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Governor resigns amid affair
scandal, pleads to two charges
BENTLEY QUITS
BENTLEY
IVEY
BY TIM LOCKETTE
tlockette@annistonstar.com
MONTGOMERY — Gov. Robert
Bentley pleaded guilty to two mis-
demeanors and resigned from office
Monday, felled by a sex scandal and
alleged coverup.
The governor resigned as part of a
plea deal agreed to at the Montgom-
ery County Courthouse, according to
an announcement from the attorney
general’s office, and acknowledged his
guilt on two charges related to cam-
paign finance.
A short time later, Bentley
announced his resignation in an
address to reporters, government offi-
cials and tourists who happened to be
in the State Capitol.
“I’ve not always made the right
choices,” Bentley said. “I’ve not always
said the right things.”
Bentley referred to his “sins” and
said that “there have been times that
I’ve let you and the people of this state
down, and I’m sorry for that.”
Once a popular Republican gover-
nor in a deep-red state, Bentley faced
impeachment hearings in the House
of Representatives this week, as law-
makers looked into allegations that
Please see RESIGNS | Page 4A
CALHOUN COUNTY HONOR FLIGHT
Photos by Stephen Gross/The Anniston Star
TOP: Veterans hold their hats over their hearts during the National Anthem. ABOVE: Veterans and their guardians wait
toleaveduringthesend-offforthe2017CalhounCountyHonorFlighttoWashingtonD.C.fromtheOxfordCivicCenter.
ROSWELL, Ga. — Joseph Nixon is 93,
a slender man with a Georgia drawl and
attentive eyes and a firm handshake. He’s
a Navy man, still. Atop
his head rests a blue cap.
“USS Wichita,” it says.
By midday today,
Nixon expects to be with
the Calhoun County
Honor Flight in Wash-
ington, D.C., which will
bring Nick — that’s what
friends call him — twin
firsts: He’s never seen
the World War II Nation-
al Memorial, and he’s never been to the
nation’s capital.
Plus, it’s his birthday.
His 94th birthday.
Stories abound about how America’s
aging wartime veterans react when they
first see their memorials. There’s emo-
tion. Appreciation. Tears. Joy. Sadness.
Remembrances of the fallen. Nixon’s
eager for the experience, whatever it
brings.
I expect “all of it,” he said. “I’m going
to enjoy it, for sure.”
Previously, Calhoun County veterans
who have traveled on Honor Flight mis-
sions have joined with other Alabama
groups, often from Jefferson County. But
organizers say today’s Honor Flight is
the largest-ever Calhoun County effort,
its original goal being to escort a covey
of local veterans on what could be their
final chance to see Washington’s memo-
rials.
Organizers, led by Jacksonville’s David
Hall, a retired first sergeant in the U.S.
Army, raised more than $70,000 through
sponsors and donations to pay the trav-
el expenses for the veterans and their
guardians. The Calhoun County group,
pressed for time, couldn’t secure the
required permit from the National Park
Service for today’s visit, so organizers
partnered with a similar-sized group here
in Roswell, whose arrangements were
already set.
Monday afternoon, Calhoun County’s
Honor Flight veterans and their guard-
ians gathered at the Oxford Civic Center
for their send-off: 11 World War II veter-
ans, 16 from the Korean War and six from
the Vietnam War.
A musical group from Parker Memo-
rial Baptist Church, the HeartNotes, sang
Veterans escorted to nation’s
capital to tour memorials
Joseph Nixon waves his flag during
the send-off.
Phillip
Tutor
Please see VETERANS | Page 4A
Governor Ivey:
‘more than capable’
BY EDDIE BURKHALTER
eburkhalter@annistonstar.com
Anniston City Councilman Ben
Little at a work session Monday allud-
ed to wrongdoing among former city
officials, but provided no details, and
asked the city to look for them.
In the lengthy council session, Lit-
tle asked that the immediate past city
manager be asked to return to the city
and answer questions regarding city
finances, but Little provided council
members with no details.
Little asked, however, that the city
pay for a forensic audit of city finances
to discover potential misdeeds.
City Manager Kent Davis said that
forensic audits are done when there
are allegations of criminal activity.
“I’ll have some,” Little said, but he
offered no specific concerns.
Davis said city officials would gladly
answer questions about specific con-
cerns Little might have, but that a com-
plete forensic audit of the city’s entire
financial history would cost “millions.”
Little also repeated concerns he’s
expressed in recent meetings about
Regional Medical Center’s deal to take
over operation of Stringfellow Memo-
rial Hospital. At a March 27 work ses-
sion Little said he believes RMC had to
first get council approval, and that he’d
fight the deal in court if necessary.
RMC administrators on March 3
announced an agreement had been
made to buy Stringfellow’s operating
contract from Tennessee-based Com-
munity Health Services for $25 million.
According to the agreement the deal
is set to close by April 30 and become
effective May 1.
Bruce Downey, Anniston’s attor-
ney, told The Star on March 27 that
RMC has the authority to buy Stringfel-
low without the council’s consent.
Last year the council restructured
RMC from a public hospital corpora-
tion into a health care authority. State
law allows health care authorities to
purchase other health care facilities
without a council’s consent.
At Monday’s meeting Little said he
believes the council gave the Health
CareAuthorityboard“fiduciaryduties”
that should not have been given.
“I want to do some more digging,”
Little said.
As discussion Monday contin-
ued on city finances, Davis suggested
council members hold a budget retreat
to discuss one another’s goals as the
city prepares to begin drafting next
year’s budget.
Councilman
Little voices
concern about
city ﬁnances
ANNISTON
Please see LITTLE | Page 4A
BY ZACH TYLER
ztyler@annistonstar.com
Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey became the 54th
governor of Alabama on Monday eve-
ning, after Robert Bentley pleaded
guilty to campaign finance crimes and
resigned.
Bentley announced his resignation
in a speech given not long after he’d
been arrested Monday afternoon at
Montgomery County Jail on misde-
meanor charges, his arrest part of a
deal that ended impeachment hear-
ings. In the speech, the former gov-
ernor said he’d spoken with Ivey, 72,
about a “positive and peaceful” trans-
fer of power.
The second woman ever to hold
the post behind Lurleen Wallace, Ivey
took office shortly after 6 p.m. Mon-
day. Acting Alabama Supreme Court
Chief Justice Lynn Stuart — who also
took over after a male predecessor,
Roy Moore, was forced out — admin-
istered the oath of office.
“I pledge to do my very best,” Ivey,
an Auburn University graduate who
coordinated Wallace’s campaign
efforts there and has since logged a
Please see IVEY | Page 4A

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One of the most difficult things
for people to do when they talk
about the late Robert Edward
Henry is to limit their recollec-
tions to just one memory.
“Where do I start?” Decatur
City Council-
man Billy Jackson
said. “He was a
person of integ-
rity, honesty and
high character.
And that’s just the
beginning.”
Henry, who was the first black
teacher at Decatur High School,
died Friday at Decatur Morgan
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will be today at King’s Memorial
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By Keith Clines
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ADecaturmanaccusedofkill-
ing his wife left on a work break
in one vehicle and returned 30
minutes later in his wife’s pri-
mary vehicle about four hours
before he called 911 to say he
had found her badly beaten , a
Decatur police investigator said
Monday morning.
Andreas Shackelford, who
is charged with murder in the
March 9 death of his wife,
Minnie Shackelford, left on a
work break at Wayne Farms at
9:45 p.m. on March 8 in a white
BMW, investigator Montrez
Payton testified at Andreas
Shackelford’s preliminary hear-
ing in Morgan County District
Court.
Surveillance recordings at
Wayne Farms show Shackel-
ford returning at 10:15 p.m. in a
Suzuki sport utility vehicle that
Minnie Shackelford primarily
drove, Payton said.
Andreas
Shackelford’s
work shift ended
at 2 a.m. March
9. He called 911
at 2:33 a.m. to
report that he
arrived home to
find his wife dead, Payton said.
“It appeared he was in a rush
to get somewhere,” Payton
said, referring to video show-
ing Andreas Shackelford leaving
work when his shift ended.
Minnie Shackelford, 44, was
found beaten and strangled in
her home at 220 Fourth Ave.
N.W., police said.
Andreas Shackelford, 41, was
charged with murder March 13.
He is in Morgan County Jail with
bail set at $100,000.
District Judge Brent Craig
found there was enough evi-
dence that Andreas Shackelford
mayhavekilledMinnieShackel-
ford to send the case to a grand
jury for possible indictment.
Defense attorney Ed Blair’s
questioning of Payton during
the 50-minute hearing aimed
to build suspicion that a bur-
glar could have killed Minnie
Shackelford.
Payton testified that police
found four 9mm rounds and
shell casings in the house. They
also found broken glass in the
living room that came from a
side door in the kitchen, Payton
said. The glass was broken with
such impact that it could have
landed in the living room, he
said.
Payton didn’t know when
the shooting happened, but
that it was not the night Minnie
Shackelford was killed. He said
he has no suspect or motive in
the shooting.
Payton said police found
a broken mirror and opened
drawers in one bedroom when
Blair asked if there were any
signs of a struggle in the
bedroom.
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When a woman gets sick, an
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keep on hand to stay healthy. A8
BENTLEY OUT, IVEY IN
Before he resigned as governor,
Robert Bentley and the state Attor-
ney General’s Office came to terms
Monday. Bentley pleaded guilty to:
• Complaint 1: Failing to file a major
contribution report.
• Complaint 2: Knowingly convert-
ing campaign contributions to
personal use.
Bentley, pursuant to the agree-
ment, will pay within one week of
sentencing:
• $100 ($50 per complaint) assess-
ment to the Alabama Crime Victims
Compensation Commission.
• Court costs for both complaints.
• Fines of $5,000, for complaint 1,
and $2,000, for complaint 2.
• Reimburse his campaign fund
$8,912.40.
• Surrender all campaign funds
(about $36,912.40) to the state of
Alabama.
Bentley also agreed:
• To complete at least 100 hours of
community service in his capacity
as a licensed physician to the people
of Alabama within the terms of his
sentence.
• To resign his position as governor
and provide the state a copy of his
resignation letter.
• Not to seek or serve in public
office again.
• To waive retirement or other ben-
efits to which he would be entitled.
• To waive any and all objections to
venue and his right to appeal any
issue.
Plea agreement
By Mary Sell
Montgomery Bureau
MONTGOMERY — Gov.
Robert Bentley, plagued for
more than a year by an alleged
affair and accusations he used
state resources to cover it up,
resigned Monday.
The 74-year-old announced
shortly after 5:15 p.m. that he
would leave office immediately,
just after pleading guilty to mis-
demeanor charges related to the
use of his campaign fundraising
account.
Pursuant to a plea deal with
the Alabama Attorney Gener-
al’s Office, he will not serve jail
time. Bentley was booked and
processed at the Montgomery
County Sheriff’s Office.
Kay Ivey, Alabama’s lieuten-
ant governor, was sworn in as
governor Monday evening.
Bentley did not mention the
charges in a speech in the Capi-
tol in which he said serving as
governor for six years was the
highest honor of his life.
“I’ve not always made the
right choices, I know I’ve not
always said the right things,”
Bentley said. “Though I some-
times tripped, I’ve always tried
to live up to the high expecta-
tions the people place on the
person who holds this esteemed
office.”
The resignation comes days
after he stood on the State-
house steps and said he had
done nothing illegal in his
relationship with Rebekah
Caldwell Mason, and would not
resign.
The resignation stops a House
impeachment process, for
which hearings began Monday,
one of three separate but con-
current probes in the last year
into Bentley’s activities.
Last week, in a separate
action, the Ethics Commission
foundprobablecausethatBent-
ley misused state resources and
campaign funds, improperly
accepted a campaign donation
outside the legal fundraising
window, and loaned himself
campaign money when he was
not a candidate.
Former Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley gives his resignation speech Monday in Montgomery. [ALBERT CESARE PHOTOS/THE MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER]
Gov.
Robert
Bentley
leaves the
Alabama
Capitol
Building on
Monday.
Bentley
later
announced
his resig-
nation.
Henry
M. Shackelford
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Governor resigns after
accusations of affair, cover-up
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BY JIM COOK
jcook@dothaneagle.com
Do you know the maximum
gap between two prime num-
bers?
Charles Hoekenga does. (It’s 70
trillion.)
Hoekenga and other Dothan
High students recently proved
their mastery of various facts,
obscure and otherwise, at the
Alabama Scholastic Challenge
event in Birmingham. The Do-
than High team won the 6A divi-
sion competition.
“It’s really fun to go and win,”
Hoekenga said.
In the competition, students
compete in a game show-like
first round where they must
buzz in to answer questions. In
the second round, students col-
laborate on a written test of their
knowledge. The third round re-
verts to the format of the first
round.
Ben Turvin, a math teacher, led
the Dothan High team. Turvin
said the academic team provides
students an opportunity to shine
at something at which they are
good. The competitive nature
of the event also spurs students
to improved academic achieve-
ment.
“It’s good,” he said. “It gets
them involved in school. I find
that I get kids who may not be
athletes.”
Turvin said participating on
the team gives students confi-
dence and self-discipline.
“It’s memorization based, but
you have to have discipline to
study and learn it,” he said.
Skyler Allen, a student on the
team, said, “I’m a really com-
petitive person, and I enjoy the
chance to represent Dothan
High in a positive light. People
have this negative connotation
associated with Dothan High.
This allows us to show that we’re
good at more than just sports
and that this is a good school.”
“It’s fun to be able to learn
about topics, compete, and see
how good you can do,” Jared
Stinson, said. “It’s really fun
when a question comes up and
you know it.”
J.P. Wood said, “It’s mostly stuff
you already know, things you re-
member from reading.”
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Bentley resignsGovernor steps down, pleads guilty to misdemeanors
The Associated Press
MONTGOMERY — Alabama Gov. Rob-
ert Bentley resigned Monday rather than
face impeachment and pleaded guilty to
two misdemeanor campaign violations
that arose during an investigation of his
alleged affair with a top aide.
Inaremarkablefall,themild-mannered
74-year-old Republican and one-time
Baptist deacon stepped down as the sex-
tinged scandal gathered force over the
past few days. Legislators turned up the
pressure by opening impeachment hear-
ings Monday. Last week, the Alabama
Ethics Commission cited evidence that
Bentley broke state ethics and campaign
laws and referred the matter to prosecu-
tors.
“There’ve been times that I let you and
our people down, and I’m sorry for that,”
Bentley said in the old House chamber
of Alabama’s Capitol after he pleaded
guilty.
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Former Gov. Robert Bentley speaks after officially resigning Monday in Montgomery. Bentley resigned rather than face impeachment and
pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor campaign violations that arose during an investigation of his alleged affair with a top aide.
MONTGOMERY —With
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley
resigning one step ahead of
an impeachment hearing, his
successor becomes the state’s
second female governor and
the first to rise through the
political ranks on her own.
Kay Ivey, the first Republi-
can woman elected lieutenant
governor of Alabama, was also
the first Republican to hold
that office for two straight
terms.
She entered the Old Senate
Chamber for her swearing-in
ceremony to a thunderous
round of applause but bluntly
stated the challenges ahead of
her as the state’s new gover-
nor in a brief speech.
“Today is both a dark day for
Alabama, yet also one of op-
portunity,” Ivey said, adding
that her “administration will
be open, it will be transparent
and it will be honest.”
Alabama’s first female
governor was LurleenWallace,
wife of four-term Gov. George
C.Wallace. She ran as a surro-
See RESIGNS, Page 3A
Successor is state’s
second female governor
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gov. Kay Ivey speaks after taking the oath of office Monday in
Montgomery after the resignation of Gov. Robert Bentley.
See IVEY, Page 3A
Officials react
to resignation,
new governor
Local, state and federal elected and
party officials have reacted to the
resignation of Alabama Gov. Robert
Bentley and the installation of Kay
Ivey as the state’s next governor. The
following are their statements:
» State Rep. Paul Lee, R-Dothan:
“I think Gov. Bentley’s resignation
is best for the entire
state. This will allow us
to move forward with
our business such as
getting our budgets
passed as they should
be.We need to work
on the redistricting
“She is well in tune to the
issues. I think she will be
a steady hand for state
government.”
Sen. Cam Ward,
Alabaster Republican, on Gov. Kay Ivey
Lee
See OFFICIALS, Page 3A
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Robert Bentley’s plea deal, see
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BY JEREMY WISE
jwise@eprisenow.com
A collision between a Chevro-
let SUV and a Massey Ferguson
farm tractor between Enter-
prise and Level Plains on Friday
evening sent two people to the
hospital.
At about 3:40 p.m. Friday, a
2005 Chevrolet Tahoe driven by
39-year-old Joricus Tyrone Lane
of Enterprise struck the tractor,
which was carrying a box blade.
The wreck ejected the tractor
driver, 73-year-old Daniel Ray-
mond Youngblood of Daleville,
according to a report from the
Alabama Law Enforcement
Agency.
The wreck occurred on U.S.
Highway 84 between the inter-
section of Coffee County Road
445 and the Enterprise city
limits.
Youngblood was transported
to Southeast Alabama Medical
Center in Dothan via Haynes
Life Flight. As of Monday morn-
ing,Youngblood remained in the
hospital.
Lane was transported to Medi-
cal Center Enterprise by Enter-
prise Rescue, where state troop-
ers interviewed him about the
accident.
Law officers rerouted traffic
through sections of Level Plains
for more than an hour after the
accident.
Wreck involving tractor sends 2 to hospital
BY JEREMY WISE
jwise@eprisenow.com
NEW BROCKTON — The
Coffee County Commission
voted unanimously
Monday to
purchase a new
trash com-
pactor for
the county’s
landfill.
The
compactor,
valued at
$730,500, will
replace a unit
that was 20 years
old and is no longer opera-
tional, according to landfill
manager Mike Thornton.
Thornton said his of-
fice tries to keep two
compactors operational
year-round. Currently the
landfill operates on one 10-
year-old compactor.
Thornton noted plans to
purchase a new compactor
had been made for the next
fiscal year. Because of the
lengthy process to build
and install a new compac-
tor, the purchase will be
reflected in the 2018 fiscal
year.
IN OTHER ACTION
» The commission also
voted unanimously to allow
county engineer Randy
Tindell to initiate a process
to reclassify two of the
county’s roads. Tindell said
if successful, reclassifying
sections of County Road
107 and County Road 304
as “collector” roads will al-
low the county to apply for
federal funds in the future.
Currently, two of the
three sections of 107
are already listed
as “collector”
roads, or roads
that help traf-
fic navigate
from residen-
tial areas to
workplaces,
Tindell said.
He also noted
that 304, when
it crosses into Pike
County, becomes a collec-
tor road.
» The commissioners
also approved a plat for the
WellbornWay subdivision
that will be on County Road
606.
» Commission chairman
Dean Smith encouraged
residents to participate in
the annual “Don’t Drop
it on Alabama” statewide
spring cleanup. Alabama
People Against a Littered
State organized the event
last year.
Last year’s cleanup net-
ted 368 tons of littler and
debris in 61 of the state’s 67
counties.
Groups or individuals
who want to participate
are encouraged to call the
commission office at 894-
5556 or the environmental
services office at 894-6600.
Bags are available for
pickup at both offices.
Landfill to get new
trash compactor
Coffee County Commission
From staff reports
Bond for an Elba man charged with
murder following a weekend shoot-
ing has been set at $100,000 after an
initial appearance in court Monday.
Ted Carstiel Caldwell, 31, has been
charged in Saturday’s shooting death
of 39-year-old Marcus EugeneVirghes
of Elba. The homicide occurred at a
residence in the 14000 block of Shell
Field Road in Enterprise.
According to an Enterprise Police
Department press release, officers
initiated an investigation into the
death of Virghes early Sunday morn-
ing. The owner of the home had a so-
cial gathering and discovered Virghes
had been shot multiple times.
The Coffee County Coroner’s Of-
fice pronounced Virghes dead at the
scene.
Caldwell told District Judge Chris
Kaminiski he planned to hire his own
attorney in his initial appearance in
court on Monday morning. He also
did not request a preliminary hear-
ing.
BOND SETFOR MURDER SUSPECT
FATAL SHOOTING
Elba man charged in Saturday shooting death
GWEN BLACK /THE LEDGER
A shooting at this residence on Shell Field Road on Saturday night left one man dead.
Caldwell
EASTER CELEBRATED
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T
he City of Enterprise celebrated the Easter holiday with festivities held at the
Enterprise Farmers Market on Saturday. One of the biggest hits was the Easter hat
parade and contest. Contestants went all out decorating their hats and paraded
them around the farmers market. Pictured are (from left) the winners of the 1-10 age
group: fourth place, Arielle Fleury; third place, Jeyi Lee; second place, Lauren Peterson;
and first place, Macy Griffin.
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» For more photos of
the Easter celebration
at the farmers
market, see PAGE 6A.

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fees for pharmacies
Local city leaders are fighting a bill in
the Alabama Legislature that would
reduce the amount of money cities
can collect on business licenses for
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sales total used to calculate how
much each pharmacy pays for a
business license, therefore reducing
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selected local attorney David
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vacatedlastmonthbyBillJordan.
Howard was an 11-year
member of the Florence board
before choosing not to run for
re-election eight years ago.
"My motivation to apply was
the same I had before, just a
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County Sheriff
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saidhehasalready
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place to make the
detention center more secure.
Singleton said Christopher
Wayne Kilpatrick, 43, of Flor-
ence, who was awaiting trial for
attempted murder of a Florence
police officer, picked a lock on
a casing that covers plumbing
goingintothecell,crawledupthe
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Escapee: Christopher Wayne Kilpatrick,
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Center
Charge: Awaiting trial for attempted
murder of a Florence police officer
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passenger side, sticker on vehicle, with
Alabama tag 41BM961.
Important: Kilpatrick is considered
dangerous. Do not approach him. Call
911 immediately if you see Kilpatrick
or van matching description
By Mary Sell
Montgomery Bureau
MONTGOMERY — Gov.
Robert Bentley, plagued for
more than a year by an alleged
affair and accusations he used
state resources to cover it up,
has resigned.
The 74-year-old announced
shortly after 5:15 p.m. Monday
that he would leave office
immediately, just after plead-
ing guilty to misdemeanor
chargesrelatedtotheuseofhis
campaignfundraisingaccount.
Bentley resigns, pleads
to two misdemeanors
Former Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley gives his resignation speech Monday in Montgomery. [ALBERT CESARE
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SEE HOWARD, A6
By Mary Sell
Montgomery Bureau
MONTGOMERY – In 2010,
Kay Ivey campaigned to be
governor of Alabama. Today,
she is.
Ivey was sworn in at 6 p.m.
Monday, after the resignation
of Robert Bentley.
Ivey asked for the public’s
help and patience and said
her first priority is restor-
ing the state’s image. She
pledged a smooth transition
and uninterrupted functions
of government.
“I pledg to each of you that I
will do my very best,” she said.
“The Ivey administration will
be open, it will be transparent,
and it will be honest.”
The 72-year-old is the
state’s second female gover-
nor. She was a candidate for
SECOND FEMALE AT THE HELM
Ivey is state’s
54th governor
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L i k e m o s t A l a b a m -
ians, Sen. Phil Williams
had been searching the
internet looking for the latest
news as it developed Monday
regarding Gov. Robert Bent-
ley’s fate.
When Williams, a Repub-
l i c a n w h o r e p r e s e n t s
Etowah, Cherokee, DeKalb
and St. Clair counties,
learned that Bentley had
resigned Monday afternoon,
he called it a dark day in the
state, but said he personally
was “gratified” that impeach-
ment hearings would not have
to move forward.
“The first thing that comes
to mind is that this should be
aclearindicationthatpartisan
politics has no place here,”
Williams told The Times.
“I’m gratified he (Bentley)
has resigned and not dragged
the state through the morass
of the impeachment process.
I wish him the best in the days
to come.”
Bentley’sfutureasgovernor
was put into question Friday
when a 131-page investigative
report along with thousands
of exhibits were released by
House Judiciary Committee
special counsel Jack Sharman
at the same time his attorney
argued to have impeachment
hearings delayed.
Local legislators react
to Bentley’s resignation
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Gorsuch sworn into
Supreme Court
Justice Neil Gorsuch took his
place in history Monday as the
newest addition on the bench
of the Supreme Court, restoring
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and marking a much-needed
political victory for President
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MONTGOMERY —
A
labamaGov.Robert
Bentley resigned
Monday rather
than face impeach-
ment and pleaded guilty to
two misdemeanor campaign
violations that arose during
an investigation of his alleged
affair with a top aide.
In a remark-
able fall, the
mild-mannered
74-year-old
Republican
and one-time
Baptist deacon
stepped down
as the sex-
tinged scandal gathered force
over the past few days. Legis-
lators turned up the pressure
ALABAMA GOVERNMENT
THE DOCTOR IS OUT
Bentley resigns, pleads guilty to misdemeanors
“There’ve been times
that I let you and our
people down, and I’m
sorry for that.”
— Alabama Gov.
Robert Bentley
Inside:
Will Kay
Ivey be a
fit gover-
nor for the
state? A7
Times Staff Report
An Etowah County Sheriff’s
deputyhasbeenchargedwithone
countofcustodialsexualmiscon-
duct,accordingtoanewsrelease
from Sheriff Todd Entrekin.
Anthony Ryan Bowen, 40, of
Gadsden, is accused of engaging
in sexual conduct with a female
victim while she was in custody
in the back seat of a patrol car.
Custodialsexualmisconductis
aClassCfelony.Bowenwasfired
as a deputy after the arrest.
“A priority of this sheriff’s
office is to always protect and
serve,” Entrekin said. “That is
the oath we take. This sheds a
black eye on the office and law
enforcement.As
soon as we were
notified of the
crime, we took
quick action to
relievehimofhis
duties.”
Bowen is in
the Etowah County Detention
Center on $100,000 cash bond.
“I want to personally apol-
ogize to the victim that an
employee acted in this manner,”
Entrekin said. “At this time, we
are investigating this case as
an isolated incident. However,
if anyone feels like they have
additional information, please
contact the sheriff’s office at
256-546-2825.”
CRIME
Deputy charged with
sexual misconduct
Bowen
By Donna Thornton
Times Staff Writer
“He killed me. He killed
me,” Amos Jackson Jr. told
medics who responded as he
lay bleeding in front of a house
on Winona Avenue.
Chief Deputy District Attor-
ney Marcus Reid related that
grim story Monday in Etowah
County Circuit Judge David
Kimberley’s courtroom during
the trial of William D’angelo
McKinney.
JurorsfoundMcKinneyguilty
of murder and felony domestic
violence after a week-long trial
and more than two hours of
deliberation.
McKinney faced charges
for the 2014 stabbing death of
Jackson,53,ofGadsden,atares-
idence on Winona Avenue, and
an assault against his girlfriend
attheresidencethenightbefore.
Reid said while there were
no eyewitnesses to the actual
attack,therewasstrongcircum-
stantial evidence and nothing
to support the defense claim of
self-defense.
“We felt strongly from the
beginning this was a case of
intentional murder,” he said.
“We feel the jury reached the
right decision and we appreci-
ate that.”
STABBING DEATH
Jurors find McKinney
guilty of murder
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BENTLEY RESIGNSMISDEMEANOR CHARGES
Pleads guilty to breaking
campaign finance laws
Relationship with aide
led to impeachment calls
Kay Ivey sworn in as
state’s 54th governor
DRAMATIC END TO SCANDAL CHANGE OF POWER
Former Gov. Robert Bentley speaks after
officially resigning on Monday
in Montgomery.
PHOTOS BY ALBERT CESARE / ADVERTISER
See Resigns, Page 5A
Gov. Robert Bentley resigned Monday after
pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges of
campaign finance law violations, ending six
years in office and giving a dramatic ending
to a sex scandal that consumed his admini-
stration for more than a year.
In a finish to a political career almost as surprising as
its beginning, Bentley pleaded guilty to charges of failing
to file a major campaign finance report and converting
campaign funds for personal use. He was sentenced to a
30-day suspended jail sentence and 12 months of proba-
G
BRIAN LYMAN AND ANDREW J. YAWN MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER
Gov. Robert Bentley walked into the dark-colored, 1980s-appor-
tioned committee room on July1, 2013, to ask state legislators to give
him more power.
Hetookhisseatatthehorseshoe-shapedtable,surroundedbyleg-
islators,officialsandattorneyswhoweretalkingaboutchangingthe
state Constitution. And he discussed the governor’s limited power to
override legislation.
The state's chief executive can veto legislation, but it only takes a
majority of the Legislature to override that veto. Bentley suggested
a two-thirds threshold, like that in the U.S. Constitution and held by
many other states.
LOOKING BACK
UNLIKELY GOVERNOR,
UNEXPECTED ENDING
BRIAN LYMAN MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER
See Ending, Page 4A
Kay Ivey on Monday became Alabama’s 54th governor, in an
almost unprecedented fashion.
TheformerlieutenantgovernortooktheoathofofficeMonday
evening in the Old Senate Chamber of the State Capitol, less than
an hour after Gov. Robert Bentley pleaded guilty to two misde-
meanor campaign finance charges and resigned from office, in
the Old House Chamber across the way.
The scandals were on the mind of the newly installed chief ex-
ecutive.
“Today is both a dark day in Alabama, but yet also it’s one of
opportunity,” Ivey, 72, said in a brief speech after being sworn in
by Acting Alabama Chief Justice Lyn Stuart. “I ask for your help
and patience as we together steady the ship of State and improve
Alabama’s image.”
That image has been damaged by a series of scandals that con-
vulsed Alabama government and crippled state leadership for
Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey is sworn in as Alabama's governor by Judge Lyn Stuart
as Jay Wolf holds the Bible on Monday in Montgomery.
Ivey becomes governor,
promises transparency
BRIAN LYMAN MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER
STEPPING INTO OFFICE
See Ivey, Page 5A
City may suffer
Bentley scandal may
have already cost
Montgomery jobs.
On Page 4A
Bentley is
a ‘criminal’
The special assistant
attorney general who
has supervised the
investigation for the
past two months says
Bentley deserves to be
called a “criminal.”
On Page 5A
Check out
more photos
from Bentley’s
last day in
office and
from Ivey’s
swearing in.
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WASHINGTON — Jus-
tice Neil Gorsuch took his
place in history Monday
as the newest addition on
the bench of the Supreme
Court, restoring a nar-
row conservative major-
ity and marking a much-
needed political victory for
President Donald Trump.
Gorsuch was sworn in
during a sun-soaked cer-
emony in the Rose Garden,
nearly 14 months after the
seat was left vacant with the
sudden death of Justice An-
tonin Scalia. The oath was
administered during the
White House ceremony by
Justice Anthony Kennedy,
whom Gorsuch once served
as a law clerk. A smiling
Trump stood behind his
nominee.
It was the second of two
oaths — the first was con-
ducted privately in the Jus-
tices’ Conference Room by
Chief Justice John Roberts.
“To the Scalia family, I
won’t ever forget that the
seat I inherit today is that
of a very, very great man,”
Gorsuch said to the audi-
ence of family and adminis-
tration staffers, as well as all
the sitting Supreme Court
justices.
“I will do all my powers
permit to be a faithful ser-
vant of the Constitution and
laws of this great nation,” he
said.
Gorsuch joins the court
that is often the final arbiter
for presidential policy.
Speaking ahead of Gor-
such at the ceremony,
Trump said that “our coun-
try is counting on you to be
wise, impartial and fair, to
serve under our laws, not
over them, and to safeguard
Gorsuch takes oath, sworn in
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy (right) administers the judicial oath to Justice
Neil Gorsuch, accompanied by his wife Marie Louise, on Monday during a public swearing-
in ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House. See GORSUCH, Page 6A
Fills Supreme Court vacancy 14 months after Scalia’s death
Lee County
Commission
recognizes
four officers
BY LINDY OLLER
loller@oanow.com
The Lee County Commission
honored four deputies with the
Lee County Sheriff’s Office at its
meeting Monday.
Deputy Dakota Smith was recog-
nized as the 2016 Lee County Sher-
iff’s Office Employee of the Year.
He was been with the office since
October 2013.
“Dakota has been recognized by
his supervisor and his peers as be-
ing one of those kinds of people
who does not wait to be asked to do
something,” said Lee County Sher-
iff Jay Jones. “He looks for things to
do and make things better.”
Smith is a second-generation of-
ficer. His father works in the Russell
County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies Amber Burdette, Ter-
rance Moore and Ray Smith were
recognized as the recipients of the
office’s Valor/Lifesaver Medal. The
award is presented to an individual
who is directly involved in saving a
life through his or her line of duty
work.
Burdette saved the life of a wom-
an who was trying to commit sui-
cide Jan. 2, 2017 on Interstate 85,
Exit 70.
“A female had indicated that
she was going to commit suicide
by driving her car off the bridge,
but she exited the vehicle and was
standing on the railing of the bridge
itself over the interstate and threat-
ening to leap to her death,” Jones
said. “Amber was able to approach
her and, after an attempt by the fe-
male to get away and actually try to
go off the bridge, Amber grabbed
her and kept her from jumping off
the bridge and was able to effective-
ly save this young woman’s life.”
Moore helped save the life of a
5-month-old child who stopped
breathing Jan. 3, 2016 inWaverly. He
along with other deputies and para-
medics were called to the scene.
“They began lifesaving measures,
CPR and during the course of that,
Deputy Moore recognized that they
were really having a tough time,”
Jones said. He immediately jumped
in and began performing CPR to
free those paramedics up to per-
form other lifesaving functions.
The paramedics made it a point of
contacting us and making us aware
that were it not for Deputy Moore’s
actions, that child might not be
alive today.”
See MEETING, Page 5A
Former Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley makes a statement after resigning from his position on Monday in Montgomery. Bentley pleaded guilty
to two misdemeanor campaign finance violations.
Gov.Robert Bentleyarrested,resigns;
Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey becomes governor
Bentley’s successor inAlabama
state’s 2nd female governor
From staff and wire reports
MONTGOMERY — Kay
Ivey, twice elected as Ala-
bama’s lieu-
tenant gover-
nor, was sworn
in as the state’s
second fe-
male governor
Monday after
Robert Bentley
resigned, one
step ahead of an impeach-
ment hearing.
Ivey becomes the state’s
first female governor to rise
through the political ranks on
her own, as she was the first
Republican to hold the office
of lieutenant governor for two
straight terms.
Alabama’s first female gov-
ernor was Lurleen Wallace,
wife of four-term Gov. George
C. Wallace. She ran as a sur-
rogate for her still-powerful
husband in 1966 when he
couldn’t seek re-election be-
cause of term limits. She won,
but died in office in 1968.
Her husband regained the
governor’s seat in 1970.
IveycampaignedforLurleen
Wallace as an undergraduate
student during her time at
Auburn University where she
graduated in 1967, according
See IVEY, Page 2A
MONTGOMERY — Ala-
bama Gov. Robert Bentley re-
signed Monday
rather than face
impeachment
and pleaded
guilty to two
misdemeanor
campaign vio-
lations that
arose during
an investigation of his alleged
affair with a top aide.
In a remarkable fall, the
mild-mannered 74-year-old
Republican and one-time
Baptist deacon stepped down
as the sex-tinged scandal
gathered force over the past
few days. Legislators turned
up the pressure by opening
impeachment hearings Mon-
day. Last week, the Alabama
Ethics Commission cited
evidence that Bentley broke
state ethics and campaign
laws and referred the matter
to prosecutors.
“There’ve been times that I
let you and our people down,
and I’m sorry for that,” Bent-
ley said in the old House
chamber of Alabama’s Capitol
after he pleaded guilty.
The violations were discov-
ered during the investigation
See BENTLEY, Page 2A
IveyBentley
“He did what he did, and he deserves now to be called a criminal.”
—Ellen Brooks,
Special prosecutor investigating Gov. Robert Bentley
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resigning one step ahead of
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successor becomes the state’s
secondfemalegovernorandthe
firsttorisethroughthepolitical
ranks on her own.
Kay Ivey, the first Republi-
can woman elected lieutenant
governor of Alabama, was also
thefirstRepublicantoholdthat
office for two straight terms.
She entered the Old Senate
Chamber for her swearing-
in ceremony to a thunderous
round of applause but bluntly
stated the challenges ahead of
herasthestate’snewgovernor
in a brief speech.
“Todayisbothadarkdayfor
Alabama,yetalsooneofoppor-
tunity,” Ivey said, adding that
her “administration will be
open,itwillbetransparentand
it will be honest.”
Alabama’s first female
governor was Lurleen Wal-
lace, wife of four-term Gov.
George C. Wallace. She ran
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Ivey becomes 2nd female governor
Kay Ivey, left, takes the oath of office as governor of Alabama as she is sworn
in by Acting Chief Justice Lyn Stuart on Monday in Montgomery. [AP PHOTO/
BUTCH DILL]
She will hold
office until 2018
general election
Robert Julian Bentley
Age: 74
Birthplace: Columbiana, Shelby
County
Education: Graduated in 1964 from
the University of Alabama, where
he majored in chemistry and
biology. Graduated from medical
school at the University of Ala-
bama at Birmingham in 1966. In
1974, he completed a specialized
program in dermatology.
Military service: Served as a cap-
tain in the Air Force in a medical
unit at Pope Air Force Base, in
Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Medical career: Opened a derma-
tology practice in Tuscaloosa
and founded Alabama Dermatol-
ogy Associates, which would
become one of the largest
dermatology practices in the
Southeast.
Political career: Elected to the
Alabama Legislature in 2002,
representing Tuscaloosa County
for eight years. Elected gover-
nor in 2010; re-elected in 2014.
Resigned as governor on April
10, 2017.
Family: Divorced from Dianne
Bentley; the couple has four sons
By Kim Chandler
And Anthony Izaguirre
MONTGOMERY — Ala-
bama Gov. Robert Bentley
resigned Monday rather
than face impeachment and
pleaded guilty to two misde-
meanor campaign violations
that arose during an inves-
tigation of his alleged affair
with a top aide.
mild-mannered 74-year-old
Republican and one-time
Baptist deacon stepped down
as the sex-tinged scandal
gathered force over the past
few days. Legislators turned
up the pressure by open-
ing impeachment hearings
Monday. Last week, the Ala-
bama Ethics Commission
cited evidence that Bentley
broke state ethics and cam-
paign laws and referred the
matter to prosecutors.
“There’ve been times
that I let you and our people
down, and I’m sorry for that,”
Bentley said in the old House
chamberofAlabama’sCapitol
after he pleaded guilty.
The violations were discov-
ered during the investigation
of his affair but were not
directly related to it.
In court, Bentley appeared
sullen and looked down at
the floor. One misdemeanor
charge against Bentley
stemmed from a $50,000
loan he made to his campaign
in November that investiga-
tors said he failed to report
until January. State law says
major contributions should
be reported within a few days.
The other charge stemmed
from his use of campaign
funds to pay nearly $9,000 in
legal bills for political adviser
Rebekah Caldwell Mason last
year.
“He did what he did, and
he deserves now to be called
a criminal,” said Ellen Brooks,
a retired district attorney
IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
Bentley resigns, pleads guilty
Former Governor Robert Bentley speaks after officially resigning on Monday in Montgomery. [ALBERT CESARE/THE MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER VIA AP]
Agreement says he must surrender campaign
funds, perform 100 hours community service
There've been times
that I let you and our
people down, and I'm
sorry for that.
—Gov. Robert Bentley
Inside
Governor Bentley’s timeline,
Page A5
Commentary on resignation,
Page A5
He did what he did,
and he deserves now to
be called a criminal.
—Ellen Brooks, retired district
attorneySEE BENTLEY, A5
SEE IVEY, A5

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Bradley:Hotweeknot
raisingplayoffproﬁle
Three giddyresults in fourdays
should not override an otherwise
tepid bodyofworkforthe Hawks,
columnist MarkBradleyopines.
METRO, B1
Census:MetroAtlanta’s
populationnearly5.8M
MetroAtlanta gained the fourth-
most residents in the nation last
year,with 90,650 additional
people making the area home.
BUSINESS, A11
Airportcrowdsclear;
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Hallprobecontinued on A8
ByAlanJudd
ajudd@ajc.com
In the fall of 2009, the FBI dis-
patched agents in seven cities
on an urgent investigation. The
White House needed everything
they could dig up on Beverly Hall,
the superintendent of Atlanta
Public Schools.
Six weeks later, the agents
reported that Hall was patriotic,
had no ties to terrorists or foreign
agents, and was known to wear
“appropriate clothing.”
Theagentsmissedabigredflag,
however: the scandal beginning
to engulf Hall over cheating on
standardized achievement tests.
FBI’s Hall probe
missed scandal
Former Atlanta schools leader was
being vetted for national post.
APSCHEATINGSCANDAL
The FBI said
nothing
about a
test-cheat-
ing scandal in
a 2009 back-
ground check
of Beverly
Hall, Atlanta’s
school su-
perintendent
from 1999 to
2011. She died
in 2015.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch speaks alongside President Donald Trump on Monday after he was sworn at the
White House, nearly 14 months after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. The Rose Garden ceremony was the second of
two oaths: Earlier, Gorsuch, 49, was sworn in a private ceremony in the Justices’ Conference Room by Chief Justice John
Roberts. In joining the court, Gorsuch restores a narrow conservative majority. ERIC THAYER / GETTY IMAGES » Article, A5.
GorsuchswornintoreplaceScalia
SUPREMECOURT
ByGregBluestein
gbluestein@ajc.com
Republicans are sharpening their attacks on
each other even as they scramble to block Demo-
crat Jon Ossoff from scoring an upset victory with
one week to go until the nationally watched spe-
cial election to represent a suburban Atlanta dis-
trict in Congress.
The all-out scramble is taking place in all cor-
ners of the 6th District, which stretches from east
Cobb County to north DeKalb County. And as the
Republicans in the race compete for what could
be one runoff spot against Ossoff, national GOP
Tensions rise
as vote nears
Some Republicans trailing in polls
assail rivals before vote next Tuesday.
6THDISTRICTSPECIALELECTION
6thDistrictcontinued on A6
ByDavidWickert
dwickert@ajc.com
An early rush hour and an
unusual lull in accidents helped
Atlanta avert a traffic meltdown
on the first big commuting day
since I-85 burst into flames and
collapsed.
But Monday’s good luck is not
likely to last — certainly not for
thetwomonthsneededtoreopen
a key highway into the heart of
Atlanta. A minor fender-bender
could snarl traffic for miles and
strand thousands of commuters
on any given day.
“Thismorning,whichwasvirtu-
allyaccident-free,wasabnormal,”
Georgia Department of Transpor-
tation spokeswoman Natalie Dale
said Monday. “Whether you had
a good experience or a bad expe-
rience this morning, this is about
as good as it’s going to get until
that bridge gets built.”
“As good as it’s going to get”
meant typical weekday traffic
congestiononinterstatehighways.
I-85trafficcontinued onA6
City dodges traffic disaster, but how long will it last?
INTERSTATEBRIDGECOLLAPSE
MARTA ridership is up;
local roads near I-85
collapse are packed.
Northbound I-85 commuters are jammed tight
Monday as they begin to funnel into the Buford
Connector exit. Traffic started picking up around 5
a.m. — an hour earlier than usual. JOHN SPINK / AJC
WARINSYRIA
ByRobertBurns
andLolitaC.Baldor
Associated Press
WASHINGTON— TheUnitedStates
has concluded Russia knew in
advanceofSyria’schemicalweap-
ons attack last week, a senior U.S.
official said Monday.
The official said a drone oper-
ated by Russians was flying over
a hospital as victims of the attack
were rushing to get treatment.
Hours after the drone left, a Rus-
sian-made fighter jet bombed the
hospital in what American offi-
cials believe was an attempt to
cover up the usage of chemical
weapons.
The senior official said the U.S.
has no proof of Russian involve-
mentintheactualchemicalattack
in northern Syria.
But the official said the pres-
ence of the surveillance drone
over the hospital couldn’t have
been a coincidence, and that Rus-
sia must have known the chemi-
cal weapons attack was coming
and that victims were seeking
treatment.
The official, who wasn’t autho-
rized to speak publicly on intel-
ligence matters and demanded
anonymity, didn’t give precise
timing for when the drone was in
U.S. suspects Russian role in attack
Official: Presence of drone suggests Moscow knew
in advance that chemical weapons would be used.
Russiacontinued on A7
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abama quit over allegations he
abused his powers to cover up
an extramarital affair. A5
The woman whose remains
were found near a cemetery in
Dedham has been identified as
a Nigerian immigrant. B1
Thirty-six years after being
sentenced to life in prison for
a murder, a South Boston man
was granted a new trial. B1
Two adults and a student were
killed in a shooting at an ele-
mentary school in San Bernar-
dino, Calif. A2
Egypt imposed a nationwide
state of emergency following
suicide bombings at two Cop-
tic Christian churches that
killed 45 people. A3
Wells Fargo demanded an ad-
ditional $75 million in compen-
sation from two executives af-
ter a scathing report detailed
the financial firm’s massive
sales scandal. C1
The MBTA wants to overhaul a
dozen of its older locomotives
as equipment shortages con-
tinue to create problems on the
commuter rail. B1
POINT OF VIEW:
JOAN VENNOCHI
The University of Massa-
chusetts Boston ‘could
be compromising its ba-
sic mission to provide
urban students with a lo-
cal, high-quality college
education — all in pur-
suit of some lofty and
outmoded Ivory Tower
vision.’ A11
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Justice Anthony M. Kennedy administered the judicial oath to the Supreme Court’s newest member, Neil M. Gorsuch, with
Gorsuch’s wife, Louise, and President Trump in the background at the White House’s Rose Garden. The event ended a 14-
month battle to fill the seat vacated by the death of Judge Antonin Scalia. A2
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By Nestor Ramos
GLOBE STAFF
If everything goes according to plan, rebuilding
the Commonwealth Avenue bridge will take 18½
days — plus another month or so of preparation
and cleanup on the Mass. Pike below.
Repairing everyone’s nerves may take consider-
ably longer.
After years of plan-
ning and delays, a major
construction project to
replace the aging, struc-
turally deficient bridge
could snarl traffic all
over the city when it be-
gins in late July, state
officials warned on
Monday.
It will affect nearly
every mode of transpor-
tation, altering bus and
train routes and elimi-
nating most traffic on a
1.5 mile stretch of Com-
monwealth Avenue and
the Boston University
Bridge, and choking the
turnpike below.
For some, an 11-day stretch when the number of
lanes on the Massachusetts Turnpike will be halved
will be the worst of it.
“Two weeks?” one turnpike traveler said on
Monday. “It’ll feel like two months.”
And if the city survives it, we get to do it all again
in 2018, when the second half of the nearly $82 mil-
lion project is planned. The project is already start-
ing a year late after a design error prevented work
CLOSURE, Page A8
By Priyanka Dayal McCluskey,
Joshua Miller, and Laura Krantz
GLOBE STAFF
House leaders unveiled a $40.3 billion state bud-
get Monday that significantly tempered two contro-
versial plans by Governor Charlie Baker to tackle
the cost of health care. Lawmakers slashed his pro-
posed fee on businesses to fund state medical costs,
and they rejected a plan to cap the prices charged
by hospitals.
The budget proposal comes as state tax revenue
has failed to meet projections. It effectively main-
tains spending levels in many areas, including the
University of Massachusetts system, and cuts fund-
ing for lawyers for poor defendants.
Like the plan Baker released in January, the
House budget calls for a new fee on employers to
help pay for the state Medicaid program, which
provides health coverage to 1.9 million residents.
But House leaders did not detail how their version
of the fee would work, saying the Department of
Revenue — overseen by Baker — should determine
exactly which companies would have to pay and
how much.
The House plan would raise an estimated $180
million from employers in the fiscal year that be-
gins July 1, far less than the $300 million proposed
BUDGET, Page A7
By Jim O’Sullivan
GLOBE STAFF
In the world of important political documents
— from the Magna Carta to the Pentagon Papers —
there are also those known for more pedestrian
reasons. Count Mitt
Romney’s “binders full
of women” in that cate-
gory.
For those who don’t
recall, Romney men-
tioned the binders dur-
ing a 2012 presidential
debate in which he was
questioned about work-
place inequality. He awk-
wardly referred to the
“binders full of women”
he had considered for
state posts after he was
elected governor. Critics
pounced on his response
as clumsy at best, pa-
tronizing at worst. Late-
night comics had a field day.
For all the high-stakes attention they drew, the
binders themselves never surfaced. Until now.
A former Romney aide recently exhumed the
files and shared them with the Globe. Two white
three-ring binders (weighing in at an aggregate 15
pounds, 6 ounces) are packed with nearly 200 cov-
er letters and résumés, along with a few handwrit-
ten notations.
They have their roots in the 2002 transition pe-
riod after Romney beat
state Treasurer Shannon
P. O’Brien for the gover-
norship. A coalition of
women’s groups created
the Massachusetts Gov-
ernment Appointments
Project (MassGAP), cob-
bled together informa-
tion on women interest-
ed in serving in govern-
ment, and submitted
them to Romney’s still-
forming administration.
“It was a response to
a desire on the part of
the Romney administra-
tion to access a pool of
talent,” said Linda Ros-
setti, who worked with the coalition, made phone
calls to encourage job candidates to submit appli-
cations, and included her own. “They drummed
up what was an inelegant way to get at this pool of
BINDERS, Page A8
By Victoria McGrane
GLOBE STAFF
WASHINGTON — Patricia Hol-
land of Waltham suffered a panic at-
tack during a vacation in Savannah,
Ga., 13 years ago when she lost her
hearing aid and had no way to quick-
ly find a replacement. Almost two
weeks later, when she finally got one,
she teared up with joy even though
she had to hand over $2,600.
“If you have hearing loss, it’s
amazing how people make you feel
like you’re inferior,” said the 79-year-
old, who first learned she had age-re-
lated hearing loss in her 60s. “You’re
made to feel that you’re not ade-
quate, when you’re really highly in-
telligent.”
Now new technology and a rare
bipartisan push from lawmakers
who are trying to reduce regulations
for the sale of hearing aids are rais-
ing hopes that more people with
mild to moderate hearing loss will be
able to buy hearing devices a lot
more cheaply and without seeing a
doctor.
It’s a modest-sounding goal, but
supporters believe the measure on
Capitol Hill could lower prices, spur
innovation, and ultimately get hear-
ing aids into the ears of far more peo-
ple. Only 15 to 30 percent of people
who need hearing aids actually get
them, according to some estimates.
Currently, regulations in most
states, including Massachusetts, re-
quire consumers to go to a licensed
audiologist or other specialist to pur-
chase a hearing aid. The average
cost: $2,300.
HEARING AIDS, Page A9
Headaches
ahead as
vital bridge
replaced
State pledges Comm. Ave.
work over Pike will go fast
House reduces
Baker bid to cut
health care cost
Leaders’$40.3bbudgetwould
slashpenaltyonsomefirms
Hearing aid bill aims to add access, cut cost
Bipartisan effort
to curb regulations,
use new technology
is gaining traction
A mystery unbound
Romney’s binders, still full of women, unearthed
‘The technology
is here and
consumers
deserve
affordable
choices.’
JULIE KEARNEY, vice
president of regulatory
affairs for the Consumer
Technology Association
A closer look
at the closure
From the Pike to the
MBTA, a map of trans-
portation and times
that will be affected by
the construction. A8
INSIDE
By Christopher Muther
GLOBE STAFF
Pictures and video of a
bloodied man being dragged by
police from a United Airlines
flight spread across the Inter-
n e t M o n d a y, c r e a t i n g a
firestorm of ill will toward the
airline and focusing attention
on the practice of bumping
passengers off overbooked
flights.
Tens of thousands took to
social media Monday to call for
a boycott of United and the fir-
ing of its CEO after the upset-
ting images of the man being
dragged by his arms down the
aisle went viral.
The video shows the shriek-
ing man forcibly removed from
the plane at Chicago’s O’Hare
International Airport Sunday
UNITED AIRLINES, Page C8
Removal of
air traveler
sparks outcry
AUDRA D. BRIDGES
After no passengers
volunteered, officers
forcibly removed one.
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BRIGHTONAVE.
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“They brought us whole binders full of
women,” Mitt Romney said in a 2012 debate.

BY ROBERT BURNS
and LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON—TheUnitedStates
hasconcludedRussiaknewinadvance
ofSyria’schemicalweaponsattacklast
week, a senior U.S. official said Mon-
day.
Theofficialsaidadroneoperatedby
Russians was flying over a hospital as
victims of the attack were rushing to
get treatment. Hours after the drone
left,aRussian-madefighterjetbombed
thehospitalinwhatAmericanofficials
believe was an attempt to cover up the
usage of chemical weapons.
The senior official said the U.S. has
no proof of Russian involvement in
the actual chemical attack in north-
ern Syria.
But the official said the presence of
thesurveillancedroneoverthehospi-
tal couldn’t have been a coincidence,
and that Russia must have known the
chemical weapons attack was coming
and that victims were seeking treat-
ment.
The official, who wasn’t authorized
to speak publicly on intelligence mat-
ters and demanded anonymity, didn’t
giveprecisetimingforwhenthedrone
was in the area, where more than 80
people were killed. The official also
didn’t provide details for the military
andintelligenceinformationthatform
thebasisofwhatthePentagonnowbe-
lieves.
Another U.S. official cautioned that
no final American determination has
been made that Russia knew ahead of
time that chemical weapons would be
used.Thatofficialwasn’tauthorizedto
speak about internal administration
deliberations and spoke on condition
of anonymity.
TheallegationofRussianforeknowl-
edge is grave, even by the standards
BY EMMA DUMAIN
edumain@postandcourier.com
WASHINGTON — “It had a porch.”
That was one of 86-year-old Isabell
Meggett Lucas’s first observations
Monday morning upon coming face-
to-face with her childhood home — a
tiny, two-room, wood-framed cabin
originally situated in an open field on
Edisto Island that’s now a prized cen-
terpieceattheNationalMuseumofAf-
rican American History and Culture.
In the process of dismantling the
structure and reassembling it inside
the new Smithsonian museum, ac-
commodationshadtobemade.Anew
brick fireplace was built where origi-
nallytherehadbeenalarge,potbellied
wood fire stove.
In the dimly-lit gallery, the house is
now illuminated by overhead spot-
lights and a glow seems to emanate
from the interior so viewers can get a
betterlookinside.Originally,thehouse
would have been lit only by kerosene
lamps since there was no electricity.
Andofcourse,settingfootinsidethe
house now is out of the question.
But for Lucas, and the multiple gen-
erations of Meggett descendants who
were invited to the Smithsonian on
Monday,theexperienceofseeingtheir
family house as a museum exhibition
was only underscored by the fact that
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U.S. Rep. Wilson receives
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Alabama Gov. Bentley
resigns, pleads guilty to
misdemeanors. A6
BY CARYN ROUSSEAU
and DAVID KOENIG
Associated Press
CHICAGO — Video of police offi-
cers dragging a passenger from an
overbooked United Airlines flight
sparked an uproar Monday on so-
cial media, and a spokesman for the
airline insisted that employees had
no choice but to contact authorities
to remove the man.
As the flight waited to depart
from Chicago’s O’Hare Airport,
officers could be seen grabbing the
screaming man from a window
seat, pulling him across the armrest
and dragging him down the aisle by
his arms. The airline was trying to
make room for four of its employees
on the Sunday evening flight to
Louisville, Kentucky.
Other passengers on Flight 3411
are heard saying, “Please, my God,”
‘’What are you doing?” ‘’This is
wrong,” ‘’Look at what you did to
him” and “Busted his lip.”
Passenger Audra D. Bridges posted
thevideoonFacebook.Herhusband,
Tyler Bridges, said United offered
$400 and then $800 vouchers and
a hotel stay for volunteers to give
up their seats. When no one volun-
teered, a United manager came on
the plane and announced that pas-
sengers would be chosen at random.
“We almost felt like we were being
taken hostage,” Tyler Bridges said.
“We were stuck there. You can’t do
anything as a traveler. You’re relying
BY BRENDA RINDGE
brindge@postandcourier.com
SUMMERVILLE — A group that
focuses on promoting Confederate
history is rebelling against one that
promotes secession.
And the “first flagging of Summer-
ville”onSundaybytheS.C.Secession-
istPartycouldonlyhurteffortstoheal
ariftbetweenalocalcivilrightsleader
andtheSonsofConfederateVeterans,
leaders said.
“I was surprised and disappointed
when I saw that,” said Bob Knight,
a member of the SCV H.L. Hunley
Camp No. 143 chapter, which handed
out information and flags from a tent
on private property during this year’s
FlowertownFestival.“Wearenotcon-
nectedwiththeSecessionistParty.We
don’t support their efforts.”
LouisSmith,thefounderofthenon-
profit Community Resource Center
Heritage
group at
odds over
flag flap
Confederate flag
at center of dispute
with Secessionists
ANGIE JACKSON/STAFF
Members of the S.C. Seces-
sionist Party flew Confederate
battle flags Sunday over the Exit
199 overpass on Interstate 26.
Edisto Island cabin finds
home in national museum
BY ANDREW KNAPP
and ABIGAIL DARLINGTON
aknapp@postandcourier.com
adarlington@postandcourier.com
“Guilty.”
DylannRoofspokethewordMon-
daythatclosedadarkchapterforthe
loved ones and a Charleston com-
munity shaken by his hate-fueled
killings of nine black worshippers
at Emanuel AME Church.
The self-avowed white suprema-
cist raised a shackled hand before
issuing the plea, likely ending local
court proceedings nearly one year
and 10 months after they began. A
judge sentenced him to nine con-
secutive lifetime prison terms plus
90years,whatprosecutorscalledan
insurance policy in case something
happens to his federal conviction
and death sentence.Roof, now 23,
stared ahead and said little, much
like he did when he first appeared
in a local courtroom two days after
the mass shooting in June 2015. On
Monday, he again heard words of
forgiveness from families members
of the slain, though they have never
heard an apology from him.
“I’m the one who forgave you in
the bond hearing, and I still do to-
day,” Nadine Collier, daughter of
slain parishioner Ethel Lance, said
of that early court proceeding. “He
cameheretostartabattle,butIwin
the war. ... This chapter in my life ...
is closed. I will not open that book
again.”
It was likely the last chance for
Roof receives
nine life sentences
GRACE BEAHM/STAFF
Dylann Roof enters the courtroom Monday at the Charleston County Judicial Center to enter his guilty plea on murder charges.
Prosecutor says state murder charges ‘surest’ route to federal execution
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BY KIM CHANDLER
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Gov.
Robert Bentley resigned Monday
rather than face impeachment
and pleaded guilty to two misde-
meanor campaign violations that
arose during an investigation of his
alleged affair with a top aide.
mild-mannered 74-year-old Repub-
lican and one-time Baptist deacon
stepped down as the sex-tinged
scandal gathered force over the
past few days. Legislators turned up
the pressure by opening impeach-
ment hearings Monday. Last week,
the Alabama Ethics Commission
cited evidence that Bentley broke
state ethics and campaign laws and
referred the matter to prosecutors.
“There’ve been times that I let
you and our people down, and I’m
sorry for that,” Bentley said in the
old House chamber of Alabama’s
Capitol after he pleaded guilty to
charges of failing to file a major
contribution report and using cam-
paign money for personal use.
The violations were discovered
during the investigation of his affair
but were not directly related to it.
In court, Bentley appeared sullen
and looked down at the floor. The
agreement specified that Bentley
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TUESDAY
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A 52-year-old inmate
already serving a 50-year
prison sentence for kid-
napping and rape plead-
ed guilty Monday to three
cold-case murders.
Christopher Jeffre Johnson
was sentenced to life with-
out parole for the killings of
Sean and Donny Goetcheus
and Melissa Ward. He plead-
ed guilty to three counts of
first-degree murder.
Investigators spent years
trying to solve the 1997 slay-
ings of the Goetcheus broth-
ers and the 2004 disappear-
ance and death of Ward.
Hamilton County Crim-
inal Court Judge Don Poole
accepted Johnson’s plea and
sentenced him to three sepa-
rate life sentences, each with-
out the possibility of parole.
“A lot of hard work and
effort went into [this case]
for many, many years, and it
is good to see that it’s come
to a conclusion,” Hamilton
County District Attorney
General Neal Pinkston said.
Christopher
Jeffre Johnson
Sean
Goetcheus
Donny
Goetcheus
Todd
Gardenhire
NASHVILLE — Republican
opponents of a bill granting
in-state college tuition rates to
undocumented Tennessee high
school graduates, brought to
the U.S. by their parents who
crossed illegally, charged Mon-
day the bill is both too costly
and unconstitutional.
Supporters, meanwhile, chant-
ed “no hate, educate” in support
of the bill, sponsored by Sen.
Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga,
in the Senate.
Accompanied by 15 or 16 fel-
low House GOP members, Rep.
Judd Matheny, R-Tullahoma, said
“It’s time to end this two-tiered
society in which Americans who
work hard and pay their taxes are
pushed to the back of the line
behind people who broke the law
to come to our country.”
Matheny said Tennesseans
must show their birth certifi-
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOS
President Donald Trump watches as Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy administers the judicial oath to Justice Neil
Gorsuch, accompanied by his wife, Marie Louise, during a swearing-in ceremony Monday at the White House in Washington.
President
Donald Trump
applauds as
new Supreme
Court Justice
Neil Gorsuch
hugs his wife,
Marie Louise.
BY VIVIAN SALAMA AND SAM HANANEL
WASHINGTON — Justice Neil Gorsuch
took his place in history Monday as the new-
est addition on the bench of the Supreme
Court, restoring a narrow conservative
majority and marking a much-needed politi-
cal victory for President Donald Trump.
Gorsuch was sworn in during a sun-
soaked ceremony in the Rose Garden, nearly
14 months after the seat was left vacant with
the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scal-
ia. The oath was administered during the
White House ceremony by Justice Anthony
Kennedy, whom Gorsuch once served as a
law clerk. A smiling Trump stood behind
his nominee.
Inside
Things to know
about the
Supreme
Court’s newest
justice, A4
BY STEVE JOHNSON
STAFF WRITER
E Q U A L J U S T I C E U N D E R L A W
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See SUPREME › A4
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Alabama
governor
resigns
Former Alabama Gov. Robert
Bentley speaks after resigning on
Monday in Montgomery, Ala.
› A timeline of events
in Robert Bentley’s fall
› Successor is state’s
second female governor
› Other Alabama leaders
haunted by scandals
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Growing up in La Puente in the
1980s, Alex Espinoza was a typical
child of the Reagan era. He collected
“Star Wars” action figures and played
with Rubik’s Cube.
But Espinoza was Mexican, born
in Tijuana and brought to the United
States by his mother when he was
about 2 years old. He downplayed his
Mexican roots to fit in. At the time, it
seemed the worst thing in the world
foraboytobelabeledas“aTJ”—liter-
ally someone from Tijuana, but also
shorthand for an unassimilated
Mexican.
“I grew up preferring the taste of a
Big Mac over a burrito. I grew up pre-
ferring the taste of tuna noodle casse-
role over menudo,” he said. “Until I
went to Mexico as a grad student,
Mexico was this kind of static in the
background.”
Three decades later, President
Trumphassparkedanewdebateover
immigration and assimilation that
has Espinoza and many others re-
flectingonwhatitmeanstoblendinto
American culture.
While much has been made about
Trump’s harsh talk of deporting
those here illegally, the president’s
comments about the need for immi-
grants to fully embrace American cul-
ture has renewed a long-running de-
bate that dates back generations.
“Not everyone who seeks to join
ourcountrywillbeabletosuccessfully
assimilate,” Trump said in a cam-
paign-trail speech in which he called
for new immigrants to pass an “ideo-
logical certification to make sure that
those we are admitting to our country
share our values and love our people.”
In one Republican debate, Trump
declared that “we have a country
where, to assimilate, you have to
speak English.... This is a country
ON EDGE IN TRUMP’S AMERICA
KAREN, an immigrant known as a “Dreamer” who attends Cal State Fullerton, says she’s caught between
her Mexican roots and her U.S. upbringing. “Sometimes I feel like I don’t belong anywhere,” she says.
Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times
Tackling what it means
to be ‘fully American’
Assimilation is a complex balancing act for immigrants
[See Assimilation, A10]
By Hailey Branson-Potts
A 9-year-old girl in a gray
zip-up sweater ran to her
mother in tears.
“Mommy, I still have
blood on my sweater,” she
cried.
ElisabethBarajazhadre-
united with her daughter
Marissa after hearing there
had been a shooting at her
San Bernardino school.
“The boy just walked in
with the gun,” said Marissa,
a third-grader. “He just shot
everywhere. I went under
the table and then I saw a
teacher run out. So I just ran
out. My friend and my
teacher, they got shot.”
A gunman had walked
into a North Park Elementa-
ry School classroom of spe-
cial needs children Monday
morning and opened fire on
his wife, a teacher there, and
then killed himself, police
said. Stray bullets struck
two students, who were
rushed to a hospital in criti-
cal condition. One of them,
an 8-year-old boy, died later
in the morning.
Word of the shooting set
off a panic in a city trauma-
tized by a terror attack just
16 months before. Where the
unthinkable had already
happened, nerves were trig-
gered for a catastrophe.
Parents wept as they
waited for word of their chil-
dren outside North Park.
One woman fell to her knees.
A man tried to push through
the police line to get inside.
As details emerged, it
was clear the shooting was
domestic violence, not ter-
rorism — another terrible
day in a wave of mayhem
that has shaken the city as
much as the December 2015
By Paloma Esquivel,
Laura J. Nelson,
Maya Lau and
Hailey Branson-Potts
[See Shooting, A6]
Itallstartedwithanover-
booked passenger jet pre-
paring to leave Chicago for
Louisville, Ky.
It ended with a pas-
senger, who said he was a
doctor who needed to get
home, being dragged off the
plane and left bloodied and
muttering repeatedly, “Just
kill me.”
The incident, captured
on video by several pas-
sengers,createdagiantpub-
lic relations headache Mon-
day for United Airlines,
touching a nerve with a fly-
ing public frustrated with an
industry that is reaping
record earnings while
squeezing more fliers into
smaller seats.
The Chicago-based
carrier said it was following
procedure Sunday night
when employees realized
that the airline had over-
booked an 80-seat jet and
could not get enough pas-
sengers to voluntarily give
up their seats.
The airline randomly se-
lected the unidentified man
to boot from the flight. Vide-
os show him with blood on
his lip, screaming as airport
police yank him out of his
seat, then pull him down the
aisle on his back while some
other fliers call out in pro-
test. Later, he returns briefly
totheplaneandappearsdis-
oriented, with blood
smeared on his chin.
The incident comes in an
era of record airline profits
following a series of combi-
nations that have put four
carriers — United, Ameri-
can, Delta and Southwest —
in control of about 80% of all
domestic flights.
Airlines have collected
billions of dollars charging
Airline’s response
to overbooking
stirs up turbulence
United suffers more
bad PR after booting
passenger from plane.
[See United, A6]
By Hugo Martin
In a long-anticipated re-
port released Monday, Wells
Fargo Co. pinned the
blame for its unauthorized-
accounts scandal on weak
corporate oversight, an
overly trustful former CEO
and the executive who led its
community banking divi-
sion.
The San Francisco bank
also said it would take back
more than $47 million in pay
from the former community
banking executive, Carrie
Tolstedt, and $28 million
from former Chief Executive
John Stumpf.
The report was commis-
sioned by the bank’s board
and prepared by the Shear-
man Sterling law firm. Its
release, which comes two
weeks before the bank’s an-
nual shareholder meeting,
marks the latest in a series of
moves the bank had made
over the last several months
— including management
changes, a class-action set-
tlement and an ad blitz — to
win back customers’ trust.
The report puts much of
the blame for the bank’s un-
ethical practices on Stumpf,
Tolstedt and a corporate
structure that it said gave
too much autonomy to Tol-
stedt and the leaders of
A REPORT said then-
CEO John Stumpf was
“too late and too slow.”
Susan Walsh Associated Press
Wells
blames
scandal
on two
execs
By James Rufus Koren
[See Wells Fargo, A7]
A Rose Garden ceremony
President Trump watches as Justice Anthony M. Kennedy administers the
judicial oath to Neil M. Gorsuch, accompanied by wife Marie Louise. Monday’s
White House event was a departure from a recent trend for justices to be sworn
in only at the Supreme Court, which Gorsuch was earlier in the day. NATION, A5
Alabama’s
‘Luv Guv’ resigns
Gov. Robert Bentley
pleads guilty to charges
that he misused public
resources to pursue an
affair with a former aide
and intimidated officials
to cover it up. NATION, A5
Kings finished
with GM, coach
The team fires its two
leaders after not making
the playoffs. Hall of
Fame players Luc Ro-
bitaille and Rob Blake
assume management
positions. SPORTS, D1
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A history
of violence
How the tumult of a brief
marriage shattered the
innocence of a San Ber-
nardino elementary
school. CALIFORNIA, B1
Chaos in a
classroom:
‘He just shot
everywhere’
After checking in at a
San Bernardino school
office, man kills wife
and himself. A boy is
slain by a stray bullet.
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Inside: A collection of some of Jim
Morin’s most memorable recent
cartoons, 13A
Staff coverage of the Panama Papers,
the international investigation that ex-
posed how crooks and millionaires use
the secret world of offshore companies,
and the mordant political commentary
of editorial cartoonist Jim Morin in a
year rife with material won the Miami
Herald two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday.
The 2017 prize for explanatory report-
ing was awarded to the Herald, its parent
company McClatchy and the Interna-
tional Consortium of Investigative Jour-
nalists for their dive into a
massive cache of leaked
documents that revealed a
financial system of tax
havens preferred by tax
dodgers, corrupt politi-
cians and drug dealers
whose money often wound
up in Miami real estate.
The 2017 prize for editorial
cartooning went to Morin, whose unmis-
takable quill-pen drawings and piercing
captions have anchored the Herald’s
editorial pages since 1978. Morin be-
came a two-time Pulitzer winner, having
previously earned the coveted prize in
1996.
“In your late career, you
don’t expect this kind of
thing,” Morin, 64, said before
being celebrated at the center of
the newsroom with a champagne
toast. “I just work hard at what I do, and
I’m never satisfied with it. I always want
to make it better.”
Monday’s prizes, journalism’s most
Herald wins two Pulitzers,
for Panama Papers, cartoons
EMILY MICHOT emichot@miamiherald.com
The Miami Herald newsroom reacts to the the first of two Pulitzer Prize awards announced on Monday. From left: Executive
Editor Aminda Marqués Gonzalez; Managing Editor Rick Hirsch; Editorial Page Editor Nancy Ancrum; editorial cartoonist Jim
Morin; Publisher Alexandra Villoch; investigative editor Casey Frank; and investigative reporter Nicholas Nehamas.
BY PATRICIA MAZZEI
pmazzei@miamiherald.com
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ALA. GOVERNOR
RESIGNS
Gov. Robert Bentley
resigned rather than
face impeachment
and pleaded guilty to
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WASHINGTON
Justice Neil Gorsuch took his place in
history Monday as the newest addition on
the bench of the Supreme Court, restoring a
narrow conservative majority and marking
a much-needed political victory for Presi-
dent Donald Trump.
Gorsuch was sworn in during a sun-
soaked ceremony in the Rose Garden, near-
ly 14 months after the seat was left vacant
with the sudden death of Justice Antonin
Scalia. The oath was administered during
the White House ceremony by Justice An-
thony Kennedy, whom Gorsuch once
served as a law clerk. A smiling Trump
stood behind his nominee.
It was the second of two oaths — the first
was conducted privately in the Justices’
Conference Room by Chief Justice John
Roberts.
“To the Scalia family, I won’t ever forget
that the seat I inherit today is that of a very,
very great man,” Gorsuch said to the
Gorsuch
sworn into
Supreme
Court
BY VIVIAN SALAMA AND SAM HANANEL
Associated Press
T.J. KIRKPATRICK Bloomberg
Justice Neil Gorsuch, left, recites the oath of
office as President Donald Trump listens.
SEE SUPREME COURT, 6A
Four years ago, the Miami-
Dade school district embarked
on an ambitious project: a $1.2
billion investment in remodeling
aging schools to create learning
centers for the digital generation.
Gone are narrow hallways, dim
cafeterias and boxy classrooms
with precise rows of desks. In
their place: glass walls, open
spaces, interactive whiteboards
and — it should go without say-
ing — free wi-fi. These are 21st-
century campuses that reflect a
new way of thinking about edu-
cation.
Now at nearly the halfway
point, the investment — financed
by a bond that voters approved in
2012 — has paid for an almost
entirely new $42 million Norland
Senior High, replacements for
Bunche Park Elementary in Opa-
locka and Frederick Douglass
Elementary in Overtown, new
schools in the works in Doral,
West Kendall and Hialeah, and a
slew of other projects. The school
district has spent or set aside
more than $520 million so far for
137 projects and plans to use all
of the funds by 2020.
Schools makeover: Out
with rows of desks, in with
open space, digital tech
BY KYRA GURNEY
kgurney@miamiherald.com
SEE SCHOOLS, 4A
L
uz Selenia Paret never
imagined that by falling
in love with a boxer, at
some point the blows
would also fall on her heart.
And how they did.
The five years they lived to-
gether were unforgettable, un-
repeatable, but they seemed to
last about as long as the flicker of
a match.
The beginning of the end
occurred a fateful March 24,
1962, at Madison Square Garden
in New York. That night, then-
world welterweight champion
Cuban national Benny “Kid”
Paret lost his title to Emile Grif-
fith by KO at 2.09 minutes of the
12th round in the third matchup
between the two boxers.
It was terrible.
Paret was hooked on the ropes
in a corner. After seeing the
replays numerous times, Griffith
coach Gil Clancy said the Santa
Clara fighter was given 17 unan-
swered punches in just over five
seconds. Some of them also
smashed his head against the
post that held the ropes of the
ring.
When referee Rudy Goldstein
separated the fighters, Paret slid
to the floor. He was taken out of
the ring on a stretcher and trans-
ported to Roosevelt Hospital in
Manhattan, where he was rushed
into emergency surgery to re-
move several blood clots. Doc-
tors found evidence of brain
damage.
John Crisp, then one of the
Deadly 1962 boxing match leaves open
wounds for Cuban-American family
BY LUIS F. SÁNCHEZ
lfsanchez@elnuevoherald.com
SEE BOXING DEATH, 2A
AP
Boxer Emile Griffith, right, during
the deadly fight with Cuban
welterweight champ Benny Paret.

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Gov. John Bel Edwards made a big push
for bipartisan cooperation Monday during
his speech opening the Legislature’s regu-
lar session. His remarks came as the Demo-
cratic governor and Republican lawmakers
remained at odds about how to address the
state’s continuing fiscal challenges.
“Louisiana’s uniqueness has always
been our greatest source of strength. We
are unique in our culture. We are unique in
the natural resources God has blessed us
with and the challenges that represents,”
Edwards told lawmakers toward the end of
his remarks. “Can’t we also be unique in the
way we govern?”
Edwards and the Legislature are once
again expected to focus their energy on try-
ing to fix Louisiana’s finances during the
60-day session.
They had promised last year to tackle
long-term tax and budget changes during
this session. That was after they reluctantly
raised the state sales tax — to the highest in
the United States — and vowed to study the
tax structure and re-evaluate the increase
this year.
The governor spent much of his remarks
outlining his proposal for overhauling the
tax structure, a plan that even his legisla-
tive allies haven’t said they will support.
But he also mentioned coastal restoration,
equal pay for women, reducing the state’s
incarceration rate and a minimum wage
increase as priorities.
Here are some highlights from his
speech:
THE COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY TAX
“The most significant part of this plan
is in response to a problem we should all
acknowledge, that our corporate income
tax structure is broken. It is far too unsta-
ble, and is laden with credits, exemptions
and deductions that put too much of the
burden of funding critical state services on
individuals.”
“In fiscal year 2015, 80 percent of Loui-
siana corporations did not pay any state
income tax.”
WHY HE MOVED AWAY FROM
INCOME TAX HIKES
Income tax increases “are the clearest
path to eliminating the deficits that have
plagued our state year after year. However,
many of you have suggested that several of
the task force’s primary recommendations
LOUISIANA
Edwards
urges
legislators
to work
together
State’s financial problems
must be addressed
Strict conservative in U.S. Supreme Court seat
fulfills campaign promise made by Trump
Julie Hirschfeld Davis © 2017, The New York Times
WASHINGTON — Neil Gorsuch was sworn in Monday as
the 113th justice of the Supreme Court, placing a devoted
conservative in the seat once occupied by Justice Antonin
Scalia and handing President Donald Trump a victory in his
push to shape the court for decades to come.
Gorsuch, 49, took his judicial oath in the White House
Rose Garden with Trump looking on. It was the fulfillment of
a vital campaign promise made by Trump — one that allayed
the reservations of many Republican Party stalwarts, who
were otherwise repelled by his candidacy — to make the
appointment of a strict conservative to the Supreme Court
a top priority.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, 80, often a swing vote who
holds the balance of power on the court, presided, a reminder
that Gorsuch’s ascendance may not be this president’s final
chance to influence the direction of the high court.
“Justice Gorsuch, you are now entrusted with the sacred
duty of defending our Constitution,” Trump said. “Our coun-
try is counting on you to be wise, impartial and fair, to serve
President Donald Trump watches as Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy administers the judicial oath to Judge Neil Gorsuch
during a re-enactment in the Rose Garden of the White House on Monday. Evan Vucci / Associated Press
John Archibald jarchibald@al.com
Embattled Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley resigned Mon-
day after agreeing to a deal that forced him to step down,
plead guilty to two misdemeanors and agree to never again
hold public office.
The extraordinary agreement, hammered out over the
weekend and throughout the day by lawyers for the Alabama
Attorney General’s Office and Bentley’s attorneys, requires
Bentley to repay the state for misused funds and perform
community service.
In response, the Attorney General’s Office will not pursue
other felonies against Bentley, including those referred for
prosecution last week by the Alabama Ethics Commission.
Bentley, as part of the deal, also was expected to:
› Plead guilty to two campaign violations: converting cam-
paign contributions for personal gain and failing to report
campaign contributions.
› Serve one year of probation.
› Perform 100 hours of unpaid community service as a phy-
sician.
› Repay the $8,912 his campaign spent on the legal fees of
former aide Rebekah Mason, whose involvement with
Bentley led to the charges against him.
› Forfeit all the money in his campaign account, which is
currently $36,912. The money will go into state coffers.
Whether the governor faces jail time on the misdemean-
ors — which are technically punishable by as much as a year
in prison — is left to the judge who will sentence him. It is
unlikely he will serve time.
Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey, as the Alabama Constitution demands,
NATION
Alabama governor resigns over sex scandal
Bentley agrees to plead guilty to 2 misdemeanors
The making of the Supreme Court A4
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GORSUCH JOINS
HIGH COURT
$1 BREAKING LOCAL NEWS AT TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2017
How senators voted on the Gorsuch confirmation
Yes: 54 votes
Democrat Republican Independent
Not voting: 1
51 votes ensured confirmation
No: 45 votes
SEE GORSUCH, A6
SEE STATE, A6
SEE RESIGN, A6
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley makes a formal statement
about his resignation Monday. He had vowed Friday that he
would not resign. Julie Bennett / jbennett@al.com

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LONDON — St. Pancras International rail station,
a wonder of Victorian architecture resurrected for the
21st century, opened10 years ago as the embodiment of
a particular notion: that Britain is part of something
bigger than itself and that belonging to a fellowship of
nations is as easy and natural as stepping onto a train.
It was both shocking and thrilling, at first, that you
could catch a Eurostar from a platform in London, slide
under the English Channel, hurtle through the French
countryside and less than three hours later pull into
the Gare du Nord in Paris. To ride the Eurostar was to
marvel that the capitals — London so prosaic and
straightforward, Paris so romantic and mysterious,
the two with their long history of rivalry and discord —
were part of the same larger enterprise.
Eurostar symbolized an era in which London
seemed to be inevitably rushing toward Europe, too.
But as Britain tries to bid farewell to its now-es-
tranged partner of 44 years, London faces a different
sort of challenge: how a great global city whose
residents voted overwhelmingly against Brexit in last
summer’s referendum should adjust to an uncertain
future governed by principles that feel antithetical to
its very being. Brexit has divided Britain from Europe
but also divided Britain from itself, with London on one
side and much of England on the other (Scotland and
Northern Ireland, which also voted to remain, are an-
other story).
To many people in the capital, the vote last year
feels like a rejection not just of Europe but also of the
values embodied by London, perhaps the world’s most
vibrantly and exuberantly cosmopolitan city: values
like openness, tolerance, internationalism and the
sense that it is better to look outward than to gaze in-
At least that was the idea until now, and the beginning
of the process known as Brexit. The trains are still run-
ning, but the era that created modern London appears
to be over.
“We’ve made a horrible statement to the rest of the
world, and it’s very sad,” said Martin Eden, a publisher
waiting to catch the Eu-
rostar to Paris the other
day, to celebrate his 43rd
birthday. “We should be
moving together,” he said
of Europe, “instead of
moving apart.”
I met Mr. Eden as I wandered around St. Pancras
at the moment Britain officially filed for divorce from
the European Union. It was lunchtime on March 29,
Brexit Day, as you might call it, when Britain delivered
a letter to Brussels and opened two years of negotia-
tions over the rules of disengagement.
London is filled with landmarks — including the Gherkin building, above — and with 8.7 million inhabitants representing 270 nationalities.
SERGEY PONOMAREV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
A Mighty City Trembles at a Global Crossroad
With Britain Leaving Europe, Can London Remain a Capital of the World?
By SARAH LYALL
Continued on Page A8
LOSING LONDON
A Capital in Limbo
Wells Fargo’s board said on
Monday that it would claw back
an additional $75 million in com-
pensation from the two executives
on whom it pinned most of the
blame for the company’s scandal
over fraudulent accounts: the
bank’s former chief executive,
John G. Stumpf, and its former
head of community banking, Car-
rie L. Tolstedt.
The clawbacks — or forced re-
turn of pay and stock grants — are
the largest in banking history and
among the largest in corporate
America. A four-person commit-
tee of Wells Fargo’s directors in-
vestigated the extensive fraud.
Wells Fargo’s board said in a re-
port issued on Monday that Mr.
Stumpf had turned a blind eye to
the fraudulent accounts being cre-
ated under his nose and that Ms.
Tolstedt, who ran the branch sys-
tem, had focused obsessively on
sales targets and withheld infor-
mation from her boss and the
board.
Wells Fargo’s misdeeds, which
came to light in September, have
at least temporarily become a
more widely recognized symbol of
the bank than its signature stage-
coach. Bankers across Wells Far-
go’s giant branch system were
tacitly encouraged to meet their
sales goals by committing fraud;
opening unwanted or unneeded
accounts in customers’ names;
and, sometimes, moving money
into and out of the sham accounts.
While the amount of money
customers lost was relatively
small — the company has re-
funded $3.2 million — the scope of
the fraud was huge: 5,300 bankers
were fired for creating as many as
two million unwanted bank and
credit card accounts. In one detail
revealed by the report, a branch
manager had a teenage daughter
with 24 accounts and a husband
with 21.
WELLS FARGO SAYS
2 EX-LEADERSOWE
$75 MILLION MORE
BLAME OVER A SCANDAL
Searing Report Leads to
Largest Clawbacks in
Banking History
By STACY COWLEY
and JENNIFER A. KINGSON
SAMER ABDALLAH/ASSOCIATED PRESS
A funeral on Mon-
day in Alexandria,
Egypt, for victims of
the Palm Sunday
terror rampage. The
attacks suggest that
the Islamic State
has new targets:
Christians in the
cities of mainland
Egypt. Page A6.
New Strategy
For ISIS
The disturbing scene captured
on cellphone videos by United Air-
lines passengers on Sunday went
beyond the typical nightmares of
travelers on an overbooked flight.
An unidentified man who re-
fused to be bumped from a plane
screamed as a security officer
wrestled him out of his seat and
dragged him down the aisle by his
arms. His glasses slid down his
face, and his shirt rose above his
midriff as uniformed officers fol-
lowed.
At least two passengers docu-
mented the physical confronta-
tion and the man’s anguished
protests, and their videos spread
rapidly online on Monday as peo-
ple criticized the airline’s tactics.
A security officer involved in the
episode has been placed on leave,
the authorities said, and the fed-
eral Transportation Department
is investigating whether the air-
line complied with rules regarding
overbooking.
Tyler Bridges, a passenger on
Sunday’s flight who posted a vid-
eo to Twitter, said in a telephone
ManIsDragged
From a Full Jet,
Stirring a Furor
By DANIEL VICTOR
and MATT STEVENS
WASHINGTON — In the days
since President Trump ordered a
cruise missile strike against Syria
in retaliation for a chemical attack
on civilians, his administration
has spoken with multiple voices
as it seeks to explain its evolving
policy. But one voice has not been
heard from: that of Mr. Trump
himself.
As various officials have de-
scribed it, the United States will
intervene only when chemical
weapons are used — or any time
innocents are killed. It will push
for the ouster of President Bashar
al-Assad of Syria — or pursue that
only after defeating the Islamic
State. America’s national interest
in Syria is to fight terrorism. Or to
ease the humanitarian crisis
there. Or to restore stability.
The latest mixed messages
were sent on Monday in both
Washington and Europe. Secre-
tary of State Rex W. Tillerson —
during a stop in Italy on his way to
Moscow for a potentially tense
visit, given Russian anger at last
week’s missile strike — outlined a
dramatically interventionist ap-
proach. “We rededicate ourselves
to holding to account any and all
Many Voices on Syria Policy, but One Is Silent
By PETER BAKER
and GARDINER HARRIS
Trump Lets Officials
Comment, but Their
Message Is Mixed There was no grand unveiling,
no ceremony to show it off. But
when the Mets opened their 2017
season at Citi Field, a new placard
was affixed to the overhang down
the left-field line. It proclaimed the
Mets as winners of a 2016 National
League wild card.
As the Yankees prepared for
their home opener on Monday,
they had nothing comparable to
display. We live, for the moment,
in that rare baseball weather pat-
tern in which the skies are sunnier
over Queens than over the Bronx.
The Mets’ attendance is rising,
and while the Yankees still out-
draw them, their attendance is
falling.
As they market young players
rather than marquee names, and
as two teams — the Los Angeles
Dodgers and the Detroit Tigers —
outspend them on salaries, the
Yankees are striving to retain
their sense of identity. This was
the motivation behind General
Manager Brian Cashman’s moves
last summer, when he steered the
franchise on a course he has
sought for years.
Cashman wants the Yankees to
stand out again. Acting like so
many competitors — scheming to
beat long odds to grab a wild-card
spot, and then trying to get lucky
again in October — was not work-
ing. It was not them.
“We don’t stick up banners for
being a wild-card team,” Cashman
said as he sat on the bench in the
Yankees’ dugout late in spring
training. “We never stuck up ban-
ners for American League cham-
pions. I’m not saying you’re not
proud to get into the postseason,
whether it’s a wild card or division
champion, but the ultimate thing
He Led the Yankees to 4 Titles.
Now, Can He Revive Them?
By TYLER KEPNER
Brian Cashman, the Yankees’
general manager since 1998.
EDWARD LINSMIER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Tehran joined the Russians in denounc-
ing the U.S. strike in Syria, but mistrust
persists between the two sides. PAGE A5
INTERNATIONAL A4-14
An Uneasy Iran-Russia Union
A museum of intricate sand art is a key
part of an effort to attract more foreign
tourists to Tottori, Japan. PAGE A4
Sculpting Sand and Memories
Robert Bentley pleaded guilty to two
misdemeanors and quit in a sex scandal
that brought him to the brink of im-
peachment. PAGE A16
NATIONAL A16-24
Alabama Governor Resigns
General Motors has achieved steady
profits in a booming domestic market
and has tried to prove its innovative
approach, but it is Tesla that is winning
over auto investors. PAGE B1
BUSINESS DAY B1-9
G.M.’s Confidence Problem
The New York
Times won three
awards, and
The Daily
News and
ProPublica
shared the
public service
prize. PAGES B6-7
The 2017 Pulitzer Prizes
The Cubs returned to Wrigley Field for
the first time as World Series winners.
On Baseball. PAGE B10
Champions Raise a Banner
The United States, Canada and Mexico
have submitted a joint plan to host the
2026 World Cup. PAGE B10
SPORTSTUESDAY B10-15
U.S. Shares World Cup Bid
There is no epidemic of vitamin D defi-
ciency, experts say, yet pointless testing
and treatment are rampant among
healthy people. PAGE D1
SCIENCE TIMES D1-6
The Vitamin D Dilemma
David Brooks PAGE A31
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A30-31
Alec Baldwin’s memoir is a sophisticated
take on the person he was and the per-
son he has become. A review. PAGE C1
He Wasn’t Always Trump
The artist Awol Erizku is opening his
first solo show in Europe with his most
political work to date. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-8
After an Iconic Beyoncé Photo
Two adults and a child were killed in an
apparent murder-suicide in a San
Bernardino, Calif., classroom. PAGE A23
3 Dead in School Shooting
A federal judge in Texas ruled that a
voter identification law the state’s legis-
lature passed in 2011 was enacted with
the intent to discriminate against black
and Hispanic voters. PAGE A23
Judge Rejects Voter ID Law
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What’s
News
The Trump administra-
tion held out the prospect of
wider retaliation against Syria
and signaled a new push to
remove the country’s divi-
sive leader, as Tillerson pre-
pared to head to Moscow. A1
U.S. special operations
forces and rebel partners
clashed with ISIS fighters
in a close-quarters battle
in Syria on Saturday. A8
Trump has told senior ad-
visers to prioritize his agenda
over infighting, as the White
House focuses on accomplish-
ments it can tout during the
president’s first 100 days. A4
Alabama Gov. Bentley re-
signed as a scandal stemming
from an alleged extramarital
affair mushroomed into a
crisis that left him facing
possible impeachment. A2
A federal judge ruled for a
second time that Texas leg-
islators intended to discrimi-
nate against minority voters
through a voter-ID law. A3
A Russian arrested in
Spain on accusations of cyber
fraud is one of the world’s
most sophisticated hackers,
U.S. authorities alleged. A9
Two adults and one child
died in a shooting at an ele-
mentary school in San Ber-
nardino, Calif., that was de-
scribedasamurder-suicide.A2
Top global economic and
finance institutions de-
fended the role of the WTO,
countering a Trump admin-
istration challenge. A9
French presidential can-
didate Le Pen faced strong
criticism over comments
playing down France’s role
in the Holocaust. A9
AWells Fargo report
slammed ex-CEO Stumpf
and a lieutenant over the
lender’s sales scandal. The
bank is clawing back an addi-
tional $75 million in pay from
the former executives. A1
Barclays’s CEO is under
investigation by U.K. and
U.S. regulators after he tried
to unmask a whistleblower
who criticized his hiring of
a longtime associate. B1
United drew widespread
criticism after videos
emerged of a passenger
being forcibly removed from
an overbooked flight. A1
Jana has amassed a large
stake in Whole Foods and
wants the grocer to accel-
erate its turnaround and
explore a possible sale. B1
Foxconn has offered as
much as $27 billion to ac-
quire Toshiba’s computer-
chip business. B3
Hackers are targeting
third-party sellers on Amazon,
using stolen credentials to post
fake deals and steal cash. B4
The Fed’s Yellen indicated
that the era of extremely
stimulative monetary policy
is coming to an end. A2
Tesla is vying to top Gen-
eral Motors in market value,
as the electric-car maker’s
shares continue to climb. B3
Elliott urged BHP to spin
off its U.S. petroleum assets
and outlined a significant re-
structuring for the miner. B11
U.S. stocks edged higher
in a slow session. The Dow
added 1.92 to 20658.02. B11
LeEco said it is walking
away from its planned $2 bil-
lion acquisition of Vizio. B4
BusinessFinance
World-Wide
EVANVUCCI/ASSOCIATEDPRESS
SEOUL—The past two years
have been bleak for Lotte
Group, a Korean-Japanese con-
glomerate that has suffered a
run of misfortune.
To get through, Lotte’s top
executives have found succor in
an 18th-century German tragic
romance.
“The Sorrows of Young
Werther,” written by German
literary giant Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe in 1774, tells the
tale of a young man, Werther,
who kills himself after the
beautiful woman with whom he
has fallen in love, Charlotte—or
Lotte, for short—marries an-
BY JONATHAN CHENG Over the course of nearly
seven decades, the company
has grown to become one of the
region’s most ubiquitous
brands, spanning chemicals, in-
surance, construction, movie
theaters, luxury hotels and the
Korean franchises of 7-Eleven
and T.G.I. Friday’s.
Two professional baseball
teams, one in Japan and one in
South Korea, bear Lotte’s name,
as does a chain of hamburger
joints, Lotteria, which has more
than 1,000 locations in South
Korea alone.
When Marla Stukenberg,
who runs the Korea branch of
the Goethe-Institut, Germany’s
Please see LOTTE page A10
other man. It was a world-wide
sensation that spurred a genre
of novels, poetry and fashion.
Reading the story while
studying in wartime Japan,
Lotte Group’s Korean-born
founder, Shin Kyuk-ho, was so
moved he eventually named his
new chewing-gum company for
its character in 1948.
Chewing gum
A Day of Ceremony Follows a Bruising Supreme Court Confirmation
SWEARING IN: Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, right, administers the judicial oath to Neil Gorsuch in the Rose Garden of the
White House on Monday, as his wife, Marie Louise, and President Donald Trump look on. A6
though relying on contractors
means less control over the
speed and quality of the work
needed to keep “Rocket
League” humming.
Overall, 40 or 50 of the 120
people who work on “Rocket
League” are contractors, he
estimates. It had $110 million
in revenue in its first year
alone.
As outsourcing sweeps
through almost every indus-
try in the U.S., the videogame
business looks a lot like the
workplace of the future. A
lean core of in-house employ-
ees focuses on the most im-
portant jobs, with the rest
hired out to layers of contrac-
tors and subcontractors. Out-
side workers come and go
based on project cycles.
Consulting firm Accenture
PLC, one of the world’s larg-
est outsourced labor provid-
ers, calls it the “liquid work-
Please see GAMERS page A10
SAN DIEGO—The hit video-
game “Rocket League” pits
jet-powered race cars against
one another in an antic soc-
cer match. The big winner is
creator Psyonix Inc., which
has just 81 employees yet has
amassed more than 29 mil-
lion players in less than two
years.
Employees at the San Di-
ego company dream up new
themes and car designs, pro-
gram software, troubleshoot
technical issues and watch
over a network of contractors
scattered around the world.
The outside workers test
“Rocket League” for bugs,
translate it into foreign lan-
guages, transfer the software
to new types of consoles and
handle customer service.
“The smaller we can be,
the better,” said Chief Execu-
tive Dave Hagewood, even
BY LAUREN WEBER
Goethe’s Biggest Fan Is a South Korean Conglomerate
i i i
Lotte Group executives find solace in gloomy German literature
Permanent employee
Temporary employee
Self-employed
Freelancer/independent contractor
66%
5%
19%
10%
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
Source: Developer Satisfaction Survey
conducted by International Game Developers
Association in 2016 (voluntary survey, not a
statistically selected sample)
More than 25% of videogame
developers aren’t employed by a
company, a survey showed.
Extra Lives
A United Passenger’s
Treatment Stirs Furor
ended up being treated in a
Chicago hospital.
“This is an upsetting event to
all of us here at United,” Chief
Executive Oscar Munoz wrote in
a Twitter post on Monday.
United said it was investi-
gating the incident. It declined
to identify the passenger.
United said it had asked for
four volunteers to leave the
airplane because of overbook-
ing. After agents couldn’t at-
tract volunteers to leave in ex-
change for compensation,
United used what it said were
Please see UNITED page A2
United Continental Holdings
Inc. drew widespread criticism
for having a passenger forcibly
removed from a flight, an inci-
dent that threatens to further
damage the reputation of an
airline recovering from a proxy
fight and leadership upheaval.
Social media on Monday lit
up with videos of a man being
dragged screaming off a full
flight Sunday evening from
Chicago’s O’Hare International
Airport to Louisville, Ky. He
BY SUSAN CAREY
AND DOUG CAMERON
INSIDE
WHOLE FOODS
FACES INVESTOR
PRESSURE
BUSINESS FINANCE, B1
JOURNAL’S
NOONAN WINS
PULITZER
BUSINESS NEWS, B3
Chief Executive John Stumpf
and the lieutenant, former re-
tail-bank chief Carrie Tolstedt.
The latest decisions on pay
brought the total money
clawed back from current and
former Wells Fargo execu-
tives to $182.8 million, an
amount that rivals the fine the
bank paid last year and that
its board described as the
largest clawback ever for any
financial-services firm.
The 113-page report, released
Monday, is likely to be the
board’s final deep dive into the
questionable conduct that dated
back to 2002 and ultimately re-
sulted in a $185 million penalty
last year. It likely won’t be the
final discussion, however, of the
high-pressure sales strategy
that led to as many as 2.1 mil-
lion accounts being created us-
ing fictitious or unauthorized
customer information.
“The Board’s report is a
necessary examination of what
went wrong in our culture, op-
erations, and governance,”
Wells Fargo CEO Timothy
Sloan said in a statement.
“I wish we would’ve taken
more action and done things
more quickly,” Mr. Sloan said
later on a call with reporters.
The San Francisco-based
bank continues to face federal
and state investigations about
its sales practices. And last
week, proxy advisory firm In-
stitutional Shareholder Services
Inc. suggested Wells Fargo in-
vestors vote against 12 of the
bank’s 15 directors at the firm’s
annual meeting April 25.
In Monday’s report, prepared
by a board committee of inde-
pendent directors and law firm
Shearman Sterling LLP, much
of the blame fell on Mr. Stumpf
and his protégé, Ms. Tolstedt.
A lawyer for Ms. Tolst-
Please see WELLS page A9
A new report on the
sales scandal at Wells Fargo
Co. portrayed its former chief
executive as a tone-deaf leader
who protected an irresponsi-
ble lieutenant and worked for
board members who didn’t
keep the pair in check.
The report, a long-
awaited investigation of a
scandal that ensnared the
bank with regulators and poli-
ticians this past September,
also said Wells Fargo’s board
will claw back an additional
$75 million in pay from former
BY EMILY GLAZER
Wells Slams Former Bosses’
High-Pressure Sales Tactics
WASHINGTON—The Trump
administration held out the
prospect Monday of wider retal-
iation against Syria and sig-
naled a new push to remove the
country’s divisive leader ahead
of Secretary of State Rex Tiller-
son’s meetings with Damascus’s
Russian allies.
Coming days after the first
deliberate American military
strike against the forces of Syr-
ian leader Bashar al-Assad, the
trip by Mr. Tillerson has taken
on far-reaching strategic and
diplomatic importance, both in
defining U.S.-Russian relations
and in potentially clarifying the
Trump administration’s mixed
signals over the Syrian civil war.
Mr. Tillerson met in Italy
Monday with members of the
Group of Seven leading na-
tions—the U.S., U.K., France,
Germany, Canada, Japan and It-
aly. He planned to meet Tuesday
with those allies along with
Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the
UAE, and Jordan to discuss
Syria before traveling to Mos-
cow, where he is expected to ad-
dress strains surrounding Syria,
Ukraine and alleged Russian
meddling in the U.S. election.
The White House appeared
Please see SYRIA page A8
BY FELICIA SCHWARTZ
AND BEN KESLING
U.S.
Hints at
Tougher
Stance
On Syria
Discussion of wider
retaliation comes as
Tillerson heads to
meetings in Russia
At Barclays, a Probe of the CEO
Barclays PLC Chief Executive Jes Staley is under investigation by
U.K. and U.S. regulators for trying to unmask a whistleblower. B1
FOR VIDEOGAME MAKERS,
HIRING IS A LAST RESORT
Staffers do the most critical jobs while outside labor comes and goes
Gerald F. Seib: Steering Trump
diplomacy to center................ A4
Gulf states lose clout in fight
against Assad............................. A8
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San Bernardino shooting Three people,
including an 8-year-old, died in an apparent
murder-suicide at an elementary school. A2
Sinai border closed Israel feared violence a
day after churches in neighboring Egypt were
bombed by the Islamic State. A7
HEALTH SCIENCE
Persistent
Rebuffed by doctors, a
nurse with painful mouth
sores sought answers. E1
STYLE
No ‘off’ button
CNN’s Brian Stelter has
hit his stride since the
election. C1
IN THE NEWS
THE NATION
A Texas judge ruled
that state lawmakers
purposefully designed a
voter-ID law to disad-
vantage minorities. A2
The salt used to stop
cars from slipping on icy
roads is contaminating
lakes in North America,
a study found. A3
Church shooter Dy-
lann Roof pleaded guilty
to state charges to avoid
a second death-penalty
trial. A4
Alabama Gov. Robert
Bentley (R) resigned
and pleaded guilty to
charges that he used
public money to conceal
and carry out an affair
with a former aide. A4
Attorney General Jeff
Sessions will end a Jus-
tice Department part-
nership intended to
raise standards for fo-
rensic science. A9
A Democrat’s surpris-
ing strength ahead of
Tuesday’s election to re-
place former congress-
man Mike Pompeo (R-
Kan.) has Republicans
nervous. A13
THE WORLD
The Beijing govern-
ment announced it was
offering cash rewards
for anyone who helps
expose a spy, state me-
dia reported. A6
THE ECONOMY
President Trump has
attacked China for ma-
nipulating its currency,
but Beijing actually
hasn’t been doing so for
the past two years. A10
Fox News Chan-
nel’s parent company is
investigating host Bill
O’Reilly after a Califor-
nia radio personality
joined the list of women
accusing him of sexual
harassment. A10
Republicans’ plan to
institute a new tax on
imports could increase
inflation — and become
costly for retirees. A11
The FCC withdrew a
proposal that would
have let air travelers use
their cellphones at high
altitude. A12
The Trump Organiza-
tion settled a legal dis-
pute with another celeb-
rity chef, Geoffrey Za-
karian, who backed out
of a hotel deal. A12
United Airlines apolo-
gized for overbooking a
flight after a man was
dragged screaming from
an airplane. A11
THE REGION
The Maryland General
Assembly closed its
2017 session by passing
bills to prevent price
gouging by drugmakers
and limit standardized
testing in schools. B1
A long undercover op-
eration tracking baby
eels along the East Coast
resulted in poaching
charges. B2
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Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, right, administers the judicial oath to new Justice Neil M. Gorsuch
in the White House Rose Garden while Gorsuch’s wife, Louise, holds a family Bible. President Trump called the
ceremony “a historic moment.” Story, A4  To watch a video of the swearing-in, visit wapo.st/gorsuch0411.
With oath, Gorsuch joins the court
BY RENAE MERLE
Wells Fargo said Monday that
two former senior executives, in-
cluding its longtime chief execu-
tive John Stumpf, must forfeit an
additional $75 million in com-
pensation after a scathing inter-
nal report found that they did too
little to rein in the abusive sales
practices that have rocked the
mega-bank.
Stumpf, who stepped down in
October, will lose an additional
$28 million in bonus money,
and the bank is taking $47 mil-
lion from another former high-
ranking executive, Carrie
Tolstedt. Stumpf and Tolstedt
had already given up $41 mil-
lion and $19 million in compen-
sation, respectively.
The “clawbacks” of executive
pay by the company are among
the largest in history and a sign
that big U.S. banks feel increas-
ingly under pressure to show the
public that they can hold them-
selves accountable for corporate
wrongdoing.
Senior Wells Fargo executives
knew as far back as 2002 —
nearly a decade earlier than
initially disclosed — that bank
employees were setting up fake
accounts that customers didn’t
want in order to meet aggres-
sive sales goals, according to the
113-page report by the bank’s
independent directors. Tolstedt
was allowed to manage the
bank’s massive retail banking
operations with little oversight
and repeatedly played down
concerns that employees were
engaged in risky behavior, the
report found.
BANK CONTINUED ON A11
Bank
o∞cers
forfeit
their pay
BY MISSY RYAN
The Pentagon has struggled in
recent weeks to effectively ex-
plain what lies behind a surge in
reported civilian casualties in its
air campaign against the Islamic
State, fueling speculation that the
new Trump administration is
pursuing policies resulting in a
greater loss of life.
Military officials insist there
has been no significant change to
the rules governing its air cam-
paign in Iraq and Syria, and
instead attribute the string of
alleged deadly incidents to a new,
more intense phase of the war, in
which Islamic State fighters are
making a final stand in densely
populated areas such as the Iraqi
city of Mosul.
But some in Iraq and Syria
are left wondering whether the
higher death count is a product
of President Trump’s bare-
knuckle military stance and his
suggestions that the United
States should “take out” mili-
tants’ families.
The recent incidents, and the
attention surrounding them,
have generated concern within
the military that the strikes have
undermined the United States’
ability to fight the Islamic State.
“It does have a negative im-
pact on our image, at least,
throughout the region and the
world, and it’s probably detri-
mental to the strength of our
coalition. And that’s exactly
what ISIS is trying to target
right now,” Col. Joseph Scrocca,
a military spokesman, said in a
recent media briefing. ISIS is an
acronym for the Islamic State.
The military’s difficulty in ac-
counting for the civilian casual-
AIRSTRIKES CONTINUED ON A8
U.S. tries
to explain
civilian
casualties
BY PAUL FARHI
Washington Post reporter David Fahr-
entholdremembersbeingstruckbyDonald
Trump’s pledge to donate $6 million, in-
cluding $1 million of his personal funds, to
veterans groups during a televised fund-
raiser before the Iowa caucuses early last
year. He wondered, did Trump follow
through? So, weeks after the event, Fahr-
enthold started asking questions.
Forseveralmonths,hefound,theanswer
was no, despite assurances to the contrary
from Trump’s campaign. When Trump fi-
nally made the donation in late May, the
reporter set off on a broader inquiry. In a
detailed series of articles, he found that
many of Trump’s philanthropic claims over
the years had been exaggerated and often
were not truly charitable activities at all.
On Monday, Fahrenthold’s investigative
digging was rewarded with the Pulitzer
Prize, journalism’s most prestigious award.
His work documenting the future presi-
dent’s charitable practices won the award
for national reporting.
Fahrenthold’s Pulitzer-winning package
PULITZER CONTINUED ON A14
BY ANTHONY FAIOLA AND
SARAH PULLIAM BAILEY
vatican city — As politicians
around the world including Presi-
dent Trump take an increasingly
hard line on immigration, a pow-
erful force is rallying to the side of
migrants: the Roman Catholic
Church led by Pope Francis.
Catholiccardinals,bishopsand
priests are emerging as some of
the most influential opponents of
immigration crackdowns backed
by right-wing populists in the
United States and Europe. The
moves come as Francis, who has
put migrants at the top of his
agenda, appears to be leading by
example, emphasizing his sup-
port for their rights in sermons,
speeches and deeds.
The pro-migrant drive risks di-
viding Catholics — many of whom
in the United States voted for
Trump. Some observers say it is
also inserting the church into pol-
itics in a manner recalling the
heady days of Pope John Paul II,
who stared down communism
and declaredhisoppositiontothe
1991 Persian Gulf War. The Vati-
can is standing in open opposi-
tion to politicians like Trump not
just on immigration but also on
other issues, including climate-
change policy.
But the focal point is clearly
migrant rights.
In the United States, individual
bishops, especially those appoint-
ed by Francis, have sharply criti-
cized Trump’s migrant policies
since his election. They include
Newark Cardinal Joseph W.
Tobin, who last month co-led a
rally in support of a Mexican man
fighting deportation. Tobin has
decried Trump’s executive orders
on immigration, calling them the
“opposite of what it means to be
an American.”
In Los Angeles, Archbishop
José H. Gomez, the first Mexican
American vice president of the
Conference of Catholic Bishops,
which leads the U.S. church, de-
scribed migrant rights as the
bishops’mostimportantissue.He
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Pope Francis leads church in supporting migrants
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David Fahrenthold, with his daughter Alexandra, 4, is congratulated in the newsroom.
Many Catholic clerics
oppose hard line taken
by right-wing populists
BY THOMAS HEATH
The luxury electric-car com-
pany Tesla has yet to turn a
profit, losing hundreds of mil-
lions of dollars last year alone.
But on Monday, the darling of
Silicon Valley became the most
valuable American car company,
surpassing General Motors, the
Detroit granddaddy with $10
billion in sales on nearly 10
million vehicles.
Shares of Tesla, run by high-
profile chief executive Elon
Musk, put the company’s value
at $51.5 billion, above GM’s
$50.2 billion. Tesla blew by Ford
($44.6 billion) last week.
Musk’s company produced just
84,000 cars last year, with start-
ing prices of $68,000.
The story of Tesla’s rise speaks
to the divided American economy
in 2017. Eco-friendly government
tax credits, a boom in financial
backing and the promise of futur-
istic innovation have created in
Tesla a badge for the drivers who
can afford its lofty prices.
At the same time, Tesla, with
its long-running saga of produc-
tion problems, hasn’t come close
to fulfilling its mass-market am-
bitions. Beyond selling far fewer
cars than its Detroit rivals, its
automated factories employ a
fraction of GM’s factory work-
force.
Tesla’s stock-market rise has
made Musk one of the country’s
richest people and given him
widespread influence, including
TESLA CONTINUED ON A12
Tesla edges GM to become
most valuable U.S. carmaker
Rise in company’s
shares driven by
promise, not profit

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