The Washington Post - 22.02.2020

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Morgan Stanley b uys E-Trade

morgan Stanley is acquiring E-Trade in a $13 billion, all-stock deal that brings more consolidation to the brokerage world and gives the investment bank to the rich a foothold with a more mainstream clientele. washingtonpost.com/business

Afghan president, rival claim election victory

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his chief rival, C hief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, both declared victory after election results were announced nearly five months after Afghans cast their ballots. Ghani won with 50.64 percent of the votes, the election commission said. washingtonpost.com/world

l A feb. 21 metro article about maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (r) denouncing a Democratic proposal to expand the sales tax incorrectly said that the tax would apply to day-care services. They would be exempt under the proposal.

l A feb. 20 metro article a bout a staffing shortage at the maryland medical examiner’s office misidentified the organization that reported on a decline of examiners nationally as the American Association of medical Colleges. It is the Association of American m edical Colleges.

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Boy Scouts group

files for bankruptcy

facing a wave of lawsuits over
sexual abuse allegations, the Boy
Scouts of America filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy Tuesday
in an effort to protect the future
of the embattled century-old
organization.
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Jeff Bezos sets up fund

to f ight climate change

Amazon founder and chief
executive Jeff Bezos announced
the formation of the Bezos Earth
fund on monday, saying it will
provide $10 billion in grants to
scientists and activists to fund
their efforts to fight climate
change. (Bezos owns The
Washington Post.)
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education

Parent pleads guilty in admissions scheme

A woman charged in the college admissions scandal pleaded guilty friday to paying $400,000 to get her son into the University of California at Los Angeles, as a fake soccer recruit. Xiaoning Sui, 49, a Chinese citizen who lives in Surrey, British Columbia, pleaded guilty to a single count of federal programs bribery in Boston’s federal court. The charge is used in cases of bribery at organizations that received at least $10,000 in federal funding in a single year. In this case, Sui is accused of bribing a UCLA official. Prosecutors are recommending no additional jail time for Sui, who was arrested in Spain in September and held there while authorities extradited her to the United States. Sui said she agreed with the prosecutors’ account. According to charging documents, Sui paid $400, to a sham charity operated by admissions consultant William “rick” Singer as part of a scheme to have her son admitted as a

fake soccer recruit at UCLA. Prosecutors say Singer worked with Laura Janke, a former assistant soccer coach at the University of Southern California, to fabricate an athletic profile depicting Sui’s son as a top player on two soccer clubs in Canada, even though he did not play competitive soccer. Both Singer and Janke have pleaded guilty. — Associated Press

immigration

Greyhound to bar ICE agents from buses

Greyhound, the nation’s largest bus company, said friday it will stop allowing Border Patrol agents to board its buses without a warrant to conduct routine immigration checks. The company’s announcement came one week after the Associated Press reported on a leaked Border Patrol memo confirming that agents can’t board private buses without the consent of the bus company. Greyhound had previously insisted that even though it did not like the immigration checks, it had no choice under federal law but to allow them.

In an emailed statement, the company said it would notify the Department of Homeland Security that it does not consent to unwarranted searches on its buses or in areas of terminals that are not open to the general public. Greyhound has faced pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union, immigrant rights activists and Washington state Attorney General Bob ferguson to stop allowing sweeps on buses within 100 miles of an international border or coastline. — Associated Press

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Inmate confesses to killing two men

A California inmate serving a life sentence for murder confessed in a letter that he beat to death two child molesters with another inmate’s cane hours after a prison counselor ignored his warning that he might become violent. In a letter to the Bay Area News Group, Jonathan Watson, 41, said he clubbed both men in the head on Jan. 16 at the California Substance Abuse Treatment facility and State Prison in the small central California city of Corcoran. The first occurred after Watson became enraged that one of the sex offenders was watching a children’s television show, the East Bay Times reported Thursday. Prisoner David Bobb, 48, died that day. Graham De Luis-Conti, 62, died three days later at a hospital. Both were serving life sentences for aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14. — Associated Press

digest

and processes,” s aid Laura rosen- berger, a former N ational Security Council aide in the o bama administration who is now an election security expert with the Alliance for S ecuring Democracy. “We have seen consistent messaging from russian sources pushing the nar- rative that the primary process is rigged, and driving the idea that the ‘establishment’ favors some candidates o ver o thers.” “ many of us have been warning for some time that the russians would likely try to drive divisions and d iscord in the D emocratic primary, as they did in 2016,” rosen- berger said. russia has tried to assist Sand- ers i n the past. In a february 2018 indictment of 13 russian individuals and three companies alleged to have orchestrated the 2016 social media scheme, prosecutors charged that the group “engaged in opera- tions primarily intended to com- municate derogatory information about Hillary Clinton, to deni- grate other candidates such a s Te d Cruz and marco rubio, and to support Bernie Sanders and then- candidate Donald Trump.” Special counsel robert S. muel- ler III also alleged that, working with WikiLeaks, the russian gov- ernment purposely released sto- len internal Democratic Party emails on the e ve of the Democrat- ic National Convention in July 2016, so as to exacerbate party divisions and a sense of grievance by Sanders supporters. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

sullivan reported from Bakersfield, Calif. Josh Dawsey and rosalind s. helderman contributed to this report.

what we remember is efforts by russians and o thers to try to i nter- fere in our elections and divide us up,” Sanders said. “I’m not saying that’s happening, but it would not shock m e.” In recent weeks, Sanders’s ri- vals have raised concerns about the behavior of his supporters, blaming t hem f or viciously attack- ing an influential N evada culinary union that criticized his health- care plan and said the senator did not do enough to tamp down the online rhetoric of his most ardent advocates. The senator has responded by distancing himself from such ac- tions, q uestioning on s everal occa- sions whether the online rhetoric was c oming from genuine Sanders supporters. Sanders spent friday cam- paigning in California and planned to finish the day in Ne- vada with an evening rally de- signed to build excitement for his campaign ahead of Saturday’s caucuses. Despite Trump’s skepticism of russian efforts to damage Ameri- can democracy, officials in his administration have repeatedly warned that russia has ongoing plans to interfere in U.S. elections and f oster divisions among Ameri- cans, part of a strategic goal to undermine U.S. standing in the world. Some analysts believe the Kremlin’s goal is to cause maxi- mum disruption within the Unit- ed States and that it throws the support of its hackers and trolls behind candidates based on that goal, not a ny p articular affinity f or the p eople r unning. “russian attempts to sow discord in the Democratic primary would be consistent with its strat- egy of undermining Americans’ faith in democratic institutions

it,” s aid Kristine Coratti, a spokes- woman for The Post. A spokesperson for the fBI de- clined to comment. The office of the Director of National Intelli- gence did not respond to requests for c omment. The intelligence assessment that russia had a preference for Trump infuriated the president. Trump lambasted his then-acting intelligence director, Joseph maguire, and DNI staff for sharing that information with lawmakers, believing that Democrats would use it to hurt Trump in the election. The president has been told that the russians are also trying t o sow discord among Democrats and want to influence the primaries, a senior administration official said. Intelligence officials also have told Trump that russia wanted to help Sanders, the official said, declining to say when Trump was i nformed. Sanders has frequently warned about the threat of foreign interference in U. S. elections and criticized Trump f or not d oing enough to stop it. “Let me be clear: We must not live in denial while allowing russia a nd o ther state actors to undermine our democracy or divide us,” the senator said in January. “russia targets the divisions in our society; we will work to heal those divisions.” Sanders’s opponents have blamed some of his most vocal online supporters for injecting toxic rhetoric into the primaries. At a Democratic candidates de- bate Wednesday in Las Vegas, Sanders indirectly blamed russia, saying it was possible that malign actors were trying to manipulate social media to inflame divisions among Democrats. “A ll of us remember 2016, and

that they are doing it again in 202 0. Some of the ugly s tuff on t he Internet attributed to our campaign may well not be coming from real supporters.” The disclosure of russian assis- tance t o Sanders f ollows a b riefing to lawmakers last week in which a senior intelligence official said that russia wants to see Trump reelected, viewing his administration as more favorable to the Kremlin’s interests, according to people who were briefed on the comments. In that closed hearing for the House Intelligence Committee, lawmakers were also told that Sanders had been informed about russia’s interference. The pros- pect of two rival campaigns both receiving help from moscow ap- pears to reflect what intelligence officials h ave previously d escribed as russia’s broader interest in sowing division in the United States and uncertainty about the validity of American elections. At a rally friday in Nevada, Trump called reports that Putin wanted to help him “disinformation.” “Wouldn’t he rather have Ber- nie, who honeymooned in moscow?” Trump asked, referring to the senator’s travels in the former Soviet Union. Sanders told reporters friday after The Post’s report was published that he received the briefing “about a month ago.” Asked why he did not disclose the briefing publicly, Sanders replied, “Be- cause I go to many intelligence briefings which I don’t reveal to the p ublic.” Sanders offered few details about what o fficials told h im. “Well, it was not clear what role they’re going to play,” he said, referring to russia. “We were told that russia, maybe other coun- tries, are going to get involved in this campaign. And look, here’s the message, to russia — stay out of American e lections.” Asked why the briefing was reported now, a month later, Sand- ers said: “I’ll let you guess about one day before the, the Nevada caucus. Why do you think it came out?” Sanders pointed to a Post reporter and said sarcastically: “It was The Washington Post? Good friends.” “We report news when w e learn

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Officials say Russia is boosting Sanders

salwan georges/the washington Post sen. Bernie sanders said h e was briefed last month about russian efforts to advance his standing in the democratic race but did not disclose the matter publicly because it involved intelligence findings.

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