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Post Live eventsEDUCATIONEx-UCLA coach pleads
guilty to taking bribesA former University of
California at Los Angeles men’s
soccer coach pleaded guilty
Monday to accepting $200,
in bribes to help two students get
into the school as recruits.
Jorge Salcedo, 47, admitted to
participating in the college
admissions bribery scheme
involving TV celebrities, other
wealthy parents and elite
universities across the country.
Salcedo was paid $100,000 to
help California couple Bruce and
Davina Isackson get their
daughter into UCLA as a bogus
soccer recruit, prosecutors said.
The Isacksons have also pleaded
guilty and have been cooperating
with authorities in the hope of
getting a lighter sentence.
Salcedo also took a $100,
bribe from the admissions
consultant at the center of the
scheme, Rick Singer, to “recruit”
the son of Xiaoning Sui, of
Surrey, British Columbia, to his
team, authorities said. Singer
and Sui have also pleaded guilty.
Salcedo pleaded guilty to a
racketeering conspiracy charge
in a hearing held in front of a
Boston federal court judge via
videoconference because of the
coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. District Judge Indira
Talwani said she would decide
whether to accept his plea deal
after further review.
He is the sixth coach to plead
guilty in the high-profile case.
Three other coaches are fightingthe charges.
Nearly 30 prominent parents
have pleaded guilty in the case
dubbed “Operation Varsity
Blues.”
— Associated PressKENTUCKYRand Paul’s attacker
gets longer sentenceU.S. Sen. Rand Paul’s former
neighbor was resentenced
Monday to an extra seven months
behind bars and six months in
home detention for tackling and
injuring the Republican
lawmaker from Kentucky over a
lawn-care dispute.Rene Boucher originally was
given a 30-day sentence after
pleading guilty to assaulting a
member of Congress. Federal
prosecutors argued the sentence
was too lenient, describing the
2017 attack outside Paul’s home
in Bowling Green as “vicious and
unprovoked.” They sought at
least 21 months for Boucher.
On Monday, another federal
judge ordered Boucher to serve
eight months in prison followed
by six months of home
confinement for the assault. He
was given credit for the 30 days
he has served behind bars.
Paul suffered multiple broken
ribs and later underwent lung
and hernia surgeries that helinked to the attack.
Paul sued Boucher over the
attack, and a jury last year
awarded him m ore than
$580,000 in damages and
medical expenses.
— Associated PressWEATHERHanna weakens but
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with a surge in coronavirus cases.
Now a tropical depression,
Hanna was 65 miles north of
Fresnillo in the Mexican state of
Zacatecas as its winds weakened
to about 25 mph, the National
Hurricane Center said. Its
remnants still threatened to
bring rainfall and flash flooding
to waterlogged parts of South
Texas and northern Mexico.
In the aftermath of Hanna,
which dumped up to 16 inches of
rain in some parts of South Texas
and northern Mexico, officials
reported two people died in the
Mexican city of Ramos Arispe,
near Monterrey, after torrents of
water unleashed by Hanna swept
away their vehicle. Three people
were reported missing in
Monterrey and three more were
missing in the border city of
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several state m edical associations and Altais, a health-care company.BY MATT ZAPOTOSKY
AND KAROUN DEMIRJIANAttorney General William P.
Barr will tell the House Judiciary
Committee on Tuesday that Presi-
dent Trump has not inappropri-
ately intervened in Justice De-
partment business — even though
Barr has more than once moved in
criminal cases to help the presi-
dent’s allies — and he will defend
the administration’s response to
civil unrest in the country, accord-
ing to a copy of his opening state-
ment.
Barr, according to the state-
ment, will take a defiant posture
as he testifies before the panel for
the first time since Democrats
took control of it, alleging that
they have attempted to “discredit”
him since he vowed to investigate
the 2016 FBI probe of possible
coordination between Russia and
the Trump campaign, and the me-
dia has been unfair in covering
unrest. He is expected to face criti-
cal questioning on his response to
anti-police brutality protests
across the nation, his controver-
sial interventions in high-profile
cases involving allies of Trump
and many other matters.
According to a Democratic com-
mittee counsel, lawmakers will ask
Barr about his role dispatching fed-
eral agents to respond to anti-po-
lice-brutality protests that have at
times grown violent — first in D.C.
and more recently, in Portland,
Ore. Several Democratic leaders —
including House Judiciary Com-
mittee Chairman Rep. Jerrold Na-
dler (N.Y.) — have asked the Justice
Department and Homeland Secu-
rity inspectors general to probe the
federal government’s actions in
those cities and raised questions
about whether they were legal.
“ Citizens are concerned that
the Administration has deployed
a secret police force, not to investi-
gate crimes but to intimidate indi-
viduals it views as political adver-
saries, and that the use of these
tactics will proliferate throughout
the country,” Nadler and others
wrote this month.
Barr will emphasize the vio-
lence that has accompanied some
demonstrations, especially in
Portland, where protests have
raged for dozens of nights outside
the federal courthouse, according
to his opening statement.
“What unfolds nightly around
the courthouse cannot reasonably
be called a protest; it is, by any
objective measure, an assault on
the Government of the United
States,” Barr will say, according to
the opening statement.
Democrats are also likely to ask
about a broader range of topics,
including what they see as the
politicization of the Justice De-
partment, Barr’s misleading state-
ments defending Trump’s asser-
tion that voting by mail would
“open the floodgates to fraud,” and
what they call his “failure” to en-
force voting rights laws.
In his opening statement, Barr
will insist Trump has done no
wrong. “From my experience, the
President has played a role prop-
erly and traditionally played by
Presidents,” Barr will say, accord-
ing to the statement.
Republicans, meanwhile, are
likely to seek the latest informa-tion about U.S. Attorney John
Durham’s work exploring the ori-
gins of the FBI’s 2016 investiga-
tion into possible coordination
between Trump’s campaign and
Russia. Barr recently told Fox
News he expected to see develop-
ments in Durham’s investigation
“hopefully before the end of the
summer.” Many Democrats have
come to view Durham’s probe as a
political exercise meant to dis-
credit the FBI investigation that
long dogged Trump’s presidency,
though Republicans see it as an
effort to uncover FBI corruption
in the previous administration.
About two months ago in D.C.,
Barr orchestrated a huge show of
force in response to protests after
the death of George Floyd while in
police custody in Minneapolis, de-
ploying agents with the FBI, Drug
Enforcement Administration,
U.S. Marshals and the Bureau of
Prisons to help quell unrest.
The move came after demon-
strators set a fire at St. John’s
Church, not far from the White
House. But critics said Barr’s ma-
neuvers went too far — particular-
ly when he ordered the removal of
a group of demonstrators from
Lafayette Square in front of the
White House, just before Trump
walked across the area to pose for
a photo. Police dispersed the
largely peaceful crowd using
mounted officers and gas.
More recently, U.S. marshals —
whose agency is part of the Justice
Department — participated in the
federal law enforcement response
in Portland. Much of the contro-
versy there has been driven by
images of Department of Home-
land Security personnel in mili-
tary garb clubbing some protest-
ers and stuffing others into un-
marked vehicles, alarming civil
liberties advocates.
But the massive federal deploy-
ment was reminiscent of what
happened in D.C., and with some
local mayors raising concern
about the administration sending
law enforcement to its streets,
Barr and Trump revealed they
were expanding a Justice Depart-
ment anti-violence initiative to do
just that.Barr and other officials have
stressed that the initiative, called
Operation Legend, is separate
from the federal government’s re-
sponse to violence at protests. The
Justice Department, Barr has said,
is sending hundreds of agents
with the FBI, DEA, the U.S. Mar-
shals Service and other agencies
to supplement existing violent-
crime task forces. But local leaders
have expressed wariness that Barr
and Trump have other intentions,
and that their moves are meant
mainly to help Trump’s political
prospects by casting him as a law-
and-order president.
In his opening statement, Barr
will lean into that image. He will
criticize efforts to defund police,
and will seek to stress that many
more black people are killed by
homicides than die at police
hands. He will note controversial-
ly, “The threat to black lives posed
by crime on the streets is massive-
ly greater than any threat posed by
police misconduct.”
“When the police are attacked,
when they are defunded, when
they are driven out of urban com-
munities, it is black lives that will
suffer most from their absence,”
Barr will say, according to his
opening statement.
The Justice Department and
Homeland Security inspectors
general have said they will exam-
ine the federal response in Port-
land and D.C., which Barr could
use as a reason to decline answer-
ing more specific questions.
Barr is also sure to face scrutiny
about his personal interventions
in the criminal cases against for-
mer Trump national security ad-
viser Michael Flynn and longtime
Trump associate Roger Stone.
Stone was convicted in Decem-
ber of lying to Congress as it inves-
tigated Russian interference in
the 2016 election. Earlier this year,
as Stone was awaiting sentencing,
Barr overruled the recommenda-
tion for a penalty that career pros-
ecutors gave to a judge in favor of a
more lenient one. One of the pros-
ecutors on that case, Aaron Zelin-
sky, testified to the House Judicia-
ry Committee last month that the
move was “based on political con-siderations.” Stone was ultimately
sentenced to 40 months in prison,
but Trump commuted the term
earlier this month — a move Barr
reportedly opposed.
A counsel for Democrats on the
House Judiciary Committee said
current and former Justice De-
partment officials have come for-
ward since with their own whistle-
blower accounts, but did not
name whom.
Flynn pleaded guilty in 2017 to
lying about his dealings with a
Russian diplomat. But as he was
awaiting sentencing, he switched
legal teams and tried to attack his
own case, and soon gained an ally
in Barr’s Justice Department. Barr
ordered the U.S. attorney in St.
Louis, Jeff Jensen, to review the
matter, and at Jensen’s recom-
mendation, then had the depart-
ment try to get the case dismissed.
The move again raised ques-
tions about politicization. A D.C.
federal judge initially balked at
granting the department’s re-
quest, though he was ordered to
do so by an appeals court — which
sided with Barr. The judge is now
himself challenging that decision.
Barr will tell lawmakers that
Trump “told me from the start
that he expects me to exercise my
independent judgment to make
whatever call I think is right,”
according to his opening state-
ment.
“Like his predecessors, Presi-
dent Trump and his National Se-
curity Council have appropriately
weighed in on law-enforcement
decisions that directly implicate
national security or foreign policy,
because those decisions necessar-
ily involve considerations that
transcend typical prosecutorial
factors,” Barr will say, according to
the statement. “Moreover, when
some noteworthy event occurs
that potentially has legal ramifica-
tions — such as leaks of classified
information, potential civil rights
abuses by police, or illegal price
fixing or gouging — the President
has occasionally, and appropriate-
ly, confirmed that the Department
is aware of the matter.”
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