening a savings account once a minimum deposit of $25 was made, even if that money came from another Wells Fargo account and even if the account sat unused afterward. At Chase, workers get credit for opening a savings account only if the customer deposits at least $1,000 within two months — and that money can’t come from another Chase account. At both Chase and Bank of America, workers get credit for opening a credit card account only after the
VW to pay $4.3 billion in fines under proposed deal in scandal be approved by Volkswagen’s boards and by U.S. courts. Volkswagen said its management board of top executives, which includes Chief Executive Matthias Mueller, and its board of directors would deal with the issue “in the very short term,” as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday. “A final conclusion of the settlement agreement is further subject to the execution by the competent U.S. authorities and to the approval of the competent U.S. courts,” the company said. The penalties would exceed the amounts Volkswagen has set aside to cover costs from the scandal, but the specific impact on 2016 earnings “cannot be defined at present,” the statement said. Volkswagen already had deducted $19.2 billion from earnings to account for the expected costs of fines,
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settlements and recalls. The company has admitted to equipping diesel cars with software that turned up emissions controls when the car was being tested, and turned them down during normal driving, improving engine performance but exceeding emission limits. Despite the scandal, Volkswagen stands a decent chance of being the world’s top-selling automaker of 2016. Booming business in China helped Volkswagen’s sales climb to10.31million vehicles last year across all its brands, which include Audi, Porsche and Skoda, the company said Tuesday. That was up 3.8% from 2015, when Volkswagen came in second to Toyota. Neither Toyota nor the other likely contender, General Motors, has reported full-year 2016 sales figures yet.
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AS PART OF Wells Fargo’s new incentive system, workers will get more base pay
and less incentive and bonus pay. Above, a bank branch in San Francisco. account has been used. At Wells Fargo, workers got credit once a card was issued, a system that former employees said encouraged some bankers to apply for credits cards on customers’ behalf without authorization. Along with account usage, Wells Fargo workers will be scored based on customer service surveys done by Gallup and by mystery shoppers who visit bank branches. As part of the new incentive system, workers will also get more base pay and less incentive and bonus pay. For tellers, about 95% of pay will be base pay. The bank said last week that it would boost the pay for its lowest-level workers to between $13.50 and $17 per hour, depending on geography and experience. Wells Fargo executives have explained the new incentive system to regional executives and district managers and, over the next few weeks, will provide details of the plan to branch managers and workers, bank spokeswoman Mary Eshet said. The bank provided a twopage summary of the plan to
the Los Angeles Times and other media outlets Tuesday, but corporate compensation plans can be hundreds of pages long. Margaret Kane, founder of bank sales consulting firm Kane Bank Services, said the plan seems to address the biggest problems unearthed by the accounts scandal — largely by eliminating incentives for opening accounts that aren’t used. Still, she said it’s not clear how Wells Fargo will set goals for branches and employees. “How are they going to define a job well done? That’s what we don’t know,” she said. “What they’re doing is totally the way they should be going, but the devil is in the details.” For instance, because the new plan has a greater focus on customer service surveys, Kane said it might push workers to pressure customers into giving good reviews. “That has happened in other industries — you see it in hospitality,” she said. “I think customer service is one that they’ll want to keep an eye on.” Mack acknowledged that
Wells Fargo still has work to do to restore its image, saying the new compensation plan is “an answer, not the answer.” “This is just one step to restore trust,” she said. As it works to restore trust with consumers, the bank remains under investigation by a handful of state and federal agencies, including the California Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Labor and the Securities and Exchange Commission. It’s a list that has steadily grown over the last few months. In December, state insurance regulators in California and New Jersey said they would probe the bank’s sales practices after former employees of insurer Prudential filed a lawsuit contending that Wells Fargo workers pushed Prudential policies on customers who did not want them. Wells Fargo is set to report its quarterly results Friday, when it is expected to give more details about the compensation plan. james.koren@latimes.com This Associated Press contributed to this report.
Nationwide campaign to save Obamacare ramps up [Obamacare, from C1] floor and using Facebook to challenge the Republican repeal effort. In a play on Trump’s signature campaign line, Democrats say the GOP strategy would “make America sick again.” Activists planned a national effort Tuesday to get Americans to call members of Congress and urge them to vote against legislation that would roll back the law. “This is as important to us as a presidential campaign,” said Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, whose 2 million members played a central role in helping pass Obamacare and are expected to be crucial in defending it. The order is daunting. Republicans, who will control both the White House and Congress for the first time in more than a decade, credit their victories in part to a relentless campaign against Obamacare. And with some Americans struggling with large insurance premiums, GOP lawmakers have had no trouble finding horror stories to bolster their repeal effort. “Obamacare is ripping apart at the seams, and things are only getting worse,” Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) said in the party’s weekly radio address. The Tennessee insurance market has experienced some of the worst turmoil in the country over the last year. At the same time, Democrats have taken a hands-off approach to the law in recent years, wary of being linked to its struggles. But as this new chapter in the healthcare debate begins, they have some key advantages. “Democrats who were always a little squirrely on robustly defending the Affordable Care Act are on very firm ground in fighting repeal,” Sen. Christopher S. Murphy (D-Conn.) said. Though public opinion about Obamacare is still split, most provisions of the law are extremely popular, even with Republican vot-
ers. That may fuel a major backlash if the GOP moves to take them away. Eight in 10 Americans in another poll say they like provisions in the law that eliminate out-of-pocket costs for many preventive services such as cancer screenings or provide federal aid to states so they can expand Medicaid coverage for poor patients. The same strong majority supports the law’s system of insurance marketplaces, such as HealthCare.gov, in which people who don’t get coverage through an employer can shop for health plans. And 80% of Americans favor the government subsidies provided through the law to help low- and moderate-income people buy insurance. GOP leaders have called for major cutbacks in Medicaid and a fundamental change in insurance rules that would guarantee coverage only for people who didn’t have gaps in coverage. Republicans also would no longer require insurers to offer basic benefits. Democrats plan to prominently feature people who stand to lose some of these protections if the law is scrapped. President Obama, in an interview last week with news website Vox, called out Natoma Canfield, a cancer survivor who struggled to obtain affordable insurance before the law was enacted. “When most people, even if they’re not Obama supporters, hear Natoma’s story or the stories of other people who have been helped, they know it’s wrong to just take away their healthcare,” Obama said. At a meeting with congressional Democrats last week, the president encouraged lawmakers to look at the successful approach the nascent tea party movement took in 2009 and 2010 against Obamacare — including flooding lawmakers’ town hall meetings in their districts. Also aiding the Obama-
care defense could be the GOP’s interest in making broader changes to other popular safety net programs, including Medicaid and Medicare. Medicare provides coverage to more than 50 million elderly and disabled Americans. And Medicaid covers more than 70 million poor children, adults and seniors, many of whom depend on the program for nursing home coverage. Leading Republicans — including House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), Trump’s pick to be health secretary — have advocated big cuts in the programs that probably would slash coverage for the poor and shift more healthcare costs onto seniors. “This is not just about the Affordable Care Act,” said Richard Kirsch, former national campaign manager of Health Care for America Now, a coalition of liberal grass-roots groups that played a pivotal role in helping pass Obamacare in 2009 and 2010. “They are talking about replacing Medicare, cutting funding for Medicaid.... This would be devastating to affordability and accessibility of healthcare for millions of Americans.” Kirsch is helping restart the campaign, which has already organized demonstrations in 19 states. Rep. Eric Swalwell (DDublin), who is leading messaging efforts for younger voters on Obamacare, said the fate of the entitlement programs will also figure prominently in Democratic lawmakers’ efforts. “More than ever, the family’s income is tied together,” he said, summarizing the message as: “Don’t end my mom’s Medicare. Don’t take my dad’s healthcare.... If our parents’ healthcare security is in jeopardy, the whole family’s financial security is in jeopardy.” noam.levey@latimes.com michael.memoli @latimes.com
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Funding structure put start-up at risk [Azubu, from C1] fused unpaid vendors and frustrated employees with late paychecks, according to interviews with 10 people close to the company. Azubu’s near collapse — as people described it last year — shows the risks of start-ups relying on nontraditional sources for venture capital. An “investor can be a real partner and help move the company along, but they have to have good decision frameworks to be able to do that ... and very often that comes with experience or being in a well-regarded VC firm,” said Jeff Burkland, whose San Francisco firm Burkland Associates provides financial services to start-ups. The bumpy road hasn’t halted Windhorst, who’s outlasted failed companies, personal bankruptcy and a guilty plea to charges in 2009 that he embezzled money from one of his firms. With opulence, uncommon financing methods and apologetic charm, he continues to persuade people to back him. In new Azubu CEO Mike McGarvey, Windhorst said he’s roped a software veteran who knows how to think big. He said Azubu has fresh cash — in a lump sum this time — from a European hedge fund. And in the coming days, Azubu plans to announce the acquisition of Austrian rival Hitbox for tens of millions of dollars in cash, giving them as many as 20 million monthly viewers combined. Windhorst calls e-sports “the fastest-growing media business today” and insists it can’t be ignored. But e-sports business leaders can’t see Azubu competing with leading video game live-streaming services YouTube and Twitch. In Windhorst, they find an example of an unprepared financier treading too far in their nascent industry — and leaving an unpleasant mark. “It’s important for the folks involved in e-sports ... to be authentic and deeply passionate,” said Steve Arhancet, co-owner of professional squad Team Liquid. “That’s critical for success, especially with as much nuance and idiosyncrasy as there is in e-sports.” Windhorst and his then-senior advisor Seok Ki Kim, an investment banking entrepreneur, launched Azubu in 2012. Kim had big plans for the venture, telling executives at a swanky London hotel in 2013 that by buttressing Azubu with companies involved in video production and talent management, he would create an e-
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announce the purchase of rival Hitbox. Above, in New York during Advertising Week in 2015. sports juggernaut based in South Korea. But within a year, funding ceased to all those but Azubu, which moved to Sherman Oaks to be near Hollywood. Then-employees say Azubu survived for a single reason: Amazon.com Inc.’s acquisition of Twitch for almost $1 billion came as Sapinda was recalibrating. Windhorst saw a chance to cash in on a similar scale. Viewership at Azubu was growing, especially in Brazil, where Twitch hadn’t cultivated a following. Azubu executives also argued that Twitch’s and YouTube’s acceptance of other video genres provided an opening to focus on e-sports. Azubu sought a foothold by paying hundreds of leagues, teams and players of varying popularity to exclusively broadcast on its service. But fans griped about a buggy interface and the lack of a chat feature, which is a major draw on Twitch. Video stars found more attention and ad money on Twitch, which gets as many viewers in a day as Azubu gets in a month. Azubu lost out to rivals last year when it could no longer afford the rights fee for “League of Legends” matches, which rose to nearly $3 million from $1 million in the past, according to people familiar with the matter. Last summer, the company drew scorn from e-sports fans for delaying an eventual divestment in Esportspedia, a beloved online encyclopedia chronicling teams and matches that Azubu had done little to improve. Internal attitudes toward the company took hits too. Employees
who worked in Sherman Oaks felt collaboration suffered when an office with cubicles replaced a smaller, open-floor-plan space. Website development felt rushed, yet deadlines were never met. A former executive and former developer tied mismanagement to heavy drinking in the office and rifts between executives about priorities. Developers in L.A. griped about orders to build unneeded “eye-candy” to impress Windhorst’s firm. All the while, CEO Ian Sharpe, who started in 2013, mostly worked from Vancouver. Windhorst said he didn’t know about the arrangement initially and expressed disappointment with Sharpe’s refusal to move. People close to Sharpe, who worked at Atari and Electronic Arts, say Azubu’s discomforting financial outlook left him wary about moving his family to California. Sharpe, who left the company last summer to start an e-sports video advertising company with another former Azubu executive, declined to comment for this story. Most start-ups receive investment cash through infrequent large deposits. They may start with $1 million, get tens of millions of dollars from venture capitalists 18 months later and take an even bigger chunk from deeper-pocketed funds a couple of years later. Azubu saw nothing like this. It got tiny, monthly installments of debt that could be paid back with company stock. Sharpe demanded six months’ worth of advance funding so he could make long-term budgets but received recurring $1-million transfers days after bills
came due for slightly more, multiple sources said. Former workers said vendors such as technology providers found Azubu’s situation bizarre. The company often filed payments late and rarely paid the full balance, but never went into default. Employees say they received delayed paychecks on occasion, and for a time were paid once a month in violation of state law requiring at least two paydays each month. Morale disintegrated as plans fizzled to award workers a promised 10% company stake. Sharpe struggled to get Sapinda’s attention, said a former highranking employee speaking on the condition of anonymity. The CEO once spent hours outside the investor’s London office, hoping to see a familiar face pass by. Venture capitalists and mutual funds Sharpe pitched for cash rejected involvement because of Sapinda’s monopoly over Azubu, people said. Activision Blizzard, Yahoo and Tencent talked to the company about an acquisition but didn’t bite. Revenue, about $1 million a year from licensing deals and a tiny bit more from advertising, barely covered two months of payroll, according to people familiar with the matter. Any remaining internal enthusiasm evaporated last February. Two months earlier, the company announced closing a nearly $60million bond sale through Sapinda, providing more than enough for a major expansion of ad sales and video production. But funding never materialized as intended, and the misrepresen-
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[Project, from C1] President Ken Himmel said. “This is a milestone unlike any other in the history of this project,” he said. “It’s a total game-changer.” The $290-million cash injection means that Related and CORE have now raised more than $400 million for the project, Himmel said. Typically, real estate developers borrow 70% or more of the funds they need to start building. “This should say to everyone that this project is not over-leveraged,” Himmel said. “It’s a tremendous vote of confidence to see that amount of equity go into the project.” Guo said CORE was interested in the project because it is “high-profile and high-end” and will reflect well on the company’s reputation. Also, the city and county of Los Angeles are parties to the development, providing subsides including tax breaks valued at nearly $200 million. “We know government projects never fail,” Guo said. CORE also will learn from Related how to develop in the U.S., said Guo, who is based in Vancouver, Canada. “At the same time, we would like to contribute our experience.” As co-developer, CORE could acquire some construction materials from China and could also bring Chinese buyers to the condos. “We do have the connections,” he said.
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FINDING OUR UNITED STATE
Lakers leave Walton in state of shock Coach can’t figure out his team slumped again in third quarter, scoring only 12 points.
Magical year offered fresh evidence of sports’ ability to bring people together, even in a fractured nation
PORTLAND 108 LAKERS 87 By Tania Ganguli
BILL PLASCHKE Everything stinks. Everybody is a fraud. Nothing makes sense. The refrains of anger and negativity sweeping across our country in recent months have threatened to turn America into the land of the fury and home of the bitter. Then Monday night happens. A fearless college kid throws a touchdown pass in the final ticks of a fourmonth season to upset a giant opponent and win a national championship. A coach collapses in joy on the field. Strangers dance in each other’s arms. The fearless college kid weeps. Yet again, just when it seems like we are being swallowed by our own cynical misery, a nation is witness to true drama, real emotion, and the absolute truth found in the glow of a scoreboard. With Clemson’s final breath of a 35-31 win over Alabama in college football’s title game, sports once again saved us from ourselves. Did you see it? Did you occasionally gasp at the outrageousness of it all? Did you talk about the game Tuesday morning with folks at work, [See Plaschke, D5] about its man-child
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ONE OF THE RICHEST sports years in memory culminated Monday with Hunter
Renfrow (13) and Jordan Leggett celebrating Clemson’s last-second college football title victory, above. The Chicago Cubs, below left, and Cleveland Cavaliers, right, ended epic championship droughts, and Nneka Ogwumike (30) and the Sparks won WNBA title.
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Tide really hasn’t turned all that much Alabama is expected to be a force again next season, with Clemson facing a challenge without Watson. DAVID WHARTON ON COLLEGE FOOTBALL
TAMPA, Fla. — The Clemson football team won’t get too long to savor its last-second victory over Alabama in the national championship game.
Within days, the players will be back on campus and gathering for their first official meeting of the 2017 season. “There will be a new group of seniors sitting in the front row,” Coach Dabo Swinney said. “New challenges, new journey … we’ll start all over.” With junior quarterback Deshaun Watson stating his intention to leave school early for the NFL, the Tigers face an uphill battle to repeat. If anything, the team they defeated in Tampa on Monday night might have the best
shot at next season’s title. Not that you’ll catch Alabama Coach Nick Saban thinking that way. “We don’t ever talk about winning a national championship,” Saban said recently. “We basically talk about what we need to do with every individual in our organization to help them be as good as they can be.” Looking ahead, the Crimson Tide head a short list of potential contenders that includes Florida State and several teams from the Big Ten Conference
USC could be in the mix too, with Sam Darnold a year older. As Coach Clay Helton put it: “I’ve always said that if you’ve got a great quarterback, you’ve got a great team.” In odds issued Tuesday, the online gambling site Bovada put Alabama at 4-1, followed by Florida State at 7-1 and Ohio State at 15-2. USC, Oklahoma and Michigan were at 9-1. The Crimson Tide, who had a 26-game winning streak ended by Clemson, will head into next fall [See Wharton, D5]
It’s in the stars for these Kings, Ducks Doughty, Carter, Kesler and Fowler are selected to play for Pacific Division team at Staples Center on Jan. 29. By Helene Elliott Kings defenseman Drew Doughty and forward Jeff Carter can expect roaring ovations when they’re introduced at the NHL All-Star game on Jan. 29 at Staples Center. But Ducks center Ryan Kesler, widely despised for his get-under-your-skin tenacity, is anticipating a different reception. “An amazing one, I bet,” he said, knowing fans won’t shelve their hostility even when he plays alongside Doughty and Carter on the Pacific Division team. Carter — who ranks second in the
NHL All-Star weekend When: Jan. 28-29. Where: Staples Center. What: All-Star weekend will consist of the skills competition Jan. 28 (4 p.m., Channel 4) and All-Star 3-on-3 tournament on Jan. 29 (12:30 p.m., Channel 4). NHL with 22 goals — Doughty, Kesler and Ducks defenseman Cam Fowler were among 40 All-Star selections announced Tuesday by the NHL. The four captains were determined by fan voting. It will be Doughty’s third All-Star game and Carter’s second. “To be able to play in our home city in front of our home fans, that will really make things special for me [See All-Stars, D3]
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JEFF CARTER of the Kings
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For nearly a full minute after his postgame news conference ended, Lakers Coach Luke Walton stared at the box score from the Lakers’ 108-87 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday with his brow furrowed as he reviewed it. “I’m still trying to figure out what just happened in the second half, honestly,” Walton had said nine minutes before when the news conference began. “I was shocked that that’s how we came out, honestly.” Two old nemeses returned for the Lakers. The Trail Blazers, a team that has beaten the Lakers in every meeting since March of 2014, was one nemesis. The third quarter was another. The loss dropped the Lakers to 15-27 while the Trail Blazers improved to 17-23. Luol Deng led the Lakers with 14 points, 13 of them in the first half, Julius Randle had six points and 10 rebounds. Brandon Ingram scored 11 points and Lou Williams had 10. Portland point guard Damian Lillard finished with 20 points, eight rebounds and six assists — 18 of those points coming in the second half. Portland guard C.J. McCollum scored 25 points with one rebound and four assists, making 10 of 18 shots. In December, the Lakers were one of the league’s worst third-quarter teams in nearly every statistical category. That carried over to some games in January, but [See Lakers, D4]
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RYAN KESLER of the Ducks
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Future of Chargers, Raiders is on agenda NFL owners’ finance, stadium committees will discuss status of the two teams. By Sam Farmer and Nathan Fenno NEW YORK — A day before the first anniversary of NFL owners approving the Rams return to Los Angeles, members of the league’s finance and stadium committees will meet Wednesday to discuss the future of the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders. There are no obvious solutions to the complex challenges, with the Chargers facing a Jan. 15 deadline to decide on sharing a stadium with the Rams in Inglewood, and the Raiders angling for a move to Las Vegas. Exactly what the league can do at this point is unclear, as are the roles of the two committees of owners who will convene at NFL headquarters for the daylong meeting. A year ago Thursday, team owners met in Houston and by a 30-2 vote selected the Inglewood plan of Rams owner Stan Kroenke over a competing proposal [See NFL, D6]
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HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut Coach Geno Auriemma calls it a once-ina-lifetime thing that his Huskies have now done twice. Top-ranked UConn tied its own NCAA record with its 90th consecutive win, rout-
career. “Just figuring out ways to get open,” said Alford, who is making a career-best 44.9% of his three-pointers. As for the detractors who say his success is largely a function of his last name, Alford has learned to shrug. “Over my career I’ve figured out that no matter what I do those same voices are going to say the same things, so to me it has absolutely nothing to do with what I do on the court,” Alford said. “I think those people who say those negative things about me, that I play just because my dad’s here or whatever, I’m not going to be able to change those voices regardless of what I do. “So for me it’s about playing for my family, for my teammates, everything else.”
By Ben Bolch Bryce Alford was once derided as playing a starring role for UCLA only because his father, Steve Alford, coached the team. He’s about to experience a different kind of Bruins kinship. Remember Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Don MacLean and Reggie Miller? Bryce Alford is on pace to have his name alongside those UCLA legends on the school’s career scoring list by the end of this season. The senior shooting guard moved into 16th place Sunday with 1,650 points, surpassing Darren Collison (1,634) and Kenny Fields (1,638). Next up: Marques Johnson (1,659), Gail Goodrich (1,691) and David Greenwood (1,721). “It’s wild,” Alford said Tuesday. “It’s not something that I ever even could imagine dreaming about. The opportunity that this place has given me, it’s been remarkable what I’ve been able to do here.” Alford said he was only aware of his standing in the record books because of his grandfather, Sam Alford. Steve’s father and high school coach likes to keep tabs on the family pursuit. If Bryce maintains his average of 16.8 points per game and the Bruins play 16 more games — which assumes a minimum of one game in the Pac-12 Conference tournament and one in the NCAA
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SENIOR GUARD Bryce Alford is 16th in career scor-
ing at UCLA and could finish in the top five. tournament — he would finish his career with 1,918 points. That would put him fifth on UCLA’s scoring list, trailing only Miller and Jason Kapono, who each scored 2,095 points, AbdulJabbar (2,325) and MacLean (2,608). Alford could also challenge Kapono’s school record of 317 three-pointers. Alford has made 266 shots from beyond the arc and is averaging 3.1 per game, putting him on track to finish his career with 315 if the
Bruins play 16 more games. “That’s something I would definitely like to get,” said Alford, who has spoken to Kapono about his shooting prowess. Alford has been UCLA’s leading scorer since Pac-12 play started, averaging 18.3 points in conference games. He said he watched film of NBA shooting guards J.J. Redick and C.J. McCollum to help with his transition back to shooting guard after primarily playing point guard earlier in his college
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UCLA senior guard Isaac Hamilton could also finish his career among the top 30 scorers in school history, despite playing only three seasons. Hamilton ranks No. 43 with 1,159 points. … UCLA’s victory over Stanford on Sunday was its10th consecutive victory at Pauley Pavilion, giving the Bruins their longest home winning streak since they won 15 consecutive games during the 2013-14 season. … UCLA remained No. 4 in the latest Associated Press ranking. ben.bolch@latimes.com Twitter: @latbbolch
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Mountaineers take down No. 1 Baylor at No. 9 Florida State 88, No. 7 Duke 72: Xavier Rathan-Mayes scored 18 of his 21 points in the second half for the Seminoles (16-1), who broke a 47-year-old school record with their 12th straight win and are 4-0 in the Atlantic Coast Conference for the first time. Luke Kennard led the Blue Devils (14-3, 2-2) with 23 points.
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ing No. 20 South Florida,10237, on Tuesday night. It was 65-19 at halftime and UConn (15-0) didn’t let up in the second half in matching the streak Auriemma’s program set between November 2008 and December 2010. Connecticut hasn’t lost since Nov. 17, 2014, at thenNo. 6 Stanford, a two-point defeat in overtime. Without that loss, the streak would be 138 games.
Nathan Adrian broke out of a shooting slump with a career-high 22 points, and No. 10 West Virginia blew out No. 1 Baylor, 89-68, Tuesday night at Morgantown, W.Va., in the Bears’ first game as the top-ranked team in program history. Baylor (15-1, 3-1 Big 12) committed a season-high 29 turnovers and never led in its second true road game of the season. The loss means No. 5 Gonzaga is the only undefeated team left in Division I. West Virginia (14-2, 3-1) led by as many as 26 points down the stretch, and fans rushed the court after the Mountaineers toppled a topranked Big 12 opponent at home for the second consecutive season. A year ago this week, West Virginia beat Kansas when the Jayhawks were No. 1.
at No. 3 Villanova 79, No. 15 Xavier 54: Kris Jenkins and Josh Hart each scored 20 points and the Wildcats (16-1, 4-1 Big East) rode a dominant second half to an impressive win in their first game since their five-week run at No. 1 ended with a loss last week at Butler. No. 6 Kentucky 87, at Vanderbilt 81: Malik Monk scored six points in the final 32 seconds, and the Wildcats (14-2, 4-0) held off the Commodores (8-8, 2-2) to stay
unbeaten in the Southeastern Conference. Kentucky had won its first three SEC games by at least 23 points, a first for the program since the 1953-54 season. No. 2 Kansas 81, at Oklahoma 70: Frank Mason III scored 28 points, and the Jayhawks (15-1, 4-0 Big 12) won their 15th in a row and positioned themselves to take over the No. 1 ranking. at Texas Tech 66, No. 25 Kansas State 65: Keenan Evans’ go-ahead layup with 15 seconds left helped the Red Raiders (13-3, 2-2 Big 12) edge the Wildcats (13-3, 2-2) and improve to 11-0 at home. No. 23 Florida 80, at Alabama 67: Keith Stone had 14 points and the Gators (13-3, 4-0 SEC) surged past the Crimson Tide (9-6, 2-1) in the second half after blowing an 18-point lead.
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NHL STANDINGS WESTERN CONFERENCE
Pacific San Jose DUCKS Edmonton Calgary KINGS Vancouver Arizona Central Chicago Minnesota St. Louis Nashville Winnipeg Dallas Colorado
W 25 22 21 22 20 20 12 W 27 25 21 18 20 17 13
L 14 13 15 19 17 19 22 L 12 9 15 16 20 17 25
OL 2 8 7 2 4 4 6 OL 5 5 5 7 3 8 1
Pts 52 52 49 46 44 44 30 Pts 59 55 47 43 43 42 27
GF 110 115 123 114 102 106 86 GF 124 123 117 114 118 109 79
GA 93 113 118 119 105 123 128 GA 107 85 123 111 126 127 130
Note: Overtime or shootout losses are worth one point.
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Metropolitan Columbus Pittsburgh Washington N.Y. Rangers Philadelphia Carolina New Jersey N.Y. Islanders Atlantic Montreal Boston Ottawa Toronto Florida Tampa Bay Buffalo Detroit
W 28 26 26 28 21 19 16 15 W 25 22 21 18 18 19 16 17
L 8 8 9 13 16 15 18 15 L 10 17 14 13 16 19 15 18
OL 4 5 5 1 6 7 8 8 OL 6 5 4 8 8 4 9 6
Pts 60 57 57 57 48 45 40 38 Pts 56 49 46 44 44 42 41 40
GF 135 139 115 146 124 109 95 106 GF 125 110 99 120 98 118 93 103
GA 90 109 84 107 133 111 124 117 GA 97 108 102 116 113 127 110 119
RESULTS AT DUCKS 2 DALLAS 0 AT CAROLINA 5 COLUMBUS 3 AT BUFFALO 4 PHILADELPHIA 1 AT NASHVILLE 2 VANCOUVER 1 (OT) BOSTON 5 AT ST. LOUIS 3 AT CHICAGO 4 DETROIT 3 (OT) SAN JOSE 5 AT EDMONTON 3
John Gibson has 34 saves in his third shutout this season, Jakob Silfverberg and Andrew Cogliano score. Jordan Staal scores the go-ahead goal on a deflection with 16:10 to play. Evander Kane scores to cap a three-goal second-period surge and Anders Nilsson stops 39 shots. Calle Jarnkrok scores a short-handed goal with 1.5 seconds remaining in overtime. Brad Marchand scores twice, including an empty netter, and the Bruins improve to 2-0-1 in their last three games. Duncan Keith scores a power-play goal 38 seconds into overtime and the Blackhawks win for fourth time in a row. Mikkel Boedker has his fourth career hat trick and the Sharks win their game in a row after lossing three straight.
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TODAY’S GAMES Florida at New York Islanders, 4 p.m. Pittsburgh at Washington, 5 p.m.
Montreal at Winnipeg, 4:30 p.m. San Jose at Calgary, 6:30 p.m.
THURSDAY’S GAMES DUCKS at Colorado, 6 p.m. Vancouver at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. Buffalo at Tampa Bay, 4:30 p.m. Montreal at Minnesota, 5 p.m. New Jersey at Edmonton, 6 p.m.
St. Louis at KINGS, 7:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at Ottawa, 4:30 p.m. Boston at Nashville, 5 p.m. Detroit at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.
NHL LEADERS GOALS
POINTS
GAA
Crosby, PIT ............... 26 Carter, KINGS .......... 22 Laine, WPG ............... 21 Matthews, TOR ......... 21 2 tied at ..................... 20
McDavis, EDM ......... 48 Kane, CHI ................. 45 Crosby, PIT ............... 44 Tarasenko, STL ........ 43 Malkin, PIT ............... 43
Dubnyk, MIN .........1.80 Holtby, WAS ...........1.90 Howard, DET .........1.96 Rask, BOS ..............1.97 Bobrovsky, COL ... 2.00
Silfverberg ‘on another level’ DUCKS 2 DALLAS 0
ie Jhonas Enroth from the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for a seventh-round draft pick in the 2018 draft, the team announced after the game. It is largely a depth move with Dustin Tokarski injured. Enroth previously played for the Kings.
By Curtis Zupke
Thompson update
The winger has a goal and an assist in the Ducks’ win. Gibson gets the shutout.
Every All-Star center needs a right-hand man. Actually, right wing Jakob Silfverberg seemed to have his hands on everything Tuesday — the puck, the game and the appropriate accolades on the day linemate Ryan Kesler was selected an All-Star. “Tonight he was a player possessed,” Coach Randy Carlyle said after the Ducks’ 2-0 victory over the Dallas Stars at Honda Center. “He had the puck and no one could get it away from him.” Perhaps Silfverberg’s best game of the season included a second-period power-play goal and a pretty setup of Andrew Cogliano’s third-period score to support goalie John Gibson’s ninth career shutout. Silfverberg had a shorthanded bid in the second period and a highlight takeaway in the third as part of another terrific game from the line of Kesler, Silfverberg and Cogliano. “I think he’s on another level now,” Cogliano said of Silfverberg. “I’ve always thought he’s one of the most underrated in the league, to be honest. When you play with him, you appreciate more about what he does in terms of his stick battles and how hard he is on pucks. When he’s playing well, he’s
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RICKARD RAKELL of the Ducks gets inside track
on the puck against Dan Hamhuis of the Dallas Stars. usually the best player on the ice.” Cogliano was no slouch himself with eight shots on goal. The line combined for 17 of the Ducks’ 38 shots. It has embraced the top-line role fully with Carlyle leaning on them heavily. “Confidence is a big key in this,” Silfverberg said. “Anytime you know the coach believes in you, that’s going to help your play out there and that’s going to help you relax more. When you’re relaxed and you have that confidence, that’s when you play your best hockey.” There were few scoring opportunities until the Stars made three trips to the penalty box in the second period to expose their 30thranked penalty-killing unit to Anaheim. Silfverberg cashed in his 12th goal when he banged in
Ducks’ Fowler comes full circle [All-Stars, from D1] and my family,” Doughty said. Competing at Staples Center also holds significance for Fowler because it was the site of the 2010 NHL entry draft, in which the Ducks chose him 12th. “You can kind of see things come full circle there,” he said. Repeating last season’s entertaining experiment, the event will feature a three-on-three tournament in which teams from each division will meet in minigames of two 10-minutes halves. The winners will face off in the final. The Pacific Division defeated the Central and Atlantic divisions to prevail at Nashville last January. The coaches were determined by which team had the highest points percentage in their respective divisions as the season hit the halfway point Tuesday. They are Montreal’s Michel Therrien (Atlantic), Columbus’ John Tortorella (Metropolitan), Minnesota’s
Bruce Boudreau (Central), and San Jose’s Peter DeBoer (Pacific). The captains will be Pittsburgh center Sidney Crosby (Metropolitan), Montreal goaltender Carey Price (Atlantic), Edmonton forward and NHL scoring leader Connor McDavid (Pacific) and Nashville defenseman P.K. Subban (Central). Each team will have six forwards, three defensemen and two goalies. Many familiar names were announced Tuesday, including Crosby, who leads the NHL with 26 goals, and teammate Evgeni Malkin; Chicago Blackhawks center Jonathan Toews, who’s having a subpar season but will join teammates Patrick Kane, Corey Crawford and Duncan Keith; Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin, who has 999 career points, and Montreal defenseman Shea Weber, chosen for his sixth All-Star game. Other selections reflected the NHL’s youth
movement. Notable were Edmonton’s McDavid, who will be 20 on Friday, 18-yearold rookie Patrik Laine of Winnipeg, who scored 21 goals before being sidelined by a concussion, defenseman Seth Jones, 22, of the league-leading Columbus Blue Jackets, and 19-yearold forward Auston Matthews of the Toronto Maple Leafs. He shares the rookie lead in goals with Laine and is second in points among rookies with 35. Because all 30 teams must be represented, some worthy players were snubbed. Goalie Peter Budaj, who has saved the Kings’ season since Jonathan Quick was injured, would have been a good pick, but the Pacific goalie spots went to a deserving Martin Jones of San Jose and to Mike Smith, the Arizona Coyotes’ lone selection. Nor was there room for Columbus forward Cam Atkinson, who reached the
20-goal mark Tuesday, or prolific Blackhawks forward Artemi Panarin. But Doughty, Carter, Kesler and Fowler were strong choices. Kesler, especially, has excelled in collecting 16 goals and 35 points in 43 games and has combined with Andrew Cogliano and Jakob Silfverberg to form a formidable two-way line. Kesler, 32, considers his play vindication of the much-questioned six-year, $41.25-million contract the Ducks gave him in July of 2015. “That gets me going,” he said. “Ever since I signed that contract, I want to prove people wrong. You try not to hear it but you hear what people say, and I think that motivates me every year to come back and prove that I’m not quote-unquote over the hill.” helene.elliott@latimes.com Twitter: @helenenothelen Times correspondent Curtis Zupke contributed to this report.
World Cup will expand to 48 teams The 2026 event will have 16 three-team groups, and the U.S. is a likely host. By Kevin Baxter The World Cup is getting bigger. And it may be coming back to the U.S. too. On Tuesday the FIFA Council, the ruling body for world soccer’s governing organization, unanimously approved a plan to expand the quadrennial tournament from 32 to 48 teams by 2026. The field will be divided into 16 three-team groups, with the top two finishers in each group advancing to the next round. The number of matches played in the tournament will also grow, from 64 to 80 games, as will the tournament’s revenue. FIFA forecasts that an increase in broadcast and sponsorship rights, plus additional ticket sales, will make the 2026 event worth $1 billion more than the 2018 tournament in Russia, which is expected to bring in $5.5 billion. Tuesday’s council vote also made good on FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s promise to make the most prestigious competition in global sports larger and more inclusive. “We have to shape the football World Cup of the 21st century,” said Infantino, who was elected last February and
charged with cleaning up the scandal-plagued organization. This is the second expansion to the World Cup since 1994, when the U.S. hosted the event for the only time. Four years after that tournament, the field expanded by eight teams, to 32, by adding qualifiers from Africa, Asia and North America. No determination has been made regarding which of FIFA’s six continental groups will get additional qualifiers in 2026, although a decision is expected by May. “No guarantees have been made,” Infantino said. “The only sure thing is that obviously, with 48 teams, everyone will have a bit more than they do today.” For the 2018 tournament in Russia, Europe will receive 13 automatic berths, as many as the next three largest federations combined. Asia and Africa could be the biggest beneficiaries of tournament expansion, earning as many as nine places each. The winners of the 20 World Cups have all come from Europe and South America. Stewart Regan, head of Scotland’s soccer federations, was among those welcoming Tuesday’s vote. “We believe this is a positive step, particularly for the small nations,” Regan told the BBC. "We believe it will allow more fans across the globe to revel in their country's participation at a World Cup finals,”
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he continued. “A greater eclectic mix of footballing cultures at the FIFA World Cup will create a bigger and better atmosphere than ever before." FIFA concedes a larger field will diminish the quality of play, but Infantino believes the expansion will also create additional excitement by giving fans in 16 more countries the hope of watching their teams play in a World Cup. Over time, FIFA said, that will force national federations to improve their operations. Infantino said FIFA will help that process by increasing funding to all 211 member nations. FIFA is scheduled to decide on a host for the 2026 tournament in May 2020. And though Sunil Gulati, president of the U.S. Soccer Federation, said no decision has been made regarding a bid to stage the event in the United States, informal talks have been held among U.S., Canadian and Mexican officials regarding a joint application. The U.S., either alone or with its neighbors, seems a likely site for the event, given FIFA rules blocking Europe and Asia from staging the World Cup that year. Russia will play host to the 2018 event and Qatar, a member of the Asian federation, will stage the 2022 tournament, prohibiting both federations from bidding for another World Cup until 2030. And Africa and South America hosted the 2010 and 2014 events, in South Africa
and Brazil. But North America — and especially the U.S. — probably would be the favored host, even without those restrictions. An expanded field will require expanded facilities, and the U.S. already has the transportation and housing infrastructure to handle that. The U.S. also has a number of stadiums big enough to host World Cup matches and, as it proved with 2015’s Copa America Centenario, it has the logistical and technical know-how to stage a large event. The Copa America was the largest and most successful tournament in the event’s history, just as the 1994 World Cup in the U.S. set attendance records that still stand. Awarding the 2026 event to North America would also allow the U.S. to stage the opening or closing match in Philadelphia on July 4, the country’s 250th birthday, and could be a way for Infantino to reward Gulati for rallying support to his successful presidential bid in last winter’s FIFA election. But, given charges of bribery and corruption in the vote that resulted in Russia and Qatar getting the next two tournaments, Infantino said the process to award the 2026 event must be “bulletproof ” to meet FIFA’s new integrity rules. kevin.baxter@latimes.com Twitter: kbaxter11
Corey Perry’s rebound from the slot at 14:33 to end a fivegame, 0-for-15 power-play slump by the Ducks. Cogliano’s 10th goal came on a snap shot from the left circle off a tape-to-tape pass from Silfverberg on a rush. Gibson had a good view of the line on his way to 34 saves for his second shutout in four games. “I think they definitely stepped up with [Ryan] Getzlaf out,” Gibson said. “It’s nice to see. They always have a big part every night.” Getzlaf sat out a fourth straight game because of a lower-body injury. Carlyle said Getzlaf thought he might play Tuesday but when he skated in the morning “he didn’t think it would be safe at this point.”
Enroth trade
The Ducks acquired goal-
Ducks center Nate Thompson said he feels ahead of schedule from a surgically repaired Achilles’ tendon that was torn during a workout last June but is not expected to return until after the Jan. 27-30 All-Star break. He began skating Sunday and said, “The first five minutes I felt like Bambi, but it started to come back pretty quick. “It’s just good to be back on the ice. It’s been a long process. It’s good to feel like a hockey player again.” Thompson would give the Ducks another strong faceoff man to further solidify them down the middle. He’s also a veteran penalty killer and an unsung twoway player who suffered the injury during an agility drill on turf when “I went to push off and that was it.” sports@latimes.com
DUCKS 2, STARS 0 Dallas......................................0 DUCKS ....................................0
0 1
0 — 0 1 — 2
FIRST PERIOD: Scoring—None. Penalty—Shore, DAL, (tripping), 17:27. SECOND PERIOD: 1. DUCKS, Silfverberg 12 (Vatanen, Perry), 14:33 (pp). Penalties—Kesler, DUCKS, (holding stick), 4:39. Eakin, DAL, (hooking), 8:38. Kesler, DUCKS, (interference), 11:01. Klingberg, DAL, (high sticking), 14:08. Korpikoski, DAL, (interference), 18:46. THIRD PERIOD: 2. DUCKS, Cogliano 10 (Manson, Silfverberg), 14:42. Penalty—Bieksa, DUCKS, (high sticking), 18:33. SHOTS ON GOAL: Dal. 12-6-16—34. DUCKS 13-169—38. Power-play conversions—Dal. 0 of 3. DUCKS 1 of 4. GOALIES: Dal., Niemi 8-7-4 (38 shots-36 saves). DUCKS, Gibson 16-10-7 (34-34). Att—15,073 (17,174). T—2:29.
NHL ALL-STAR ROSTERS All-Star rosters for the three-on-three division tournament to be held at Staples Center on Jan. 29:
Atlantic Division COACH: Michel Therrien, Montreal. FORWARDS: Nikita Kucherov, Tampa Bay; Brad Marchand, Boston; Auston Matthews, Toronto; Frans Nielsen, Detroit; Kyle Okposo, Buffalo; Vincent Trocheck, Florida. DEFENSEMEN: Victor Hedman, Tampa Bay; Erik Karlsson, Ottawa; Shea Weber, Montreal. GOALIES: captain-Carey Price, Montreal; Tuukka Rask, Boston.
Metropolitan Division COACH: John Tortorella, Columbus. FORWARDS: captain-Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh; Taylor Hall, New Jersey; Evgeni Malkin, Pittsburgh; Alex Ovechkin, Washington; Wayne Simmonds, Philadelphia; John Tavares, N.Y. Islanders. DEFENSEMEN: Justin Faulk, Carolina; Seth Jones, Columbus; Ryan McDonagh, N.Y. Rangers. GOALIES: Sergei Bobrovsky, Columbus; Braden Holtby, Washington.
Central Division COACH: Bruce Boudreau, Minnesota. FORWARDS: Patrick Kane, Chicago; Patrik Laine, Winnipeg; Nathan MacKinnon, Colorado; Tyler Seguin, Dallas; Vladimir Tarasenko, St. Louis; Jonathan Toews, Chicago. DEFENSEMEN: Duncan Keith, Chicago; captain-P.K. Subban, Nashville; Ryan Suter, Minnesota. GOALIES: Corey Crawford, Chicago; Devan Dubnyk, Minnesota.
Pacific Division COACH: Peter DeBoer, San Jose. FORWARDS: Jeff Carter, KINGS; Johnny Gaudreau, Calgary; Bo Horvat, Vancouver; Ryan Kesler, DUCKS; captain-Connor McDavid, Edmonton; Joe Pavelski, San Jose. DEFENSEMEN: Brent Burns, San Jose; Drew Doughty, KINGS; Cam Fowler, DUCKS. GOALIES: Martin Jones, San Jose; Mike Smith, Arizona.
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NBA LAKERS REPORT
STANDINGS Standings have been arranged to reflect how the teams will be determined for the playoffs. Teams are ranked 1-15 by record. Division standing no longer has any bearing on the rankings. The top eight teams in each conference make the playoffs, and the top-seeded team would play the eighth-seeded team, the seventh team would play the second, etc. Head-to-head competition is the first of several tiebreakers, followed by conference record. (Western Conference divisions: S-Southwest; P-Pacific; N-Northwest; Eastern Conference divisions: A-Atlantic; C-Central; S-Southeast).
WESTERN CONFERENCE Team 1. Golden State 2. San Antonio 3. Houston 4. CLIPPERS 5. Memphis 5. Utah 7. Oklahoma City 8. Portland
W 33 30 31 26 24 24 23 17
L 6 8 9 14 16 16 16 23
PCT GB .846 .789 21⁄2 .775 21⁄2 .650 71⁄2 .600 91⁄2 .600 91⁄2 .590 10 .425 161⁄2
L10 8-2 7-3 9-1 4-6 6-4 6-4 6-4 4-6
Rk. P1 S1 S2 P2 S3 N1 N2 N3
9. Sacramento 10. New Orleans 11. Denver 12. LAKERS 13. Minnesota 13. Phoenix 15. Dallas
16 15 14 15 12 12 11
22 24 23 27 26 26 27
.421 .385 .378 .357 .316 .316 .289
— 11⁄2 11⁄2 3 4 4 5
5-5 6-4 3-7 4-6 3-7 4-6 4-6
P3 S4 N4 P4 N5 P5 S5
GB L10 7-3 31⁄2 5-5 51⁄2 7-3 61⁄2 8-2 81⁄2 6-4 9 6-4 9 7-3 9 4-6
Rk. C1 A1 A2 S1 C2 C3 S2 S3
EASTERN CONFERENCE Team 1. Cleveland 2. Toronto 3. Boston 4. Atlanta 5. Indiana 6. Milwaukee 6. Washington 8. Charlotte
W 28 25 23 22 20 19 19 20
L 9 13 15 16 18 18 18 19
PCT .757 .658 .605 .579 .526 .514 .514 .513
9. Chicago 10. Detroit 11. New York 12. Orlando 13. Philadelphia 14. Miami 15. Brooklyn
19 18 17 16 10 11 8
20 22 21 23 25 29 29
.487 1 .450 21⁄2 .447 21⁄2 .410 4 .286 8 .275 91⁄2 .216 11
5-5 4-6 2-8 4-6 4-6 1-9 1-9
C4 C5 A3 S4 A4 S5 A5
TODAY’S GAMES Favorite at CLIPPERS New York at Boston at Oklahoma City at Minnesota at Portland
Line 91⁄2 2 OFF 41⁄2 OFF OFF
Underdog Orlando at Philadelphia Washington Memphis Houston Cleveland
Time 7:30 p.m. 4 p.m. 5 p.m. 5 p.m. 5 p.m. 7:30 p.m.
Walton would like to see Odom as a coach
By Tania Ganguli Lakers Coach Luke Walton often talks with his old friend and teammate Lamar Odom. Sometimes the conversation turns to Odom’s future and the possibility of a return to basketball in a coaching capacity. “I think Lamar would be great,” Walton said. “I think anyone that knows Lamar, when he’s right, he’s one of the most likeable people that they’ve been around. I think he has a great knowledge of the game and has a great way of communicating with people.” Odom was recently asked by TMZ.com whether he would be interested in returning to the NBA as a coach and he said yes. When asked what team he’d like to coach with, Odom said, “With Luke, if I could.” Odom is working to regain stability in his own life. According to several reports, Odom recently left a treatment center for substance abuse after a 30-day stay. In October of 2015, he was hospitalized after being found unconscious in Nevada.
At the time, Walton was the Golden State Warriors’ interim head coach and visited Odom in the hospital. Walton has often spoken highly of Odom’s impact on him and in the Lakers locker room when they were teammates from 2004 to 2011. Walton has compared Lakers guard Jordan Clarkson’s role coming off the bench to that of Odom, a former sixth man of the year. He has also compared guard Lou Williams’ magnetism to Odom’s.
Streaks a motivator
The Lakers entered Tuesday’s game against the Trail Blazers on a nine-game losing streak against Portland. It was a point the Lakers coaching staff made sure to note to the team. The only player who remained with the Lakers since their last win over the Trail Blazers was Nick Young. “You could think it’s a cakewalk or you got their number,” Young said. “For them, they beat us nine straight times. They think they know how to win.” This season the Lakers have halted long losing streaks twice. They ended a
losing streak to the Clippers at 11 with a win on Christmas Day. And after nine straight losses to the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Lakers finally won on Nov. 22 with a buzzer-beater from Young. But they couldn’t end their streak Tuesday against the Trail Blazers, falling 108-87.
The simple to the spectacular An adage of Warriors Coach Steve Kerr has carried over to Walton’s philosophy: The simple often leads to the spectacular. Lately, Walton has seen his team believe in that much more. “We’re doing a better job of just making the simple play,” Walton said. “It’s what we preach all the time. Make the simple play. Hit the next open guy no matter who it is. If we keep playing like that, then we’re really at our best. … Open man, open man, open man, all of a sudden the ball’s moved four or five times and the spectacular wide-open shot at the end of it.” tania.ganguli@latimes.com Twitter: @taniaganguli
BOX SCORES Rockets 121, Hornets 114
Bucks 109, Spurs 107
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Kidd-Glchrst.33 0-6 0-0 1-6 4 3 0 Williams......25 6-10 1-2 1-8 0 3 16 Hibbert .......18 2-2 0-0 2-5 0 3 4 Lamb..........27 4-12 2-2 0-5 4 3 11 Walker ........36 9-20 2-3 1-6 10 1 25 Belinelli.......28 6-13 0-0 0-3 6 1 15 Kaminsky ....27 8-14 2-2 0-3 1 1 22 Hawes.........24 7-10 0-0 0-5 4 6 16 Sessions .....14 2-5 0-0 0-1 1 0 5 Graham ........3 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Totals 44-92 7-9 5-43 30 21 114 Shooting: Field goals, 47.8%; free throws, 77.8% Three-point goals: 19-43 (Walker 5-11, Kaminsky 4-9, Williams 3-5, Belinelli 3-9, Hawes 2-4, Sessions 1-1, Lamb 1-4). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: 11 (13 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4 (Hibbert 2, Kidd-Gilchrist, Walker). Turnovers: 11 (Walker 5, Belinelli 3, Hawes, Kaminsky, Sessions). Steals: 3 (Lamb, Walker, Williams). Technical Fouls: None.
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Antetknmpo ..9 0-3 0-0 0-2 2 1 0 Henson ......17 3-6 0-0 2-6 3 0 6 J.Parker ......34 9-16 2-2 1-7 3 5 22 Snell..........31 3-6 0-0 0-1 3 0 8 Brogdon .....25 5-11 4-5 2-6 6 3 17 Beasley ......34 11-18 5-6 1-5 4 2 28 Monroe ......28 7-13 0-0 4-9 4 4 14 Dellavdova ..22 2-5 0-0 1-2 5 0 4 Terry ..........17 1-2 0-0 0-0 1 0 3 Maker ........12 2-2 0-0 0-0 1 2 5 Teletovic .......4 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 Plumlee........2 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 2 Totals 44-84 11-13 11-38 32 18 109 Shooting: Field goals, 52.4%; free throws, 84.6% Three-point goals: 10-19 (Brogdon 3-5, J.Parker 2-3, Snell 2-5, Beasley 1-1, Maker 1-1, Terry 1-2, Antetokounmpo 0-1, Dellavedova 0-1). Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turnovers: 12 (17 PTS). Blocked Shots: 6 (Beasley 3, Antetokounmpo, Brogdon, Terry). Turnovers: 12 (Beasley 4, Monroe 3, Dellavedova 2, Antetokounmpo, Brogdon, Henson). Steals: 8 (Beasley 2, Dellavedova 2, Terry 2, J.Parker, Snell). Technical Fouls: Defensive three second, 3:59 second
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Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Anderson....35 5-12 0-0 2-3 1 1 13 Ariza ..........39 5-10 3-5 0-4 3 1 16 Harrell........29 5-5 4-6 1-3 2 1 14 Beverley .....32 2-10 2-2 1-8 5 4 8 Harden.......37 11-24 11-14 1-15 10 3 40 Brewer........25 7-10 0-0 0-5 0 3 15 Dekker .......20 2-5 0-0 0-1 3 1 5 Hilario ........18 3-6 4-6 1-5 1 3 10 Totals 40-82 24-33 6-44 25 17 121 Shooting: Field goals, 48.8%; free throws, 72.7% Three-point goals: 17-39 (Harden 7-14, Ariza 3-6, Anderson 3-7, Beverley 2-8, Brewer 1-2, Dekker 1-2). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: 10 (19 PTS). Blocked Shots: 5 (Harrell 3, Hilario 2). Turnovers: 10 (Harden 4, Beverley 2, Hilario 2, Brewer, Dekker). Steals: 8 (Anderson 2, Harrell 2, Ariza, Brewer, Dekker, Hilario). Technical Fouls: None. Charlotte 26 21 32 35— 114 Houston 32 35 29 25— 121 A—16,196. T—2:08. O—Rodney Mott, Justin Van Duyne, Marc Davis
Wizards 101, Bulls 99 CHICAGO
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Gibson .......28 3-11 3-3 4-12 1 1 10 McDermott..23 2-11 0-0 0-1 1 3 4 Lopez.........33 5-10 4-5 5-6 1 2 14 Crter-Willms 28 4-12 6-7 0-7 2 1 14 Grant .........25 2-5 4-4 0-2 6 1 9 Valentine ....30 7-15 0-0 0-2 2 1 19 Rondo........27 6-13 0-0 0-4 6 4 12 Portis .........17 5-8 0-0 2-7 0 2 13 Felicio ........14 1-3 2-2 1-2 0 3 4 Canaan ......10 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Totals 35-88 19-21 12-44 19 18 99 Shooting: Field goals, 39.8%; free throws, 90.5% Three-point goals: 10-27 (Valentine 5-11, Portis 3-4, Gibson 1-1, Grant 1-1, Carter-Williams 0-2, Rondo 0-3, McDermott 0-5). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: 17 (24 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Gibson, Lopez). Turnovers: 17 (Grant 5, Carter-Williams 3, Lopez 2, Rondo 2, Canaan, Felicio, McDermott, Portis, Valentine). Steals: 10 (Rondo 3, CarterWilliams 2, Valentine 2, Grant, Lopez, Portis). Technical Fouls: Gibson, 9:25 third.
WASHINGTON
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Morris ........21 8-12 0-0 1-4 2 6 19 Porter.........33 5-10 0-0 0-2 2 1 11 Gortat ........41 5-8 0-0 3-12 0 4 10 Beal...........37 7-15 2-3 0-4 3 2 19 Wall ...........40 11-21 3-4 0-6 14 2 26 Oubre ........23 1-6 1-2 0-5 1 4 3 Smith.........22 3-7 0-0 3-6 0 2 7 Burke.........12 2-4 0-0 0-2 1 2 6 McClellan .....6 0-0 0-0 0-1 1 1 0 Totals 42-83 6-9 7-42 24 24 101 Shooting: Field goals, 50.6%; free throws, 66.7% Three-point goals: 11-22 (Morris 3-3, Beal 3-6, Burke 2-2, Smith 1-2, Wall 1-2, Porter 1-4, Oubre 0-3). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: 21 (28 PTS). Blocked Shots: 6 (Smith 3, Gortat, Porter, Wall). Turnovers: 21 (Wall 5, Beal 4, Gortat 3, Morris 3, Smith 3, Burke 2, Oubre). Steals: 8 (Morris 3, Porter 2, Gortat, Oubre, Wall). Technical Fouls: None. Chicago 36 25 16 22— 99 Washington 26 23 32 20— 101
RESULTS
Harden triples again as Rockets stay hot
A—14,361. T—2:13. O—Mark Ayotte, Kane Fitzgerald, Courtney Kirkland
HOUSTON 121 CHARLOTTE 114
Raptors 114, Celtics 106 BOSTON
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Crowder ......38 4-10 0-0 0-2 1 1 9 Johnson ......16 2-5 0-0 2-5 1 4 4 Horford .......34 5-11 2-2 2-9 4 1 14 Smart .........37 6-11 3-3 1-4 5 4 16 Thomas.......36 8-19 8-9 0-1 7 0 27 Olynyk.........25 6-10 0-2 1-4 1 4 13 Green .........24 6-12 2-2 0-5 0 2 14 Jerebko .......16 2-3 2-2 0-2 1 3 7 Brown...........7 1-3 0-0 0-1 0 1 2 Rozier ...........3 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 Totals 40-85 17-20 6-33 21 20 106 Shooting: Field goals, 47.1%; free throws, 85.0% Three-point goals: 9-27 (Thomas 3-8, Horford 2-4, Jerebko 1-1, Olynyk 1-2, Smart 1-2, Crowder 1-5, Johnson 0-1, Rozier 0-1, Green 0-3). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turnovers: 14 (21 PTS). Blocked Shots: 3 (Johnson, Olynyk, Smart). Turnovers: 14 (Horford 3, Smart 3, Crowder 2, Green 2, Olynyk 2, Brown, Thomas). Steals: 7 (Smart 4, Crowder, Horford, Jerebko). Technical Fouls: Thomas, 4:41 second.
James Harden had 40 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists for his second straight 40-point triple-double and the Houston Rockets outlasted the Charlotte Hornets, 121114, on Tuesday night for their ninth straight win. The Rockets missed 10 straight shots and let an 18-point lead evaporate before Coach Mike D’Antoni called a timeout with 2:26 left. Harden made two layups and Houston hung on. Harden got his 11th triple-double this season. He is the fourth player in NBA history with at least 40 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in consecutive games, joining Michael Jordan, Pete Maravich and Russell Westbrook. Kemba Walker had 25 points for the Hornets, who dropped their third in a row. at Toronto 114, Boston 106: DeMar DeRozan scored a season-high 41 points, Kyle Lowry had 24 and the Raptors came from 16 points down in the third quarter to end the Celtics’ four-game winning streak. at Washington 101, Chicago 99: John Wall scored 26 points, including a game-winning baseline jumper with 5.9 seconds left, and added 14 assists as the Wizards moved above .500 with a victory over a Bulls team playing without Jimmy Butler and Dwyane Wade. Atlanta 117, at Brooklyn 97: Dennis Schroder had 19 points and 10 assists, Dwight Howard added 14 points and 16 rebounds, and the Hawks won their season-high seventh straight game while handing the Nets their seventh loss in a row and 12th in 13 games. Milwaukee 109, at San Antonio 107: Michael Beasley scored a seasonhigh 28 points in place of an ill Giannis Antetokounmpo, and the Bucks rallied to end the Spurs’ nine-game home winning streak. Kawhi Leonard had 30 points for San Antonio. at Utah 100, Cleveland 92: Gordon Hayward scored 28 points, 11 during a 16-0 third-quarter run, as the Jazz improved to 9-1 with Hayward and George Hill in the lineup. at Golden State 107, Miami 95: Stephen Curry had 24 points, nine assists and eight rebounds, Kevin Durant added 28 points and the Warriors picked it up after trailing at halftime. at Sacramento 100, Detroit 94: DeMarcus Cousins had 24 points and 13 rebounds for the Kings, who dominated the fourth quarter. Portland 108, at Lakers 87 — associated press
TORONTO
Mark J. Terrill Associated Press
LAKERS GUARD D’Angelo Russell, left, and Trail Blazers center Mason Plum-
lee go after a rebound in the first half.
Lakers manage only 30 points in second half of loss [Lakers, from D1] lately the Lakers’ thirdquarter fates had improved. Heading into Tuesday, the Lakers were coming off consecutive games with strong third quarters — they beat the Miami Heat, 127-100, and the Orlando Magic, 11195, allowing only nine points to the Magic in the third quarter while extending their lead. “I thought we had really taken a step — and we had,” Walton said. “The Orlando third quarter was incredible. We were talking, flying around on defense. I guess we had to realize that whatever we’re doing at halftime, we gotta come out and really get warm. We had some good looks. We were getting some stops early in the third. We couldn’t make any of our shots. If I had to guess, our guys had kind of gotten sick of the third-quarter rut we’re in.” On Tuesday, they regressed to what plagued them early in the season. The Lakers scored only 12 points in the third quarter on five-for-23 shooting and making none of their seven three-point attempts. The Lakers were outscored, 5330, in the second half.
TRAIL BLAZERS 108, LAKERS 87 PORTLAND
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Aminu...............29 3-6 1-2 2-15 4 1 8 Harkless ............32 5-6 3-4 0-5 1 3 14 Plumlee.............24 5-7 1-2 1-7 1 5 11 Lillard ...............31 7-21 5-6 3-8 6 3 20 McCollum ..........33 10-18 3-4 0-1 4 2 25 Turner ...............26 3-9 0-0 0-3 7 1 6 Crabbe..............26 4-8 0-0 0-1 0 2 9 Davis ................21 3-6 2-2 3-8 0 3 8 Vonleh ................5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 Napier ................2 1-1 0-0 0-1 1 0 2 Layman ...............2 2-3 0-0 0-0 0 0 5 Leonard ..............2 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Connghton...........2 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 Totals 43-85 15-20 9-50 25 21 108 Shooting: Field goals, 50.6%; free throws, 75.0% Three-point goals: 7-21 (McCollum 2-5, Layman 1-1, Aminu 1-2, Harkless 1-2, Crabbe 1-3, Lillard 1-6, Turner 0-2). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turnovers: 11 (11 PTS). Blocked Shots: 9 (Aminu 3, Harkless 3, Plumlee 2, Lillard). Turnovers: 11 (Plumlee 3, Aminu 2, Harkless 2, Lillard 2, Crabbe, McCollum). Steals: 6 (McCollum 2, Crabbe, Davis, Harkless, Plumlee). Technical Fouls: Defensive three second, 2:57 first
LAKERS
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Deng ................29 5-10 3-4 4-6 0 0 14 Randle ..............26 2-9 2-4 2-10 3 5 6 Young ...............27 2-9 2-3 0-0 1 1 8 Mozgov..............20 4-8 0-0 1-2 0 3 8 Russell..............30 4-14 1-4 0-8 6 3 9 Ingram ..............25 3-6 3-6 0-4 2 0 11 Clarkson............22 3-9 1-1 0-1 1 2 9 Black ................16 0-0 2-4 1-4 1 1 2 Williams ............16 4-10 0-0 0-0 1 1 10 Robinson...........15 4-6 0-0 1-2 2 2 8 Huertas...............3 1-1 0-0 0-1 1 0 2 Calderon .............2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 World Peace.........2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 32-83 14-26 9-38 18 18 87 Shooting: Field goals, 38.6%; free throws, 53.8% Three-point goals: 9-24 (Ingram 2-2, Williams 2-3, Clarkson 2-5, Young 2-5, Deng 1-2, Russell 0-7). Team Rebounds: 13. Team Turnovers: 10 (9 PTS). Blocked Shots: 5 (Ingram, Mozgov, Robinson, Russell, Young). Turnovers: 10 (Mozgov 2, Randle 2, Russell 2, Black, Ingram, Robinson, Williams). Steals: 7 (Russell 3, Clarkson 2, Deng, Young). Technical Fouls: Russell, 6:05 third. Portland 25 30 23 30— 108 LAKERS 26 31 12 18— 87 A—18,483. T—2:07. O—Leroy Richardson, James Capers, Aaron Smith
Lillard only had two points in the first half, but scored 11 in the third quarter to help a Trail Blazers turnaround. In the middle of Lillard’s resurgence, he and Russell were assessed technical fouls. With 6 minutes 5 seconds remaining in the third quarter, Russell blocked one of Lillard’s shots, then the two exchanged words. “He just shot the ball more,” Russell said of Lillard’s strong second half. “We didn’t clean up rebounds, the ball bounced to him, he shot it, made shots, got to the free throw line, same thing he was trying to do the whole game.” Walton assured his team he knows eventually this will change. He also made clear what happened Tuesday wasn’t acceptable. “It’s frustrating to lose, but I’ve rarely been disappointed in our team throughout the season because I feel like our guys have given us a great effort,” Walton said. “This second half, I didn’t really recognize that team out there. Hopefully it was just a little speed bump." tania.ganguli@latimes.com Twitter: @taniaganguli
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Carroll........34 4-10 0-0 1-4 2 3 11 Patterson ....20 0-3 0-0 0-2 1 4 0 Valanciunas 27 6-18 6-6 11-23 0 4 18 DeRozan.....37 16-29 8-9 2-13 0 1 41 Lowry.........42 7-12 5-8 1-4 9 3 24 Joseph .......23 2-5 2-2 0-1 2 3 7 Nogueira.....21 3-4 1-2 2-3 2 2 7 Ross ..........21 1-4 0-0 0-0 1 0 2 Poeltl ...........6 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 2 Powell ..........4 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 2 Totals 41-87 22-27 17-50 17 21 114 Shooting: Field goals, 47.1%; free throws, 81.5% Three-point goals: 10-22 (Lowry 5-6, Carroll 3-6, DeRozan 1-2, Joseph 1-2, Nogueira 0-1, Patterson 0-2, Ross 0-3). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 17 (25 PTS). Blocked Shots: 7 (Nogueira 2, Valanciunas 2, Carroll, Lowry, Patterson). Turnovers: 17 (Lowry 4, Carroll 3, Valanciunas 3, Nogueira 2, DeRozan, Patterson, Poeltl, Powell, Ross). Steals: 9 (Ross 3, DeRozan 2, Lowry 2, Carroll, Nogueira). Technical Fouls: DeRozan, 2:17 third. Boston 18 37 29 22— 106 Toronto 23 23 34 34— 114 A—19,800. T—2:20. O—Josh Tiven, Kevin Cutler, Sean Wright
Hawks 117, Nets 97 ATLANTA
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Bazemore ...22 1-7 4-6 1-3 0 2 6 Millsap.......28 6-14 2-4 3-8 4 3 14 Sefolosha ...27 5-10 0-0 0-4 2 1 10 Howard ......27 6-9 2-8 7-16 0 1 14 Schroder.....29 7-14 3-3 0-1 10 1 19 Muscala .....22 3-6 2-2 0-4 0 3 9 Hardaway Jr.22 3-9 2-4 0-2 4 1 9 Prince ........20 2-6 2-2 2-6 1 0 8 Humphries ..16 5-8 3-4 2-8 2 3 13 Delaney......16 5-6 1-3 0-1 1 0 12 Scott ...........3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 2 0 Bembry ........3 1-3 1-2 0-0 1 0 3 Totals 44-92 22-38 15-53 25 17 117 Shooting: Field goals, 47.8%; free throws, 57.9% Three-point goals: 7-23 (Prince 2-4, Schroder 2-4, Delaney 1-2, Muscala 1-2, Hardaway Jr. 1-3, Bembry 0-1, Humphries 0-1, Millsap 0-1, Sefolosha 0-2, Bazemore 0-3). Team Rebounds: 15. Team Turnovers: 12 (20 PTS). Blocked Shots: 12 (Millsap 3, Hardaway Jr. 2, Muscala 2, Prince 2, Howard, Humphries, Sefolosha). Turnovers: 12 (Delaney 4, Howard 2, Prince 2, Sefolosha 2, Bazemore, Millsap). Steals: 11 (Bazemore 2, Schroder 2, Sefolosha 2, Hardaway Jr., Humphries, Millsap, Muscala, Prince). Technical Fouls: None.
BROOKLYN
MILWAUKEE
SAN ANTONIO
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Lee............25 5-6 0-0 4-7 1 0 10 Leonard......36 10-16 8-10 2-7 2 1 30 Gasol.........28 3-9 0-0 3-11 4 0 6 Green.........26 5-12 0-0 0-3 0 3 14 T.Parker ......32 7-15 0-0 0-3 7 1 14 Simmons ....22 5-8 2-2 0-0 0 2 14 Dedmon .....19 2-6 1-2 4-7 0 0 5 Bertans ......18 4-7 0-0 0-0 2 2 11 Mills ..........15 0-3 0-0 0-2 5 0 0 Ginobili ......14 1-6 0-0 0-1 1 1 3 Totals 42-88 11-14 13-41 22 10 107 Shooting: Field goals, 47.7%; free throws, 78.6% Three-point goals: 12-30 (Green 4-9, Bertans 3-6, Leonard 2-3, Simmons 2-4, Ginobili 1-5, Gasol 0-1, Mills 0-1, T.Parker 0-1). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: 14 (11 PTS). Blocked Shots: 7 (Leonard 3, Bertans, Dedmon, Green, Lee). Turnovers: 14 (Mills 3, Bertans 2, Gasol 2, Lee 2, T.Parker 2, Ginobili, Green, Leonard). Steals: 5 (Leonard 3, Dedmon, T.Parker). Technical Fouls: None. Milwaukee 23 30 30 26— 109 San Antonio 23 36 30 18— 107 A—18,418. T—2:09. O—Bill Spooner, Brian Forte, Scott Twardoski
Jazz 100, Cavaliers 92 CLEVELAND
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T James ........36 10-20 6-7 1-6 5 0 29 Love...........37 4-14 2-2 0-9 3 4 12 Thompson...35 5-8 2-5 6-12 1 3 12 Irving .........39 5-18 8-8 2-4 4 3 20 Liggins .......18 2-4 0-0 1-2 1 2 6 Shumpert ...20 1-5 0-0 1-2 0 3 2 Frye ...........18 1-6 3-3 1-3 0 2 5 Korver ........17 1-5 0-0 0-3 0 1 2 Jefferson.......9 0-2 0-0 1-1 0 1 0 Felder ..........4 2-3 0-0 0-0 1 0 4 Jones ...........0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 McRae .........0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 31-85 21-25 13-42 15 19 92 Shooting: Field goals, 36.5%; free throws, 84.0% Three-point goals: 9-31 (James 3-6, Liggins 2-3, Love 2-6, Irving 2-8, Jefferson 0-1, Korver 0-2, Shumpert 0-2, Frye 0-3). Team Rebounds: 10. Team Turnovers: 16 (23 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Frye, Liggins). Turnovers: 16 (James 4, Irving 3, Jefferson 2, Liggins 2, Love 2, Frye, Korver, Thompson). Steals: 6 (James 4, Irving, Liggins). Technical Fouls: James, 2:09 first
UTAH
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Favors ........25 5-10 2-4 1-5 2 4 12 Hayward .....37 10-12 4-5 0-9 2 1 28 Gobert .......36 5-7 1-1 4-14 1 3 11 Hill ............36 5-11 1-4 1-3 7 3 13 Hood .........35 7-15 0-0 1-5 3 4 18 Ingles.........26 2-5 0-0 0-2 5 1 5 Lyles..........17 4-11 2-3 3-5 1 1 12 Johnson......13 0-5 1-2 1-2 1 1 1 Mack ...........8 0-2 0-0 0-1 0 2 0 Diaw ............2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 Totals 38-79 11-19 11-46 22 21 100 Shooting: Field goals, 48.1%; free throws, 57.9% Three-point goals: 13-34 (Hayward 4-5, Hood 410, Hill 2-3, Lyles 2-7, Ingles 1-4, Mack 0-1, Johnson 0-4). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: 18 (17 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4 (Favors, Gobert, Hayward, Lyles). Turnovers: 18 (Gobert 5, Hood 3, Diaw 2, Hill 2, Ingles 2, Favors, Hayward, Johnson, Mack). Steals: 8 (Gobert 3, Hood 2, Favors, Hayward, Ingles). Technical Fouls: team, 2:40 second. Cleveland 29 12 25 26— 92 Utah 29 27 19 25— 100 A—19,911. T—2:13. O—John Goble, David Guthrie, Tyler Ford
Warriors 107, Heat 95 MIAMI
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Babbitt.......18 1-6 0-0 0-1 0 0 2 Whiteside ...37 13-17 2-3 3-20 2 3 28 Dragic ........37 7-16 1-1 0-2 4 2 17 McGruder ...31 0-4 1-2 1-6 2 3 1 Waiters.......37 4-17 0-0 0-3 8 4 8 T.Johnson....29 6-11 3-4 1-7 3 3 18 J.Johnson....29 6-14 1-2 0-2 6 4 14 Reed..........11 1-3 2-2 0-4 0 2 4 Ellington.......7 0-1 3-3 0-0 0 1 3 Totals 38-89 13-17 5-45 25 22 95 Shooting: Field goals, 42.7%; free throws, 76.5% Three-point goals: 6-30 (T.Johnson 3-8, Dragic 2-5, J.Johnson 1-7, Ellington 0-1, McGruder 0-1, Babbitt 0-3, Waiters 0-5). Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turnovers: 11 (13 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4 (Whiteside 2, McGruder, Reed). Turnovers: 11 (Whiteside 4, Dragic 3, J.Johnson 2, Reed, Waiters). Steals: 6 (J.Johnson 2, Waiters 2, Dragic, Whiteside). Technical Fouls: Defensive three second, 7:22 first
GOLDEN STATE
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Durant ........36 10-21 5-5 1-8 0 2 28 Green .........35 4-11 5-6 0-9 5 0 13 Pachulia......23 3-5 2-2 1-6 3 3 8 Curry ..........35 8-21 4-5 1-8 9 0 24 McCaw........18 1-3 0-0 0-3 0 4 3 Iguodala......28 4-6 0-0 1-5 4 0 9 Clark ..........22 4-9 0-0 0-1 3 3 10 Livingston....17 3-5 2-4 0-0 1 3 8 West...........11 1-4 0-0 1-5 3 0 2 McGee..........9 1-1 0-0 0-3 0 1 2 McAdoo ........0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 39-86 18-22 5-48 28 16 107 Shooting: Field goals, 45.3%; free throws, 81.8% Three-point goals: 11-27 (Curry 4-11, Durant 3-6, Clark 2-3, Iguodala 1-2, McCaw 1-2, Green 0-3). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turnovers: 11 (10 PTS). Blocked Shots: 7 (Durant 2, Green 2, McGee 2, Curry). Turnovers: 11 (Curry 3, Durant 2, Pachulia 2, Clark, Green, McCaw, McGee). Steals: 6 (Green 2, Curry, Durant, Pachulia, West). Technical Fouls: None. Miami 29 25 14 27— 95 Golden State 27 26 26 28— 107 A—19,596. T—2:14. O—Courtney Kirkland, Mitchell Ervin, Karl Lane
Kings 100, Pistons 94 DETROIT
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Harris.........39 7-15 2-2 0-3 2 2 18 Morris ........31 4-12 0-0 1-3 1 5 9 Drummond .35 4-5 1-6 3-12 1 5 9 Cldwll-Pope.39 6-12 3-3 1-5 2 2 21 Jackson......30 8-15 0-1 0-2 3 3 19 Johnson......22 1-6 0-0 0-1 3 3 2 Smith.........17 2-5 2-2 0-1 0 0 6 Marjanovic ..10 3-7 2-2 1-4 0 0 8 Ellenson .......7 1-3 0-0 1-2 2 1 2 Baynes.........6 0-2 0-0 1-2 0 3 0 Hilliard .........0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 36-82 10-16 8-35 14 24 94 Shooting: Field goals, 43.9%; free throws, 62.5% Three-point goals: 12-27 (Caldwell-Pope 6-8, Jackson 3-5, Harris 2-5, Morris 1-5, Johnson 0-1, Smith 0-1, Ellenson 0-2). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turnovers: 12 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 9 (Drummond 7, Harris 2). Turnovers: 12 (Jackson 4, Caldwell-Pope 2, Drummond 2, Morris 2, Harris, Smith). Steals: 12 (Drummond 3, Johnson 3, Morris 2, Smith 2, Caldwell-Pope, Harris). Technical Fouls: None.
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Lopez .........32 8-14 2-4 0-2 2 3 20 Bogdanovic..25 5-10 3-3 0-6 4 2 16 Harris .........14 1-2 0-0 0-1 0 2 2 Hollis-Jeffrsn 20 2-9 6-6 1-7 1 4 10 Whitehead...26 3-8 0-0 1-2 3 3 7 Hamilton .....26 2-8 0-0 2-6 3 1 4 Kilpatrick.....24 6-14 1-2 2-5 0 1 14 LeVert .........23 4-9 2-3 1-3 2 1 11 Dinwiddie ....22 1-5 2-2 2-7 5 3 4 Scola..........15 2-6 0-0 4-7 1 1 5 Foye .............8 0-1 0-0 0-1 1 3 0 Acy ..............1 1-1 1-3 1-1 0 0 4 Totals 35-87 17-23 14-48 22 24 97 Shooting: Field goals, 40.2%; free throws, 73.9% Three-point goals: 10-29 (Bogdanovic 3-5, Lopez 2-6, Acy 1-1, Whitehead 1-1, Scola 1-2, Kilpatrick 1-3, LeVert 1-4, Foye 0-1, Harris 0-1, Hamilton 0-5). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: 17 (28 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4 (Lopez 2, Whitehead 2). Turnovers: 17 (Bogdanovic 4, Hollis-Jefferson 3, Dinwiddie 2, Hamilton 2, Kilpatrick 2, LeVert 2, Lopez, Whitehead). Steals: 5 (Bogdanovic, Dinwiddie, Kilpatrick, Lopez, Scola). Technical Fouls: coach Kenny Atkinson, 1:24 third Atlanta 35 26 25 31— 117 Brooklyn 29 14 27 27— 97
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Gay............37 3-11 4-4 2-7 4 5 11 Tolliver........35 4-11 6-6 3-4 3 1 17 Cousins ......30 8-14 4-7 4-13 6 4 24 Collison......27 4-10 0-0 0-0 4 0 9 Temple .......30 4-8 0-0 0-1 0 4 11 Lawson.......24 2-9 3-4 0-2 2 1 8 Koufos .......21 5-7 2-2 1-8 0 0 12 Casspi........17 1-3 2-4 2-10 0 2 4 Afflalo ........11 1-1 2-2 0-1 1 0 4 McLemore.....2 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 Totals 32-74 23-29 12-46 21 17 100 Shooting: Field goals, 43.2%; free throws, 79.3% Three-point goals: 13-24 (Cousins 4-5, Temple 3-4, Tolliver 3-7, Gay 1-2, Lawson 1-2, Collison 1-4). Team Rebounds: 11. Team Turnovers: 16 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 3 (Cousins, Gay, Koufos). Turnovers: 16 (Gay 7, Lawson 4, Cousins 3, Collison, Koufos). Steals: 6 (Gay 3, Casspi, Cousins, Temple). Technical Fouls: None. Detroit 29 27 21 17— 94 Sacramento 21 22 25 32— 100
A—13,279. T—2:12. O—Derrick Collins, Ed Malloy, Jacyn Goble
A—17,608. T—2:15. O—Michael Smith, Ken Mauer, Tre Maddox
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CLIPPERS REPORT
When Garnett barks, Jordan listens
By Broderick Turner The voice boomed throughout the Clippers’ practice facility, leaving all the players no choice but to hear Kevin Garnett’s bark and to notice his presence at practice Tuesday. Garnett bounced around forward Brandon Bass, intensely giving orders. He then interrupted former Boston teammate Paul Pierce’s conversation with a member of the media and the two friends laughed. And just before the start of practice, Garnett assumed his official role as a Clippers consultant and began working with center DeAndre Jordan. The duo went to one side of the facility, and the 15time NBA All-Star showed Jordan the best method of shooting a left-handed hook. Then right-handed. And then gave tips on shooting from the middle of the lane with either hand. Every step along the way, Jordan said, Garnett’s instruction was “intense.”
Clippers tonight VS. ORLANDO
When: 7:30. Where: Staples Center. On the air: TV: Prime Ticket; Radio: 570. Records: Clippers 26-14, Magic 16-23. Record vs. Magic: 1-0. Update: Tonight’s game will mark the halfway point for the Clippers in the 82-game regular season. The Clippers have defeated Orlando six consecutive times. The Magic have had problems offensively this season, ranking 27th in scoring (98.9 points per game), 25th in field-goal percentage (43.8%) and 28th in three-point shooting (33.7%). — Broderick Turner “You’ve got to be locked in,” Jordan said. “That’s just his personality. He’s an intense person. He’s locked in all the time and that’s contagious, man. I’m glad that we got him here. I’m glad that I’m able to take advantage of that. Whenever he’s here, he’s going to get tired of me.” Months ago, Garnett was asked by Clippers Coach Doc Rivers, who coached him in Boston, where they won an NBA championship together in 2008, to work with the team’s big men when his time permits.
Tuesday’s appearance was Garnett’s first since he helped out during training camp in October. Garnett also chatted with Blake Griffin, who is recovering from right knee surgery. Griffin, dressed in practice gear, took some shots as Garnet talked. “You can tell that he loves the game of basketball,” Jordan said of Garnett. “He wants to teach people. He wants you to learn and he wants to give knowledge, and I want to receive all of it.” From their few practice
Etc. Rivers missed practice Tuesday because he was home sick. If he misses Wednesday night’s game against Orlando at Staples Center, assistant Mike Woodson would coach the team. . . . Clippers guard Austin Rivers, who missed Sunday’s game because of flu symptoms, was at practice Tuesday and said he expects to play against the Magic. broderick.turner@latimes.com
Mark J. Terrill Associated Press
CLIPPERS CENTER DeAndre Jordan worked with
consultant Kevin Garnett at practice on Tuesday.
Trojans make surprise jump to No. 3 in poll
Sports brings hope in cynical times [Plaschke, from D1] heroes, its eternal lessons, talk that streamed refreshing light into a room darkened by political and cultural morass? Riding an elevator at the office, I was addressed by a coworker who was marveling about the game — not as a fan, but as an observer of the human condition found within its four quarters. I asked what he thought it all meant. As he exited the elevator and walked in a different direction, he said, simply, “Hope.” It was, indeed, about the hope that this country is still grounded in the notion that great achievements can be accomplished by unity, great moments created without bluster, and that there are trophies that cannot be bought. For all its imperfections, sports works. Its athletes are flesh, its scores are final, and, when it performs like it did in the past year, its magic is unmatched. During that period, maybe the greatest stretch in the history of American athletics, four major sports championships were each decided in final moments heavy with history, teeming with drama, and filled with that hope. Begin nine months ago on another Monday night, the first one of April, when Villanova defeated North Carolina, 77-74, on a threepointer by Kris Jenkins at the buzzer for the men’s college basketball championship. The Tar Heels had just tied the score on their own three-pointer, by Marcus Paige. Villanova had five seconds to win it. Ryan Arcidiacono dribbled upcourt and flipped the ball behind to Jenkins, who threw it up as time expired. “Bang,” cool Villanova Coach Jay Wright said from the sidelines as the ball soared toward the rim. Boom went the college basketball world, as the shot swished and Villanova stormed the floor, smothering Jenkins while colorful streamers rained upon them in celebration of the Wildcats’ first title in 31 years. “They said we couldn’t, they said we couldn’t, they said we couldn’t,” Jenkins later shouted. Real stuff. Human stuff. And it was just the start. A couple of months later, the Cleveland Cavaliers fulfilled LeBron James’ promise to bring a championship to his home region by defeating the Golden State Warriors to win one of the most compelling Finals
sessions, Jordan said, he has learned much from Garnett, who retired after last season, ending a 21-year NBA playing career with Minnesota, Boston and Brooklyn. “Besides him cussing me out when we played against each other,” Jordan said, laughing. “He’s a great spirit and a great basketball mind, a Hall of Fame guy, somebody I looked up to coming up and even playing the game. So any pointers he can give me and tips is great, man. I just want to be a student whenever he’s here.”
USC is behind only Clemson, Alabama in final AP ranking. Penn State drops to No. 7. By David Wharton
Michael Simmons Associated Press
EVERYBODY LOVED Kris Jenkins after his buzzerbeating three-pointer gave Villanova a thrilling win over North Carolina in NCAA basketball title game.
in NBA history. The Cavaliers became the first major sports champion from Cleveland in 52 years. They were the first team to win an NBA Finals after trailing three games to one. And they did it with a knuckle-biting 93-89 win in Game 7 at Oakland. Remember it? They won the game in the final two minutes with James blocking the potential go-ahead layup by Andre Iguodala, then Kyrie Irving hitting the game-winning three-pointer in the final minute. It was such a monumental game that back in Washington, President Obama refused to leave Air Force One at the conclusion of a trip until he could watch the final moments on television. It held such meaning that afterward, the rich and famous James fell to the gym floor and cried. “I’m coming home with what I said I was going to do,” James said, because sports is one place where, through effort and will, promises can still be kept. Those two events were merely opening acts for the greatest sports drama of the year, in the first week of November, when the Chicago Cubs ended sports’ longest title drought with their first World Series championship in 108 years. They didn’t just win it, they seized it with what some people believe was the most riveting game in baseball history, a 10-inning, 8-7 Game 7 victory over the Cleveland Indians that occurred after a three-run Indians comeback and a 17-minute rain delay. During the delay, in a tiny weight room underneath Cleveland’s Progressive Field, Cubs outfielder Jason Heyward gave his team a speech that left some players in tears. The
Cubs came to the plate at the start of the first extra inning, scored twice on a double by Ben Zobrist and a single by Miguel Montero, then held on in the bottom of the 10th for the win. The lasting images were not of the Cubs bouncing around the middle of the diamond, but of thousands of celebrating fans dancing in the streets of Chicago, singing “Go Cubs Go.” “This one about made me pass out,” Zobrist said afterward. Once again, at its best, sports wasn’t about sports, but about the human spirit, and how witnessing and participating in this spirit can strengthen the resilience of humanity. Four major championships, four final games, four closing minutes, four last stretches that beat the clock and barged into history. Oh yeah, and don’t forget the Sparks winning the WNBA title over the Minnesota Lynx with Nneka Ogwumike scoring the winning basket with 3.1 seconds remaining for a 77-76 victory in the final game of a best-of-five championship series. Sports continues to save us, again and again, most recently Monday night, when Clemson drove down the field in the final two minutes and toppled the Alabama dynasty with a two-yard touchdown pass from Deshaun Watson to Hunter Renfrow with one second — one second! — remaining on the clock. “You can’t make this up,” Clemson Coach Dabo Swinney said. No need. Not in sports. It’s the opus that makes us stronger, the miracle we can still believe. bill.plaschke@latimes.com Twitter: @BillPlaschke
In the wake of a thrilling national championship game, it was no surprise to see Clemson at No. 1 and Alabama just behind in the final Associated Press top 25 Tuesday. The big surprise in the media poll was No. 3. And No. 7. USC, which started the season by losing three of its first four games, made the jump to the third spot on the strength of a last-second victory over Penn State in one of the most exciting Rose Bowls ever. The Trojans were No. 9 before that game. There was more good news for the Pac-12 Conference — Washington was No. 4 after losing in a semifinal against Alabama. Which takes us to that other surprise, No. 7. Penn State, which played USC toe to toe in the Rose Bowl, defeated Ohio State during the season, won the Big Ten championship and outperformed its conference
brethren in the postseason, fell two spots to finish behind No. 5 Oklahoma and No. 6 Ohio State in the final ranking. Strange that the Nittany Lions wouldn’t be right behind USC and ahead of both Ohio State and Washington, especially when you compare results and consider that the Trojans squeaked past Penn State but dealt Washington a convincing defeat on its home field. San Diego State, with record-setting tailback Donnel Pumphrey, was No. 25. Alabamawas the only Southeastern Conference team to finish in the top 10. The Atlantic Coast Conference, which had a strong bowl season, finished with a handful of teams in the top 25, including Clemson and No. 8 Florida State. “I think all you media folks need to change your stories,” Clemson Coach Dabo Swinney said. “I’ve been in this league a long time, and this league has never gotten the respect that it deserves.” Wisconsin came in at No. 9, followed by Michigan, giving the Big Ten, which went 3-7 in bowl games, four top-10 teams. david.wharton@latimes.com
FINAL AP TOP 25 POLL Team
Record Pts. Prv.
1. Clemson (60) .......14-1 1500
3
2. Alabama ................14-1 1440
1
3. USC .......................10-3 1292
9
4. Washington ..........12-2 1277
4
5. Oklahoma..............11-2 1252
7
6. Ohio State .............11-2 1240
2
7. Penn State.............11-3 1130
5
8. Florida State ........10-3 1105 10 9. Wisconsin..............11-3 1032
8
10. Michigan...............10-3 1001
6
11. Oklahoma State ..10-3
920
13
12. Stanford................10-3
730
16
13. LSU .........................8-4
651
19
14. Florida ....................9-4
640 20
15. W. Michigan ..........13-1
619
12
16. Virginia Tech........10-4
610
18
17. Colorado...............10-4
585
11
18. West Virginia........10-3
368
14
19. South Florida........11-2
358 25
20. Miami......................9-4
338 NR
21. Louisville ................9-4
277
22. Tennessee ..............9-4
253 NR
15
23. Utah ........................9-4
222 NR
24. Auburn....................8-5
206
25. San Diego State ...11-3
17
113 NR
Others receiving votes: Kansas State 83, Georgia Tech 47, Nebraska 38, W. Kentucky 32, Air Force 30, Pittsburgh 21, Boise State 19, Iowa 14, Minnesota 12, Tulsa 10, BYU 9, Temple 8, Houston 8, North Carolina 8, Navy 1, Washington State 1.
Early favorite Alabama will face early challenge in Florida State [Wharton, from D1] minus some of their best players, especially on defense, where Jonathan Allen, Ryan Anderson and Reuben Foster have played their final game as seniors. A few younger starters — such as junior offensive lineman Cam Robinson — could turn pro early. But freshman quarterback Jalen Hurts, who struggled at times this season, will return with a full year of experience. And sophomore running back Bo Scarbrough, who gained 93 yards and scored twice against Clemson before breaking a bone in his right leg, should recover by fall. “He’s certainly been a bell cow for us,” Saban said after Monday’s loss. “And he certainly, because of his size and durability, he makes it difficult when the defense gets worn down a little bit.” A lot of questions will be answered early when the Crimson Tide open the season against Florida State, another team hoping to ride a young passer — Deondre Francois — to the College Football Playoff ’s final four. The Seminoles must replace running back Dalvin Cook, the heart of their team in the recent Orange Bowl, but will not have to face Watson in Atlantic Coast Conference play. “We have a lot of young
talent coming back,” Francois said after capping the season with a victory over Michigan. “This off-season will be very important … and we’re just going to focus on details and continue to get better.” Momentum is a big deal at USC, which bounced back from a 1-3 start to win a Rose Bowl thriller over Penn State. The Trojans expect to return well over a dozen starters but must fill sizable gaps left by the departure of — among others — receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster, offensive tackles Chad Wheeler and Zach Banner, and defensive tackle Stevie Tu’ikolovatu, the transfer player who anchored the front seven. Veteran leadership can be crucial in college football, so teams’ ability to restock at key positions will make all the difference. A wealth of returning starters could bode well for top teams, especially in the Big Ten. This was a roller coaster season for the conference, which dominated the polls through November but suffered losses in major bowl games. Penn State should benefit from experience on both sides of the ball coming off a resurgent season. Quarterback Trace McSorley and running back Saquon Barkley will lead the way on offense. Ohio State is similarly
well-stocked and should excel if quarterback J.T. Barrett, who will bypass the NFL to return as a senior, continues to improve. The Buckeyes will face a test against Oklahoma early on. Michigan has quarterback Wilton Speight back. Wisconsin has Alex Hornibrook. “I’m excited about the growth that Alex took this year and the steps he can take to go forward,” Coach Paul Paul Chryst said after the Badgers defeated Western Michigan in the Cotton Bowl. “He’s got a lot of football ahead of him.” Other potential contenders include Washington, Oklahoma — which must get past its growing reputation for underachievement — and Oklahoma State. As for Clemson, Swinney and his staff have shown they can recruit with the best programs in the nation. That gives the Tigers a chance to hang around the top 10 even without Watson. On Tuesday, in the afterglow of his school’s first national title since 1981, the coach was already thinking ahead. “What’s next?” Swinney said. “For us, it’ll be like I said, enjoying this moment but getting excited about coming back and seeing if we can charge back up the mountain next year.”
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Texans assistant Vrabel is set to meet with Rams Linebackers coach is latest defense-minded candidate to pursue L.A.’s vacant head-coaching job. By Gary Klein
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
ONYEKA OKONGWU (21) and Phaquan Davis (11) had much to
celebrate as Chino Hills powered to its 52nd consecutive victory.
The show goes on for unbeaten Chino Hills CHINO HILLS 119 LA VERNE DAMIEN 84 ERIC SONDHEIMER ON HIGH SCHOOLS
The fan madness that followed the Chino Hills basketball team last season during a 35-0 run is back. More than three hours before the Huskies’ home opener Tuesday night, people were lining up with folding chairs to wait for tickets to be sold for a Baseline League opener against 15-1 La Verne Damien. The gym seats 1,300, and it was filled to capacity. A camera crew followed around Chino Hills players. LaVar Ball, father of the Ball brothers, sat in the front row beaming and holding court. By game’s end, after Chino Hills came away with a 119-84 victory to improve to 17-0 and win its 52nd consecutive game, it was clear this show is picking up steam with no sign it’s going to end any time soon. LaMelo Ball, Chino Hills’ 15-yearold sophomore guard, who has grown five inches since last season, scored 33 points, making five threepointers and demonstrating a new skill in being able to aggressively drive to the basket and score in traffic with his improving strength. “It’s my dad,” he said. “He’s got me on weights.” LiAngelo Ball scored 24 points and Eli Scott added 21, including a series of fan-pleasing dunks. First-year Coach Stephan Gilling believes this team can be better than last season’s unbeaten group because it has more depth even though
Lonzo Ball has moved on to UCLA. Chino Hills unveiled a new contributor, Long Beach Millikan transfer Ofure Ujadughele. He scored 10 points and provided evidence that the Huskies might have better depth when they have to face the likes of Chatsworth Sierra Canyon or Torrance Bishop Montgomery in the Southern Section Open Division playoffs. Cameron Shelton, who was a reserve for Chino Hills last season, scored 32 points for Damien. Coach Mike LeDuc decided to have his team run with the Huskies but it couldn’t keep up. Damien trailed, 66-42, at halftime. “They’re different because their best player is gone, but it doesn’t mean they’re not ridiculously good,” LeDuc said. “They’ve got four players who’ve gotten bigger, stronger and better.” About the only bad news for Chino Hills was that Andre Ball, a cousin of the three brothers, injured his shoulder and LiAngelo Ball sprained his ankle. It remains to be seen if they’ll be available for a Friday game against Etiwanda. But have no fear, Chino Hills fans. “We put on a show every night,” Gilling said.
Klay Thompson returns Two-time NBA All-Star Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors will return to his alma mater, Santa Margarita High, on Friday to have his jersey retired. He graduated from the school in 2008. eric.sondheimer@latimes.com Twitter: @latsondheimer
He has no experience as a head coach or coordinator, but Mike Vrabel is among assistants the Rams will interview this week in their search for a head coach. Vrabel, 41, has been the Houston Texans’ linebackers coach for three seasons. An All-American at Ohio State, he played linebacker for 14 seasons in the NFL and won three Super Bowl titles with the New England Patriots. Vrabel reportedly turned down an offer to become the San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator before last season. “Great football coach,” Texans
[NFL, from D1] in Carson backed by the Chargers and Raiders. As part of the agreement, the Chargers received a oneyear option to join the Rams in Los Angeles — an option that will roll over to the Raiders if the Chargers choose not to act on it. The Chargers spent the better part of the last year pursuing a $1.2billion stadium in downtown San Diego requiring $550 million in public money generated by an increased hotel tax. That ballot initiative needed two-thirds approval at the polls, but received only 43% in November. The Raiders are not anticipating owners will vote on Las Vegas until the annual March meetings, at the earliest. They would need at least 24 votes of owners for permission to move, unless they were to act on the one-year Los Angeles option in the event the Chargers did not. Las Vegas is expected to be the primary focus of Wednesday’s meeting. Neither Chargers owner Dean Spanos nor his representatives plan to attend. His club doesn’t need league approval to relocate to Los Angeles, already having obtained that a year ago.
Dodgers announce Jansen deal A month after the terms were initially agreed upon, the Dodgers formally announced a fiveyear, $80-million contract with closer Kenley Jansen on Tuesday afternoon. Jansen had embarked on his honeymoon shortly after the two sides reached a deal. The team is expected to hold a news conference with Jansen and third baseman Justin Turner on Wednesday at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers have spent $192 million this winter on contracts for Jansen, Turner and pitcher Rich Hill. Jansen can opt out of his deal after 2019. By re-signing the trio in December, the Dodgers accomplished a significant amount of their off-season shopping. But the club still desires a second baseman, in addition to relief pitchers. For weeks, the Dodgers have haggled with Minnesota over second baseman Brian Dozier, according to people familiar with the situation. The Dodgers appear willing to part with top pitching prospect Jose De Leon, but the Twins seek a larger package, and the Dodgers lack interest in dealing prospects like first baseman Cody Bellinger and outfielder Alex Verdugo. Fox Sports reported Tuesday that the two sides have reached an “impasse.” If the discussions remain stalled, the Dodgers could pivot to other infielders, like Detroit’s Ian Kinsler or Tampa Bay’s Logan Forsythe. The team also maintained dialogue with veteran second baseman Chase Utley during the winter meetings. — Andy McCullough FOOTBALL
Scarbrough broke leg in title game Alabama tailback Bo Scarbrough fractured a bone in his lower right leg in the national championship game Monday night against Clemson, Crimson Tide Coach Nick Saban said. The injury won't require surgery and Scarbrough is expected to fully recover, Saban added. Scarbrough, a sophomore,
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was injured late in the third quarter in the 35-31 loss to the Tigers and didn’t return. He rushed for 93 yards with first-half touchdown runs of 25 and 37 yards. Jabrill Peppers has decided to enter the NFL draft and skip his senior season at Michigan. The 6-foot-1, 205-pound Peppers, a Heisman Trophy finalist, is projected to be a first-round pick in April. The Oakland Raiders are making changes on their coaching staff after their first playoff berth in 14 years. A person familiar with the plans said that quarterbacks coach Todd Downing will replace offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave next season on Coach Jack Del Rio’s staff. The person spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the changes had not been announced by the team. Musgrave’s contract was up and will not be renewed by the team. Pittsburgh Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin called the arrest of outside linebackers coach Joey Porter “disappointing” and “unfortunate” and said there was no limit to how long he would remain on leave from the team, even indicating he could return for Sunday’s AFC divisional playoff game in Kansas City. Porter was arrested outside a Pittsburgh bar Sunday night following the Steelers’ 30-12 playoff victory against visiting Miami. According to a police report, Porter appeared to be intoxicated when he assaulted a doorman and a police officer who intervened. ETC.
Rose returns to Knicks, is fined Derrick Rose returned to practice Tuesday with the New York Knicks after missing their game the night before for what he
with the Denver Broncos and also is scheduled to interview with the San Diego Chargers. “We enjoyed visiting with Vance Joseph at our facility today,” Broncos General Manager John Elway tweeted Tuesday. “He has great leadership qualities and a strong vision of what it takes to win.” Elway also tweeted after interviews last week with Kansas City special-teams coordinator Dave Toub and Atlanta offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan. The Rams are scheduled to speak with Shanahan on Sunday, the day after the Falcons play the Seattle Seahawks in a divisional playoff game at Atlanta. The Rams could have a second interview this week, with Washington offensive coordinator Sean McVay, who interviewed Monday with the 49ers. gary.klein@latimes.com Twitter: @latimesklein
Chargers, Raiders topics of discussion
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Coach Bill O'Brien told the Houston Chronicle when asked about the Rams’ interest in Vrabel. “Communicates well, very knowledgeable of the game.” With the worst offense in the league the last two seasons, the Rams are thought to favor a coach who can help ignite that element and develop quarterback Jared Goff through their experience or with staff they would hire. Kevin Demoff, the vice president of football operations, has said the team would not limit its search to offense-minded coaches in the quest to find the best fit. Vrabel is among several candidates with defense backgrounds. Carolina secondary coach Steve Wilks and New England defensive coordinator Matt Patricia have interviewed with the Rams. Miami defensive coordinator Vance Joseph is expected to be interviewed this week. Joseph interviewed Tuesday
described as family reasons. The Knicks’ public relations department posted a photo on Twitter that showed Rose in his No. 25 practice jersey, standing with his teammates at their training facility in Greenburgh, N.Y. The team later announced he had been fined for missing the 110-96 loss to New Orleans on Monday and said he was expected to be in uniform Wednesday night in Philadelphia. Rose told reporters he had returned to Chicago for family reasons and that his absence had nothing to do with basketball. He said he apologized to his teammates and Knicks management, telling them it wouldn’t happen again.
By all appearances, the Chargers’ future in their current market is bleak. Any public money in San Diego would require a vote, and almost certainly one that wouldn’t take place until November 2018. With that uncertainty, the Chargers would be a lame duck for two more seasons. Meanwhile, the NFL is dealing with the fallout from the Rams’ leaving the St. Louis market, and could soon be facing similar situations with San Diego and Oakland. The jury is out on how L.A. is embracing one team, let alone two, so many people in the league are circumspect about adding a second franchise to the market. What’s more, for two decades the league has used Los Angeles as a threat to get stadium deals done in other cities. If there were a vacancy at a two-team stadium in Inglewood, that almost certainly would be used as leverage for years to come. Big questions remain about whether the NFL can do enough to close the funding gap for a San Diego stadium and thereby convince Spanos to stay. As part of the Rams deal, the league pledged an extra $100 million toward future stadium deals in both Oakland and San Di-
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In a stunning decision, NASCAR driver Carl Edwards is walking away from the final year of his contract with Joe Gibbs Racing less than two months after nearly winning his first Cup championship, two people with knowledge of the situation told the Associated Press. The 37- WINTER SPORTS year-old Edwards informed team ALPINE SKIING World Cup owner Joe Gibbs right before Women’s Slalom Christmas that he no longer At Flachau, Austria 1. Frida Hansdotter, Sweden, 1:51.40 (56.91wanted to compete, the people 54.49). 2. Nina Loeseth, Norway, 1:51.98 (57.99-53.99). 3. Mikaela Shiffrin, U.S. , told the AP. WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao will fight littleknown Australian Jeff Horn on April 22 as part of a planned fourfight farewell world tour, said Bob Arum, Pacquiao’s promoter. Arum said he has agreed to terms with Horn and is entertaining site offers in Australia and the United Arab Emirates and will meet with Pacquiao, 38, in the Philippines once that part of the deal is complete. Horn (16-0, 11 knockouts) is ranked second by the WBO. — Lance Pugmire
1:52.18 (58.29-53.89), and Wendy Holdener, Switzerland, 1:52.18 (57.86-54.32). 5. Veronika Velez Zuzulova, Slovakia, 1:53.19 (58.0655.13). 6. Katharina Truppe, Austria, 1:53.42 (58.54-54.88). 7. Bernadette Schild, Austria, 1:53.67 (58.39-55.28). 8. Christina Geiger, Germany, 1:54.06 (59.36-54.70). 9. Emelie Wikstroem, Sweden, 1:54.13 (59.04-55.09). 10. Sarka Strachova, Czech Republic, 1:54.17 (58.84-55.33). Others included: 15. Resi Stiegler, U.S., 1:54.78 (59.70-55.08). 16. Manuela Moelgg, Italy, 1:54.84 (59.73-55.11). Lila Lapanja, U.S., 1:02.60 (47th-first run), did not qualify for second run. Megan McJames, U.S., 1:03.07 (48thfirst run), did not qualify for second run. OVERALL WC STANDINGS (after 19 events)—1. Shffrin, 1,008 points. 2. Lara Gut, Switzerland, 643. 3. Tessa Worley, Francee, 563. 4. Sofia Goggia, Italy, 547. 5. Ilka Stuhec, Slovenia, 539. 6. Holdener, 515. 7. Velez Slovakia, 435. 8. Loeseth, 426. 9. Petra Vlhova, Slovakia, 384. 10. Tina Weirather, Liechtenstein, 367. Others included: 39. Laurenne Ross, U.S., 122. 42. Stiegler, 111. 57. Stacey Cook, U.S., 76. 58. Breezy Johnson, U.S., 70.
Trainer Ron Ellis has been COLLEGE banned from entering any horses FOOTBALL in the Breeders’ Cup world cham- Saturday, Jan. 21 Shrine Classic pionships this fall after being East-West At St. Petersburg, Fla. sanctioned by the event for a posWest vs. East, noon (NFL) itive drug test involving his horse NFLPA Collegiate Bowl At StubHub Center that finished second in last year’s National vs. American, 1 p.m. BC Sprint. Breeders’ Cup offi- Saturday, Jan. 28 Senior Bowl cials said that the ban also ap- At Mobile, Ala. South vs. North, 11:30 a.m. (NFL) plies to the horse Masochistic, who tested positive for a trace SOCCER amount of an anabolic steroid af- INTERNATIONAL ter last year’s event at Santa Ani- SPAIN del Rey ta. The horse was disqualified Copa Round of 16, Second Leg from the Sprint and his purse Las Palmas 3, Atletico Madrid 2; Atletico Madrid advances on aggregate, 4-3 earnings were redistributed.
ego, should those teams remain in their markets. That is in addition to the $200-million loan the league already would be contributing to a new stadium. Some in the league have suggested that if the Raiders are ultimately headed for Las Vegas, the $100 million earmarked for an Oakland stadium could be rerouted to San Diego. Another suggestion is that Kroenke, who is already paying a relocation fee of $550 million to $650 million (depending on how it’s financed), could write a big check to keep Spanos in San Diego. However, it’s unclear where that would end, because Kroenke might be forced to write the same kind of check to Raiders owner Mark Davis, or any other owner who might look to move to Los Angeles down the road. There is a possibility the league could extend the deadline for the option, giving Spanos more time to decide, but that is seen in league circles as remote and not necessarily helpful. sam.farmer@latimes.com Twitter: @LATimesFarmer nathan.fenno@latimes.com Twitter: @nathanfenno
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BASEBALL Dodgers—Designated infielder Micah Johnson for assignment; agreed to terms with pitchers Kenley Jansen on a five-year contract and Vidal Nuno on a one-year contract. Baltimore—Agreed to terms with pitcher Cody Satterwhite on a minor league contract. Cincinnati—Agreed to terms with pitcher Louis Coleman on a minor league contract. Cleveland—Released pitcher Edwin Escobar. Detroit—Agreed to terms with pitchers A.J. Achter, Collin Balester, Jake Brigham, Waldis Joaquin, Jorge Marban, Edward Mujica, Thad Weber, Travis Blackley and Anthony Vasquez; infielders Omar Artsen, Zack Cox, Sean Halton, Efren Navarro, Brett Pill, Gabriel Quintana, Brendan Ryan and Logan Watkins; and outfielders Jim Adduci, Quincy Latimore, Ronnie Mitchell, Juan Perez and Alex Presley on minor league contracts. N.Y. Mets—Agreed to terms with pitcher Jennry Mejia on a one-year contract. Oakland—Assigned infielder-outfielder Max Muncy outright to Nashville (PCL). BASKETBALL Philadelphia—Signed guard Chasson Randle to a 10-day contract. PRO FOOTBALL CHICAGO—Signed wide receiver Rueben Randle to a reserve/future contract. Cleveland—Fired defensive backs coach Louie Cioffi, inside linebackers coach Johnny Holland, offensive line coach Hal Hunter, assistant defensive backs coach Cannon Matthews and outside linebackers coach Ryan Slowik. Dallas—Released defensive tackle Shelby Harris from the practice squad; signed defensive end Lenny Jones to the practice squad. Miami—Signed tight end Chris Pantale, cornerback Daniel Davie, quarterback Brandon Doughty, offensive tackles Jesse Davis and Terry Poole, defensive ends Arthur Miley and Julius Warmsley, running backs Storm Johnson and Senorise Perry and linebackers Lamin Barrow, Deon Lacey and Brandon Watts to reserve/future contracts. HOCKEY Nashville—Assigned forward Vladislav Kamenev to Milwaukee (AHL); called up forward Pontus Aberg from Milwaukee. New Jersey—Put defensemen Andy Green and Yohann Auvitu on injured reserve, Greene retroactive to Jan. 3 and Auvitu to Jan. 7; called up defenseman Karl Stollery and forward Blake Coleman from Albany (AHL). Tampa Bay—Assigned goaltender Adam Wilcox to Syracuse (AHL); called up forward Gabriel Dumont and goaltender Kristers Gudlevskis from Syracuse. Toronto—Claimed goaltender Curtis McElhinney off waivers from Columbus. Washington—Assigned forwards Paul Carey and Liam O'Brien to Hershey (AHL). SOCCER Galaxy—Hired Ante Razov and Rob Becerra as assistant coaches and Daniel Gonzalez as goalkeeper coach. Minnesota—Signed defender Vadim Demidov. Sporting Kansas City—Signed forward Cameron Iwasa and goalkeeper Andrew Dykstra to one-year contracts. COLLEGE FOOTBALL Florida State—Announced that offensive tackle Rod Johnson will enter the NFL draft. Michigan—Announced that linebacker Jabrill Peppers will enter the NFL draft. Ohio State—Hired Kevin Wilson as co-offensive coordinator and tight ends coach. Wisconsin—Announced that offensive tackle Ryan Ramczyk will enter the NFL draft.
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A raunchy superhero has his day ‘Deadpool’ gets in with the big boys. But MIA are ‘Silence,’ ‘Jackie’ and ‘Loving.’ By Glenn Whipp “La La Land,” “Moonlight” and “Manchester by the Sea” have spent the last several weeks bulldozing through the awards season, ensuring their spots in the Oscar best picture race. But what other movies will be joining them? Tuesday’s Producers Guild of America nominations for feature film provided a hint of what might happen when Oscar nominations are announced Jan. 24. In addition to the aforementioned trio of films, PGA voters nominated “Arrival,” “Deadpool,” “Fences,” “Hacksaw Ridge,” “Hell or High Water,” “Hidden Figures” and “Lion.” Notable movies left off the list: Martin Scorsese’s profound exploration of faith, “Silence”; Pablo Larraín’s superb look at political myth-making, “Jackie”; and Jeff Nichols’ moving civil rights drama, “Loving.”
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Ryan Reynolds, makes the producers’ list. But — not to get all movie snobby on you — they had room for the subversive comic book movie “Deadpool.” The “Deadpool” nod, combined with the Writers Guild recognition the movie received last week, might lead some to think that the loud, lewd and extremely violent, attitude-driven movie could earn an Oscar nomination too. Probably not. For one thing, PGA voters have historically shown a willing[See Producers, E7]
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BY DEBORAH VANKIN >>> Every few years in January, as if on the heels of a fresh set of New Year’s resolutions, the L.A. Art Show tweaks its identity, unfurling across the Los Angeles Convention Center with renewed gusto and a slightly revised mission. When it debuted in 1995 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium featuring just 14 U.S. galleries, the event focused on historic American and European work. As the L.A. contemporary art scene began to swell, the show, too, became decidedly more contemporary, more international and bigger. This year the show will host more than 100 galleries from 18 countries, and it expects about 70,000 visitors. But not without reinvention — again. The 2017 L.A. Art Show, which opens Wednesday night, will for the first time feature on-site programming from eight SoCal art institutions: the Broad, the Getty, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Autry Museum of the American West, the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach and the Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center in Anaheim, as well as the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. The show will dedicate a 50,000-square-foot space for these cultural groups to stage performances and installations as well as live art talks as part of the daily “Dialogs L.A.” series. [See Art show, E6] “Los Angeles is elevating in the world of arts, and the contemporary art
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Still powered by song after ‘Glee’ Matthew Morrison is singing Broadway hits on tour and hoping for his dream role. By Christopher Smith A pained frown raced along Matthew Morrison’s brow. This wasn’t the terrorized expression of horror we recall from the hit TV show “Glee” when his Mr. Schuester was under attack by his archenemy gym coach, played by Jane Lynch. Nor the exaggerated, fierce scowl he sported recently on a Broadway stage, clashing with Kelsey Grammer’s Capt. Hook in “Finding
Neverland.” No, this was the resigned look of the weary homeowner realizing more bills are on the way. Morrison, 38, was back from the Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan, where he and wife Renee also live, to his cozy compound in the Hollywood [See Morrison, E5]
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Pitt, Jolie keep a lid on it Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, who have been trading bitter custody salvos in court since she filed for divorce Sept. 19, are now working with a private judge and will present a “united front” from here on out, they said in their first joint statement since the split. “The parties and their counsel have signed agreements to preserve the privacy rights of their children and family by keeping all court documents confidential and engaging a private judge to make any necessary legal decisions and to facilitate the expeditious resolution of any remaining issues,” they said Monday night in a joint statement confirmed by The Times. When Jolie filed for divorce, she asked for full physical and joint legal custody of their six children. Pitt asked for joint physical and legal custody in his response. “The parents are committed to act as a united front to effectuate recovery and reunification,” the couple’s statement continued. Jolie’s filing came as “a complete shock” to Pitt, a source close to the couple told People in September. The FBI was informed of “a child welfare” incident involving Pitt while the family was flying on a private jet from France to L.A. Though the incident was not confirmed by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, a source familiar with the inquiry said there was no finding of abuse by Pitt. The FBI closed its review of the situation in November, with no charges filed. — Christie D’Zurilla
More declines Musicians join for Trump invite benefit in D.C. Electronic musician Moby was rather amused when he received an invitation to play at one of Donald Trump’s inaugural balls, the DJ and activist said on Instagram on Monday. Moby said he’d consider it but gave Trump’s team one condition: “I guess I’d DJ at an inaugural ball if as payment #trump released his tax returns,” Moby wrote. Welsh singer Charlotte Church took to Twitter on Tuesday to express how she felt about her invitation to perform: “A simple Internet search would show I think you’re a tyrant.” So far the roster for Trump’s inauguration-week festivities includes the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Radio City Rockettes, singer Jackie Evancho, the Talladega College Marching Band, and country acts Big & Rich and Cowboy Troy. — Makeda Easter
While the music lineup at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration looks thin, a benefit concert to counter Trump’s expected policies is planned in Washington, D.C., a day before his swearing-in. Common and the National will headline a benefit and awareness rally for Planned Parenthood at D.C.’s famed 9:30 Club on Jan. 19. The free concert, called “Show Up,” is billed by organizers as a “call to action for supporters of reproductive freedom to take action wherever they are.” “Women should be able to make their own decisions about their bodies and health,” the National’s singer, Matt Berninger, said in a statement. “This is a basic human right, and we’re at the very beginning of a long and tough battle to defend these basic rights.” — August Brown
Old shows given new life
Times reporters are attending the biannual Television Critics Assn. press tour in Pasadena, where networks are presenting their upcoming programming. This is the first in a series of dispatches from the event.
Apple hitches a ‘Carpool’ ride About 18 months ago, James Corden was a relative unknown introducing himself and his late-night entry, “The Late Late Show,” at the Television Critics Assn. press tour. Returning Monday morning to the same location, Corden presented the first spinoff of that show. His star-studded “Carpool Karaoke” segment will be transitioning from a viral favorite to a standalone, 16-episode series on Apple Music. But even as the segment has now grown beyond his own show, and he won’t be hosting the Apple Music series, Corden doesn’t feel any sense of loss. “I don’t even feel like it’s mine, really,” he said. “I feel like it’s just something I’ve been part of, and now what’s lovely is other people will be part of it and share it.” The new shows each will be a half-hour long and also feature an interview segment between each episode’s guests. Pairings revealed on Monday included Metallica with “Billy on the Street” star Billy Eichner, Seth MacFarlane and Ariana Grande and John Legend with Alicia Keys. — Chris Barton
Lynch enlivens ‘Peaks’ enigma “Twin Peaks” fans who’ve been waiting more than 25 years to find out what happened to Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) will have to wait just a bit longer because answers were in short supply Monday. Filmmaker David Lynch
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following her husband’s prostitution scandal. “If ‘The Good Wife’ was always a little about the Obama years, [Trump] gives shape to a new show,” said Robert King, co-creator with his wife, Michelle King, who described Trump’s win as a fertile source of creative inspiration. “What was good was the world changed on us.” The new series, which will debut on the CBS All Access streaming service on Feb. 19, picks up a year after the end of “The Good Wife.” Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) loses her retirement savings in a Bernie Madoff-like Ponzi scheme and goes to work at a predominantly African American law firm. She’s also estranged from her husband, played by Gary Cole, following his infidelities. — Meredith Blake
‘Scandal’ doesn’t reflect real life TONY GOLDWYN and Kerry Washington, top, of
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made a surprise appearance to discuss the much-anticipated continuation of the cult series, which will have a two-hour premiere May 21 on Showtime. The series will consist of 18 episodes, all directed by Lynch and written by Lynch and co-creator Mark Frost. He was followed by a panel featuring returning cast members MacLachlan, Kimmy Robertson (Lucy) and Madchen Amick (Shelly), as well as two Lynch veterans, Laura Dern and Robert Forster, who are technically new to the “Twin Peaks” universe. The director, dressed in his signature blazer and tieless button-down, was in quintessentially Lynchian form, responding to hopelessly specific questions with what sounded like Buddhist scripture. As for possible future sea-
sons of “Twin Peaks,” Lynch said he had no plans for anything more — at least not right now. “Before, I said I wasn’t going to revisit it, and I did,” he admitted. “I never say no.” — Meredith Blake
‘Good Fight’ and Donald Trump When the cast and creators of “The Good Fight,” the much-anticipated spinoff of “The Good Wife,” appeared Monday, all anyone could talk about was Donald Trump. In this case, at least, the subject seemed germane. “The Good Wife,” which premiered in the early days of the Obama administration in 2009, centered on the wife of a Chicago politician who returns to work as a lawyer
If there’s one politicalthemed TV show that could rival the twists and drama of the most recent presidential election, a likely candidate would be ABC’s “Scandal.” But executive producer Shonda Rhimes doesn’t take the bait, no matter how often it’s offered. “I don’t really equate the two,” Rhimes said on a Tuesday panel. “The goal is really just to tell the story that we had been telling, and had been on the journey to tell, the whole time. ... The candidates don’t have any similarities to the real-world candidates.” Cast and crew members — including Kerry Washington, Tony Goldwyn and Bellamy Young, as well as Rhimes’ producing partner, Betsy Beers — stressed that the season launch was filmed months before the real-life election of Trump. In fact, the first five scripts of the season were in the can before election day on Nov. 8. — Yvonne Villarreal
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‘Lion’ purrs in hope, regrets By Margaret Gray I spent much of “The Lion,” singer-songwriter Benjamin Scheuer’s one-man musical at the Geffen Playhouse, inwardly commiserating with my twentysomething self. She hung out in so many coffee shops all those years ago, strung out on caffeine and poetry slams, waiting in vain for someone exactly like Scheuer to walk in with his guitar. Scheuer plays this guitar — actually six of them throughout his show, with different tunings for different moods — as if he invented the instrument: fearlessly, effortlessly. Also, not only does he have the looks of a rock star, with his thick, dirty-blond hair, dreamy half-smile and debonair blue suit, but he comes across as devastatingly soulful. In songs and anecdotes that focus on his complicated relationship with his family, he tells a story of suffering, regret, despair and hope in a conversational tone with a playful touch. His style and offbeat, intelligent lyrics have been compared to Paul Simon’s. He also includes a bittersweet love story about a girlfriend named Julia who found his old acoustic guitar under his bed and asked him to write a song for her. At the time, Scheuer had forsworn the acoustic guitar for personal reasons and was playing only electric guitar (skillfully, as he demonstrates) in public — but he complied out of love. The resulting song, “Laugh,” which he triumphantly performed live at the New York club CBGB, helped him to rediscover his acoustic soul.
Scheuer apparently developed “The Lion” by performing in Greenwich Village cafes, and although the show is billed as a musical, Sean Daniels’ intimate direction and Neil Patel’s simple set design evoke those origins. It’s a continuous surprise — albeit a pleasant one — not to be distracted mid-chord by the grinding of beans or the hiss of a milk frother. What elevates “The Lion” above typical coffee-house performances — beyond the theater setting — is its craftsmanship, both in the songwriting and in the experience as a whole. The performance is only about 70 minutes and is deceptively straightforward. But the vibe of casual, unrehearsed immediacy masks the narrative complexity of a novel or an opera, along with layered themes that reverberate musically and emotionally. The Geffen engagement is the last stop on a two-year “Lion” tour and the last time, Scheuer says, he will perform the piece live.
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Young looks An exhibition at East L.A. College places style in a specific narrative — a story of social justice CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT ART CRITIC
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Center Theatre Group’s tribute to Gordon Davidson on Monday night at the Ahmanson reminded us of the gentleness of this theater giant. “Zoot Suit” author Luis Valdez gave a rousing speech in which he placed the work of Gordon, who died Oct. 2 at 83, at the center of the American project. Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis spoke eloquently of how Gordon was his true mentor, modeling not only purposeful, politically conscious leadership but humaneness and sensitivity in his everyday dealings. Gordon’s daughter, Rachel, spoke of the privilege and occasional pain of sharing her dad with the rest of Los Angeles and the wider theater community. Gordon’s wife, Judi, hoarse with emotion, cracked everybody up by saying had she known how important Gordon was
she would have treated him better. All of the tributes captured that aspect of Gordon I can still effortlessly conjure — his kindness. He genuinely liked people. This is a rarer trait than we imagine. Community charged Gordon’s soul. Many contemplated how Gordon would have reacted to what’s going on right now in American politics. There was a consensus that he would have rolled up his sleeves and searched for and developed new work that would speak to the urgent issues of the day. And then he’d talk to audience members after about their experiences, wanting to hear all perspectives on what they had just witnessed. The greatest way of honoring Gordon Davidson is for theater leaders, in L.A. and beyond, to lead with the same noble intention and unswerving commitment. charles.mcnulty @latimes.com Twitter: @charlesmcnulty
Style is content in the big, looselimbed yet engaging exhibition “Tastemakers & Earthshakers: Notes From Los Angeles Youth Culture, 1943-2016.” A rough sketch rather than a fully finished picture, it nonetheless touches many provocative bases. The show is at the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College. Like the city itself, it’s a sprawl. More than 40 artists have contributed paintings, sculptures, photographs and installations. In addition, there are street fashions, family snapshots and ephemera lifted from mass media — newspaper clippings, magazines, pop music, television clips, etc. Style, however, is not being presented as just any form of commercial content. Instead, museum director Pilar Tompkins Rivas and her curatorial team smartly pick and choose to locate style within a specific narrative — a story of social justice. Think John Waters’ “Hairspray,” albeit starting out 20 years earlier and happening in L.A., not Baltimore. Or think playwright Luis Valdez’s “Zoot Suit.” The museum’s atmospheric show doesn’t track a formal history, but it begins in 1943 for a cogent reason: That was the year of the Zoot Suit riots. For several weeks in June, Mexican American kids decked out in jazz-era finery were assaulted by marauding white soldiers serving in a segregated military and massed in Southern California as a bulwark against the war in the Pacific theater. The kids retaliated. Authorities let the conflict rage. “The zoot suit has become a badge of hoodlumism,” insisted one reckless city councilman. In truth, the style was a radical sartorial emblem of distinctive cultural identity. Pachuco style, as it is also known, began in El Paso, elaborating on African American fashion. It quickly spread along the border and finally blew up into a full-fledged phenomenon in L.A., emergent pop culture capital of America. Broad shoulders, wide shirt collars, even wider lapels,
Vincent Price Art Museum Where: East Los Angeles College, 1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez, Monterey Park When: Through Feb. 25. Closed Sunday and Monday. Info: (323) 265-8841, www.vincent priceartmuseum.org cinched wasp waists, balloon pants — the zoot suit exaggerates a voluptuous hourglass figure. Buttoned up but sexy, the look is muscular on men and curvaceous on women. The smashing zoot suit finery on display in the exhibition’s first room asserts two early-1940s cultural realities. First, the nearly unisex uniform of a suit — jacket, shirt and pants for him; jacket, shirt and skirt for her — demonstrates a degree of sexual fluidity operating inside an otherwise masculine-dominated social fabric. And second, the marvelous peacock drama inherent in these brash fashions represents a resolute refusal to disappear into the woodwork. To heck with expectations for public invisibility within a segregationist society. Mexican American youth style was clashing with norms of established white privilege. No wonder the fancy fashion was picked up by Japanese American kids too, as seen in a documentary photograph taken at the Tule Lake internment camp in Northern California. These sorts of cultural collisions recur in “Tastemakers & Earthshakers,” albeit in a variety of forms. Some are historical, like the zoot suit display, and some curatorial. Ricardo Valverde’s hetero-erotic photographs of enticing young Chicano women in the1970s, for example, are juxtaposed with Dino Dinco’s homoerotic photographs of enticing young Chicano men taken in 2001. They speak to one another across time and social space. Also in 2001, Alex Donis made a series of sleek paintings on clear acrylic sheets in which brown gangbangers are shown grappling with uniformed
policemen against blank, white backgrounds. Whether Donis’ incongruous duos are fighting each other in the street or dancing together rapturously at a gay club depends on your angle of vision. The works add a sharp twist of layered social conflict to Robert Longo’s well-known 1979 drawings of chic downtown Manhattanites, fashionably gyrating in empty space. The dynamic action in Salomón Huerta’s shrewd canvas “Three Horsemen,” painted in the immediate aftermath of the 1992 L.A. riots, derives from an imperial Baroque hunting picture by Peter Paul Rubens. Huerta switched out Rubens’ mounted Arab noblemen for Chicanos on horseback, and he replaced Rubens’ exotic hippopotamus, target of the hunt, with a squealing white pig. Point taken. The antithesis of the enigmatic portrait heads for which the artist would become widely known later in the decade, the forthright “Three Horsemen” landed on the cover of “Decolonize,” Aztlan Undergound’s barbed 1995 album. Other portraits on view travel on a sliding scale from acutely realist to elaborately stylized. John Valadez is at one end of that wide spectrum, Carolyn Castaño at the other and Patssi Valdez somewhere in between. Music playlists, graffiti styles, visual rhymes with British pop and punk, news clips — the show roams far and wide and in fits and starts. The most infectious sculptural installation is Juan Capistrán’s foamcore model of an ordinary domestic bungalow, which is set up inside a makeshift tarpaulin-tent — the kind a street vendor might use, or a backyard tinkerer. Dance music and pulsing party lights emanate from Capistrán’s cozy bungalow — a modest suburban home that, on closer inspection, has been transformed into a giant boom box, its roof an exuberant plane of vibrating speakers. Irresistible, the 2010 sculpture is titled “This Machine Kills Fascists, or Labor Sets You Free (Love Is the Message).” A better, timelier expression of the exhibition’s spirit is difficult to imagine. christopher.knight@latimes.com Twitter: @KnightLAT
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‘Jeff & Some Aliens’ orbits the world of bad behavior in familiar ways.
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A segment sprung or salvaged from the late animated sketch show “TripTank,” “Jeff & Some Aliens” has successfully been magnified to sitcom size. It premieres in its new big form Wednesday on Comedy Central. Co-created by Sean Donnelly and Alessandro Minoli, it features Brett Gelman as Jeff, who lives in a tumbledown tract house and has a trio of aliens for roommates, in the small but notable tradition of “My Favorite Martian,” “Alf ” and “Mork & Mindy.” All voiced by Minoli, the aliens are broadly speaking a Moe, a Larry and a Joe: tough, sensitive, dumb. (They look a little the way “sea monkeys” used to be pictured on the back of comic books, except for the briefs they wear, which somehow make them look more rather than less naked). Envoys from the Galactic Council, they’ve come
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to learn whether the planet should be saved or destroyed, and to that end are studying Jeff, a serial loser in permanently stained clothing, who has been determined to be the world’s most average human. He seems at least a little bit below average, frankly — hopefully — but if his actions are usually self-defeating, his impulses are basically good. And if the humor is
often gross or violent or sexually inappropriate in ways that surely would make some viewers uncomfortable — I am not always at ease on its side of the line myself — its conclusions are conventionally moral. The harm Jeff does is almost entirely to himself, and he does some good in the bargain. The series has temperamental ties to other Comedy Central comedies of bad be-
havior — “Workaholics,” “Idiotsitter” and “Another Period” — and owes something ultimately to the unsettling and widely influential Adult Swim aesthetic. Indeed, in a world that currently contains “Rick and Morty,” “Bob’s Burgers,” “Bojack Horseman,” “Animals” and “Son of Zorn,” not to mention the venerable “South Park” and “The Simpsons,” nothing in “Jeff & Some
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Ex-‘Glee’ star heads to stage, big screen [Morrison, from E1] Hills. First, the driveway’s electronic gate was being balky, and now the front door latch was proving uncooperative. These annoyances morphed the frown to grumbling: “Boy, go away a little bit and everything crumbles.” Morrison plopped down on a comfy leather couch, stretched his legs out onto a coffee table and pushed aside repair thoughts to chat about a bit of everything, which seems suitable given that his 15-year career is equal parts acting, singing and dancing. Morrison has a number of pots boiling. Last year he filmed a role in “Tulip Fever,” a Tom Stoppard-written period romance with Oscar winners Alicia Vikander, Judi Dench and Christoph Waltz that is to open Feb. 24. In late November, he workshopped numbers in the eagerly awaited Stephen Sondheim musical, whose working title is “Bunuel.” (“Melodies are so ungeneric, challenging, I couldn’t sleep the night before singing my parts,” he said.) Fingers crossed, that will open at the Public Theater in New York in the fall. In the meantime, his focus is on a touring show in which he sings Broadway standards with a backing jazz band. It stops Saturday at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica and March 4 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre. “My arrangements are organized so I can dance, a bit different than contemporary people like [Michael] Buble and [Josh] Groban who sing this kind of music,” Morrison said during a recent interview (edited for length), our first since our conversation for a Times article published during the first season of “Glee” in 2010.
You had done Broadway, but that show established you nationally. And I am so proud of it! I could have been on a cop or lawyer show that hit, but “Glee” actually stood for something, legitimately meant more to real kids, like those I went to school with [at an arts high school]. “Glee” had a significant part of the gay rights movement, its surging among younger people, letting them feel more confident to be themselves in public.
The 24/7 public attention you got in the first year or two when “Glee” blew up: a blessing or a curse?
You attended the Orange County School of the Arts. Looking back 20 years, what did that give you?
Matthew Morrison Where: Broad Stage, 1310 11th St., Santa Monica When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday Tickets: $75-$115 (subject to change) Info: (310) 434-3200, www.thebroadstage.com Yes, [laughs] both. But that was fine. I kind of live in an emotional 5, I’m an evenkeeled guy. During the peak, would people react as if you were that character? Oh, yeah. Once I was waiting to go into a restaurant, and these kids came up and started singing, auditioning on the spot. And then they were, “So, can we be on ‘Glee’?” I gave them a bit of the Mr. Schu pep talk, but it was awkward. How do you say, “I play a fictional character on a TV show. I don’t cast it”? I gotta know, what was the song? [The slightest of frowns returned to his brow.] Ah, pretty sure it was “Don’t Stop Believing.” [Laughs] Yep, I got that one a lot.
A big thing was being in a school where everyone there wanted to be there — not just going because they had to go or learn to get an A and then forget stuff. People there applied learning in real time, so they were growing and changing. And so did I. You are now on the school’s board? Yes, it’s a mission of mine. I feel it is a perfect model of a charter school for the arts. Next year we are opening one in the San Gabriel Valley, and then we are looking to be in San Diego. We’re exploring doing about three in Northern California down the road, hopefully making this a national thing. You’ve anchored an hourlong TV show and been the lead in a Broadway musical. What have you learned about sizing up projects that come your way? [At first] it was, “It’s a part, I want any part!” After I had done a couple musicals, I was more looking at the roles — “Does this work for me? What do I get to do? Can I act, sing and dance?” Now when a project comes up, I look at the team. Are they people likely to put something good together? Because I have been a part of some projects — sorry, no names — that didn’t really have a good leader or weren’t shaped right or the dynamics were off, and the results showed, I felt. Now you have more control? I do concerts, like these ones coming up, all over the world, and I am able to make a nice income so I don’t have to do just any show to pay the bills. I turn down more things than I accept. That said, is there any specific role you would crawl over glass to play? Gene Kelly!
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MATTHEW MORRISON loves Gene Kelly because he aspired to be like him.
In the day, people seemed to be either Fred Astaire fanciers — he was suave and smooth — or fans of Gene Kelly, more physical and rambunctious. How did you compare them? Astaire felt a little high class for me. It was “tails.” Gene was the proletarian working man, average guy, you know? And I think I fell in love with Kelly because maybe I could be like him: I sing, act, dance. He excelled at all of them. Beyond the obvious “Singin’ in the Rain,” is there a Kelly movie that especially knocks you out? I love “An American in Paris,” but a dance routine that blows me away was in the movie “Summer Stock.” There was a creaking board and then a newspaper on the floor, and he tears it with his feet. It gets smaller and smaller, so effective and simple. Now, talking about it, I want to go watch it
again! Can you tell us about a song you are likely to sing live in these shows, why it matters to you? There is a sense of longing to “On the Street Where You Live” that makes it special. But the song has changed meanings for me over my lifetime.
tainment professional pursuits? I have gotten involved in an online business officially rolling out in June for Father’s Day. It is called Sherpapa. We are creating and selling what we think of as high-quality “field kits” for younger dads who travel with their families. A parka kit, a beach kit, an airplane kit, just grab your quality-gear little kit and go.
How so? I sang it in high school, and I auditioned with it in New York for many things. It was the song I got “Glee” with. But it really changed for me after I got married. In the past, it was so in the present for me — I was wooing, walking down the road with different women — but now it has a reflective, almost past-tense feeling: I always walked down the path that led me to you, my wife. I will always stay here, be true to you, with you.
How did this come to be? Renee and I love traveling. We are friends with another travel-hungry couple who just had a kid, and we were lamenting the challenges of being a “dad adventurer.” We hit on the name, in part from a Sherpa guiding, leading the way, plus, also the person carrying all the stuff, which often falls on dad.
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THE MUSEUM OF Latin American Art will present “In My Floating World,” an installation by Dominican-born artist Scherezade Garcia, at the L.A. Art Show.
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[Art show, from E1] world is really looking toward L.A. We wanted to say, ‘Look at the diversity of museums in L.A. and the programming they’re doing and what’s happening in the fall with the PST initiative,’ ” said Kim Martindale, the L.A. Art Show’s general manager and partner, referring to Pacific Standard Time programming at museums across the region that will explore the Latin American influences in the history of L.A.’s art scene. “It’s to try and have a voice for these museums in L.A. at the show. And I’m excited and honored that they’re participating.” Further sharpening its focus on postwar and contemporary art, the L.A. Art Show will reduce the number of its historical dealers to nine, compared with last year’s 40. They had been featured in an adjacent showwithin-a-show called the Los Angeles Fine Art Show. The new, smaller “curated” section, called “Roots,” will feature primarily 19th and early 20th century painting, prints and drawings. There will still be an additional 150,000 square feet for galleries to feature work for sale. But the coexistence this year of a commercial section side-by-side with a dedicated space for museum exhibitions is key, Martindale said. “I want to see people engage in art and enjoy the art,” Martindale said. “Is there a commercial side, and do we want to see these galleries sell their work? Yes, that’s a component as well. It’s so you can see and enjoy them both at the same time. The hope is you have an overall complete art experience.” Many of the institutions will be highlighting Latin American art. LACMA will stage “Fragments From Home,” which includes performance and installation pieces by two artists, New York-based Raphael Montañez Ortiz and L.A.-based Ramiro Gomez. Montañez Ortiz’s installation, “Couch Destruction: Angel Release (Pennies From Heaven),” and his performance, “Shred Your Worries,” address political and religious concerns while his installation “Piano Destruction Ritual: Cowboy and Indian, Part Two” looks at how we construct and decon-
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struct our lives. Gomez’s cardboard installation, “Cut-Outs,” creates a portrait of what the artist sees as a contemporary Latin American service community of gardeners, housekeepers, caregivers and others. Both artists are participants in LACMA’s program for “Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.” The Museum of Latin American Art will present “In My Floating World,” an installation by Dominicanborn artist Scherezade Garcia, curated by Tatiana Flores. The work is a wall made of blue life preservers wrapped in electrical tape. It will also show as part of MOLAA’s program for “Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.” The Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center will stage
part of an upcoming exhibition, “Deconstructing Liberty: A Destiny Manifested,” which is curated by Marisa Caichiolo and examines patriotism, citizenship and community through paintings, photography, video and performances by Latin American artists. The piece on display at the L.A. Art Show, “Talking Head Transmitters,” is by Eugenia Vargas-Pereira. It’s an interactive radio project; passersby can peek into the pop-up radio station, which will stream commentary from the L.A. Art Show online. As part of the show’s “Dialogs L.A.” series, MOCA Director Philippe Vergne will appear in conversation with Martindale to discuss “The Making of Jeff Koons’ ‘Balloon Dog.’ ” Another panel
will feature Idurre Alonso, associate curator of Getty Research Institute’s Latin American Collections, moderating “A Conversation on Pacific Standard Time: LA/ LA.” This sort of museum programming “opens up the L.A. Art Show to a different sort of engagement with the arts community and the general public,” said Caichiolo, who curated “Deconstructing Liberty.” “For the museums, too, it’s great exposure, especially because some of the museums involved aren’t as well known as museums like LACMA.” “L.A. is really growing culturally, and the fair should reflect that,” Caichiolo added. “We’re hoping this will spark a dialogue between the city and the fair, between visitors and the artists, the curators and the institutions.” deborah.vankin@ latimes.com
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“HIDDEN FIGURES,” with Olek Krupa and Janelle Monáe, is among nominees.
Producers’ shortlist
[Producers, from E1] ness to reward darker fare — “Sicario” and “Nightcrawler” — than the film academy. And then there’s the simple arithmetic, of course. The PGA nominates 10 movies. In the five years since the academy last revised the category for best picture — putting the number of nominated films at between five and 10, depending on the level of support — nine movies have been nominated three years, eight movies in the other two. One other key point: In those five years, the academy has always nominated at least one movie not cited by the PGA. Last year, “Room” took that spot of honor, while PGA nominees “Straight Outta Compton,” “Sicario” and “Ex Machina” fell by the wayside. “Deadpool” is obviously the easiest title to dismiss. But the other nine PGA nominees have as strong a case as the three critically acclaimed movies that were left off, perhaps better. “Loving,” “Jackie” and “Silence” have not done well with the other guilds either, with only “Jackie” registering for Natalie Portman’s title turn as Jacqueline Kennedy. The one argument that
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“HELL OR HIGH WATER,” with Jeff Bridges, left,
and Gil Birmingham, found favor with PGA voters. could be made is that Scorsese’s “Silence” broke too late for voters to see it. Paramount did mail DVD screeners to PGA voters, as well as Directors Guild members. (The DGA announces its nominees Thursday.) Between the movie’s critical acclaim and Scorsese’s strong track record with the academy (a much more exclusive, focused group than the PGA and DGA), it’s possible “Silence” still lands a best-picture nomination over the crowd-pleaser “Hidden Figures” or the sentimental “Lion.”
The PGA also announced nominees in two other categories. For animated film, the group cited “Finding Dory,” “Kubo and the Two Strings,” “Moana,” “The Secret Life of Pets” and “Zootopia.” For documentary, the nominees are “Dancer,” “The Eagle Huntress,” “Life, Animated,” “O.J.: Made in America” and “Tower.” The 2017 Producers Guild Award winners will be announced Jan. 28 at a ceremony held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. glenn.whipp@latimes.com
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By Frank Stewart A woman’s cat is stuck in a tree, and she calls the fire department for help. The fire chief listens, then asks, “How do we get there?” The voice on the other end asks timidly, “Don’t you still have that big red truck?” In today’s deal, West led the queen of spades against four hearts, and South took dummy’s ace and cashed the A-K of trumps hopefully. Alas, West discarded, and South was sunk. He had to lose two spades and a club plus a trump to East’s queen. South needed to find a way to reach that big red king of diamonds in dummy so he could use it to discard a loser. At Trick Two, South can lead a trump and finesse with his 10.
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HOROSCOPE By Holiday Mathis Aries (March 21-April 19): It gives unexpected satisfaction to learn why things are the way they are. Taurus (April 20-May 20): It may be a bit of a stretch to suggest that those born under the sign that rules money should delight in austerity, and yet even the financially minded bull gets the occasional pull toward the simple elegance of minimalism. Gemini (May 21-June 21): You enjoy being the first to try products, methods and trends of all kinds. The word “new” will capture your attention and spark your curiosity. Cancer (June 22-July 22): When you’re bored of something, don’t bail right away. Stick with it another step or two. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): You’re not thinking about how much people do or don’t
appreciate you. This is the last of your worries. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When people find out about your special talent after knowing you a while, they’ll be surprised. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): So many of our behaviors are habits. Laughing is no exception. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): Many people who achieve high status want to be treated the same as everyone else. Sagittarius (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Today you’ll be among friends and people who wish they were your friends. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Others are uplifted by your presence. Maybe it’s something you don’t think too much about, because it’s an easy thing for you to create, and yet this is no small achievement. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Because you’re so comfortable with who you are
and because you don’t think of yourself as very different from the others, you’re capable of doing things in group environments that others wouldn’t think to do. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Those who don’t pay compliments comfortably will give it up for you today. Today’s birthday (Jan. 11): You go into this year with an experimental agenda that helps you get to know yourself better. The next two months bring new joys. A big move in April allows for more satisfying work. Family celebrates together in June. August brings an education that helps your social life. Libra and Gemini adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 12, 2, 22, 45 and 18. Holiday Mathis writes her column for Creators Syndicate Inc. The horoscope should be read for entertainment. Previous forecasts are at latimes.com/horoscope.
If West held the queen, the defense could cash two spades, but South could win a club shift, unblock the ace of diamonds, draw trumps with the ace and jack, and pitch his club loser on the king of diamonds. As the cards lie, South’s trump finesse wins, and he still makes game, losing three black-suit tricks but not a trump. Question: You hold: ♠ A 7 4 ♥ J 3 2 ♦ K J 4 2 ♣ 5 3 2. The dealer, at your left, opens one club. Your partner doubles, you respond one diamond and he bids one heart. What do you say? Answer: If partner had minimum opening values with a five-card heart suit, he would have overcalled one heart at his first turn. When he doubles before bidding his suit, he promises a
hand worth a trick or more above minimum. Since you have nine good points, raise to four hearts. South dealer N-S vulnerable
WEST ♠ Q J 10 6 ♥8 ♦ 10 7 6 5 ♣Q876
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Rift over surname choice Dear Amy: My brother and his wife are expecting a third child. My sister-in-law is pushing to have the baby use her last name because her side of the family doesn’t have any males to carry on the name. This has caused a huge rift in our family. My older parents are heartbroken. I would like to know, is it an accepted social practice to have different last names within the same family? Would not having the same last name as siblings cause any negative emotional impact to this third child? What would be a compromise in this situation? I am thinking of suggesting a hyphenated name (her last name, his last name). What do you think? Thank you for your wise advice. Concerned Sister
Dear Sister: My first piece of advice is for all of you to remember that this baby has two parents who are making decisions regarding their children. This is their issue (not yours), and the best thing you could do is to urge your brother and his wife to deal with your parents. You could influence your parents by encouraging them to accept this family’s
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Dear Amy: My husband and I are having marital problems. He’s abusive, controlling and has cheated on me at least five times. He takes any money I get and doesn’t cook or help with our daughter. He is an alcoholic. I want things to work out, but he doesn’t make any effort. I love him so much. I don’t want to lose him. He is the love of my life. I’ve been with him since I was 17, and I’m going to be 21 at the end of the month. I don’t know whether to try and save my marriage, because he hasn’t changed. He keeps saying he will, but doesn’t. I’m a stay-at-home mom. I don’t know what I’d do without him. He doesn’t want to go to marriage counseling because he says it doesn’t work. I’d be devastated if we fell
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SERIES Undercover Boss The chief executive of a homecleaning service gets his hands dirty in this new episode. 8 p.m. CBS Lethal Weapon “The Cosby Show’s” Malcolm-Jamal Warner guest stars on a new episode of the cop drama. 8 p.m. Fox Nature The new episode “Snowbound: Animals of Winter” looks at how various creatures around the world cope in extreme cold. 8 p.m. KOCE Schitt’s Creek This sitcom starring Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy and Chris Elliot is back with new episodes. 8 p.m. Pop Speechless Jim O’Heir (“Parks and Recreation”) guest stars on a new episode of the Minnie Driver sitcom. 8:30 p.m. ABC Nightcap Rosie Perez, Joel Schumacher and “Law & Order: SVU’s” Mariska Hargitay guest star as themselves on the talkshow spoof ’s season finale. 8:30 p.m. Pop Modern Family Shelley Long (“Cheers”) reprises her guest role on a new episode of the sitcom. 9 p.m. ABC Nova The new episode “The Nuclear Option” explores scientists’ efforts to prevent another incident like the 2011 crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. 9 p.m. KOCE Expedition Unknown Host Josh Gates investigates the curious case of skyjacker D.B. Cooper in this new episode. 9 p.m. Travel Channel black-ish Family members deal with the outcome of the recent presidential election in this new episode of the sitcom starring Anthony Anderson and Golden Globe winner Tracee Ellis Ross. 9:30 p.m. ABC Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce This comedydrama starring “House’s” Lisa Edelstein returns for a third season. 10 p.m. Bravo Workaholics Adam Devine, Blake Anderson and Anders Holm are back to kick off a seventh and final season of their sitcom. 10 p.m. Comedy Central
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other animals equipped to handle the cold are featured on “Nature.” Jeff & Some Aliens A slacker, voiced by “Another Period’s” Brett Gelman, lets a trio of three extraterrestrials crash at his place in this new animated sitcom. 10:30 p.m. Comedy Central MOVIES Little Miss Sunshine (2006) 11:15 a.m. SundanceTV Still Alice (2014) 12:55 p.m. Starz Dear White People (2014) 1 p.m. Epix Psycho (1960) 5 p.m. TCM Lucy (2014) 6 p.m. FX TALK SHOWS CBS This Morning Jude Law; Brian Kelly. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC KTLA Morning News (N) 7 a.m. KTLA Good Morning America Charlie Sheen; Andrew Garfield (“Silence”). (N) 7 a.m. KABC Good Day L.A. Lance Bass (“My Kitchen Rules”); Octavia Spencer (“Hidden Figures”). (N) 7 a.m. KTTV Live With Kelly Andrew Garfield; Tituss Burgess; Jerry O’Connell. (N) 9 a.m. KABC The View (N) 10 a.m. KABC Rachael Ray Clinton Kelly. (N) 10 a.m. KCAL The Doctors A mom drops 113 pounds and 16 dress sizes without surgery; Guy Fieri. (N) 11 a.m. KCAL The Wendy Williams Show Lisa Edelstein; Cat Cora (“My Kitchen Rules”). (N) 11 a.m. KTTV
The Talk Ruth Negga; Joel Edgerton; Diana Madison. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS The Dr. Oz Show Cheap Botox injections and silicone implants. (N) 1 p.m. KTTV Steve Harvey A doctor livestreams surgeries on Snapchat; helping families adopt children; circus performers. (N) 2 p.m. KNBC Harry Jaimie Alexander (“Blindspot”); Jen Kirkman; 10-year-old pianist Brandon Goldberg. (N) 2 p.m. KTTV; midnight KCOP Dr. Phil A man admits he is struggling but refuses to give legal custody of his 2year-old to his parents. (N) 3 p.m. KCBS The Ellen DeGeneres Show Octavia Spencer (“Hidden Figures”); Billy Eichner (“Billy on the Street”). (N) 3 p.m. KNBC The Real Jillian Michaels; Mel B. (N) 3 p.m. KTTV Between the Lines Greg Brenneman. 9 p.m. KLCS Charlie Rose (N) 11 p.m. KVCR; 12:30 a.m. KOC The Daily Show: Trevor Noah Jonathan Chait. (N) 11 p.m. Comedy Central Conan Jeff Goldblum; insect expert Coyote Peterson. (N) 11 p.m. TBS The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon First Lady Michelle Obama; Stevie Wonder performs. (N) 11:34 p.m. KNBC The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Jude Law; Gabrielle Union; Thomas L. Friedman. (N) 11:35 p.m. KCBS Jimmy Kimmel Live Jessica Biel; Mahershala Ali; SOHN performs. (N) 11:35 p.m. KABC Tavis Smiley (N) midnight KOCE The Late Late Show With James Corden Khloe Kardashian; Betty White. (N) 12:37 a.m. KCBS Late Night With Seth Meyers Andrew Garfield (“Silence”); Mary Steenburgen; Colony House performs. (N) 12:37 a.m. KNBC Nightline (N) 12:37 a.m. KABC SPORTS
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