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mid low COVID-19 hospitalization and positive case rates in Puerto Rico, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia announced that the next pandemic-related executive order (EO) will lift restrictions in both private and public establishments and the obligation for fully vaccinated residents to use face masks at all times.

“We have waited long enough to make this relaxation,” said the governor.

The revised EO was announced during a press conference at La Fortaleza, where Health Secretary Dr. Carlos Mellado López also unveiled an administrative order to establish new guidelines for quarantines and isolations amid confirmed coronavirus cases.

“Everything was repealed; clean slate for next Monday,” Mellado said.

Moreover, the Health order includes protocols and recommendations for addressing singular services, businesses, activities or areas.

Among the guidelines, it establishes that citizens must hand over their vaccination cards or a negative COVID-19 test done 24 hours or less prior to an event, either indoor or outdoor, where at least 500 people will attend.

Likewise, the order requires 2- to 11-year-old minors to wear face masks; meanwhile, people who have yet to inoculate against the SARS-CoV-2 virus must continue to wear masks.

“Statistics and data reflect that we are getting closer to the end of this pandemic,” Pierluisi said. “Puerto Rico actually has a positivity rate lower than 2 percent, hospitalizations and deaths continue to decrease and, although each one of them is terrible, we are closer to a new normality where we finally defeat this virus.”

Pierluisi noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed that the island has surpassed over 70% of people with at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose.

“We’re on hopeful and positive ground, especially when vaccines continue non-stop and we have taken advantage of the vaccines the island has received,” he said. “Now, we must not let our guard down and that is why the executive order remains in effect until the Health secretary determines the pandemic is over or extinguished.”

“To the general public we say that if you are not vaccinated, put on your mask -- the Health secretary will be watching you,” Pierluisi added.

However, when The STAR asked how the government will look to reach 70% of islanders being fully immunized, he said that was a different goal.

“President Biden urged citizens to receive at least one vaccine [dose] before the 4th of July; we already accomplished that,” he said. “When we look at adults, what we see is that people with two doses, today, we are at 63.6%.”

When the newspaper again asked how the administration would achieve the goal of 70% of the population being fully vaccinated, he said “we are getting closer already.”

“I’ll say it because I have been keeping an eye on what half of the world has been saying, where they say that herd immunity will be reached in mid-September,” he added. “As we are reaching more communities, the vaccination pace decreases, but that will depend on how you see herd immunity.”

Pierluisi went on to say that if you measure immunity among the general population, the goal is set for September; but he stated that adults will achieve immunity as a group in a few weeks.

“Adults will reach herd immunity, and anyone can come to refute me; we will have it in at least three weeks,” he said. “In the case of minors 12 and up, it will be at least in a month and a half.”

The next executive order to control the coronavirus pandemic will lift restrictions in both private and public establishments, along with the mask requirement, for fully vaccinated residents. (Photo Courtesy of La Fortaleza)

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July 2-4, 2021

Fiscal board certifies first gov’t-submitted budget in 5 years

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he Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico onThursday announced the certification of the $10.1 billion budget for fiscal year (FY) 2022, the first general fund budget submitted by the government and not imposed by the board in five years.

The new budget, however, will not yet count as one of four consecutive balanced budgets needed for the oversight board to leave Puerto Rico because it does not have debt service payments due to the fact that the central government remains in bankruptcy.

Oversight board member Arthur González said that according to the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, generally known by its acronym, PROMESA, the board will leave after Puerto Rico can access the credit markets at reasonable rates of interest and has balanced budgets for four consecutive fiscal years.

He said the FY 2022 budget, which went into effect today, is not truly balanced because it does not contain debt service payments.

“So, we need to get through that confirmation process, establish the debt service that we are going to pay and start to pay that within the budget to trigger the beginning of the four consecutive years,” González said.

The oversight board recently submitted a debt adjustment plan to restructure $35 billion in government debt in hopes of ending bankruptcy this year, but the island government opposes the debt adjustment plan because it calls for cuts to pensions as part of the restructuring.

The oversight board intends to go to court to compel the government to pass needed measures to enable the debt restructuring.

The board has also called for the repeal of the Dignified Retirement Act, which prevents cuts to pensions, or it will go to court. Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said he intends to file bills that will resolve the pension dispute, but David Skeel, the oversight board chairman, said the law needs to be repealed.

David Skeel, chairman of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico On Wednesday, Pierluisi signed the $10.1 billion general fund commonwealth budget adopted and submitted by the Puerto Rico Legislature. The oversight board certified that budget, along with a $3.5 billion special revenue fund budget and $7.8 billion federal fund budget, bringing the consolidated budget for the Puerto Rico government to $21.4 billion. The most significant spending in the consolidated budget continues to be health care, with $4 billion, and education, with $3.9 billion. Each comprises almost 20% of the total consolidated budget.

“The budget developed jointly by the Governor, the Legislature, and the Oversight Board is a significant achievement and an important step toward achieving fiscal responsibility and economic stability,” Skeel said. “The Oversight Board, the Governor, and the Legislative leadership cooperated more closely than in any previous year to ensure the budget prioritizes critical services that are so important for the lives

of all residents of Puerto Rico.”

In addition to the traditionally budgeted federal funds, the economy of Puerto Rico as a whole will benefit from an incremental $20 billion in federal stimulus funds related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including $1.9 billion in unemployment, an incremental $1.7 billion for food stamps, $476 million in small business support, and $2.5 billion in tax incentives.

The Certified Fiscal Plan also estimates that over $3 billion in federal disaster recovery funds will be disbursed and invested in rebuilding in FY 22, primarily from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery programs in response to the disastrous effects of Hurricane Maria and the earthquakes.

For example, the island Department of Education will have access to $6.9 billion in federal funding from disaster recovery and COVID-19-related programs. Taken together with the regular annual budget, some $9 billion will be available for K-12 education in Puerto Rico after several very difficult years for students, teachers and administrators. The available funds create a unique opportunity to rebuild, recover and improve education for the more than 250,000 students in the school system, but requires strategic planning to effectively utilize the funds.

“The budget for the new fiscal year reflects Puerto Rico’s reality and Puerto Rico’s opportunity,” said the oversight board’s executive director, Natalie Jaresko. “Taken together with the significant federal funds available as a result of the pandemic and disaster recovery, this budget offers historic levels of resources to invest in Puerto Rico’s recovery, stability, and economic growth.”

The oversight board also certified the FY 2022 budgets for: the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority, the University of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp., the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co., the Public Corporation for Supervision and Insurance of Cooperatives, and the Municipal Revenue Collections Center.

Approval of labor measures put on hold in House, Senate

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easures to restore rights to workers that were removed in the past as well as to raise the minimum wage in Puerto Rico were not approved earlier this week by the island Senate and House of Representatives.

The chairs of the Labor Affairs committees of the House and Senate, Domingo Torres García and Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, respectively, said Wednesday night after their committees did not concur with the amendments proposed to House Bill (HB) 3, that they will continue to work together to approve a bill that provides labor justice to the workers of Puerto Rico in the next legislative session, which begins on Aug. 16.

HB 3 seeks to amend Law 4-2017, known as the Labor Transformation and Flexibility Law, with the purpose of restoring

labor rights reduced by the so-called labor reform.

“This [Wednesday] afternoon, the chairwoman of the Human Rights and Labor Affairs Committee, Senator Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, and I [Torres García], decided to postpone the vote on this measure until next August,” Torres García, of the Popular Democratic Party (PDP), said in a written statement. “This agreement will give us more time to analyze the different amendments tailored to reach an agreement for the benefit of the country’s working class. I am sure that the senator and yours truly will continue working hard, prioritizing open dialogue to attend to a bill that provides labor justice to the workers of Puerto Rico.”

For her part, Rivera Lassén maintained that her committee “carefully evaluated this measure, which is complex and comprehensive.”

“We provided a detailed report justifying the proposed amendments,” said the Citizen Victory Movement senator. “We

will continue the dialogue and analysis of them so that they can be discussed in their entirety, always with the goal of restoring and expanding the rights of workers.”

In August legislators will take up the proposed increase in the minimum wage PDP Rep. Héctor Ferrer Santiago said meanwhile that “in the same way that we have fought since the first day I was sworn in as a representative, during this closing session we have negotiated agreements with all the delegations and La Fortaleza to do justice by our workers by approving an increase in the minimum wage to $9 [per hour].”

“Despite having closed the session without the approval of the conference report, we will not rest and we will fight for this legislation to be one of the first to be approved at the beginning of the next session in August,” Ferrer Santiago said in a written statement.

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Congressional delegates commence statehood quest

By PEDRO CORREA HENRY Twitter: @pete_r_correa Special to The Star

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our out of six congressional delegates-elect were sworn in Thursday at the Hall of Mirrors in La Fortaleza to advocate in the U.S. Capitol for Puerto Rico becoming a state of the union.

Delegates to the U.S. House of Representatives Elizabeth Torres, María “Mayita” Meléndez Altieri and Roberto Lefranc Fortuño, along with delegate to the U.S. Senate Melinda Romero Donnelly, arrived at the executive mansion in Old San Juan to begin their mission to seek statehood for the island.

The occasion took place amid several still undefined issues, including the budget assigned by the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration (PRFAA), the regulations outlining the delegates’ work, their economic remuneration, and their total composition.

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia addressed the delegates by saying that they will have every tool available according to Act 167-2020 and the PRFAA in order to fulfill their mission in Washington, D.C. “I am in the presence of three distinguished ladies and one gentleman who will be serving as congressional delegates in defense of the equal rights of all Puerto Ricans and all American citizens residing in Puerto Rico,” the governor said. “You all

Four of six congressional delegates-elect were sworn in Thursday at La Fortaleza to advocate on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. for Puerto Rico to become a state of the union. (Photo by Pedro Correa Henry) have a great responsibility on your shoulders; the fight will not be easy, there will be obstacles, you must face the prophets of disaster, and those who, for whatever reason, differ from those who believe in statehood.”

“But all of you will have a sword that is stronger than anything else, the people supporting you from behind,” Pierluisi added. “The people of Puerto Rico expressed their will, which is the best cover letter you will have before the Congress, before every forum you enter in defense of that ideal.”

Torres Rodríguez said she’s been a firm believer in the island becoming a state of the union even as “academia made

people lean to the left.”

“But I went to the right because I believed that’s where the real essence of justice was for this land,” she said. “I was born in the United States, and since then, I have gone back and forth as have the majority of Puerto Ricans.”

“That is where 88% of my family lives,” Torres added as she thanked the people who voted for her to seek statehood and equality for “my sons and the sons of my sons.”

Romero Donnelly, who was overjoyed after being sworn in, promised that statehood will arrive in Puerto Rico “before the four-year term ends.”

“What I want everyone to know is that this fight is for everyone and that everyone is part of this fight,” she said.

Every delegate elected in a special vote in May and sworn in by Puerto Rico Supreme Court Associate Justice Erick Kolthoff pledged to bring the will of the 53% of islanders who voted ‘Yes’ for statehood in the 2020 general elections.

The delegates, however, will begin short of members as one write-in delegate-elect, former Gov. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, was disqualified on Wednesday when a San Juan Superior Court ruled that his candidacy did not meet residency requirements according to Act 167.

Senate delegate-elect Zoraida Buxó, meanwhile, had previously indicated she would not be present at the swearing-in as she was not going to be on the island. Nevertheless, the State Elections Commission already certified her.

AAFAF: Oversight board’s plan to force gov’t to legislate debt restructuring is illegal

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he Financial Oversight and Management Board will use its preemptive powers to move forward the commonwealth’s debt adjustment plan forward by seeking a court order to compel the governor and the Legislature, both of whom oppose pension cuts as part of the debt deal, to pass needed measures to enable the restructuring.

The Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF by its Spanish initials) accused the oversight board on Thursday of threatening the balance of power and called the proposed move illegal.

“It appears that the Oversight Board intends to rely on an unprecedented theory of preemption whereby PROMESA [the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act] not only preempts and overrides Puerto Rico law, but can be used to compel the Government to legislate against its will,” the AAFAF said.

The debt adjustment plan that would restructure $35 billion in central government debt calls for the issuance of new general obligation (GO) bonds and other measures to enable it, all of which require legislative approval. But lawmakers and Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia have said they oppose the debt adjustment plan because it proposes a cut to pensions as part of the restructuring.

The government recently enacted the Dignified Retirement Act, which establishes a policy against cutting pensions.

The oversight board said it will go to court to authorize the transactions needed to enable the debt adjustment plan.

“The Plan contemplates that legislation will be enacted by

the Government on or prior to the Effective Date authorizing the transactions contemplated in the Plan, including the issuance of the New GO Bonds,” the debt adjustment plan states. “There is no certainty such legislation will be enacted, and if it is not, the Oversight Board will seek judicial relief in lieu thereof pursuant to PROMESA Section 305, allowing the Title III Court to interfere with governmental and political powers in a plan of adjustment or with the consent of the Oversight Board and to cause the issuance of the new GO Bonds.”

“There is no certainty the Title III court will grant the foregoing judicial relief, or that it would be upheld on appeal. In addition, issuing municipal securities without legislative support could negatively impact the market value of such securities,” a revised debt disclosure statement submitted to court this week said. “If the legislation authorizing the transactions contemplated in the Plan is enacted, future action by the Legislature could change the pertinent legislation in ways that affect the new GO Bonds.”

The AAFAF said the proposed action of the oversight board clearly aims to upend the careful balance of powers Congress sought to achieve in enacting PROMESA. “The Board’s position that it can compel the elected-Governor and elected-Legislature, by federal court order, to legislate and take all actions necessary to implement the Plan undermines the structure of PROMESA and ignores the rights expressly reserved to the Government,” the AAFAF said.

By providing that Title III of PROMESA “does not limit or impair” Puerto Rico’s “political or governmental powers” to “control, by legislation or otherwise, the territory or any territorial instrumentality thereof,” Congress recognized that provisions of

the Bankruptcy Code incorporated into PROMESA cannot be invoked to impair governmental powers without government consent, the AAFAF said.

The AAFAF said it is not aware of any case where a federal court, sitting in bankruptcy or territorial power jurisdiction, has successfully compelled a state or local legislature to legislate.

“Moreover, by depriving elected officials from exercising the political power vested in them by 2.4 million Americans, the Board’s proposed course of action would disenfranchise Puerto Rico of the most basic of democratic principles; something only seen in more authoritarian countries,” the commonwealth entity said.

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July 2-4, 2021

Agencies urge public to prepare for hurricane season

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he island Bureau of Emergency Management and Disaster Administration (NMEAD by its Spanish acronym), the National Weather Service (NWS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are joining forces to urge every member of communities throughout Puerto Rico to prepare now for this hurricane season.

With atmospheric disturbances approaching the Caribbean area, government emergency response agencies are staying alert and reviewing the plans they have been working with.

Experience has taught them that preparedness must occur at all levels of the community, the agencies said in a press release.

“When we develop a family plan, we must

Nino Correa, acting commissioner of the island Emergency Management and Disaster Administration Bureau prepare for additional elements such as the tremors we continue to experience and COVID-19 preventive measures,” said NMEAD Acting Commissioner Nino Correa. “We work in conjunction with FEMA, the NWS, all components of the Department of Public Safety and the mayors to

be ready for any situation.”

Meanwhile, the meteorologist in charge of the NWS in San Juan, Roberto García, emphasizes that “[t]he dangers associated with tropical cyclones are not only wind related.”

“In Puerto Rico, the impacts associated with rainfall have caused greater loss of life and property damage, whether from flooding or landslides,” he said. “It does not have to be a hurricane, as a tropical storm or tropical depression could cause much damage and loss of life.

Do not wait, get ready now.”

Those living in areas prone to floods, landslides, or similar hazards should identify evacuation routes and the nearest shelters. They should gather enough supplies and medications for at least 10 days, including a gallon of water daily for each family member, and for pets. They should also include enough masks and hand sanitizer.

Orlando Olivera, coordinator of FEMA’s Caribbean Area Office in Puerto Rico, said that “[i]n collaboration with [NMEAD] and the NWS we have offered emergency incident preparedness workshops to the governor, his cabinet, agency leads, mayors, the legislative body, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector, among others.”

“Individuals and their families must now assess their risks and what their needs would be at home, at work and in their community if an emergency occurs and get prepared for it,” he said.

For more information on how to get prepared, visit www.ready.gov. Download the FEMA mobile app on your phone to learn how to respond to an emergency. Follow the FEMA Puerto Rico page on Facebook for tips and updated information.

Senate approves 2 interim cabinet-level picks by voice vote

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he island Senate approved with a voice vote earlier this week the legislative measures to extend the tenure of Nino Correa Filomeno as acting commissioner of the Bureau of Emergency Management and Disaster Administration (NMEAD by its Spanish acronym), as well as that of Eliezer Ramos Parés as acting secretary of the Department of Education (DE).

According to Senate Resolution 269, the Senate on Wednesday night gave its approval for Correa Filomeno to continue directing NMEAD until the end of the second ordinary session of the 19th Legislative Assembly, or until Gov.

Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia formally appoints a person in charge to be confirmed by the Senate.

“In 2020, Correa Filomeno was appointed to take charge of NMEAD, since throughout his career as a public servant he has demonstrated his ability to effectively and strategically direct the army of rescuers who are in charge of the care of citizens in situations of crisis,” reads the measure’s statement of purpose. “Puerto Ricans distinguish him and have a special confidence in him that favors him in managing it.”

Regarding the position of interim secretary of Education, Senate Resolution 268 establishes that Ramos Parés has been serving since 2017 as associate secretary of Special Education in that agency.

On April 26, the Senate offered its advice and consent for Ramos Parés, an attorney, to occupy the position of acting DE secretary. Acting Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés

CEO: LUMA’s performance ‘effective’ so far despite challenges

By THE STAR STAFF

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month after LUMA Energy took over the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s transmission and distribution system, company president & CEO Wayne Stensby said Thursday that the firm has been “effective” in its performance despite multiple power outages and a fire at the Monacillos

power substation that left some 700,000 subscribers in the dark.

At an online news conference, Stensby said LUMA Energy has operated effectively despite numerous challenges, including those coming from external forces that have harassed LUMA workers.

Despite reports ruling out the intervention of criminal elements in the Monacillos fire, Stensby said the investigation is continuing because the firm wants to understand what truly happened.

Earlier this week, Public Safety (DSP) Secretary Alexis Torres announced that after receiving reports from the offices of the Puerto Rico Police Bureau and the Firefighters Bureau, they have ruled out foul play as the cause of the incident at the Río Piedras substation. An initial report on June 17 also ruled out criminal intent.

The DSP report blamed lack of maintenance for the Monacillos fire.

“There are still two to three weeks left for it to be completed,” Stensby said of the investigation into the incident.

Stensby also said the Monacillos substation is in a state of disrepair and there are plans to move the facility to an unknown location and to overhaul it using federal funds. The federal government has allocated over $10 billion to help overhaul the island’s power system.

Stensby also said LUMA has 2,500 employees and continues to recruit workers. He said the private operator brought linemen from its parent companies to temporarily work on the island.

In its first month of operation, LUMA answered 544,000 calls, handled concerns from 183,000 people through its customer service and posted 900 notifications on its social media networks to communicate with customers.

Some 250,000 subscribers, out of over a million, downloaded the “MiLuma” application and 400,000 registered on its website.

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July 2-4, 2021

Work at Florida condo stops over concerns the building could fall

By MITCH SMITH, GIULIA HEYWARD and EMILY COCHRANE

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the state is also bracing for possible impacts from Tropical Storm Elsa in the coming days.

Additional search and rescue crews were traveling to Surfside on Thursday, Biden said.

“Obviously, we believe that continuing searching is something that’s very, very important,” DeSantis said. “We’re going to provide whatever resources they need to be able to allow the searches to continue.”

Cominsky said he remained hopeful that the search would resume, though he declined to say when that might happen.

“I don’t have a time frame,” he said.

“Right now, our primary focus, obviously, is rescuing our victims as well as protecting our fire personnel.”

Even before the pause, the search had progressed slowly. The bodies of two sisters, ages 4 and 10, were pulled from the rubble Wednesday as the known death toll rose to 18. Lucia Guara, 10, and her sister, Emma Guara, 4, were among four victims identified by authorities Wednesday evening, along with their mother, Anaely Rodriguez, 42. Rescue workers also found the body of Andreas Giannitsopoulos, 21. w“Any loss of life, especially given the unexpected, unprecedented nature of this event is a tragedy,” Mayor Daniella Levine Cava of Miami-Dade County, visibly emotional, said at a Wednesday news conference. “But the loss of our children is too great to bear.”

rews halted their search for survivors of the Champlain Towers South collapse early Thursday morning out of concern that the rest of the building could also fall, a setback to an increasingly desperate rescue effort that for days has proceeded slowly and without hopeful news.

The pause of the search, which came a week after the condominium tower partially collapsed and just hours before President Joe Biden’s visit to the area, further imperiled the chances of finding any survivors in the rubble.

Eighteen people are known to have died in the collapse in Surfside, Florida, and as many as 145 people remain missing, numbers that have remained unchanged since Wednesday.

“They’re working in a very, very unsafe environment,” said Chief Alan Cominsky of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, who described a large hanging column that threatened to destabilize the remaining structure, as well as movement in concrete slabs and the debris pile, that prompted the pause to rescue work. “I couldn’t pinpoint it to one specific incident.”

The northeast portion of the building, facing the beach, fell to the ground, while other units were left standing. But after days of intensive searches, the scene appeared quiet Thursday, with cranes frozen above the rubble.

“It’s a little heartbreaking, a little overwhelming,” said Pablo Rodriguez, whose mother, Elena Blasser, 64, and grandmother, Elena Chavez, 88, were among the missing.

“I understand — I’ve seen the site. I understand how horrific the destruction is, but at the same time, my mother and grandmother are underneath all of that.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida said state engineers Search and rescue crews continue their search for the had been sent to help devise unaccounted victims at the partially collapsed Champlain a plan to safely resume the Towers South condo building, in Surfside, Fla., Wednesday, search. Adding to the urgency, June 30, 2021.

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Infighting and poor planning leave condo sites in disrepair

The Ridgeview Condominiums in Burnsville, Minn., on Wednesday, June 30, 2021. The complex needs major repairs one consultant estimated would exceed $12 million.

By MIKE BAKER and KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURA

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or years before the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South complex near Miami, the condo board wrestled with how to come up with the $15 million needed to fix the building’s dilapidated roof, a poorly designed pool deck and crumbling support columns.

The problem: The homeowners’ association had just $800,000 in reserves, and getting the work done meant asking residents to shoulder huge special assessments ranging from $80,000 to $200,000 on each home. No one was eager to pay.

“The dirtiest words in the community-association industry are ‘special assessment,’ ” Donna DiMaggio Berger, a lawyer for the board, said of the effort to get 135 homeowners — of varying means and of multiple nationalities — to agree on a plan to do the repairs.

During the prolonged tumult over the needed renovations, several members of the board had quit in frustration.

“People were quitting, and there were new people, and there was all kinds of stuff that was going on that was not pleasant,” said Max Friedman, a former member of the board. “I guess part of it was because of the project. There might have been personalities involved. There was all kinds of ugly stuff.”

The deferred maintenance and inadequate savings at the Champlain Towers building are common dilemmas at condo associations across the country, where volunteer board members, sometimes with little expertise in financing or maintenance, find themselves dealing with vicious infighting with their neighbors and pressure to keep dues low.

Only about 10 states require homeowners associations to assess how much money they will need for big-ticket repairs in the future, and a vast majority of states do not require condo boards to maintain robust reserves to help pay for those items when they come due.

About one-third of associations are far behind on their sav-

ings, with 30% or less of the money needed to prepare for future big-ticket projects, said Robert Nordlund, whose company, Association Reserves, has studied tens of thousands of condominium groups and other homeowners associations in all 50 states. He said some boards get stuck focusing on regular maintenance costs — utilities, gardeners and pool cleaning — but fail to think about the even bigger bills that could arrive with sudden urgency.

“Just because the roof doesn’t send a bill every month doesn’t mean that it doesn’t need to be paid,” Nordlund said.

“It’s deteriorating at a certain rate, a certain number of dollars per month, so you need to be setting aside that money every month.”

Investigators this week were trying to determine whether the delayed maintenance, faulty design or construction or some other unknown factor was responsible for the failure of the 13-story building in Surfside, Florida, where the death toll rose Wednesday to 18, with up to 145 still unaccounted for.

City officials in Doral were reviewing the work of Ross Prieto, the former chief building official in Surfside, who had reassured homeowners at Champlain Towers South in 2018 that their building, despite the many problems that had been identified in an engineering report, was safe.

Prieto, who did not respond to requests for comment, had left Surfside before the collapse to work as a contract building official in Doral, reviewing projects. City officials there said he was on leave.

“In an abundance of caution, we are going to review everything he did,” Rey Valdes, a spokesperson for the city of Doral, said on Wednesday. “We don’t suspect he did anything wrong.

Nevertheless, given the circumstances we are dealing with, we are going to review everything he did to make sure it’s in line with state law and municipal code.”

The debates over deferred maintenance, money management and escalating homeowners association dues that unfolded in Surfside are hardly unfamiliar to condo residents across the country, who often find themselves caught up in political dramas with their neighbors whose outcome can dictate everything from the color of their garages to the resale value of their homes.

The debate in Surfside had clearly strained relations within the complex, where residences have sold for $600,000 to more than $1 million. As the effort toward a costly refurbishment moved forward this year, Jean Wodnicki, the board chair, wrote that leaders were hearing questions from residents about why the work was needed, what financial oversight would be in place, the size of contingency fees and more. Wodnicki made the case that the assessments might not be high enough.

“We have discussed, debated, and argued for years now, and will continue to do so for years to come as different items come into play,” Wodnicki wrote.

Roof repairs on the building had commenced in recent weeks, and the remainder of the renovations had been slated to start soon; they never got underway.

Industry leaders and some states have long pressed condos and other homeowners associations to have robust reserve funds in order to avoid consternation and procrastination when a big bill is coming due. But with little voluntary progress, a move to reshape state laws has gained momentum in recent months, attracting support from some homeowners, community managers and engineers in the industry.

A committee at the Community Associations Institute, which advocates for homeowners’ associations, is looking at a proposal to require homeowner communities to commission expert studies to assess the amount they need in reserves. Dawn M. Bauman, the institute’s senior vice president for government and public affairs, said the committee was also looking at minimum reserve requirements, although that proposal was subject to more vigorous debate.

The committee has planned a special meeting this week to move faster on the issue, Bauman said, in anticipation that lawmakers nationwide would take a closer look in the coming months.

“It will likely be our top priority,” she said.

Reviews of condo properties around the country have revealed plenty of safety concerns, Nordlund said, including roofs unable to support any weight and pool equipment rooms with standing water.

He said his group advised condo boards that spending now on maintaining their communities would pay off later in better property values.

In Florida, state law requires condo associations to include reserve accounts for components that have a deferred expense or replacement cost in excess of $10,000, which includes an array of big-ticket items such as roofs or swimming pools. The amount to be reserved is computed using a formula based on a building’s remaining useful life and the estimated replacement cost or deferred maintenance expense for each item covered.

But there is a loophole. Associations can waive the requirement to have those reserves on hand if a majority of a quorum, which could be fewer than a third of the homeowners, elects to do so. The law allows for some flexibility, specifying that funds reserved for one purpose can be used for an alternative project, or can be pooled.

“While this flexibility could help an association, it can be a double-edged sword,” said Jonathan Goldstein, a condo lawyer based in Miami. “The problem comes where associations have conflicting incentives. Association members always have an incentive to kick the can down the road to some other owner in the future, and so they’ll err on the side of waiving or partially funding reserves, which will lead to a large special assessment down the line.”

The next backstop is local government, which could determine that a lack of repair is a code violation, which could trigger enforcement proceedings to force compliance.

At the Champlain Towers South project, the condo association had been working with an engineer in preparation for a 40-year recertification process required by the government. A letter written in April by the condo president, Wodnicki, showed that the association did not have enough reserves or cash on hand to fund $15 million in repairs that residents were being asked to pay. And she warned that conditions in the building had “gotten significantly worse” since a 2018 engineering review highlighted millions of dollars in problems.

“A lot of this work could have been done or planned for in years gone by,” Wodnicki wrote. “But this is where we are now.”

In 2020, financial records show, much of the roughly $800,000 the association had on hand was earmarked for the insurance deductible.

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Top Trump executive surrenders to face charges

By BEN PROTESS, WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM and JONAH E. BROMWICH

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ormer President Donald Trump’s long-serving chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, surrendered Thursday to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office as he and the Trump Organization prepared to face charges in connection with a tax investigation, people with knowledge of the matter said.

The exact charges were not yet known. Prosecutors were expected to unseal an indictment later in the day against Weisselberg and the Trump Organization, the real estate business that catapulted Trump to tabloid fame, television riches and ultimately, the White House.

Weisselberg, accompanied by his lawyer, Mary Mulligan, walked into the lower Manhattan building that houses the criminal courts and the District Attorney’s Office about 6:20 a.m. He is expected to appear in court in the afternoon along with representatives of the Trump Organization.

The charges against the Trump Organization and Weisselberg — whom Trump once praised for doing “whatever was necessary to protect the bottom line” — emerged from the district attorney’s sweeping inquiry into the business practices of Trump and his company.

As part of that inquiry, the prosecutors in the office of the district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., had been examining whether Weisselberg failed to pay taxes on valuable benefits he and his family received from Trump, including private school tuition for at least one of his grandchildren, free apartments and leased cars.

The prosecutors, who are also working with lawyers from the office of New York state Attorney General Letitia James, have also investigated whether the Trump Organization failed to pay payroll taxes on what should have been taxable income.

Mulligan declined to comment on her client’s surrender.

In a statement, the Trump Organization said Weisselberg was being used as a “pawn in a scorched-earth attempt to harm the former president.”

“The district attorney is bringing a criminal prosecution involving employee benefits that neither the IRS or any other district attorney would ever think of bringing,” the statement

Allen Weisselberg, center, Donald Trump’s longserving chief financial officer, surrenders Thursday morning, July 1, 2021, at the lower Manhattan building that houses the criminal courts and the district attorney’s office. read. “This is not justice; this is politics.”

Trump was not expected to face charges Thursday. But an indictment of the company that carries his name strikes a blow to the former president just as he has resumed holding rallies.

Even if Trump parlays the charges into some immediate goodwill from his supporters — he has denounced the investigation as political persecution — he could face the costly distraction of a trial if he attempts to mount another presidential campaign.

The charges also could strain his company’s finances and jeopardize its relationship with business partners who had stood by the Trump Organization even after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, which prompted a backlash against the former president.

Trump won the presidency by portraying himself as a political outsider with the business acumen to shake up Washington. But the company whose name he made famous on his reality television show, “The Apprentice,” might eventually be associated as much with criminal charges as it is with the

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Trump mentioned the investigation only in passing during a Fox N ​ ews town hall appearance Wednesday. As he listed his history of legal battles, he said, “New York radical left prosecutors come after me.”

“You got to always fight,” he said. “You got to keep fighting.”

The broader investigation into Trump and his company’s business practices is continuing. The prosecutors have been investigating whether Trump and the Trump Organization manipulated property values to obtain loans and tax benefits, among other potential financial crimes, The New York Times has reported.

The indictment follows months of an increasing pressure campaign on Weisselberg to offer information that could help that inquiry. Prosecutors had subpoenaed Weisselberg’s personal tax returns and bank records, reviewed a raft of his financial dealings and questioned his ex-daughter-in-law — all part of an effort to gain his cooperation.

An accountant who began his career working for Trump’s father nearly a half-century ago, Weisselberg has served as the Trump Organization’s financial gatekeeper for more than two decades and recently ran the business with Trump’s adult sons while Trump was in the White House.

Famously hardworking — he once said he took “no vacations” — Weisselberg gained an unparalleled view into the inner workings of the company and its bare-knuckled brawls with business partners. Weisselberg “knows of every dime that leaves the building,” Corey Lewandowski, a former Trump campaign official, wrote in the book he co-authored, “Let Trump Be Trump.”

Attorneys for Weisselberg, 73, and the Trump Organization could not immediately be reached for comment. Trump has long attacked Vance’s investigation as a partisan “witch hunt.”

Now that he faces charges, Weisselberg still could cooperate with the prosecutors. If he ultimately pleads guilty and strikes a deal, he could do considerable damage to Trump, who for decades has depended on his unflinching loyalty, once declaring with “100%” certainty that Weisselberg had not betrayed him.

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July 2-4, 2021

Bill Cosby freed as court overturns his sex assault conviction

Bill Cosby, center, is led from the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., after he was sentenced to three to ten years for sexual assault on Sept. 25, 2018.

By GRAHAM BOWLEY and JULIA JACOBS

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ill Cosby was released from prison Wednesday after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his 2018 conviction for sexual assault, a dramatic reversal in one of the first high-profile criminal trials of the #MeToo era.

The court’s decision seemed likely to end the Pennsylvania case, legal experts said, and while more than 50 women across the nation have accused Cosby of sexual assault and misconduct, statutes of limitations in their cases makes further prosecutions unlikely.

Cosby had served three years of a three- to 10-year sentence at a maximum-security prison outside Philadelphia when the court ruled that a “non-prosecution agreement” with a previous prosecutor meant that Cosby should not have been charged in the case.

Cosby, 83, returned to his home in suburban Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon where, looking frail and walking slowly, he was helped inside by his lawyer and a spokesperson. He flashed a “V” sign as he reached his front door.

The case against Cosby began with his arrest in 2015 on charges that he had drugged and sexually assaulted a woman at his home in the Philadelphia suburbs 11 years earlier.

In April 2018, the jury convicted Cosby of three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand, to whom Cosby had been a mentor and who was at the time a Temple University employee.

Constand had praised the guilty verdict at the time, saying, “Truth prevails,” and the National Organization for Wo-

men called it “a notice to sexual predators everywhere.” But Cosby’s lawyers, who had said at the time that allegations against Weinstein would make it difficult for them to receive a fair trial, later suggested in an appeal that the outcome had been influenced by what they described as a period of “public panic.”

In a statement issued with her lawyers, Constand said Wednesday that the court’s ruling was “not only disappointing but of concern in that it may discourage those who seek justice for sexual assault in the criminal justice system from reporting or participating in the prosecution of the assailant or may force a victim to choose between filing either a criminal or civil action.”

In their 79-page opinion, the judges wrote that a previous prosecutor’s statement that Cosby would not face charges, which paved the way for Cosby to testify in a civil trial, meant that he should not have been charged in the case. It was a 6-1 ruling, with two of the judges in the majority dissenting on the remedy, which barred a retrial.

The case began in 2005, when Cosby was investigated in the case of Constand, and a former district attorney of Montgomery County said that he had given Cosby his assurance that he would not be charged in the case. The former district attorney, Bruce L. Castor Jr., announced in a news release at the time that after an investigation he had found “insufficient” evidence. He later testified that he had given Cosby the assurance to encourage him to testify in a subsequent civil case brought by Constand. (A civil suit she filed against Cosby was settled in 2006 for $3.38 million.)

In that testimony, Cosby acknowledged giving quaa-

ludes to women he was pursuing for sex — evidence that played a key part in his trial after Castor’s successors reopened the case and charged Cosby in December 2015. That was just days before the 12-year statute of limitations expired in the case, and it came amid a number of new allegations from women who brought similar accusations of drugging and sexual assault against Cosby.

“In light of these circumstances, the subsequent decision by successor DAs to prosecute Cosby violated Cosby’s due process rights,” the appeals ruling said.

Brian W. Perry, one of the lawyers representing Cosby, said he was “thrilled” with the ruling. “To be honest with you, we all believed, collectively, that this is how the case would end,” he said. “We did not think he was treated fairly and fortunately the Supreme Court agreed.”

Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said that he hoped the decision would not “dampen the reporting of sexual assaults by victims.”

“He was found guilty by a jury and now goes free on a procedural issue that is irrelevant to the facts of the crime,” Steele said in a statement. “I want to commend Cosby’s victim Andrea Constand for her bravery in coming forward and remaining steadfast throughout this long ordeal, as well as all of the other women who have shared similar experiences.”

Patricia Steuer, 65, who accused Cosby of drugging and assaulting her in 1978 and 1980, said that she had been preparing herself for the possibility that Cosby’s conviction would be overturned but that she was still “a little stunned” by the court’s ruling Wednesday.

“I’m wondering what the 43-year ordeal that I went through was supposed to be about,” said Steuer, who said she found out about the decision on Facebook. But she said she was “consoled by the fact that I believe we did the only thing that we could, which is to come forward and tell the truth.”

Scott Berkowitz, the president of RAINN, the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, said: “We are deeply disappointed in today’s ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and by the message this decision sends to the brave survivors who came forward to seek justice for what Bill Cosby did to them. This is not justice.”

Others expressed support for Cosby. Phylicia Rashad, who appeared as Cosby’s wife in “The Cosby Show,” praised the decision on Twitter. “FINALLY!!!!” Rashad, who was recently named the dean of Howard University’s College of Fine Arts, wrote on Twitter. “A terrible wrong is being righteda miscarriage of justice is corrected!” (She later wrote: “I fully support survivors of sexual assault coming forward. My post was in no way intended to be insensitive to their truth.”)

In a dissent, Justice Thomas G. Saylor disagreed that a statement Castor made in a news release represented an unconditional promise that bound his successor not to prosecute. Justice Kevin Dougherty, in a separate opinion in which he was joined by Justice Max Baer, found that though Cosby’s due process rights had been violated when he relied on Castor’s promise and testified in the civil case, the remedy should not have been barring further prosecution but throwing out the evidence the prosecution gained from Cosby’s testimony.

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July 2-4, 2021

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The World Wide Web sells for $5.4 million

By CORAL MURPHY MARCOS and SCOTT REYBURN

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FTs, the hot collectible that has been embraced by the founder of Twitter, the National Basketball Association and the artist who created a flying cat with a Pop-Tart body, has cast its reach back to the beginning of the digital age: the source code to an early version of World Wide Web. Sotheby’s on Wednesday auctioned off the code, created by Tim Berners-Lee, in the form of a nonfungible token, or NFT, for $5.4 million with fees. Sotheby’s said it was accepting payment in cryptocurrency for both the hammer price and its buyer fee.

The winning bidder will remain anonymous, per auction house rules, but that could change if the buyer steps forward.

Bidding began at $1,000, and bidders had a week to name their highest price in the auction, called “This Changed Everything.” The NFT attracted 51 bids, according to Sotheby’s website, and the proceeds will go toward unnamed initiatives supported by Berners-Lee. Unlike some NFTs, the offering failed to inspire a lastminute flurry of demand; the winning bid was offered just under 10 minutes before the close of the auction.

The code includes the first web browser and early versions of methods computers still use to talk with each other, including the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, known as HTTP, and HyperText Markup Language, known as HTML. “It’s nice to see it sell for a value commensurate with its historic significance,” said Jeremy Norman, a California-based rare book and manuscripts dealer specializing in the history of science.

He regards Berners-Lee’s 1989 invention as an innovation as significant as Johannes Gutenberg’s development of movable type in the 15th century. “It’s unbelievably important in the history of science and technology,” Norman said.

The NFT is an early copy of the code, a version of which has long been available in the public domain, but the token auctioned by Sotheby’s represents the original archive of the time-stamped files. “It’s authenticating that first code that was created and then selling it as memorabilia,” said Merav Ozair, an assistant professor who teaches finance and technology at Rutgers Business School.

The auction included the original timestamped files containing the source code, an animated visualization of the code, a letter writ-

A photo provided by Sotheby’s shows Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web. ten by Berners-Lee reflecting on the code and the process of creating it, and a digital poster of the full code from the original files.

“We couldn’t have sold this 10 years ago, but now NFTs have enabled us to do it,” Cassandra Hatton, a vice president and global head of science and popular culture at Sotheby’s, said in an interview. “Previously in the history of science you had manuscripts you could hold in your hand. As we move forward, more and more of these manuscripts are created in a digital format.” She noted, however, that the code that was auctioned “does not represent any ownership of the World Wide Web as an application.”

Hatton said Sotheby’s collaborated with Berners-Lee, who had approached the auction house, to create an NFT that was understandable and visually appealing to the widest possible audience.

The British inventor has long been an advocate of giving individuals greater control over their data. He started an open-source software project, Solid, in an effort to decentralize the web, and he later founded a company, Inrupt, with John Bruce to encourage the adoption of open-source technology.

NFTs represent “the most appropriate means of ownership that exists,” BernersLee said in a statement released this month by Sotheby’s.

The tokens rely on blockchain technology, similar to the computer code that makes many cryptocurrencies possible. They have become popular in the art world because they allow artists to have more control over their works by selling limited-edition digital goods directly to consumers.

“An NFT is by definition a unique token.

Each token has a unique hash number or a unique signature of an artist on their creation,”

Ozair said. “With this hash number, you can trace each NFT to the origin and the creator.”

In the past six months, auctioneers have sold a computer-generated illustration by Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist known as Beeple; digital Hot Wheels art made by Mattel; and even a New York Times column.

But the highly speculative market for NFTs has also cooled in recent months.

On May 9, the price of ether, the cryptocurrency to which the values of NFTs are pegged, soared to $3,883, more than five times its price at the beginning of the year, according to coindesk.com. At that point, weekly completed sales of NFTs at dedicated marketplaces on the Ethereum blockchain (which do not include Christie’s and Sotheby’s auctions) reached a high of $176 million, said nonfungible.com, which charts the performance of the NFT market.

By May 20, weekly NFT sales had slumped to $19.2 million, a decline of 89% and have flatlined at below $20 million, according to the database. The price of ether has fallen, too, dip-

ping below $1,800 in June.

This correction, or “stabilization phenomenon,” as the nonfungible.com blog preferred to call it, was due in part to the steep fall in the price of ether, as well as the age-old, ever-irrational cycle of boom and bust.

But the top-end traditional auction houses, with their formidable global marketing machines, continue to set one-off bench marks for NFTs. In June, when the specialist marketplace for “nifties” was still supposedly in the doldrums, Sotheby’s sold a rare “alien” CryptoPunk for a record $11.8 million, the second-highest price ever achieved for an individual NFT. But Norman, the book dealer, was skeptical that the Berners-Lee NFT will create a surge in demand for computer code nonfungibles.

“There’s a real question of how much people will be interested in collecting digital,” Norman said. “The amount of digital information being generated is just incalculably gigantic.

Everyone with a computer generates something.

How much of it matters?”

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Boom times for lawyers as Washington pursues big tech

By CECILIA KANG and DAVID McCABE

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awyers at Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, a top corporate law firm, were abuzz earlier this week as they grappled with a federal judge’s rulings about antitrust cases related to their client: Facebook.

Last month, lawyers at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, one of the country’s elite law firms, advised Amazon over its acquisition of MGM, which is facing antitrust scrutiny from regulators.

And a slate of litigators for the prominent law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher gave closing arguments for Apple in an antitrust lawsuit brought by Epic Games.

The mounting legal and regulatory scrutiny facing Big Tech has led to a wave of lawsuits, investigations and proposed legislation aimed at ending the dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.

Whether those efforts succeed may take years to sort out, but there is already one clear winner: the nation’s legal industry.

Not since the government sued to break up Microsoft in the late 1990s has there been greater demand for people who know the ins and outs of corporate competition law. That is only certain to increase after a federal judge dismissed a states’ antitrust

case against Facebook on Monday and said the Federal Trade Commission’s complaint against the social network needed to be revised.

The rulings put the Facebook case back into the hands of Lina Khan, a fierce critic of the tech industry, who recently became chair of the FTC, an agency that regulates antitrust. Last week, bills aimed at weakening the companies’ grip on the industry also advanced in the House.

The clamor for talent extends to lobbying firms and economists, who can help the companies formulate counterarguments and provide expert testimony about the companies’ market power. But it is particularly acute in the legal profession.

The tech giants are already flooding courtrooms with large teams of prominent lawyers to press their case. Google faces multiple antitrust lawsuits, one brought by the Justice Department, and two others from state attorneys general. Since those suits were filed, 16 lawyers from six law firms have appeared in courts to defend the company, according to public records.

In total, 51 lawyers from 21 law firms have appeared in court in the Google cases, including lawyers representing states like Texas and some of Google’s competitors. Facebook, which faces its own antitrust case,

The U.S. Capitol Building before a storm in Washington, July 22, 2020. The mounting legal and regulatory scrutiny facing Big Tech has led to a wave of lawsuits, investigations and proposed legislation aimed at ending the dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.

has hired a team of lawyers in a similar way.

As a result, antitrust work — once a relatively sleepy area of the legal world — is now providing a windfall for the big firms.

Top partners at a large firm often bill $1,000 to $2,000 an hour, and the scores of young associates who help them charge hundreds of dollars an hour.

The cost is minimal for the giant tech companies. But it has widened the divide in resources between regulators and the companies they police, making it harder for the government to recruit and keep talent to take on the industry. It has also raised fresh concerns about Washington’s revolving door, since many of the lawyers used by the tech companies recently worked for the government.

In 2019, when the Justice Department searched for a lead investigator into Google and other tech giants, officials came up with a list of candidates from about 10 law firms, according to two people with knowledge of the search. But one by one, they said, potential candidates had to be crossed off the list because they already worked for Big Tech clients, leaving few options.

More recently, conflicts of interest have complicated the Biden administration’s search for the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division. Several times, critics of the industry have criticized a potential candidate because of the person’s ties to Big Tech.

“These companies have the monetary resources to hire the best and the brightest,” said William J. Baer, former head of antitrust at the Justice Department under President Barack Obama. “But it does emphasize the resource disparity between what the government can throw at these issues and the virtually unlimited resources of these companies.”

Rebecca Slaughter, a Democratic commissioner at the FTC, said antitrust cases were among their most expensive. The cost for one expert witness to speak on behalf of the agency exceeds the witness costs for all other cases pursued by the agency in any given year.

“The demand for antitrust enforcement has gone up dramatically over the last decade and has really skyrocketed in the last year,” Slaughter said. “The costs involved in bringing large and complex cases and reviewing the tsunami of proposed mergers are huge, especially for a

small agency like ours.”

Amazon, Facebook and Google declined to comment. Apple and the law firms did not respond to requests for comment.

The tech firms are also bringing antitrust experts in-house. Amazon, Facebook and Google each have dozens of in-house lawyers. In January 2020, Amazon hired a former FTC lawyer, Amy Posner. In April 2020, Facebook hired numerous government officials, starting with another longtime FTC lawyer in the competition bureau.

“What’s striking is the number of people going to work directly for tech companies from the agencies,” said William Kovacic, a former chairman of the FTC. “That reflects a real change.”

Jonathan Kanter, a longtime antitrust lawyer who has been rumored as a possible nominee to lead the Justice Department’s antitrust division, built his career largely around working for the rivals of Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple. His client list included both big companies like Microsoft and News Corp. and smaller firms like Yelp and Spotify.

In 2016, he moved to Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, a prominent corporate litigation firm. But last year, Kanter’s work criticizing Big Tech started to present conflicts with other parts of the firm’s sprawling portfolio, said two people with knowledge of the matter. Specifically, his practice was at odds with work being done by Bill Isaacson and Karen Dunn, two lawyers the firm had just hired who are known to represent Apple and Amazon, said another person with knowledge of the situation.

Kanter faced a choice: Drop some of his clients or leave the firm. He left.

“Jonathan made this decision due to a complicated legal conflict that would have required him to discontinue important and long-standing client representations and relationships,” the firm said in a note circulated at the time.

Kanter, Isaacson and Dunn did not reply to requests for comment, nor did a spokeswoman for Paul, Weiss.

Kanter has since founded his own firm, the Kanter Law Group, which advertises itself online as an “antitrust advocacy boutique.” According to court records, its lawyers have already been hired by critics of Apple and Google.

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S&P 500 begins second half of 2021 at new peak as labor market heals

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he S&P 500 index kicked off the second half of the year at a record high on Thursday as data showed fewer-than-expected weekly jobless claims, while energy stocks were supported by a spike in oil prices.

Ten of the 11 major S&P sectors rose, with energy, financials, industrials and materials leading the charge.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 51,000 to a seasonally adjusted 364,000 in the week ended June 26, while layoffs plunged to a 21-year low in June as companies held on to their workers amid labor shortages.

“This morning’s beat on jobless claims is a real bright spot,” said Cliff Hodge, chief investment officer at Cornerstone Wealth.

“Staying below that big-round-number 400,000 level could bolster confidence in risk-taking during the dog days of summer.”

Separately, ISM data showed U.S. manufacturing activity grew at a moderate pace in June but employment contracted for the first time in seven months.

With the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq hitting a series of record highs last month, investors are razor-focused on Friday’s nonfarm payrolls report, where a strong reading could force the U.S. Federal Reserve to rethink its accommodative stance.

Focus also shifts to the second-quarter earnings season in the coming weeks to gauge whether the first-half momentum could continue further for the remaining year.

“You can make a case for the market being expensive, but I don’t think we’re headed for any major correction. Could we see a pullback as we wait for the earnings? That’s a possibility,” said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities in New York.

At 11:38 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 82.70 points, or 0.24%, at 34,585.21 and the S&P 500 was up 11.28 points, or 0.26%, at 4,308.78. The Nasdaq Composite was down 39.56 points, or 0.27%, at 14,464.40.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc dropped 5.7% as it lowered its forecast for COVID-19 vaccine shots to be administered this year.

Micron Technology Inc slumped 5.4% even as the chipmaker beat estimates for quarterly profit and forecast fourth-quarter revenue above expectations.

Didi Global Inc jumped 14.1%, a day after its shares ended their first day of U.S. trading slightly over their initial public offering price, valuing China’s ride-hailing giant at $68.49 billion.

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Tropical Storm Elsa forms over Atlantic

By DANIEL VICTOR

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ropical Storm Elsa, the fifth named storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, formed Thursday and was projected to deliver dangerous rains and winds to several Caribbean islands.

The National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm warning, which indicates tropical storm conditions are expected within 36 hours, for St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Thursday morning, joining Barbados, Martinique and St. Lucia.

Guadeloupe was under a tropical storm watch, which indicates the conditions are possible within 36 hours.

The center warned that many other islands in the region, including the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, should monitor the storm.

“Additional watches and warnings will likely be required later today,” the center said Thursday morning.

The center of the storm was hundreds of miles from the islands Thursday morning but moving west at about 25 mph.

It was projected to pass near or over parts of the Windward Islands or the southern Leeward Islands on Friday and move near Hispaniola on Saturday, bringing a maximum of 8 inches of rain and the possibility of flash flooding and mudslides.

The center said it was too soon to determine what effect the storm might have on Florida, where a desperate search continues for survivors of the collapsed condo building near Miami.

Ana became the first named storm of the season May 23, making this the seventh year in a row that a named storm developed in the Atlantic before the official start of the season on June 1.

The links between hurricanes and climate change are becoming more apparent. A warming planet can expect to experience stronger hurricanes over time, and a higher incidence of the most powerful storms — although the overall number of storms may drop, because factors like stronger wind shear might keep weaker storms from forming.

Hurricanes are also becoming wetter because of more water vapor in the warmer atmosphere. Scientists have sugges-

ted that storms like Hurricane Harvey in 2017 produced far more rain than they would have without the human effects on climate. Also, rising sea levels are contributing to higher storm surge — the most destructive element of tropical cyclones.

Researchers have suggested that climate change is also causing some storms to intensify more rapidly, which, as a recent study in the journal Nature Communications put it, “can lead to disastrous scenarios when coastal areas are not given adequate notice to evacuate and prepare for an extremely intense” storm.

Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration forecast that there would be 13 to 20 named storms this year, six to 10 of which would be hurricanes, and three to five major hurricanes of Category 3 or higher in the Atlantic.

Last year, there were 30 named storms, including six major hurricanes, causing meteorologists to exhaust the alphabet for the second time and move to using Greek letters.

It was the highest number of storms on record, surpassing the 28 storms in 2005, and included the second-highest number of hurricanes on record.

Tropical Storm Elsa formed off the northeast coast of South America on Thursday and was headed for the Caribbean.

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Deaths spike as heat wave broils Canada and the Pacific Northwest

By VJOSA ISAI, DAN BILEFSKY and SHAWN HUBLER

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undreds of deaths in British Columbia, Washington and Oregon have been linked to a heat wave that has roasted the Pacific Northwest for days and broken Canadian heat records, sending hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for relief.

Lisa Lapointe, British Columbia’s chief coroner, said 486 deaths had been reported there between Friday and Wednesday afternoon — a period in which about 165 deaths would normally be documented. Deaths were expected to increase, she said.

“While it is too early to say with certainty how many of these deaths are heat related, it is believed likely that the significant increase in deaths reported is attributable to the extreme weather B.C. has experienced,” she said.

Oregon’s state medical examiner’s office on Wednesday attributed at least 63 deaths in five days to the punishing heat in that state, including 45 in Multnomah County, which includes Portland — where temperatures have reached a record 116 degrees Fahrenheit.

In Washington, officials reported nearly a dozen lives lost to hyperthermia on Wednesday alone in King County, which includes Seattle; two heat-related deaths were reported there the day before.

In Snohomish County, Washington, at least three people died this week from heatstroke, according to the medical examiner’s office, which added that investigations are pending into at least two more suspected heat-related deaths.

“This was a true health crisis that has underscored how deadly an extreme heat wave can be, especially to otherwise vulnerable people,” Dr. Jennifer Vines, the Multnomah County health officer, said in a statement. “I know many county residents were looking out for each other and am deeply saddened by this initial death toll.”

This year a study found that 37% of heat-related deaths could be linked to climate change. Global warming has raised baseline temperatures by nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit on average since

1900, experts say.

“Climate change is increasing the frequency, intensity and duration of heat waves,” said Kristie Ebi, a professor in the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington. “When you look at this heat wave, it is so far outside the range of normal.”

In Canada, John Horgan, the premier of British Columbia, said Tuesday that “the big lesson coming out of the past number of days is that the climate crisis is not a fiction.”

The heat wave in Canada has presented an additional public health concern even as authorities are still grappling with the challenge of the coronavirus and Canadians are just beginning to enjoy some of the pleasures of summer as restrictions ease.

On Tuesday, for the third consecutive day, British Columbia shattered its previous extreme heat record; the temperature in Lytton, a small town in the province, climbed to just over 121 degrees.

Such is the heat that some Vancouverites have fried eggs on their terraces. Others have traded in their sweltering homes for air-conditioned hotels or moved their home offices to shady places in their gardens.

The sizzling temperatures have also imperiled the crops of farmers in British Columbia, wilting lettuce and searing raspberries.

Capturing the national mood, Lyle Torgerson posted a video on Twitter on Sunday showing a bear and two cubs taking a dip in his backyard pool in Coquitlam, British Columbia. “The heat is unbearable, but if you take a quick dip you’ll survive,” he told The New York Times in a message on Instagram.

The Vancouver Police Department has dispatched dozens of additional officers to help deal with the situation, it said in a statement. While police usually attend to three to four sudden deaths a day, on average, the department said it has responded to more than 98 such calls since Friday, with 53 of those on Tuesday.

It also said two-thirds of the victims are ages 70 and older.

Trying to get some relief in the shade during the heat wave this week in Vancouver, British Columbia.

“We’ve never seen anything like this, and it breaks our hearts,” Sgt. Steve Addison said in a statement Tuesday, noting that the extreme heat appears to be a contributing factor to most of the cases.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Surrey, a municipality in metropolitan Vancouver, said in an email that it had responded to 35 sudden deaths in a 24-hour period.

The wildfire service of British Co-

lumbia was also coping with effects of the heat wave, grappling with overheated helicopter engines as it tried to contain severe wildfires. One had spread over about 5,700 acres as of Tuesday night, at Sparks Lake, about five hours northeast of Vancouver.

Before this week’s record-breaking heat, the last time Canada saw the mercury rise to similar heights was on July 5, 1937, when the temperature hit 113 degrees in rural Saskatchewan.

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Pandemic surges again in many parts of the world, fueled by variants

Indonesians lining up at an oxygen refill shop in Jakarta on Wednesday as Covid-19 cases rose.

By HANNAH BEECH and LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA

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he nightmare is returning.

In Indonesia, grave diggers are working into the night, as oxygen and vaccines are in short supply. In Europe, countries are slamming their doors shut once again, with quarantines and travel bans. In Bangladesh, urban garment workers fleeing an impending lockdown are almost assuredly seeding another coronavirus surge in their impoverished home villages.

And in countries like South Korea and Israel that seemed to have largely vanquished the virus, new clusters of disease have proliferated. Chinese health officials announced Monday that they would build a giant quarantine center with up to 5,000 rooms to hold international travelers. Australia has ordered millions to stay at home.

A year and a half since it began racing across the globe with exponential efficiency, the pandemic is on the rise again in vast stretches of the world, driven largely by the new variants, particularly the highly contagious Delta variant first identified in India. From Africa to Asia, countries are suffering from record COVID-19 caseloads and deaths, even as wealthier nations with high vaccination rates have let their guard down, dispensing with mask mandates and reveling in life edging back toward normalcy.

Scientists believe the Delta variant may be twice as transmissible as the original coronavirus, and its potential to infect some partially vaccinated people has alarmed public health officials. Unvaccinated populations, whether in India or Indiana, may serve as incubators of new variants that could evolve in surprising and dangerous ways, with Delta giving rise to what Indian

researchers are calling Delta Plus. There are also the Gamma and Lambda variants.

“We’re in a race against the spread of the virus variants,” said Professor Kim Woo-joo, an infectious disease specialist at Korea University Guro Hospital in Seoul.

The political debates underway from Malaysia to the Seychelles — whether to institute lockdowns and mask requirements — are starting to echo in countries with far more resources, including plentiful vaccines. On Monday, health officials in Los Angeles County, where Delta variant infections are climbing, urged residents, even immunized ones, to wear masks indoors. (Many scientists, however, say masks are not necessary in areas where the virus is not widespread.)

But while the new images from Nepal or Kenya of overflowing intensive-care units and dying doctors dredge up terrible memories for the West, it is not clear whether they also provide a glimpse into the future.

Most existing vaccines appear to be effective against the Delta variant, and initial research indicates that those who are infected are likely to develop mild or asymptomatic cases. But even in the wealthiest countries — except for a handful of nations with small populations — fewer than half the people are fully vaccinated. Experts say that with new variants spreading, markedly higher vaccination rates and continued precautions are needed to tame the pandemic.

The smoke rising once more from crematories in less affluent nations has highlighted the gulf between the world’s haves and have-nots. Vast inequalities in economic development, health care systems and — despite the promises of world leaders — vac-

cine access have made the latest surge much bigger and much deadlier.

“The developed countries used up the resources available because they own the resources and they want to protect their people first,” said Dono Widiatmoko, a senior lecturer in health and social care at the University of Derby and a member of the Indonesian Public Health Association. “It’s natural, but if we look it from a human rights point of view, every life has the same value.”

And as the public health officials keep repeating, and the pandemic keeps proving, as long as one region is afflicted, no part of the world is safe.

As the Delta variant wreaked havoc in India this spring, when the pandemic killed more than 200,000 people there — an official count that is widely seen as too low — and paralyzed the economy, it also leapt national borders, infecting climbers on Mount Everest, pro-democracy protesters in Myanmar and travelers to London’s Heathrow Airport. Today, it has been detected in at least 85 countries and is the dominant strain in parts of Europe, Asia and Africa.

The variant’s ferocious transmissibility was on full display in Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most-populous country.

In May, infections there were at their lowest point since the country was gripped by the pandemic last year. By late June, Indonesia was suffering record caseloads as the Delta variant took hold after a religious holiday scattered travelers across the archipelago. On Tuesday, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent warned that the country was “on the edge of catastrophe.”

Fewer than 5% of Indonesians have been fully vaccinated, and frontline medical workers were immunized with Sinovac, the Chinese-made vaccine that may be less effective than other inoculations. At least 20 Indonesian doctors who received both doses of Sinovac have died. But with Western countries hoarding what appear to be more potent vaccines, countries like Indonesia and Mongolia have had no choice but plentiful Chinese-made alternatives.

Last week, the Hong Kong authorities suspended passenger flights from Indonesia, and they are doing the same with travel from Britain starting Thursday.

In May, Portugal tried to resuscitate its tourism industry by welcoming back sun seekers from Britain, despite reports of the Delta variant’s spread there. Within a few weeks, the British government had instituted a quarantine for travelers from Portugal, including returning vacationers.

With Delta variant cases sharply increasing, Lisbon went into weekend lockdown, and Germany deemed Portugal a “virus variant zone.” Now Portugal has backed away from its tourist welcome and is requiring unvaccinated British travelers to quarantine.

In Bangladesh, scientists found that nearly 70% of coronavirus samples from the capital, Dhaka, taken between May 25 and June 7 were the Delta variant. Coronavirus test positivity rates this week have hovered around 25%, compared to 2% in the United States.

On Wednesday, Bangladesh recorded its highest-ever daily case count. The numbers look set to climb higher as migrant workers return to their villages ahead of a July 1 nationwide lockdown, potentially exposing those communities to the virus.

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Democrats have a year to save the planet

By FARHAD MANJOO

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century from now, our descendants may look back on the next year or so as a hinge in history.

This could be the great turning point — an opportunity for the United States to finally take grand action to curb the worst effects of a climate barreling toward catastrophe.

Picture the saga as it unfolds across the central gallery of the Biden presidential library: In the jubilant aftermath of a pandemic, a president campaigns tirelessly for an ambitious set of investments to mitigate the next great threat. Congress, shaken into action by a restive citizenry, somehow rises to the occasion, overcoming just enough partisan resistance to adopt a breakthrough environmental agenda. The global effort to curb planetwarming emissions had been foundering, but suddenly there was new hope. The earth may be parched and sweltering, but all is not lost, for Americans finally got in the game.

Or consider an alternative exhibit, in some side gallery, that sadly reflects on an enormous lost opportunity.

Despite recognizing the epic stakes in the fight against climate change, the president goes too small, capitulates too easily. Congress loses itself in petty, shortsighted rancor. The people, fearing sacrifices in our heedless in-

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dulgence, shrink from necessary change. This is a dark, dead end in the Biden library: A once mighty nation is served its toughest challenge yet, and it whiffs.

This may all sound a tad overdramatic, but one reason addressing climate change is so difficult is that the threat is often too abstract and slow-moving to admit much urgency. Only in the long view can we appreciate the consequence of the moment. And in the long view, we’re running out of time.

This could be our do-or-die moment — with Democrats holding the White House and barely controlling Congress, this may be the country’s last best political opportunity to do something big on the climate. But that is what’s so alarming about the current moment: After Biden’s announcement last week of a watered-down compromise with centrist senators on an infrastructure plan, I’m terrified that we are heading straight for die rather than do.

Scientists say that to avert the worst effects of climate change, we need to keep the planet’s temperature from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. The Biden White House understands the urgency. The president has laid out an ambitious agenda to meet the 1.5-degree target, the centerpiece of which is the $2 trillion infrastructure and climate plan he proposed in March.

That plan was far from perfect, but it was the furthest-reaching climate plan ever proposed by an American president. Among other goals, it would set the nation on a course toward carbon-pollution-free electricity generation by 2035. It would offer hundreds of billions of dollars to spur the adoption of electric cars and build out charging infrastructure, to improve public transit, to reduce agricultural and industrial pollution and to accelerate research and development on innovations to solve the problems of a warming planet.

Then Biden gave away the store. Republicans in the Senate had balked at the climate plan, especially its effort to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for many of its investments. Because Democrats can’t muster the courage to jettison the filibuster, they need the votes of at least 10 Republican senators to pass most bills. Biden was able to get just five of them clearly on board for the compromise and is hoping that six others who helped negotiate it will help overcome a filibuster.

The compromise proposes spending hundreds of billions of dollars on roads and bridges. But it abandons just about every major Biden idea for combating global warming. It lacks standards and tax incentives meant to push utilities to clean up electricity generation. It declines to phase out subsidies for fossil fuels. It largely forgoes meaningful investments for electric car infrastructure and public transit. It offers nothing for research and

development on clean energy.

In announcing the deal, Biden appeared to want to do much more — the compromise, he said, would be paired with another spending bill that Democrats could try to pass under a parliamentary technique known as reconciliation, which would allow them to sidestep the Senate filibuster. That plan, he suggested, would include huge investments for the climate and the White House’s safety-net priorities. He promised not to sign the compromise without also signing the larger bill.

That seemed comforting — but then the president over the weekend walked back his promise. Thankfully, many Democrats in Congress aren’t backing down; a number of progressives in the Senate and the House are vowing to pull support from the infrastructure plan if they aren’t assured significant action on the climate. “No climate, no deal,” has become a lefty rallying cry.

This is to the good. What’s the point of fixing the nation’s infrastructure if we don’t bother to address the primary threat to our infrastructure?

Again, it’s best to take the long view.

“Windows of opportunity for legislation are shortlived. They open, and they close,” said Leah Stokes, a political scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who studies environmental politics.

With a single death or illness, Democrats could lose their advantage in the Senate; in next year’s midterm elections, they could lose Congress entirely.

“What if it’s another decade before we get back to this moment?” Stokes asked. “It would be horrible.”

Democrats may have only about a year before the results of the midterms to take big action on the climate.

This could be our one shot. Let’s not throw it away.

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Gobernador anticipa pedirá a la Junta mover partidas en el presupuesto si se reciben los fondos del Medicare POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia anticipó el jueves que tan pronto se reciban los fondos federales por concepto del Medicare, solicitará a la Junta de Control Fiscal (JCF) mover partidas en el presupuesto para atender varios asuntos.

“Estoy seguro de que eso va a ocurrir en o antes del mes de octubre.

Cuando eso ocurra, como esos fondos no están contemplados en este presupuesto, voy a recurrir a la Junta para solicitar reprogramaciones”, dijo el gobernador en un aparte con periodistas.

“Por ejemplo, la Universidad de Puerto Rico, un aumento justo y razonable para los oficiales de custodia del Departamento de Corrección y Rehabilitación. Apoyo para los municipios, programas de empleo para nuestra gente joven gente y retirada, por hablar de varias iniciativas que no se incluyeron”, añadió.

Por su parte, el presidente de la

Junta de Control Fiscal, David Skeel, anticipó también, que el gobernador puede solicitar reprogramación de fondos, pero no necesariamente se le van a aprobar.

“PROMESA provee y nosotros operamos bajo la teoría de que si las circunstancias cambian, podemos enmendar el Plan Fiscal y enmendar el presupuesto. Eso no necesariamente quiere decir que vamos a estar de

acuerdo con las propuestas del gobernador, pero dialogaremos con él”, expresó Skeel.

Pierluisi Urrutia habló sobre la primera aprobación por la Junta de Control Fiscal (JCF) de un presupuesto acordado por la Asamblea Legislativa y el Ejecutivo.

“Es un momento importante, es un paso importante de parte de la Junta al implementar la Ley PROMESA y per-

mitir que el Gobierno de Puerto Rico tenga un rol sustantivo en la aprobación del presupuesto del gobierno. En el pasado, la Junta imponía el presupuesto. Yo presenté un presupuesto mayor que el que se acaba de certificar, la Asamblea Legislativa también discrepó de las posturas de la Junta, pero al final del camino, logramos un consenso. Yo cedí, en la Asamblea Legislativa se cedió y entonces la Junta le ha certificado el presupuesto”, mencionó el gobernador.

“Para mí es un logro súper importante que la Junta en conjunto con la Legislatura y el gobernador hayamos logrado certificar un presupuesto”, declaró por su parte, Antonio Medina, integrante de la Junta.

Para que la Junta termine sus funciones en Puerto Rico tienen que ocurrir tres cosas: salir de la quiebra, tener 4 presupuestos balanceados y volver al mercado de valores para poder tomar préstamos.

El jueves, la Junta aprobó el presupuesto de 10 mil, 100 millones de dólares para el año fiscal 2021-2022.

Guardia Costera establece Condición Portuaria X-RAY en los puertos marítimos de Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes de EE. UU. POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – La Guardia Costera estableció el jueves la Condición Portuaria X-RAY a las 12 de la tarde del jueves para los puertos marítimos en Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes de Estados Unidos, debido al acercamiento de la tormenta tropical Elsa a la región del Caribe.

La Guardia Costera advierte enérgicamente a la comunidad marítima que tome las precauciones necesarias y permanezca alerta a cualquier nuevo pronóstico del tiempo y trayectoria para la

tormenta tropical Elsa.

Durante la Condición Portuaria XRAY, las instalaciones portuarias permanecen abiertas a todo el tráfico marítimo comercial y todas las operaciones de transferencia de carga pueden continuar. Las embarcaciones de 500 toneladas o más que deseen permanecer en el puerto deben solicitarlo y las instalaciones reguladas deben presentar una evaluación de su preparación por si el capitán del puerto decide establecer la Condición Portuaria YANKEE. Se recuerda a las instalaciones marítimas y portuarias que revisen y actua-

licen sus planes de respuesta a posibles condiciones meteorológicas adversas y que realicen los preparativos adicionales necesarios en el caso de un posible impacto de la tormenta.

La comunidad marítima y las instalaciones portuarias pueden ver las últimas actualizaciones sobre el estado de los puertos en el página web: Coast Guard’s Homeport site.

Se recomienda a los propietarios de embarcaciones recreacionales a que busquen un puerto seguro y presten mucha atención a cualquier cambio en las condiciones meteorológicas y los avisos

de embarcaciones pequeñas durante el paso de la tormenta y durante el fin de semana del 4 de julio.

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Honk if Helen Mirren and Vin Diesel should have kissed in ‘F9’

By KYLE BUCHANAN

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ire up the petitions. Notify the lobbyists. When the 10th “Fast and Furious” film is made, I have a suggestion that is really more of a demand: Vin Diesel and Helen Mirren must kiss.

This was my primary takeaway from watching the latest installment, “F9,” in which the 75-year-old Mirren and 53-year-old Diesel share a car chase and display more crackling chemistry than any other duo in the movie. She flirts with him, he beams at her, and Diesel’s evident delight in having the Oscar-winning Mirren as a scene partner is just delicious. By the end of the sequence, as her Queenie drove Diesel’s Dom Toretto through the streets of London, I couldn’t help but hope that she would lean over and snog our hero.

And why not? In the previous “Fast” film, Diesel kissed another Oscar winner, Charlize Theron. Imagine the smooch streak that could be engineered if even more best-actress winners were persuaded to join the franchise: After Mirren, maybe we’d get Diesel in a romantic clinch with Frances McDormand! (Surely Diesel’s series flame, Michelle Rodriguez, would issue a hall pass for that.)

Sometimes you have to be the change you want to see in the world, which is why I set up a video chat with Mirren this month to pitch this character coupling directly to her.

Here are edited excerpts from our conversation.

Q: Your scene with Vin is the best one in the movie, and it’s clear that he adores you. Still, I have a note: There should have been a kiss, don’t you think?

A: A very chaste kiss would be nice, yes.

Q: Listen, I’d settle for that. Maybe part of the thrill of this pairing is that it’s so rare to see Vin Diesel riding in someone else’s passenger seat.

A: I know, this is true. What an honor to find myself driving him, and also very intimidating. Vin doesn’t make it intimidating — he was so easy and lovely — but the technology of this kind of filming is very complex, and it’s a world I’m not that familiar with at all. So it was a great help to have a good friend sitting next to me, for sure. And just to hear that voice!

Q: Tell me about it.

A: I mean, Vin has the most unbelievable voice. I go a bit gooey when I hear it. That velvety brown rumble in your ear is so fabulous to experience for a whole day or two. It is like hearing the most incredibly well-oiled engine.

Q: You’ve always had good screen chemistry with bald action stars — Vin, Jason Statham (notably in “Hobbs & Shaw,”), Bruce Willis (“Red” and other movies). Is there something about you that just plays well off that stoic action hero type?

A: There might be! First of all, I come into these things with a great respect for these guys because what they do is quite different from everything that I’ve done in my career.

Their commitment and depth of knowledge of how these movies work is very impressive. I always feel I can learn from

Helen Mirren takes the wheel with Vin Diesel by her side in “F9.” them. Maybe it’s the fact that I really bring a lot of respect that makes the whole thing work, but I think they’re great.

Q: Still, the vibe you’ve got with Vin is a cut above.

A: I think it’s that we are so opposite on almost every level. But at the same time there is a big mutual respect that goes utterly both ways. Also, I met Vin’s mother, who’s lovely, and I think there’s something there as well: He’s very, very close to his mum and obviously loves her. She’s lovely, very sweet and gentle. Not like Vin at all, but he loves her very much!

Q: And your character seems to love Vin’s, or at least feel some affection for him. I’m thinking of your last line to him as he leaves your car: “Don’t get yourself killed, OK? You’re my favorite American.”

A; He’s not my favorite American, Vin. My favorite American is my husband, Taylor Hackford. My next favorite Americans are my stepsons. But after that comes Vin. Q: This is your third movie in the franchise after “The Fate of the Furious” and “Hobbs and Shaw,” but it’s the first to put you in an actual car chase. What was the holdup?

A: Oh my God, it’s totally why I wanted to be in the movies! In reality, they wrote lovely scenes for me, and I was part of the creation of the character in the first place — I wanted her to be called Queenie and come from that kind of East End family I know a little bit about — but I mostly wanted to be behind the wheel of a car and, of course, that didn’t happen for two of the movies. Somehow, they made it work for this movie, which was fantastic.

Q: Did you keep lobbying for that scene every time they brought you back?

A: I take it as it comes. And I whine a little bit and moan and snivel, and that works.

Q: And you actually got to film the sequence in London, right?

A: The fact that I was on the real streets of London, my hometown, was extraordinary for me. To see Vin in that context was surreal: The elegance and the familiarity of London and Vin there was very contradictory! But I was thrilled that the sequence took place in the very heart of London and I couldn’t believe that they closed down the mall going to the Palace. I’m sure the queen must have been out with the binoculars, don’t you think, watching it all from the top bedroom window: “Oh my God, what are they doing?”

Q: Or saying, “Mirren again?”

A: “Mirren again, really? Will that woman ever leave me alone?”

Q: How long did it all take to shoot?

A: Three or four days that I was involved in, and then of course there was all the brilliant stunt driving that is obviously done by experienced drivers. I’m a big supporter, incidentally, of stunt people being given an Oscar. I think there should be a category for it because stunt people’s contribution to so many films nowadays is so huge and extraordinary.

Q: Your cinematic family has gotten pretty sprawling in this series, with Jason Statham, Luke Evans and Vanessa Kirby all playing your kids. Have you put any thought into who could be cast as your ex-husband?

A: I don’t know if I’m allowed to say but apparently Vin had the idea of Michael Caine. I mean, wouldn’t that be fantastic? That would be just so cool and absolutely perfect.

So we’ll see.

Q: Let’s put that out into the ether, then. And while we’re doing that, let me double back on my first request: If a chaste kiss can be arranged in the next movie, would you be open to it?

A: With Vin? Oh my God, of course I would! But only if he talks to me before and after, because it’s the voice that I really get off on, quite honestly.

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Mae West vamped and winked. She also blazed a trail we’re still following.

Mae West in “She Done Him Wrong,” one of the biggest hits of 1933.

By JASON BAILEY

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ae West is fourth-billed in her film debut, the 1932 melodrama “Night After Night,” and she does not appear until the 37-minute mark. But it is an unforgettable entrance. We first hear her whiskeysoaked voice purring, from behind a wall of ogling men, “Now why don’t you guys be good and go home to your wives?” The men part like the Red Sea to reveal the blonde bombshell, poured immaculately into her gown and sparkling with jewelry.

Within her first minute on screen, she has tossed off one of her signature lines, as a coat check girl coos, “Goodness, what beautiful diamonds,” and West replies, slyly, “Goodness had nothin’ to do with it, dearie!” West

didn’t just take over the movie — she took over the movies, period.

In recent years, film historians, archivists and programmers have cast a long-overdue spotlight on the earliest female auteurs, resulting in such indispensable efforts as the “Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers” box set from Kino Lorber; the documentary “Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché”; and fresh releases and reappraisals of works by Ida Lupino, Lois Weber and Dorothy Arzner.

But West is rarely mentioned among those groundbreakers, still regarded solely (alongside contemporaries like the Marx Brothers and her onetime co-star W.C. Fields) as a comedian, starring in entertaining if interchangeable roughhouse Paramount comedies of the 1930s.

The simplest explanation for this exclusion is that West did not direct her own pictures. But she wrote them, often adapting her own plays, a rarity among female performers of the era. And while marquee directors helmed her films (including Leo McCarey, Henry Hathaway and Raoul Walsh), none put their personal stamp on them as she did. A close examination of her first nine films, all released between 1932 and 1940 (and all newly available on Blu-ray, via KL Studio Classics) reveals recurring themes and concerns beyond even the considerable achievement of creating and cultivating her iconic comic persona.

In “I’m No Angel” (1933), West is advertised as a “Marvel of the Age,” and that is as good a description as any. Born Mary Jane West in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, daughter of a prizefighter turned private investigator, she began performing in talent competitions as a child and hit the vaudeville stage in her early teens, eventually graduating to burlesque shows and Broadway revues.

But West’s career did not take off until she began writing, producing and directing her own Broadway vehicles: lurid comic melodramas with attention-grabbing titles like “Pleasure Man,” “The Constant Sinner” and, simply and most memorably, “Sex.” West was pushing 40 when she made that memorable debut in “Night After Night,” and she came to the screen with her comic personality fully intact. Her first starring vehicle, “She Done Him Wrong,” was based on her Broadway hit “Diamond Lil.” It paired her with a handsome young unknown named Cary Grant, with whom she re-teamed for “I’m No Angel” later that year. Alas, the year in question was 1933, the final stretch of Hollywood’s pre-Code era, so named because of the stillscant enforcement the Hays Code, which was intended as a strict set of moral guidelines — for characters in motion pictures and for the actors who played them.

Indeed, “She Done Him Wrong” and “I’m No Angel” could only have been made — and Mae West, thus, could only have become a star — in the pre-Code era. The women she played were not just sexually independent; they were sexually voracious, unapologetic in their appetites (and their forthrightness about them). Such women were otherwise uncommon on screen in the 1930s, and frankly, are still far from the norm.

She got away with it (for a time) by wrapping her sexuality in a comic character. But when enforcement of the Code cranked up in 1934, West — whose two 1933 films were

among the year’s biggest hits — topped the list of targets, and her screenplays were subjected to such scrutiny that her persona was all but defanged. Even slicing her dialogue could not “clean up” a West picture, though; she had merely to wrap her suggestive voice around a line or to insert a little moan or a suggestive eye roll to make the most innocent piece of dialogue sound filthy.

But she was always vamping with a wink and taking pains to include her audience on the gag. Time after time, West pulled off the neat trick of being sexy and satirizing the very concept of sexiness, pushing her eyebrow raising to the level of parody, exploring and ultimately eradicating the razor-thin line between horny and silly.

Still, her scripts were never mere clotheslines on which to hang her double entendres. They were snapshots of life on the fringes, where she herself had dwelled: Bowery bars, vaudeville stages and carnivals, filled with gangsters, boxers and drunks. Perhaps because of her proximity to these worlds, she conveys a palpable affection for lowlifes, eccentrics and outcasts. No one thinks of Mae West as a purveyor of social realism, but perhaps people should. Is “I’m No Angel” less worthy of esteem than a social realist drama like “Dead End” simply because it has more laughs?

Moreover, the personal preoccupations of her work, easily overlooked at the time, become apparent when viewing the films as a whole. Over and over again, West plays an outsider trying, and often failing, to fit in. Her characters are objects of derision, frequently from local women, hypocritical cops or corrupt politicians, who look down on her because she is in show business, or because she is a nouveau riche, or (most of all) because she is sexual. Whatever the reason, she does not “belong.”

Yet, Hays Code or no, women who not only survived as outsiders but thrived remained the central motif of West’s work. It has taken decades for mainstream cinema to catch up with what she was doing in the early 1930s, and while there are scores of possible explanations for West’s current exclusion from the canon, it is entirely possible that they are the same now as they ever were: that she was a comedian, that she was overtly sexual, that she was fundamentally disreputable. It is quite possible she will forever remain a gate-crasher.

On one hand, that is a shame. On the other, she probably would not have it any other way.

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This summer, make it Chianti Classico

A variety of Chianti Classico wines, in New York, June 4, 2021. Even in warmer weather, some occasions cry out for a red. This Tuscan wine is a gorgeous expression of sangiovese, with many excellent producers.

By ERIC ASIMOV

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ere’s my wine for the summer: Chianti Classico.

I know, it’s not what people usually imagine as a summer wine. It’s red, for one thing. Sunny days, sweaty nights and poolside tables are the regular haunts of rosés and whites.

I’ve always resisted the notion that seasons alone dictate what’s best to drink. It’s the food at least as much as the weather.

The weather influences the weight and heft of what we cook and the sorts of ingredients that are available. The heavy stews and casseroles of winter give way to glorious salads and food cooked outdoors over coals.

Even in the summer, certain dishes call out for reds, and the one I often want now is Chianti Classico.

Partly this is because I have a crush on the sangiovese grape, the crucial constituent of the wine. Sangiovese in its Chianti Classico form is a great match for steak, burgers, sausages and even grilled chicken. It has the depth to match their flavors, with enough acidity to refresh. And it takes nicely to a light chill — say, 20 minutes in the fridge or an ice bucket.

Other Italian wines are based on sangiovese, including Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, which, like Chianti, are from Tuscany. It’s a popular grape in Emilia-Romagna to the north and in the Marche to the east.

But as much as I like these other wines, right now I’m obsessed with Chianti Classico. I find a lightness, purity and eloquence to the wines that in my mind sets them apart

from other sangiovese wines.

Recently, shopping online in New York City, I picked out a dozen Chianti Classicos that will be great this summer, or for the next few years at least. Let me be more precise: I found 10 Chianti Classicos and two bottles that are Chianti Classicos in every way but name, their producers having chosen not to use the appellation for personal or historical reasons.

Chianti Classico is the historic heart of a larger Chianti region in the hilly area between Florence and Siena. Outside of the Chianti Classico area other wines can be labeled plain Chianti or, if they come from within seven subzones they can append a local designation. Those include: Chianti Rùfina, Chianti Colline Pisane, Chianti Colli Senesi, Chianti Colli Aretini, Chianti Colli Fiorentini, Chianti Montespertoli and Chianti Montalbano.

Those wines can be good, but in my experience few have the finesse or beauty of Chianti Classicos.

Even within the Chianti Classico category, different wines can offer very different expressions. Some can be almost achingly ethereal while others are richer and more substantial.

Some may be structured and tannic enough to wait a few years before drinking. Others are easygoing and ready to drink upon release. The best are fine and transparently express their origins, often with sweet, earthy and bitter flavors of cherries and flowers.

Long gone are the days in the 1960s when the local wine authorities mandated a maximum of 70% sangiovese in Chiantis

and required that white grapes be blended in. Nowadays, Chianti Classico must be 80% to 100% sangiovese, with the rest made up of local grapes like canaiolo, colorino or malvasia nera; international grapes like merlot, cabernet sauvignon and syrah; or a combination.

With rare exceptions, sangiovese works best with the local grapes. Too often, the international grapes insert a discordant note — the chocolate of merlot, for example, that can seem out of tune. Yet one of my recommended bottles does have some merlot in its blend, and I was not able to notice it.

What accounts for the differences in the wines? The region is a complicated jumble of soils, vineyards, elevations and microclimates, which can make wines grown in neighboring towns remarkably dissimilar.

The differing intentions of the farmers and winemakers is also a crucial factor.

Chianti Classico is divided into eight subzones (it used to be nine, but in 2019 Barberino Val d’Elsa and Tavarnelle Val di Pesa merged and is now referred to as Barberino Tavarnelle), and a debate has long raged whether to permit producers to use these subzones on their labels. Proponents argue it will help consumers gain a sense of the character of a wine, while opponents say the variables are too many and that geographical divisions are too simple.

It’s possible both sides are correct. But I believe more information is better, and I have certainly noticed some correlation between subzones and styles. The wines from Radda in Chianti, for example, seem to be elegant, with great finesse, while those from Castelnuovo Berardenga are often richer and weightier.

The other five subzones are Greve in Chianti, San Casciano in Val di Pesa, Castellina in Chianti, Gaiole in Chianti and Poggibonsi.

Chianti Classico comes in three levels: Chianti Classico, which requires 12 months of aging before release, Chianti Classico Riserva, which requires 24 months of aging and Gran Selezione, which can only be made from estate-owned grapes and requires 30 months of aging.

I have focused on the straightforward Chianti Classicos, often referred to informally as “normales” to distinguish them from the

riservas and gran seleziones. I find that the normales are the least likely to be burdened with the aromas and tannins of new oak barrels and offer an immediate, unmediated purity. Wines in the other categories can be wonderful, but may require a lot more aging before realizing their potential. They are also a lot more expensive.

A Dozen Bottles From Tuscany Here are my 12 suggestions, in order of price. Many more excellent Chianti Classicos are out there, which for one reason or another I did not find. They include Caparsa, Castellinuzza e Piuca, Monte Bernardi, Isole e Olena, Lecci e Brocchi and Castell’in Villa.

Candialle Chianti Classico La Misse di Candialle 2017 $24 Josephin and Jarkko Peranen, a German-Finnish couple who own Candialle, practice regenerative agriculture at their small estate near Greve. La Misse di Candialle is 90% sangiovese, with 5% each of canaiolo and malvasia nera, fermented and aged in concrete vats. This lovely wine has spicy, peppery flavors of red cherries and flowers, with firm tannins that will soften with a few years aging. (Bowler Wine, New York) Istine Chianti Classico Vigna Istine 2018 $24 This tangy, energetic Chianti Classico is 100% sangiovese from a high-altitude, organic vineyard in Radda, where the soils are a mix of limestone marl, sandstone and schist. It is fermented in concrete vats and aged a year in Slavonian oak, followed by another year of aging in the bottle. It is fresh and graceful, floral and elegant. (Soilair Selection, New York) Fèlsina Chianti Classico Berardenga 2018 $25 Like the Vigna Istine, the Fèlsina Chianti Classico is 100% sangiovese and comes from a mixture of soils. Yet it is bigger and rounder than the Istine, with firmer tannins and earthy, stony flavors of ripe red fruits. Many variables could account for the differences, but significantly, the Fèlsina vineyards are at a lower altitude in the Castelnuovo Berardenga area. This excellent wine will improve with a few more years of age. (Polaner Selections, Mount Kisco, New York)

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I Fabbri Chianti Classico Lamole 2017 $28 In 2000, Susanna Grassi returned to her largely abandoned family estate in the Greve area and started I Fabbri. Her vineyards are relatively high, 1,900 to 2,000 feet, and she farms organically. The Lamole, 100% sangiovese and aged in concrete tanks, is fresh, light, pure, floral and elegant, even in a hot vintage like 2017.

(Volcanic Selections, New York) Pruneto Chianti Classico 2016 $29 This wine, from a tiny estate with high-elevation vineyards in Radda, is an exception in this group, because in addition to 95% sangiovese it contains 5% merlot. Unlike other wines with international grapes in the blend, I could not detect any influence in the wine, which was bright, juicy and vibrant, with pure flavors of red cherries and dusty tannins. Riccardo Lanza, the proprietor, is essentially a one-person operation. He farms organically, ferments in concrete vats and ages the wine in large oak barrels. (Coeur Wine Company, New York) Montesecondo Chianti Classico 2018 $30 Silvio Messana farms his Montesecondo estate in San Casciano biodynamically. His lovely Chianti Classico is 90% sangiovese, with 5% each of canaiolo and colorino, blended from two sites and aged in concrete vats. It is spicy, pure and vibrant, with lively, stony, lingering flavors of red fruits and fine tannins. (Louis/Dressner Selections, New York) Monteraponi Chianti Classico 2018 $30 The Chianti Classicos at this excellent estate, with high-elevation vineyards in Radda rich with limestone marl and schist, are superb year in and year out. The 2018 is substantial yet fresh, lithe and graceful, with earthy, stony flavors of red fruits. It is 95% sangiovese and 5% canaiolo, fermented in concrete vats and aged in large oak barrels. (Grand Cru Selections, New York) Fontodi Chianti Classico 2017 $45 This large, well-known estate, owned by the Manetti family, has lower-elevation vineyards in Panzano near Greve. Fontodi farms organically, and its Chianti Classico is 100% sangiovese, fermented in tanks and aged in older barrels of French oak.

The 2017 is rich and expressive, structured and linear, with fine tannins and flavors of

dark cherry and flowers. (Vinifera Imports, Ronkonkoma, New York) San Giusto a Rentennano Chianti Classico 2018 $54 The Martini di Cigala family has owned this estate in Gaiole for generations. This elegant Chianti Classico is made from 95% sangiovese and 5% canaiolo, all farmed organically. It is rather high in alcohol at 14.5%, yet it paradoxically seems light-bodied, with pretty flavors of cherries, flowers and herbs, and fine tannins. (Vinifera Imports) Cigliano di Sopra Chianti Classico 2017 $56 Maddalena Fucile, with the help of Matteo Vaccari, restored the vineyards of her old family estate in San Casciano, the area of Chianti Classico closest to the city of Florence. They farm biodynamically, ferment in steel tanks and age in big barrels of French oak. This juicy, earthy wine is 100% sangiovese, with chalky tannins and red fruit and floral flavors. (Volcanic Selections) Le Boncie Toscana Le Trame 2017 $60 Giovanna Morganti farms her small estate outside Castelnuovo Berardenga biodynamically. While her wines qualify as Chianti Classicos, she stopped using the appellation a decade ago, rejecting the bureaucratic details required. Regardless, her wines are pure, bright, fresh and juicy, with bracing acidity and lingering flavors of red fruit and flowers. They are almost entirely sangiovese, with tiny amounts of mammolo and foglia tonda, a rarely seen local grape, in the mix. (Rosenthal Wine Merchant, New York) Montevertine Toscana 2017 $68 Like Le Boncie, Montevertine, near Radda, does not use the Chianti Classico appellation, though it would qualify. Its reasons are more historical, though. In the 1970s, Montevertine decided it could make better wines without following the blending rules that then governed the region. In rebellion, it stopped using the appellation. Chianti Classico has come a long way since, changing its rules to accommodate wines like Montevertine. But Montevertine persists in its independence.

This superb wine, 90% sangiovese and 5% each of canaiolo and colorino, is rich yet tapered and precise, beautifully balanced and elegant, with stony flavors of red fruit and flowers. It will gain complexity and nuance with aging. (Rosenthal Wine Merchant)

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Worried by Delta variant, WHO officials urged vaccinated people to keep wearing masks

By RONI CARYN RABIN

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orld Health Organization officials, concerned about the easing of precautions meant to stop the spread of the coronavirus even as the most contagious variant to date has emerged, have urged even fully vaccinated people to continue wearing masks and to keep taking other measures to prevent infection.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on the other hand, told fully vaccinated Americans in May that they no longer needed to wear masks indoors or to maintain a distance of 6 feet from other people. The agency also eased advice about testing and quarantine after suspected exposure to the virus.

Asked earlier this week about the new cautions expressed by the WHO — the world’s largest public health organization — a CDC spokesperson pointed to the existing guidance and gave no indication it would change.

A highly infectious form of the virus, called the Delta variant, was first detected in India and has been identified in at least 85 countries. In the United States, where its prevalence has doubled in the last two weeks, the variant is responsible for 1 in every 5 COVID-19 cases. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease doctor, has called it “the greatest threat” to eliminating the virus in the United States.

The rise of new variants “makes it even more urgent that we use all the tools at our disposal to prevent transmission,” including consistent use of both vaccination and public health and social measures, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO, said at a news briefing on Friday.

Dr. Mariângela Simão, the WHO’s assistant director-general for access to medicines, vaccines and pharmaceuticals, emphasized at the briefing that even vaccinated people should continue to consistently wear masks, avoid crowds and maintain social distance from oth-

ers, make sure they are in well-ventilated spaces, wash their hands frequently, and avoid sneezing or coughing around other people.

“What we’re saying is, ‘Once you’ve been fully vaccinated, continue to play it safe, because you could end up as part of a transmission chain.’ You may not actually be fully protected,” said Dr. Bruce Aylward, a senior adviser to the WHO. He added, “I think the first message we want to be careful about is saying, ‘Once you’re vaccinated, you can just go ahead and do whatever.’”

The comments were made in the context of broader statements criticizing the inequitable distribution of vaccines around the globe and the lack of access to vaccination in many parts of the world where the virus is spreading.

Covax, the WHO program that poor countries rely on for vaccines, has “zero doses” of AstraZeneca or Johnson & Johnson vaccines, or those made by the Serum Institute of India, available for distribution, Aylward said. While less than 2% of the population of Africa is vaccinated, some countries are purchasing vaccines for young people who are at relatively low risk from the virus, he noted.

Even in countries where there are ample supplies of vaccine, full vaccination rates are lower than they could be, Alyward said.

Though fully vaccinated people are largely protected from symptomatic and asymptomatic coronavirus infections, studies suggest the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine’s efficacy against the Delta variant is slightly lower than against other variants; the efficacy is significantly lower for individuals who have received only one dose of the vaccine.

And countries with relatively high vaccination rates have seen an uptick in infections driven by the Delta variant: Britain, where some two-thirds of the population has received at least one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or AstraZeneca vaccine and just under half have received two dos-

es, is nonetheless grappling with a sharp rise in infections from the variant.

In Israel, which has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world, a rise in cases attributed to the Delta variant has led the government to reimpose mask mandates indoors and at large outdoor gatherings.

Given how pernicious and fast moving the variant is, “the vaccine approach is not enough,” said Eric Feigl-Ding, senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington. “We’re not at the level of vaccinations where we can release the brakes on everything else and herd immunity will grind transmissions to a halt.”

Other scientists disagreed, saying guidance has to be more nuanced and tailored to local communities, varying according to vaccination rates and infection rates.

“The WHO is looking at a world that is largely unvaccinated, so this makes sense,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.

In parts of the United States with low vaccination rates, too, masks may be appropriate, and recommendations should be tailored appropriately, he added. “If I were living in Missouri or Wyoming or Mississippi, places with low vaccination rates, I would not be excited about going indoors without wearing a mask — even though I’m vaccinated,” Jha said.

World Health Organization officials are urging the public to continue to follow social distancing measures, wear masks and take other precautions over concern about the spread of the Delta variant.

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The Delta variant: What scientists know

By EMILY ANTHES

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he supercontagious Delta variant of the coronavirus is now responsible for about 1 in every 5 COVID-19 cases in the United States, health officials said last week, and its prevalence had doubled in the two weeks before the briefing, they said.

First identified in India, Delta is one of several “variants of concern,” as designated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization. It has spread rapidly through India and Britain.

Its appearance in the United States is not surprising. And with vaccinations ticking up and COVID-19 case numbers falling, it’s unclear how much of a problem Delta will cause here. Still, its swift rise has prompted concerns that it might jeopardize the nation’s progress in beating back the pandemic.

“The Delta variant is currently the greatest threat in the U.S. to our attempt to eliminate COVID-19,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said at the briefing on June 22. The good news, he said, is that the vaccines authorized in the United States work against the variant. “We have the tools,” he said.

“So let’s use them and crush the outbreak.”

Here are answers to some common questions about the Delta variant.

Why are people worried about the Delta variant?

Delta, formerly known as B.1.617.2, is believed to be the most transmissible variant yet, spreading more easily than both the original strain of the virus and the Alpha variant first identified in Britain.

Public health officials there have said that

A pedestrian walks past an electronic information board displaying Covid-19 information relating to a ‘variant of concern in the area’ in Blackburn, England.

Delta could be 50% more contagious than Alpha, although estimates of its infectiousness vary.

Other evidence suggests that the variant may be able to partly evade the antibodies made by the body after a coronavirus infection or vaccination. And the variant may render certain monoclonal antibody treatments less effective, the CDC notes.

Delta may also cause more severe illness. A recent Scottish study, for instance, found that people infected by the Delta variant were roughly twice as likely to be hospitalized than those infected with Alpha. But uncertainties remain, scientists said.

“The severe disease piece I think is the one question that really hasn’t been answered yet,” said Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

Where is it spreading?

Delta has been reported in 80 countries. It is now the most common variant in India and Britain, where it accounts for more than 90% of cases.

Delta was first identified in the Unit-

ed States in March. Though Alpha remains the most prevalent variant here, Delta has spread quickly. In early April, Delta represented just 0.1% of U.S. cases, according to the CDC. By early May, it accounted for 1.3% of cases, and by early June, that figure had jumped to 9.5%. As of a few days before the briefing, the estimate hit 20.6%, Fauci said.

If I’m vaccinated, do I need to worry?

The Delta variant is unlikely to pose much risk to people who have been fully vaccinated, experts said.

“If you’re fully vaccinated, I would largely not worry about it,” said Dr. Ashish K. Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.

According to one recent study, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was 88% effective at protecting against symptomatic disease caused by Delta, nearly matching its 93% effectiveness against the Alpha variant. But a single dose of the vaccine was just 33% effective against Delta, the study found.

“Fully immunized individuals should do well with this new phase of the epidemic,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. “However, the protection offered by a single dose appears low, and of course if you are not at all vaccinated, consider yourself at high risk.”

Delta is likely to infect “large numbers” of unvaccinated people, he said.

Will it cause a new surge?

The pandemic is waning in the United States, with cases, hospitalizations and deaths all on the decline. At the time of the briefing, the seven-day case average, roughly 10,350 a day, was the lowest since March 2020, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, said. “These numbers dem-

onstrate the extraordinary progress we’ve made against a formidable foe,” she said So while Delta may account for an increasing percentage of cases, it is not yet clear whether it will drive up total case numbers.

“I think we are not going to see another big, national surge in the United States, because we have enough vaccination to prevent that,” Osterholm said.

Still, vaccination rates have been highly uneven and are lower in certain states and demographic groups. Delta could fuel outbreaks in the South, where vaccinations lag, or among young people, who are less likely to be vaccinated than their elders.

“In places where there’s still a lot of susceptibility to the virus, it opens a window for cases to start going up again,” said Justin Lessler, an infectious disease public health researcher at Johns Hopkins University. “But even in those states, and certainly nationally, we’re probably not getting back to the numbers we were seeing last winter.”

Still, he said, it could prolong our path out of the pandemic. “It continues the doldrums,” he said.

What can I do?

Get vaccinated. If you’re already vaccinated, encourage your family, friends and neighbors to get vaccinated. Vaccination is likely to slow the spread of all the variants and reduce the odds that new, even more dangerous variants emerge.

“I encourage people who are vaccinated to trust in the vaccines but be cognizant that new variants will continue to occur where transmission exists,” said Saskia Popescu, an infectious disease public health researcher at George Mason University. “So it’s really about ensuring local, national and global vaccination.”

The San Juan Daily Star San Juan, a 28 de abril de 2015 ante el notario Alberto Luis Toro ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Sánchez e inscrita al folio 211 DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- del tomo 1949 de Bayamón, finNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ca 39,789 7ma y última. La hiSALA DE BAYAMÓN poteca objeto de esta ejecución ORIENTAL BANK es la que ha quedado descrita Parte Demandante V. en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe MARTHA CARMELA GODOY YARUSCUAN de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 25 de septiemParte Demandada bre de 2020, mediante la cual Civil Núm.: BY2020CV01316. se condenó a la parte demanSobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y dada pagar a la parte demanEJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. dante la cantidad ascendiente LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE a $90,589.22 de principal, más AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE $1,888.00 de la modificación, DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO más intereses acumulados, LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., que continuarán acumulándose SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUal 6.375% anual hasta el saldo BASTA. El que suscribe, Altotal de la deuda, $107.36 a guacil del Tribunal de Primera cargos por demora, $198.361 Instancia, Sala de BAYAMON, a escrow, más $9,750.00 de hago saber a la parte demancostas, gastos y honorarios de dada, MARTHA CARMELA abogado, más cualquier otro GODOY YARUSCUAN y al PÚdesembolso que haya efectuaBLICO EN GENERAL; que en do o efectúe la parte demancumplimiento del Mandamiento dante durante la tramitación de de Ejecución de Sentencia exeste caso para otros adelantos pedido el 27 de abril de 2021, de conformidad con el Contrapor la Secretaría del Tribunal, to Hipotecario. La PRIMERA procederé a vender y venderé SUBASTA será celebrada el en pública subasta y al mejor día 3 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, postor pagadero en efectivo, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE en cheque de gerente o giro posel Tribunal de Primera Instantal, a nombre del Alguacil del cia, Sala de BAYAMÓN, Puerto Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad Rico, Piso 5, Sala 503. Servirá [Urbanización Miraflores 31-9 de tipo mínimo para la misma, Calle 35, Bayamón, PR 00957]: la cantidad de $97,500.00 sin URBANA: Solar número 9 del admitirse oferta inferior. De no bloque 31 de la Urbanización haber remate ni adjudicación, Residencial Miraflores, radicelebraré SEGUNDA SUBAScada en el barrio Pájaros del TA el día 10 DE AGOSTO DE municipio de Bayamón, Puerto 2021, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARRico, compuesto de 384 metros DE, en el mismo lugar, en la con 72 centímetros cuadrados. que servirá como tipo mínimo, Colindando por el NORTE, en dos terceras (2/3) partes del 16 metros 3 centímetros con precio pactado para la primera la Calle 35; por el SUR, en 16 subasta, o sea, $65,000.00. Si metros 3 centímetros con el no hubiese remate ni adjudicasolar 26; por el ESTE, en 24.00 ción en la segunda subasta, cemetros con solar número 10 y lebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el por el OESTE, en 24.00 metros día 17 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, con solar número 8. Contiene A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en una casa de concreto. Finca el mismo lugar en la que regirá 39,789, inscrita al folio 71 del como tipo mínimo, la mitad del Tomo 891 de Bayamón, Regisprecio pactado para la primera tro de la Propiedad de Bayasubasta, o sea, $48,750.00. món, sección primera. La finca El Alguacil que suscribe hizo antes descrita se encuentra constar que toda licitación deafecta a los siguientes graváberá hacerse para pagar su menes: (i) HIPOTECA constituiimporte en moneda legal de los da por Martha Carmela Godoy Estados Unidos de América, de Yaruscuan, soltera, en garantía acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerde pagaré a favor de Banco Bildo con lo anunciado en este bao Vizcaya Argentaria Puerto Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y Rico, o a su orden, por la suma todos los documentos corresde $97,500.00 con intereses al pondientes al procedimiento 6.375% anual y vencimiento 1 incoado estarán de manifiesto de mayo de 2041. Constituida en la Secretaría del Tribunal por la Escritura 10 otorgada durante horas laborables. Se en Bayamón el 18 de abril de entiende que todo licitador que 2011, ante el notario José Guicomparezca a la subasta señallermo Barea Fernández, e inslada en este caso acepta como crita al folio 52 del tomo 1852 bastante la titulación que da de Bayamón, finca 39789, insbase a la misma. Se entiende cripción 6ª. MODIFICADA la que cualquier carga y/o grahipoteca de la inscripción 6ta. vamen anterior y/o preferente, a $94,582.27; al 3.850%, hasta si la hubiere al crédito que da el 1 de junio de 2018 luego al base a esta ejecución continua6.376% y vence el 1 de mayo rá subsistente, entendiéndose, de 2055, según escritura 31, en

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Friday, July 2, 2021 además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o 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, 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 subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante.

Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. 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. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En BAYAMON Puerto Rico, hoy 26 de mayo de 2021.

JOSÉ F. MARRERO ROBLES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #131, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN.

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REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante Vs.

staredictos@thesanjuandailystar.com

SUCESION ELIU HILARIO REYES RUIZ COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2020CV02473.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Sala 503, el 5 de agosto de 2021, a las 2:00 de la tarde, todo derecho título, participación o 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: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Santa Rosa, situado en el Barrio Juan Sanchez de Bayamón, que se describen en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Numero del solar cincuenta y uno (51) de la manzana cuarenta y ocho (48). Área de solar trescientos veinticinco punto cincuenta (325.50) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con el solar cincuenta y dos (52) distancia de veintiuno (21) metros; por el Sur, con el solar cincuenta (50), distancia veintiuno (21) metros; por el Este, con solares doce (12) y cuarenta y nueve (49), distancia de quince (15) metros con cincuenta (50) centímetros; por el Oeste, con la calle veintitrés (23), distancia de quince (15) metros con cincuenta (50) centímetros. Enclava una casa para uso residencial de una familia. Inscrita al folio 82 del

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25 tomo 235 de Bayamón Sur, finca 10,359, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución se encuentra inscrita al folio 638 del tomo 1965 de Bayamón Sur, finca 10,359, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I, inscripción 6ª.

Propiedad localizada en: URB. SANTA ROSA, 48-51 CALLE 23, BAYAMON, PR 00959. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $186,000.00.

Fecha de Vencimiento: 2 de mayo de 2087. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $186,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Sala 503, el 12 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $124,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $93,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Sala 503, el 19 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente la suma de $100,818.07 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $11,676.53 en intereses acumulados al 31 de

agosto de 2020 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.566% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $3,620.69 en seguro hipotecario; $4,725.00 en cargos por servicio; $425.00 en tasaciones; $120.00 en inspecciones; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $18,600.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, los recargos pactados desde la fecha antes indicada, acumulándose mensualmente, y todas estas sumas son líquidas y exigibles. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 26 de mayo de 2021. JORGE CAMPUSANO, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. JOSÉ F. MARRERO ROBLES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #131.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.

SUCESIÓN de LUIS ANTONIO PAGÁN VEGA t/c/c LUIS A. PAGÁN VEGA compuesta por FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, posibles herederos desconocidos; SUCESIÓN de PAULINE DE STEFANO WILEY t/c/c PAULINA DE STEFANO WILEY compuesta por SUTANO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, posibles herederos desconocidos

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. BY2019CV03479 (502). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía del 2 de diciembre de 2019, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 29 de enero de 2020 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 31 de enero de 2020 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender día 25 de agosto de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, en la Sala 503 del Quinto Piso, ubicado en la Carretera Número Dos (#2) Kilómetro 11.03, Esquina Esteban Padilla, Bayamón, Puerto Rico al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Marcada con el Número Uno (1).

Parcela de terreno de forma irregular radicado en el Barrio Guaraguao Arriba de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción del caso número cinco 572013, Urbanización de la Junta de Planificación de Puerto Rico, compuesto de 1.781 cuerdas equivalentes a 6,998.75 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con área dedicada a uso público, remanente de la finca principal, marcado BB y Parcela marcada Número Dos (2) en dicho plan de inscripción; por el SUR y ESTE, con área dedicada a uso público; y por el OESTE, con Parcela marcada Número Dos (2) en dicho plano de inscripción y área dedicada a uso público. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 246 del tomo 963 de Bayamón Sur, Finca Número 43224, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita como asiento abreviado al folio 5030 del tomo 1965 de Bayamón Sur, Finca Número 43224, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. Inscripción quinta.

DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: LOTE 1 RD. 174 KM 13.1, BARRIO GUARAGUAO ARRIBA, BAYAMON, PUERTO RICO 00959.

Primera Subasta: 25 de agosto de 2021 a las 11:00 am, Tipo Mínimo: $51,738.00. Segunda Subasta: 1 de septiembre de 2021 a las 11:00 am, Tipo

Mínimo: $34,492.00. Tercera Subasta: 9 de septiembre de 2021 a las 11:00 am, Tipo Mínimo: $25,869.00. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $51,738.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una segunda subasta, el día 1 de septiembre de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $34,492.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 9 de septiembre de 2021, a las 11:00 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $25,869.00. 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 ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $43,093.03 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.5% anual desde el 1 de abril de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más $109.44 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $5,173.80 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. La Sucesión de Luis Antonio Pagán Vega también conocido como Luis A. Pagán Vega compuesta por Fulano y Mengano de Tal, La Sucesión de Pauline de Stefano Wiley, también conocida como Paulina de Stefano Wiley compuesta por Sutano y Perencejo de Tal, como posibles herederos, ante el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, en el Caso Civil Número BY2019CV03479, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $43,093.93 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 21 de junio de 2019.

Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Bayamón Sur. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los

26 interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley.

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; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 1 de junio de 2021.

JOSÉ F. MARRERO ROBLES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, PLACA #131, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

HERIALBERTO PEÑA MAYSONET; SUJEIL SIERRA PAGÁN

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: DCD2015-2884.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 26 de abril de 2016, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 10 de junio de 2016 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 21 de junio de 2016 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 25 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, localizada en el

Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, en la Sala 503 del Quinto Piso, ubicado en la Carretera Número Dos (#2), Kilómetro 11.03, Esquina Esteban Padilla, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el Número 351 en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Hoyo Hoyo del Barrio Sabana del municipio de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 783.54 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con mogote número 490 de la Comunidad; por el SUR, con la Calle Número 24 de la Comunidad; por el ESTE, con Parcela Número 350 de la Comunidad; y por el OESTE, con Parcela Número 352 de la comunidad.

Enclava una casa. La propiedad consta inscrita al Folio 296 del Tomo 218 de Vega Alta, Finca Número 11610, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita como asiento abreviado al Tomo Karibe de Vega Alta, Finca Número 11610, Inscripción quinta.

Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. Dirección Física: COMUNIDAD RURAL HOYO HOYO, 351 EUGENIO MARÍA DE HOSTOS, VEGA ALTA, PUERTO RICO 00753.

SUBASTAS: FECHAS: PRIMERA; 25 DE AGOSTO DE 2021 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $78,400.00.

SEGUNDA: 1 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $52,266.66. TERCERA: 9 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $39,200.00.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $78,400.00.

De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 1 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $52,266.66. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 9 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $39,200.00. 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

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si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia en Rebeldía por la suma de $70,092.73 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.5% anual desde el 1 de mayo de 2015 hasta su completo pago, más $279.25 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $7,840.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente ejecutar: a. Hipoteca Posterior: Constituida por persona jurídica no expresada, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de La Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $4,952.00, sin intereses y vencedero el 24 de septiembre 2007, según consta de la Escritura Número 598, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 24 de septiembre de 2007, ante el Notario Luis O. Dávila Alemán. Inscrita como asiento abreviado al Tomo Karibe de Vega Alta, Finca Número 11610, inscripción sexta.

Nota: Bajo las disposiciones del Programa “La Llave para tu Hogar”, por un término de 6 años. b. Embargo Federal: Anotado contra Juan Moreno Rivera & S. Sierra Pagan, seguro social XXX-XX-9449, por la suma de $7,778.80, según notificación número 185642915, presentada el 23 de noviembre de 2015, al Asiento 5 de la Página 37 del Libro de Embargos Federales Número 9. Nota: No podemos precisar si el embargado y el titular son la misma persona.

Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. 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; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y

que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm.

210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 1 de junio de 2021. JOSÉ F. MARRERO ROBLES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, PLACA #131, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR.

ROOSEVELT CAYMAN ASSET COMPANY Demandante V.

LA SUCESION DE RICARDO JAVIER GARCÍA AYUSO compuesta por ADELYS RAMOS AGRON POR LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA Y POR LAIZA MICHELLE GARCIA RAMOS COMO HEREDERA CONOCIDA; FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, Y A, B Y C, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; EL HONORABLE SECRETARIO DE JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERO RICO

Demandado CIVIL NÚM. BY2018CV04684.

SALA: 502. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, JOSE F MARRERO ROBLES, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, a la demandada y al público en general, les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal, de epígrafe con fecha 29 de abril de 2021 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $90,178.40 de principal, dictada en el caso el 16 de febrero de 2021, notificada y archivada en autos el día 18 de febrero de 2021 y publicada

mediante edicto en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, el día 25 de febrero de 2021, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en: el Municipio de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO THE TOWERS AT PLAZA SANTA CRUZ de Bayamón Norte. Apartamento número mil seiscientos cuatro (1604).

Cabida: 118.71 metros cuadrados. Linderos: NORTE, con el apartamento número mil seiscientos dos (1602) en 2’7’-1” equivalente a 8.26 metros y con pared exterior que da a nivel de terreno a un área común en 2’6” equivalente a 0.76 metros.

SUR, con pared exterior que da a nivel de terreno a el área verde común en 2’-0” equivalentes a 0.61 metros y con el apartamento mil seiscientos seis (1606) en 27’-7” equivalentes a 8.40 metros. ESTE, con pared posterior del edificio que da a una acera común que lo separa del edificio de estacionamiento en 46’-0” equivalentes a 14.02 metros. Apartamento localizado en el lado ESTE del edificio en su parte central en la decimoquinta planta del inmueble sometido al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal conocido como “THE TOWERS AT PLAZA SANTA CRUZ”, localizado en la Calle Principal que da acceso a la Calle Santa Cruz del Barrio Juan Sánchez de Bayamón. Está construido de hormigón reforzado y bloques de hormigón con un área de piso de 1277.36 pies cuadrados. Su forma es aproximadamente rectangular. Por la colindancia OESTE, con el corredor del vestíbulo del piso en 5’-0” equivalentes a 1.52 metros, con la caja o hueco de elevadores en 18’-4” equivalentes a 5.59 metros, con el cuarto de servicio y desperdicios en 6’-4” equivalentes a 1.93 metros, con el cuarto de utilidades eléctricas y plomería en 7’-0” equivalentes a 2.13, y con el closet de utilidades eléctricas en 9’-4” equivalentes a 2.84 metros. Su entrada está localizada en el piso dieciséis (16) del Edificio y comunica con el vestíbulo del piso. Esta entrada y/o salida de acceso a elementos comunes del Edificio a través de los cuales se tiene acceso a la vía pública. El apartamento consta de un corredor, sala y un balcón adyacente, cocina, lavandería, corredor con closet, dos (2) dormitorios secundarios con closets, un (1) baño y un (1) dormitorio principal con su closet y baño. Le corresponde de forma exclusiva permanente e inseparable un espacio de estaciona-

miento marcado con el número ochenta y siete (87) en el plano de áreas de estacionamientos.

Le corresponde 0.8174% de participación en los elementos comunes generales del Condominio. Consta inscrita al folio setenta y seis (76) del tomo ciento ochenta y cinco (185) de Bayamón Norte, Sección III, Finca ocho mil novecientos (8,900). Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, cuyas cantidades ascienden a $90,178.40 de principal, 6.75% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $4,740.29 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $150.00 en otros gastos, recargos a razón del 5% de cada pago vencido no recibido dentro de quince (15) días después de la fecha de vencimiento; más el 10% del principal para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados pactado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $161,500.00 según la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad antes descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $107,666.66. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en la cual regirá como tipo mínimo ésta la 1/2 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $80,750.00. Para el lote descrito, la primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 2 de agosto de 2021, a las 2:15 de la tarde.

De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el día 9 de agosto de 2021, a las 2:15 de la tarde. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el día 16 de agosto de 2021, a las 2:15 de la tarde. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en el 5to. Piso, Sala 503, del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón.

Del Estudio de Titulo realizado surge el siguiente gravamen posterior, el que será objeto de ejecución por esta subasta: Aviso de Demanda dictado el 10 de agosto de 2017 en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, en el Caso Civil Núm. DCD2017-0935 sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Roosevelt Cayman Asset Company vs. Ricardo Javier García Ayuso, donde se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con la hipoteca relacionada en la inscripción 4ta., reducida a $90,178.40 o la venta en pública subasta, anotado al Tomo

Karibe, finca #8900 de Bayamón Norte, el 24 de enero de 2020, Anotación “A”.-- La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores.

Y para conocimiento de la demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 2 de junio de 2021. JOSE F MARRERO ROBLES #131, ALGUACIL.

SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante Vs.

JULIO DE JESUS GOMEZ, NELLY CENTENO MOLINA T/C/C NELLIE CENTENO MOLINA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: AR2019CV02129.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de ARECIBO, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, el 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar marcado en el plano de lotificación con el número seis (#6) radicado en el barrio Islote, del término municipal de Arecibo, con un área superficial de novecientos veintinueve punto mil cientos ochenta y tres (929.1183) metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, en distancia de treinta y uno punto seiscientos cuarenta y nueve (31.649) metros, con el solar número siete (7) del plano de lotificación; por el SUR, en distancia de treinta punto trescientos noventa y cuatro (30.394) metros, con el remanente de la finca principal; por el ESTE, en distancia de treinta punto cero veinte (30.020) metros, propiedad de José Confesor Santiago y por el OESTE, en distancia de treinta (30.00) metros, con parcela de uso público. Enclava una edificación de dos plantas.

Inscrita al folio 250 del tomo LEGAL NOTICE 521 de Arecibo, finca 22,184, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Registro de la Propiedad de DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUArecibo, Sección I. La hipoteca NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA antes descrita consta inscrita al

The San Juan Daily Star folio 254 del tomo 521 de Arecibo, finca 22,184, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección I, inscripción 6ª. Propiedad localizada en: CARR. 681 KM 7.0 INT., SOLAR 6 BO. ISLOTE, ARECIBO, PR 00613. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $232,500.00.

Fecha de Vencimiento: 21 de junio de 2087. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $232,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, el 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $155,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $116,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, el 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $126,640.44 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $9,235.05 en intereses acumulados al 31 de agosto de 2020 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.12% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $4,506.79 en seguro hipotecario; $4,230.00 en cargos por servicio; $1,320.00 en seguro de la propiedad; $500.00 de tasaciones; $380.00 de inspecciones; $3,615.91 en adelan-

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tos; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $23,250.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta.

Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy 1 de junio de 2021. WILFREDO OLMO SALAZAR, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ÁNGEL DE JESÚS TORRES PÉREZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #770.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN

CONDADO 3, LLC Demandante

CUIDAD INTERAMERICANA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

Demandado(s) Civil Núm.: BY2020CV03455.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: CUIDAD INTERAMERICANA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: y a todos 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 de-

rechos 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 surjan 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. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 12 de marzo de 20212, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que se describe a continuación: Dirección: PR-167 km 1.2, Urb. Ciudad lnteramericana, Bayamón, PR 00961. RÚSTICA: Barrio Buena Vista de Bayamón Sur. Solar: Cabida 49.6527. Predio de terreno radicado en los Barrios Buenas Vista y Cerro Gordo del municipio de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 49.6527 cuerdas equivalentes a 195,154.8639 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la urbanización de Cerro Gordo y Puerto Rico Tecali; por el SUR, con quebrada y terrenos de los Hermanos Maldonado, Aydee Martell y los solares número 1, número 2 y número 3; por el ESTE, con quebrada y los terrenos propiedad de los Hermanos Maldonados y por el OESTE, con terrenos de propiedad de Juan Acevedo, solar número 6 y camino municipal. Inscrita al folio 143 del tomo 1820 de Bayamón Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Primera, finca número 7637. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 16 de marzo de 2021, notificada el 16 de marzo de 2021 en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $948,383.70 al 11 de junio de 2020, lo cual se desglosa de la siguiente forma: la suma de $579,085.47 de principal, intereses ascendentes a $25,647.30, los cuales continúan aumentando a razón de $108.58 al día (“per diem”) hasta el pago total de la obligación; $25,647.30 de por cargos por demora; en adición a costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado ascendentes a $1,000,000.00, según pactados. Los intereses se continúan acumulando, hasta el saldo total de la deuda, para cubrir el principal adeudado, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado previa solicitud y orden del Tri-

bunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca. La 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 24 DE AGOSTO DE 2021 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Piso 5, Sala 503, Bayamón, Puerto Rico.

Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $11,825,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 31 DE AGOSTO DE 2021 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Piso 5, Sala 503, Bayamón, Puerto Rico.

El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $7,883,333.34, 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 8 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Piso 5, Sala 503, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $5,912,500.00, 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 ésta 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 eje-

cutando, 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 02 de junio de 2021. JOSÉ F. MARRERO ROBLES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #131.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO

ORIENTAL BANK

Parte Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN LYDIA MAGDALENA PARDO HERNANDEZ compuesta por DANIEL ANTONIO FRIAS PARDO, CALIXTO ESTEBAN FRIAS PARDO, EUGENIO ADOLFO FRIAS PARDO Y FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL Parte Demandada

DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Parte con Interés Civil Núm.: GB2021CV00147.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, hago saber a la parte demandada, SUCESION LYDIA MAGDALENA PARDO HERNANDEZ compuesta por DANIEL ANTONIO FRIAS PARDO, CALIXTO ESTEBAN FRIAS PARDO, EUGENIO ADOLFO FRIAS PARDO Y FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES

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DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM) y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 25 de mayo de 2021, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y al mejor postor la propiedad de la dirección [Apartamento 3-B, Condominio Meadows Towers, Ave. San Patricio, Guaynabo, PR 00966] y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número 3-B localizado al Oeste del cuarto nivel del Condominio Meadows Tower, el cual está situado en la Avenida San Patricio, guion Tres, del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Este apartamento de forma irregular está construido de hormigón reforzado y bloques de concreto, con puertas de madera y ventanas de aluminio y cristal. Su entrada principal colinda por el Este con el lobby del cuarto nivel. Tiene un área privada de vivienda de 2889.51 pies cuadrados, equivalente a 268.58 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en setenta y un pies once pulgadas (71’ 11”) lineales, equivalente a veintiuno punto noventa y tres (21.93) metros lineales, con área de estacionamiento; por el SUR, en cincuenta y nueve pies cinco pulgadas (59’ 5”) lineales, equivalente a dieciocho punto doce (18.12) metros lineales con el área de estacionamiento; por el ESTE, en treinta y seis pies cuatro pulgadas (36” 4”) lineales, equivalente a once punto cero ocho (11.08) metros lineales, con áreas comunes del cuarto nivel y el apartamento tres guion A (3-A); y por el OESTE, en cincuenta y ocho pies tres pulgadas (50’3”) lineales, equivalente a diecisiete punto setenta y seis (17.76) metros lineales, con la entrada principal del condominio. Está compuesto de recibidor (“foyer”), cocina, lavandería (“laundry”), sala-comedor (“great room”), salón de estar (“family”), tres y medio (3 ½) baños, cuatro (4) habitaciones; de las cuales la habitación principal tiene un “walk-in-closet” y otra es denominada cuarto de servicio, pasillo (“corridor”) que da acceso a las habitaciones, dos (2) “linen closets”, un (1) closet para acondicionador de aire, un (1) closet para calentador de agua, terraza y un balcón. A esta unidad le corresponde el dos punto ochocientos ochenta por ciento (2.880%) en los elementos generales del condominio, y un cincuenta porciento (50%) de participación en los elementos comunes limitados. A esta unidad le corresponde, para su único y exclusivo uso los estacionamientos identificados con

los números treinta y uno (31) cubierto, treinta y dos (32) cubierto y ochenta y cuatro (84) descubierto. A esta unidad le corresponde para su único y exclusivo uso el área de almacenaje identificada como “storage” (3-B). Finca 46,426, inscrita al Folio 11 del tomo 1413 de Guaynabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen: (i) HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $590,000.00 con intereses al 5 3/4% anual y vencimiento 1ro de octubre de 2033. Constituida mediante la Escritura 595 otorgada en San Juan el 18 de septiembre de 2003 ante el notario Raúl J. Vilá Sellés. Inscrita el 23 de abril de 2009 al folio 11 del tomo 1413 de Guaynabo, finca 46,426, inscripción 2ª. (171/511). La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 21 de abril de 2021, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad de ascendente a $392,030.76 de principal, más $10,329.00 segundo principal debido a moratoria por Huracán María, más intereses acumulados, que continuarán acumulándose al 5.75% anual hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más $1,205.05 a cargos por demora, más $59,000.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado (10% del valor original del préstamo), más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario (“Deuda”). La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 10:40 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $590,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 10:40 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $393,333.33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 23 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 10:40 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $196,666.66. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo

constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o 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, 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 subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura.

El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. 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. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edic-

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En GUAYNABO, Puerto Rico, hoy 11 de junio de 2021. FRANCES TORRES CONTRERAS, ALGUACIL #325, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE GUAYNABO.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO

BOSCO IX OVERSEAS, LLC, BY FRANKLIN CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION AS SERVICER Demandante V.

SELMA MARTÍNEZ ROJAS

Demandado Civil Núm.: GB2019CV00402.

(Salón 201). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS (“IN REM”). ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo FRANCES TORRES CONTRERAS #325, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, al público en general. CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 20 de mayo de 2021, que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, en el caso arriba indicado, venderé en la fecha o fechas que más adelante se indican, en pública subasta 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, en mi oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada, en el inmueble que se describe a continuación, propiedad de la parte demandada, Selma Martínez Rojas.

Dirección Física: Urbanización Alto Apolo, 0-16 Calle C, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969. Finca 17,347, al folio 70 del tomo 330 de Guaynabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guaynabo. URBANA: Solar número dieciséis (16) del Bloque O de la Urbanización Ampliación de Alto Apolo, localizada en el Barrio Frailes del Municipio de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de cuatrocientos treinta y seis punto cero cinco (436.05) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en dieciséis punto quince (16.15) metros con terrenos dedicados a Mall; por el SUR, en dieciséis punto quince

(16.15) metros con la Calle C; por el ESTE, en veintisiete punto cero cero (27.00) metros con el solar número diecisiete (17) del bloque O; y por el OESTE, en veintisiete punto cero cero (27.00) metros con el soral número quince (15) del Bloque O. Enclava en dicho solar una casa de concreto dedicada a vivienda. Finca 17,347: Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. b. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico. c. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Comunicaciones de Puerto Rico. d. Condiciones restrictivas. Por sí está afecta a: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de RG Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $240,100.00, con intereses al 6 1/8% anual, vencedero el día 1 de octubre de 2034, constituida mediante la escritura número 1684, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 11 de diciembre de 2003, ante el notario Georgette M. Rodríguez Figueroa, e inscrita al folio 143 vuelto del tomo 1254 de Guaynabo, finca número 17,347, inscripción 13ra. b. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 2 de abril de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, en el Caso Civil número GB2019CV00402, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por Bosco IX Overseas LLC, by Franklin Credit Management Corp as Services, contra Selma Martínez Rojas, por la suma de $185,679.75, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 3 de abril de 2020, al tomo Karibe de Guaynabo, finca número 17,347, Anotación A y última. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 17,347 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: FECHA DE SUBASTA: PRIMERA SUBASTA: 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $240,100.00.

HIPOTECA: Escritura Número 1,684, sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el 11 de diciembre de 2003, ante la Notario Georgette M. Rodríguez Figueroa. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $160,066.67. TERCERA SUBASTA: 23 DE AGOSTO DE 2021 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $120,050.00. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación que se transmite y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si las hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, conti-

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nuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante las acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de las mismas, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 11 de febrero de 2021 y archivada en los autos el 11 de febrero de 2021, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: La suma principal de $185,679.75, más intereses a razón de 6.1300% anual, desde el 1 de diciembre de 2016 hasta el 16 de octubre de 2020 por la suma de $45,011.16, que se acumulan diariamente a razón de $31.16 hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de $2,884.87 por cargos, más la suma de $1,199.24 en conexión con la cuenta de reserva, más la suma de $24,010.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando 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 de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de junio de 2021. FRANCES TORRES CONTRERAS #325, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO.

Demandante V

IVONNE M. RODRIGUEZ ACEVEDO

Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2018CV01384.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, hago saber a la parte demandada, IVONNE M. RODRIGUEZ ACEVEDO, y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 15 de abril de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal: [Parque San Luis 88, Carretera 848, Apt. 15, Trujillo Alto, PR 00976] y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento residencial identificado con el número A-15 del Módulo Dos del Edificio A, localizado en el tercer piso del Edificio A del complejo conocido como Condominio Parque San Luis, ubicado en el Barrio Las Cuevas del término municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1323.174 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 122.9269 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 38 pies 9 pulgadas con elementos exteriores; por el SUR, en una distancia de 38 pies 9 pulgadas con elementos exteriores; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 50 pies 9 pulgadas con apartamento A-11, escaleras y elementos exteriores; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 43 pies 6 pulgadas con apartamento A-19. Su puerta principal de acceso se encuentra localizada en su lado ESTE, la cual se comunica con el recibidor del tercer piso. Contiene tres cuartos dormitorios, dos baños, cuatro closets, sala-comedor, cocina, balcón y laundry. Le corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos comunes generales con una participación de 1.842%. Le pertenece en calidad de anejo dos espacios para estacionamientos, marcados ambos espacios con el mismo número del apartamento. Finca 33485 inscrita al folio 165 del tomo 862 de Trujillo Alto, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta.

La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Eurobank, o a su orden, por la LEGAL NOT ICE suma de $148,410.00 con inESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO tereses al 2.75% anual por los DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUprimeros 5 años, luego devenNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA gará intereses a razón de 5.5% SALA DE CAROLINA anual hasta su vencimiento el ESTRELLA HOMES, LLC. 1º de junio de 2050. Constituida

por la Escritura 24 otorgada en San Juan el 4 de mayo de 2010 ante el notario Diana López-Feliciano e inscrita al folio 165 del tomo 862 de Trujillo Alto, finca 33485, inscripción 2ª. (ii) HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Eurobank, o a su orden, por la suma de $16,490.00 con intereses al 2.75% anual y vencimiento 1 de junio de 2050. Constituida por la Escritura 25 otorgada en San Juan el 4 de mayo de 2010 ante el notario Diana López Feliciano, aclarada por las escrituras 31 y 32 otorgadas lo días 12 y 18 de agosto de 2010, respectivamente, ante la misma notario, donde se expresa la cantidad correcta de la hipoteca e inscrita al folio 165 del tomo 862 de Trujillo Alto, finca 33485, inscripción 3ª. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 13 de febrero de 2021, mediante la cual se determinó que la parte demandada, adeuda a la parte demandante, sobre el préstamo #600285167 la cantidad de $134,507.44 de principal más intereses y otros cargos. Además se determinó que la parte demandada adeuda del préstamo #600285175 la cantidad de $14,942.07 de principal más intereses y otros cargos.

Debido a la protección de quiebra, las referidas deudas serán satisfechas con la ejecución de la hipoteca y no se perseguirá la deuda en cobro de dinero.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $148,410.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $98,940.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $74,205.00.

El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal

durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o 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, 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 subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura.

El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. 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.

Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, hoy 17 de junio de 2021.

SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAROLINA. ****

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AMERICAS LEADING FINANCE LLC

404. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, DEMANDADOS ROSA LIZ SÁNCHEZ DESCONOCIDOS MALDONADO, SU CUYA DIRECCION SE ESPOSO FULANO DE TAL DESCONOCE. de las partes a las que se Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL le(Nombre notifican la sentencia por edicto) DE GANANCIALES EL SECRETARIO(A) que susCOMPUESTA POR cribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de junio de 2021, este AMBOS Vs

Civil Núm.: SJ2020CV01929.

(504). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO – ORDINARIO. REPOSESIÓN DE BIENES MUEBLES. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ROSA LIZ SÁNCHEZ MALDONADO, SU ESPOSO FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 DE MAYO DE 2021, 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 esta. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los diez (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 25 de mayo de 2021. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 24 de junio de 2021. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NÉLIDA OCASIO ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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 23 de junio de 2021. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 23 de junio de 2021. LCDA MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

EDNA IVETTE VILLA MARTINEZ; LA SUCESION DE MIGUEL ANGEL ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ COMPUESTA POR EDNA IVETTE VILLA MARTINEZ LEGAL NOTICE EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO USUFRUCTUARIA DE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBULA SUCESION; JOSE NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSORTIZ VILLA; FULANO TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE Y FULANA DE TAL CAROLINA COMO MIEMBROS SUN WEST MORTGAGE DESCONOCIDOS DE LA COMPANY, INC. SUCESION; Y CENTRO Demandante V. R & G MORTGAGE CORP, DE RECAUDACION DE LUEGO SCOTIABANK DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM) PUERTO RICO, AHORA Demandado(a) ORIENTAL BANK Y/O Civil: GM2019CV00457. Sobre:

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Demandado(a) EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- Civil: CA2021CV00712. Sala:

The San Juan Daily Star “IN REM” (VÍA ORDINARIA).

NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBRO DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE MIGUEL ANGEL ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de junio de 2021, 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 23 de junio de 2021. En Guayama, Puerto Rico, el 23 de junio de 2021. En Guayama, Puerto Rico, el 23 de junio de 2021.

MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. ILEANA CRUZ VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

Friday, July 2, 2021

DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandado(a) Civil Núm. BY2019CV06771.

SALA 505. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOSE MARIN SOTOMAYOR Y RAFAEL MARIN SOTOMAYOR COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE CARMEN MILAGROS SOTOMAYOR TORRES T/C/C CARMEN MILAGROS SOTOMAYOR MARTINEZ T/C/C CARMEN M. SOTOMAYOR TORRES T/C/C CARMEN SOTOMAYOR TORRES T/C/C CARMEN MILAGROS SOTOMAYOR A/K/A CARMEN M. SOTOMAYOR T/C/C CARMEN SOTOMAYOR T/C/C CARMEN M. MARIN SOTOMAYOR

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de junio de 2021, 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 procediLEGAL NOTICE miento sujeta a los términos Estado Libre Asociado de Puer- de la Sentencia, Sentencia to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL Parcial o Resolución, de la cual DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri- puede establecerse recurso de mera Instancia Sala Superior revisión o apelación dentro del de BAYAMON. término de 30 días contados a REVERSE MORTGAGE partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a SOLUTIONS, INC. usted esta notificación que se Demandante v.

SUCESION DE CARMEN considerará hecha en la fecha la publicación de este edicMILAGROS SOTOMAYOR de to. Copia de esta notificación ha TORRES T/C/C CARMEN sido archivada en los autos de MILAGROS SOTOMAYOR este caso, con fecha de 30 de junio de 2021. En BAYAMON, MARTINEZ T/C/C CARMEN M. SOTOMAYOR Puerto Rico, el 30 de junio de LCDA. LAURA I. SANTORRES T/C/C CARMEN 2021.

TA SANCHEZ, Secretario(a).

SOTOMAYOR TORRES IVETTE M. MARRERO BRAT/C/C CARMEN CERO, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

MILAGROS SOTOMAYOR A/K/A CARMEN M. SOTOMAYOR T/C/C CARMEN SOTOMAYOR T/C/C CARMEN M. MARIN SOTOMAYOR COMPUESTA POR JOSE MARIN SOTOMAYOR Y RAFAEL MARIN SOTOMAYOR; CENTRO

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante vs.

JESÚS MANUEL GONZÁLEZ MONTERO;

JOHANA MARÍA GONZÁLEZ PANIAGUA, POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION; SUCESION DE LUZ MARÍA PANIAGUA RODRÍGUEZ COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS JOHANNA MARÍA GONZÁLEZ PANIAGUA, CARLOS MANUEL GONZÁLEZ PANIAGUA, MARITZA GONZÁLEZ PANIAGUA Y RAÚL LUIS MORALES PANIAGUA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES “CRIM”

Demandados CIVIL NÚM: CA2019CV01306 (404). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General A: JESÚS MANUEL GONZÁLEZ MONTERO; JOHANA MARÍA GONZÁLEZ PANIAGUA, POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION; SUCESION DE LUZ MARÍA PANIAGUA RODRÍGUEZ COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS JOHANNA MARÍA GONZÁLEZ PANIAGUA, CARLOS MANUEL GONZÁLEZ PANIAGUA, MARITZA GONZÁLEZ PANIAGUA Y RAÚL LUIS MORALES PANIAGUA, CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES “CRIM”

Yo, SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 29 de julio de 2021 a las 2:00 de la tarde, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Carolina durante horas laborables.

Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se

celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 5 de agosto de 2021, a las 2:00 de la tarde y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 12 de agosto de 2021, a las 2:00 de la tarde en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en la URBANIZACIÓN VILLAS DE LOÍZA, situado en el Barrio Canóvanas del Municipio de Loíza, Puerto Rico, contiene una casa de concreto reforzado diseñada para una sola familia.

Solar número Seis (6) del Bloque “K”, con un área de DOSCIENTOS TREINTA Y NUEVE PUNTO CERO SEIS (239.06) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, en VEINTITRÉS PUNTO CERO CERO (23.00) METROS, con el solar número Siete (7); por el ESTE, en DIEZ PUNTO TRESCIENTOS NOVENTA Y CUATRO (10.394) METROS, con los solares número Diecinueve (19) y Veinte (20); por el SUR, en VEINTITRÉS PUNTO CERO CERO (23.00) METROS, con el solar número Cinco (5); y por el OESTE, en DIEZ PUNTO TRESCIENTOS NOVENTA Y CUATRO (10.394) METROS, con la Calle número Siete (7).

Afecta a una servidumbre de UNO PUNTO CINCUENTA (1.50) METROS por su colindancia Este a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company.

La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio móvil del tomo 343 de Canóvanas, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera, finca número 7,867, inscripción Cuarta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Villas de Loíza, K6, Calle 7, Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $71,114.40 de principal, intereses al 7.5% anual, desde el día 1ro. de junio de 2017, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $9,400.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $94,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $62,666.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $47,000.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta 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. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 23 de junio de 2021. SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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ESTRELLA HOME LLC. Demandante v.

PABLO GALARZA COLÓN, MARITZA GARCÍA LUGO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: GM2018CV00014.

Sobre: Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de PONCE, hago saber a la parte demandada, PABLO GALARZA COLÓN, MARITZA

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GARCÍA LUGO, LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, además, LA CORPORACION DEL FONDO DEL SEGURO DEL ESTADO y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 2 de septiembre de 2020, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal la propiedad de la siguiente dirección: [Urb. Villa Serena, C16 Calle Tiber, Santa Isabel PR 00757-2547] y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villa Serena, localizada en el Bario Felicia Dos en el término municipal de Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la urbanización y que se encuentra en el Registro de Planos, con número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Número del solar 16 del Bloque C. Área del solar 337.00 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número C-5; por el SUR, con la Calle número 4; por el ESTE, con el solar número C-15 y por el OESTE, con el solar C-17. En este solar se ha construido una casa de vivienda para una familia, de bloque y hormigón reforzado. Finca 6670 inscrita al folio 222 del tomo 178 de Santa Isabel, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen: (i) HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Oriental Bank and Trust, o a su orden, por la suma de $164,900.00 con intereses al 6.50% anual y vencimiento 1ro de noviembre de 2033, Constituida por la Escritura 517 otorgada en Ponce el 31 de octubre de 2003, ante el notario Carlos A. Surillo Pumarada e inscrita al folio 222 del tomo 178 de Santa Isabel, Finca 6670, inscripción 5ª. (ii) EMBARGO a favor de la Corporación del Fondo del Seguro del Estado, expedido mediante certificación Administrativa otorgada en Guayama el 10 de noviembre de 2008, por la suma de $11,339.19 por concepto de compensación obrera. El embargo es anotado el 10 de noviembre de 2008, e inscrito en virtud de la Ley para Agilizar el Registro de la Propiedad de 2010, extendido el asiento el 30 de noviembre de 2008, e inscrita al folio 222 vuelto del tomo 178 de Santa Isabel, finca 6670, anotación A. (iii) EMBARGO a favor de la Corporación del Fondo del Seguro del Estado, expedido mediante Certificación Administrativa el 25 de abril de 2012, por la suma de $10,694.80 por concepto de compensación obrera. EL embargo es anotado

en 24 de mayo de 2012, inscrita al folio 222 vuelto del tomo 178 de Santa Isabel, finca 6670, anotación B. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 27 de septiembre de 2019, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad ascendiente a $125,675.68 de principal, más $5,066.08 a intereses acumulados, que continuarán acumulándose al 6.5% anual hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $97.65 a cargos por demora, $2,287.14 más $16,490.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 29 de julio de 2021, a las 10:45 de la mañana, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de PONCE, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $164,900.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 5 de agosto de 2021, a las 10:45 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $109,933.33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 12 de agosto de 2021, a las 10:45 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $82,450.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá li-

bre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o 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, 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 subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante.

Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. 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. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En PONCE, Puerto Rico, hoy 29 de junio de 2021.

David Maldonado, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE PONCE.

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COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO ORIENTAL Parte Demandante V.

KARINA MARY TORRES RIVERA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TJ2020CV00409.

Sala: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: KARINA MARY

30 TORRES RIVERA.

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: AGS LEGAL COLLECTIONS, LLC Abogados de la parte Demandante Lcdo. Ricardo A. Acevedo Bianchi Lcdo. José R. González Rivera Lcdo. Juan A. Santos Berrios P.O. Box 10242 Humacao, Puerto Rico 00792 Teléfono: (939) 545-4300 Email: rab@agslegalpr.com o jrg@ agslegalpr.com POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva, con copia a la parte demandante, dentro de los 30 días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día su publicación.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Extendido bajo mi firma y Sello del Tribunal, En Río Grande, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de junio de 2021. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MYRIAM I. FIGUEROA PASTRANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC Demandante

SUCESION DE NELIDA LUZ CARDONA MUÑIZ T/C/C NELIDA L CARDONA T/C/C NELIDA L CARDONA MUÑIZ T/C/C NELIDA CARDONA COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCO ANTONIO HERNANDEZ MATOS T/C/C FRANCISCO A HERNANDEZ MATOS COMPUESTA POR ZORAIDA HERNANDEZ MATOS, ANA MARIA HERNANDEZ MATOS, CARMEN ELOIZA

HERNANDEZ MATOS; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

LIZ MARIE ORTEGA CLAUDIO Demandante V.

TOMER KADOSHI

Demandado(a) Civil: BY2021RF00472. Sobre: DIVORCIO (RI). NOTIFICADemandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2020CV04414. CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR Sala: 604. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN EDICTO. A: TOMER KADOSH. DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EDICTO. EL SECRETARIO(A) que susA: ZORAIDA HERNANDEZ cribe le notifica a usted que MATOS, ANA MARIA el 30 de junio de 2021, este HERNANDEZ MATOS, Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución CARMEN ELOIZA HERNANDEZ MATOS; en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada JOHN DOE Y JANE en autos donde podrá usted DOE COMO POSIBLES enterarse detalladamente de HEREDEROS los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una DESCONOCIDOS DE sola vez en un periódico de LA SUCESION DE general en la Isla NELIDA LUZ CARDONA circulación de Puerto Rico, dentro de los MUÑIZ T/C/C NELIDA L 10 días siguientes a su notificaCARDONA T/C/C NELIDA ción. Y, siendo o representando L CARDONA MUÑIZ T/C/C usted una parte en el procediNELIDA CARDONA; JOHN miento sujeta a los términos la Sentencia, Sentencia ROE Y JANE ROE COMO de Parcial o Resolución, de la cual POSIBLES MIEMBROS puede establecerse recurso de DESCONOCIDOS DE revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a LA SUCESION DE FRANCISCO ANTONIO partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a HERNANDEZ MATOS usted esta notificación que se T/C/C FRANCISCO A considerará hecha en la fecha HERNANDEZ MATOS. de la publicación de este edicEL SECRETARIO (A) que sus- to. Copia de esta notificación cribe le notifica a usted que el ha sido archivada en los autos 24 de junio de 2021, este Tri- de este caso, con fecha de 30 bunal ha dictado Sentencia, de junio de 2021. En Bayamón, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución Puerto Rico, el 30 de junio de en este caso, que ha sido debi- 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANdamente registrada y archivada TA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. en autos donde podrá usted en- FDO. SYLVIAMARIE SANTIAterarse detalladamente de los GO RIVERA, SECRETARIA términos de la misma. Esta no- AUXILIAR. tificación se publicará una sola LEGAL NOT ICE vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puer- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO to Rico, dentro de los diez (10) DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUdías siguientes a su notifica- NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA ción. Y, siendo o representando TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSusted una parte en el procedi- TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE miento sujeta a los términos VEGA BAJA de la Sentencia, Sentencia SUN WEST MORTGAGE Parcial o Resolución, de la cual COMPANY, INC. puede establecerse recurso de Demandante V. revisión o apelación dentro del DORAL MORTGAGE término de 60 días contados a CORPORATION AHORA partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a BANCO POPULAR DE usted esta notificación que se PUERTO RICO Y/O considerará hecha en la fecha FIRSTBANK PUERTO de la publicación de este edicRICO; OLIVER PÉREZ to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos VILLANUEVA, MARÍA DEL de este caso, con fecha de 25 C. NIEVES MOLINA T/C/C de junio de 2021. En San Juan, MARÍA DEL CARMEN Puerto Rico, el 25 de junio de NIEVES MOLINA Y LA 2021. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE COLLADO, SECRETARIA REBIENES GANANCIALES GIONAL. MARTHA ALMODÓVAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA COMPUESTA POR AUXILIAR. AMBOS; JOHN DOE Y

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RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS;

MILAGROS SOTOMAYOR caso, con fecha de 30 de junio de 2021. En Bayamón, Puerto MARTINEZ T/C/C Rico, el 30 de junio de 2021.

CARMEN M. SOTOMAYOR LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNTORRES T/C/C CARMEN CHEZ, SECRETARIA. IVETTE SOTOMAYOR TORRES M. MARRERO BRACERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. T/C/C CARMEN MILAGROS SOTOMAYOR LEGAL NOTICE A/K/A CARMEN M. UNITED STATES DISTRICT Demandado(a) SOTOMAYOR T/C/C COURT DISTRICT OF PUERCivil: VB2021CV00070. Sobre: CARMEN SOTOMAYOR TO RICO. SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ T/C/C CARMEN M. Finance of America EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICAMARIN SOTOMAYOR Reverse, LLC. CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR Plaintiff v.

EDICTO. COMPUESTA POR JOSE The Estates of Juan A: JOHN DOE Y MARIN SOTOMAYOR Rafael Figueroa Mendez RICHARD ROE COMO Y RAFAEL MARIN a/k/a Juan R. Figueroa POSIBLES TENEDORES SOTOMAYOR; CENTRO Mendez and Carmen DESCONOCIDOS. DE RECAUDACIONES DE Delia Cosme Negron FEDERAL DEPOSIT INGRESOS MUNICIPALES a/k/a Carmen Delia INSURANCE Y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE Cosme composed of CORPORATION (FDIC) AMERICA Demandado(a) John Doe and Jane COMO POSIBLE Civil: BY2019CV06771. Sala: Doe; Departamento SUCESOR DE 505. Sobre: COBRO DE DIde Hacienda; Centro DORAL MORTGAGE NERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE de Recaudaciones de CORPORATION Y/O HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDORAL MORTGAGE LLC DINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE Ingresos Municipales; United States of America - 1601 BRYAN STREET, SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. Defendants A: JOSE MARIN DALLAS, TX 75201-3430.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se SOTOMAYOR Y RAFAEL CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cvle notifican la sentencia por edicto) MARIN SOTOMAYOR 1438. COLLECTION OF MOEL SECRETARIO(A) que susNIES AND FORECLOSURE COMO MIEMBROS DE LA OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF cribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de junio de 2021, este SUCESION DE CARMEN SALE. Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, MILAGROS SOTOMAYOR TO: The Estates of Sentencia Parcial o Resolución TORRES T/C/C CARMEN Juan Rafael Figueroa en este caso, que ha sido debiMILAGROS SOTOMAYOR Mendez a/k/a Juan R. damente registrada y archivada MARTINEZ T/C/C Figueroa Mendez and en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de CARMEN M. SOTOMAYOR Carmen Delia Cosme los términos de la misma. Esta TORRES T/C/C CARMEN Negron a/k/a Carmen notificación se publicará una SOTOMAYOR TORRES Delia Cosme composed sola vez en un periódico de T/C/C CARMEN of John Doe and Jane circulación general en la Isla Doe; Departamento de Puerto Rico, dentro de los MILAGROS SOTOMAYOR A/K/A CARMEN M. 10 días siguientes a su notificade Hacienda; Centro ción. Y, siendo o representando SOTOMAYOR T/C/C de Recuadaciones de usted una parte en el procediCARMEN SOTOMAYOR Ingresos Municipales; miento sujeta a los términos T/C/C CARMEN M. MARIN United States of America, de la Sentencia, Sentencia SOTOMAYOR. GENERAL PUBLIC Parcial o Resolución, de la cual FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION (FDIC) COMO POSIBLE SUCESOR DE DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION Y/O DORAL MORTGAGE, LLC

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 24 de junio de 2021. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 24 de junio de 2021. LCDA LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC. Demandante V.

SUCESION DE CARMEN MILAGROS SOTOMAYOR TORRES T/C/C CARMEN

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de junio de 2021, 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

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $109,538.50, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full.

The defendant, the Estates of Juan Rafael Figueroa Mendez a/k/a Juan R. Figueroa Mendez and Carmen Delia Cosme Negron a/k/a Carmen Delia Cosme composed of John Doe and Jane Doe was also ordered to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($19,800.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation.

The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHE-

REAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property URBANA: Solar marcado con el número siete (7) en el Plano de Inscripción de la finca principal, radicada en el Barrio Cañaboncito del término Municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de ochocientos veintiocho punto cero cero (828.00) metros cuadrados.

En lides por el NORTE, en cincuenta punto cero cero (50.00) metros, con el Solar número ocho (8) del Plano de Inscripción; por el SUR, en veintidós punto cero cero (22.00) metros, con el Solar número seis (6) y en treinta y uno punto cincuenta y cinco (31.55) metros, con el Solar número cinco (5) del Plano de Inscripción; por el ESTE, en dieciséis punto cero cero (16.00) metros, con camino dedicado a uso público; y por el OESTE, en dieciséis punto cero cero (16.00) metros, con terrenos Carretera Estatal Desvio Caguas a Cayey. Enclava una casa.” Property Number 20,065 filed at page 154 of volume 614 of Caguas, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Caguas. The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Caguas at page 172, volume 1,768 of Caguas. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $198,000.00, due on July 4, 2087 pursuant to deed number 78, issued in Caguas, Puerto Rico, on March 25, 2013, before notary Fernando Rabell Echegaray, and recorded, at page 172 of volume 1,768 of Caguas, property number 20,065, 14th inscription. Other Liens: None.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and

that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on the _6th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $198,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on the 13th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $132,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the 20th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $99,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied.

WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico.

In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 14th of June of 2021. Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master. specialmasterpr@gmail.com 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

Finance of America Reverse, LLC. Plaintiff v.

The Estate of María Luisa Colón Rivera a/k/a María L. Colón Rivera a/k/a María Colón Rivera a/k/a María Luisa Colón a/k/a María L. Colón a/k/a María Colón a/k/a Luisa Colón Rivera a/k/a Luisa Colón composed of Roberto Ramos; John Doe and

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Jane Doe; Departamento de Hacienda; Centro de Recuadaciones de Ingresos Municipales; United States of America

Defendants CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cv01985. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: The Estate of María Luisa Colón Rivera a/k/a María L. Colón Rivera a/k/a María Colón Rivera a/k/a María Luisa Colón a/k/a María L. Colón a/k/a María Colón a/k/a Luisa Colón Rivera a/k/a Luisa Colón composed of Roberto Ramos; John Doe and Jane Doe; Departamento de Hacienda; Centro de Recuadaciones de Ingresos Municipales; United States of America, GENERAL PUBLIC

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $254,753.73, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant, the Estate of María Luisa Colón Rivera a/k/a María L. Colón Rivera a/k/a María Colón Rivera a/k/a María Luisa Colón a/k/a María L. Colón a/k/a María Colón a/k/a Luisa Colón Rivera a/k/a Luisa Colón composed of Roberto Ramos; John Doe and Jane Doe was also ordered to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC., all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($19,950.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villa

Del Carmen, situada en el Barrio Sud del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización, con el número tres (3) del bloque “D”, cabida de trescientos ochenta punto ochenta y cinco (380.85 m.c.) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en veintisiete punto cuatrocientos sesenta y nueve (27.469 m.) metros, con el solar número dos (2); por el SUR, con la calle número cinco (5), en veinte punto noventa (20.90 m.) metros, y en cinco punto cero siete (5.07 m.) metros; por el ESTE, con el Solar número cuatro (4), en catorce punto cincuenta y cuatro (14.54 m.) metros; y por el OESTE, con la calle número uno (1), en once punto sesenta y dos (11.62 m.) metros. Enclava una casa.” Property Number 7,772 filed at page 161 of volume 194 of Cidra, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Caguas. The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Caguas at page 141, volume 384 of Cidra. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $199,500.00, due on December 6, 2073 pursuant to deed number 25, issued in Cayey, Puerto Rico, on March 15, 2013, before notary Roberto Soto Tapia, and recorded, at page 141 of volume 384 of Cidra, property number 7,772, 10th inscription. Other Liens: None.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on the _6th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $199,500.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on the 13th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $133,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the 20th

Friday, July 2, 2021 day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $99,750.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 14th day of June of 2021. Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master. specialmasterpr@gmail.com 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

Finance of America Reverse, LLC Plaintiff v.

The Estate of Evelyn Casillas Tolentino a/k/a Evelyn Casillas composed of John Doe and Jane Doe; Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales; United States of America

Defendants CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cv1091. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: The Estate of Evelyn Casillas Tolentino a/k/a Evelyn Casillas composed of John Doe and Jane Doe; Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales; United States of America GENERAL PUBLIC

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $100,665.34, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full.

The defendants, the Estate of

Evelyn Casillas Tolentino a/k/a Evelyn Casillas composed of John Doe and Jane Doe are ORDERED to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC., all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% (19,050.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property.

URBANA: Solar marcado con el número veintiocho (28) en el Plano de Solares de la Urbanización Nuestra Señora del Pilar, radicado en el Barrio Canóvanas, del término municipal de Loíza, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 305.50 metros cuadrados, y colinda por el NORTE, en veintitrés punto cincuenta metros (23.50 m), con el solar número veintinueve (29) del mencionado Plano; por el SUR, en veintitrés punto cincuenta metros (23.50 m), con el solar número veintisietes (27) del mencionado Plano; por el ESTE, en trece metros (13 m), con terrenos propiedad de los Hermanos López Ramírez; y por el OESTE, en trece metros (13 m), con la Calle “A” del mencionado Plano. Enclava casa.” Property Number 26 (previously 1,828) recorded at page 126 of volume 1 of Canovanas, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section III of Carolina. The mortgage is recorded at Karibe Volumen, Property Number 26 (previously 1,828) of Canovanas, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section III of Carolina, inscription 8th. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: Mortgage Deed in favor of Scotiabank of Puerto Rico, or its order, for the principal amount of $67,000.00, with interest at 5.5% annual, due in April 1, 2041, constituted with deed 78, signed in Carolina, Puerto Rico, on March 4, 2011, before notary Rafael Maldonado Nicolai, and recor-

ded on page 148 of book 408 of Canóvanas, property number 26, seventh inscription. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $190,500.00, with interest at 5.06% annual, due in October 2, 2096, constituted with deed 120, signed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on July 19, 2012, before notary David García Medina, and recorded on Karibe book of Canóvanas, property number 26, 9th inscription. Other Liens: Notice of Complaint dated January 19, 2016, issued by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, on the civil case 3:16-CV-01091FAB, Finance of America Reverse, LLC, against Evelyn Casillas Tolentino, John Doe, Jane Doe, Departamento de Hacienda, Centro de Recaudación de Impuestos Municipales (CRIM) and United Sates of America, for the sum of $78,993.91, plus other amounts, recorded on March 15, 2017, to the Karibe book of Canóvanas, property number 26, Anotation “A”. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on the 6th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $190,500.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on the 13th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $127,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the 20th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am. and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $95,250.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from

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its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this June 7, 2021. Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master. specialmasterpr@gmail.com 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

Finance of America Reverse Structured Securities Acquisition Trust 2017-HB1, Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not individually, but solely as trustee.

Plaintiff v.

Carmen Iris Alicea Suarez a/k/a Carmen I Alicea a/k/a Carmen I Alicea Saurez a/k/a Carmen Alicea Suarez; United States of America

Defendants CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cv2773-PAD. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: Carmen Iris Alicea Suarez a/k/a Carmen I Alicea a/k/a Carmen I. Alicea Suarez a/k/a Carmen Alicea Suarez; United States of America GENERAL PUBLIC:

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $140,077.35, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full.

The defendants, Carmen Iris Alicea Suarez a/k/a Carmen I Alicea a/k/a Carmen I. Alicea Suarez a/k/a Carmen Alicea Suarez; United States of America also owes and is ORDERED to pay Finance of America Reverse Structured Securities Acquisition Trust 2017-HB1, Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not individually, but solely as trustee, all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and

inspections as well as 10% (20,250.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 400 or 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el numero veintitrés radicada en el Plano de Parcelación de la Comunidad Rural El Cañon del Barrio Guerrero del término municipal de Isabela, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 365.13 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el Norte, con la Parcela número 24 de la comunidad; por el SUR, con Camino Vecinal; por el ESTE, con la Parcela número 28 de la Comunidad y al OESTE, con la Calle de la Comunidad. Contiene una casa para fines residenciales.”

The property is identified with the number 14,567 and is recorded at page number 145 of volume number 281 of Isabela, in the Registry of Property, First Section of Aguadilla. The mortgage is recorded at page 128 volume 496 of Isabela, Property number 14,567, 8 inscription, Registry of Property, First Section of Aguadilla. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $202,500.00, due on April 3, 2079 pursuant to deed number 82, issued in Isabela, Puerto Rico, on May 31, 2012, before notary Samuel Soto Alonso, and recorded, at page 128 of volume 496 of Isabela, property number 14,567, 9h inscription. Other Liens: None.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it

being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on the _6th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $202,500.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on the 13th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $135,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the 20th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am. and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $101,250.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this June 3, 2021. Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master. specialmasterpr@gmail.com 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

Live Well Financial, Inc. Plaintiff v.

The Estate of Altagracia Romanacce Porratadoria a/k/a Altagracia Romanacce de Rodriguez composed of Maribel Rodriguez Romanacce, José Gabriel Rodriguez Romanacce, Graciela Margarita Rodriguez

32 Romanacce and Carlos Sergio Rodriguez Romanacce, Jane Doe and John Doe; Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales; United States of America

Defendants CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cv3004-ADC. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: The Estate of Altagracia Romanacce Porratadoria a/k/a Altagracia Romanacce de Rodriguez composed of Maribel Rodriguez Romanacce, José Gabriel Rodriguez Romanacce, Graciela Margarita Rodriguez Romanacce and Carlos Sergio Rodriguez Romanacce, Jane Doe and John Doe; Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales; United States of America GENERAL PUBLIC

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $91,149.92, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendants, the Estate of Altagracia Romanacce Porratadoria a/k/a Altagracia Romanacce de Rodriguez composed of Maribel Rodriguez Romanacce, José Gabriel Rodriguez Romanacce, Graciela Margarita Rodriguez Romanacce and Carlos Sergio Rodriguez Romanacce, Jane Doe and John Doe to pay Live Well Financial, Inc., all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% (18,750.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 400 or 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 400 or 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the

sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property.

“URBANA: Parcela de terreno localizada en la Urbanización San Demetrio del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico e identificada en el Plano de Inscripción final de la Urbanización San Demetrio, con el número cuarenta (40) del Bloque “X” con un área superficial de trescientos cincuenta punto cero cero metros cuadrados (350.00 m/c). Colinda por el NORTE, en veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00m), con el solar número cuarenta y uno (41); por el SUR, en veinticinco punto cero cero metros (25.00m), con el solar número treinta y nueve (39); por el ESTE, en catorce punto cero cero (14.00), con la Calle “C”; y por el OESTE, en catorce punto cero cero metros (14.00m), con el solar número catorce (14). Enclava una casa de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto para fines residenciales.” Property Number 6,007 recorded at page 136 of volume 125 of Vega Baja, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section IV of Bayamón. The mortgage is recorded at Karibe Volumen, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section IV of Bayamón, inscription 9th. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $187,500.00, due on January 31, 2087 pursuant to deed number 160, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on April 23, 2014, before notary María I. García Mantilla, and recorded, at Karibe volume, property number 6007, 10th inscription. Other Liens: None.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on the _6th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $187,500.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on the 13th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $125,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the mini-

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mum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the 20th day of August of 2021, at: 11:00 am. and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $93,750.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 24th day of May of 2021. Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master. specialmasterpr@gmail.com 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. Demandante V.

LA SUCESION MARIO ORONA CRUZ COMPUESTA POR MARIO, MARIEL Y CHARLENE TODOS DE APELLIDOS ORONA RIVERA; SOUTHERN MORTGAGE CORPORATION AHORA ORIENTAL BANK; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandado(a) Civil: BY2021CV00474. Sala: 506. Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS

DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE MARIO ORONA CRUZ CUYA ULTIMA DIRECCION FISICA Y POSTAL CONOCIDA ES: Z-7 CALLE GIRALD, URB. SANTA JUANTIA, BAYAMON, PUERTO RICO 00956; CHARLENE ORONA RIVERA COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE MARIO ORONA CRUZ, A SU ULTIMA DIRECCION CONOCIDA: FISICA: (a) Z-7 CALLE GIRALD, URB. SANTA JUANTIA, BAYAMON, P.R. 00956 Y POSTAL: (b) Z-7 CALLE GIRALD, URB. SANTA JUANITA, BAYAMON, P.R. 00956; MARIO ORONA RIVERA COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE MARIO ORONA CRUZ, A SU ULTIMA DIRECCION CONOCIDA: FISICA: (a) Z-7 CALLE GIRALD, URB. SANTA JUANITA, BAYAMON, P.R. 00956 Y POSTAL: (b) Z-7 CALLE GIRALD, URB. SANTA JUANITA, BAYAMON, P.R. 00956; MARIEL ORONA RIVERA COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE MARIO ORONA CRUZ, A SU ULTIMA DIRECCION CONOCIDA: FISICA: (a) 2854 ELSIE AVE TOLEDO, OH 43613 Y POSTAL: (b) 2854 ELSIE AVE TOLEDO, OH 43613.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de junio de 2021, 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 29 de junio de 2021. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 29 de junio de 2021.

LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYADE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- MÓN SALA SUPERIOR. NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA REICG, LLC. TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSDemandante v.

TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE José Hernández Acosta; CAGUAS

LEGAL NOTICE

SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. Demandante V.

SOUTHERN MORTGAGE CORPORATION LUEGO EUROBANK, AHORA BANCO POPULAR DE ORIENTAL BANK, LUIS PUERTO RICO HUMBERTO RAMOS Demandante(a) Vs. VEGA, SANTOS SIGFREDO ROJAS VIRGINIA ROQUE MORALES, BERTHA RIVERA T/C/C VIRGINIA GONZÁLEZ BOOTHBY ROQUE RIVERA Y LA T/C/C BERTHA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GONZÁLEZ BOOTHLEY Y BIENES GANANCIALES LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE COMPUESTA POR BIENES GANANCIALES AMBOS, JOHN DOE Y COMPUESTA POR RICHARD ROE COMO AMBOS; ESTADOS POSIBLES TENEDORES UNIDOS DE AMERICA DESCONOCIDOS Demandado(a)

Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV01601.

Sala: 506. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA).

NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

Demandado(a) Civil: CG2021CV00709. Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de junio de 2021, 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 29 de junio de 2021. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 29 de junio de 2021. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ANGELA M. RIVERA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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 29 junio de 2021.

En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 29 de junio de 2021. CARMEN ANA PEREIRA ORTIZ, SECRETARIA. CYNTHIA GARCÍA DEL VALLE, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

A: SIGFREDO ROJAS A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, DEMANDADOS MORALES, BERTHA DESCONOCIDOS GONZALEZ BOOTHBY CUYA DIRECCION SE T/C/C BERTHA DESCONOCE. GONZALEZ BOOTHLEY Y de las partes a las que se LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE le(Nombre notifican la sentencia por edicto) BIENES GANANCIALES EL SECRETARIO(A) que susCOMPUESTA POR cribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de junio de 2021, este AMBOS.

LEGAL NOTICE M&T 481235 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO

Estados Unidos de América

Demandados CIVIL NÚM: BY2020CV03474.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el día 23 de agosto de 2021, a las 10:00 de la mañana en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio en la sala 503 del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en Urb. Santa Mónica, ZZ18 calle 15, Bayamón, PR 00960 t/c/c Urb. Santa Mónica, R15 calle 15, Bayamón, PR 00957-1852 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número ZZ-18.

Parcela de terreno radicado en el Barrio Pajaros del termino municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1179.364 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.3001 cuerdas.

En lindes por el Norte, con el remanente de la finca de donde se segrega en distancia de 24.611 metros, y con la parcela dedicada a uso público en distancia de 19.823 metros; por el Sur, con el lote numero ZZ-12, distancia de 23.72 metros; por el Este, con los lotes numeros ZZ-13 y ZZ-14 en distancia de 34.377 metros; por el Oeste, con el bloque I de la urbanizacion Santa Catalina en dos alineaciones y distancia de 13.612 metros y 23.531 metros.

La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el folio 161 del tomo 1,570 de Bayamón, finca número 68,169, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Primera.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $277,500.00.

Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subas-

ta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe, en la sala 503 del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior, el día 30 de agosto de 2021, a las 10:00 de la mañana. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $185,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe, en la sala 503 del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior, el día 7 de septiembre de 2021, a las 10:00 de la mañana. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $138,750.00.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 208, otorgada el día 2 de diciembre de 2010, ante el Notario Alfonso J. Gómez Roubert y consta inscrita en el folio 110 del tomo 1,896 de Bayamón, finca número 68,169, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Primera, inscripción quinta. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $128,917.60 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.060% anual desde el día 14 de septiembre de 2020. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Se pagarán también los cargos por servicio y las primas de seguro que continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo de la obligación, la suma de $27,750.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $27,750.00 para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $27,750.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más intereses según provisto por la regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble 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 de remate. La propiedad no

The San Juan Daily Star está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan más adelante. A los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso, o al portador, garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor por la presente se notifica, que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante.

HIPOTECA: Constituida por José Hernández Acosta (soltero), en garantía de un pagaré a favor de SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO, o a su orden, por la suma de $277,500.00, sus intereses al 5.060% anual y vencedero el 7 de marzo de 2079, según escritura número 209, otorgada en San Juan, el 2 de diciembre de 2010, ante el notario Alfonso J. Gómez Roubert. Inscrita al folio 110 del tomo 1896 de Bayamón.

Inscripción sexta. EMBARGO FEDERAL: Anotado contra José Hernández, seguro social XXX-XX-1895, por la suma de $44,009.17, según notificación número 210835016, presentada el 28 de abril de 2016, al asiento 2016-004780-FEd del Libro de Embargos Federales Karibe. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique.

Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de MAYO de 2021. FDO. JOSE F. MARRERO ROBLES, ALGUA-

Friday, July 2, 2021

CIL AUXILIAR, PLACA #131.

LEGAL NOTICE M&T 208803 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR.

Federal National Mortgage Association t/c/c Fannie Mae Demandante v.

José Ramos Fantauzzi t/c/c José Manuel Ramos Fantauzzi, Elizabeth Ramos Matos t/c/c Elizabeth Santa t/c/c Elizabeth Santa Matos t/c/c Elizabeth Santana Matos y la sociedad legal de bienes gananciales compuesta por ambos

Demandados CIVIL NÚM: TA2019CV01425.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el DÍA 23 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en la sala 503 del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en 10 Alondra St. Green Valley Toa Alta, PR 00953 t/c/c #10 Block E, Alondra St., Green Valley Dev., Toa Alta, PR 00953 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 10 del bloque E en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Green Valley radicado en el Barrio Galateo del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 900.82 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con la Calle Número 3 de la urbanización, en distancia de 20.00 metros; por el Sur, con la Autoridad de Tierras, en distancia de 20.00 metros; por el Este, con el lote número 11-E, en una distancia de 45.05 metros; y por el Oeste, con el lote número 9-E de la urbanización, en una distancia de 45.05 metros. Este solar se

encuentra afectado en su colindancia Norte por una servidumbre de teléfono de 1.52 metros y una servidumbre eléctrica.

Sobre el terreno enclava una casa construída en hormigón armado y bloques de concreto para una sola familia, consta tres cuartos dormitorios, dos baños, sala, cocina, comedor y doble marquesina. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 41 del Tomo 452 de Toa Alta, finca número 23,186, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Tercera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $171,000.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en la sala 503 del Centro Judicial de Bayamón que suscribe el DÍA 30 DE AGOSTO DE 2021, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $114,000.00.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en la sala 503 del Centro Judicial de Bayamón el DÍA 7 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $85,500.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 639, otorgada el día 28 de noviembre de 2005, ante el Notario Waleska C. Colón Villanueva y consta inscrita en el Folio 123 del Tomo 467 de Toa Alta, finca número 23,186, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Tercera, inscripción quinta.

Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $136,874.39 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.375% anual desde el día 1 de diciembre de 2017. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Se pagarán también los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento, la suma de $17,100.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $17,100.00para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $17,100.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura

de hipoteca, más intereses según provisto por la Regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil.

Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble 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 de remate.

La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma, en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de MAYO de 2021. FDO. JOSE F. MARRERO ROBLES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, PLACA #131.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO

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DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- de $271,877.02 de primer prinNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA cipal y la suma de $4,298.06 de balance diferido, más intereses SALA DE CAROLINA sobre la suma de $271,871.02 FIRSTBANK a razón del 6.50% anual, así PUERTO RICO como todos aquellos créditos Parte Demandante Vs. y sumas que surjan de la faz ALBERTO ISRAEL de la obligación hipotecaria y QUIROS GOMEZ, de la hipoteca que la garanMARIA DEL CARMEN tiza, incluyendo $34,000.00, NEGRON GARCIA Y LA pactado para costas, gastos honorarios de abogado. La SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE yparte Demandante presentó BIENES GANANCIALES para su inscripción en el RegisCOMPUESTA POR tro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO AMBOS PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: sobre la propiedad objeto de CN2021CV00117. Sobre: EJE- esta acción cuya propiedad es CUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR la siguiente: URBANA: Solar LA VÍA ORDINARIA, IN - REM. numero nueve (9) del bloque EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC- AA de la Urbanización denomiTOS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE nada Los Eucaliptos, radicado AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE en el Sector Santa Catalina del DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO Barrio Torrecillas del municipio LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER- de Canóvanas (antes Loíza), Puerto Rico, con cabida cuaTO RICO, SS. A: ALBERTO ISRAEL trocientos catorce punto cero cero (414.00) metros cuaQUIROS GOMEZ, drados. Colinda por el Norte, MARIA DEL CARMEN en dieciocho punto cero cero NEGRON GARCIA Y LA (18.00) metros, con la calle D SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE por el Sur, en dieciocho punto BIENES GANANCIALES cero cero (18.00) metros, con los solares numero AA guión CQMPUESTA POR tres (AA-3) y AA guión cuatro AMBOS. (AA-4); por el Este, en veintiPOR LA PRESENTE se les trés punto cero cero (23.00) emplaza y requiere para que metros, con el solar AA guión conteste la demanda dentro de ocho (AA-8), y por el Oeste, los treinta (30) días siguientes en veintitrés punto cero cero a la publicación de este Edicto. (23.00) metros, con el solar Usted deberá radicar su ale- numero AA guión diez (AA-10). gación responsiva a través del Enclava casa. Inscrita al folio Sistema Unificado de Manejo y diecisiete (17) del tomo cuaAdministración de Casos (SU- trocientos dieciocho ( 418) de MAC), al cual puede acceder Canóvanas, finca número dieciutilizando la siguiente dirección siete mil cuatrocientos noventa electrónica: http://unired.rama- y seis (17,496). Registro de la judicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se Propiedad de Carolina, Sección presente por derecho propio, III. SE LES AI,ERCIBE que de en cuyo caso deberá radicar no hacer sus alegaciones resel original de su contestación ponsivas a la demanda dentro ante el Tribunal correspondien- del término aquí dispuesto, se te y notifique con copia a los les anotará la rebeldía y se dicabogados de la parte deman- tará Sentencia, concediéndose dante, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colón el remedio solicitado en la DeVillanueva, al PO BOX 7970, manda, sin más citarle ni oírle.

Ponce P.R. 00732; Teléfono: Expedido bajo mi firma y sello 787-843-4168, correo electró- del Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto nico mcolon@wwclaw.com. Rico. A día 23 de junio de 2021.

En dicha demanda se tramita LCDA. MARILYN APONTE un procedimiento de cobro de RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA dinero y ejecución de hipoteca REGIONAL. LYSHA M. CORbajo el número mencionado en DERO DANOIS, SECRETARIA el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho AUXILIAR. procedimiento que la parte LEGAL NOT ICE Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Hipoteca, al no poder pagar DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUlas mensualidades vencidas NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA correspondientes a los me- TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSses de junio de 2019, hasta TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE el presente, más los cargos BAYAMÓN por demora correspondientes.

BANCO POPULAR DE Además, adeuda a la parte dePUERTO RICO mandante las costas, gastos y Demandante V. honorarios de abogado en que KENNETH JOHN incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con BONILLA VALLE, dicho Contrato de Garantía HiELINETTE VELEZ potecaria la parte Demandante COLLAZO Y LA declaró vencida la totalidad de SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE la deuda ascendente a la suma BIENES GANANCIALES de $276,175.08 de balance principal, el cual se compone COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Demandado(a) Civil: BY2019CV05029. Sala: 503. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ELINETTE VELEZ COLLAZO, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR ELLA Y SU ESPOSO KENNETH JOHN BONILLA VALLE.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de junio de 2021, 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 30 de junio de 2021. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 30 de junio de 2021.

LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. IVETTE M. MARRERO BRACERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de SALINAS.

SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. Demandante v.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO COMO UN POSIBLE SUCESOR DE DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION H/N/C H.F MORTGAGE BANKERS (ACREEDOR HIPOTECARIO ORIGINAL); GUILLERMO ROSADO COLON T/C/C GUILLERMO MANUEL ROSADO COLON, NAIKA CARTAGENA FIGUEROA T/C/C NAIKA MARIE CARTAGENA FIGUEROA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE

BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.

Demandado(a) Civil Núm. GM2021CV00177.

Sobre: SUSTITUCION DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: GUILLERMO ROSADO COLON T/C/C GUILLERMO MANUEL ROSADO COLON, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTAICON DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTAPOR LA SRA. NAIDA CARGTAGENA FIGUEROA T/C/C NAIKA MARIE CARTAGENA FIGUEROA. NAIKA CARTAGENA FIGUEROA T/C/C NAIKA MARIE CARTAGENA FIGUEROA, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR EL SR. GUILLERMO ROSADO COLON T/C/C GUILLERMO MANUEL ROSADO COLON; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de junio de 2021, 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 25 de junio de 2021. En SALINAS, Puerto Rico, el 25 de junio de 2021. MARISOL ROSADO RODRIGUEZ, Secretario(a). f/ BRENDA L. RAMOS POMALES, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

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The San Juan Daily Star

July 2-4, 2021

Phoenix Suns headed to first NBA Finals in almost 30 years

By MARC STEIN

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he Phoenix Suns, after missing the playoffs for 10 consecutive seasons, are headed to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1993.

With a 130-103 road rout of the Kawhi Leonard-less Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night, Phoenix won the Western Conference finals by four games to two and secured a berth in the finals, starting Tuesday or July 8.

They will face either the Atlanta Hawks or the Milwaukee Bucks, who were tied at two games apiece going into Thursday night’s Game 5 of the best-of-seven Eastern Conference finals.

The Suns failed to close out the series at home Monday night when they had the chance, but Chris Paul, the former Clipper, made sure they didn’t squander another opportunity — clinching his first career trip to the finals in the process. Paul scored a career playoff high-tying 41 points, including 14 of his team’s 16 points in a gamebreaking span bridging the third and fourth quarters, to turn the game into a runaway and provide a fitting capper to the Suns’ surge through the West.

Paul made seven of eight attempts from 3-point range after converting just two of 16 from long range in the previous three games of the series. Devin Booker (22 points), Jae Crowder (19) and Deandre Ayton (16 points and 17 rebounds) also made notable contributions as the short-handed Clippers, playing their 20th game in 41 days, finally faded down the stretch.

“Don’t lose mission,” Paul said in a postgame television interview, explaining his determination to put the Clippers away and avoid a Game 7.

The Suns were one of just two teams during a shortened 72-game regular season, along with Utah, to win 50 games. They validated that success, in many respects, by eliminating the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers in six games in the first round, and followed that with a four-game sweep of the Denver Nuggets. Phoenix had carried the league’s second-longest playoff drought into the season, dating to the Suns’ trip to the conference finals in 2010. Only Sacramento’s drought, now 15 seasons and counting, was longer.

Yet skeptics continue to point out that the Suns have faced short-handed opponents in each round of the playoffs. The Lakers’ Anthony Davis missed the final 2 1/2 games of the teams’ first-round series because of a groin injury; Denver’s Jamal Murray had a seasonending knee injury in April; and Leonard did not play in the conference finals after spraining his right knee in the second round against Utah.

The Suns, though, overcame their own burst of adversity against the Clippers when Paul, their veteran floor leader, missed the first two games because of the league’s coronavirus health and safety protocols. Phoe-

Phoenix Suns center Deandre Ayton moving in for a basket against Los Angeles Clippers guard Paul George on Wednesday night. nix managed to win both games without Paul and also overcame a broken nose suffered by Booker in Game 2.

Paul, 36, is with his fifth team. In 15 previous seasons, he had reached the conference finals only once, with the Houston Rockets, and was sidelined for Houston’s crucial Games 6 and 7 with a hamstring injury. The Rockets had taken a 3-2 series lead over the defending champion Golden State Warriors in the 2018 West finals but lost both games without Paul.

If the Suns go on to win the first title in franchise history, they would join last season’s Lakers and the Boston Celtics in 2007-08 as champions this century who won it all after missing the playoffs in the prior season. After losing throughout Booker’s first four NBA seasons, Phoenix narrowly missed the chance to participate in last season’s playoff play-in round. The Suns had arrived at the league’s restart at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, with the second-worst record of the 22 teams that qualified, then went 8-0 in their bubble games.

Convinced that the team was ready to take the next step after its Florida success, Suns management acquired Paul in a November trade from the Oklahoma City Thunder, absorbing the two years and more than $80 million left on his contract. Paul’s veteran know-how, Booker’s scoring and Ayton’s paint presence have combined to give Phoenix an enviable three-star core, with coach

Monty Williams, who coached Paul for one season in New Orleans, supplying additional key leadership.

Suns general manager James Jones, who hired Williams entering the 2019-20 season and made the trade for Paul, won the NBA Executive of the Year Award last week through a vote of his peers. Williams finished second for the NBA Coach of the Year Award, voted on by the media, behind the New York Knicks’ Tom Thibodeau, after winning coach of the year honors in a vote by the National Basketball Coaches Association.

The Clippers, without Leonard and their starting center Ivica Zubac (also sidelined by a knee injury), ran out of comebacks in Game 6 against Phoenix after becoming the first team in league history to win two series during the same postseason after losing the first two games.

They lost the first two games at home against Dallas in the first round and the first two games on the road against Utah in the second round but still secured the first trip to the conference finals in the club’s 51-year history, which includes eight seasons in Buffalo and six in San Diego.

SATURDAY’S PLAYOFF GAME Eastern Conference Finals Game 6 Milwaukee Bucks at Atlanta Hawks, 8:30 p.m. ET, TNT

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July 2-4, 2021

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Every shot, and second, counts for Tampa Bay

By BEN SHPIGEL

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t was a cute idea, really it was. This notion that as the final seconds ticked off and play lingered in the neutral zone, the middle period of Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final would end, just end, with the score still tied but the Montreal Canadiens in control. A puck, though — it can do some wondrous things when manipulated by marvels, and Tampa Bay Lightning winger Barclay Goodrow poked it beyond one Montreal defenseman, then maneuvered it past another to whip a backhand pass across the slot, and then there was no time left until there was just enough.

Smoke spewed from behind Canadiens goalie Carey Price, the crowd at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla. whooped and yelled, and the man whose diving flick sent the puck into the net barreled headfirst toward the boards. Two years ago Blake Coleman scored one of the most unbelievable goals in recent NHL annals, but this effort — an eventual game-winner, with 1.1 seconds remaining in a period, in the Stanley Cup Final — rendered that one as quaint.

After their 3-1 victory Wednesday, the Lightning lead the best-of-seven series by two games to none, despite being outshot and outplayed for vast stretches, because the Canadiens couldn’t get out of a period that was over until it wasn’t. Game 3 is tonight in Montreal.

“A little bit of a puck management thing there,” interim-interim coach Luke Richardson said.

Also, the Grand Canyon is a big hole in the ground. That very term — puck management — had dominated the Canadiens’ consciousness for nearly 48 hours, since a series-opening 5-1 defeat that exploited their carelessness. They rebounded to handle the puck well for the better part of 39 minutes, 55 seconds on Wednesday, until it popped free near Tampa Bay’s offensive blue line. Goodrow flipped it past Canadiens defenseman Ben Chiarot, and as he skated around him, not far from the Lightning bench, Goodrow heard his teammates yell, “Shoot! Shoot!”

Goodrow and Coleman joined the team a week apart in February 2020, in

The roar from the Tampa Bay fans was deafening, almost as loud as the chants that rang long and true: “Vasy! Vasy!

Vasy!” They echoed not after Vasilevskiy thwarted the Canadiens’ first breakaway of the opening period, or their second, or the in-tight backhander, or after any of his 42 saves, but before the puck was dropped and the American and Canadian anthems were sung.

Price has been outplayed this postseason by only Vasilevskiy, who punctuated all three series clinchers — against the Florida Panthers, Carolina Hurricanes and the New York Islanders — with shutouts. He has yielded just two goals, one in each game, against Montreal.

“I try not to think that much during the games,” Vasilevskiy said, when asked about dueling with Price. “Whatever happens, win or lose, I just try to play my best game.”

His best game Wednesday night frustrated the Canadiens, who regrouped after their poor showing in Game 1, when they resembled not the team that rampaged through the playoffs but all the opTampa Bay’s Blake Coleman scored the go-ahead goal in the final seconds of ponents they vanquished: disjointed and the second period. discombobulated, reckless with the puck and unstructured without it. Upon reflecEven with Coleman draped by Phillip tion, and they did have an off day Tuesday deals that cost the Lightning what amounted to three first-round picks, a hefty out- Danault, backchecking with fury. As the to sift through the detritus, the Canadiens lay for bottom-six forwards. When re- puck whistled his way, Coleman sensed seized on the notion of simplicity. As in, minded late Wednesday night that general he should lunge — “just kind of a re- keep doing what they have been doing — manager Julien BriseBois absorbed a bit of flex, really” — and his outstretched stick just do it better, and with more verve.

Instead of defending odd-man rushes, criticism for the trades, coach Jon Cooper nudged it inside the near post, just before the Canadiens created them. They sprung Price slid over. Before time was added, chuckled and said, “A bit?”

Goodrow and Coleman clicked as the scoreboard showed that three-tenths breakaways, sprayed shots from all angles and penetrated the once-impermeable linemates, meshing with center Yanni of a second remained.

“I don’t think anybody’s trying to dive space in front of Vasilevskiy. They also Gourde, to embody this new incarnation of the Lightning, a team with copious on the ice there, but in that moment it could not score, at least not until 10 minamounts of speed and skill, yes, but also was all we had,” Coleman said. “I don’t utes, 36 seconds of the second, when Nick Suzuki dribbled in a backhander know why these goals happen.” snarl and a defensive identity.

Goals, as in plural. He specializes in from the slot that appeared to deflect off “They’re a piece of the puzzle,” Coogoals he shouldn’t be scoring, from the at least one Lightning player. per said, “but they were the final piece.”

It evened the score, and it stayed that He praised both players’ sense of oc- near facsimile against Boston in last season’s playoff bubble to the one-handed way for most of the second period — but casion.

Knowing time was tight — less than 4 lifter while falling as a member of the not all of it. seconds remained — Goodrow weighed New Jersey Devils against Winnipeg to a his options. If he could just slip the puck comparable play in college at Miami UniSTANLEY CUP FINALS to a streaking Coleman, he thought, that versity in Ohio against Western Michigan.

Today “Literally, in my head, I’m like, ‘Did he was their best hope of scoring.

Tampa Bay Lightning at Montreal “It probably had a better chance of just do that again?’” Cooper said. “Little going in,” Goodrow said, “than me shoot- bit different scenarios, but it was remark- Canadiens, 8 p.m., NBC, SN, CBC, TVA Sports (Tampa Bay leads series 2-0) ably similar. Just the timing was epic.” ing from where I was.”

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The San Juan Daily Star

July 2-4, 2021

Greg Noll, surfing superstar who tackled the big waves, dies at 84

By RICHARD SANDOMIR

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reg Noll, a fearless surfer and a superstar in his sport who in the 1960s tackled stunningly big waves in Hawaii, died Monday in Crescent City, California, about 20 miles south of Oregon. He was 84.

His son Jed confirmed the death.

Noll, who was nicknamed Da Bull and who also owned a surfboard-making business, had been surfing since the late 1940s, seeking something close to the perfect ride on the biggest waves in Southern California, Hawaii, Mexico and Australia.

He was difficult to miss on the beach or in the water: He had a bodybuilder’s physique, wore black-and-white prison-stripe trunks (so he would be noticed by filmmakers) and took a very wide, aggressive stance on his board, as if poised to pounce on prey.

“In look and style, he could be the Babe Ruth of surfing,” Jim Kempton, president of the California Surf Museum, said by phone.

In the fall of 1957, Noll and several other surfers tempted fate at Waimea Bay, on the north shore of Oahu, where a teenager had died 14 years earlier. Local residents insisted that no one had surfed there since.

Noll did not lack for fear — he later described “ghouls whizzing around the place” — but at 20 he was adventurous, and he had been hoping to conquer the shark-friendly waters of Waimea Bay for a while. So he paddled out and caught a wave believed to have been as much as 30 feet high.

“I took off on a wave, went down the side, popped out the other end and went, ‘I’m alive. Nothing happened,’ ” Noll said in the 2004 surfing documentary “Riding Giants.”

On Dec. 4, 1969, a day when even Waimea seemed too perilous to attempt, he drove west to Makaha, where the pounding surf turned out to be at least as dangerous.

He estimated his chances of survival at 5050, but he said he wouldn’t have forgiven himself if he hadn’t tried. After attempting the storm-roiled waters with a few other surfers, he tried on his own.

An eyewitness said in “Riding Giants” that Noll paddled out against a backdrop of a “huge, massive, black wall” of water. “He stands up and he’s this little speck on this gigantic wall and you’re saying, ‘Oh, my God, he looks like this tiny cartoon figure.’ He gets into his stance — ‘Grrr, I’m going!’ — and he

Noll in 2006. He was known not just for his skill as a surfer but also for the surfboards he made. drops down, drops down, drops down and he gets to the bottom of the wave and it’s starting to come over the top of him and he kind of steps off the rail. There was nowhere to go. That was it.”

He had wiped out at the bottom of a wave that he said was 10 feet higher than any he had ever surfed.

“I was under the wave and all I could see was a tiny patch of sunlight,” he told The Honolulu Star-Advertiser afterward, and he had to swim a mile against swift currents to return to shore.

Fred Hemmings, another big-wave surfer who was there that day, told the newspaper, “If it had been anyone else in that situation, he would have died.”

At that point, Jed Noll said in a telephone interview, he “stopped his pursuit of riding the biggest wave ever every winter.

But he didn’t stop surfing.”

Several days after, when Noll was back at Waimea Bay, he saved a Navy seaman from drowning. “If he hadn’t brought him in, the guy would have drowned,” a friend,

Henry Prece, told The Star-Advertiser.

“He had a number of rescues over the years,” his son said.

Greg Lawhead was born Feb. 11, 1937, in San Diego and moved about 120 miles north to Manhattan Beach, California, when he was about 3 after his mother, Grace Zalabak, a homemaker, divorced his father, Robert. When she married Ash Noll, a chemical engineer, Greg took his stepfather’s surname.

Living near the Manhattan Beach pier, Greg came in close contact with the ocean; as a youngster, he began to fish, hand out live bait to fishermen and watch surfers riding the waves. As a teenager, he learned to make surfboards in a local shop, then began to create his own, first in his parents’ backyard and then in various small facilities.

And he was surfing.

“In my day, people thought we were from another planet or something because we surfed,” he said in a podcast interview on the website The Temple of Surf in 2020, “and that we were some kind of diseases that need to be eradicated.”

In 1956, he was part of a United States lifeguard team that competed in a multinational surf lifesaving demonstration in Australia at the time of the Summer Olympics in Melbourne. The surfboards that the team used stunned the Australians with their maneuverability.

“Took ’em from the horse and buggy straight to the Porsche,” Noll was quoted as saying in “The History of Surfing” (2010), by Matt Warshaw.

In the era before professional surfing took hold, Noll was able to earn a living making boards — he opened a factory in Hermosa Beach in 1965 that was very successful — while pursuing the biggest waves.

He also appeared in surfing documentaries like “Walk on the Wetside” (1965) and “Surfari” (1967), on which he was also a credited photographer. He was a surfing double for actor James Mitchum for “Ride the Wild Surf” (1964), a feature film shot in Hawaii with a cast that also included Fabian and Shelley Fabares.

Noll loathed the movie’s lack of realism, which he said made him vomit.

He disliked what the genre of frothy beach movies did to surfing — jamming California beaches with untrained surfers — and he closed his surfboard factory in 1973. He was a commercial fisherman in Crescent City for the next 15 years.

But in the late 1980s, he returned to making surfboards. Instead of churning them out in a factory, he crafted custommade and limited-edition boards. And in 2009, he began working with his son Jed at a startup company, Noll Surfboards, in San Clemente, creating boards that celebrate major events in surfing history and renowned surfers.

In addition to his son Jed, Noll is survived by his wife, Laura (Archuletta) Noll; a daughter, Ashlyne Walton; two other sons, Tate and Rhyn; nine grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.

Noll was one of several notable surfers who told their stories in “Riding Giants,” including Laird Hamilton and Jeff Clark. Stacy Peralta, the film’s director, said that the gregarious, candid and funny Noll was one of his inspirations to make the film.

“He can actually — quite exceptionally — articulate the experience,” Peralta told Documentary magazine in 2004. “He eroticized Waimea Bay. He talked about it as if it were a woman.”

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Sudoku How to Play: Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.

Sudoku Rules: Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9 Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9 Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

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GAMES

HOROSCOPE Aries

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(Mar 21-April 20)

Today’s Quarter Moon in your sign, could leave you feeling as though time is running out regarding a family project. Yet with the Sun in Cancer and a homely sector, this has little to do with whether you’re skilled enough to get this right, and more to do with timing, Aries. If you can delegate, then do so. In fact, getting everyone involved might be the key to success.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

The stellar map suggests that even if pushed, you may not be in the mood to compromise. But if a personal issue has gone on for too long, then today’s edgy lunar ties suggest doing something about it. If you reach out and make that first move Taurus, then this can put you in a strong position to issue an ultimatum, or come to an agreement that works out well for all involved.

With potent aspects stirring your emotions, it could be easy to let your imagination get the better of you, and perhaps to respond to an issue in an exaggerated way. Plus, with expansive Jupiter and dreamy Neptune in the mix, it can be tempting to make a decision that might not be based on the facts. Therefore, to save any embarrassment, a second opinion may be helpful Gemini.

Cancer

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Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

If you’re succeeding at a goal or have been complimented by a boss or manager, then it’s possible someone might be a little envious. It could be a passing emotion, but if you notice it from a friend or colleague, then it can be tempting to respond in kind. A decision to be open with them in a kind and friendly way could dissipate awkward feelings and restore harmony, Libra.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

You now have an opportunity to change habits that you’ve considered dropping for some time. Today’s potent lunar phase encourages you to reflect on whether they are shaped more by indulgent desires or by your true needs, Scorpio. If the former, you could find many reasons to put off doing something about them, even though you know that the time is ripe for change.

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

How far are you prepared to go to get what you want, Archer? A Quarter Moon in a playful sector of your chart, can inspire you to think carefully about whether certain pleasures are worth enjoying or not. Romance wise, you may want someone to pay more attention to you than they are. If they did reciprocate though, how would you really feel about taking things further?

Today’s Quarter Moon takes place in your topmost sector, and suggests you may be hoping for positive recognition for your efforts, whether related to a job or a more personal goal. Don’t go looking for it Cancer, it’s better to keep doing your best than rely on others’ opinions, which can change from one day to the next. As long as you know that you’re up to the mark, keep going.

Need to hold a discussion with someone? Approach this in the right way, and it could turn out to be a positive experience. Cosmic forces encourage you to go for it, as it’s better to settle any issues and feel good about the outcome. If money is involved, then any talks may be a lot more intense. Tread with care, and avoid making any hasty decisions if you’re under pressure.

Leo

Aquarius

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

You may be bursting with creative ideas, but be nervous to share them for fear of criticism. If someone has already put a damper on your efforts, you might feel even more loathe to put anything out there.

There are always going to be those who don’t like what you do, but there are also going to be plenty of people who do, and if you keep going this list will grow fast, Leo.

If you have the choice between getting involved in a dispute or not, then it may be helpful to step back and consider your options. No matter what you do, it can seem that the other person has the upper hand or the superior attitude, and this could leave you feeling vulnerable. It’s likely not true though, as you might have more influence than you know, but just need to realize it.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

Although a potent lunar phase can incline you to secrecy, there are other aspects that might encourage you to speak about whatever is on your mind.

If there is something you have kept to yourself for a while, then the decision to tell someone may be a big deal. Yet if you’re seeking relief Virgo, then perhaps this is a good time to come right out and just say it.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Today’s Quarter Moon in your sector of resources, could be a call to explore a talent that needs a push to get it off the ground. If others have been telling you how good you are at a certain thing, take them at their word, as this isn’t the time for doubts. By investing in the required books, courses or materials, you’ll be ready to go for it, and good things can come from your efforts.

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Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

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Wizard of Id

For Better or for Worse

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