Santa Fe New Mexican, December 13, 2014

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Markets rocked by falling oil prices

$737K sought to finish back-pay work

Stock markets had their worst weekly loss in three years as a barrel of oil fell below $60. PAGE A-2

Md. accounting firm says $1.6M wasn’t enough to finish job calculating money owed to state workers

Restaurant owner dies

By Steve Terrell The New Mexican

Six months and $1.6 million wasn’t enough time or money for a Maryland accounting firm hired by the state of New Mexico to figure out how much the state owes in courtordered back wages to thousands of state workers.

Burrito Co. owner and chef Arquimedes “Kimo” Castro was known for his blend of El Salvadorian and New Mexican food. PAGE A-7

Suit: Suicide blamed on jail confinement

The state has signed a new $737,000 contract with the BDO firm of Bethesda, Md., to finish the work. While more than 4,000 workers have received checks for back pay — part of some $30 million in payments ordered by the state Supreme Court last year — about 5,000 still are waiting for theirs, a spokesman for

the American Federation for State, County and Municipal Employees said Friday. Twice in the past week, employees have picketed in front of the state Personnel Office on Cerrillos Road over the slowness of the payouts, which Gov. Susana Martinez in September said would be completed by early October. According to invoices obtained by the union though a public records request, BDO sent six monthly bills

Strong winds, snow, cold temps expected to pelt New Mexico

Officers fired 11 shots at van driver

By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press

By Uriel J. Garcia The New Mexican

Court documents say Santa Fe police Detective Jessica Sanchez and probation Officer Chris Belkcom fired at least 11 times at Kevin Chavez’s fleeing white van Dec. 5 in a westside neighborhood, and one bullet hit Chavez in the neck. Affidavits for search warrants to Kevin Chavez inspect Chavez’s property and the van were filed in District Court earlier this week. The court documents state that when the two officers arrived at Chavez’s residence in the 100 block Juan de Dios, a small residential street off West Alameda Street, they found Chavez, 23, hiding under a blanket in the back of the Ford E150. When authorities announced

Debris and rocks fill the backyards of homes along San Como Lane in Camarillo Springs, Calif., after a storm on Friday. Mountainsides stripped bare by a wildfire last year belched a damaging debris flow into the Southern California community during a downpour. RINGO H.W. CHIU/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By Justin Pritchard and John Antczak

LOS ANGELES alifornians got a lot of what they wanted and not too much of what they didn’t from a major storm that finally blew out of the state Friday. After drenching Northern California the previous day, the storm dumped up to 5 inches of desperately needed rain in Southern California. A landslide left 10 homes uninhabitable and fire officials executed a dramatic rescue of two people from the Los Angeles River. There were street flooding, traffic tie-ups and wind gusts up to 60 mph in some areas. At its height, about 50,000 customers lost power, though most had it back quickly. Still, with few exceptions, damage across the region was minor and the soaking was welcome in a state withered by three years of drought. No serious injuries were reported and the storm was exiting east toward the desert. Adriana Fletcher, 39, of Huntington Beach, said her 5-, 6- and 7-year-olds were happy to see the rain after learning about the

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10:15 a.m. Dec. 5: Officers fire 11 shots at fleeing driver; pursuit begins

between May and October that totaled exactly $1.6 million, including gross receipts taxes. That was the maximum allowed under a contract signed with the state in March. The last invoice, sent in October, noted, “Contract approved funding has been billed at 100 percent with this invoice.” That was for work performed between Sept. 1 and Sept. 15. The contract called for BDO to provide “expert advice, assistance,

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The National Weather Service says a vigorous low-pressure system moving inland off the Pacific will bring stronger winds, colder temperatures and some rain and snow to Northern and Central New Mexico this weekend. Scattered showers will move into the area by Saturday afternoon, forecasters said, with snow levels beginning in the mountains at elevations between 8,000 and 9,000 feet and lowering to near 5,000 feet by early Sunday morning. “Significant snow accumulations,” as much as 8 inches in northern areas, are expected in the mountains, while Santa Fe could see an inch or two. Breezy conditions will begin Saturday, with even stronger winds Sunday, when gusts could reach 35 to 50 mph, the weather service said. Temperatures will be much colder, falling 10 to 20 degrees by Sunday, when below-average readings are expected in many locations. The New Mexican

drought in school. “When it started raining, my kids were like, ‘This is so cool,’ ” Fletcher said. As the storm crept down the coast overnight, its powerful winds caused power outages around Santa Barbara, where the National Weather Service said up to 5 inches fell in coastal mountains. Amtrak suspended service between Los Angeles and the Central Coast city of San Luis Obispo.

In Camarillo, a Ventura County city about 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles, rain was falling at about an inch an hour over hillsides ravaged by a 2013 wildfire. With few roots to hold the soil in place, and a waxy subsurface layer caused by heat from the flames, the deluge caused part of a hillside to give way. Debris brushed aside concrete

ALBUQUERQUE — Recovery efforts stemming from a radiation leak at the nation’s only underground nuclear waste repository could get a $100 million boost in federal funding under a budget measure pending in Congress. The U.S. Senate was expected to vote on the $1.1 trillion appropriations bill just days after it narrowly passed the House. The measure also calls for cutting $40 million for cleanup of long-term radioactive and hazardous waste at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The lab was on track to meet a major milestone this year for packing up and shipping tons of Cold War-era waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, before one of its containers ruptured and forced the indefinite closure of the repository. The lab was pressured by Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration to remove thousands of barrels of waste from outdoor storage by the summer. That deadline came and went, and now hazardous waste cleanup efforts at Los Alamos and other U.S. Department of Energy facilities across the

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INSIDE u The Senate is continuing to work on a $1.1 trillion budget bill. PAGE A-3

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Today Partly cloudy with rain. High 55, low 26.

Report: CIA medics aided in harsh interrogations Health professionals sometimes balked at tactics; participation raises question of medical morality By Stephen Braun The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — From the early stages of the CIA’s coercive interrogations of terror detainees, the agency’s health professionals were intimately involved. Front-line medics and psychologists monitored and advised on abusive tactics, even as they some-

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times complained about the ethical dilemmas gnawing at them, according to this week’s Senate intelligence committee report. Senior CIA medical officials helped the agency and the White House under President George W. Bush. The report describes rare moments when CIA health professionals openly balked and objected. But for four years, until Bush shut-

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tered the CIA prison program in 2006, medical teams at each “black site” observed almost every step of procedures that President Barack Obama now calls torture. They oversaw water dousing to ensure detainees suffered but did not drown. They inserted feeding tubes and improvised enemas. They took notes when detainees were bodyslammed and forced to stand for hours — intervening only to ensure that the brutal measures were not crippling enough to prevent the next round of interrogations.

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Medical ethicists, already familiar with debate on the issue, say that both the Senate report and a CIA response fail to comprehensively tackle questions of medical morality and offer reforms. “The Senate report is quite an indictment, but it leaves the American people, whatever their political views, uncertain about how medical ethics should be upheld,” said Dr. Arthur Caplan, head of medical ethics at New York University’s Langone

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