IRS Failed to Police Puerto Rico Tax Break, Whistleblower Says P3
Telecom Alliance Says Industry Is Ready for Hurricane Season
Robert De Niro, as Biden Surrogate, Says Trump ‘Absolutely’ Should Go to Jail
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By THE STAR STAFF
Over the past few months, the island Education Department (DE) has allegedly been appointing employees in positions of trust and close associates of the New Progressive Party (NPP) to regular career positions without justifiable criteria or merit.
The allegations were made on Tuesday by Popular Democratic Party (PDP) at-large candidate for the House of Representatives, Gabriel López Arrieta, and Sen. Héctor L. Santiago Torres, a PDP candidate for a Senate District 6 (Guayama) seat.
The agency did not immediately answer requests for comment.
The DE has published a list of calls for temporary positions that are being converted into permanent ones with excessive salaries and minimum requirements, the candidates alleged. The Financial Oversight and Management Board itself questioned the permanence granted to 1,032 temporary employees under Law 96 of 2023, warning that the move could rule out meritorious candidates, violating public service reform.
“The highest score in the selection criteria is given to special assistants, thus allowing these employees to be screwed into the DE,” Santiago Torres said. “This displaces honest employees with decades of service in favor of assistants with a few years of experience and disproportionate salaries.”
The appointments are illegal, as the DE’s decentralization plan stipulates that those positions must be temporary, the candidates said. However, they said, due to the “whims” of Education Secretary Yanira Raíces Vega, calls have been opened to convert them into career positions, favoring trust employees.
“The New Progressive Party has transformed the Government of Puerto Rico into a tool for its own benefit, locking in its trust employees with excessive salaries to divert funds toward the party later,” Santiago Torres said. “Not only are they securing positions for their allies, but they are doing
so crudely, prioritizing political and personal power over the well-being of the people.”
Meanwhile, the appointments have raised concern due to the high salaries, some exceeding $100,000 annually. The salary increases and the filling of the vacancies represent an expense of more than $2 million for the agency.
“Many of these positions are intended for people with less than five years of experience, which has caused concern among employees with more years of service,” López Arrieta said. “We call on the DE to provide a detailed and transparent explanation of the criteria used to determine these excessive salaries.”
Moreover, the PDP candidates said, without considering the transformation of a smaller but more efficient government, the DE has also created 66 additional positions under the DE Office of Federal Affairs restructuring program that did not exist to benefit more NPP members with permanent jobs and exorbitant salaries.
“The reality is that the DE has been used as the ATH of the NPP,” López Arrieta said. “We call on them not to continue abusing power and using public funds aimed at the education of our children for political-partisan purposes. This represents a clear waste of funds that should be used to improve education. We call for transparency from the Secretary of Education.”
Over the course of last week, from Monday through Sunday, agents from the Puerto Rico Police Bureau assigned to the Highway Patrol Division conducted 16,339 interventions, issuing tickets for administrative offenses and making more than 200 arrests for various crimes, including drunk driving.
According to the bureau, the interventions resulted in six arrests for controlled substances, six arrests for controlled substances and weapons, one arrest for Weapons Law, one arrest for a stolen vehicle, one arrest for a court order, 118 arrests for drunk driving and 86 arrests for driving without a license.
In addition, five interventions were conducted with
four-track, three-track and Scrambler hybrid vehicles. Also seized were nine pistols, 185 rounds of ammunition and 32 magazines, along with cocaine, marijuana and pills. Two vehicles were recovered and nine vehicles, five four-tracks and three Scramblers were confiscated. Additionally, a total of $1,378.28 in cash was confiscated. The overall bail for the aforementioned events was $200,000.
Over the weekend, meanwhile, two fatal accidents were reported in the towns of Barranquitas and Patillas, raising the number of fatal accidents in 2024 to 105, compared to 133 in 2023, a reduction of 28 fatal accidents to date on island roads.
The Police Bureau urged citizens to drive with caution and respect traffic laws to avoid tragedies on the road.
For the past decade, thousands of wealthy Americans have been flocking to Puerto Rico to take advantage of a tax break that can cut their tax bills to zero. For nearly as long, there have been allegations that the benefit enables multimillionaires to avoid paying what they owe when they reap big investment profits.
Now, an IRS insider has accused the agency of failing to police the tax break. Despite a high-profile campaign announced more than three years ago to unearth possible abuse, the agency has audited barely two dozen people and has collected back taxes from none, according to a letter that an agency insider wrote this year to lawmakers and that has been reviewed by The New York Times, as well as interviews with IRS officials.
Senate officials have begun an investigation into the whistleblower’s allegations about the Puerto Rican tax benefit.
“It’s been three years since the IRS announced its enforcement campaign on this issue,” said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., chair of the Senate Finance Committee. “It needs to pick up the pace.”
Hamstrung by decades of budget cuts, the IRS has regularly struggled to crack down on tax avoidance by the wealthiest Americans and large companies. Audits of millionaires have declined more than 80% over the past decade, reaching record lows. The agency rarely examines giant private equity firms. And the annual “tax gap” — the difference between taxes that are owed and what is paid — is estimated to be $600 billion.
In an interview, Danny Werfel, the IRS commissioner, said the agency’s enforcement campaign in Puerto Rico, while still in its “early chapters,” was accelerating because of the $80 billion in new funding that the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act provided to the agency.
“We’re still coming out of our period of underinvestment, and we are still building muscle that atrophied,” he said. “If you look at a given campaign, you can come up with the conclusion that this feels slow out of the gate, and you wouldn’t be wrong.”
In addition to the roughly two dozen audits of people taking advantage of the Puerto Rican tax break, the IRS has said its criminal division identified about 100 people who may have committed tax evasion. The division is focusing on so-called promoters of potential crimes.
The creation of the tax benefit was part of a decades-long effort by Puerto Rico — and the U.S. federal government — to refashion the island as an offshore tax haven. (Since the 1950s, for example, U.S. citizens who move to Puerto Rico have been exempt from federal taxes on income and capital gains earned in the territory.) The goal was to entice wealthy Americans and big corporations to move there and to accelerate the island’s economic growth.
In 2012, Puerto Rico enacted a series of tax breaks that permitted new residents to also avoid local taxes on their investment income while they reside on the island.
To be eligible for the tax break, residents need to apply to the Puerto Rican economic development agency, which publicly discloses their identities. Once they are registered, they can receive a tax break only if they report eligible income.
The number of registrants has nearly quadrupled over the past five years, to more than 5,000, though fewer than 3,000 of those people actually received any tax benefits in the most recent year for which records are available.
If someone becomes a resident in Puerto Rico and later sells a business, that person is eligible for tax exemption only on the portion of investment profits that were generated in Puerto Rico while the person lived there.
In theory, the tax break should be relatively easy to monitor. Does the recipient live in Puerto Rico? And were the profits on which the person wants to avoid taxes generated while the person lived in Puerto Rico?
“You’ve got high-income business owners self-identifying to the IRS, so that’s a nice ready-made population” for the agency to audit, said Jay Nanavati, a former federal prosecutor who is now a criminal defense lawyer at Kostelanetz, a tax-focused law firm. “I would think this would be low-hanging fruit.”
In 2020, federal prosecutors indicted Gabriel Hernández, who was running the Puerto Rico office of the accounting firm BDO USA, on wire fraud charges. The indictment accused Hernández of fraudulently exploiting the 2012 law on behalf of wealthy Americans.
The case should “serve as a warning to anyone considering seeking to evade taxes by illegally exploiting federal and Puerto Rico tax laws,” W. Stephen Muldrow, the U.S. attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, said at the time of the indictment. (Hernández has pleaded not guilty. He declined to comment for this article.)
Three months after the indictment, the IRS said it would begin a broad effort to scrutinize the possible use of such breaks in Puerto Rico to evade taxes. The agency said it would look at taxpayers who claimed benefits through the 2012 legislation without meeting the eligibility requirements.
The success of that initiative is now facing questions.
In November, a dozen congressional Democrats wrote to the IRS about their concerns that the 2012 law “is enabling tax evasion by the American wealthy.”
That letter was the impetus for the more recent letter to lawmakers and IRS officials, which was written by the agency insider who self-identified as “an individual affiliated with the Internal Revenue Service.”
The writer said fewer than 20 people — or less than 1% of the beneficiaries of the tax break — had been contacted as part of the IRS. review. “My understanding is that no assessments have been made by any office nationwide for a campaign that has been open for three years,” the letter said.
In enforcement campaigns such as this one, the IRS can use what is known as a “soft letter.” Less than a formal audit, it alerts taxpayers that they may have a problem and encourages them to rectify it voluntarily. The whistleblower wrote that the agency had not sent any soft letters to beneficiaries of the
Puerto Rican tax break.
Werfel confirmed that the IRS had not sent any soft letters but said the agency had audited dozens of taxpayers. Another IRS official said the figure was about 20.
Werfel also said the agency had assessed “millions of dollars” in back taxes related to the Puerto Rican break, though he would not say how many individuals had received such bills. In any case, no taxes have actually been collected yet, according to a person familiar with the agency’s efforts.
One tax lawyer said he had alerted the IRS to dozens of examples of taxpayers who improperly claimed the benefits, but none had been audited. Several tax advisers specializing in disputes with the IRS said they had seen little indication that the agency was taking action.
In addition to the whistleblower’s letter, the Senate Finance Committee had separately received information that set off concerns about the potential improper use of the Puerto Rican tax break, according to a committee aide. Last month, the committee’s investigators contacted the IRS asking how many audits it is conducting as part of the enforcement campaign, how much money has been recovered and how many people are under criminal investigation. Wyden said he was worried that people were potentially evading billions of dollars in taxes.
Visitors on a beach in the Condado neighborhood of San Juan on March 28, 2024. A whistleblower has accused the IRS of failing to scrutinize a lucrative tax break designed to lure wealthy Americans to Puerto Rico. (Scott McIntyre/The New York Times)In anticipation of the 2024 hurricane season starting on Saturday, June 1, Puerto Rican Telecommunications Alliance (APT by its Spanish initials) President Wanda Pérez announced Tuesday that the telecommunications industry is prepared to face the challenges that may arise due to the passage of major storms through and/ or near Puerto Rico and is committed to reacting quickly to maintain the continuity of services.
Pérez said some of the challenges that telecommunications companies face related to the passage of atmospheric phenomena include a lack of energy, voltage fluctuations that damage equipment, poles and cables damaged by collapses or cuts, fiber breakdowns and fuel shortages.
“The commitment of telecommunications companies has always been to offer a quality service, but in times of emergency, it becomes even more relevant, since citizens depend on internet, telephone and television services to stay informed, request emergency services, and communicate with their family and work centers,” she said. “Therefore, it is vital that we have the collaboration of government authorities and energy and fuel service providers to ensure that, if our operations are interrupted due to the lack of
these resources, companies in the industry are prioritized so that in turn they can restore their services to citizens in the shortest time.”
Pérez also emphasized that it is of the utmost importance that the cleaning brigades avoid cutting fiber optic cables that have fallen to the ground since this delays the recovery period of the networks considerably and can even affect communications workers as well as customers.
To promote coordinated work, the APT has made itself
available to participate in multisector work teams with entities such as the Puerto Rico Business Emergency Operations Center and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as to work in the Emergency Operations Center.
Pérez stressed the industry’s proactive approach, with many companies implementing measures to ensure service continuity. Those measures include the installation of generators, batteries, and solar technology in critical locations, the use of underground fiber optics, the purchase of diesel storage tanks for energy redundancy, the implementation of small cells and new technologies for connectivity, and investment in advanced technology for rapid recovery of cut fiber lines.
Additionally, APT members have ensured an adequate equipment inventory, reviewed antenna stability, inspected fiber optic routes, and performed cleanup work to prevent vegetation and other debris damage.
“Staff preparation is equally crucial,” Pérez noted. “Companies have emergency plans and have conducted training so that employees, from technicians to managers, are ready to respond quickly during service interruptions. Our commitment is to keep Puerto Rico connected, even in the most adverse circumstances.”
Joel Vázquez Rosario, the Citizen Victory Movement (MVC) candidate for the San Juan District 2 seat in the island House of Representatives, on Tuesday flatly denied allegations against him of workplace harassment in his position in the Puerto Rican Workers Union (SPT by its Spanish initials).
“I don’t have any pending complaints,” he said in a radio report “No one has summoned me to any forum to address this matter.”
Former SPT employee Rosa Díaz said she was fired for denouncing a situation of nepotism involving union leader Israel Marrero. She said that after denouncing the alleged instance of nepotism, Vázquez began to harass her, and no one did anything about it.
Vázquez said he learned about the matter in a complaint filed against him through the MVC’s candidate evaluation process in December of last year.
“The union certified to me that there was no internal complaint with human resources, much less externally in any other particular forum,” Vázquez said. “Obviously, I presented my allegations within
Victoria Ciudadana, and the committee passed judgment on that.”
Reaffirming Vázquez’s innocence, Manuel Natal Albelo, who stepped down this earlier week as the general coordinator of MVC, underscored that the final decision made by the party’s candidacy evaluation committee was not just in favor of Vázquez, but was also unanimous after three members of the committee recused themselves from addressing the complaint.
“First, due to proximity to one of the parties, either who was filing the complaint or against whom the complaint was being filed,” Natal said of the recusals. “In the second case it was due to possible conflicts of interest about the candidacy in a specific case and depending on the result as it could represent a conflict of interest.”
The candidate, meanwhile, emphasized that “[t] he people who are parties to this process, both in the union, have publicly disclosed that the claims that have been presented in the different administrative forums against the union, which have already been adjudicated, those claims have not prospered.”
The San Juan Daily Star
President Joe Biden’s campaign, after more than a year of studiously avoiding direct comments about Donald Trump’s legal problems, on Tuesday dispatched actor Robert De Niro to the Manhattan courthouse where the former president’s first criminal trial is wrapping up.
De Niro — in an off-script moment — declared that Trump was guilty and should go to jail.
“The fact is whether he’s acquitted, whether it’s hung jury, whatever it is, he is guilty, and we all know it,” the actor said after the news conference. “I’ve never seen a guy get out of so many things, and we all know this. Everybody in the world knows this.”
Asked if he thought Trump should be in jail, De Niro replied: “I sure do. Absolutely.”
The foray by a Biden surrogate into commentary about Trump’s guilt, which the New York jury may decide as soon as this week, was a stark departure from the president’s directive to avoid discussing his rival’s felony charges. Biden has said next to nothing on the subject, to avoid feeding the false Trump-inspired narrative that he ordered prosecutors to bring criminal charges against his predecessor.
The moment illustrated how difficult it may be for the Biden campaign to navigate its response to a potential verdict, with outside allies far more willing than his disciplined operation in Wilmington, Delaware, to lob frontal attacks at Trump over his legal peril.
The news conference’s intended focus was to draw attention to Trump’s actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, which are the subject of another federal criminal case pending against him. In Manhattan, Trump is charged with falsifying business records related to a hush-money payment to a porn actor before the 2016 election.
De Niro, whose voice narrates the campaign’s latest ad, appeared alongside Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone, two former U.S. Capitol Police officers who have criticized Trump over his role in the Jan. 6 mob violence.
Fanone accused Trump of being “an authoritarian who answers only to himself,” and De Niro said the former president had engaged in a “coward’s violence” after the 2020 election.
“He directs the mob to do his dirty work for him,” he said.
De Niro also mentioned the civil case last year in which a jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll, a former magazine writer. In January, the former president was ordered to pay $83.3 million in damages to Carroll. The Biden campaign has rarely discussed that case or the verdict against Trump.
“Just a couple of blocks from here a jury found him liable for sexual abuse,” De Niro said.
The Trump campaign quickly jumped on the Biden news conference, and Trump shared a video on social media of De Niro yelling at protesters.
“The Biden folks have finally done it,” said Jason Miller, a senior adviser to the campaign. “After months of saying that politics had nothing to do with this trial, they showed up and
Asked about the Biden campaign’s contention that it had held a news conference at the courthouse only because the national news media had been stationed there for weeks, Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign’s press secretary, responded simply: “They’re pathetic.”
Later Tuesday, Trump’s two oldest sons and his daughter-in-law Lara Trump held a news conference of their own outside the courthouse.
Lara Trump used the opportunity to try to raise money. “If they can profit off it, on the other side, so can we: donaldjtrump.com,” she said.
Donald Trump Jr. also took a potshot at De Niro.
“He needs attention because it’s been a while since he cranked out a good movie,” the younger Trump said. “The fact that they are holding a rally right across the street from this very witch hunt, right across the street, tells us exactly what we all knew all along, which is that it is a political persecution.”
As De Niro walked away from his downtown appearance, trailed by jeers from Trump supporters, he offered them an angry response that was more in keeping with the Biden campaign’s overall message.
made it with a campaign event.”
He characterized De Niro’s involvement as a desperate reach for a campaign that needed to lift Biden’s poll numbers, referring to him as a “washed-up actor” and arguing that Biden campaign staff members at the news conference had sensed it was a bad idea to stand in the proverbial shadow of the courthouse.
The Biden campaign said that bringing De Niro and the two Capitol Police officers to Trump’s trial was not a commentary on the case but on the news media scrum gathered to cover it.
“We’re not here today because of what’s going on over there,” Michael Tyler, the campaign’s communications director, told the reporters assembled outside the courthouse. “We’re here today because you all are here.”
Throughout the trial, many of the news conferences outside the courthouse have been met with some level of heckling from demonstrators stationed in a protest area nearby. A rowdy group of pro-Trump supporters shouted at De Niro and the former Capitol Police officers, calling the actor an elitist and the officers traitors.
At one point, De Niro flashed anger reminiscent of one of his movie characters.
“We’re trying to be gentlemen, the Democrats,” he yelled at the Trump supporters. “You are gangsters — you are gangsters!”
Trump has sought to tie together all four of his pending criminal cases and has argued baselessly that Biden is behind them all. In addition to the Manhattan trial, he is charged in separate federal cases over his handling of classified documents and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, along with a Georgia case related to his push to reverse that year’s results.
Steven Cheung, a Trump campaign spokesperson, said the Biden campaign was “making a political mockery” of the criminal case with its appearance.
“Screaming and yelling and intimidating; you’re not going to intimidate, that’s what Trump does, to try to intimidate,” De Niro shouted, jutting out a finger. “We are going to fight back.”
Former President Donald Trump arrives for his criminal trial at the start of the day’s proceedings in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, May 21, 2024. Closing arguments started Tuesday in the Manhattan hush-money trial of Trump, signaling the final stages of the first criminal trial of an American president. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times)
Robert De Niro at a news conference on behalf of the Biden campaign outside the criminal trial of former President Trump at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. Holding a news conference with De Niro and two former Capitol Police officers, the Biden campaign signaled it was growing more assertive on Donald Trump’s legal troubles. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)Brig. Gen. Bud Anderson, who single-handedly shot down 16 German planes over Europe in World War II and became America’s last living triple ace, a fighter pilot with 15 or more “kills,” died May 17 at his home in Auburn, California, northeast of Sacramento.
Anderson, who teamed with renowned Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager in combat and later in the storied age of pioneering test pilots, was 102.
His family, in a statement on Anderson’s website, said he died in his sleep.
In his 30 years of military service, Anderson flew more than 130 types of aircraft, logging about 7,500 hours in the air.
Clarence “Bud” Anderson, a pilot in the 357th Fighter Group of the United States Air Force, in March 1944. (Wikipedia)
Piloting P-51 Mustang propeller fighters in World War II — he named them Old Crow, for his favorite brand of whiskey — he logged 116 missions totaling about 480 hours of combat without aborting a single foray.
When World War II ended, he held the rank of major at 23 years old. When he retired from active duty in 1972, he was a colonel.
His decorations included two Legion of Merit citations, five Distinguished Flying Crosses, the Bronze Star and 16 Air Medals. He was promoted to the honorary rank of brigadier general by the Air Force chief of staff at the time, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., in a ceremony at the Aerospace Museum of California in December 2022. Brown called him “kind of a wrecking ball of a guy.”
Anderson scored the third-highest number of “kills” in the Army Air Forces’ 357th Fighter Group, whose three squadrons
downed nearly 700 German aircraft, mostly while protecting American bombers on their missions over Europe.
Yeager was Anderson’s squadron mate and downed 13 German planes. Becoming the first pilot to break the sound barrier, in 1947, Yeager later joined with Anderson in the test-flight program in California chronicled in Tom Wolfe’s book “The Right Stuff” (1979).
“On the ground, he was the nicest person you’d ever know,”Yeager said of Anderson in reflecting on their wartime years.
But as he put it in his 1985 autobiography, “Yeager,” written with Lee Jonas: “In the sky those damned Germans must’ve thought they were up against Frankenstein or the Wolfman. Andy would hammer them into the ground, dive with them into the damned grave, if necessary, to destroy them.”
Anderson attributed his prowess in dogfights to his exceptional ability to identify enemy fighters such as the Germans’ Messerschmitts and Focke-Wulfs when they were specks in the sky, just preparing to pounce.
“Part of that probably traces back to my fascination with planes as a kid, making models, filling up scrapbooks with pictures,” he recalled in “To Fly and Fight: Memoirs of a Triple Ace” (1990), written with Joseph P. Hamelin. “But part must be physical. My eyes, I’ve always believed, communicate with my brain a bit more quickly than average.”
Of the German fighter planes, he added: “I wanted to see them. I might have been a little more motivated than most.”
Afederal judge on Tuesday temporarily denied a request by prosecutors to bar former President Donald Trump from making statements that might endanger law enforcement agents working on the case in which he stands accused of illegally holding on to classified documents after he left office. The decision by the judge, Aileen Cannon, was made solely
on the procedural grounds that prosecutors working for the special counsel, Jack Smith, had failed to properly inform Trump’s lawyers before making their request. It left open the possibility that the prosecution could try again to restrict Trump’s remarks about the agents if it follows the procedural rules.
As part of her decision, Cannon also temporarily denied an attempt by Trump’s legal team to push back against the government. Trump’s lawyers had filed a counter-motion seeking to have the prosecutors’ request stricken from the record and to have sanctions imposed on Smith and his deputies for failing to follow the proper procedure.
Even though Cannon’s ruling rebuked Smith for having ignored “professional courtesy” by failing to properly follow the process for informing defense lawyers of its request, it left the underlying issues in the whirlwind spat untouched. Those remain largely where they stood when the dispute between the defense and prosecution began on Friday evening.
He flew his first mission in February 1944, with the 363rd Squadron, and became an ace (a pilot with at least five “kills”) in mid-May. He was credited with 16 kills in his own right and one-quarter of a kill for a mission in which he joined with three other pilots in shooting down a German plane. Yeager, who flew a P-51 in that squadron while holding the rank of captain, was shot down over France in March 1944. Parachuting with leg and head wounds, he was hidden by the French Resistance, eventually made it back to England and continued to fly in the war.
Anderson became a test pilot at what is now WrightPatterson Air Force Base in Ohio in the late 1940s and early ’50s. After retiring from the Air Force in March 1972, he was chief of test-fight operations for McDonnell Aircraft Co. at Edwards Air Force Base in California’s high desert. Yeager, whom Wolfe portrayed as personifying “the brotherhood of the Right Stuff” for his nonchalance in the face of flight emergencies, became deputy director of flight testing.
Anderson commanded a tactical fighter wing in the Vietnam War and flew 25 missions in an F-105 Thunderchief that he named Old Crow II, bombing enemy supply routes along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
Clarence Emil Anderson Jr., known as Bud since he was a boy, was born Jan. 13, 1922, in Oakland, California, and grew up in Newcastle, near Sacramento.
He was fascinated by commercial airliners flying above his town, and his father, a farmer, treated him to a biplane ride when he was 7.
“As far back as I can remember, I wanted to fly,” he recalled in an interview with the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.
He gained a pilot’s license in a civilian training program as a teenager, then, turning 20, he joined the Army’s air wing a few weeks after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 7, 1941. He married Eleanor Cosby in 1945. She died in 2015. His survivors include his son, James; his daughter, Kathryn Burlington; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren, according to his website.
It was then, at the start of the holiday weekend, that Smith’s prosecutors asked Cannon to undertake a dramatic new step in the case: to revise the conditions of Trump’s release to keep him from making any public statements that could threaten or otherwise harm the FBI agents working on the classified documents case.
The request came after Trump claimed in social media and fundraising appeals, without basis, that the bureau had authorized agents to kill him during their August 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Florida.
Prosecutors asserted to Cannon that the former president’s remarks — including one in which he falsely claimed that agents were “locked & loaded ready to take me out” — were a “grossly misleading” misinterpretation of an FBI operational plan for the search.
The request by Smith marked the first time that prosecutors had requested anything resembling a gag order in the classified documents case. Trump is facing gag orders in two of his other criminal proceedings: a federal case in Washington in which he stands accused of plotting to overturn the 2020 election and his trial in Manhattan on charges of covering up a hush money payment to a porn actress made on the eve of the 2016 election.
Last year, two unions representing workers at three large automakers and UPS negotiated new labor contracts that included big raises and other gains. Leaders of the unions — the United Auto Workers and the Teamsters — hoped the wins would help them organize workers across their industry.
The UAW won one vote to unionize a Volkswagen factory in Tennessee last month and lost one this month at two Mercedes-Benz plants in Alabama. The Teamsters have made even less progress at UPS’ big nonunion rivals in the delivery business, Amazon and FedEx.
Polling shows that public support for unions is the highest it has been in decades. But labor experts said structural forces would make it hard for labor groups to increase their membership, which is the lowest it has been as a percentage of the total workforce in decades. Unions also face stiff opposition from many employers and conservative political leaders.
An Amazon delivery worker pushes a cart piled with packages in Manhattan, on Nov. 28, 2023. Many workers who deliver Amazon packages are employed by contractors, which for the most part are small businesses that can be hard to organize. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
The Teamsters provide an instructive case study. Many of the workers doing deliveries for Amazon and FedEx work for contractors, typically small and medium-size businesses that can be hard to organize. And delivery workers employed directly by FedEx in its Express business are governed by a labor law that requires unions to organize all similar workers at the company nationally at once — a tougher standard than the one that applies to organizing employees at automakers, UPS and other employers.
Some labor experts also said the Teamsters had not made as forceful a push as the UAW to organize nonunion workers after securing a new contract with UPS.
“You didn’t have that energy that you saw with the UAW’s leaders,” said Jake Rosenfeld, a sociologist who studies labor at Washington University in St. Louis.
Teamsters officials said the UPS deal, which increases the average annual compensation, including benefits, of a UPS driver to $170,000 from $145,000, was helping them gain members. At DHL, a delivery company where the union has long had a big presence, the union added 1,100 members last year and is pushing to gain another 1,500. The Teamsters are also pursuing a legal challenge against Amazon that could allow them to gain ground at the company and its contractors.
“It’s been very helpful for us to mobilize,” Sean O’Brien, the Teamsters’ president, said in an interview, referring to the UPS contract. “We’ve set the standard in the industry.”
But the union has also suffered losses. Yellow, a truck-
ing company that employed 24,000 Teamsters, shut down and filed for bankruptcy protection last year.
Amazon and FedEx said they were confident in their approach to managing and compensating workers. Amazon said it had made investments that bolstered pay and benefits at its delivery contractors. FedEx said its nonunion model allowed it to quickly increase pay whereas UPS’ union employees were bound by the terms of five-year contracts.
“Our culture, built and tested over 50 years, is based on the philosophy that if we take care of our people, they will deliver outstanding service for our customers, which will drive business results for our company,” Tracy Brightman, FedEx’s chief people officer, said in a statement,
Around 310,000 UPS employees belong to the Teamsters. Many of them see FedEx and Amazon drivers on their routes and talk about pay, benefits and working conditions.
“We make much more money than anyone else in the industry,” said Essence Carlisle, a part-time package handler at UPS’ hub in Louisville, Kentucky. “I definitely intend to make a career here.”
The UPS deal gave part-time employees, over half the company’s unionized workforce, a 26% raise, to at least $21 per hour. Carlisle makes close to $24 an hour and works around 20 hours a week, giving her time to run a bakery on the side, she said. Her friends who have full-time driving jobs at Amazon make around $19 an hour, she said.
As big as the raises at UPS were, they did not increase pay by a lot more than inflation. The top wage rate immediately after the latest deal, $44.25 per hour, was 22% higher than five years earlier. Over that period, consumer prices
rose 21%.
Under the Teamsters’ deal with UPS, the top hourly wage will increase to $49 by the end of the five-year contract. Amazon said in January that the average pay of workers at its delivery contractors was $20.50 in the United States. FedEx declined to provide an average wage rate for its delivery workers.
Despite UPS’ superior pay over the years, the Teamsters have not made many inroads at FedEx or Amazon.
The high turnover of delivery and warehouse workers at Amazon and FedEx — where each part-time position was on average filled and vacated twice last year — makes it difficult to organize them.
Another challenge is that delivery workers at Amazon, and drivers who deliver for FedEx Ground, are employed by contractors. Rosenfeld said trying to organize a few dozen people at each contractor could be time consuming and costly. At FedEx, there is another potential barrier to unionization.
FedEx was founded as an airline, and employees of its Express business come under the Railway Labor Act, which requires unions to organize nationally, across a whole company, at once. Union officials say it’s easier to hold individual votes at each company location as allowed under the National Labor Relations Act, which governs workers at UPS and automakers.
Even so, some FedEx employees do belong to a union. Nearly 6,000 pilots at FedEx Express are represented by the Air Line Pilots Association. The Teamsters are trying to organize the mechanics who work on the company’s planes.
FedEx said its delivery workers had benefited from not being in a union because the company raised wages significantly during the home-delivery boom of 2021 and 2022, when UPS workers’ raises were set by an agreement reached before the pandemic. A FedEx spokesperson noted that the company incurred an additional $1.4 billion in labor costs in its 2022 fiscal year.
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U.S. trading moved to a shorter settlement on Tuesday, which regulators hope will reduce risk and improve efficiency in the world’s largest financial market but may temporarily lead to a rise in transaction failure for investors.
To comply with a rule change the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted last February, investors in U.S. equities, corporate and municipal bonds and other securities must settle their transactions one business day after the trade, instead of two, beginning Tuesday.
Here are some reactions:
“Tomorrow and the next day are the big days … It comes down to customer allocations and affirmations and that won’t really wash itself out for the next few days.”
“I spoke to a number of my counterparts in the banking world and in the asset management world and one of the things that I have seen was there was an intentional effort to have a little bit more cash on hand to address any fails that may come out of this whole thing. I don’t think it’s a significant increase, but it’s certainly enough to be able to address a normal settlement cycle that goes from two days to one.
“The mid-size, and the smaller managers are the ones that we’re going to be watching closely because they tend to be more reliant on manual processes, on files coming from their custody agents and their prime brokers in spreadsheets or in PDFs … and their processes are much more people-driven rather than technology-driven.”
“It’s probably too soon to tell. I think everyone is prepared for it. We’ve had things like this in the industry before, so you prepare for it, and then wait and see basi-
cally. I haven’t seen anything new yet. We haven’t had any problems. Hopefully it goes well.
There will be some growing pains and a few hiccups I would imagine... If there is something we’ll all know pretty quickly. Tomorrow morning we’ll see if anything happened. It’s interesting because tomorrow it will be a settlement date for two trading days - Friday and today’s. You could have potentially some issues with extended settlements... But overall (T+1) is a good thing. When it comes down to why they did it, it’s lowering the risk. When there’s less time to settle, there’s less risk.”
“Every single asset manager out there is going to be working very closely with their custodian today to make sure everything can settle as quick as possible. But as far as evaluating how the turnover has gone, that will require aggregate data which is at earliest month-end, most likely quarter-end.”
“Throughout the day we will see if there are any issues. I believe most managers have been very proactive in making sure everything is booked properly ... There is a big value chain involved in this process and now we have to make sure that the t’s are crossed and the i’s are dotted and we’ll be able to see what fell through the cracks.”
Israel’s military said its troops were pressing on with their ground assault in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, even as international outrage over its operation there intensified in the wake of a deadly airstrike on a camp for displaced Palestinians.
The military has said that the strike in Rafah on Sunday — which ignited a deadly fire in the camp and killed dozens of people — was targeting a Hamas compound.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said Monday it was a “tragic accident” that civilians had been killed, and Tuesday the Israeli military’s chief spokesperson claimed that the bombs Israel had used in the attack were too small to have caused a fire of that size.
The area where Israel carried out a strike that killed dozens of Palestinians at a displaced camp Sunday was not included in Israel’s evacuation orders in early May, and some Palestinians sheltering in the camp said in interviews that they had believed it
Those statements, however, did little to quell a chorus of voices demanding accountability and a halt to the fighting, which came amid reports of another deadly strike in nearby Muwasi on Tuesday.
Britain’s foreign secretary, David Cameron, on Tuesday cited the “deeply distressing” scenes from Rafah over the weekend — many of which featured charred bodies in the wreckage of the encampment — in calling for a “swift, comprehensive” investigation.
The Israeli military’s spokesperson, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, told a news conference that an investigation was examining “all possibilities” to determine what had caused the fire.
Israeli jets had fired the “smallest munitions” that they could use, he said, insisting that “our munitions alone could not have ig-
nited a fire of this size.” Those claims could not be independently verified.
Even when the cause of the fire is established, Hagari said, “it won’t make this situation any less tragic.”
Still, he gave no indication that the Israeli military’s operation in Rafah would be interrupted. He did not directly address a question from a reporter about whether tanks had moved into Rafah’s center, saying that Hamas battalions remained in the city and that Israeli forces were operating in a “targeted” way.
In a separate statement, the Israeli military said its troops were operating in the Rafah area, engaging in close-quarters combat, “as efforts are continuing to be made in order to prevent harm to uninvolved civilians in the area.”
China expressed “serious concern” about
the Israeli military’s actions in Rafah, citing an order by the International Court of Justice last week that appeared to call for Israel to stop its military offensive there. China “opposes any violation of international law” and “strongly urges Israel to listen to the voice of the international community and stop attacking Rafah,” said Mao Ning, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
But the wording of the court’s order — which called on Israel to immediately halt any actions in Rafah, “which may inflict upon the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that would bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part” — was ambiguous. Israeli officials have argued that the ruling allowed it to continue fighting in Rafah because the military would not inflict such conditions.
was a safe zone.
In preparation for its ground offensive in Rafah, the Israeli military issued evacuation orders that focused on areas east of the city center near the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel. The Tal al Sultan neighborhood where Sunday’s strike happened was not included.
Months before the operation, in Decem-
ber, the military had even told Palestinians to go to Tal al Sultan for safety. The Israeli military has not specifically updated its instructions for the area since then, according to a review of official Israeli military statements on social platform X.
Many people had evacuated the area anyway as the Israeli military issued evacuation orders for areas to the east and started its push across Rafah. But others remained, and some Palestinians who were sheltering in the camp said in interviews that they had thought the area was a safe zone.
“Civilian families are sheltering here in the western part of Rafah that is supposed to be a safe zone, according to the army,” said Mohammed Abu Ghanem, 26, who had been sheltering in the camp when Israel struck.
“It was announced it was a safe zone, and we were listening,” said Bilal al-Sapti, 30, who had also been sheltering in the camp with his family.
While the camp was not in an area subject to an explicit evacuation order, it was also not part of a “humanitarian zone” along the coast that Israel designated as a safe destination in evacuation orders in early May.
Israeli officials have reiterated that the strike had taken place outside of the designated humanitarian zone.
Around 1 million people have fled Rafah amid Israel’s assault on the city, according to the United Nations, including many in
the western part of the city and in the area around the camp.
The Israeli military has said the strike in Rafah on Sunday — which ignited a deadly fire in the camp and killed dozens of people — was targeting a Hamas compound. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was a “tragic accident” that civilians were killed.
“Despite our efforts to minimize civilian casualties during the strike, the fire that broke out was unexpected and unintended,” Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military’s chief spokesperson, said Tuesday.
Satellite imagery captured the morning after the strike showed only burn marks remaining where rows of structures had stood.
Gilberto Pozo, a biologist, was monitoring a small forest in the town of Cunduacán, in southern Mexico, in early May when two mantled howler monkeys fell from a tree in front of him with a thud.
“They were dehydrated and received treatment,” he said. “But they didn’t survive.”
At first, Pozo and his team at Cobius, a nonprofit conservation group, thought the monkeys had been overcome by smoke from fires set by farmers clearing land nearby.
But, as temperatures soared over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in recent weeks, dozens of reports of dead monkeys started popping up. Residents were finding groups of 10 or more dead at a time, many also showing signs of dehydration. As of May 22, 147 monkeys had died in the states of Tabasco and Chiapas in southern Mexico.
The deaths of dozens of mantled howler monkeys in Mexico may be the latest sign of the danger extreme temperatures pose to wildlife around the world. As global temperatures have shattered records, scientists have recently documented a die-off of Amazon dolphins and a mass bleaching event in the world’s coral reefs.
“The animals are sending us a warning, because they are sentinels of the ecosystem,” Pozo said of the monkeys. “If they are unwell, it’s because something is happening.”
Scientists investigating the deaths still don’t know exactly what caused them. But they hypothesize that warmer temperatures may have combined with a confluence of other factors — including fires, deforestation and logging — that have cornered the monkeys in smaller areas of forest with little shade, food or water. The scientists haven’t yet ruled out pathogens, but a recent necropsy on one of the monkeys
A spider monkey swings through the branches of a tree in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan, Mexico, on July 18, 2022. The deaths of dozens of mantled howler monkeys in southern Mexico may be the latest sign of the danger extreme temperatures pose to wildlife around the world. (Adrian Wilson/The New York Times)
showed no signs of influenza, including bird flu, or COVID-19, Pozo said.
Mantled howler monkeys are one of the largest primates in Mexico and Central America, measuring around 25 inches on average. Covered in thick black fur, they are known for their low, guttural calls. They eat fruit and leaves, which are also one of their main sources of water. Scientists suspect that the drought dried up leaves and streams, making it harder for the monkeys to hydrate.
The species, which is found as far south as Peru, is considered vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. But the Mexican subspecies is in worse shape and
has been classified as endangered.
In Mexico, the heat has helped unleash drought in much of the country and the capital is running out of water. Environmental changes have very likely put more stress on Mexico’s small mammals. Tabasco state is home to much of the country’s cattle and is one of the most heavily deforested states in Mexico. As farms have expanded in the region, the tropical forests where monkeys live have shrunk.
“In general, howler monkeys are very resilient to those conditions and can survive for long periods of time,” said Liliana Cortés Ortiz, a primatologist at the University of Michigan and the vice chair of the primate specialist
group at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Videos of large groups of dead monkeys on the ground, or of local residents with the limp bodies of baby monkeys, have spread through social media in recent weeks. “Please whoever is setting fires, stop,” one person said in a video posted on Facebook.
On Monday, the deaths prompted a reaction from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, when he told reporters his government was looking into how to help. “It’s been very hot,” he said. “I’ve never felt it this bad” in recent visits to some states, he added.
This isn’t the first time this species of howler monkeys has been in trouble. In 2016, a similarly hot and dry year, mass die-offs of howler monkeys were also reported in Nicaragua. At the time, scientists estimated at least 280 had animals died in three months, although they were unable to pinpoint the cause.
Now, scientists from the region are forming a working group to put together protocols that lay out what people should and shouldn’t do if they find monkeys in distress. They are also trying to attract funding to do more research into the causes of the deaths.
Cortés Ortiz said she worried about what could be happening to other species that people aren’t as likely to notice.
Although species have evolved to adapt to different conditions, things are now changing “so fast, that it’s going to be very difficult for many species to adapt,” Cortés Ortiz said. “There is not enough time.”
For now, nonprofit and academic groups in Mexico are caring for the monkeys they can find. More than a dozen are in clinics being hydrated and treated. Some are recovering in Cunduacán, where Pozo first saw animals fall from a tree. But on Wednesday, he said, “sadly, one of them has died.”
This may sound a bit weird, but when I think about my adolescent years, I sometimes associate them with the faint smell of sewage.
You see, when I was in high school, my family lived on the South Shore of Long Island, where few homes had sewer connections. Most had septic tanks, and there always seemed to be an overflowing tank somewhere upwind.
Most of Nassau County eventually got sewered. But many American homes, especially in the Southeast, aren’t connected to sewer lines, and more and more septic tanks are overflowing, on a scale vastly greater than what I remember from my vaguely smelly hometown — which is both disgusting and a threat to public health.
The cause? Climate change. Along the Gulf and south Atlantic coasts, The Washington Post reported last week, “sea levels have risen at least 6 inches since 2010.” This may not sound like much, but it leads to rising groundwater and elevated risks of overflowing tanks.
The emerging sewage crisis is only one of many disasters we can expect as the planet continues to warm, and nowhere near the top of the list. But it seems to me to offer an especially graphic illustration of two points. First, the damage from climate change is likely to be more severe than even pessimists have tended to believe. Second, mitigation and adjustment — which are going to be necessary, because we’d still be headed for major effects of climate change even if we took immediate action to greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions — will probably be far
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more difficult, as a political matter, than it should be.
On the first point: Estimating the costs of climate change and, relatedly, the costs polluters impose every time they emit another ton of carbon dioxide requires fusing results from two disciplines. On one side, we need physical scientists to figure out how much greenhouse gas emissions will warm the planet, how this will change weather patterns and so on. On the other, we need economists to estimate how these physical changes will affect productivity, health care costs and more.
Actually, there’s a third dimension: social and geopolitical risk. How, for example, will we deal with millions or tens of millions of climate refugees? But I don’t think anyone knows how to quantify those risks.
Anyway, the physical side of this endeavor looks very solid. There has, of course, been a decades-long campaign aiming to discredit climate research and, in some instances, defame individual climate scientists. But if you step back from the smears, you realize that climatology has been one of history’s great analytical triumphs. Climate scientists correctly predicted, decades in advance, an unprecedented rise in global temperatures. They even appear to have gotten the magnitude more or less right.
The economic side of the effort looks flakier. That’s not because economists haven’t tried. Indeed, in 2018, William Nordhaus received a Nobel largely for his work on “integrated assessment models” that try to put the climate science and the economic analysis together.
Yet with all due respect — Nordhaus happens to have been my first mentor in economics! — I’ve long been worried that these models understate the economic costs of climate change, because so many things you weren’t thinking of can go wrong. The prospect of part of America awash in sewage certainly wasn’t on my list.
There has been a trend in recent studies to mark up estimates of the damage from climate change. The uncertainty remains huge, but it’s a good guess that things will be even worse than you thought.
So what are we going to do about it? Even if we were to take drastic steps to reduce emissions right now, many of the consequences of past emissions, including much bigger increases in sea level than we’ve seen so far, are already, as it were, baked in. So we’re going to have to take a wide range of steps to mitigate the damage — including expanding sewer systems to limit the rising tide of, um, sludge.
But will we take those steps? Climate denial was originally all about fossil fuel interests, and to some extent it still is. But it has also become a front in the culture war, with politicians like Ron DeSantis of Florida — who happens to be the governor of one of the states at greatest immediate risk — apparently deciding that even mentioning climate change is woke.
Now imagine the collision between that kind of politics and the urgent need for substantial public spending, on everything from sea walls to sewer systems, to limit climate damage. Spending on that scale will almost surely require new tax revenue. How quickly do you think right-wing culture warriors will agree to that?
So I’m very worried about the climate future. We probably
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won’t do enough to limit emissions; President Joe Biden has done far more than any of his predecessors, but it’s still not enough, and Donald Trump has promised oil executives that if he wins, he will reverse much of what Biden has done. Beyond that, we’re unlikely to do enough to limit the damage.
In short, it’s not hard to see some terrible outcomes in the not-too-distant future, even before full global catastrophe arrives. Bad stuff is coming, and we’re already starting to smell it.
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SAN JUAN – La doctora Maritza Barreto Orta, del Recinto de Río Piedras de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR), lidera un nuevo proyecto relacionado con la erosión costera, gracias a una subvención de 2.442 millones de dólares del Departamento de Vivienda federal.
“Se nos está haciendo tarde para enfrentar la inexorable erosión de nuestras playas ante el aumento del nivel del mar,” expresó la doctora Barreto, geóloga profesional y catedrática de la Escuela Graduada de Planificación del Recinto de Río Piedras de la UPR.
El proyecto, titulado “Coastal Erosion and Planning Capacity Building (CERP-PR) Project in Puerto Rico”, cuenta con la participación de los profesores Aurelio Castro, Rosana Grafals y Rafael Méndez-Tejeda, así como un grupo de diez estudiantes graduados. La propuesta fue sometida en agosto pasado, tras completar
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un proyecto de FEMA que evaluó las playas después del huracán María.
El proyecto CERP-PR incluye el diseño e implementación de protocolos costeros, el desarrollo de estrategias para involucrar a las partes interesadas y la evaluación del impacto del proyecto. Se espera que las partes se involucren en experiencias de aprendizaje de las me-
jores prácticas de gestión para mitigar la erosión costera. “Es muy importante destacar que alrededor de una tercera parte de la subvención está destinada a contratar estudiantes graduados bajo estipendio de $1,600 mensuales durante 24 meses, y al pago de matrícula,” señaló la doctora Barreto.
El proyecto busca ofrecer a las comunidades herramientas para una planificación efectiva y resiliente ante futuros huracanes. “Con esos parches, solo estamos ganando tiempo. Sin duda en 5 o 10 años esos espacios en riesgo estarán totalmente cubiertos por agua. ¿Hay que esperar a eso para tomar medidas?” cuestionó Barreto, quien también es miembro del Comité de Expertos y Asesores sobre Cambio Climático.
El proyecto es un esfuerzo por proporcionar información veraz y accesible a las comunidades, asegurando que estén mejor preparadas para enfrentar los efectos de futuros desastres naturales.
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SAN JUAN – Tras completar una investigación preliminar, la División de Integridad Pública y Oficina de Asuntos del Contralor (DIPAC) del Departamento de Justicia concluyó que no hay causa suficiente para designar un Fiscal Especial Independiente (FEI) para investigar al exalcalde de Lajas, Marcos Irizarry Pagán, por haber otorgado un aumento salarial a 33 empleados del municipio.
“La DIPAC concluyó que no existe causa suficiente para creer que el exalcalde haya incurrido en posible conducta delictiva,” señaló el secretario de Justicia, Domingo Emanuelli Hernández, en declaraciones escritas.
El informe preliminar se originó mediante una querella de la Oficina de Recursos Humanos del municipio de Lajas, basada en una consulta realizada el año pasado a la Oficina de Administración y Transformación de los Recursos Humanos del Gobierno de Puerto Rico (OATRH) sobre la legalidad de un aumento salarial aprobado por el exalcalde a 33 empleados municipales reinstalados en sus puestos de carrera regular entre julio y diciembre de 2020, tras haber ocupado puestos de confianza.
Los hechos fueron evaluados conforme al Código Penal de Puerto Rico, Ley 146-2012, el Código Municipal, Ley 107-2020, la Ley Orgánica de la Oficina de Ética Gubernamental de Puerto Rico y la Ley de la Oficina del Panel sobre el Fiscal Especial Independiente. La DI-
PAC determinó que no existen elementos de delito que justifiquen la necesidad del nombramiento de un FEI. El secretario de Justicia refirió el informe a la Oficina del Panel sobre el Fiscal Especial Independiente (OPFEI) y notificó la recomendación a las partes involucradas.
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SAN JUAN – Manuel Natal Albelo anunció a principios de esta semana, que ya no será el coordinador general del Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC).
La renovación del liderato nacional se da conforme a los resultados del método alterno de elección de candidaturas celebrado en marzo. En la reunión del Consejo Ciudadano Nacional del 26 de mayo de 2024, el MVC reorganizó su liderato nacional, incluyendo varios cargos en la Coordinadora Ejecutiva del MVC.
“La senadora Rivera Lassén lidera la principal candidatura nacional de Victoria Ciudadana de cara a la Elección General del 2024 y, por consiguiente, nuestro Movimiento rumbo a la victoria de la Alianza en no-
viembre,” señaló Natal Albelo en declaraciones escritas este lunes.
La senadora Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, candidata del MVC y de la Alianza a la Comisaría Residente, asumirá la Coordinación General de Victoria Ciudadana. Javier Córdova, candidato portavoz a la Gobernación, se desempeñará como Sub-Coordinador del Movimiento.
“Es un gran honor asumir la Coordinación General del Movimiento en este momento histórico para el MVC,” expresó Rivera Lassén. “Podré integrar mi voz como candidata a la Comisaría Residente y como Portavoz Nacional del MVC desde la Coordinación General, así entrelazar los trabajos de organización nacional y optimizar la ejecución de la campaña que nos
lleven al éxito electoral”, agregó. Natal Albelo, quien había adelantado la reorganización del liderato nacional a comienzos de año, concluye su término en la Coordinación General y continuará liderando los esfuerzos del Movimiento y de la Alianza en San Juan. Eva Prados, candidata a Representante por el Precinto 3 de San Juan, y Myrna Conty, candidata a Representante por Acumulación, pasarán a dedicarse de lleno a sus campañas electorales. Se suman también a la Coordinadora Ejecutiva del MVC: Ángel Villarini como Coordinador de la Comisión de Estrategia Política, Zoraida Díaz como Coordinadora de la Comisión de Educación e Investigación Política y Sandra Rodríguez como Coordinadora de la Comisión de Membresía y Movilización.
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“This song’s for Manhattan!” Mick Jagger told the crowd on Thursday night at MetLife Stadium, before launching into a punchy rendition of “Shattered,” that agitated ode to late-70s New York City that closes out the band’s 1978 album “Some Girls.” In the ensuing 46 years, the city has changed in some superficial ways but somehow remained essentially the same — much, as they showed throughout an impressively energetic two-hour set, like the Rolling Stones.
The Stones’ first New York-area stadium gig in five years was sponsored, without a hint of irony, by AARP. It was appropriate: At times what transpired onstage felt not just like a rock concert but a display of the evolutionary marvel that is aging in the 21st century. (Albeit aging while wealthy, with every possible technological and medical advantage at one’s disposal. I’ll have whatever vitamins the Stones are taking, please.)
Ronnie Wood, the core group’s baby at age 76, still shreds on the guitar with a grinning, impish verve. Eighty-yearold and eternally cool Keith Richards pairs his bluesy licks with a humble demeanor that seems to say “I can’t believe I’m still here, either.”
And then there is Jagger, who turns 81 a few days after the Hackney Diamonds Tour wraps in July. Six decades into his performing career, he is somehow still the indefatigable dynamo he always was, slithering vertically like a charmed snake, chopping the air as if he’s in a kung fu battle against a
swarm of unseen mosquitoes, and, when he needs both hands to dance, which is often, nestling the microphone provocatively above the fly of his pants. Sprinting the length of the stage during a rousing “Honky Tonk Women” — the 13th song in the set! — he conjured no other rock star so much as Benjamin Button, as he seemed to become even more energetic as the night went on.
Last year’s “Hackney Diamonds” — the Stones’ first album of new material in nearly two decades — was the nominal reason for the tour, but they didn’t linger on it, and the crowd didn’t seem to mind. Across 19 songs, they played only three tunes from the latest release, including two of the best: The taut, growly lead single “Angry” and, for the first part of the encore, the gospel-influenced reverie “Sweet Sounds of Heaven.” Mostly it was a kind of truncated greatest hits collection, capturing the band’s long transformation from reverent students of the blues (Richards’ star turn on the tender “You Got the Silver”) to countercultural soothsayers (a singalong-friendly “Sympathy for the Devil”) to corporate rock behemoth (they opened, of course, with “Start Me Up”).
Jagger, Richards and Wood all still emanate a palpable joy for what they are doing onstage. But those joys also feel noticeably personal and siloed, rarely blending to provide much intra-band chemistry. That is likely a preservation strategy — the surest way to keep a well-oiled machine running and to continue sharing the stage with the same people for half a century or more. But when Jagger ended a charming story about a local diner that had named a sandwich after him (“I’ve never had a [expletive] sandwich named after me! I’m very, very proud”), I did not quite buy his assertion that he, Keith and Ronnie were going to go enjoy one together after the show.
Mick Jagger, second from left, in a rare stationary moment as he performs with his Rolling Stones bandmates Ronnie Wood, left; Steve Jordan, second from right; and Keith Richards at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on Thursday night, May 23, 2024. During a 19-song set that spanned 60 years, the band tapped into what seems like a bottomless well of rock ’n’ roll energy. (Thea Traff/The New York Times)
Some of that fractured feeling is likely due to the absence of the great Charlie Watts, the band’s longtime drummer who died in 2021; the Hackney Diamonds Tour is the Stones’ first North American stadium tour without him. His replacement, Steve Jordan, does about as good a job as anyone could — like Watts, he balances a rock drummer’s power with a jazzy agility — and his presence never overwhelms. Although they are surrounded by plenty of talented backing musicians, the staging makes it clear that the Rolling Stones are now a trio.
The night’s breakout star, though, was Chanel Haynes, a backing vocalist who took center stage to sing with Jagger during two of the night’s best performances. Haynes — who played Tina Turner in the West End production of the jukebox musical “Tina” before joining the Stones’ touring band in 2023 — ably filled the shoes of the mighty Merry Clayton on a blazing “Gimme Shelter,” and sat in for Lady Gaga on “Sweet Sounds of
left, Ronnie Wood, Steve Jordan and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones perform at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on Thursday night, May 23, 2024. Wood is the baby of the core group at 76, while Richards is 80 and still eternally cool. (Thea Traff/The New York Times)
Heaven,” matching the megawatt intensity of her “Hackney Diamonds” cameo. Though Haynes could be velvety soft when the song called for it, at her most impressive she sang with a low, grumbling hunger that often swelled into ferocity, as if she were taking big, meaty bites out of the songs. Jagger, for his part, delivered many of his lines in his signature bark: The second song, a somewhat slowed down and blues-ified “Get Off of My Cloud,” was transformed by his almost scat-like delivery. But in fleeting moments — including a few falsetto runs — he showed that a certain tenderness in his tone remains intact.
That was most apparent on a gorgeous rendition of “Wild Horses,” the song that gained inclusion in the set by winning the nightly online “fan vote.” For so much of this show, the Stones effectively proved they could outrun age, irrelevancy and all the other indignities that time brings to mere mortals. But here they settled into something more contemplative, elegiac and vulnerable, and the show was better for it.
At a time when their few remaining peers are wrapping farewell tours and bands that have been together for half as long are running on fumes, the Stones are an anomaly. It’s not that their show is devoid of nostalgia, but it’s not coasting on it either. They don’t look like they did in the ’70s — who does? — but when their sound is gelling they are able to tap into some kind of eternal present. For better or worse, they seem intent to be the last band of their generation standing, to ride rock ’n’ roll all the way to its logical endpoint. Astoundingly, they don’t sound like they’ve reached it yet.
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Barring the afternoon snack of school children, it’s true: Snacking between meals isn’t really a thing in France. Unless, of course, you swap in the word snack for “apéro.” Pausing for a drink and small bite during apéritif hour is sacred across France — and easily translates to your own backyard.
The word apéritif, derived from the Latin “aperire” or “to open,” refers both to a set of low alcohol-by-volume bottles (such as vermouth, sherry or Suze) as well as drinks. Meant to whet the appetite and always paired with a small, savory bite, l’apéro often takes place during the transition from day to evening, though a lunchtime apéro isn’t unheard-of.
The apéritifs should lean dry, modest in alcohol and simple: a glass of still or sparkling wine, a beer or a simple mixed drink, such as a classic Kir, Vermouth spritz or Picon Bière.
Or you can make the All Day Cassis. I often batch the combination of dry vermouth, lemon juice and crème de cassis, then top with tonic and sparkling rosé on site. If children are joining — and, in France where the culture of the apéritif is woven into daily life, they often are — or if you’re abstaining, your drink of choice could be a flavored sparkling water, a bitter-leaning soda or a nonalcoholic tonic with lemon.
The goal here is to open your palate, and yourself, up for the meal to come, and an apéro is no apéro at all without a snack. Once you have your drink sorted, look to something small and savory. If you don’t feel like cooking, do as the French do: open a bag of chips, a container of salted nuts or a jar of olives. Alternatively, transfer a favorite store-bought dip to a prettier vessel and pair with crunchy vegetables or crusty bread. You get the idea.
If you’re willing to put in a touch more effort, make a quick tapenade with your choice of green or black olives, or a simple pink peppercorn marinated chèvre. I first had this very pretty, very easy to make goat cheese snack at the local market in Antibes, and now I make it weekly. To prepare, cover a round of bright white chèvre in olive oil, sprinkle with dried herbs and a shock of pink peppercorns, and let sit for a few hours (or overnight). Add a baguette and it’s elevated snacking at its best.
You can (and should) apéro at home, certainly. But its beauty lies in its portability. When the weather is nice, grab a stack
of less-breakable cups and a few napkins and step into the sun, whether it be on a terrace or patio, in a garden or backyard, or on a grass-stained picnic blanket in the park.
Wherever you are and whatever you call it, make it as simple as these three recipes.
This simple recipe from “Le Sud: Recipes From ProvenceAlpes-Côte D’Azur” recalls mornings in Antibes, a charming seaside peninsula between Cannes and Nice. If you find yourself there, wandering the market on Cours Masséna, make your way to the cheese stall and order the tomette à l’huile, a round of bright white chèvre in olive oil. Or ask for the freshest chèvre and make it yourself, as in this recipe. With a baguette, your afternoon is set. Yield: 1 (3-inch) round
Total time: 10 minutes, plus at least 2 hours marinating Ingredients:
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more if needed 6 ounces fresh goat cheese (chèvre), either 1 (3-inch) round or a small log cut into rounds, sliced about 3/4-inch thick 1 tablespoon whole pink peppercorns 1 teaspoon dried herbes de Provence
Preparation:
1. Add 1 tablespoon of the olive oil to the bottom of a clean, sterilized wide-mouthed jar or a bowl just big enough to fit the cheese. Add the cheese to the jar and top with peppercorns and herbes de Provence. Pour the remaining olive oil over the top (it should cover the cheese completely; if it doesn’t, add more to cover).
2. Cover the jar and marinate for 2 hours at room temperature or overnight in the refrigerator. The marinated goat cheese can be kept in the refrigerator for up to 1 week and brought to room temperature before serving. Serve the cheese in the oil, and use a baguette to make sure none of it gets left behind.
This combination of dry vermouth, lemon, crème de cassis, dry tonic and sparkling rosé is bright and refreshingly bubbly any time of day. The small add of crème de cassis (a black currantbased liqueur) balances the drink’s acidity, while a pinch of flaky sea salt smooths and enhances flavors. The drink can be made to serve one, as written, or the mix of vermouth-lemon-crème de cassis can be batched in advance, then poured over ice and topped with dry tonic and sparkling rosé just before serving.
Yield: 1 drink
Total time: 5 minutes
Ingredients:
1 ounce dry vermouth
1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice
All day cassis. Dry vermouth, lemon juice and crème de cassis topped with tonic water and rosé make for an easydrinking cocktail. (Linda Xiao/The New York Times)
1/4 ounce crème de cassis
Pinch flaky sea salt
1 ounce dry tonic, chilled
3 ounces dry sparkling rosé, chilled
1 lemon slice
Preparation:
Fill a lowball glass with ice. Add the vermouth, lemon juice, crème de cassis and salt. Top with tonic and sparkling rosé. Stir gently to combine, then garnish with the lemon slice.
Tapenade, arguably the best known Provençal spread (and cousin to olivade, garlicky anchoïade and peppery poivronade, among others) is made by pounding together olives, garlic, anchovies, capers and olive oil in a large mortar. But, this version, from “Le Sud: Recipes From Provence-Alpes-Côte D’Azur,” can be made in a food processor as well, with green or black olives. Set it out for apéro with crunchy vegetables or crusty bread, or store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator for whenever the mood strikes. It will keep up to a week.
Yield: 4 to 6 servings (about 3/4 cup)
Total time: 10 minutes
Ingredients:
2 small garlic cloves, roughly chopped
3 anchovies, roughly chopped
2 tablespoons salted capers, rinsed, drained and roughly chopped 3/4 cup pitted black olives (such as Niçoise or Kalamata) or green olives (such as Picholine or Lucques), roughly chopped 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Freshly ground black pepper
Preparation:
1. If using a mortar and pestle, place the garlic in a mortar and grind until a rough paste forms. Add the anchovies and capers, and pound them, scraping the sides of the mortar often, until they are smashed into a mostly smooth paste. Add the olives and pound into a slightly chunky paste. Slowly add the oil, 1 tablespoon at a time, smashing until it’s all combined. Season with pepper.
2. If using a food processor, place the garlic in the bowl and pulse until finely chopped, scraping the sides of the bowl as necessary with a flexible spatula. Add the anchovies and capers, and pulse, scraping the sides often, until they are finely ground. Add the olives and pulse until a slightly chunky paste forms. With the food processor running, slowly pour in the oil until it’s all combined, stopping to scrape once or twice. Season with pepper.
Pink peppercorn-marinated goat cheese. Marinating goat cheese is an easy and delicious way to impress your guests and yourself. (Linda Xiao/The New York Times) The San Juan Daily StarLEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN MILAGROS
GUZMÁN MERCED Peticionaria EX-PARTE
Civil #: BY2024CV02110. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. COD. 171-030046-10-001. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: A LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA
QUE MAS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRA Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE
OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.
POR LA PRESENTE: se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación e este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición 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, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lic. Jaime Rodríguez Rivera, cuya dirección es #30 Calle Reparto Piñero, Guaynabo, PR 00969-5650,
Wednesday, May 29, 2024 15
Teléfono 787-720-9553. A:
“RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno de forma irregular identificada como “Solar 1” en el plano de Mensura, radicada en el barrio Guaraguao del término municipal de Guaynado, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de QUINIENTOS TRES METROS CUADRADOS CON CUATROCIENTAS CINCO MILÉSIMAS DE OTRO (503.405 m/c), equivalentes a MIL DOSCIENTAS OCHENTA Y UNA DIEZMILÉSIMAS DE CUERDA (0.1281 cda). En lindes por el NORTE: en cinco (5) alineaciones que suman treinta y tres metros lineales con cincuenta centésimas de otro (33.50 ml) con Samuel Guzmán Moreno; por el SUR: en cinco (5) alineaciones que suman treinta metros lineales con setenta centésimas de otro (30.70 ml) con calle municipal; por el ESTE: en dos (2) alineaciones que suman veintidós metros lineales con sesenta y nueve centésimas de otro (22.69 ml) con Félix Guzmán Merced y por el OESTE: en nueve metros con setenta y ocho centésimas .Enclava estructura para fines residenciales. B: “RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno de forma irregular identificada como “Solar 4” en el plano de Mensura, radicada en el barrio Guaraguao del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de MIL TRESCIENTOS OCHENTA Y OCHO METROS CUADRADOS CON NOVECIENTAS SETENTA Y DOS MILÉSIMAS DE OTRO (1388.972 m/c), equivalentes a TRES MIL QUINIENTAS TREINTA Y CUATRO DIEZMILÉSIMAS DE CUERDA (0.0034 cda). En lindes por el NORTE: en cuarenta y dos metros con cuarenta y una centésimas de otro (42.41 ml) con Wilfredo Guzmán Moreno: por el SUR; en quince metros con noventa y cinco centésimas de otro (15.95 ml) con Félix Guzmán Merced y en cinco (5) alineaciones que suman treinta metros con cinco centésimas de otro (30.05 ml) con Samuel Guzmán Moreno, por el ESTE: en cuatro (4) alineaciones que suman treinta y cinco metros con cuarenta centésimas de otro (35.40 ml) con Sucesión de Ignacio Silva y por el OESTE: en seis (6) alineaciones que suman treinta y cuatro metros lineales con cincuenta y dos centésimas de otro (34.52 ml) con calle municipal.” Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan
si quieren alegar su derecho.
Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación el edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 2 de mayo de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN FÉLIX GUZMÁN MERCED Peticionaria EX-PARTE
Civil #: BY2024CV032113. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. COD. 171-030046-10-001. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: A LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MAS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRA Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE. POR LA PRESENTE: se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación e este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la si-
guiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lic. Jaime Rodríguez Rivera, cuya dirección es #30 Calle Reparto Piñero, Guaynabo, PR 009695650, Teléfono 787-720-9553. “RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno de forma irregular identificada como “Solar 2” en el plano de Mensura, radicada en el barrio Guaraguao del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de SEISCIENTOS NUEVE METROS LINEALES CON NOVECIENTAS OCHENTA Y UNA MILÉSIMAS DE OTRO (609.981 m/c), equivalentes a MIL QUINIENTAS CINCUENTA Y DOS DIEZMILÉSIMAS DE CUERDA (0.1552 cda). En lindes por el NORTE: en quince metros con noventa y cinco centésimas de otro (15.95 ml) con Milagros Guzmán Merced; por el SUR: en seis (6) ml) con carretera municipal; por el ESTE: en treinta y cinco metros lineales con veintidós centésimas de otro (35.22 ml) con Sucesión de Ignacio Silva y por el OESTE: en dos (2) alineaciones que suman veintidós metros lineales con sesenta y nueve centésimas de otro (22.69 ml) con Milagros Guzman Merced y en trece metros con cincuenta y seis centésimas de otro (13.56 ml) con Samuel Guzmán Moreno. Enclava estructura terrera en hormigón”. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación el edicto, el Tribu-
nal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 2 de mayo de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO
CARRINGTON
MORTGAGE
SERVICES LLC Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN FLORENTINA
PAGAN TANON
T/C/C FLORENTINA
PAGAN TAÑÓN T/C/C FLORENTINA PAGAN TAÑON COMPUESTA POR ANA HILDA FIGUEROA PAGAN, MARIA CRISTINA
FIGUEROA PAGAN, JULIAN FIGUEROA
PAGAN, JOSE LUIS
FIGUEROA PAGAN, YOLANDA FIGUEROA
PAGAN, GERMAN
RIVERA PAGAN; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS
DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados Civil Núm. AI2023CV00357. 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 Comerío, 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 Comerío, el 10 DE JUNIO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 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: Parcela marcada con el número 99 en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Palomar del Barrio Palomas del término municipal de Comerío con una cabida superficial de 0.3649 cuerdas, equivalente a 1434.16 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con calle número dos; por el SUR, con parcelas número 64 y 63; por el ESTE, con parcela número 100; por el OESTE, con parcela número 68 de la comunidad.” Inscrita al folio 292 del tomo 77 de Comerío, finca número 5477, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 8 del tomo 167 de Comerío, finca número 5477, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas, inscripción 4ª. Propiedad localizada en: SOLAR 99 PR 779 KM 7.6 INT., BO. PALOMAS, COMERIO, PR 00782. 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: $138,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 17 de marzo de 2088. 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 $138,000.00, 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 Comerío, el 17 DE JUNIO DE 2024, A LAS 2:00
DE LA TARDE, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $92,000.00, 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 $69,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Comerío, el 24 DE JUNIO DE 2024, 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 a la suma de $45,913.19 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $27,413.88 en intereses acumulados 2 de octubre de 2023 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.411% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $7,832.89 de seguro hipotecario; $256.23 de seguro sobre la propiedad; $1,335.00 de tasación; $397.00 en inspecciones; $3,728.27 en adelantos de gastos y honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $13,800.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. 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 Puer-
to Rico. Expedido en Comerío, Puerto Rico, hoy 12 de abril de 2024. JUAN O. BURGOS BURGOS, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. RODOLFO LARA MARTÍNEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #321.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO COMPU-LINK CORPORATION, D/B/A CELINK Demandante Vs. SUCESION WILLIAM RIVERA LOPEZ T/C/C WILLIAM RIVERA COMPUESTA POR WILLIAM RIVERA BERRIOS, CARLOS RIVERA BERRIOS; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION CRISTINA BERRIOS DIAZ T/C/C CRISTINA BERRIOS COMPUESTA POR WILLIAM RIVERA BERRIOS, CARLOS RIVERA BERRIOS; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados Civil Núm.: GB2023CV00011. 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 Guaynabo, 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 Guaynabo, el 11 DE JUNIO
cuatro. Consta inscrita al folio 254 del tomo 214 de Gurabo, finca número #8,267, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Caguas. SE LE APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictara sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico. A 20 de mayo de 2024. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LIZ WHARTON ROSA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN DANERIS
FERNÁNDEZ GERENA
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE ANTONIO FERNÁNDEZ VARGAS COMPUESTA POR ANTONIO EDGARDO FERNÁNDEZ GERENA Y OTROS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV03221. Sala: 802. Sobre: PARTICIÓN DE HERENCIA (CAUSANTE: ANTONIO FERNÁNDEZ VARGAS). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: YAMILLE ENID FERN. NDEZ GERENA, LYDIA GERENA RIVERA, FRANCISCO DE JESÚS FERNÁNDEZ ALBINOPARTE DEMANDADA.
Por la presente se les notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado contra ustedes una demanda para la partición de la herencia de la Sucesión del causante Don Antonio Fernández Vargas. Representa a la parte demandante la abogada cuyo nombre y demás datos son los siguientes: LCDA. ANA CRISTINA GÓMEZ PÉREZ
ABOGADA PARTE DEMANDANTE
RUA: 15092
PO BOX 13762 SAN JUAN, PR 00908 787-459-1035 anacgomezperez@gmail.com
Se les apercibe que deberán presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del plazo de treinta (30) días contados desde la publicación de este edicto, a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.
poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente fı́sico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretarı́a del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldı́a en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda sin m.s citarlo ni oirlo. EXPEDIDO bajo la firma y sello del Tribunal. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 14 de mayo de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL.
NANCY I. GARCÍA FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE MANATÍ ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE GESTOR DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC.
Demandante V. DENNIS SANTIAGO CRUZ
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BC2022CV00101.
(Salón: 102 SALA SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANEROKEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM. A: DENNIS SANTIAGO CRUZ - CALLE CUESTA DE LOLA #36, URB. PARCELAS MAGUEYES, BARCELONETA, PR 00617; HC 2 BOX 7729, BARCELONETA, PR 00617-9812; CALLE ARENAS #20, PONCE, PR 00730.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de mayo de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución,
de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 22 de mayo de 2024. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, el 22 de mayo de 2024. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN JULIA ROSARIO VALENTÍN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO SALA SUPERIOR DE OROCOVIS
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Demandante V. MIGUEL A RODRIGUEZ
HERNANDEZ
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: OR2023CV00160. (Salón: 002). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANEROKEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM.
A: MIGUEL A. RODRIGUEZ
HERNANDEZ - CARR 156 K2 H4 INT, OROCOVIS PUERTO RICO 00720; PO BOX 278, OROCOVIS PR 00720.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de mayo de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 22 de mayo de 2024. En Orocovis, Puerto
Rico, el 22 de mayo de 2024. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. SONIA I. ORTIZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. JUAN CLAUDIO
MONTANEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CG2023CV03891. (Salón: 705). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANEROKEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM. A: JUAN CLAUDIO MONTANER, FULANO DE TAL, AMBOS POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - BORINQUEN PARK EDIF C APT 314, CAGUAS, PR 00725; URB. MARIOLGA CALLE SAN ALFONSO X-30, CAGUAS, PR 00725.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de mayo de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 22 de mayo de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 22 de mayo de 2024. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO,
SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR
LILLIAM SORRENTINI
VELEZ; Y SUCESION DE RAFAEL ANGEL MATOS, T/C/C RAFAEL A. MATOS Y COMO RAFAEL MATOS COMPUESTA POR LILLIAM MATOS VELEZ Y RAFAEL ANGEL MATOS
SORRENTINI
Peticionarios EX PARTE Civil Núm.: MZ2023CV02244. (207). Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: LUISA LUISIDIA LUGO
ZAPATA Y CUALQUIER PERSONA QUE PUEDA
VERSE AFECTADA.
POR CUANTO: La parte peticionaria por conducto de su abogado, Lcdo. Carlos L. Segarra Matos, con oficina en el # 2510 de la Carretera 100 kilómetro 3.5 en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico y dirección postal PO Box 582 Boquerón PR 00622, ha radicado una petición en la Secretaría de este Tribunal, solicitando la inmatriculación y el dominio en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico Sección de San Germán, por un aumento en cabida del inmueble que se describe de la siguiente manera: RÚSTICA: Marcada en el plano de mensura aprobado por ARPE como solar número seis (6), porción de terreno compuesto de mil quinientos sesenta y seis punto cuatro cero uno dos metros cuadrados (1,566.4 4012 mc) equivalente a cero tres mil novecientas ochenta y cinco diezmilésimas de cuerda, localizado en el barrio Llanos Tuna del municipio de Cabo Rojo, colindando por el norte con terrenos propiedad de la sucesión de Francisco Asensio; por el sur con el camino Los Asensio de diez metros de ancho; por el este colinda con el solar número siete (7); y por el oeste con más terrenos de la sucesión de Francisco Asensio. POR CUANTO: El Tribunal Ordena la citación de las personas arriba nombradas quienes eran los dueños anteriores del inmueble y de las personas que pudieran tener algún interés en la propiedad o que puedan ser perjudicados por su inscripción para que comparezcan a formular alegaciones si así lo desean, dentro del término de veinte
(20) días a contar de la última publicación de este edicto, que se publicará tres (3) veces en un periódico general de circulación diaria. Se le advierte que, de no haber oposición, se dictará Resolución concediendo lo solicitado. POR CUANTO: Expido el presente edicto en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de mayo de 2024.
LIC. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. GUILLERMINA TORRES PAGÁN, SECRETARIO REGIONAL AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE CABO ROJO
JORGE ORTIZ
JIMENEZ, ALBA FRANCO RODRIGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandantes V. HEIDI ISERN H/N/C ISERN REALTY; E.F.R.P. DEVELOPMENT, INC., EDUARDO RIVERA, SU ESPOSA FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; FULANO DE TAL, ASEGURADORA
ABC; Y X
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CB2024CV00195. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIETNO DE CONTRATO; CUMPLIMIENTO ESPECIFICO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. HEIDI ISERN H/N/C ISERN REALTY - CABO ROJO. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. 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, 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. Información del abogado de la parte demandante: LCDA. ILEANA RIVERA TORRES Calle Muñoz Rivera #12, Cidra, Puerto Rico 00739, Tel.: 787-4341615, Cel.: 787.633.19144, lcda.riveratorres@hotmail. com. EXTENDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 22 de mayo de 2024. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. YAHAIRA TORRES MATÍAS, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
JUAN ANTONIO BONILLA RAMOS Y RAMONITA
GARCIA FLORES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS Parte Peticionaria
EX-PARTE
Civil Núm.: CG2022CV03198. Sobre: USUCAPIÓN EXTRAORDINARIA Y/O PRESCRIPCIÓN ADQUISITIVA; EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. RESOLUCIÓN. En el caso de epígrafe, la Parte Peticionaria presentó una Petición juramentada sobre Expediente de Dominio al amparo del Artículo 185 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, interesada en que se declare a su favor el DOMINIO sobre la siguiente propiedad: RUSTICA: PREDIO DE TERRENO con un área de dos mil trescientos cuarenta y ocho punto cero nueve seis seis metros cuadrados (2,348.0966 M.C.) o cero punto cinco nueve siete cuatro cuerdas de terreno (0.5974 CDA.) localizado en la Carr. P.R.-919, KM. 10.8 (Int.) Barrio Valenciano Abajo, Juncos, Puerto Rico. Con lindes por el NORTE con el señor Jesús López López; por el SUR con terrenos de Mireliz Soto Martínez y también con terrenos del señor Juan Bonilla Ramos; por el OESTE con terreno baldío; y por el OESTE con camino municipal. Surge de la evidencia documental y testifical presentada ante este Tribunal que el predio de terreno antes descrito se encuentra en posesión de la Parte Peticionaria, hace más de treinta y cinco años, siendo utilizado por estos de forma continua, pacífica e ininterrumpidamente, en calidad de dueños. La propiedad antes descrita no se encuentra inscrita, así surge de la Certificación Negativa del Registro de la Propiedad
que se presentó en el caso de epígrafe. La Vista del caso de epígrafe fue notificada a todas las posibles partes con interés, conforme a derecho, por Edicto y correo certificado con acuse de recibo. Entiéndase, a los colindantes inmediatos, a las personas ignoradas quienes pudiera perjudicar la inscripción solicitada, según se desprende de los Edictos de rigor publicados en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, los días 17, 20 y 21 de marzo de 2023. Así mismo, se notificó al Municipio de Juncos, Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas, Honorable Fiscal de Distrito de Caguas, Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica, LUMA, Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados, Junta de Telecomunicaciones de Puerto Rico, Departamento de Recursos Naturales, y a la Secretaria de Justicia de Puerto Rico, no habiéndose presentado objeción alguna a la petición de dominio. La vista se celebró el día 19 de julio de 2023 ante este Tribunal. A la Vista Compareció, la parte Peticionaria, JUAN ANTONIO BONILLA RAMOS y su esposa RAMONITA GARCÍA FIORES representados por el Lcdo. Gabriel Pagán Sánchez y el Lcdo. Carlos Rodríguez Beltrán y el Ministerio Público, representado por el Fiscal Perea, quien luego de analizar la prueba documental y testifical no presentó objeción a lo solicitado y que se admitieran los documentos presentados como exhibits. Quedó establecido ante este Tribunal que la Parte Peticionaria ha poseído en forma quieta, pública, pacíficamente, y en concepto de dueña, por más de 35 años, el inmueble en cuestión no habiendo nunca sido molestada y/o perturbada en su posesión el referido inmueble. También fue presentado como parte de la prueba testimonial que el Municipio de Juncos colaboró con los peticionarios para la limpieza vegetativa, entre otras cosas sobre el terreno, reconociendo su posesión como dueños a los peticionarios. La propiedad antes descrita, según surge del plano de Mensura presentado en el caso de epígrafe, no aparece inscrita, según consta en la Certificación Registral expedida por la Registradora de Propiedad, que obra en los autos del caso. El valor del inmueble en cuestión tiene un valor de diez mil dólares ($10,000.00). Por todo lo cual, este Tribunal declara justificado el dominio de la finca antes mencionada a favor de la Parte Peticionaria, a parte PETICIONARIA es JUAN ANTONIO BONILLA RAMOS, mayor de edad, casado con Ramonita García Flores, propietario y vecino del municipio de Juncos, Puerto Rico y Ramonita García Flo-
res, mayor de edad, casada con Juan Antonio Bonilla Ramos, retirada, propietaria y vecina de Juncos, Puerto Rico. En consecuencia, se Ordena al Honorable Registrador de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II, que al amparo del Artículo 185 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, y previo al pago de los aranceles correspondientes, proceda a inscribir la información de Dominio de la antes descrita propiedad en los libros a su cargo a favor de los peticionarios antes mencionados. REGÍSTRESE Y NOTIFÍQUESE. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 20 de mayo de 2024. DANIEL R. LÓPEZ GONZÁLEZ, JUEZ SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR JUAN MANUEL
MENDOZA GARCIA, ALDA LUZ OTERO CEDEÑO
T/C/C ALDA L. MENDOZA
Parte Demandante Vs. USDA RURAL DEVELOPMENT Y/O US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, XAVIER REYES MENDOZA, JAVIER REYES MENDOZA Y FREDDIE LUPE YORRO
T/C/C FREDDIE APONTE, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE
Parte Demandada
Civil Número: BY2024CV02648. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: XAVIER REYES MENDOZA, JAVIER REYES MENDOZA, JOHN DOE, RICHARD DOE. Por la presente se le emplaza y se le notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso de epígrafe solicitando la cancelación de un pagaré hipotecario suscrito a favor de Estados Unidos de América por conducto de la Administración de Hogares de Agricultores (USDA Rural Development), por la suma de CUARENTA Y UN MIL DÓLARES ($41,000.00), con interés pactado al diez punto setenta y cinco por ciento (10.75%) anual, modificado a la cantidad de CUARENTA MIL SETECIENTOS NOVENTA Y UNO PUNTO DOCE ($(40,791.12) con intereses al 9.50% anual,
y vencimiento el día once (11) de septiembre de dos mil diecinueve (2019) según consta de la escritura número ciento cincuenta (150), otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el día once (11) de septiembre de mil novecientos ochenta y seis (1986), ante la notario público, Lcdo. Miguel Bauzá Rolón, inscrita al Folio doscientos cuarenta y seis (246) del Tomo trescientos veinte (320) de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, Finca número veinte mil ochocientos catorce (20,814), en la Sección Segunda (2da) deI Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Inscripción segunda (2da), cuyo pagaré se presume que fue pagado en su totalidad y no ha podido ser cancelado por aparente extravío del mismo. Se apercibe y advierte a usted como persona con interés en este procedimiento judicial que puede ser tenedor o estar interesado en el pagaré extraviado, que de no contestar la Demanda radicando el original de la contestación ante la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, y notificar copia de la contestación de ésta a la Parte Demandante por conducto de su abogado Lcdo. José E. García, Rúa #7624, PO BOX 191611, SAN JUAN, PR 00919-1611, teléfono número (787) 410-3994, dentro de los próximos treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Extendido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 14 de mayo de 2024, en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico. LCDA LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
SUCESIÓN GENARA ARROYO RODRÍGUEZ COMPUESTA POR EUFEMIA GONZÁLEZ
ARROYO Y OTROS
Demandante V. FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS PRESU Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CA2023CV03656. (Civil: 401). Sobre: NOMBRAMIENTO DE ADMINISTRADOR JUDICIAL DE LOS BIENES DEL FINADO (CAU-
SANTE). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. DIRMA M VALENTIN CAPELESDIRMA.VALENTIN@GMAIL.COM.
A: FULANO DE TAL Y SOTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS PRESUNTOS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GENARA ARROYO RODRÍGUEZ
Y/O MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN PRESUNTA DESCONOCIDA COMPUESTA POR A, B Y C; Y LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS DESCONOCIDAS
QUE PUEDAN TENER ALGÚN INTERÉS EN LA HERENCIA DE GENARA ARROYO RODRÍGUEZ.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de mayo de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 22 de mayo de 2024. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 22 de mayo de 2024. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. ROSA M. VIERA VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO GENARO RAMÓN BOU UMPIERRE
Demandante V. AAA CONCORDIA MORTAGE CORPORATION; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE
Demandados Civil Núm.: GB2023CV01133.
Sala: 201. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: AAA CONCORDIA MORTGAGE CORPORATION. Quedan notificados que la demandante de epígrafe ha radicado en este Tribunal una Demanda contra la parte demandada en la que se solicita la cancelación por la vía judicial de un Pagaré hipotecario extraviado a favor de AAA Concordia Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $69,300.00 e intereses al 10 ¾% anual y vencimiento el día 1ro de julio de 2017, mediante la Escritura Número 627 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico ante el notario público Manuel Rivera Meléndez. El descrito Pagaré hipotecario grava la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Apartamento individualizado de concreto armado y bloques de hormigón de uso residencial identificado en el número 2G, localizado en la esquina Sureste del segundo piso del edificio conocido como Condominio Los Pisos de Caparra del Barrio Extensión Villa Caparra, término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, tiene una cabida superficial de ciento nueve metros cuadrados y noventa y cuatro centésimas de otro (109.94 mc), aproximadamente y consta de una sala, corredor, una cocina, dos dormitorios con sus closets, dos baños y un balcón. La puerta principal está localizada en el aparte Oeste del inmueble lo cual lo comunica con el corredor, el vestíbulo del elevador y a la calle. En lindes por el NORTE, en cuarenta y dos pies con cuatro pulgadas (doce metros con noventa centímetros), con elementos exteriores del edificio; por el Sur, en un pie con dos pulgadas treinta y cinco centímetros, con elementos exteriores del edificio y en cuarenta y un pies con dos pulgadas (doce metros con cincuenta y cinco centímetros), con el apartamento número dos 2H; por el Este, en veintiséis pies con treinta pulgadas (ocho metros con cero centímetros), con elementos exteriores del edificio y por el OESTE, en veinticinco pies con dos pulgadas (siete metros con sesenta y siete centímetros), con el apartamento número dos 2F. y en tres pies con siete pulgadas (un metros con nueve centímetros), con elementos comunes del inmueble. Tiene una participación de cero punto novecientos catorce por ciento, contiene además una estufa con horno, calen-
tador, lavadora-secadora. Inscrita al folio 111 del tomo 590 de Guaynabo, finca número 24489, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guaynabo. Se les advierte que el presente Edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y se le requiere para que contesten la Demanda de epígrafe dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación del edicto, radicando el original de su contestación en el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia de la misma a la parte demandante a la siguiente dirección: 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 presente por derecho propio. Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, el tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 13 de mayo de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II.
SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. SANTOS VALCÁRCEL
CARABALLO, LA SUCESIÓN DE AGAPITO VALCÁRCEL CORDERO COMPUESTA POR SANTOS VALCÁRCEL
CARABALLO Y HECTOR VALCÁRCEL VALCÁRCEL, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE AGAPITO VALCÁRCEL CORDERO; LORI RAQUEL AMARO CANDELARIO T/C/C LORI RAQUEL VALCÁRCEL; ADMINISTRACIÓN PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES Y EL CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: GB2024CV00177. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO Y NOTIFICACIÓN DE INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS
DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE AGAPITO VALCÁRCEL CORDERO. POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colón Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787-8434168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de diciembre de 2016, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de $45,478.38 de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma al 9.95% anual, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo la suma estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: Barrio los Frailes de Guaynabo. Solar: tres (3). Cabida: mil doscientos veintiuno punto seis mil setecientos noventa y siete (1,221.6797) metros cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, con terrenos de Esteban Valcárcel. Sur: con solar número dos (2). Este, con solar número ocho (8) dedicado a uso público. Oeste,
con terrenos de la Sucesión Villegas. Inscrita al Sistema Karibe, finca numero veintinueve mil ochocientos setenta y tres (52,721), Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Además, se ordena a JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE como miembro de la Sucesión de Agapito Valcárcel Cordero se ha presentado una solicitud de interpelación judicial para que sirva en el término de treinta (30) días aceptar o repudiar la herencia. Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto en torno a la aceptación o repudiación de la herencia, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante Agapito Valcárcel Cordero y por consiguiente, responderán por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11021. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, a 14 de mayo de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE ISABELA ANDENO CO Demandante V. NEIDALIS DAVIS COLON Demandado Civil Núm.: IS2023CV00245. 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: NEIDALIS DAVIS COLON - 18207 CALLE ADELA MUNOZ VALLE, ISABELA, PR 00662-5658. Se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este tribunal, demanda contra usted, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: Cobro de Dinero. Representa a la parte demandante, el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: Brito.Legal 1607 Ave. Ponce de León St. GM6 #232 San Juan, PR 00969 Tel. 787-705-1011
E-mail: adrian@brito.legal POR LA PRESENTE, se le
emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento. 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://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php./tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se presente 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. En Isabela Puerto Rico a 17 de mayo de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. OMAYRA LÓPEZ GIRALD, SUB SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE NICOLÁS ENCARNACIÓN ULLOA COMPUESTA POR EVA ENCARNACIÓN, FULANO(A) DE TAL Y SUTANO(A) DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE ROSALINDA CEPEDA SEGURA T/C/C ROSELIA CEPEDA SEGURA COMPUESTA POR JULIO PAREDES CEPEDA, JOSÉ AGUSTÍN PAREDES CEPEDA T/C/C MOISÉS PAREDES CEPEDA, ANA C. PAREDES CEPEDA, GERMANIA PAREDES CEPEDA, ELSA C. PAREDES CEPEDA, OSCAR LORENZO DE JESÚS PAREDES CEPEDA, MOISÉS PAREDES CEPEDA’ CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV05385.
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Bill Walton, a center whose extraordinary passing and rebounding skills helped him win two national college championships with UCLA and one each with the Portland Trail Blazers and Boston Celtics of the NBA, and who overcame a stutter to become a loquacious commentator, died Monday at his home in San Diego. He was 71. The NBA said he died of colon cancer.
A redheaded hippie and devoted Grateful Dead fan, Walton was an acolyte of UCLA coach John Wooden and the hub of the Bruins team that won NCAA championships in 1972 and 1973 and extended an 88-game winning streak that had begun in 1971. He was named the national player of the year three times.
Walton’s greatest game was the 1973 national championship against Memphis State, played in St. Louis. He got into foul trouble in the first half, but went on to score a record 44 points on 21-for-22 shooting and had 11 rebounds in UCLA’s 87-66 victory. It was the school’s ninth title in 10 years.
Walton — not yet known for his often hyperbolic, stream of consciousness speaking skills — refused to say much after the game. As he left the locker room, he told reporters, “Excuse me, I want to go meet my friends. I’m splitting.”
He played one more year at UCLA before being selected by Portland first overall in the 1974 NBA draft. He weathered injuries, two losing seasons under coach Lenny Wilkens and criticism over his vegetarian diet and his red ponytail and beard before winning the 1977 championship under coach Jack Ramsay.
“I think Jack Ramsay reached Walton,” Eddie Donovan, the New York Knicks general manager, told New York Times columnist Dave Anderson. “Of all the coaches in our league, Jack Ramsay is the closest to being the John Wooden type — scholarly, available. I think Walton responded to that.”
But the question that lingered throughout Walton’s NBA career was how good he
Bill Walton, NBA Hall of Famer and broadcasting star, in New York on March 16, 2011. Walton, a center whose extraordinary passing and rebounding skills helped him win two national college championships with UCLA and two NBA titles, and who overcame a stutter to become a loquacious network basketball commentator, died on May 27, 2024, at his home in San Diego. He was 71. (Earl Wilson/The New York Times)
would have been if not for his many injuries. Better than Bill Russell? Wilt Chamberlain? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of his predecessors at UCLA?
Walton never played more than 70 games in a season — even in the 1977-78 season, when he was named most valuable player, he played in just 58 games — and he missed four full seasons (1978-79, 1980-81, 1981-82 and 1987-88).
“When I’m healthy,” he said early in his Portland career, “I play real good, I think.”
He was asked whether anyone had seen the real Bill Walton.
“I don’t think so,” he said.
He had a knee injury as a teenager during a playground game. But, as he wrote in one of his memoirs, “Back From the Dead: Searching for the Sound, Shining the Light and Throwing It Down” (2016), it was “my malformed feet — my faulty foundation, which led to the endless string of stress fractures which ultimately brought on the whole mess I’m in now.”
He underwent about 40 orthopedic surgeries, mostly on his feet and ankles.
“My feet were not built to last — or to play basketball,” he added. “My skeletal, structural foundation — inflexible and rigid — could not absorb the endless stress and impact of running, jumping, turning, twisting and pounding for 26 years.”
William Theodore Walton III was born Nov. 5, 1952, in La Mesa, California, near downtown San Diego. His father, Ted, was a social worker and adult educator, and his mother, Gloria (Hickey) Walton, was a librarian. Bill was extremely shy because of his stutter and wrote that in school he almost never spoke in class and was glad when teachers did not call on him.
He recalled in his memoir that his “basketball fever spiked” after the family next door dismantled its backboard and basket and he and his father reassembled it at their home.
“I was in heaven,” he wrote. “I could play whenever I wanted, and I did.”
It was the start of a long love affair with basketball that led to two state championships for his Helix High School team, in La Mesa. The squad won 49 consecutive games at one point. He moved on to UCLA, recruited when it was the dominant team in college basketball. With Walton, the Bruins had two 30-0 seasons and finished 86-4 in his three varsity campaigns.
While at UCLA, Walton was arrested during a protest against the Vietnam War. He was also politically aware of his status as a white player with mostly Black teammates.
“The Blacks have gotten a raw deal for a long time,” he told sports writer Bill Libby after his arrest, according to The Nation. “A lot of my teammates are Black, and I really admire the way they’ve risen above their raw deal. They’re my friends, and I feel for them. I know I’ve gotten twice as much as I deserve because I’m white.”
Walton was friendly with leftist radicals Jack and Micki Scott and appeared with them at a news conference in San Francisco in 1975. The Scotts had been in hiding and resurfaced amid accusations that they had sheltered Patricia Hearst (Jack Scott later admitted he had) after she had been kidnapped by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Walton had briefly shared a home in Portland with the Scotts and had been questioned about them by the FBI. Speaking to the Scotts at the news conference, Walton said, “I am sorry for any inconvenience I may have caused you, and you can rest assured that I will never talk to the enemy again.”
With his injuries derailing his career, Walton left the Blazers to sign with the San Diego (now Los Angeles) Clippers in 1979, but, again, injuries prevented him from playing in many of their games over four seasons. In 1985, the Clippers traded him to the Boston Celtics, where he found joy as a reserve player, winning the Sixth Man of the Year Award, as the Celtics won the 1986 NBA title, defeating the Houston Rockets.
“The Celtics’ jigsaw had been missing a giant piece — a center to spell Robert Parish — and Walton nestled snugly into place,” Sports Illustrated wrote in 1986, referring to the team’s starting center.
But foot injuries limited Walton to 10 games the next season, the last he would play. Over 10 seasons, he averaged 13.3 points and 10.5 rebounds a game.
He was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993.
Last year, ESPN’s “30 for 30” documentary series told Walton’s life in four parts. Despite his injury-limited career, the series was titled “The Luckiest Guy in the World.”
His first marriage, to Susan Guth, ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife, Lori (Matsuoka) Walton; his sons from his first marriage, Adam, Nate, Chris and Luke, who is a former coach of the Los Angeles Lakers and the Sacramento Kings; his sister, Cathy Walton; his brother Andy; and nine grandchildren. His brother Bruce died in 2019.
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