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Moreover, transparency is extremely weak, she said, with more than 56 government portals disclosing incomplete, unintegrated and poor-quality information on contracting.
Both private sector surveys and interviews demonstrate a persisting distrust in the public procurement system, which is described as “bureaucratic.” Around 60% of contractors who completed a private sector survey (N=35) indicated that it has been difficult to learn about procurement opportunities. An estimated 71.4% of those surveyed reported past chal lenges with being paid after delivering the contracted goods or services. Almost half of those surveyed consider that to secure government contracts, it is necessary to have close relationships with public officials who make decisions, that it is required to participate in political events, or that they must offer private benefits to public servants.
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The study also points to the misuse of previous states of emergencies to address foreseeable needs without rigorous planning or actual competition.
The evaluation also reveals that professional services, representing at least 9% of public spending, and waste management contracts, representing some 18.7% of the total required in municipal contracting, lack requirements to promote competition and a level playing field. Moreover, even those service types that do require bidding have around 29 exceptional circumstances that exempt the purchase from its due competitive process.
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a contractor from the registry of bidders when in violation of the terms and conditions of contracts. The evaluation team also identified increased open and transparent opportunities and training in the private sector, promoted by the Puerto Rico General Services Administration (ASG). However, those improvements are far from sufficient, the evaluators said.
he nonprofit organization Sembrando Sentido this week presented the “Evaluation of Public Procurement Processes in Puerto Rico,” a study that identified weak nesses in government contracting, exposing up to $3 billion to misuse and corruption and resulting in the deterioration of essentialAccordingservices.tothe study, contracting mechanisms such as public-private partnerships (PPPs) and professional services lack transparency and robust competitive requirements. Those weaknesses are more profound in PPP processes, which provide a high level of discretion toward direct contracting without competition. In addition, the contracting structure with regard to PPPs makes it possible to offer multiple benefits to proponents of unsolicited proposals in multimillion-dollar transactions with a significant impact on services such as energy, transportation, infrastructure, etc.
“WeaknessesMonday.inplanning resulting in unjustified emer gency procurement continue to happen, such as in the recent emergency procurement scandals involving air ventilators in school establishments and repairs to a cemetery in the Municipality of Lares,” he said.
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“This represents a great risk to public integrity, espe cially considering the lack of transparency and preventive monitoring in public contracting,” Masses said.
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The evaluation notes that procurement reform in agen cies should have specific proceedings to suspend or eliminate
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“This decentralization of information, which generally does not include the disclosure of subcontracts or purchase or ders, makes it almost impossible to know something as simple as how much is spent on public procurement,” Masses said.
The evaluation report notes an “excessive number of laws and regulations that create confusion and inconsistencies in the bidding processes and contracting.” For example, there are more than 52 laws and 110 regulations related to public contracting in Puerto Rico, 79 of which are fundamental to the system but only one applies to all public entities. In ad dition, most laws and regulations are not up to date, creating loopholes that often result in more significant errors or the manipulation of due processes to avoid competition and integrity in contracting.
According to the study, although the budget data of the Office of Management and Budget points to 20% of spend ing on contracts, the OCPR Registry of Contracts indicates that on average, $13.5 billion per fiscal year is committed to agreements and their amendments, equivalent to 50% of Puerto Rico’s annual
“It’s not a coincidence that the most scandalous cor ruption cases, such as Apex and Cobra, occurred during states of emergency because the standards of transparency and competition are easily bent. Five years after hurricanes Irma and Maria, the Government has yet to change its ways,” said Issel Masses, executive director of Sembrando Sentido, in a statement
In addition to the challenges identified before and during the bidding phases, Sembrando Sentido found that a permissive legal framework hampers contract manage ment accountability. For example, although the Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico (OCPR) conducts municipal audits every two years, the new Municipal Code extends the minimum number of audits to once every five years.
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Ruiz stressed that there are still areas that have captains but need volunteers for the cleanup. She urged individuals, fami lies, and groups to visit www.scubadogssociety.org to register.
During the public hearing, Texidor con firmed in response to Rivera Segarra’s ques tions that out of the $92 million budget for ReGrow, funds have been earmarked for the administrative expenses of the five companies subcontracted to manage the program.
to be evaluated to determine their eligibility.
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A former Scuba Dogs Society official said citizen par ticipation has been key in generating an exhaustive database of waste removed from bodies of water in Puerto Rico. “It has been 19 years of uninterrupted citizen science,” she said.
“In this investigation, what we have been able to see is how the way the program is designed makes it so the final consequence is that, of those funds, what reaches the person who is supposed to be benefited are a few droplets,” Citizen Victory Movement Rep. Mariana Nogales Molinelli said. “Really, the federal funds from the whole recovery process are made to benefit the companies before the person. And that is horrible.”
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She emphasized that the key to success has been the mul tisectoral participation made up of the strength of volunteers, allied organizations, the commitment of the companies and, above all, the leadership of the “captains of the coasts.”
Texidor also agreed that the program’s guidelines had been amended five times in order to “adjust to the realities” to address controversies in certain individual cases.
be equivalent to 60 additional farmers assisted. Similarly, as of last Friday, the ReGrow Program had 2,757 active cases. Of this total, 1,239 had gone through the eligibility screening process, which has resulted in 1,079 eligible and 160 ineligibleAnotherapplications.1,518applications are being evaluated according to the eligibility criteria de fined in the program guidelines, as well as their compliance with federal and local regulations.
“I am shocked to visualize in my mind the structure of the scaffolding they have done to be able to get a check …” Rivera Segarra said. “I can understand, perhaps, that there are processes, but we have had five years since [hurricane] Maria; five amendments to the “Moreguidelines.”moneyhas been spent on administra tion than on the money given to the farmers,” he said. “It is disrespectful to the country and our farmers who have been waiting for so long.”
“There is no better education than through action,” said Alberto Martí, co-founder of SDS and a board member. “Mobi lizing all segments of the Puerto Rican community consistently for 20 years in a row has achieved a real transformation of behavior that we have been able to evidence with data like this. There is still a long way to go, of course. Still, today it is up to us to celebrate this great achievement in favor of our coexistence in harmony with nature.”
The Housing Department announced Monday that as of last Friday, the Renacer Agrícola Program (ReGrow) had disbursed $16.6 million in assistance from Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds, corresponding to 252 cases, a metric significantly below the goal proposed a year ago of serving an average of 150 cases per month.Forthat reason, the agency told the House Agriculture Committee that last July it estab lished an alternate method with the Depart ment of Agriculture to expedite the application evaluation process. However, the subrecipient agreement signed on Nov. 8, 2021, is still in effect.“The Department of Agriculture is comply ing with the agreement. They are not necessarily the numbers we would like to see, but they are complying with the agreement because they are doing their job,” said Maytte Texidor, associate secretary of the CDBG-DR program, during a public hearing to update data on ReGrow management.“Whatis certain is that we are trying to expedite the disbursement process so that this money can get into the hands of the farmers,” she said.According to the Housing Department, there is about $3.9 million in process for the disbursement of CDBG-DR funds, which would
“Really here, in the end, we’ve made al most no progress since these hearings began,” said Rep. Jorge Rivera Segarra, chairman of the Agriculture Committee, who highlighted the “desperation” that exists among island farmers. “And the cases that have come out are because of the hearings, as a result of the committee’s work, because, if not, nobody receives [the subsidies] or we wouldn’t have any knowledge of where the $92 million is.”
of SDS, said citizen participation has been key in generating the database of waste removed from bodies of water in Puerto Rico.
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Slow disbursement of ReGrow funds makes island food security plan seem like a pipe dream
Scuba Dogs Society marks 20 years of coastal cleanup
She could not provide an official amount, so she must submit the information to the House committee within five working days. In addition, the Housing spokeswoman acknowledged that, as a result of those administrative payments, ReGrow-eligible farmers could receive a lower subsidy than what they are entitled to.
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housands of volunteers convened by the nonprofit Scuba Dogs Society (SDS), the official organizer of the Interna tional Coastal Cleanup in Puerto Rico, will make history
“This Saturday, we will clean 200 coastlines and natural areas throughout Puerto Rico, joining more than 100 countries under the Ocean Conservancy initiative,” Ruiz said. “We em phasize the importance of registering at www.scubadogssociety. org to have a record of participation at the international level.”
Irma “Mimi” Ruiz, president of the SDS board of directors, highlighted the magnitude of the achievement of a commu nity committed to the environment, which for 20 years has responded to the Scuba Dogs Society’s call for changes toward a culture of reduce and reuse that promotes harmony with nature.
“We are not giving the tools to the farmers to be able to have the only opportunity -- because these funds are not going to be repeated -- to re-establish their farms,” the Popular Democratic Party lawmaker added. “There is no way to [guarantee] food security in that way. It does not exist and will not exist in this country.”
“All of us in Puerto Rico should feel proud of the milestone that will be marked this Saturday,” Ruiz said. “It is clear evi dence of what defines us as people, of how capable we are of uniting for the love we feel for our resources and our people.”
Rivera Segarra also requested a list of farmers and agricultural entities that have received subsidies to date. When asked if any family members of the Agriculture secretary have received funds from the program, Texidor said she had no knowledge.
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on Saturday by completing two uninterrupted decades of the event, despite facing devastating hurricanes, earthquakes, droughts and a global pandemic.
“It has been 19 years of uninterrupted citizen science,” she said.Standing out in the data analysis is that in 11 of the 19 years, Puerto Rico has been among the top 20 countries with the highest participation of volunteers and, on most occa sions, number one per capita. Also, the number of volunteers increases while the weight of waste removed decreases. From 2002 to 2021, 182,370 volunteers participated, and almost three million pounds (2,901,221.36) of waste were removed.
Texidor noted that program funds will be available through September 2026, but the expectation is that by December 2025, all programs and cases will be finalized. So far, there are still 1,496 applications that are waiting
One lawmaker questioned the “sloppiness” of the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, which has not imposed any fine for noncompliance on LUMA Energy and has only issued warnings.
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Torres added that “it is the lack of super vision by the Public Administration and, to a lesser extent, the insufficient control by the PREB regarding the performance of LUMA, which has resulted in the energy crisis that we are experiencing today.”
The speaker reiterated that the House will continue to monitor LUMA and demand results. At the same time, Hernández Montañez said, they will work to achieve the cancellation of the contract and reform Puerto Rico’s electrical system.House Resolution 822 obligates the PREB to provide, before Oct. 10, to the secretary of the House of Representatives, a report containing the investigation findings on the veracity of the data presented by LUMA Energy to PREB in relation to the alleged compliance with 84% of the performance metrics.
Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Monday that LUMA En ergy is the one that must decide whether to stay on as manager of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) transmission and distribution (T&D) system if, by Nov. 30, it is not possible to restructure the utility’s debt.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Rafael Hernández Montañez, House En ergy Committee Chairman Luis Raúl Torres Cruz and Rep. José Rivera Madera introduced House Resolution 822 on Monday, which would require the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) to investigate LUMA Energy’s claim that it has complied with 84% of its performance metrics. “It is unacceptable that, almost a year and a half after the entry into force of this agreement, the government only has a draft work plan to supervise LUMA,” Hernández Montañez said in a written statement. “That is why we are demanding that PREB certify the veracity of the data presented by LUMA, to demonstrate the company’s non-compliance with the agreed-up on metrics.”Inarecent public hearing, the director of one of the agencies in charge of supervising the contract with LUMA for operating the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PRE PA) transmission and distribution system, the Public-Private Partnerships Authority (P3A), the supervisor of the contract, acknowledged that he does not have sufficient personnel or the required expertise to supervise the contract.
Pierluisi said there might be a transition and possibly a pen alty payment. While this is happening, the private consortium is still on probation, he said.
“As of November 30 we will see where the process of the Title 3 [bankruptcy] is; it will be announced if some type of agreement has been reached with a large group of creditors of the Electric Power Authority, and LUMA will consider that when deciding whether to exercise that termination clause,” the governor said.
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Pierluisi noted that if mediation to restructure PREPA’s debt cannot be achieved by Nov. 30, LUMA Energy can demand the end of the supplementary contract, be paid for the services
P3A Director Fermín Fontanés said he had not prepared a work plan for the contract’s supervision. Days later, he made a draft public.
PREPA has been in bankruptcy since 2017 to restructure some $9 billion in debt. LUMA Energy took over control of PREPA’s T&D system in the summer of 2021 after a one-year transition period.
Rivera Madera questioned the “sloppiness” of the PREB, which has not imposed any fine for noncompliance on LUMA and has only issued warnings. PREB Chairman Edison Avilés Deliz accepted that the private consortium establishes the metrics and that the PREB has not confirmed their“Weveracity.will not allow that, while all Puerto Ricans suffer the consequences caused by the blackouts and interruptions of service of LUMA, this company continues on its own and without fulfilling its responsibilities, for which the PREB has an obligation to certify the veracity of its alleged compliance,” Rivera Madera said.
provided, or pay a fine for noncompliance.
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number of employees LUMA has. While LUMA claims on social media to have more than 3,000 workers, the PREB has said the private consor tium has between 1,200 and 1,300 workers. Fontanés accepted that he has not confirmed whether the data that LUMA gave him are the same that the company provided to the lower chamber.“Inthe public hearing that we held, this administration’s incompetence and negligence to supervise LUMA and demand that it comply with the contract metrics was evident,” said
restructuring doesn’t advance
“That agreement expires on its own terms,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “There is a termination clause in the 15-year contract that allows LUMA to rescind or cancel the contract because the bankruptcy has not ended, so we will have to see what the next step is.”
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Likewise, the officials supervising LUMA Energy could not answer questions about the
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Torres Cruz, who is investigating the agreement. “Fermín Fontanés himself admitted that LUMA continues without supervision and doing as it will, even when its actions may constitute a breach of the Meanwhile,contract.”thePREB, the P3A and PRE PA denied that the federal funds allocated for the reconstruction of the electrical system are conditional upon LUMA being in charge of managing the electrical network since the funds are only available to government entities or nonprofit institutions.
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“Theseciently.workshops are essential because they provide police officers with the necessary tools to understand the complexity of gender violence and guarantee women’s rights, preventing the surviving victim and her family members from being doubly punished by the system,” Bermúdez said in a written statement. “Equally important is that it has a prevention component by addressing preconceived ideas and stereotypes that negatively impact the attention and management of situations of
crimes.Municipal police officers from the island will participate in the virtual workshops. They will also be trained in the Protocol for the Investigation of Violent Deaths of Women and Trans People for Gender Reasons, which must be used in the investigation of femicides and transfeminicides in Puerto Rico.
Acting Women’s Advocate Madeline Bermúdez announced on Monday the beginning of a series of workshops for municipal police of fi cers to educate them to understand the complexity of gender violence and to identify and handle domestic violence cases sensitively and effi
Carlos Maldonado, owner of Business Planning Resources International Corp. (BPRIC), Glorimar Fashions and Tailoring LLC and Global Business Insurance Agency Inc., and associated under incorporation documents with Pet Card Systems Inc., and Datavos Corp., was sentenced Monday to 11 years and three months (135 months) in prison for securities fraud and bank fraud, and ordered to serve five years of supervised release. Maldonado was also ordered to pay $1,986,734.26 in restitution to 46 of his victims.
violence against women in all its manifestations and contexts.”
Maldonado was charged with 16 counts of securities fraud and bank fraud on Oct. 27, 2016. In December 2019, he was found guilty on all counts after a jury trial. The jury found that, from on or about 2007 through 2012, Maldonado along with several associates fraudulently solicited and procured over $5 million on behalf of BPRIC from over 100 individuals and other businesses. As part of the fraudulent scheme, Maldonado and his associates provided phony investment contracts to victims in Puerto Rico and the mainland United States in exchange for their monetary investment in his bogus business enterprises.
During trial, the government presented checks, bank records, emails, other docu-
After the imposition of the substantive sentence by U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock, from the District of Maine, U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow for the District of Puerto Rico emphasized that “investment fraud can come in many forms, but its main feature is the promise of a fast and high return.”
in by the promise of a deal that is ‘too good to be true’ because it isn’t true. We want to remind the citizens of Puerto Rico that no investment is risk-free and that an offer of a high rate of return always means greater risk.
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“Fraudsters, posing as salespeople or entrepreneurs, contact unsuspecting individuals and offer them seemingly exciting investment opportunities,” he said. “The victims are lured
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Before investing, get written information, such as a prospectus or annual report, and be wary if a salesperson pressures you to invest immediately, promises you quick profits,
mentary evidence, and witness and victim testimonies that proved that the defendant made or caused materially false and misleading representations to be made to investors, including: (i) that the various companies were involved in legitimate business functions which he knew not to be true; (ii) failing to disclose to investors that their funds would be used to buy and trade stocks and commodities on a ScottTrade account, Foreex Capital markets LLC, and other personal trading accounts, and for Maldonado’s family expenses instead of funding the bogus business ventures; and (iii) failing to disclose that the investment funds fraudulently obtained were to be used by Maldonado to purchase goods and services at retail stores, restaurants, and for spending money for travel, rent, entertainment, and personal auto loan payments.
Bermúdez said the initiative is per Law 59 - 2020, known as the Law to Create the Education and Training Program for the Prevention and Management of Domestic Violence for all municipal police officers assigned to the Women’s Advocate Office (OPM by its Spanish initials).
Bermúdez noted that the training cycle, entitled “Biopsychosocial Factors for the Implementation of the Protocol for Attending to Femicides and Transfeminicides in Puerto Rico,” is focused on sensitizing agents on the impact of all manifestations of gender violence. The workshops seek that agents understand femicide and transfeminicide as part of gender violence and know the elements that characterize those crimes, both in their occurrence and interpretation.Likewise,
encourages you to borrow money or cash-in retirement funds to invest, tells you to write false information on your account forms, or uses words like ‘guarantee,’ ‘high return,’ or ‘limited offer.’ As soon as you suspect that you have been the target of a fraudulent scheme, contact law enforcement so we can prosecute those responsible and attempt to recover the stolen funds.”
the aim is to present an investigation protocol to solve the different types of femicides and transfeminicides in their various contexts. In addition, it is intended that municipal law enforcement personnel understand how sociocultural factors make gender violence invisible. Those factors, in their interaction with the different elements of the investigation, result in a high level of impunity for such
Since the creation of the law, OPM has reached 1,082 municipal police officers and support personnel in municipal barracks through training aimed at biopsychosocial aspects, prevention of domestic violence, and burnout syndrome.
Municipal police of ficers to receive gender violence training
A jury found that, from around 2007 through 2012, Carlos Maldonado and several associates fraudulently solicited and procured through phony investment contracts over $5 million from more than 100 individuals and other businesses.
The analysis excluded 2020, the most recent year for which data is available, be cause pandemic aid made it unrepresentative. Including it makes the decline since 1993 even greater, at 69%.
“The safety net is often criticized for being a patchwork of programs, but that’s also a strength,” Thomson said. “It reaches a variety of people in a variety of circumstances.”
In 1993, safety net programs cut child poverty by 9% from what it would have been absent the aid. By 2019, those programs had cut child poverty by 44%, and the number of children they removed from poverty more than tripled to 6.5 million.
The United States looks better in compa risons that use the American poverty line as a common standard. Yet even with that definition, the National Academies of Sciences, Enginee ring, and Medicine in 2019 found the United States ranked fourth among five rich Englishspeaking countries, trailing Australia, Canada and Ireland.“Wecould do a lot better,” said Hilary Hoynes, an economist at the University of Cali fornia, Berkeley, though she hailed the progress as evidence that solutions can be found.
The Organization for Economic Coope ration and Development, an intergovernmental group, ranks the United States 36th out of 41 countries, defining poor children as those with less than half their country’s median income. But since the United States is unusually wealthy, its poor children may have higher incomes than some nonpoor children abroad.
But each program expanded in its own way — some by congressional intent (tax credits) and others by demographic change (Social Security) or court order (Supplemental Security Income, which provides disability aid). A primary goal was to help low-wage workers, but there were also major expansions of programs with few if any work rules (SNAP and school meals).
But with little public notice and accele rating speed, America’s children have become much less poor.
To examine the drop in child poverty, The New York Times collaborated with Child Trends, a nonpartisan research group with an expertise in statistical analysis. The joint project relied on the data the Census Bureau uses to calculate poverty rates but examined it over more years and in greater demographic detail.
Among the programs that most affected children is one aimed at retirees. Social Security cut child poverty by 14%, more than twice as much as it did a quarter-century ago, both be cause benefits grew and because more children now live with elderly parents or grandparents.
“This decline in child poverty is very sig nificant. I cannot say it enough,” said Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, a poverty expert at Brandeis University who reviewed the data. “If we still had the rates as we had in the 1990s, there would be 12 million more children in poverty.”
The decline of child poverty coincides with progress on another measure of children’s well-being. The share who lack health insuran ce fell by about two-thirds, mostly because of expansions of Medicaid and other government insurance. While those programs often improve children’s health, they do not directly reduce poverty because the government does not count insurance as Almostincome.everyprogram that Child Trends examined does more to reduce child poverty than it did a quarter-century ago, either because it raised benefits, expanded eligibility or made it easier to enroll.
“When we spend money, we make gains,” she said. “Providing more resources to low-inco me families changes children’s life trajectories.”
Still, the sharp retreat of child poverty represents major progress and has drawn surpri singly little notice, even among policy experts. It has coincided with profound changes to the safety net, which at once became more strin gent and more generous. Starting in the 1990s, tough welfare laws shrank cash aid to parents without jobs. But other subsidies grew, especially for working families, and total federal spending on low-income children roughly doubled.
A comprehensive new analysis shows that child poverty has fallen 59% since 1993, with need receding on nearly every front. Child poverty has fallen in every state, and it has fallen by about the same degree among children who are white, Black, Hispanic and Asian, living with one parent or two, and in native or immigrant households. Deep poverty, a form of especially severe deprivation, has fallen nearly as much.
was the expansion of government aid.
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Ryberg, another co-author, said the poverty reduction offered millions of children greater prospects of success. “A childhood free of poverty predicts better adult outcomes in just about every area you can imagine, including education, earnings and health,” she said.
“This is an astounding decline in child poverty,” said Dana Thomson, a co-author of the Child Trends study. “Its magnitude is unequaled in the history of poverty measurement, and the single largest explanation is the growth of the safety
The story of the safety net, in other words, is a story of safety nets — multiple programs with multiple aims, sometimes evolving in uncoordi nated or accidental ways.
While the official measure shows child poverty falling 37% from a 1993 peak, the supplemental measure shows a 59% decline.
The analysis found that multiple forces reduced child poverty, including lower unem ployment, increased labor force participation among single mothers and the growth of statelevel minimum wages. But a dominant factor
In measuring poverty, the analysis used the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, the yardstick that best accounts for government aid. Unlike the outdated Official Poverty Measu re, the supplemental measure counts billions in tax credits, SNAP and other benefits, and adjusts for local living costs, providing a more accurate tally of household resources. While 2009 is the earliest year for which the Census Bureau pro duced the supplemental measure, researchers at Columbia University calculated it for earlier decades, and Child Trends drew on their data.
a generation or more, America’s high levels of child poverty set it apart from other rich nations, leaving millions of young people lacking support as basic as food and shelter amid mounting evidence that early hardship leaves children poorer, sicker and less educated as adults.
The plunge in child poverty is the opposite of what most liberal experts predicted a quartercentury ago when President Bill Clinton signed a law from a Republican Congress to “end welfare as we know Conservativesit.”
The aid is often large. The average family lifted out of poverty received nearly $18,000 in benefits — more than 40% of its after-tax income.
Ruth Raudales, a single mother who works part time and attends college, with her son Gabriel at Don Carlos Cantina restaurant in Houston on July 26, 2022.
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say the landmark law pus hed more parents to work and call it the main reason child poverty declined. Progressives say many working families would still be poor without the expanded safety net, which grew in part to compensate for stagnant wages amid decades of rising inequality.
Despite its progress, the United States still has more child poverty than many peer na tions, though its rank depends on how poverty is defined.
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In 1993, nearly 28% of children were poor, meaning their households lacked the income the government deemed necessary to meet basic needs. By 2019, before temporary pandemic aid drove it even lower, child poverty had fallen to aboutMore11%.than 8 million children remained in poverty, and despite shared progress, Black and Latino children are about three times as likely as white children to be poor. With the poverty line low (about $29,000 for a family of four in a place with typical living costs), many families who escape poverty in the statistical sense still experience hardship.
Expanded safety net drives sharp drop in child poverty
Trump’s quest for such a lawyer fueled a destructive cycle: As his legal difficulties mounted, he hired more lawyers, who in turn faced problems for their work on his behalf, leading established lawyers concerned about their reputations to balk at representing him.
The revelation capped a summer in which a team of lawyers that had been advising Trump as he tried to overturn the 2020 election faced a range of repercussions across the country from federal investigators, local prosecutors, state bar associations and government accountability groups.
While the consequences his lawyers faced were extraordinary when Trump was in the White House, the dangers have only intensified since he left office and have become increasingly acute in recent weeks, as the former president has come under scrutiny in two different Justice Department investigations and has been forced yet again to find lawyers willing to represent him.
The most serious repercussions have come for four lawyers who acted as ringleaders in the effort. Giuliani’s licenses to practice law in the District of Columbia and New York were suspended, while Powell has been sanctioned in Detroit and faces a disciplinary action brought by the state bar of Texas. Both are also facing
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Two others who worked for Trump in the White House — White House counsel Pat A. Cipollone and his deputy Patrick F. Philbin — were subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury in Washington investigating the ef forts to overturn the 2020 election, including the roles that Giuliani and Eastman had played in helping Trump.
“Ultimately,action.we want to demonstrate to all the lawyers that the next time that Sidney Powell or Rudy Giuliani calls and says, ‘Hey, will you sign your name to this?’ they’ll say no because they’ll realize that there are professional conse quences,” said Michael Teter, the director of the 65 Project, which has filed complaints against 40 lawyers who took part in suits challenging the 2020 results, including 17 last month.
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a University of Baltimore law professor who has closely tracked the investigations into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, said of the dilemma Trump’s lawyers have faced. “There’s just no way to not step into a mess.”
Vigorously defending the client — even one known for unscrupulous behavior or accused of an egregious crime — is part of a lawyer’s basic job description. But attorneys are bound by a code of professional conduct that forbids them from crossing certain lines, including knowingly making false claims, filing frivolous lawsuits or motions, and doing anything to further a crime.
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“This is part of a well-funded effort to attack every attorney who participated in any of the 2020 election challenges,” Eastman said in a statement in response to a bar complaint filed against him, adding that the goal of the 65 Project was to “shame them and make them toxic in their communities and their firms.”
joke has begun circulating among lawyers following the many legal tra vails of former President Donald Trump: MAGA actually stands for “making attorneys get attorneys.”Oversix years and nine major investiga tions by Congress, the Justice Department and local prosecutors, as Trump has managed to avoid removal from the presidency and indictment, it has become clear that serving as one of his lawyers is a remarkably risky job — and one that can involve considerable legal exposure. Time after time, his attorneys have been asked to testify as witnesses to potential crimes — or evaluated as possible criminal conspirators themselves.
“There’s no way to adhere to your ethical integrity and keep your job,” Kimberly Wehle,
Last week, a Justice Department filing revealed that Trump’s lawyers had misled federal investigators about whether he had handed over to the Justice Department all the classified docu ments he took from the White House when he left office. That raised questions about whether the lawyers, M. Evan Corcoran and Christina
He is also known for refusing to pay his lawyers for their work; last year, the Republican National Committee agreed to settle up to $1.6 million of Trump’s personal legal bills.
Six weeks after taking office, Trump made clear to his aides what he expected of his lawyers when he raged about Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, for recusing himself from the inquiry into whether Russia had meddled in the 2016 election.“I don’t have a lawyer,” Trump said to aides in the Oval Office, including White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II. “Where’s my Roy Cohn?”Trump was referring to the notorious New York fixer who had represented and mentored Trump in the 1970s when he was an up-andcoming real estate investor. Cohn, who was chief counsel to Sen. Joseph McCarthy during the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings investigating suspected communists, was disbarred by a New York court in 1986 for unethical conduct.
The personal ramifications of doing legal work for Trump became painfully apparent to lawyers around him four months into his administration when McGahn and several of his lieutenants — fearing they could be held responsible for Trump’s conduct — retained a high-powered Washington lawyer to represent them in an investigation into whether the presi dent had obstructed justice.
a long list of lawyers who have represented Trump have found themselves on the receiving end of ethics complaints and disciplinary
Rudy Giuliani arrives at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on Wednesday morning, Aug. 17, 2022. The many lawyers who have helped the former president avoid removal from office and indictment have drawn legal problems of their own.
mostly lesser-known lawyers who represented Trump in battleground states as he tried to overturn the election are facing ethics com plaints, putting them at risk of being disciplined or disbarred by bar associations or the courts.
Around the same time, Trump’s longtime New York lawyer, Michael Cohen, began a threeyear prison sentence for his role in paying off a woman in the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign to ensure she did not disclose an af fair withMoreTrump.recently,
Long before he became president, Trump viewed lawyers as tools to carry out whatever unsavory errand he required. As president, his disdain for institutional norms and demand for unswerving loyalty meant that Trump expected White House lawyers to act in his personal in terest, whether or not doing so was within the bounds of the law or in the interest of the country.
Within two years, McGahn had racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills, and prosecutors had turned him into a chief witness against Trump.
For Trump’s lawyers, legal exposure comes with the job
Bobb, could be prosecuted themselves and might ultimately be forced to become witnesses against their client. (Bobb recently retained a lawyer, according to a person familiar with the situation.)
One of Trump’s highest-profile lawyers, Rudy Giuliani, was named as a target in a state criminal investigation in Georgia. Conserva tive lawyer John Eastman, who came up with what he conceded privately was an unlawful strategy to help Trump overturn the election, said he believed he was a target in that same investigation and declined to answer questions while being deposed before a grand jury. Gi uliani and Eastman have also been named as subjects of interest in a flurry of federal grand jury subpoenas seeking evidence about attempts by Trump’s allies to create fake slates of electors to help keep him in office.
Teter’s group has identified more than 110 lawyers across 26 states who agreed to participate in various plots by Trump and his allies as they sought to overturn the 2020 election. Thus far, at least 10 of them have been fined or sanctioned.
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Powell’s nonprofit organization, Defen ding the Republic, which raised millions of dollars by spreading lies about election fraud, is under investigation by a federal grand jury in Washington, according to two people with direct knowledge of the inquiry.
Members of the Biden administration fanned out across memorials at the sites of the three attacks — Shanksville, Pennsylvania; the Pentagon; and lower Manhattan — to pay tribute to emergency workers and families of the nearly 3,000 victims, who continue to grieve over lost memories, experiences and bonds. Biden also marked the anniversary by encouraging Americans to defend the nation’s democratic system, turning again to a message that the country’s institutions are under threat by forces of domestic extremism.
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Giuliani also faced a federal investigation in New York by prosecutors who are said to be looking into his dealings in Ukraine to help Trump dig up dirt on Biden’s son. As part of that investigation, federal agents seized cellphones and computers from Giuliani in April during searches of his apartment on Madison Avenue and his Park Avenue office in Manhattan. The investigation is unlikely to result in charges.
two-decade war in Afghanistan that the United States began in response to the Sept. 11 attacks. While Biden has defended the decision to pull American troops out of the country, the chaotic and haphazard nature of the withdrawal is also one of the darkest moments of Biden’s presidency.
Among the 40 lawyers whom Teter’s group has singled out for ethics complaints are James Bopp; Kenneth Chesebro; Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas; Joseph diGenova; Jenna Ellis; Boris Epshteyn; Cleta Mitchell; and William Olson.
“When I got to her house, I realized that I was right. She hadn’t just lost colleagues; she had lost friends,” Biden said. “As we learned more about that dark day, she felt pride for what happened here as well — pride that it was fellow flight attendants and passengers of United Flight 93 who fought back, who helped stop the plane from taking an untold number of lives in our nation’s capital.”
separate defamation lawsuits by Dominion, a voting machine company that claims that the two acted recklessly in falsely asserting that Dominion machines had helped flip votes from Trump to Biden. The suits each seek more than $1 billion in damages.
inquiry, may face additional legal jeopardy; federal agents have seized his phone, and a federal judge said in March that he and Trump likely committed felonies while attempting to overturn the 2020 election.
As the Afghan government collapsed in August 2021, a bombing killed as many as 170 Afghans and 13 American troops outside the Kabul airport. The United States has welcomed tens of thousands of Afghans who assisted American troops to the country, although many others who had hopes of immigrating remained overseas, even after Biden promised they would have a home in the country.Biden said Sunday that his administra tion remained determined to hold accounta ble those responsible for the attacks, pointing to last month’s killing of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri in a CIA drone strike. “Our commitment to preventing another attack in the United States doesn’t end,” Biden said.
“They need to know; they need to be educated,” Katsimatides said. “And then it’ll be their task to take the torch and pass it on.”
The House investigation into Jan. 6 has also focused on potential wrongdoing by
The first lady, Jill Biden, commemorated the day by visiting Shanksville and recalled the sorrow of realizing that her sister Bonny Jacobs, a flight attendant, could have lost colleagues in the attack.
“The more the time passes, the easier it is for people to forget or to put it on the back burner,” she said. Anthoula Katsimatides said the goal of the yearly remembrance was to “teach younger generations” in an effort to avoid a similar tragedy in the future.
President Joe Biden participates in a moment of silence at the Pentagon on the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, in Arlington, Va., on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022.
Marking 9/11, Biden remembers the ‘precious lives stolen from us’
The scene outside the memorial in New York followed a familiar pattern. Vice Presi dent Kamala Harris and Mayor Eric Adams stood by as family members carried photos
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of their loved ones while others carried Ame rican flags or roses. There were sudden looks of recognition and hugs between people who saw each other once a year. As the honor guard entered and the national anthem was sung, participants who had been gripping pictures of their loved ones held them aloft. There were moments of silence at 8:46 a.m., when Flight 11 struck the north tower of the World Trade Center, and at 9:03, when Flight 175 struck the south tower. The reading of the victims’ names brought both tears and fond remembrances.DavidAlbertwas 13 when his father, Jon Leslie Albert, a vice president for infor mation technology with Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc., died in the terrorist attack. He read the name of his father and other victims. The feeling of loss remains after 21 years, Albert said.
Ellis was also accused of professional misconduct in an ethics complaint in Colorado by the bipartisan legal watchdog group the States United Democracy Center. It said that Ellis as sisted Trump in an “unsuccessful and potentially criminal effort” to stave off his electoral defeat.
Early in his remarks, Biden recalled part of a message that Queen Elizabeth II, who died last week, sent after the attacks: “She poignantly reminded us, ‘Grief is the price we pay for love.’ ”
Lin Wood is under investigation by the bar association in his home state of Georgia and was sanctioned in Michigan. Eastman, who has said he could also be a target of the Georgia
Trump’s lawyers, particularly their role in the scheme to put forward slates of pro-Trump electors in states won by Joe Biden.
years after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Joe Biden promised to never forget “the precious lives stolen from us” as he honored victims of the worst terrorist strike in American history with a somber wreath-laying ceremony under the pouring rain at the Pentagon.
“The reality is that I, along with cou ntless other children who lost parents, mis sed out on countless memories, moments, conversations,” he said. “So while the grief recedes a bit with time, the permanent ab sence of my father is just as palpable today as it everAnthoulawas.” Katsimatides, 50, an actress and a trustee for the 9/11 Memorial and Mu seum, lost her brother John Katsimatides, 31, a bonds broker at Cantor Fitzgerald.
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“I know for all those of you who lost someone, 21 years is both a lifetime and no time at all,” Biden said Sunday in a speech after the ceremony. “It’s good to remember. These memories help us heal. But they can also open up the hurt and take us back to that moment when the grief was so raw.”
The president’s speech came a little more than a year after Biden ended the
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“It’s not enough to stand up for demo cracy once a year or every now and then,” Biden said. “It’s something we have to do every single day. So this is a day not only to remember, but a day of renewal and resolve for each and every American.”
are worried about the world’s largest and most im portant government bond market, as the Federal Reserve quickens the pace at which it removes one of its primary pandemicWhensupports.theglobal economy crashed in March 2020 and markets went into free fall, the U.S. Treasury market — the $25 trillion bedrock of the global financial system — broke down. Sellers struggled to find buyers, and prices whipsawed higher and lower. The Fed stepped in, devoting trillions of dollars to steadying the market.
“While this sounds like a bad science-fiction movie, it is unfortunately a real threat,” Ralph Axel, an interest rate strate gist at Bank of America, wrote in a research report last week. He sees emerging strains in the Treasury market as “the single greatest systemic financial risk today,” with the potential to do more damage than the housing turmoil that preceded the 2008 financial crisis.
“I am worried that we are piling QT on top of these rate hikes, and it will push us into recession,” said George Catram bone, head of Americas trading and chief operating officer at DWS group.Others say lessons learned from past shocks make the risks less daunting. The Fed has introduced a permanent facility that could supply emergency cash to market participants in case of a liquidity crunch. A group of U.S. financial regulators is also looking at other ways to bolster the Treasury market.
The Treasury Department in Washington on Nov. 14, 2021. The Treasury bond market has doubled over the past decade, to around $25 trillion.
Now, the Fed is reversing course through quantitative tightening, or QT, pulling back its support for financial markets while it raises interest rates to quell inflation. Some investors worry that the quickening pace of the Fed’s pullback could be come too much for markets to bear, undermining the safety and reliability of the Treasury market.
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As the Fed backs away, it’s not clear who will fill the void. And even if new buyers for bonds can be found, the reduction in demand caused by the Fed’s exit is raising fears among traders of volatility that could make future market disturbances worse.
Importantly, the Fed is not actively selling its holdings; it’s just not reinvesting them as they come due. And investors won’t necessarily have to buy everything the Fed is letting run off its balance sheet. In fact, the Treasury has significantly reduced its borrowing over the past year as the financing needs of the go vernment during the pandemic have declined. In turn, this has reduced the number of Treasuries that need to be bought by investors.
When markets are liquid, money flows freely and easily, and investors can buy and sell a financial asset — in this case, Treasuries — at a stable price with little trouble. Illiquidity, on the other hand, is like a blocked water pipe; it’s hard to push anything through, and what does get past the blockage comes in spurts, with prices moving sharply higher or lower as trades fail to be fulfilled in a predictable way.
The importance of the Treasury market is hard to oversta te. It is the main source of funding for the U.S. government and underpins borrowing costs around the world, for a huge variety of assets. If you have a mortgage, the interest rate you received was probably priced in relation to Treasuries. The same goes for credit cards, business loans and just about anything with an interest rate attached to it. The proper functioning of this market is paramount.That’swhy even small wobbles in this market can generate huge worries. At its worst, a Treasury trading breakdown could cause the value of the dollar, stocks and other bonds to tumble. Economies that borrow a lot in dollars and hold Treasuries in their reserves would teeter. Crucially, the U.S. government could find it hard to finance itself, even up to defaulting on its debt, the financial equivalent of an earthquake.
Today, the Fed’s shrinking balance sheet is not the only reason liquidity is deteriorating. The price that buyers or sellers are willing to trade for depends on how sure they are that the price won’t move significantly shortly after the trade is complete. With so much uncertainty — over the health of the economy, the course of the Russian-Ukrainian war or the path of inflation, to name just a few things — it’s harder to price trades, reducing liquidity.The sheer scale of U.S. government debt also plays an important role. The Treasury market has doubled over the past decade, to around $25 trillion, as the government’s financing needs have grown. All that debt needs to be bought by someone and not just the Fed.
Since June 2021, the Fed has been letting a small number of bonds mature without being replaced. Starting this month, the Fed will allow up to $60 billion of Treasuries and $35 billion of mortgage bonds to roll off its balance sheet as the debts come due, twice as much as the past three months.
If demand for Treasuries can’t keep pace with the supply, it could pull prices down. Prices move in the opposite direction to bond yields, a measure of borrowing costs. Higher Treasury yields would put more pressure on borrowers already grappling with the Fed’s campaign to lower inflation by raising interest rates.
In response to market turmoil in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the Fed unleashed the full force of its firepower, buying mortgage bonds and government debt in huge quantities, in a move known as quantitative easing, or QE. By becoming the buyer of last resort, the Fed helped res tore confidence in markets, and trading in Treasuries began to recover.The Fed’s balance sheet ballooned from a little over $4 trillion in early 2020 to a peak of nearly $9 trillion two years later. Stability also brought investment back to the stock market, enriching investors and helping stoke inflation.
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Fed’s exit puts world’s biggest bond market on shakier ground
“Eventually, all those bonds coming off the Fed’s balance sheet are going to disrupt the market,” said Scott Skyrm, a trader at Curvature Securities.
What market watchers are most worried about as the Fed’s balance sheet shrinks is something called liquidity — tra der jargon for the ease of buying and selling a financial asset.
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After falling to its lowest level in more than two weeks the dollar pared some losses against a basket of currencies a day ahead of the closely watched U.S. consumer price index data with some investors hoping slowing price increases will slow the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes.
The dollar index fell 0.368%, with the euro up 0.75% to $1.0114.TheJapanese yen weakened 0.21% versus the green back at 142.85 per dollar, while Sterling was last trading at $1.1677, up 0.78% on the day. [FRX/]
U.S. Treasury yields, after falling earlier, were higher in afternoon trading as bond investors were also eagerly await ing consumer price data.
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In currencies, the euro also reacted positively to Ukraine’s advances, extending gains that started last week after a European Central Bank (ECB) rate hike announce ment.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 229.63 points, or 0.71%, to 32,381.34, the S&P 500 gained 43.05 points, or 1.06%, to 4,110.41 and the Nasdaq Composite added 154.10 points, or 1.27%, to 12,266.41. [.N]
European stocks had risen after Moscow on Saturday abandoned its main bastion in northeastern Ukraine, in a sudden collapse of one of its principal frontlines.
“Markets rallied overnight in a follow-through from Fri day. You have stories about Ukraine making progress. Ulti mately a move beyond the war is a positive for everybody. Obviously, it still remains to be seen but it’s helping fuel the optimism,” said Michael O’Rourke, chief market strategist at JonesTrading in Stamford, Connecticut.
“Because of that you’re seeing a risk-on type of mental ity today,” Pavlik said. “The market has now fully priced in a 75 basis point hike for September” but it is hoping the next one is 50 basis points, he added.
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The pan-European STOXX 600 index had closed up 1.76% while MSCI’s gauge of stocks across the globe was up 1.26%.
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Consumer price data due on Tuesday is expected to show headline inflation rose 8.1% year-over-year in August versus 8.5% in July. Core CPI, which exclude food and en ergy prices, is expected to show a rise of 6.1% versus 5.9% in July.Ifinflation decreases the market is hoping this “trans lates into smaller rate hikes” after the September Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, said Robert Pav lik, senior portfolio manager at Dakota Wealth in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Speaking from the chamber where the body of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, will lie in state later this week, Charles said, “Parliament is the living and breath ing instrument of our democracy.”
The ceremony showcased the har monious and occasionally fraught in tersection of British royalty and govern ment. There were expressions of fealty from Parliament to the king and a recip rocal pledge by him to abide by the lim its of his constitutional role, which stipu lates that he remain above politics.
Queen Elizabeth II will be buried at Windsor Castle alongside her royal predecessors
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King Charles addresses Parliament, promising to uphold Britain’s constitution
Steeped in history, the chapel has been an important place of worship for the queen and her family and has been the venue for many royal weddings, christenings and fu nerals. Included among those occasions was the May 2018 wedding of Harry and Meghan, now the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, an event watched by more than 29 million viewers in the United States alone.
The coffin will then be driven to Wind sor Castle, about 23 miles west of London, where the queen will be buried alongside her husband and royal predecessors in St. George’s Chapel. The chapel, which is in side the walls of the castle, was complet ed in the 16th century during the reign of King Henry VIII, whose body is also buried there.For centuries, Westminster Abbey in London was the burial place for kings and queens, but St. George’s Chapel has been the final resting place of nearly all British monarchs since King George III, who died in 1820.Prince
Queen Elizabeth II will be laid to rest next Monday in St. George’s Chapel, alongside her husband and royal predecessors.
2021 after an intimate and muted funeral ceremony because of restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic. Pictures of the queen sitting in the chapel in isolation, dressed in black and wearing a face mask, prompted an outpouring of sympathy across the country at a time when mem bers of the public were observing the same restrictions.Thequeen will be buried in the King George VI Memorial Chapel alongside her parents, George VI and Queen Elizabeth, known as the queen mother. George died in 1952, and the queen mother in 2002. It is also the final resting place of Princess Margaret, the queen’s only sibling, who also died in 2002. Philip was laid to rest in the chapel’s main Royal Vault last year, but will be moved to join the queen.
“Thissaid. vow, she kept with unsur passed devotion,” Charles said. “She set an example of selfless duty which with God’s help and your counsels I am re solved faithfully to follow.”
“Parliament is the living and breathing instrument of our democracy,” King Charles said Monday in an address at Westminster Hall in London.
“While very young, her late majesty pledged herself to serve her country and her people and to maintain the precious principles of constitutional government which lie at the heart of our nation,” the king
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Charles struck a more poignant note, paying tribute to the queen, whom he said was a “pattern to all princes living,” quoting from Shakespeare. He referred to her constancy, symbolized by a stainedglass window that was installed to cel ebrate her Diamond Jubilee in 2012.
nder the ancient, vaulted tim bers of Westminster Hall, King Charles III addressed Britain’s Parliament on Monday for the first time as sovereign, accepting condolences and pledging to uphold the principles of the country’s constitutional monarchy.
Philip, the queen’s husband for 73 years, was buried in the chapel in April
But the speaker of the House, Lind say Hoyle, made a wry allusion to more turbulent times. King Charles I was tried on charges of tyranny and treason in Westminster Hall in 1649, and outside
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it stands a statue of Oliver Cromwell, who led armies on Parliament’s behalf against Charles in the English Civil War and went on to rule the country as lord protector.“Itis perhaps very British,” Hoyle said, to take note of revolutions in a for mal statement to the monarch. That drew a faint smile from the king.
he 10 days of events and mourning for Queen Elizabeth II will culminate in her funeral Sept. 19, when the queen’s coffin is expected to be placed on the same green gun carriage that carried her forefathers for a final procession down the Mall, which runs between Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square in central Lon don.
Ukraine claims progress in south, redoubles calls for Russians to surrender
military vehicles and rolled into strategi cally important towns. One Russian re sponse has been a flurry of long-range strikes on infrastructure far from the front, apparently an attempt to dampen the jubilation for Ukraine’s military wins.
The Ukrainian government has re stricted access to journalists along the en tire front line, and the situation in the south is particularly difficult to assess. Ukrainian soldiers fighting in Kherson have reported fierce battles in recent days.
miles from Ukraine’s combat operations. Ukrainian and U.S. officials are call ing the strikes retaliation for battlefield loses, complicating the lives of tens of thousands of Ukrainians with blackouts and water shortages. “Russia’s appar ent response to Ukraine liberating cities and villages in the east: sending missiles to attempt to destroy critical civilian in frastructure,” Bridget A. Brink, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, wrote on Twit ter.
“I never thought of leaving” the city, he said, even when Russian troops were fighting in the outskirts. “And now that we’ve pushed them back, I am def initely not leaving.”
will ripple through Russian ranks and un dermine morale all along the front. Since the start of the southern offensive, Ukrai nians have expressed optimism that they could batter and isolate Russian forces enough to force their surrender, avoiding, where possible, head-to-head clashes with a well armed and dug-in enemy.
The location and timing of the video could not be immediately determined.
Electricity flickered on and off through the day in the city Monday, but by evening officials said they had restored power to most residents who lost it the day before.
The mayor of Kharkiv, Ihor Terek hov, called the attack an act of retri bution for Ukraine’s military advances. “This is a vile and cynical revenge of the Russian aggressor for the successes of our army at the front, in particular in the Kharkiv region,” he said on Tele gram.
The Ukrainian army’s surprise coun teroffensive in the country’s northeast has recaptured hundreds of square miles of territory, seized abandoned Russian
“Read our lips,” he said. “Without gas or without you? Without you. With out electricity or without you? Without you. Without water or without you? Without you.”
“I don’t give a damn why this hap pened, I just know I no longer have a home,” said Vita, another resident of the building. She had saved for years to buy the now-destroyed home, she said.
“Russian Ivan, surrender!” one soldier calls out in a video posted by an adviser to the Ukrainian interior ministry, Anton Ger ashchenko. “We will protect you from the dictator Putin.”
An adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, Kyrylo Tymosh enko, said that two cruise missiles had hit elements of critical infrastructure in Kharkiv, including a major power plant, knocking out electricity to the city and several other regions. “Russians want to leave us without light, water and heat,” he said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app.
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In an evening address to the nation Sunday, Zelenskyy lashed out at the Russian government for the strikes and said they would fail to dissuade Ukrai nians from fighting.
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The strikes do not appear to have had direct bearing on the fighting. A missile attack Sunday on an electrical station on the edge of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, for example, was dozens of
Part of that effort is psychological, a military tactic used throughout history.
As the sun settled Monday into a pink-and-orange sunset over Kharkiv, a long line of people carrying plastic water bottles formed at a still-working faucet in one neighborhood. It was a minor hassle, said Dmytro, 26.
or about 193 square miles and have been urging Russian forces to lay down their weapons. She added that some Russians have already abandoned their positions or surrendered, but declined to offer details. The claim could not be independently veri fied.“For quite a long time we engaged in a powerful information campaign by send ing letters to them and communicating over the radio accurate information about how they can give up and get out of this,” she said.
Ukrainian officials Monday posted vid eos of Ukrainian soldiers using loudspeak ers to call for Russian soldiers on the battle field to lay down their weapons.
Residents collect water from a well in a neighborhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sept. 12, 2022.
Ukrainian soldiers operate a drone in the Kherson region of Ukraine on Sept. 5, 2022. The Ukrainian military clai med on Monday that it had retaken more territory in the south and was re iterating calls for Russian units fighting west of the Dnipro River in the Kher son region to surrender.
The strikes on the city, the capital of the province where the Ukrainian military has had its most significant suc cesses, killed at least one person Mon day, a 37-year-old man, and wounded six others. Air-raid sirens blared, and
every few hours a thud rattled windows.
electricity blinked out. Then in parts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, water taps went dry. Smoke from fires wafted through the streets.
“It’s not payback. It’s just terrorism, pure terrorism,” said Andriy, 41, whose apartment building was severely dam aged in a rocket strike.
he Ukrainian military claimed Mon day that it had retaken more terri tory in the south and was reiterating calls for Russian units fighting west of the Dnieper River in the Kherson region to sur render.As Ukraine makes advances in the northeast of the country, its military has been carrying out another campaign in the south. There, thousands of Russian soldiers west of the Dnieper River appear to be increasingly isolated as Ukrainian attacks erode Russian defenses and shell bridges over the river, cutting the Russians off from resupply.Natalia Gumenyuk, a spokesperson for the southern command, told reporters Monday that Ukrainian forces in the area had liberated nearly 500 square kilometers,
Ukrainians repair infrastructure destroyed by Russian strikes in Kharkiv
Many Ukrainians hope that the rout of Moscow’s forces in parts of the northeast
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parties, the Social Democrats have become more conservative on issues like law and or der, education and immigration, analysts say, even as they work with more progressive factions. They have also proposed obligatory preschool for children who are not proficient in Swedish to speed up the acquisition of lan guage skills.
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“That tells a story of one of the most po litically stable countries in the world heading into some trouble,” Oscarsson said. “And of course it’s because of the rise of the Sweden Democrats.”Thefarright has upended things, Erikson said. “We had these two blocs and it was rather predictable,” she said. “Now we have a situation that is not predictable at all.”
The right-wing coalition was leading by a three-seat majority as of early Monday; however, some early exit polling anticipated a victory for the governing center-left bloc, led by the Social Democrats.
Over the course of the past four years, the barrier between the Sweden Democrats, once a fringe party, and the seven other par ties has dissolved. In 2018, none of the other parties wanted to touch the Sweden Demo crats. But gradually, three parties on the right agreed to some form of cooperation with the far-right group. The Center Party is the only party from the former center-right alliance that has steadfastly refused any kind of coo peration with the Sweden Democrats.
“It’s a pivotal election because the Swe den Democrats have reached a stage where they have made other parties accept them,” said Li Bennich-Björkman, a political scientist at Uppsala University.
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Though the Social Democrats were the party with the most votes, the far-right, antiimmigration Sweden Democrats were in se cond place for the first time, just ahead of the conservative Moderate Party.
The delay in announcing the results came after an unusually antagonistic election campaign characterized by the growing po pularity of the far-right Sweden Democrats and their effect on the neck-and-neck com petition for voters between the right-wing and center-left blocs.
The election also came after a polarizing year of political change, including Sweden’s bid to join NATO, spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the resignation of Prime Mi
During the race, lawmakers ultimately homed in on concerns about health care, energy prices and rising crime, an issue ent wined with fierce debates about immigration and Theintegration.focuson crime stands out in a nation where ideological conflicts have traditionally centered on taxes, the economy and govern ment benefits. “But it’s now a cultural dimen sion that has to do with migration and identity and morals,” said Henrik Oscarsson, a pro fessor of political science at the University of Gothenburg.“Thishas been a very toxic campaign,” said Jonas Hinnfors, also a political scientist at the University of Gothenburg, adding that the tightness of the race had led to unusually combative debates.
As the election neared, the center-left Social Democratic Party — already governing without a majority in Parliament — found itself in a precarious position, barely clinging to a lead over opposition parties.
Adding to the unease was the likelihood of substantial gains by the Sweden Demo crats, who have been working to moderate their image.
In an unusual attack, the governing So cial Democrats explicitly warned voters at a news conference last week about the risks of casting ballots for the Sweden Democrats. Meanwhile, Akesson, the far-right party’s lea der, has blamed the Social Democrats for high fuel prices and crime.
With 94% of votes in electoral districts counted, election officials said they had yet to count early mail-in votes and ballots from citi zens abroad, and that the preliminary general election results would not be available until Wednesday at the earliest.
In some ways, analysts said, the cam paign fed into a popularity contest between Andersson, the first woman to serve as Sweden’s prime minister, and Ulf Kristersson, the leader of the Moderate Party. The framing of an election as a contest between two party figureheads is a setup more familiar to Ame rican
The rise of the Sweden Democrats began in 2010, when it crossed the 4% parliamen tary threshold with 5.7% of the vote. In 2014 and 2018, its share of the vote rose to 12.9% and 17.5%, respectively. Having won over workers from the Social Democrats and small businesses from the Moderate Party, polls in this election showed the party was poised to win the second-largest number of seats in Parliament.Under Jimmie Akesson’s 17-year leader ship, the party has tried to soften its image, including changing the party logo from a fla ming torch to a floppy flower. This year, the party, which was founded in 1988, publis hed a look at its origins, “The White Book,” in which it admitted to having roots in Nazi ideology.Theportraits of the founding members in “The White Book” did not make “for pleasant reading,” Akesson admitted in an interview with Sveriges Radio.
“Itvoters.has become more American in the sense that it’s the prime minister candidates that are being discussed,” said Josefina Erik son, a political scientist at Uppsala University.
Navigating the election was more difficult this year because of the turbulence between parties, said Anky Havel Trulsen, 48. “It was easier before when there were clear blocs.”
Though she voted for the Social Demo crats, she said she understood why the Swe den Democrats had gained popularity. “I don’t agree with all of their politics but some,” she said. “People are dissatisfied, and a lot of people express that by voting for the Sweden Democrats.”Inprevious years, it took only days to form a government in Sweden, Oscarsson said. That was not the case in 2018, he said, when it took more than four months to form a center-left coalition.
Ultimately, voters had to decide whether to preserve the long-held status quo of a So cial Democrat-led liberal coalition or to gam ble on a new direction heralded by right-wing parties.
Sweden’s divisive election is too close to call, officials say
A polling center at Royal College of Music in Stockholm on Sunday.
political race in Sweden led the Swedish Election Authority to delay the announcement of preliminary election results as it continued counting vo tes, with a coalition of right-wing parties na rrowly leading the governing center-left bloc early Monday morning.
nister Stefan Lofven. Lofven scrambled back into government after a no-confidence vote, but lawmakers replaced him with Prime Mi nister Magdalena Andersson last November.
Given the closeness of the race and unusually fragile negotiations before the vote, the formation of a governing coalition could take some time.
The shifting dynamic has fractured tradi tional alliances, with the conservative Center Party saying it would break with the centerright coalition to support the Social Demo crats. It also led to campaigners’ imploring voters undecided between the two strong hold parties, the Social Democrats and the Moderates.Fearful of losing voters to right-wing
But there is a range of scenarios within this hopedfor future, and each presents dilemmas where realism and pessimism may be as important as optimism and resolve.Inthe best-case military scenario, where the Russians end up retreating pell-mell from the current front lines, the danger is that desperation might push Moscow toward nuclear brinkmanship — especially given the Russian strategic posture that envisions using tactical nuclear weapons to reverse battlefield
There were already good reasons to hope for progress before the apparent Ukrainian breakthroughs. Although Putin’s government seems to be weathering the sanctions, Moscow is unwilling or unable to launch a general mobilization, it has obvious difficulties with munitions and morale, and the traditional Russian advantage in winter combat doesn’t apply to a situation where it’s the Russians themselves who are the invading power.
summer of war in Ukraine, while brutal for soldiers and civilians on the front lines, has been experienced from afar as a stalemate, depressing enough in its grinding sameness to slip out of American headlines for a time.
We are at the beginning of both stories. The long-promised Ukrainian counteroffensive is finally underway — at one end of the front line, a sudden and dramatic thrust eastward from around Ukrainian-held Kharkiv, and at the other, a slower advance toward occupied Kherson, Russia’s only major beachhead west of the Dnieper River. The Kharkiv offensive has seemingly thrown the occupiers into disarray, liberating important towns and territories and sowing dismay and fury on the Russian side.
At the same time, the Russian answer to
Fall and winter will be different, supplying answers to the two questions that will determine the war’s duration. First, how much territory can Ukraine liberate from Russian occupation? Second, how grim and desperate will the European winter be with normal Russian energy supplies cut off, and what political consequences will follow?
If Ukraine continues to make military progress, if outright Russian defeat seems within reach, Europe will be able to endure its winter of discontent without an anti-war rebellion. On the other hand, if Ukrainian advances stall out and the war seems destined for a multiyear stalemate, then the Western political establishment will be forced to push harder for peace, or else find itself pushed out from below.
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defeats. As the United States learned to its cost in the Korean War, when our push to the Yalu River reaped an unexpected Chinese intervention, the question of how far a victorious army should push is not an easy one, and whether in Crimea or the Donbas, there may be a line that’s perilous to cross.
In wartime, there is a dynamic relationship between events on the front and the political situation behind the lines. Some Western pessimists, conditioned by years of elite failure, expect the European homefront to be the crucial theater, the place where hawkish hubris generates domestic rebellion against an open-ended commitment to Ukraine.
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So, it’s plausible to imagine a positive militarypolitical feedback loop, where consistent Ukrainian gains shore up European resolve and carry the de facto alliance through the winter into a better 2023.
In which case we should hope both for rapid Ukrainian advances, and for wisdom, care and caution to accompany any victories they may win.
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Ukrainian courage and Western armaments is about to take full effect. The Nord Stream 1 pipeline is shut down, Europe’s leaders are scrambling to prepare for a potential $2 trillion surge in energy costs, and everyone is trying to predict the consequences — from a shallow recession to a “full stop” that threatens deindustrialization, from stiff-upper-lip support for Ukraine to populist rebellion.
This is certainly Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hope, but my guess is that the interaction will run the other way — that events on the battlefield will be decisive, determining how the war is experienced politically in Germany, France or the Britain of King Charles III.
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Alternatively, there is a scenario where a Ukrainian counteroffensive goes some distance but still stalls out well short of the prewar lines of control. For instance, the Ukrainians might push the Russians back to the Dnieper, liberating Kherson, but find themselves unable to reclaim territory on the east side of the river. In that kind of situation, with victories followed by a return to stalemate, the arguments for seeking a cease-fire would be strengthened — not out of any optimism about Moscow as a partner in peace, but to keep Western support on a sustainable and balanced footing, and to give Ukraine space for economic and demographicThroughoutrecovery.thewar, the immediate policies of Ukraine hawks have been mostly vindicated even as their long-term strategy has remained more doubtful. This is likely to be the season where that gap closes, where the speculative becomes reality, and we learn more about what war in the longer term will mean.
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va. Reconocemos que todavía tenemos grandes retos por delante. No obstante, estamos confiados en que las en miendas que hemos solicitado serán más efectivas para fortalecer la situación fiscal y capacidad administrativa de los municipios. Con esto garantizaremos que puedan brindar servicios adecuados a sus ciudadanos. Estas pro puestas son producto del diálogo e intercambio continuo con nuestros alcaldes y alcaldesas”.
El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 27 de agosto de 2022 al 10 de septiembre de 2022.
“Estamos comprometidos a garantizar que San Juan tome las medidas necesarias para hacer que sus aceras, rampas en las aceras y cruces peatonales sean accesibles para todos los residentes y visitantes de la ciudad, y confiamos en que pode mos trabajar con la ciudad y los demandantes para asegurar una resolución significativa de este civil. acción”, añadió.
La queja del departamento alega que existen problemas generalizados de accesibilidad en las aceras de San Juan, in cluidas las rampas en las aceras que están rotas, son dema siado empinadas o inexistentes, y las aceras son irregulares, demasiado angostas u obstruidas por bolardos, postes de elec tricidad u otros obstáculos. Las acusaciones del departamento
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“Las protecciones de empleo, transporte y alojamiento público de la ADA brindan pocos beneficios a las personas con discapacidades de movilidad si no pueden circular con seguridad por las calles y aceras de una ciudad”, dijo la fiscal general adjunta Kristen Clarke, de la División de Derechos Civiles del Departamento de Justicia.
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AN JUAN – El informe de COVID-19 del Departa mento de Salud (DS) reportó el lunes, sobre 290 ca sos positivos confirmados, 931 casos probables y cero muertes.
El director ejecutivo de la AAFAF explicó que luego de las reestructuraciones completadas recien temente, la situación fiscal del gobierno central es di ferente. Motivo por el cual el gobierno tiene la capa cidad fiscal de apoyar a los municipios para asegurar que no se afecten los servicios esenciales que rinden, tales como recogido de basura, mantenimiento de carreteras y estructuras, la seguridad y el manejo de emergencias.
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Hay 224 adultos hospitalizados y de ellos, 45 están en in tensivo. Mientras, 36 menores están hospitalizados y 2 menores están en intensivo. 29 adultos están en ventilador y un menor.
En este rol, la AAFAF, en coordinación con OGP, tra bajaría para ayudar a los municipios a proponer enmien das al Fondo de Consolidación de Servicios Municipales y desarrollaría un plan para implementar eficiencias a nivel municipal. A tales fines, el Gobierno solicitó que se le otorgue a la Oficina de Gerencia Municipal, adscrita a la OGP, acceso a los 66 millones de dólares que están disponibles, lo que permitiría que la OGP distribuya di chos fondos para incentivar la creación de consorcios entre municipios para prestación de servicios.
Departamento de Justicia de EEUU interviene en demanda por discriminación por discapacidad contra Municipio de San Juan
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El departamento ya ha participado en discusiones pro ductivas con las partes y espera la cooperación continua de San Juan para llegar a una resolución que haga que la ciudad cumpla con la ADA y la Sección 504.
“Esta demanda tiene como objetivo garantizar que San Juan cumpla con sus obligaciones bajo la ley federal para ga rantizar que su sistema de aceras públicas sea accesible para personas con discapacidades”, añadió.
Ley ADA y la Sección 504 requieren que las personas con discapacidades tengan igualdad de acceso a las aceras de la ciudad para que puedan participar plenamente en la vida comunitaria”, dijo el fiscal federal W. Stephen Muldrow para el Distrito de Puerto Rico en declaraciones escritas.
D.C. – El Departamento de Justicia de Es tados Unidos intervino el lunes, en una demanda por discriminación por discapacidad presentada por personas con discapacidades de movilidad contra el Municipio de San Juan, en virtud de la Ley de Estadounidenses con Discapacidades
Tanto el Municipio de San Juan como los demandantes, consintieron en la intervención del Departamento de Justicia de los Estados Unidos en el proceso.
se basan en los hallazgos de la Oficina de Derechos Civiles de la Administración Federal de Carreteras del Departamento de Transporte de los Estados Unidos, así como en la evidencia corroborante desarrollada en una investigación posterior rea lizada por el departamento.
(ADA) y la Sección 504 de la Ley de Rehabilitación (Sección 504).“La
ente gubernamental ayude a lograr eficiencias adminis trativas”, indicó el gobernador en declaraciones escritas.
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“Los municipios brindan servicios directos a la ciu dadanía y dan el frente ante los desafíos fiscales, a pesar de la reducción presupuestaria de hasta un 73 por ciento que han recibido desde el 2017. Es por esto que nos di mos a la tarea de identificar herramientas que sirvan para mejorar la situación fiscal municipal, con el fin de que puedan continuar asistiendo a la ciudadanía a través de los servicios que ofrecen. Además, he solicitado que se le permita al gobierno central, a través de AAFAF, brindar asistencia técnica a los municipios, de manera que el
El recurso sostiene que el Municipio de San Juan no brin da a las personas con discapacidades de movilidad un acceso equitativo al sistema de aceras públicas de la ciudad.
A FORTALEZA – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierlui si Urrutia, junto al equipo fiscal del gobierno soli citaron el lunes a la Junta de Control Fiscal (JCF) que apruebe una serie de enmiendas dirigidas a mejorar la situación fiscal de los municipios.
Por su parte, Omar Marrero Díaz, secretario del De partamento de Estado y director ejecutivo de la Auto ridad de Asesoría Financiera y Agencia Fiscal (AAFAF), sostuvo que “la Junta sostiene conversaciones con los alcaldes y alcaldesas y estas avanzan de manera positi
Gobierno solicita AAFAF actúe como ente asesor de los municipios, que se cree el gobierno central
In ‘The Fabelmans,’ Steven Spielberg himself is the star
“I’m really glad we came to Toronto!” exclaimed the 75-year-old director, noting that this would be the first time a film of his had played at a film festival. That claim would appear to sweep away the New York Film Festival showings of “Bridge of Spies” and “Lincoln,” the Cannes premieres of “E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial” and “The BFG,” and the South by Southwest bow of “Ready Player One,” but hey, sometimes you’ve got to clear the table before you can set it.
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do chase. You love her, but she’s a lot — on this, the viewer and Sammy both agree — and Williams finds exactly the right moments to dial back the bigness and remind you that there is something private and vulnerable at the core of this very outgoingSpielbergwoman.told the Toronto crowd that he’d had Williams in mind to play his mom ever since he saw her work in “Blue Valentine” (2010), which earned Williams the second of her four Oscar nominations; if she is campaigned as a supporting actress for “The Fabelmans” (as I suspect she will be, despite her am ple screen time), this could very well propel the well-respected 42-year-old to her first win, just a year after Spielberg’s “West Side Story” actress Ariana DeBose topped that same race.
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And at the Saturday-night premiere, the collective excite ment was making people lose their minds.
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Spielberg films always have plenty of Oscar upside, and “The Fabelmans” will be a strong contender in the picture and directing categories (and could even score a nod for Judd Hirsch, who puts in a scene-stealing cameo as Mitzi’s uncle), but the film is gentler, shaggier and more intimate than some of his other awards-season juggernauts, and there’s no need to oversell it at this early date. Even Spielberg, sensing all the hype in the room, sought to downplay speculation that “The Fabel mans” served as any sort of magnum-opus finale.
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Steven Spielberg, center with Paul Dano and Michelle Williams, who play his alter ego’s parents in “The Fabelmans.”
And at least his lie felt emotionally true, since the stakes were so significant: By landing “The Fabelmans,” Toronto could fortify itself after two pandemic-diminished years, while Spiel berg could claim the friendliest possible audience for his most personal film yet.
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I found “The Fabelmans” to be only secondarily Spielberg’s origin story; primarily, it’s a look-at-what-she-cando Michelle Williams vehicle, and the actress really goes for it, attacking this part like someone who knows she’s been han ded her signature role. Based on Spielberg’s late mother, Leah, Mitzi is a dramatic personality, prone to flights of fancy and intense mood swings, and at any given moment, she’ll laugh, cry, sing or pack the kids into the car for an impromptu torna
“This is not because I’m going to retire and this is my swan song,” he told Toronto. “Don’t believe any of that!”
It wasn’t just the enthusiastic audience, many of whom had come straight from the well-received premiere of “Knives Out” sequel “Glass Onion.” And it wasn’t just the giddiness of Cameron Bailey, who runs the Toronto International Film Fes tival, as he introduced the filmmaker for the first time. Even Spielberg himself got carried away in the madness.
Tony Kushner, “The Fabelmans” is an only slightly fictionalized retelling of Spielberg’s own coming-of-age. Sammy Fabelman (played as a teenager by Gabriel LaBelle) is a movie-mad kid who stages increasingly elaborate short films that star his sisters, classmates and semi-supportive parents. His dad, Burt (Paul Dano), is too swept up in his computer-programming job to understand Sammy’s artistic inclinations, but his mother, Mitzi (Michelle Williams), is a free spirit who never got to realize her dreams of working as a pianist and encourages Sammy to fo llow hisTheirbliss.mother-son bond is strong, and when Sammy films her dancing on a family trip and later shows her the edited footage, Mitzi beams. “You see me,” she says. But Sammy so metimes sees too much: As he gets older, he notices that Mitzi’s strong bond with her husband’s best friend (Seth Rogen) bor ders on an emotional affair. And as the family moves from New Jersey to Arizona and then finally to California, the ties that bind begin to fray.
Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” is the movie every fall film festival was dying to have, but only Toronto got it.
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The first two seasons followed increasingly smaller bands of survivors in France and England who eventually coalesced in London around Bill Ward (Gabriel Byrne), a scientist whose existence the invaders were somehow aware of. The feel was clammy and claustrophobic — there was no word from the rest of the world — with a steady drip-drip-drip of horror as the humans were picked off by the mechanical attack dogs the invaders
‘War of the Worlds’ review: Dystopia à la Française
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The mood and storylines in the new season are more like those of a conventional mystery — there are police chases now — with the dramatic spice of a han dful of characters knowing an earthshaking secret that they can’t talk about without being considered crazy.
began Monday on Epix. (Seasons of all four shows are available at Amazon Prime Video.)
If you’ve watched the first two seasons — here come the big spoilers — you know that the invaders are actually humans who have apparently traveled back in time on a mission of self-preservation, and that Bill stands in their way. And you know that the second season ended with Bill using the invaders’ technology to time travel himself, arriving before the invasion and committing a murder that would prevent the invaders from ever existing.
This review contains spoilers for the first two seasons of “War of the Worlds.”
There is a logo that signals happiness for me, but it’s a little farther afield. Someone in Paris has my number: For the past decade or so, a handful of my very favorite shows have begun life on the French channel Canal+.
“War of the Worlds” differs in being a FrenchEnglish coproduction (with the Fox Networks Group) whose action, especially in recent episodes, mostly takes place in London, with English dialogue. It was created, and to this point has been written by, British TV veteran Howard Overman, best known for creating the awardwinning supernatural dramedy “Misfits.”
Overman’s story has points of connection with the H.G. Wells novel he very loosely adapts: Invaders (who turn out to be physically compromised) arrive in gigantic ships and assert their dominance, while human refugees do a lot of fleeing and hunkering down. There are fewer of these refugees than Wells imagined, however. In the show’s first episode, the spacecraft that land emit a signal that kills nearly everyone on Earth, sparing only those who are underground or otherwise shielded.
The show is also a big-idea science fiction fantasy, of course, and that is both a strength and a weakness. The delayed revelation of who and what the invaders were, and how they connected with the show’s human characters, was intriguing — which was the minimum requirement for plugging you into the show — but the science involved felt a little more fictional than usual. And there are some fundamental questions about the plot that are still unclear, and which you suspect may remain so.
But the show isn’t just a video-game-style thriller. Overman does a good job with the human relationships, which are marked by the anger, despair and pettiness the dire situation gives rise to. Characters backbite, be llyache, reluctantly pitch in and commit mundane acts of heroism in a largely believable manner, and there’s blessedly little inspirational speechmaking.
So Season 3 is one of those sci-fi reboots in which things never happened and the world is back to normal, except that Bill is in prison, there’s a black hole hovering over Earth (there’s that dodgy science again) and people are having visions that look a lot like memories of the invasion that didn’t happen.
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The visions, presumably being experienced by people who, in the original timeline, were survivors, are a smart device for keeping the cast together — characters like the resourceful cop Zoe (Pearl Chanda), the com passionate immigrant Kariem (Bayo Gbadamosi) and the awkward French scientist Catherine (Léa Drucker), who will eventually recognize one another, and Bill. And they still have a battle to fight, since a few of the invaders, including the implacable Adina (Ania Sowinski), stowed away with Bill in the time machine and are working on building a new one.
deployed. The whirring, clanking noises the robots made were an eerie signature.
As you make your way through the cavernous em porium that television has become, brand loyalty may be your best hedge against disappointment. It can be limiting, sure. But if you know you are likely to enjoy the latest Taylor Sheridan drama or Adult Swim animated comedy, that’s valuable time saved.
A lot of shows from Canal+ — an ad-free subscrip tion service analogous to HBO — don’t make it to Ame rica, and I’m sure there are plenty that I wouldn’t care for. But its programmers have a taste for atmospheric, complicated genre pieces, and over the years there has been a succession of its series that I’ve eagerly consu med: the Paris police procedural “Spiral,” the eerie su pernatural-metaphysical melodrama “The Returned,” the superlative spy thriller “The Bureau.” My fixation conti nues with “War of the Worlds,” a particularly dark and dystopian science-fiction adventure whose third season
It’s a great situation for Byrne, whose grumpy, weary performance as Bill drives the show. With a pri son sentence as his reward for saving the world, Bill is now more completely fed up than ever, and his reaction when Zoe tells him he needs to do it again is succinct and profane. Byrne, in a way that feels more French than British, makes you understand exactly how big a bother this world-saving business is.
Pearl Chanda (Zoe), Bayo Gbadamosi (Kariem), Gabriel Byrne (Bill), Paul Gorostidi (Nathan), Léa Drucker (Catherine), Stéphane Caillard (Chloe) and Stephen Campbell Moore (Jonathan) in “War of the Worlds.”
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WHEREFORE, the FIRST PU BLIC SALE will be held on OC TOBER 7TH, 2022, AT 9:20AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $283,273.09. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on OCTOBER 14TH, 2022, AT 9:20AM and the minimum bidding amou
trial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969. The public sale will be of the following proper ty: URBAN: Apartment number 103. Residential apartment marked with 103 on the ground of first floor of Marbella del Ca ribe Condominium West Tower at kilometer 0.6 of State Road number 187, Isla Verde, Caroli na, Puerto Rico, with an appro ximate area of 323.90 square feet, equivalent to 30.09 square meters. Bounding on the NOR TH, with exterior elements of the building and with recrea tional areas; on the EAST, with apartment number 104; on the WEST, with apartment number 102; and on the SOUTH, with parking space number 5 and parking space number 6. This apartment consists of efficiency room, kitchen, bathroom, walk in closet, and covered terrace on its North side, with an appro ximate area of 103.50 square feet, equivalent to 9.62 square meters. A este apartamento se le asigna el área de estaciona miento número 5.” Recorded at page 233 of volume 536 of Ca rolina, property number 26,994, Property Registry of Carolina, Puerto Rico, First section of Carolina. The mortgage has two (2) junior liens: a) in favor of Doral Bank, which repayment obligation is evidenced with a mortgage note in the amount of $45,000.00, repayable with an annual interest rate of 5.50%, due on August 1st, 2010, pur suant to mortgage deed num ber 404 executed on the same date, and before notary public Lucy Navarro Rosado, recor ded at page 177 of volume 959 of the Registry. Sais junior lien was modified as to its principal balance that now is $43,608.06, repayable with an annual in terest rate of 5.625%, due on August 1st, 2035, pursuant to mortgage deed number 687 executed before notary public David Toledo David, recorded at page 155 of volume 1011 of the Registry. b) Judgment is sued by the San Juan Superior Court, case F CD2013-0566, in favor of Doral Bank against HE RIBERTO VARGAS COLON, AYLEEN BARRIOS ZAYAS, and the Conjugal Partnership between them, for the sum of $40,034.90, recorded at page 155 of volume 1011 of Caroli na, property number 26,994. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the proper ty. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as suffi cient the title that prior and pre ferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax
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De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebra rá una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MA ÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $101,333.33. De no ha ber adjudicación en la segun da subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $76,000.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la deman dante el importe de la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia por la suma de $119,951.74 de princi pal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.25% anual desde el 1 de mayo de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $761.23 de recargos adeudados desde el día 1 de junio de 2017 hasta su total pago, más la cantidad estipulada de $15,200.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier
Civil No.: 16-01456 - (CVR). FORECLOSURE OF MORT GAGE; COLLECTION OF MO NIES. NOTICE OF SALE.
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miento de la parte demandante, la propiedad antes descrita que ha de venderse en subasta no tiene gravámenes anteriores, ni posteriores. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas preferentes, si alguna continuará subsistente; enten diéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad del mismo, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Para la pu blicación de este Edicto en un periódico de circulación general una vez por semana durante dos (2) semanas consecutivas, y para la colocación del mismo en tres (3) sitios públicos visi bles del municipio en que se celebre la subasta, al igual que en el municipio en que reside la parte demandada, libro el pre sente en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 18 de agosto de 2022.
el OESTE, en veinticinco punto setenta metros, con el solar nú mero cuatrocientos veinticinco de la urbanización Baldrich; por el SUR, es el apex de un trián gulo formado por las líneas Sur y ESTE qua colinda en cuaren ta y tres punto ochenta metros, con terrenos del municipio de Rio Piedras.” Recorded at page 222 of volume 506 of Rio Pie dras Norte, property number 12,647, Registry of the Proper ty of Puerto Rico, Section II of San Juan. The property descri bed above es encumbered by three junior liens: (a) MORTGA GE: In favor of RBS Mortgage Corp., in the original principal amount of $105,250.00, with 8.375% annual interests, due on November 1st, 2022, cons tituted by deed #328, execu ted in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 16th, 2007, before Notary Public René Aviles Pe rez, recorded at page 192 of volume 1736 of the Registry. Modified by Deed number 157 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 26, 2014, be fore Notary Public Eduardo J. Navarro Pluguez, recorded at page 192 of volume 1736 of the Registry; b) Lawsuit Annotation dated November 9th, 2009, executed in the Superior Court of Caguas, civil case ECD20091987, by Doral Bank, recorded at page 192 of volume 1736 of the Registry, annotation A; and; (c) Judgment issued by the Caguas Superior Court, case EHEI2012-01072, in favor of Hacienda San José Homeow ners Association, recorded at page 120, lawsuit 357, book 3 of the Registry. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is unders tood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall con tinue in effect it being unders tood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is su brogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens.
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: DCD2017-0087. Sala: 503. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que sus cribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumpli miento de la Sentencia dictada el 12 de junio de 2017, la Orden Enmendada de Ejecución de Sentencia del 9 de noviembre de 2018 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia del 3 de agosto de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a ven der el día 11 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MA ÑANA en el Cuarto Piso de la Oficina del Alguacil de Subas tas, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Su perior, ubicado en la Carretera Número Dos (#2), Kilómetro 10.4, Esquina Esteban Padilla, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente
YO: EDGARDO ALDEBOL MI RANDA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Alguacil del Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, al público en general: CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Cumpliendo con un Manda miento de Venta de Ejecución de Sentencia del Secretario del Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
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WHEREAS Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $161,791.66, accrued annual interests of 5.625%, monthly late charges from the 1st day of May, 2014, until full payment, plus mort gage and risk insurance pre miums, late fees and any other amount expressly agreed-upon in the mortgage deed, from the date stated above until full payment thereof, plus 10% for attorneys’ fees and legal costs in the amount of $18,000.00. Such interests continue to ac crue until the debt is paid in full. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersig ned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder. The public sale shall be held at Rondapro, located at: 441 Calle E, Los Frailes Indus
liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFO RE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE will be held on OCTOBER 7TH, 2022, AT 10:15AM and the minimum bidding amou nt that will be accepted is the sum of $180,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on OCTOBER 14TH, 2022, AT 10:15AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $120,000.00. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the pro perty, a THIRD PUBLIC AUC TION shall be held on OCTO BER 21ST, 2022, AT 10:15AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $90,000.00. Upon confirmation of the sale, an or der shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particu lars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be exa mined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 12th day of August, 2022. JOEL RONDA FELICIANO, SPECIAL MAS TER, E-MAIL: RONDAJOEL@ ME.COM, TEL: 787-565-0415.
EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRAN DA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, AL GUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYA MÓN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
o giro postal a nombre del Al guacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguien te propiedad: URBANA: Solar Número Tres (3) del Bloque H en el plano inscrito de Magno lia Gardens Development, Ba rrio Pájaros, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con un área de 356.00 metros cuadrados. Lindando por el NORTE, en 15.50 metros con el solar número 45; por el SUR, en igual distancia, con la Calle Número Once (11); por el ESTE, en 23.00 metros, con faja de terreno de 3.00 metros de ancho perteneciente a Mag nolia Development Corpora tion; y por el OESTE, en igual distancia, con el solar número cuatro (4). Contiene una casa residencial. La propiedad cons ta inscrita al Folio 31 del Tomo 265 de Bayamón, Finca Núme ro 11,571. Registro de la Pro piedad de Bayamón, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Ba yamón, Finca Número 11,571.
Parte Demandante Vs. MANUEL CONSTANZOENRIQUECASTRO,ANAMERCEDESDÍAZGARCÍA
El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $152,000.00.
WHEREAS Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $282,452.07 in principal, accrued interest in the amount of $42,933.62, accrued late charges in the amount of $2,337.60, accrued escrow advance in the amou nt of $9,047.74, and expressly agreed upon attorney’s fees and legal costs in the amou nt of $28,327.31, for a total amount due of $365,098.34, which will continue to accrue interest at the contractual ra tes. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersig ned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder. The public sale shall be held at Rondapro, located at: 441 Calle E, Los Frailes Indus trial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969. The public sale will be of the following property: “URBANA: Solar número cua trocientos veintiséis, parcela de terreno sita en la manzana N en el plano de la Urbanización del Reparto Baldrich del barrio Hato Rey del término muni cipal de Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número cuatrocientos veintiséis de la manzana N del citado piano de dicha urbanización, con un área superficial de cuatrocien tos cincuenta y nueve punto ochenta metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en treinta y cinco punto diez metros, con la calle Coll y Taste (antes Ra fael) de dicha urbanización; por
Defendants
PUERTOFIRSTBANKRICO
HERIBERTO VARGAS COLON, PARTNERSHIPANDBARRIOSAYLEENZAYAS,THECONJUGALBETWEENTHEM
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nt that will be accepted is the sum of $188,848.72. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on OC TOBER 21ST, 2022, AT 9:20AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $141,636.54. Upon confirmation of the sale, an or der shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particu lars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be exa mined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 12th day of August, 2022. JOEL RONDA FELICIANO, SPECIAL MAS TER, E-MAIL: RONDAJOEL@ ME.COM, TEL: 787-565-0415.
Plaintiff V. ÁNGEL ALFONSO RAMOS HERNÁNDEZ AND HIS WIFE CAROLINE OCASIO HENRÍQUEZ, AND THE PARTNERSHIPCONJUGALBETWEENTHEM
To: ÁNGEL ALFONSO RAMOS HERNÁNDEZ AND HIS WIFE CAROLINE OCASIO HENRÍQUEZ, AND THE THEM,PARTNERSHIPCONJUGALBETWEENGENERALPUBLIC,ANDALLPARTIESTHATMAYHAVEANINTERESTINTHEPROPERTY.
Defendants Civil No.: 16-CV-02781. (JAG). FORECLOSURE OF MORT GAGE, COLLECTION OF MO NIES. NOTICE OF SALE. To: HERIBERTO VARGAS COLON, THEM,PARTNERSHIPANDBARRIOSAYLEENZAYAS,THECONJUGALBETWEENGENERALPUBLIC,ANDALLPARTIESTHATMAYHAVEANINTERESTINTHEPROPERTY.
Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV00306. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DI NERO Y REPOSESIÓN. EDIC TO DE SUBASTA.
Registro de la Propiedad de Ba yamón, Sección I. Inscripción décima quinta (15ta). Dirección Física: Urb. Magnolia Gardens, H3 Calle 11, Bayamón, PR 00956-2654. Número de Ca tastro: 15-085-094-314-25-001.
AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; A LA PARTE DEMANDADA Y A LOS TENEDORES
staredictos@thesanjuandailystar.com@ (787) 743-3346 The San Juan Daily Star Tuesday, September 13, 2022 19
Demandante V. RENAN J. GARCÍA ESPINOSA
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
Plaintiff V.
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A: JOSE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE ARECIBO. ReverseFunding,MortgageLLC
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FERNANDEZENRIQUEFILIBERTY,SUESPOSANAIDACUESTAARROYOYLASOCIEDADLEGALDEGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOS
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO.
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Demandado(a) Civil: PO2022CV00352. 406.
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FERNANDEZENRIQUEFILIBERTY,SUESPOSANAIDACUESTAARROYOYLASOCIEDADLEGALDEGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOS.
CRETARIA AUXILIAR.
UNITED STATES OF (SmallAMERICABusinessAdministration)
Se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese térmi no de treinta (30) días, en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señala do, contados a partir de la fecha de publicación de este edicto,
JOSE
Unknown holders of a pro missory note of $342,000.00 executed on July 8, 2008, by Esperanza Inn. Corp., as ack nowledged by affidavit number 3,631 sworn before Miguel B. Hernández Vivoni, and secured by a voluntary mortgage in favor of the plaintiff created by Mort gage Deed No. 54 executed on July 8, 2008, before Notary Public Miguel B. Hernández Vi voni, over the following proper ties, described in the Spanish language as: RÚSTICA: Parce la marcada con el número 103 en el Plano de Parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Esperan za del Barrio Puerto Real, del término municipal de Vieques, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 0.2951 cuerdas, equivalentes a 1,159.99 me tros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela número 102 de la Comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela 104 de la Comunidad; por el ESTE, con la parcela número 165 de la Comunidad; y por el OESTE, con la Calle número 1 de la Co munidad. Contiene una casa de vivienda construida de bloques en concreto y torta de hormi gón que mide 18x18 y consta de sala, cocina, 2 cuartos dor mitorios y servicios sanitarios. The aforementioned Mortgage Deed is duly recorded in the Registry Property of Fajardo, at page 116, volume 83 of Vie ques, property number 1,649, eleventh inscription. Pursuant to the Order for Service by Pu blication entered on August 11, 2022 by the Honorable Aida M. Delgado-Colon, United States District Judge (Docket No. 4), you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty (30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff Pedro Jaime López Bergollo, Esq., at
Plaintiff v. JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE as those unknown persons who may be the holders of the lost mortgage note or have any interest in this proceeding, Defendants CIVIL NO. 22-01331. ACTION FOR CANCELLATION OF LOST MORTGAGE NOTE (Esperanza Inn, Corp.). SUM MONS BY PUBLICATION.
TO: JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE
POR LA PRESENTE se le em plaza para que presente al tri bunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndo se el día del diligenciamiento.
se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del(los) causante(s) y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha heren cia conforme dispone el Artícu lo 1,578 del Nuevo Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A . sec. 11,021. Repre senta a la palie demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NUM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com Expedido bajo mi firma y se llo del Tribunal, hoy 06 de septiembre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. AMALYN FIGUEROA NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
SBA District Office for the Dis trict of PR & USVI, 273 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 510, Pla za 273, San Juan, PR 009171930, telephone numbers (787) 766-5269T.h is Summons shall be published by edict once a week for six (6) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of ge neral circulation in the Island of Puerto Rico. Should you fail to appear, plead, or answer to the Complaint as ordered by the Court and noticed by this Sum mons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause against you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint.
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
CIVIL NUM.: AR2021CV01561. SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipoteca In Rem. EDICTO DE SUBAS TA. Al: Público en General A: JOAQUÍN DOMINGO BEZANILLA MONROY, T/C/C MONROY,DOMINGOJOAQUÍNBEZANILLAMONROIG,T/C/CJOAQUÍNBESANILLAT/C/CJOAQUÍND.BEZADILLAMONROIG,T/C/CJOAQUÍND.BEZANILLAMONROY,T/C/CJOAQUÍNBEZANILLAMONROY,T/C/CJOAQUÍNDOMINGOBEZANILLA,T/C/CJOAQUÍND.BEZANILLA,T/C/CJOAQUÍNBEZANILLA;YALOSESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMÉRICA
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
Demandante V.
RIA putyCOURT.ESQ.,ANTONGIORGI-JORDAN,CLERK,U.S.DISTRICTBy:VivianaDiaz,DeClerk.
CA
Civil: MZ2021CV01344. (207).
INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA SALA SUPERIOR duran te las horas laborables. Se en tenderá que todo licitador acep ta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al
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crédito del ejecutante continua rán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes se gún surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscri tos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscrip ción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o de rechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del ac tor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endo so o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterio ridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedan do subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos sema nas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de cele brarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colec turía. Este Edicto será publica do mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación ge neral en el Estado Libre Asocia do de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi fir ma, en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2022. FDO. DERMALIZ O. RI
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.
Estado libre asociado de Puerto Rico tribunal de Primera Instan cia Sala Superior de PONCE ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE JUAN BAUTISTA RODRIGUEZ COLLAZO T/C/C JUAN RODRIGUEZ COLLAZO, SUCESION DE ASUNCION PINTO RODRIGUEZ Y SUCESION DE MARIA DE LOS PARTESTALESTEBANTODASRODRIGUEZANGELESPINTO,COMPUESTASPORSUHEREDEROCONOCIDOJUANRODRIGUEZPINTO;FULANODEYSUTANADETALCOMOHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSY/OCONINTERESENDICHASSUCESIONES
BY ORDER OF THE COURT, summons is issued pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1655, Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e) and Rule 4.5 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 15th day of August, 2022. MA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
A: SUCESION DE JUAN BAUTISTA RODRIGUEZ COLLAZO T/C/C JUAN RODRIGUEZ COLLAZO, SUCESION DE ASUNCION PINTO RODRIGUEZ Y SUCESION DE MARIA DE LOS PARTESESTEBANTODASRODRIGUEZANGELESPINTO,COMPUESTASPORSUHEREDEROCONOCIDOJUANRODRIGUEZPINTO;FULANODETALYSUTANADETALCOMOHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSY/OCONINTERESENDICHASSUCESIONES.URB.LOSALMENDROS(ESTANCIASDERIOHONDOIV),CALLEROBLE9-ED,BAYAMÓN,PR00907;DIRECCIÓNPOSTALURB.LOSALMENDROS(ESTANCIASDERIOHONDOIV),CALLEROBLE9-ED,BAYAMÍN,PR00961.
DEMANDANTE VS. Joaquín Domingo Bezanilla Monroy, t/c/c Joaquín Bezanilla,Monroy,t/c/cBezanillaDomingoMonroig,JoaquínBesanillat/c/cJoaquínD.BezadillaMonroig,t/c/cJoaquínD.BezanillaMonroy,t/c/cJoaquínBezanillaMonroy,t/c/cJoaquínDomingot/c/cJoaquínD.Bezanilla,t/c/cJoaquínBezanilla;yalosEstadosUnidosdeAmérica
DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA
Si no hubiere remate ni adju dicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 8 DE NOVIEM BRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pacta do en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $146,666.67.
ORIENTAL BANK
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INST ANClA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN
Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción 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 dic tar 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 discre ción, lo entiende procedente.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 2 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to 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 Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse 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 publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de septiembre de 2022. En PONCE, Puerto Rico, el 8 de septiembre de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABA LLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. MARIELY FÉLIX RIVERA
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente 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 notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento 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 conta dos 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 notifica ción ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 6 de septiembre de 2022. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 6 de septiembre de 2022. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZA RRY, SECRETARIA. MAGALY BONILLA MORALES, SECRE TARIA AUXILIAR.
Sobre: EJECUCIón DE HIPTE - IN REM. NOTIFICACIÓN SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ALEXIS ANTONIO COLÓN DEYNES, CARLOS ALBERTO COLÓN
DEMANDADOS
LEGAL NOTICE
Alta, finca número 10,667, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Tercera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $220,000.00.
VERA ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AU XILIAR #213.
Demandado(a)
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
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VICTORIAROSARIOSUCESIÓNCOMOFERNANDONITZALYDEYNES,COLON,COLÓNHEREDEROSCONOCIDOSDELADEVICTORMANUELCOLÓNT/C/CVICTORCOLÓNROSARIO;ALEXISANTONIOCOLÓNDEYNESYCARLOSALBERTOCOLÓNDEYNESCOMOHEREDEROSCONOCIDOSDELASUCESIÓNDEIRISNEREIDADEYNESFIGUEROAT/C/CIRISDEYNESFIGUEROA;DEYNESCOMOHEREDERACONOCIDADELASUCESIÓNDEVÍCTORCOLÓNDEYNES:FULANODETALYSUTANADETALCOMOHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSY/OTERCEROSCONINTERÉSSOBRECUALQUIERALASSUCESIONES.P/CLCDO.JUANC.FORTUÑOFAS.POBOX3908,GUAYNABO,PR00970.
Demandado Civil Núm.: BY2022CV03147.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una ter cera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 15 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $110,000.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epí grafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 51, otor gada el día 24 de marzo de 2007, ante el Notario Carlos R. Carrillo Jiménez y consta inscri ta en el Folio 2,290 del Tomo 332 de Vega Alta, finca núme ro 10,667, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sec ción Tercera, inscripción cuarta. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcial mente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $171,427.04 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.875% anual desde el día 1 de octubre de 2019. Dichos intereses conti núan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Se pagarán también los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento, la suma de $22,000.00 para costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $22,000.00para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $22,000.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más intereses según provisto por la Regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil. Que los autos y todos los documen tos correspondientes al Proce dimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE VICTOR MANUEL COLÓN ROSARIO T/C/C VICTOR COLÓN COLÓNCONOCIDOSCOMPUESTAROSARIOPORSUSHEREDEROSWANDADEYNES,ALEXISANTONIOCOLÓNDEYNES,CARLOSALBERTOCOLÓNDEYNES,NITZALYCOLÓN,FERNANDOCOLÓN;SUCESIÓNDEIRISNEREIDADEYNESFIGUEROAT/C/CIRISDEYNESFIGUEROACOMPUESTAPORSUSHEREDEROSCONOCIDOSWANDACOLÓNDEYNES,ALEXISANTONIOCOLÓNDEYNESYCARLOSALBERTOCOLÓNDEYNES;SUCESIÓNDEVÍCTORCOLÓNDEYNESCOMPUESTAPORSUHEREDERACONOCIDAVICTORIADEYNES;FULANODETALYSUTANADETALCOMOHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSY/OTERCEROSCONINTERÉSSOBRECUALQUIERADELASSUCESIONES;AUTORIDADPARAELFINANCIAMIENTODELAVIVIENDADEPUERTORICO
Defendants
– Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número veintisiete (27) del Bloque “AB” del Plano de Ins cripción de la Cuarta Extensión, Primera Etapa de la Urbaniza ción Country Club, situada en el Barrio Sabana Llana del muni cipio de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS CUARENTA Y SEIS PUNTO NOVENTA Y SIETE (346.97)
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUER TO RICO.
URBANA: Solar número seis de la Manzana H, Urbanización Santa Mónica, Barrio Pájaros de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, compuesta de 325.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número 5, en 25.00 metros; por el SUR, con el solar número 7, en 25.00 metros; por el ESTE, con la Ca lle número 6, en 13.00 metros y por el OESTE con el solar nú mero 21, en 7.00 metros y con
Finance of Reverse,AmericaLLC.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUER TO RICO.
CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 3 de octubre de 2022, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Are cibo, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, pro cederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la pro piedad inmueble que más ade lante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 16 de marzo de 2022. Los autos y to dos los documentos correspon dientes al procedimiento incoa do, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas labo rables. Que en caso de no pro ducir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrar se, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la su sodicha propiedad, el día 11 de octubre de 2022, a las 9:30 de la mañana,; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudica ción, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 18 de octubre de 2022, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el lugar an tes indicado. Que en cumpli miento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, en el caso de epígrafe con fe cha de 3 de junio de 2022, pro cederé a vender en pública su basta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: UR BANA: Solar marcado con el número ochenta y siete del Blo que I, en el plano de la Urbani zación Jardines de Arecibo, del Barrio Hato Abajo de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, con área de tres cientos doce metros cuadrados y en colindancias: por el NOR TE, en trece metros con el solar I ochenta y cuatro; por el SUR, en trece metros con la calle “O”; por el ESTE, en veinticuatro metros con el solar I ochenta y ocho; y por el OESTE, en vein ticuatro metros con el solar I ochenta y seis. Sobre el descri to solar se ha construido una casa de concreto de hormigón y bloques. Finca número 17,686 inscrita al folio 140 del tomo 441 de Arecibo. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sec ción I de Arecibo. Dirección de la Propiedad: I-87 O St. Jardi nes de Arecibo Dev., Arecibo PR 00612. La subasta se lleva rá a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor,
METROS CUADRADOS, en lindes por el NORESTE, en die cinueve metros cincuenta cen tímetros, con la Calle sesenta y cuatro; por el SUROESTE, en veintitrés metros, con el solar veintiséis; por el SURESTE, en quince metros veinte cen tímetros, con el solar doce del Bloque “AB” de la Primera Ex tensión; por el NOROESTE, en once metros setenta centí metros, con la Calle trescientos siete; por el NORTE, en cinco metros cincuenta centímetros, con la intersección de las Ca lles sesenta y cuatro y tres cientos siete. Enclava casa.” Property Number 9,797 filed at page 16 of volume 220 of Sa bana Llana, Registry of the Pro perty of Puerto Rico, Section V of San Juan. The mortgage fo reclosed is recorded on the 7th inscription of Karibe of Sabana Llana volume, property num ber 9,797, Registry of the Pro perty of Puerto Rico, Section V of San Juan. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse Mortgage securing a note in fa vor of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or to its order, for the original prin cipal amount of $232,500.00, plus 5.060% annual interest, due on September 15, 2078, pursuant to deed number 491, issued in San Juan, Puer to Rico, on October 5, 2012, before notary David Cardona Dingui, and recorded at the Karibe volume of Sabana Lla na, property number 9,797, 8th inscription. Other Liens: Notice of Lis Pendens dated Septem ber 9, 2016, issued by the Uni ted States District Court forthe District of Puerto Rico, in the civil case number CV-02613ADC, by Finance of America Reverse, LLC., versus Carmen Iris Figuereya (as it appears) Montalvo and the United States of America, for monies owed and foreclosure of mortgage, in the amount of $108,692.02, plus interest and other amou nts, or the sale of the property at public auction, annotated on April 29, 2021, at the Karibe vo lume of Sabana Llana, property number 9,797, Annotation A. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient
TO: Nilda Luz Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilda L. Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilda Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilsa Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilda Luz Santiago a/k/a Nilda L. Santiago a/k/a Nilda Santiago a/k/a Nilsa Santiago; United States of GENERALAmericaPUBLIC
the title and that prior and pre ferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancella tion. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on the October 11th, 2022 at 9:15a.m. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $232,500.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on the the October 18th, 2022 at 9:15a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $155,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the mini mum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the the October 25th, 2022 at 9:15a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $116,250.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Spe cial Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, ex cept in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHE REAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United Sta tes District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirma tion of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the jud gment entered by the Court in this case, which can be exa mined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 8th day of August of 2022. By: Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master.
Finance of Reverse,AmericaLLC
WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $86,409.11, plus interest at a rate of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant Nilda Luz Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilda L. Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilda Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilsa Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilda Luz Santiago a/k/a Nilda L. Santiago a/k/a Nilda Santia go a/k/a Nilsa Santiago to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC., all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance pre miums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($17,100.00) of the original principal amou nt to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Office Buil ding, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHE
LEGAL NOTICE
WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $147,849.28, plus interest at a rate of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant Carmen Iris Figuereya Montalvo to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC, all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance pre miums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($23,250.00) of the original principal amou nt to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Office Buil ding, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHE REAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master, or a person authroized to act in his name and authority, was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without apprai sement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the Dis trict of Puerto Rico, Room 150
Plaintiff v. Carmen Iris Figuereya Montalvo; United States of America Defendants
REAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the under signed Special Master was or dered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without apprai sement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the Dis trict of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property.
dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera su basta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subas ta, es decir la suma de $63,750.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el im porte de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el mo mento de la adjudicación, en tiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, y que las car gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes ante riores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procede rá a otorgar la escritura de tras paso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la par te demandante, cuya oferta po drá aplicarse a la extinción par cial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propie dad a ser ejecutada se adquiri rá libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re clamada, se procederá a la eje cución de la sentencia en con tra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cuales quiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en can tidad suficiente para dejar cu bierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la senten cia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sen tencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su basta y vendido el bien inmue ble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actua les poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá dili genciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerra dura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este des alojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódi co de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puer
el solar número 20, en 6.00 me tros, con un total la distancia de 13.00 metros.” Property Num ber 19,829 recorded at page 146 of volume 438 of Bayamon Sur, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Baya món. The mortgage being fore closed is recorded at page 37, volume 1,933 of Bayamon Sur, property 19,829, 12th inscrip tion, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Baya mon. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage se curing a note in favor of Se cretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $171,000.00, due on March 30, 2094 pursuant to deed number 84, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 9, 2014, before notary Magaly Rodriguez Batis ta, and recorded, at page 37 of volume 1,933 of Bayamon Sur, property number 19,829, 13th inscription. Other Liens: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and pre ferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancella tion. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on the 11th day of August, 2022 at 9:20am. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $171,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on the the 18th day of October, 2022 at 9:20am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $114,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the mini mum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the the 25th day of October, 2022 at 9:20am, and the mini mum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $85,500.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Spe cial Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, ex cept in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHE REAS: Said sale to be made by
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CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cv2613-ADC. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSU RE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.
Plaintiff VS. Nilda Luz Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilda L. Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilda Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilsa Santiago
LEGAL NOTICE
to Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) sema nas consecutivas con un inter valo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicacio nes, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del munici pio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte de mandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTI MONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y compare cencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 6 de ju lio de 2022. Ángel De J. Torres Pérez, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE ARECIBO.
Que la cantidad mínima de lici tación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $127,500.00 según se establece en la escritura de hi poteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se orde na la celebración de una se gunda subasta de dicho inmue ble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $85,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de
TO: Carmen Iris Figuereya Montalvo; United States of GENERALAmericaPUBLIC
CIVIL ACTION NO.: 17-cv1627. NOTICE OF SALE.
a saber: de 38,938.82, más in tereses y otros gastos los cua les continúan acumulándose a razón del 3.406% más la canti dad equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deu da; más cualquiera suma de di nero por concepto de contribu ciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pac tadas en la escritura de hipote ca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epí grafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 33 otorgada el día 15 de febrero de 2014, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Rosa Permuy Calderon y consta inscrita al folio 61 del tomo 1,241 de Are cibo, finca número 17,686, Re gistro de la Propiedad de Areci bo, Sección I de Arecibo. Por la presente se notifica a los acree dores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o dere chos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del ac tor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipo tecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se cele brarán las subastas en las fe chas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abo gado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. En tiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a fa vor de Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $127,500.00, con intereses al 3.406% anual, vencedero el día 29 de marzo de 2093, constitui da mediante la escritura núme ro 34, otorgada en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el día 15 de febre ro de 2014, ante la notario Rosa E. Permuy Calderón, e inscrita al folio 61 del tomo 1,241 de Arecibo, finca número 17,686, inscripción 9ª., y última.
Yo, Ángel De J. Torres Pérez, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al públi co en general, por la presente
Medina a/k/a Nilda Luz Santiago a/k/a Nilda L. Santiago a/k/a Nilda Santiago a/k/a Nilsa Santiago; United States of America
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AÑASCO REVERSEFUNDING,MORTGAGELLC Demandante Vs. ALBERTO JUAN LUCIANO LAMOURT, T/C/C ALBERTO J. LUCIANO LAMOURT, T/C/C ALBERTO LUCIANO LAMOURT, T/C/C ALBERTO LUCIANO, T/C/C LAMOURTALBERTOPORSÍY EN
REAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master, or a person authorized to act
If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the 25th day of October, 2022 at 9:25am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $150,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Spe cial Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, ex cept in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHE REAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United Sta tes District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirma tion of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the jud gment entered by the Court in this case, which can be exa mined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 10th day of August of 2022. By: Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master.
EILLIM TORRES RÍOS, JUEZ”.
POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Se cretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso del epígra fe solicitando la ejecución de hipoteca y el cobro de dinero relacionado al pagaré suscrito a favor de The Money House, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $286,500.00, con intereses computados sobre la misma desde su fecha has ta su total y completo pago a razón de la tasa de interés de 3.213% anual, la cual será ajustada mensualmente, obli gándose además al pago de costas, gastos y desembolsos del litigio, más honorarios de abogados en una suma de $28,650.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original. Este pagaré fue suscrito bajo el affidávit número 16,735 ante el notario Raul Rivera Burgos. Lo anterior surge de la hipote ca constituida mediante la es critura número 1,362 otorgada el31 de diciembre de 2009, ante la misma notario público, inscrita bajo la ley 216-2010, al folio 2033 del tomo 282 de Añasco, finca número 7,560, inscripción 9na. RÚSTICA: Par cela de terreno radicada en el Barrio Playa del Municipio de Añasco, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cincuenta diezmilésimas de cuerda equi valentes a quinientos cincuenta diezmilésimas de cuerda, equi valentes a quinientos sesenta y nueve metros cuadrados con siete mil quinientos setenta y dos diezmilésimas de otro. Co linda por el NORTE, con Israel Ayala y Fernando Serra; por el SUR, con la Carretera Estatal 401 y remanente de la finca principal; por el ESTE, con re manente de la finca principal Japhet Ruiz; y por el OESTE, con Fernando Serra. Contiene una casa dedicada a vivienda. Finca número 7,560 inscrita al
WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $103,463.00, plus interest at a rate of 3.184% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant Ricardo José García Cardona a/k/a Ricardo José García a/k/a Ri cardo J. García Cardona a/k/a Ricardo García Cardona to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC, all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance pre miums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($30,000.00) of the original principal amou nt to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Office Buil ding, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHE
CIVIL ACTION NO.: 3:16-cv2727-CCC. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORCLOUSU RE COMPLAINT. NOTICE OF SALE.
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Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA IN REM. EMPLAZA MIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO.
Por Cuanto: Se le advierte a que, dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de la causante José Ramón Incle Carlo, t/c/c Ramón Incle Carlo Por Orden del Honorable Juez de Primera Instancia de este Tribunal, expido el pre sente Mandamiento, bajo mi firma y sello oficial, en Guay nabo, Puerto Rico hoy día 9 de septiembre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MAIRENI TRINTA, SUB-SE CRETARIA.
will be accepted is the sum of $300,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on the the 18th day of October, 2022 at 9:25am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $200,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the mini mum bid for the first public sale.
in his name and authority, was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without apprai sement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: RÚSTICA: Solar ra dicado en la Urbanización Villa Lydia del Barrio Camaseyas de Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 2,332.42 metros cuadrados; en lindes por el NORTE, en alineaciones de 19.52 metros y 22.10 me tros, con Hector Reichard; por el ESTE, en alineaciones de 19.06 metros y 37.30 metros con la Corporación de Reno vación Urbana y Vivienda y en 45.48 metros con el rema nente de la finca principal; por el SUR, en 3 alineaciones de 29.715 metros con remanente, en 13.00 metros con Carretera Municipal y en 11.151 metros con Manuel Garraton; y por el OESTE, en alineaciones de 14.869 metros y 16.307 metros con remanente y de 25.249 me tros con remanente de la finca principal. Enclava una estruc tura de hormigón para fines re sidenciales.” Property Number 19,646 filed at page 276 of vo lume 347 of Aguadilla, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section of Aguadilla. The mort gage deed is recorded at Karibe volume of Aguadilla, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section of Aguadilla, 6th ins cription. WHEREAS: This pro perty is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Ju nior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Se cretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $300,000.00, due on January 9th, 2100 pursuant to deed number 210, issued in Guay nabo, Puerto Rico, on August 26th, 2013, before notary José García Noya, and recorded, at Karibe volume of Aguadilla, property number 19,646, 7th inscription. Other Liens: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and pre ferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancella tion. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on this 11th day of October, 2022 at 9:25am. The minimum bid that
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA REVERSEFUNDING,MORTGAGELLC
sí y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales que compone junto a Consuelo Cristina Rampolla Ojeda, t/c/c
The San Juan Daily Star 25Tuesday, September 13, 2022
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 6 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to 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 Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse 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 publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi
A: Alberto Juan Luciano Lamourt, t/c/c Alberto J. Luciano Lamourt, t/c/c Alberto Luciano Lamourt, t/c/c Alberto Luciano, t/c/c Alberto Lamourt por
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Demandados Civil Núm.: AÑ2022CV00094.
Finance of Reverse,AmericaLLC.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUER TO RICO.
the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United Sta tes District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirma tion of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the jud gment entered by the Court in this case, which can be exa mined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 10th day of August of 2022. By: Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special 787-672-8269.specialmasterpr@gmail.comMaster.
Plaintiff v. Ricardo José García Cardona a/k/a Ricardo José García a/k/a Ricardo J. García Cardona a/k/a Ricardo García Cardona; United States of America Defendants
LEGAL NOTICE
GENERAL PUBLIC
Demandante V. SUCN NICASIO ARANA ESPERON T/C/C NICASIO A. ESPERON COMP POR MIGUEL ARANA Y OTROS Demandado(a) Civil: CA2022CV00650. Sala: 403. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA, PROPIEDAD RE SIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE DESCONOCIDOSNOMBRES DE LA SUCESION NICASIO ARANA ESPERON T/C/C NICASIO ARANAESPERON T/C/C NICASIO ARANA ESPERON, NICASIO A. ARANA T/C/C NICASIO A. ESPERON. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ RAMÓN INCLE CARLO, T/C/C RAMÓN INCLE CARLO COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ RAMÓN INCLE DÍAZ, JORGE INCLE DÍAZ, CARLOS INCLE DÍAZ, FULANO DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL; SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA JOSEFINA DÍAZ JOSÉDÍAZT/C/CHERNÁNDEZ,JOSEFINAHERNÁNDEZCOMPUESTAPORRAMÓNINCLEDÍAZ,JORGEINCLE
DÍAZ, CARLOS INCLE DÍAZ, FULANO DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL; CENTRO MUNICIPALES;RECAUDACIONESDEDEINGRESOSYALOSESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMÉRICA Demandados Civil Núm.: GB2021CV00772.
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE SUSANA ORTIZ MIRANDA COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLESDESCONOCIDOSHEREDEROS
vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 7 de septiembre de 2022. En Guaynabo, Puer to Rico, el 7 de septiembre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SAN TA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MAIRENI TRINTA MALDONA DO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES QUE COMPONE JUNTO A CONSUELO CRISTINA RAMPOLLA OJEDA, T/C/C
A: LA SUCESIÓN DE SUSANA ORTIZ MIRANDA COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLESDESCONOCIDOS.HEREDEROS
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA - IN REM. MANDAMIEN TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DO DE PUERTO RICO. Por Cuanto: Se ha dictado en el presente caso la siguiente Or den: “ORDEN: Examinada la Demanda radicada por la par te demandante, la solicitud de interpelación contenida en la misma y examinados los autos del caso, el Tribunal le imparte su aprobación y en su virtud acepta la Demanda en el caso de epígrafe, así como la inter pelación judicial de la parte de mandante a los herederos del codemandado conforme dis pone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2787, cuyo equivalente es el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico de 2020. Se Ordena a los herederos del causante a sa ber, conocidos a; José Ramón Incle Díaz, Carlos Incle Díaz, Jorge Incle Díaz y Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, herederos de nombres desconocidos a que, dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a par tir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante José Ramón lncle Carlo, t/c/c Ramón lncle Carlo.
Demandado(a) Civil: GB2021CV00847. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECU CIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
Se le Apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados: (a) Que de no expresarse dentro del térmi no de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia la misma se tendrá por aceptada; (b) Que luego del transcurso del término de trein ta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y por consiguien te, responden por la cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispo ne el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2785. Se Ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que la suce sión del causante José Ramón lncle Carlo, t/c/c Ramón lncle Carlo, incluye como herederos a Jorge lncle Díaz, Carlos lncle Díaz, José Ramón lncle Díaz, y Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, como posibles herederos des conocidos, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. DADA en Guay nabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de septiembre de 2022. HON.
TO: Ricardo José García Cardona a/k/a Ricardo José García a/k/a Ricardo J. García Cardona a/k/a Ricardo García Cardona; United States of America
folio 179 del tomo 215 de Añas co. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Maya güez. Se apercibe y advierte a ustedes como personas desco nocidas, que deberá presen tar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede accesar utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.rama juducial.pr, salvo que se repre sente por Derechos Propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal De no contestar la demanda radican do el original de la contestación ante la secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conduc to de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Yadira López González Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 00936-7308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, den tro de los próximos 30 días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación dia ria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, conce diendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 8 de septiembre de 2022. LIC. NOR MA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. MAGALY BONILLA MORALES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
RAMPOLLARAMPOLACONSUELOBOJEDA,T/C/CCONSUELOOJEDA,T/C/CCONSUELORAMPOLLA;CONSUELOCRISTINARAMPOLLAOJEDA,T/C/CCONSUELORAMPOLABOJEDA,T/C/CCONSUELORAMPOLLAOJEDA,T/C/CCONSUELORAMPOLLAPORSÍYENREPRESENTACIÓNDELASOCIEDADLEGALDEBIENESGANANCIALESQUECOMPONEJUNTOAALBERTOJUANLUCIANOLAMOURT,T/C/CALBERTOJ.LUCIANOLAMOURT,T/C/CALBERTOLUCIANOLAMOURT,T/C/CALBERTOLUCIANO,T/C/CALBERTOLAMOURT;YLOSESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMÉRICA
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LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO
Consuelo Rampola Bojeda, t/c/c Consuelo Rampolla Ojeda, t/c/c
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8 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente 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 notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento 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 edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de septiembre de 2022. En CARO LINA, Puerto Rico, el 8 de sep tiembre de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria. Lilliam Ortiz Nieves, Secretaria Auxiliar.
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Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2022CV03750. (503). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
Parte Demandante Vs. FELÍCITA DESARROLLOAMÉZQUITA,ÁGUEDAESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMÉRICAREPRESENTADOPORELSECRETARIODELAVIVIENDAYURBANO(HUD)
A La Parte Demandada
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A: A La Parte Demandada: MÉRIDA ENCARNACIÓNMORENOENCARNACIÓNT/C/CNÉRIDAMORENOALASIGUIENTEDIRECCIÓN:URBVILLAPRADES,A5CALLEARÍSTIDESCHAVIER,SANJUAN,PR00924-2139.FULANOYMENGANODETAL,POSIBLESTENEDORESDESCONOCIDOSDELPAGARÉ.
FELÍCITA
ELSA MAGALY CANDELARIO CABRERA, SECRETARIA AU XILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2022CV00103. Sala: 201. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIEN TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
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Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que se adeu da las siguientes cantidades: $58,353.97 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4% anual desde el 1 de noviembre de 2019 hasta su completo pago, más $488.49 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deu da, más la cantidad estipulada de $6,857.10 para costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: RÚS TICA: Parcela marcada con el número 331 en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural San José del Barrio Me dia Luna del término munici pal de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 350.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: con par cela número 350, 349 y 332 de la comunidad; por el SUR: con calle número 2 y parcela núme ro 330 de la comunidad; por el ESTE: con parcelas números 330, 350 y 349 de la comuni dad; por el OESTE: con calle número 2 y parcela número 332 de la comunidad. Inscrita al folio 210 del tomo 404 de Toa Baja, Finca 23342. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección II. La escritura de hi poteca consta inscrita al folio 113 vuelto del tomo 695 de Toa Baja, Finca 23342. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección II. Inscripción sexta. La demandante es la tenedora por endoso en blanco, por va lor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. La parte de mandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Admi nistración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acce der utilizando la siguiente direc ción 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. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tri bunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la Parte Demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo Puerto Rico 00970-
Demandante Vs. JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE Demandados Civil Núm.: CI2022CV00219. Sala: 101. Sobre: CANCELA CIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIA DO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESI DENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
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treinta y cinco (23.35) metros Enclava una casa. conocida como “casas en hileras” (Town Houses), construida de hormi gón y bloques de concreto de dos plantas destinada a vivien da. Inscrita a.l folio 22 del tomo 782 de Sabana Llana, Finca 30372, Registro de la Propie dad de San Juan, Sección V. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 959 de Sabana Llana, Finca 30372, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. Inscrip ción tercera. POR LA PRESEN TE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá ra dicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica:
al Lcdo. Armando J. Martínez Vilella, PMB 458, 100 Grand Paseos Blvd. Suite 112, SAN JUAN, P.R. 00926-5955, Email: amartinez@amvlawpr. com, TEL. 787-763-9777 / FAX. 787-763-9444 se le anotará la Rebeldía y se le dictará Sen tencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Se expidió bajo mi firma y sello de este Honorable Tribu nal, en Ciales, Puerto Rico, a 2 de septiembre de 2022. Vivian Y. Fresse González, Secretaria Regional. Madeline García Pé rez, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LA SECRETARIA que suscri be le notifica a usted que el 6 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente 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 notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento 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 edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 9 de septiembre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 9 de septiembre de 2022. GRISEL DA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
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A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE. POR LA PRESENTE se le noti fica a usted, que se ha radicado en esta secretaría la Demanda de epígrafe. En dicha Deman da se reclama que usted es el último tenedor del pagaré hipotecario a favor de de La Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédi to de Ciales, o a su orden, por la cantidad de $57,800.00, con intereses al 9% anual, vence dero 1ro de octubre de 2007, y garantizado con la escritura nú mero #184, otorgada en Ciales, Puerto Rico, el 9 de septiembre de 1997, ante el Notario Pú blico José L. Rivera Sánchez, inscrita al folio 105 del tomo 301 de Ciales, finca número 6,897, inscripción 6ta, Regis tro de la Propiedad de Manatí. Se le emplaza y requiere que dentro del término de treinta (30) días conteste la Deman da. Se le apercibe que de no contestar la misma dentro del término antes dicho, presen tando su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: rior,meraPuertodelresponsivadeberáderechosalvounired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/,https://queserepresenteporpropio,encuyocasopresentarsualegaciónenlaSecretaríaEstadoLibreAsociadodeRico,TribunaldePriInstancia,TribunalSupeSaladePonce,concopia
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Queden emplazados y notifi cados que en este Tribunal se ha presentado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se alega que usted(es) le adeuda(n) a la demandante lo siguiente: La suma de $233,296.49 de princi pal más los intereses sobre di chas sumas devengados desde el 1 de diciembre de 2019, más aquellos a devengarse hasta el pago total de la deuda a ra zón 4.62500% anual, más las primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, recargos por demora y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del total pago de las mismas, más la suma estipulada de $23,375.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado incurridos por concep to de un préstamo hipotecario. En garantía de dicho préstamo la parte demandada suscribió la escritura número 348 el 1 de ju lio de 2005, ante el Notario Wil fredo R. Picorelli Osorio en Ca rolina, Puerto Rico mediante la cual constituyó hipoteca sobre el inmueble de su propiedad que se describe a continua ción: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Prado Alto, localizada en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de ins cripción de la Urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continua ción: Solar número veintiocho
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SE NOTIFICA a usted que la parte demandante presentó en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda sobre cancela ción de pagaré extraviado por la vía judicial. El 11 de mayo de 1999, Mérida Encarnación Mo reno t/c/c Nérida Encarnación Moreno constituyó una hipote ca en San Juan, Puerto Rico, conforme a la Escritura núm. 761 autorizada por el notario Armando J. Martínez Vilella en garantía de un pagaré suscrito bajo testimonio número 16,244 por la suma de $49,949.00, a favor de RG Mortgage Corpora tion, o a su orden, devengando intereses al 7 1/2% anual y ven cedero el 1ro de junio de 2029, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Comunidad Villa Chica de la Urbanización Villa Prades, Ba rrio Sabana Llana, sector Rio Piedras del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, iden tificado con el número cinco (5), del Bloque CD en el plano de inscripción con una cabida su perficial de ciento cincuenta y cuatro punto cero ocho metros cuadrados (154.08 mc.). En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle Arístides Chavier, en una longitud de seis punto setenta y cinco (6.75) metros, por el SUR, con Uso Público, en una longitud de seis punto ochen ta y cuatro (6.84) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número cuatro (4), en una longitud de veintidós punto treinta (22.30) metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número seis (6) en una longitud de veintitrés punto
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(28) del Bloque ‘’B”, área del solar ciento cuarenta y cuatro punto ochenta y ocho metros cuadrados (144.88 m.c.). En lindes: por el NORTE, en una distancia de veintitrés punto diez metros (23.10 m) con el solar número veintinueve del Bloque “B”, incluyendo pared medianera que lo separa del mismo solar; por el SUR, en una distancia de 23.26, metros cuadrados con el solar número 27 del mismo bloque incluyen do pared medianera que lo se para del mismo bloque; por el ESTE, en una distancia de seis punto veinticinco metros (6.25 m), con el solar número Vein tiuno (21) del bloque “B”; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de seis punto veinticinco metros (6.25 m.) con la calle número uno (1) de la Urbanización. En clava una casa. Finca Número 32,108, inscrita al folio 140 del tomo 864 de Guaynabo. Regis tro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guaynabo. Se advierte que debe presentar al tribunal su alegación res ponsiva a la demanda dentro de los TREINTA (30) DÍAS de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndo se el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), el cual podrá acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción 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 dic tar Sentencia en Rebeldía en su contra y conceder el reme dio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su discre ción, lo entiende procedente. Favor de enviar alegación res ponsiva a: Tromberg, Morris & Poulin, LLC Lcda. Edmy Corti
Mahomes-to-Kelce defines Kansas City’s offense.
Mahomes still has third-year receiver Me cole Hardman and Kansas City added former Pittsburgh receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster to the roster in the offseason to help plug the hole left by Hill’s departure. But the Mahomes-toKelce connection is still the most important one to the Kansas City offense.
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Throughout his career, Mahomes has been magical against blitzes, often beating them with his vision, quick trigger before defenders penetrate or using his athletic abil ity and creativity to break the pocket. Still, Arizona defensive coordinator Vance Joseph bet Hill’s departure would leave Mahomes in the lurch: He sent at least five rushers at Ma homes on more than half the quarterback’s drop-backs Sunday, an approach that seemed doomed to fail from the start. It did and Ari zona lost According44-21.to the NFL’s Next Gen Stats, Mahomes had 137 yards on 15-of-21 passing and four touchdowns just against the blitz.
fense ahead of the sticks. It wasn’t enough, though, as the Eagles rode A.J. Brown’s 155 receiving yards to a win.
On a third-quarter play, Kansas City came out in a 13 personnel (one running back and three tight ends) tight bunch formation with Kelce as the outside player in the bunch. He ran a deep over route, cutting just behind the middle player, who ran a deep corner route in front of him. Mahomes nailed him with a pass over the middle that zipped just over a line backer’s outstretched arms for a first down.
Dolphins 20, Patriots 7: Both offenses came into this game with questions about their new schemes and young quarterbacks. Only the Dolphins left it feeling optimistic about their makeover. Even with a useless Mi ami running game, Tua Tagovailoa rattled off 23-of-33 passing for 270 yards and a touch down, and no picks, finding Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle for 163 of those yards. New England’s Mac Jones wasn’t so fortunate as he was constantly under siege, making it difficult to do anything but get the ball out quickly to the flat or throw up hope-and-a-prayer go balls.
he first week of the NFL’s regular sea son never fails to make a mess. Upsets, mistakes, miracles and everything in be tween come pouring out as the season starts anew. Week 1’s false starts may have been a wake-up call to teams and their fans that the games count again — and that even a shaky start can offer firm takeaways.
Colts 20, Texans 20 (OT): It took the Colts’ defense three quarters to stop Davis Mills from putting up MVP numbers. For a good portion of the game, Mills had more than 8 yards per attempt, regularly finding his tight ends down the seams for explosive plays. Jonathan Taylor wore down the Tex ans defense, plowing through for 161 yards and a score on 31 carries, but Indianapolis still left with a tie thanks to a 42-yard missed field goal attempt from the goggle-god, Ro drigo Blankenship, with 2 minutes remaining in overtime.
Eagles 38, Lions 35: It took the Lions a long time to make this a game. Quarterback Jared Goff was 3-for-10 with 6 yards passing and a pick six early, but he got a boost in the second half from D’Andre Swift, who ripped off a number of chunk gains to keep the of
all night long while still getting the ball off in a hurry, a combination only he can pull off con sistently. Dallas, on the other hand, looked nothing like the team that set the league ablaze early last season. Dak Prescott com pleted fewer than half his passes, threw an interception and couldn’t lead the offense to a single touchdown, thanks in part to reserve Noah Brown and rookie undrafted free agent Dennis Houston being forced into significant roles at wide receiver. Prescott also left the game late in the fourth quarter with a hand injury. It’s unclear for now if he needs surgery — team owner Jerry Jones said he would, but coach Mike McCarthy said Prescott had yet to see a doctor — but he is likely to miss some time. If Prescott misses longer than even a week or two, Dallas’ season could start to spiral out of control.
Giants 21, Titans 20: Daniel Jones was under relentless pressure all day, taking five sacks and turning the ball over via fumble and interception. But Jones was exceptionally ac curate (17 of 21 passing for 188 yards and two touchdowns) when he did not have to pick grass out of his face mask, and running back
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Ravens 24, Jets 9: The Jets decided that making backup quarterback Joe Flacco throw 59 passes was the way to win a game. In the year 2022. Against Lamar Jackson. The Ra vens quarterback found his stride on verti cal passes, connecting with Rashod Bateman and Devin Duvernay for touchdowns of more than 25 yards. Jackson’s contract campaign is off to an excellent start.
Vikings 23, Packers 7: Kirk Cousins con nected with Justin Jefferson on 9 of his 11 targets for 184 yards. Jefferson kicked off the game’s scoring with a simple slide route across the formation on fourth-and-goal. In the second quarter, Jefferson split Green Bay’s safeties on a deep post for an explosive play, before ripping a crossing route for a 36-yard touchdown just before the end of the first half. The Packers? Well, they’re going to need some time to figure things out.
Chargers 24, Raiders 19: Davante Adams caught 10 of his 17 targets for 141 yards and a score, but tight end Darren Waller was the only other Raiders pass-catcher with more than three catches, for 21 yards. The Chargers pulled ahead early behind Justin Herbert’s three touchdown throws and Los Angeles got a look at their new edge pairing of Khalil Mack and Joey Bosa, who combined for 4 1/2 sacks.
Commanders 28, Jaguars 22: Carson Wentz had an extremely Carson Wentz game, tossing four touchdowns (a couple of which required excellent touch) and appearing to try to throw the game away in the second half. His two interceptions led to 10 Jaguars points and jolted Trevor Lawrence back to life. In the end, Wentz led Washington on a 13-play touchdown drive to put this one away.
The Arizona Cardinals, like most every one else, figured that Patrick Mahomes might struggle to create big plays without Tyreek Hill, the three-time All-Pro receiver Kansas City traded to Miami this past offseason.
Saints 27, Falcons 26: The Saints sal vaged an otherwise brutal showing with a monster fourth quarter. Through most of the game, quarterback Jameis Winston got beat up every which way while the Falcons offense found ways into the end zone thanks to quar terback Marcus Mariota’s athleticism, a strong debut from rookie receiver Drake London (five catches for 74 yards), and a surprising effort between the tackles from Cordarrelle Patterson. But, y’know, the Falcons are going to Falcon.
Bears 19, 49ers 10: The torrential down pour before the game dictated that this game would be a run-heavy brawl, which in theory should have benefited a Kyle Shanahan team. But the Bears persisted, coming alive in the second half after laying an egg early. Quar terback Justin Fields finally got a few chances to rip it down the field, finding the end zone twice, and the Bears new-look defense com pletely shut out San Francisco’s new starter, Trey Lance, when he needed to drop back and throw the 49ers back into the game.
Saquon Barkley looked as explosive as he has in years, finishing with 164 yards on 18 carries thanks in part to some creative gap scheme runs from coach Brian Daboll and offensive coordinator Mike Kafka. With about a minute to go, Daboll’s gutsy 2-point conversion call was the difference.
Chiefs 44, Cardinals 21: Playing with out receiver DeAndre Hopkins, the Cardinals trotted out multiple wideouts who are 5-foot9 or shorter, save for A.J. Green, and asked Kyler Murray to find them. It didn’t work. Patrick Mahomes finished with five passing touchdowns, the eighth time he has done so since 2018. No other quarterback has more than three such performances over that span.
Browns 26, Panthers 24: Baker Mayfield led a valiant 17-point fourth quarter, but the shock was how much the Carolina offense struggled to run against Cleveland’s unprov en interior defensive line. Christian McCaf frey earned just 33 yards on 10 carries and watched as the Browns’ Nick Chubb trucked along through the Panthers front for 141 yards on 22 carries. With the team playing behind backup quarterback Jacoby Brissett, Chubb’s output gave the Browns’ offense just enough stability for a win.
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Mahomes shined against standard defen sive rushes, too. It helps that his go-to safety valve, tight end Travis Kelce, is still a stabiliz ing option. Kansas City coach Andy Reid made sure Kelce could get open for middle-distance throws that repeatedly burned the Cardinals. Kelce caught 8 of 9 targets for 121 yards and one touchdown, leading all receivers.
Steelers 23, Bengals 20 (OT): This was a tale of two Steelers units. On defense, Pitts burgh looked as suffocating as it ever has in the Mike Tomlin era. On the other side of the ball, the offense completely ran out of steam after finding some success with screens, flea flickers, and other cheap nonsense despite being gifted the ball time and time again. Joe Burrow’s late-game magic fell short of 2021’s standard through no fault of his own as kicker Evan McPherson whiffed a potential gamewinner in overtime.
Travis Kelce caught 8 of 9 targets for 121 yards and one touchdown, leading all Kansas City receivers on Sunday. (Photo by Mark J. Rebilas via The New York Times)
“Hard to believe he’s only teenager, but, yeah, he is,” Ruud said later.
he future of tennis arrived at 7:38 p.m. Sunday with a rocketed serve off the racket of Carlos Alcaraz, who clinched the U.S. Open men’s singles championship, announcing the start of a new era in the game.Alcaraz, the 19-year-old Spanish sen sation, beat Casper Ruud of Norway, 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (1), 6-3, to win his first Grand Slam singles title, but probably not his last. Far, far from it. A blasted serve that came off his racket like a missile sealed it. The Carlos Alcaraz era is here.
Alcaraz’s rise to the top of the sport had been predicted for years, but it has been breathtaking nonetheless. His forehand is powerful, and his ability to chase down balls that other players would not bother trying to reach is thrilling to watch. He can hit the lustiest of winners when he gets to them, and he takes pure joy from compet ing, even in the middle of the night. He has dazzled crowds everywhere he has played during his first two years as a full-fledged professional, never more so than during the past two weeks of this unforgettable cham pionship run.
Carlos Alcaraz, 19, became the youngest man to win a Grand Slam title since Rafael Nadal in 2005.
Alcaraz’s victory was the capstone of a tournament that will be recalled for years for many reasons. There was the farewell to Serena Williams, widely considered the greatest female player of the modern era; the rise of Frances Tiafoe, the 24-year-old American son of immigrants from Sierra Le one, who knocked out Nadal and pushed Alcaraz to the limits in an electric five-set semifinal; and Saturday, Iga Swiatek of Po land staked her claim as the new queen of the game, winning her third Grand Slam title in less than two years.
On Sunday, he reached the sport’s pin nacle in grand fashion on its biggest stage, packing nearly 24,000 fans in the stadium onto his bandwagon as he claimed not only the men’s singles championship and $2.6 million in prize money, but also the No. 1 ranking in the world, becoming the young est man to do so. He is the youngest man to win a Grand Slam title since Rafael Nadal won the 2005 French Open as a 19-yearold.
Alcaraz grabbed the early edge in the third game. With Ruud serving, he es chewed any inclinations to ease his way into the match. With a chance to cause ear ly damage, Alcaraz flicked on his afterburn ers and started grunting with late-match ur gency and volume on every shot.
This was a different Ruud than the one who took a drubbing from Nadal in his first Grand Slam final at the French Open three months ago, on a day when he looked like someone with really good seats for the match rather than an opponent. Ruud was not going away on his own Sunday.
It took another 10 games for Ruud to find it, but he did. Down a set, Ruud pres sured Alcaraz by putting ball after ball at
This spring brought his first titles at the Masters level, just below the Grand Slams, in Miami Gardens, Florida, and Madrid, where he beat Nadal and Novak Djokovic in consecutive matches. Veterans playing him — and often losing — for the first time, left the court shaking their heads, their eyes glazed, and at a loss for words about what they had “Thisexperienced.issomething
“I’ve never played a player who moves as well,” said Tiafoe, who has played the best of the best. “He’s going to be a prob lem for a very long time.”
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Carlos Alcaraz wins US Open men’s singles title, and becomes No.
his feet, then put on an Alcaraz-like display of power and touch and covered the court to even the match after an hour and a half, as Alcaraz’s efficiency, and his lethal dropshot, went missing temporarily.
The championship came at the end of an epic week for Alcaraz. Just to get to the final, he played three straight five-set matches starting Monday that had him on the court for some 15 hours. His quarterfi nal victory over Jannik Sinner, during which he was one point from elimination, lasted until 2:50 a.m. Thursday, the latest finish in the history of a tournament notorious for late endings. Two nights later, or rather, the next night, he outlasted Tiafoe in emo tional, battle-filled, lung-busting rallies in a match with miraculous point-saving shots to the end.
Alcaraz, though, said his first chance at a Grand Slam final was no time to be tired, and he started causing problems for Ruud early. Determined not to get into another marathon slugfest against an opponent as steady and as fit as anyone else in the field, Alcaraz stepped on the gas pedal from the start, rushing the net at every good chance and ending points with crisp volleys hit on the sharpest angles. Given what had trans pired recently, Ruud had every right to ex pect Alcaraz’s unique style of tennis attri tion. Instead he got shock-and-awe.
The ride began in 2021 in Australia, where he won his first main draw Grand Slam match on a court in the hinterlands of Melbourne Park with just a few dozen fans in attendance. He was outside the top 100 of the rankings then. In Croatia, last sum mer, he won his first tour-level title, and in New York starting a month later he blasted and drop-shotted his way into the quarter finals as part of a teenage wave that took over the U.S. Open.
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But throughout the tournament, Al caraz showed a rare ability to find the next gear to meet whatever challenge came his way. He put that on full display late in the third set, during a crucial, and for Ruud, soul-crushing stretch across a single game and a Withtiebreaker.Alcaraz serving to stay in the set, Ruud poured every bit of his power and de termination into a series of rocketed fore hands that earned him two chances to move a set ahead. Each time, Alcaraz pressed forward, fearlessly pushing into the court chin first. His chance for a lead gone, Ruud crumpled in the tiebreaker with a series of wild misses as Alcaraz reeled off seven con secutiveFrompoints.there, holding back Alcaraz sud denly felt much like it has all year, a task akin to holding back an ocean. An absurd forehand, topspin lob while Alcaraz was running at full speed gave him the chance to get the crucial fourth-set service break. A point later, he did his best impression of a human backboard until Ruud could keep the ball in the court no longer.
After the final point, a crushing service winner, Alcaraz collapsed on his back. A minute later he was embracing his longtime coach — former world No. 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero — who has piloted the journey, along with Alcaraz’s father, a former pro himself, and his grandfather, who helped develop the tennis club where he started to play as a When3-year-old.hemade it back to his chair, Al caraz put his face in a towel and sobbed, as Ruud sat stoically a few feet away. Ruud knew what had hit him, and knew that it could be the first of many days that end like this one.Alittle while later, Ferrero said Alcaraz had reached about 60% of his potential.
“I want to be on top for many weeks, many years,” Alcaraz said later in a news conference. Then he pointed at the trophy. “I want more of these.”
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since I was a kid,” Alcaraz, not so far re moved from youth, said during the trophy presentation, after he and Ruud acknowl edged the solemnity of the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in their moments of tennis heartbreak and triumph.
After Alcaraz clinched that first service break, Ruud grabbed his towel near the cor ner of the court where his father and coach, former pro Christian Ruud, sat a few feet above the court. Team Ruud needed a Plan B.
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Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)
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The emphasis on your relationship zone, hints at ongoing conversations with someone who seems very caring. Maybe you’re going to take on a project together or perhaps you have romantic feelings for each other. Whatever its nature, this bond could last and last, if you want it to. Ready to become an item? Don’t share this too soon? Consider keeping it to yourselves for now.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
Mixing in other circles? Today’s lunation finds you keen to align yourself with those who have respect for healthy living. Their ideas might influence your decisions, and set you thinking about how you could make less impact on the environment. If you enjoy indulging from time to time, don’t let on just yet, Scorpio. You don’t have to share everything about yourself too readily.
Keen to get something right? You could miss out a crucial detail or gloss over something that is vital. A very grounded yet lively focus, means you’ll be ready to do the work, but tempted to cut a few corners. The Sun aligns with Saturn too, so if you’re keen to start a new project, it might go far and prove worthwhile, even if it’s slow to take off, Aries. With perseverance you can do it.
If you enjoy your work, this could be the perfect time to get stuck in. The Sun in your sign aligns with taskmaster Saturn, encouraging you to give your all to an opportunity. And it might have other spin-offs if it all goes well. Yet Venus in your sign may act as a temptress, and give you other ideas, such as meeting up with a friend for a healthy lunch or going to a movie or event.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
You may be just a touch too critical of yourself and others, all in the name of getting things right. Sometimes good enough is better than overdoing something until it loses its sparkle. The emphasis on Virgo can make this happen. Don’t be so fussy, Cancer. Rather than aim for perfection, relax and be more spontaneous. You’ll enjoy doing it, so it will get finished.
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
It’s important to believe that you’re capable of anything, because the one thing that might hold you back is a lack of faith. It doesn’t really matter what went wrong in the past, as you’ll have gained from the experience. What is most important, is that you don’t give up. While your sign is usually well known for its very persistent qualities, even you can succumb to fear at times.
Before you decide to read another book or sign up for another course or class, ask yourself if you have implemented the advice gained from other books and courses. If not, then taking on board even more information probably won’t help. Using knowledge you already have at your fingertips, could see you make positive strides, and much sooner than you thought possible.
The current Mercury/Jupiter angle, suggests you’ll be very pleased to be proved right. Even so, rubbing it in might not be the best way to deal with those who are wrong. Make use of your tactful side when you talk to them, so that you don’t trigger feelings of annoyance and thoughts of revenge. Ready to take up a spiritual practice? This is the best time to make a start, Libra.
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The Sun’s lingering tie with Uranus, suggests that it’s worth trying out new ideas and weaving clever hacks into your job or daily tasks, especially if it makes life easier. The Sun also makes an edgy tie to Saturn, so the tried and trusted might have quite a hold. Dare to move out of your comfort zone and explore other ways. You’ll be so pleased if it saves time and other resources.
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
You could act out of character today Leo, and perhaps this is what is needed to turn a situation around. A decision you make may be an intuitive one, and perhaps not based on logic, but on your instinctive sense of what is right. With the illuminating Sun aligning with electric Uranus in a prominent zone, others might wonder at your choice. Soon though, they’ll realise you are right.
You may be in a restless mood, and find it difficult to settle. With the Sun aligning with energising Uranus in your sign, your mind might be on other things, especially if they can provide entertainment or a way to escape your everyday routine. Need a way to let off steam, Taurus? Plan something for later or consider a jog, bike ride or walk, to help channel excess energy.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
A domestic project might find you eager to get to work, especially if it’s a good investment. Don’t get too carried away Gemini, as a closer look at your plans could highlight a few flaws that can be overcome with research. If you’re starting something, don’t ignore any glaring mistakes. Tackling these first will put you in a better position to make a good job of it and feel proud.
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