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Feds bust dangerous gang linked to murder of Sergeant Eliezer Ramos
By THE STAR STAFF
Afederal grand jury in the district of Puerto Rico accused 56 members of a violent gang in the municipalities of San Juan, Carolina and surrounding areas with conspiracy to possess and distribute controlled substances, arms violations and homicide. Also the group is linked to the murder of Sergeant Eliezer Ramos Vélez at the Sabana Residential Down Highlands in Carolina, announced on Wednesday W. Stephen Muldrow, district attorney for the United States for the District of Puerto Rico.
“The number nine charge accuses Víctor Pérez Fernández, Luis Isaac Sánchez, Andiel González Saez, Olvin O’Neill, Concepción Tapia and Daniel López Vega for the murder of Sergeant Eliezer Ramos Vélez, which occurred on March 29 of this year. These five defendants face a possible perpetual penal confinement and if authorized by the United States attorney general to the death penalty,” said Muldrow.
Police Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa confirmed that the road patrol agent Fernando “Dog” Torres Galarza, accused by federal authorities for giving information to drug trafficking organizations, had an expulsion recommendation, but remained in functions.
Among the defendants is singer Luis “C Dobleta” Isaac Sánchez, who was arrested in the United States.
The investigation was run by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Carolina Police Department, SWAT unit, in collaboration with National Security Investigations, the Office of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fire Arms and Explosives and the U.S. Marshals Office.
The district attorney Muldrow stressed that “the persecution of these drug trafficking organizations exemplifies our continuing efforts to dismantle, reduce drug gangs desman-
telar las bandas de drogas, reduce violent crime and armed violence.”
He also thanked the forces of federal, local and state security for their tireless work in this case.
The accusation alleges that since 2021, the organization has distributed heroin, fentanyl crack, cocaine and marijuana. in and around various public housing projects in Puerto Rico.
This gang operated under the name “La Paz” to prevent internal conflicts and strengthen their criminal activities.
In addition, the members of the band participated in violent acts, shootings and arms trafficking using information given to them by corrupt police officers.
Those accused confront various charges including arms possession in support of drug trafficking with minimum obligatory sentences from 10 years to life in prison and in some cases the death penalty if they are found guilty of homicide.
A total of $ 31,347,400 were the profits obtained from their illegal activities.
The investigation of “La Alianza” was run by the FBI, Carolina Police Department, SWAT Unit, in collaboration with National Security Investigations, the Office of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. Marshals Office.
Reduction in private sector bonuses shows strengthening labor market
By THE STAR STAFF
The interim Secretary of the Department of Labor and Human Department of Labor and Human Resources, attorney Naihomy Álamo Rivera, announced Wednesday the reduction of the requests for extensions of payments of the annual bonus of the private sector for 2024. For the first time in more than 15 years, the requests for extensions were reduced by 300, which reflects a strength-
ening in the economic labor panorama of the country,” said Álamo in written statements.
This year 297 requests for extensions were presented of which 275 were total, eight partial and 14 turned down.
In comparison with 2023, 10,681 additional workers received the bonus established by Law No.148 de 1969.
If you don’t receive the corresponding bonus before December, you can contact the Bureau of Labor at 787754-5353 or visit the judicial forum.
Bondholders say FOMB rejected proposed settlement offer without engagement
By THE STAR STAFF
As Title III Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain said Wednesday it “would be the best Christmas present ever” if stakeholders could agree on a deal to settle the $9 billion Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) debt, the Financial Oversight and Management Board rejected a deal proposed by bondholders.
PREPA non-settling bondholders, including GoldenTree Asset Management LP, Assured Guaranty Inc. and National Public Finance Guarantee Corp, said the FOMB rejected a settlement offer they made without engagement, Marc Ellenberg, an attorney for Assured Guaranty, said at the omnibus hearing Wednesday.
Just as STAR reported earlier this week, GoldenTree Asset Management attorney Thomas Lauria said they will accept 50-year replacement bonds that have virtually no risk of future default. The amount of those bonds would be set on the basis of reasonable up-to-date load and other projections.
They also said they want to get additional bonds for the shortfall between what they are owed and the amount of the replacement bonds but these bonds would only get paid from excess cash flow, if there is any, and would be retired in 50 years whether or not the bondholders have been paid anything.
The bondholders also have agreed to provide $2.5 billion of new 50-year revenue bond funding to begin paying for needed repair and improvement of PREPA’s electric generation and distribution system; and for the duration of the replacement and new 50-year bonds, electric costs would be set and held at a level the Board has stated would be fair
and affordable, subject to being increased only to fund cost overruns or needed capital expenditures not covered by our new bonds or the $15 billion of FEMA funding.
Lauria said pensions would be paid by having a senior position on a portion of PREPA’s revenue. Electricity rates would be set at or below the FOMB’s target and could only be raised above a 6% share of wallet if there were cost overruns or if the USD 2.5bn in capital proved insufficient for the authority’s needs.
The FOMB rejected the offer out of hand, said Ellenberg.
“What’s most amazing to me about that, we can’t get engagement on that, it was just simply refused,” Ellenberg said. “There is only one way out and that is settlement, we sincerely hope we can get there. If we cannot get there, it’s going to be messy, bloody and long.”
PREPA’s mediation team indicated in a report Dec. 9 that there is no chance for a consensual deal.
The FOMB has asked for reconsideration, for the second time, of a First Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that bondholders had perfected security interest in the power utility’s future net revenues.
Ellenberg noted that the possibility of a settlement had taken “a giant step back” after FOMB attorney Martin Bienenstock said that even if the First Circuit ruled in favor of bondholders a third time, the district court overseeing the bankruptcy, would have to decide if a secured claim exists on future revenue.
Ellenberg said the issue is before the First Circuit, charging that Bienenstock’s remarks indicate he plans to reargue the issue under another scheme. At the hearing, the bondholders contended possible constitutional violations as they have no protection against PREPA taking their collateral.
Bienenstock said that the lack of a deal after seven years of the PREPA’s bankruptcy is because it is a very difficult situation.
Swain insisted the parties work their way toward a consensual resolution. She has the option to either dismiss the case or do a cram down, both of which will result in more litigation.
House speaker ends extraordinary session for good
By THE STAR STAFF
House Speaker Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez ended the extraordinary session Wednesday that outgoing Gov. Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia had convened because of disagreements among New Progressive Party lawmakers. “With great prudence and respect, a reasonable space was provided to allow parties to reach common ground. Having not agreed on the calendar and the measures under consideration, we
will continue the transition work,” Hernández Montañez said.
The outgoing House leader indicated that the House had fulfilled its constitutional duty to heed the governor’s call. However, given the lack of consensus, he ended the session “sine die.”
Incoming Governor Jennifer Gonzalez objected to the session and told her NPP lawmakers to abstain from voting on the measures.
The extraordinary session closed at 11:15 a.m. on Wednesday, December 11. Extraordinary sessions last up to 21 days.
Hernández Montañez wished the next administration the best
of success, noting that it must address public policy changes in January once the new four-year term begins. The governor convened a special session to address 10 measures. Hernández Montañez explained that Senate Bill 1497 had not reached the House; House Bill 2197, filed on October 3, received its first reading but is not an urgent matter. In addition, House Joint Resolution 696 —approved in June— is pending action in the Senate. Other bills, such as House Bill 2199, filed on December 5, were also read but are not urgent bills.
Current Senate President José Luis Dalmau is selected president of COPA
By THE STAR STAFF
Senate President José Luis Dalmau was elected president of the Parliamentary Confederation of the Americas Wednesday for the 2025 to 207 period during the organization’’s XXVII General Assembly.
COPA is an organization that brings together legislators from the Americas and the Caribbean. The activities held in Puerto Rico from Monday, December 9 to Wednesday, December 11, brought together parliamentary delegations from countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, El Salvador, Jamaica,
the United States, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.
“It is an honor to be the fourth Puerto Rican to preside over this important organization. During the past few days, we brought together important leaders from all over America in Puerto Rico, where we discussed issues such as artificial intelligence and laws to strengthen the role of women in our society and the economy in each of our countries. Being president gives our country an opportunity to expose ourselves to all the countries in our region, from Canada to Argentina,” said Dalmau Santiago. Past presidents from Puerto Rico were Antonio Fas Alzamora, Kenneth McClintock, and Eduardo Bhatia.
The COPA General Assembly, which was chaired by the current president Sylvain Lévesque, from Canada, also chose representative Estrella Martínez, as the Vice President of the Network of Women Parliamentarians of the Americas.
“Inclusion and political pluralism are essential principles in the COPA General Assemblies. For this reason, I agreed to preside over this important organization. We are proud to have hosted this event, which fosters respect and promotes parliamentary collaboration between our sister countries,” added the president of the Senate.
Judge Laura Taylor Swain
Businessmen express concern about economic slowdown
By The STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico Minority Supplier Devel-
opment Council (PRMSDC) expressed on Wednesday its concern about the possible effects of a global economic slowdown on the sustainability and growth of the more than 525 certified minority businesses in Puerto Rico, which generate 61,000 direct and indirect jobs and contribute 9.8 billion dollars to the local economy.
During a roundtable organized by the PRMSDC, representatives of the business sector and economic experts analyzed the risks and opportunities that these companies face in the face of global uncertainty, local energy and logistics costs, as well as the impact of the 15 percent global minimum tax on corporate profits.
“The global economic outlook, com-
bined with local challenges such as the cost of energy and logistics, threatens the sustainable development of our minority businesses, essential to the local economy,” said Francisco Cabrera, president and CEO of the PRMSDC, in written statements.
He highlighted the importance of these companies, which represent a pillar in job creation and economic stability on the island.
A key topic was the implementation of the global minimum tax, which could generate approximately $3.8 billion annually if properly managed. “Legislative inaction could result in the loss of significant revenue that could strengthen our industrial base,” said José Quiñones, president of the PRMSDC Board of Directors, stressing that this tax represents both a challenge and an opportunity to improve Puerto Rico’s competitiveness.
Participants also discussed the need
to adopt public policies that allow minority businesses to capitalize on these opportunities. Jorge López, president of the PRMSDC Minority Entrepreneurs Committee, proposed the creation of a commission of experts to define how to invest these revenues in infrastructure, technology and strengthening strategic sectors.
The event also highlighted the crucial role of minority businesses in areas such as STEM, innovation and technology, highlighting them as key drivers for economic growth and attracting future investments. According to Vicente Feliciano, economist and president of Advantage Business Consulting, “it is imperative that the government work hand in hand with the private sector to foster a favorable environment that allows for the development of these strategic areas.”
Another of the topics addressed was the potential impact of the relocation of manu-
Increased risk of death triggered by domestic violence
By THE STAR STAFF
The Institute of Statistics and the Justice Department presented the preliminary findings of the analysis of the Risk Assessment (Danger Assessment), a tool recently implemented by prosecutors in the criminal investigation process to identify the levels of danger of femicide faced by victims of domestic violence in Puerto Rico.
The pilot study, which covered 2,021 cases during the first half of 2024, revealed worrying data that underscore the urgency of continuing to strengthen prevention and protection strategies against domestic violence in Puerto Rico. Among the data are: The victims have an average age of 36.3 years, with the 20 to 39 age group being the most represented (62.1% of cases); one in four victims faced a level of severe to extreme dangerousness; women with severe or extreme dangerousness are almost 13 times more likely to have been attacked or threatened with a weapon, compared to those with variable or increasing dangerousness; when evaluating the group of women with severe or extreme dangerousness, it was due to the fact that the partner or ex-partner was jealous of her and showed it violently and constantly (82.6%). 79.1% feared that the partner or ex-partner was capable of killing her, and the municipalities with the highest adjusted rates of victims, 15 years or older, with severe or extreme dangerousness were Barranquitas,
Salinas, and Patillas.
The Statistics Institute and the Department of Justice reaffirmed their commitment to continue working together so that the Government of Puerto Rico uses these findings as a basis for the design and implementation of effective public policies that prioritize the safety of victims of domestic violence.
“These data do not only represent a snapshot of reality but are the result of a rigorous statistical analysis process led by the Statistics Institute, in which risk assessment sheets were validated, integrated into a centralized database, and the necessary analyses were performed to identify the most critical risk factors. This work is a key tool to guide the efforts of government agencies toward more effective and targeted interventions,” said Orville M. Disdier Flores, executive director of the Statistics Institute of Puerto Rico.
Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández pointed out that “these data are not just numbers, they are an urgent call to joint action to strengthen prevention, protection and justice strategies for victims of domestic violence. This preliminary report gives us a roadmap for action to identify areas to strengthen to eradicate domestic violence. The analysis of data from the Department of Justice’s Risk Assessment will allow for the development of public policies and measures in addition to those already implemented to address the needs of the complainants
and prevent femicides. My commitment, as part of the justice system, is to work tirelessly to convert these statistics into tangible solutions that prioritize the safety, dignity, and rights of the victims,” he said.
“It is essential that this be continued, as it is an effective initiative to build a future where no woman fears for her life in her own home,” he said. “
On the other hand, Idania R. Rodríguez Ayuso, deputy executive director of the Statistics Institute, said “the analysis of this data allowed us to identify critical patterns and risk factors that show the seriousness of domestic violence in Puerto Rico. This process, which includes the validation and detailed analysis of the risk assessment sheets, is essential to generate reliable information that serves as a basis for the design of more effective prevention and protection strategies. These findings call on us to act urgently to prioritize high-risk cases and ensure the safety of victims.”
“The analysis of the Risk Assessment allows prosecutors to make decisions with greater certainty and to be able to insert themselves into prevention efforts. At the same time, it contributes to their ability to guide victims and channel the aid and services they require, including security measures,” said the head of the prosecutors, Jessika Correa González.
The results of the pilot study confirm an alarming reality that we cannot ignore: one
facturing companies to Puerto Rico under the administration of incoming President Donald Trump. Experts pointed out the need for a clear strategy to take advantage of this movement as a catalyst for economic development on the island.
The PRMSDC emphasized the importance of government incentives to mitigate the effects of a possible economic slowdown, highlighting that minority businesses must be supported to maintain their competitiveness in an ever-changing economic environment.
The event concluded with a call to action addressed to the new government of Puerto Rico, urging it to implement measures that support minority businesses and ensure their sustainability. The PRMSDC reiterated its commitment to collaborate in the search for solutions that drive economic growth and benefit the entire island.
in four women who file complaints face a level of danger that puts her life at risk. As a society, we cannot allow fear and violence to continue to mark the lives of so many women. However, this effort cannot fall solely on government institutions. The active collaboration of communities is essential to identify risks, offer support to victims, and promote a culture of respect,” said Attorney General Laura Hernández Gutiérrez, director of the Coordination Division of the Specialized Units for Domestic Violence, Sexual Crimes, and Child Abuse of the Department of Justice.
The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute and the Puerto Rico Department of Justice reiterated their call to continue with government and community collaboration, as well as to continue strengthening the collection and analysis of regional data to eradicate domestic violence in Puerto Rico eventually. For his part, the Secretary of the Department of Justice reported that the results obtained will allow law enforcement agencies to strengthen the response in municipalities with high rates of dangerousness, thus allowing for more focused and effective interventions. In addition, he explained that it will be essential to continue the specialized training that the Department of Justice implemented to train professionals who work directly with victims of domestic violence, ensuring that they have the necessary tools to identify and handle risk situations appropriately. Finally, the leaders of both agencies expressed that these findings will allow for the design of better prevention and education campaigns aimed at raising awareness about the risk factors associated with the risk of intimate partner femicide.
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Reaction to CEO killing exposes frustrations with health system
By DIONNE SEARCEY and SARAH KLIFF
The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO
Brian Thompson has mesmerized a deeply polarized nation that shares a collective frustration over dealings with health insurance companies.
On social media, some people have cheered for the gunman and expressed little remorse over the death of Thompson, 50, a father of two boys from Maple Grove, Minnesota, with some painting him as the villain in a national health care crisis.
And now that the identity of the suspect, Luigi Mangione, 26, has been revealed and more photos of him have emerged, he is being defended or even applauded in some circles.
That adulation reflects public anger over health care, said Nsikan Akpan, managing editor for Think Global Health, a publication that explores health issues at the Council on Foreign Relations. “The UHC killing and the social media response stem from people feeling helpless over health coverage and income inequality,” he said. The topic is so often ignored by American public officials, he said, that voters have stopped listing it as a top priority.
“A targeted killing won’t solve those problems, and neither will condoning it,” he added.
Experts who reviewed the flood of social media posts expressing support for Mangione said that while it can be difficult to assess the provenance of posts, none have the telltale signs of an “influence campaign” by a foreign entity.
“People are legitimately actually pissed off at the health care industry, and there is some kind of support for vigilante justice,” said Tim Weninger, a computer science professor at Notre Dame and expert in social media and artificial intelligence. “It’s organic.”
Along with the more shocking posts online that have supported Mangione, numerous comments expressed anger at the murder of a man who spent years rising through the ranks of corporate America.
In recent months, Mangione had become estranged from family and friends, some of whom worried about his mental health when he fell out of touch after having spinal surgery, some of his friends said.
No evidence has yet emerged that he had a specific grievance with care provided by UnitedHealthcare or its parent company, UnitedHealth Group. In a short manifesto
Luigi Mangione is escorted by police into the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pa., on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. Mangione, who was charged with murder in New York in the assassination of the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare in Midtown Manhattan, saw the killing as a “symbolic takedown,” according to an internal police report that detailed parts of a three-page manifesto found with him at the time of his arrest. (Rachel Wisniewski/The New York Times)
recovered from his backpack, he criticized United as “too powerful” and as abusing “our country for immense profit” but does not mention any of his own interactions with the company, or if he was enrolled in its coverage.
But as Mangione was led to an extradition hearing in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, he seemed to nod to the outrage brewing in America, shouting to media gathered nearby, “This is completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people.”
Mangione’s document tracks in part with the outrage that many Americans feel. As UnitedHealthcare’s market capitalization has grown, he wrote, American life expectancy has not. His writings also condemn companies that “continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.”
“These parasites had it coming,” read the manifesto. It added: “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.”
The anger over the U.S. health care system has long been explored in popular culture.
In “John Q,” Denzel Washington plays a man whose son needs a heart transplant but whose insurance won’t cover it. In the slasher movie “Saw,” the killer targets the man
who denied him insurance coverage for an experimental cancer treatment. A chemistry teacher named Walter White starts cooking methamphetamine to pay his medical bills in the series “Breaking Bad.”
Hollywood and the publishing industry reflect reality for many Americans: While insurance companies cover millions of claims a year, their denials can seem unjust.
That sentiment has grown in recent years, health insurance executives, policy experts and pollsters say, fueled by the rising costs of medical care and the emergence of huge bureaucracies that make seeing the doctor more difficult.
“There is this rage that is coming out,” said Michael Perry, a pollster who has conducted hundreds of health care focus groups over the past decade. A few years ago, he would hear mixed consumer views on health insurance, with wealthier people generally speaking favorably about their plans.
“I don’t hear that anymore,” he said. “The wealth gap has closed, and there is no amount of money that can buy you good insurance.”
High deductibles and copayments are causing nearly 2 of 5 working-age adults to delay visiting the doctor and filling prescrip-
tions, according to an August study by the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit, bipartisan health care research foundation. Those who do get care can become burdened by medical or dental debt, something almost one-third of working-age adults report experiencing, the study said.
“Once people get sick and need to use their plans, things can start to go wrong,” said Sara Collins, a senior scholar at the Commonwealth Fund who focuses on access to health care coverage. “When that happens to people, they really aren’t sure what to do.”
Many patients don’t realize they have the right to challenge an erroneous bill or a denial of coverage, she said. Others say they don’t have time to navigate the labyrinthine insurance system to do so. The privileged pay up, and the poor give up.
“What we’ve ended up with is a deeply frustrated population with few channels for equitable relief,” said Warris Bokhari, who left his vice president job at the insurer Anthem in 2021 and has since started a new company that helps patients file appeals. “No one is condoning violence against executives, but there are private tragedies happening every single day. For the most part, they go totally unheard and unknown.”
Meanwhile, health insurance companies are profiting. The division overseen by Thompson reported $281 billion in revenue last year and provided coverage to more than 50 million Americans via plans for individuals, employers and people in government programs like Medicare.
Thompson earned a total compensation package last year of $10.2 million.
The fury over the high levels of pay for executives of an industry that so many resent was clear online in recent days. An internet meme that was circulating showed an image of a Patagonia vest, a wardrobe item popular with chief executives, flying at half-staff in mock sympathy for Thompson.
The posts and commentary celebrating a murder suspect are crass yet not particularly unfamiliar in a country that has sometimes celebrated frontier justice and revenge killings.
“There’s a long, long history of vigilantism in the United States dating to pre-Revolutionary times of people taking the law into their own hands because they don’t think they can get justice any other way,” said Michael Asimow, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law.
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The prominent Maryland family of the suspect in the CEO killing
By AMY QIN
Long before the shooting, before the manhunt and before the arrest of Luigi Mangione in connection with the killing of a health care executive, the Mangione name was well-known around Baltimore.
The Mangiones, fueled by the competitive, combative spirit of their immigrant patriarch, built a formidable family business that made them a force in local politics and charity.
When Nick Mangione Sr., Luigi’s paternal grandfather, thought that he was being discriminated against at country clubs in the early 1970s because he was Italian, he bought his own golf resort. When he got tired of waiting for permission to build a second golf course at one of his clubs, he sent in bulldozers to begin clearing the land. And when one of his sons was cut from a local soccer team, Mangione barred the team’s coach from his country club.
“Nick Mangione is foremost identified as a family man,” Thomas J. D’Alesandro, the former Baltimore mayor and late father of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, told The Baltimore Sun in 1995. “He is maybe a little rough around the edges and maybe with an aggressive personality, but a man with a big heart.”
When he died in 2008, the elder Mangione left behind 10 children, more than 35 grandchildren and a collection of business holdings, which now include two country clubs, a chain of nursing homes and a local conservative radio station. The Mangiones are longtime supporters of numerous local causes and institutions, including Loyola University Maryland and the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, where the high-risk obstetrics unit bears the Mangione name.
Until this week, those commercial and philanthropic pursuits were the principal sources of the family’s prominence. Then, on Monday, Luigi, 26, was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and charged with second-degree murder and other offenses in connection with the killing last week of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.
The fatal shooting, in midtown Manhattan outside a hotel where UnitedHealthcare was hosting a conference for investors, stirred panic among employees at the company and other health insurers. An internal police report obtained by The New York Times said writing found on Mangione indicated that he saw the killing as a direct challenge to the
health care industry’s “alleged corruption and ‘power games.’”
But prosecutors have not said what they believe the motive for the killing was, and much about Mangione is still being pieced together by investigators from the New York Police Department and other agencies.
The 2016 valedictorian at a prestigious all-boys prep school in Baltimore, Mangione went on to the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied computer science and earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree.
Friends said that he had been suffering from a painful back injury when, about six months ago, he suddenly and inexplicably went dark, prompting worried family members to ask his friends about his whereabouts.
On Monday night, a cousin, Nino Mangione, who is a Maryland state legislator, posted a statement on behalf of the family on social platform X saying that the family was “shocked and devastated” by Luigi’s arrest.
“We only know what we have read in the media,” the statement read. “We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson and we ask people to pray for all involved.”
On Tuesday evening, access to the Hayfields Country Club, a sprawling rural property north of Baltimore that is owned by the family and where Mangione’s parents also own a house, remained closed off to reporters.
“It’s a very strong family,” Anthony J.
Ambridge, a former Baltimore city council member, said in an interview, noting that he had recently seen many members of the Mangione family during a fundraiser for Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.
The story of the Mangione family in America begins far from swank charity events and verdant golf courses, in the gritty, rowhouse-lined streets of Baltimore’s Little Italy.
Born in 1925, Nicholas Mangione Sr., known as Nick, started working at age 11, after his father, an illiterate immigrant from Italy, died of pneumonia, leaving the family without income. During World War II, Nick Mangione joined the Navy and fought in the South Pacific before returning to Baltimore, where he began laying bricks and eventually built a successful contracting company.
In the early 1970s, Mangione and his wife, Mary, also the daughter of Italian immigrants, moved to the Baltimore suburbs to accommodate their growing family.
In 1978, they made what was considered a risky acquisition. With a bank loan and about $750,000 of their own money, they bought the Turf Valley Country Club, in Howard County, outside Baltimore.
Over the years, the Mangiones converted the 1,000-acre club into one of the county’s few full-service resort and conference centers.
The gamble paid off. The venue, which is now known as the Turf Valley Resort,
became a popular destination, hosting everything from high school proms to political fundraisers.
Along the way, Mangione developed a reputation for a brusque business style. In 1988, a furor erupted when Mangione’s nephew, then a manager at the Turf Valley resort, was recorded using a racial slur after placing a call to a Black community leader and not realizing the answering machine was recording.
Facing a boycott and mounting public pressure, Mangione took a confrontational tack. He rescinded a sizable pledge to a local hospital, he withdrew from some local school and charitable programs and he halted the complimentary practice time he had been providing to the high school golf team. And although Mangione fired his nephew for the racist remark, the man was rehired months later.
It was just one of many clashes that Mangione had with local officials and the community over the years, especially as the family empire grew to include the Hayfields Country Club, in Cockeysville, Maryland, and the conservative radio station WCBMAM 680. The family also founded a nursing home and assisted living company called Lorien Health Services, which operates more than a dozen facilities in Maryland.
There was a softer side to the Mangione family, too. Before her death in 2023, Mary Mangione, Luigi’s paternal grandmother, served on the board of the Baltimore Opera; as president of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, a women’s organization; and as a trustee of the Walters Art Museum.
And friends of Mangione often refer to his fierce dedication to his family. All 10 of his children — five sons and five daughters — worked for the family company, taking over the business after the patriarch’s death in 2008.
They include Luigi’s father, Louis Mangione, known as Lou, who still works for the family business. Luigi’s mother, Kathleen, comes from another prominent local Italian American family. The daughter of Joseph N. Zannino Jr., who founded a funeral home in the heart of the Italian community in East Baltimore’s Highlandtown neighborhood, Kathleen now runs a boutique travel company.
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In addition to Luigi, they have two daughters, MariaSanta, who is a physician-in-training in Texas, and Lucia, an artist in the Baltimore area.
Luigi Mangione inside a police vehicle at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pa., on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. Mangione, who was charged with murder in New York in the assassination of the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare in Midtown Manhattan, saw the killing as a “symbolic takedown,” according to an internal police report that detailed parts of a three-page manifesto
him at the time of his arrest. (Rachel Wisniewski/The New York Times)
He promised huge tax refunds. Now Trump wants him to lead the IRS
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When Billy Long, now President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the IRS, left Congress in 2023, he quickly set out to make money. Building off the relationships he developed as a Republican from Missouri and auctioneer, Long began encouraging people to file for a lucrative, pandemic-era tax credit.
At meetings with chapters of Hispanic Chambers of Commerce across the country and at an auctioneering convention in Oklahoma, Long sometimes wore a hat advertising the Employee Retention Tax Credit as he tried to
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Billy Long, left, who left Congress in 2023, speaks with Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) before a hearing with testimony from Daniel Werfel, the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, for the House Committee on Ways and Means on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. Long, an auctioneer and former Republican representative from Missouri, is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Internal Revenue Service. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
drum up business. Working with companies that would fill out the paperwork for the tax credit in exchange for a portion of the client’s refund, Long had success.
billion.
and their CPA, frankly, threw up their hands and said: ‘Go back to Billy. Let Billy do it for you,’” Long said during the podcast, using the abbreviation for a certified public accountant. “So because when people walk in and say, ‘Hey, this auctioneer, real estate broker, former congressman told me, I’m going to get $1.2 million back. You’re my CPA — why didn’t you tell me that?’ Instantly, the reflex reaction is to go to bashing.”
A spokesperson for Trump did not respond to a request for comment.
Long’s selection to lead the IRS is unusual. Since the 1990s, IRS commissioners have had five-year terms, and the position has been treated as a relatively nonpartisan management job, which now oversees the more than 80,000 employees who collected nearly $5 trillion in taxes last fiscal year. The term for Daniel Werfel, the current leader of the IRS, who was nominated by President Joe Biden, is not up until 2027.
“The concern is turning the commissioner into a political position,” said John Koskinen, a former IRS commissioner. “You run the risk that every audit will be a question of: Is this a weaponization of the IRS? Did somebody tell them to make this audit, or is this routine?”
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“What’s working for me is the trust factor because people know me,” he said in a podcast interview last year about his work, describing clients who received tax refunds of more than $1 million. “They’ve known me for 40 years in the auction business, or whatever they see me getting this money for their compadres.”
The money spigot would soon shut off.
In September 2023, the IRS temporarily stopped processing claims for the credit, hoping to squash widespread fraud in the program.
The tax break, aimed at supporting businesses that kept employees on payroll during the pandemic, had spawned a cottage industry of tax preparation firms steering people, including those who were not eligible for the credit, toward it. The IRS began warning people about scams related to the tax credit, including firms that were “wildly misrepresenting and exaggerating who can qualify for the credits.”
The fiscal cost of the tax refund bonanza was steep. What analysts had initially expected would be a roughly $55 billion program had ballooned into a $230 billion one, with projections that its cost could ultimately hit $550
Long, in the 2023 podcast interview, said he would help only clients who were actually eligible for the credit, and added that the fees he and his associates collected would be returned to any clients that had their tax refund revoked by the IRS. The companies he said he worked with — Commerce Terrace Consulting, which says on its website that it has provided $400 million in tax savings, and Lifetime Advisors — did not respond to a request for comment.
This year, Long traveled to Washington to try to persuade his former colleagues in Congress, who were considering closing the program because of its ballooning cost, not to follow through. The program was not shut down, and the IRS has started processing claims for the credit again, but with new antifraud measures in place.
If the Senate confirms Long to lead the tax collection agency, he will be in a position to ease access to the tax credit. During his time generating claims for the employee retention credit, Long said, he repeatedly tried to persuade potential clients to disregard the advice of their accountants, who doubted whether they could qualify for the credit.
“I tell them of some cases of where people started down the road with their CPA,
Biden, whose administration pushed for and won more funding for the IRS, chose Werfel to lead an overhaul of the tax collector after years of budget woes. Democrats plowed roughly $80 billion in supplemental funding into the agency, in hopes of modernizing it and collecting more tax revenue from Americans who do not pay what they owe.
But Republicans quickly mobilized to claw back that money, successfully forcing Democrats to cancel $20 billion of it as part of a deal to raise the debt limit in 2023. An additional $20 billion is also at risk as Republicans have exploited a quirk in spending legislation to freeze more money.
It is unclear how Long would approach the IRS push to modernize. He once sponsored legislation that sought to abolish the tax agency and replace the income tax with a sales tax, a concept Trump has flirted with. But Long did not serve on the tax-writing committee in the House, and he is unknown to some key Senate Republicans who will decide his fate.
“Protecting taxpayers and addressing an ever-encroaching IRS is a top priority, and I look forward to learning more about Mr. Long’s vision for the agency,” Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said in a statement.
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Wall Street rallies on tame US inflation, Nasdaq jumps above 20,000
Wall Street stocks jumped on Wednesday as a rally in tech stocks boosted the Nasdaq above the 20,000-point milestone for the first time, after a U.S. inflation report boosted expectations of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut.
A Labor Department report showed U.S. consumer prices in November increased by the most in seven months, though broadly in line with market expectations.
Benchmark S&P 500 index and Nasdaq were higher while the Dow retreated from early gains in choppy trading. Five of the 11 major S&P 500 sectors advanced, led by gains in communication services, technology and consumer discretionary services. Healthcare and utilities stocks were the biggest losers.
“Nasdaq is rallying on the prospect of a rate cut next week and has room to move higher,” said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.93 points, or 0.01%, to 44,242.90, the S&P 500 rose 51.89 points, or 0.86%, to 6,086.80 and the Nasdaq Composite rose 341.80 points, or 1.74%, to 20,029.04.
Markets are pricing in more than a 96% chance the Fed will cut rates by 25 basis points next week, up from an 86% chance before the data, according to CME’s FedWatch Tool. Bets had risen following Friday’s employment report, which showed an uptick in unemployment alongside a surge in job growth.
The yield on benchmark U.S. 10-year notes rose 5.2 basis points to 4.273%.
“The equity market seems to be breathing a sigh of relief that this is another steady-as-she-goes report,” said Wasif Latif, chief investment officer at Sarmaya Partners in New Jersey. “There’s no surprises. It seems the equity market was braced for a higher than expected number.”
Tesla shares climbed nearly 4% to a record high as the electric vehicle maker extended a rally in the wake of the U.S. presidential election.
Nvidia and other megacap growth stocks, including Alphabet and Amazon were also trading higher, adding between 0.2% and 4.6%.
Pharmacy benefit managers, including Cigna, CVS Health, and UnitedHealth Group, lost ground after a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill that would force health insurers or drug middlemen to divest their pharmacy businesses.
GameStop gained 8% after the videogame retailer reported a profit for the third quarter on cost-saving efforts.
Broadcom jumped 5.7% following a report that Apple is working with the company to develop its first server chip specially designed for artificial intelligence.
Macy’s shed 2.2% after the department-store bellwether cut its annual profit forecast as persistent weakness in demand clouded its expectations for the holiday shopping season.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 1.53-to-1 ratio on the NYSE. On the Nasdaq, 2,405 stocks rose and 1,857 fell as advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a
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The S&P 500 posted 21 new 52-week highs and 6 new lows while the Nasdaq Composite recorded 102 new highs and 103 new lows.
At 1:47 p.m. EST, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 85.08 points, or 0.19%, to 44,557.44, the S&P 500 lost 20.07 points, or 0.33%, to 6,070.20 and the Nasdaq Composite lost 47.70 points, or 0.24%, to 19,809.92.
Eight out of 11 S&P 500 sectors lost ground, led by declines in consumer discretionary stocks.
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Comcast slid 9.2% after forecasting a loss of more than 100,000 broadband subscribers in the fourth quarter, dragging down the communication services sector by 1.0%.
Hershey surged 12.6% to lead S&P 500 gainers, following a report that Cadbury parent Mondelez was exploring an acquisition of the chocolate maker. Mondelez shares fell 1.3%.
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Blast in Afghanistan kills a Taliban leader and Haqqani patriarch
By LYNSEY CHUTEL, SAFIULLAH and YAQOOB AKBARY
An explosion in Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday killed a Taliban official who was a member of one of the country’s most powerful political families, government officials said.
The death of the minister, Khalil Haqqani, was the highest-profile killing in Afghanistan since the Taliban’s 2021 takeover of the country. It was a strike at the heart of the Taliban’s power structure after years of essentially unchallenged dominance.
Haqqani, the minister of refugees and repatriation, was a senior member of the Haqqani Network, an influential faction within the Taliban. The United States and the United Nations have designated the Haqqani Network as a terrorist organization.
Khalil Haqqani, a prominent figure among the Taliban, at Friday prayers at the Puli-Khishti mosque in Kabul on Aug. 20, 2021. Haqqani, a top member of one of the Taliban’s most influential factions, died in an explosion in Kabul on Dec. 11, 2024. The government accused the Islamic State in the attack. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
The U.S. Treasury had named Haqqani a “specially designated global terrorist,” and the U.S. government had offered a reward of up to $5 million for information about him. His nephew Sirajuddin Haqqani, the
acting interior minister, has led efforts to reshape the Taliban’s global image.
Since the Taliban’s new rise to power, the Haqqanis have appeared eager to reach out to the West for recognition — to little effect so far.
And that effort has at times seemed at odds with the dictates of the Taliban’s supreme leader, Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada, who has returned Afghanistan to an uncompromising marginalization of women and education.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast. The government blamed an Islamic State affiliate known as ISIS-K, which has been one of the few remaining antagonists to the Taliban.
Haqqani was a crucial Taliban fundraiser, according to the U.S. Treasury. He also led military operations and was an ally in al-Qaida’s operations, according to a report by the United Nations Security Council.
As a special representative of the Taliban’s supreme leader, Haqqani played a public role in establishing the Taliban’s authority as it established its new government.
U.S. tries to manage fallout from Assad’s ouster
By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD
Kurdish-led fighters backed by the United States said early Wednesday that they had agreed to a U.S.-brokered cease-fire in the city of Manbij in northern Syria, where they have been battling to fend off forces backed by Turkey, as Washington and its allies try to contain the fallout from the stunning collapse of the Assad regime.
The rebel offensive that swept through Syrian towns and cities to take control of the capital over the weekend set off fresh fighting among armed factions elsewhere in the country, trying to fill the void left by retreating government forces. Clashes in recent days have centered around Manbij, pitting proxies of the U.S. and Turkey, both NATO allies, against each other.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, reported that Turkish-backed forces had captured Manbij on Monday, which the U.S.-backed group, the Syrian Democratic Forces, denied. U.S. officials have not confirmed a cease-fire for Manbij.
The announcement came as U.S. officials mount a diplomatic push to promote stability in Syria in the wake of the ouster of President Bashar Assad. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, is
scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel on Thursday. And Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Turkey and Jordan this week to discuss the developments in Syria, according to his spokesperson.
Here is what else to know:
— Israeli attacks: The Israeli military has launched hundreds of airstrikes against military assets across Syria in recent days, in an effort to keep them out of the hands of Islamist extremists. The rebel group that led the toppling of Assad was formerly linked to al-Qaida and is still designated as a terrorist group by the United States and the United Nations. While Israeli officials have cast the strikes as a security measure, the campaign has been exceptional in force and scope, trying to ensure that whoever ends up in power in Syria will be significantly disarmed.
— Rebels in Damascus: The rebels who seized the Syrian capital gave New York Times journalists a tour of Assad’s former palace Tuesday. The ostentatiousness of the palace and the scruffiness of the fighters who now occupy it encapsulated the differences between the former dictator and those who had taken his place.
— Prison horrors: The conquering rebels have thrown open the gates to Syrian prisons where the
Assad government detained large numbers of people. No prison is more infamous than Sednaya, north of Damascus, where human rights groups say tens of thousands of people were detained, many of them tortured and deprived of food.
A Syrian refugee returning to Syria at the border crossing in Masnaa, Lebanon, on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. The rebel offensive that swept through Syrian towns and cities to take control of the capital over the weekend set off fresh fighting among armed factions elsewhere in the country, trying to fill the void left by retreating government forces. (Diego Ibarra Sanchez/The New York Times)
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South Korean police raid president’s office in martial law investigation
By JIM YU YOUNG
South Korean police raided the office of President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday as part of an investigation whether his declaration of martial law last week, which plunged the country into a political crisis, was insurrection.
At a parliamentary hearing, Jung Chungrae, a legislator from the opposition Democratic Party, said “the police are conducting a raid on the presidential office.” Jung is also chairm of the parliamentary committee that deals with judicial matters.
A police special investigation unit in charge of the investigation confirmed the raid and said it had also carried out search and seizure operations at several other offices: the Korean National Police Agency, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency and the National Assembly Police Guards.
Authorities have barred Yoon from leaving the country, as prosecutors and the police try to determine whether he and his supporters in the military and the government committed insurrection when they ordered soldiers to enter the National Assembly. Yoon’s office was not immediately available to comment.
Yoon is the first sitting president of South Korea to face a criminal investigation, and he now faces the possibility of being arrested while in office. The opposition has accused Yoon of committing insurrection when he sent the troops to the National Assembly to block lawmakers from voting against military rule. If Yoon is arrested, it is unclear what would happen to his role as the country’s leader. The Constitution only states that when the president is “unable to perform his or her duties for any reason,” the prime minister will step in as an interim leader.
Some scholars say the only ways to incapacitate the president would be impeachment or his res-
ignation.
Large protests erupted following the imposition of martial law, with people calling for Yoon’s ouster and impeachment. Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the National Assembly on Saturday as Yoon survived an impeachment motion after his party decided to not participate in the vote.
But the widespread anger over Yoon’s declaration of martial law is yet to subside, and his future is uncertain. His own party has said he is “excluded” from running state affairs. And while it saved Yoon from impeachment, it has said the plan is to give him an “orderly exit.”
Kim Yong-hyun, Yoon’s former defense minister who was arrested on charges of being involved in insurrection, tried to kill himself late Tuesday, Shin Yong-hae, the justice ministry official in charge of correctional facilities, told a parliamentary hearing Wednesday.
Kim was trying to end his life while in a jail restroom but gave up his attempt when wardens rushed to stop him, Shin said. Kim was in stable condition after the incident, Shin added.
The chiefs of the national police agency and the Seoul metropolitan police were also detained by investigators Wednesday for questioning over their roles in the six hours of martial law that rocked South Korea a week ago.
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Finding hope in an age of resentment
By PAUL KRUGMAN
This is my final column for The New York Times, where I began publishing my opinions in January 2000. I’m retiring from the Times, not the world, so I’ll still be expressing my views in other places. But this does seem like a good occasion to reflect on what has changed over these past 25 years.
What strikes me, looking back, is how optimistic many people, both here and in much of the Western world, were back then and the extent to which that optimism has been replaced by anger and resentment. And I’m not just talking about members of the working class who feel betrayed by elites; some of the angriest, most resentful people in America right now — people who seem very likely to have a lot of influence with the incoming Trump administration — are billionaires who don’t feel sufficiently admired.
It’s hard to convey just how good most Americans were feeling in 1999 and early 2000. Polls showed a level of satisfaction with the direction of the country that looks surreal by today’s standards. My sense of what happened in the 2000 election was that many Americans took peace and prosperity for granted, so they voted for the guy who seemed as if he’d be more fun to hang out with.
In Europe, too, things seemed to be going well. In particular, the introduction of the euro in 1999 was widely hailed as a step toward closer political as well as economic integration — toward a United States of Europe, if you like. Some of us ugly Americans had misgivings, but initially they weren’t widely shared.
Of course, it wasn’t all puppies and rainbows. There was, for example, already a fair bit of proto-QAnon-type conspiracy theorizing and even instances of domestic terrorism in America during the Clinton years. There were financial crises in Asia, which some of us saw as a potential harbinger of things to come; I published a 1999 book titled “The Return of Depression Economics,” arguing that similar things could
happen here; I put out a revised edition a decade later, when they did.
Still, people were feeling pretty good about the future when I began writing for this paper.
Why did this optimism curdle? As I see it, we’ve had a collapse of trust in elites: The public no longer has faith that the people running things know what they’re doing, or that we can assume that they’re being honest.
It was not always thus. In 2002 and 2003, those of us who argued that the case for invading Iraq was fundamentally fraudulent received a lot of pushback from people refusing to believe that an American president would do such a thing. Who would say that now?
In a different way, the financial crisis of 2008 undermined any faith the public had that governments knew how to manage economies. The euro as a currency survived the European crisis that peaked in 2012, which sent unemployment in some countries to Great Depression levels, but trust in Eurocrats — and belief in a bright European future — didn’t.
It’s not just governments that have lost the public’s trust. It’s astonishing to look back and see how much more favorably banks were viewed before the financial crisis.
And it wasn’t that long ago that technology billionaires were widely admired across the political spectrum, some achieving folk-hero status. But now they and some of their products face disillusionment and worse; Australia has even banned social media use by children younger than 16.
Which brings me back to my point that some of the most resentful people in America right now seem to be angry billionaires.
We’ve seen this before. After the 2008 financial crisis, which was widely (and correctly) attributed in part to financial wheeling and dealing, you might have expected the erstwhile Masters of the Universe to show a bit of contrition, maybe even gratitude at having been bailed out. What we got instead was “Obama rage,” fury at the 44th president for even suggesting that Wall Street might have been partly to blame for the disaster.
These days, there has been a lot of discussion of the hard right turn of some tech billionaires, from Elon Musk on down. I’d argue that we shouldn’t overthink it, and we especially shouldn’t try to say that this is somehow the fault of politically correct liberals. Basically, it comes down to the pettiness of plutocrats who used to bask in public approval and are now discovering that all the money in the world can’t buy you love.
So, is there a way out of the grim place we’re in? What
A flag at the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington, Nov. 5, 2024. (Will Matsuda/The New York Times)
I believe is that although resentment can put bad people in power, in the long run it can’t keep them there. At some point, the public will realize that most politicians railing against elites actually are elites in every sense that matters and start to hold them accountable for their failure to deliver on their promises. And at that point, the public may be willing to listen to people who don’t try to argue from authority, don’t make false promises, but do try to tell the truth as best they can. We may never recover the kind of faith in our leaders — belief that people in power generally tell the truth and know what they’re doing — that we used to have. Nor should we. But if we stand up to the kakistocracy — rule by the worst — that’s emerging as we speak, we may eventually find our way back to a better world.
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ACUDEN celebra exitosa 2da Cumbre Amigo de la Niñez
La segunda edición de la Cumbre Puerto Rico Amigo de la Niñez reunió a más de 4,000 participantes comprometidos con el bienestar de la niñez temprana, consolidándose como un evento clave para abordar los retos y oportunidades en la construcción de un futuro prometedor para las niñas y los niños de Puerto Rico.
El evento enfatizó la importancia de la colaboración entre el gobierno, las organizaciones del tercer sector, asociaciones y líderes comunitarios. Durante la cumbre, se presentaron políticas públicas diseñadas para promover el desarrollo integral de la niñez, mientras se discutieron los desafíos para garantizar que los niños y niñas cuenten con las oportunidades necesarias para un crecimiento pleno.
La Administración para el Cuidado y Desarrollo Integral de la Niñez (ACUDEN) destacó su compromiso transformador a través de la labor realizada en los centros de cuido, subrayando su papel fundamental en la promoción de la igualdad desde las edades más tempranas. “Construir un Puerto Rico Amigo de la Niñez no es solo un ideal; es un compromiso que requiere un esfuerzo colectivo, desde las políticas públicas hasta un cambio cultural profundo. Esta cumbre es un reflejo de la alianza exitosa que puede lograrse a través de la colaboración entre todos los secto-
res. Hemos comenzado la transformación y ya estamos viendo resultados”, expresó Roberto Carlos Pagán, administrador de ACUDEN.
Entre los momentos destacados del evento, estuvieron paneles y ponencias que abordaron temas como “Rompiendo el Ciclo: Abordando las Condiciones Socioeconómicas de la Pobreza Familiar” y “Evolucionando el Sistema: Formando un Mañana más Brillante”. Estas discusiones resaltaron la importancia de construir un ecosistema de servicios integrales y sostenibles que respalden a las familias desde las edades tempranas.
La secretaria de la Familia, quien participó en uno de los paneles junto a la directora de la Oficina del Gobernador, Caridad Pierluisi, reafirmó el compromiso de Puerto Rico con la infancia y destacó el papel central que juega el bienestar de los niños en el futuro de la isla. “La convocatoria masiva y la participación activa de diversos sectores reflejan la voluntad de enfrentar los retos y trazar un camino hacia adelante, forjando una sociedad más justa y equitativa para todos los niños y niñas. Este tipo de iniciativas no solo son una responsabilidad social, sino una inversión en el futuro de Puerto Rico”, afirmó Ciení Rodríguez Troche.
Roberto Carlos Pagán, administrador de ACUDEN.
El administrador de ACUDEN, por su parte, cerró la cumbre llevada a cabo el martes, destacando que eventos como este permiten consolidar alianzas estratégicas que trascienden el ámbito gubernamental. Recalcó que el trabajo realizado no solo tiene impacto inmediato, sino que sienta las bases para un cambio generacional profundo que garantice oportunidades equitativas para cada niño en Puerto Rico. Además, hizo un llamado a la continuidad de estos esfuerzos, enfatizando que la transformación de las estructuras sociales y el fortalecimiento del sistema de cuido infantil son esenciales para construir una sociedad más inclusiva y resiliente.
Celebran avances en destrezas de lectura y escritura de estudiantes de Kindergarten a tercer grado
Los estudiantes de Kindergarten a tercer grado en Puerto Rico demostraron un notable avance en las pruebas que miden sus destrezas de lectura y escritura tras exitosas iniciativas educativas de la Coalición Multisectorial por la Lectura ¡Todos a leer! Los resultados de las pruebas a los estudiantes se presentaron en la Cumbre de la Academia de Lectoescritura, que reunió hoy en el Centro de Convenciones a unos 1,000 docentes que participaron en este proyecto clave, desarrollado en colaboración con la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, y el Departamento de Educación de Puerto Rico, gracias a fondos proporcionados por el Departamento del Tesoro de Estados Unidos, “Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSA)”, “Education Stabilization Fund”, y “Governor´s Emergency Education Relief Fund II”, a través de la Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto (OGP). Esta Academia es una iniciativa de la Coalición ¡Todos a leer! para combatir el rezago académico que han experimentado los niños tras huracanes, terremotos y la pandemia en la Isla.
La Academia de Lectoescritura, el proyecto principal de la Coalición, ofreció a los maestros 48 horas de educación continua sobre prácticas esenciales para la
enseñanza de la lectoescritura, créditos universitarios, coaching, sesiones de seguimiento, literatura infantil, materiales y otros incentivos. La Cumbre sirvió como una celebración de los logros de los educadores que participaron en las tres ediciones de la Academia, que se creó bajo la visión de que si un niño desarrolla habilidades básicas de lectura y escritura para tercer grado, aumentan sus oportunidades de aprendizaje y desarrollo para toda la vida. Esto, a su vez, afecta positivamente no solo su progreso escolar, sino también sus posibilidades de acceder a una educación superior, un empleo digno y contribuir al desarrollo socioeconómico de Puerto Rico. Durante la Cumbre, el Dr. Julián A. Laboy, de Datos en Perspectiva, presentó los resultados de la Prueba de Mecánica de Lectoescritura, un proyecto conjunto entre la Coalición y el Departamento de Educación. “En promedio, los resultados de los estudiantes mejoraron entre un 10% y un 15% en áreas clave como reconocimiento de vocales, sílabas y fluidez lectora. La prueba proporcionó puntos de referencia claves y confirmó que priorizar la lectoescritura mediante iniciativas concretas es fundamental para reducir el rezago en esta área. En las pruebas de vocales y consonantes, por ejemplo, el promedio de los estudiantes mejoró de 36.32% a 46.86%
entre enero y mayo de 2024. En las pruebas de sílabas, los resultados promedio pasaron de 44.24% a 55.99%, y en fluidez lectora aumentaron de 37.8% a 50.88% en el mismo periodo”, informó el Dr. Laboy.
“Estos resultados son alentadores y nos deben motivar a todos en el Departamento de Educación a continuar dando el máximo por estos niños y niñas, con los cuales construimos el futuro de Puerto Rico. Que dominen desde ahora las destrezas básicas de lectura y escritura impulsa su desarrollo académico”, manifestó la Dra. Beverly Morro, subsecretaria de Asuntos Académicos del Departamento de Educación de Puerto Rico.
La rectora del Recinto de Río Piedras de la UPR, Dra. Angélica Varela Llavona, afirmó que “la Academia de Lectoescritura es un ejemplo tangible de cómo la Universidad de Puerto Rico, a través de la DECEP, transforma el panorama educativo del país al capacitar a nuestros educadores en prácticas basadas en evidencia. Alcanzar a más de 1,000 maestros y maestras del Departamento de Educación no solo fortalece sus competencias, sino que también asegura un impacto positivo en el desarrollo integral de nuestros estudiantes de escuela elemental reafirmando así el compromiso de nuestra institución con el progreso académico y social de Puerto Rico”.
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From Pong to Pokémon: A history of holiday ‘it’ toys
By LEAH GREENBLATT
Once upon a time, holiday gifts for children were a relatively humble thing: perhaps a handful of chestnuts and a small wooden toy; even — oh, Dickensian joy! — a whole exotic orange.
The days when presents grew (literally) on trees are, of course, long past. The most coveted toys of today tend toward the sparkly, the squeezable and the busily electronic — and the annual race to procure them can leave parents anxiously refreshing out-of-stock pages on Amazon, or brawling in the aisles of a big-box store for the last Nintendo Switch or Magic Mixie.
But for every high-priced gaming console or whizbang piece of intellectual property, there are timeless hits such as the Hula-Hoop and the Koosh ball. Here is a look back at the items whose novelty and scarcity put them at the top of every wish list — even if just for one brief, shining season.
1950s
America’s postwar consumer boom quickly trickled down to its youngest citizens, thanks in part to the massmarket media of radio and television. Hasbro’s Mr. Potato Head — the first toy to be advertised on TV — became a hit in 1952, with its synthetic spud body and detachable parts (the original, less-enduring model involved adding those accessories to an actual vegetable); Mrs. Potato Head joined him in 1953.
Alongside stalwarts such as Lincoln Logs and Matchbox cars came several notable newcomers: Play-Doh (originally invented in the 1930s as a wallpaper cleaner), the Hula-Hoop (based on an even older toy but suddenly ubiquitous when California-based company Wham-O produced it in lightweight plastic) and a “Teenage Fashion Model” doll called Barbie, who made her wasp-waisted debut in 1959.
1960s
Barbie officially got a boyfriend (he’s just Ken), a Dreamhouse and even a doll-world rival with the introduction of Mattel’s Chatty Cathy, whose pull-string let her say phrases such as “Please brush my hair” and “May I have a cookie?”
Aspiring Betty Crockers also flocked to the Easy-Bake Oven, which used incandescent bulbs to produce real baked goods, while budding artists turned to the mechanical drawing toy Etch A Sketch and the Lite-Brite, whose “magic” light box and multicolored plastic pegs offered a world of creative possibilities (and reams of teeny-tiny pieces to choke on).
Autophiles still years away from driver’s ed got a chance to channel their inner Steve McQueens with Hot Wheels’ built-to-scale line of cool Camaros, Mustangs and Firebirds, which debuted in 1968.
1970s
After the initial success of its electronic table-tennis game Pong, arcade pioneer Atari went big in 1977 with its first major home gaming console, which proved an immediate hit despite its hefty price tag — about $200, or nearly $1,000 in today’s currency.
Beanie Babies at Terri’s Gifts in New Hope, Pa., Nov. 17, 2024. Beanie Babies offered collect-them-all multitudes and a robust secondary market, though few items prompted the in-store mania of Tickle Me Elmo, the giggling “Sesame Street” plushie whose scarcity circa the 1996 season swiftly became retail legend. (Hannah Yoon/The New York Times)
Budget-friendly kicks could be found with the softbodied, polyurethane Nerf ball; the oven-ready craft activity kit Shrinky Dinks; and one of the great triumphs of nonsense marketing, the Pet Rock (which was, yes, just a rock in a box).
Texas Instruments’ Speak & Spell, with its predictive coding speech synthesizer, gave language learning a talkyrobot twist, while “Star Wars” action figures, an early pioneer of the blockbuster movie-to-toy pipeline, flooded the market after the film’s 1977 release.
1980s
Maybe you were one of millions who were gifted a Rubik’s Cube, a 3D combination puzzle invented by a Hungarian architecture professor in 1974 and released commercially in 1980; maybe you are still trying to solve it.
TV-show synergy helped propel merchandise empires for My Little Pony, Pound Puppies and Care Bears, while stores struggled to keep in stock both the ample-bottomed Cabbage Patch Kid and Teddy Ruxpin — a “talking” bear whose animatronic eyes and mouth promised either tender companionship or enduring night terrors.
Even as the 1989 launch of Nintendo’s hand-held Game Boy revolutionized the industry, demand surged for analog toys such as the rubber-filament Koosh ball and the Chia Pet, whose enduring popularity produced a terracottapotted army of llamas, hedgehogs and other sprouted animals.
1990s
All hail the miniature BFF: While Polly Pocket cornered the market in Lilliputian dolls, the Tamagotchi fit electronic pets in the palm of a hand (and, with its need to be “fed” and cared for, also helped introduce kids to the con-
cept of death).
American Girl dolls and plush-toy Beanie Babies offered collect-them-all multitudes and a robust secondary market, although few items prompted the in-store mania of Tickle Me Elmo, a giggling “Sesame Street” plushie whose scarcity circa the 1996 season swiftly became retail legend. More chatty faux-fur companions arrived in the form of Furbys, which spoke in their own inscrutable language and looked like psychedelic hamsters. For those less enthralled by battery-operated creatures, there were collectible Pokémon Trading Cards, the colorful cardboard disc game Pogs and the blockbuster home console Nintendo 64.
2000s
Gaming innovations continued apace with the PlayStation 2, Wii and Xbox 360, while countless grade-schoolers happily risked mild concussions and skinned knees for a zippy aluminum Razor Scooter, and little girls too old for the purring, plump-bodied charms of Zhu Zhu Pets flocked to Bratz, the pouty-lipped fashion dolls seemingly designed to resemble mean girls in miniature.
Parents scarred by carpets strewed with errant Legos rejoiced at the mass appeal of Magna-Tiles, which offered similar construction-toy thrills with fewer sole-piercing edges. 2010s
While the merch juggernaut from more than a decade of “Harry Potter” films continued its long Hogwarts march, another multiplex hit, Disney’s “Frozen,” proved its own bonanza at stores via Anna and Elsa character dolls, Olaf the Snowman plushies and an indelible, un-“Let It Go”-able soundtrack.
Also inescapable: “reveal” figurines such as L.O.L. Surprise! Dolls, which emerged smartly accessorized from gumball-like spheres, and hybrid-animal Hatchimals, sprung from glossy plastic eggshells. Fidget Spinners required some basic hand-eye coordination (as did their long-gestating battle-toy cousin, Beyblades), while the sweet interactive beasties called Fingerlings only needed a knucklebone to cling to.
And for those who just wanted to get primordial: Slime kits.
2020s
Though first introduced in 2017, Squishmallows — soft, round, supremely squeezable — found their homebound audience on social media during the coronavirus pandemic, while Magic Mixies, little Keane-eyed critters conjured from the “sorcery” of a plastic wand and a cauldron, precipitated a major Black Friday run in 2021.
But for every requisite leap forward in toy technology — 3D printers, 3D pens, the promise of a next-gen Nintendo Switch in 2025 — some things remain the same. Tamagotchis have returned, as have Furbys; in all her iterations, Barbie continues to dominate her market share (Mattel recently introduced its first blind model, as well as one with Down syndrome.)
And if the kids on your list have been naughty this year? Hand them an old potato, and impart a history lesson that no credit card reward points can buy.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR HECTOR E. ARVELO ARVELO; NATIVIDAD DE JESUS ARVELO ARVELO, MARIA IRMA ARVELO ARVELO PETICIONARIOS EX PARTE
Civil Número: AG2024CV00030. Salón: 601. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, S.S. A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ. Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica para que comparezcan si lo creyeren pertinente ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte(20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su oposición u objeción a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://uniredpoderiudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Aguadilla. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
Rústica: Finca sita en el barrio Pozas de San Sebastián, compuesta de una cuerda de terreno más o menos. En linderos al Norte, con Peter Matías; al Sur, la carretera 497 del barrio
Pozas; al Este, con Buenaventura Arvelo y Octavio Alvarez; al oeste, con Arcadio Beltrán y la sucesión Rivera. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lcdo. Milton O. Rivera Adames, Urb. Villa Rita, Calle 2 B-4, San Sebastián, PR, 00685. Tel. (787) 810-7577. Correo electrónico: estudioIegaIrivera2@gmail. com. Se le informa además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 14 DE MARZO 2025 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA mediante videoconferencia a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días en un periódico de circulación general, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo se identificará en letra tamaño diez puntos y en negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las regla de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe de que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria sin más citarse ni oírsele. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 21 de noviembre de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE LUIS ANÍBAL RAMOS GONZÁLEZ COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ A. RAMOS PIZARRO; LUIS J. RAMOS PIZARRO; GERMARIE RAMOS RIZO; ÁNGEL LUIS RAMOS
CAMACHO; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SOLYARY PIZARRO GARCÍA, POR SI Y COMO CONYUGE SUPERSTITE; CRIM
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: RG2023CV00040. Salón Núm.: (307). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS
UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: SUCESIÓN DE LUIS ANÍBAL RAMOS
GONZÁLEZ COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ A. RAMOS
PIZARRO; LUIS J. RAMOS PIZARRO; GERMARIE RAMOS RIZO; ÁNGEL LUIS RAMOS
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GARCÍA, POR SI Y COMO CONYUGE
SUPERSTITE; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:
El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Urbanización Mansiones Hacienda Jiménez Fase II de Río Grande, Puerto Rico. Solar: 3 Bloque A. Cabida: 1,130.748 metros cuadrados. Linderos: por el NORTE, en distancia de 55.560 metros lineales, con el solar número A-2; por el SUR, en distancia de 48.551 metros lineales, con el solar A-4; por el ESTE, en distancia de 18.569 metros lineales, con terrenos de Braulio Agosto; por el OESTE, en distancia de 26.655 metros lineales, con Calle Maga. Enclava una estructura de hormigón y bloques de hormigón tipo residencial diseñada para una sola familia. La cabida es de 1130.748 metros cuadrados de los cuales 572.935 metros cuadrados, se encuentran en superficie plana y 557.813 metros cuadrados, se encuentran en superficie irregular (talud). Consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Río Grande, Finca Número# 29,879, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Carolina. La propiedad obje-
to de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: #A3 Mega St., Urbanización Mansiones Hacienda Jiménez Fase II, Río Grande, P.R. 00745 t/c 3 Maga St., Mansiones de Hacienda Jiménez, Río Grande, P.R. 00745. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $185,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #379, otorgada en San Juan, el día 24 de agosto de 2009, ante el notario Jorge García Soto, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Río Grande, finca #29,879, inscripción 4ta. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 15 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $185,000.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 23 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $123,333.33. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 30 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $92,500.00. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: La suma de $181,330.09, con intereses a 5.00% anual, desde el 1ro de enero de 2011, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más una suma equivalente a $18,500.00, más una suma adicional por la cantidad de $250.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos corres-
pondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 21 de octubre de 2024. SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL #737. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN LEGACY MORTGAGE ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1
Parte Demandante Vs. ISIDRA ANTONIA BURDIE JIMENEZ T/C/C ISIDRA BURDIE JIMENEZ Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2023CV05989. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelan-
te para pagar la SENTENCIA por $156,011.03 de balance principal, el cual se compone de un primer principal por la suma de $117,953.61 y un balance diferido por la suma de $38,057.42, más los intereses sobre la suma de $117,953.61, al 3.625 % annual desde el primero de septiembre de 2022 hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma garantizada en la hipoteca para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado del acreedor demandante, más cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquier concepto legal se devenguen hasta el total y completo pago de esta sentencia hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar ciento dieciséis (116) del Bloque “R” de la Urbanización Bella Vista Gardens, identificada en el plano de inscripción como Madison Development, radicado en el Barrio Buena Vista de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con un área de trescientos treinta y tres punto setenta y cinco (333.75) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en una distancia de veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00) metros, con el solar ciento quince (115) del bloque “R”; por el Sur, en una distancia de veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00), con el solar ciento diecisiete (117) del bloque “R”; por el Este, en una distancia de trece punto treinta y cinco (13.35) metros, con la calle número veinte (20); y por el Oeste, en una distancia de trece punto treinta y cinco metros, con área verde. Enclava casa. Inscrita al folio ciento doce (112) del tomo mil ochocientos cuarenta y siete (1847) de Bayamón Sur, finca número cuarenta y ocho mil treinta (48,030), Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. Dirección física: Urb. Bella Vista Gardens, Calle 20 #R-116, Bayamón PR 00957. Dicha propiedad se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen posterior: Embargo anotado contra Isidra Burdie Jiménez por la suma de $3,421.82 por contribución sobre ingresos, anotado el 28 de mayo de 2014, al folio 10 del Libro 31 de Embargos Estatales en virtud de la Ley 120 de 30 de octubre de 1995 (enmendada) Ley 12 de 20 de enero de 2010. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 14 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $108,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 21 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA y
el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $72,000.00. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 28 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $54,000.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de
licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 210-2015). Expedido el presente en Bayamón, Puerto Rico a 14 de noviembre de 2024. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN. ***
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C FANNIE MAE Demandante Vs. JOSÉ RAFAEL PÉREZ OTERO T/C/C JOSÉ PÉREZ OTERO Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2022CV05169. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 11 de octubre de 2023, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 17 de noviembre de 2023 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Lote de terreno marcado con el número 8 del bloque J, radicado en el proyecto Haciendas del Caribe, sito en el Barrio Mucarabones, del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 998.6250 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con lote número 3; por el SUR, con
adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 9 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $112,500.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 16 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $75,000.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 27 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $56,250.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Artículo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha
venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de diciembre de 2024. Ángel Gómez Gómez, Alguacil Placa #593, División De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De Caguas.
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Parte Demandante Vs. MONICA
MONSERRATE ALVAREZ
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV02884. (1003). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - R60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: MONICA
MONSERRATE ALVAREZ . LA SECRETARIA que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 9 de octubre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 4 de diciembre de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 4 de diciembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. BELIA CÁTALA LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
BAUTISTA CAYMAN ASSET COMPANY
Demandante V. JOSÉ RAMÓN DÍAZ
NIEVES Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV04400.
(Salón: 604 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
LUIS G. PARRILLA HERNANDEZLPARRILLA@FERRAIUOLI.COM.
A: JOSÉ RAMÓN DÍAZ NIEVES, SU ESPOSA
ELIZABETH PÉREZ
MARRAUZINI T/C/C
ELIZABET PÉREZ
MARRANZINI T/C/C
ELIZABET E. PÉREZ
MARRANZINI T/C/C
ELIZABETH PÉREZ
MARRANZANI, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de diciembre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 06 de diciembre de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 06 de diciembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MARILY LÓPEZ MARTÍNEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AR2023CV00598. (Salón: 401 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ILIA CRISTINA RAMÍREZ MARTÍNEZ RAMIREZ@GLSLEGALSERVICES. COM. YADIRA LÓPEZ GONZÁLEZYADIRA.LOPEZ17@HOTMAIL.COM. A: GLORIA IRIS SANTIAGO ACEVEDO T/C/C GLORIA SANTIAGO ACEVEDO T/C/C GLORIA IRIS SANTIAGO, REYNALDO SOTO SANTIAGO, MADELINE SANTIAGO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE REYNALDO SOTO CABÁN T/C/C REYNALDO SOTO Y GLORIA IRIS SANTIAGO ACEVEDO T/C/C GLORIA SANTIAGO ACEVEDO T/C/C GLORIA IRIS SANTIAGO POR SÍ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 04 de diciembre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 09 de diciembre de 2024. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 09 de diciembre de 2024. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. VANESSA GONZÁLEZ MALAVÉ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION INC
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DIAZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: VB2024CV00402.
(Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GETZEMARIE LUGO RODRÍGUEZGLUGO@MPMLAWPR.COM. LUIS C. MARINI BIAGGI - LMARINI@ MPMLAWPR.COM. A: JOSÉ LUIS LAUREANO DÍAZ, MARÍA DE LOS ANGELES RAMOS RÍOS, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - 489 RUTH CIRCLE CORONA, CA 92879. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 de diciembre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 05 de diciembre de 2024. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 05 de diciembre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. JOSÉ LUIS PACHECO LATORRE T/C/C JOSÉ L.PACHECO LATORRE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DEGANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON MAYRAVANESSA FELIBERTI CASTELLANO Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2024CV01063. (Salón: 502). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NO-
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Demandado(a)
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Demandado(a)
Civil Núm.: CG2023CV02859.
Caso Núm.: CO2024CV00300. (Salón: 1). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACI´N DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JEAN PAUL JULIÁ DÍAZJPJULIA@RMMELA W.COM. A: RICH PORT INTERNATIONAL LLC;
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December 12, 2024
Rocky Colavito, all-star slugger for Cleveland, dies at 91
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
Rocky Colavito, who was one of baseball’s leading sluggers in his time and a huge fan favorite playing the outfield for the Cleveland Indians, only to be traded away in 1960 in the most infamous deal in the club’s history, died Tuesday at his home in Bernville, Pennsylvania. He was 91 His death was announced by the Cleveland Guardians, as the team is now known.
Colavito hit 374 home runs in 14 years in the major leagues, eight of those seasons in two stints with Cleveland. He finished his career with a return to his birthplace, the Bronx, playing for the New York Yankees. A six-time All-Star, he was just the third player in the majors to hit four home runs in one game in consecutive at-bats, and he had one of the game’s strongest arms.
A sturdy 6 feet 3 inches tall and 190 pounds, Colavito played the game with enthusiasm, although flat feet limited his mobility, and he was happy to sign autographs. Time magazine put him on its cover in the summer of 1959 for a profile of baseball’s young stars, gushing at how Colavito, handsome with curly hair,
“makes bobby-soxers squeal.”
“Rocky had tremendous charisma,” Herb Score, Cleveland’s fast-balling lefthander, told Terry Pluto in “The Curse of Rocky Colavito” (1994), a chronicle of the team’s years of floundering after Colavito was traded. “Fans gravitated to him not just because he hit home runs. Rocky relished the clutch situations. He didn’t always come through, but he wanted to be the guy who took that burden on his back.”
When rumors arose that Colavito would be traded in 1958 by Cleveland’s newly arrived general manager, Frank Lane, who had been consumed with making deals in his previous stops, fans chanted, “Don’t knock the Rock!”
Colavito hit 41 home runs in 1958 and 42 in 1959, tying with Harmon Killebrew for the American League lead, while driving in more than 100 runs each of those seasons. Lane told The Saturday Evening Post in July 1959 that Colavito would “easily be the greatest gate attraction in the American League” when Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams wound down their careers.
But Lane thwarted Colavito’s quest for significant salary raises, and, two days before the opening of the 1960 season, he outraged Cleveland’s fans by trading Colavito to the Detroit Tigers for outfielder Harvey Kuenn. The league’s batting champion in 1959, Kuenn was three years older than Colavito and had hit only nine home runs that season.
Gabe Paul, the Cincinnati Reds’ general manager at the time and a future Cleveland general manager, was quoted as saying, “The Indians traded a slow guy with power for a slow guy with no power.”
Colavito went on to hit at least 35 home runs in three of his four seasons as a Tiger. But Kuenn played only one season for Cleveland before he was traded to the San Francisco Giants.
“I loved Cleveland and the Indians,” Colavito told The Plain-Dealer of Cleveland in 2010. “I never wanted to leave.”
And he insisted that he had never put a curse on the team. As he put it: “Frank Lane did.” Either way, Cleveland still hasn’t won a World Series since 1948.
New York Yankees player Rocky Colavito pitches in relief against Detroit Tigers, Aug 1968. Colavito, who was one of baseball’s leading sluggers in his time and a huge fan favorite playing the outfield for the Cleveland Indians, only to be traded away in the most infamous deal in the club’s history, has died. He was 91. (Ernie Sisto/The New York Times)
Rocco Domenico Colavito was born Aug. 10, 1933, in the Bronx, the son of a truck driver. He idolized Joe DiMaggio as a boy and dropped out of Theodore Roosevelt High School at 16 to play semipro baseball. After scouting him at a Bronx tryout, Cleveland signed him to a minorleague contract for a $3,000 bonus in 1951.
After four years with Detroit and a year with the Kansas City Athletics, Colavito returned to Cleveland in January 1965 in a three-team trade that involved the A’s and the Chicago White Sox. But Cleveland blundered in getting Colavito back, just as the team had in sending him away. Colavito was still a productive hitter, but by then he was in the twilight of his career. Cleveland gave the White Sox pitcher Tommy John, who would win 286 games in his career, as well as Tommie Agee, who became the 1966 rookie of the year with the White Sox and the center fielder for the New York Mets’ 1969 World Series champions. Colavito remained with Cleveland until mid-1967, and then finished out his career with the White Sox, the Dodgers and the Yankees, who signed him in July 1968 when he was released by Los Angeles.
In his first game as a Yankee, he hit a three-run homer in his second at-bat against the Washington Senators before a sparse Yankee Stadium crowd of 11,503.
In August, he pitched 2 2/3 innings in
relief against the Tigers in the first game of a doubleheader, taking over in the fourth inning with Detroit ahead, 5-0. He yielded no runs and one hit, and got the victory when the Yankees rallied to win, 6-5. He hit a home run in the second game of a Yankee doubleheader sweep.
But Colavito’s short Yankee stint was otherwise unremarkable. He hit five home runs but batted only .220. When the Yankees signed him, he was unsure about his future and asked that they release him once the season was over. They did so, and he decided to retire.
In addition to his 374 home runs, Colavito drove in 1,159 runs (leading the league with 108 in 1965) and had a .266 career batting average. When he hit four consecutive home runs against the Orioles in Baltimore in June 1959, he matched a feat that had been achieved only by Bobby Lowe in 1894 and Lou Gehrig in 1932.
Colavito’s survivors include his wife, Carmen; his sons, Rocky Jr. and Steven; and a daughter, Marisa.
After his playing days, Colavito was a coach for Cleveland and the Kansas City Royals. He was among the Royals who were ejected from a game at Yankee Stadium in 1983, in what became known as the pine tar incident. An umpire nullified a home run by Kansas City’s George Brett because Brett’s bat was coated in too much pine tar, which can improve a batter’s grip. After the call, Colavito had tried to keep the bat away from the umpire. Cleveland, which inducted him into the team’s Hall of Fame, honored him on his 80th birthday at its ballpark, Progressive Field, where Colavito donned his old No. 6. Eight years later, a statue in his honor was unveiled in the city’s Little Italy. “I’m really thankful and happy,” he told the assembled crowd, “that God chose me to play in Cleveland.”
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